Chapter Summaries

Chen Ze and Li Hengwen arranged to capture a cruel Golden Core Realm guard from the Dark Azure Jade mine and bring him to the Myriad Things Space. After the guard was seized, Chen Ze rejected the idea of inscribing the man’s appearance onto a Doppelganger Phantom.

• Chen Ze exchanged one million Points for items, noticed more than two hundred and fifty idle Doppelgangers, and received Li Hengwen’s message that he was ready to act.
• Chen Ze shared Li Hengwen’s vision as the Golden Core Realm guard who delighted in whipping miners entered Li Hengwen’s Mine Tunnel.
• Chen Ze cut off the vision in disgust and refused to let his Doppelganger Phantom bear the guard’s appearance.
• Li Hengwen pretended to beg for mercy as the guard raised his whip, and a Dao Figure caught it before the blow landed.
• Several Doppelgangers knocked the guard unconscious and sent him to the Myriad Things Space while Li Hengwen continued acting as though he were being whipped.

Chen Ze created Chen Jun to impersonate a mine guard, and Chen Jun searched the guard’s soul for information about the Dark Azure Jade Mine. The next morning, Chen Ze learned the mine was in the Shadow Mountain Range and that everything was ready for him to go there.

• Chen Ze fashioned his Doppelganger into a handsome figure, named him Chen Jun, and left the captive guard to him.
• Chen Jun searched the guard’s soul, learned his memories, and used Myriad Transformations to copy his appearance and voice.
• Chen Jun went to the mine and inspected its tunnels in the guard’s guise while the miners remained unaware of the deception.
• After cultivating the next morning, Chen Ze received word from Xiao Ping and Xiao An that everything at the mine was ready.
• Chen Jun told Chen Ze by voice transmission that the Dark Azure Jade Mine was in the Shadow Mountain Range.

Chen Ze launched an attack on the Dark Azure Jade mine secretly operated by the Blazing Sun Sect and the Wang Family, trapping its guards inside a sealed formation. He subdued the surviving guards and demanded that they seal their cultivation, leaving their response unresolved.

• Chen Ze learned that the Blazing Sun Sect and the Wang Family were secretly developing the Dark Azure Jade mine, which was guarded by Nascent Soul Realm cultivators.
• Chen Ze sent Li Hengwen and 250 Doppelgangers to ambush the guards while he placed formation flags and Spirit Stones around the mine.
• Chen Ze activated three Fifth-grade Formations, cutting off the mine’s sounds and distress signals, then used the Hengyang Five Elements Formation to suppress the guards.
• Chen Ze’s Doppelgangers cornered the surviving guards, and one guard who invoked the Blazing Sun Sect was struck down and held at weapon point.
• Chen Ze silenced the miners who had run from the tunnels and told the remaining guards to seal their cultivation or be beaten into submission.

Chen Ze subdued the guards and miners at the Dark Azure Jade mine and sent them into the Myriad Things Space. He then began an attempt to relocate the entire mine and its vein, leaving the outcome unresolved as he and his Doppelgangers gathered their strength.

• Chen Ze rejected a miner’s demand to kill the guards and forced the guards to surrender with the Fifth-grade Formation.
• Chen Ze ordered the Doppelgangers to knock out the twenty Nascent Soul Realm guards, thirty Golden Core Realm guards, and all the miners, then sent them into the Myriad Things Space.
• Chen Ze’s Doppelgangers uncovered the Dark Azure Jade mine vein, which remained docile rather than transforming into a giant dragon.
• Chen Ze explained to Li Hengwen that they would move the vein and as much Dark Azure Jade as possible before the Blazing Sun Sect noticed.
• Chen Ze and the two hundred and fifty Doppelgangers chanted “Collect!” together to begin moving the entire mine into the Myriad Things Space.

Chen Ze successfully moved the entire Dark Azure Jade Mine into the Myriad Things Space, leaving the Blazing Sun Sect furious and unable to track its missing guards. With the mine taking up two-fifths of his space, Chen Ze ordered the miners released and sent away with Chen Lao Liu.

• Chen Ze moved the Dark Azure Jade Mine and its vein into the Myriad Things Space, then withdrew his formations and vanished.
• Qu Guan and the Blazing Sun Sect’s elders arrived at the empty mine ruins and discovered the guards and miners had disappeared.
• Qu Guan learned that every guard’s soul lamp remained intact, then failed to find the missing disciples with tracking secret arts.
• Chen Ze saw that the mine occupied two-fifths of the Myriad Things Space and told Li Hengwen to release the miners and have Chen Lao Liu take them away.

