Chapter Summaries

Xu Xiaoxiong discovered that Jiang Gudong’s Dao Foundation and Golden Core were deteriorating, while Jiang Ding brought a Southern Border cultivator to further harm him. Wang Ke learned of Penglai’s connection to Ghost Valley and prepared to travel east, as Chivalrous Heroes Island filled with visitors; Song Yan then heard that a guest from Worry-Relief Pavilion had come to see him.

• Xu Xiaoxiong examined Jiang Gudong and found that much of his Dao Foundation was damaged and his Spiritual Power and Golden Core were steadily diminishing.
• Xu Xiaoxiong gave Jiang Gudong a Spirit Jiaoxing Fruit and promised to find a cure, then told him about Chivalrous Heroes Island’s gathering in the Eastern Sea.
• Jiang Ding met Xu Xiaoxiong, then asked the Southern Border cultivator Wuling to take Jiang Gudong’s Spiritual Root and Dao Foundation.
• Lu Qingyan told Wang Ke that Penglai descended from Ghost Valley and planned to travel with him to the Eastern Sea to retrieve half of the Lingzhen Seal.
• Cultivators crowded Chivalrous Heroes Island as the six-year deadline approached, and Granny Fan Dai told Song Yan that a guest from Worry-Relief Pavilion had come to see him.

Song Yan received an Immortal Invitation Edict from Shen Xu in exchange for a promise to help if he gained insight from Venerable Green Lotus’s ruins. Idle-Fishing Boy arrived on Chivalrous Heroes Island without an invitation, found Song Yan, and stayed at his courtyard; as the Eastern Sea Immortal Arena began, Xu Xiuran bet on Ke Mengze against Sheng Nian.

• Shen Xu gave Song Yan an Immortal Invitation Edict and asked him to do a favor within his abilities if he gained insight from the immortal ruins, and Song Yan agreed.
• Idle-Fishing Boy secretly traveled to Chivalrous Heroes Island, struggled to afford lodging and food, and followed its bronze Compass to Song Yan’s White Deer Green Cliff courtyard.
• Song Yan recognized Idle-Fishing Boy and let it stay near the flower beds until it could find somewhere else to go.
• The Eastern Sea Immortal Arena opened, offering five Immortal Invitation Edict spots in each of three cultivation realms, while cultivators placed wagers on the contests.
• Xu Xiuran encouraged others to bet on Sheng Nian, then secretly wagered a larger sum on Ke Mengze, who had recently reached the late Golden Core Realm.

Dugu Pu used the Sea Wasteland Society to investigate Song Yan, while two Sea Wasteland Society cultivators seized Floating Jade Island’s villagers and demanded information about him. When Fan Dai summoned an Immortal through the island’s Teleportation Formation, two figures descended, and a Mechanism Puppet angrily confronted the captors.

• Dugu Pu learned that the Sea Wasteland Society was investigating Song Yan on Floating Jade Island and hoped its two Golden Core cultivators would test him.
• Granny Fan Dai returned to Floating Jade Island and found Otter Mountain Village deserted and ransacked.
• A young Sea Wasteland Society cultivator captured Fan Dai and brought her to the Forbidden Ground, where the villagers were held alongside a second Golden Core cultivator.
• The cultivators questioned Fan Dai about Song Yan and the Teleportation Formation, then threatened to kill the villagers unless she summoned an Immortal.
• Fan Dai activated the formation and called upon the Moon Priests of the past as two figures descended; a Mechanism Puppet demanded to know why they were hurting an old woman.

Ruan Zhi and Wu Mengliu rescued Floating Jade Island from two Sea Wasteland Society cultivators and learned that Song Yan had gone to Chivalrous Heroes Island. There, Song Yan reunited with old friends at a banquet, while Ruan Zhi and the Mohist School had yet to arrive.

• Ruan Zhi and Wu Mengliu drove off the two Sea Wasteland Society cultivators after Wu Mengliu disrupted their artifacts and stole from their Heaven and Earth Bags.
• Fan Dai recognized Song Yan’s courtesy name and led Ruan Zhi and Wu Mengliu toward the Teleportation Formation so they could reach Chivalrous Heroes Island.
• Song Yan returned to the Worry-Relief Pavilion after winning a small bet and met Qin Xijun on the street.
• Song Yan gathered with Li Qingfeng, Cen Qinghe, Cong Yuzhen, Xie Chan, Fang Cunsheng, and others for a feast at Xinling Tavern.
• Fang Cunsheng told Song Yan that Ruan Zhi had come to the Eastern Sea with a Law Treasure for him, but no one from the Mohist School had reached Chivalrous Heroes Island yet.

