Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yi subdued the Tail Fire Tiger through precise control of Bing and Ding Fire, earning the highest assessment and receiving two fire techniques. After five days of instruction, True Lord Xu offered to become his Register Master, while Pang Zhongwang turned his attention to the coming opening of Gathering Grotto Continent.

• Jiang Yi used alternating forms of Bing and Ding Fire to transform the Tail Fire Tiger’s ferocity into submission and passed the Sea Repository Studio’s examination.
• The Artifact Spirit gave Jiang Yi the Five Fires, Seven Birds Transformation, and True Lord Xu awarded him the Linguang Liezang Wing Transformation Method.
• Jiang Yi watched the other True Disciples’ examinations and recorded True Lord Xu’s five days of instruction on Foundation Establishment Destiny Nature.
• Pang Zhongwang asked Zhou Shiyu about Gathering Grotto Continent and Xun Peak’s view of Jiang Yi, then resolved to seek favor with a True Lord.
• True Lord Xu offered to serve as Jiang Yi’s Register Master.

Jiang Yi cautiously considered True Lord Xu’s offer to become his Register Master, while Xu explained that his Five Sacrifices Dao and connection to Lady Mysterious Maiden could benefit them both. The chapter left Jiang Yi weighing Xu’s protection and promised wealth against the danger of entrusting his life to a True Lord.

• True Lord Xu offered to become Jiang Yi’s Register Master, but Jiang Yi said he needed to consult his Scripture Master and consider the matter.
• True Lord Xu brought Jiang Yi into his Grotto-Heaven and explained how True Lords used such realms to escape the limits of the Jambudvipa Vast Land.
• Xu described his unsuccessful pursuit of the Earth Virtue positions [She] and [Ji], and how he instead attained [Five Sacrifices] through the Divine Dao.
• Xu revealed that he wanted to form an incense bond with Jiang Yi because Lady Mysterious Maiden might help him advance if she escaped the Ghost Dao and stirred [Taiyin].
• Xu offered his divination ability to help Jiang Yi avoid danger and promised to provide all the Dharma money he needed if Jiang Yi chose him as Register Master.

Jiang Yi learned more about True Lord Xu, who had offered to become his Register Master, and heard from True Lord Lu that Xu was one of the Xiantian Sect’s most dangerous spell combatants. The chapter ended with True Lord Lu urging Jiang Yi to accept Xu’s protection before his journey to Gathering Grotto Continent.

• True Lord Xu invited Jiang Yi to visit Kun Peak’s Grotto-Heaven after he reached Foundation Establishment and offered to help nurture his treasures.
• Profound Mystery True Person told Jiang Yi that True Lord Xu had attained the Dao early, avoided public events, and was rumored to harbor ancient Dao lineage ambitions.
• Qu Liuer welcomed Jiang Yi to Kan Peak, and Jiang Yi praised her water arts as they walked to Kan Water Palace.
• True Lord Lu praised Jiang Yi’s assessment results and advised him to accept True Lord Xu as his Register Master.
• True Lord Lu revealed that True Lord Xu relied on ambushes and covert attacks, and had secretly killed several True Lord Seeds and Dao protectors a thousand years earlier.

Jiang Yi learned that Gathering Grotto Continent preserved the ancient Great Daos and received a jade slip of previous Dao Children’s experiences before planning his descent. At the Eternal Bright Heavenly Pool, he advanced to the Twelfth Level of Qi Refining by condensing True Dragon Baleful Intent, then left Shao Guansu waiting outside his hall after Shao came to seek forgiveness.

• True Lord Lu explained Gathering Grotto Continent’s ancient origins, its dangers, and why Jiang Yi needed to seek Ziwu Fire there himself.
• True Lord Lu gave Jiang Yi a jade slip of previous Dao Children’s experiences and said she would discuss True Lord Xu’s offer to become his Register Master with the Sect Master.
• Qu Liuer offered to teach Jiang Yi the Yellow-and-White Pill Arts and declined his offer of an accompanying place to Gathering Grotto Continent.
• Jiang Yi cultivated at the Eternal Bright Heavenly Pool, condensed True Dragon Baleful Intent, and advanced to the Twelfth Level of Qi Refining.
• Shao Guansu came to apologize for his earlier disrespect, but Jiang Yi returned to the hall without hearing him out.
• He Shouzheng stopped Shao Guansu at the hall entrance and told him to wait until Jiang Yi summoned him.

Shao Guansu tried to win He Shouzheng’s support by discussing alchemy and proposing a journey to Gathering Grotto Continent, while Profound Mystery True Person quietly confirmed his intentions for Jiang Yi. Jiang Yi completed his mastery of a fire technique, but a Green-Robed Woman immediately attacked his Divine Fire Clone and found his true body.

