Chapter Summaries

Wu Zhen summoned all ten devil gods to besiege Li Boyang, who fought them while limiting the damage to the land. Wu Zhen then fired the Red Eye Cauldron at him, and their attacks collided in an explosion that left everyone caught in the blast.

• Wu Zhen revealed the Illusory Dream Devil God, and Li Boyang manifested his Shadow Baleful Intent Dharma Aspect.
• Wu Zhen summoned the remaining five devil gods, while the Distortion Devil God brought the White Bone Demon God and Flesh and Blood Demon God into the battle.
• The ten devil gods attacked Li Boyang in concert as Wu Zhen used herself as bait, but Li Boyang held them off without using a Law Treasure and contained the aftershocks.
• Wu Zhen opened a scarlet eye between her brows and fired the Red Eye Cauldron at Li Boyang.
• Li Boyang drove back the devil gods and counterattacked with his Heavenly Eye; the beams collided, creating a black hole that erupted into a massive explosion.

Li Boyang defeated Wu Zhen without using his divine artifacts and let her leave with the Ten White Bone Rings. Wu Zhen returned to Xingtian City, where her brother Xingtian Shi learned she planned to pursue knowledge that could help free him from his inherited role.

• Li Boyang stopped the explosion with the [Taiji Diagram], bound Wu Zhen’s demon gods, and won their battle.
• Li Boyang released the demon gods and let Wu Zhen keep the [Ten White Bone Rings], saying he might need her help someday.
• Wu Zhen returned to Xingtian City with the recovered [Red Eye Cauldron] and reported that she had brought back only half.
• Xingtian Shi recognized that Wu Zhen had faced the Celestial Person and reprimanded her for approaching danger during a time of upheaval.
• Wu Zhen declared she would travel to the Hundred Lands Mountain Range to find knowledge that could free Xingtian Shi, and he offered to repair her rings with rebellious deities he had hunted.

During the autumn harvest, Li Boyang examined Li Jingshu’s Voice Transmission Talisman and recognized it as an early radio receiver. He proposed improvements and planned to spread the invention throughout the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, leaving Li Jingshu to consider its far-reaching uses.

• Mountain folk used modified Bronze Fang Boars and other Bronze Beasts to harvest crops with greater speed.
• Li Jingshu showed Li Boyang her Voice Transmission Talisman, which carried Qinghe’s weather reports from a broadcasting station.
• Li Boyang identified the talisman’s radio-like operation and asked about its range, power use, station location, and number of receivers.
• Li Jingshu explained that the talisman worked within a few dozen kilometers of the station, could receive signals for a day, and had no limit on the number of receivers.
• Li Boyang suggested using electricity-storing sleepy bugs to charge the talismans and said he wanted to popularize them across the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• Li Boyang described how the talismans could spread weather reports, farming advice, local news, and stories throughout the region.

Qinghe and Qiwa discussed the Voice Transmission Talisman's value and learned that Li Boyang was helping stabilize the pregnancy of Deception Rabbit's goddess companion. Qinghe asked whether Li Boyang could help her conceive, then decided to seek his favor with seeds from Ancient River Village as she considered marrying Qiwa.

• Qinghe broadcast autumn harvest precautions and weather forecasts through the Voice Transmission Talisman, while Qiwa praised her efforts and Li Jingshu's work creating it.
• Qinghe explained that she hoped the talisman would spread warnings and knowledge, and Qiwa reassured her that Li Boyang would recognize its value.
• Qiwa told Qinghe that Deception Rabbit had returned with a goddess carrying his child, and that Li Boyang was helping stabilize her pregnancy.
• Qinghe asked Qiwa whether Li Boyang could help them conceive, and Qiwa enthusiastically insisted that he could.
• Qinghe asked what Li Boyang liked and proposed giving him unusual seeds from Ancient River Village; Qiwa agreed and began thinking of a gift for Li Boyang's brother and sister-in-law.

Xuansu Shi admitted that she had used the Deception Rabbit, but he still wanted to save the child she carried. Xiluo warned that the fetus was bound to the Red Eye Cauldron and that both mother and child faced a dangerous heavenly tribulation, leaving their survival uncertain.

