Chapter Summaries

Lu Huaijin practiced the Six Desires Demon-Dividing Chapter while the Guhuo Bird personality tried to sway her, but Lu Suiniang interrupted her training. Lu Suiniang told her that Qiwa would soon return and that a forest mountain god was buying their village’s goods.

• Lu Huaijin cultivated Ice Skin and Jade Bones, tempering her body and Yuan Qi as the Guhuo Bird personality pleaded with her from within her mind.
• Lu Suiniang came home, embraced Lu Huaijin, and teased her about skipping lessons and needing to find a husband.
• Lu Huaijin told Lu Suiniang that Seventh Uncle Qiwa should return soon and that he had gained permission for the young villagers to cultivate on Spirit Gathering Island.
• Lu Huaijin asked about the village’s Bronze Horse, and Lu Suiniang explained that her grandfather had taken it out to sell goods to a mountain god from the forests.

Lady Bagui recounted her escape from Flying Peak, her struggle to survive the upheaval, and her efforts to learn the Way of the Celestial Person among the mountain folk. She had become a worshipped mountain god and was trading with Mountain Hollow Village when Uncle Lu brought her a shipment of weapons.

• Lady Bagui escaped Flying Peak after its seal broke, fled the East Sea after witnessing Wu Yi's battle, and later returned to the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• After losing much of her Divine Power, Lady Bagui chose to cultivate the Way of the Celestial Person and learned the Breathing Method from Li Boyang's teachings.
• Lady Bagui sought further cultivation knowledge and supplies from the mountain folk, becoming the mountain god of a small village while gathering information about the Mountain Folk Prophet.
• Lady Bagui learned that her abandoned gourd vine had produced two Innate Deities and that the ox she had scorned had become the Prophet's mount.
• Uncle Lu brought supplies to Lady Bagui beneath a banana tree, where she inspected the first shipment of talisman launchers made according to the Luo River Book.

Uncle Lu traded talisman launchers, bullets, and everyday talismans with Lady Bagui for ten golden seeds, which she warned could cause mutations if consumed too often. He then gave her an Explosive Talisman created by his granddaughter, offering her an accessible path to studying talismans.

• Lady Bagui praised Mountain Hollow Village's talisman launchers and inspected the talisman bullets and everyday talismans Uncle Lu brought.
• Lady Bagui accepted the goods and paid Uncle Lu with ten golden seeds nurtured by her true body.
• Lady Bagui warned Uncle Lu to limit how often his grandchildren ate the seeds because prolonged use could cause physical mutations.
• Uncle Lu realized Lady Bagui had been collecting talismans for a purpose and presented her with an Explosive Talisman his granddaughter had developed.
• Lady Bagui examined the simple, powerful Explosive Talisman and recognized that it could help her begin studying talismans.

Uncle Lu explained that the Dao of Talismans belonged to everyone and that he had traded with Lady Bagui because she helped Longtian Village prosper. Lady Bagui returned to her village, where Jinjiao appeared and revealed that he had been born from her essence and Qi.

• Uncle Lu told Sanzi that the Prophet taught the Dao of Talismans without discrimination and that Lady Bagui’s origins did not matter if she wanted to settle in the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• Uncle Lu explained that Lady Bagui had brought favorable weather and better rice to Longtian Village, and that she preferred living among the villagers to staying in a shrine.
• Lady Bagui walked home along Longtian Village’s muddy path, thinking that the village needed a proper road, then greeted the children and villagers as they gathered around her.
• Lady Bagui returned to her adobe house and found a composed boy in a golden robe waiting at the entrance.
• Jinjiao told Lady Bagui that he had come into being from her essence and Qi with his master’s help, and remarked that her life among the mountain folk surprised him.

Jinjiao visited Lady Bagui and learned that she had grown attached to the children during her year in the Hundred Lands Mountain Range. At Flying Peak, Li Boyang helped Xiluo test Yin Fei’s feather robe, then altered it after its forms affected her state of mind.

• Jinjiao told Lady Bagui that he had not come to drive her away and that Li Boyang had never ordered her to leave the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• Lady Bagui explained that living among children had helped her understand Wu Yao’s devotion to them, and she asked whether Yinjiao hated her.
• Li Boyang coaxed Xiluo into wearing Yin Fei’s feather robe, and she transformed into a scarlet Guhuo Bird whose predatory impulses nearly made her attack Yunmeng Marsh’s ghosts and gods.
• Li Boyang used the God-Binding Cord to pull Xiluo back to Flying Peak, where she tried the Night-Wandering Woman form and became captivated by her own beauty.
• Li Boyang drew yin-yang fish with Maxims and branded them onto the feather robe, reducing its influence over Xiluo and revealing its Power of Ascension.

Li Boyang planned to control Xiluo’s feather robe with a complementary Law Treasure, while Jinjiao went to find his mother, Lady Bagui. After learning that she faced a death tribulation, Lady Bagui rushed off alone to confront the danger, and Jinjiao used divination to locate her.

• Li Boyang explained that he intended to forge a ribbon Law Treasure to control and enhance the feather robe’s abilities.
• Xiluo asked where Jinjiao was, and Li Boyang said he had gone to find Lady Bagui.
• Jinjiao told Lady Bagui that Li Boyang had divined she would soon face a death tribulation and that he had come to save her.
• Lady Bagui shoved Jinjiao away and vanished, leaving him her bags as she went to face the threat alone.
• Jinjiao used his [Premonition Divine Ability] and divination to search for Lady Bagui.

Lady Bagui confronted Long Jikui, a half-dead giant revived by traces of the Breathing Method in roots she had once severed from herself. She attacked him with her wind-and-fire authority, but he continued advancing through the flames as she unleashed a devastating tornado.

• Lady Bagui encountered the thousand-foot-tall Long Jikui near the Hundred Lands Mountain Range and recognized him as the giant whose vitality she had once drained to survive.
• She realized that the roots growing inside Long Jikui had carried traces of the Breathing Method and had revived him as an incomplete living corpse seeking her.
• Lady Bagui expanded her banana leaf fan and burned Long Jikui with Yuan Qi flames, but he kept advancing despite being scorched to obsidian.
• Lady Bagui swept her fan again, creating a vast tornado of wind and fire that engulfed the surrounding land.

Long Jikui and Lady Bagui fought with devastating blasts of wind and fire in the turbulent Yuan Qi beyond the Hundred Lands Mountain Range. At River Pillow Peak, Lingguzi told Lord Tiaoyao that the Yan Fang Kingdom was deserted, then revealed it was heading there to gather a newly sensed medicinal herb.

• Long Jikui extinguished Lady Bagui’s flames and storm with successive palm strikes, but she evaded them by becoming wind.
• Lady Bagui and Long Jikui unleashed a vast battle of fire and freezing wind that created disasters across the region outside the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• Lord Tiaoyao watched the distant fire tornado and worried about the survivors, while recalling how the mountain folk had brought disaster victims into the range.
• Lingguzi arrived atop a bronze serpent and told Lord Tiaoyao that the Yan Fang Kingdom’s people and spirits had already fled or died.
• Lingguzi told Lord Tiaoyao it planned to visit the Yan Fang Kingdom to gather a medicinal herb with tremendous vitality.

Lingguzi arranged to sneak out of the Hundred Lands Mountain Range to seek rare medicinal ingredients, promising to make Lord Tiaoyao Return to Origin Pills in exchange for his silence. Meanwhile, Long Jikui nearly killed Lady Bagui before Jinjiao intervened, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Lingguzi explained his ambition to surpass Li Boyang in alchemy and revealed he planned to seek rare medicinal ingredients beyond the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• Lord Tiaoyao reminded Lingguzi that Hanging Silk Lady had forbidden him from visiting dangerous places, but Lingguzi admitted he was sneaking out anyway.
• Lingguzi offered to refine Return to Origin Pills for Lord Tiaoyao, who agreed to keep his departure secret from Hanging Silk Lady.
• Long Jikui trapped Lady Bagui with roots that turned into blazing, crystallized barbs, then attacked her with a powerful punch.
• A streak of golden light cut through the roots, allowing Lady Bagui to evade Long Jikui's attack and retreat into the sky.
• Jinjiao appeared beside Lady Bagui and warily faced Long Jikui.

Jinjiao and Lady Bagui fought Long Jikui, an undying giant who sought to consume Lady Bagui and complete his rebirth. They trapped him in Jinjiao’s golden gourd, which turned faintly red, and Jinjiao reflected on how powerful beings like them could cause disasters that destroyed the lives around them.

• Lady Bagui told Jinjiao that Long Jikui had returned to life because of a strange vitality and wanted to eat her to complete his rebirth.
• Lady Bagui explained that Long Jikui might have eaten the Immortality Herb and could not be killed, while Jinjiao realized they could not escape him.
• Jinjiao opened his golden gourd and used its suction to pull in rocks, flames, storms, and magma, but Long Jikui resisted being drawn inside.
• Lady Bagui used her banana-leaf fan to blow Long Jikui off balance, and Jinjiao sucked the giant into the golden gourd and capped it.
• Jinjiao noticed a crimson tint on the gourd and surveyed the devastated land as Lady Bagui comforted him.
• Jinjiao recalled Li Boyang’s lesson that every life was unique and connected the destruction to the Witch Kings’ attempts to weaken or eliminate powerful beings like them.

