Chapter Summaries

After crossing the Storm Sea, Shi Xuan arrived at Pingbo Port and went to the Yu Family Merchant House to report his arrival and learn what had happened during his absence. He was greeted by the bustling city and its many members of the Ancient Hundred Clans, while the shopkeeper asked him to show a token before summoning Steward Yu.

• Shi Xuan’s transformed Sweet Dew caused an ornamental orchid to bloom, impressing Fan Yu, Ma Ping, and Ma Yuanheng.
• Shi Xuan fished from the ship’s prow during a storm and told Ma Ping that cultivating immortality was also about freedom and ease.
• More than a month later, the ship reached Pingbo Port, and Shi Xuan refused Ma Ping’s gift of Spirit Stones before asking Fan Yu for directions to the Yu Family Merchant House.
• Shi Xuan disembarked, bid farewell to Ma Ping and Ma Yuanheng, and explored Pingbo City, where members of the Ancient Hundred Clans lived and worked alongside humans.
• Shi Xuan entered the Yu Family Merchant House and identified himself as a Penglai Sect disciple; the shopkeeper asked him to present a token before inviting Steward Yu.

Shi Xuan visited the Yu Family Merchant House to report his arrival in the Southern Barbarians and learn news from the sect and Cultivation World. Yu Kaishan shared several major developments and hinted that he wanted Shi Xuan’s help with a final matter.

• Shi Xuan showed his Merit Points Jade Pendant at the Yu Family Merchant House, and Yu Kaishan welcomed him upstairs.
• Yu Kaishan explained that the Yu Family had recalled him from the Penglai Sect to serve the Lineage, leaving his cultivation stalled at Major Qi Induction Accomplishment.
• Shi Xuan asked Yu Kaishan to report his arrival to the sect and tell him about recent events; Yu Kaishan promised to send word and mentioned Yu Ruoshui’s breakthrough and Meng Li’s death.
• Yu Kaishan told Shi Xuan that lightning had collapsed a peak on Changbai Immortal Mountain and that the Medicine King Sect was searching for someone, while the Penglai Sect investigated.
• Yu Kaishan reported that the Hunyuan Ancestor had reached the Yin Spirit Stage and that an ancient estate in the Western Wilderness Land had been discovered, then asked Shi Xuan for help with another matter.

Shi Xuan accepted the Penglai Sect’s task of curing Chetuo Kingdom’s prince and investigating whether the Gu God Sect was involved. Believing an immortal had appeared in his dream, King Yuluo began fasting and praying to summon Shi Xuan, who had not yet arrived.

• Yu Kaishan explained that the Medicine King Sect had withdrawn its disciple from Chetuo Kingdom and asked Shi Xuan to treat the ruler’s son, who had been infected by a gu insect.
• Shi Xuan accepted the task, received Blue Blood Grass to draw out the insect, and agreed to report any clues about the Gu God Sect.
• Yu Kaishan told Shi Xuan that the sect hoped to establish a foothold in Chetuo Kingdom if the Medicine King Sect weakened, and asked him to appear like a true immortal.
• Yuluo told Tana that an immortal from Penglai had promised to cure their son Yuyue in a dream.
• Yuluo decided to fast for seven days and have the people pray with him, then painted a portrait of the immortal he had seen.
• The next day, Yuluo bathed, dressed in white, and began praying before the portrait with incense, clear water, and a steamed bun.

Yuluo summoned the Celestial Profound Immortal at the Pray Heaven Platform, where the immortal appeared and cured Prince Yuyue. After the immortal returned to the painting, miraculous rain healed illnesses and transformed the surrounding land, leaving tens of thousands praising him.

• Yuluo led officials and a vast crowd to the Pray Heaven Platform and prayed for Shangyuan Qingmiao Tian Xuan Immortal of Penglai Immortal Mountain to descend.
• The Celestial Profound Immortal emerged from the painting amid radiant signs and heavenly flowers.
• The immortal drew black beetles from Prince Yuyue and removed them, restoring Yuyue to health.
• The Celestial Profound Immortal returned to the painting as the crowd bid him farewell.
• A drizzle healed illnesses and turned the area around the platform into lush grassland, prompting tens of thousands to praise the immortal.

