Chapter Summaries

Kong Xuan fought Daoist Lu Ya above Chaoge, swallowing his Scarlet Fire True Dragon and gaining the upper hand with barehanded combat and a great saber. After Lu Ya’s Solar Divine Fire failed to overwhelm him, Lu Ya formed a Solar Divine Wheel and attacked, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Kong Xuan swallowed Daoist Lu Ya’s Scarlet Fire True Dragon and its scattered flames, rendering Lu Ya’s fire technique ineffective.
• Daoist Lu Ya charged Kong Xuan with his horsetail whisk, but Kong Xuan fought him barehanded and gained the advantage.
• Lu Ya unleashed Solar True Fire, and Kong Xuan drew his enormous saber to cleave the flames apart.
• Kong Xuan’s saber strike broke through Lu Ya’s defenses and sent him tumbling, though Lu Ya’s Solar Divine Fire shield limited his injuries.
• Lu Ya gathered his Solar Divine Fire into a spinning Solar Divine Wheel and sent it slashing toward Kong Xuan, who met it with his saber.

Kong Xuan overwhelmed Daoist Lu Ya in close combat, leaving him gravely injured above Chaoge. Kong Xuan stopped short of killing him and condemned him for siding with the Heavenly Dao Sages who had ruined his family.

• Kong Xuan realized Daoist Lu Ya lacked combat experience and charged in to force a close-range fight.
• Daoist Lu Ya fled and tried to intercept Kong Xuan with Solar Divine Fire, but Kong Xuan caught up and kicked him hard in the waist.
• Kong Xuan struck Daoist Lu Ya again, caving in his chest and leaving him badly wounded as the people of Chaoge cheered.
• Kong Xuan stopped pursuing Daoist Lu Ya, mocked his abilities, and said he had spared his life.
• Kong Xuan accused Daoist Lu Ya of betraying his family’s legacy by joining the Heavenly Dao Sages who had brought ruin upon the Demon Clan.

Lu Ya recovered from Kong Xuan’s attack and unleashed his Solar True Fire, but Kong Xuan’s Nirvana True Fire ultimately consumed it. Kong Xuan warned Lu Ya that he should flee, while Lu Ya’s confidence faltered.

• Lu Ya healed his injuries with Solar Divine Fire and transformed into a towering figure wreathed in flames.
• Kong Xuan summoned Yuanfeng’s Nirvana True Fire, and the two fires clashed above Chaoge as its experts watched and discussed the battle.
• Lu Ya’s Solar True Fire initially pressed Kong Xuan’s flames, but the Nirvana True Fire gradually gained the advantage and consumed it.
• Lu Ya realized that losing the fire left him at a serious disadvantage, and Kong Xuan urged him to leave before he was killed in Chaoge.

Daoist Lu Ya brought out the Immortal-Slaying Gourd against Kong Xuan, whose Five-Colored Divine Light and peacock plume emerged in response. Lu Ya urged the gourd to kill, leaving the battle poised for its attack.

• Kong Xuan recognized Daoist Lu Ya’s white gourd as a powerful treasure and prepared to defend himself.
• Daoist Lu Ya called on the Immortal-Slaying Gourd, whose baleful aura locked onto Kong Xuan.
• Ye Xuan watched from Chaoge and chose not to intervene, trusting Kong Xuan to face the treasure.
• Kong Xuan shook off the gourd’s influence and revealed his Five-Colored Divine Light and magnificent peacock plume.
• Daoist Lu Ya, startled by Kong Xuan’s power, commanded the precious gourd to slay him.

Kong Xuan used the Five-Colored Divine Light to suppress Daoist Lu Ya’s Immortal Slaying Flying Knife, forcing Lu Ya to reveal his Three-Legged Golden Crow form. Kong Xuan then unleashed his own divine light, and an enormous creature appeared above Chaoge.

• Daoist Lu Ya launched the Immortal Slaying Flying Knife at Kong Xuan, but Kong Xuan swept it away with the Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Daoist Lu Ya realized Kong Xuan countered his abilities and considered retreating from Chaoge.
• Daoist Lu Ya transformed into his Three-Legged Golden Crow true form and filled the sky above Chaoge with golden flames.
• Kong Xuan mocked Daoist Lu Ya and released brilliant divine light that enveloped half of Chaoge.
• An enormous creature appeared above Chaoge as the light dimmed.