• Xuansu Shi confessed that she had used the Deception Rabbit and conceived the child to control the Red Eye Cauldron.
• The Deception Rabbit acknowledged her motives but said he still wanted to save their child.
• Xiluo arrived and said Xuansu Shi had to remain under their protection until the child was born.
• Xiluo gave Xuansu Shi a pregnancy-stabilizing pill and explained that the divine fetus and Red Eye Cauldron could provoke a heavenly tribulation.
• Xiluo warned that mother and fetus would face the tribulation together and even Li Boyang could not guarantee Xuansu Shi would survive.
• The Deception Rabbit anxiously begged Xiluo to save them, and she scolded him for pulling her and Li Boyang into the situation.

Li Boyang explained that the pill needed to save Xuansu Shi and her unborn child required components of the Immortality Herb, which he had already been seeking to recreate the Elixir of Immortality. He planned to search for the rare herb despite the danger, while preparing to bring someone better suited than Deception Rabbit along.

• Li Boyang found Deception Rabbit distressed after Xiluo told him about the dangerous pill needed to save Xuansu Shi and her child.
• Li Boyang explained that he had been trying to reproduce the Elixir of Immortality but had discovered that its key ingredients could not be recreated with substances from the present world.
• Li Boyang said the pill for Xuansu Shi and her child also required components of the Immortality Herb, which might be found in Kunlun's Guixu or Great Xia.
• Deception Rabbit offered to search for the Immortality Herb with Li Boyang, but Li Boyang urged him to stay with Xuansu Shi and her approaching birth.
• Li Boyang tossed up the Heavenly Mandate Bone Plastron and said someone else in the Hundred Lands Mountain Range was better suited to help find the herb.

The Undying Spring God urged Azure Bird to travel with Li Boyang to the Heavenly Emperor's Capital and search for the Immortality Herb so she could learn about her origins and choose her own path. She revealed that Azure Bird had been born from the refined remains of a Golden Crow, making her a reincarnation with powers of both the sun and vitality.

• Azure Bird questioned why the Undying Spring God had sent her with Li Boyang to seek the Immortality Herb.
• The Undying Spring God told Azure Bird that she had grown up and should face her origins rather than fear the power within her.
• The Undying Spring God recalled how ten suns once scorched the world until a divine figure shot them down and one Golden Crow fell near her.
• The Undying Spring God gained longevity from the Golden Crow's remains but could not fully digest them, so she refined part of its essence into an enormous azure egg.
• The Undying Spring God revealed that Azure Bird was a Golden Crow reincarnated, with the powers of the sun and vitality.

Li Boyang told Xiluo about Hao Jun’s rise and the wars that ended his rule, then the Undying Spring God explained Azure Bird’s origins as the last Golden Crow. Azure Bird decided to travel with Li Boyang to the Heavenly Emperor’s Capital, where they might find the Immortality Herb and answers about her identity.

• Li Boyang recounted the Undying Spring God’s history of Hao Jun’s rule, the god wars, and the ten suns’ defeat.
• The Undying Spring God explained that Azure Bird had emerged from a Golden Crow embryo after he stole its power to pursue immortality.
• Azure Bird asked whether she was a Golden Crow or Azure Bird, and the Undying Spring God told her only she could decide.
• The Undying Spring God said the Immortality Herb in the Heavenly Emperor’s Capital might meet Li Boyang’s requirements for a perfect Elixir of Immortality.
• Azure Bird resolved to accompany Li Boyang and use the journey to understand herself and master the power of the savage sun.

Li Boyang and Xiluo discussed going to Kunlun's Guixu to find the Heaven-Eroding Lord and pursue an unexpected opportunity in the Heavenly Emperor's Capital. The story then shifted to Flying Sky Stockade, where an outside witch had recently brought books and helped the isolated settlement build a safer hooked-rope system.