Song Yan reunited with Sheng Nian, who came to the Eastern Sea seeking Dugu Yin, and used his bets to provoke Sheng Nian into losing the final arena match. As Seeking Immortals began on Chivalrous Heroes Island, the island masters welcomed the cultivators, and Song Yan recognized Shen Xu among their disciples.

• Fang Cunsheng told Song Yan that Yangsu Divine Lord wanted Xu Xiuran to return to Jun Mountain, and Song Yan agreed to pass along the message.
• Sheng Nian emerged from Song Yan’s shadow and revealed he had come to find Dugu Yin, the Evil Sword Sect’s sect master, while Song Yan warned that Dugu Yin might be a Sword Sect traitor.
• Song Yan reassured Sheng Nian that A Yun was well at Jun Mountain, then revealed he had bet on Sheng Nian to lose the arena’s final match in hopes of making him throw it deliberately.
• Xu Xiuran lost his bets after Sheng Nian won nine arena matches and then deliberately lost the last one, leaving Xu Xiuran short of Spirit Stones.
• The Sea Wasteland Society’s master dismissed reports of strange events on Floating Jade Island, ordered his forces to avoid action until Seeking Immortals ended, and wondered where Jianmu was.
• At dawn, cultivators gathered for Seeking Immortals, where island masters Fang Yu and Xie Mian welcomed them; Song Yan recognized Shen Xu among the Chivalrous Heroes Island disciples.

Song Yan and the other cultivators entered Venerable Green Lotus’s copied ruins to seek enlightenment in the poem and illustrations of The Chivalrous Heroes' Journey. After inspecting the first chamber, Song Yan moved on, while Xie Chan appeared to begin comprehending the wall.

• Sheng Nian dismissed a companion’s warning about drawing attention, while Island Lords Fang Yu and Xie Mian offered the gathered cultivators spiritual porridge before Seeking Immortals.
• Song Yan inspected the porridge, drank it with Xie Chan and Fang Cunsheng, and found that its benefits to him were slight.
• Fang Yu and Xie Mian opened a concealed gateway in a sea cliff and led the cultivators into the Flowers Bewilder the Eye, Leaning on Stones Cave.
• The island lords explained that the twelve chambers held copies of Venerable Green Lotus’s poem and illustrations, which contained a complete Void Refinement inheritance, and instructed the cultivators not to disturb one another.
• Song Yan began examining the chamber walls, while Chang'an recognized Xie Chan standing absorbed before the writing and illustrations.

Song Yan struggled to grasp Venerable Green Lotus’s artistic conception until Tie Zhengming’s words inspired him to forge his own path. He entered seclusion and began creating an artistic conception from his own vision of chivalry.

• Song Yan exchanged brief greetings with Ruan Zhi, then began studying the carvings in the stone chambers.
• After more than ten days without insight, Song Yan met Ding Jingsheng, who explained his interpretation of the verses and revealed that his lifespan was nearing its end.
• Ding Jingsheng left the island after urging Song Yan to keep studying, while Song Yan grew frustrated at making no progress.
• Song Yan watched Tie Zhengming defeat Fellow Daoist Xu and defend her potential to forge her own path.
• Inspired by Tie Zhengming, Song Yan revisited the twelve chambers, entered secluded cultivation, and used Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water to begin shaping an artistic conception of his own.

Xie Chan spent a year contemplating the first stone wall before gaining Venerable Green Lotus’s inheritance, rebuilding her Dao Foundation, and forming a powerful Golden Core. As she left the cave, the island masters discovered that Song Yesheng was in seclusion nearby and seemed to have awakened to a Divine Ability.

• Xie Chan’s memories of her ancestor Xie Tianji shaped a phantom that guided her through all twelve stone chambers in a single day.
• At the final chamber, Xie Chan received a cultivation method that consumed her Spiritual Power and collapsed her Dao Foundation, while Fang Yu and Xie Mian guarded her.
• Xie Chan rebuilt her Dao Foundation over several months, and the writing on all twelve stone walls released radiance that flowed into her.
• Two years later, Xie Chan formed a solid Golden Core, and Fang Yu and Xie Mian bowed to her as the one who had comprehended Venerable Green Lotus’s Daoist Canon.
• As the cultivators left, they sensed a new artistic conception near a quiet chamber, and Fang Yu and Xie Mian learned that Song Yesheng was secluded inside.

