Chapter Summaries

Chen Shuangbai’s assumed identity as Lin Zhou was exposed at Dingyang Pass because Lin Zhou was a wanted deputy branch leader of the Five Lotus Sect. Chen Shuangbai incapacitated the pass’s defenders and concealed himself from the arriving Nascent Soul cultivators, leaving Feng Guiyuan and Lan Hua to realize the heretic had vanished.

• Feiguang reported that Dingyang Pass was protected by five Nascent Soul Divine Senses and a powerful detection mechanism, so Chen Shuangbai put him away and continued with the caravan.
• At Dingyang Pass, guards inspected the caravan, and one guard became suspicious of Chen Shuangbai’s genuine identity papers despite Zhou Yuan’s attempt to bribe him.
• Chen Shuangbai searched Lin Zhou’s memories and learned that Lin Zhou was a wanted deputy branch leader of the Five Lotus Sect, exposing the danger of the identity he had assumed.
• As the guards and pass formation prepared to attack, Chen Shuangbai unleashed pure-white mystic light, incapacitating hundreds of cultivators and soldiers.
• Feng Guiyuan attacked the place where Chen Shuangbai had stood, but Chen Shuangbai concealed himself with Grand Yin Authority; Lan Hua then noticed he had disappeared.

Chen Shuangbai appeared at Dingyang Pass and attacked its fifth-tier formation with his bamboo sword, forcing the five Nascent Soul defenders to reinforce it. As he prepared another strike, a Spirit Transformation Profound Lord intervened, leaving Chen Shuangbai facing a powerful enemy.

• Lan Hua, Feng Guiyuan, and another Nascent Soul cultivator realized the missing Five Lotus Sect fiend might be a serious threat and debated reporting the incident.
• Chen Shuangbai decided he could not pass through Dingyang Pass's fifth-tier formation unnoticed and chose to force his way through.
• Feng Guiyuan confronted Chen Shuangbai, who manifested a crimson baleful star and unleashed a sword strike against the pass's formation.
• The five Nascent Soul cultivators joined the formation, strengthening its golden screen and resisting Chen Shuangbai's attack.
• A golden lightning palm struck at Chen Shuangbai, who dodged and recognized the arrival of a Spirit Transformation Profound Lord.

Chen Shuangbai broke through Dingyang Pass and escaped into the Wind Kingdom, surviving Prince Shiyang’s pursuit with Haoming Boy’s help. Guan Yue blocked Prince Shiyang at the border, and their clash later ended with Shiyang injured and retreating.

• Chen Shuangbai struck Dingyang Pass’s formation twice and escaped through the collapsed gap into the Wind Kingdom.
• Prince Shiyang sent a golden lightning bolt after Chen Shuangbai, but Haoming Boy’s Purple-Gold Heavenly Gate swallowed the attack.
• Prince Shiyang tried to pursue Chen Shuangbai across the border, but Guan Yue intercepted him with a strike of pure-white mystic light.
• Guan Yue refused to let Prince Shiyang enter the Wind Kingdom, and the two Spirit Transformation cultivators fought along the border.
• Several days later, word spread that Guan Yue had injured Prince Shiyang, who withdrew to Dingyang Pass and departed in anger.

Chen Shuangbai hid in the Wind Kingdom after escaping Prince Shiyang, then encountered a Spirit Transformation cultivator who had fought Prince Shiyang and discovered his disguise. The cultivator identified himself as Lord Guanyue of White Emperor City.

• Chen Shuangbai and Feiguang stayed at a mountain Daoist temple, where Feiguang reported on the nearby Mystic Frost Sect and Green Mulberry City.
• Chen Shuangbai reflected on surviving Prince Shiyang's attack and studied the Wind Kingdom's alliances and the powers opposing Great Chu.
• A white-robed Daoist suddenly appeared beside Chen Shuangbai and suppressed his abilities, leaving Feiguang frozen in place.
• The Daoist exposed Chen Shuangbai's false name and crude illusion technique, but Chen Shuangbai quickly steadied himself and asked whether the stranger had fought Prince Shiyang.
• The Daoist confirmed that he was a Spirit Transformation cultivator from White Emperor City and gave his title as Lord Guanyue.

