Recaps

Lu Ping failed to break through to Spirit Transformation despite consuming Spirit Transformation Pills and spent years in death seclusion seeking the Principles. At age fifty-nine, he learned two major battles would erupt next year and faced a choice about whether to intervene.

• Lu Ping swallowed Spirit Transformation Pills, but his Nascent Soul only grew more translucent and he realized the path from Nascent Soul to Spirit Transformation required comprehending the Principles.
• Lu Ping observed clouds, spiritual herbs, and his talismans in search of insight, then entered death seclusion for nine years.
• Lu Ping received the Grade A Trait Men and Women Working Together Don't Tire and chose not to replace a Trait.
• Lu Ping's memories warned him that battles would break out next year at Demon-Severing Cliff and White Tiger Hall, where Song Fuan and Jiang Mutian would be involved.
• Lu Ping was presented with choices to remain in seclusion, aid Song Fuan, or head to White Tiger Hall.

Lu Ping entered the Buddha Palm Rock Secret Realm and found himself stripped of his cultivation and living as a mortal rice-shop clerk. His Dao Heart let him resist the realm’s false memories, but he faced a choice about how to respond when Shopkeeper Chen berated him.

• Lu Ping chose to suppress the warning in his Divine Sense and entered a state without self or consciousness.
• He awoke in Brahma Sound City, where his Divine Sense, Spiritual Power, and Storage Ring were inaccessible and he seemed to be an ordinary young clerk named Lu Ping.
• Lu Ping chose to play along with his memories, while Salty Fish kept him aware that he was a Nascent Soul cultivator trapped in the secret realm.
• He arrived at Chen’s Rice Shop, where Shopkeeper Chen scolded him and ordered him to copy the previous day’s accounts.
• Lu Ping faced options to act like a clerk, attack Shopkeeper Chen, or excitedly ask the shopkeeper to keep insulting him.

Lu Ping worked as a mortal in Brahma Sound City, where his Work Experience trait restored his cultivation to the Qi Refining Stage. After witnessing the city’s strange devotion to Marici Buddha, he received a Peaceful Dwelling Talisman from Auntie Wang and faced a choice about whether to wear it.

• Lu Ping copied the rice shop ledger and used Work Experience to advance from a mortal to Body Tempering Realm Completion and then the Qi Refining Stage.
• Lu Ping kept a low profile at work, and Shopkeeper Chen paid him and gave him a small bag of broken rice.
• Lu Ping observed that Brahma Sound City was unusually peaceful and prosperous, with residents treating one another honestly and kindly.
• A bell rang through the city, and the townspeople stopped to chant “Namo Marici Buddha” in unison, while Lu Ping sensed something trying to enter his mind.
• Auntie Wang brought Lu Ping a Peaceful Dwelling Talisman from the temple and urged him to wear it, leaving him to choose what to do.

Lu Ping tested the healing power of Brahma Sound City’s Buddha worship and discovered that the city’s roads led back to its gates. He learned that temple masters could leave for the Central Buddha Capital as Willing Envoys and considered how to enter the temple.

• Lu Ping accepted Auntie Wang’s Peaceful Dwelling Talisman, resisted its powerful fragrance, and continued restoring his cultivation.
• Huzi fell from a tree and badly injured his arm, but a beam of Buddha light healed him at the temple; Lu Ping learned that Huzi seemed never to grow up.
• Lu Ping left through Brahma Sound City’s eastern gate, walked all day, and found himself back at the western gate.
• Lu Ping questioned a tea-stall owner, who explained that temple masters could travel to the Central Buddha Capital as Willing Envoys every ten years.
• Lu Ping returned to Brahma Sound City and considered sneaking into the temple to become a monk and secure a way out.

Lu Ping used a display of spiritual power and the might of the Lihuo Fire Crow to convince a temple overseer that the Buddha Lord had summoned him. He secured a place in the temple and faced the prospect of having his head shaved and receiving the precepts.