• Shao Guansu waited for Jiang Yi and discussed Pill Arts with He Shouzheng, revealing that he wanted to accompany the Dao Child to Gathering Grotto Continent and obtain materials for refining a Purple Mansion Divine Pill.
• Profound Mystery True Person questioned He Shouzheng about Shao Guansu, instructed him to keep Shao waiting, and accepted a gourd of Life-Nurturing Pills.
• Jiang Yi practiced the Five Fires, Seven Birds Transformation and declared his Law complete.
• A Green-Robed Woman struck Jiang Yi’s apparent body, which shattered into flames, then identified his hidden true body.

Jiang Yi demonstrated his new fire techniques by defeating Qiao Yu in a spar, then discussed entering [Gathering Grotto Continent] to seek his Foundation Establishment opportunity. In [Divine Empyrean Thunder City], the Primordial Response Tribulation Controller True Lord ordered Eastern Victory Continent cultivators to kill Jiang Yi, fearing [Lesser Yang] would threaten [Sun].

• Jiang Yi and Qiao Yu sparred at the twelfth level of Qi Refining, and Jiang Yi used his Three Yang Refining True Fire to overcome her swordsmanship.
• Qiao Yu offered to help Jiang Yi deal with trouble and warned that entering [Gathering Grotto Continent] could draw attacks from [Immortal Dao] True Disciples.
• Jiang Yi said he believed his Foundation Establishment opportunity lay in [Gathering Grotto Continent] and could not wait the forty-eight years his Heavenly Book predicted.
• The Primordial Response Tribulation Controller True Lord used his Dharma eye to glimpse Jiang Yi’s protected fortune and concluded that the Xiantian Sect’s Dao Child was tied to [Lesser Yang].
• The Primordial Response Tribulation Controller True Lord issued the [Demon-Suppressing Order], commanding Eastern Victory Continent immortal cultivators to spare no effort to slay Jiang Yi.

Jiang Yi cultivated the Twelfth Level of Qi Refining and met Shao Guansu, who offered the Shao Clan’s resources in exchange for a chance to serve him. Shao Guansu revealed that his clan possessed a sealed Jueyin Woman, but a young woman in blue appeared at the hall doors before he could explain further.

• Jiang Yi refined Qian-Heaven True Jun Qi and realized he needed more to perfect the Twelfth Level of Qi Refining.
• Jiang Yi met Shao Guansu, who apologized for testing him and explained that the declining Shao Clan hoped to pledge allegiance.
• Shao Guansu offered pill-making skills, Earth-Lung Fire Essence, and a Tribulation-Dispelling Fruit-Pill to support Jiang Yi.
• Shao Guansu revealed that the Shao Clan had found a Jueyin Woman sealed inside a law-crystal coffin.
• A young woman in blue appeared at the hall doors and fixed Shao Guansu with an icy gaze.

Jiang Yi finished refining Qian-Heaven True Jun Qi, improved his casting speed, and traveled to Qian Peak Grotto-Heaven to study a clone technique. On the journey, Luo Xuanming told him that monks from the Western Maitreya Continent had taken Jiang Yi’s grandfather, and Jiang Yi used the Heavenly Book to ask what fate awaited him.

• Jiang Yi completed his ten-day cultivation session, discovered he could cast Dao techniques much faster, and spent several days reading and resting in the classics division.
• After consulting the Heavenly Book, Jiang Yi invited Luo Xuanming to accompany him to Qian Peak Grotto-Heaven to seek the Three Wonders Separation Origin Art.
• Luo Xuanming reported that fighting had unsettled the Three Ridges, that the Dragon Aspect Manor had become the Sea-Covering Sect, and that the Acacia Sect had been annexed by the True Gu Sect.
• Luo Xuanming told Jiang Yi that monks from the Western Maitreya Continent had escorted an old man identified as a Buddha Child’s sacred father back across the sea.
• Jiang Yi suspected the Buddhist Dao wanted to claim a connection to his complete Sage King destiny, and Profound Mystery True Person reassured him that the monks had taken his grandfather.
• Jiang Yi asked the Heavenly Book whether his grandfather faced fortune or misfortune as the flying carriages reached Qian Peak Grotto-Heaven.

Jiang Yi entered the Grand Regular Dragon Pavilion on Qian Peak to study the Three Wonders Separation Origin Art, hoping its ability to create two cultivating bodies would help him make the most of his limited time. As he began using the Heavenly Book to aid his comprehension, Pang Zhongwang arrived at the pavilion.

