Chapter Summaries

Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat realized the black fruits were Black Flame Fruits and suspected Shameless Cat had buried a treasure beneath the Mountain and River Court’s seal. The chapter ended with Yang Zhen offering to help Shameless Cat recover the rest of it from the Mountain and River Court, the Heavenly Spring Sacred Land, and the Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain.

• Shameless Cat recognized the black fruit as something he might have buried long ago, and Yang Zhen suspected the Mountain and River Court had taken his treasure and sealed it away.
• Shameless Cat admitted he could not remember what he buried, but said North Isle felt familiar and that he had marked the spot with his urine.
• Yang Zhen realized Shameless Cat’s treasure might predate the Mountain and River Court’s ten-thousand-year seal, but Shameless Cat said he had no sense of time.
• Shameless Cat identified the fruit as a Black Flame Fruit, which had the same effects Yang Zhen associated with a Ten-Thousand-Year Dao Source Fruit.
• Shameless Cat revealed that he had eaten two of the five fruits, leaving three, and Yang Zhen offered to help him reclaim the rest of his buried treasure.
• Shameless Cat praised Yang Zhen as a loyal friend and jumped to his feet.

Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat arrived at the Mountain and River Court’s ring small world, claiming they had come to retrieve a buried treasure while the others worked on the restriction. After the crowd dismissed his explanation, Yang Zhen entered the restriction beside Master Tie and caused the seal to turn violently unstable.

• Fang Zhongjian warned Yang Zhen not to cause trouble, but Yang Zhen insisted he had only come because Shameless Cat had urgent business.
• Shameless Cat claimed he had buried a treasure nearby and wanted to retrieve it, prompting Fang Zhongjian, Lu Tianwei, and the others to surround and mock them.
• Yang Zhen tried to reason with the crowd while Shameless Cat climbed onto his shoulder and waited for a chance to fight.
• After the crowd ridiculed him, Yang Zhen said he had only wanted to be a good person and walked toward Master Tie.
• Yang Zhen entered the restriction beside Master Tie, triggering fierce fluctuations that made the entire seal violent.

Yang Zhen used his mastery of the Power of the Void and seals to enter the miniature world with Shameless Cat, leaving Master Tie struggling to break the disrupted seal. They reached the Ten-Thousand-Year Dao Source Fruit tree, and Yang Zhen prepared to take it back to plant in the ice palace.

• Yang Zhen walked through the seal with Shameless Cat, shocking Fang Zhongjian, Master Tie, and everyone watching.
• The seal erupted with void power, and Master Tie realized Yang Zhen had disturbed it; Fang Zhongjian demanded that he break it faster.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat exchanged jokes as they crossed the restriction, while Yang Zhen complained about the pain of cultivating the Power of the Void.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat reached the Ten-Thousand-Year Dao Source Fruit tree, and Yang Zhen said they should take it to the ice palace and share its fruit with the little girl and Little Dao Addict.

Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat dug up the Ten-Thousand-Year Dao Source Fruit Tree, triggering a violent eruption in the Mountain and River Court’s restriction. Shameless Cat realized the True Essence Heavenly Vein had been suppressing High Antiquity Demonic Runes, and a deadly Black Sandstorm erupted before anyone could escape.

• Yang Zhen taunted Fang Zhongjian, then used iron shovels with Shameless Cat to dig up and seal the Ten-Thousand-Year Dao Source Fruit Tree.
• The restriction began to shake violently, and Master Tie urged Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat to escape as Fang Zhongjian blamed them for disturbing the seal.
• Shameless Cat recognized that the Mountain and River Court’s True Essence Heavenly Vein had suppressed High Antiquity Demonic Runes and warned everyone to flee.
• Yang Zhen ran toward Feng Lingqiao and shouted for her to escape, but a towering Black Sandstorm erupted from the restriction.
• Shameless Cat identified the oncoming storm as High Antiquity Demonic Runes as Yang Zhen realized how dangerous it was.

Yang Zhen protected himself from the black sandstorm with the Heaven and Earth True Runes, but Fang Zhongjian escaped with Feng Lingqiao and demanded the Mountains and Rivers Painting and Ten-Thousand-Year Dao Source Fruit Tree. Despite the danger, Yang Zhen turned back toward the sealed grounds to investigate the High Antiquity Demonic Runes, where he spotted Master Tie and the enchantress.