• Lu Ping impressed a fat monk by making a withered weed grow into a flourishing vine, then claimed the Buddha Lord had told him to enter the temple.
• The fat monk took Lu Ping to meet the temple overseer, who questioned why he cultivated and doubted he could become a pilgrimage envoy.
• Lu Ping released a trace of the Lihuo Fire Crow's presence, frightening the overseer into accepting his claim of the Buddha Lord's decree.
• The overseer arranged a separate meditation room for Lu Ping, and novice monks arrived with razors and a copper basin to prepare him for temple rites.
• Lu Ping considered whether to accept the shaving and precepts, impress the novice monks with Buddhist verses, or offer them wigs.

Lu Ping analyzed the cultivation rules of Brahma Sound City, then traveled with the other Willing Envoys to the Central Buddha Capital and secretly recovered his full cultivation. The chapter left him facing a vast gathering of monks and choosing how to approach the Buddha hall.

• Lu Ping chose to keep his hair after persuading the abbot that outward appearances did not matter, and he began studying the temple’s cultivation system.
• Lu Ping discovered that monks advanced through enlightenment rather than Spiritual Qi, then analyzed Brahma Sound City and broke through to the Bhikkhu Realm.
• On Buddha-Veneration Day, the abbot sent Lu Ping and eight other Willing Envoys to the Central Buddha Capital.
• Among more than ten thousand Envoys, Lu Ping analyzed the capital’s rules and recovered his cultivation to Nascent Soul Perfection without being noticed.
• Lu Ping considered whether to follow the group quietly, attack the main hall, or set up a formation to harvest the gathered monks.

Lu Ping entered the Buddhist hall among the wish envoys, concealed his presence, and watched several monks attain arhat status. The Buddha Lord singled him out, and Lu Ping requested and mastered the Great Sun Primordial Void Seal Method, leaving him to decide what to do next.

• Lu Ping chose to blend in with the monks from Brahma Sound City and followed them into the Buddhist hall.
• The Buddha Lord invited the monks to seek enlightenment, and more than a dozen wish envoys attained golden arhat bodies.
• Lu Ping pretended to pray while analyzing the hall, but the Buddha Lord noticed him and brought him before the lotus dais.
• Lu Ping asked the Buddha Lord for the Great Sun Primordial Void Seal Method, and the Buddha Lord gave him an ancient scroll.
• Lu Ping mastered the method within a few breaths and faced a choice about whether to withdraw or settle things with the Buddha Lord.

Lu Ping challenged the Buddha Lord’s identity and shattered the false Central Buddha Capital with his Spirit Stones, flying blades, and Lihuo Fire Crow. He learned that the Buddha Kingdom was a graveyard sustained by the prayers of its dead inhabitants, and faced a choice about whether to become its new Karmic Pillar.

• Lu Ping questioned whether the Buddha Lord was Marici, the figure believers prayed for, or the one Marici had wanted to become, provoking the arhats and bodhisattvas to attack.
• Lu Ping used “I'll Make Three Points!” to halt the attackers briefly, then unleashed Spirit Stones, the Star River Myriad Blades, and the Lihuo Fire Crow to destroy the golden palm and shatter the Central Buddha Capital.
• Lu Ping found the capital reduced to ruins, its inhabitants dead and its Buddha Lord represented by a battered statue still faintly glowing with the people’s wishes.
• A voice urged Lu Ping to stay and become the new Karmic Pillar, promising that the dead could be reborn through him.
• Lu Ping learned that Marici had bound tens of millions of believers to Marici’s fate, and that their lingering prayers sustained a false cycle of reincarnation after Marici fell.
• Lu Ping received three options: wait, accept the karmic burden, or take over the kingdom and recruit its dead as wage slaves.

Lu Ping escaped the Palm Realm after refusing to become Marici, but returned with a fragment of its origin and insight into the Spirit Transformation threshold. He decided to upgrade the Moon Palace Fire-Devouring Furnace with the fragment, and the chapter ended as he considered how to add a new layer of Restrictions safely.

• Lu Ping became the Buddha Lord in the Palm Realm and began reviving it, but fled when he realized accepting its karma would turn him into Marici.
• Lu Ping returned to his cave abode with his Nascent Soul Perfection cultivation intact and kept a fragment of the Palm Realm's origin.
• Lu Ping realized the origin fragment could help him reach Spirit Transformation, though it carried the power of millions of vows and Marici's influence.
• Lu Ping chose to use the fragment to upgrade the Moon Palace Fire-Devouring Furnace, the hardworking Pill Furnace he called Little Toad.
• Lu Ping considered adding a new layer of Restrictions before merging the fragment with the Furnace.

