Chapter Summaries

Li Boyang explained why he had allowed the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit to develop, while Maitreya Buddha broke into Yao Xi’s Mind-Aspect Barrier and rushed toward her, Xiluo, and the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit. Luo Qiao transformed the barrier into a Sword Tomb Domain, and Yao Xi transferred ownership of it to him.

• Wangshu questioned Li Boyang for letting the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit grow, and he explained that it was not truly his incarnation and that he had encouraged its development through Xiluo.
• Xiluo realized that the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit had already gained self-awareness, just as Maitreya Buddha shattered the Mind-Aspect Barrier and entered.
• Maitreya Buddha used the lower-dimensional space’s distorted time perception to rush toward Yao Xi, Xiluo, and the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit.
• Luo Qiao sent a storm of Sword Qi into the barrier, transforming its buildings, bridges, and Longbo Giants into a Sword Tomb Domain.
• Yao Xi gave Luo Qiao ownership of the Mind-Aspect Barrier without resisting, astonishing Xiluo and Maitreya Buddha.

Luo Qiao descended into the Mind-Aspect Barrier as the embryonic Four Swords of Immortal Slaying formed and turned the barrier into his sword tomb domain. The Pure Yang Primordial Spirit used Mediation of Creation to give the four swords tangible form and entrusted them with the Dao of Immortals, leaving them as pillars of the barrier.

• Luo Qiao rushed down toward the Mind-Aspect Barrier, and the Dao Proving Ones recognized the four radiances behind him as embryonic forms of the Four Swords of Immortal Slaying.
• Yao Xi surrendered control of the Mind-Aspect Barrier, allowing it to become Luo Qiao's sword tomb domain, and Maitreya Buddha realized he had pushed Luo Qiao into taking the fight seriously.
• The four radiances became swords that shattered Maitreya Buddha's golden lotus and filled the barrier with golden rain, which strengthened Yao Xi and revealed to Xiluo the power to reshape bodies.
• The Pure Yang Primordial Spirit understood that the rain was an act of Mediation of Creation and gave tangible form to the four radiances as vessels for a Dao Fruit.
• The Pure Yang Primordial Spirit entrusted his portion of the Dao of Immortals to the four divine swords, which became pillars supporting the Mind-Aspect Barrier.

The Pure Yang Primordial Spirit used Mediation of Creation to transform the sword tomb spacetime into a higher-dimensional world, while Xiluo restrained Maitreya Buddha. The ascended spacetime became a new Immortal-Slaying Formation Diagram, leaving Xiluo eager to confirm what she had witnessed.

• The Pure Yang Primordial Spirit formed the Four Swords of Immortal Slaying and began reconstructing his body with Mediation of Creation.
• Xiluo stopped Maitreya Buddha from reaching the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit and fed him the monstrous Ginseng Fruit.
• The Pure Yang Primordial Spirit destroyed his newly formed body and used its Pure Yang Qi to raise the sword tomb spacetime to a higher dimension.
• The ascension flung Yao Xi, Xiluo, and Maitreya Buddha out of the forming painting, and Xiluo recognized it as a Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the Land.
• Xiluo named the new painting the Immortal-Slaying Formation Diagram.

The Pure Yang Primordial Spirit explained that he had dispersed his cultivation to reject the Dao Ancestor’s arranged path and avoid inherited karmic burdens, choosing instead to seek the freedom to make his own choices. Luo Qiao heard his reasoning as the Four Swords of Immortal Slaying continued ascending with the spacetime, and the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit left open the possibility that he might later choose a responsibility for himself.

• The Immortal-Slaying Formation Diagram’s spacetime rose in dimensions, and the Four Swords of Immortal Slaying ascended with it as the guests in Purple Firmament speculated it might become a new Three Realms.
• Luo Qiao used the Immortal-Trapping Sword to reshape earth, fire, water, and wind, screening the spacetime from Heaven Beyond Heaven’s gaze.
• Luo Qiao asked why the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit had dispersed his cultivation after reconstructing his body, and the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit said the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit and its responsibility had not been his to begin with.
• The Pure Yang Primordial Spirit explained that accepting Luo Qiao’s help to rebuild his body would have left him with karmic debt and an obligation, which he had refused in pursuit of freedom.
• Luo Qiao questioned whether the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit sought absolute freedom, and he clarified that he wanted the chance to follow his heart and choose any responsibility for himself.