Song Yan emerged from three years of seclusion troubled by strange sounds in his ears, while Xie Chan’s breakthrough and Venerable Green Lotus’s inheritance brought Seeking Immortals to an end. After learning of events on Floating Jade Island, Song Yan tried to rest and dreamed of his grandfather, whose final thoughts hinted at Song Yan’s strange ability to hear evil deeds.

• Song Yan left seclusion and learned that Xie Chan had formed her Golden Core after comprehending Venerable Green Lotus’s Daoist Canon, ending Seeking Immortals.
• Song Yan postponed a meeting with Fang Yu and Xie Mian because the strange noises in his ears made him feel unwell, then returned to White Deer Green Cliff.
• Song Yan reunited with his friends, but the noises intensified when Wu Mengliu arrived and remained after she left.
• Ruan Zhi told Song Yan what had happened on Floating Jade Island before departing, and Song Yan went to sleep in his cave abode.
• Song Yan dreamed of his childhood, when Song Ying scolded him for confronting a wrongdoer, and remembered his grandfather wishing he could see sin and hear evil deeds.

Zhang Chao and Li Cheng brought Xu Xiuran to the Worry-Relief Pavilion, where Song Yan allowed them to decide whether to hire him before leaving with Xiao He and Xie Chan. At the Immortal Visitation Pavilion, Fang Yu and Xie Mian revealed that Chivalrous Heroes Island belonged to the Penglai Daoist Sect and invited Xie Chan and Song Yan to accompany them to Yingzhou, which both agreed to do.

• Zhang Chao and Li Cheng escorted Xu Xiuran to the Worry-Relief Pavilion and recommended him for a job, while Xu Xiuran privately judged the pavilion’s wages and its Young Shopkeeper.
• Song Yan told Zhang Chao and Li Cheng to decide whether to hire Xu Xiuran themselves, then said he and Xiao He would be away on business and introduced Cong Yuzhen as someone who could help them.
• Song Yan and Xiao He joined Xie Chan at the Immortal Visitation Pavilion, where Shen Xu welcomed them and introduced them to Fang Yu and Xie Mian.
• Fang Yu and Xie Mian revealed that Chivalrous Heroes Island and its disciples belonged to the Penglai Daoist Sect, then asked Xie Chan and Song Yan to accompany them to Yingzhou.
• Xie Chan agreed to go, and Song Yan also accepted, citing his promise to Shen Xu to do something in return for his insights from the ruins.

Song Yan and Xie Chan reached Yingzhou, where Penglai Sect Master Shen Er asked them to help Penglai enter the Mist Sea. Shen Er explained that the Mist Sea had been formed to separate Penglai and the Sea Kingdom’s Demon Race after a war sparked by the killing of Dragon Maiden Ao Gui, and Lu Qingyan asked about the mediator who had sealed the two sides apart.

• Fang Yu and Xie Mian brought Song Yan and Xie Chan to Yingzhou and led them to meet Penglai Sect Master Shen Er, where they found Wang Ke and Lu Qingyan.
• Lu Qingyan explained that Penglai and Ghost Valley shared a lineage, and Song Yan recognized him as True Lord Qingyan.
• Shen Er asked Song Yan and Xie Chan to help Penglai enter the Mist Sea and recounted Penglai’s origins in the three realms of Guixu.
• Shen Er said Deputy Sect Master Tao Wen had ambushed and killed Dragon Maiden Ao Gui, triggering a war between Penglai and the Sea Kingdom’s Demon Race.
• Shen Er revealed that a late-stage Spirit Transformation cultivator named Shi Zixing had attained Void Refinement and sealed Penglai and Fanghu within the Mist Sea to end the conflict.
• Lu Qingyan asked Shen Er whether he knew Shi Zixing’s full name.

Shen Er explained Penglai’s plan to enter the Mist Sea with Song Yan and Xie Chan, hoping to reclaim their homeland and recover their predecessors’ remains. As their group reached the Mist Sea, Ling Jia arrived with a Sea Kingdom retinue to demand entry for the demon race, and another powerful demon appeared to mediate.

