Chapter Summaries

Shen Ge’s grief over Mu Wan’s death drove him into a Heart Devil Tribulation as he struggled with guilt and a desire for revenge. Venerable Yaoguang sealed the area and had Miaoyin play soothing music while Shen Ge’s tribulation continued.

• Shen Ge spent two years carving thirteen hundred wooden figures of Mu Wan, then broke down when he could no longer recall more memories of her.
• Remembering Mu Wan’s death, Shen Ge unleashed a dark red pillar of Qi and triggered a Heart Devil Tribulation.
• Miaoyin played the zither while Gu Ye and Venerable Yaoguang watched, and Venerable Yaoguang sealed off the space around Shen Ge.
• Shen Ge’s Heart Devil urged him to kill Xuanguang, and he attacked Miaoyin with Sword Qi until Venerable Yaoguang dispersed it.
• Shen Ge kept lashing out and rejecting accusations that he had failed Mu Wan, while Venerable Yaoguang told Miaoyin to continue playing.

Shen Ge overcame the heart demon that preyed on his grief over Mu Wan, aided by Miaoyin’s Immortal Ascension Melody and a gentle breeze that reminded him she had always been by his side. After thanking his helpers and entering seclusion to absorb his insights, Gu Ye and Miaoyin returned to their affectionate, teasing life together.

• Shen Ge wavered as his heart demon urged him to surrender to its violence and tormented him over Mu Wan and Bai Lili.
• After the strings on her guqin snapped, Miaoyin played the Immortal Ascension Melody to awaken Shen Ge’s will to survive.
• A gentle breeze dispersed some of Shen Ge’s deathly air, and Mu Wan’s faint voice reminded him she had always been by his side.
• Shen Ge recognized the heart demon as a product of his own thoughts and cut it down, though it warned that it would return.
• Shen Ge thanked Venerable Yaoguang and Miaoyin, then entered seclusion to digest his insights from breaking the heart demon.
• Gu Ye and Miaoyin returned to their courtyard, shared a tender moment, and joked about whose surname their children would take.

The cultivators discovered a crack in the formation and discussed whether to cross into the Heavenly Desolation Domain, while Ao Long and the other Demon Beasts left to consult their allies. Back at the Spirit Moon Sect, Xuanguang asked the Golden Core elders who would go, then privately challenged Mo Qingyu over several gifted disciples choosing to stay.

• Tang Yu and the other cultivators found a tiny flaw in the formation, and ten Nascent Soul cultivators opened a person-sized hole that revealed far purer Spiritual Qi.
• Zi Nü, Shigui, Feihan, and Qingshan debated whether to leave the formation or wait for stronger cultivators, while Ao Long, Bing Qing, and the White Tiger King departed for the Ice and Snow Plateau.
• Xuanguang and Ziyang returned to the Spirit Moon Sect and summoned its Golden Core elders to discuss traveling to the Heavenly Desolation Domain.
• Most of the elders agreed to go, but Wang Yan, Chu He, Jin Ling, and Qingfeng chose to stay and preserve their sect arts and inheritances.
• Xuanguang privately questioned Mo Qingyu about Su Liuyue and the other Heaven Spirit Roots staying behind.

Han Yu ordered military action against Buddhist temples and pushed the Phoenix Kingdom’s expansion as rival Luck Dynasties threatened to delay it. Xuanguang led Heavenly South’s cultivators through the formation into a new world, while Mo Qingyu warned Su Liuyue to stay out of the mortal turmoil and refused to let Shen Ge return.

• Han Yu sent General Qianyu and his army to eliminate corrupt temples, then ordered other generals to march north.
• Han Yu told Song Junjie that the Blood Moon Kingdom was rallying other powers against the Phoenix Kingdom and discussed the limits of Wan Feng and the others’ cultivation.
• More than six hundred cultivators gathered at the Ice and Snow Plateau, opened the formation, and crossed into a new world.
• The great Luck Dynasties expanded amid widespread war, and the Phoenix Kingdom conquered the newly founded Fenglang Kingdom.
• Mo Qingyu told Su Liuyue to warn Spirit Moon Sect’s disciples away from the mortal world and help the Phoenix Kingdom if possible.
• Su Liuyue asked whether Shen Ge could return, but Mo Qingyu refused and said he should fend for himself.

