Chapter Summaries

Great Compassion Divine Lord and Ancestor Heart-Devourer descended to a treasure pagoda while Mister Red Beard and Madam White Hair fought Heavenly King Jiu Mo. Shi Xuan rushed into the depths alone, where the two elders were already clashing beside the pagoda.

• Great Compassion Divine Lord and Ancestor Heart-Devourer reached True Person Changyao's pagoda, and Heart-Devourer attacked it while Great Compassion Divine Lord set up four command banners.
• Heavenly King Jiu Mo ambushed Mister Red Beard and Madam White Hair with thirty-six Yin Yang Secret Demons, but the couple countered with their divine arts and Dharma Treasures.
• Shi Xuan, Jade Peace True Person, and Joyful Loose Immortal Gao Zhe gathered at the mountain summit and learned that Jiu Mo had intercepted Mister Red Beard and Madam White Hair.
• Shi Xuan ignored Jade Peace True Person's warning and descended alone as the mountain shook; Gao Zhe and Jade Peace True Person went to find the couple.
• At the pagoda, Great Compassion Divine Lord's Sorrowful Black Fiend Divine Saber attacked Ancestor Heart-Devourer's Seven Poisons Hundred Emotions Smoke, which rapidly repaired itself.

Great Compassion Divine Lord battled Ancestor Heart-Devourer over the Treasure Light Pagoda of Changyao while Mister Red Beard and Madam White Hair fought through Heavenly King Jiu Mo’s demons. After Jiu Mo’s true body fell, the group rushed toward the mountaintop, where Jade Peace True Person deduced that Gao Zhe had lured them in to kill the imprisoned Old Demon Jiyin.

• Great Compassion Divine Lord used his saber, demonic fire, and ghostly light against Ancestor Heart-Devourer, who reflected the attack into the Treasure Light Pagoda of Changyao and kept tugging at it with a black cord.
• Mister Red Beard and Madam White Hair realized Heavenly King Jiu Mo was using his Yin Yang Secret Demons to delay them, then unleashed the Two Forms Heaven Punishing Divine Light as the demons self-destructed.
• Mister Red Beard and Madam White Hair joined Jade Peace True Person and Joyful Loose Immortal in killing Heavenly King Jiu Mo’s true body, while his two Heavenly Ghost incarnations remained outside.
• The four True Persons hurried toward the mountaintop and asked Gao Zhe about her purpose and the Old Ancestor Jiu Mo had mentioned.
• Jade Peace True Person deduced that Old Demon Jiyin was imprisoned in the cavern and that Gao Zhe had lured them there to kill him with the Two Forms Heaven Punishing Divine Light after he broke free.

Shi Xuan arrived as Great Compassion Divine Lord and Ancestor Heart-Devourer fought over the Treasure Light Pagoda of Changyao and the seal beneath it. Ancestor Heart-Devourer’s desperate attack brought down the pagoda, revealing that the fiery chains restraining Old Demon Jiyin had begun to break.

• Gao Zhe told Mister Red Beard and Madam White Hair that others besides Heavenly King Jiu Mo had hidden intentions, while the group worried that Shi Xuan had gone below to investigate Old Demon Jiyin.
• Great Compassion Divine Lord used the Netherworld Myriad-Eyes Net to defile Ancestor Heart-Devourer’s Seven Emotions Hundred Poisons Smoke.
• Ancestor Heart-Devourer destroyed his treasures and life-bound Dharma Treasure in a series of explosions, breaking the net and severely injuring himself as the underground tremors intensified.
• Shi Xuan appeared and warned Ancestor Heart-Devourer that his agitated state of mind could give rise to an inner demon.
• Great Compassion Divine Lord failed to steady the Treasure Light Pagoda of Changyao, and it toppled, exposing the white-flame seal as its chains began snapping apart.