Lord Guanyue warned Chen Shuangbai that his Heavenly River Lineage identity put him in danger and gave him a sword talisman to conceal its traces. After advising him which surviving factions to trust or avoid, he vanished, and Chen Shuangbai chose to head to Pillow Stream Mountain.

• Lord Guanyue found Chen Shuangbai and recognized the Heavenly River Lineage technique he carried.
• Chen Shuangbai offered a vague account of his origins, and Lord Guanyue accepted that he was an inheritor while warning him to hide his identity.
• Lord Guanyue told Chen Shuangbai that Pillow Stream Mountain and Jade Clarity Palace were possible destinations, but advised him to avoid the Mystic Nether Sect and Heavenly Wave City.
• Lord Guanyue gave Chen Shuangbai a sword talisman that could conceal his Heavenly River fluctuations for half a year.
• After Lord Guanyue disappeared, Chen Shuangbai told Feiguang they would go to Pillow Stream Mountain first.

Chen Shuangbai learned more about the Heavenly River Dao Lineage and refined Marquis Xuanling’s compass, discovering its power to sense and restrain the lineage’s cultivators. The chapter ended as Changming suggested the compass might not have originally been made to oppose them.

• Chen Shuangbai and his companions traveled through the Wind Kingdom, where Shenyang and Zhanlu bought fourth-tier spiritual resources and reported they were nearing the Song Kingdom.
• Zhanlu reasoned that the Heavenly River Dao Lineage had likely both disintegrated and lost its ancestral seat, while Chen Shuangbai recalled the surviving sects’ reluctance to claim its legacy.
• Chen Shuangbai recognized Marquis Xuanling’s compass as an artifact of the Observing Waves branch and refined it with his Law Power.
• The compass revealed its name, Mystery-Observing Wave-Stilling Correction Compass, and its abilities to sense Heavenly River cultivators and obstruct their Divine Abilities.
• After Shenyang and Zhanlu questioned why such a countering artifact had been made, Changming suggested it might not originally have been designed to oppose the Heavenly River Dao Lineage.

Chen Shuangbai reached Pillow Stream Mountain, the Xi Kingdom’s sacred cultivation ground, and paid his respects as True Lord Xuhong. After a disciple hosted him with tea, a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator arrived and asked what cultivation art he practiced.

• Chen Shuangbai and his companions approached Pillow Stream Mountain and marveled at the spiritual potency nourishing the Xi Kingdom.
• Chen Shuangbai traveled to the mountain’s foot, then climbed to its gate the next morning with Feiguang and Changming to pay his respects.
• Chen Shuangbai revealed his Divine Ability to the gatekeeper and introduced himself as Xuhong, an obscure Rogue Cultivator.
• Sun Heming welcomed Chen Shuangbai into the reception hall and served him Pillow Stream Mountain’s Jade Wave Spring tea while they waited for a senior disciple.
• A Nascent Soul Late Stage woman arrived and asked Chen Shuangbai what cultivation art he practiced.

Chen Shuangbai met Yan Dan at Pillow Stream Mountain and revealed that he had inherited the orthodox True Illumination Cavern Abyss Five Qi Art. Yan Dan remained wary and summoned the mountain lord, whose arrival revealed him to be a powerful Spirit Transformation Profound Lord of the Heavenly River Dao Lineage.

• Yan Dan tested Chen Shuangbai with her Divine Ability, then identified his profound art as a legacy of Vast Source.
• Yan Dan revealed that she cultivated the Milky Way Descending Dew Grotto Spring Scripture and showed Chen Shuangbai a jade token marked Encompassing Jade.
• Chen Shuangbai explained that his founding master had carried the Heavenly River Dao Lineage into an otherworldly space, where a small Daoist temple preserved its legacy.
• Yan Dan remained suspicious despite recognizing Chen Shuangbai's genuine inheritance, and left to summon the mountain lord.
• Yan Dan returned with the mountain lord, whom Chen Shuangbai recognized as a formidable Spirit Transformation Profound Lord of the Heavenly River Dao Lineage.

Chen Shuangbai used a jade plate from Vast Sea Elder to prove his connection to the Heavenly River Lineage and gained Profound Lord Qingfang’s trust. After Qingfang brought him to a sealed palace to discuss the lineage’s dangers, Chen Shuangbai sensed an unseen eye watching Pillow Stream Mountain from the clouds.

