Chapter Summaries

Li Boyang combined Kunwu’s Primordial Spirit with the refined Elixir of Immortality, creating an azure dragon and transforming the Sea-Calming Cauldron into a nine-transmutation wrought-iron divine treasure. The dragon and pillar appeared above Yunmeng Marsh, where Lu Huaijin and the great white-scaled snake witnessed them.

• Li Boyang opened the Purple-Gold Red Gourd and joined the Elixir of Immortality with Kunwu’s Primordial Spirit, forming a hundred-zhang azure dragon.
• The azure dragon summoned the Sea-Calming Cauldron, which Li Boyang had refined into nine-transmutation wrought iron that could absorb Primordial Qi and change form.
• Li Boyang fitted two golden bands onto the pillar, completing the divine treasure as the azure dragon coiled around it.
• After the thunderclouds dispersed, the azure dragon and pillar appeared above Yunmeng Marsh, visible throughout the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• Lu Huaijin recognized the dragon’s resemblance to the Thousand Transformations Divine Lord’s Black Dragon form and sensed the pillar’s immense power.
• The great white-scaled snake saw the dragon and felt his body beginning to change, with horns and developing limbs hinting at his possible Dragon Transformation.

Wu Xian explained that Li Boyang had reforged the Sea-Calming Cauldron using the Elixir of Immortality, making Kunwu its vessel and granting him control of the divine treasure. Kunwu accepted his new undying body and companion spirit treasure, while the Great Xia shamans realized they could no longer reclaim the cauldron without asking him.

• Wu Xian told Wu Ji and Wu Luo that Wu Peng and his siblings had refined the Elixir of Immortality with Divine Lord Meng Zhang as a catalyst, and that Li Boyang had completed it.
• Wu Xian explained that the figure resembling Divine Lord Meng Zhang was a vessel for the Sea-Calming Cauldron's will, but Wu Luo argued that Li Boyang had seized control of Great Xia's divine artifact.
• Kunwu appeared on Flying Peak in a dragon-headed human body and asked Li Boyang about his new form and the Sea-Calming Divine Treasure.
• Li Boyang described the Sea-Calming Divine Treasure as Kunwu's companion spirit treasure and said his body had reached an undying state.
• Kunwu declared that he controlled the Sea-Calming Cauldron and would decide when and how to quell the East Sea floods.
• Li Boyang told Xiluo that the problem had been resolved, and she clawed at his face for keeping the solution secret.

Li Boyang struggled to refine the Elixir of Immortality while Xiluo warned him that more mountain folk were being born with open third eyes. The growing Three-Eyed Clan faced discrimination, and Li Boyang resolved to address the danger.

• Li Boyang's attempt to refine the Elixir of Immortality ended in a furnace explosion, and the Imprisoned Soul Cauldron recovered through the Primordial Talisman Incantation and Taiji Diagram.
• Li Boyang suspected the Immortality Cauldron was the rootstock of an Immortality Herb and noted that Wu Peng had vanished beyond his divination.
• Xiluo told Li Boyang that more villages had been giving birth to babies with open third eyes, as the mountain folk's population and health improved.
• Li Boyang learned that some parents and outsiders feared or mistreated the three-eyed babies, while Big Girl, Qiwa, and others hurried between villages to protect them.
• Li Boyang thanked them for their efforts and said he would handle the discrimination against the Three-Eyed Clan.

Li Jingshu discovered that a water god was encouraging Bitter Water Village’s villagers to resent a newborn three-eyed infant so it could raise him as another Celestial Person. She offered the god a deal to protect the child, leaving the outcome unsettled.

• Bitter Water Village’s villagers argued over whether Chunwa’s three-eyed infant was a monster or a prophet, while the village chief rebuked them for their jealousy.
• Li Jingshu watched from the village entrance and worried that the child would grow up among people who resented him.
• Li Jingshu realized that gods, not just spirits, might be seeking three-eyed infants in hopes of recreating Li Boyang’s rise.
• Li Jingshu confronted the water god, who appeared as an enormous crocodile and defended its offer to take the child.
• Li Jingshu offered to help the water god learn alongside the child if it guaranteed his safety and stopped the villagers from harming him.

Qiwa used his God-Control Law to subdue the Claw God after it threatened him and the baby, bringing it into his barrier as its seventh captured god. Light Fang warned him that commanding so many gods could exceed his limits, while Qiwa explained that he would reform non-murderous gods and kill those who had slaughtered others.

• Qiwa summoned the battle-skilled god Light Fang to protect himself and the baby from the Claw God’s attack.
• Qiwa used the God-Control Law to bind the Claw God and pull it into his barrier.
• Qiwa explained that Li Boyang had helped devise the technique, which let him subdue ghosts and gods using his vast Life Primordial Qi.
• Light Fang warned Qiwa that wielding seven gods at once could exceed his limits and urged him to stop using the technique for a while.
• Qiwa said he had captured the Claw God because it had only taken a child, and that he would kill ghosts and gods who slaughtered people.
• Light Fang said it would tell Single Horn Si and Chiru what had happened.