The Six Witches of Kaiming investigated the battlefield where Long Jikui had last stood and debated the consequences of Wu Yi’s death and the God-Terrifying Corpse’s defeat. They resolved that they needed the elixir of immortality to survive the coming restoration of heaven and earth, then considered creating another God-Terrifying Corpse.

• The Six Witches of Kaiming arrived at the obsidian-covered center of the battlefield and wondered who had defeated the God-Terrifying Corpse.
• Wu Fan, Wu Lü, Wu Xiang, Wu Di, and Wu Yang debated whether the Celestial Person from the Hundred Lands Mountain Range had caused the devastation and argued over Wu Yi’s choices.
• Wu Fan pointed out that Great Xia’s gods and great witches had long-standing grievances, leaving the group silent.
• Wu Lü said they needed to clean up Wu Yi’s mess and grow stronger before the order of heaven and earth recovered.
• Wu Peng insisted they could not abandon the God-Terrifying Corpse, and the group considered cultivating another one from scratch.

Li Jingshu insisted on cultivating a Shadow Baleful Intent Dharma Aspect despite Li Boyang’s warning that her lack of affinity for Sha Qi limited its potential. Li Boyang agreed to write her a guide, provided the practice did not hinder her cultivation.

• Li Boyang watched the moon with Li Jingshu as she gathered Sha Qi and tried to form a Shadow Baleful Intent Dharma Aspect.
• Li Jingshu manifested a tiny shadow monster, and she and Li Boyang teased each other about its crude appearance and her stubborn practice.
• Li Jingshu revealed that she had preserved and inscribed the butterfly knife Li Boyang had made for her, then hid it inside her shadow.
• Li Boyang questioned why she cultivated the aspect as a storage method when her Bronze Treasure Book could serve the same purpose.
• Li Boyang realized Li Jingshu pursued the aspect to imitate him and offered to write a guide, asking her not to let it hold back her cultivation.

Li Boyang met Wu Xian, Great Xia’s Oldest Witch, who praised the importance of the Celestial Person’s teachings and introduced himself as Wu Yi’s teacher. Wu Xian’s history revealed how he preserved the Witch King succession and survived for more than two thousand years, leaving the circumstances of his apparent immortality uncertain.

• Li Boyang saw Li Jingshu off, then spoke with an old man who emerged from the darkness.
• The old man praised Li Boyang’s influence and said the Hundred Lands Mountain Range would become the center of the era.
• The old man introduced himself as Wu Xian, Wu Yi’s teacher and the leader of the Ten Witches of Spirit Mountain.
• Wu Xian explained that Heavenly Deities halted his Witch King succession, so he used the Jianmu Cauldron to choose a fifth successor while he held them back.
• The fifth Witch King later resurrected Wu Xian, who remained alive through the reigns of several later Witch Kings and became known as Great Xia’s Oldest Witch and Divine Witch.

Wu Xian explained that he had observed the Hundred Lands Mountain Range for a year and found its inhabitants living in unusual harmony under Li Boyang’s rule. He praised the mountain folk’s treatment of intelligent beings, leaving Li Boyang wary of his motives.

• Li Boyang examined Wu Xian’s extraordinary, replenishing vitality and suspected that he had eaten the Immortality Herb.
• Wu Xian revealed that he had arrived a year earlier, when Li Boyang restored vitality to the land, and had stayed to observe the mountain range.
• Wu Xian described his connection to Wu Yao and said Li Boyang’s rule showed that humans and gods might coexist successfully.
• Wu Xian recounted the shared principles he had observed among the mountain range’s inhabitants, including respect for life and a common moral code.
• Wu Xian observed how the mountain folk used [Xirang], domestication, and respectful treatment of intelligent beings to help life flourish across the range.

As the Hundred Lands Mountain Range’s roads and trade expanded, Wu Xian advised Xiao'e on creating a unified currency backed by the bronze used in Bronze Beasts. The mountain folk quickly established a mint near Yunmeng Marsh and introduced bronze coins that were accepted across the region.

• Li Boyang’s influence helped mountain folk, spirit creatures, and gods coexist as roads and Bronze Beasts made travel and trade easier.
• As villages interacted more, barter and gold and silver proved inadequate, and the mountain folk faced the problem of creating a unified currency.
• Wu Xian disguised himself as a shaman from beyond the mountains and advised Xiao'e that the Celestial Person’s prestige could support a new currency.
• Wu Xian proposed melting damaged Bronze Beast parts into coins, tying the money supply to the rate at which those beasts were used and damaged.
• The mountain folk built a bronze-coin mint near Yunmeng Marsh and introduced the coins within a few months, winning acceptance from mountain folk, spirit creatures, ghosts, and gods.

Wu Xian revealed that he had come to take Kunwu, whose existence he believed was vital to Great Xia, and threatened to oppose Li Boyang’s new order if necessary. He attacked Li Boyang with a Life-Exchange Gu, but Li Boyang’s Red-Skinned Silk Fur Robe let him survive, and their fight continued with Wu Xian launching a petrifying curse.

