Chapter Summaries

Wu Yi defeated Yan Xiaojun by countering his lightning magic, then stopped short of killing him when One-Horned Incantation intervened. Wu Yi accepted the explanation that the encounter was a misunderstanding and asked what had changed in the Hundred Lands Mountain Range and what position Li Boyang held there.

• Wu Yi used iron pillars to draw Yan Xiaojun’s lightning arrows into the earth, then explained the old Lightning-Summoning Incantation behind his technique.
• Yan Xiaojun tried to prepare flame arrows, but Wu Yi appeared beside him, dispersed the flames, and kicked him to the ground.
• One-Horned Incantation emerged from the stream and claimed that Li Boyang had sent him to resolve the misunderstanding.
• One-Horned Incantation privately feared that Wu Yi might take Li Boyang away to become Great Xia’s next Witch King, or expose him to the deadly Witch King ritual.
• Wu Yi agreed not to tell Li Boyang about the encounter and asked One-Horned Incantation about recent changes in the Hundred Lands Mountain Range and Li Boyang’s status there.

Li Boyang confronted Lu Huaijin about secretly using her Heavenly Eye to learn and explained why he had let her grow up alongside other children. He began teaching her how to develop the eye, revealing that an Ominous Deity had provided the vitality that let her open it before birth.

• Lu Huaijin eagerly asked Li Boyang what he planned to teach her, and he revealed that she had secretly learned Talisman Seal Script and mechanical engineering.
• Li Boyang explained that Lu Huaijin’s unusual soul and advanced mind made it important for her to have a complete childhood, while Li Jingshu realized Lu Huaijin had lied about using her Heavenly Eye.
• Li Boyang opened his own Heavenly Eye and offered to teach Lu Huaijin how to tap its potential.
• Li Boyang explained that the Heavenly Eye required nourishment and that an Ominous Deity had infused Lu Huaijin’s mother with vitality to help seize Lu Huaijin’s body, allowing the girl to open the eye at birth.
• Lu Huaijin felt disappointed that her Heavenly Eye did not mean she was related to Li Boyang by blood.

Li Boyang explained that Lu Huaijin had to cultivate a Primordial Spirit to escape the Guhuo Bird’s influence, then taught her how the Heavenly Eye could help her and Li Jingshu overcome their physical deficiencies. The chapter ended with Li Boyang describing the Heavenly Eye’s three levels and the abilities his own Black and Yellow Qi had given it.

• Li Boyang told Lu Huaijin that the Guhuo Bird was sealed within her and that cultivating a Primordial Spirit would let her absorb the Six-Tailed Fox’s memories and resist the bird’s influence; Lu Huaijin rejected his offer of a shortcut.
• Li Jingshu explained that she had delayed manifesting her Primordial Spirit because her body was congenitally frail and she wanted to remedy its deficiencies first.
• Li Jingshu revealed a temporary, incomplete Heavenly Eye, which Li Boyang said came from the Thousand Transformations Divine Ability and was not yet a true awakening.
• Li Boyang warned that Lu Huaijin could become the Guhuo Bird, suffer a body-and-soul rejection, or become mentally frozen if she manifested her Primordial Spirit too soon.
• Li Boyang outlined three levels of the Heavenly Eye, from Thousand-Mile Eyes and X-Ray Vision to abilities shaped by unique Primordial Qi, and described how his Black and Yellow Qi let him see through arts and falsehoods.

Yin Fei admired the Prophet of the Mountains’ cement works while questioning Flower Mantis about his knowledge and her reasons for saving him. She admitted that turning him into a Guhuo Bird would require slaughtering the mountain folk and spirits, something she was unwilling to risk because she feared the prophet.

