Recaps

Lu Ping chose to storm Myriad Spirits Valley after Qinghe vanished under a Fate Contract, breaking through its defenses to reach the Ancestral Spirit Cave. There, he found Qinghe beside the sleeping Azure Feather Luan, and she recognized him despite his restored face; the chapter ended as he considered his next move.

• Lu Ping chose to confront whoever had taken Qinghe and flew to Myriad Spirits Valley, where he broke through the Valley-Guarding Formation and the valley’s other restrictions.
• Lu Ping reached the Ancestral Spirit Cave and kicked down its bronze doors.
• Lu Ping found the Azure Feather Luan, a Half-Step Heavenly Demon, floating above an altar, with Qinghe standing beside it.
• Qinghe recognized Lu Ping despite never having seen his real face, and he noticed the world-weariness and attachment in her eyes.
• Lu Ping considered whether to probe Qinghe’s condition, attack the Azure Feather Luan, or demand Qinghe’s belongings and child-rearing expenses.

Lu Ping learned that Qinghe was the reincarnated human soul of the Azure Feather Luan, Qingyu, and that their planned merger would let Qingyu break through to the Heavenly Demon realm. After entering their shared Sea of Consciousness, Lu Ping refused to let Qingyu decide Qinghe’s fate and asked Qinghe to choose for herself.

• Qinghe explained that she and Qingyu were two souls from one origin, and that their merger would free the Azure Feather Luan from the sect’s pact and allow it to ascend to the Heavenly Demon realm.
• Lu Ping used “I'll Make Three Points” and entered Qinghe’s Sea of Consciousness to confront Qingyu.
• Lu Ping’s Salty Fish ability made him immune to Qingyu’s soul attacks, but he stopped tearing at her soul when Qinghe’s soul began to weaken too.
• Qingyu claimed Qinghe was merely a brief set of memories and would remain after the merger, but Lu Ping rejected her argument.
• Lu Ping told Qinghe that she had the right to choose between merging with Qingyu and continuing her own life, and promised to help sever her past-life karma if she wished.

Lu Ping helped Qinghe separate her soul from Qingyu’s and gave her a technique to protect herself. After the Azure Feather Luan awakened and attacked him, Lu Ping summoned Crow-Crow to face her.

• Qinghe chose to remain herself, and Qingyu offered to sever their connection and return to her original body.
• Lu Ping accepted after Qingyu swore a Dao oath, and Qingyu transferred the bonded pact to Qinghe while leaving her soul essence behind.
• Lu Ping strengthened Qinghe’s soul and taught her the Spirit Refining Technique before leaving her Sea of Consciousness.
• The Azure Feather Luan awoke and attacked Lu Ping with azure wind blades.
• Lu Ping summoned Crow-Crow, who met the blades with a fireball.

Lu Ping and Qinghe left the Ancestral Spirit Cave after Qingyu awakened, and Qinghe’s bond with the Azure Feather Luan drove her cultivation to Nascent Soul Middle Stage. Lu Ping faced a choice about how to celebrate Qinghe’s achievement.

• Qingyu took human form after Crow-Crow drove her off, then affectionately asked Qinghe to call her big sister while dismissing Lu Ping.
• Lu Ping led Qinghe out of the Ancestral Spirit Cave, and Qingyu stayed behind to stabilize her cultivation as the sect felt her pressure for a month.
• Qinghe secluded herself, rapidly advancing to Golden Core Perfection through her bond with Qingyu and preparing to undergo the Nascent Soul tribulation.
• Qinghe survived the tribulation and emerged a month later with her cultivation stabilized at Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Lu Ping considered how to congratulate Qinghe, with options ranging from lavish gifts to a trip down the mountain or an extravagant parade.

Lu Ping handed Qinghe Zhu Wanshan’s belongings and other treasures, then helped her take over as Sect Master of the Profound Beast Taming Sect. After the ceremony, he prepared to leave for Qingyang City and faced a choice about Qinghe’s offer of the Grand Supreme Elder Token.