Kong Xuan defeated Daoist Lu Ya and pursued him away from Chaoge, while the city’s people realized the Black Bird in the sky was different from the one they had seen before. As Lu Ya fled, Kong Xuan taunted him for serving the Heavenly Dao Sages and hinted that she intended to capture him rather than kill him.

• The people of Chaoge noticed that Kong Xuan was a different Black Bird from the one that had appeared there before and cheered at the discovery that the city might have two.
• Daoist Lu Ya recognized he was outmatched, blamed Antarctic Immortal for sending him to Chaoge, and fled.
• Kong Xuan chased Lu Ya, mocking him for coming to Chaoge to find the Black Bird and then running away.
• Lu Ya pleaded with Kong Xuan to stop pursuing him, while she considered driving him away or capturing him alive.
• Kong Xuan rebuked Lu Ya for obeying the Heavenly Dao Sages, who had wiped out his father’s generation.

Kong Xuan spared Daoist Lu Ya after defeating him and returned to Chaoge, where Chang'e worried that her brother might be killed. Ye Xuan reassured Chang'e, then greeted Kong Xuan with an embrace so brazen that she raised her knee to strike him.

• Kong Xuan chased Daoist Lu Ya away from Chaoge, then stopped pursuing him when he pleaded for his life.
• Chaoge's people celebrated the Black Bird's victory, while Chang'e anxiously watched Daoist Lu Ya flee because he was her elder brother.
• Ye Xuan held Chang'e and assured her that Daoist Lu Ya would probably survive because Kong Xuan had only driven him away.
• Kong Xuan arrived in Chaoge, and Ye Xuan rushed into her arms and clung to her despite her angry protests.
• Kong Xuan raised her knee toward Ye Xuan as he refused to let go.

Ye Xuan welcomed Kong Xuan and the Five-Virtue Qilin to Chaoge, where the Qilin King pledged allegiance and presented a vast collection of magical treasures. The chapter left the Qilin Clan’s gifts ready to support the Human Clan’s growing cultivation needs.

• Ye Xuan reunited with Kong Xuan, who blushed and called him a rotten man before saying she had brought the Qilin King.
• The Five-Virtue Qilin arrived in Chaoge with several women and hundreds of chests, and Ye Xuan welcomed him as a guest.
• Ye Xuan hosted a grand banquet for Kong Xuan and the Five-Virtue Qilin, both of whom were Quasi-Saint-level mighty figures.
• The Five-Virtue Qilin presented hundreds of chests of Postnatal Spiritual Treasures made largely from Qilin materials.
• The Five-Virtue Qilin explained that the gifts would help the Human Clan, whose growing interest in cultivation had made supplies scarce.

The Qilin King secured the Qilin Clan’s refuge with the Human Clan by offering treasures and nineteen women, then explained the clan’s surviving strength and asked only for the right to live openly after the great tribulation. Ye Xuan accepted their submission and returned to cultivating, where Kong Xuan unexpectedly approached him with tea and unusual warmth.

• The Qilin King offered Ye Xuan treasures and nineteen Qilin women, and Ye Xuan agreed to let them stay in Chaoge.
• The Five-Virtue Qilin told Ye Xuan that about twenty thousand qilins and fifty thousand qilin-blooded auspicious beasts remained, with only himself surviving among the Treasure-Colored Qilins.
• The Qilin King asked Ye Xuan to protect the Qilin Clan’s Dao and let them appear openly throughout the Primordial World if they helped him win the great tribulation.
• After the three-day banquet, Ye Xuan returned to his bedchamber and cultivated urgently because he feared Dao Ancestor Hongjun.
• Kong Xuan brought Ye Xuan tea and spoke to him with unexpected gentleness, leaving him bewildered.

Kong Xuan acted unusually flirtatious with Ye Xuan, pressing him to compare his beauty and figure with Su Daji’s. After stripping down to his red dudou, Kong Xuan invited Ye Xuan to take him, leaving Ye Xuan overwhelmed by desire and surprise.

• Ye Xuan questioned why Kong Xuan was behaving so warmly and strangely.
• Kong Xuan closed the door, approached Ye Xuan, and asked whether he found him beautiful.
• Kong Xuan demanded that Ye Xuan choose whether he or Su Daji was prettier, but Ye Xuan refused to rank them.
• Kong Xuan removed most of his robes until only his red dudou remained, then asked Ye Xuan to compare their figures.
• Kong Xuan leaned close to Ye Xuan and urged him to take him.