Shen Ge entered the Primordial Secret Realm with the Yaoguang Immortal Sect, then set out alone to explore and gather treasures. After killing a Rock Python and finding a ghost face flower, he continued deeper into the forest as Gu Ye's group followed his trail.

• Gu Ye invited Shen Ge to the Tianshu Sea, where the Primordial Secret Realm opened, and warned him that the Tianquan Sect was nearby.
• Shen Ge entered the realm with the Yaoguang Immortal Sect and received a map and sensing Jade Slip from Gu Ye.
• Shen Ge declined Miaoyin's offer to travel together and disappeared into the forest alone.
• Shen Ge gathered low-tier resources, killed a Rock Python, and collected the ghost face flower it had guarded.
• Gu Ye's group reached the Rock Python's remains, and Miaoyin recognized Shen Ge's handiwork; Gu Ye said Shen Ge likely would not take Scarlet Blood Fruit he had no use for.

Shen Ge ventured deeper into the secret realm, where powerful Demon Beasts and an elusive black shadow threatened his search for resources. After he tried to steal a five-thousand-year-old Dragon Ginseng, the shadow snatched it first, forcing Shen Ge to flee from three enraged Dragon Lizards.

• Fang Kuan complained about Shen Ge, but his leader warned him not to endanger their resource-gathering mission or attack their fellow disciples.
• Shen Ge traveled deeper into the secret realm, killed three third-tier Demon Beasts, and kept a Qi-Gathering Core to refine a pearl for Zhang Fengge.
• A mysterious black shadow flashed past Shen Ge and evaded his search, leaving him uneasy as he continued onward.
• Shen Ge found a five-thousand-year-old Dragon Ginseng guarded by three peak third-tier Dragon Lizards and used a talisman double to distract two of them.
• Shen Ge wounded the remaining Dragon Lizard and reached for the ginseng, but the black shadow stole it, so he fled from the three furious beasts.

Shen Ge escaped the mysterious shadow and continued deeper into the secret realm, while Gu Ye’s group and the Tianquan Sect faced separate encounters. After finding a warning about Wood King Fruit, Shen Ge decided to investigate and take some only if there were plenty.

• Shen Ge hid in a tree hollow until he had shaken off the black shadow, then resumed traveling without trying to confront it.
• Gu Ye’s group killed a White Luan Bird, and Miaoyin accepted its tail feathers and egg.
• Fang Kuan led Demon Wolves toward the Tianquan Sect group, which killed the wolves at the cost of two cultivators; Zhu Sheng punished Fang Kuan by ordering him to scout ahead.
• Shen Ge reached an area about fifty thousand li into the secret realm and found a map marking Wood King Fruit as extremely dangerous.
• Shen Ge decided to inspect the Wood King Fruit and take one only if there were enough for the Yaoguang Immortal Sect.

Shen Ge was knocked into the mist-covered chasm and captured a Pixiu-like creature that had repeatedly stolen his spirit medicines. The creature revealed that a ruined palace and medicine garden lay inside, and claimed the secret realm belonged to its mother, while Shen Ge demanded its valuables and service.

• Shen Ge avoided a troop of Red Bristle Monkeys guarding Wood King Fruits and, three months later, fought a Golden-Winged Demon Tiger before continuing deeper into the secret realm.
• Shen Ge reached a vast mist-covered chasm, decided not to cross it, and was suddenly struck by a black shadow that sent him into the mist.
• Shen Ge caught the shadow, discovered it was a Pixiu-like creature, and restrained it after it scratched his arm and tried to bite him.
• Shen Ge threatened the creature with flying swords until it spoke and admitted that it had pushed him into the mist to seek help breaking the formation around a medicine garden in a ruined palace.
• The creature said the secret realm belonged to its mother, who was in seclusion, and Shen Ge demanded its valuables and that it become his servant.

