Recaps

While polishing Great Void Treasure Mirrors with Lu Shuangyan and Yuhua, Chu Tianshu reflected on heroism and completed his sixth corporeal soul, Sparrow Yin. He considered how the mirrors might preserve a fair supply of Great Void Sweet Dew, then worried that the Incomplete Turbid Wind could erase everything people had built and resolved to collect more Evil Spirits when he went home.

• Yuhua and Lu Shuangyan recited lines about the burdens of life, and Chu Tianshu joked that mortals need not seek happiness lasting a thousand years.
• Chu Tianshu described heroes as people who lived without shame, avoided harming others, and pushed beyond their limits; Yuhua and Lu Shuangyan listened and took up mirror polishing.
• Chu Tianshu completed his sixth corporeal soul, Sparrow Yin, which opened a new dantian and strengthened his vitality and healing.
• Chu Tianshu examined the Turbid Heart Hall Demon’s Thousand-Layer Flowing Armor trait and considered how Great Void Treasure Mirrors could produce less-contaminated sweet dew than the Heavenly Ranking.
• Chu Tianshu feared the Incomplete Turbid Wind might erase the wisdom and efforts of generations, and decided to collect more Evil Spirits when he went home.

Wangliang Divine Lord used the Ghost Mother Clan’s treasures to curse and divert Chu Tianshu as he neared his return. Chu Tianshu appeared in a snowy mountain temple, interrupting a scholar’s fight with a disguised Yaksha and leaving the three of them stunned.

• Wangliang Divine Lord consumed the clan’s treasures to keep a Chu Tianshu doll synchronized across worlds, then used it to divert Chu Tianshu into a nearby realm.
• A beauty in fox fur and her two servants sought shelter in a mountain temple where a young scholar was staying.
• The scholar exposed the beauty and her servants as Yaksha and attacked them with a sword, destroying the maid and pinning down the beauty.
• Chu Tianshu appeared outside the temple and recognized Wangliang Divine Lord’s interference.
• The scholar declared that he was a woman just as the beauty cried out for help.

Chu Tianshu arrived in an unfamiliar world and intervened when a scholar captured a fox spirit from the Hall of Longevity. As the scholar explained the prophecies behind the Qingyun Sect’s destruction, Chu Tianshu realized the fugitive had survived for three years without being found, suggesting she had help beyond her own strength.

• Chu Tianshu found a scholar holding a fox spirit captive in a snowy temple and learned that the spirit had tried to curse her with a magical hairpin.
• The fox spirit revealed that she belonged to the Hall of Longevity and warned that killing her could bring a life-lamp curse and a bounty upon the scholar.
• The fox spirit recognized Chu Tianshu’s sword and suggested he might be connected to a prophecy about restoring the Qingyun Sect.
• The scholar explained that the Hall of Longevity’s prophecy predicted a future Qingyun Sect disciple would devastate the Demonic Sect, prompting its attack on the sect.
• Chu Tianshu concluded that prophecies were calculations rather than fixed fate, and wondered how the scholar had evaded the Hall of Longevity’s calculations for three years.

Chu Tianshu killed the fox spirit, helped Fang Wuchen restore her sword, and traveled with her to the Heavenly Wolf Sect. As they rested in a town outside the sect, he listened for signs of what was happening in the mountains while seeking a way to gather enough Fortune to return home.

• Chu Tianshu ordered Fang Wuchen to kill the fox spirit, then examined her sword and used righteous Qi to fade many of its scars.
• Fang Wuchen explained that a Yaksha ghost had terrorized nearby villagers and warned that the Demonic Sect's growing aggression could lead to a clash with the Heavenly Wolf Sect.
• Chu Tianshu asked Fang Wuchen to guide him to the Heavenly Wolf Sect, and they flew together to its mountain gate.
• A cultivator from the sect directed Chu Tianshu and Fang Wuchen to rest in Heavenly Wolf Town, where they ate meat from fierce exotic beasts.
• Chu Tianshu reflected on his need to gather Fortune to return home and focused his hearing on fluctuations within the mountains.

Chu Tianshu and Fang Wuchen discussed how to use her identity as a hunted Qingyun Sect disciple to lure the Demonic Sect into a trap. Fang Wuchen agreed to enter the scheme, while Chu Tianshu revealed that he would help for his own reasons too.

