Chapter Summaries

Chu Feng received the dean’s approval to travel with Elder Bing and was assigned to visit Fox Immortal Valley to bring a fox demon to the academy. As Chu Caiyi’s seclusion reached its forty-ninth day, the visualization diagram changed and drew her into a scene of chaos.

• Chu Feng asked the dean for permission to take Elder Bing into the mortal world, and the dean approved while urging him to gain experience beyond Miaomiao Mountain.
• The dean tasked Chu Feng with visiting Great Sage Thousand Illusions at Fox Immortal Valley and bringing a fox demon back to Dao-Seeking Academy, giving him Old Kong’s sachet as a token.
• Chu Feng returned to Miaomiao Mountain and agreed with Elder Bing to travel without disciples, bringing only Golden Eagle after Chu Caiyi made a breakthrough.
• Chu Caiyi continued cultivating after forty-nine days in seclusion, saw a bright moon appear on the Chaos Gods and Devils Visualization Diagram, and found herself standing amid chaos as the moon became a blurry figure.

Chu Caiyi received power from the Taiyin Demon God and broke through to Foundation Establishment, while the Dao-Seeking Academy’s leaders gathered to investigate the lunar phenomenon. The chapter ended with Chu Caiyi thanking Chu Feng for teaching her a supreme cultivation method, as he prepared to explain her unusual condition to the dean.

• Chu Caiyi summoned Taiyin Wangshu, who granted her Supreme Yin Power until her soul reached its limit.
• The moon’s unusual radiance alerted the Dao-Seeking Academy’s leaders, and Chu Feng and Elder Bing went to investigate Chu Caiyi’s courtyard.
• The dean and others gathered outside Chu Caiyi’s room, where her growing power seemed to rival a Half-Saint’s breakthrough.
• As Chu Caiyi endured Taiyin Wangshu’s power, a seal around a second soul in her sea of consciousness cracked.
• Taiyin Wangshu stopped and told Chu Caiyi she had received a trace of her power’s origin and could eventually comprehend the Taiyin Law.
• Chu Caiyi achieved Foundation Establishment, and she thanked Chu Feng for granting her a supreme cultivation method while he agreed to explain her condition to the dean.

Chu Feng explained to the dean that Chu Caiyi carried an empress’s soul and had prepared her to face its awakening. After the dean gave Caiyi a personal token and asked Chu Feng for a birthday gift, Chu Feng and Elder Bing set off south on the Golden-Winged Eagle King.

• The dean examined Chu Caiyi, discovered her sealed second soul, and gave her a personal token for protection.
• The dean confronted Chu Feng about keeping an empress in Caiyi’s body, but Chu Feng explained how he had prepared her with the Chaos Demon God Visualization Method.
• The dean praised Chu Feng’s plan and asked him to make a visualization diagram for his two-thousandth birthday.
• Chu Feng told Caiyi to cultivate the Taiyin True Intent to great perfection before studying other demon gods.
• Chu Feng and Elder Bing boarded the Golden-Winged Eagle King and headed south for a hundred and eight thousand li.

Fang Mu, a household slave fleeing pursuers, encountered Chu Feng and the Golden-Winged Eagle King and sought a chance to become Chu Feng’s disciple. Chu Feng recognized Fang Mu’s unusual potential and told him to choose what he wanted to learn before returning within three days.

• Fang Mu escaped into the Dragon Abyss River as pursuers searched for a demonic man, and the Golden-Winged Eagle King sent them away from Chu Feng’s carriage.
• Fang Mu thanked the eagle and offered to drive the carriage, but the Golden-Winged Eagle King refused and examined his memories.
• The Golden-Winged Eagle King discovered that Fang Mu had secretly learned martial arts, killed the demonic man, and taken a treasure from him.
• Chu Feng noticed Fang Mu’s extraordinary fortune, prevented him from kneeling as a disciple, and offered him an assessment instead.
• Chu Feng and the Golden-Winged Eagle King traveled with Fang Mu to Great Abyss Royal City, where Fang Mu found them a residence.
• Chu Feng told Fang Mu to decide what he wanted to learn and return within three days.

