Chapter Summaries

Fang Zelin used the Woven Fire to suppress the Devil Qi in his Dharma Aspect and began healing while Yunzi rested in his home. Meanwhile, a black-headed eagle persuaded yao to help scatter Great Qian’s karmic fortune, intending to exploit their greed and take the spoils for himself.

• Fang Zelin endured the Woven Fire and asked the cultivators to find stronger pill fires to remove the Devil Qi from his Dharma Aspect.
• The cultivators agreed to search for pill fires, while Yunzi gave Fang Zelin a pill and settled into his bed to heal.
• Fang Zelin noticed Yunzi in his bed but said nothing, then focused on the Pill Furnace and began healing his injuries.
• A black-headed eagle urged frightened yao to exploit Great Qian’s decline and scatter its karmic fortune for a chance to become Yao Kings.
• The eagle secretly planned to take little karmic fortune and leave, or steal the others’ shares if they succeeded.
• The yao were swayed by the eagle’s pitch and left to help disperse the karmic fortune above their county.

The Great Qian emperor struggled to find the immortal as the dynasty faced growing unrest, while Fang Zelin continued refining Devil Qi from his Dharma Form. After learning that the Aquatic Race threatened to flood Great Qian, Fang Zelin decided to draw the Pill Furnace’s powerful flames into his Dharma Form to destroy the remaining Devil Qi.

• The Great Qian emperor learned that his search teams had found no trace of the immortal and worried that the dynasty’s troubles could lead to its fall.
• Zhenke brought Fang Zelin powerful earthfire containing lightning and warned that the Aquatic Race planned to flood Great Qian’s river cities.
• Fang Zelin asked Yunzi to help guard against the Aquatic Race while he continued refining the Devil Qi.
• Yunzi warned that the Devil Qi remained stubbornly embedded in Fang Zelin’s Dharma Form, and Fang Zelin said he might have to draw the Pill Furnace’s flames into it.
• Despite Yunzi and Zhenke’s concerns that the fire could destroy his Dharma Form, Fang Zelin chose to try the dangerous method, and Yunzi agreed to stand guard.

Fang Zelin used a Heaven-Mending Pill and the pill fire to destroy the Devil Qi inside his Dharma Idol, while Yunzi learned that the Aquatic Race was plotting to flood the Great Qian Dynasty. The Aquatic demons agreed to attack, unaware that the man in red meant to use them to test whether the injured immortal had recovered.

• Fang Zelin fed a Heaven-Mending Pill to his cracking Dharma Idol, which began repairing itself as the pill fire burned away the Devil Qi.
• Fang Zelin used his Law Power and more pills to push the pill fire toward the Devil Qi, while Yunzi assured Zhenke the Heaven-Mending Pill could sustain the Dharma Idol for years.
• Zhenke gave Yunzi pearls taken from Aquatic Race members, and Yunzi used them to calculate details of the race’s plans.
• The man in red persuaded the Aquatic Race demons to attack the Great Qian Dynasty by claiming the immortal was injured and the Devil Race patriarch would deal with him.
• The Aquatic Race demons agreed to raise a flood and sought additional experts, while the man in red secretly intended to use their attack to test the immortal’s condition.

Aquatic Race demons learned rumors that the Devil Race had stolen their karmic fortune in the past, but they still decided to attack Great Qian to gain strength. The Devil Race man secretly listened and planned to use their assault to test the immortal sects, while Zhenke and Yunzi discussed the growing demon threat and Yunzi’s suspicions about the Aquatic Race.

• The red-robed Devil Race man told the Aquatic Race that his patriarch would deal with the immortal if one appeared, then pretended to leave while secretly concealing himself nearby.
• Aquatic Race demons discussed rumors that the Devil Race had once manipulated their ancestors into fighting the immortal sects and then stolen the Demon Race’s karmic fortune.
• Despite suspecting that the Devil Race was using them, the Aquatic Race demons chose to steal Great Qian Dynasty’s karmic fortune so they could strengthen themselves and later confront the Devil Race.
• The Aquatic Race members agreed to recruit more of their people, cast their spell across a wide area, and flee into the waterways after taking the karmic fortune.
• The hidden Devil Race man listened to their decision and planned to use their attack to reveal the immortal sects’ strength before deciding whether his race could reclaim their karmic fortune.
• Zhenke warned Yunzi that demons were gathering around Great Qian, and Yunzi said she had asked other immortal sects to stay alert while voicing greater concern about the Aquatic Race.