Shi Xuan left Chetuo Kingdom carrying the prayer power he had gained from tens of thousands of new believers and headed for the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains. After destroying the Gu insects tied to Yuyue’s illness, he passed a Medicine King Sect checkpoint and entered the mountains in search of Killing Intent.

• The Minister of War allowed his family to worship Celestial Profound Immortal, while a poor man carved a statue and celebrated the cure of his consumption.
• Yuluo told Yuyue that Shi Xuan had asked him not to make a public spectacle of the visit, and Yuyue explained how he had met the woman connected to his strange illness.
• Shi Xuan suppressed the prayer power from Chetuo Kingdom in his Taiji Diagram and considered transferring it to Madam Fang.
• Shi Xuan learned that a Gu-insect-linked soul was deep in the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, informed Yu Kaishan, and destroyed the insects with the Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle.
• Junior Sister learned that her Gu insects had been destroyed and returned with Senior Sister Ah Miao to their sect.
• Medicine King Sect disciples checked Shi Xuan at a mountain pass, confirmed he was not the person they sought, and let him enter the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.

Shi Xuan reached Chi Family Village to visit the descendants of his master Mo Yuan’s old friend and search for the nearby Yin-Yang True Sha. After learning that young village chief Chi Yao faced pressure from Zhang Qi and the other clans, he agreed to hear her troubles and help.

• Shi Xuan arrived at Chi Family Village and learned that its former chief, Chi Zhi, had died decades earlier.
• Chi Yao welcomed Shi Xuan and offered to ask the village elders whether they had seen the yin and yang Killing Intent he sought.
• Zhang Qi confronted Chi Yao and demanded that she marry him, but she rejected him and asserted her authority as village chief.
• Chi Yao confessed that she had hoped Shi Xuan could save her and explained that her father and uncles had died fighting a Qi Induction Stage demon beast.
• Chi Yao described how rival villages had taken Chi Family Village’s hunting grounds and how the clans pressured her to marry Zhang Qi, while Shi Xuan agreed to investigate and help.
• Chi Yao explained that the Chi family’s powerful White Tiger Seven Blades harmed its practitioners, and that Mo Yuan had once offered her ancestor a chance to abandon the technique and cultivate with him.

Shi Xuan helped Chi Yao protect herself from the Zhang Family by reorganizing the village leadership and teaching her the Gentle Water Art. He left the villagers convinced of his immortal powers after demonstrating miraculous feats at a celebration.

• Shi Xuan advised Chi Yao to appoint her young cousin Chi Mo as village chief and form an Elder Council to limit the Zhang Family’s control.
• Chi Yao persuaded elders from several families to support the plan, and the village installed Chi Mo and established the council.
• At the celebration, Zhang Qi challenged Shi Xuan to prove he was a living immortal, and Shi Xuan drank fifty jars of wine without spilling a drop.
• Zhang Qi demanded that Shi Xuan summon wind and rain, so Shi Xuan conjured wine-scented rain and a black dragon that carried him home.
• The villagers fell to their knees and called Shi Xuan a living immortal.

Shi Xuan searched for Yin-Yang True Sha, taught Chi Yao, and learned that her clan’s White Tiger Seven Blades lacked a physical cultivation foundation. When injured cultivators from the Medicine King Sect arrived seeking shelter and use of the village’s formation, Shi Xuan went to hear their request as an argument broke out at the entrance.

• Shi Xuan returned from searching the forest without finding Yin-Yang True Sha and saw two powerful cultivators fighting as they fled across the sky.
• Shi Xuan continued guiding Chi Yao and considered how to protect her from Zhang Qi and the village’s hostility after he left.
• Chi Yao showed Shi Xuan the White Tiger Seven Blades, and he explained that its blade intent damaged the clan because they lacked a physical-body cultivation method.
• Shi Xuan sensed several cultivators arriving with the hunters and learned from Chi Yao that they were from the Medicine King Sect and wanted to borrow the village’s formation.
• Shi Xuan went with Chi Yao to meet the newcomers while an Elder from the Fang clan argued against letting them into the village.

Shi Xuan helped the Medicine King Sect disciples prepare Chi Family Village for an attack by a Spirit Soul perfected traitor, then realized their squad’s ambush might have involved a hidden accomplice. As Xiao Wen rechecked the village formation, a mass of monsters surged toward the village.