Kong Xuan followed a strange karmic summons to Ye Xuan’s bedchamber and discovered him with someone who looked and sounded exactly like her. The real Kong Xuan destroyed the palace, and the two women confronted each other as Ye Xuan realized he had been deceived.

• Ye Xuan and the apparent Kong Xuan became intimate in his bedchamber.
• The real Kong Xuan sensed an unfamiliar karmic pull toward Chaoge and followed it to Ye Xuan’s bedchamber.
• Kong Xuan heard her own voice inside, used her spiritual sense, and saw Ye Xuan with an impostor resembling her.
• Kong Xuan struck the palace with a palm, interrupting Ye Xuan and reducing the building to rubble.
• Ye Xuan recognized the real Kong Xuan and realized the woman in his arms was a fake.
• The real and fake Kong Xuan accused each other of impersonation and threatened to kill each other.

A second Kong Xuan appeared in Chaoge, accusing the Kong Xuan with Ye Xuan of being an impostor, and the two began an evenly matched battle in the sky. Ye Xuan and the gathered onlookers could not tell them apart, and the fight continued as both revealed identical weapons.

• The newly arrived Kong Xuan confronted the Kong Xuan beside Ye Xuan, and their first clash sent them flying apart.
• Ye Xuan ordered the two Kong Xuans to fight in the sky and admitted he could not distinguish the real one from the impostor.
• The two Kong Xuans fought with matching Quasi-Saint power and identical moves while Ye Xuan and the Six-Eared Macaque watched.
• The battle drew the Four Divine Monkeys, the Twelve Zodiac Animals, Huang Feihu, Heng and Ha, Nezha, and Chaoge’s awakened inhabitants.
• One Kong Xuan summoned a huge treasured saber, and the other produced an identical one; their weapons clashed and sent a shockwave through the sky.

Ye Xuan watched the real and fake Kong Xuans fight, but their matching weapons and abilities made them impossible to distinguish. The real Kong Xuan unleashed her unique Five-Colored Divine Light, leaving Ye Xuan to see whether the imposter could copy that too.

• Ye Xuan watched the two Kong Xuans trade fierce saber blows without either gaining the advantage.
• The real Kong Xuan used Nirvana True Fire, but the fake Kong Xuan produced an identical flame, and their collision tore cracks through the sky above Chaoge.
• The two Kong Xuans resumed their saber fight, exchanging several dozen more blows before retreating without deciding a winner.
• One Kong Xuan declared that the fake would face what was coming and summoned the Five-Colored Divine Light, which Ye Xuan believed no one else could reproduce.

Ye Xuan discovered that the Kong Xuan who had deceived him was Su Daji, who had copied Kong Xuan’s appearance and abilities. Su Daji revealed that she had recently become a Quasi-Saint and began explaining how Ye Xuan had helped her reach that realm.

• Ye Xuan realized the disguised Kong Xuan was fake when she could not use the Five-Colored Divine Light, and demanded to know who she was.
• Su Daji dropped her disguise, prompting the real Kong Xuan to threaten her for taking his form and deceiving Ye Xuan.
• Ye Xuan intervened and explained that he had not known the disguised woman was Su Daji, easing Kong Xuan’s anger somewhat.
• Su Daji admitted she had impersonated Kong Xuan to give Ye Xuan excitement because she believed he was deeply enamored with Kong Xuan.
• When Kong Xuan and Ye Xuan asked how she had copied Kong Xuan’s powers, Su Daji revealed that she had become a Quasi-Saint that day and said it was thanks to Ye Xuan.

Su Daji explained that her new innate divine ability let her transform into people and imitate many of their traits, though it had limits. After Kong Xuan caught her impersonating him during an intimate moment with Ye Xuan, he warned her not to do it again and flew away, leaving Ye Xuan and Su Daji together.

• Su Daji revealed that she had become a Quasi-Saint and awakened the Demon Fox Ten Mysterious Transformations, which could copy a person’s appearance, presence, cultivation, abilities, and karma.
• Su Daji explained that the ability only worked on people with comparable realms and could not copy certain special techniques, including Kong Xuan’s Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Ye Xuan and Kong Xuan realized the ability could make Su Daji a powerful combatant and potential spy.
• Kong Xuan angrily forbade Su Daji from impersonating him outside special combat situations, especially to be intimate with Ye Xuan, then flew beyond the heavens.
• Ye Xuan pulled Su Daji into his arms and scolded her for letting Kong Xuan catch her, while Su Daji teased him about whether he had enjoyed their encounter.

