Chapter Summaries

Li Boyang revealed how Huoji sent the Heaven-Eroding Lord after Gouxing’s blood-red soul jade, which held a corrupted remnant of Wu Yao’s soul. He suggested that gathering all the soul jade might allow Wu Yao to be reborn, though she might not be the same person.

• Li Boyang explained that the Guhuo Birds’ souls could persist after their deaths and recalled Huoji’s fight with the Heaven-Eroding Lord.
• Huoji used Gouxing’s shadow to attack the Heaven-Eroding Lord and grew stronger by gaining Gouxing’s memories and Divine Abilities.
• Gouxing’s shattered soul reformed into blood-red jade, which flew into Huoji’s hand and began transforming him.
• Huoji resisted the jade’s influence, declared his identity, and threw the jade away for the Heaven-Eroding Lord to pursue into the Eighth Heaven.
• Li Boyang identified the jade as Wu Yao’s corrupted remnant soul and said that gathering all the soul jade might allow her to be reborn.

The Heaven-Eroding Lord discovered that the [Soul Jade] granted wishes in malicious ways, but he absorbed its power and awakened the resentment in the Eighth Heaven’s ruins. Meanwhile, Li Boyang, Xiluo, and Azure Bird chose to seek Gouxing’s help for Azure Bird’s condition before heading to the Fourth Heaven for the Immortality Herb.

• The Heaven-Eroding Lord captured the blood bird and removed the [Soul Jade], which granted his wish to gain a thousand years of power.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord assimilated the added Divine Power into his yin-and-yang cultivation and awakened the resentment of the gods in the ruins.
• Azure Bird asked whether the group should seek the Immortality Herb in the Fourth Heaven or rescue the Heaven-Eroding Lord in the Eighth Heaven.
• Xiluo chose to seek the Immortality Herb first and explained that she knew Azure Bird carried the Golden Crow’s power.
• Li Boyang revealed that Gouxing’s corpse had an undying body from consuming the Immortality Herb and could solve Azure Bird’s problem without the Elixir of Immortality.

Li Boyang activated a vast formation that consumed White Jade City’s essence Qi and transformed Azure Bird through Gouxing’s body. The upheaval destabilized ancient remnants across the Heavenly Emperor’s Capital and caused the Soul Jade to glow again.

• Li Boyang’s formation made White Jade City rise into the sky as its essence Qi flowed into Gouxing Palace.
• Xiluo absorbed fierce flames and baleful flames suited to her while the formation greatly strengthened her command of flame.
• Azure Bird and Gouxing’s corpse absorbed Primordial Qi, and Gouxing’s body transformed Azure Bird’s golden flames into crimson flames of purification and renewal.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord sensed the new crimson flames and recognized Li Boyang’s handiwork as White Jade City soared overhead.
• The formation’s upheaval drove the mutilated devil god into a frenzy and destabilized ancient remains throughout the Heavenly Emperor’s Capital.
• The Soul Jade glowed blood-red, and the Heaven-Eroding Lord heard the Witch of the Huai River’s voice promising to twist its holder’s wish.

Li Boyang found the petrified original Immortality Herb rooted in the corpse of Jubi Shi, the Netherworld Lord’s reincarnation, and used his Red-Skinned Silk Fur Robe to lift the plant and the surrounding land. The robe began spinning under his control, leaving the extraction in progress.

• Li Boyang sensed the Southern Brightness Vermilion Bird Great Formation’s vitality spreading through the Heavenly Emperor’s Capital and traced the stirring plants to a source underground.
• Li Boyang discovered Jubi Shi’s plantified corpse and identified the petrified plant growing from it as the original Immortality Herb.
• Li Boyang removed his Red-Skinned Silk Fur Robe and sent it toward Jubi Shi, causing tremors and fissures to spread across the Fourth Heaven and the capital.
• Li Boyang transformed into a hundred-zhang giant and used his strength to lift the vast plain, with the robe wrapping the original Immortality Herb and surrounding land.
• Li Boyang controlled the enormous robe as it began spinning rapidly around the lifted land.

