Chapter Summaries

Xu Caichen brought Xiao Chen and Cao Youqian to meet Bai Suxin’s father, Hei Yanjiao, at the Hei Yan Water Manor. After Cao Youqian and Xiao Chen revealed their identities and intimidated the sea folk, Xu Caichen formally asked Hei Yanjiao to give Bai Suxin to him in marriage.

• Xu Caichen introduced himself to Hei Yanjiao as Bai Suxin’s husband and said he had joined the Dao-Seeking Academy, but the sea folk mocked his claim.
• Cao Youqian seized Hei Bing for impersonating him and revealed his Dao Integration Realm power and Divine Physique, frightening the hall into silence.
• Xu Caichen explained that Xiao Chen and Cao Youqian were his senior brothers, and Xiao Chen revealed himself as the Invincible Sword, shocking Hei Yanjiao and the sea folk.
• Xu Caichen asked Cao Youqian to spare Hei Bing, and Cao Youqian released him before Xu Caichen and Bai Suxin joined the feast.
• After three rounds of wine, Xu Caichen presented gifts and formally asked Hei Yanjiao to give Bai Suxin to him in marriage.

Cao Youqian and Xiao Chen got Hei Yanjiao to accompany them to the Azure Flood Dragon King's Palace to break off Xu Caichen and Suxin's engagement. There, Qing Jinjiao confronted Xu Caichen over Suxin, and Xu Caichen calmly asked how he wanted to settle the matter.

• Hei Yanjiao agreed to take Cao Youqian, Xiao Chen, and their companions to the Azure Flood Dragon Clan, while White Head Turtle advised him to warn the clan and imply that he had been coerced.
• Chu Feng approved Cao Youqian's handling of the matter and said he looked forward to Hei Yanjiao stirring up trouble.
• Three days later, Chu Feng and his companions traveled with Hei Yanjiao's procession to the Azure Flood Dragon King's Palace, where a hundred thousand soldiers stood ready.
• Qing Jinjiao arrived and demanded that Xu Caichen come out and meet his death.
• Xu Caichen faced Qing Jinjiao and insisted that Suxin was already his wife; Qing Jinjiao rejected his claim, and Xu Caichen asked how he wanted to settle the dispute.

Xu Caichen fought Qing Jinjiao in a duel to decide who would marry Suxin, using the holy sword Lord Heaven and verses that turned into sword strikes. After defeating Qing Jinjiao, Xu Caichen faced his final desperate attack and unleashed a blinding finishing stroke as Qing Jinjiao called for his father.

• Qing Jinjiao challenged Xu Caichen to a duel, and they agreed that the loser would withdraw from the marriage to Suxin.
• Xu Caichen drew the holy sword Lord Heaven and answered Qing Jinjiao's trident attacks with sword strokes formed from poetry.
• Xu Caichen sent Qing Jinjiao flying and cut his mouth when the flood dragon resumed the fight.
• Xu Caichen wounded Qing Jinjiao severely and declared that he had lost.
• Qing Jinjiao charged again with dragon flame, so Xu Caichen unleashed a brilliant final sword stroke as Qing Jinjiao cried for his father to save him.

Xu Caichen, Cao Youqian, and Xiao Chen confronted the Azure Flood Dragon King’s Palace after Qing Jinjiao called for his father, and the dispute escalated into a fight between the Dao-Seeking Academy’s disciples and the flood dragons. Cao Youqian faced the one-horned flood dragon while Xiao Chen met Marquis Qingfeng, and their battle began.

• The Azure Flood Dragon King arrived to defend Qing Jinjiao, who claimed his father had the final say over his marriage.
• Cao Youqian mocked the flood dragons and reminded the Azure Flood Dragon King that he had broken Old Six’s claw, though he denied killing Old Six’s son.
• Xiao Chen and Cao Youqian challenged the Azure Flood Dragon King’s Palace to settle their grudges, and the king assigned Marquis Qingfeng to fight Xiao Chen and Old Six to fight Cao Youqian.
• Old Six transformed into a giant flood dragon and engulfed Cao Youqian in Inextinguishable Azure Flame, while Cao Youqian made no effort to resist.
• Marquis Qingfeng transformed and attacked Xiao Chen with Jin Gang Dragon Claw Hand, and Xiao Chen drew his sword and swung it.

