Chapter Summaries

Shi Xuan chose to return to the Penglai Sect and risk confronting True Lord Blood Shadow rather than delay revenge for safer gains. As he traveled back, True Lord Blood Shadow began slaughtering cultivators across the Three Islands Sea Region and beyond to restore his strength.

• Shi Xuan weighed his options, remembered those he had lost, and decided to return and pursue the faint chance of saving the Penglai Sect.
• Shi Xuan told Cui Wenzi and the other Yang Spirit True Persons that he had to leave Dongling Great World, then headed for the Great Thousand teleportation array while planning for the dangers ahead.
• At the Penglai Sect, Guiyuanzi and the other True Persons discussed their battered defenses, and Mo Yuan urged them to prepare for the remaining ten years.
• True Lord Blood Shadow sent out dozens of copies of himself to plunder flesh-and-blood essence and recover from his injuries.
• Blood shadows attacked Tidal Market and other regions, killing cultivators and leaving human skins behind.

Shi Xuan returned to the Great Yuyu World to help the Penglai Sect fight True Lord Blood Shadow, and persuaded True Person Jiang to lend him two powerful treasures. After Meng Nishang judged Shi Xuan’s plan capable of killing True Lord Blood Shadow but almost certain to cost Shi Xuan his life, she asked him for the Great Yin Ice Crystal Fruit.

• Old Ancestor Blood River left the Tidal Market for the Southern Barbarians after True Lord Blood Shadow dismissed him.
• Shi Xuan returned from the Tongtian Great World and met True Person Jiang, who urged him to flee to another Great Thousand World.
• Shi Xuan revealed that he had passed two Heavenly Tribulations and said he possessed a method that could gravely wound or kill True Lord Blood Shadow.
• True Person Jiang gave Shi Xuan the Five Elements Dirt Cleansing Bell and the Xuanhuang Merit Pagoda, and they went to meet Meng Nishang.
• Meng Nishang confirmed that Shi Xuan’s plan could kill True Lord Blood Shadow but warned that failure would mean Shi Xuan’s death, then asked him for the Great Yin Ice Crystal Fruit.

Meng Nishang used a Great Yin Ice Crystal Fruit to heal enough to fight, then joined Shi Xuan and True Person Jiang in attacking True Lord Blood Shadow at Penglai. Their clash reached a draw, and True Lord Blood Shadow unleashed his Blood Demon Divine Banner and Indestructible Blood Shadow against her.

• Meng Nishang consumed a Great Yin Ice Crystal Fruit, absorbed its icy laws, and healed most of the wounds True Lord Blood Shadow had inflicted.
• Shi Xuan and True Person Jiang agreed to leave at once, and Meng Nishang carried them toward the Penglai Sect.
• Old Ancestor Blood River reported that the Medicine King Sect had vanished, while True Lord Blood Shadow harvested cultivators' essence and survived a powerful Heavenly Tribulation.
• True Lord Blood Shadow sensed Meng Nishang's return as the five True Persons inside Penglai prepared to overdraw their immortal array and escape during the fight.
• Meng Nishang's Guanghan Bright Moon froze and eroded the sea of blood, matching True Lord Blood Shadow in battle.
• True Lord Blood Shadow summoned the Blood Demon Divine Banner, transformed into an Indestructible Blood Shadow, and attacked Meng Nishang directly.

Meng Nishang held True Lord Blood Shadow back with the Great Yin Heavenly Moon while Penglai Sect’s members tried to escape the Blood Sea. Shi Xuan appeared with the Six Paths of Reincarnation, drawing True Lord Blood Shadow away and preparing to confront him.