The Pure Yang Primordial Spirit chose to give up his Golden Immortal Dao fruit, body, and Primordial Spirit so he could reincarnate and live a mortal life on his own terms. After leaving the Immortal-Slaying Formation Diagram, he headed for the Yin World Nether Spring, while Xiluo left his fate to the Netherworld Lord and the Great Emperor of Fengdu.

• Li Boyang watched Luo Qiao speak with the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit and reflected on the Primordial Spirit’s wish to roam freely.
• Li Boyang restored the view of the Immortal-Slaying Formation Diagram for Wangshu, who admired the Four Swords of Immortal Slaying and compared them to her Seven Stars Treasured Sword.
• The Four Swords of Immortal Slaying tore free, causing the formation’s world to collapse as the swords and the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit fled toward the Yin World Nether Spring.
• Luo Qiao emerged from the formation, and Xiluo asked why the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit had given up so much.
• Luo Qiao explained that the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit wanted to reincarnate in a mortal body, retain his memories, and experience a complete life for himself.
• Xiluo decided that the Netherworld Lord and the Great Emperor of Fengdu could handle the Pure Yang Dao Ancestor’s journey.

Three days after the Four Swords of Immortal Slaying ended the calamity, Li Xi traveled with Subhūti to Aolai Continent to deal with the trouble left by his senior brothers. Subhūti revealed their next destinations, and Li Xi agreed to help him clean up the aftermath across the Three Realms.

• After the Four Swords of Immortal Slaying ended the war, Dao Proving Ones hid or were hunted, while Aolai Continent remained protected by the East Sea Dragon Race and Divine Lord Meng Zhang.
• Li Xi flew toward Aolai Continent with Subhūti, who pointed out Flower-Fruit Mountain as their destination.
• Subhūti explained that he had been born in the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, adopted by Li Xi, and had chosen to help resolve the consequences of his senior brothers' failed scheme.
• Subhūti told Li Xi that they would first address the trouble on Aolai Continent, then might visit Maudgalyayana in Hell and Mahākāśyapa in the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss.
• Li Xi rented a steel aircraft carrier and complained that Subhūti had made her travel across the Three Realms to clean up after him.

Duobao climbed Flower-Fruit Mountain and discovered that a divine stone held the spiritual traces of Six Ears, which Li Xi had shaped into a natural-born spiritual fetus. Realizing he was meant to protect the fetus, Duobao chose to stay on the mountain and cultivate anew, while suspecting that Nüwa had fashioned it.

• Renamed Duobao and reduced to a mortal boy, Maitreya Buddha climbed Flower-Fruit Mountain under Cult Master Tongtian's watch.
• Duobao found a breathing boulder surrounded by spiritual orchids at the mountain's peak and sensed Six Ears's spiritual light within it.
• The boulder blasted Duobao away when he tried to touch it, and he recognized that it was being fashioned to give Six Ears new life.
• Duobao used his blood to see that the boulder was a five-colored divine fetus made from Xirang.
• Duobao decided to protect the fetus and remain on Flower-Fruit Mountain as his cultivation ground, suspecting that Nüwa had created it.

Li Xi revealed that she intended to seal the Yin World Nether Spring with Xirang, while Jiupanpo challenged Deception Rabbit to teach her shapeshifting and learned that Yinglong would take over the class. The chapter left Jiupanpo poised to begin studying transformations under Yinglong.

• Li Xi explained that she had purified Six Ears's lingering essence and Qi, preventing it from spawning more demons and creating a future Innate Deity for Flower-Fruit Mountain.
• Li Xi told Subhūti that they would go to the Yin World Nether Spring and try to seal it with Xirang, despite the likely resistance.
• Jiupanpo insisted to Deception Rabbit that she wanted to master transformations because she admired Nüwa and hoped to save living beings.
• Jiupanpo suspected Deception Rabbit was avoiding teaching the Dove People, but a dragon-headed demigod intervened and said Deception Rabbit had never discriminated against any race.
• Yinglong introduced himself as Deception Rabbit's son and announced that he would take over the shapeshifting class for the next few years.