• Wu Xian told Li Boyang that he had come to find Kunwu and intended to take him from Yunmeng Marsh.
• Wu Xian warned that he would fight Li Boyang and end his new order to protect Great Xia’s survival.
• Wu Xian stabbed himself with a dagger and used a Life-Exchange Gu to inflict the same wound on Li Boyang.
• Li Boyang’s Red-Skinned Silk Fur Robe kept him alive, and he severed Wu Xian’s arm and head with Sword-Rays.
• Li Boyang summoned a Shadow Baleful Intent Dharma Aspect to seal Wu Xian, but Wu Xian broke its Talisman Incantations and transformed his severed arm into a petrifying giant python.

Li Boyang fought Wu Xian, whose Netherworld Exchange Technique transformed their battlefield into a domain resembling the Netherworld. As Li Boyang recognized signs that Wu Xian had returned from death, Single Horn Si watched safely from the village.

• Li Boyang's God-Binding Cords and Heavenly Eye countered Wu Xian's transformations and drove him to summon ghostly flames.
• Wu Xian invoked the incomplete Netherworld Exchange Technique, creating a domain that strengthened his witchcraft and weakened his opponent.
• Single Horn Si used his Law Treasure nose ring to observe the battle and contain its aftershocks outside Li Household Village.
• Single Horn Si judged that Li Boyang was holding back his strongest Law Treasures and warned that his opponent's best chance was before Li Boyang learned more about him.
• Li Boyang examined the Netherworld-like domain and concluded that Wu Xian had died, reached the Netherworld, and possibly used the Immortality Herb to return to life.

Wu Xian used the Incantation of Certain Death against Li Boyang, while Wu Ji and Wu Luo took advantage of the distraction to enter Yunmeng Marsh and search for Kunwu. Wu Luo fought the marsh’s guardians as Wu Ji slipped beneath the lake, and the chapter left Wu Luo testing his poison-proof blood against Hanging Silk Lady’s paralyzing toxin.

• Wu Xian told Li Boyang that he and Wu Ling had refined the Immortality Herb into an elixir, then revealed his resentment at having been made immortal before unleashing the Incantation of Certain Death.
• Wu Ji sensed Wu Xian’s technique and told Wu Luo that they should begin their plan to reach the lake bed beneath Yunmeng Marsh.
• The marsh’s mist dispersed and its islands shifted as Wu Ji entered the water and Wu Luo fought off the guardians.
• Cai Gu attacked Wu Luo, but he struck her into the lake as Hanging Silk Lady spread poisoned spider silk through the water.
• Wu Luo recognized the paralyzing toxin and spat his blood into the lake to test whether it could counter the poison.

Xiluo confronted Wu Luo in Yunmeng Marsh and wounded him with the Baleful Force of the Five Punishments. Wu Luo then extracted the weapon’s baleful Qi from his chest and forged an imitation, leaving their battle poised to continue.

• Xiluo woke at Flying Peak and saw Wu Luo battling the ghosts and gods of Yunmeng Marsh.
• Xiluo joined the fight, dodged Wu Luo’s punch, and attacked him with flames, but he shrugged off the assault.
• Qingfu and Muzheng watched from Bronze Island as Xiluo transformed into an Ominous Deity and threw her gold-inlaid jade hairpin at Wu Luo.
• Xiluo explained that Li Boyang had refined the hairpin as the Baleful Force of the Five Punishments, and its strike pierced Wu Luo’s chest.
• Wu Luo seized the weapon’s baleful Qi from his wound and forcibly drew out an imitation Baleful Force of the Five Punishments.

The chapter explained Wu Luo’s Weapon Mastery and Witch Law, Golden Halberd Weapon Lord, which let him copy weapons and their former owners’ abilities. He adapted Xiluo’s Baleful Force of the Five Punishments and fought her with weapons growing from his wounds, leaving their battle ongoing.

• The chapter described Wu Luo’s Weapon Mastery, which gave him the skills and physical adaptations of a weapon’s past owners.
• Wu Luo copied Xiluo’s Baleful Force of the Five Punishments and awakened the ability to control it through Divine Ability power.
• Xiluo switched to close combat and used her flying ability to strike and retreat, wounding Wu Luo’s shoulder.
• Blades and other weapons grew from Wu Luo’s wounds, and he drew the Wuluo Blade to attack Xiluo and repel nearby ghosts and gods.
• Xiluo took Wu Luo’s taunt as an insult, unleashed her Ominous Deity form, and charged with the Qi of the Five Punishments gathering on her claws.
• Wu Luo met Xiluo’s attack with agile swordsmanship, and their battle continued.