Arc 11The Immortal Bone and Rising Devils

Li Yunjing revived Nangong Chengyu, explored the Luozhen Sect’s hidden treasury, and gained standing in the Immortal Alliance. After retrieving the White Bone Daoist’s remains and receiving his Immortal Bone, Li Yunjing learned that freed Devil Cultivators threatened the realm and was appointed to lead the Alliance’s new branch in Xunxian Town.

  • Li Yunjing discovered that Nangong Chengyu was alive, helped him purge the poison, and reunited him with Wang Qianxue and Nangong Ye while keeping the Longevity Lock’s secret.
  • Li Yunjing, Fang Tong, and Wang Qianxue entered the Luozhen Sect’s hidden treasury, where Fang Hexuan appeared and revealed he had reached Spirit Transformation, and they left most of the treasures behind and drove off intruders.
  • Fang Hexuan returned to the Luozhen Sect, while Li Yunjing gained the [Cloud Casket Fallen True Book] and learned the Five Towns Grand Competition would conceal a mission to retrieve the White Bone Daoist’s remains.
  • Li Yunjing became a True Disciple and secured Immortal Alliance resources and a teleportation array for the Luozhen Sect before joining the Mount Taixuan mission with Zhang Jianchen and other True Disciples.
  • Li Yunjing touched the White Bone Daoist’s remains, met him in a pure land, and received an Immortal Bone that fused into his chest, and the Daoist warned him that devil sects would soon make a major move.
  • Great Devil Cui Yi attacked Li Yunjing, but Zhang Jianchen defeated and killed him, then revealed that several other sealed Devil Cultivators had also been freed.
  • After the competition ended with Giant Elephant Town first and Xunxian Town second, Xiao Tianxing told Li Yunjing that the Immortal Alliance would make Xunxian Town an immortal city and appoint him leader of its local branch.
Chapters 251–275 Vol. 3 Read

Ch. 251Spirit Fields, Forgive Your Disciple

Li Yunjing upgraded the Patriarch Hall and Spirit Fields after Chen Xing became a first-grade spirit farmer and Ge Shuyuan’s group cultivated a new spirit-rice variety. He then visited Nangong Chengyu’s grave and prepared to open the coffin to learn whether his master was alive or dead.

  • Li Yunjing upgraded the Patriarch Hall, which gained stronger spiritual effects and a chance to permanently increase disciples’ Root Bone.
  • Zhang Hanpeng told Li Yunjing that Chen Xing had become a first-grade spirit farmer, completing half the Spirit Fields’ upgrade requirements.
  • Ge Shuyuan and Zhang Hanpeng showed Li Yunjing a new spirit-rice variety whose mature crops were at least fifty percent higher quality, though its success rate remained low.
  • Li Yunjing upgraded the Spirit Fields and told Ge Shuyuan to keep expanding their area.
  • Li Yunjing visited Nangong Chengyu’s grave, made offerings, and said he intended to open the coffin to verify whether his master was alive or dead.

Ch. 252Pressure, Master's Revival

Li Yunjing opened his master Nangong Chengyu’s grave and discovered that the gold lock had preserved his life. He gave Nangong Chengyu the Hundred Star Dew, which began purging the poison, and returned to the Luozhen Sect with his master secured in his storage ring.

  • Li Yunjing concealed the gravesite with a formation, dug up Nangong Chengyu’s grave, and opened the stone coffin.
  • Li Yunjing confirmed that Nangong Chengyu wore a gold lock identical to Fang Tong’s, but could initially sense no sign of life.
  • Nangong Chengyu opened his eyes twice in response to Li Yunjing, confirming that he was still alive.
  • Li Yunjing tested the Gold Spirit Pill, then gave Nangong Chengyu the Hundred Star Dew after his master responded to it.
  • Nangong Chengyu told Li Yunjing to guard him for three days while the poison was purged, and Li Yunjing restored the grave and returned to the Luozhen Sect.

Ch. 253I Don't Know, There's No Need to Worry

Li Yunjing waited for Nangong Chengyu to recover, then learned that his master had survived but lost his cultivation and could never use Law Power again. After catching up and discussing the unknown poisoner, Nangong Chengyu insisted on revealing that he was alive and asked Li Yunjing to bring him a golden lock.

  • Li Yunjing stayed in his cave abode and cultivated for three days while Nangong Chengyu healed inside the stone coffin.
  • Nangong Chengyu emerged from the coffin, and Li Yunjing discovered that poison had ruined his meridians and left him without cultivation.
  • Li Yunjing told Nangong Chengyu about his achievements and the Luozhen Sect, then urged him to make amends to Wang Qianxue.
  • Li Yunjing asked whether the Su Household had poisoned Nangong Chengyu, but Nangong Chengyu said he did not know who had done it.
  • Nangong Chengyu asked Li Yunjing to show him the sect and declared he would let his enemies know he was alive.
  • Nangong Chengyu told Li Yunjing that there was something he should know and asked him to bring the golden lock; Li Yunjing handed it to him.

Ch. 254Longevity, Eyes Brimming with Tears

Nangong Chengyu revealed that the Longevity Lock could resurrect him as long as it remained intact, then reunited with Mo Xuan and toured the Luozhen Sect. The chapter ended with Ding Qifeng confronting him and suspecting that a corpse monster had taken his body.

  • Nangong Chengyu told Li Yunjing that the Longevity Lock granted immortality and warned him to keep its secret from everyone else.
  • Li Yunjing showed Nangong Chengyu the Luozhen Sect and explained its recent changes, attributing them to Ancestor Fang Hexuan.
  • Mo Xuan encountered Nangong Chengyu, verified his identity with a private childhood secret, and learned that his master had returned.
  • Nangong Chengyu praised Mo Xuan and learned that he and Shui Yao had become dao companions, so Mo Xuan went to tell her the news.
  • Ding Qifeng entered Luozhen Hall, questioned Nangong Chengyu's return, and suspected that a corpse monster had occupied his body.

Ch. 255Confirmed. How to Establish His Authority?

Nangong Chengyu convinced Ding Qifeng that he was truly alive by recalling their private past, then reunited with Shui Yao. Li Yunjing brought Nangong Ye to the Luozhen Grand Hall, where she saw her father and called out to him.

  • Li Yunjing shielded Nangong Chengyu from Ding Qifeng's presence, and Nangong Chengyu proved his identity by recalling their private pact and visit to the Drunken Spring Pavilion.
  • Ding Qifeng accepted that Nangong Chengyu was himself and asked why he had faked his death, but Nangong Chengyu said he could not explain yet.
  • Shui Yao rushed into the hall and embraced Nangong Chengyu, while Ding Qifeng and Li Yunjing gave them privacy.
  • In the medicine garden, Nangong Ye told Li Yunjing that the yellow dragon ginseng had warned her of a robber stealing earth Qi underground.
  • Li Yunjing told Nangong Ye that her father was alive and brought her to the Luozhen Grand Hall, where she saw Nangong Chengyu and called, "Dad!"

Ch. 256A Request and Shiniang's Arrival

Li Yunjing planned to search the Luozhen Sect’s hidden treasure for clues about the nine golden locks and sought Wang Qianxue’s help after Xiao Tianxing said he was unavailable. Wang Qianxue arrived at the Spirit Cuisine Pavilion, where Li Yunjing prepared to reveal that Nangong Chengyu had returned to life.

  • Fang Tong suggested that the Luozhen Sect’s hidden treasure might contain clues to the other seven golden locks, and Li Yunjing decided to visit it before the Five Towns Grand Competition.
  • Xiao Tianxing told Li Yunjing he could not accompany him, but revealed that Wang Qianxue had formed her core and would soon leave seclusion; he also said Zhang Jianchen would attend the competition.
  • Li Yunjing contacted Wang Qianxue, asked whether she could accompany him to the hidden treasure, and hinted that Nangong Chengyu was no longer in his grave.
  • The Luozhen Sect’s disciples celebrated Nangong Chengyu’s return and treated the Hall of Rebirth as a holy place, while Li Yunjing kept the true cause secret.
  • Li Yunjing brought Nangong Chengyu to the Spirit Cuisine Pavilion, where a disciple told him that Wang Qianxue had arrived to see him.
  • Wang Qianxue anxiously asked Li Yunjing whether Nangong Chengyu’s body had been stolen, and he led her toward the pavilion, promising a surprise.

Ch. 257Meeting Again, Heading to Black Mountain

Wang Qianxue reunited with Nangong Chengyu after learning he had come back to life, and the two reconciled. The next morning, Li Yunjing, Fang Tong, and Wang Qianxue departed for the Black Mountain Secret Treasury, whose location Fang Tong knew.

  • Li Yunjing led Wang Qianxue to Nangong Chengyu, and she reunited with him and Nangong Ye.
  • Li Yunjing explained that the Luozhen Sect's founding ancestor had intervened to bring Nangong Chengyu back to life, and Wang Qianxue accepted the explanation.
  • Li Yunjing and the others shared Hou Zihao's spirit dishes, and Wang Qianxue and Nangong Chengyu resolved their differences in private.
  • Wang Qianxue agreed to travel to Black Mountain with Li Yunjing, and Fang Tong said the treasury's location had been passed down to Wushan Luozhen Sect leaders.
  • The next morning, Li Yunjing, Fang Tong, and Wang Qianxue left the Luozhen Sect aboard Wang Qianxue's Fish Boat, while Nangong Chengyu stayed behind.

Ch. 258A Visit and Arrival at the Secret Treasury

Li Yunjing inspected the Dharma robe workshop at the Luozhen Sect's ancestral grounds before traveling with Fang Tong and Wang Qianxue to the secret treasury. Fang Tong activated the formation between two mountains, and golden and rainbow light flooded the entrance.

  • Li Yunjing arrived at the Luozhen Sect's ancestral grounds and met Guan Xingzhou, who showed him the Heavenly Silk Silkworm breeding area and Dharma robe workshop.
  • Li Yunjing examined the Flowing Firelight robe, approved of Guan Xingzhou's work, and encouraged the Rogue Cultivators to keep working hard.
  • Li Yunjing, Fang Tong, and Wang Qianxue crossed the strange-rock boundary, where Fang Tong explained that the stone people had Stone Disease and some had petrified into rocks.
  • Fang Tong led Li Yunjing and Wang Qianxue between the two mountains that guarded the secret treasury and explained that the Luozhen Sect's founding ancestor had built a formation there.
  • Fang Tong activated a stone disc, causing the formation to rumble and golden and seven-colored light to surge from the mountain peaks.

Ch. 259Entering, the Life-Saving Divine Pill

Li Yunjing, Wang Qianxue, and Fang Tong entered the Luozhen Sect’s hidden treasury and found Three-Lives Life-Restoring Pills, while outsiders gathered at its entrance. After discovering the treasury’s three suns were the Luozhen Sect’s Three Sun Wheels, they heard a voice ask whether they were cultivators of the sect.

  • Fang Tong explained that the treasury’s spectacular appearance was meant to announce the Luozhen Sect’s return, and Li Yunjing, Wang Qianxue, and Fang Tong entered before he shut its door.
  • Three streaks of light reached the mountains outside and decided to wait for the hidden treasury to open again.
  • Li Yunjing, Wang Qianxue, and Fang Tong found three Three-Lives Life-Restoring Pills, and Li Yunjing gave one to Wang Qianxue in exchange for a treasure from her father.
  • Li Yunjing collected the remaining pills and the jade tray, then searched the hall with Fang Tong before they went outside.
  • Fang Tong recognized the three cultivation-enhancing suns as the Luozhen Sect’s Three Sun Wheels, and an unknown voice confirmed it and asked whether they were cultivators of the Luozhen Sect.

Ch. 260Patriarch, so that was how it was

Li Yunjing and his companions met Fang Hexuan, the Luozhen Sect patriarch who had been trapped in the hidden treasure for nearly eight hundred years and had reached Spirit Transformation. Fang Hexuan helped preserve Li Yunjing’s secret, learned of the threat to Nangong Chengyu, and led them to the hidden treasure’s remaining riches as they sought a way out.

  • Fang Hexuan appeared before Li Yunjing, Fang Tong, and Wang Qianxue, and Li Yunjing recognized him as the Luozhen Sect patriarch.
  • Li Yunjing told Fang Hexuan how the sect had declined and later recovered, while Fang Tong credited the sect’s wonders to Fang Hexuan; Fang Hexuan understood Li Yunjing’s lie and agreed to support it.
  • Fang Hexuan explained that the hidden treasure had pulled him inside when he sought a way to enter it, and revealed that its resources had helped him reach Spirit Transformation.
  • Li Yunjing told Fang Hexuan about Nangong Chengyu’s Longevity Lock, and Wang Qianxue privately identified those responsible, prompting Fang Hexuan to promise they would settle the score.
  • Fang Hexuan led the group to the remaining treasures and explained that he could not enter the hall containing the Three-Lives Life-Restoring Pill or find a way out.
  • Li Yunjing, Fang Tong, and Wang Qianxue were stunned by the vast trove of treasures laid across the place.

Ch. 261Thieves' Sect, Divine Firmament Divine Lightning

Li Yunjing and the others took only a few low-grade treasures from the hidden cache to avoid attracting the Thieves' Sect, then left the Three Sun Wheels behind to keep the cache secure. Outside, eight Spirit Transformation cultivators confronted them, and Fang Hexuan struck one with Divine Firmament Divine Lightning before a barrier blocked his next attack.

  • Li Yunjing warned Fang Tong that taking too many treasures could attract the Thieves' Sect, and Fang Hexuan and Wang Qianxue agreed.
  • Li Yunjing, Fang Hexuan, and Fang Tong selected a few relatively low-end treasures and left the rest, including the Three Sun Wheels, in the hidden cache.
  • Wang Qianxue said the Thieves' Sect likely could not enter the cache because its three great suns protected it.
  • Fang Tong used the key to take the four of them out of the cache, where eight figures demanded their treasures.
  • Fang Hexuan hit one attacker with Divine Firmament Divine Lightning, and the white-bearded old man tried to call it a misunderstanding.
  • Fang Hexuan struck at the white-bearded old man with another bolt, but a circular barrier appeared and blocked it.

Ch. 262Daozhen and the Grudges of Years Past

Fang Hexuan drove away eight Spirit Transformation cultivators and explained to Li Yunjing how the Daozhen Sect and other Middle Wu Mountain sects had brought about the Luozhen Sect’s decline. After Wang Qianxue marked the treasure trove as protected by the Immortal Alliance, three opportunists tried to break in and were incinerated by its defenses.

  • Fang Hexuan threatened the eight intruders, identified himself as a Luozhen Sect cultivator, and forced them to leave.
  • Wang Qianxue planted an Immortal Alliance banner to place the hidden treasure trove under its protection.
  • Fang Hexuan told Li Yunjing that Middle Wu Mountain’s sects had aided the Daozhen Sect, and recounted how the Luozhen Sect’s chosen died fighting the Floating Moon Pavilion.
  • Wang Qianxue took Fang Hexuan, Li Yunjing, and the others back to the Luozhen Sect by fish boat.
  • Three figures emerged after the boat departed, opened a cut into the treasure trove, and were burned to ashes by crimson-gold flames.

Ch. 263The Date of the Celebration Is Set

Fang Hexuan returned to the Luozhen Sect, where his identity as its vanished founding master astonished Nangong Chengyu and promised the sect new strength. Li Yunjing and the elders set a grand celebration for May fifteenth, and Li Yunjing agreed to visit the Great Dream Pool on May twenty-third to discuss the Great Dream Market.

  • Fang Hexuan returned to Serene Valley with Li Yunjing and praised the Luozhen Sect’s growth.
  • Nangong Chengyu and the other elders welcomed the group, and Li Yunjing revealed that Fang Hexuan was the sect’s founding master who had vanished long ago.
  • Nangong Chengyu celebrated Fang Hexuan’s return and Ding Qifeng’s Core Formation, and the elders chose May fifteenth for a grand celebration honoring several recent achievements.
  • Li Yunjing remembered that Zhang Jianchen would attend the Five Towns Grand Competition and resolved to make a good showing.
  • Chang Xu visited Li Yunjing to discuss the Great Dream Market and invited him to a meeting at the Great Dream Pool on May twenty-third.
  • Li Yunjing accepted Chang Xu’s invitation and headed toward the Scripture Pavilion, hoping the Great Dream Market would help the Luozhen Sect grow.

Ch. 264A Change, a Sect-Exclusive Cultivation Method

Li Yunjing obtained the sect-exclusive [Cloud Casket Fallen True Book] and prepared to use it as the foundation for Luozhen Sect’s cultivation system. He then hurried to Xunxian Town, where Wang Qianxue announced that the Five Towns Grand Competition’s format had changed.