Old Demon Jiyin escaped his ancient imprisonment, prompting Gao Zhe and the others to rush toward the cavern while Great Compassion Divine Lord fled. Shi Xuan struck Old Demon Jiyin down with the Void Cavern Divine Light, then turned his attention to the stunned Ancestor Heart-Devourer.

• Old Demon Jiyin shattered the chains restraining him and fled toward the cavern opening with a piercing screech.
• Gao Zhe explained that Jiyin had tricked him into swearing a Karmic Oath, and revealed that he had sought the Yin-Yang Strange Stone in Changyao’s hidden estate.
• Mister Red Beard and Madam White Hair chose to return to the cavern to fight Jiyin and look for Shi Xuan, and Jade Peace True Person and Gao Zhe followed.
• Great Compassion Divine Lord fled as Ancestor Heart-Devourer laughed wildly and watched Jiyin escape.
• Shi Xuan struck Jiyin with the Void Cavern Divine Light, causing his Primordial Spirit to collapse into chaos and his screech to stop.
• Ancestor Heart-Devourer stared in shock at the empty cavern as Shi Xuan turned toward him with a faint smile.

Shi Xuan captured Ancestor Heart-Devourer and convinced the other True Persons that Old Demon Jiyin had fallen, though they remained wary of him. As they opened True Person Changyao’s abandoned estate, Great Compassion Divine Lord was swallowed by the pale golden circular patch.

• Shi Xuan used a black talisman to incapacitate Ancestor Heart-Devourer, trapped him in the Two Forms Dust Formation, and stored the Treasure Light Pagoda of Changyao.
• Mister Red Beard, Madam White Hair, Jade Peace True Person, and Gao Zhe entered the cavern and found Shi Xuan alive, with Old Demon Jiyin and Ancestor Heart-Devourer gone.
• Shi Xuan told the four True Persons that Old Demon Jiyin had fallen because the Yang Sha True Fire had exhausted him, but they remained suspicious of Shi Xuan’s strength and motives.
• Jade Peace True Person and Gao Zhe broke through the restrictions on the vermilion gate, revealing a meditation chamber with jade slips and a black-and-white stone.
• Great Compassion Divine Lord entered the pale golden patch, which swallowed his escape light and returned to its silent form.

Gao Zhe raced to seize the Yin-Yang Strange Stone, fighting off Jade Peace True Person and Shi Xuan while Mister Red Beard and Madam White Hair broke through his defenses. Just as Gao Zhe drew the stone to his side, its black and white radiance swallowed him and shot through the chamber ceiling.

• Gao Zhe unleashed the Peach Wood Sha Divine Thunder Thunderbolt Pellet and sent the Mandarin Ducks Weave Peach Blossom Net after Shi Xuan, Jade Peace True Person, Mister Red Beard, and Madam White Hair, buying time to reach the Yin-Yang Strange Stone.
• Jade Peace True Person broke through the spatial restrictions and pursued Gao Zhe, while Shi Xuan and the others destroyed the peach blossom net and followed into the quiet chamber.
• Gao Zhe used the Man-Woman Great Bliss Divine Light against Jade Peace True Person and reached for the stone, but Shi Xuan blocked his Joyful Peach Blossom Sword with a violet sword light.
• Gao Zhe grasped the Yin-Yang Strange Stone, which transformed into a dark curtain, swallowed him, and shot upward through the ceiling as the chamber's restrictions reappeared.

Shi Xuan and the other True Persons were trapped in a powerful formation, where Shi Xuan used the Yin-Yang Mixed Cavern Divine Light to break its restrictions while Jade Peace True Person suffered a devastating attack. The formation began a second transformation, filling the mountain with golden and silver radiance as Shi Xuan prepared to shatter it completely.