Lu Ping upgraded Little Toad into a Supreme Law Treasure with the foundation of a Grotto-Heaven, then shattered his Nascent Soul and attained Spirit Transformation. His tribulation began as the Military Breaker Star reconnected with his Destiny, and he faced a choice about how to respond.

• Lu Ping fused the Palm Realm Origin Fragment with Little Toad, elevating the furnace into a Supreme Law Treasure that contained the seed of a Grotto-Heaven.
• Lu Ping took a Spirit Transformation Pill and guided its power into his Nascent Soul.
• Lu Ping endured his Nascent Soul’s destruction and reconstitution, becoming a Spirit Transformation cultivator with a Primordial Spirit Mansion.
• Lu Ping emerged from his cave abode as his Spirit Transformation Tribulation gathered over Hidden Peak and the Tongchen Talisman shattered.
• The Military Breaker Star reconnected with Lu Ping’s Destiny, exposing him to karma and presenting him with three choices for facing the tribulation.

Lu Ping endured the Spirit Transformation heavenly tribulation with formations, pills, and his treasures, and successfully advanced to Spirit Transformation. Just as he wondered why the tribulation had ended after four stages, a sudden change occurred.

• Lu Ping chose to face the heavenly tribulation and used the Moon Palace Fire-Devouring Furnace to absorb the first five strikes of Five Elements Divine Thunder, tempering Little Toad and opening space inside it.
• Lu Ping discovered that his Storage Ring could fit inside Little Toad’s newly formed space and wondered whether he could carry his fortune out of the simulation.
• Lu Ping endured the second and third stages by combining his recovery traits, pills, and formations, while Star River Myriad Blades gained little from the lightning.
• Lu Ping survived the fourth stage’s Great Five Elements Annihilation Divine Thunder, reached Spirit Transformation, and saw the Hundred-Forged Medicine Body Formula advance to its fifth level.
• Lu Ping questioned why his Spirit Transformation tribulation had only four stages, then a sudden change occurred.

Lu Ping’s Karma Tribulation began when the Buddha Palm Cliff revealed itself as a living Buddha’s hand, sealing the area and attacking him with a heart demon. He survived its suppression but could not damage it, and the Great Forest Temple’s five elders failed to stop it, leaving Lu Ping to choose his next move.

• Buddha Palm Cliff emerged as an enormous living palm, and its power sealed the area while triggering Lu Ping’s Karma and Heart Demon Tribulations.
• Lu Ping resisted the heart demon, broke free of the seal, and attacked the palm with his abilities and flying blades.
• The palm’s backlash shattered Lu Ping’s blades and body, but he rebuilt himself and recovered with a Lesser Taiyi Origin-Returning Pill.
• The five chief elders of the Great Forest Temple arrived and used a peach branch to form a Karma Barrier against the palm.
• The palm broke the peach branch and defeated the five elders, while Lu Ping recognized that its strength surpassed the Body Integration Realm.
• Options appeared, offering Lu Ping choices to flee, confront the severed hand, or pretend to be a Golden-Body Arhat.

Lu Ping failed to escape the sealed battlefield as five Great Forest Temple elders sacrificed themselves to destroy the giant hand. The shockwave from their clash killed him on Hidden Peak, ending the simulation.

• Lu Ping tried to activate Early Leave, but the giant palm’s spatial seal suppressed the Trait.
• Five Body Integration Realm elders burned their lifespans and Primordial Spirits to attack the giant hand as golden-bodied Buddhas.
• The elders shattered the hand’s five fingers and annihilated the entire palm, releasing a devastating shockwave.
• The shockwave destroyed Lu Ping’s Defensive Formations and gravely damaged the Moon Palace Fire-Devouring Furnace and Little Toad.
• The shockwave erased Lu Ping’s body and Primordial Spirit, ending the simulation.

