Chapter Summaries

Wang Qianxue tasked Li Yunjing with warning the Hundred Yue Mountain barbarians about an impending devil-path attack and gave him a Heavenly Escape Talisman. As Li Yunjing prepared to travel with other righteous cultivators, Su Shanyuan arrived to thank him for helping the Golden Scale Sect secure a trade for a True Beast-Taming Method.

• Wang Qianxue told Li Yunjing that identical letters had warned several powers of a devil-path plot at the Hundred Yue Mountain worship ceremony, and she asked him to warn the barbarians.
• Wang Qianxue gave Li Yunjing a Heavenly Escape Talisman and explained that devil cultivators had been sighted near Hundred Yue Mountain, corroborating the letter.
• Li Yunjing returned to the Luozhen Sect and prepared to travel to Hundred Yue Mountain with other righteous cultivators, planning gifts for the tribes.
• Su Shanyuan visited Li Yunjing and thanked him because the Golden Scale Sect had secured the Jin Household's eldest master's agreement to trade a True Beast-Taming Method.

Su Shanyuan gave Li Yunjing the original True Beast-Taming Method and offered three Golden Scale Sect treasures in gratitude for his help. After Li accepted the gifts, he asked whether a Pantian Blood Spirit Peach pit could be planted to grow a tree, and Su Shanyuan cautioned him against investing too much effort in it.

• Su Shanyuan handed Li Yunjing the original True Beast-Taming Method, as they had agreed.
• Su Shanyuan offered Li ten Mad Beast Pills, five Pantian Blood Spirit Peaches, and offspring from the Golden Scale Sect's three Demon Core patriarchs to repay his favor.
• Su Shanyuan explained that the True Beast-Taming Method could eventually let the Golden Scale Sect raise a Spirit Communication Demon Beast, convincing Li to accept the gifts.
• Su Shanyuan showed Li the Mad Beast Pills, including one containing the soul of a snake demon that had nearly become a flood dragon, and explained how long the peaches took to grow.
• Li Yunjing asked whether a Pantian Blood Spirit Peach pit could grow into a peach tree, and Su Shanyuan said it could but advised him not to devote too much effort to it.

Li Yunjing accepted three spirit beasts and five Blood Spirit Peaches from Su Shanyuan, then studied the Beast King True Scripture and ate a peach to advance his cultivation. He began refining its spiritual power while keeping the pit to grow a future tree.

• Su Shanyuan explained that cultivating Pantian Blood Spirit Peach trees was extremely difficult and asked Li Yunjing to share his method if he succeeded; Li agreed.
• Su Shanyuan gave Li Yunjing a white ape descended from the Golden Scale Sect's mountain-guarding ape, along with a Cloud-Piercing Tiger and a Thunderous Leopard.
• Li Yunjing and Su Shanyuan agreed to travel together to Hundred Yue Mountain in two days, where Devil Cultivators planned to cause trouble.
• After Su Shanyuan left, Li Yunjing instructed Mo Xuan to care for the three spirit beasts and store the Mad Beast Pills and four Blood Spirit Peaches.
• Li Yunjing read the Beast King True Scripture and saw that it could raise ordinary Demon Beasts to Spirit Communication, though it demanded vast resources.
• Li Yunjing ate a Blood Spirit Peach, kept its pit as a seed, and began refining its spiritual power with the Supreme Unity Pure Subtlety Scripture.

After reaching the Middle Golden Core stage, Li Yunjing prepared to attend the Hundred Yue Mountain god-worship ceremony, leaving the Luozhen Sect in Zhang Hanpeng’s care. He accepted Shen Chun’s children as future outer disciples and traveled with Liu Yiyi aboard the Xunxian Town Immortal Alliance’s flying ship, where Sikong Ying noticed his rapid breakthrough.

• Li Yunjing learned that Ding Qifeng, Mo Xuan, and Shui Yao were all in seclusion, then entrusted Zhang Hanpeng with the Chang Soldiers Jar and instructions to protect the Luozhen Sect and seek help if danger arose.
• Li Yunjing found Liu Yiyi ready to accompany him to Hundred Yue Mountain, and she told him Shen Chun wanted to speak with him.
• Shen Chun asked Li Yunjing to accept his son, who had a third-grade Spirit Root and Wood Spirit Body, and his daughter, who had a fourth-grade Spirit Root, into the Luozhen Sect; Li Yunjing agreed to consider them outer disciples after his return.
• Li Yunjing and Liu Yiyi boarded the Xunxian Town Immortal Alliance’s flying ship bound for Hundred Yue Mountain.
• Sikong Ying met Li Yunjing on the ship’s deck and remarked in shock that he had advanced again only about a month and a half after reaching Core Formation.

