Chapter Summaries

After Mu Bai became the Top Scholar, he refused the emperor’s demand to marry a princess and was abducted by an old Taoist to the Misty Overseas Lands. He spent fifty years learning Flight through the Sky and returned home, only to reunite with Ruohua as she died; Mu Bai died soon after, and they were buried together in death.

• Chief Ge became magistrate of Erlang County, and Mu Bai left Erlang Mountain to return to his studies.
• Mu Bai won first place in the Spring Imperial Examination, refused the emperor’s betrothal to a princess, and was banished to the Borderlands.
• An old Taoist abducted Mu Bai to the Misty Overseas Lands, where he spent decades struggling to learn cultivation so he could return to his wife.
• After fifty years, Mu Bai mastered Flight through the Sky, received a Flying Sword and Pills from the old Taoist, and set out for home.
• Mu Bai returned to Ruohua after fifty years apart, but she died in his arms, and Mu Bai soon died beside her.

Mu Bai received the Moon Sea Pearl from Madam Seven Emotions, who asked him to seek the man from her painting and ask whether he remembered the Moon Mirage Clam. Ye Wan then trapped Mu Bai in a rustic village illusion, where he became village chief and was drawn into its strange customs.

• Madam Seven Emotions gave Mu Bai the Moon Sea Pearl, explained that she had waited three thousand years for the man in the painting, and asked Mu Bai to ask him about the Moon Mirage Clam if they met.
• Ye Wan arrived, and after Mu Bai teased her about being his wife, she transformed the lakeside into a village and declared him its village chief.
• Madam Seven Emotions and Ye Wan decided Mu Bai could stay with Ye Wan while she completed her transformation, and a farmer dragged him off to deliver his baby.
• The villagers brought Mu Bai into the birth room, where the newborn Chen Xiaoxiao opened his eyes at the village chief and received his name.
• Third Chen held a feast for the baby and the other villagers urged Mu Bai to deliver their future children as well.

Mu Bai tried to escape the village but learned from Madam Seven Emotions that he and Ye Wan had been taken more than a thousand years into the past, where they were expected to live. As Ye Wan put him to work planting rice seedlings, Chen Laosan arrived with reports of a strange disappearance and an ox bitten by a snake.

• Mu Bai failed to escape the village and learned from the Artifact Spirit Ancestor that Madam Seven Emotions was powerful and that he should wait for a chance to leave.
• Madam Seven Emotions used her power to make Mu Bai experience the seven emotions, then ordered him to stay and live with Ye Wan.
• After sleeping outside the courtyard, Mu Bai was taken by Ye Wan to plant rice seedlings and began to see the work as a lesson about life and cultivation.
• Chen Laosan reported that his paralyzed father had suddenly leaped away after hearing about his grandson's birth.
• Ye Wan told Mu Bai that her mother had opened a time tunnel and brought them more than a thousand years into the past, and that they might have to live until their own time returned.
• Another Chen Laosan reported that an ox had been bitten by a snake, and Mu Bai agreed to look at it while dismissing the search for the missing father.

Mu Bai saved Chen Laosan’s ox from a king snake’s venom, then joined the villagers for a lavish meal where he discovered the village held strange treasures and secrets. After an awkward evening with Ye Wan and Madam Seven Emotions, he questioned the Artifact Spirit Ancestor about whether he had truly traveled back in time, and the Ancestor explained the possibilities of time travel at the Great Perfection Realm.

• Mu Bai treated Chen Laosan’s poisoned ox, then tracked down and killed the king snake with his Soul Soldier shortsword.
• Mu Bai accepted Chen Laosan’s invitation to lunch, where Chen Laosan’s supposedly paralyzed father returned carrying a Dragon Turtle and a pair of Sea Dragon Jade Pendants for his grandson.
• Mu Bai spent the afternoon eating and drinking with the Chen Laosans, then met Ye Wan in the fields and walked home with her.
• Mu Bai spoke carelessly to Madam Seven Emotions, whose mood stirred distant thunder, and fled before her clothes could change color.
• Mu Bai stayed on a field ridge until midnight and asked the Artifact Spirit Ancestor whether they had traveled more than a thousand years into the past.
• The Artifact Spirit Ancestor said the time travel was likely an illusion but described how a cultivator at the Great Perfection Realm could visit and alter the past and future.