  • Li Yunjing completed the Scripture Repository’s deduction and received the powerful, further-upgradable [Cloud Casket Fallen True Book], which only Luozhen Sect disciples with a Life Jade could cultivate.
  • Li Yunjing recorded the Dao method and placed it among the Luozhen Sect’s core methods, then found the Scripture Repository could be upgraded once he obtained five third-grade Dao methods.
  • Li Yunjing saw that Luozhen Sect had already met the repository’s prosperity requirement and planned to visit Xunxian Town to obtain the remaining methods.
  • Wang Qianxue summoned Li Yunjing to the Immortal Alliance compound, where he found the town’s senior members and Xiao Tianxing gathered.
  • Wang Qianxue announced that an order from Immortal Alliance headquarters had changed the Five Towns Grand Competition’s format, then said her senior brother would explain how the rankings would be decided.

Ch. 265Hundred Lifetimes, You're Coming Along

The Five Towns Grand Competition was announced as a points-based hunt on Mount Taixuan, but Zhang Jianchen revealed that the Immortal Alliance planned to use it as cover to retrieve the skeletal remains there. After tasting Hundred Lifetimes Tea and experiencing a hundred lives, Li Yunjing learned he would join the mission instead of competing, and Zhang Jianchen began working on his Immortal Alliance Token.

  • Xiao Tianxing announced that the Five Towns Grand Competition would award points for hunting Demon Beasts, gathering materials, and finding treasures in Mount Taixuan.
  • Xiao Tianxing brought Li Yunjing to meet Immortal Alliance leader Zhang Jianchen, who served them Hundred Lifetimes Tea.
  • Li Yunjing experienced a hundred cycles of reincarnation through the tea and emerged with a stronger State of Mind, while Xiao Tianxing became deeply immersed in the illusion.
  • Zhang Jianchen told Li Yunjing that the Immortal Alliance had located the skeletal remains on Mount Taixuan using the clue Li Yunjing had provided.
  • Zhang Jianchen revealed that the competition was a cover and told Li Yunjing he would join Xiao Tianxing and other young people in retrieving the remains.
  • After explaining that several Tribulation Transcendence Realm grand elders would support the mission, Zhang Jianchen took Li Yunjing's Immortal Alliance Token and began working on it.

Ch. 266Improvement: Upgrading the Poultry Coop

Li Yunjing became an Immortal Alliance True Disciple and learned that the Luozhen Sect’s rating had risen. He upgraded the Poultry Coop to level 8 and saw that obtaining a Grade 3 True Scripture of Ten Thousand Birds would be the main obstacle to its next upgrade.

  • Zhang Jianchen made Li Yunjing a True Disciple and raised the Luozhen Sect’s rating to upper-lower.
  • Xiao Tianxing advised Li Yunjing to review the new benefits available to him and his sect.
  • Li Yunjing traveled back with Wang Qianxue, then watched her hurry off to see Nangong Chengyu and worried that his master had not fully recovered.
  • Li Yunjing gave a Wisdom-Awakening Pill to the white-headed crow and upgraded the Poultry Coop to level 8.
  • Li Yunjing reviewed the level 9 effects and upgrade requirements, noting that the Grade 3 True Scripture of Ten Thousand Birds would be difficult to obtain.

Ch. 267Suspicion and Arrival in the Lesser Origin Realm

Li Yunjing reassured Fang Hexuan that he had not made a deal with an evil god, then entered the Lesser Origin Realm through his Immortal Alliance Token. After learning about the realm from Feiyao, he went to the Sect Quarter to claim benefits for the Luozhen Sect and was approached by a young man.

  • Fang Hexuan confronted Li Yunjing after seeing spiritual items disappear during the Poultry Coop’s upgrade, but accepted his claim that it was a fortuitous opportunity.
  • Li Yunjing used his Immortal Alliance Token and arrived in the Lesser Origin Realm, where he met Feiyao.
  • Feiyao explained that the Lesser Origin Realm was an Immortal Alliance domain for distinguished members and opened for five days at the beginning of each month.
  • A tea stall owner told Li Yunjing that True Disciples could eat without paying, with the Immortal Alliance reimbursing the stall.
  • Li Yunjing went to the upper-lower section of the Sect Quarter to claim the Luozhen Sect’s benefits, where a young man recognized him.