Li Yunjing and Sikong Ying discussed an unverified warning that the Fire-Wielding Tribe had fallen to the Devil Dao and planned to ambush righteous cultivators at Hundred Yue Mountain. Li Yunjing arrived at the Heavenly Ox Tribe for its god-worship ceremony with a crowded group of cultivators, surprising Pan.

• Sikong Ying told Li Yunjing that scouts reported the Fire-Wielding Tribe's chief and shaman had joined the Devil Dao and planned to trap the righteous cultivators, though the scouts disappeared before finding evidence.
• Sikong Ying said she had prepared a Dao Life Talisman to summon Immortal Alliance reinforcements if needed.
• Chang Xu and fellow cultivators from the Great Howl Monastery boarded the flying ship, and more righteous cultivators joined as it traveled toward Hundred Yue Mountain.
• Li Yunjing and the others reached the Heavenly Ox Tribe, where Pan welcomed them and asked whether Li Yunjing had come alone.
• The cultivators aboard the flying ship streamed out into the sky, leaving Pan astonished at how many guests Li Yunjing had brought.

Li Yunjing and his companions arrived at the Heavenly Ox Tribe for its God-Worshipping ceremony, where Chief Yan and the Heavenly Ox Shaman welcomed them. The shaman asked Li Yunjing to supply cultivation pills in exchange for valuable spiritual items and the chance to preside over the ceremony, leaving Li Yunjing wondering whether he would become the first outsider to do so.

• Li Yunjing brought a group of righteous-path cultivators to the Heavenly Ox Tribe, and Pan welcomed them to the ceremony.
• Pan led the visitors to a stone house whose interior opened into a vast Mustard Seed Space, where Chief Yan greeted them.
• Yan thanked Li Yunjing for helping the tribe through a crisis and hosted the guests with food and wine.
• The Heavenly Ox Shaman asked Li Yunjing to obtain cultivation pills for the tribe's young people, offering spiritual items of equal value in return.
• The Heavenly Ox Shaman offered Li Yunjing the honor of presiding over the God-Worshipping ceremony, and Li Yunjing wondered if he would set a precedent as an outsider.

Li Yunjing agreed to preside over the Heavenly Ox Tribe’s ritual, then learned that an Extraterrestrial Heavenly Devil might have appeared in Hundred Yue Mountain. Before the ritual could begin, the Fire-Wielding Tribe summoned the smaller tribes to attend its own grand ritual.

• The Heavenly Ox Shaman and Yan persuaded Li Yunjing to preside over the Heavenly Ox Tribe’s ritual, and he joined the tribe’s preparations.
• Sikong Ying told Li Yunjing that demonic cultivators had gathered near a crater where a living creature had fallen, and he suspected an Extraterrestrial Heavenly Devil was involved.
• Sikong Ying left to contact the Immortal Alliance headquarters while Li Yunjing continued learning the ritual from the Heavenly Ox Shaman.
• A Wind-Chasing Eagle raised by the Fire-Wielding Tribe arrived, and a barbarian announced that the smaller tribes had to attend the Fire-Wielding Tribe’s grand ritual.

Li Yunjing was left to preside over the Heavenly Ox Tribe’s offering while the shaman and Yan went to the Fire-Wielding Tribe’s unusual grand offering. With Li Shan’s help, Li Yunjing began the ceremony and lit the sacrificial fire, hoping the Fire-Wielding Tribe’s sudden change did not confirm Sikong Ying’s warning.

