Chapter Summaries

As the Celestial Master Mansion faced a curse and pressure from the Jiangzhou Lin Clan, Lei Jun watched events unfold from Azure Void Mountain while Chu Yu revealed that she would send Chu Kun to Dragon Tiger Mountain. The Lin Clan’s assault on the Cloud Firmament Mountain Range began, and Lei Jun continued investigating Nine Provinces Ridge.

• Lei Jun reasoned that Li Qingfeng’s curse likely stemmed from the earlier conflict with Li Cangting and that Li Qingfeng had delayed Tang Xiaotang’s apprenticeship to keep her from being implicated.
• Tu Guangyu told the Azure Void Sect that the Celestial Master Mansion had retreated to Dragon Tiger Mountain as the Jiangzhou Lin Clan pressed its attack.
• Chu Yu told Fang Yue that her clan would publicly support Dragon Tiger Mountain while watching how events developed, then revealed she had sent Chu Kun to seek entry into the Celestial Master Mansion.
• Tu Guangyu reported that the Lin Clan had surrounded the Purple Firmament Sect and swept through the Cloud Firmament Mountain Range, causing losses and casualties.
• Lei Jun stayed at Azure Void Mountain, joined the patrols, and continued visiting Nine Provinces Ridge, where he noticed changes beginning to occur.

Lei Jun studied new Thunderstrike Talismans while waiting for the Third Grade Opportunity at Nine Provinces Ridge. During a patrol, Xia Qing warned him not to neglect cultivation, and Elder Zhong cautioned that the Yellow Heaven Path demons might be plotting something; Lei Jun then headed toward Nine Provinces Ridge again.

• Lei Jun tested two kinds of Thunderstrike Talismans, one producing silent, corrosive lightning and the other creating lively azure-green threads, but concluded that his design needed an earth-and-stone spiritual object as its foundation.
• Lei Jun met Xia Qing during a mountain patrol, and she urged him to prioritize cultivation alongside his talisman studies.
• Xia Qing explained that she was preparing to cross the Heavenly Chasm Tribulation from the Third Heaven to the Fourth Heaven and was still waiting for the Contemporary Celestial Master to preside over Ordination.
• Elder Zhong warned Lei Jun and Xia Qing that the Yellow Heaven Path demons had not appeared recently and might be plotting something more dangerous.
• Lei Jun wished Xia Qing success in Ordination, completed two patrols of his assigned route, and set off toward Nine Provinces Ridge.

Lei Jun discovered and removed the Breathing Earth Banner that had long suppressed the Azure Void River, after confirming the river no longer needed it. He returned to the Azure Void Sect and learned that the Lin Clan Chief had suffered a major loss at Dragon Tiger Mountain.

• Lei Jun descended to the Azure Void River's source and found a Command Flag that generated spiritual soil to suppress the river.
• Lei Jun read inscriptions from a Great Chen-era expert and Li Cangting, then concluded that the river no longer needed the flag.
• Lei Jun removed the Command Flag, which he named the Breathing Earth Banner, and watched the river settle at a stable water level.
• Lei Jun resumed patrolling the nearby mountains and encountered no enemies before returning to the Azure Void Sect.
• Lei Jun heard that the Lin Clan Chief had suffered a huge loss at Dragon Tiger Mountain.

After Lei Jun completed the Earth Seal Thunder Talisman, news from Dragon Tiger Mountain shifted from victory to disaster when a mysterious powerhouse ambushed the wounded Celestial Master. The battle ended with Li Qingfeng and Lin Qun dying together in the Great River.

• The Azure Void Sect celebrated the Celestial Master’s apparent victory over the Lin Clan, though Lei Jun suspected the danger might not be over.
• Lei Jun studied the Breathing Earth Banner and created an Earth Seal Thunder Talisman to serve as the foundation of his planned new talisman.
• A mysterious powerhouse ambushed Li Qingfeng after Xu Yuanzhen appeared to intercept the Peaceful Path Taoist and help him pursue Lin Qun.
• Lei Jun and Chu Yu considered whether Li Qingfeng’s injuries had never healed and whether his decision to pursue Lin Qun had worsened the crisis.
• Reports confirmed that Li Qingfeng and Lin Qun perished together in the Great River.

With the Yellow Heaven Path launching a full-scale assault on Dragon Tiger Mountain’s branches, Lei Jun volunteered to guard a branch altar at Azure Void Mountain. His divination warned of a midnight disaster centered on the main peak and pointed him toward Qian Heaven Peak, where he was assigned; afterward, he privately told Tu Guangyu about a past encounter with Yellow Heaven Path fiends.