• Shen Er told Song Yan and Xie Chan that Venerable Green Lotus had left an intention at a sea cliff that could let someone pass through the Mist Sea, and asked them to help Penglai reclaim its homeland.
• Song Yan and Xie Chan agreed to help, and Shen Er arranged for them to depart the next morning with Lu Qingyan, Wang Ke, Shen Xu, and Yang Zhiyi.
• The group reached the Mist Sea and saw a sword light linking Penglai and Fanghu, but demonic clouds soon approached and formed a ceremonial retinue led by Ling Jia, with Lingsi at his side.
• Ling Jia demanded that the Sea Kingdom’s demon race be allowed into the Mist Sea first, while Shen Er refused and threatened to fight for Penglai’s claim.
• A powerful demon named Kui appeared and urged Shen Er and Ling Jia to avoid a war, and Ling Jia asked him what they should do instead.

Shen Er agreed to let Penglai and the Demon Race enter the Mist Sea together, while Xie Chan and Yang Zhiyi began comprehending Venerable Green Lotus’s inscription and Song Yan sensed a response from his sword case. When Kui tried to approach strange thunderclouds, Lu Qingyan stopped him with a Ghost Valley technique, and Kui recognized its origin.

• Kui proposed that both sides enter the Mist Sea together if a passage opened, and Shen Er accepted to protect Penglai’s disciples.
• Xie Chan and Song Yan promised to help, and Song Yan sensed that the Infinite Treasury Sword Case was reacting to the sword light.
• Shen Er transported the group to the sea cliff bearing Venerable Green Lotus’s inscription, where Xie Chan began comprehending its verses.
• Twelve figures of light appeared and merged into Xie Chan as Yang Zhiyi played the Immortal Longing Tune in harmony with the wind and waves.
• Dark clouds carrying a thread of Demon Qi gathered above the cliff, and Kui tried to approach them while Ling Jia blocked Shen Er.
• Lu Qingyan weakened Kui with a Ghost Valley chess technique, and Kui recognized the method.

Song Yan’s anger surged amid the thunderclouds and Qilin’s cry, and he split the clouds with a sword strike before Xie Chan opened a passage into the Mist Sea. Kui created a second passage for the Demon Race, and both sides entered separately as Lu Qingyan suspected Kui had ties to the Demon Ruins.

• Kui recognized Lu Qingyan’s Ghost Valley technique, then stepped aside and let Xie Chan face the brewing thunderclouds.
• Yang Zhiyi protected Xie Chan from a lightning strike, but a Qilin’s cry stirred Song Yan’s anger until he cut apart the thunderclouds with his sword.
• Xie Chan completed her breakthrough and opened a passage into the Mist Sea that could admit cultivators below the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Kui copied Xie Chan’s sword technique with a figure made from Spiritual Qi and opened a second passage for the Demon Race.
• Shen Er sent Song Yan and the Penglai cultivators through Xie Chan’s passage, while Ling Jia selected Demon Cultivators to enter Kui’s passage and kept Lingsi behind.
• Lu Qingyan recalled an elder who had fought Kui and suspected the Demon Race elder was connected to the Demon Ruins.

Shen Xu and the others entered the Old Site of Penglai, where a strange Qilin attacked both humans and yao and destroyed their passage out. Song Yan heard a sorrowful voice from the Qilin and turned back alone to confront it, asking whether it had been speaking to him.

• Shen Xu showed the group a map of the Old Site of Penglai, and Song Yan noted the Boundary Stele as his destination.
• Huan demanded Shen Xu’s map, and the humans and Demon Race prepared to fight before a Qilin appeared above Mount Nine Songs.
• The Qilin attacked everyone with black-blue lightning, destroyed the passage, and revealed gray-white, lifeless eyes.
• Song Yan heard a voice lamenting its inability to save the younger generations, then nearly got struck by lightning before the others protected him.
• Song Yan proposed drawing the Qilin away while the others fled toward the Taiyi Divine Palace, and Xiao He promised to protect him.
• Song Yan returned toward the Qilin as the others fled and asked whether it had been the one speaking.

Song Yan drew the Qilin away while trying to dispel the Mist Sea by retrieving the sword in the clouds and activating the Penglai boundary stele with the Sea Chart. After the stele’s power awakened two Penglai Sages, they stopped the Qilin long enough for Song Yan to escape toward the Sect Master and the others.

• Song Yan lured the Qilin away from his companions and flew toward the sword hanging above the Mist Sea, but a restriction stopped his escape and the Qilin nearly struck him down.
• A sword technique resembling Sword in the Clouds struck the Qilin and sent her crashing into the ground, giving Song Yan and Xiao He a chance to flee.
• Song Yan followed the Sea Chart’s golden mist to the Penglai boundary stele and used it to strengthen the chart while the Qilin closed in.
• Song Yan evaded the Qilin’s attacks with Heavenly Dao in Motion and Mirror Flower Shadow as the Sea Chart absorbed the stele’s radiance and the boundary’s golden light burst into the sky.
• Song Yan used Shen Xu’s Immortal Invitation Edict to summon two Penglai Sages, who blocked the Qilin’s attack and told him to join the Sect Master and the others.