Li Boyang and Xiluo discussed how to help the aging village chief regain a youthful outlook, and Li Boyang proposed having him spend time with the reincarnating Pure Yang Primordial Spirit. Xiluo agreed to watch over the conspicuous spirit when it was born, eager to meet it first.

• Li Boyang's consciousness entered his statue in the ancestral temple, and Xiluo's consciousness animated the oddly shaped raccoon-cat statue beside him.
• Xiluo offered to extend the old village chief's life with her Elixir of Immortality, but Li Boyang said the real problem was his aged mindset.
• Li Boyang suggested that the village chief spend time with someone who had a heart of a newborn: the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit.
• Xiluo suspected Li Boyang also wanted to teach the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit a lesson, and admitted she wanted to do the same after being rejected.
• Li Boyang explained that the reincarnated spirit would attract attention by stirring the Heaven Soul, so Xiluo agreed to keep watch and record its birth.

Lü Yan grew up in the Hundred Lands Mountain Range with Xiluo recording his childhood and the Mountain Folk protecting children with advanced bio-armor cells. After Fifth Generation · Bio-Armor Cells activated their Myriad Phenomena ability, Lü Yan gained an adaptive cultivation aid that let his body learn and improve continuously, while his experience informed plans for future generations of bio-armor.

• Lü Yan learned that Xiluo had saved his mother during his birth and recorded his birth and childhood, leaving him with a growing collection of embarrassing footage.
• The Mountain Folk implanted Fifth Generation · Bio-Armor Cells in Lü Yan on his first birthday to protect him from disease and repair physical injuries.
• Lü Yan's cells compensated for the nutrients his reincarnated soul consumed, though his rapid growth gave him an enormous appetite that Xiluo also recorded.
• When Lü Yan started school at age three, Myriad Phenomena activated in his cells and adapted to his breathing practice, cultivation, and physical needs.
• Lü Yan found that Myriad Phenomena automatically learned and corrected his cultivation, and the Mountain Folk continued developing improved bio-armor cells for future generations.

Over ten years, Lü Yan mastered the cultivation arts and discovered that sword cultivation suited him best, using the sword to encompass countless techniques and Dao Paths. When he wondered whether his path had been arranged by the Dao Ancestor, Xiluo advised him to seek the answer at Purple Firmament Palace once he became a Dao Proving One.

• Lü Yan completed Foundation Establishment in three years, but the school forbade teaching him the Perception Method until his body had fully developed.
• Lü Yan spent ten years studying the hundred arts of cultivation, attracting the attention of the Three Realms and prompting Xiluo to deter would-be masters.
• Lü Yan found his path in sword cultivation and used the sword to perform a vast range of law techniques and divine abilities.
• Lü Yan wondered whether his sword path and rapid growth had been arranged by the Dao Ancestor.
• Xiluo told Lü Yan that he could ask the Dao Ancestor at Purple Firmament Palace after becoming a Dao Proving One, explaining that there the Dao Ancestor would speak without reserve.

Li Boyang explained that he had delayed Lü Yan’s cultivation to build his knowledge and character, while Xiluo admitted she had tormented him as Li Boyang’s stand-in. They then saw signs of trouble involving Zhuang Zhou in the Heavenly Realm, where Śakra’s howl shook the Nine Heavens and a vortex of Nectar of Immortality appeared.

• Xiluo questioned Li Boyang about why he had restricted Lü Yan’s practice of the Perception Method, and Li Boyang said the past fifteen years had been meant to cultivate Lü Yan’s character and knowledge.
• Xiluo recalled how Lü Yan had relied on the Fifth Generation · Bio-Armor Cells for basic cultivation, then studied and improved his Breathing Method.
• Xiluo revealed that she had treated Lü Yan as Li Boyang’s stand-in, and Li Boyang remarked on Lü Yan’s misfortune.
• Li Boyang showed Xiluo an image of Good View City in the Heavenly Realm after sensing a problem on Zhuang Zhou’s end.
• Śakra · Indra howled and shook the Nine Heavens as Li Xi and Subhūti watched, and a milky-white vortex appeared at the center of the earth.