• Jiang Yi and Luo Xuanming entered Qian Peak, where Jiang Yi learned he would have to wait several days to meet Sect Master Qin Baiyu and that Yuan Xiao was using the Universe Light Land.
• Jiang Yi brought Luo Xuanming to the Grand Regular Dragon Pavilion, where Luo Xuanming went to choose a cultivation method of his own.
• Jiang Yi summoned the Book Immortal and examined the Three Wonders Separation Origin Art, learning that it could create two bodies that cultivated independently.
• Jiang Yi began practicing the art, then decided to use the Heavenly Book to speed his comprehension.
• Pang Zhongwang arrived outside the pavilion, intending to cultivate in the Universe Light Land and comprehend another Divine Ability.

Pang Zhongwang sought to reserve the Universe Light Land and challenge Jiang Yi’s place in the sect, but Jiang Yi arrived after advancing to the Twelfth Level of Qi Refining and overwhelming Pang’s destiny. Jiang Yi revealed that he had more Dao merit than Pang and ordered the steward to open the cultivation ground for him.

• Pang Zhongwang reflected on his Water Virtue cultivation and resented Jiang Yi’s effortless good fortune and the clan’s reluctance to oppose him.
• Pang asked the Hall of Great Illumination’s steward to exchange his Dao merit for ten days in the Universe Light Land, but learned that Jiang had priority after Yuan Xiao finished cultivating.
• Yuan Xiao urged Pang not to antagonize Jiang, and Pang argued that Jiang might fail to break through the shell barrier.
• Jiang Yi arrived amid overwhelming radiance, having perfected the Twelfth Level of Qi Refining after studying the Three Wonders Separation Origin Art.
• Pang’s Emperor-Wang Water and destiny were suppressed by Jiang’s Sage King destiny, while Yuan Xiao yielded his place in the Universe Light Land to Jiang.
• Jiang learned that Pang had eighteen instances of Dao merit while he had twenty-eight, then told the steward to open the Universe Light Land for him.

Jiang Yi refined the Three Wonders Separation Origin Art in the Universe Light Land, creating two indistinguishable art bodies. After emerging from seclusion, he lent Qu Liuer ten Dao merits for the upcoming Hong Water Dharma Assembly, provoking Pang Zhongwang and leaving him furious and injured.

• Jiang Yi entered the Universe Light Land and spent about a hundred days comprehending the Three Wonders Separation Origin Art.
• Jiang Yi successfully formed two art bodies and tested their abilities, then had them meditate on different Daoist arts while he cultivated.
• Pang Zhongwang waited outside the Hall of Great Illumination, resenting Jiang Yi for claiming the cultivation grounds and resolving to defeat him.
• Jiang Yi emerged from seclusion and met Qu Liuer, who explained that she wanted to cultivate before the Hong Water Dharma Assembly.
• Pang Zhongwang said he had pledged eighteen Dao merits for the Universe Light Land, but Jiang Yi lent Qu Liuer his remaining ten merits so she could claim the time.
• Pang Zhongwang nearly attacked Jiang Yi, then backed down after Qu Liuer restrained him and Jiang Yi reminded him of Luo Qingya; after Jiang Yi left, Pang Zhongwang spat blood and accused him of damaging his Dao Foundation.

Jiang Yi completed tempering his Dao Foundation, found Qiao Yu battling a deity at Flowing Reed Mountain, and accepted the Golden-Thread Robe she had obtained to protect him on his coming journey to [Gathering Grotto Continent]. The Hong Water Dharma Assembly began gathering on a vast island, where Fuli Zi watched for Jiang Yi as a powerful treasure ship arrived.

• Jiang Yi learned he had reached twelve-tenths grand perfection and discovered that Qiao Yu had gone alone to forbidden Flowing Reed Mountain.
• Jiang Yi saw Qiao Yu drive back a three-headed deity with her Geng Metal innate Dao art, then helped close the gateway with the Eternal Bright Heavenly Pool's great array.
• Qiao Yu gave Jiang Yi the Golden-Thread Robe to help protect him on his journey to [Gathering Grotto Continent], and Jiang Yi accepted it while teasing her about marriage.
• Cultivators and True Disciples gathered on an island in Hong Water for the Dharma Assembly, where Fuli Zi wondered whether Jiang Yi would attend.
• A five-tiered warship arrived over the island, scattering the Qi Refining cultivators, while a young Daoist in a dark-cloud robe stood on its deck.