After the simulation ended, Lu Ping returned to reality at the early Spirit Transformation Stage with the simulation’s cultivation, skills, treasures, memories, and Traits. He filled all of his newly available Trait slots and turned to inspect his gains, focusing on his Primordial Spirit Mansion.

• Lu Ping absorbed the Spiritual Power and memories from the simulation, breaking through to the early Spirit Transformation Stage.
• Lu Ping reviewed his expanded Trait library and equipped Friend of Women, Men and Women Working Together Don't Tire, and Passive Income.
• Lu Ping equipped Workwear Thug and Office Romance, then chose Company Invisible Person for his final Trait slot.
• Lu Ping tested his strengthened body and reflected that he could now catch Gu Wusuan’s blood-blade strike between two fingers.
• Lu Ping directed his Divine Sense toward his Primordial Spirit Mansion to inspect his most important gains.

Lu Ping discovered that the Moon Palace Fire-Devouring Furnace had returned the Spirit Stones generated by his Passive Income Trait, then began planning to grow Spirit Plants inside its inner space. The furnace gave birth to an Artifact Spirit, which greeted him by saying she did not want to work.

• Lu Ping searched the Moon Palace Fire-Devouring Furnace’s inner space and found 70,320 Spirit Stones instead of his Storage Ring.
• Lu Ping realized the Spirit Stones were the accumulated earnings from his Passive Income Trait and regretted losing the chance to earn much more.
• Lu Ping vowed to keep Passive Income equipped and planned to grow Spirit Plants inside the furnace using his cultivation Traits and Lesser Creation Spirit-Stimulating Dew.
• Pure Spiritual Qi gathered in the furnace’s inner space and formed a little girl, revealing that the Moon Palace Fire-Devouring Furnace had gained an Artifact Spirit.
• The Artifact Spirit called Lu Ping “Boss” and said she did not want to work, leaving him stunned.

Lu Ping examined the gains from the simulation, including his Law Treasures, the transformed Crow Daoist, and the Great Sun Primordial Void Seal Method. He discovered the seal could erase past karmic traces but not prevent new karma from forming, and planned to rely on Heguang Tongchen Talismans to conceal himself more fully.

• Lu Ping confirmed that Star River Myriad Blades and the Formless Myriad-Breath Cloak had been inherited intact, and used the cloak to conceal his Qi at the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• The Fire Crow Seed transformed into a young man identical to Lu Ping, introduced himself as Crow Daoist, and returned to Lu Ping's Dantian.
• Lu Ping used the Great Sun Primordial Void Seal Method to erase his existing karmic traces and realized that new connections would still form as he acted in the world.
• Lu Ping sensed his connection to the Military Breaker Star beginning to recover, but found that [Company Invisible Person] slowed the process.
• Lu Ping decided to prioritize refining Heguang Tongchen Talismans when he reached the Central Region, then a Blue Light Screen appeared with a new KPI task.

Lu Ping received a mission to submit an innovative Rationalization Proposal and have the Azure Cloud Sect adopt it, but he struggled to find a proposal that would satisfy the system without provoking powerful interests. He weighed the time pressure against disasters he expected to strike the cultivation world in forty-two years.

• Lu Ping read the Workplace Advancement Mission, which required an adopted proposal and offered a Sixth Simulation Attempt, a Grade A or higher Trait draw, and a VIP Trait Slot upgrade as rewards.
• Lu Ping realized the system was trying to stop him from clearing missions through overwhelming force and considered the benefits of doubling a Trait’s effect.
• Lu Ping considered getting Shen Yaoxin to accept a proposal but recognized that the Azure Cloud Sect’s entrenched interests made meaningful reforms dangerous.
• Lu Ping concluded that devising an innovative proposal would be difficult because the cultivation world’s systems already resembled sophisticated financial monopolies and institutions.
• Lu Ping recalled that the Western Extremity Ruin Sha, turmoil in the Southern Region, and the destruction of the Great Forest Temple were expected within forty-two years, leaving him little time.

Lu Ping left the Greenwood Sect after giving Qi Cangshu valuable techniques, a pill formula, a protective talisman, and Han Changqing’s Storage Ring. He then appeared aboard Han Shishan’s Cloud Boat and used his overwhelming power to suppress him, leaving Han Shishan convinced that his end had come.