• Chu Tianshu learned about the Heavenly Wolf Sect's three Yue brothers, its disciples, and the wooden buildings that gathered and regulated Qi.
• Over a meal, Chu Tianshu asked Fang Wuchen what she planned to do after joining the Heavenly Wolf Sect.
• Chu Tianshu suggested that Fang Wuchen could use her Qingyun Sect identity and a fabricated lead to a great treasure as bargaining chips against the Demonic Sect.
• Fang Wuchen realized the Heavenly Wolf Sect could help spread the rumor and set an ambush, but Chu Tianshu warned that they would need to show methods the Demonic Sect had not seen before.
• Chu Tianshu offered to take part in the plan for his own reasons, and Fang Wuchen accepted the challenge, saying she had courage to spare.

Chu Tianshu and Fang Wuchen met Heavenly Wolf Sect leaders Yue Gude and Yue Chunfeng, exchanged unusual teas, and discussed a plan to mislead the Demonic Sect. After Chu Tianshu explained why he opposed them, the Yue brothers agreed to help refine the scheme, and he asked to test Yue Gude’s cultivation.

• Yue Chunfeng detected a message from Chu Tianshu through the medicine furnace and summoned Yue Gude to the Pill Chamber.
• Yue Gude prepared rare tea and welcomed Chu Tianshu and Fang Wuchen, then recognized Fang Wuchen’s Taiji Profound Clear Dao.
• Chu Tianshu brewed a potent drink with his emerald divine fire and began explaining his plan to use his skill as a false clue to a Qingyun treasure.
• Yue Chunfeng suggested that the Demonic Sect might believe the Qingyun Dao child defeated them using Chu Tianshu’s technique, then asked why Chu Tianshu wanted to help the Heavenly Wolf Sect.
• Chu Tianshu said he wanted to stir the world’s Fortune and oppose the Demonic Sect, and the Yue brothers asked to hear the plan’s details.
• Chu Tianshu asked to test Yue Gude’s cultivation.

Chu Tianshu fought Yue Gude and demonstrated that his cultivation surpassed the Heavenly Wolf Sect leader’s, even as Yue Gude relied on the Purple-Gold Medicinal Stone. Yue Chunfeng proposed uniting four wondrous stones into a legend to strengthen the righteous path, and Yue Gude said the Heavenly Wolf Sect would need to stage a believable setback to help spread it.

• Yue Chunfeng carried Yue Gude, Chu Tianshu, and himself away from the sect to a river valley for a contest.
• Yue Gude summoned a swarm of winged purple wolves, and Chu Tianshu destroyed them with a white dragon of Sword Qi before challenging him at close range.
• Chu Tianshu and Yue Gude exchanged powerful palm strikes until Yue Chunfeng used the Stone-Transforming Great Art to turn Chu Tianshu’s palm force into a crystal mountain.
• Yue Gude revealed that his wooden staff held the Purple-Gold Medicinal Stone and acknowledged that Chu Tianshu’s cultivation exceeded his own.
• Yue Chunfeng proposed combining the Purple-Gold Medicinal Stone, the Blood-Devouring Primordial Stone, the Mountain and River Dharma Stone, and Chu Tianshu’s Heavenly Fire Divine Stone in a legend about attaining immortality.
• Yue Gude said the Heavenly Wolf Sect would have to suffer a staged lapse so the rumor could spread naturally.

A furnace explosion at the Heavenly Wolf Sect exposed a connection between its medicinal stone, a Qingyun Sect disciple’s treasure clue, and the legendary Four Wondrous Stones. As the sect dealt with the chaos, news of the stones spread among the major powers, and a Demonic Sect elder decided to involve his wider organization.

