Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yi learned from Profound Mystery True Person about cultivation, tribulations, and the difference between nurturing life and cultivating nature as he prepared to advance to the Seventh Level of Qi Refining. Meanwhile, Huang Zishang sent his Yin Spirit into Fengdu to seek a Fortuitous Encounter tied to his name.

• Jiang Yi consulted the Golden Paper, which predicted he could pass to the Seventh Level of Qi Refining but would face Yin Spirit Emergence or a Heart Demon Obstacle.
• Profound Mystery True Person explained how Qi Refining cultivators nurture life and cultivate nature, and how their powers develop toward Foundation Establishment.
• Jiang Yi learned that Profound Mystery True Person had avoided most tribulations inside Yang Qi Taixiang Heaven and knew little about heart demons.
• Jiang Yi asked the Heavenly Book for a safe way to pass Yin Spirit Emergence and the Heart Demon Obstacle, and it began a two-hour derivation.
• Huang Zishang reflected on the fortunes he had gained after the Huang and Wang families were destroyed, then sent his Divine Sense out as a Yin Spirit to search Fengdu for a Fortuitous Encounter.

Jiang Yi broke through to the seventh level of Qi Refining, overcame his heart demon tribulation, and formed a brilliant Divine Sense. At Fengdu, his arrival caused a sensation as the gathered cultivators recognized his first-grade son of heaven fate.

• Jiang Yi endured the seventh-level tribulation and broke through with his perfected cultivation.
• Jiang Yi condensed his Divine Sense and safely passed the trial of sending forth the yin spirit.
• Jiang Yi faced illusions during the heart demon tribulation, including a vision of the Imperial Lord of the Immortal Dao, and shattered them.
• Jiang Yi's Divine Sense illuminated more than twenty feet, and he sensed a guiding force from the Great Void.
• Huang Zishang watched cultivators gather at Fengdu as they discussed their fates and the first-grade fate reported that day.
• Jiang Yi's arrival at Fengdu silenced the platform, then sparked an uproar as cultivators declared that a first-grade son of heaven fate had arrived.

Lou Zhenxiao and Fuli Zi watched a sun-and-moon Son of Heaven Fate descend into Fengdu as the Kitchen God Temple opened, while Jiang Yi arrived on the eighteenth tier and learned that the temple’s fire could be claimed at a cost. The chapter ended with a Furnace-Flame Fate cultivator accepting the Kitchen God’s fire and beginning to burn like incense.

• Fuli Zi distracted Lou Zhenxiao with food and showed him the water mirror, where they spotted a sun-and-moon Son of Heaven Fate whose origins the Dao Register could not reveal.
• Lou Zhenxiao and Fuli Zi wagered on how many steps the Son of Heaven Fate could take into the Kitchen God Temple before the Six Ding True Fire stopped him.
• Jiang Yi’s Divine Sense arrived on Fengdu’s eighteenth-tier platform, where the other figures avoided him and Huang Zishang recognized him as a rival.
• The eighteen tiers shook as the Kitchen God Temple emerged from black clouds, its golden flames confronting the surrounding Yin Sha Qi.
• A tall cultivator with Furnace-Flame Fate stepped forward, called on the Kitchen God for fire, and drew a flame into his body as his fate Qi began to smoke.

Jiang Yi entered the Kitchen God Temple in Fengdu and endured its fire without harm, revealing his skill at refining Bing and Ding Fire. As the temple formed a fate pattern around him, powerful observers recognized him as the Yin Heavenly Son, the Radiant Lord, and a sage king.

• A manifestation with furnace-flame fate burned to ash after asking the Kitchen God Temple for fire, and Jiang Yi sought guidance from the Heavenly Book.
• Fuli Zi sent a disguised man named Brother Dong to explain the temple’s trials, while several cultivators burned apart attempting them.
• A cultivator with heavenly star fate endured the fire and entered the temple, and another with upper-grade flowing spring fate followed.
• Jiang Yi released his Divine Sense and Qi, absorbed a nine-inch tongue of golden flame, and rushed through the temple doors without harm.
• Inside the temple, Jiang Yi refined Bing and Ding Fire as the flames formed a dazzling, unprecedented aspect around him.
• Fuli Zi, Lady Mysterious Maiden, and a distant observer recognized Jiang Yi as the Yin Heavenly Son, the Radiant Lord, and a sage king.

Fuli Zi and Lou Zhenxiao discovered that the man in the Kitchen God Temple had manifested the extraordinary [Great Bright Venerable] fate configuration. As the new master of [Lesser Yang] emerged, a Xiantian Sect Dao Lord intervened in the unfolding schemes by staking his sect’s Dao Child position on him.