• Lu Ping decided he needed to complete his KPI and obtain simulation chances, but realized he lacked the wealth to fund research and innovation.
• Lu Ping left Qi Cangshu several Jade Slips, a protective spell talisman, and Han Changqing’s Storage Ring before departing the Greenwood Sect unseen.
• Qi Cangshu found Lu Ping’s gifts, recognized the Spirit-Urging Pill formula and Great Flame Art, and kowtowed to the empty Sect Master's throne.
• Aboard the Azure Cloud Sect’s flying boat, Lu Ping appeared in Han Shishan’s quiet chamber and used his cultivation and trait to freeze Han Shishan in place.
• Han Shishan realized Lu Ping could kill him with a thought and believed that he had brought an indescribable monster into the sect.

Lu Ping forced Han Shishan to hand over rare materials, then used them to build the Little Smart Communication Formation, a sect-wide network that charged disciples Spirit Stones for access. He completed its master Formation and a disciple terminal, leaving him ready to present his scheme to the Azure Cloud Sect while collecting his daily passive income.

• Lu Ping agreed to return to the Azure Cloud Sect with Han Shishan and demanded rare materials from him.
• Lu Ping took control of Han Shishan's quiet room and refined the Little Smart Communication Formation's master Formation Plate.
• Lu Ping converted an Azure Cloud Sect Outer Sect Disciple's jade token into a terminal that charged Spirit Stones for network access and attendance check-ins.
• Lu Ping calculated that the system could generate substantial income for the sect or himself without requiring the sect to spend money.
• At noon the next day, Lu Ping checked the Moon Palace Fire-Devouring Furnace and found that his [Passive Income] had arrived.

Lu Ping arrived at the Azure Cloud Sect with Han Shishan and headed directly to meet Sect Master Shen Yaoxin, while lamenting the millions of Spirit Stones he had sacrificed by replacing [Passive Income]. Shen Yaoxin recognized Lu Ping as a powerful outsider, and several Spirit Transformation cultivators suddenly surrounded the hall.

• Lu Ping calculated that replacing [Passive Income] had cost him four million Spirit Stones and tried to distract himself from the loss.
• Lu Ping left the Cloud Boat with Han Shishan and ordered him to take him to meet Shen Yaoxin.
• Han Shishan feared Lu Ping’s power, sent Shen Yaoxin a routine message, and silently accepted that he could not interfere in their affairs.
• Lu Ping hoped an Azure Cloud Sect disciple would give him an excuse to stir up trouble, but everyone treated him politely, so he restored his Traits and continued to the main hall.
• Shen Yaoxin asked Lu Ping why he had come, and several Spirit Transformation presences appeared outside the hall and sealed it off.

Lu Ping entered the Azure Cloud Sect's grand hall under a Foundation Establishment disguise and negotiated with Sect Master Shen Yaoxin to install his Little Smart Communication Formation. When Shen tried to delay the deal while securing Lu Ping as an elder, Lu Ping revealed Spirit Transformation pressure and left, threatening to offer the bargain to the Blood Demon Old Man instead.

• Shen Yaoxin sealed off the hall after suspecting Han Shishan and the unfamiliar Foundation Establishment cultivator, but Lu Ping identified himself and revealed he knew the secret bottleneck in Shen Yaoxin's Azure Gang Cosmic Ruins Sword.
• Lu Ping offered to serve as an Azure Cloud Sect elder for fifty years in exchange for Shen Yaoxin's help with a Secret Method, then presented the Little Smart Communication Formation.
• Lu Ping claimed the formation gathered disciples' thought fluctuations to aid his cultivation while also benefiting the sect, and Shen Yaoxin considered accepting the arrangement.
• When Shen Yaoxin tried to secure Lu Ping as an elder while postponing the formation's deployment, Lu Ping's Bully at Home trait activated and his Spirit Transformation Initial Stage pressure forced Shen Yaoxin back.
• Lu Ping withdrew his pressure and left the hall, saying he would take the fifty-year deal to the Blood Demon Old Man of the Blood Demon Sect.

