Chapter Summaries

Li Boyang returned to Qiwa’s house and found that Qiwa had been badly injured after giving away nearly all his Qi and Blood Pills. He used the red-hide Silk Fur Robe to temporarily restore Qiwa, then warned him about the dangers of exhausting his body; Qiwa remained in a precarious condition.

• Li Boyang entered Qiwa’s house, where Qiwa’s father and the villagers were waiting anxiously, and One-Horned Incantation drew their curious attention.
• Li Boyang found Qiwa groaning from his injuries while Li Jingshu cared for him, and he scolded her for letting Qiwa give away his pills without taking them himself.
• Li Boyang used a Method Formula and the Primordial Talisman Incantation on the red-hide Silk Fur Robe, temporarily restoring Qiwa’s condition.
• Li Boyang explained that Qiwa had depleted his Qi and Blood, was converting them into Life Primordial Qi, and had gone without sleep, leaving his health at risk.
• Qiwa muttered that Li Boyang had not warned him of the consequences, and Li Boyang blamed Big Girl for teaching him to talk back.

Li Boyang returned home and shared new silk-producing spiders with Chen Yun, while Li Yu and Yan Xiaojun helped the mountain folk strengthen the flood embankment. As Yan Xiaojun kept watch, the Lord of the Ya Waters appeared and challenged him over his submission to Li Boyang.

• Chen Yun made Li Boyang and Li Jingshu sit down to eat, then welcomed the new plant-fed spiders Li Boyang had brought home.
• Li Boyang showed Chen Yun the spiders’ silk and explained that they could produce enough thread to supply the village’s looms.
• Li Yu used the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the Land to guide Yan Xiaojun and the mountain folk as they reinforced the embankment in exchange for Qi and Blood Pills.
• After the workers stopped for the night, Yan Xiaojun reflected on Li Boyang’s ability to unite the mountain folk and compared him favorably with the Witch of the Huai River.
• The Lord of the Ya Waters coiled around Yan Xiaojun and accused Li Boyang of favoring humans, then mocked Yan Xiaojun for serving him.

Yan Xiaojun rejected Lord of the Ya Waters’ offer to join Huoji and destroyed his snake incarnation with his Qi and Blood flames. At the flood’s edge, Huoji appeared before the king snake as the assault on the Hundred Lands Mountain Range continued.

• Lord of the Ya Waters offered to free Yan Xiaojun from the God-Binding Cord if he joined Huoji’s forces, but Yan Xiaojun refused and condemned Huoji’s flood and destruction.
• Lord of the Ya Waters coiled around Yan Xiaojun, who boiled his Qi and Blood and burned the water god’s incarnation with Consume Qi and Spit Fire.
• The king snake reacted to the incarnation’s destruction, shattering a mountain, while the Thread of Sky blocked the flood from entering the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• Huoji emerged from the flood, confirmed that Yan Xiaojun had refused to surrender, and let water demons groom his fur and scales.

Huoji concluded that the Life Primordial Qi Regulation Breathing Method let beings use power within their bodies, even when the God-Binding Cord sealed their external Divine Power. After learning from Yan Xiaojun and Li Jingshu’s abilities, he ordered a hundred thousand water troops to force a crossing of the Thread of Sky, prepared to sacrifice human captives to do it.

• The Lord of the Ya Waters told Huoji that Yan Xiaojun had returned to Ghost God Cliff and could breathe fire despite his sealed Earthflame Divine Ability.
• Huoji identified Yan Xiaojun’s power as the Life Primordial Qi Regulation Breathing Method and demonstrated how life primordial Qi flowed from his own body.
• Huoji reasoned that the God-Binding Cord sealed only external Divine Power, and that Li Jingshu’s shield was likely a Divine Ability derived from life primordial Qi.
• Huoji ordered the water troops to force a crossing of the Thread of Sky and commanded the Lord of the Ya Waters to use the Guifang captives to fill its level, even at the cost of their lives.
• The Lord of the Ya Waters lowered his head in fear and suspected that Huoji was hiding an even more terrifying secret.