• The formation separated Shi Xuan from Mister Red Beard, Madam White Hair, and Jade Peace True Person, and the three attacked the pure-white restrictions with their strongest techniques.
• Shi Xuan used the Yin-Yang Mixed Cavern Divine Light to erase the dark restrictions and destabilize the formation.
• A fourth-tier dark beam shattered Jade Peace True Person's ancient bronze bell, and a second beam struck him before he could evade.
• Jade Peace True Person escaped by sacrificing his Second Primordial Spirit, but he lost the Three Suns Demon Slaying Sword and fell to the strength of a One Tribulation Yang Spirit.
• The formation's pure-white and dark restrictions joined in a second transformation, filling the area with golden rays and silver gleams.
• Shi Xuan protected himself with the Yin-Yang Mixed Cavern Divine Light and prepared to break the formation with the Jade Shattering Art.

Shi Xuan fought the formation’s hidden master to a standstill while Mister Red Beard and Madam White Hair tried to break out from another chamber. Shi Xuan realized the Yin-Yang Strange Stone might explain how the hidden master had concealed himself, bringing him close to identifying his opponent.

• Shi Xuan used the Jade Shattering Art and the Heaven and Earth Mountain River Diagram to attack the formation, but the hidden master countered with a similar dark Immortal Technique and power drawn from the Lesser Thousand World.
• Mister Red Beard and Madam White Hair used the Two Forms Heaven Punishing Divine Light to protect themselves and the injured Jade Peace True Person from the formation’s golden and silver radiance.
• A distant clash between Shi Xuan and the hidden master briefly disrupted the formation, prompting Mister Red Beard and Madam White Hair to combine their secret treasure with another strike and pierce through the formation.
• The hidden master’s Defense Secret Treasure and natal Dharma Treasure stopped the couple from escaping, and the formation reappeared around them.
• Shi Xuan connected the hidden master’s resemblance to his Yin-Yang Mixed Cavern Divine Light with Gao Zhe’s failed inspection of the Yin-Yang Strange Stone, and began to infer the mastermind’s identity.

Shi Xuan exposed Elder Sifang as the Yin-Yang Strange Stone and broke the Lesser Thousand World formation, then fought him beyond the world’s boundary. Just as Elder Sifang’s escape attempts failed, he detonated a secret treasure that threatened to kill them both.

• Shi Xuan deduced that the Yin-Yang Strange Stone had taken human form as Elder Sifang and had lured the True Persons into the Lesser Thousand World to devour their Yin Yang cultivation.
• Shi Xuan trapped Elder Sifang in the Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle long enough to break the formation, while Mister Red Beard, Madam White Hair, and Jade Peace True Person stayed behind as he requested.
• Shi Xuan emerged from the cavern, tore open the gloomy sky, and released Elder Sifang from the bottle beyond the Lesser Thousand World.
• Shi Xuan used the Purple Sheath Sword and Taiji Diagram to restrain Elder Sifang and repeatedly battered his pagoda secret treasure with Yin-Yang Mixed Cavern Divine Light.
• Elder Sifang failed to escape through a teleportation lamp and a substitute-body death art, then detonated his final black-and-white treasure pearl to take Shi Xuan down with him.

Shi Xuan defeated Elder Sifang and secured the Yin-Yang Strange Stone, then rescued Mister Red Beard, Madam White Hair, and Jade Peace True Person from the collapsing world. He returned them to the Runze Riverbank and prepared to continue his cultivation, ending with the Treasure Light Pagoda of Changyao releasing a Death Karma Dan Book.

• Shi Xuan used the Xuanhuang Merit Pagoda to withstand the black-and-white thunderbolts and take the Yin-Yang Strange Stone after Elder Sifang perished.
• Mister Red Beard, Madam White Hair, and Jade Peace True Person escaped the mountain’s belly, found the exit gone, and endured the destruction of the world’s sky behind Two Forms Heaven Punishing Divine Light.
• Shi Xuan flew to the three True Persons, gave Jade Peace True Person the Yin-Yang Strange Stone to study, and revealed that Elder Sifang had formed from the stone and been destroyed.
• Shi Xuan used the Void Crossing Technique Between Two Realms to bring everyone back to the Runze Riverbank, where Mister Red Beard offered him Changyao True Person’s jade slips.
• Shi Xuan arranged to reclaim the Yin-Yang Strange Stone in a month and watched the others depart to recover.
• Shi Xuan released the Treasure Light Pagoda of Changyao, and a Karma Dan Book marked with the character “Death” fell onto the green light transformed from Ancestor Heart-Devourer.