• Meng Nishang used Guanghan Immortal Light and the Great Yin Heavenly Moon to slow True Lord Blood Shadow’s Indestructible Blood Shadow.
• Lin Luo overdraw the Nine Heavens Imperial Thunder Immortal Seal as Guiyuanzi led the Penglai Sect members toward the mountain gate.
• Old Ancestor Blood River intercepted the escapees, but Guiyuanzi attacked with the Universe Primordial Ring while True Person Jiang arrived to aid them.
• True Lord Blood Shadow split his blood waves to seal Penglai Sect’s escape and sent an incarnation toward the fleeing group.
• Shi Xuan appeared amid the blizzard with the Six Paths Wheel and protective treasures, causing True Lord Blood Shadow to abandon Meng Nishang and attack him.
• Shi Xuan let True Lord Blood Shadow’s Blood God Great Hand Seal seize him while he focused on wielding the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

Shi Xuan and Meng Nishang fought True Lord Blood Shadow as his Great Dao pressure overwhelmed Shi Xuan’s defenses and Blood Shadow unleashed desperate attacks. Shi Xuan’s Heavenly Human Finger Bone struck at Blood Shadow while Meng Nishang blocked his escape, leaving Blood Shadow frozen before the blow landed.

• Shi Xuan used the Six Paths of Reincarnation and his defensive treasures to withstand True Lord Blood Shadow’s Blood God Great Hand Seal, while Meng Nishang held Blood Shadow back.
• True Lord Blood Shadow destroyed Shi Xuan’s Xuanhuang Merit Pagoda and Treasure Light Pagoda of Changyao, then Shi Xuan used the Five Elements Dirt Cleansing Bell to repel the weakened attack.
• True Lord Blood Shadow burned his Indestructible Blood Shadow and Blood Demon Divine Banner, forcing Meng Nishang’s Guanghan Immortal Light to self-detonate and injuring her.
• The Blood God Great Hand Seal exploded through the Five-Colored Radiance, leaving Shi Xuan protected only by his Purple Flying Sword as the Heavenly Human Finger Bone shot from the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• The finger bone dried up the surrounding sea of blood and space as it pursued True Lord Blood Shadow, while the collapsing immortal art left Shi Xuan overwhelmed by negative emotions.
• Meng Nishang used the Great Yin Heavenly Moon and Guanghan Immortal Light to block Blood Shadow’s escape, and the finger-bone phantom arrived before his suddenly stiffened body.

Guiyuanzi and True Person Jiang escaped as Old Ancestor Blood River turned against True Lord Blood Shadow, helping Meng Nishang and Shi Xuan bring the Blood Demon Patriarch down. Shi Xuan’s victory left him struggling against the venomous resentment unleashed inside his Primordial Spirit, which condensed into a dark flame.

• The Universe Primordial Ring subdued Old Ancestor Blood River, and Divine Firmament True Thunder destroyed him, allowing Guiyuanzi and True Person Jiang to flee the sea of blood.
• Old Ancestor Blood River used a secret treasure to restrain True Lord Blood Shadow and revealed that he had allied with Meng Nishang to avoid becoming the Divine Emperor’s slave.
• True Lord Blood Shadow escaped the Heavenly Human Finger Bone’s first attack by enclosing himself in a Blood Lotus, but Shi Xuan’s strike destroyed him and all his avatars.
• A Purple Thunder Light concealed itself within a speck of True Lord Blood Shadow’s scattered Primordial Spirit as the Heavenly Human Finger Bone dissipated.
• Shi Xuan endured the extreme negative emotions and venomous resentment within his Primordial Spirit until they contracted into a mass and produced a dim, dark flame.

Shi Xuan faced the Nine Fires Burning Heart Tribulation a thousand years early, relying on his treasures and Dao heart to survive its escalating fires. After crossing seven layers, the eighth Present Dao Heart Fire overwhelmed his defenses, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Shi Xuan crossed the first Past True Spirit Fire, Present Dao Heart Fire, and Red Lotus Karma Fire as the flames consumed matching True Spirits and his accumulated karma.
• When the next Present Dao Heart Fire threatened to burn into his Primordial Spirit, Shi Xuan used the Nine Heavens Primordial Sun Ruler and Other Shore Golden Bridge to help his Morality Heavenly Venerate endure it.
• The sixth Red Lotus Karma Fire exposed the karma from Shi Xuan's deaths of innocent people, but the Cold Flame Heart Lamp drew in and extinguished the fire.
• Shi Xuan crossed the seventh Past True Spirit Fire, fully merging all his True Spirits into one glazed Primordial Spirit.
• The eighth Present Dao Heart Fire erupted, shattered the Morality Heavenly Venerate, and badly damaged the Other Shore Golden Bridge, which withdrew from his Primordial Spirit.