Mu Bai accompanied Third Chen to the underwater Augugalo Continent so Third Chen could obtain Sea Ridge Soul Milk for his grandson. After Third Chen fought his way past the Sea King Hall's guards, the Sea King focused his attention on Mu Bai, Madam Seven Emotions' son-in-law.

• Third Chen gave Mu Bai fins so he could fly underwater, then led him to a gigantic lava giant whose belly contained the Augugalo Continent.
• Third Chen entered the underwater realm with Mu Bai and took the lead toward the Sea King Hall after admiring the Sea Silk Clan girls.
• Luo Hai demanded that Third Chen return the Sea Dragon Gold Jades, but Third Chen struck Luo Hai and Luo Yang away and asked to see the Sea King for Sea Ridge Soul Milk.
• Third Chen hurled Mu Bai toward the Sea King's armored warriors, who stopped their spears when Luo Yang warned them not to hurt him.
• The Sea King confronted Third Chen over his habit of taking treasures without returning them, then questioned Mu Bai about being Madam Seven Emotions' son-in-law.

Mu Bai watched Chen Laosan and the Sea King fight a giant sea squid and several Dragon King Whales threatening Sea King Hall. The squid inked Chen Laosan after Artifact Spirit Ancestor urged him to stab its tail, and Mu Bai revived the embarrassed warrior with pills and a lightning punch.

• The Sea King transformed and rallied Sea King Hall’s warriors to defend against a sudden attack, while Chen Laosan carried Mu Bai out to see the battle.
• Chen Laosan and the Sea King struggled against the giant sea squid as Luo Hai, Luo Yang, and the armored warriors fought Dragon King Whales.
• Chen Laosan drove a Dragon King Whale into the squid, then joined forces with the Sea King and the lava giant to hold it back.
• Artifact Spirit Ancestor urged Chen Laosan to attack the squid’s rear, and Chen Laosan stabbed its tail, releasing a torrent of black ink that covered him.
• Chen Laosan lunged at Artifact Spirit Ancestor, but Mu Bai froze him, gave him three Hundred Poisons Pills, and struck him with lightning, restoring his Soul Power.

Chen Laosan and the Artifact Spirit Ancestor helped defeat the Giant Sea Squid and kill one Dragon King Whale, earning Mu Bai the Sea Ridge Soul Milk promised by the Sea King. After drinking it, Mu Bai heard the sea and the whispers of the sea beasts.

• Chen Laosan drove his harpoon through the Giant Sea Squid's wounded backside, routing it, while the Sea King promised him two taels of Sea Ridge Soul Milk.
• The Sea King halted the attack on the remaining Dragon King Whales to avoid provoking them into self-destruction, but the Artifact Spirit Ancestor took Mu Bai to fight one anyway.
• The Artifact Spirit Ancestor enlarged the Three-Legged Crow Cauldron inside a Dragon King Whale's blowhole, suffocating it while the Sea King kept the other whales away.
• The suffocated whale died at the surface, and the other two Dragon King Whales fled as the Armor-Clad Warriors began cutting up the corpse.
• The Sea King gave Mu Bai a bottle of Sea Ridge Soul Milk, honoring the Sea King Hall's promise, and Mu Bai drank it.
• Mu Bai felt his soul blaze with azure light and heard the voice of the sea and the secret whispers of the sea beasts.

Mu Bai led the sea beast army in a campaign to conquer the Origin Realm after returning to the continent and discovering that his wife Ruohua was gone. After a sword strike in the river of time blocked his attempt to remain with her in the past, he attacked the Sacred Land plateau and demanded that its powers submit.

• Mu Bai united the sea’s myriad races and led them in an invasion of the continent, destroying its armies, imperial palace, and Erlang Mountain.
• Mu Bai traveled back a thousand years to see Ruohua, but a hidden sword strike erased her presence and wounded him; he glimpsed a golden figure he believed was bound to his fate.
• Mu Bai returned to the present, created Ruohua Peak in his inner world, and led his army across the Eastern Ridge and Southern Marsh toward the Sacred Land plateau.
• The Sea King, Whale King, Dragonfish King, and Kun King led assaults that broke through the plateau’s mountain giants and soul ship formations.
• Mu Bai shattered the four sacred lands’ defenses and wounded their masters with his white dragon longsword, then demanded their submission.