Ch. 268Astonishing Benefits, the Grand Competition Arrives

Li Yunjing learned that the Luozhen Sect’s improved rating entitled it to substantial resources and privileges, and requested a monthly resource delivery and a large-scale teleportation array. Days later, he led the sect’s competitors to Mount Taixuan, where Xiao Tianxing announced the start of the Five Towns Grand Competition.

  • Zhou Hao showed Li Yunjing the benefits available to the Luozhen Sect through the Immortal Alliance, including monthly resources, a teleportation array, and limited access to the Demon-Dispelling Bell.
  • Li Yunjing requested the Luozhen Sect’s resource allotment and a large-scale teleportation array, and Zhou Hao agreed to arrange both.
  • Li Yunjing left the Lesser Origin Realm and considered how the teleportation array would make long-distance travel easier for the Luozhen Sect.
  • On May third, Li Yunjing gathered the Luozhen Sect’s competitors and led them from Xunxian Town to Mount Taixuan to join the other four towns.
  • Xiao Tianxing arrived at Mount Taixuan and declared the Five Towns Grand Competition officially begun.

Ch. 269Three People, One Island

Li Yunjing joined Zhang Jianchen and three other Immortal Alliance True Disciples to find the White Bone Daoist’s remains. They located a hidden entrance in Mount Taixuan’s cliff and reached a small island, where a skeleton lay in a hollow at its center.

  • Xiao Tianxing raised the Ninefold Mystic True Light Barrier around Mount Taixuan as the people of the five towns began the competition, while Li Yunjing stayed behind to join Zhang Jianchen.
  • Xiao Tianxing introduced Li Yunjing to the True Disciples Cao Lie, Chu Xin, and Su Shuanghua, and Zhang Jianchen led the group away from the flying ship.
  • Zhang Jianchen explained that Li Yunjing’s clue had helped him find the cliff hidden by the White Bone Daoist’s remains.
  • Zhang Jianchen found an entrance by feeling along the cliff, and the group followed him through it onto a small, scorched island.
  • Zhang Jianchen led the group to a hollow at the island’s center, where they found a skeleton.

Ch. 270The Past: An Ascension Scam?

Li Yunjing learned that an upper-realm immortal sect marked cultivators with a Corpse Liberation Immortal Method and turned those who ascended into human pills. Zhang Jianchen revealed that the White Bone Daoist had split his soul to avoid that fate and told Li Yunjing to retrieve the remains as his fortuitous opportunity.

  • Li Yunjing and the others were shaken by the white bones until Zhang Jianchen woke them, and Li Yunjing heard a broken murmur about ascension being a scam.
  • Li Yunjing told Zhang Jianchen about the voice, and Zhang Jianchen explained that some ascended cultivators were selectively captured and refined into human pills by an immortal sect.
  • Zhang Jianchen said the White Bone Daoist had practiced the sect's Corpse Liberation Immortal Method, sensed the danger, and split his soul between the upper realm and his remains.
  • Zhang Jianchen told Li Yunjing to bring over the white bone remains, calling it his fortuitous opportunity.

Ch. 271Meeting and Putting It to Good Use

Li Yunjing retrieved the White Bone Daoist’s remains and met his soul in a pure land, where he learned why the Immortal Alliance sought the remains and received the Daoist’s Immortal Bone. After returning to Zhang Jianchen with the bones, Li Yunjing learned that the devil sects would soon make a major move, leaving him to face an approaching tribulation with the Immortal Bone’s mysteries still unknown.

  • Li Yunjing touched the skeletal remains and was transported to a pure land, where he met the White Bone Daoist.
  • The White Bone Daoist explained that the upper realm’s Immortal Alliance wanted to restore his soul so he could testify against an immortal sect refining people into pills, while the Daozhen Sect searched for his remains.
  • The White Bone Daoist gave Li Yunjing his Immortal Bone, which fused into Li Yunjing’s chest, and told him to discover its mysteries himself.
  • The White Bone Daoist warned Li Yunjing that the devil sects would soon make a major move and that the Immortal Bone might help him through the coming tribulation.
  • Li Yunjing returned to the hollow, picked up the skeletal remains, and brought them to Zhang Jianchen.

Ch. 272Completed, Dao Discussion Conference

Li Yunjing retrieved the White Bone Daoist’s skeletal remains and learned he was the person born with fortune, then warned Zhang Jianchen about the Demonic Sect’s plans. Afterward, Xiao Tianxing and the others told him to attend the upcoming Dao Discussion Conference to answer doubts about his appointment as a True Disciple.