• Lu Ping gave Qinghe Zhu Wanshan’s Spirit Beast Bags, Storage Ring, pills, and Talismans, and she thanked him warmly.
• Lu Ping announced Qinghe as the new Sect Master, and Azure Feather Ancestor’s pressure silenced the elders who objected.
• The Supreme Mystery Sect’s Sect Master attended Qinghe’s succession ceremony and returned the Profound Spirit Seal, a Law Treasure lost a thousand years earlier.
• Qinghe accepted the Profound Spirit Seal and led the sect through a successful ceremony, after which Lu Ping decided to leave for Qingyang City.
• Qinghe offered Lu Ping the Grand Supreme Elder Token and promised that the sect would support him; Lu Ping had not yet chosen whether to accept it.

Lu Ping left the Profound Beast Taming Sect and traveled to Qingyang City to keep his appointment with Wuming, only to learn that the Zhao Household was hunting him. Lu Ping rescued Wuming by killing the Zhao Household Ancestor, then faced a choice about how to address the monk.

• Lu Ping chose Qinghe’s token, told her to cultivate diligently, and left the Profound Beast Taming Sect as Qingyu comforted her.
• Lu Ping traveled to Qingyang City to meet Wuming and seek the general principles of the As-If-Original Seal.
• At a teahouse, Lu Ping heard that the Zhao Household was pursuing a handsome monk in white after Zhao Mingchuan’s death, and he suspected Wuming was the target.
• Lu Ping followed the Zhao Household’s trail and found that Wuming had used the Star River Talisman to badly wound the Zhao Household Ancestor.
• Lu Ping finished off the Zhao Household Ancestor with Star River Myriad Blades, and Wuming recognized him in astonishment.
• Lu Ping received options for how to speak to Wuming.

Lu Ping chose to leave Qingyang City with Wuming without confronting Sun Jingli, then arrived in Black Nether City and learned about its dangerous atmosphere and the Mystic Nether Pavilion’s teleportation network. After stocking up on ingredients for Qi-Consolidating Pills, he faced a choice about what to do next.

• Lu Ping escorted Wuming through Qingyang City and left by teleportation without provoking the City Lord's Manor.
• Lu Ping and Wuming arrived in Black Nether City, where Wuming explained its proximity to the Domain of Chaos and the lack of guards.
• Wuming told Lu Ping that the Heavenly Certification Alliance's teleportation arrays did not reach the Domain of Chaos and pointed out the Mystic Nether Pavilion.
• Lu Ping visited the Azure Dragon Merchant Association's branch and bought all its medicinal ingredients for Qi-Consolidating Pills.
• Lu Ping considered whether to head straight to the Mystic Nether Pavilion, explore Black Nether City, or make Wuming pay the bill.

Lu Ping and Wuming paid a steep fee to teleport to Doushu City, where Lu Ping found the city’s old-fashioned appearance belied its violent, lawless streets. When he tried to buy medicinal ingredients, the shopkeeper reacted strangely to his Spirit Stones, leaving Lu Ping wondering whether local cultivators had ever seen them.

• Lu Ping paid the Mystic Nether Pavilion one million Low-Grade Spirit Stones for two teleportation talismans, and he and Wuming traveled to Doushu City.
• Lu Ping saw a cultivator kill another over a spiritual herb, then reconsidered his impression of Doushu City as a normal cultivation city.
• Lu Ping chose to keep a low profile and went to the Hundred Herb Pavilion to buy medicinal ingredients for Qi-Consolidating Pills.
• The shopkeeper inspected Lu Ping’s Storage Bag and reacted with suspicion and excitement when he saw it contained Spirit Stones.
• Lu Ping discreetly held down the Storage Bag and asked Wuming whether cultivators in Doushu City had never seen Spirit Stones.

Lu Ping learned that Spirit Stones and alchemical pills were especially valuable in Doushu City, then heard that the city would hold a major Auction featuring rare goods, possibly including the Yin-Yang Love-Tribulation Flower linked to Jiang Mutian’s poisoning. He chose to stay and investigate the Auction while Wuming returned to Luxuan Mountain with supplies and directions for Lu Ping to follow later.