• Xiluo argued that Great Xia's Immortality Cauldron seemed safer than Kunlun's Guixu, but Li Boyang said they would have to visit Guixu to find the missing Heaven-Eroding Lord.
• Li Boyang revealed that his divination had foretold an unexpected surprise in Guixu, and Xiluo guessed that it was the real reason he wanted to go.
• Xiluo said she had accepted her sister's death and would not consider a reconstructed remnant soul to be her sister.
• The narration described Flying Sky Stockade as a secluded settlement that had resisted change and had not adopted the Breathing Method.
• An outside witch brought the Luo River Book and a medical manual to Flying Sky Stockade, then used the books' mechanical principles to help build a new hooked-rope system between the cliffs.

A witch transformed Flying Sky Stockade with cableways, improved seeds, and mechanized farming, prompting Xiluo and Li Boyang to debate whether the model could work across the Hundred Lands Mountain Range. Wu Zhen agreed with Li Boyang that it depended on fertile seeds and conditions Great Xia generally lacked.

• The witch rebuilt Flying Sky Stockade’s cableway with safety mechanisms and introduced improved seeds, using Witch Law to prove their value to the elders.
• The witch expanded the stockade’s farmland and installed cableways carrying irrigation, fertilizing, and cultivation tools, allowing a small population to tend large fields.
• Xiluo admired the system and suggested that specialized farming villages could supply grain to other villages.
• Li Boyang warned that relying on specialized farms could leave the region vulnerable to famine and argued that intensive cultivation better suited the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• Wu Zhen appeared and explained that mechanized farming had only recently spread on Mount Changyang and required high-yield seeds, which Great Xia’s regional states guarded for fear of losing their advantage.
• Li Boyang said competition for military power discouraged states from sharing seeds or prioritizing agricultural research.

Li Boyang confronted Wu Zhen in Flying Sky Stockade and asked her for the location of Kunlun Guixu, revealing what he knew about her family and Mount Changyang’s duty. He offered to help perfect her Divine Ability for commanding gods and enslaving ghosts in exchange, leaving Wu Zhen to decide whether to accept.

• Wu Zhen asked whether Li Boyang had come to drive her away, and he explained that the Hundred Lands Mountain Range welcomed outsiders who accepted its rules.
• Xiluo contrasted Great Xia’s rigid laws with Li Boyang’s few prohibitions, and Wu Zhen agreed that the Mountain Range’s freedom was one reason she had come.
• Li Boyang asked Wu Zhen for the location of Kunlun Guixu, reasoning that the successive Xingtian Shi knew its whereabouts and had access to the remains of Gods and Devils.
• Li Boyang revealed that Wu Zhen’s elder brother had become the vessel for Xingtian’s enduring will and taken on Mount Changyang’s duty to guard the Guixu of the West.
• Li Boyang offered to help Wu Zhen perfect her Divine Ability for commanding gods and enslaving ghosts if she told him where Kunlun Guixu was.

Li Zhu and the creatures of Mount Kunlun faced growing danger as a battle between the Heaven-Eroding Lord and a rotting giant hand shook the boundary between worlds. The white Heaven-Eroding Lord gave up his chance to escape and told the creatures to seek the Celestial Person of the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.

• Li Zhu debated with her three heads about escaping the Changyang Tribe’s blockade, and they considered fleeing south to the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• A massive rift opened above Mount Kunlun, revealing the Heaven-Eroding Lord struggling against a rotting arm that dragged him toward Guixu.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord split into black and white halves, and the white half carried a blood-colored precious jade toward the mortal world.
• The rotting arm’s eyes followed the white Heaven-Eroding Lord into reality, causing Li Zhu and other creatures to undergo grotesque transformations.
• The white Heaven-Eroding Lord turned back to fight alongside his black half rather than let the creatures suffer, then urged them to find the Celestial Person of the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.

Li Boyang arrived at Mount Changyang City with Wu Zhen, Xiluo, and Azure Bird using the newly forged Heaven and Earth Ring, a Law Treasure that manipulated space and time. After Xingtian Shi warned them that those who entered Kunlun Guixu could not return, Li Boyang insisted they had their own way out, and Xingtian Shi opened a rift revealing the ruined realm.