Shi Xuan survived the third Heavenly Tribulation when the Vajra Glazed Immortal Talisman sealed its fire for six hundred years, though it also sealed his Primordial Spirit powers. After True Lord Blood Shadow’s death, Shi Xuan reunited with his allies, learned of a possible tribulation treasure from Meng Nishang, and warned the sect leaders about the threat connected to Shenxiao Palace’s enemy.

• The Vajra Glazed Immortal Talisman emerged from Shi Xuan’s Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle, and its six Buddhas sealed the Tribulation Fire for six hundred years while suppressing his Primordial Spirit powers.
• Meng Nishang met Shi Xuan after guarding him through the tribulation, split the Merit with him, and promised to retrieve the Mysterious Yin Seven Water Beads after resolving her own Heavenly Tribulation danger.
• Shi Xuan explained the talisman’s limits to Meng Nishang, who estimated that he would need more tribulation-crossing treasures to face the remaining fires.
• True Person Jiang and the others arrived, and Shi Xuan reunited with Chu Wan'er and explained how killing True Lord Blood Shadow had triggered the tribulation.
• Shi Xuan told the gathered True Persons about Lingxiao Hall, Shenxiao Palace, and the Divine Emperor’s threat; Meng Nishang returned to the Guanghan Sect, while the Penglai Sect settled temporarily at the Yingzhou Sect.

After True Lord Blood Shadow fell, Lingxiao Hall transformed and spread across the Astral Qi Layer, restoring cultivators who had died unjustly. Shi Xuan and the Penglai Sect True Persons entered the hall to learn what had happened, where they found its self-appointed emperor threatening them before quickly begging for mercy.

• A distant cultivator concluded that Shenxiao Palace had disrupted his attempt to learn from Blood Shadow and confirmed Penglai Sect's close connection to it.
• Shi Xuan gave the Nine-Nine Heavenly Thunder Gourd to Penglai Sect to suppress its damaged array core, and True Person Jiang gave him the Five Elements Dirt Cleansing Bell in return.
• Lingxiao Hall transformed across the Astral Qi Layer, and Shi Xuan told Qian Hui that True Lord Blood Shadow had likely fallen and his Pure Yang Magic Treasure had changed.
• True Person Jiang led the Penglai Sect True Persons and disciples into Lingxiao Hall, where they found cultivators who had died unjustly restored as bodies formed from spiritual qi and True Spirit Sparks.
• A man in an emperor robe claimed Lingxiao Treasure Hall as his own and demanded that Shi Xuan and the others kneel, but the Purple Sheath Sword frightened him into pleading for mercy.

Shi Xuan negotiated with Lingxiao Hall over the fate of the True Spirits caught in True Lord Blood Shadow’s attack, offering them a choice between reincarnation and divine office. Most chose godhood for the tens of thousands of years of life it promised, and Shi Xuan realized Lingxiao Hall’s recruitment needed limits before Chu Wan'er began investing the gods on his behalf.

• Wang Wenhan welcomed Shi Xuan and the other Penglai Sect True Persons, while Lingxiao Hall explained how Shi Xuan’s actions had freed it from True Lord Blood Shadow and the Divine Emperor’s influence.
• Shi Xuan asked Lingxiao Hall to release the True Spirits of those who wished to reincarnate, and Lingxiao Hall agreed to let Penglai Sect handle their choices and divine appointments.
• Shi Xuan explained that divine offices could grant powerful abilities and at least thirty or forty thousand years of life, prompting most of the True Spirits to choose godhood while three former High-grade Golden Core Grandmasters chose reincarnation.
• Shi Xuan warned that gods’ True Spirits could still be destroyed by higher-level cultivators, then approved Chu Wan'er’s request to invest the divine offices for him.