• Explosions struck the Heavenly Wolf Sect’s mountains, prompting rogue cultivators to rush inside under the pretense of helping and the sect’s brothers to stage a fight to control the crowd.
• Yue Gude, Yue Tianchi, and their brother patrolled the mountains, calmed the cultivators, and helped neutralize the poison from the furnace blast.
• Rogue cultivators pieced together that the Heavenly Wolf Sect had been refining Nutrient and Defensive Hundred Refinements Poison using Qi gathered from their meals of exotic beast flesh.
• The sect’s Purple-Gold Medicinal Stone resonated with a Qingyun Sect disciple’s treasure clue and the Mountain and River Dharma Stone, causing the explosions and revealing a link to the Four Wondrous Stones.
• News of the Four Wondrous Stones reached Tianyin Temple, Incense Valley, and the Demonic Sect, where an elder chose to report the matter to the rest of his branch.

The Hall Master of Spirit Mountain Hall visited Wu Shanjun to ask about the Heavenly Fire Divine Stone and learned that an otherworldly grotto-heaven was moving toward their world. Wu Shanjun planned to use the rumor to draw the immortal sects into a broader scheme against them.

• The Hall Master of Spirit Mountain Hall and his disciples left the marsh and traveled to the Hall of Longevity’s Wilderness Sacred Temple.
• Wu Shanjun told the Hall Master of Spirit Mountain Hall that the Heavenly Fire Divine Stone’s faint presence suggested it had only recently appeared, making the rumor likely true.
• Wu Shanjun explained that drifting grotto-heavens could enter the world when their momentum waned, and that Patriarch Qingyun had prepared concealed foundations at Mount Qingyun for one.
• The Hall Master of Spirit Mountain Hall concluded that the grotto-heaven would enter the world at Mount Qingyun in forty-seven years, but Wu Shanjun said its current route was unknown.
• Wu Shanjun explained that the grotto-heaven’s stray fragments had likely formed the spark possessed by a Qingyun disciple, allowing it to be sensed without a major divination.
• Wu Shanjun proposed using the Heavenly Fire Divine Stone’s appearance to draw in the immortal sects and make them suffer.

The Heavenly Wolf Sect used pill formulas and artifact diagrams to recruit the Rogue Cultivators who had looted its stores, while its leaders prepared to pursue a clue to the Heavenly Fire Divine Stone. Chu Tianshu learned how Qilin True Person had treated Yue Tianchi’s inherited mania and, unable to meet the absent healer, agreed that it was time to draw the Demonic Sect into a battle.

• The Heavenly Wolf Sect registered and rewarded the Rogue Cultivators who had looted it, using formulas and artifact diagrams to entice them into doing tasks for the sect.
• Yue Chunfeng and the elders discussed how the Qingyun Sect’s furnace explosion had revealed the Legend of the Four Stones, and Yue Gude admitted that he and Yue Tianchi had been secretly searching for the Heavenly Fire Divine Stone with the Qingyun Sect’s disciples.
• Chu Tianshu watched Yue Tianchi closely and noticed signs of an unusual manic constitution, but Yue Chunfeng explained that Qilin True Person had treated both his and Yue Tianchi’s illnesses after a fortune-teller predicted their fates.
• Chu Tianshu examined Yue Tianchi’s pulse and confirmed that Qilin True Person’s medicine had altered his inherited bloodline and subdued his mania.
• The Yue brothers told Chu Tianshu that Qilin True Person had left to search for a Qilin, and Chu Tianshu proposed luring the Demonic Sect into a battle.

At Heavenly Lake, Chu Tianshu’s words about identity and persistence moved Yue Chunfeng and Yue Tianchi, while the Demonic Sect’s hidden forces prepared to ambush the Heavenly Wolf Sect for a divine stone. The Poison God launched an attack, and Chu Tianshu remained behind Yue Tianchi as Yue Chunfeng prepared to fight.

• Chu Tianshu argued to Yue Chunfeng and Yue Tianchi that a person’s persistence in knowing themselves mattered more than the unchanging appearance of mountains and heaven.
• Yue Tianchi praised Chu Tianshu’s words and said they expressed what he felt about the Demonic Sect.
• The Poison God used his Seven Heavens Treasure Mirror to spy on the Heavenly Wolf Sect and guessed that Yue Gude’s group had found the divine stone.
• The Lingshan Hall Master, Poison God, Hehuan Sect, and Heavenly Lantern Pavilion forces prepared to ambush Yue Gude’s group when they emerged from Heavenly Lake.
• The Heavenly Lantern Pavilion Master sent mist underground, and Yue Tianchi flew after it as the Poison God attacked him with the Poison God Circular Light Technique.
• Yue Chunfeng readied his brush while Chu Tianshu hid behind Yue Tianchi.