Nearly half a month after the naval troops crossed Thread of Sky, the rains eased across the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, allowing Li Household Village to resume planting. Deception Rabbit returned from dealing with a mountain spirit and discussed Li Boyang’s campaign against the region’s ghost gods, while One-Horned Incantation wondered who had stopped the rain.

• Mountain villages built dikes and irrigation channels, and Li Household Village began planting with Dangkang's Tooth and help from a one-horned water buffalo.
• Deception Rabbit returned early from Fuyang Village after defeating a mountain spirit that had damaged its irrigation channels.
• One-Horned Incantation recalled Deception Rabbit’s record of hunting ghost gods and noted that Li Boyang had captured more than a hundred beings for Ghost God Cliff.
• One-Horned Incantation predicted that Li Boyang would take the offensive now that internal threats had been cleared.
• Deception Rabbit asked how the Prophet had stopped the rain, and One-Horned Incantation said only a few beings could affect the weather across the whole mountain range.

Li Boyang, Xiluo, and Kingfisher traveled to the heart of the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, where Li Boyang discovered that the forested plain was actually the immense body of the Undying Spring God. Kingfisher warned that delaying the flood would make its eventual force far worse, while Li Boyang explained that he had pressured the gods to help confront the disaster.

• Kingfisher told Li Boyang that the flood was a backlash against the gods of Great Xia and that holding back the water would make the disaster more powerful when Huoji bored through the mountains.
• Li Boyang admitted he had deliberately intensified the crisis to force the gods to take responsibility, and Kingfisher acknowledged his suspicions about her motives and the Undying Spring God’s strength.
• Li Boyang, Xiluo, and Kingfisher arrived at the center of the Hundred Lands Mountain Range and found a vast flowering forest that Li Boyang’s third Heavenly Eye revealed was one enormous tree.
• Li Boyang realized that the Undying Spring God’s roots extended throughout the region and that the entire ecosystem depended on her body.

Li Boyang and Xiluo reached the place where the Undying Spring God had sealed the Heaven-Eroding Lord, whose power they needed to stop the flood. Li Boyang entered the shadow-filled area alone and reached the cave where the Heaven-Eroding Lord was imprisoned.

• Kingfisher guided Li Boyang and Xiluo through the mountain forest to the chaotic Earth Veins where the Heaven-Eroding Lord was sealed.
• Kingfisher explained that Li Boyang would need to borrow the Heaven-Eroding Lord's power to change the weather, but Granny would not release him until his inner problem was solved.
• Li Boyang asked Xiluo to wait with Kingfisher, then entered the shadows after promising to protect his life.
• Li Boyang's Shadow Baleful Intent Dharma Aspects appeared and fought off the shadow monsters as he advanced toward their source.
• Li Boyang reached the cave entrance and observed that the Undying Spring God's seal was weaker than the Witch of the Huai River's, leaving it vulnerable if the Heaven-Eroding Lord stopped fighting with himself.

Li Boyang entered the cave and used the Taiji Diagram to divide the Heaven-Eroding Lord into opposing halves, causing a new celestial phenomenon to spread across the region. The chapter ended with Kingfisher affected by the Diagram’s yin and yang powers while Xiluo guided her through them.

• Li Boyang entered the cave and found Big Black Dog and Guirong Clan still trapped in the Heaven-Eroding Lord’s body.
• Big Black Dog and Guirong Clan each urged Li Boyang to lend them the Taiji Diagram, but he said he trusted only himself.
• Li Boyang used the Taiji Diagram to split the Heaven-Eroding Lord into two halves and prevent him from escaping.
• A solar eclipse appeared across the region, with spinning black-and-white yin-yang fish replacing the image of the sun-devouring Heavenly Dog.
• Kingfisher felt the Taiji Diagram shift her emotions and power between yin and yang, and Xiluo advised her to steady her mind.
• Two vicious dogs, one black and one white, burst from the ground and chased and attacked each other through the sky.

Li Boyang’s Taiji Diagram stirred evil thoughts among Huoji’s forces and positive thoughts within Wuzhiqi, while the two powers clashed over the floods and Thread of Sky. In Mountain Hollow Village, Lu Suiniang’s baby girl revealed a third eye and reached happily for Lu Suiniang’s Shadow Baleful Intent Dharma Aspect.

• Huoji saw the Taiji Diagram awaken evil thoughts in his troops, whose violence and disorder spread as Thread of Sky’s Sword Qi erupted.
• Lord of the Ya Waters realized Li Boyang had released the Heaven-Eroding Lord, and Huoji began a sacrificial ritual to destroy Thread of Sky and enter the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• Wuzhiqi recognized that Li Boyang’s Taiji Diagram was drawing out his benevolent thoughts, crushed them, and challenged Li Boyang to use a stronger move.
• Mountain Hollow Village’s residents decided to move closer to Li Household Village after harvesting buckwheat and ruining their farmland.
• Lu Suiniang’s baby girl opened her third eye in terror, then smiled and reached for the Shadow Baleful Intent Dharma Aspect that emerged from Lu Suiniang’s shadow.

Li Boyang and the newly fused Heaven-Eroding Lord discussed the Dao of Yin and Yang and the Lord’s hope of finding or resurrecting Wu Yao. The Heaven-Eroding Lord agreed to help Li Boyang with his plans against Wuzhiqi, in exchange for deciding Huoji’s fate.

• Li Boyang summoned the Taiji Diagram, and Big Black Dog and the Guirong Clan appeared fused as the Heaven-Eroding Lord.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord explained that his new form combined Big Black Dog’s Primordial Core and Primordial Spirit with the Guirong Clan’s Law Techniques and Divine Abilities.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord said he had embraced the Dao of Yin and Yang and hoped to find Wu Yao’s reincarnated soul, while Li Boyang questioned whether the Netherworld Lord could reincarnate souls.
• Li Boyang offered to teach the Heaven-Eroding Lord the Witch of the Huai River’s Yin-Yang Talisman Incantation and share guidance if he helped alter the celestial phenomena.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord agreed to help with Li Boyang’s plans against Wuzhiqi and demanded the right to decide Huoji’s fate.

As clear skies returned across the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, Jiao reassured the ginseng child that the Red-Haired Ghost God had driven back the invading water gods. Pan Hu realized the rain was being concentrated at Mount Yunmeng, where Li Boyang’s Divine Ability transformed the mountain into a vast marsh.

• The ginseng child scolded Jiao for risking himself while hunting spirits and water gods with Pan Hu, and Jiao said the Red-Haired Ghost God would deal with the remaining invaders.
• Jiao told the ginseng child that the Red-Haired Ghost God had cleared the skies, easing its fears.
• Pan Hu counted seven days of clear weather and wondered where the rain and clouds had gone, then suspected Mount Yunmeng was receiving them.
• Xiluo angrily watched Li Boyang control the earth and water veins as relentless rain flooded Mount Yunmeng.
• Li Boyang reshaped mountains into basins and peaks into lakes, turning Mount Yunmeng into an enormous marsh while Flying Peak remained above the water.

Li Boyang transformed Mount Yunmeng into Yunmeng Marsh, creating a vast water hub and a new ecosystem for the Hundred Lands Mountain Range. He left the marsh protected by a powerful fog-bound formation, while Kingfisher warned him to preserve the balance between mountain folk and spirits.

• Li Boyang explained that he had chosen Mount Yunmeng because it held only sleepy bugs and promised Xiluo that the marsh would remain her territory.
• Li Boyang described plans for Yunmeng Marsh to support new livelihoods and water transport, and Kingfisher warned him to protect the balance between people and spirits.
• Li Boyang restored the fog over Yunmeng Marsh and used the God-Binding Cord to strengthen its bewildering and weakening effects.
• Li Boyang created small islands across the marsh to form a multifunctional composite grand formation linked to Earth Veins Sha Qi.

The Heaven-Eroding Lord and the Deception Rabbit reached Thread of Sky, where Huoji’s spirits were widening a canal and flooding the Hundred Lands Mountain Range to destroy the Sword Qi. The Heaven-Eroding Lord unleashed the Blood Demon, revealed as You Chong, to avenge the fallen Guifang Kingdom, and gave him permission to slaughter.

• The Heaven-Eroding Lord and the Deception Rabbit arrived at Thread of Sky and saw Huoji’s forces extending the canal into the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord said he had sent a scout ahead, and a mountain-moving giant suddenly attacked the spirits in the canal.
• The Blood Demon’s Blood Qi spread from the dead shrimp soldier, driving nearby spirits into a riot and slaughter.
• The Deception Rabbit recognized the Blood Demon, and the Heaven-Eroding Lord explained that he could be reborn because he was born in the Guifang Kingdom.
• The blood-colored figure took on You Chong’s appearance and revealed that the remains beneath the waterfall belonged to the Guifang Kingdom’s last people.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord permitted You Chong to slaughter the spirits in revenge.

The Heaven-Eroding Lord unleashed the Blood Demon against the Lord of the Ya Waters’ forces, but Flower Mantis entered the battle and began cutting down its manifestations. As the fight continued, the Heaven-Eroding Lord’s planned alliance of local rebels charged in to counterattack.

• The Heaven-Eroding Lord ordered the Blood Demon to slaughter the Lord of the Ya Waters’ spirits, and the resulting chaos turned the battlefield into a storm of fighting ghosts and gods.
• The Lord of the Ya Waters called on Flower Mantis to repay the First Prince’s protection, and Flower Mantis charged through the battlefield, attacking friend and foe alike.
• The Deception Rabbit and the Heaven-Eroding Lord noticed that Flower Mantis had developed an incomplete Body-Protecting Gang Qi, which strengthened his twin blades and helped him destroy the Blood Demon’s manifestations.
• You Chong vanished, and spirits, mountain gods, and Land Gods from the Hundred Lands Mountain Range charged toward the Grand Canal to join the counterattack.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord told the Deception Rabbit that the Blood Demon had spent seven days contacting local resistance, and that more rebels would join once they saw hope.

The Heaven-Eroding Lord used the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the Land to drain the battlefield’s floodwaters and capture the Lord of the Ya Waters, turning the tide against Huoji’s forces. Deception Rabbit realized he had once used the powerful artifact only to survey waterways.

• Deception Rabbit doubted that the Heaven-Eroding Lord’s hastily assembled fighters could withstand Huoji’s disciplined water gods.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord revealed the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the Land and explained that Li Boyang had refined it into a divine artifact capable of controlling natural phenomena.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord expanded the diagram across the sky and used it to reproduce the battlefield, then siphoned away its floodwaters, storm, and many water gods.
• The Lord of the Ya Waters struggled against the diagram’s pull but was swept into it, while Huoji’s water troops fled after losing their weather and terrain advantages.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord’s fighters gained confidence and charged, and Deception Rabbit regretted having used the artifact only to survey waterways.

The Third Prince and Huoji witnessed the [Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the Land] rout their army, then Huoji and the Third Prince attacked the Heaven-Eroding Lord and were met with his power. Meanwhile, Deception Rabbit used Prophet-forged equipment to overpower Flower Mantis, who admitted defeat while crediting the gear.

• The Third Prince urged Huoji to retreat after seeing the [Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the Land] turn the battle into a rout.
• Huoji recognized the Heaven-Eroding Lord as the one who had activated the diagram, and he and the Third Prince attacked him together.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord caused the sun to darken as Deception Rabbit noticed the battle had become chaotic and joined the fight.
• Deception Rabbit drove back Flower Mantis with a coordinated set of Prophet-forged guards and blades whose Speech Talisman Incantations formed a shield.
• Flower Mantis admitted defeat and praised the equipment, but Deception Rabbit rejected his claim that the gear, rather than his own ability, was responsible.

Deception Rabbit used his lightning-enhancing equipment and a Lightning Pill to gain the advantage over Flower Mantis. Meanwhile, Huoji and the Third Prince struggled against the Heaven-Eroding Lord, and the Third Prince realized Huoji was using him as a weapon.