Yunzi left to investigate whether the suspicious events were connected to the Devil Race while Fang Zelin turned all the Law Power in his Dharma Idol into pill fire to destroy the remaining Devil Qi. Meanwhile, Great Qian fell into rebellion and foreign interference as demons moved to seize its scattered karmic fortune, until cultivators arrived to stop them and the demons began arguing over who would face them.

• Yunzi worried that the Devil Race might be behind the suspicious news, then departed to investigate while the tiger demon, deer demon, and river snail guarded Fang Zelin.
• Fang Zelin ignited the Law Power in his Dharma Idol and turned it into a crimson river of pill fire to suppress the Devil Qi.
• Thirteen rebel armies rose across Great Qian, prompting the dynasty to send out its forces as neighboring dynasties secretly supplied the rebels.
• Demons prepared to seize Great Qian's scattered karmic fortune, but cultivators led by a Jade Void Mountain disciple arrived and ordered them to leave.
• A demon challenged the cultivators' authority and called on the other demons to stand with him rather than retreat.

Jade Void Mountain’s cultivators fought more than a thousand yaoguai seeking Great Qian’s Human Race Karmic Fortune, and both sides suffered deaths in the battle above the clouds. After Zhu Qi and other disciples fell to the yaoguai’s Divine Abilities, Shi Jian and his fellow disciples used their gourds, unleashing a mysterious treasure that decapitated countless yaoguai.

• The yaoguai emerged from hiding and tried to persuade the Jade Void Mountain cultivators to let them take some karmic fortune, but the cultivators refused and prepared to fight.
• The yaoguai revealed their true forms and attacked as cultivators unleashed Law Techniques; a bird-headed, snake-bodied yaoguai set Zhu Qi ablaze, and he fell to his death.
• More cultivators and yaoguai died in the battle, including a senior disciple struck through the forehead, prompting Shi Jian to take out his gourd.
• Shi Jian and the other senior disciples bowed to their gourds and cried, “Treasure, please turn around!”
• White light emerged from the gourds, and countless yaoguai saw their own corpses before their heads were severed and their eyes closed.

Jade Void Mountain’s disciples used Senior Fang’s gourds to defeat a group of demons, but several disciples died in the battle. Qin Xuzi mourned the losses, gathered reports of the fighting across Great Qian, and ordered the disciples to keep watch for more demons while the Aquatic Race remained unaccounted for.

• The senior disciples invoked the gourds Senior Fang had made, killing the demons and protecting the remaining disciples, then brought the injured and dead back to Jade Void Mountain.
• Shi Jian returned with the bodies of Shi Yun, Wang Qian, Wang Yin, and other disciples, and apologized to the sect master, Qin Xuzi.
• Qin Xuzi comforted Shi Jian and explained that Great Qian’s abundant fortune had attracted demons from across the land and overseas.
• More bloodied disciples arrived, and Qin Xuzi questioned them about the battles and learned that demons were attacking in many places.
• Qin Xuzi noted that the Aquatic Race had not appeared and ordered the disciples to keep guarding Great Qian and the rivers while a senior from Rising Tide Valley investigated.

As Great Qian’s cultivators used Demon-Slaying Gourds to drive back demons, the Aquatic Race prepared a massive flood to exploit the scattered karmic fortune. The chapter ended with towering waves advancing toward Great Qian’s coast and threatening its cities.

• A cultivator broke a demon’s Giant Ling Insect attack, summoned his Demon-Slaying Gourd, and killed the demon.
• Over three months, cultivators wielding Demon-Slaying Calabashes killed many demons, prompting others to retreat while one army in Great Qian grew to seven hundred thousand.
• In the East Sea, Aquatic demons feared the Demon-Slaying Calabashes, but a senior demon persuaded them that flooding Great Qian would let them fight from the water and seize karmic fortune.
• The Aquatic demons dispersed across the sea and used Divine Abilities to raise enormous waves toward Great Qian’s coast.

