Chapter Summaries

Shen Ge returned to his cave abode, killed the Foundation Establishment cultivators attacking it, and secluded himself to recover after hearing of a Devil Cultivator’s Ten Thousand Souls Banner. In Ice and Snow City, Long Ao and Qianyuan agreed to deal with the Devil Cultivator after the other administrators refused to get involved.

• Shen Ge parted from Lü Yang and Zhang, then returned to his cave abode with Li Xue escorting him to the outskirts of Ice and Snow City.
• Shen Ge found rogue cultivators attacking his formation and killed them, then learned from Lu Xiu that they were believed to be from Tiger and Wolf Mountain.
• Lu Xiu told Shen Ge about a Devil Cultivator who had slaughtered more than fifty thousand people to refine a Ten Thousand Souls Banner, and Shen Ge began cultivating in seclusion.
• Long Ao summoned Ice and Snow City's administrators to discuss the Devil Cultivator, but Zeng Qing and the others dismissed the threat as unimportant.
• Qianyuan offered to join Long Ao in dealing with the Devil Cultivator, and Long Ao said the Long Household and Qianyuan would handle it while the others watched over Ice and Snow City.

News that Shen Ge possessed the Samsara Method spread across the Southern Barbarian Lands, drawing searches while some people chose not to betray him. A year later, Mo Qingyu confronted Shen Ge, who explained that her Martial Uncle had killed him and Mu Wan over the Spirit Severing Pill, then refused to reveal the Samsara Method.

• Zi Nü dismissed the Samsara Method as less valuable than the Ji Household’s own cultivation method, while Daoist Qingguang remembered his Junior Sister and broke through to Peak Nascent Soul.
• Daoist Qingguang forbade the Evergreen Sect from pursuing the Samsara Method, and Ziyang suppressed news of it at the Spirit Moon Sect to keep his master from acting.
• The Devil Dao Sects, rogue cultivators, and some sect elders began searching for Shen Ge; Lü Yang warned him, while Zhang Hao decided not to get involved.
• Shen Ge emerged after a year of seclusion, having learned the Judgment Law Words and Yin-Yang Diagram from “Samsara.”
• Mo Qingyu used her Nascent Soul pressure to force Shen Ge to his knees and demanded an explanation for his actions.
• Shen Ge accused Mo Qingyu’s Martial Uncle of killing him and Mu Wan over the Spirit Severing Pill, and refused to disclose the Samsara Method.

Shen Ge refused Mo Qingyu’s plea to forgive her master and vowed to kill him for Mu Wan’s death, ending their master-disciple bond. After Lu Xiu left with Mo Qingyu, Shen Ge headed for the Ice and Snow Plateau to seek strength and face his revenge himself.

• Mo Qingyu confronted Shen Ge over his resolve to kill her master, but Shen Ge insisted reconciliation was impossible because of Mu Wan’s death.
• Mo Qingyu said she would stop Shen Ge at the Spirit Moon Sect, and Shen Ge knelt to declare their master-disciple bond ended.
• Mo Qingyu warned Shen Ge that demonic cultivators, righteous cultivators, and Rogue Cultivators were hunting him for mastering the Samsara Method.
• Mo Qingyu invited Lu Xiu to leave with her, and Lu Xiu bowed farewell to Shen Ge before following her.
• That evening, Shen Ge set out for the Ice and Snow Plateau to grow stronger and kill Mo Qingyu’s master himself.

Han Yu ordered the Phoenix Kingdom to concentrate its armies against the Divine Steed Kingdom while the Immortal Martial Institute began exploring a path beyond the limits of martial arts. Meanwhile, Bai Lili and Yu Shang prepared a fake ruin on the Ice and Snow Plateau to lure their intended target, though Yu Shang’s pregnancy made her unable to join the fight.