Chu Wan'er and Wang Wenhan invested cultivators into the Replica Heavenly Court, while Shi Xuan and the other sects negotiated rules to limit the gods’ authority. Lingxiao Hall accepted the restrictions and offered the True Persons a share of the Divine Spirit List’s power.

• Chu Wan'er invested Zuo Si as Thunder Department Heavenly Venerate, raising him to the strength of a One Tribulation Yang Spirit True Person, and then named other sect disciples to senior divine offices.
• Chu Wan'er let Wang Wenhan invest the remaining gods, and several True Persons from other sects arrived at Lingxiao Hall to observe and name their disciples.
• Wang Wenhan invested disciples and trusted cultivators as gods, then received the divine name Lingxiao Great Emperor from Shi Xuan.
• Qiao Mubai called for rules governing the Heavenly Court, and Shi Xuan proposed limits on spreading teachings, divine appointments, eligibility, and demotion.
• Lingxiao Hall agreed to swear a Karmic Oath to follow the rules and offered the True Persons the power to directly invest people of great merit.

Shi Xuan and the Penglai Sect settled protections and divine-enfeoffment quotas with Lingxiao Hall, then confronted the difficulties left by True Lord Xu’s fall. As the sect arranged to recover its scattered disciples and guard the Western Wilderness Celestial Immortal Grotto-Heaven, Shi Xuan foresaw a turbulent new era in Yuyu Heaven.

• Shi Xuan announced that Penglai Sect talismans would be valued equally with one-tribulation Pure Yang Magic Treasures, while Lingxiao Hall shared subsidiary Divine Spirit Lists and set quotas for the coming century.
• The Penglai Sect’s True Persons returned to Heaven-Connecting Hall and realized that without True Lord Xu’s strength, their Yin Spirit disciples in distant Great Thousand Worlds might be unable to return.
• Shi Xuan offered to use his secret art to cross Earth Membranes, so True Person Jiang could contact the scattered disciples and bring back those who wished or needed to return.
• Chu Wan'er warned that True Lords might enter the Western Wilderness Celestial Immortal Grotto-Heaven and seize the Mysterious Yin Seven Water Beads, so True Person Jiang agreed to investigate with Chu Wan'er while Mo Yuan searched for the scattered disciples.
• Shi Xuan went to End of the World Pavilion under protection and predicted that a turbulent era was about to begin in Yuyu Heaven.

Shi Xuan received the Mysterious Yin Seven Water Beads from the badly injured True Person Jiang and Chu Wan'er, who had risked their lives to retrieve the treasure. Later, he caught the reincarnated Xu Zhifei sneaking into the End of the World Pavilion to study, and the chapter ended with Jian Tonghui and Kong Ran arriving to see him.

• True Person Jiang and Chu Wan'er returned with the Mysterious Yin Seven Water Beads after suffering grave injuries in the Yang Spirit cave abode.
• Shi Xuan arranged for True Person Jiang to help Chu Wan'er reincarnate and for True Master Zhang to escort her back to the mountain gate.
• Xu Zhifei sneaked through the End of the World Pavilion's restrictions and studied its Daoist texts, having learned the route by watching Shi Xuan sweep leaves.
• Shi Xuan found Xu Zhifei in the pavilion, advised him to study the Clear Heart Soothe Spirit Drawing Technique, and let him believe he was a reclusive master.
• Jian Tonghui and Kong Ran arrived at the End of the World Pavilion and asked to see Shi Xuan.

Shi Xuan received Jian Tonghui and Kong Ran, learned that news of Shenxiao Palace’s departure was drawing attention to Yuyu Heaven, and prepared for his coming Heavenly Tribulation. He also learned of deadly events in Dongling and discovered that Cui Wenzi and his companions had suffered a disastrous fate, leaving him to reflect on the human choices behind his survival.