Mu Bai fought the golden-robed youth through reincarnation and resisted his Heart Demon Dao by awakening the Obsession Dao, but the youth used Ruohua to distract him and killed him. Mu Bai woke to find Ruohua watching him, while the golden-robed youth left with her and vowed to pursue the Origin Realm.

• Mu Bai confronted the golden-robed youth, recognized him as his fated opponent, and learned he had altered Mu Bai’s life.
• The two fought with their Rebirth and Reincarnation Daos as their armies supplied them with wish power, and the youth’s Heart Demon Dao drove Mu Bai toward madness.
• Mu Bai overcame the torment of his memories by awakening the Obsession Dao and gained the upper hand in their battle.
• The golden-robed youth made Ruohua appear before Mu Bai; Mu Bai halted his attack, and she was pierced as the youth struck him with the Golden Sun.
• Mu Bai held Ruohua as she died, then burned to ash beneath the Golden Sun, while the youth claimed Ruohua and left with her.
• Mu Bai opened his eyes and saw someone watching him.

Mu Bai tried to establish a separate household with Ye Wan, but Madam Seven Emotions stopped him and forced the villagers to build her a house instead. After she drove him out without dinner, Ye Wan brought him food and revealed that her true form was a moon pearl.

• Mu Bai tried to get intimate with Ye Wan, but Madam Seven Emotions interrupted them and called Ye Wan outside.
• Mu Bai went to the hills to cut trees for a house, but the Artifact Spirit Ancestor warned him that he could not touch anything unless it was destined for him.
• Mu Bai recruited Chen Laosan and several others to fell trees, but Madam Seven Emotions blasted them and the timber into the air, then ordered the villagers to build her a house.
• Madam Seven Emotions threatened Mu Bai and denied him dinner, so he left the village and sat hungry on a field ridge in the rain.
• Ye Wan found Mu Bai and gave him a roast chicken, then warned him to be careful what he said about Madam Seven Emotions.
• Ye Wan transformed into a large, moon-colored pearl and told Mu Bai that her true form was a moon pearl.

Mu Bai left Ye Wan’s Painted Realm, resolved to return to Eastern Ridge and avenge the Haibei Tribe before searching for Ling’er and his lost tribespeople. After refining the breath soil and Moon Sea Pearl, he reached the Qinghe Tribe and began killing its people.

• Mu Bai rejected Ye Wan’s plea to stay and left the Painted Realm through the sea, while Ye Wan let him go and concealed his escape from her mother.
• Mu Bai flew toward Eastern Ridge, reflected on his feelings for Ye Wan and Ling’er, and decided to destroy the Qinghe Tribe before searching for his lost tribespeople.
• The Artifact Spirit Ancestor confirmed that Mu Bai’s deep-blue Moon Sea Pearl was genuine, and Mu Bai began refining it alongside the breath soil on a barren island.
• Mu Bai arrived at the Qinghe Tribe’s stockade carrying the Haibei Tribe’s banner and announced his vengeance by attacking its cultivators.
• Mu Bai slew the Qinghe cultivators with the Twin Fish Sword, then sent the Spirit Light Sword after fleeing tribespeople and killed them with its blades.

Mu Bai avenged the Haibei Tribe by killing Qing Mang and Qing Cang, but spared the Qinghe tribespeople and left their settlement. After the survivors revealed his whereabouts, Du Xiang caught up with him near the Dao Sea and gravely wounded him.

• Mu Bai fought Qing Mang and Qing Cang, using his transformed body to kill Qing Mang and shatter his mind with a Spirit Light Sword.
• Qing Cang confessed that he had revealed information about the Haibei Tribe’s destruction, then killed himself; Mu Bai spared the kneeling Qinghe tribespeople and left with the two leaders’ heads.
• Two Qinghe tribespeople plotted revenge, and a third-level cultivator sent Du Xiang Mu Bai’s whereabouts through a Voice Transmission Jade Slip.
• Mu Bai hung Qing Mang’s and Qing Cang’s heads above the Haibei Tribe’s gate, stayed among the ruins for a day and a night, then set out for the Dao Sea.
• Du Xiang pursued Mu Bai and attacked him with a Golden Light Broad Sword; Mu Bai used the Crow Cauldron to deflect the strike but was blasted away and spat blood.