Li Boyang used the Red-Skinned Silk Fur Robe and his talisman arts to transform Jubi Shi and the original Immortality Herb into a golden Immortality Tree seed that belonged to him. As he drew on the seed’s vitality, his power triggered a Yuan Qi catastrophe across the Heavenly Emperor’s Capital, freeing the resentful remains of Gods and Devils and forcing the Heaven-Eroding Lord to seek an escape.

• Li Boyang used the [Primordial Talisman Incantation] to restore the petrified original Immortality Herb and began reviving Jubi Shi, but stopped the convergence of life and death with the [Taiji Diagram].
• Li Boyang infused the Red-Skinned Silk Fur Robe with his blood and used the [Transformation Talisman Incantation] to transform Jubi Shi, the Immortality Herb, and surrounding earth into a golden Immortality Tree seed.
• Li Boyang recognized the seed as his own Immortality Tree and drew on its vitality, manifesting his Yang God and unleashing a massive Yuan Qi vortex throughout the Heavenly Emperor’s Capital.
• The Yuan Qi catastrophe spread through the heavens and broke the Eighth Heaven’s restraints, releasing the resentful remains of Gods and Devils.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord feared the destruction and looked toward the Fifth Heaven, White Jade City, which was shrouded by the [Southern Brightness Vermilion Bird Great Formation].

Li Boyang began the long-awaited breakthrough he had delayed in pursuit of perfection in body, Yuan Qi, and Primordial Spirit, using the Heavenly Emperor's Capital as the site of his transformation. As he forged the Heaven and Earth Black and Yellow Exquisite Pagoda, the remains of Gods and Devils were swept into his Black and Yellow Qi, while Xiluo sensed a higher will behind their frenzy.

• Huoji fled from the resentful thoughts of the Gods and Devils as Li Boyang's actions left him stunned.
• Xiluo realized Li Boyang had been waiting to perfect his body, Yuan Qi, and Primordial Spirit before breaking through, and recognized his willingness to sacrifice the Heavenly Emperor's Capital.
• Li Boyang confirmed that his breakthrough had triggered no Heavenly Tribulation and prepared to take the crucial next step.
• Li Boyang manifested his Yang God and smelted vast amounts of heaven and earth primordial Qi into Black and Yellow Qi.
• Li Boyang's Black and Yellow Qi consumed the remains of Gods and Devils and expanded into the Heaven and Earth Black and Yellow Exquisite Pagoda.

Li Boyang broke through to Refining Spirit and Returning to Emptiness in Yuan Qi and Primordial Spirit, then transformed his flesh into an Immortality Tree. His transformation awakened the will of the Heavenly Emperor's Capital, which opened a fissure in Guixu, and Xiluo fought to keep the Gods and Devils' remains from entering it.

• Li Boyang formed the Heaven and Earth Black and Yellow Exquisite Pagoda and advanced his Yuan Qi to Refining Spirit and Returning to Emptiness.
• Li Boyang's Yang God scattered into countless light-speed incarnations as his Primordial Spirit reached the same realm.
• Li Boyang used the golden seed, Black and Yellow Qi, and his Yang God to grow an Immortality Tree and transform his flesh into the Elixir of Immortality.
• The Heavenly Emperor's Capital awakened and opened a vast fissure in Guixu, drawing the remains of Gods and Devils toward it.
• Xiluo attacked the fissure's surroundings with the Baleful Force of the Five Punishments and her God-Binding Cord ribbons, destroying the remains that tried to reach it.

The Heaven-Eroding Lord explained that the rising land was Hao Jun’s remnant body, the will of Guixu, as it took flight and destroyed the First Heaven. As the remnant body faced the Vermilion Bird awakened from White Jade City, it began manifesting a monstrous bird’s head.

• The Heaven-Eroding Lord rescued Xiluo from the remnant body’s wings by using a time-accelerating domain formed from Yin Qi and Yang Qi.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord told Xiluo that Hao Jun’s undying remnant body had merged with Guixu and sustained the Heavenly Emperor’s Capital for over ten thousand years.
• An explosion erupted in White Jade City, and the Vermilion Bird emerged from the [Southern Brightness Vermilion Bird Great Formation].
• Twelve pieces of fire jade circled the Vermilion Bird as it reconstructed the formation and manifested the previously unseen [Southern Brightness Li Fire].
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord recognized the Vermilion Bird as a contingency Li Boyang had arranged to suppress the remnant body, which answered by revealing a savage bird’s head from the fissure.