• Profound Lord Qingfang tested Chen Shuangbai’s identity and recognized the True Illumination Cavern Abyss Five Qi Art, but demanded further proof.
• Chen Shuangbai showed Qingfang the jade plate marked “Vast Sea Deliverance,” which Vast Sea Elder had given him as a token of identity.
• Chen Shuangbai addressed Qingfang as “High Person Mingwei,” prompting Qingfang to recognize him as a successor of Vast Source and recall their old connection.
• Qingfang took Chen Shuangbai and True Lord Yandan to a palace on Pillow Stream Mountain, where Yandan welcomed him and Qingfang asked about his arrival and origins.
• Qingfang sealed the palace against eavesdroppers, but Chen Shuangbai used the Great Yin Dao Fruit to inspect the mountain and discovered an eye hidden in the clouds watching them.

Chen Shuangbai discovered that a mystic eye belonging to a Mahayana Celestial Person had been watching Pillow Stream Mountain, and he warned his avatars and allies about the danger. After calming himself and recovering, he went to meet True Lord Yan Dan with Feiguang.

• Chen Shuangbai saw pale-gold strands descending from the mystic eye and realized a Mahayana Celestial Person was watching Pillow Stream Mountain.
• Chen Shuangbai concealed his reaction by claiming he had old injuries, and Profound Lord Qingfang let him withdraw to rest.
• Chen Shuangbai informed his avatars, Shenyang, Zhanlu, and Changming about the mystic eye through the Fengzhen Zihao Chengming Mystic Heavenly Gate.
• Changming proposed that the watcher either coveted something on Pillow Stream Mountain or feared the Heavenly River Dao Lineage's revival and was watching its other Houses too.
• Chen Shuangbai calmed himself, recovered his composure, and left with Feiguang to see True Lord Yan Dan.

Chen Shuangbai learned that Pillow Stream Mountain was divided over its ties to the Heavenly River lineage and used Zhaoguang’s hostility as a reason to leave. Though he parted from Yan Dan, the mysterious eye’s golden strand continued to watch him, and he resolved that Pillow Stream Mountain would remain troubled until the eye was dealt with.

• Yan Dan welcomed Chen Shuangbai and condemned Great Chu after hearing about his past injury and recent experiences.
• Zhaoguang confronted Chen Shuangbai and ordered him to leave Pillow Stream Mountain, arguing that the mountain could not risk conflict over its old lineage ties.
• Chen Shuangbai accepted the order and left the mountain, while Yan Dan and Zhaoguang argued over whether the disciples should honor their lineage.
• Yan Dan caught up with Chen Shuangbai, who acknowledged Zhaoguang’s fears and secretly confirmed that a golden strand still watched them.
• Chen Shuangbai and Yan Dan parted ways after he concluded that Pillow Stream Mountain would remain in danger until the mysterious eye was dealt with.

Chen Shuangbai spent half a month at a Xi Kingdom market under the watch of a mysterious eye, then reasoned that the White Emperor might be complicit in its surveillance of Pillow Stream Mountain. He tried to test the connection by asking Yan Dan for a fifth-tier treasure pill, but True Lord Zhaoguang stormed in and attacked him over the request.

• Chen Shuangbai stayed at a cultivators' market while a pale golden ribbon hovered over his head and secretly watched him.
• Yan Dan visited Chen Shuangbai, gave him cultivation resources, and agreed to seek a fifth-tier treasure pill for him.
• Chen Shuangbai and his two incarnations considered whether the White Emperor was cooperating with the unknown Mahayana Celestial Person or had helped destroy Heavenly River.
• Chen Shuangbai decided to use Yan Dan's request for a treasure pill to test the situation and waited to see whether True Lord Zhaoguang would confront him.
• True Lord Zhaoguang smashed through Chen Shuangbai's door, accused him of exploiting Pillow Stream Mountain, and attacked him with water-element true Gang.

Chen Shuangbai discovered that a mystic eye was manipulating Zhaoguang and left Pillow Stream Mountain to prevent the conflict from escalating. Months later, he returned to Wind Kingdom and contacted Mystic Lord Guanyue of White Emperor City.