• News of the Contemporary Celestial Master’s death and the Jiangzhou Lin Clan Leader’s death plunged the cultivation world into turmoil as the Yellow Heaven Path counterattacked Celestial Master Mansion and its branches.
• Tu Guangyu activated preparations for the Eight Extremes Mountain Defense Array and assigned Azure Void Sect disciples to defend the mountain.
• Lei Jun’s Light Sphere warned that disaster would strike the main peak and offered different fortunes tied to entering Qian Heaven Peak before or after midnight.
• Lei Jun and Xia Qing volunteered for branch altar duty, and Tu Guangyu assigned Lei Jun to Qian Heaven Peak and Xia Qing to Kun Earth Peak.
• Lei Jun privately told Tu Guangyu that he had encountered Yellow Heaven Path fiends twice, beginning with an incident involving a Main Mansion elder who secretly colluded with them.

Lei Jun helped the Azure Void Sect raise its Eight Extremes Mountain Defense Array and completed his third Natal Talisman Art, the Five Thunder Talisman. The Yellow Heaven Path attacked after nightfall, and the array was breached from within before midnight, leaving Qian Heaven Peak shattered and filled with lethal Vajra Wind.

• Lei Jun privately warned Tu Guangyu that an enemy might have infiltrated the Azure Void Sect, then helped the sect establish its Eight Extremes Mountain Defense Array.
• Lei Jun inscribed the Five Thunder Talisman as his third Natal Talisman Art, combining Thunderstrike Talisman with powers of the five elements.
• The Yellow Heaven Path launched a fierce attack on Azure Void Mountain, but the Mountain Defense Array initially held against its bombardment and advancing disciples.
• The array's core Talismans above the Main Peak were destroyed, opening a rift that let Yellow Heaven Path disciples enter the formation.
• Qian Heaven Peak shook and collapsed as the array breach disrupted the Earth Vein Spiritual Energy, while Vajra Wind erupted from the mountain's split interior before midnight.

Lei Jun found and absorbed a seal mark from the Celestial Master Seal beneath Qian Heaven Peak, then escaped as the Vajra Wind faded. With Azure Void Mountain under attack, he intervened when Yellow Heaven Path Disciples besieged a Separate Mansion.

• Lei Jun entered Qian Heaven Peak's mountain belly and followed a familiar breeze to a mysterious seal mark from the Celestial Master Seal.
• Lei Jun used the Breathing Earth Banner to take the seal mark and escaped before midnight, then watched the Vajra Wind fade and resolved not to approach the peak again.
• Yellow Heaven Path forces pressed their assault on Azure Void Mountain after the grand formation failed, while their experts attacked the Dao Palace and other disciples raided key locations.
• Lei Jun saw Yellow Heaven Path Disciples besieging a Separate Mansion and heard their leader order them to kill its defenders.
• Lei Jun cast a Five Thunder Talisman, Fire Repository Thunder, behind the Yellow Heaven Path Disciples, triggering a chain of violent thunderfire explosions.

Lei Jun used his new thunder and flame talismans to ambush Yellow Heaven Path attackers and aid Azure Void Sect disciples, while Xia Qing was captured by the traitor Zhong Yunfei. As Zhong Yunfei went searching for Lei Jun, Lei Jun emerged from underground near the captors, preparing to confront him.

• Lei Jun tested Fire Repository Thunder, Linked Blazing Flame Talismans, and Water Dark Thunder against Yellow Heaven Path Disciples, killing many and driving the survivors into a final blast.
• The rescued Azure Void Sect disciples found their attackers dead and wondered who had saved them, while Lei Jun quietly moved on and recovered his strength.
• Xia Qing led rescue efforts across the battlefield, but Zhong Yunfei ambushed her with talismans and captured her for the Yellow Heaven Path.
• Zhong Yunfei ordered his allies to capture Lei Jun alive, then left to search for him.
• Lei Jun emerged from the soil near Xia Qing's captors and watched the direction Zhong Yunfei had gone.

Lei Jun rescued Xia Qing and lured Zhong Yunfei toward Qian Heaven Peak with a staged explosion, then escaped with her and helped her wake. As they returned to the Main Peak, a massive lightning strike suddenly engulfed Qian Heaven Peak.