Chu Feng created the Lesser Fate Technique and the Dao De Jing for Fang Mu, then gave him both scrolls as a test of whether he could learn a supreme divine ability. Fang Mu became Chu Feng’s nominal disciple, while the Golden-Winged Eagle King and Bing Yan reacted with shock to Chu Feng’s claim that one scroll contained a divine ability.

• Chu Feng told Fang Mu to return in seven days while he considered a cultivation method that could help him change his fate.
• Chu Feng spent three days writing the Lesser Fate Technique in Dao Script, deepening his comprehension of the Great Dao, then wrote the Dao De Jing to help Fang Mu improve his comprehension.
• After the seven days passed, Fang Mu secretly left the prince’s residence and went to Chu Feng to ask for the technique.
• Chu Feng gave Fang Mu two cultivation scrolls, one to improve his comprehension and one to help him cultivate a supreme divine ability.
• Chu Feng named Fang Mu his nominal disciple and said he had ten years to learn the divine ability before Chu Feng would consider them without a fated connection.

Fang Mu received the Great Dao Script and the Dao De Jing from Chu Feng, then asked to study alchemy. Later, Chu Feng released the Turtle Spirit Earth Fire and discovered it could speak; the fire spirit agreed to follow him, and Chu Feng asked what it could do.

• Chu Feng gave Fang Mu two scrolls, and Fang Mu learned that studying the Dao De Jing would help him comprehend the Great Dao Script.
• Fang Mu asked to study alchemy, and Chu Feng agreed to teach him every day at noon.
• The Golden-Winged Eagle King questioned Chu Feng's alchemy skills, and Chu Feng went to his room to open the treasure box containing the Turtle Spirit Earth Fire.
• Chu Feng subdued the Turtle Spirit Earth Fire with his Half-Saint's pressure, and the fire spirit spoke to him through divine sense.
• The Turtle Spirit Earth Fire offered to serve Chu Feng and sign an equal contract, but Chu Feng refused the contract and asked what abilities it had.

Chu Feng put the Turtle Spirit Earth Fire to work learning alchemy and promised it a chance to devour another Abnormal Fire if it pleased him. He gave Fang Mu an alchemy method and brought out Little Fire to deal with Fang Mu’s problem of controlling a dangerous Earth Spirit Fire.

• Chu Feng taught the Turtle Spirit Earth Fire that night’s lesson would be controlling heat during pill refining, and it eagerly agreed after he promised it could devour another Abnormal Fire someday.
• Bing Yan visited Chu Feng, asked to learn the Great Dao Script, and washed his feet while assuring him she had made progress.
• The following afternoon, Chu Feng gave Fang Mu his Spirit Fire Alchemy Method, and Fang Mu explained that he lacked a suitable spirit fire.
• Fang Mu released the scorching Earth Spirit Fire, but Elder Bing’s chill stopped it from surging through the courtyard.
• Chu Feng summoned Little Fire, whose presence made Fang Mu’s Earth Spirit Fire shrink and tremble; Little Fire asked whether it should put out the inferior flame.

Chu Feng demonstrated alchemy to Fang Mu and helped him contract with a spirit fire, then gave Bing Yan a Heavenly Origin Spirit Pill. Half a month later, Little Fire Spirit mastered the basics of alchemy, and Chu Feng prepared to make it demonstrate its skills in exchange for a high-grade fire crystal stone.

• Chu Feng refined nine Heavenly Origin Spirit Pills while Little Fire Spirit managed the furnace’s heat, impressing the Golden-Winged Eagle King.
• Fang Mu admitted he had only learned to control the fire by shouting, then formed a master-servant contract with his spirit fire.
• Chu Feng gave Bing Yan a pill, and she blushed after their fingers touched.
• For half a month, Chu Feng taught Fang Mu alchemy by day and Little Fire Spirit by night.
• After Little Fire Spirit learned the basics of alchemy, Chu Feng told it to demonstrate its skills the next day and showed it a high-grade fire crystal stone as a possible reward.