Qiwa returned to Li Household Village with another abandoned three-eyed baby, while Single Horn Si warned him that raising four infants would burden him and Qinghe and might not win village support. Li Jingshu learned her mother had gone to Gao Village Town after news of her estranged father, whom Li Jingshu refused to acknowledge, then decided to accompany Chen Yun to the textile mill.

• Qiwa brought a fourth abandoned three-eyed baby back to Li Household Village, and Single Horn Si questioned whether Qiwa and Qinghe could care for four young children.
• Qiwa said the baby's parents had sacrificed him to a mountain god and argued that Li Household Village should set an example by raising unwanted three-eyed babies.
• Single Horn Si warned that the village assembly might reject the plan, and Qiwa agreed to take the matter one step at a time.
• Chen Yun told Li Jingshu that her mother had gone to Gao Village Town after Xiao'e heard news of Li Jingshu's father.
• Li Jingshu angrily refused to recognize her father, then agreed to go with Chen Yun to the textile mill, while Xiao Gui accused her of wanting a meal.

Li Boyang returned to Li Household Village and reflected on how roads, currency, and Divine Abilities had transformed the Hundred Lands Mountain Range. After arriving, he instructed Single Horn Si to have the old Ginseng Doll watch for abandoned babies and bring them to the village.

• Li Boyang saw the bronze carriages and improved roads, and considered how the bronze currency system had helped the mountain range develop.
• He noticed that the rice fields were growing especially well and suspected Nüman had improved the seeds through crossbreeding.
• At Li Household Village, Li Boyang saw the growing cluster of shrines and joked with Single Horn Si about secretly taking pills.
• Li Boyang asked Single Horn Si where the old village chief was and learned he was probably at the ancestral hall.
• Li Boyang instructed Single Horn Si to tell the old Ginseng Doll to find abandoned babies and bring them to Li Household Village, and to enlist Chiru if needed to protect them from spirits and gods.

Li Boyang explained his long-term plans for Li Household Village’s infrastructure and administration, then proposed ways to introduce taxation through village-managed sales. The old village chief cautioned that collecting taxes required patience, leaving the proposal to be considered as the village continued to develop.

• Li Boyang’s careful planning had transformed Li Household Village with public facilities, utility systems, guard posts, and businesses for its nearly ten thousand residents.
• Li Boyang found the old village chief at the ancestral hall, where respected elders worked full-time handling village affairs.
• Li Boyang asked why the village had not introduced universal taxation, arguing that revenue would support public works and complete the administrative system.
• The old village chief warned that taking grain or money from villagers would be difficult and urged Li Boyang to proceed gradually.
• Li Boyang suggested setting aside part of collective grain-sale proceeds and having the village committee manage sales of textile goods to collect fees indirectly.

Li Boyang agreed to build a larger school near the Mountain God Reservoir for the three-eyed children, while Li Jingshu visited the village’s expanded textile factory and discovered an extraordinary Talisman Incantation Loom. Xiao Gui confirmed the loom was beyond even the combined abilities of Yunmeng Marsh’s ghosts and gods.

• Li Boyang discussed taxation with the old village chief, who said the villagers needed to accept such a system willingly.
• The old village chief revealed plans to move the elementary school outside the village and worried about the children’s safety.
• Li Boyang agreed to build the school near the reservoir, where Chiru could protect it.
• Li Jingshu visited the textile factory and saw a Talisman Incantation Loom weaving threads from rocks, water, and clouds.
• Chen Yun explained that the loom was made in collaboration with Hanging Silk Lady after Chen Yun traveled to Yunmeng Marsh to persuade her.
• Li Jingshu suspected the loom was Li Boyang’s work, and Xiao Gui said even the ghosts and gods of Yunmeng Marsh could not reproduce it.

Xiao'e sought help for a dying mixed-blood baby whose conflicting divine bloodlines threatened her life. Nüman told her that Li Boyang could save the child, but Deception Rabbit arrived and offered to take the baby to him.

• Xiao'e cradled the baby and admitted that she could not solve every problem.
• Nüman explained that the baby's three-eyed mortal heritage and serpentine divine bloodline were clashing, leaving her unlikely to live long.
• Nüman said Li Boyang was the only person who could save the baby, but warned that Xiao'e would jeopardize her transformation into a god if she left Gao Village Town.
• Xiao'e insisted that saving people was the reason she wanted to become a god and refused to abandon that conviction.
• Nüman said someone else could take the baby to Li Boyang, and Deception Rabbit appeared at the temple doorway.
• Xiao'e recognized Deception Rabbit and asked when he had returned; he said he had only just arrived.