• Xingtian Shi sensed malice from Kunlun Guixu, then lowered his axe when Wu Zhen, Li Boyang, Xiluo, and Azure Bird arrived through a golden ring.
• Azure Bird asked about the ring, and Xiluo explained that Li Boyang had forged it from living Speech and cultivated gourd vines to carry the Space-Time Talisman Incantation.
• Li Boyang told Xingtian Shi that he and his companions intended to enter Guixu and could escape using the Heaven and Earth Ring.
• Xingtian Shi warned Li Boyang that no one was known to have left Guixu, then opened a space-time rift that revealed a vast, cloud-filled city in ruins.

Li Boyang, Xiluo, and Azure Bird entered the first heaven of the ruined Heavenly Emperor's Capital, where Azure Bird's view of her divine father was shaken by the realm's humble remains. Li Boyang pointed out the fallen city of the fifth heaven, explaining that its white jade held the essence of heaven and earth.

• Li Boyang entered the Heaven of the Grand Sovereign and Yellow Emergence with Xiluo and Azure Bird.
• Azure Bird described the Nine Heavens and explained how mortals once climbed Kunlun's Long Stairway of Divine Ascension to pray for the Heavenly Emperor's blessings.
• Xiluo compared the Heavenly Emperor's rule with Li Boyang's guidance of the Hundred Lands Mountain Range and judged Li Boyang more benevolent.
• Azure Bird lamented that the ruins looked crude compared with the cities of the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, and her idealized view of the Heavenly Emperor faded.
• Li Boyang showed Xiluo and Azure Bird the remains of the fifth heaven's city and explained that its white jade was crystallized celestial essence and primordial qi.

Li Boyang, Xiluo, and Azure Bird explored the ruined white jade city in the Fifth Heaven, seeking information about Immortality Herb and the Heavenly Emperor’s daughter, Gouxing. In the central palace, they found a depiction of Hao Jun whose sunlike image seemed to open its eyes, and Azure Bird and Xiluo realized she might still be alive.

• Li Boyang explained that Immortality Herb had been cultivated in the Fourth Heaven and said he wanted to learn how it was grown while preparing for dangers in the city.
• Li Boyang suggested that Gouxing, the Heavenly Emperor’s daughter, might have eaten Immortality Herb and led Xiluo and Azure Bird toward the city’s best-preserved palace.
• The trio found the palace decorated with accounts of Gouxing’s birth, the gods’ blessings bestowed upon her, and the Heavenly Emperor’s deep affection for her.
• Azure Bird discovered a mural of ten Golden Crows guarding a sun, and Li Boyang explained that they were Hao Jun’s sons and had brought about the end of Hao Jun’s reign.
• Li Boyang pointed out that the Sun God’s image within the mural was changing, and Azure Bird and Xiluo saw her open her eyes and feared she was alive.

Li Boyang, Xiluo, and Azure Bird entered the palace after the Sun God's portrait vanished, while the Heaven-Eroding Lord continued fighting among the divine remains of the Eighth Heaven. When a blood bird carrying Wu Yao's remnant soul appeared, he pursued it and realized Li Boyang had reached Guixu, possibly Gouxing Palace.

• Li Boyang destroyed the Sun God's portrait, which may have been a remnant of Hao Jun's will or a glimpse across time, and said the Heavenly Emperor's daughter was inside the palace.
• Li Boyang entered the palace, followed by Xiluo and then Azure Bird.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord, trapped in the Eighth Heaven, fought the endlessly reviving divine remains while lamenting his lost chance to recover Wu Yao's remnant soul.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord defeated the hundred-eyed demon god, but it dissolved into the corpse-strewn ground and was destined to revive.
• A blood bird carrying the blood jade containing Wu Yao's remnant soul appeared, and the Heaven-Eroding Lord pursued it with thousands of clones.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord sensed that Li Boyang had reached Guixu and wondered whether he was in Gouxing Palace.