Ye Xuan learned that Wushuang had entered seclusion near a breakthrough, then Juliusun decided to summon Tu Xingsun as the conflict between Yin Shang and Xiqi intensified. The chapter ended with Tu Xingsun arriving before his master and kneeling to greet him.

• Su Daji told Ye Xuan that Wushuang had gone into seclusion and might soon become a Quasi-Saint.
• Ye Xuan considered the strength of his allies and worried that the Twelve Zodiac Animals still lacked a horse.
• Juliusun sensed that Xiqi’s sage lord was near death and wondered whether to send his disciple into the conflict.
• Juliusun reflected on the danger of the Investiture of the Gods and summoned Tu Xingsun.
• Tu Xingsun appeared before Juliusun, knelt, and apologized for arriving late.

Juliusun sent Tu Xingsun down the mountain to assist Jiang Ziya and gave him the Immortal Binding Rope and Heart-Devouring Pills for protection. In Chaoge, Ye Xuan took Su Daji and Chang'e on an incognito stroll, while Chang'e reflected on how she had come to be at the Human Emperor's side.

• Juliusun told Tu Xingsun to find Jiang Ziya in Xiqi and warned him to act cautiously during the coming tribulation.
• Juliusun gave Tu Xingsun the Immortal Binding Rope and a bottle of Heart-Devouring Pills before Tu Xingsun left the mountain.
• After spending the night with Su Daji, Ye Xuan decided to take her and Chang'e for a stroll through Chaoge.
• Ye Xuan sent Su Daji and Chang'e to change into plain clothes so they would attract less attention.
• Ye Xuan walked through Chaoge with Su Daji and Chang'e, while Chang'e blushed and wondered whether she would remain by the Human Emperor's side.

Ye Xuan revisited a street stall with Su Daji and Chang'e, where he reunited with the old sugar-figurine craftsman he had helped before. The old man revealed his remarkable insight by shaping figures of Chang'e, Su Daji, Kong Xuan, and Ye Xuan, leaving Ye Xuan curious about the craftsman's unusual art.

• Ye Xuan brought Su Daji and Chang'e to a sugar-figurine stall and recognized the old craftsman from a previous visit.
• The old craftsman thanked Ye Xuan for the precious medicine that had helped him reach the True Immortal realm, while Ye Xuan praised him for saving General Wang Yong.
• The old craftsman shaped a jade toad for Chang'e and a ten-tailed fox for Su Daji, accurately discerning their true forms.
• The old craftsman fashioned a Black Bird resembling Kong Xuan, and Ye Xuan sent the figurine into the auspicious clouds above Chaoge.
• The old craftsman made a divine throne bearing Ye Xuan's likeness and explained that his sugar-figurine craft relied on a connection of the heart.

Ye Xuan enjoyed an incognito outing with Chang'e and Su Daji, visiting Wang Yong and Zhang Lin's tavern before spotting a prominent Ashura woman in Chaoge. He pursued her out of the city, recognizing her as the woman Ancestor Minghe had once offered him.

• Ye Xuan accepted the sugar-figure maker's gift and strolled through the street with Chang'e and Su Daji.
• Ye Xuan visited Wang Yong's tavern, where Wang Yong and Zhang Lin welcomed him and served him a meal.
• Ye Xuan recalled Wang Yong's battlefield service and how he had risen to become a cavalry general under Huang Feihu.
• Ye Xuan spotted a blood-red-haired Ashura woman, told Chang'e and Su Daji to return to the palace, and followed her out of Chaoge.
• Ye Xuan recognized the woman as the most beautiful woman of the Ashura Clan whom Ancestor Minghe had once tried to give him.

Ye Xuan confronted Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven, an Ashura Clan demon king who had come to Chaoge, and tested her combat abilities. She attacked him with blood-red sword Qi and Blood God Son Clones, but he effortlessly destroyed the clones, leaving her increasingly alarmed.

• Ye Xuan recognized Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven as one of the Ashura Clan's four great demon kings and asked why she had come to Chaoge.
• Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven mistook Ye Xuan's curious stare for improper intent and threatened to kill him.
• Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven attacked Ye Xuan with blood-red sword Qi, which he swallowed without harm.
• Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven created eighteen Blood God Son Clones and sent them after Ye Xuan.
• Ye Xuan swept out sword Qi that destroyed the clones one after another, alarming Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven.