Chapter Summaries

Li Boyang used his Mind-Reading Divine Ability to learn that something was threatening the gold and silver gourds and helped them remain safe inside their shells while they cultivated. The gourds rapidly advanced their development by draining the surrounding land, leaving Xiluo alarmed by the loss of fertility.

• Li Boyang and the others reached the gold and silver gourds, where the golden gourd struggled to escape its vine while the silver gourd lazily stirred.
• Xiluo warned that the gourds faced extraordinary danger, and Li Boyang checked the Heavenly Mandate Bone Plastron before opening his Heavenly Eye.
• Li Boyang read the gourds’ thoughts and learned that the golden gourd sensed something was trying to prevent their birth.
• Li Boyang reassured both gourds, told them to stay inside their protective shells, and taught them cultivation methods to strengthen themselves.
• The gourds drew in their divine light and absorbed nutrients from the soil, rapidly developing as the land’s fertility collapsed and Xiluo sensed the damage.

Li Boyang used a modified Xirang to restore the land around the Mountain God Reservoir and nourish the gold and silver gourds, whose accelerated growth triggered ominous thunderclouds. Li Run and the villagers began emergency protocols, and a boy concluded that a deity was involved.

• Li Boyang revealed a handful of Xirang and spread it across the desertified ground, rebuilding the earth veins and creating fertile soil.
• Xiluo realized Li Boyang had modified the Xirang so it could restore soil without spreading uncontrollably, though it still required him to prepare it beforehand.
• The potent Xirang nourished the gold and silver gourds until they grew beyond their normal limits, and dark clouds and lightning gathered above the Mountain God Reservoir.
• Li Run activated the warning protocols and rushed to the main sluice gate control center to prepare for a possible downpour.
• A boy used his divination methods to investigate the thunderclouds but could not trace them, concluding that they had something to do with a deity.

Wu Yi’s interference with the circulation of primordial Qi caused a lightning tribulation to strike the gold and silver gourds as they formed. The gourds endured the trial, became a golden dragon boy and a silver dragon girl, and thanked Li Boyang and the others.

• Li Boyang explained that Wu Yi had made the birth of Innate Deities trigger a primordial Qi backlash, sending lightning against the gourd vines and their gourds.
• The gold and silver gourds absorbed the lightning to hasten their formation, but the silver gourd began to falter under the continued strikes.
• The gold gourd broke free and shielded the silver gourd, which then broke free as well and manifested a silver dragon hatchling that pierced the thunderclouds with Sword Qi.
• The gold gourd manifested a golden dragon hatchling, and Li Boyang dispersed the remaining clouds after the two hatchlings faced the tribulation.
• The golden dragon hatchling transformed into a boy and thanked Li Boyang, while the silver dragon hatchling became a girl and thanked the others.

Li Boyang explained how his Human-Dragon Transformation Method had given the golden- and silver-haired children powerful human and dragon forms, then collected their gourds and lightning-charged vines. At Yunmeng Marsh, Kingfisher arrived carrying the dying Qinghe, and Hanging Silk Lady led her to someone who could save her.

• The silver-haired girl and golden-haired boy explained that Li Boyang’s Human-Dragon Transformation Method gave them distinct strengths in human and dragon forms.
• Xiluo recognized the children’s extraordinary power, and Li Boyang collected their golden and silver gourds and absorbed the mutated vines for study.
• Kingfisher arrived at Yunmeng Marsh carrying the dying mountain dweller Qinghe and asked to see Li Boyang.
• Hanging Silk Lady told Kingfisher that Li Boyang and Xiluo were away, but offered to take Qinghe to someone who could save her.
• Kingfisher followed Hanging Silk Lady toward Bronze Island, promising to do anything in return for Qinghe’s rescue.

Hanging Silk Lady brought the critically injured Qinghe to Lingguzi, who performed a drastic surgery using bronze organs and bones. Qinghe began breathing again, and Kingfisher learned that Lingguzi was a living skeleton of uncertain origin who devoted himself to medicine.

• Hanging Silk Lady led Kingfisher to the divine Bronze Tree and demanded that Lingguzi save Qinghe.
• Lingguzi examined Qinghe's severe injuries, ordered surgical tools and spider-silk sutures, and began operating.
• Lingguzi replaced damaged organs and bones with bronze creations while giving Qinghe a blood transfusion.
• Hanging Silk Lady assured Kingfisher that Lingguzi's surgeries and pills had saved others before, and Qinghe began breathing faintly again.
• Hanging Silk Lady told Kingfisher that Lingguzi had once been bones brought back by the Prophet, had come to life half a year earlier, and might have been a Guifang Kingdom priest.