The Demonic Sect attacked Heavenly Lake from the sky, the land, and underground, while the Heavenly Wolf Sect and Yue Gude’s group resisted them. When the Heavenly Lantern Pavilion master was weakened by poison, Chu Tianshu struck with a swift sword that split her body and soul, leaving the enemy leaders stunned.

• Spirit Mountain Hall sent waves of flying swords toward Heavenly Lake as the Ten Thousand Poisons Grotto unleashed poisonous beasts across the ground.
• The Heavenly Wolf Sect’s archers and poison users appeared among the peaks and slowed the Demonic Sect’s assault.
• Chu Tianshu sensed the Heavenly Lantern Pavilion members approaching through underground waterways, while Yue Gude and Fang Wuchen prepared at the lakebed.
• The Heavenly Lantern Pavilion master confronted Yue Gude underwater and threatened that he could not escape past Spirit Mountain Hall’s sword strike.
• Yue Gude released Ying-Wei Poison from his medicinal stone, weakening the Heavenly Lantern Pavilion members’ escape techniques.
• Chu Tianshu slashed through the earth and lake, splitting the Heavenly Lantern Pavilion master’s body and soul with his sword.

Chu Tianshu battled the Spirit Mountain Hall master, whose Black Dragon Heart Sword turned negative emotions into a swarm of swords and pressured fighters across the battlefield. Chu Tianshu countered the hall master's mind-shaking mantra by using silkworm silk to make the mountain resound, drowning out his next chant.

• Yue Chunfeng charged into the Hehuan Sect's red mist as Chu Tianshu broke through the Spirit Mountain Hall disciples' sword formation and met the hall master's black divine sword.
• Chu Tianshu used the Samadhi Power Hand Seal to stop the hall master's golden scriptural characters, but the hall master's mantra stirred his killing intent and forced him backward.
• Yue Gude emerged from Heavenly Lake and joined Chu Tianshu against the Spirit Mountain Hall master, who multiplied his Black Dragon Heart Sword and attacked fighters across the battlefield.
• Chu Tianshu realized the Black Dragon Heart Sword used others' negative emotions as a medium to draw fierce Sha from heaven and earth, while the hidden monk was wounded by a distant sword.
• Chu Tianshu released Sanqi to entangle the hall master's sword, anchored silkworm silk to the mountainside, and made the mountain's vibrations drown out the hall master's chant.

Chu Tianshu used his zither to calm the battlefield and stop the Lingshan Hall Master from cutting its strings, then pursued him as he retreated. After disarming and poisoning the Black Dragon Sword, Chu Tianshu shifted back to killing intent and unleashed tremendous power against the Lingshan Hall Master's black cloud.

• Chu Tianshu's zither music eased the fighters' emotions while Yue Gude intercepted the Black Dragon Heart Sword's attacks on the strings.
• The Lingshan Hall Master ordered a retreat to the Great Marsh, and Chu Tianshu snapped his zither strings and chased him through the swarm of black swords.
• Chu Tianshu caught the Lingshan Hall Master, tore out a handful of his beard, and struck the Black Dragon Heart Sword, disrupting its power.
• Chu Tianshu scratched the Lingshan Hall Master's cheek, used the resulting blood to poison the Black Dragon Sword, and seized its hilt.
• Chu Tianshu abandoned his joyous mood and restored his killing intent, causing the black cloud beneath them to swell and shake under immense force.

Chu Tianshu destroyed Hall Master Lingshan’s demonic heart, joined the Heavenly Wolf Sect’s victory over the Demonic Sect, and helped the Yue brothers capture Poison God alive. After meeting High Person Jade Toad and Shangguan Yunyan at Heavenly Lake, he learned that Tianyin Temple had been wiped out.