Shen Ge forced the black Pixiu to guide him through the secret realm, where he broke into a medicine garden and gathered spirit medicines before freeing the Pixiu. Meanwhile, Gu Ye’s group hunted an Azure Sky White Crane to obtain the tail feathers needed for the Five Fowl Fan.

• Shen Ge made the black Pixiu sign a Master-Servant Scroll and followed him into the secret realm’s core area.
• Shen Ge spent nearly half a year deciphering the formation around a medicine garden, while Gu Ye’s group fought Red Bristle Monkeys and seized ten Wood King Fruits.
• Shen Ge opened the garden and gathered seventy spirit medicines, then discovered the Pixiu had been chewing up the medicinal soil.
• The black Pixiu revealed that he could not leave the secret realm until he refined it, and that his mother’s remnant spirit guarded it, so Shen Ge destroyed the scroll and freed him.
• Gu Ye’s group killed an Azure Sky White Crane, and Miaoyin took its tail feathers to complete the materials needed for the Five Fowl Fan.

Shen Ge was violently expelled from the secret realm after a mysterious force kicked him out, leaving him injured but alive. A month later, he returned to Yaoguang Island, where Zhang Fengge celebrated her breakthrough and Miaoyin joined a gathering with him, Zhang Lingyu, and Li Liu.

• A thunderous force sent Shen Ge hurtling out of the secret realm and crashing into a small island, where he took healing pills and explained that something had kicked him.
• The other cultivators emerged from the secret realm, and Shen Ge kept his visit to its core area secret while Miaoyin checked on him.
• A month later, Shen Ge returned to Yaoguang Island with the Yaoguang Immortal Sect and invited Zhang Lingyu and Li Liu to visit.
• Zhang Fengge arrived with Zhang Lingyu and Li Liu, announced that she had reached the golden core stage, and received Shen Ge's promise to find her a suitable Law Treasure.
• Miaoyin joined the gathering, teased Zhang Lingyu, and offered her a spirit medicine.

Miaoyin, Shen Ge, Zhang Lingyu, and Li Liu exchanged gifts, materials, and spirit medicines in the courtyard. After the group parted, Shen Ge went into seclusion to recover from his injury before refining the treasures.

• Miaoyin gave Zhang Lingyu a Water Ridge Branch and Zhang Fengge Azure Sky White Crane wings, then asked Shen Ge to craft a Five Fowl Fan from her rare bird feathers and flood dragon bones.
• Shen Ge sold Zhang Lingyu and Miaoyin batches of low-grade spirit medicines and gave each of them a third-tier spirit medicine.
• Li Liu gave Shen Ge the Spirit Gathering Formation Law Treasure she had made, and Shen Ge passed it to Zhang Fengge and paid Li Liu.
• Zhang Fengge accepted the formation disk after Shen Ge told her to discard it if she did not want it, and he promised to give her another Law Treasure soon.
• After the group said their farewells, Shen Ge went into seclusion to recover from the kick that had left him injured.

Shen Ge began crafting Law Treasures while Su Liuyue tested a repaired teleportation array and arrived in the Yaoguang Sea Area. Unable to contact Shen Ge or find him directly, she decided to use the Zhang Household to make herself known so he might come looking for her.

• Shen Ge finished a pearl Law Treasure for Zhang Fengge and began making Miaoyin's Five Fowl Fan.
• Su Liuyue activated the repaired teleportation array on an island in the South Sea and vanished before the array masters could stop her.
• Su Liuyue arrived at an underwater array in the Yaoguang Sea Area, failed to reach Martial Uncle Fenghuo, and realized she had no way to contact Shen Ge.
• Su Liuyue traveled to Sea Billow Island and learned from a talisman shopkeeper about the Zhang Household and its young lady's talisman master.
• Su Liuyue studied a sea chart, chose the Zhang Household as a way to draw Shen Ge's attention, and began preparing a written challenge.

Zhang Lingyu and Zhang Lingfeng received a challenge from the unknown Golden Core expert Su Liuyue and suspected it was a ploy to build a reputation. Zhang Lingyu prepared for an attack, but Su Liuyue never appeared, leaving the Zhang Household uncertain but relieved.