Lu Ping secured Shen Yaoxin’s adoption of his formation proposal and received a Grand Supreme Elder Token, then claimed the neglected Xiaolai Peak. He arrived to find the peak’s buildings and formations badly deteriorated.

• Lu Ping persuaded Shen Yaoxin to adopt his formation proposal, and Shen gave him a Grand Supreme Elder Token with one thousand Contribution Points.
• The system reported that Lu Ping’s reward remained locked until the proposal was implemented, leaving him unsure whether the system had changed its rules.
• Lu Ping left Han Shishan with Shen Yaoxin, expecting Han to be rewarded publicly and assigned to the dangerous Mystic Marrow Jade mine dispute.
• At the Internal Affairs Hall, Lu Ping chose Xiaolai Peak and learned that rent and offerings were waived for three years for a Grand Supreme Elder.
• Lu Ping reached Xiaolai Peak and found its halls, medicine garden, and other facilities dilapidated, with several formations broken or failing.

After repairing Xiaolai Peak’s formations, Lu Ping turned its medicine garden into a private growing plot in Little Toad’s internal space and bought seeds and ingredients from the Merit Hall. He then prepared to refine the Heguang Tongchen Talisman, but stopped just before inscribing its first rune.

• Lu Ping used his Spirit Transformation abilities and activated his work Traits to repair Xiaolai Peak’s damaged formations in two days, spending nearly all his resources.
• Lu Ping transferred a deep layer of spiritual soil and its plants from the medicine garden into Little Toad’s internal space, then persuaded the disgruntled Artifact Spirit that the soil would benefit her.
• Lu Ping exchanged Contribution Points at the Merit Hall for Thousand-Whisker Spirit-Luring Grass seeds, alchemy ingredients, and Mystic Marrow Essence Jade.
• Lu Ping resolved to develop Lesser Creation Spirit-Stimulating Dew so he could grow medicinal ingredients more quickly, and recalled that Gu Wusuan would be in Doushu City twelve years later.
• Lu Ping began preparing to refine the Heguang Tongchen Talisman on Xiaolai Peak, but halted his fingertip just before touching the jade.

Lu Ping held off refining the Mystic Marrow Essence Jade and watched Shen Yaoxin’s new communication network spread through the Azure Cloud Sect’s outer sect. As the token upgrades gained momentum, Lu Ping experimented with controlling the Moon Palace Fire-Devouring Furnace’s small Grotto-Heaven and received another Blue Light Screen notification.

• Lu Ping sensed resistance when he tried to inscribe a rune on the Mystic Marrow Essence Jade and put the jade away rather than risk damaging it.
• Lu Ping left the communication formation and identity-token upgrades to others, while Shen Yaoxin launched a giveaway campaign that drew disciples to upgrade their tokens.
• Lu Ping used the Little Cloud-Rain Incantation and then his thoughts to summon nourishing rain inside Little Toad’s Grotto-Heaven.
• More than eight thousand Outer Sect Disciples had upgraded their tokens within five days, and the Blue Light Screen appeared before Lu Ping again.

Lu Ping tested his new VIP Trait Slot and discovered that it doubled some Trait effects, most notably boosting I'm the Client to twentyfold damage dealt and reduced. After testing his skills and Traits, he narrowed the slot's final choice to three candidates.

• Lu Ping completed the Rationalization Proposal mission and received a sixth simulation attempt, a high-grade Trait draw, and an attempt to upgrade a Trait Slot to VIP.
• Lu Ping tested several S-Rank Traits in the VIP slot, but most showed no noticeable improvement until he placed I'm the Client there and its damage effects increased twentyfold.
• Lu Ping tested Early Leave but found no way to determine whether its effect had improved without risking his life.
• Lu Ping found that most numerical A- and B-Rank Trait effects doubled, while Company Invisible Person recovered his connection to the Military Breaker Star more slowly.
• Lu Ping discovered that Multiskilling now required mastery of ten skills, counted only seven skills on his panel, and questioned why his beast-taming experience did not qualify.
• Lu Ping finished testing his Traits with three candidates remaining for the VIP Trait Slot.