Li Boyang confronted Huoji’s shadow manifestation in Gouxing Palace and learned that Huoji wanted his help escaping Guixu through the Ninth Heaven. Li Boyang seized control of Huoji’s Shadow Baleful Intent Dharma Aspect, leaving Huoji trapped as shadow monsters reached for his soul.

• Li Boyang recognized Gouxing Palace and saw Huoji’s unfinished Shadow Baleful Intent Dharma Aspect emerge from Gouxing’s corpse.
• Huoji explained that he had lured the Heaven-Eroding Lord to the Eighth Heaven’s crash site, hoping to escape through the Ninth Heaven with Li Boyang’s help.
• Li Boyang asked Huoji where the Witch of the Huai River’s soul was, and Huoji asked whether the answer would count as a deal.
• Li Boyang took control of Huoji’s Dharma Aspect and explained that Huoji could not fully control a shadow that was not his own.
• Li Boyang’s shadow space began pulling Huoji’s soul toward its shadow monsters.

Huoji survived Li Boyang’s attack by severing his connection to the Shadow Baleful Intent Dharma Aspect, then began studying how its shadow-space abilities worked. Xiluo reflected on the many practical forms Li Boyang had developed for the Dharma Aspect, while he continued to keep the Nuo God Masks from being widely distributed.

• Huoji severed his connection to the Shadow Baleful Intent Dharma Aspect after Li Boyang’s attack injured him, then contemplated the link between shadows and souls.
• Xiluo asked whether Li Boyang could invade someone’s true body through their shadow, and Li Boyang explained that Huoji had made himself vulnerable by taking shortcuts.
• Xiluo recalled how Li Boyang had developed the Shadow Baleful Intent Dharma Aspect into an incarnation, a combat form, a storage space, and a versatile tool.
• Xiluo remembered that Li Boyang had created Nuo God Masks so others could borrow the Dharma Aspect’s power, but had chosen not to distribute them widely.
• Xiluo listed the specialized Shadow Baleful Intent Dharma Aspects Li Boyang had made for chores, crafting, training, biological simulation, and learning, and wished she had similar servants.

Li Boyang used Gouxing’s corpse and captured shadow to reconstruct her memories, bringing Xiluo and Azure Bird into the scenes of her life. They learned that Gouxing sought immortality out of fear of death and willingly became a Guhuo Bird split soul, planning to kill and devour the original Guhuo Bird.

• Li Boyang copied Huoji’s Shadow Baleful Intent Dharma Aspect and used Gouxing’s body and shadow to uncover her memories.
• Li Boyang transformed the ruined Heavenly Emperor’s Capital into a memory palace and showed Xiluo and Azure Bird Gouxing’s life from Huoji’s perspective.
• Gouxing’s mother, Lingxi, bore her for Hao Jun, who blessed her birth with eternal night and the stars.
• After seeing Hao Jun’s fury, Gouxing feared death and fled the Heavenly Emperor’s Capital to seek a way to become immortal.
• Gouxing found the original Guhuo Bird and willingly became a split soul, intending to kill and devour it to gain its Divine Ability while preserving her identity.

Li Boyang explained that Gouxing’s will and identity had died when she became a Guhuo Bird, though her undying body and immortal soul remained. He revealed that the Guhuo Birds involved in devouring Wu Yao each held a fragment of her soul, giving Xiluo a way to find her sister.

• Li Boyang, Xiluo, and Azure Bird learned from Gouxing’s memories how she had tried to obtain Wu Yao’s Heavenly Mandate Divine Ability and instead helped orchestrate the division and devouring of Wu Yao’s soul.
• Xiluo asked whether Gouxing was truly dead, and Li Boyang explained that her body and soul might reunite but would form a new deity without Gouxing’s will or thoughts.
• Li Boyang said Gouxing’s original self had died when she became a Guhuo Bird, and Xiluo noted that the gods had stopped treating her as Hao Jun’s daughter.
• Xiluo asked where Wu Yao’s soul was, and Li Boyang explained that each Guhuo Bird involved in devouring her possessed a fragment that could be tracked down and reunited.