Chu Feng demonstrated that the Little Fire Spirit could refine pills, then pushed Fang Mu to improve his alchemy. After Fang Mu successfully refined medicinal paste, Chu Feng gave him a divine sense cultivation method and a jade pendant that could reveal Chu Feng’s identity if Fang Mu comprehended Lesser Fate within ten years.

• The Little Fire Spirit called Chu Feng its Foster Father after he gave it a fire crystal stone, but Chu Feng told it to call him That Lord instead.
• Chu Feng had the Little Fire Spirit refine pills, impressing the Golden-Winged Eagle King and leaving Fang Mu discouraged about his own alchemy.
• Chu Feng challenged Fang Mu to learn the Spirit Fire Alchemy Technique and refine medicinal paste within half a month, promising to teach him a divine sense method if he succeeded.
• Fang Mu practiced diligently and refined a lump of medicinal paste that Chu Feng judged equivalent to two low-grade Body Tempering Pills.
• Chu Feng gave Fang Mu a jade slip containing a divine sense cultivation method and a jade pendant that would reveal Chu Feng’s identity if Fang Mu comprehended Lesser Fate within ten years.

Chu Feng gave Little Fire a fire crystal stone, allowing it to take form as a Nirvana Realm fire spirit turtle, while Fang Mu sold low-grade Body Tempering Pills at the underground black market. Chu Feng named the turtle Rocket Turtle and began discussing Sanskrit and a Dao Script with the Golden-Winged Eagle King.

• Chu Feng gave Little Fire a fire crystal stone, and the spirit began evolving as Chu Feng shielded his residence with magical power.
• Fang Mu disguised himself, sold two bottles of low-grade Body Tempering Pills at the underground black market for silver, and returned to the prince's residence before dawn.
• Little Fire finished taking form as a palm-sized Nirvana Realm fire spirit turtle and thanked Chu Feng for helping him evolve.
• Chu Feng named the fire spirit turtle Rocket Turtle and encouraged him to learn pill and artifact refinement.
• The Golden-Winged Eagle King asked Chu Feng for help reaching the Half-Saint Realm, and Chu Feng said Sanskrit would suit his Buddhist Divine Foot ability better than Great Dao Script.

Chu Feng and his companions left Great Abyss Royal City and took shelter in a ruined mountain god temple, where they encountered a band of young beggars and a group of escorts. As a strange snowstorm began in the sixth month and someone knocked at the temple door, Chu Feng remained absorbed in his writing.

• Chu Feng postponed writing Sanskrit for the Golden-Winged Eagle King, promised to write Great Dao Script for Bing Yan first, and left Great Abyss Royal City with his companions.
• Several days later, Chu Feng stopped at a ruined temple and continued writing Great Dao Script while the Golden-Winged Eagle King kept watch.
• Seven or eight young beggars arrived, and Bing Yan invited them to share the temple; their leader warned them to avoid offending the arriving escorts.
• The chief escort entered with his group and treated Chu Feng respectfully, explaining that Chu Feng's calm manner showed he could defeat them effortlessly.
• As night fell, the wind strengthened and snow began to fall in the sixth month; Chu Feng let Bing Yan massage his shoulders while the escorts prepared for danger.
• Someone knocked on the temple door, interrupting the occupants.

A monk named Du'e discovered that Xiao Wu was a reincarnated spirit child and offered to take him into the Buddhist order, while Chu Feng watched without intending to claim the boy as a disciple. Before Xiao Wu could leave with Du'e, the Snow Toad Demon General arrived to seize him and challenge the monk.