Yunzi summoned Daoist Lü and other cultivators to stop the Aquatic Race from flooding the Great Qian Dynasty’s coastal cities. Daoist Lü used a copper coin containing the dynasty’s thousand years of power to suppress the waves, leaving the people to witness what might be the Great Qian Dynasty’s final protection.

• Yunzi sent for fellow Daoists when the Aquatic Race’s waves threatened the coast, and Daoist Lü arrived with his young disciple.
• Yunzi told Daoist Lü that Fang’s Dharma Idol had been tainted by Devil Qi, and Daoist Lü promised to visit him after the crisis.
• Yunzi explained the Aquatic Race’s plan to the assembled cultivators, who prepared to work together and fight back.
• Daoist Lü revealed that he had spent a thousand years refining copper coins bearing the characters “Great” and “Qian” into extraordinary treasures.
• Daoist Lü cast a coin over the sea, and its palace manifestation suppressed the waves and calmed the tsunami.
• Coastal fishermen watched the palace save them and mourned that the Great Qian Dynasty might soon fall.

Cultivators stopped the Aquatic Race from flooding Great Qian’s coastal cities by flattening the tsunami, then trapped the sea demons with the Burn the Sea Technique. The Aquatic Race tried to flee, begged for mercy, and fought back, but the cultivators prepared to burn away the remaining seawater and finish them.

• The cultivators used Fill the Sea to flatten the tsunami after the Great Qian imperial palace crashed into the water and broke the wave wall.
• The Ancient Cloud Temple cultivator led the group in using Burn the Sea, filling the waters with pill fire that weakened the Aquatic Race.
• Daoist Lü praised the younger generation’s abilities, and his disciple promised to become formidable too.
• Aquatic Race creatures fled toward the surface and were struck down by the cultivators’ Law Techniques; the cultivators refused their pleas for mercy.
• The Aquatic Race conjured giant seawater forms and threatened the cultivators, who smashed them with Size at Will.
• The cultivators began pouring Law Power into the sea, turning the water into flames and preparing to burn away the remaining sea.

Gu Youzhi and the cultivators killed the remaining Aquatic Race members, leaving a sea of flames that frightened nearby yao and boatmen. At Yingping Peak, Daoist Lü and Yunzi found Fang Zelin refining the last of the demonic Qi, while Lü's young disciple marveled at Fang's glazed Dharma Idol.

• Gu Youzhi warned the nearby yao against seeking Human Race Karmic Fortune as the cultivators departed and left the flames burning as a warning.
• The yao gathered around the fiery hollow and feared that the cultivators could destroy their underwater home.
• Boatmen approached the flames, spotted giant yao beneath their boats, and quietly sailed away in terror.
• Daoist Lü, Yunzi, and Lü's disciple arrived at Yingping Peak and found Fang Zelin refining the last demonic Qi from his glazed Dharma Idol.
• Lü's disciple asked whether his master could perform Fang's impressive Law Technique, and Lü doubted it could be learned easily.

After purging the Devil Qi, Fang Zelin discovered that the ordeal had strengthened his Dharma Idol and let him incorporate pill fire into it. Learning that demons and immortal sects were suffering heavy losses as the Great Qian Dynasty neared its fall, he decided to visit the imperial palace and protect Jiuchuan’s descendants if they were not evildoers.

• Fang Zelin purified the Dharma Idol, absorbed the pill fire into it, and emerged with a greatly strengthened Divine Ability.
• Yunzi and Daoist Lü congratulated Fang Zelin, and he met Daoist Lü’s disciple and explained that the medicine attendant was a ginseng spirit.
• Yunzi told Fang Zelin that Great Qian was expected to fall within ten-odd days and that powerful demons enticed by the Devil Race had caused many deaths.
• Yunzi credited Fang Zelin’s Demon-Slaying Gourd with helping protect the immortal sects from the demons.
• Fang Zelin decided to visit the Great Qian imperial palace to fulfill Jiuchuan’s request to save his descendants if possible, and Yunzi offered to accompany him.