The Heavenly Emperor’s remnant body transformed all of Guixu into itself, and Azure Bird attacked it with her Southern Brightness Li Fire Grand Array. As the Heaven-Eroding Lord and Xiluo watched from safety, Li Boyang began refining his own body into an Elixir of Immortality, leaving the outcome of the crisis in his hands.

• The Heavenly Emperor’s remnant body absorbed the remains of Gods and Devils and unleashed Guixu’s magma, prompting the Heaven-Eroding Lord to take Xiluo to the Heaven and Earth Black and Yellow Exquisite Pagoda.
• Azure Bird struck first with her Southern Brightness Li Fire Grand Array, and the Heavenly Emperor’s remnant body defended itself while its assimilated devil gods formed weapons and unleashed divine abilities.
• Xiluo realized she could not help in the battle, and the Heaven-Eroding Lord told her that Li Boyang, not the combatants, would determine the outcome.
• The Immortality Tree and the Heaven and Earth Black and Yellow Exquisite Pagoda trembled as a fragrance emerged from Li Boyang, and the Heaven-Eroding Lord realized Li Boyang was refining himself into an Elixir of Immortality.
• Xiluo said Li Boyang’s act fulfilled his principle of unity of knowledge and action, the reason the outside world called him the Dao Ancestor.

Li Boyang completed his Great Unity Golden Core breakthrough, uniting essence, Qi, and spirit into a self-sustaining cycle. He evacuated his allies from Guixu and intervened as the Heavenly Emperor’s remnant pursued the Vermilion Bird into the South Sea.

• Li Boyang reached the Great Unity Golden Core realm, perfecting and uniting his physical body, primordial Qi, and Primordial Spirit.
• Li Boyang saw the Vermilion Bird losing ground against the Heavenly Emperor’s remnant body in Guixu.
• Li Boyang opened a Heaven and Earth Ring to the Hundred Lands Mountain Range and sent Xiluo and the Heaven-Eroding Lord through it.
• Li Boyang opened another Heaven and Earth Ring to the South Sea, and the Vermilion Bird flew through to escape the battle.
• The Heavenly Emperor’s remnant pursued the Vermilion Bird, but Li Boyang thrust a vast scarlet palm through the ring to confront it.

Li Boyang revealed that Guixu contained the Heavenly Emperor’s artificial Yin World, the Ninth Heaven, and used the whole realm to form a vast Taiji Diagram Eight Trigrams Grand Formation. He emerged carrying a furnace that made Guixu into a self-contained world of flames, leaving Xiluo and the Heaven-Eroding Lord stunned.

• Li Boyang seized the Heavenly Emperor’s remnant body with multiple Heaven and Earth Rings and recognized Guixu as the Heavenly Emperor’s true unexpected reward.
• Li Boyang’s Heavenly Eye revealed the Ninth Heaven as an artificial Yin World overlapping Guixu’s material world.
• Li Boyang created a world-scale Taiji Diagram Eight Trigrams Grand Formation across Guixu.
• Xiluo and the Heaven-Eroding Lord watched from outside Guixu as its illusory bubble became solid and formed a furnace.
• Li Boyang used the Heavenly Emperor’s flame, refined into Samadhi True Fire, to fuel the furnace and emerged carrying it as a world under his control.

Li Boyang lectured on the three components of Samadhi True Fire, while Hanging Silk Lady demonstrated how essence, Qi, and spirit could merge into a living flame. Deception Rabbit learned that the growth-type Divine Ability did not suit him and wondered whether his gifted son could cultivate it.