• Han Yu accepted the three kingdoms’ surrender terms but ordered her armies recalled to prepare for war against the Divine Steed Kingdom.
• Song Junjie asked Wan Feng to help develop martial arts capable of breaking through Xiantian, and Wan Feng agreed to try.
• Bai Lili and Yu Shang finished preparing fake ruins as bait for a man they expected to enter the Ice and Snow Plateau.
• Yu Shang said her pregnancy was becoming difficult to conceal and asked Bai Lili to let someone else help with the plan.
• Bai Lili reminded Yu Shang that Yu Ting had died at the target’s hands, and Yu Shang asked that he be left alive long enough for her to take revenge.

Shen Ge followed Senior Sister’s traces on the Ice and Snow Plateau, only to discover they were bait set by Bai Lili. After capturing him, Bai Lili dragged him into an illusion and began testing his will.

• Shen Ge sensed Senior Sister’s presence and faint blood on the Ice and Snow Plateau, then followed the trail despite his unease.
• Bai Lili watched Shen Ge approach and concealed herself after confirming that he had taken the bait.
• Shen Ge found a cave near the summit and entered, but realized the blood inside was a trap when formations bound him.
• Bai Lili appeared, mocked Shen Ge, and explained that she had set the formations to capture him and wanted to control him.
• Bai Lili sent Shen Ge into an illusion where he was a hungry mortal, and he cursed her while struggling against the ordeal.

Shen Ge lived an entire life as a shopkeeper, married Bai Lili, and died with faint memories of another existence he could not recover. In an ice cave, Bai Lili revealed that this was his twentieth reincarnation and planned to claim him after ten more.

• Shen Ge sold wine in Yellow Wind Town and met Bai Lili, who came to sample his monkey wine.
• Bai Lili and Shen Ge grew close, married three years later, and built a family together.
• Shen Ge lived devotedly with Bai Lili until his death, troubled by dreams of a beautiful mountain and people he could not remember.
• Bai Lili awoke in a snowy mountain ice cave and said Shen Ge had undergone twenty reincarnations without forgetting everything.
• Bai Lili said Shen Ge’s mind was breaking down and expected him to become completely hers after ten more reincarnations.

Bai Lili altered Shen Ge’s memories across reincarnations, weaving in a past in which he had grown close to Mu Wan but ultimately chose Bai Lili. After Shen Ge accepted the fabricated memories, Bai Lili contacted her mother, who ordered the Hehuan Sect to prepare the world around him to match them.

• Across several reincarnations, Shen Ge’s memories faded as Bai Lili tried to take control of his heart and decided to gamble on making him choose her.
• In a new life at the sect, Shen Ge met Mu Wan and felt inexplicably familiar with her, while Bai Lili encouraged their friendship and stayed close to him.
• Bai Lili staged a war in which Mu Wan died; Shen Ge chose to protect the wounded Bai Lili, then later avenged Mu Wan and obtained the Samsara Method.
• Bai Lili completed Shen Ge’s fabricated memories and sent her mother a voice transmission requesting the sect’s help in making them seem real.
• Bai Mei ordered the Hehuan Sect to recreate the places in Bai Lili’s images and declare Shen Ge the eldest senior brother of the holy maiden’s generation.

Shen Ge woke in the ice cave and passed the Samsara Method to Bai Lili, whose Charm Qi erupted and trapped them together. Meanwhile, Meng Yan hid from the Ice Crystal Bird, and Lü Yang fought pursuers who demanded Shen Ge’s whereabouts.

• Shen Ge woke beside Bai Lili, embraced her, and promised to pass on the Samsara Method.
• Shen Ge transmitted his memories of the Samsara Method to Bai Lili, and its power forced her Charm Qi out into the ice cave.
• Bai Lili failed to stop the method’s circulation, and Shen Ge reached for her through the pink mist with scarlet eyes.
• Meng Yan hid, wounded, in a crevice on the Ice and Snow Plateau while a powerful presence searched outside.
• More than twenty pursuers cornered Lü Yang and demanded that he reveal where Shen Ge was.
• Lü Yang refused to betray Shen Ge and was badly wounded after resisting the attackers, who threatened to make him suffer.

Su Liuyue rescued Lü Yang from the cultivators seeking the Samsara Method, then sent them after Mo Renyi, who was beaten for abandoning them. In the ice cave, Shen Ge and Bai Lili’s merged cultivation method led to breakthroughs and the beginnings of love between them.

• Su Liuyue destroyed the attackers’ giant hand and drove them off by threatening them with a stored strike from her master.
• Su Liuyue told Lü Yang to recover at the town below the Spirit Moon Sect and asked him to watch over Shen Ge.
• The other cultivators caught Mo Renyi and beat him severely for fleeing and leaving them to face Su Liuyue.
• Shen Ge and Bai Lili completed three days of dual cultivation, reaching the Middle and Late Golden Core Stages respectively.
• Bai Lili tried to end their coupling and then cultivated beside Shen Ge, unaware that love for him had begun to take root.

Shen Ge refused to return to the Spirit Moon Sect and stayed on the Ice and Snow Plateau, while Ye Xingchen discovered Earth Marrow and used it to strengthen his body. Back at the sect, disciples discussed Shen Ge’s absence and Lu Xiu’s connection to him, as Ziyang arrived to speak privately with Fenghuo.

• Shen Ge refused Bai Lili’s request to return to the sect, and she left after reminding him that she would come for him when the danger passed.
• Ye Xingchen killed the Hundred Poison Scorpions, found a pool of Earth Marrow, and absorbed it over three days to perfect his Foundation Establishment foundation.
• Su Liuyue, Jin Ling, and Wang Yan discussed Shen Ge’s disappearance and Lu Xiu’s placement under his name as Shen Ge’s disciple.
• Su Sui questioned Lu Xiu about Shen Ge, learned he might be hiding on the Ice and Snow Plateau, and said she only wanted to know where he was.
• Fenghuo wondered why Ziyang and their junior sister were so interested in Shen Ge, then Ziyang arrived and invited him to chat.

Ziyang asked Fenghuo to take Shen Ge from the Ice and Snow Plateau to the Luo Heaven Sea, and Fenghuo agreed despite the dangerous journey. Ten days later, Shen Ge remained troubled by an unexplained emptiness, while Bai Lili discovered she had forgotten the Samsara Method and could not pass it on to Bai Mei.

• Ziyang asked Fenghuo to find Shen Ge on the Ice and Snow Plateau and take him to the Luo Heaven Sea, and Fenghuo accepted the task.
• Mo Qingyu lamented that her master had become a slave to longevity and questioned whether cultivation and avoiding death mattered so much.
• After ten days trapped in an iceberg, Shen Ge could not explain the emptiness in his heart and was unable to cultivate.
• Bai Mei asked Bai Lili whether she intended to keep Shen Ge’s essence Qi, and Bai Lili admitted she kept thinking about him after they had dual cultivated.
• Bai Lili tried to share the Samsara Method with Bai Mei but discovered she had forgotten it completely.

Meng Yan fled the Ice and Snow Plateau after sensing a powerful dragon, while Shen Ge continued cultivating. At the plateau’s altar, the three rulers met an envoy who collected their tribute and discussed events elsewhere before departing, leaving Ao Long and the White Tiger King planning to visit the mermaid guarding a treasure.

• A dragon’s roar frightened Meng Yan and the Ice Crystal Bird, and Meng Yan fled toward the plateau’s outskirts once the bird flew away.
• Shen Ge sensed a distant Nascent Soul Realm dragon-type Demon Beast, then set aside his concerns and resumed cultivating.
• Ao Long, the White Tiger King, and Bing Qing greeted an envoy who appeared at their altar and gave him their millennium’s tribute.
• The envoy questioned the three about events in the Southern Barbarian Lands and the Gods and Devils Abyss, then departed after warning them to raise successors.
• The White Tiger King complained about the envoy and their confinement, while Bing Qing explained the dangers of escaping through the sea.
• Ao Long and the White Tiger King decided to visit the mermaid guarding a treasure in the Mermaid Palace, and Bing Qing left the altar alone.

Fenghuo tracked Shen Ge to the Ice and Snow Secret Realm and found him acting hostile under the Hehuan Sect’s influence. After learning Shen Ge had taught others the Samsara Method, Fenghuo tried to capture him and take him away.

• Fenghuo arrived at the Ice and Snow Plateau and used Shen Ge’s blood to track him.
• Bai Lili realized only she could cultivate the Samsara Method and decided to focus on visualization after her enchantment art was ruined.
• The Blood Devil judged that national fortune could not help him reach Spirit Severing and decided to use it to reward his disciples.
• Fenghuo found Shen Ge in the Ice and Snow Secret Realm, but Shen Ge attacked him and accused him of neglecting Bai Lili.
• Fenghuo recognized that the Hehuan Sect had affected Shen Ge, then asked whether he had passed on the Samsara Method.
• Fenghuo sent three ropes to capture Shen Ge, who tried to escape with a command to make them fall.

Fenghuo bound Shen Ge and took him to a hidden teleportation array to send him to Luo Heaven Sea, while Bai Lili worried when Shen Ge did not answer her message. Mo Qingyu sabotaged the array from the other side, leaving Tianxing and Venerable Jihai to destroy their damaged array and claim its largest fragment.

• Fenghuo captured Shen Ge on the Ice and Snow Plateau, knocked him unconscious, and carried him away.
• Zi Nü learned that her searchers had failed to find the teleportation array and considered sending an expedition to the Ice and Snow Plateau.
• Bai Lili grasped the basics of the Six Paths of Samsara Visualization Method, then grew worried when Shen Ge did not reply to her message.
• Fenghuo brought Shen Ge to a concealed South Sea array and teleported with him toward Luo Heaven Sea.
• Mo Qingyu broke the array disk after Shen Ge departed, while Tianxing and Venerable Jihai destroyed the other array and Tianxing took its largest fragment.

Shen Ge was left in the Luo Heaven Sea and set out to learn about his unfamiliar surroundings. After saving a merchant ship from a giant octopus, he learned that it was bound for Yaoguang Island and kept his questions cautious.

• Fenghuo freed Shen Ge, gave him two Jade Slips, and flew away after warning him not to reveal his origins or damage the formation plate.
• Shen Ge memorized the formation plate, decided against hiding it with flawed formation flags, and flew off to survey the area.
• Fenghuo considered altering Shen Ge’s memories but decided to leave them alone and let his junior sister address them after Shen Ge returned.
• Shen Ge found a merchant ship under attack by a giant octopus and killed the beast with a sword strike.
• Shang Xing welcomed Shen Ge aboard, showed him a sea chart, and explained that the ship was headed for Yaoguang Island via Sea Billow Island.

Shen Ge arrived at Yaoguang Island, surveyed its markets and nearby powers, and bought a sea chart and reference books. After studying the region and comparing its formation and talisman techniques with those he knew, he found they were largely similar.

• Shen Ge settled into a courtyard near Yaoguang Island’s inner city and learned about the island’s powers and large cultivators’ market.
• Shen Ge bought a detailed sea chart and books on formations, talismans, plants, minerals, and Demon Beasts from the Treasure Pavilion.
• Shen Ge found few useful Golden Core-stage goods in the market and returned to his courtyard concerned that he was running low on Spirit Stones.
• Shen Ge studied the chart’s nearby powers, resources, and the dangerous Abyssal Whirlpool.
• Shen Ge read the formation and talisman books, then practiced drawing talisman patterns until he succeeded about eight times out of ten.

Shen Ge watched two Jade Slip messages: Zi Nü offered him access to a hidden treasure vault if he killed Ji Rufeng, while Mo Qingyu revealed herself as his master and taught him a sword move. The memories her lesson awakened left him in agony, but after a long period of practice he mastered the sword intent and regained a youthful State of Mind.