Mu Bai endured Du Xiang’s pursuit underground for a year, using his resources and God-Devouring Insects to outlast and frustrate him. When Mu Bai finally emerged, Du Xiang’s trap forced him into battle, but Madam Seven Emotions arrived and drove Du Xiang away before pursuing Mu Bai herself.

• Mu Bai escaped Du Xiang’s attacks by burrowing underground, where he used God-Devouring Insects to wound Du Xiang’s divine sense.
• Mu Bai spent a year traveling and cultivating underground while Du Xiang waited above, then Du Xiang gave up and returned toward his tribe.
• Mu Bai emerged and flew west, but Du Xiang’s hidden net trapped him and a Mental Light Screen blocked his escape underground.
• Mu Bai fought Du Xiang with his Twin Fish Sword, shields, and lightning, but Du Xiang overpowered him and sent him hurtling toward the Dao Sea.
• Madam Seven Emotions appeared, blasted Du Xiang away, and pursued Mu Bai as he fled underground again.

After escaping Madam Seven Emotions, Mu Bai traveled to the Hundred Refinement Sect to seek his scattered tribespeople and Ling'er. He received a lavish welcome and, after bonding with Bailianzi over wine, agreed to demonstrate his pill-refining skills.

• Ye Wan persuaded Madam Seven Emotions not to harm Mu Bai, admitting she might like him after her mother teased her about it.
• Mu Bai emerged from hiding and headed for the Hundred Refinement Sect, hoping to find Ling'er and his scattered tribespeople.
• Bailianzi and the Hundred Refinement Sect elders welcomed Mu Bai, who presented them with rare materials and a supreme-grade Thousand-Spirit Pill.
• Mu Bai encountered Spirit Taming Sect disciples on patrol and gave them gifts while reminding them to fulfill their duties.
• Bailianzi hosted Mu Bai in the inner sect, where they shared wine and became drinking companions.
• Bailianzi asked Mu Bai to demonstrate his pill-refining skills, and Mu Bai agreed.

Mu Bai reunited with Hai Zhan, Hai Qing, and Hai Dong after finding the brewer of Mountain, Sea, Wind, and Rain in the Hundred Refinement Sect. After sharing their losses and hopes, the family looked ahead to vengeance, and Mu Bai gave them powerful soul weapons before leaving their reunion behind.

• Mu Bai brewed Hundred-Flower Fruit Wine in the Crow Cauldron and shared it with Bailianzi and the Hundred Refinement Sect’s elders.
• Mu Bai asked Bailianzi to take him to the brewer of Mountain, Sea, Wind, and Rain, where he recognized Hai Zhan and embraced him.
• Hai Zhan and Mu Bai shared their experiences, learned that Hai Chen was still alive, and celebrated Mu Bai’s vengeance against the Qinghe Tribe.
• Mu Bai and Hai Zhan traveled to Green Cliff Mountain and reunited with Hai Qing and Hai Dong.
• Mu Bai heard of Hai Qing’s and Hai Dong’s cultivation progress and gave Hai Zhan a Steel Whip, Hai Dong a High-Rank Soul Sword, and Hai Qing a high-tier Battle Halberd.

Mu Bai reunited with Hai Zhan, Hai Qing, and Hai Dong, supplied them with cultivation resources, and secured their safety and training at the Hundred Refinement Sect. He agreed to help Bailianzi explore a dangerous place for Breath Soil, and the two other peak Xiu Zun cultivators arrived to join their expedition.

• Mu Bai gave Hai Zhan, Hai Qing, and Hai Dong pills and shared his cultivation insights while they stayed on Green Cliff Mountain.
• Hai Zhan took an Extraordinary Pill and advanced to the third level, while Hai Qing and Hai Dong used pills to strengthen their cultivation.
• Mu Bai asked Bailianzi to protect Hai Zhan, and Bailianzi offered Hai Qing and Hai Dong core disciple status at the Hundred Refinement Sect.
• Bailianzi asked Mu Bai to lend his Soul Treasure for an expedition to obtain Breath Soil, and Mu Bai agreed to join him.
• Mu Bai prepared more pills for his kin and spent most of his Soul Crystals supporting them.
• Xiu Zun Han Cang and Xiu Zun Chang Feng arrived to accompany Bailianzi and Mu Bai.