Shi Xuan finished refining the Treasure Light Pagoda of Changyao and learned that Wan'er had survived the tribulation to achieve Primordial Spirit. He accompanied Granny Yu to the Seven Immortals Great World, where she planned to reincarnate, and discovered that her teachings had inspired the world’s external Primordial Spirit methods.

• At Desolate Pool Mountain, a disciple found Ancestor Heart-Devourer dead and was killed by the hidden restrictions while trying to loot his chamber.
• Shi Xuan completed the refinement of the Treasure Light Pagoda of Changyao and advanced his Taiji Diagram and Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle.
• Granny Yu told Shi Xuan that Wan'er had achieved Primordial Spirit after a near-fatal tribulation, while other familiar Penglai cultivators had failed to reach the same height.
• Shi Xuan agreed to accompany Granny Yu to her chosen reincarnation site, the remote Seven Immortals Great World.
• Granny Yu explained that she had devised two of the world’s external Primordial Spirit methods while experimenting with new cultivation methods, and that other cultivators had created the remaining five.

Granny Yu prepared to reincarnate as a baby girl in Canglan City after warning Shi Xuan about the threats and tribulations ahead. As her cultivation transformed into the Purple Shenxiao Palace, Wen Nianxi assembled seven Primordial Spirit methods and witnessed the world darken beneath countless thunderbolts.

• Granny Yu told Shi Xuan that the Divine Emperor Great World would probe more aggressively, and that he or Granny Yu would need to become a Half-step Golden Immortal within ten thousand years or move the Penglai Sect.
• Granny Yu warned Shi Xuan of three calamities and three tribulations that could destroy his body and soul, and said she had left something on him to help him later.
• Granny Yu dispersed her cultivation into the Purple Shenxiao Palace as countless thunderbolts across the Seven Immortals Great World bowed toward her.
• Shi Xuan used the Six Paths of Reincarnation to shield Granny Yu from the backlash as she entered a baby girl in Canglan City.
• Wen Nianxi gathered seven external Primordial Spirit methods, but nothing happened until the Great Thousand World went dark and thunderbolts filled the sky.

Shi Xuan returned to Canglan City amid a world-shaking lightning phenomenon and reunited with his four disciples. He explained that their cultivation arts had flaws and promised to return with a path beyond Merit, leaving them to consider whether to abandon their current cultivation and begin anew.

• Wen Nianxi and True Person Jingyue followed the terrifying lightning toward Canglan City, while Xia Jing and the other Bamboo Mountain Seven Sons also rushed there, hoping Shi Xuan had returned.
• The lightning vanished, and Shi Xuan appeared above Canglan City; Xia Jing, Zhan Tang, Qi Zicai, and Ying Zi greeted him as their teacher.
• Shi Xuan sent the other arriving True Persons tens of thousands of miles away, then praised his four disciples for reaching Primordial Spirit and Dharma Aspect Realms.
• Shi Xuan warned his disciples that their cultivation arts had flaws and explained that Merit could help them survive the Heavenly and Decay Tribulations.
• When Xia Jing asked whether there was a path that did not rely on Merit, Shi Xuan promised to teach one later, but warned that they would have to discard their current cultivation and start over.
• Shi Xuan departed, leaving the four disciples to weigh the cost of beginning anew and reflect on the greater world beyond Primordial Spirit.

Madam An gave birth to a girl during a world-shaking thunderstorm, and Shi Xuan arrived at Dong Manor to guide the child, whom he named Shenxiao. After Shi Xuan settled in, Dong Mingchao recognized him as the figure in a portrait of Zhushan’s Patriarch.