• Flower Mantis abandoned his attempt to provoke Deception Rabbit and activated Saber Baleful Intent Sword Gang, trading protection for lethal power.
• Deception Rabbit charged his equipment with Life Primordial Qi, swallowed a Lightning Pill, and boosted his speed, strength, and reflexes with thunder.
• Deception Rabbit's lightning-fast attacks damaged Flower Mantis's body and cracked his mantis blades.
• Huoji and the Third Prince fought the Heaven-Eroding Lord, whose yin-and-yang techniques turned their attacks back against them.
• After several exchanges, the Third Prince realized Huoji seemed to be using him as a weapon.

The Heaven-Eroding Lord killed the Third Prince and attacked Huoji, revealing his vendetta against those who had divided up and eaten Wu Yao. At the Mountain God Temple, Li Boyang questioned Xiluo’s account of Wu Yao’s death and suggested that the Heaven-Eroding Lord knew where her soul was.

• The white Heaven-Eroding Lord killed the Third Prince after Huoji’s distraction left him exposed.
• The black Heaven-Eroding Lord emerged from the shadows and told Huoji he had recognized the trap because the corpses’ drained vitality gave away the Guhuo Bird’s involvement.
• Huoji broke free of the Heaven-Eroding Lord’s restraints and tried to fight back, but the white one struck him and vowed to avenge Wu Yao.
• Li Boyang returned to the Mountain God Temple and asked Xiluo how her sister Wu Yao had really died.
• Li Boyang opened his Heavenly Eye and asked what had happened to Wu Yao’s soul after the mountain folk ate her flesh and Xiluo collected her bones.
• Li Boyang reasoned that the Heaven-Eroding Lord might know where Wu Yao’s soul was and believe the Dao of Yin and Yang could find or revive it.

The Heaven-Eroding Lord battered Huoji and questioned him about his main soul, his split soul’s source, and his connection to Wuzhiqi and Guhuo Bird. Huoji transformed into an expanding rainstorm to fight back, but the Heaven-Eroding Lord repeatedly countered him with control over yin and yang and scorching sunlight, leaving Huoji trapped in a cycle of defeat.

• The Heaven-Eroding Lord pummeled Huoji and demanded to know where his main soul was, who had created his split soul, and how Wuzhiqi was connected to Guhuo Bird.
• Huoji gathered water primordial Qi to force a breakthrough, but his body began mutating as the Heaven-Eroding Lord continued attacking him.
• Huoji turned into flowing water and rain, invaded the Heaven-Eroding Lord’s body, and spread across the land while assimilating unprotected creatures.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord expelled Huoji’s rain from his body and explained that his mastery of the Breathing Method had reached primordial unity.
• Huoji expanded into a colossal rainstorm and drew vitality from nearby living creatures, but the Heaven-Eroding Lord used scorching sunlight to evaporate the rain and drive him back.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord repeatedly pushed Huoji into a desperate position without killing him, appearing to prolong his torment.

At the Guifang Kingdom’s ancestral temple, the Rain Master confronted Wuzhiqi over his attempt to turn Tufang Clan into a puppet and exposed the truth behind Wuzhiqi’s rule of the Huai Calamity region. The Rain Master forced Wuzhiqi to choose between continuing their fight and saving Huoji, and Wuzhiqi left while his gods attacked the Rain Master.

• Wuzhiqi prepared to face the Rain Master with his four guardian gods, while the Rain Master condemned him for using the Guifang Kingdom’s Baleful Intent Refining Method on Tufang Clan.
• The Rain Master accused Wuzhiqi of unleashing the flood to rule the Huai Calamity region in the name of the Huai Calamity Dragon Maiden, whom Wuzhiqi had forced to bear three sons before she took her own life.
• The Rain Master said Wuzhiqi’s favoritism toward Huoji might be his way of expressing love for the Huai Calamity Dragon Maiden and asked what he would do when Huoji faced mortal peril.
• Wuzhiqi left to save Huoji and ordered his followers to kill the Rain Master without holding back.
• The four guardian gods and the gathered gods and devils launched an all-out attack on the Rain Master.