• Yin Fei bathed in an abandoned reservoir in Flood Control Village and praised the prophet’s cement while Flower Mantis stood guard.
• Yin Fei asked whether the mountain folk’s plans to build a larger reservoir with reinforced concrete came from the prophet, and Flower Mantis said he had read about something similar in the Luo River Book.
• Flower Mantis said the Prophet of the Mountains had a vision, prompting Yin Fei to recall the horrific death of a human woman whose soul she had once seen.
• Flower Mantis asked why Yin Fei had not turned him into a Guhuo Bird, but he refused to play along with her teasing invitation.
• Yin Fei explained that transforming Flower Mantis would require so much life force that she would have to slaughter the local mountain folk and spirits, and she did not dare provoke the Celestial Person prophet.

Yin Fei admitted she had rescued Flower Mantis because she found him beautiful, then prepared to leave when someone she considered dangerous approached. She explained that she had come to the Hundred Lands Mountain Range to help a fellow Guhuo Bird whose reincarnation the prophet had sealed, and she and Flower Mantis left before meeting the newcomer.

• Yin Fei told Flower Mantis she had saved him because he was beautiful and said she would respect his refusal to become a Guhuo Bird.
• Yin Fei transformed into a bird and said an annoying person was coming, while confessing that the Perception Method had made her question her identity, life, and immortality.
• Flower Mantis redirected Yin Fei from her growing confusion by asking why she had come to the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• Yin Fei explained that she had come to help an immature Guhuo Bird, a former Eight-Tailed Fox who had fled Qingqiu and reincarnated after the ruler betrayed her.
• Yin Fei said the prophet had sealed the fox’s final reincarnation and implied that she might seek the complete Way of the Celestial Person through her fellow Guhuo Bird.
• Yin Fei and Flower Mantis left the area to avoid the approaching person, whom she called a genuine lunatic.

Wu Yi, One-Horned Incantation, and Yue explored the abandoned reservoir and roads near Flood Control Village, where One-Horned Incantation described Li Boyang’s innovations. Seeing how the mountain folk could transform their world without divine interference, Wu Yi grew more convinced that humanity did not need gods and continued toward the village.

• One-Horned Incantation, Wu Yi, and Yue emerged from a nearby stream after Flower Mantis and Yin Fei had left the reservoir.
• One-Horned Incantation questioned why Wu Yi had insisted on visiting the area, and Wu Yi praised its reservoirs, canals, and concrete roads.
• One-Horned Incantation described Li Boyang’s plans for stronger reservoirs and plant-growing roads made from prefabricated ecological composite regenerative material.
• Wu Yi recognized that the new roads accommodated spirits and wild gods, while One-Horned Incantation warned him not to recruit Li Boyang as a ruler of Great Xia.
• Wu Yi concluded that human progress was constrained by the gods and headed toward Flood Control Village instead of going straight to Li Boyang.

Wu Yi and his companions reached Flood Control Village, where they saw mountain folk using bronze machines called Bronze Beasts to work the fields. One-Horned Incantation explained how Li Boyang had redesigned the Artificial Fang Boars and organized their production, but did not reveal how the beasts were distributed.

• Wu Yi and his companions reached Flood Control Village and saw mountain folk operating green, boar-shaped machines in the fields.
• One-Horned Incantation identified the machines as Bronze Beasts, explaining that Li Boyang had removed their intelligence and made them controllable tools.
• Wu Yi observed that the Bronze Beasts had intricate mechanical parts, which the mountain folk struggled to repair.
• One-Horned Incantation explained that Li Boyang had developed a durable special bronze for the beasts, while Wu Yi deduced that villages pooled their mineral resources to produce them.
• Wu Yi asked whether Li Boyang gave the Bronze Beasts to all mountain folk for free or whether Flood Control Village was an exception, and One-Horned Incantation denied that his master was so shallow.

At the bronze beast repair factory, Blacksmith Li learned that Cliffside Village had damaged another beast, this time breaking the Speech that made it work, and ordered it melted down. Shanzhu then guided the villagers through Yunmeng Marsh to meet Cai Gu and buy a replacement.