• Zhang Lingyu read Su Liuyue's letter threatening to attack the Zhang Household in two days and sensed Golden Core Stage Sword Intent.
• Zhang Lingyu and Zhang Lingfeng suspected Su Liuyue wanted to use their household and the Sea Fish Gang to make a name, and Zhu Shen asked Zhang Lingyu to investigate.
• Zhang Lingyu questioned his contacts, including Miaoyin, but nobody knew Su Liuyue or their origins.
• Zhang Lingyu guarded the Zhang Household when the appointed time arrived, but Su Liuyue did not appear, so he returned while remaining cautious.

Shen Ge completed the Five Fowl Fan for Miaoyin and learned that Su Liuyue had appeared in the Yaoguang Sea Area. Suspecting she might be his senior sister, he hurried to Sea Billow Island to find her.

• News of Su Liuyue's challenge and absence spread through the Yaoguang Sea Area, while she waited on Sea Billow Island for Shen Ge.
• Shen Ge finished refining Miaoyin and Gu Ye's supreme-grade Five Fowl Fan as onlookers watched from a distance.
• Miaoyin told Shen Ge that Su Liuyue had challenged the Zhang Household and the Sea Fish Gang but failed to appear.
• Shen Ge wondered whether Su Liuyue was his senior sister and left immediately for Sea Billow Island.

Shen Ge reunited with Su Liuyue on Sea Billow Island and learned that their grandmaster had reached the Spirit Severing Realm and gone to the Heavenly Desolation Domain. Though he agreed to return with her, Shen Ge delayed their departure to handle unfinished business, while Venerable Yaoguang guessed that Shen Ge’s reunion meant they could soon leave their current predicament.

• Shen Ge arrived at Sea Billow Island, where Su Liuyue revealed herself as his senior sister and welcomed him into her courtyard.
• Shen Ge and Su Liuyue exchanged news, and she told him their grandmaster had left for the Heavenly Desolation Domain after reaching the Spirit Severing Realm.
• Shen Ge asked about Martial Uncle Fenghuo and learned that he had become an evil aberration and might be returning to the Heavenly South.
• Shen Ge agreed to go back with Su Liuyue but said he first had a few things to take care of, then gave Zhang Fengge the magic treasure he had refined for her.
• At the secondary teleportation formation, Shen Ge created a paper-figure double to handle his tasks while Su Liuyue guarded him.
• Gu Ye told Venerable Yaoguang about Shen Ge’s reaction to Su Liuyue, and Venerable Yaoguang concluded that they might soon be able to leave.

Shen Ge collected two treasures from each major sect in exchange for the teleportation array’s location, then left after promising that someone would reveal it in a month. Venerable Yaoguang explained that the Heavenly Desolation Domain could offer a path to immortality, and the sect leaders decided to trust Shen Ge rather than risk losing access to the array.

• Shen Ge met Venerable Yaoguang and Miaoyin as an avatar and asked each major sect for two treasures, waiving the payment for Yaoguang Immortal Sect.
• Within ten days, the major sects brought fourteen treasures to Yaoguang Immortal Sect, and Shen Ge said they would learn the array’s location in a month.
• When Venerable Tianquan challenged Shen Ge’s trustworthiness, Shen Ge returned the treasures and revealed that he had found a way to reach the Heavenly Desolation Domain.
• Venerable Yaoguang returned the treasures to Shen Ge and promised that no one would pursue or retaliate against him; Shen Ge then left unchallenged.
• Venerable Yaoguang told the sect leaders that the Heavenly Desolation Domain’s Spiritual Qi could enable Spirit Severing, Tribulation Transcendence, and ascension to immortality.
• Venerable Kaiyang argued against pursuing Shen Ge, and the sect leaders agreed to trust his promise while anticipating that he might demand more for information about the domain.

Shen Ge returned with the Zhang Household to the Luo Heaven Sea, while Venerable Yaoguang and the other sect leaders prepared to evacuate for the Heavenly Desolation Domain. The chapter ended with the sect leaders learning that the Heavenly South still had a Spirit Severing Realm expert and deciding to find Shen Ge as soon as they arrived.