• Zhaoguang threatened Chen Shuangbai and refused Yan Dan’s demand that he apologize, accusing her of giving the mountain disciples’ resources to a dying man.
• Chen Shuangbai noticed a pale golden ribbon from a mystic eye probing him and intensifying Zhaoguang’s anger.
• Chen Shuangbai left cultivation resources for Yan Dan, apologized for causing discord, and departed Xi Kingdom without accepting her plea to stay.
• Zhaoguang’s anger faded after Chen Shuangbai left, and he wondered whether he had acted too impulsively as the golden ribbon withdrew.
• Several months later, Chen Shuangbai returned to Wind Kingdom and used a sword talisman to summon Mystic Lord Guanyue.

Chen Shuangbai fled Pillow Stream Mountain and headed for White Emperor City to escape the Mahayana Celestial Person’s unseen influence. After two months of travel, he arrived at the city with Feiguang, and the pale-gold ribbon that had pursued him vanished.

• Chen Shuangbai told Lord Guanyue that he was seeking spiritual resources in White Emperor City, and Lord Guanyue gave him a token to protect him there.
• Lord Guanyue explained that Prince Shiyang had resumed causing trouble after failing to capture Chen Shuangbai, then invited him to attend the upcoming Mystic Pill Grand Gathering.
• Chen Shuangbai and Feiguang traveled through the void toward White Emperor City to avoid Profound Lord Qingfang finding them first.
• As Chen Shuangbai neared White Emperor City, the pale-gold ribbon above him repeatedly threatened to attack, but eventually withdrew and vanished.
• Chen Shuangbai arrived at White Emperor City with Feiguang and said they would talk once they were inside.

Chen Shuangbai arrived in White Emperor City for the Mystic Elixir Dharma Assembly and used the Great Yin Dao Fruit to combine two secret methods into a new technique for breaking through to the Nascent Soul late stage. He needed three rare spiritual resources to practice it and decided to revive his alchemy skills while searching for them.

• Chen Shuangbai entered White Emperor City bearing Mystic Lord Guanyue's token, and a city guard escorted him to an immortal residence.
• Chen Shuangbai had Feiguang buy resources to repair his damaged Spirit Treasures and resumed cultivation under the city's abundant spiritual potency.
• Chen Shuangbai studied two shell-breaking secret methods and asked the Great Yin Dao Fruit to evolve one suited to his Dao Path.
• The Great Yin Dao Fruit produced the Current-Tracing Truth-Congealing Wondrous Method, which required three rare supreme fourth-tier spiritual resources.
• Feiguang suggested that Chen Shuangbai might find the resources at the Mystic Elixir Dharma Assembly, prompting Chen Shuangbai to decide to take up alchemy again.

Chen Shuangbai quickly regained his alchemy skills and advanced to refining fourth-tier pills, earning resources and helping Feiguang strengthen his cultivation. True Lord Jinxi visited with Xuan Jin, a Jade Palace True Disciple and Alchemist, and Chen Shuangbai asked what had brought them to see him.

• Chen Shuangbai refined high-quality Upright Clarity Essence-Nourishing Pills and sold the surplus through Feiguang to replenish his resources.
• Chen Shuangbai made Red Gold Bone-Forging Pills for Feiguang, whose cultivation had advanced toward the Nascent Soul middle stage.
• True Lord Jinxi and Xuan Jin arrived at Chen Shuangbai's alchemy chamber, and he welcomed them into his reception area.
• Jinxi introduced Xuan Jin as a Jade Palace True Disciple and Alchemist, while Feiguang rejected Jinxi's teasing offer to take him as a disciple.
• After sharing tea, Chen Shuangbai asked Jinxi and Xuan Jin what important matter had brought them to visit.

Chen Shuangbai agreed to refine Snowflow Heart-Melting Pills for Hanxuan in exchange for three Mystic Origin Treasure Leaves. After Hanxuan left, Jinxi explained the Jade Palace’s troubles with the Supreme One Palace and the Great Chu Dynasty, leaving Chen Shuangbai wary of the dynasty’s expanding reach.