• Shi Xuan welcomed Jian Tonghui and Kong Ran and heard Kong Ran explain her Five-Colored Divine Light and its origins.
• Jian Tonghui warned Shi Xuan that someone had spread news of Shenxiao Palace’s journey abroad, and Kong Ran reassured him that other True Lords would initially keep their distance from Yuyu Heaven.
• Shi Xuan explained how the Heavenly Human Finger Bone had killed True Lord Blood Shadow and brought his third Heavenly Tribulation early, while Kong Ran recognized Qing Suo as a Heaven-Connecting Spirit Treasure.
• Jian Tonghui told Shi Xuan that Zhou Zhengshi had succumbed to the Heavenly Human Fifth Decay and been killed after devastating Dongling and attacking the Tongtian Great World.
• Kong Ran learned that Cui Wenzi and his companions had been ambushed by a True Lord, with more than half killed and one survivor escaping by sacrificing the others.
• After Jian Tonghui and Kong Ran departed, Shi Xuan taught Chu Wan'er and cultivated in preparation for his Tribulation Fire five hundred and ninety-three years later.

Shi Xuan removed the talisman sealing his tribulations and passed the Present Dao Heart Fire with the Taiji Diagram and Mysterious Yin Seven Water Beads. He then endured the True Heart Glazed Fire and emerged with a crystalline lapis lazuli Primordial Spirit, having attained Glazed Birth.

• In the Western Wilderness Outer Regions, three veteran True Lords discussed searching for surviving grotto-heavens while avoiding the deadly Time Wind and spatial rifts.
• At Penglai Sect, Chu Wan'er questioned Shi Xuan about beginning his final two Tribulation Fires, and he said his cultivation was ready.
• Shi Xuan left the sect's grand formation and removed the Golden Light Glazed Immortal Talisman, unleashing the Present Dao Heart Fire.
• Shi Xuan used the Other Shore Golden Bridge and Mysterious Yin Seven Water Beads to extinguish the Present Dao Heart Fire.
• The True Heart Glazed Fire burned away Shi Xuan's thoughts and emotions, but he held fast to his True Heart and emerged with a crystalline lapis lazuli Primordial Spirit.

Shi Xuan survived the Nine Fires Burning Heart Tribulation and recovered, then received a proposal from the Heavenly Immortal Chu Dexian to seek a Grotto-Heaven together. When a Three Tribulation Yang Spirit tried to force Shi Xuan to meet his master, a hidden sword strike killed him, and Shi Xuan began negotiating with Chu Dexian.

• Shi Xuan survived the Nine Fires Burning Heart Tribulation, recovered his body, and received congratulations from Zuo Si, Zhou Dielan, and the other Orthodox Gods.
• Shi Xuan detected Chu Dexian, a Heavenly Immortal True Monarch, who emerged and proposed that he and the Penglai Sect search for a Grotto-Heaven in the Western Wilderness Outer Regions.
• Chu Dexian offered a Karmic Oath, secret arts, and a share of the treasures in exchange for the Penglai Sect's records and information.
• A Three Tribulation Yang Spirit arrived to summon Shi Xuan to meet his master, and Shi Xuan refused to go unless the master came in person.
• The Yang Spirit attacked, but a sword light from Tian Ji Peak killed him; Chu Dexian recognized the Penglai Sect's powerful Spirit Treasure, and Shi Xuan began discussing the terms of their cooperation.

After Shi Xuan’s Azure Rope Sword killed a Heavenly Immortal True Monarch who threatened the Penglai Sect, the sect used its Heaven-Connecting Spirit Treasure to secure favorable terms from visitors seeking Ancient Era secrets. As powerful figures made arrangements across Yuyu Heaven, Shi Xuan prepared to stabilize his cultivation before traveling to the Seven Immortals Great World.

• A white-clothed old man saw the Penglai Sect’s Sword Qi kill his junior and abandoned plans to retaliate, while other Heavenly Immortal True Monarchs departed to seek information elsewhere.
• Meng Nishang refused to venture into the Western Wilderness Outer Regions with a Guanghan Sect ally, agreed to share secret arts for ten percent of the treasures, and then hurried toward Penglai.
• Dragon Emperor visited Ao Guang to ask about the Dragon Clan’s Ancient Era records, while Yama Heavenly Son accepted a deal with True Lord Cai Xia and prepared to enter seclusion for his third Heavenly Tribulation.
• Chu Dexian left the Penglai Sect bound by a Karmic Oath to provide secret arts, twenty-five percent of the secret treasures, and the Nine True Water Stamens.
• Shi Xuan told Xu Zhifei and True Person Jiang that Qing Suo could help defend the sect as she recovered, then entrusted her to Chu Wan'er and began stabilizing his realm before his planned journey.