• Shen Ge sent Yaoguang the formation’s location, then returned to the underwater cave and left with Su Liuyue and the Zhang Household after Zhang Lingyu supplied the Spirit Stones.
• Venerable Tianquan and the others reached the formation, while Venerable Yaoguang stayed behind to organize the evacuation and entrusted him with Spirit Stones for Kaiyang’s junior brother.
• Venerable Yaoguang arranged for sect disciples to spread cultivation methods among mortals and helped select two hundred thousand people with cultivation talent, though the sects could evacuate only fifty thousand.
• Venerable Tianquan questioned Yaoguang’s delay, and Kaiyang defended his efforts to make arrangements for the mortals left behind.
• Venerable Tianshu reported that the Heavenly South’s top experts had gone to the Heavenly Desolation Domain, but a newly ascended Spirit Severing Realm emperor remained there.
• Venerable Kaiyang decided the group should seek Shen Ge upon arrival and then proceed directly to the Heavenly Desolation Domain.

Shen Ge returned to the Spirit Moon Sect and let his grief over Mu Wan pour out before visiting the Mountain-Viewing Pavilion. He reunited with Su Sui, gave her a treasured sword, and resumed teasing her as they found their familiar closeness again.

• At the sect gate, Su Liuyue urged Shen Ge to face his memories and turn his grief into motivation to become an immortal who could revive Mu Wan.
• Shen Ge entered the sect and spent hours walking through it, overwhelmed by memories and longing for Mu Wan.
• Su Sui, Lu Xiu, Wang Yan, Jin Ling, and Chu He each saw Shen Ge, while Lu Xiu explained that releasing his emotions could prevent them from building into a dangerous force.
• The next morning, Shen Ge sat alone in the Mountain-Viewing Pavilion where he had once spent time with Mu Wan.
• Su Sui joined Shen Ge, and he praised her Golden Core cultivation before giving her an ice-crystal longsword that suited her Sword Dao.
• Shen Ge and Su Sui traded teasing remarks, and their familiar, affectionate master-disciple bond returned.

Venerable Yaoguang and the other Luo Heaven Sea cultivators evacuated to the Heavenly South, leaving Liu Zongyuan behind and bringing mortals who were assigned local guardians. In Phoenix City, Song Junjie demanded fourth-tier items and cultivation methods from the visiting sects in exchange for passage to the Heavenly Desolation Domain.

• Venerable Yaoguang led the cultivators and mortals through the formation, while Liu Zongyuan stayed behind to watch over the Luo Heaven Sea; Yaoguang had destroyed the formation but secretly spread its foundation-building method as a treasure rumor.
• Venerable Kaiyang asked the Heavenly South’s ruler to settle the mortals, and the arriving group escorted the cultivators and their ships toward Phoenix City.
• The sect leaders rested in a palace side hall while the other cultivators camped outside the city, and Shen Ge welcomed Miaoyin, Gu Ye, Li Liu, Zhang Lingyu, and others to a restaurant.
• Song Junjie visited the sect leaders and demanded five fourth-tier items from each household, along with some cultivation methods, as payment for revealing the route to the Heavenly Desolation Domain.

Yaoguang and the others paid Song Junjie’s toll, while Han Yu sorted the supplies sent by the Imperial Preceptor and summoned Shen Ge. Shen Ge declined to join Han Yu’s expedition, saying he would wait until he reached the Nascent Soul Realm, then took the spirit medicines and left.

• Yaoguang rebuked Venerable Tianquan for complaining after they paid the toll and received a meal.
• Han Yu kept thirty percent of the spirit medicines from the Storage Bag and set aside the rest for the Spirit Moon Sect.
• Song Junjie summoned Shen Ge to see Han Yu, and Shen Ge left his companions in Su Sui’s care.
• Han Yu asked Shen Ge whether he would join the expedition, but he declined until after reaching the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Shen Ge finished his tea, took the spirit medicines from the table, and left.