• Chu Tianshu burned Hall Master Lingshan’s demonic heart to ashes and used Mountain Collapse Combat Calculation to speed toward the battlefield.
• Yue Chunfeng told Chu Tianshu that the Hehuan Sect Master had sent only a Dao Companion Puppet, not her true body, to fight.
• Chu Tianshu struck Poison God’s knee, allowing the Yue brothers to overwhelm and capture him; he agreed to spare Poison God so they could study his poison techniques.
• High Person Jade Toad of Tianyin Temple and Shangguan Yunyan of Incense Valley met Chu Tianshu, and Jade Toad spoke of Tianyin Temple’s connection to the Qingyun Sect.
• A monk’s prayer beads brought an urgent message to High Person Jade Toad: Tianyin Temple had been wiped out.

The group learned that Tianyin Temple had been destroyed after Daoist Priest Shuhui betrayed the temple during a plan to create a child bearing the Qingyun Dao Child’s Fortune. With the Hall of Longevity’s master occupied at Tianyin Temple and the Wordless Jade Disc still under attack, Chu Tianshu prepared to intervene.

• The temple steward told Fang Wuchen, Chu Tianshu, and the Heavenly Wolf Sect elders that Tianyin Temple had been wiped out.
• The steward explained that Tianyin Temple had used the Samsara Disc to divine and simulate the conditions of the Qingyun Dao Child’s birth, hoping to bring the Dao Child’s Fortune into the world early.
• Daoist Priest Shuhui gravely wounded three divine monks as they operated the Samsara Disc, while the Hall of Longevity’s master broke through the mountain gate and attacked the temple.
• Fang Wuchen recognized Shuhui as her martial uncle and reacted with rage, while Chu Tianshu suspected the destruction had been a trap.
• High Person Jade Toad estimated that the Hall of Longevity’s followers would need at least three two-hour periods to sever the Wordless Jade Disc’s connection to Earth Qi.
• Shangguan Yunyan agreed to oppose the Demonic Sect, and Chu Tianshu gave the Black Dragon Sword to Fang Wuchen and ordered the disciples and Rogue Cultivators to remain behind.

Wu Shanjun’s forces devastated Tianyin Temple and seized the Wordless Jade Disc while Shuhui reflected on why he had joined the Demonic Sect. As Wu Shanjun prepared to leave for the Northern Wastes, Chu Tianshu arrived and attacked the sect’s forces.

• Wu Shanjun explained that the Demonic Sect had killed Tianyin Temple’s monks slowly to corrupt the mountain’s earth Qi and make it possible to take the Wordless Jade Disc.
• Shuhui recalled leaving the Qingyun Sect’s righteous ways behind after witnessing a horse-faced Demonic Sect protector’s violence and receiving the Hall of Longevity’s favor.
• Protector Ma gave Wu Shanjun Monk Xue’s bloodstained prayer bead, and Wu Shanjun crushed it to recover his essence blood.
• Wu Shanjun worried that something might be wrong at the Northern Wastes, left Shuhui and Protector Ma to move the jade disc, and prepared to depart.
• Chu Tianshu’s emerald sword attack killed a Demonic Sect disciple, but Wu Shanjun’s bloody palms blocked the Sword Qi and reached to crush him.

Chu Tianshu used Mountain Collapse Combat Calculation to devastate the Demonic Sect forces, then faced Wu Shanjun and exploited Sanqi’s resistance to his blinding Blood Sha technique. The chapter left Wu Shanjun threatened by Yue Gude’s hurled Purple-Gold Medicinal Stone as Chu Tianshu’s sword remained wedged between him and the Dragon-Subduing Cauldron.

• Chu Tianshu shattered Wu Shanjun’s giant Blood Sha palm with his sword and struck a mountainside, using the force through the surrounding peaks to kill Demonic Sect disciples on four mountains.
• Wu Shanjun ordered thousands of disciples to circulate Black Sha and used Blood Sha to launch them safely into the sky and carry them away from Chu Tianshu.
• The Hall of Longevity’s master confronted Chu Tianshu and explained how the Divine Sect used the opposing forces of life and death.
• Wu Shanjun flashed behind Chu Tianshu to overwhelm his senses, but Sanqi remained unaffected and guided Chu Tianshu’s sword between the Dragon-Subduing Cauldron’s legs.
• Wu Shanjun struck Chu Tianshu and sent him crashing into a mountain, but Chu Tianshu left his sword lodged in place as Yue Gude hurled the Purple-Gold Medicinal Stone at Wu Shanjun.