Shi Xuan stabilized his Three Tribulation Yang Spirit realm, reflected on how transcending-level techniques helped cultivators approach the Great Dao, and refined the Earth Trapping Seal. He then traveled to the Seven Immortals Great World and announced that the Bamboo Mountain dojo would reopen so he could teach the Orthodox Dao Sect Primordial Spirit Great Dao.

• Shi Xuan confirmed that his Primordial Spirit had stabilized and considered his progress with Immortal techniques and the Great Dao.
• Shi Xuan refined the Three Tribulation Pure Yang Earth Trapping Seal and reviewed the state of his Dharma Treasures.
• Shi Xuan sent instructions to Zhang Zhengyan and Chu Wan'er, then used his spacetime beacon to travel to the Seven Immortals Great World.
• Zhuang Yukun kowtowed toward Zhushan Mountain, seeking Daoist magic after the Bamboo Mountain dojo had closed.
• Xia Jing explained that the dojo had closed because its cultivation art had flaws, then told the crowd that Shi Xuan had promised to lecture on the orthodox Primordial Spirit Great Dao.
• Shi Xuan arrived and ordered Xia Jing and Zhan Tang to announce the dojo's reopening in one month, when he would lecture on the Orthodox Dao Sect Primordial Spirit.

Shi Xuan began teaching an orthodox Primordial Spirit cultivation method at Zhushan, drawing cultivators and ordinary people from across the region. As he explained the Golden Core Stage, seven-colored clouds descended around him, while the gathered crowd remained immersed in his preaching.

• Shui Qingqian told True Person Haori that Old Ancestor Zhushan had returned and would publicly teach an orthodox Primordial Spirit cultivation method in twenty-seven days, so Haori gathered the Seven Mountains Alliance disciples and left for Zhushan.
• True Persons and disciples from the major sects arrived at Zhushan, where an enormous crowd gathered to hear Shi Xuan preach.
• Shi Xuan emerged from the Bamboo Hut and announced that he would explain principles rather than techniques, then teach the complete method to those who chose the path.
• Shi Xuan explained the early cultivation stages, prompting the listeners to recognize flaws in their foundations and become deeply absorbed in the teaching.
• Shi Xuan continued through the Spirit Soul Stage overnight and began explaining the Golden Core Stage at dawn.
• Seven-colored clouds spread over Zhushan and descended around Shi Xuan as he continued preaching, and the gathered cultivators remained entranced by his explanation.

Shi Xuan taught the cultivators and mortals of the Seven Immortals Great World about the Orthodox Dao Sect’s path, answering questions about its stages, reincarnation, and tribulations. When he revealed how difficult and short-lived that path could be compared with their current methods, True Person Jinluo voiced the crowd’s challenge: why should they choose it?

• Shi Xuan’s teaching clarified the Yin Spirit Stage and the True Spirit, leaving cultivators eager for guidance on the high-grade Golden Core and the Life-and-Death Profound Pass.
• Shi Xuan said each cultivator had to find their own path, and explained that Orthodox Dao Sect Primordial Spirits escaped delusion but still faced the Four-Nine Tribulation and five Decay Tribulations before true Longevity.
• Shi Xuan offered to use immortal arts to preserve the memories of those who converted and reincarnate them, astonishing the cultivators and mortals listening.
• Shi Xuan explained that roughly one in ten rogue cultivators passed the first Heavenly Tribulation, which came about every thousand years, while Decay Tribulation came about every two thousand years.
• True Person Jinluo argued that the Orthodox Dao Sect was far harder to advance in and offered most cultivators far less time to live than their current methods, then asked why anyone should choose it.
• Shi Xuan calmly agreed that True Person Jinluo’s objection was reasonable.