• The High Antiquity Demonic Runes unleashed a black sandstorm, and Yang Zhen used the Gen Metal True Rune, Desolate Heaven True Rune, and Golden Lotus Heavenly Fire to shield himself and Shameless Cat.
• Yang Zhen searched for Feng Lingqiao with his Divine Sense, which the demonic runes began to corrode.
• Fang Zhongjian took Feng Lingqiao away on the Heavenly Spring Sacred Land's sacred boat and demanded that Yang Zhen bring the Mountains and Rivers Painting and Ten-Thousand-Year Dao Source Fruit Tree to the Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain Grand Assembly.
• Yang Zhen saw the ruined Mountain and River Court figures wandering through the storm and decided to return to the sealed grounds to see whether the demonic runes could be sealed again.
• Yang Zhen encountered Master Tie and the enchantress staggering through the storm.

Yang Zhen entered the seal to help Master Tie and the demoness break its restrictions. After rescuing the demoness and reopening the Mountain and River Restriction, he turned to face the violent black Qi.

• Master Tie struggled to drive the Judge's Brush while the demoness urged him to stop, and he insisted that the Mountain and River Court had to appear before the world.
• The demoness asked Yang Zhen to save Master Tie, and Yang Zhen said she could do so by entering the seal and standing by the Ten-Thousand-Year Dao Source Fruit Tree.
• Yang Zhen sent the demoness into the restriction, where black sand engulfed her, while Master Tie used the Judge's Brush to break the Mountain and River Restriction.
• Yang Zhen and Master Tie opened the seal, and Yang Zhen pulled the weakened demoness out and gave her heavenly materials and earthly treasures.
• After the demoness began recovering, Yang Zhen faced the violent black waves of Qi and declared that it was his turn to play with them.

Yang Zhen fought the High Antiquity Demonic Runes after the Mountain and River Seal broke, and used the Desolate Heaven Technique to empower the Evil Shadow Black Taotie. The Taotie grew large enough to battle the runes, but then went berserk as it devoured them.

• Yang Zhen attacked the beast formed from the High Antiquity Demonic Runes and was blasted into a pit by its roar.
• Shameless Cat told Yang Zhen that a black spot below the beast's ribs could seal it again.
• Yang Zhen summoned the Evil Shadow Black Taotie, which began drawing True Essence from him and tried to devour the runes.
• Shameless Cat realized Yang Zhen could seal the runes inside the Taotie, and Yang Zhen used the Desolate Heaven Technique to feed it natural Qi.
• Yang Zhen collapsed from the strain as the enlarged Taotie grappled with and devoured the beast; black sand fell, and the Taotie suddenly went berserk.

Yang Zhen used the Desolate Heaven Technique and his Heaven and Earth True Runes to seal the High Antiquity Demonic Runes inside the Evil Shadow Black Taotie. After he collapsed from exhaustion, the group’s attempt to catch him ended in a crash and laughter, before a rumble revealed that the Mountains and Rivers Painting had opened.

• The Shameless Cat urged Yang Zhen to seal the origin of the High Antiquity Demonic Runes inside the Evil Shadow Black Taotie, despite Yang Zhen’s severe exhaustion.
• Yang Zhen used the Desolate Heaven Technique and the Gen Metal True Rune and Desolate Heaven True Rune to bind the High Antiquity Demonic Runes.
• The Evil Shadow Black Taotie swallowed the High Antiquity Demonic Runes, and Yang Zhen completed the seal with a strike to its forehead.
• Yang Zhen fell from the air, and the Shameless Cat and demoness failed to catch him before he and the demoness hit the ground.
• A rumble startled Yang Zhen, and Master Tie identified it as the opening of the Mountains and Rivers Painting, not the Mountain and River Seal.

Yang Zhen entered the Mountains and Rivers Painting and refined the supreme treasure after recovering his strength and reaching a new understanding of life. He left holding the painting and vowed to confront Fang Zhongjian.

• Master Tie told Yang Zhen that the Mountains and Rivers Painting remained inside the opened Mountain and River Seal, but he could not refine it himself.
• Yang Zhen summoned his strength, entered the erupting mountains and rivers, and faced their overwhelming power.
• The Evil Shadow Black Taotie roared at heaven and earth, helping Yang Zhen understand that living meant asserting one's existence rather than simply following or opposing heaven's will.
• Yang Zhen and the Evil Shadow Black Taotie ran wild through the painting's world, and Yang Zhen's injuries nearly healed.
• Yang Zhen called the Mountains and Rivers Painting to fold into a scroll, successfully refining it as Master Tie and the female demon watched.
• Yang Zhen looked toward the Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain and warned Fang Zhongjian to wait for him.

After Fang Zhongjian abducted Feng Lingqiao, Yang Zhen set out to save her but first helped Master Tie conceal a seal that might shelter surviving members of the Mountain and River Court. The formation hid the seal, leaving the Court’s fate uncertain as Yang Zhen prepared to continue on.

• Yang Zhen vowed to rescue Feng Lingqiao after Fang Zhongjian abducted her.
• Master Tie told Yang Zhen that the Mountain and River Court might still have people sleeping behind a third seal that could not safely be opened.
• Master Tie asked Yang Zhen to create an illusion formation to hide the seal, and Yang Zhen agreed.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat produced Saint-grade formation disks, and Yang Zhen used them to activate the concealment formation.
• The seal vanished from sight, astonishing Master Tie and the female demon.

Yang Zhen concealed the Mountain and River Court’s sealed ruins with an elaborate formation, then set off for Mountain and River City and the Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain. At Mountain and River City’s gate, he discovered that people named Yang Zhen were banned, but he knocked the guards unconscious with the Great Deficiency Sword and entered.

• Yang Zhen finished disguising the sealed ruins with a formation so convincing that even Master Tie and the female demon could not detect it.
• Yang Zhen collected the black sand and prepared to head to Mountain and River City before traveling to the Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain, while Master Tie stayed behind to look for Mountain and River Court survivors.
• At Mountain and River City’s Southern Heavenly Gate, a young woman told Yang Zhen that nobody named Yang Zhen could enter.
• Yang Zhen claimed his name was Yang Buzhen, but the cultivators guarding the gate surrounded him with surging True Essence.
• Yang Zhen used the Great Deficiency Sword’s daydream skill to knock the guards unconscious and swaggered into the city with the Shameless Cat.

Yang Zhen entered Mountain and River City and was attacked by the Dragon City Guard, whose members blamed him for Miss Feng’s death in the Mountain and River Ruins. After Yang Zhen fought back and struck a young Mahayana Realm cultivator, he learned the man accused him of killing his sister and demanded to know who she was.

• Shameless Cat asked Yang Zhen whether he had offended anyone in Mountain and River City, and Yang Zhen admitted he had no idea why he was targeted.
• The Dragon City Guard surrounded Yang Zhen, while the crowd identified him as the man who had taken Miss Feng into the Mountain and River Ruins.
• Yang Zhen gave the guards three breaths to produce someone in charge, then unleashed his presence and advanced as they retreated.
• A young Mahayana Realm cultivator descended and ordered Yang Zhen to stop, but Yang Zhen charged and punched him before he could finish accusing him of killing his sister.
• Yang Zhen asked the injured cultivator who his sister was, and the young man demanded to know how Yang Zhen dared hit him.

Yang Zhen beat Young Master Feng and the Dragon City Guards after they accused him of killing Feng Lingqiao. As he waited for someone in Mountain and River City to challenge him, a bloodied figure fell from the sky in front of him.

• Young Master Feng accused Yang Zhen of killing his sister and attacked him, but Yang Zhen knocked him down with a punch.
• Yang Zhen repeatedly beat Young Master Feng, even after the Dragon City Guards joined their power with him through a combined attack technique.
• Yang Zhen realized Young Master Feng might be Feng Lingqiao’s brother and wondered who had spread the false accusation.
• Yang Zhen kept punching Young Master Feng while the Dragon City Guards pleaded with him to stop, then challenged them to bring someone from Mountain and River City.
• A bloodied, bedraggled figure fell from the sky and landed motionless in front of Yang Zhen.

Yang Zhen confronted Guo Jing after Feng Jingtu arrived and asked about Feng Lingqiao’s fate. He exposed inconsistencies in Guo Jing’s accusations and began pressuring him to reveal who had put him up to the scheme.

• Feng Jingtu arrived and told Yang Zhen that the Feng Household had learned Guo Jing was behind what happened to his younger sister.
• Guo Jing accused Yang Zhen of being responsible for Feng Lingqiao’s death because she had entered the Mountain and River Ruins with him and had not returned.
• Yang Zhen pointed out that Guo Jing somehow knew his name and claimed to know what had happened to Feng Lingqiao, though few survivors knew either fact.
• Feng Jingtu tried to strike Guo Jing, but Yang Zhen stopped him and suggested someone else had put Guo Jing up to the accusations.
• Yang Zhen asked Guo Jing who was behind him, and both Guo Jing and Feng Jingtu reacted sharply.

Yang Zhen tried to frighten Guo Jing into revealing who was behind him by describing bizarre tortures. Guo Jing resisted the threats but panicked when Yang Zhen proposed the “rat gnawing on enoki mushrooms.”

• Guo Jing denied knowing about anyone behind him, while Feng Jingtu asked Yang Zhen what truth he meant.
• Yang Zhen refused to reveal his suspicions to the crowd and discussed torturing Guo Jing with Shameless Cat.
• Yang Zhen described coating Guo Jing in Heavenly Snow Honey and letting Gold-Eating Ants eat through his flesh, terrifying Guo Jing and the onlookers.
• Yang Zhen dropped the ant torture as too troublesome and suggested the rat gnawing on enoki mushrooms instead.
• Guo Jing roared that Yang Zhen could not do that.