• A beggar boy named Xiao Wu was revealed as a reincarnated spirit child after Buddhist light surrounded him in the temple.
• Du'e promised to care for Xiao Wu and his friends, but warned that demons and evil cultivators would target the boy if he did not join the Buddhist order.
• Xiao Wu agreed to leave with Du'e after a few days, asking the monk to help find a suitable place for Big Sis and the other beggars.
• The Snow Toad Demon General stormed into the temple with demon soldiers and announced that he had come to capture Xiao Wu.
• Du'e recognized the demon general, who revealed that his king had learned of Xiao Wu first and challenged the monk to fight.

At a snowbound temple, the Golden-Winged Eagle King saved Chu Feng’s group by devouring the Snow Toad Demon General after Du'e was defeated. The next morning, Du'e told the eagle he had an affinity with Buddha, but the Golden-Winged Eagle King insisted Du'e had an affinity with him and invited him to become his servant.

• Du'e fought the Snow Toad Demon General with Buddhist light, but the demon’s icy breath and demon core overwhelmed him.
• The Snow Toad Demon General threatened to eat the humans and singled out Bing Yan, then the Golden-Winged Eagle King slapped him and revealed his strength.
• The Golden-Winged Eagle King devoured the Snow Toad Demon General and drove the surviving lesser demons from the temple.
• The Golden-Winged Eagle King dismissed the escorts’ thanks, while Chu Feng calmly washed his feet as Bing Yan had prepared.
• The next morning, Du'e asked to speak with the Golden-Winged Eagle King and said the eagle had an affinity with Buddha.
• The Golden-Winged Eagle King rejected Du'e’s claim and invited him to stop being a monk and serve him instead.

Chu Feng rejected the young beggars who asked to become his disciples, then discovered that Big Sister, Chen Qianqian, had blood-baleful fortune and was destined to become a devil. Rather than fear her future, he offered to take her as his disciple, and she accepted.

• Monk Du'e failed to persuade the Golden-Winged Eagle King to join the Buddhist order and left after being rebuffed.
• The young beggars asked the Golden-Winged Eagle King to accept them as disciples, and he directed them to Chu Feng.
• Chu Feng tested the beggars, rejected the thick-lipped boy as no genius, and sent them away.
• Chu Feng noticed Big Sister's blood-baleful fortune and learned that Du'e considered her inauspicious.
• Chu Feng told Chen Qianqian he knew she was not human and offered to make her his disciple despite her feared future as a devil.
• Chen Qianqian accepted Chu Feng as her honored master.

Chu Feng left Chen Qianqian in the escort chief’s care before taking her as his disciple, and the group later settled in Linjiang City. As they headed to the Dragon King Festival with Bing Yan, Chen Qianqian asked why Chu Feng and Bing Yan called each other “Young Master” and “Miss,” leaving Bing Yan watching Chu Feng expectantly.

• Chu Feng transformed Chen Qianqian, gave the escort chief a cultivation technique, and entrusted him with caring for the young beggars.
• Chen Qianqian said goodbye to the other beggars before leaving with Chu Feng, while Monk Du'e returned to Namo Temple.
• The escort chief persuaded the escorts and beggars to establish their own force and keep their opportunity secret.
• In Linjiang City, Chu Feng gave the Golden-Winged Eagle King the Buddha's Parinirvana Sutra and urged him to comprehend the Buddhist Dao.
• Chen Qianqian asked Chu Feng and Bing Yan to take her to the Dragon King Festival, then wondered why they called each other “Young Master” and “Miss.”

Chu Feng and Bing Yan attended Linjiang City's Dragon King Festival with Chen Qianqian, but the sacrifice provoked a demon disguised as the Dragon King. After the demon threatened the city and revealed himself as Marquis One-Horn, Chu Feng challenged him.