Lü Yan visited Hanzhi at the almshouse where he had first put his studies into practice, explaining that he would soon eat a Peach of Immortality. Watching them from Flying Sky Stockade, Yunxiao noticed Hanzhi’s affection for him and said the Red Matchmaker Star had stirred.

• Lü Yan arrived at the almshouse and reunited with Hanzhi, who remembered him as the only volunteer who had contributed both money and effort.
• Lü Yan told Hanzhi he had come to commemorate the place before his upcoming Peach of Immortality ceremony, and she welcomed him inside.
• Yunxiao watched Lü Yan and Hanzhi from the main peak while Qingji loaded valuable goods nearby.
• Qiongxiao and Bixiao explained that Hanzhi had come to the Hundred Lands Mountain Range before Yunxiao and chosen to stay.
• Yunxiao said Hanzhi seemed to have taken a fancy to Lü Yan and pointed out that the Red Matchmaker Star had stirred.

Lü Yan helped Hanzhi prepare dinner at her orphanage and learned that its children were outsiders whom the Mountain Folk’s public welfare systems would not support. Hanzhi explained that Nü E had helped establish the orphanage, while Lü Yan struggled to reconcile the children’s plight with the Dao Ancestor’s ideals.

• Lü Yan helped Hanzhi prepare and serve a lavish dinner to the orphanage’s children, quickly earning their affection.
• Lü Yan asked why Hanzhi managed the orphanage alone, and Hanzhi explained that the Inexhaustible Treasury and charitable estates served their own communities.
• Hanzhi told Lü Yan that the children were outsiders who had wandered into the Hundred Lands Mountain Range and lacked recognized status there.
• Hanzhi revealed that Nü E knew about the children and had brought them to the orphanage, but the communal funds could not support them.
• Lü Yan objected that this was not the world the Dao Ancestor wanted, and Hanzhi explained that the Mountain Range was still far better than the outside world.

Lü Yan confronted Ao Mo, a deformed boy who resented the Mountain Folk for their privileged lives, and challenged him to stop venting and take action. Ao Mo accepted the challenge but left with a newly resolute gaze, leaving Lü Yan uneasy as his sword trembled.

• Ao Mo revealed that he was born with his unusual appearance and rejected Lü Yan’s assumption that he belonged to the Dragon Race.
• Ao Mo accused Lü Yan of being naive and privileged, condemning the Mountain Folk for enjoying the Dao Ancestor’s protection while ignoring others’ suffering.
• Lü Yan admitted his good fortune but argued that Ao Mo’s envy was no more useful than his own earlier sorrow, and pointed out that he and Hanzhi were trying to make a difference.
• Lü Yan urged Ao Mo to look toward the future, while acknowledging that he needed to understand the world’s harsh realities better.
• Ao Mo admitted that venting was meaningless and resolved to take concrete action before walking away, as Lü Yan’s treasured sword began to tremble.

Lü Yan learned that Ao Mo rejected kindness because of his painful past and apologized to Hanzhi for asking about it. Alone, Ao Mo remembered his mother’s death and his father’s cowardice, leaving him convinced that he had survived as a coward just like Ao Fei.

• Lü Yan asked Hanzhi why Ao Mo had confronted him, and she explained that Ao Mo instinctively rejected concern because of his background.
• Hanzhi refused to discuss Ao Mo’s past merely to satisfy Lü Yan’s curiosity, and Lü Yan apologized for overstepping.
• Ao Mo overheard their exchange and briefly smiled, then worried that Lü Yan was unsuitable for Hanzhi.
• Ao Mo recalled his mother’s love for Ao Fei and how she returned to Black Water Pool to save him during the eldest prince’s attack.
• Ao Mo remembered escaping alone through an underground waterway, cutting off his dragon tail, and realizing he resembled the father he despised.