• Shanzhu told Blacksmith Li that Cliffside Village's bronze beast had rammed into a tree and damaged its Speech.
• Blacksmith Li said the factory could not repair Speech and ordered the beast sent to the furnace to be recast.
• Blacksmith Li told Shanzhu to send Cliffside Village to Granny Hanging Silk if they wanted to buy another bronze beast.
• Shanzhu led the Cliffside villagers through Yunmeng Marsh while Eleven guided them through the mist.
• Eleven brought the group to a vast lake and called for Cai Gu, who appeared as a colorful fish and formed a bridge from gathered fish.
• Cai Gu said the villagers could bring only one person across the fish bridge.

Shanzhu crossed Yunmeng Marsh on a bridge of fish with the spider lady and reached Bronze Island, where he discovered that Bronze Beasts grew as fruit on living Bronze Trees. The chapter ended with a bronze spider producing a Fang Boar-type Bronze Beast from a fallen fruit in seconds, leaving Shanzhu stunned.

• The spider lady reassured Shanzhu that Cai Gu’s full divine power and the fish would keep him safe as he crossed the fish bridge.
• The spider lady suggested Yunmeng Marsh’s master was greater than Shanzhu imagined, and Shanzhu recalled a rumor linking the Red-Haired Ghost God to the Son of the Mountain God.
• The spider lady led Shanzhu to the moving Bronze Island, where he saw living Bronze Trees covered in complex Life Talisman Incantations.
• The spider lady called on the bronze spider, Sixty-seventh Sister, to select a Fang Boar-type Bronze Beast, and the spider demanded a mouse as payment.
• After eating the mouse, the bronze spider knocked a bronze fruit from the tree, and the metallic soil transformed it into a complete Bronze Beast within seconds.

Hanging Silk Lady achieved a Primordial Spirit and discovered that the skeleton Xuan Ta left behind had changed. When it drew a vast amount of Essence Qi from a giant bronze tree, a powerful Yuan Qi storm erupted, leaving her stunned.

• Hanging Silk Lady transformed into a woman, cultivated a Primordial Spirit, and turned her Life Primordial Qi into Essence Qi.
• Hanging Silk Lady petrified Qingfu for making noise, while Mu Chuan placated her and told her the skeleton Xuan Ta left behind had changed.
• Hanging Silk Lady went to the heart of Bronze Island and found a gigantic bronze tree beside Xuan Ta's skeleton.
• Hanging Silk Lady confirmed that the tree held vast Essence Qi and caused it to shine across Bronze Island.
• Xuan Ta's skeleton moved and drew the tree's Essence Qi into itself, unleashing a storm of Yuan Qi that knocked over nearby spider ladies.

Li Boyang learned that Xiluo had divined the coming calamity and chose to defy heaven rather than preserve himself alone. Meanwhile, Yin Fei sensed a threat to all Guhuo Birds and resolved to pursue the complete Method of the Celestial Person.

• Xiluo told Li Boyang she had divined the Guhuo Bird's presence, his plans involving Lu Huaijin, and a calamity greater than the great flood.
• Xiluo declared that she would stand by Li Boyang, and he decided to change his plans and defy heaven.
• Near a mountain village, Yin Fei sensed that someone had targeted the Guhuo Birds and feared Li Boyang's unknown power could threaten them all.
• Yin Fei questioned who she was and resolved to take risks to obtain the complete Method of the Celestial Person.

Lu Huaijin explored her Heavenly Eye before Yin Fei, disguised as Lu Suiniang, confronted her in Mountain Hollow Village. Yin Fei fled with Lu Huaijin as Flower Mantis fought the seemingly undying Shadow Baleful Intent Dharma Aspect.

• Lu Huaijin practiced using her Heavenly Eye and discovered its limited range and ability to glimpse another plane.
• Lu Huaijin found Yin Fei disguised as Lu Suiniang and warned her not to harm the villagers.
• Yin Fei reached for Lu Huaijin, triggering the Shadow Baleful Intent Dharma Aspect to appear and blast Yin Fei away.
• Yin Fei summoned Flower Mantis to hold off the Dharma Aspect, then seized Lu Huaijin and fled.
• Flower Mantis split the Dharma Aspect in two, but both halves regenerated, and he used his speed to pursue the one chasing Yin Fei.