Li Boyang assigned Golden Boy and Silver Boy their first duties as temple attendants, then considered how to turn their gold and silver gourds into divine artifacts. With Xiluo’s suggestion, he began planning to use the gourds to explore Compound Talisman Incantations.

• Li Boyang appointed Golden Boy and Silver Boy as temple attendants, sending Jinjiao to escort Kingfisher and Yinjiao to tend the gourd vines with Nüman's incarnations.
• Xiluo questioned Li Boyang’s casual names and his decision to treat the Innate Deities as children, then accepted that she could act as their family.
• Li Boyang explained that he planned to refine the gold and silver gourds into artifacts rather than waste them making pills.
• Li Boyang examined the gourds’ defensive and offensive potential, while Xiluo proposed using them as vessels for Maxims Talismans.
• Li Boyang considered combining multiple Talisman Incantations on the gourds as he began exploring Compound Talisman Incantations.

Kingfisher brought the gravely injured Qinghe to Li Boyang and explained that a sea calamity was advancing from the South Sea. Li Boyang agreed to help investigate, but the chapter left him with little information about the sea gods and demons or how the disaster could be stopped.

• Jinjiao brought Kingfisher and Qinghe to the mountain god's temple, where Li Boyang confirmed that Lingguzi had saved Qinghe's life.
• Kingfisher explained that the southern coast had been swallowed by seawater and that Qinghe had been injured while delaying sea gods and monsters so her people could retreat.
• Xiluo challenged Kingfisher over why the Hundred Lands' gods were not handling the disaster, and Kingfisher defended her past assistance and described their reluctance to fight.
• Li Boyang questioned Kingfisher about the South Sea, but she said she knew little more than he did and confirmed that Granny had already mobilized the willing gods.
• After learning that the gods were only probing the enemy and might flee, Li Boyang examined the Heavenly Mandate Bone Plastron and concluded that the situation might not yet be at its worst.

Li Boyang returned to Li Household Village and reunited with his parents, apologizing to Chen Yun for making them worry. He discovered that she had neglected her Breathing Method and given his pills to the children, and he urged her to take better care of herself.

• Li Boyang returned to Li Household Village, where Li Yu and Chen Yun welcomed him with a celebration.
• Li Boyang apologized to Chen Yun, who leaned against him and told him how much she had missed him.
• Li Boyang asked Chen Yun to stop working at the textile mill, but she insisted the spiders needed her care.
• Li Boyang learned that Chen Yun had neglected the Breathing Method and given her pills to the children.
• Li Boyang surrendered to Chen Yun's argument and promised to send more pills, urging her to take them herself.

Li Boyang returned home as a southern sea tide threatened the mountain villages, and Li Yu revealed that he had already understood his son’s role in the crisis. Li Boyang asked his father to organize a large rescue and water-control operation, offering rewards to villages that followed his orders.

• Li Yu teased Li Boyang about having a child while they talked in the courtyard with the Huodou.
• Li Yu explained that he had noticed southern villagers had stopped coming through Yunmeng Marsh and had seen familiar bodies washed downstream.
• Li Yu told Li Boyang that the mountain folk needed to engage with the outside world instead of relying on his protection.
• Li Boyang described the sea tide and asked Li Yu to contact other villages and recruit capable young adults for rescue and water control.
• Li Boyang promised participating villages rewards, including seeds, weapons, cultivation methods, and divine artifacts, if they obeyed orders.

After Li Boyang called for help against the southern flood, mountain villages, spirits, and gods rallied to join the relief effort. As the first convoy headed south, Panhu explained its steady plan to reclaim the lost land, while the great white-scaled snake admitted it had joined in hopes of earning a divine artifact.

• Mountain villages agreed to answer Li Boyang’s call because they remembered his help during the earlier flood and valued the protection he had brought them.
• Spirits and the Gods of the Hundred Lands gathered near Mountain God Reservoir after hearing reports of the operation, surprising Li Boyang.
• Panhu traveled south with a large convoy carrying construction materials, grain, and disaster relief supplies, while the great white-scaled snake swam alongside it.
• Panhu said the pioneers would drive back the invaders and repair the river embankments before later groups followed to reclaim the southern shore.
• The great white-scaled snake told Panhu it hoped to earn a personalized divine artifact from the Celestial Person.