Mu Bai joined Bailianzi, Han Cang, and Chang Feng in excavating through Zhu Bei Peak to reach a hidden Breath Soil Barrier, using the Crow Cauldron to withstand the immense underground pressure. After they entered and found the breath soil, a skeletal Origin Dragon attacked, leaving the four to fight for the treasure.

• Bailianzi led Mu Bai, Han Cang, and Chang Feng to Zhu Bei Peak, where the Hundred Refinement Sect had excavated a tunnel more than a hundred li deep toward the breath soil.
• Chang Feng shielded Mu Bai from the underground heat and pressure as foul qi and Demon Thread Worms attacked the group during their descent.
• Mu Bai summoned the Crow Cauldron to protect Han Cang, who used the Nethercold Pearl and his soul spear to bore through the final layers of rock.
• Han Cang broke through into the Breath Soil Barrier, and Mu Bai and the others followed him inside to find a mass of breath soil floating in the air.
• A thousand-zhang skeletal Origin Dragon attacked before anyone could collect the breath soil, and Han Cang, Chang Feng, and Bailianzi fought it.

Mu Bai survived the battle with the bone dragon, while the Artifact Spirit Ancestor devoured its remnant soul and gained a chance to recover. After the treasure hunt, Mu Bai secured compensation and Bailianzi’s promise to protect his clansmen, then set out toward the Spirit Taming Sect as Zhan Hong caught up with him.

• Han Cang, Chang Feng, and Bailianzi fought the bone dragon, which drove toward Mu Bai as Bailianzi dodged away.
• Mu Bai used the Crow Cauldron to pin the bone dragon against the realm wall, allowing the Artifact Spirit Ancestor to devour its remnant soul and make its body dissolve.
• Mu Bai rebuked Bailianzi, Han Cang, and Chang Feng for leaving him in danger, and they gave him rare treasures and a million Soul Crystals each as compensation and thanks.
• Bailianzi and the others divided the Breath Soil, while Mu Bai entrusted Hai Zhan and the others to Bailianzi’s protection and left for the Spirit Taming Sect.
• Mu Bai flew west and waited for Zhan Hong, who caught up with him two days later.

Mu Bai killed Zhan Hong after overcoming his weapons and talismans, then took his treasures and continued toward the Spirit Taming Sect. He reached Treasure-Gathering City, learned which sects administered it and where the Taiyuan Merchant Guild had a branch, and arrived at the Taiyuan Pavilion to seek news of Ling'er.

• Mu Bai used a series of attacks and a surprise strike to kill Zhan Hong, then opened his Mustard Seed Bag and collected his weapons, crystal stones, and artifact-refining materials.
• Mu Bai traveled toward the Spirit Taming Sect and entered Treasure-Gathering City, where he visited the Spirit Command Flower House to ask about the city.
• Zi Yan told Mu Bai that Treasure-Gathering City was jointly administered by the Spirit Taming Sect, the Hundred Generations Sect, the Mysterious Maiden Sect, and the Hundred Refinement Sect, and confirmed that the Taiyuan Merchant Guild had a branch there.
• Mu Bai left the flower house and rode by carriage to the Taiyuan Pavilion in the northern part of the city, intending to seek news of Ling'er.

Mu Bai learned that Mi Yan had gone to Ximu City, then bought an ancient Five Elements Concealment Formation and used it to confront the men who had tried to steal it. He recognized them as members of the Star Great Tribe and let them leave with a message for Xing Mu.

• Mu Bai paid Yingrou for Mi Yan’s whereabouts and learned that Mi Yan had been sent to Ximu City after offending a great tribe.
• At the Hundred Refinement Hall, Mu Bai watched a coarse-clothed cultivator demonstrate formation flags that concealed him from Divine Sense, then bought the flags, formation plate, and crystal stones for fifty thousand Soul Crystals.
• Mu Bai left Treasure-Gathering City and drew out the four men who had followed him, using the concealment formation to evade their attacks.
• Mu Bai countered the men’s Four Symbols Formation with flames and purple lightning, recognized their connection to the Star Great Tribe, and defeated them.
• Mu Bai gave the men Soul Crystals and told them to inform Xing Mu that he would keep the formation flags, then walked away thinking of Xing Yun.