• Li Boyang explained how spirit, essence, and Qi each formed one part of Three Flavors True Fire.
• Hanging Silk Lady told Deception Rabbit that the Divine Ability required cultivation across all three paths and formed a green flame with a spider-like shape.
• Hanging Silk Lady explained that each cultivator's Samadhi True Fire was unique, spiritual, and capable of growing alongside its cultivator.
• Deception Rabbit praised the Divine Ability but wondered whether his son could cultivate it.
• Hanging Silk Lady warned Deception Rabbit that his son might soon surpass him, and Deception Rabbit cheerfully accepted the possibility.

Xuansu Shi spent her imprisonment on Hidden Dragon Island reading the Prophet Daily and collecting runic newspapers from across the Hundred Lands Mountain Range. She hoped other publishers would eventually reproduce the Prophet Daily’s animated section, while the gods of Yunmeng Marsh waited to learn Li Jingshu’s attitude.

• Xuansu Shi gave up fishing with medicinal pills as bait and took up reading newspapers instead.
• The chapter explained how Li Jingshu, Qinghe, and the Li Household Village Newspaper Office created the Prophet Daily, an enchanted paper that updated its contents remotely.
• Li Boyang’s suggestions helped the newspaper develop distinct sections, including weather forecasts, cultivation advice, and animated entertainment.
• Newspaper offices spread throughout the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, connecting mountain folk and giving Xuansu Shi news from near and far.
• Xuansu Shi regretted that other newspapers lacked animated images, while the gods of Yunmeng Marsh waited to see whether Li Jingshu would allow them to adopt the technology.

Yinglong returned to Hidden Dragon Island after a girl’s divination warned him of a coming bloody calamity, and Xuansu Shi deliberately drew a drop of blood from his brow to fulfill the omen. Yinglong then contacted the girl with his Thousand-Mile Voice Transmission Talisman, while Xuansu Shi remained concerned about the conspicuous red reverse scale protecting his heart.

• Yinglong returned to Hidden Dragon Island after a young diviner predicted he would suffer a bloody calamity.
• Xuansu Shi drew blood from between Yinglong’s brows and explained that deliberately meeting the omen could avert its danger.
• Xuansu Shi revealed she knew Yinglong had secretly kept a Thousand-Mile Voice Transmission Talisman and reminded him to be cautious with outsiders.
• Xuansu Shi considered the red reverse scale over Yinglong’s heart, which could not be removed because it was bound to the [Red Eye Cauldron].
• Yinglong took out his talisman to contact the girl and ask whether he still faced a bloody calamity.

Li Boyang explained how the Thousand-Mile Voice Transmission Talisman marked the beginning of an information age built on collective production and standardized technology. He left Xiluo understanding that its principles could lead to many devices ordinary mountain people could make and use.

• Li Boyang examined the latest Thousand-Mile Voice Transmission Talisman and said it showed the direction of the Hundred Lands mountain people's development.
• Xiluo asked whether the talisman was valuable, and Li Boyang explained that its principles could also produce sound recorders and devices that captured light and shadow.
• Xiluo realized that the talisman's design could let ordinary people create new technologies, unlike treasures that required exceptional individual abilities.
• Li Boyang said Li Household Village could produce enough talismans for every mountain person in a few years, demonstrating the power of civilization and mass adoption.
• Li Boyang explained that Maxims Talismans could accelerate technological progress by letting the mountain people decipher and apply truths without the usual scientific bottlenecks.

Li Boyang explained that Xiao Xi’s prophetic Knowledge of Past Lives came from the Witch of the Huai River, not from a curse or from Xiluo’s deceased sister. He reassured Xiluo that Xiao Xi was a new life and then set out with her to visit the Heaven-Eroding Lord before he caused more trouble.

• Xiluo warned Li Boyang that Xiao Xi was dangerous and asked whether he planned to send her away.
• Li Boyang explained that Xiao Xi’s powers included petrification, curses, and prophecy, and that her Heavenly Eye came from the Witch of the Huai River.
• Li Boyang said Xiao Xi’s Knowledge of Past Lives was a simplified version of the Heavenly Mandate Divine Ability and had no connection to Xiluo’s sister returning.
• Li Boyang told Xiluo that the Heavenly Mandate Bone Plastron confirmed the Witch of the Huai River had died and could not be revived.
• Li Boyang invited Xiluo to visit the Heaven-Eroding Lord, suspecting he was about to cause more trouble.

In the Yunmeng Jade Pool Realm, the Heaven-Eroding Lord’s five-year attempt to refine Wu Yao’s Soul Jade was stopped when Li Boyang and Xiluo revealed that the Soul Jade was incomplete and bound to Huoji’s will. The Heaven-Eroding Lord accepted that refining it would destroy it, but still took the Soul Jade, unwilling to abandon his effort.

• The Heaven-Eroding Lord celebrated the near completion of his five-year refinement of Wu Yao’s Soul Jade in the Eight Trigrams Furnace.
• Li Boyang arrived with Xiluo and extinguished the Samadhi True Fire, silencing Huoji.
• Li Boyang warned that continuing to refine the Soul Jade would shatter it, and the Heaven-Eroding Lord saw cracks on its surface.
• Xiluo explained that the Soul Jade contained only part of her sister’s soul, while other fragments were scattered throughout the world, and that Huoji’s will had merged with it.
• Li Boyang questioned whether the Heaven-Eroding Lord would give up collecting Soul Jade even if told resurrection was impossible, and the Heaven-Eroding Lord admitted he had to try for himself.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord took the still-scorching Soul Jade from the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

The Heaven-Eroding Lord took the Soul Jade, but found its power diminished as Huoji continued to claim part of it. Li Boyang identified Huoji as the key to finding other Soul Jades and revealed that one lay in the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, where his compulsory school had grown into a large educational and training complex.

• The Heaven-Eroding Lord seized the Soul Jade in the Eight Trigrams Furnace and realized it no longer fulfilled wishes incorrectly, though its power had weakened.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord noticed Huoji dividing the Soul Jade’s power, while Li Boyang explained that Huoji could resonate with other Soul Jades and that one was in the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• Li Boyang’s Hundred Lands Compulsory Education School enrolled children across the mountain range, providing transport and boarding for those who needed it.
• The school arranged elementary education for younger children and advanced studies, including cultivation methods and technical subjects, for older students.
• Li Boyang planned combat training, Law Techniques, Divine Abilities, and survival exercises for students, with ghosts and gods from Yunmeng Marsh serving as final opponents.

After training, Lu Huaijin found Xiao Xi worrying over a prophecy about Yinglong and reassured her that he would survive. Xiao Xi’s Heavenly Eye opened as she accepted Lu Huaijin’s confidence, though the future remained uncertain.

• Lu Huaijin found Xiao Xi beside the reservoir and noticed the Thousand-Mile Voice Transmission Talisman in her hand.
• Xiao Xi explained that she had warned a friend of a bloody calamity, but his mother had cut the spot between his eyebrows to fulfill it deliberately.
• Lu Huaijin recognized that Xiao Xi meant Yinglong and asked what else she had seen in her vision.
• Xiao Xi described a darkened sky, waves of Yin Qi, and Yinglong bleeding from his forehead while seemingly crying.
• Lu Huaijin reassured Xiao Xi that Yinglong would turn danger into safety, and Xiao Xi smiled as her Heavenly Eye opened.

After Xiao Xi foresaw Yinglong injured beneath a blackened sky, Chi suspected the prophecy might be connected to the Heaven-Eroding Lord and went to Azure Ox Mountain to warn Li Jingshu. There she learned Flower Mantis had vanished after fighting an unknown opponent, and wondered whether his disappearance was part of the danger Xiao Xi had foreseen.

• After Lu Huaijin and Xiao Xi left, Chi surfaced and worried that Xiao Xi’s prophecy of a completely black sky might involve the Heaven-Eroding Lord.
• Chi traveled through the waterways to Azure Ox Mountain, where she found Li Jingshu keeping watch for the missing Flower Mantis.
• Chi told Li Jingshu that Xiao Xi had foreseen another dangerous future.
• Li Jingshu explained that Flower Mantis had fought an unknown opponent and had not returned for nearly half a month.
• Chi wondered whether Flower Mantis’s disappearance was connected to Xiao Xi’s prophecy.