Xiao Chen and Cao Youqian overwhelmed the Azure Flood Dragon King's forces, and Xiao Chen fought the king until an ancestral dragon scale protected him from a fatal sword strike. The king challenged Xiao Chen to produce an ancestral treasure, and Xiao Chen drew out a Sword Jade.

• Xiao Chen severed Marquis Qingfeng's claw and struck him down despite the Azure Flood Dragon King's command to stop.
• Cao Youqian emerged unhurt from the azure flames, seized the One-Horned Flood Dragon General's pearl, and broke his horn.
• Xiao Chen revealed his identity, while Cao Youqian pinned the One-Horned Flood Dragon King and began pulling out his tendon.
• The Azure Flood Dragon King transformed and fought Xiao Chen, who dispelled his true dragon phantom with Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin.
• The king burned his lifespan and unleashed a stronger dragon manifestation, but Xiao Chen pierced it with Ten Thousand Swords Return to One; an ancestral dragon scale protected the king.
• The Azure Flood Dragon King challenged Xiao Chen to bring out a treasure left by his ancestor, and Xiao Chen produced a Sword Jade.

Xiao Chen and Cao Youqian killed the Azure Flood Dragon King, but Ancestor Qinglin arrived and trapped them with his dragon's might. Chu Feng stepped in to protect his disciples and declared that Qinglin was already caught in a game, just as an upheaval struck the East Sea.

• A sword strike from the Sword Jade pierced the Azure Flood Dragon King and sent him crashing to the seabed.
• Ancestor Qinglin appeared, learned Xiao Chen and Cao Youqian had killed his descendant, and pinned them with his dragon's might.
• Xiao Chen and Cao Youqian defied Ancestor Qinglin, while Chu Feng spoke from Hei Yanjiao's carriage and dispersed the pressure with a step.
• Chu Feng identified himself as head of the Dao-Seeking Academy's Miscellaneous Dao Institute and said Xiao Chen and Daqian were his disciples.
• Ancestor Qinglin refused Chu Feng's offer to settle the dispute with a game, and Chu Feng warned that Qinglin was already on the board as an upheaval struck the East Sea.

Chu Feng trapped Ancestor Qinglin on a chessboard and let Chen Qianqian make a move against him. After Qinglin was badly wounded and conceded, Chu Feng asked how he would settle the dispute, and Qinglin agreed to let the young people handle their own affairs.

• Ancestor Qinglin attacked Chu Feng’s chessboard but failed to break free as nearby sea cultivators gathered to watch.
• Great Sage Golden Wing recognized Chu Feng’s chess technique and confidently predicted he would defeat Qinglin.
• Chu Feng invited Chen Qianqian to choose a chess game, and she placed a piece on the board at his encouragement.
• Chen Qianqian’s move transformed into countless swords that wounded Ancestor Qinglin across the board.
• Ancestor Qinglin conceded and agreed to let the young people settle their own affairs, so Chu Feng dismissed the chessboard.

Chu Feng defeated Ancestor Qinglin and helped Xu Caichen settle the broken marriage arrangement with Qing Jinjiao, then the group returned to Xu Manor. After reuniting Bai Suxin with her son, Xu Caichen prepared to leave the Wu Kingdom with Chu Feng and his companions.

• Ancestor Qinglin conceded defeat and left after Chu Feng spared him, while the gathered cultivators marveled at Chu Feng's strength.
• Xu Caichen reclaimed and destroyed the marriage contract with Qing Jinjiao, who gave up the betrothal gifts and let the group go.
• At Hei Yan Water Manor, Chu Feng left the family matters to Xu Caichen and Bai Suxin, and Hei Yanjiao begged Chu Feng's forgiveness.
• Chu Feng and his companions returned to Xu Manor, where Bai Suxin reunited with her son, Xu Hanlin.
• Three days later, Xu Caichen gave his sister and brother-in-law a protective calligraphy sheet before leaving Lin'an City with Chu Feng and the others.

After returning to Miaomiao Mountain, Chu Feng spent forty-nine days composing Lord Lao's Heart Sutra of Purity and Tranquility to help his disciples steady their Dao hearts. The completed scripture released a ray of light that enveloped the mountain.

• The dean praised Chu Feng for avoiding a major conflict with the dragon clan, and the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion later ranked him first on the Great Sage Ranking as Great Sage Qiankun.
• Chu Feng returned to Dao-Seeking City with his companions, while Xu Caichen arranged a home there for Bai Suxin and Xu Hanlin.
• Cao Youqian told Chu Feng he had hit a bottleneck, and Chu Feng promised to write texts to help his disciples settle their Dao hearts.
• Chu Feng pondered what scripture to write, then took a walk with Bing Yan and decided to focus on the Lord Lao's Heart Sutra of Purity and Tranquility.
• Chu Feng spent forty-nine days inscribing the complete scripture onto Dao jade, and its light enveloped Miaomiao Mountain.

Chu Feng’s Dao Jade scripture released the Light of the Great Dao, allowing cultivators across the academy to gain insight and earning him a large system reward. After welcoming the visitors and speaking with Great Sage Blazing Sun, he returned to his study with Bing Yan to continue copying the scripture onto more Dao Jade.

• Chu Feng cultivated in the Dao Light, gained two points of the True Essence of the Great Dao, and received another forty points as Great Sage Golden Wing, Bing Yan, Great Sage Mountain-Mover, and Great Sage Blazing Sun each comprehended one point.
• Elders and deacons gathered at the Miscellaneous Dao Institute, where Chu Feng explained that the light came from a scripture he had inscribed on Dao Jade.
• Great Sage Mountain-Mover thanked Chu Feng for helping him advance toward becoming a Half-Saint and explained why Xiao Chen and Cao Youqian could not yet comprehend the Dao Light’s essence.
• Great Sage Blazing Sun thanked Chu Feng for his guidance and accepted his offer to help with her cultivation, then left after exchanging pleasantries.
• Bing Yan questioned Chu Feng about his attention to Great Sage Blazing Sun, and he insisted that he simply enjoyed teaching before showing her the scripture.
• Bing Yan offered to help Chu Feng copy the scripture onto more Dao Jade, and he asked her to make tea and rub his shoulders while he worked.

Three years passed as Chu Feng’s disciples cultivated and grew stronger, while Chu Feng’s own cultivation and lifespan increased. At Chen Qianqian’s eighteenth birthday banquet, Chu Feng gave her rare gifts and a cultivation technique that hinted at her extraordinary secret.

• Over three years, Chu Feng’s disciples advanced in cultivation, and their breakthroughs pushed Chu Feng’s cultivation beyond five thousand years and his lifespan past ten thousand years.
• Chen Qianqian asked Chu Feng about her eighteenth birthday present, and he promised she would find out at her birthday banquet.
• At the banquet, Chen Qianqian’s senior brothers and sisters gave her saint-grade gifts, and Chu Feng presented her with a saint sword, a Glazed Immortal Saint Dress, and a Dao Jade chessboard that could trap cultivators below the Saint realm.
• Chu Feng gave Chen Qianqian the Dao Heart Demon Seed Great Art, explaining that it could lead her to become a demonic immortal and shatter the void.
• Great Sage Blazing Sun questioned whether the demonic cultivation technique would harm Chen Qianqian, and Chu Feng implied that she had an extraordinary secret.
• After the guests left, Chen Qianqian returned to her bedroom and opened the scroll.

Chen Qianqian learned that years of studying the Dao De Jing had prepared her to form a Dao heart and awaken her dormant demon heart through Chu Feng’s cultivation art. A month later, Bing Yan emerged from seclusion after reaching Late Nirvana and grew concerned when Chu Feng told her Qianqian had gained a Dao heart and Dao body.

• Chen Qianqian asked Chu Feng why he had not taught her orthodox Dao arts, and he explained that her study of the Dao De Jing had already prepared her to form a Dao heart.
• Chu Feng told Chen Qianqian that her Dao heart and dormant demon heart would intertwine, granting her Dao and demon spiritual powers and the choice to follow either path.
• Great Sage Blazing Sun questioned the dean about Chu Feng’s cultivation art, and the dean explained that it could guide Qianqian from the demon path toward becoming a demon immortal.
• One month later, Bing Yan emerged from seclusion after breaking through to Late Nirvana, and Chu Feng congratulated her.
• Chen Qianqian hurried over, and Chu Feng told Bing Yan that he had taught Qianqian a cultivation art after her coming-of-age ceremony, giving her a Dao heart and Dao body.
• Bing Yan showed concern, and Chu Feng said he would explain the matter after they returned to the courtyard.

Chen Qianqian broke through to the Dao Foundation Realm, and several disciples left Miaomiao Mountain to seek experience. After Fang Mu mastered the Spirit Fire Alchemy Technique, Chu Feng allowed him to take Rocket Turtle along on a trip to search for a heavenly flame, and Fang Mu set out with disciples from the academies.

• Chen Qianqian’s demonic heart and Dao heart clashed as her cultivation surged, and she emerged from the cave having reached the Dao Foundation Realm.
• Chu Feng celebrated Chen Qianqian’s breakthrough with the disciples, and Xiao Chen, Cao Youqian, Wang Baole, Ye Beixuan, and Xu Caichen asked permission to go down the mountain for experience.
• Chu Feng learned that Fang Mu had achieved major mastery of the Spirit Fire Alchemy Technique and visited him in his courtyard.
• Fang Mu asked Chu Feng to let Rocket Turtle accompany him and several academy disciples on a search for a heavenly flame, and Chu Feng agreed.
• Fang Mu accepted Chu Feng’s sword jade and left for the Dao-Seeking Academy’s plaza, where he joined the waiting disciples and set out with them.

Fang Mu and the others arrived at the Li Fire Sect to investigate its erupting fire vein and the rumored Abnormal Fire. Fang Mu reunited with Fang Linglong, and the assembled groups began sharing what they knew about the uprising.

• Fang Mu learned from Rocket Turtle that an Abnormal Fire was devouring other Spirit Fires underground, causing the fire vein to erupt.
• Fang Mu recognized Fang Linglong among the arriving Cloud Mist Sect disciples and went to greet her.
• Fang Linglong warmly reunited with Fang Mu and agreed to explore the Li Fire Sect with him.
• Elder Yun told the gathered disciples that the Li Fire Sect had reported several rampaging Spirit Fires in its medium-grade fire vein, and the groups fell silent when he asked for suggestions.

Fang Mu led the gathered cultivators into the Li Fire Sect after learning that a newly forming Abnormal Fire was driving the spirit flames into a rampage. Beneath the ruined sect, they discovered a vast magma-filled fire vein, and Fang Mu prepared to drive out its supreme-grade spirit flames so the others could capture what remained.

• Fang Mu explained that an Abnormal Fire was forming beneath the Li Fire Sect and proposed that the cultivators proceed together to subdue the fires.
• The next morning, Fang Mu led the Dao-Seeking Academy and the Cloud Mist Sect toward the Li Fire Sect, while nearby forces followed in hopes of gaining treasures.
• Elder Fang captured a high-grade spirit flame outside the volcanic crater, and Fang Mu led the group into the volcano.
• Fang Mu and Fang Linglong saw that the fire vein had melted into magma where flame sprites devoured one another, and Fang Mu sensed that it contained traces of a high-grade fire vein.
• Fang Mu told the others that he and Fang Linglong would drive out the supreme-grade spirit flames, then took out a lamp and invited her to go with him.

Fang Mu and Princess Qinghe entered the volcano with the Rocket Turtle, who helped them subdue spirit flames and gave Qinghe a supreme-grade flame. They passed through the first magma layer and found the Volcanic Stone Flame absorbing fire spiritual power, while the Rocket Turtle sensed another presence that made him wary.

• Fang Mu used Half-Saint Chu's lamp to shield himself and Princess Qinghe as they entered the magma, then sent his high-grade spirit flame to subdue the wild flames.
• The Rocket Turtle helped Princess Qinghe claim a supreme-grade spirit flame, which agreed to become her master.
• Fang Mu's spirit flame dimmed as it neared awakening, so he fed it a fire crystal and put it away.
• Elder Fang and the others captured spirit flames that escaped the crater, while cultivators outside competed for the flames that emerged.
• Fang Mu, Princess Qinghe, and their companions passed through the first magma layer and entered a hotter layer with no visible Abnormal Fires.
• Fang Mu identified a dark red flame as the Volcanic Stone Flame, while the Rocket Turtle sensed another presence and noticed something amiss.

Fang Mu, Princess Qinghe, and Rocket Turtle discovered a divine beast egg beneath the Abnormal Fire and waited for the hatching formation to weaken. After Rocket Turtle broke the formation, he left Fang Mu to claim the egg.

• Rocket Turtle noticed a red light in a cave beneath the Abnormal Fire, and Fang Mu and Princess Qinghe discovered a divine beast egg hatching inside a formation.
• Rocket Turtle explained that someone had diverted the fire Spiritual Qi to weaken the formation and seize both the egg and the Abnormal Fire.
• Fang Mu decided to wait for the formation to weaken, while Princess Qinghe told the elders to leave the Li Fire Sect after gathering the spirit fires.
• Elder Fang led the group out of the volcano, while Yun Ye and others waited outside for Fang Mu and Princess Qinghe.
• After half a month, Rocket Turtle absorbed the formation’s remaining spiritual power and shattered it, then left the divine beast egg to Fang Mu.

Fang Mu gave Princess Qinghe the divine beast egg and helped Little Spirit Fire devour the Volcanic Stone Flame. As the flame transformed into a powerful turtle-shaped exotic fire, Scarlet Flame Python arrived to confront it, and Rocket Turtle went out to face him.

• Fang Mu gave the divine beast egg to Princess Qinghe, who accepted it after he insisted.
• Fang Mu decided that Little Spirit Fire would devour the Volcanic Stone Flame rather than replace it.
• Rocket Turtle pinned the Volcanic Stone Flame and weakened it, allowing Little Spirit Fire to consume its fragments and take on its form.
• A powerful demon presence spread over the Li Fire Sect, and Elder Fang worried about Fang Mu and Princess Qinghe in the cave.
• Scarlet Flame Python appeared above the sect, while Rocket Turtle emerged as a turtle-shaped exotic fire to confront him.
• Scarlet Flame Python vowed to suppress Rocket Turtle and vent his anger.

Rocket Turtle fought the Scarlet Flame Python, whose Teng Snake bloodline and fiery phantom failed against Rocket Turtle’s divine pill furnace. After capturing the python, Rocket Turtle began refining him, leaving the watching cultivators awed and wary.

• Rocket Turtle endured the Scarlet Flame Python’s flames unharmed and mocked him into revealing his giant form and Teng Snake phantom.
• Elder Fang recognized the python’s extraordinary bloodline, while Fang Mu and Princess Qinghe worried that Rocket Turtle might be in danger.
• Rocket Turtle released a divine pill furnace that swallowed the Teng Snake phantom, stunning the watching cultivators.
• The Scarlet Flame Python tried to retreat, but Rocket Turtle used the furnace’s divine light to shrink and capture him despite his threats about his ancestor.
• Rocket Turtle shut the python inside the furnace and began refining him with Abnormal Fire as the cultivators watched in fear.

Fang Mu and Princess Qinghe left the Li Fire Sect after tending to the divine beast egg, while Rocket Turtle completed refining a pill from the Scarlet Flame Python. When Teng Snake attacked to avenge his descendant, Chu Feng intervened from ten thousand miles away and forced the Half-Saint to withdraw; Chu Feng later promised to tell Bai Qian and Chen Qianqian what had happened.

• Fang Mu and Princess Qinghe finished their work in the volcanic cave and returned to the others, where Rocket Turtle told them the pill would be ready in a few hours.
• Rocket Turtle burned away the Scarlet Flame Python's body and soul, then swallowed the flame crystal and pill furnace after retrieving the pill.
• Teng Snake appeared above the Li Fire Sect and sent a massive tail crashing toward Rocket Turtle to avenge the Scarlet Flame Python.
• Chu Feng sensed Rocket Turtle's danger through their divine sense imprint and used the word "Suppress" to block Teng Snake's attack.
• Chu Feng's divine sense confronted Teng Snake, who accepted that his descendant's defeat was part of the younger generation's fortunes and departed.
• Back at the Dao-Seeking Academy, Chu Feng told Bai Qian and Chen Qianqian that he had talked sense into a Great Sage and agreed to explain what happened.