• The Heavenly Ox shaman left Li Yunjing in charge of the tribe’s offering while he and Yan went to the Fire-Wielding Tribe’s grand offering.
• Li Yunjing grew suspicious that the Fire-Wielding Tribe’s unusual ceremony supported Sikong Ying’s claim that its chief and shaman had fallen to the demonic path, and he sent a steward to warn Sikong Ying.
• Pan brought Li Yunjing to the Heavenly Ox statue, where he met the previous shaman, Li Shan, who agreed to guide him through the offering.
• Li Shan dictated the heavenly document, and Li Yunjing wrote it in the ancient etching script he had studied.
• Pan lit the pile of Demon Beast bones and blood, starting the great fire for the offering.

During the Heavenly Ox Tribe’s sacrifice, Li Yunjing awakened the Heavenly Ox God, who revealed that a crisis threatened Hundred Yue Mountain and chose Li Yunjing to help resolve it. After hearing about the Fire-Wielding Tribe’s strange behavior and a pit filled with demonic Qi, the god sent Li Yunjing to investigate.

• Li Yunjing threw the Heavenly Book and offerings into the fire, whose booms and crackling astonished the Heavenly Ox Tribe and signaled the god’s awakening.
• Li Yunjing met the golden, ringed slug-like Heavenly Ox God in a white space, and the god explained that a crisis on Hundred Yue Mountain had prompted its awakening.
• The Heavenly Ox God returned with Li Yunjing to the fire and chose him as its partner, saying it needed to borrow his body to address the crisis.
• Li Yunjing told the Heavenly Ox God what he knew, including the Fire-Wielding Tribe’s unusual actions and the pit filled with demonic Qi.
• The Heavenly Ox God told Li Yunjing to go to the Fire-Wielding Tribe and check whether the pit was the source of the foul stench.

Li Yunjing traveled with Pan and Liu Yiyi toward the Fire-Wielding Tribe after the Heavenly Ox God suspected something was wrong there. Near the tribe, they found its wounded god, and the Heavenly Ox God told Li Yunjing to heal him and send Pan and Liu Yiyi back.

• The Heavenly Ox God told Li Yunjing that the Fire-Wielding Tribe might be the source of the trouble and promised to protect him.
• Li Yunjing asked Pan to lead him and Liu Yiyi toward the Fire-Wielding Tribe, and they rented Lightning Eagles at a relay station.
• As they approached the tribe's volcano, the Heavenly Ox God sensed a pure Devil Creature and directed Li Yunjing away from the tribe.
• The Heavenly Ox God led Li Yunjing to a huge tree, where he found the Fire-Wielding Tribe's god—a crimson snake—badly wounded.
• The Heavenly Ox God told Li Yunjing to heal the snake and ask about the tribe, and to send Pan and Liu Yiyi back to the Heavenly Ox Tribe.

Li Yunjing learned that Extraterrestrial Heavenly Devils had attacked the Fire-Wielding God and poisoned the Fire-Wielding Tribe during its god-worshipping ceremony. With the Heavenly Ox God and the recovering Fire-Wielding God beside him, he reached the tribe and asked them to kill the Devil Cultivators responsible.

• Pan and Liu Yiyi left on Lightning Eagles after Li Yunjing told them he would stay.
• The Fire-Wielding God explained that eight Extraterrestrial Heavenly Devils had arrived: one was sacrificed, he killed five, and three remained after they used a devil talisman to ambush him.
• The Heavenly Ox God and Fire-Wielding God joined Li Yunjing on his Lightning Eagle and headed for the Fire-Wielding Tribe.
• At the tribe gates, the Heavenly Ox God healed the poisoned guards, while the Fire-Wielding God revealed that most ceremony attendees had also been poisoned.
• Li Yunjing saw Yan, the Heavenly Ox Shaman, and righteous-path cultivators among the victims as the Heavenly Ox God treated them.
• Devil Cultivators spotted Li Yunjing overhead, and he asked the two gods to kill them.

The Heavenly Ox God took control of Li Yunjing and destroyed the Devil Cultivators on Hundred Yue Mountain, while the Fire-Wielding God purified the sinkhole with the Three Karmas Heavenly Fire. After the gods prepared to leave, the Fire-Wielding God bit Li Yunjing and left a mysterious mark on his neck.