  • Zhang Jianchen explained that Li Yunjing was born with fortune because he had personally retrieved the skeletal remains, then led him and the others away from Mount Taixuan.
  • Zhang Jianchen explained that the towering cliff was formed from the White Bone Daoist’s cultivated Dao and would fade now that the remains were gone.
  • Li Yunjing warned Zhang Jianchen that the Demonic Sect was planning a major move, and Zhang Jianchen said the Immortal Alliance would record his merit.
  • Cao Lie brought Li Yunjing to Xiao Tianxing, Chu Xin, and Su Shuanghua on the flying ship’s deck.
  • Xiao Tianxing told Li Yunjing to attend the True Disciples’ Dao Discussion Conference in three months, and Chu Xin and Cao Lie said he needed to dispel suspicions that he had gained his position through connections.

Ch. 273The Decision, Great Devil Cui Yi

Li Yunjing agreed to attend the Dao Discussion Conference and received advice and support from Chu Xin, Cao Lie, and Su Shuanghua. A sudden attack by Great Devil Cui Yi nearly killed him, but Zhang Jianchen intervened, and the chapter left Zhang Jianchen and Cui Yi fighting after Li Yunjing suspected a Demonic Sect had freed the devil.

  • Li Yunjing accepted that he would attend the Dao Discussion Conference, and Chu Xin, Cao Lie, and Su Shuanghua promised to help him.
  • Xiao Tianxing explained that people in the Immortal Alliance sought to win Li Yunjing’s goodwill and advised him to make allies.
  • Great Devil Cui Yi appeared in the sky, targeted Li Yunjing, and tried to draw him upward.
  • Zhang Jianchen confronted Cui Yi and shattered his enormous face with the Heaven-Splitting Sword before the two vanished to fight.
  • Cao Lie explained Cui Yi’s history as a soul-devouring Devil Cultivator whom the Immortal Alliance had sealed nine thousand years earlier.
  • Li Yunjing suspected a Demonic Sect had freed Cui Yi, and Cui Yi’s voice rang out again, shocked by Zhang Jianchen’s strength.

Ch. 274An Easy Victory, Troubled Times

Zhang Jianchen killed Cui Yi and revealed that numerous sealed Devil Cultivators had been freed, threatening chaos across the Tianyuan Five Provinces. Li Yunjing’s fully grown immortal bone absorbed a mysterious object, while Zhang Jianchen warned the others to prepare for a dangerous conflict with the devil path.

  • Zhang Jianchen defeated Cui Yi, killed him with an azure light, and returned to the flying ship.
  • Li Yunjing’s immortal bone fully grew, then absorbed a mysterious blur that entered his body and made its glow and heat disappear.
  • Zhang Jianchen noticed the light from Li Yunjing’s chest and Cui Yi’s dissolving corpse, but kept his suspicions to himself.
  • Zhang Jianchen told Li Yunjing, Xiao Tianxing, and the others that he had learned from Cui Yi’s soul that several other sealed Devil Cultivators had been freed.
  • Zhang Jianchen explained that the devils came from ancient sects and warned that their simultaneous release pointed to a deliberate plan and coming chaos.
  • Zhang Jianchen urged everyone to fight Devil Cultivators only when they could win, flee and call for backup otherwise, and avoid capture at all costs.

Ch. 275The End, an Experiment

Li Yunjing learned that the Immortal Alliance planned to appoint him leader of its Xunxian Town branch as it tightened control over its branches. The chapter ended with Wang Qianxue asking why he called Xiao Tianxing “Senior Brother” too.

  • The Five Towns Grand Competition ended, and Li Yunjing learned that Giant Elephant Town placed first while Xunxian Town placed second.
  • Li Yunjing confirmed that all Luozhen Sect cultivators had returned safely, then told Mo Xuan that the alliance leader had killed a Devil Cultivator.
  • Xiao Tianxing told Li Yunjing that the Immortal Alliance would help turn Xunxian Town into an immortal city and appoint him leader of its local branch.
  • Xiao Tianxing explained that the Alliance was strengthening its control after a branch had deceived its superiors and subordinates, and Li Yunjing agreed to prepare.
  • Wang Qianxue asked Li Yunjing why he called Xiao Tianxing “Senior Brother” too.
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