Yang Zhen rallied the people of Mountain and River City to support his plan to rescue Miss Feng, then followed Feng Jingtu to see the injured Old Master Feng. Learning that Old Master Feng had been struck by orange lightning during the True Essence surge Yang Zhen had caused, he reached the old man's bedside and was shocked by what he saw.

• Mountain and River City’s residents condemned Guo Jing and Fang Zhongjian and vowed to help Yang Zhen rescue Miss Feng.
• Feng Jingtu offered to gather outside allies, including several Mahayana Realm seniors, but Yang Zhen said he would handle the rescue himself and asked to see Old Master Feng.
• Feng Jingtu explained that Old Master Feng had been injured by orange lightning during a surge of heaven and earth’s True Essence, which Yang Zhen recognized as the surge caused when he opened the Heaven and Earth Shackles.
• Feng Jingtu said Old Master Feng had foreseen three years earlier that Miss Feng would face a tribulation, though he could not know its details or timing.
• Yang Zhen entered Old Master Feng’s recuperating quarters, admired the secluded grounds, and was stunned when he saw the old man lying in bed.

Yang Zhen spent five days examining Old Master Feng’s ruined body while the old man secretly communicated with him, and the Feng Household waited for news. As cultivators gathered at the Feng Household, two of Old Master Feng’s powerful friends discussed Yang Zhen and his efforts.

• Yang Zhen learned that Old Master Feng was still able to communicate with him and agreed to observe his condition before attempting treatment.
• Yang Zhen asked Feng Jingtu and the others to leave, then silently probed Old Master Feng’s body with delicate strands of runes.
• Yang Zhen went five days without food or water while Feng Jingtu kept watch outside the room.
• Cultivators from Mountain and River City arrived at the Feng Household, including two Peak Mahayana Realm friends of Old Master Feng.
• Old Meng doubted Yang Zhen’s reliability, but the purple-robed old man defended him, and Old Meng said he wanted to befriend Yang Zhen.

Meng Tinghao, the purple-robed elder, and Feng Jingtu sensed an unknown power around the cottage while Yang Zhen treated Old Feng. After a sudden moment of enlightenment, Yang Zhen resumed his treatment, newly confident he had found a way forward.

• Meng Tinghao and the purple-robed elder praised Yang Zhen while Feng Jingtu reflected on his character and reputation.
• The two elders sensed a strange power spreading from the cottage and rushed outside, with Feng Jingtu following them.
• The purple-robed elder wondered whether the power was Void Power, but Meng Tinghao said it differed from what he had encountered before.
• When the presence vanished, Feng Jingtu stopped Meng Tinghao from entering because Yang Zhen had ordered everyone to stay away.
• Inside the bamboo house, Yang Zhen told Old Feng that he had experienced a moment of enlightenment and had gained an idea for treating him.
• Yang Zhen placed his hand on Old Feng, who shuddered in fright, and Yang Zhen urged him to stay calm.

Yang Zhen used the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon: Suwen to begin repairing Old Master Feng's badly damaged body with yin and yang Qi. As vitality appeared, Yang Zhen kept treating him inside the lodge while Feng Jingtu and the others waited outside, unsure whether the treatment had succeeded.

• Yang Zhen warned Old Master Feng to stay calm and avoid using any power while he treated him.
• Yang Zhen applied Star Literary Talent Qi and used the Suwen's principles to circulate yin and yang Qi through Old Master Feng's body.
• Yang Zhen formed a Taiji cycle inside Old Master Feng, and a fragile trace of vitality emerged.
• More than half a day passed as Yang Zhen continued treating Old Master Feng inside the lodge.
• Outside, Meng Tinghao urged Feng Jingtu to let them check on Old Master Feng, but Feng Jingtu insisted they wait longer.

Yang Zhen used the Two Qi of Yin and Yang to heal Old Feng, while Meng Tinghao and the purple-robed elder watched in astonishment. Yang Zhen imparted the Dao through the Yin-Yang Diagram, and Old Feng emerged laughing and asked to borrow clothes.

• Feng Jingtu told Meng Tinghao that Old Feng had secretly communicated with Yang Zhen, giving him reason to believe there was hope.
• A powerful presence erupted from the cottage as Yang Zhen formed a mysterious Yin-Yang Diagram from the Two Qi of Yin and Yang.
• Meng Tinghao and the purple-robed elder realized Yang Zhen had likely reached the Celestial Person Realm and listened as he explained the Physiology and Heavenly Derivation Art of Numbers.
• Yang Zhen's words led Meng Tinghao and the purple-robed elder to recognize that he was imparting the Dao through the diagram.
• The cottage exploded, and Old Feng laughed from within the mist before asking Yang Zhen for clothes; Yang Zhen demanded one purple crystal.