• The Heavenly Ox God possessed Li Yunjing and killed the Devil Cultivators in the Fire-Wielding Tribe with a roar.
• The Heavenly Ox God destroyed the Fire-Wielding Tribe's chief, shaman, and grand commander with five-colored rainbow light.
• The Heavenly Ox God and Fire-Wielding God sent cleansing rain over Hundred Yue Mountain, killing hidden Devil Cultivators and invigorating the righteous cultivators.
• The Fire-Wielding God used the Three Karmas Heavenly Fire to erase the devil Qi in the sinkhole after receiving a drop of Hundred Star Dew.
• The Heavenly Ox God returned control of his body to Li Yunjing, granted him a blessing, and gave him a drop of Hundred Star Dew.
• The Fire-Wielding God bit Li Yunjing on the neck, leaving a mysterious crimson mark.

Li Yunjing received the Myriad Fires Incantation and a seed of the Three Karmas Heavenly Fire from the Fire-Wielding God, then returned to the Heavenly Ox Tribe as a celebrated hero. The Heavenly Ox God revealed that he had arranged the acclaim to help open Hundred Yue Mountain to the outside world, and tribes from across the mountain arrived to thank Li Yunjing.

• The Fire-Wielding God bestowed the Myriad Fires Incantation on Li Yunjing and gave him a seed of the Three Karmas Heavenly Fire, which he absorbed and learned to control.
• Li Yunjing returned to the Heavenly Ox Tribe on the Lightning Eagle, where Li Shan and the others explained that the rain had killed the Devil Cultivators and cleared the Devil Qi from Hundred Yue Mountain.
• The Heavenly Ox God admitted that he had made Li Yunjing a hero to encourage the tribes to connect with the outside world, and Li Yunjing agreed to help.
• Pan arranged a grand banquet for Li Yunjing, and Feng, leader of the Kui Tribe, arrived to thank him.
• More barbarians arrived from across Hundred Yue Mountain to thank Li Yunjing for resolving the crisis.

After helping defeat the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Devils and secure support from tribes in Hundred Yue Mountain, Li Yunjing returned to the Luozhen Sect. He wrote to the sect’s ancestral land about a possible visit, then reviewed the sect’s growth and found that his cave abode could not yet be upgraded.

• Li Yunjing left the Heavenly Ox Tribe despite Yan, the Heavenly Ox Shaman, and Pan urging him to stay, then discussed the battle with Sikong Ying aboard the flying ship without revealing how he defeated the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Devils.
• Li Yunjing returned safely to the Luozhen Sect and found that Mo Xuan and the others remained in seclusion.
• Li Yunjing wrote to the Luozhen Sect’s ancestral land, asking about its situation and proposing that its members join his sect or receive resources, then paid Feiyao to deliver the letter.
• Li Yunjing checked the sect panel and saw that the Luozhen Sect had reached quasi-third-rank status and that its Spirit Field might soon be upgraded after a new spirit farmer was trained.
• Li Yunjing attempted to upgrade his cave abode but found he lacked the required cultivation and Spirit Vein Pavilion level.

Li Yunjing inspected the cultivation rooms’ upgrade and discovered that their next level could grant a chance to produce a Special Spirit Bone. He then visited Nangong Ye in the flourishing medicine garden and asked what reward she wanted for her work.

• Li Yunjing upgraded the cultivation rooms to lv7 and saw that lv8 would require fifteen taels of third-grade Five Elements Spirit Sand.
• Li Yunjing learned that lv8 cultivation rooms could give cultivators a chance to develop a Special Spirit Bone.
• Li Yunjing visited Nangong Ye in the medicine garden, where she showed him its thriving spirit medicines and the timid Medicine Spirits that helped care for them.
• Li Yunjing praised Nangong Ye’s work and asked what reward she wanted.

Li Yunjing upgraded the medicine garden, Disciple Quarters, and artifact-refining room, revealing stronger benefits and new upgrade requirements. After the artifact-refining room reached level four, the artifact refiners reacted to a flying sword bearing three runes that Li Yunjing could read as Void Breaking, Indestructible, and Swiftness.

• Nangong Ye suggested expanding the medicine garden, and Li Yunjing upgraded it after building a Moonlight Condensing Dew Array.
• Li Yunjing learned that the medicine garden's next level would let Medicine Spirits speed up the accumulation of medicinal potency.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Disciple Quarters and reviewed its improved rest, cultivation, and Dao-comprehension effects.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the artifact-refining room while its five refiners worked, as three of them had begun attempting top-grade, first-rank Law Artifacts.
• The artifact refiners shouted in surprise at a hovering flying sword with three runes, which Li Yunjing identified as Void Breaking, Indestructible, and Swiftness.