Fang Zelin learned that the immortal sects’ returned fortune had made cultivation easier and extended lifespans, while his own remaining years numbered several hundred thousand. Yunzi and Daoist Lü urged him to preserve himself against the Devil Race, leaving him to consider that protecting the Dao meant going with heaven.

• Daoist Lü explained that the fallen Great Qian Dynasty would likely be replaced by a weakened dynasty, and Fang Zelin accepted its decline as natural.
• Tianxi served spirit rice, and Daoist Lü’s young disciple eagerly ate it while Tianxi showed her other ways to prepare it.
• Fang Zelin asked Yunzi what had happened when the immortal sects’ fortune returned, and she said disciples found the Dao clearer, cultivation easier, and lifespan gains greater.
• Fang Zelin realized that repeated visits to Seeking Dao Mountain had helped leave him with several hundred thousand years to live, surprising Yunzi and Daoist Lü.
• Yunzi and Daoist Lü advised Fang Zelin to retreat and cultivate rather than risk his life against the Devil Race, and Fang Zelin’s value to the immortal sects was affirmed.

Fang Zelin and Yunzi traveled toward Youjing City as demons and rival dynasties continued to threaten the collapsing Great Qian Dynasty. In the capital, Emperor Mu Huan rejected a proposal to conscript the people and could find no way to contact the immortal his ancestors had known, leaving him uncertain whom he could trust.

• Fang Zelin bade farewell to Daoist Lü, gave him a wine calabash, and set out for Youjing City with Yunzi.
• As they flew over Great Qian, Fang Zelin and Yunzi saw dense Yao Qi, abandoned fields, and signs that other dynasties were taking its territory.
• In Youjing City, Mu Huan learned that Prince Pingshan was besieging the capital with seven hundred thousand troops and reflected on how Wang Tian had died after being betrayed at Falling Cloud Slope.
• An elderly censor urged Mu Huan to conscript the people or seek help from the immortal connected to Great Qian’s founding ancestor.
• Mu Huan refused to involve the people, admitted he could not locate the immortal, dismissed the court, and wondered how to save Great Qian without ministers he trusted.

As Prince Pingshan’s rebels breached Youjing City, Mu Huan gathered his family in Tianlu Pavilion, fearing Great Qian’s imminent fall. Fang Zelin appeared with a woman, confirmed his friendship with Mu Huan’s ancestor, and said he had come to assess whether the imperial family deserved saving, not to prevent Great Qian’s collapse.

• Mu Huan told the empress that Great Qian’s defenses were failing and that finding an immortal or reproducing weapons from Earth seemed impossible.
• Assistant Commander Zuo opened Youjing City’s north gate for Prince Pingshan’s rebels, and the defenders surrendered as the rebels advanced toward the palace.
• After learning the city had fallen, Mu Huan summoned his children and consorts to Tianlu Pavilion and warned them that the palace’s secret passages had been exposed.
• Fang Zelin and a woman appeared at Tianlu Pavilion, and Fang Zelin disarmed Mu Huan with a gesture before confirming he had been friends with their ancestor, Jiuchuan.
• Fang Zelin explained that he had come to judge whether Jiuchuan’s descendants deserved protection, but he could not save Great Qian from falling.

Fang Zelin refused to save Great Qian, explaining that its fall reflected the will of the people and that its imperial family had lost its chance to change the dynasty’s fate. Mu Huan and his family chose to die with the nation, and Fang Zelin stayed behind to protect their bodies from dishonor.

• Princess Pingyang asked Fang Zelin to save Great Qian because he had helped its founding emperor establish the dynasty, but he refused and said its allotted reign had ended.
• Mu Huan resolved to give his life for Great Qian, and he persuaded his children to accept their responsibility as members of the imperial family.
• Mu Huan asked Fang Zelin to protect their remains, then distributed poison to his family and ordered the palace guards to end the resistance and tell others to disperse.
• After the imperial family died, underworld officials arrived to escort their ghosts to the City God Temple of Jian'an, and Mu Huan chose to walk through Jian'an City on the way.
• Fang Zelin watched the family leave and remained behind to guard their bodies so no one would dishonor them or claim Mu Huan had fled.