Li Boyang welcomed the Deception Rabbit back to the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, where he brought a mixed-blood baby girl with a petrifying Divine Ability. Li Boyang outfitted her with enchanted clothes and revealed he had expanded the elementary school to shelter gifted children, while the Deception Rabbit realized how much the region had changed in his absence.

• Li Boyang noticed the Deception Rabbit return with a baby perched on his head and detected the lingering scent of blood on him.
• Li Boyang recognized the baby as a demigod of mixed human and divine blood, and her third eye awakened a petrification Curse that triggered his [Body-Protecting Sword Qi].
• Li Boyang calmed the Deception Rabbit, took the baby, and dressed her in clothes that disguised her unusual features and suppressed her Curse.
• Li Boyang explained that he had expanded the elementary school to take in extraordinarily gifted children, and the Deception Rabbit reflected on the changes he had missed.

Deception Rabbit recounted his perilous journey home after Wu Yi shot at Heaven, including his battles with Wu Zhen and his rescue of Xuansu Shi. With Xuansu Shi nearing childbirth and too ill to travel, he returned alone to the Hundred Lands Mountain Range to ask the Prophet and Xiluo for help.

• Deception Rabbit explained that he had turned back from Kunlun's Guixu and spent his journey home helping humans and surviving gods affected by the disasters.
• Deception Rabbit described fighting Wu Zhen for days and nights while she tried to capture him, before escaping with a dying goddess.
• Deception Rabbit recalled that the goddess, Xuansu Shi, recovered and traveled with him toward the Hundred Lands Mountain Range while they evaded Wu Zhen.
• Xiluo teased Deception Rabbit about spending his days and nights with Xuansu Shi, and he admitted they loved each other and had conceived a child.
• Deception Rabbit said Xuansu Shi was near childbirth and too unwell to travel, then asked the Prophet and Xiluo for help.

Xuansu Shi endured a dangerous pregnancy in a desolate region, relying on the Earth Dragon Deception Rabbit had assigned to guard and feed her. When the deity-hunting Longzhi arrived, it killed and devoured the Earth Dragon, leaving Xuansu Shi facing the vicious beast alone.

• Xuansu Shi wondered whether she could survive until the fetus, which was draining her Life Primordial Qi, was born.
• She summoned the Earth Dragon and cut flesh from its mouth to eat raw, while it endured the pain and returned underground.
• Xuansu Shi spotted a Longzhi approaching and realized it had chosen her as prey.
• The Earth Dragon attacked from underground, making the Longzhi stumble into a fissure.
• The Longzhi used its nine heads and tails to drag the Earth Dragon out, tear it apart, and devour its remains.

Xuansu Shi fought Longzhi after it devoured the earth dragon, using lightning and a magnetic field to destroy its heads and body. As Longzhi’s final head lunged at her, an unseen attacker’s Formless Sword Qi cut it apart, leaving Xuansu Shi stunned and suspecting the rabbit had brought him there.

• Xuansu Shi unleashed storms and lightning against Longzhi, which sent one of its heads flying with its Undying Flying Heads ability.
• Xuansu Shi seized lightning with Body-Protecting Gang Qi and killed the detached fox head with Thunder-Wielding Divine Spear.
• Longzhi sent its other seven heads away from its body, but Xuansu Shi used Thunder-Magnetic Storm to bind the body and drag the airborne heads down.
• Xuansu Shi bombarded Longzhi with lightning, killing its exposed heads and burning its body before she approached the corpse.
• Longzhi’s final head burst from its scorched body and lunged at Xuansu Shi, but a streak of Formless Sword Qi sliced it in two.
• Xuansu Shi recognized the sword technique and wondered whether the rabbit had brought him there.

Li Boyang rescued Xuansu Shi and traced the attack to Wu Zhen, sending the Deception Rabbit and Xiluo after her. They confronted Wu Zhen, who summoned a hundred-armed white-bone demon god to meet their attack.

• Li Boyang arrived with Xiluo and the Deception Rabbit, and the rabbit checked that Xuansu Shi was unharmed.
• Li Boyang said the attack was deliberate and that whoever was responsible remained nearby, so the Deception Rabbit and Xiluo went east to pursue them.
• Wu Zhen watched the pair approach and recognized Li Boyang’s ability to overhear her.
• The Deception Rabbit transformed into a Black Dragon and attacked Wu Zhen while Xiluo unleashed her fiery feather robe.
• Wu Zhen threw a bone ring into the air, and it summoned a hundred-armed white-bone demon god that struck the Black Dragon.

Li Boyang exposed Xuansu Shi’s calculated deception and questioned why Wu Zhen was hunting her and what she had taken from Great Xia. Xuansu Shi admitted she had gambled that Li Boyang would protect the Deception Rabbit, while Li Boyang ended by questioning whether her unborn child was really the rabbit’s.