Li Yunjing explained rune inscription to the artifact refiners and upgraded the talisman room and Spirit Cuisine Pavilion. Feiyao returned with news that no Luozhen Sect existed on Black Mountain, so Li Yunjing sent him back to investigate whether it had ever been there and what had happened to it.

• Li Yunjing explained the three runes’ effects to Deng Ju and the other artifact refiners, and told them to master the runes and keep them secret.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the talisman room, unlocking stronger effects and a chance to raise a spirit talisman by one grade.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Spirit Cuisine Pavilion, which gained a chance to permanently increase Root Bone when Food Nourishment triggered.
• Feiyao returned and told Li Yunjing that the Black Mountain mountain god confirmed there was no Luozhen Sect there.
• Li Yunjing asked Feiyao to find out whether the Luozhen Sect had ever existed on Black Mountain and, if so, what had happened to it.

Li Yunjing upgraded the Beast Taming Grounds and learned that its next level could give newborn Demon Beasts Special Bloodlines, then upgraded the Spirit Vein Pavilion after confirming the valley’s Spirit Vein had reached third rank and was likely to remain. Chu Chenzhou asked for support with Core Formation, and Li Yunjing agreed once Chu reached Foundation Establishment Perfection.

• Li Yunjing upgraded the Beast Taming Grounds to lv4 and discovered that lv5 could give newborn Demon Beasts a chance to be born with Special Bloodlines.
• Li Yunjing learned from Chu Chenzhou that the Spirit Vein beneath Serene Valley had advanced to third rank and seemed likely to stay there.
• Chu Chenzhou asked Li Yunjing to support his Core Formation, and Li Yunjing agreed while telling him to first reach Foundation Establishment Perfection.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Spirit Vein Pavilion to lv2 and saw that its next level would track core parameters and produce Five Phases Spiritual Qi.

Li Yunjing upgraded the Spirit Vein Pavilion and several sect buildings, then considered building a Hall of Heroic Spirits to make use of the Luozhen Sect’s reputation. He also upgraded his cave abode to lv8 and was unimpressed by its tiny chance of permanently increasing his attributes.

• Li Yunjing upgraded the Spirit Vein Pavilion, which began producing Five Phases Spiritual Qi and 200 Low-Grade Spirit Stones each month.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Welcoming Immortal Pavilion, Hall of Rebirth, and Treasure Storage Pavilion, improving their effects and unlocking new functions.
• Li Yunjing considered constructing a Hall of Heroic Spirits that might use reputation to summon the Luozhen Sect’s sages and support his claims about Patriarch Luozhen’s manifestations.
• Li Yunjing met the requirements to upgrade his cave abode and raised it from lv7 to lv8.
• Li Yunjing saw that Earth Vein Resonance would have a one-percent chance to permanently increase all attributes by 0.1 percent and questioned how weak the effect was.

After learning that the Luozhen Sect’s ancestral grounds had been driven from Black Mountain and now lived at Flying Dragon Stronghold, Li Yunjing decided to visit and invite them to Serene Valley. He reached their hidden valley and identified himself to the guards, who hurried to report his arrival.

• Feiyao told Li Yunjing that the Luozhen Sect had moved to Flying Dragon Stronghold after the Red Saber Sect and its allies seized a five-hundred-year-old spirit medicine and forced them out of Black Mountain.
• Feiyao described the ancestral Luozhen Sect as a small group with one foundation establishment perfection cultivator, five other foundation establishment cultivators, and no Golden Core cultivators.
• Li Yunjing decided to visit the ancestral grounds and hoped to persuade them to join the Luozhen Sect in Serene Valley, where he could help their elderly senior form his core.
• Li Yunjing told Lü Hong to inform Mo Xuan of his trip, then traveled from Serene Valley to Black Mountain and asked rogue cultivators for directions to Flying Dragon Stronghold.
• Li Yunjing found the Luozhen Sect’s concealed valley and told its guards that he was Li Yunjing, sect master of the Qingyou Luozhen Sect, and had come to visit the ancestral grounds.
• One guard hurried into the valley to report Li Yunjing’s arrival to the sect master.