• Lei Jun incapacitated the Yellow Heaven Path disciples carrying Xia Qing and took her into the forest while she remained unconscious.
• Lei Jun planted a Yellow Heaven Path corpse near Qian Heaven Peak and used a Flying Fire Talisman to create an explosion that drew Zhong Yunfei to the summit.
• Zhong Yunfei searched Qian Heaven Peak for Lei Jun, while Lei Jun slipped away below the mountain with Xia Qing.
• Lei Jun used a Mind Cleansing Talisman to wake Xia Qing and claimed he had rescued her from Yellow Heaven Path disciples without seeing Zhong Yunfei.
• Xia Qing told Lei Jun that Zhong Yunfei had sabotaged Azure Void Mountain's Eight Extremes Mountain Defense Array and attacked her.
• A huge pillar of lightning struck Qian Heaven Peak as Lei Jun and Xia Qing returned to the Main Peak.

Lei Jun and Xia Qing rallied the Azure Void Sect after Qian Heaven Peak collapsed, forcing the Yellow Heaven Path to retreat. As the sect began recovering, Lei Jun studied the clue to the Celestial Master Seal and learned that the traitor Zhong Yunfei had triggered the disaster and died in it.

• Lei Jun falsely announced that a Dragon Tiger Mountain High Merit Dharma Master had arrived, and he and Xia Qing used the claim to rally the Azure Void Sect and frighten the Yellow Heaven Path.
• The Azure Void Sect counterattacked while the Yellow Heaven Path elders withdrew from the Main Peak, ending the assault without either side pursuing.
• Lei Jun reassured the wounded Tu Guangyu, helped the exhausted Xia Qing, and used the Breathing Earth Banner to recover his strength.
• Lei Jun examined the mysterious seal imprint on the Breathing Earth Banner and resolved to investigate the green mountain connected to the Celestial Master Seal after the Azure Void Sect recovered.
• Tu Guangyu explained that violent changes in Azure Void Mountain's Earth Vein Spiritual Energy had caused the lightning and Qian Heaven Peak's collapse, and disciples reported that the dead culprit was likely Zhong Yunfei.

After helping the Azure Void Sect recover from the Yellow Heaven Path’s attack, Lei Jun returned to the place where he had first entered this world to investigate clues to the Celestial Master Seal. He found the Yellow Heaven Path searching there, and realized the Seal might be moving back toward Dragon Tiger Mountain in response to the Celestial Master Mansion’s crisis.

• Lei Jun stayed several days to help the Azure Void Sect treat its wounded, then bade farewell to Tu Guangyu and left while Xia Qing remained behind to recover.
• Lei Jun traveled to the site of the vanished green mountain, where he suspected Xu Yuanzhen had once searched for the Celestial Master Seal.
• Lei Jun spotted Yellow Heaven Path Disciples excavating the mountain and concealed himself to watch them.
• An azure Yin Fire Tiger erupted from beneath the mountain and burned the Yellow Heaven Path Disciples to nothing; Lei Jun recognized it as a Nine Abyss Flame Ancestor Dharma Image Xu Yuanzhen had left behind.
• Lei Jun examined the traces and concluded the Yellow Heaven Path had followed fresh clues to the site, but the Celestial Master Seal had already left.
• Lei Jun suspected the Celestial Master Seal had grown more active because of the Celestial Master Mansion’s crisis and was drawing closer to Dragon Tiger Mountain.

Lei Jun reunited with Tang Xiaotang while both dealt with Yellow Heaven Path disciples, then learned the sect had attacked the Crimson Abyss Grotto-heaven. The Light Sphere offered Lei Jun three paths, including a risk-free return to Dragon Tiger Mountain and a dangerous pursuit promising a Fifth Grade Opportunity, leaving him to choose.

• Lei Jun cleaned up after the Yellow Heaven Path disciples at the mountain ridge when Tang Xiaotang arrived pursuing another group.
• Tang Xiaotang transformed into a Golden Flame Giant Tiger and captured a Yellow Heaven Path Elder while killing or wounding most of the fleeing disciples.
• Tang Xiaotang told Lei Jun that Dragon Tiger Mountain was stabilizing and that the Celestial Master Mansion was beginning to suppress the Yellow Heaven Path.
• Lei Jun and Tang Xiaotang learned from the captured elder that the Yellow Heaven Path had attacked the Crimson Abyss Grotto-heaven.
• The Light Sphere presented Lei Jun with three Sign Fortunes: pursue the remnants for a risky Fifth Grade Opportunity, return to Dragon Tiger Mountain for a safe Sixth Grade Opportunity, or go to the unharmed Crimson Abyss Grotto-heaven without risk or gain.

Lei Jun chose to return to Dragon Tiger Mountain with a captured Yellow Heaven Path elder, while Tang Xiaotang agreed to hunt down the remaining escapees. He reached the mountain safely and handed the captive over to Elder Xia for interrogation.