• Shen Ge watched Zi Nü’s message, in which she asked him to kill Ji Rufeng, an elder of the Tianquan Sect, and promised that Ji Rufeng’s blood would reveal the location of the Ji Household’s treasure vault.
• Shen Ge opened the second Jade Slip and watched Mo Qingyu demonstrate a sword move that embodied the vigor of youth, calling him her disciple and master.
• Mo Qingyu’s words triggered painful memories in Shen Ge, who cried out names and phrases before collapsing unconscious.
• After waking, Shen Ge sat motionless for more than a month, then began slowly practicing the sword move.
• Shen Ge practiced for weeks until Sword Intent enveloped him, and he thanked Mo Qingyu for teaching him the sword as his State of Mind became youthful and unstained.

Shen Ge cut away his implanted Hehuan Sect memories but remained unable to forget Bai Lili, while people across several sects dealt with his disappearance and its aftermath. The chapter left Shen Ge stranded in the Luo Heaven Sea as Li Xue and others wondered where he was.

• Shen Ge severed his Hehuan Sect memories, blamed Bai Lili for tricking him out of the Samsara Method, and admitted he could not erase his feelings for her.
• Bai Lili sensed unease about Shen Ge and stood by her window for a day, while Bai Mei toasted toward the south and said farewell.
• Li Xue reached the Middle Golden Core Stage and worried that Shen Ge might have been captured.
• Yue Shan broke through to the Golden Core Stage and joked with Han Yu that she had caught up to him.
• Lü Yang recovered from his injuries and left the town near the Spirit Moon Sect to avoid troubling Su Liuyun.
• Su Sui accepted a ten-year punishment cleaning the Scripture Pavilion, while Su Liuyue kept Zhang Sheng's Storage Bag and the flowers Shen Ge had left behind.

Shen Ge accepted Fairy Miaoyin’s invitation to travel to Kaiyang Island for an auction and learned that several other acquaintances planned to attend as well. As he boarded the Thousand Sounds Workshop’s ship, a young man and Elder Di discussed Fairy Miaoyin’s future as the Workshop’s leader and the young man’s hopes of marrying her.

• Fairy Miaoyin invited Shen Ge to the auction on Kaiyang Island and offered him passage with the Thousand Sounds Workshop’s fleet.
• Zhang Lingyu also invited Shen Ge to travel with the Zhang Household, but Shen Ge declined because he already had a ride.
• Shen Ge received and answered several more messages from acquaintances about the auction and travel arrangements.
• Shen Ge arrived at the dock the next morning and boarded the Thousand Sounds Workshop’s ship.
• A young man and Elder Di discussed Fairy Miaoyin’s prospects and the young man’s chances of winning her hand.
• The young man and Elder Di listened as Fairy Miaoyin played the Immortal Ascension Melody for Shen Ge.

Shen Ge traveled with Fairy Miaoyin and the allied fleets, learned the zither from her, and gave her a supreme-grade Law Artifact guqin. The fleet later passed Yuheng Island after paying the Sea Heaven Sect’s protection fee.

• Shen Ge reunited with Zhang Lingyu and Canglan as the fleets joined together, then invited Zhang Lingyu aboard for wine with Fairy Miaoyin.
• The fleet joined the Canghai Sect and continued through the coastal waters without encountering trouble, while Shen Ge and Fairy Miaoyin discussed the dangers of the sea.
• Fairy Miaoyin played the guqin for Shen Ge, who gave her the White Frost guqin and asked her to teach him to play.
• Shen Ge learned an ordinary tune from Fairy Miaoyin and killed a Demon Beast that disturbed the sea near the Thousand Sounds Workshop.
• The fleet passed Yuheng Island, where Zhang Lingyu paid a Sea Heaven Sect cultivator ten thousand Spirit Stones for passage through its waters.