• Xiao Wen revealed that the pursuer was a Spirit Soul perfected traitor wielding the eighth-level Crimson Firmament Sword, and Shi Xuan agreed to help protect the village.
• Xiao Wen and his disciples modified the village formation while Shi Xuan sent the villagers to the ancestral hall and Chi Yao helped the injured Xu Yu rest.
• Shi Xuan questioned why the traitor had found and attacked the weakest squad, prompting Xiao Wen to suspect that someone had leaked their movements.
• Xiao Wen discovered that Da Fang had disappeared, then restrained Da Qian and Chi Yao while asking whether Xu Yu was safe.
• Shi Xuan urged Xiao Wen to inspect the formation again, and ghostly howls and insect chirps announced a mass of creatures approaching the village.

Shi Xuan and Xiao Wen joined forces to ambush Yang Fei’s allies, Yan Mountain Ghost King Yin Ruying and Insect Madam Yong Hua, and destroyed them with Xiao Wen’s Azure Emperor Divine Fist talismans. Yang Fei and Da Fang remained alive, leaving Shi Xuan and Xiao Wen facing the traitor and his accomplice.

• Xiao Wen activated the sabotaged formation around Chi Family Village as Yang Fei arrived with Yin Ruying and Yong Hua to attack.
• Da Fang revealed that she had secretly joined Yang Fei, explaining that she had loved him since he saved her years before and had blocked Xiao Wen’s message for help.
• Shi Xuan and Xiao Wen agreed to strike first, with Shi Xuan planning to restrain the enemies while Xiao Wen used his Azure Emperor Divine Fist talismans.
• Shi Xuan opened the Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle and used his Golden Bridge to pin down the attackers, giving Xiao Wen time to strike Yin Ruying and Yong Hua with the talismans.
• Yin Ruying and Yong Hua were destroyed by the Azure Emperor Divine Fist, while Yang Fei pulled Da Fang back and survived.

Shi Xuan and Xiao Wen joined forces with the supposedly incapacitated Xu Yu to strike Yang Fei, who escaped into the primeval forest with a grave wound. Shi Xuan volunteered to pursue him with Xiao Wen while Yan Yilou stayed behind to guard the others.

• Yang Fei attacked Xiao Wen’s formation with the Crimson Firmament Sword and the Giant Spirit Divine Wood Strike while Shi Xuan recovered his True Qi.
• Xiao Wen told Shi Xuan about Yang Fei’s Wood Transformation Escape and Giant Spirit Divine Wood Strike, and they coordinated a counterattack.
• Xiao Wen turned the formation’s defenses against Yang Fei as Shi Xuan used the Taiji Diagram’s Yin-Yang Qi to hold back the Crimson Firmament Sword.
• Xu Yu revealed she was conscious and struck Yang Fei through his defenses, opening a severe wound in his chest and abdomen.
• Yang Fei escaped into the primeval forest with Da Fang, and Xu Yu urged the others to pursue him before he could recover.
• Shi Xuan offered to accompany Xiao Wen in pursuit, while Yan Yilou remained behind to guard the stronghold.

Shi Xuan and Xiao Wen pursued the wounded Yang Fei and found him devouring Da Fang to recover his strength. Shi Xuan trapped Yang Fei in the Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle, but a bald old man’s blood-colored figure escaped from it and vanished into the distance.

• At Chi Family Village, Yan Yilou kept Da Qian under guard while Chi Yao remained near the ancestral hall.
• Yang Fei recalled his life with Da Fang as she tended his wounds, then attacked and devoured her while she continued her Shou Qiu Dance.
• Shi Xuan and Xiao Wen arrived and attacked Yang Fei, who defended himself with the Crimson Firmament Sword.
• Shi Xuan used the Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle to suck Yang Fei inside and strengthened the bottle with the Jade Shattering Art, turning Yang Fei into foul blood.
• A powerful blood-colored figure resembling a bald old man burst out of the bottle and fled toward the horizon.