• Hanxuan asked Chen Shuangbai to refine a batch of Snowflow Heart-Melting Pills, whose cold toxin was difficult for other fourth-tier Alchemists to remove.
• Chen Shuangbai examined Hanxuan’s ancient pill formula and agreed that he could refine the pills.
• Hanxuan offered three Mystic Origin Treasure Leaves as payment, and Chen Shuangbai accepted them along with the prepared ingredients.
• Hanxuan hurried away after agreeing with Chen Shuangbai on a delivery time for the pills.
• Jinxi told Chen Shuangbai that the Jade Palace had lost territory and its master had been wounded in conflicts with the Supreme One Palace, which was backed by the Great Chu Dynasty.
• Chen Shuangbai considered the Great Chu Dynasty’s growing influence across both the Eastern Domain and the Eastern Radiance Continent.

Chen Shuangbai studied the ancient Snowflow Heart-Melting Pill formula and continued refining pills during the Mystic Elixir Dharma Assembly. When Profound Lord Qingfang asked what he had seen, Chen Shuangbai revealed the mysterious eye’s surveillance, and Qingfang concluded that the Heavenly River orphans were still being hunted.

• Chen Shuangbai studied the Snowflow Heart-Melting Pill formula while cultivating, then refined a furnace of pills as Zhanlu and Feiguang watched over it.
• Chen Shuangbai ignored visitors and alchemy contests during the Mystic Elixir Dharma Assembly until he learned Profound Lord Qingfang had arrived.
• Chen Shuangbai met Mystic Lord Guanyue and Profound Lord Qingfang at the Azure Immortal Abode, where Guanyue soon left to see the city lord.
• Chen Shuangbai checked for the mysterious eye’s presence, found nothing overhead, and told Profound Lord Qingfang what he had seen and heard.
• Profound Lord Qingfang reacted with anger and declared that the Heavenly River orphans would never be left alone.

Chen Shuangbai learned from Profound Lord Qingfang that numerous powerful factions had helped destroy the Heavenly River ancestral court, and that an unnamed force in the Central Region might also have been involved. After Chen Shuangbai revealed his origins from across the Sea of Ten Thousand Spirits, Qingfang realized that a branch of the Vast Source lineage had survived the catastrophe and preserved its inheritance.

• Profound Lord Qingfang named the Great Chu Dynasty, Daique Sword Sect, Central Profound Palace, Wuwang Demonic Dao, and Kunwu Sect as the Heavenly River Dao Lineage’s five bitter enemies and described their roles in its destruction.
• Qingfang pointed toward the Central Region as the direction of another suspected enemy, but warned Chen Shuangbai that the faction’s name could not be spoken.
• A Celestial Person of White Emperor City sent a warning that silenced Qingfang and Chen Shuangbai’s discussion.
• Qingfang urged Chen Shuangbai to keep their conversation secret and protect himself as a surviving inheritor of the Vast Source lineage.
• Chen Shuangbai told Qingfang that he had come from the Celebrated Splendor Continent across the Sea of Ten Thousand Spirits, and Qingfang wept with relief that the lineage’s inheritance had survived.

Profound Lord Qingfang explained White Emperor City’s ties to the Heavenly River Dao Lineage and urged Chen Shuangbai to stay safe there. After discovering Chen Shuangbai had cultivated two paths and attained two kinds of Sword Intent, Qingfang arranged for him to remain in the city and conceal his identity.

• Profound Lord Qingfang told Chen Shuangbai that White Emperor City’s lord had once received help from the ancestral court and that Mystic Lord Guanyue was connected to the Heavenly River Dao Lineage through his mother.
• Profound Lord Qingfang urged Chen Shuangbai not to return to Pillow Stream Mountain, where the mystic eye threatened the surviving lineage.
• Chen Shuangbai revealed that he cultivated the Grand Yin path alongside the [True Illumination Cavern Abyss Five Qi Art], then displayed two kinds of Sword Intent.
• Profound Lord Qingfang decided Chen Shuangbai should remain in White Emperor City, and Lord Guanyue agreed to shelter him there.
• Lord Guanyue said he would sever and store away his memories of Chen Shuangbai before leaving the city, while Profound Lord Qingfang told Chen Shuangbai to cultivate and seek resources from Guanyue.