Prince Pingshan entered the imperial palace expecting the Great Qian emperor to surrender, but found the emperor and the imperial family dead from poison. After his subordinates proposed secretly burying the emperor in a desolate place, the Heavenly Emolument Pavilion mysteriously caught fire, and Prince Pingshan ordered the deaths concealed as a sacrifice in the blaze.

• Prince Pingshan advanced into the palace as its guards surrendered, but he ordered scouts ahead because the emperor's lack of resistance seemed suspicious.
• The scouts found the Great Qian Imperial Family dead in the Heavenly Emolument Pavilion, and a soldier reported that they had died by poisoning some time earlier.
• Daoist Wu warned Prince Pingshan against burying the emperor in the imperial mausoleum or displaying his head, then proposed secretly burying him in a desolate place.
• Prince Pingshan appeared to reject the proposal but left the matter to his subordinates, and the Heavenly Emolument Pavilion suddenly burst into flames.
• Prince Pingshan called for an immortal to reveal himself, received no answer, and ordered the public to be told that the emperor died for his country in the fire.

After the fall of the Great Qian Dynasty, Fang Zelin and Yunzi left Youjing City to travel and capture demons preying on mortals. While resting in an abandoned village, they discussed the Devil Race, and Yunzi revealed that its hidden passage lay in the Ten Thousand Demons Forest in the outer seas.

• Fang Zelin explained that the Great Qian Imperial Family had died for their country, then declined to visit the City God Temple and chose to travel with Yunzi to capture demons harming mortals.
• Fang Zelin and Yunzi left Youjing City, passed frightened refugees, and found little demonic Qi along their route.
• Fang Zelin and Yunzi camped beside a ruined village, where Fang Zelin recalled the people and Daughter's Red from a village he had once visited.
• Fang Zelin noticed Human Race Karmic Fortune gathering and the Purple Tetrarch Star growing brighter, then asked Yunzi where the Devil Race was hiding.
• Yunzi told Fang Zelin that a passage to the Devil Race lay somewhere in the Ten Thousand Demons Forest in the outer seas, and explained that the Devil Race had concealed itself there behind the forest's reputation as Demon Race territory.

Fang Zelin and Yunzi discussed the rising Shang Dynasty and planned to gather cultivators to forge Law Treasures against the Devil Race. After setting out to patrol for demons and devils, they approached a carriage party near Youjing City, whose guards cautiously made way for them.

• Fang Zelin and Yunzi used astrology to predict that the newly established Shang Dynasty could surpass the surrounding dynasties because of the Great Qian Dynasty's enduring foundations.
• Fang Zelin told Yunzi legends of the ancient Shang Dynasty and its powerful Law Treasures, inspiring her to propose forging similar treasures against the Devil Race.
• Fang Zelin agreed to try, and Yunzi planned to gather cultivators after the Shang Dynasty was established to forge treasures that could protect the Daoist Sect.
• After making plans through the night, Fang Zelin and Yunzi set out at dawn to patrol the roads and eliminate nearby demons and devils.
• Near Youjing City, Guard Lin warned a woman in a carriage that Fang Zelin and Yunzi were approaching unusually fast, so she ordered the party to move aside and let them pass.

Fang Zelin and Yunzi investigated a banyan tree yao at an abandoned tea stall and learned that the buried travelers had been killed by the stall’s former owners, not the tree. After burning the remains so the yao could cultivate in peace, they prepared to continue their journey.

• Fang Zelin and Yunzi passed Zhuo Sijun’s party on the road, prompting the guards to suspect they were ghosts or yao.
• Zhuo Sijun chose to remain on the official road and slow her party down rather than risk traveling through Green-Yellow Mountain.
• At midday, Zhuo Sijun’s party found Fang Zelin and Yunzi drinking at an abandoned tea stall beneath a banyan tree, and froze in fear.
• Fang Zelin and Yunzi questioned the banyan tree yao and discovered that the tea stall’s owners had murdered travelers and buried them beneath its roots.
• Fang Zelin sent pill fire into the earth to turn the corpses to ashes without harming the tree yao, then prepared to leave with Yunzi.