At the Hong Water Dharma Assembly, the Great Talisman Sect’s True Disciples challenged the Xiantian Sect’s presence in the sky, and Yue Ziqi trapped Liu Jing in his Nine-Curve Soul-Ensnaring Smoke. The Great Wei Treasure Palace arrived, dispersed the smoke, and forced the Great Talisman Sect’s disciples to yield the sky.

• Fuli Zi, Yue Ziqi, Yu Changqing, and Xu Wan arrived for the Great Talisman Sect, while Feng Yuan assessed their strength from the Xiantian Sect’s encampment.
• Feng Yuan sent Liu Jing to invite the Great Talisman Sect’s True Disciples down, and Yue Ziqi responded by laying Nine-Curve Soul-Ensnaring Smoke across the sky.
• Liu Jing entered the smoke with his Barrier-Clearing Bronze Mirror, but Yue Ziqi’s winding formation disoriented him and exhausted his Law Power.
• Feng Yuan prepared to rescue Liu Jing, but the Great Wei Treasure Palace arrived and scattered the smoke, allowing Liu Jing to escape.
• The Great Talisman Sect’s True Disciples moved aside for the descending palace, and Yue Ziqi complained about the Dao Child’s grand conveyance.

Jiang Yi arrived at the Hong Water Dharma Assembly in the Great Wei Treasure Palace and received a Talisman Edict that let him enter the Gathering Grotto Continent. After True Lord Guangzhao Jinghai opened the Imaginative Heaven for the contests, Yue Ziqi challenged Gu Changling, and Jiang Yi suspected Gu Changling was injured.

• Jiang Yi emerged from the Great Wei Treasure Palace, greeted Feng Yuan and the Eight Peaks' disciples, then had the palace regulate their Spirit Aura.
• True Lord Guangzhao Jinghai arrived and announced the rules, awarding Jiang Yi one of the six Talisman Edicts.
• True Lord Guangzhao Jinghai opened the Imaginative Heaven as the arena for the contests between the two sects.
• Yue Ziqi entered the Imaginative Heaven and challenged Gu Changling directly.
• Gu Changling's murky yellow radiance entered the Imaginative Heaven, and Jiang Yi suspected he was injured.

Jiang Yi watched Gu Changling and Yue Ziqi fight over the Talisman Edict at the Hong Water Dharma Assembly, recognizing that Gu Changling was injured and had been discarded by True Lord Luo. Gu Changling’s decisive attack failed to overcome Yue Ziqi, who won the match, while Gu Changling left with his Primordial Essence damaged.

• Jiang Yi reasoned that True Lord Luo had treated Gu Changling as an expendable pawn after Gu declined the Yellow Dragon Gall, and he noticed that Gu was injured.
• Gu Changling opened the match by raising mountains with the Great She Precious Jun True Art, while Yue Ziqi flooded the battlefield with Circulating Life-Stealing Destiny Tribulation Water and demons.
• Gu Changling used Profound Yellow One-Steaming Great Capture to imprison Yue Ziqi and his water, but Yue used the Blood Swallow method to consume his python robe and advance to the fourth level of Foundation Establishment.
• Gu Changling admitted that their contest would be decided in one move and charged Yue Ziqi, who met him head-on; both were injured, but two of Gu’s four auspicious clouds vanished.
• True Lord Guangzhao Jinghai declared Yue Ziqi the winner, and Gu Changling cupped his hands to Yue before leaving Imaginative Heaven.

Jiang Yi sent Gu Changling a healing pill while considering how to win his allegiance, and warned Feng Yuan that Yu Changqing had mastered a technique that undermined Feng Yuan’s advantage. After Yue Ziqi won the first Talisman Edict but suffered severe injuries, the Great Talisman Sect chose Yu Changqing to challenge Feng Yuan next.

• Jiang Yi sent Profound Mystery True Person to give Gu Changling a Nine-Sprout True-Nurturing Pill and reflected on whether he could offer Gu the support needed to rebuild his Dao Foundation.
• Gu Changling accepted the pill while believing his defeat and ruined cultivation were consequences of refusing True Lord Luo’s order to obstruct Jiang Yi.
• Feng Yuan recognized that Gu Changling had lost because of his injuries and worried that the Xiantian Sect would fall behind in the remaining Dharma Assembly duels.
• Yue Ziqi returned to the Great Talisman Sect’s lodgings after defeating Gu Changling, vomited blood, and used Fuli Zi’s profound medicine to suppress his injuries.
• Yu Changqing volunteered to challenge Feng Yuan, and Fuli Zi approved the match after Yu revealed that he had mastered Earth-Nourishing Harmony.
• Jiang Yi warned Feng Yuan that Yu Changqing’s Wood Virtue could benefit from Feng Yuan’s Fire Virtue, and Feng Yuan realized the danger and thanked him.