Lü Yan asked Nüshi why the timid South Sea Dragon Race had destroyed the nine-headed serpent guarding Black Water Pool. Nüshi revealed that the dragons had sought the protection of the South Sea Dragon Girl, Sagara, and began explaining how they won her favor.

• Nüshi questioned why Lü Yan had come to Hundred Lands University instead of preparing for his longevity ceremony and Peach of Immortality.
• Lü Yan admitted he wanted to practice the Perception Method early, then asked Nüshi about the South Sea Dragon Race's attack on the nine-headed serpent at Black Water Pool.
• Nüshi explained that the South Sea Dragon Race was weak and lacked a powerful protector, unlike the other Dragon Races of the Four Seas.
• Nüshi revealed that the dragons had planned to attach themselves to Sagara, the South Sea Dragon Girl, who held the Mutton-Fat Jade Purifying Vase.
• Nüshi said that because Sagara was immature and childlike, the dragons could please her by finding her a playmate of a suitable age.

Nüshi told Lü Yan how Ao Fei fled the South Sea Dragon Race and how his wife, the mistress of Black Water Pool, was killed for sheltering him. After learning she may have left a hidden child, Lü Yan revealed that his sword had warned him about danger and explained his Azure Blade Divination of Heaven.

• Lü Yan learned that Ao Fei had been chosen as a playmate for the South Sea Dragon Race’s young dragon maiden, but fled after their friendship grew and he could no longer bear the arrangement.
• Nüshi explained that Ao Fei’s wife, the nine-headed serpent mistress of Black Water Pool, was killed by the South Sea Dragon Race, which wanted to erase the disgrace of his existence.
• Nüshi said the serpent was descended from Jiuying, had likely left a child, and might have been close to Dao Proving before her death.
• Nüshi told Lü Yan that a head of Xiangliu was kept on Bronze Island and asked what he had discovered about the serpent’s offspring.
• Lü Yan said his sword had warned him and described his Method of Sword Divination, which he called Azure Blade Divination of Heaven.

Lü Yan practiced the Perception Method by following his own path, quickly manifesting a primordial spirit and advancing into the Divine Realm of Refining Qi into Spirit Transformation. He then began gathering mixed-origin Yuan Qi and drawing in the sun’s pure yang power, starting his Pure Yang Yuan Qi perception method.

• Nüshi agreed to guard Lü Yan as he practiced the Perception Method, and Lü Yan declined her offer to help him commune with the Seven Stars of the Big Dipper.
• Lü Yan entered meditation and rapidly drew Yuan Qi to the Qi Gathering Platform, astonishing Nüshi and the other students.
• Lü Yan gathered his Life Primordial Qi through his body and lit the locations of his seven corporeal souls, manifesting a primordial spirit in his sea of consciousness.
• Lü Yan’s Divine Ability, Riding the Void and Controlling the Wind, emerged as his body completed its transformation into the Divine Realm of Refining Qi into Spirit Transformation.
• Lü Yan gathered mixed-origin Yuan Qi and used his Heavenly Eye to draw the sun’s pure yang power into it, beginning his Pure Yang Yuan Qi perception and advancement method.

Lü Yan refined True Yang Qi using his Fifth Generation Bio-Armor Cells and awakened the Pure Yang Divine Ability, strengthening his Primordial Spirit into a Yin Deity. Just as the cultivation appeared to end, the Bio-Armor Cells activated another hidden program and drew Star Power from a celestial palace.

• Lü Yan endured the True Yang Qi as Nüshi warned him not to push beyond his limits.
• Lü Yan activated his Fifth Generation Bio-Armor Cells to adapt to the True Yang Qi and guide it safely through his meridians.
• Lü Yan awakened the Pure Yang Divine Ability, first manifesting as True Solar Fire, and formed a cycle that combined True Yang Qi with Life Primordial Qi.
• Lü Yan's Primordial Spirit strengthened and began transforming into a Yin Deity that was unafraid of sunlight and could generate Yuan Qi.
• Lü Yan activated the Bio-Armor Cells again, prompting a celestial palace to send Star Power toward the Qi Gathering Platform.