Li Boyang coordinated rescue efforts while weighing the dangers of advancing into the South Sea, and prepared to meet an old friend bearing important intelligence. At the village entrance, Qiwa met the scarred mountain woman Li Jing, who mourned the children she had failed to protect.

• Li Boyang used the [Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the Land] to coordinate rescue efforts and warned Xiluo against charging straight to the South Sea.
• Xiluo told Li Boyang that Kingfisher's mountain priestess had awakened, but Li Boyang said he would first meet an old friend returning with crucial intelligence.
• Rain began falling over Li Household Village, and Li Boyang and Xiluo went outside to welcome the visitor.
• Qiwa dismissed the children from training and encountered the strange, heavily reconstructed mountain woman at the village entrance.
• Li Jing told Qiwa that the children who had studied in Li Household Village had cherished their time there, then grieved that she had failed to protect them when they fought Tian Wu.

Qiwa comforted Qinghe over her village’s destruction and urged her to pursue revenge. Li Boyang and Xiluo met Rain Master Shang Yang, who revealed that he was also the Eye of the North Sea and had come to explain how to quell the South Sea catastrophe.

• Qinghe blamed herself for her villagers’ disappearance because her village had rejected talisman launchers and Bronze Beasts.
• Qiwa told Qinghe that she could make revenge her reason to keep living, and she began to consider seeking vengeance.
• Rain Master emerged from the rain outside Li Household Village, surprising Xiluo and Li Boyang with his transformation into a Heavenly Deity.
• Rain Master explained that he had chosen a path suited to him and had become both Rain Master Shang Yang and the Eye of the North Sea.
• Rain Master said that ancient gods nearing the realm of a Great Heavenly Deity opposed Wu Yi’s attempt to remake the order of heaven and earth.

The Rain Master recounted how he helped stop the North Sea catastrophe after Wu Yi’s upheaval disrupted the sea eye. He plugged the sea eye and became bound to it, leaving him able to appear elsewhere only briefly through an avatar.

• Wu Yi’s Primordial Spirits battled the ancient gods, and the resulting upheaval of Primordial Qi plunged the North Sea into chaos.
• The Rain Master joined the people of Dingling and the Kingdom of Great You in organizing efforts to hold back the flooding.
• Using knowledge from the Luo River Book, the Rain Master adapted waterworks to the North Sea, but they could only delay the disaster.
• Longbo Giants arrived on Yu Guo’s orders and built a mountain ridge along the coast to turn back the tides.
• The Longbo Giants revealed that the abnormal North Sea sea eye was driving the endless floods.
• The Rain Master entered the sea eye, plugged it, and became its embodiment, unable to leave it except through a brief avatar.

Rain Master told Li Boyang that the South Sea’s sea eye had to be plugged to stop the flooding and warned that its surviving god, Buting Huyu, was driving the surge to become a Great Heavenly Deity. Meanwhile, Youguang reported that the sea gods had learned a Life Primordial Qi method from slaughtered villagers, and Huyu ordered them to find a more advanced cultivation method.

• Rain Master explained that he had become the North Sea’s sea eye and said the South Sea’s sea eye needed to be plugged to stop the Hundred Lands Mountain Range from flooding.
• Rain Master identified the South Sea’s surviving god as Buting Huyu and warned that he was using the cataclysm to seek a breakthrough and might be targeting Li Boyang.
• Li Boyang inferred that ancient gods were pursuing the Way of the Celestial Person after witnessing Wu Yi’s power.
• Youguang reported to Great God Huyu that the sea gods had wiped out villages in the southern Hundred Lands Mountain Range and extracted the villagers’ memories to learn the Exercise-Type Life Primordial Qi Regulation Breathing Method.
• Youguang admitted that they had failed to find the Resting-Type Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi Perception and Advancement Method, so Huyu ordered them to obtain it by any means.

As the mountain folk held back the tides with roads and waterworks, Li Jingshu’s vanguard searched for water veins and survivors. Their patrol was attacked by sea beasts, and after the hunters killed them, the God of Xuwang-Yezhong appeared above the waves.

• Mountain folk and spirits drove back sea monsters and built camps, canals, reservoirs, and roads using regenerative material they called Xirang.
• Li Jingshu led a vanguard squad to survey water veins and terrain while searching for flood survivors.
• Li Yu warned that the squad was nearly out of Xirang, and the hunters suspected the area had no survivors left.
• Sea beasts under the Night-Wandering God surged toward the group, and Li Yu opened fire with his talisman launcher.
• Li Jingshu and the hunters wiped out the attacking sea beasts with several volleys from their talisman launchers.
• A storm gathered over the waves and formed the scarlet upper body of the God of Xuwang-Yezhong.