Chu Tianshu and Wu Shanjun fought over the Three-Seven Sword while the Dragon-Subduing Cauldron’s Asura Blood Sha stirred. Wu Shanjun withdrew after the power favored Sanqi, leaving Chu Tianshu with ominous signs of contamination.

• Wu Shanjun slowed the Purple-Gold Medicinal Stone with Black Sha and Blood Sha, while Protector Ma blocked Yue Tianchi and the others from attacking him.
• Chu Tianshu formed a crystal silk sword from Grand Void Radiation and clashed with Wu Shanjun’s vortexing palm as he closed in on Sanqi.
• Chu Tianshu seized Sanqi, withstood Wu Shanjun’s poisoned palm, and faced him as the Dragon-Subduing Cauldron and sword both shone with blood-red light.
• Wu Shanjun retreated with Protector Ma and Shuhui, explaining that the cauldron’s Asura Blood Sha had shown an instinctive affinity for Sanqi.
• Chu Tianshu told Yue Gude and the others that the Blood Sha had nearly contaminated his soul, then revealed a black-and-red vapor rising from his back and a golden vertical pupil amid blood in his right eye.

Chu Tianshu contained the Blood Sha poisoning his soul and discovered that the Wordless Jade Disc’s peaceful Qi eased his symptoms. Yue Gude explained the Heavenly Wolf Sect’s search for true peace and suggested Chu Tianshu might uncover a way to cultivate the beneficent bonds of the heavenly way; Chu Tianshu began considering how that path might relate to his Corpse Dog soul.

• Chu Tianshu severed and burned the strange arm growing from his bloody palm wound, then used silver needles to treat the Blood Sha and residual poison.
• Yue Gude arranged for the survivors to tend Tianyin Temple’s wounded and dead before returning to the Heavenly Wolf Sect, while High Person Jade Toad and the others went to help.
• Chu Tianshu found that standing near the Wordless Jade Disc eased the agitation caused by Blood Sha and reflected on the temptation he had resisted in the cauldron.
• Yue Gude explained how the jade disc’s accumulated associations with peace had purified Tianyin Temple’s earth Qi, then described Qilin True Person’s distinction between human peace and the heavenly way’s enduring beneficent bonds.
• Yue Gude urged Chu Tianshu to study the Heavenly Wolf Sect’s medical manuscripts and seek a way to cultivate heavenly beneficent bonds, citing his restraint and compassion.
• Chu Tianshu wondered whether the heavenly way’s beneficent bonds were connected to the Corpse Dog soul’s role in guarding against evil and seeking fortune.

Wu Shanjun gathered the leaders of Corpse Joy Palace and Hehuan Sect after the Demonic Sect’s defeat and decided to risk changing his cultivation to tame the Asura Blood Sha. He sent the two sect masters to investigate Incense Valley and watch the Heavenly Wolf Sect, determined to unite evildoers under his command.

• Protector Xiong spotted the Master of Corpse Joy Palace and the Master of Hehuan Sect arriving at the Hall of Longevity in a bridal procession.
• The Master of Hehuan Sect revealed that the Demonic Sect had lost at the Heavenly Wolf Sect and that the battle at Tianyin Temple had not fully succeeded.
• Wu Shanjun learned that a Dao Companion Puppet had let the Master of Hehuan Sect share information from both battles.
• Wu Shanjun explained that he planned to cultivate Black Sha alone to attract and tame the Asura Blood Sha, while asking the sect masters to bring other Demonic Sect followers under unified command.
• The Master of Corpse Joy Palace agreed to help Wu Shanjun, while the Master of Hehuan Sect offered to investigate a disturbance at Incense Valley and keep watch on the Heavenly Wolf Sect.
• Wu Shanjun rejected attempts to dissuade him and resolved to become the leader whom evildoers could trust.

While recovering in seclusion, Chu Tianshu studied the Heavenly Wolf Sect’s secret medical canon and received thanks from the surviving monks of Tianyin Temple. After teaching Fang Wuchen a new method to subdue the Black Dragon Sword, he triggered a manifestation of Heavenly Dao’s Good Affinity, leaving Yue Gude astonished.