• Li Boyang pointed out that the Deception Rabbit had never recognized Wu Zhen’s hundred-armed demon god and argued that Wu Zhen’s real target had always been Xuansu Shi.
• Li Boyang identified Xuansu Shi’s pregnancy as the biggest clue, saying she and Wu Zhen had both used the Deception Rabbit as a supposed weakness.
• Xuansu Shi admitted she had gambled that Li Boyang would oppose Wu Zhen to protect the Deception Rabbit, and said she had misjudged Li Boyang as a hypocrite.
• Li Boyang asked what Xuansu Shi had taken from Great Xia and whether the child in her belly was truly the Deception Rabbit’s.

Li Boyang questioned Xuansu Shi about the danger she was hiding, and Wu Zhen appeared through a Netherworld Devil God to answer. Xuansu Shi explained the fearsome titles Great Xia’s witches had given Li Boyang, including “Thousand-Faced Gods and Devils” and “Sword Bearer.”

• Xuansu Shi revealed that she had served Yu Guo, God of the East Sea, as an Imperial Prohibition Envoy and had warned Great Xia’s gods before Wu Yi attacked him.
• Li Boyang pressed Xuansu Shi for the secret she was concealing, but Wu Zhen appeared through a Netherworld Devil God and offered to explain it herself.
• Wu Zhen listed the titles Li Boyang had earned in Great Xia, and Li Boyang was surprised by “Thousand-Faced Gods and Devils” and “Sword Bearer.”
• Xuansu Shi explained that Li Boyang’s disregard for his statues and habit of learning his opponents’ abilities had earned him the first title, while his flying sword and fierce retaliation had earned him the second.

Xuansu Shi revealed that Wu Zhen was pursuing the Red Eye Cauldron, which she had hidden in her unborn child. Li Boyang chose to protect Xuansu Shi and her child, then asked Wu Zhen to let him take the cauldron instead.

• Xuansu Shi admitted that the Red Eye Cauldron, one of the sixth Witch King's eyes, was the reason Wu Zhen had tracked her down.
• Wu Zhen explained that she had found the other half of the cauldron and had already devised a way to extract Xuansu Shi's half intact.
• Li Boyang saw the cauldron connected to the winged dragon fetus inside Xuansu Shi and realized she had made it part of the child.
• Wu Zhen warned Li Boyang that Xuansu Shi had deceived him and tried to imitate his method of binding a treasure to a divine being.
• Li Boyang covered Xuansu Shi with his robe, declared that he would protect her, and asked Wu Zhen to let him take the Red Eye Cauldron.

Wu Zhen and Li Boyang agreed to settle their conflict over the Red Eye Cauldron through a contest of techniques framed as a discussion of the Dao. As their battle began, Wu Zhen summoned the Twisted Demon God, while Xiluo and Deception Rabbit fought to hold off her other demon gods.

• Wu Zhen summoned the Flesh and Blood Demon God to help the White Bone Demon God keep Xiluo and Deception Rabbit occupied, then disappeared from Deception Rabbit’s sight.
• Xiluo protected Deception Rabbit from the White Bone Demon God and used the Baleful Force of the Five Punishments to cut both demon gods apart, but their bodies continued regenerating.
• Wu Zhen appeared behind Li Boyang and removed her fourth Ring of White Bone, challenging him to compare his Method of the Celestial Person with her Witch Law.
• Li Boyang proposed a contest: Wu Zhen would leave Xuansu Shi and her son alone if she lost, while he would give her the Red Eye Cauldron if he lost.
• Wu Zhen accepted Li Boyang’s terms, and they began their contest as she summoned the Twisted Demon God.

Wu Zhen revealed her descent from Xingtian Shi and explained how she forged gods and refined devils, then battled Li Boyang with a distorted devil god. Li Boyang pierced the devil god’s spatial tricks and appeared before Wu Zhen, leaving her facing his Sword Qi and his unstable Heaven and Earth Ring.

• Wu Zhen introduced herself as a descendant of Xingtian Shi and explained that she abandoned the path of becoming a Heavenly Deity to create her own method of commanding gods and enslaving ghosts.
• Wu Zhen recounted her time in the Guifang Kingdom and how hunting the fallen gods and devils after Wu Yi shot at Heaven helped her perfect the art of forging gods and refining devils.
• Li Boyang raised a massive rock giant with his Earth Escape Technique, but Wu Zhen’s distorted devil god folded space and shattered it.
• Li Boyang transformed the rock giant’s remains into Fang Boars that rampaged through the devil god, revealing the patterns of its spatial distortions.
• Li Boyang used spatial techniques to bypass the devil god and appear before Wu Zhen, while she recognized the Heaven and Earth Ring beneath his feet and he explained its unstable vessel.