• Chu Feng carried Chen Qianqian so she could watch the Dragon King Festival, where the city offered demonic beasts to the Linjiang River.
• A colossal wave surged toward the Dragon King Temple, and Bing Yan froze it before it could strike.
• The voice from the river demanded two hundred young boys and girls as sacrifices, but the Linjiang City lord refused.
• The impostor unleashed Yao Qi and attacked the city lord, but an unseen voice suppressed the demon's power.
• Marquis One-Horn emerged from the river as a gigantic one-horned flood dragon and demanded to know who had thwarted him.
• Chu Feng spoke from the crowd and challenged Marquis One-Horn to choose how he wanted to die.

Chu Feng protected Linjiang City from Marquis One-Horn and taught Chen Qianqian her first lesson by letting her slay the flood dragon herself. He left with Chen Qianqian after she received the dragon’s corpse, while the city lord realized she was a heaven’s chosen of Dao-Seeking Academy.

• Chu Feng explained to Chen Qianqian that his lesser righteousness was acting with a clear conscience, then dismissed Marquis One-Horn’s Yao wind with a word.
• Marquis One-Horn fled toward the Linjiang River, and Chu Feng taught Chen Qianqian to use the word “Slay” to kill him with a sword strike.
• Chu Feng told the stunned crowd to resume the music and dancing, and the city lord thanked him for saving Linjiang City.
• Chu Feng credited Chen Qianqian with slaying the flood dragon, and the city lord presented her with its corpse.
• Chu Feng and his companions vanished with Chen Qianqian, and the city lord recognized her as a heaven’s chosen of Dao-Seeking Academy.

Bai Long visited Chu Feng at midnight to repay him for saving his soul, inviting him to a True God’s ruin beneath the Linjiang River. Chu Feng followed Bai Long to the underwater residence and reached the ruin’s entrance.

• Bai Long appeared at the inn and invited Chu Feng to visit a ruin beneath the Linjiang River as thanks for killing Marquis One-Horn.
• Bing Yan and the Golden-Winged Eagle King warned Chu Feng not to trust Bai Long, but Chu Feng identified himself as Chu Feng of the Dao-Seeking Academy and went with him.
• Bai Long led Chu Feng through the river to his empty underwater residence and explained that Marquis One-Horn had attacked to seize Incense-Faith Power for the Thousand-Foot King.
• Bai Long brought Chu Feng to an ancestral hall, honored the True God whose inheritance he had received, and opened a teleportation formation to the ruin.

Chu Feng and Bai Long explored a fallen True God's temple, where Chu Feng discovered and sealed the Netherworld Ice Flame after it defeated Rocket Turtle. They entered a chamber crowded with departed souls, and Chu Feng recognized it as the legendary Yellow Springs Road.

• Chu Feng brought Rocket Turtle into the small world and followed Bai Long through the temple's first four palaces.
• Chu Feng found a Netherworld Ice Flame hidden beneath a restriction and watched it overpower Rocket Turtle.
• Chu Feng sealed the Netherworld Ice Flame, stopped Rocket Turtle from devouring it, and stored it in a bottle.
• Bai Long led Chu Feng and Rocket Turtle through a door into a chamber filled with departed souls.
• Chu Feng identified the chamber as the legendary Yellow Springs Road.

Chu Feng broke through the Yellow Springs Road by reciting a Buddhist scripture, picked the Other Shore Flower, and entered the fifth palace. There, he discovered that a Saint Realm Qilin’s skeleton had been the source of the palace’s power, and touching its beast core triggered a sudden change.

• Chu Feng recited a Buddhist scripture until the Yellow Springs Road vanished and revealed a courtyard with an Other Shore Flower.
• Chu Feng used Ten Thousand Swords Return to One to cut the flower, then stored it so Bai Long could continue guiding them.
• Chu Feng, Bai Long, and Rocket Turtle reached the fifth palace, where they sensed the presence of a Saint Realm expert.
• Chu Feng entered the palace and found a giant Qilin skeleton; Bai Long identified it as a Saint Realm Qilin.
• Chu Feng located the Qilin’s beast core inside its skull and touched it, triggering a sudden change in the palace.