Yin Fei explained that Lu Huaijin’s seal was the Yin-Yang Talisman Incantation, which the Guhuo Birds had learned and could undo. Li Jingshu arrived in time to rescue Lu Huaijin, then faced Yin Fei with a powerful handgun made by Li Boyang.

• Yin Fei told Lu Huaijin that a goddess had once nearly become a Guhuo Bird before the Witch of the Huai River stopped her transformation with the Speech Talisman Incantation.
• Yin Fei revealed that the seal Li Boyang placed on Lu Huaijin was the Yin-Yang Talisman Incantation and claimed the Guhuo Birds could undo it.
• Yin Fei struck Lu Huaijin’s Heavenly Eye, but Li Jingshu’s Thunder Method bullet and lightning attack forced Yin Fei to release her.
• Li Jingshu caught Lu Huaijin, gave her a medicinal pill, and confronted Yin Fei.
• Yin Fei recognized Li Jingshu and assessed the Law Treasure handgun Li Boyang had made for her.

Li Jingshu confronted Yin Fei, the Night-Wandering Woman, while Wu Yi explained to One-Horned Incantation that the Guhuo Bird had likely come for Little Lu. The chapter ended with One-Horned Incantation rushing to save her.

• Li Jingshu summoned the Bronze Treasure Book to watch Little Lu and analyze Yin Fei's weaknesses.
• Yin Fei recognized the Bronze Treasure Book and attacked Li Jingshu with her Dark Night Phantom ability.
• One-Horned Incantation and Wu Yi noticed the darkness spreading across the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• Wu Yi identified Yin Fei as the Night-Wandering Woman, a powerful Guhuo Bird who had once been an Innate Calamity God.
• Wu Yi revealed that Little Lu was a Guhuo Bird's split soul and guessed that the Night-Wandering Woman had come for her.
• One-Horned Incantation hurried to save Little Lu.

Li Jingshu bound the awakened, malicious side of Lu Huaijin with an imitation God-Binding Cord, but Yin Fei retaliated by hurling a mountain peak at her. The chapter ended with Li Jingshu facing the incoming mountain in the darkness.

• Li Jingshu used her Heavenly Eye and varied Talisman Seal Script bullets to pursue Yin Fei, who avoided the barrage by transforming into birds.
• One of Yin Fei’s birds reached Lu Huaijin, who awakened with a violent new personality and absorbed it using the Primordial Talisman Incantation.
• The awakened Lu Huaijin revealed that Li Boyang had separated her good and evil sides and sealed her growth, and that absorbing Yin Fei’s power had unlocked some of her memories.
• Li Jingshu bound Lu Huaijin with an imitation God-Binding Cord carrying the Speech Talisman Incantation, causing her to collapse.
• Enraged, Yin Fei used Move Mountains and Topple Peaks to send a mountain hurtling toward Li Jingshu.

Single Horn Si protected Li Jingshu and Lu Huaijin from Yin Fei's falling mountain, while Wu Yi and a Sha Qi dragon joined the fight against her. In Mountain Hollow Village, Li Boyang's Dharma Aspect revealed that it had been watching Flower Mantis and suggested it might spare him.

• Single Horn Si enlarged himself and took Yin Fei's falling mountain head-on, shielding Li Jingshu and Lu Huaijin but suffering severe injuries.
• Wu Yi appeared and dispersed Yin Fei's darkness, then a Sha Qi dragon attacked her as Single Horn Si and his God-Binding Cord joined the assault.
• Wu Yi summoned lightning dragons that joined the fight against Yin Fei.
• Flower Mantis realized the Shadow Baleful Intent Dharma Aspect was speaking in Li Boyang's voice and watched as it took off its Nuo God Mask.
• Li Boyang told Flower Mantis that he would not kill him without hesitation because Flower Mantis was talented and not guilty of every unforgivable evil.

Deception Rabbit pursued Huoji to the Kunlun Ruins, where the goddess Gouxing appeared and revealed the truth about Huoji’s mother and his impending transformation. Huoji rejected being a Guhuo Bird, but Gouxing said his mother had escaped that fate only in part.

• Deception Rabbit confronted Huoji at the source of ten thousand rivers after pursuing him for four or five years.
• A rainbow gate appeared, and Gouxing emerged after Huoji called out to his mother.
• Gouxing identified herself as the Heavenly Emperor’s daughter, now a Guhuo Bird, and explained that Huoji’s mother had refused to become one by splitting into good and evil halves.
• Gouxing revealed that Wuzhiqi had brought Huoji’s mother back to life and that her evil soul fragment inside Huoji was key to his transformation.
• Huoji insisted he was not a Guhuo Bird, and Gouxing said his mother had escaped that identity only halfway.

Gouxing revealed that Huoji had been chosen as the Huai Calamity Dragon Maiden’s reincarnation, and that his mother’s love had kept him himself. When Huoji resisted, the Dragon Maiden surfaced through him and threatened Gouxing with revenge.

• Gouxing recounted how the Huai Calamity Dragon Maiden split into benevolent and evil sides, fell in love with Wuzhiqi, and later withdrew from their children to resist becoming a Guhuo Bird.
• Gouxing explained that Wuzhiqi had made Huoji the Dragon Maiden’s reincarnation when she was dying, but her maternal love had prevented Huoji from losing himself.
• Huoji rejected Gouxing’s plan and charged at her, but Gouxing pinned him beneath the water with a gigantic multicolored wing.
• The Huai Calamity Dragon Maiden took control of Huoji and questioned why Gouxing would not let her rest.
• The Dragon Maiden recalled Huoji’s gentle childhood and condemned the devastation he later caused with Wuzhiqi, then vowed revenge on Gouxing for leaving Guixu.

The Deception Rabbit escaped the battle between the Celestial Emperor’s daughter and the Huai Calamity Dragon Maiden, then contacted Li Boyang through a God Mask. Li Boyang explained that he had decided to confront a looming catastrophe tied to Wu Yi, but the appearance of unexpected variables left him unsure of its cause.

• The Deception Rabbit fled the battlefield and used a God Mask and his Thousand Transformations Divine Ability to let Li Boyang speak through a second head.
• The Deception Rabbit told Li Boyang about seeing the Celestial Emperor’s daughter fighting the Huai Calamity Dragon Maiden.
• Li Boyang revealed that his divinations had traced a deadly coming tribulation to Great Xia’s Witch King, Wu Yi.
• Li Boyang said Xiluo had also sensed the tribulation, leading him to suspect Wu Yi targeted more than just him.
• Li Boyang explained that he had chosen to face the tribulation directly and break through it by slaughter, despite having to pursue an imperfect Dao body.
• Li Boyang said the Guhuo Bird had become an unpredictable variable and that the Celestial Emperor’s daughter had unexpectedly appeared.

Li Household Village’s young adults rescued Mountain Hollow Village and withdrew from the fighting between Yin Fei, One-Horned Incantation, and Wu Yi. As Yin Fei tried to escape, Li Boyang appeared in his Yang God form, and Yin Fei admired his beauty despite recognizing the danger he posed.

• Li Household Village sent its young adults to rescue Mountain Hollow Village, then led the villagers away from the battlefield.
• Qiwa wondered if Li Jingshu was fighting and asked Li Chengfeng to tell Non-Crying Child that he wanted special training in Yunmeng Marsh.
• Wu Yi used witch laws and incantations to counter Yin Fei, leaving her unable to fight effectively.
• Yin Fei returned to her Ominous Deity form and struck One-Horned Incantation, breaking his neck before turning her attention to Wu Yi.
• Wu Yi warned Yin Fei that the host had not arrived, and Li Boyang manifested in his Yang God form.
• Yin Fei admired Li Boyang’s beauty and lamented that they had met as enemies.