• Lei Jun weighed two Upper Middle Auspicious Signs and decided to return to Dragon Tiger Mountain, leaving Tang Xiaotang to pursue the fleeing Yellow Heaven Path disciples.
• Tang Xiaotang agreed to eradicate the escapees after Lei Jun warned her not to dismiss them as insignificant.
• Lei Jun set off with the unconscious Yellow Heaven Path elder, concealing himself and avoiding danger along the way.
• Lei Jun reached Dragon Tiger Mountain, where the Celestial Master Mansion had secured the mountain gate and pushed the battle line outward.
• Elder Xia greeted Lei Jun and took custody of the captive for interrogation.

Lei Jun returned to Dragon Tiger Mountain, received the Bear King Mysterious Gall from Xia Bo, and learned how the Celestial Master Mansion was holding its ground after the Sect Leader’s death. With several leaders still away and the mountain recovering, Lei Jun reunited with Wang Guiyuan and declined to take on his senior brother’s guard duty.

• Xia Bo took Lei Jun’s captive, asked about Xu Yuanzhen, and warned that she should not pursue a cornered enemy.
• Xia Bo praised Lei Jun for his actions at Azure Void Mountain and for rescuing Xia Qing, then gave him the Bear King Mysterious Gall.
• Lei Jun returned to the mountain, learned that Xu Yuanzhen, Yuan Mobai, and Tang Xiaotang were absent, and met Wang Guiyuan.
• Wang Guiyuan explained that the Celestial Master Mansion had driven the Yellow Heaven Path from the mountain while guarding against other powers and protecting the Back Mountain Ancestral Tomb Forbidden Area.
• Wang Guiyuan invited Lei Jun to help guard the forbidden area, but Lei Jun declined and left the duty to the sect elders.
• Xia Bo gave Chen Yi a jade bottle instead of the Bear King Mysterious Gall, explaining to Xia Xiushan that Lei Jun’s rescue of Xia Qing had changed his plans.

Lei Jun gained both the Bear King Mysterious Gall and the Primal Heart Serene Jade, strengthening his body and securing a future aid for breaking through to the Fourth Heaven. After a period of relative calm, Gu Masters from Yin Mountain Cavern invaded Dragon Tiger Mountain, targeting Tang Xiaotang.

• Chen Yi examined his pills and lamented that he still lacked a spiritual item to strengthen his blood vitality, while hoping to enter the Supreme Clarity Thunder Mansion Grotto-heaven.
• Lei Jun returned to Dragon Tiger Mountain, visited the recovered Luo Haoran, and began using Xia Bo's Bear King Mysterious Gall to temper his body.
• Tang Xiaotang returned from the Crimson Abyss Grotto-heaven and gave Lei Jun a Primal Heart Serene Jade that could help him cross the Heavenly Chasm Tribulation from the Third Layer Altar Realm.
• Lei Jun kept cultivating, studying the Celestial Master Seal's imprint, and occasionally patrolling against Yellow Heaven Path infiltrators.
• Wang Guiyuan told Lei Jun that experts from Yin Mountain Cavern had come to attack Dragon Tiger Mountain and were targeting Tang Xiaotang.

Tang Xiaotang drove off the Southern Wilderness Gu Masters seeking revenge, while Celestial Master Mansion repelled Yellow Heaven Path’s renewed assault under Li Song’s leadership. During the fighting, Lei Jun witnessed Chen Yi use a hidden Blood River Lineage technique to kill five Yellow Heaven Path disciples and wondered about his connection to the Southern Wilderness.

• Tang Xiaotang accepted the Gu Masters’ challenge and pursued them down the mountain, resolving their disturbance.
• Yu Qingling emerged from seclusion to lead Yellow Heaven Path’s second offensive, and Li Song met him in battle while Li Zhengxuan guarded the mountain gate.
• Lei Jun fought at the mountain’s outskirts and used the battle to temper his body with the Bear King Mysterious Gall’s power.
• Lei Jun saw Chen Yi use blood-red sword qi to defeat and kill five Yellow Heaven Path disciples, then burn their bodies.
• Lei Jun recognized Chen Yi and wondered how the Celestial Master Mansion disciple had learned a Blood River Lineage technique.

As the Yellow Heaven Path conflict continued, the Celestial Master Seal stirred the skies near Dragon Tiger Mountain, and Li Zhengxuan sent Li Xuan to investigate one of its points of resonance. Lei Jun received three fortunes pointing him toward Azure Thunder Ridge, Flying Thunder Mountain, or Great Ferry, each carrying a different risk.