• Lu Ping discovered that Doushu City relied largely on barter and that Spirit Stones and Qi-Gathering Pills had unusually high value.
• The Hundred Herb Pavilion shopkeeper told Lu Ping that a major Auction would take place in a month and that its previous event had featured a Yin-Yang Love-Tribulation Flower.
• Lu Ping connected the flower to the Severed-Fate Hehuan Powder and considered whether Doushu City might be linked to Jiang Mutian’s poisoning.
• Lu Ping chose to remain in Doushu City for the Auction and told Wuming to return to Luxuan Mountain ahead of him.
• Wuming gave Lu Ping a map and prayer beads to guide him to the temple, and Lu Ping supplied Wuming with Star River Talismans and pills before they parted.

You learned that cultivators in the Domain of Chaos swallowed pills and risked their lives because they rarely expected to survive long, while the Mystic Nether Pavilion exploited their desperation through its Spirit Stone exchanges. As the twelve-year Auction approached, you faced a choice about how to respond to the Pavilion’s profiteering.

• You rented a courtyard from a burly Golden Core cultivator, who swallowed three Qi-Gathering Pills at once and said he had no reason to worry about the long term.
• You spent several days exploring Doushu City and observed that cultivators relied on Qi-Gathering Pills, tolerated pill poison, and repeatedly risked death in ruins and secret realms.
• You traded your Qi-Gathering Pills for ingredients and gathered information about the upcoming Auction, which was organized by the Mystic Nether Pavilion.
• Ten days before the Auction, you watched cultivators exchange valuable materials for Spirit Stones at the Pavilion’s monthly exchange and calculated that they received only about a quarter of the materials’ value.
• You considered the Pavilion’s exploitative business and were presented with options to observe, rob its vault, or report it to the Heavenly Certification Alliance Anti-Monopoly Bureau.

Lu Ping watched the Mystic Nether Pavilion prepare for its grand auction and studied the Formation it set up around the nearby streets. After recognizing a hidden Formation beneath its visible defenses, he began investigating its purpose.

• Lu Ping watched Spirit Stones and materials being moved through the Mystic Nether Pavilion and learned that Spirit Stones were among the auction’s most sought-after lots.
• Lu Ping obtained an invitation by consigning pills as cultivators flooded Doushu City ahead of the auction.
• Five days before the auction, the Mystic Nether Pavilion’s Guards and Array Masters set up the Disarm Armor and Push Mountains Formation around nearby streets.
• A burly cultivator attacked a Rogue Cultivator and was forcibly teleported away when his Spiritual Power crossed the Golden Core threshold.
• Lu Ping suspected the incident had been staged, then recognized that the Formation worked much like the Baojia Tokens he had seen in Baodi City.
• Lu Ping activated his abilities to examine the Formation and discovered a deeper, inactive Formation secretly connected beneath its visible nodes.

Lu Ping disguised himself as a Mystic Nether Pavilion Array Master and secretly met chief steward Gu Wusuan to ask him about a matter. He left Gu Wusuan stunned by casually giving him five hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

• Lu Ping chose to confront the chief steward instead of attending the Auction or stealing its finale lots.
• Lu Ping used a forged Mystic Nether Pavilion waist token and the Formless Myriad-Breath Cloak to enter the pavilion undetected.
• Lu Ping reached Gu Wusuan's courtyard, revealed himself while appearing to be a mortal, and let his gray crow display its Transformation Stage presence.
• Gu Wusuan introduced himself and bowed to Lu Ping, mistaking him for a powerful cultivator.
• Lu Ping tossed Gu Wusuan five hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones and said he would not order a junior around for nothing.

Lu Ping pressured Gu Wusuan into handing over the Mystic Nether Pavilion’s records from the grand auction twelve years ago. The Jade Slip revealed that the yin-yang love-tribulation flower had been bought by Desire Sea Pavilion, though the auction records were incomplete for privately transferred invitations.