Li Jingshu confronted Yezhong, the God of Xuwang, so Li Yu and the other hunters could retreat. Using her Primordial Spirit to command Bronze Beasts, she trapped Yezhong in molten bronze inscribed with the Primordial Talisman Incantation, attempting to seal him.

• Li Jingshu ordered the hunters to retreat and accepted Li Yu’s pills before flying to face Yezhong.
• Yezhong recognized Li Jingshu as the human he had been seeking and attacked her with a waterspout.
• Li Jingshu sent intelligent Bronze Beasts into the waterspout, using her Primordial Spirit to command them.
• The Bronze Beasts melted onto Yezhong, and Li Jingshu revealed that their molten bronze bore the Primordial Talisman Incantation.
• Yezhong sensed danger and struggled as the sealing talisman formed around him.

Li Jingshu killed Yezhong with a poison-laced sniper bullet followed by a Blazing Sun Talisman, then confronted seven Night-Wandering Gods who arrived to avenge him. Surrounded and facing their wary leader, Li Jingshu aimed her rifle and threatened to kill another god.

• Li Jingshu weakened Yezhong with Witch Law, then fired a poison-laced sniper bullet that tore his body apart.
• Li Jingshu followed with a Blazing Sun Talisman, which burned away Yezhong's body and killed him.
• The Bronze Treasure Book warned Li Jingshu of danger, and she used her Heavenly Eye to spot sinister power spreading from Yezhong's death site.
• An invisible hand intercepted Li Jingshu's next shot, and seven Night-Wandering Gods appeared, aware that she had killed Yezhong.
• Li Jingshu threatened the Night-Wandering Gods' leader, who was especially angered by Yezhong's death, as the group surrounded her.

Li Jingshu fought a group of Night-Wandering Gods with a sniper rifle, then switched to enchanted pistols when they trapped her at close range. She unleashed a rapid-fire barrage that turned the area around her into a forbidden zone.

• Li Yu heard Li Jingshu fighting and led the hunters away from the battlefield so they would not hinder her.
• The Night-Wandering Gods closed in on Li Jingshu after realizing her sniper rifle was less effective at close range.
• Li Jingshu dodged a ghostly hand, smashed one attacker aside with her rifle, and relied on the Bronze Treasure Book to block another's assault.
• The female Night-Wandering God formed a colossal palm from seawater and tried to force Li Jingshu to avoid firing her sniper rifle.
• Li Jingshu tossed the rifle to the Bronze Treasure Book and used her pistols to electrocute and ignite the female Night-Wandering God.
• Li Jingshu fired talisman bullets in every direction, creating a hundred-meter zone that the Night-Wandering Gods could not safely enter.

Li Jingshu revealed her Three Heads and Six Arms Divine Ability and resumed fighting the seven Night-Wandering Gods. Far behind the southern battlefront, Youguang confronted Hanging Silk Lady, who transformed into her original spider form to face him.

• Li Jingshu forced the Night-Wandering Gods back with her close-combat skill, but they decided to capture her for the Method of the Celestial Person.
• Li Jingshu used Three Heads and Six Arms, drawing more weapons from the Bronze Treasure Book and challenging the gods’ numerical advantage.
• Youguang found Hanging Silk Lady guarding the supply boats and examined the earthen spiders she had formed with Essence Qi.
• Hanging Silk Lady reverted to her enormous spider form while the mountain folk continued transporting supplies, trusting her to protect them.
• Youguang learned that Li Jingshu’s new form was called Three Heads and Six Arms and asked Hanging Silk Lady what she excelled at.

Hanging Silk Lady used her webs and life-giving Essence Qi to trap Youguang, who tore out an eye to break free from the transformation. Elsewhere, Guitong refused to reinforce Youguang and instead focused on killing a crucial god to disrupt the mountain folk’s trust.

• Hanging Silk Lady webbed Youguang, poisoned him, and drove him back to the ground.
• Hanging Silk Lady infused Youguang with Essence Qi, bringing his flames and flesh to life and causing them to turn against him.
• Youguang gouged out an eye on his shoulder and unleashed flames to resist Hanging Silk Lady’s power.
• Wumian urged Guitong to help Youguang, but Guitong insisted they continue their covert mission for Buyan Huyu.
• Guitong identified a crucial god near Yunmeng Marsh and planned to kill them, targeting the Human-Faced Fish that served as liaisons for the reinforcements.