Song Yan explored Penglai’s Eastern Hua Divine Palace, rescued a dying disciple of Tao Wen, and discovered a link between Tao Wen and Dugu Yin’s Six Paths Incarnations. He returned to Shen Xu’s group and subdued the demons who had followed them, demanding their cooperation.

• Song Yan avoided the battles across Penglai and diverted into the ruined Eastern Hua Divine Palace to search for treasures.
• Demons attacked a wounded Penglai disciple who was protecting Tao Wen’s portrait, and Song Yan killed them before the disciple’s spirit dispersed.
• Song Yan recognized Tao Wen in the portrait as the man who had appeared as Dugu Yin’s Human Path incarnation, then collected the disciple’s remains for Penglai.
• Song Yan reached the old Penglai Treasure Vault, where Wang Ke had opened the sealed entrance and Shen Xu’s group was negotiating with Huan and the demons.
• Huan questioned Song Yan about Senior Ming and the ghosts, so Song Yan’s Void-Aspect Dharma Body seized Huan and overpowered the other demons.
• Song Yan spared the demons but ordered them to obey and cooperate if he needed them.

Song Yan’s group planned to search Mirrorheart Lake and Moonsea Valley while he learned about the captured demons’ abilities. He discovered the story of Zhuang Wan and kept her Taixuan Life Register, leaving the demons wary as Song Yan asked them to explain their usefulness.

• Song Yan restrained the demon cultivators while Shen Xu and Wang Ke agreed that the group should gather Penglai remains and return early.
• Song Yan read Zhuang Wan’s daily record and learned that she was Tao Wen’s final disciple, that Tao Wen had killed Ao Gui, and that Bai Feng had later left her.
• Song Yan found Zhuang Wan’s Taixuan Life Register, then gave her remains and other belongings to Shen Xu for burial in Penglai’s sect cemetery.
• Wang Ke and Shen Xu chose a route to Mirrorheart Lake and Moonsea Valley, and the Void-Aspect Dharma Body continued showing off to the captive demons.
• Xiao He warned Wenyao that Song Yan might kill her, but Song Yan instead asked the demons to state their races, abilities, and usefulness.

Song Yan judged the captured demons’ abilities and led the group to Moonsea Valley, where they recovered fallen cultivators’ remains and belongings. After sensing moonlight spiritual essence in the lake, he and Xiao He followed the Dragon Pearl’s glow underwater and spotted a faint golden light.

• Huan revealed his ability to sense and exploit fear, and Shen Xu persuaded Song Yan to spare him; Wen and Yin Yu also described their abilities, and Song Yan let the demons join the group.
• Shen Xu led the group to Moonsea Valley, where Wang Ke captured a demon ghost and they gathered the remains and belongings of fallen seniors.
• Song Yan sensed traces of moonlight spiritual essence in the valley lake and descended to investigate while his Dharma Body stayed behind to guard the others.
• Xiao He showed Song Yan that her Dragon Pearl was glowing, and the two sank into the lake, where they found submerged human and demon skeletons.
• The Dragon Pearl pulsed rapidly as Song Yan and Xiao He noticed a faint golden glow deeper underwater.

Song Yan retrieved ancient jade identified as Ao Gui’s, but the Qilin attacked and forced him to stay behind while the others fled. As Xiao He used the Dragon Pearl to counter the Qilin’s lightning, a voice revealed that it belonged to Tao Wen, not the Qilin.

• Song Yan drew the ancient dragon-shaped jade from the lake, but the Qilin struck him back into the water and devastated the battlefield above.
• Xie Chan, Wang Ke, Wenyao, Yang Zhiyi, Yin Yu, and others worked together to distract the Qilin while Song Yan escaped the lake.
• The group retreated toward Mount Nine Songs, but the Qilin pursued Song Yan, so he stayed behind and used Wang Ke’s chess piece to conceal himself in demonic mist.
• Xiao He transformed into her spirit snake True Body and used Ao Gui’s Dragon Pearl to absorb and return the Qilin’s lightning.
• Song Yan told the hidden voice that Ao Gui had entrusted them with the Dragon Pearl, and the voice identified itself as Tao Wen and said Senior Ming was dead.