• Lu Ping asked Gu Wusuan for the final buyers’ list from the auction twelve years earlier, but Gu refused on grounds of client confidentiality.
• Lu Ping unleashed overwhelming pressure and secretly hindered Gu Wusuan’s Spiritual Power and Primordial Spirit with Spirit-Chaos Lure and Spirit-Winding Thread.
• Gu Wusuan relented and gave Lu Ping the original auction record, explaining that buyers using privately transferred invitations could not always be identified.
• Lu Ping searched the Jade Slip and found that the yin-yang love-tribulation flower had been bought by Desire Sea Pavilion under Grade C number thirty-three.

Lu Ping discovered that the Desire Sea Pavilion was likely a pawn in a greater scheme, but Gu Wusuan saw through his bluff and activated a formation that devoured cultivators across the area. Gu Wusuan planned to use the victims and Lu Ping and Crow-Crow to break into Void Refining, while Lu Ping faced another set of choices.

• Lu Ping decided to leave quietly rather than kill Gu Wusuan or confront him, but Gu Wusuan expelled the toxins and restraints and activated a hidden formation within the Mystic Nether Pavilion’s defensive formation.
• The formation transported cultivators who used Spiritual Power to its cores, where it consumed them as nourishment.
• Gu Wusuan realized Lu Ping was not a great talent and revealed that he planned to harvest the cultivators and use Lu Ping and Crow-Crow to reach Void Refining.
• Gu Wusuan dismissed the loss of the victims and claimed that his breakthrough would make the Mystic Nether Pavilion a first-rate power.
• Lu Ping remained calm as options appeared, including fleeing, attacking Gu Wusuan, or confronting him in a mocking pose.

Lu Ping and Crow-Crow fought Gu Wusuan, whose Spirit Transformation cultivation let him recover his body after Lu Ping’s strongest attack. As Gu Wusuan struck again, Lu Ping held back his saber while Crow-Crow self-destructed against him.

• Lu Ping chose B and used I'll Make Three Points, Spirit Stones, and Star River Myriad Blades to grind Gu Wusuan’s body into bloody mist.
• Gu Wusuan’s Primordial Spirit survived the attack, used Blood Qi to rebuild his body, and revealed the power of Spirit Transformation Principles.
• Gu Wusuan summoned his intrinsic Law Treasure and cleaved at Lu Ping with a blood-red saber.
• Lu Ping grabbed the saber with his bare hand and held it in place despite the damage.
• Crow-Crow appeared behind Gu Wusuan and self-destructed, unleashing Sun True Fire against him.

Lu Ping killed Gu Wusuan with Jiang Mutian’s Sword Talisman, then broke the blood formation trapping the Rogue Cultivators. As powerful figures in Doushu City closed in and blocked his teleportation, Lu Ping faced another choice.

• Lu Ping poisoned Gu Wusuan with Spirit-Winding Thread and chose to use his trump card rather than let him escape.
• Lu Ping crushed Jiang Mutian’s Sword Talisman, which shattered Gu Wusuan’s Life-Bound Law Treasure and destroyed his body and Primordial Spirit.
• Lu Ping used Star River Myriad Blades and Reverse Engineering to break the Ten Directions Spirit-Melting Blood-Devouring Formation and free the trapped Rogue Cultivators.
• Powerful cultivators in Doushu City revealed that they had been waiting for Gu Wusuan to weaken so they could claim him.
• Lu Ping tried to escape with a Self-Made Random Teleportation Talisman, but the cultivators’ combined power sealed the space and stopped the teleportation.

After escaping Doushu City, Lu Ping healed his ruined hand and examined Gu Wusuan’s Storage Ring. He realized the auction’s million Spirit Stones were Demonic Spirit Stones, possibly tied to Jiang Mutian’s Demonic Cult, and faced a choice about exposing or pursuing the currency war.

• Lu Ping used Early Leave to escape Doushu City, then healed his right hand with a homemade pill.
• Lu Ping erased his traces, teleported repeatedly, and hid in a secluded cave to inspect Gu Wusuan’s Storage Ring.
• Lu Ping found Gu Wusuan’s wealth disappointing but noted the rare treasures and Cultivation Methods in the ring.
• Lu Ping compared the auction’s million Spirit Stones with one from the Black Tiger Gang and identified both as Demonic Spirit Stones.
• Lu Ping suspected the Demonic Cult was challenging the Azure Dragon Domain’s control over Spirit Stone currency, and the system offered him three choices.

Lu Ping analyzed Creation Spirit-Promoting Dew, recovered from his injuries, and prepared to travel toward Luxuan Mountain while developing a stronger poison. He left disguised as an ordinary Golden Core rogue cultivator and encountered the frequent appearance of secret realms and ancient ruins in the Domain of Chaos.

• Lu Ping chose to analyze the Creation Spirit-Promoting Dew and tested its effects on spirit herbs, then derived the formula for Pseudo-Creation Spirit-Urging Dew and learned the Spirit Plant Technique.
• Lu Ping took a Pseudo-Taiyi Origin-Returning Pill and fully healed, while the insights from his battle with Gu Wusuan slightly loosened his Nascent Soul Late Stage bottleneck.
• Lu Ping combined his old poison items and began deducing a new poison capable of fatally threatening a Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Lu Ping found a detailed map of the Domain of Chaos among Gu Wusuan’s belongings, including Luxuan Mountain’s location.
• Lu Ping activated the Formless Myriad-Breath Cloak, disguised himself as an ordinary Golden Core Rogue Cultivator, and set out, observing secret realms and ancient ruins appearing throughout the Domain of Chaos.

Lu Ping traveled through the chaotic Domain of Chaos, avoided a dangerous bronze-door secret realm, and reached East Forest Town at the foot of Luxuan Mountain. He found mortals and cultivators living peacefully together and faced a choice about how to learn what was happening in town.

• Lu Ping chose to watch the road discreetly and encountered several unpredictable secret realms, most of which held no opportunities worth pursuing.
• Lu Ping hid near a bronze door in a swamp as Nascent Soul Perfection cultivators and a Spirit Transformation cultivator entered it, then left rather than risk being trapped inside.
• Lu Ping traveled for three months and arrived at Luxuan Mountain.
• Lu Ping suppressed his presence to Golden Core level and landed outside East Forest Town.
• Lu Ping entered the town and saw mortals and cultivators living peacefully alongside one another.
• Lu Ping considered keeping a low profile to investigate the town, revealing his Nascent Soul presence, or setting up a stall.

Lu Ping explored East Forest Town and found that Great Forest Temple kept the area peaceful despite its isolation and fluctuating Spiritual Qi. After presenting Wuming’s prayer beads at the Reception Hall, he was told to make his own way up the mountain, and the chapter ended with another choice before him.

• Lu Ping asked a tea-stall owner about Great Forest Temple and learned that locals knew little about it beyond its protection of the town.
• Lu Ping sensed Luxuan Mountain’s unusually abundant but fluctuating Spiritual Qi and observed the town’s sparse commerce and unregulated settlement.
• Lu Ping found Great Forest Temple’s Reception Hall, where Wuyan ignored him because he was practicing Closed-Mouth Zen.
• Wujue recognized Wuming’s prayer beads and directed Lu Ping to follow the mountain path through Stone Gate Ravine.
• Lu Ping stood outside the Reception Hall as options appeared, including going up the mountain, attacking the monks, or lecturing Wujue.

Lu Ping reached Great Forest Temple through Stone Gate Ravine after witnessing monk Xingren destroy an intruder’s cultivation, then reunited with Wuming at the temple gate. The chapter ended as Lu Ping faced a choice about how to respond to a verse carved on an ancient stele.

• Lu Ping chose to travel to Stone Gate Ravine and encountered a wounded Golden Core cultivator fleeing a monk named Xingren.
• Xingren shattered the cultivator’s Golden Core after explaining that he had violated the temple’s precepts by taking a disciple hostage.
• Lu Ping revealed his Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivation and showed Xingren the prayer beads Wuming had given him, allowing him to pass through the cloud formation.
• Lu Ping entered Great Forest Temple and reunited with Wuming, exchanging greetings that hinted at the hardships Lu Ping had faced since their last meeting.
• Lu Ping arrived at the Mountain Gate and saw a four-line verse carved on a stone stele, whereupon options appeared for how to respond.

Lu Ping realized the Great Forest Temple had no interest in formalities and followed Wuming to Buddha Palm Cliff to seek the As-If-Original Seal’s inheritance. Wuming revealed that the complete Great Sun Primordial Void Seal Method lay in a doorless secret realm that would open only when fate arrived, leaving Lu Ping to decide how to respond.

• Lu Ping chose to contemplate the Great Forest Temple’s verses and gained a new insight into the Dao.
• Wuming guided Lu Ping through the temple grounds without taking him to meet the abbot or elders.
• Wuming brought Lu Ping to Buddha Palm Cliff, where the general outline of the As-If-Original Seal was said to be kept.
• Wuming explained that the complete Great Sun Primordial Void Seal Method was hidden in a secret realm with no entrance.
• Wuming said Lu Ping should settle in a cave abode and wait for fate to open the secret realm, prompting a choice of how Lu Ping would react.

Lu Ping settled into a cave abode on Buddha Palm Cliff to cultivate while waiting for fate to open the secret realm, after Wuming warned him that the previous monk to emerge from it had died. During seclusion, Lu Ping gained a trait that sped up plants grown at his workstation, leaving him to consider adjusting his traits despite having no workstation at the Great Forest Temple.

• Wuming told Lu Ping that the secret realm might open when fate arrived and warned that the monk who had emerged from it died soon afterward.
• Lu Ping chose to remain at Buddha Palm Cliff and moved into a spacious cave abode with a medicinal herb garden.
• Lu Ping cleaned and secured the cave, then began cultivating and absorbing what he had learned from his battle with Gu Wusuan.
• At age thirty-one, Lu Ping gained the B-grade trait Growing Flowers at the Workstation, which doubled plant growth but halved work efficiency.
• Lu Ping decided he could not use the trait without a workstation and considered adjusting his traits for his period of seclusion.

Lu Ping used his new Traits to accelerate his spirit-grass farming, continued cultivating, and completed an Earth Grade poison pill designed to kill powerful cultivators. The chapter ended with him judging that his forty-eight doses of Spirit-Binding Gauze were still not enough for the trap he wanted to prepare.

• Lu Ping replaced several Traits, equipping Working from Home, Growing Flowers at the Workstation, and Exclusive Workstation to boost his farming.
• With the Traits and Creation Spirit-Promoting Dew, Lu Ping accelerated the Thousand-Whisker Spirit-Luring Grass's growth so it could mature in a little over three years.
• Lu Ping continued farming, refining pills, and cultivating, while estimating that reaching Nascent Soul Perfection would take about fifteen years.
• Lu Ping received The Boss's Empty Promise Trait but declined to replace any of his equipped Traits.
• After repeated failures and deductions, Lu Ping developed the Earth Grade poison pill Spirit-Binding Gauze and refined forty-eight doses from three batches of ingredients.
• Lu Ping decided that forty-eight doses were still insufficient to thoroughly poison an area and threaten even an Integrated Body Great Talent.

Lu Ping cultivated spirit plants and refined pills to support his steady progress toward Nascent Soul Perfection. He finally broke through and entered seclusion again, while the system began generating another Trait at age forty-six.

• Lu Ping harvested Thousand-Whisker Spirit-Luring Grass, mass-produced spirit-stimulating dew, and began cultivating ingredients for Qi-Gathering and Qi-Consolidating Pills.
• He became self-sufficient in Qi-Consolidating Pill ingredients, increased his daily intake to four pills, and calculated that he could reach Nascent Soul Perfection by age forty-three.
• Lu Ping spent years farming, refining pills, cultivating, and deducing the Great Sun First-Emptiness Seal while ignoring the wider cultivation world's conflicts and Buddha Palm Cliff's secret realm.
• At age forty-three, he gained the B-rank Trait Tattling but decided against synthesizing Traits, suspecting the system was draining his luck.
• Lu Ping's Spiritual Power reached its critical point, and he broke through the Nascent Soul Late Stage bottleneck to become a Nascent Soul Perfection cultivator.
• He resumed farming, pill refining, and cultivation, then entered another period of seclusion as three years passed.