• Fuli Zi explained the [Yin Heavenly Son] fate configuration, but Lou Zhenxiao revealed that the man’s fate lines formed an even rarer [Great Bright Venerable] configuration.
• Lady Mysterious Maiden identified the man’s eighty-four deep, continuous fate lines as the [Great Bright Venerable] and described his command over Bing and Ding.
• The Nine-Spirit Brahma-Mystery Dao Lord and a gray-robed Xiantian Sect Dao Lord discussed [Fengdu], [Lesser Yang], and the Great Talisman Sect’s plans for the new master.
• The gray-robed Daoist declared that the new master of [Lesser Yang] would enter the Xiantian Sect and become its Dao Child, challenging the Great Talisman Sect’s plans.
• The gray-robed Daoist said the Great Talisman Sect could depose Zhang Yuansheng if it refused to accept the new master, altering the contest between the northern and southern powers.

Jiang Yi entered the Kitchen God Temple, refined his fate with the Wind-and-Fire Meditation Cushion, and attained the complete [Sage King] fate configuration and an innate fire virtue body. After leaving [Fengdu], he learned that the Xiantian Sect had appointed a Dao Child, leaving its long-vacant seat ready for an heir.

• Jiang Yi endured the temple’s fire intent, sat on the Wind-and-Fire Meditation Cushion, and raised his fate configuration from [Yin Heavenly Son] to [Great Bright Venerable].
• Jiang Yi offered three sticks of incense, causing the Kitchen God’s avatar to shatter, then sat on the ritual platform and absorbed the temple’s remaining Six Ding fire intent.
• Jiang Yi attained an innate fire virtue body and the complete [Sage King] fate configuration with a hundred fate patterns.
• Jiang Yi consulted the Heavenly Book, confirmed he had obtained three of the temple’s four predicted fortuitous encounters, and left [Fengdu].
• The Xiantian Sect’s Dharma Drum sounded repeatedly, and its cultivators learned that the Patriarch had appointed an outsider as Dao Child.

Jiang Yi refined a full portion of Bing Fire Purple Yang Qi, gained a perfect [Sage King] destiny, and learned that it let him surpass Ji Fuyao in one measure. In the Central Palace of Mysterious Capital, Gui'er asked whether Her Ladyship would proceed with the ghost marriage now that the Kitchen God Temple was gone and Jiang Yi’s destiny was known.

• Jiang Yi absorbed Bing Fire Purple Yang Qi, purified his body, and reached about forty-eight percent progress in his cultivation.
• Profound Mystery True Person examined Jiang Yi’s golden mark, learned he had gained a perfect [Sage King] destiny, and explained how strong fortune obscured a person from higher cultivators’ calculations.
• Jiang Yi realized his perfect destiny surpassed Ji Fuyao’s Destiny of Ninety-Nine and gave him a small advantage in his contest against [Sun].
• In the Central Palace of Mysterious Capital, Gui'er told Her Ladyship that Jiang Yi likely possessed a perfect [Sage King] destiny and asked whether she would enter the ghost marriage.

Lady Mysterious Maiden explained how Yu True Lord’s Two Modes theory challenged the Immortal Dao and why his successor’s Sage King destiny made him an unsuitable marriage match, even as a Dao Lord’s red threads arrived to bind her in a nether marriage. Meanwhile, Jiang Yi celebrated reaching the Seventh Level of Qi Refining and learned that his perfect destiny might bring him a heaven-bestowed marriage.

• Lady Mysterious Maiden told Gui'er that the new Lesser Yang lord had inherited Yu True Lord’s Two Modes Dao, formed a perfect Sage King destiny, and been designated a Dao Child.
• Lady Mysterious Maiden explained that the Two Modes placed Lesser Yang alongside the Sun and threatened the Immortal Dao’s principle of constancy.
• Gui'er worried that Lady Mysterious Maiden would not escape Fengdu without the nether marriage, but Lady Mysterious Maiden refused to compromise her dignity.
• Two unbreakable red threads passed through Mysterious Capital’s protections and appeared before Lady Mysterious Maiden, who recognized that a Dao Lord had determined the marriage bond.
• Jiang Yi left the ancestral hall after reaching the Seventh Level of Qi Refining, and Profound Mystery True Person warned him that his Sage King destiny showed signs of a heaven-bestowed marriage.
• Profound Mystery True Person recounted how its former master accepted a marriage proposal after Longji Ruizhu True Lord offered him enormous gifts, and Jiang Yi regretted lacking that kind of romantic luck.

Jiang Yi spoke with Liu Huan in [Fengdu], concealed his strength, and accepted a task to gather yin-aspected things to heal the Sect Master’s injuries. Meanwhile, Her Ladyship sent a nine-headed creature to find someone destined for a red-thread bond, leaving it unsure how to approach the successor with the [Sage King] fate.

• Jiang Yi met Liu Huan, who asked about the previous night, and Jiang Yi claimed he had slept peacefully while saying Yang Xun had broken through to the seventh level of Qi Refining.
• Liu Huan told Jiang Yi that Sui Yuzhu and other Xiantian Sect disciples had been killed, and Jiang Yi convincingly acted surprised and relieved to have escaped.
• Jiang Yi asked when Liu Huan would leave [Fengdu], but Liu Huan said his cultivation had gone wrong and asked Jiang Yi to help him find yin-aspected things.
• Liu Huan gave Jiang Yi a sleeve pouch containing Qi Refining demons from the Cave of Myriad Beasts so Jiang Yi could refine their blood Qi into Blood Money.
• A nine-headed creature left the Central Palace of Mysterious Capital after Her Ladyship ordered it to find someone destined for a red-thread bond, and it worried about approaching True Lord Yu’s successor.

Jiang Yi accepted Liu Huan’s assignment to obtain Yin-aspected substances and had Yang Xun refine Blood Money before traveling with Yang Xun and Han Li into the Ghost Kingdom. The three reached a Ghost Fair, where ghosts and Fierce Baleful Beasts surrounded them after learning they were living people.

• Jiang Yi returned to Gao Family Village and found that Yang Xun had reached the seventh level of Qi Refining.
• Jiang Yi told Yang Xun about Liu Huan’s cultivation injury and assignment, and Yang Xun offered to refine Blood Money from the supplied Blood Qi.
• Yang Xun explained how money differed across the Four Cardinal Continents and described the Great Talisman Sect’s control of Talisman Money through its treasure and the Four Great Magnate Clans.
• Fuli Zi told Lou Zhenxiao that True Lord Tao had arranged his journey and sought to bring a person with extraordinary destiny into the Great Talisman Sect to aid Zhang Yuansheng.
• Jiang Yi, Yang Xun, and Han Li entered the Ghost Kingdom and emerged into a Ghost Fair.
• Ghosts and Fierce Baleful Beasts surrounded the three travelers, intending to send them to the Prefectural City for the Ghost King’s daughter’s husband selection.

Jiang Yi and Yang Xun entered the Bottomless Abyss, where Han Li was captured by a Yaksha General and Jiang Yi discovered a shrine gathering Yin Qi. Jiang Yi absorbed the Yin Qi until he broke through, then crushed a tiger-headed Fierce Baleful Beast that threatened him and Yang Xun.

• Han Li used his Thousand Souls Banner to devour ghosts, but a Yaksha General captured him and carried him toward the Prefectural City.
• Jiang Yi taught Yang Xun the Breath-Concealing Technique, and they disguised their living presence to enter the ghost village.
• Jiang Yi found a tiny shrine linked to the Underworld Office and absorbed its rich Yin Qi to nourish his Dao Embryo.
• Yang Xun defended Jiang Yi from swarming ghosts with the Black Sha Pagoda Lock as a tiger-headed Fierce Baleful Beast arrived to seize them.
• Jiang Yi emerged from his breakthrough and crushed the tiger-headed Fierce Baleful Beast's head with one hand.

Jiang Yi destroyed the ghosts of Upper Cao Prefecture’s villages and refined them to strengthen his Dao Embryo and fire techniques. Meanwhile, a powerful girl in Upper Cao City searched for a living man she believed was destined to marry her lady, while Jiang Yi’s arrival remained unknown to her.

• Jiang Yi crushed the Tiger-Head Fierce Baleful Beast, refined its spirit chance, and forced the Chang Ghost to reveal nearby villages.
• Jiang Yi consolidated his Dao Embryo, discovered that his Innate Fire Virtue Body had advanced his Fire-Control Art, and learned a new Ding Fire technique.
• Jiang Yi made the Chang Ghost lead him to other villages, where he killed and consumed the Black Ox and Human-Headed Swan Fierce Baleful Beasts.
• The Red-Browed Ghost King told Great-Grandmother that he could not find the living man she sought, and she swallowed the blood-tainted ghosts throughout Upper Cao City.
• Great-Grandmother ordered the Red-Browed Ghost King to keep searching and said the new Lord of [Lesser Yang] would come to marry her lady.

Jiang Yi strengthened his fire techniques while exploring a ghost city, and the Heavenly Book revealed a possible marriage bond ahead. Meanwhile, the Xiantian Sect learned that its Patriarch had chosen an outsider as Dao Child, and True Lord Lu ordered the eight peaks to welcome him.

• Jiang Yi burned an eighth-level butcher ghost to a remnant that Profound Mystery True Person ate, then absorbed Yin Qi and advanced his cultivation.
• Jiang Yi asked the Heavenly Book about a possible marriage bond and received a four-hour deduction time to learn whether it was fortunate or ill-fated.
• Profound Mystery True Person privately worried that Jiang Yi might inherit the former master's dangerous romantic entanglements.
• Foundation Establishment True Persons at Zhen Peak disputed the Patriarch's choice of an outsider as the Xiantian Sect's Dao Child, questioning whether the successor to [Lesser Yang] could protect the sect's fortunes.
• True Lord Lu arrived with the Sect Master's decree for all eight peaks to descend and welcome the Dao Child, and ordered Drum Elder to bring him back.

Drum Elder accepted the Xiantian Sect’s order to seek the prophesied Dao Child, while Jiang Yi discovered the strength of his growing Dao Embryo in the Bottomless Abyss. After Yang Xun was abducted by Granny’s ghosts and forced into wedding clothes, Jiang Yi prepared to learn more about the danger.

• True Lord Lu ordered Drum Elder to descend the mountain and find the person destined to enter the Xiantian Sect, whose arrival would make the Mysterious Sound Dharma Drum ring seven times.
• True Lord Lu ended the debate over the Dao Child and told the Foundation Establishment cultivators that only a True Lord could claim the vacant Eternal Bright Heavenly Pool.
• Jiang Yi raised his cultivation progress to sixty-six percent and learned from the Heavenly Book that his physique could withstand powerful Qi Refining attacks and defeat Sect-tier opponents.
• The Chang Ghost told Jiang Yi that Granny of Cloud-Gathering Cave had seized Yang Xun while he was returning from the Ghost Market with Yin Zhi and Yin Shen.
• Granny’s ghosts dressed Yang Xun in wedding clothes and prepared to make him Granny’s husband, while Yang Xun feared Jiang Yi would be captured if he came to rescue him.

Jiang Yi disguised himself as a ghost cultivator and entered Cloud-Gathering Cave while Yang Xun was being forced into a wedding with Ghost Granny. Yang Xun learned that the marriage was meant to let Ghost Granny steal his allotted fate and evade punishment in the living world, while Jiang Yi arrived at the feast and caught the attention of a female ghost.

• Profound Mystery True Person teased Jiang Yi about finding a master's wife, and Jiang Yi disguised himself with Turbid Yin before setting out for Cloud-Gathering Cave.
• Yang Xun learned from the old maidservant that Yang Marriages and Yin Weddings were arts of Stealing Fate and Deceiving Heaven, allowing ghosts to take a living person's fate and escape the laws of the living world.
• The old maidservant and several ghost women carried Yang Xun toward the wedding ceremony, and Yang Xun feared Jiang Yi would risk his life trying to rescue him.
• Jiang Yi entered Cloud-Gathering Cave disguised as a ghost cultivator and offered the Blood Soul Mirror as a congratulatory gift.
• Jiang Yi was seated among the ghosts at a feast of human remains, where a female ghost holding her head asked where he came from and remarked that he smelled sweet.

Jiang Yi attended Ghost Granny’s wedding feast to rescue Yang Xun and learned that Ghost Granny planned to marry him for his allotted fortune. The Red-Browed Ghost King and a girl from the Eighteen Levels Halls disrupted the ceremony, and the girl claimed Yang Xun as the Empress’s husband.

• Jiang Yi charmed Cui Ying, who explained the history of Yang Marriage and Yin Wedding and revealed that Ghost Granny possessed law artifacts and a Śarīra.
• Cui Ying slapped the Drowned Water Ghost into black mist after it grew angry at her closeness with Jiang Yi.
• Ghost Granny appeared at the feast, and Yang Xun was brought before her in wedding clothes as the ceremony began.
• The Red-Browed Ghost King stormed into Cloud-Gathering Cave and challenged Ghost Granny, then summoned Great-Grandmother to punish her for violating the profound laws.
• A big, fat girl arrived in a sedan chair, noticed the Red Thread had moved, and ordered her followers to seize Yang Xun as the Empress’s husband.

The fat girl searched for her lady’s Fated Person while rescuing Yang Xun from Ghost Granny, but the Red Thread ultimately chose Jiang Yi. Mysterious Law Lady Qing True Lord chose the Fated Person over [Lesser Yang], leaving Jiang Yi bound to the thread as the intended partner in a Yin marriage.

• Ghost Granny attacked the fat girl with blood arrows and tried to escape with Yang Xun, but the fat girl defeated her and brought Yang Xun back to Cloud-Gathering Cave.
• Ghost Granny killed herself after Red-Browed Ghost King received her, and the fat girl drove him away before questioning Yang Xun about his companions.
• Yang Xun tried to kill himself rather than reveal Jiang Yi’s whereabouts, but the fat girl restrained him with her nine heads.
• Jiang Yi appeared and asked the fat girl not to harm his grandpa, then explained why he seemed to have ghostly Qi.
• The Red Thread flew from its box and wrapped around Jiang Yi’s wrist.
• Mysterious Law Lady Qing True Lord chose the Fated Person rather than [Lesser Yang], and another Red Thread snapped free.

Jiang Yi accepted Gui'er's offer to pursue his marriage fate with her Lady and arranged for Yang Xun and Han Li to leave the Bottomless Abyss safely. While choosing compensation from the ghost granny's Sleeve Pouch, Jiang Yi uncovered a gold-foil sheet identified as the Great Vow Incantation to Ferry All Through Hell.

• Gui'er declared Jiang Yi the fated match for her Lady, and Jiang Yi agreed to attend to his business before going to the Eighteen Levels Halls.
• Gui'er arranged for Han Li to be escorted out of the Bottomless Abyss and supplied Jiang Yi with heaps of yin zhi and yin shen.
• Jiang Yi comforted Yang Xun, gave him cultivation advice and medicine, and told him to return to the Qianji Sect with Han Li.
• Gui'er opened the ghost granny's Sleeve Pouch, and Jiang Yi selected scriptures, notes, Little Ghee Elixirs, and medicine for Yang Xun while leaving the Buddhist relic behind.
• A sheet of gold foil slipped from the scripture, and Gui'er and Profound Mystery True Person identified it as the Great Vow Incantation to Ferry All Through Hell.

Jiang Yi learned that the gold-foil Little Immeasurable Blessing and Longevity Incantation came from a World-Honored One, then gave it to Yang Xun after confirming it would cause no harm. Gui'er brought Jiang Yi and Cat Master through the Nine Ramparts to the Central Palace of Mysterious Capital, where a woman in blue robes arrived to escort him.

• Jiang Yi examined the gold foil and learned from Gui'er that it held an incantation created by a World-Honored One, though its power had faded.
• Jiang Yi decided not to keep the Buddhist incantation, but gave it to Yang Xun after the Heavenly Book showed that doing so would cause no harm.
• Jiang Yi said farewell to Yang Xun and agreed to accompany Gui'er to Fengdu, while Gui'er teased Yang Xun about possibly becoming her lady's father-in-law.
• Gui'er performed a ritual and used her Law Power to carry Jiang Yi and Cat Master through the Nine Ramparts.
• Jiang Yi arrived at the Central Palace of Mysterious Capital, where a woman in blue robes appeared to escort him on the palace's orders.

Jiang Yi arrived at the Central Palace of Mysterious Capital, where Xiao Qiao took him to the Six Antiquities Palace and settled him in the Palace of Gathering Elegance. Profound Mystery True Person explained that the nether marriage could help Her Ladyship escape [Fengdu] and warned Jiang Yi that his immense fortune would bring a terrible Tribulation if he advanced without her help.

• Gui'er greeted Xiao Qiao and left Jiang Yi in her care as he entered [Fengdu].
• Xiao Qiao escorted Jiang Yi to the Six Antiquities Palace, gave him a Landscape Official's token, and assigned him a room in the Palace of Gathering Elegance.
• Jiang Yi consulted the Heavenly Book and learned that Xiao Qiao appeared to be an ordinary female ghost, then explored his new quarters with Profound Mystery True Person.
• Profound Mystery True Person warned Jiang Yi that Xiao Qiao could sense him and explained that Her Ladyship intended to use their nether bond to leave [Fengdu] and join another Dao Lineage.
• Jiang Yi resolved to reach the Tenth Level of Qi Refining within a hundred days and aim for supreme-grade True Qi.
• Gui'er watched Xiao Qiao return and concluded that Jiang Yi could already be called her son-in-law.