• Lei Jun met Li Zhenchang and Chu Andong, and Chu Andong asked him to look after Chu Kun.
• Lei Jun and his fellow disciples discussed the Southern Wilderness Witch Sect and its five branches while Dragon Tiger Mountain focused on the Yellow Heaven Path Disciples.
• Azure lightning and thunderclouds spread over Dragon Tiger Mountain as the Celestial Master Seal imprint on Lei Jun's Breathing Earth Banner resonated with the phenomenon.
• Li Zhengxuan identified Xin River and Upper Clear River as the two points of resonance and sent Li Xuan to investigate Xin River.
• Lei Jun's Light Sphere offered fortunes for Azure Thunder Ridge, Flying Thunder Mountain, and Great Ferry, warning of deepening karmic ties at the first and a great calamity at the last.

Lei Jun followed an auspicious sign to Azure Thunder Ridge, where he discovered a wounded Southern Wilderness Gu Master carrying something that drew the Celestial Master Seal imprint. After Lei Jun revealed his power and attacked, the old man prepared to fight him.

• Lei Jun chose Azure Thunder Ridge over the Xin River and Upper Clear River, then concealed himself there and waited for the Celestial Master Seal imprint to react.
• At night, Li Zhenchang and Chu Andong fled from a powerful, injured Southern Wilderness Old Gu Master, who defeated them with a variety of Gu insects.
• The Old Gu Master froze Li Zhenchang and severely wounded Chu Andong, but his own injuries worsened after the fight.
• The Celestial Master Seal imprint pointed Lei Jun toward the Old Gu Master, and Lei Jun suspected he carried something taken during the Southern Wilderness Witch Sect's intervention in the third internal conflict of Celestial Master Mansion.
• The Old Gu Master attacked Lei Jun with Profuse Flower Gu, but Lei Jun's Five Thunder Talisman blasted away the mist and made the old man realize Lei Jun had Fourth Heaven cultivation.
• Lei Jun taunted the Old Gu Master and prepared to fight him.

Lei Jun defeated the Old Gu Master by overcoming his gu creatures and layered defenses, then protected himself from the Gu Master's final explosion. While examining the Old Gu Master's belongings, Lei Jun discovered a Bone Armor whose talisman seal resonated with the imprint on the Breathing Earth Banner.

• The Old Gu Master attacked Lei Jun with the Golden Silkworm Gu and corrosive blood, but Lei Jun held him off with layered barriers and Golden Barrier Thunder.
• The Old Gu Master sent a Heavenly Dog Gu through Lei Jun's defenses, but Lei Jun blocked it with the Dragon Horse Scale and struck the Old Gu Master with the Supreme Purity Golden Bamboo.
• The Old Gu Master exploded with his Life Gu, but Lei Jun shielded himself with the Breathing Earth Banner, and the Old Gu Master died.
• Lei Jun burned the remaining gu creatures, checked on the injured Chu Andong and trapped Li Zhenchang, and stabilized Chu Andong's injuries.
• Lei Jun searched the Old Gu Master's belongings and found a Bone Armor bearing a talisman seal like one from Qian Heaven Peak in Azure Void Mountain.
• The Bone Armor's seal resonated with the imprint on the Breathing Earth Banner, and purple lightning burst from it.

Lei Jun rescued Li Zhenchang and Chu Andong after killing the Old Gu Master, then returned to the mountain and learned that Li Xuan had been gravely wounded while searching for the Celestial Master Seal. Studying the Southern Wilderness Bone Armor in isolation, Lei Jun made its imprint resonate with the seal’s other imprint, forming a purple mirror that seemed to draw his soul toward it.

• Lei Jun used the Breathing Earth Banner to suppress the Bone Armor, freed Li Zhenchang from the ice, and helped him stabilize the badly wounded Chu Andong.
• Lei Jun told Li Zhenchang and Chu Andong that he had killed the Old Gu Master, and Li Kong arrived and led them back to the mountain.
• Lei Jun and his companions encountered Li Xuan returning gravely wounded; Li Xuan told Li Zhengxuan that he had found no Celestial Master Seal and had encountered Yu Qingling at the Xin River.
• Li Kong sent Lei Jun to rest and cleanse himself of Gu poison, while Chu Andong and Li Zhenchang recuperated.
• Lei Jun secluded himself behind the Breathing Earth Banner, matched the Bone Armor’s imprint with the Celestial Master Seal imprint, and formed a purple mirror that began drawing his soul toward it.