Shi Xuan reported the Blood Demon Sect’s plot against the Medicine King Sect and learned from Mo Yuan that the blood-red figure was Old Ancestor Blood River’s dangerous Immortal technique. The sect ordered Shi Xuan and Yu Kaishan to stay out of the conflict, leaving Shi Xuan free to travel as he wished.

• Dai urged Sect Master Tao to join a plan to attack the Medicine King Sect, but Baiwuzi questioned the plot and Dai left after receiving a message from the blood-red figure.
• Shi Xuan and Xiao Wen returned to Chi Family Village, where Shi Xuan traded a Dharma Artifact to Yan Yilou for four Yellow Turban Warrior talismans before recovering from the Jade Shattering Art.
• Shi Xuan left for Pingbo City and reported the developments to the sect; Xu Yu and Xiao Wen sent out many messages to alert their fellow cultivators.
• Mo Yuan told Shi Xuan that the blood-red figure was Old Ancestor Blood River and explained how his Blood Shadow Thought Splitting Myriad Incarnations Great Law used possessed cultivators to prepare for the Heavenly Tribulation.
• Mo Yuan instructed Shi Xuan and Yu Kaishan not to intervene in the matter, and told Shi Xuan to travel as he wished.

Mo Yuan explained that Old Ancestor Blood River had possessed Yu Wendao to pursue the Medicine King Sect’s Purple Heart Primordial Yang Pendant, and warned Shi Xuan about the danger of Blood River’s divided thoughts. After leaving Chi Family Village, Shi Xuan cultivated Yin-Yang True Sha to transform his True Qi and discovered the meteorite that produced it.

• Mo Yuan told Shi Xuan and Yu Kaishan that Yu Wendao had been possessed by Old Ancestor Blood River’s thought, which the sect had captured after Yu Wendao died.
• Mo Yuan explained Blood River’s motives and the dangers of his immortal technique, warned Yu Kaishan that the Yu Family should inspect its members, and cautioned Shi Xuan to be careful in the North Sea Region.
• Mo Yuan identified Shi Xuan’s dark bead as Earth Fire Yin Thunder, a powerful weapon that could serve Shi Xuan only as a means of perishing alongside an enemy.
• After finding the hidden Yin-Yang True Sha near Chi Family Village, Shi Xuan broke through to the sixth transformation of True Qi, taught Chi Yao how to cultivate spells, and left the village.
• Shi Xuan spent a year absorbing Yin-Yang True Sha, then ventured deeper into its source and subdued more powerful Killing Intent shaped like Three-Legged Golden Crows and Long-Eared Jade Rabbits.
• Shi Xuan found a scorched boulder in a fire pit, which appeared to be a meteorite infused with Lunar Yin Power and struck by Solar True Fire, producing the Yin-Yang True Sha.

After five years refining Killing Intent and gang qi, Shi Xuan reached Major Qi Induction Accomplishment and crossed the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains back into the Land of the Central Plains. The chapter left him asking a terrified woodcutter for directions to the town below.

• Three children watched Shi Xuan emerge from Death Valley and fly into the sky, then argued over whether he was an immortal or a flying demon beast.
• Shi Xuan absorbed Chaos gang qi over several days and, a month later, drew the remaining Yin-Yang Two Qi into his dantian, attaining Major Qi Induction Accomplishment.
• Shi Xuan reviewed the progress of his Dharma Artifacts and Innate Minor Divine Abilities after five years of refining Sha and gang qi.
• Nearly twenty years after leaving the Land of the Central Plains, Shi Xuan reached its boundary, used a talisman from Mo Yuan to pass through the barrier, and entered the region.
• Shi Xuan asked a middle-aged woodcutter which town and province lay nearby, frightening the man into fainting.

Shi Xuan traveled through Yunzhou and joined a merchant caravan bound for Yangzhou as he began his journey through the mortal world. Months later, the caravan reached Jiangnan, where two young heroes connected to Fine Rain Tower arrived to collect a birthday gift.

• Shi Xuan learned from a woodcutter that Xinglong Town lay in Yunzhou and demonstrated his power by felling a dozen giant trees.
• Shi Xuan joined the Jinfeng Merchant Guild caravan to Yangzhou, trading a Night Pearl for passage and producing a travel permit with a portrait that resembled him.
• Huang Shusheng considered cheating Shi Xuan out of the Night Pearl, but Shi Xuan trapped him walking in circles until he abandoned his greed and returned it.
• Several months later, Du Yifu and Chen Ke rode with Shi Xuan's caravan through Jiangnan as two sons of Fine Rain Tower's deputy master arrived to collect a birthday gift.

Shi Xuan traveled with a caravan to the river opposite Yangzhou, where Xu Haojie and Xu Haoyu tried to cross in a storm and fell into the water. As Xu Jinyi prepared to rescue them, she recognized Shi Xuan walking across the waves toward the sinking ferry.

• Xu Haojie and Xu Haoyu joined the caravan and inspected the Red Dog Beast, while Shi Xuan listened as Chen Ke discussed the Xu Family and Bodhisattva Pudu.
• Five days later, the caravan reached the swollen river, and the Xu brothers ordered a ferry to take them and the Red Dog Beast across before the storm passed.
• The ferry capsized, throwing Xu Haojie, Xu Haoyu, and other passengers into the river as onlookers on shore hesitated to help.
• Shi Xuan stepped onto the water and walked toward the sinking vessel, rescuing a boatman and astonishing Chen Ke, Du Yifu, and the crowd.
• At Phoenix Tower, Xu Tianqi and Xu Jinyi saw their nephews struggling in the river, and Xu Jinyi recognized the approaching Shi Xuan as Master Shi.

Shi Xuan rescued Xu Jinyi’s nephews from the river, and Xu Jinyi arrived to pay him respects. Her formal bow revealed to the crowds that she revered him as her master, leaving her nephews stunned as Shi Xuan offered them to her as a birthday gift.

• Xu Jinyi crossed the river on clouds while the people watching compared her abilities with Shi Xuan’s and assumed he was inferior to her.
• Shi Xuan held the rescued Xu Haojie and Xu Haoyu as Xu Jinyi approached, and the brothers expected her to punish him.
• Xu Jinyi called Shi Xuan “Master Shi” and bowed to him with the formal rites of a disciple meeting her master.
• The crowds on both banks realized Xu Jinyi revered Shi Xuan, and many who had mocked him hurriedly reconsidered their words.
• Xu Haojie and Xu Haoyu remembered that Xu Jinyi had taught them to bow to a wooden statue of Senior Brother Shi.
• Shi Xuan let Xu Jinyi rise and joked that he was giving her the two brothers as a birthday gift.

Shi Xuan reunited with Xu Jinyi and the Xu Family, then offered to take Jinyi and her Lineage to the overseas Cultivation World. The Lineage remained divided over the move, and Shi Xuan went to explain what life there would be like.

• Shi Xuan crossed the river with Xu Jinyi and told her he had reached the realm of breaking the void, though he considered it only the beginning of the immortal path.
• Xu Jinyi and Shi Xuan attended a banquet at Phoenix Tower, where the Xu Family and local leaders treated them with awe.
• In Xu Jinyi's cultivation chamber, Shi Xuan answered her questions and invited her to continue cultivating in the overseas Cultivation World, offering to seek an island for her Lineage.
• Xu Jinyi consulted the Lineage, whose members split between those eager to pursue cultivation overseas and those preferring their status in the Central Lands.
• The Lineage asked Xu Jinyi to bring Shi Xuan to explain the dangers and prospects of the overseas Cultivation World.

Shi Xuan told the Xu Family how dangerous and crowded the Cultivation World was, and they debated whether to leave their comfortable lives in Yangzhou. Xu Jinyi chose to stay with her family, and Shi Xuan realized that he would not give up cultivation for another person before sighing and vanishing.

• Shi Xuan told the Xu Family he was a hundred times stronger than Xu Jinyi, but that many cultivators matched or surpassed him, including powers capable of destroying nations.
• Xu Yueze asked the Xu Family to decide whether they would follow Shi Xuan to the Overseas Cultivation World, and the clan debated the risks of leaving their wealth and status behind.
• The Xu Family members, including Xu Tianqi, chose to stay, fearing hardship and danger in the Cultivation World.
• Shi Xuan asked Xu Jinyi whether she would go, and she tearfully chose to remain with her parents and clan.
• Shi Xuan understood that he would put his cultivation path first, then sighed and vanished from the main hall.