Jiang Yi advised Feng Yuan on how Yu Changqing’s Wood Virtue techniques might be countered, and Feng Yuan used that insight to win their Hong Water Dharma Assembly duel. The victory restored the Xiantian Sect’s morale, while the Great Talisman Sect was left wondering how Jiang Yi had seen through Yu Changqing’s plan.

• Jiang Yi explained to Feng Yuan how fire and earth could counter Yu Changqing’s Jia Wood cultivation, warning him about [Earth-Nourishing Harmony].
• Yu Changqing challenged Feng Yuan, and the two fought in [Imaginative Heaven] as their sects watched.
• Feng Yuan used Samadhi Fire and the Burning Wood Law Saber, but Yu Changqing revealed his towering Jia Wood form, strengthened by [Earth-Nourishing Harmony].
• Feng Yuan used fire to scorch the earth supporting Yu Changqing’s Dao Foundation, then split his divine tree body with the Burning Wood Law Saber.
• True Lord Guangzhao Jinghai declared Feng Yuan the winner, and the Great Talisman Sect’s Fuli Zi wondered how Jiang Yi had anticipated Yu Changqing’s methods.

After Feng Yuan defeated Yu Changqing, Jiang Yi planned to take four Talisman Edicts from the Great Talisman Sect by sending Qu Liuer against Xu Wan and Yuan Xiao against Fuli Zi. Qu Liuer won her match, and Yuan Xiao entered the next battle after drinking a pot of Mortal Dust Brew without losing his resolve.

• Feng Yuan defeated Yu Changqing by exploiting the Five Phases to damage his Dao Foundation, and Fuli Zi gave the injured Yu Changqing a Sweet Dew Branch.
• Feng Yuan credited Jiang Yi with guiding his victory, and Jiang Yi summoned the other True Disciples to plan their next matches.
• Jiang Yi proposed that Qu Liuer fight Xu Wan and Yuan Xiao fight Fuli Zi to secure more Talisman Edicts, and the disciples agreed.
• Qu Liuer challenged Xu Wan and returned to the Great Wei Treasure Palace with a golden Talisman Edict, indicating she had won.
• Yuan Xiao drank the entire pot of Mortal Dust Brew, remained clear-minded, and entered the Minor Realm to challenge Fuli Zi.

Yuan Xiao fought Fuli Zi for the final Talisman Edict, first overcoming his True Lord-bestowed protection and then using a hidden counter to defeat the Miesheng Mara Treasure Banner. Fuli Zi conceded, and Yuan Xiao wondered how Jiang Yi had known the banner’s secret and advised him to use the Three Wonders Separation Origin Art.

• Fuli Zi used the Great Abyss Longevity Talisman to withstand Yuan Xiao’s sword attacks, then proposed a contest of three moves.
• Yuan Xiao shattered Fuli Zi’s Life-Nourishing One-Qi Gui with his first move and launched a second full-strength strike.
• Fuli Zi revealed the Miesheng Mara Treasure Banner, which created a duplicate of Yuan Xiao and transferred its injuries to him.
• Yuan Xiao used the Three Wonders Separation Origin Art to escape the transferred wounds and appear unharmed above the battlefield.
• Fuli Zi conceded, and Yuan Xiao took the Miesheng Mara Treasure Banner while wondering how Jiang Yi had anticipated the treasure and its counter.

Yuan Xiao defeated Fuli Zi by countering the Miesheng Mara Treasure Banner with a transformation art Jiang Yi had taught him. The Great Talisman Sect’s disciples suspected foul play and asked Fuli Zi to seek arbitration, while Jiang Yi’s companions celebrated his quiet role in the Xiantian Sect’s victory.

• Fuli Zi accepted his defeat to Yuan Xiao and left Imaginative Heaven without demanding the Miesheng Mara Treasure Banner back.
• Yu Changqing, Yue Ziqi, and Xu Wan argued that Yuan Xiao could not have known how to counter the ancient treasure without secret interference, and they urged Fuli Zi to request arbitration from True Lord Guangzhao Jinghai.
• Fuli Zi warned that arbitration could bring further embarrassment to the Great Talisman Sect, but agreed to go after Yu Changqing offered to stake his position as a True Disciple.
• The Eight Peaks’ disciples celebrated as Yuan Xiao returned to the Great Wei Treasure Palace with the Talisman Edict and received congratulations from Qu Liuer, Feng Yuan, and Gu Changling.
• Yuan Xiao thanked Jiang Yi for revealing Fuli Zi’s treasures and teaching him the countering art, leaving the others astonished by Jiang Yi’s insight.