• Madam An delivered a baby girl amid violet lightning, and Xiao Huan reported the birth to Dong Mingchao and Dong Shaohui.
• Shi Xuan introduced himself at Dong Manor and said he had come to guide the extraordinary young lady he had sensed there.
• Dong Mingchao learned that his daughter-in-law had given birth and invited Shi Xuan into the manor.
• Shi Xuan held the baby, recognized the lightning mark as the manifestation of Shenxiao Palace, named her Shenxiao, and agreed to stay and guide her.
• Dong Mingchao saw Shi Xuan’s likeness in a portrait of Zhushan’s Patriarch and pointed it out to his family.

Shi Xuan awakened Shenxiao’s past-life memories after eight years of teaching her, then returned to his cave abode in the Dongling Great World. Meanwhile, True Lord Blood Shadow recovered his cultivation and considered whether it was safe to return to Yuyu Heaven, and Shi Xuan received an invitation to a Mysterious Exchange Gathering.

• Dong Mingchao and Dong Shaohui realized the Patriarch had concealed his identity, so they chose to respect him quietly rather than approach him openly.
• Eight years later, Shi Xuan touched Shenxiao between the brows and awakened her memories, and she told him they could address each other as peers.
• Shi Xuan left Dong Manor and used Shenxiao’s spacetime beacon gate to return to the Dongling Great World.
• Old Ancestor Blood River restored True Lord Blood Shadow using the Blood Lotus and True Person Liuyun’s body, and Blood Shadow ordered him to test whether Shenxiao Palace had truly left Yuyu Heaven for several more years.
• Shi Xuan returned to his rented cave abode and found an invitation to the Mysterious Exchange Gathering, which was three years away.

Shi Xuan visited the Sea Ruins Market to exchange the first yin-and-yang wisp from his Lesser Thousand World for materials he needed. After trading his Five Elements Primordial Fetus for Ten Thousand Years Yang Harmony Qi, he escaped an ambush by a desperate True Person, whose attack triggered a Heavenly Tribulation.

• Shi Xuan posted a jade plaque offering Ten Thousand Years Yang Sha True Fire in exchange for Ten Thousand Years Yang Harmony Qi or Xuanhuang Merit Qi.
• Shi Xuan agreed to trade his Five Elements Primordial Fetus to a black-haired old Daoist for Ten Thousand Years Yang Harmony Qi, which the old Daoist needed to obtain Central Earth Essence of Heaven and Earth.
• An old man with a Heavenly Tribulation due within ten years pleaded with Shi Xuan to give him the Yang Harmony Qi, but Shi Xuan refused and advised him to disperse his cultivation and begin again.
• After the old man ambushed him at the market exit, Shi Xuan destroyed his Sword Qi with Two Forms Dust Sword Qi and fled when the old man triggered his Heavenly Tribulation.
• Several True Persons who witnessed Shi Xuan's immortal art realized it could help them reach a place within the grotto-heaven.

Shi Xuan completed the Cold Flame Heart Lamp and received an invitation to explore a Celestial Immortal Grotto-Heaven, while True Lord Blood Shadow returned to the Great Yuyu World under orders to destroy the Penglai Sect. The chapter ended as Blood Shadow’s blood sea attacked Penglai Island, forcing Mo Yuan to activate its protective array.

• Shi Xuan finished refining the Cold Flame Heart Lamp and invited Cui Wenzi, Youmengzi, and Moving Mountains Daoist to discuss their proposed expedition.
• True Lord Blood Shadow and Old Ancestor Blood River arrived outside the Great Yuyu World and discussed which sect to target under the Divine Emperor’s orders.
• True Lord Blood Shadow fused Lingxiao Hall with the Earth Membrane to establish a Heavenly Court that would gather True Spirit Sparks and power for the Divine Emperor.
• Mo Yuan sensed danger at the Penglai Sect and activated the Nine Heavens All-Seal Myriad Thunder Immortal Array as Lin Luo joined him.
• A blood sea surged around Penglai Island and crashed toward its protective array, while Zhang Zhengyan recognized the attacker’s power as resembling True Lord Xu’s.