• Chu Tianshu read the Heavenly Wolf Sect’s medical canon, using medicinal braised meat to resist the Blood Sha’s temptation.
• Yue Tianchi brought injured Tianyin Temple monks to thank Chu Tianshu, who encouraged them to recover and uphold their sect’s resolve.
• High Person Jade Toad gave Chu Tianshu a scripture containing Great Brahma Prajna and the seniors’ discussions of harmony.
• Fang Wuchen apologized for failing to tame the Black Dragon Sword, and Chu Tianshu taught her the Dragon-Subduing Divine Palms instead of the Great Void Fire Seed.
• Chu Tianshu contemplated the bond between the Black Dragon Sword and the Dragon-Subduing Divine Palms, then caused multicolored light, heavenly flowers, and sweet springs to appear.
• Yue Gude recognized the signs as proof that Heavenly Dao’s Good Affinity truly existed.

Yue Tianchi and the others experienced the calming power of Heavenly Dao's Good Affinity as Chu Tianshu broke through to Triple Leakless and entered Returning Light and Rebirth. The chapter ended with an emerald cocoon containing Chu Tianshu suspended in the sky, protected by two enormous hands formed from the force field of heaven and earth.

• Yue Tianchi touched a petal of Heavenly Dao's Good Affinity and felt a profound harmony with the world, while Fang Wuchen, High Person Jade Toad, and the others shared the feeling.
• Yue Gude and Yue Chunfeng tried to intercept arriving cultivators, but the heavenly fragrant flower rain drew everyone down to the mountainside.
• An ascetic monk's hidden Demonic Sect cultivation dissipated in the flower rain, and he died after dispersing his power; the other cultivators sat down to meditate.
• Chu Tianshu attained Triple Leakless and entered Returning Light and Rebirth, retracing his memories to the beginning of his life and resolving to let everything he had learned be reborn with him.
• A beam of multicolored light transformed the sky, and two enormous hands lifted Chu Tianshu's emerald cocoon above the valley to protect him.

As Chu Tianshu continued his breakthrough beneath a vast heavenly phenomenon, Shangguan Yunyan persuaded Incense Valley to seek his help, and Shangguan Ding sent a True Fire Divine Eagle to observe him. The eagle collided with the invisible protection around Chu Tianshu, then saw him emerge, leaving Shangguan Ding shaken and unable to summon hostility toward him.

• Shangguan Yunyan secretly spoke to an incense burner, while Yue Chunfeng and Yue Gude watched and discussed the danger of a Demonic Sect attack.
• The Elder of Technique Transmission argued that Incense Valley should seek Chu Tianshu’s help with the Mysterious Fire Mirror, and Shangguan Ding sent the True Fire Divine Eagle to the Heavenly Wolf Sect.
• The True Fire Divine Eagle flew into the giant hand protecting the valley, lost many feathers, and eventually saw the heavenly phenomenon and Chu Tianshu emerging from his cocoon.
• Shangguan Ding felt overwhelmed by Chu Tianshu’s gaze and realized he could not bring himself to hate or oppose him.

Chu Tianshu invited the gathered cultivators to a banquet and appraisal, where Yue Chunfeng proposed using the Heavenly Wolf Sect’s Qi-replenishing pills as a common measure of value. Shangguan Yunyan then explained Incense Valley’s Mysterious Fire Mirror and revealed that the sect had located a hidden grotto abode linked to Qingyun Sect but could not pull it into the world.

• Chu Tianshu invited the cultivators into the valley to celebrate his breakthrough and sample the gifts they had brought.
• Yue Chunfeng offered to return the gifts meant for the Heavenly Wolf Sect and explained that its disciples had valued them in Qi-replenishing pills.
• Chu Tianshu considered how standard pill values could support trade among cultivators.
• Shangguan Yunyan, encouraged by the divine eagle, told Chu Tianshu that Incense Valley wanted to share an opportunity.
• Shangguan Yunyan described how Incense Valley used the Mysterious Fire Mirror to find and draw hidden spaces into reality.
• Shangguan Yunyan revealed that Incense Valley had found the grotto abode expected near Qingyun Sect but had been unable to pull it fully into the world.