True Lord Blood Shadow attacked Penglai Sect with a vast sea of blood, overwhelming the Nine Heavens All-Seal Myriad Thunder Immortal Array. True Lord Xu struck back and bought the sect six months, but the disciples faced a desperate escape while Meng Nishang prepared to trigger her fourth Heavenly Tribulation early.

• Penglai Sect’s cultivators watched True Lord Blood Shadow’s sea of blood batter their protective array, while Lin Luo and Zhang Zhengyan recognized the danger and considered retreat.
• The Nine Heavens All-Seal Myriad Thunder Immortal Array shattered after only three breaths, but True Lord Xu appeared and used purple lightning to drive back the blood waves.
• True Lord Blood Shadow realized True Lord Xu was suffering a Heavenly Human Decay Tribulation and withdrew the blood sea to encircle Penglai Sect, sealing its escape routes.
• True Lord Xu explained that his strike had bought Penglai Sect six months and told its leaders to seek escape while keeping the disciples unaware; Mo Yuan planned to destroy the Sect Jade Slip.
• True Lord Xu predicted that Meng Nishang would not flee or confront Blood Shadow directly, but would send her sect’s True Persons away and attempt her fourth Heavenly Tribulation early.

True Lord Xu perished in the Decay Tribulation, but Granny Yu’s jade pendant preserved his core True Spirit for reincarnation. As Meng Nishang passed her fourth Heavenly Tribulation and fought True Lord Blood Shadow, the Penglai Sect tried to escape, while Shi Xuan sensed a sudden disturbance in the Dongling Great World.

• True Lord Xu’s body and Primordial Spirit decayed, but a purple light from Chu Wan’er’s jade pendant gathered his core True Spirit so he could reincarnate.
• Chu Wan’er urged the Penglai Sect to rely on its own strength, while Lin Luo and the others watched Meng Nishang face the fourth Heavenly Tribulation.
• Meng Nishang overcame the Tai Xiao Dao Transformation Thunder, then brought her blizzard and bright moon to battle True Lord Blood Shadow outside Penglai Sect.
• Mo Yuan, Lin Luo, Zhang Zhengyan, and Chu Wan’er activated their escape plan, but True Lord Blood Shadow sent part of his sea of blood after them and blocked their way.
• Shi Xuan abruptly opened his eyes while waiting to give Cui Wenzi and the others his answer.

Shi Xuan divined that True Lord Blood Shadow and Old Ancestor Blood River were attacking Penglai Sect while Meng Nishang fought to protect it. Lin Luo, Chu Wan'er, Mo Yuan, Zhang Zhengyan, and Guiyuanzi escaped into the sect array, but Meng Nishang was badly injured and True Lord Blood Shadow vowed to return.

• Shi Xuan used the Taiji Diagram and Innate Eight Trigrams to see True Lord Blood Shadow fighting Meng Nishang outside Penglai Sect and recognized the danger to his fellow sect members.
• Old Ancestor Blood River trapped Lin Luo, Chu Wan'er, Mo Yuan, and Zhang Zhengyan in the Maha Blood River, and Mo Yuan prepared to trigger his Heavenly Tribulation to save them.
• Guiyuanzi arrived and used the One Qi Clear Light Banner and Primordial Silver Silk Duster to defend the group against Old Ancestor Blood River.
• True Lord Blood Shadow brought out the Blood Demon Divine Banner, overpowered Meng Nishang's newly advanced Guanghan Palace, and warned that he would return after recovering.
• Lin Luo used the Shenxiao All Heavens Yin Thunder to break the Maha Blood River, and Guiyuanzi brought the group back into the Nine Heavens All-Seal Myriad Thunder Immortal Array.