Chen Ze arranged mining duties in Myriad Things Space, heard Chen Nan’s account of a Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator, and let him travel to the Anyuan Dynasty. After learning that Dagan was still attacking the secret realm’s barrier, Chen Ze decided to leave the matter alone and relax in his courtyard.

• Chen Ze limited the Doppelgangers’ mining to four hours a day and ordered Li Hengwen to keep the Blazing Sun Sect disciples working without rest.
• Chen Nan told Chen Ze that a powerful cultivator had controlled him and taken the spirit vein; Chen Ze suspected the cultivator was at least in the Spirit Transformation Realm and postponed seeking revenge.
• Chen Nan handed over his maps and chose to travel beyond the Dagan Dynasty, then left with the miners for the Anyuan Dynasty.
• Lu Zhiwen reported that Dagan was continually rotating conscripted cultivators to attack the secret realm’s Light Screen.
• Chen Ze wondered why the secret realm remained unresolved and why the released Dagan cultivators had not spread news, then chose to listen to Zhao Ling'er play music in his courtyard.

Chen Ze reached the eighth layer of the Golden Core Realm and learned that Shen Wansan had dispatched all 300 trained doppelgangers to open Myriad Things General Stores across the Dagan Dynasty. After testing his improved swordsmanship and reviewing the mine’s earnings, Chen Ze considered how to put his remaining idle doppelgangers to work.

• Chen Ze woke up having advanced to the eighth layer of the Golden Core Realm and went to Myriad Things Space to train.
• Shen Wansan told Chen Ze that all 300 doppelgangers had been sent in pairs to cultivator cities to establish Myriad Things General Stores, and Chen Ze instructed him to monitor their progress and report daily.
• Chen Ze completed his training and found that his Primordial Sword Scripture had reached Grandmaster-level proficiency, making his Taihe Sword strikes stronger and more efficient.
• Chen Ze visited the Dark Azure Jade Mine, where Li Hengwen reported its mining operations, and Chen Ze ordered him to maintain the current output.
• Chen Ze noted that 152 doppelgangers remained idle in Myriad Things Space and decided it was time to assign them new work.

Chen Ze sent all 152 Doppelgangers out from the north of the Dagan Dynasty to seek opportunities and collect useful books. He hoped their Ultimate Spiritual Roots would help them join cultivation sects and bring back the knowledge he needed to develop his pill, talisman, artifact, and formation arts.

• Chen Ze decided the remaining 152 Doppelgangers would be more useful traveling beyond Myriad Things Space than staying there reading.
• Chen Ze instructed the Doppelgangers to pursue opportunities and gather excellent books, while warning them not to bring danger back with them.
• Chen Ze told Chen Bei to summon the 152 Doppelgangers from a concealed location in the north of the Dagan Dynasty.
• Chen Bei summoned the Doppelgangers, and they departed to spread across the Dagan Dynasty.
• Chen Ze anticipated that the Doppelgangers' Ultimate Spiritual Roots would attract cultivation sects and help him obtain recipes and diagrams for his empty refining rooms.

Chen Ze checked in with Chen Dong, who had been imprisoned by a Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator in an unidentified sect. Just as they puzzled over why the cultivator had captured him, a sect disciple released Chen Dong and said their master wanted to see him.

• Chen Ze returned to his residence and shared Chen Dong’s vision while resting in his reclining chair.
• Chen Dong told Chen Ze that the Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator had left him locked in a secret chamber for two days.
• Chen Dong recalled that the cultivator’s disciples wore robes marked with an alchemy furnace, but neither he nor Chen Ze could identify their sect or the captor’s intentions.
• A commotion outside the chamber was followed by the removal of its restriction.
• A disciple in an alchemy-furnace robe entered and told Chen Dong that his master wanted to see him.

Chen Dong arrived at the Danxin Sect, where its Sect Master, Ji Mingyuan, offered to make him a registered disciple and teach him alchemy. Unsure why Ji Mingyuan had chosen him, Chen Dong asked Chen Ze for advice as the Sect Master waited for his answer.

• Chen Dong followed Senior Brother Liu through the Danxin Sect and learned that Liu was a disciple of its Sect Master.
• Senior Brother Liu explained that the Danxin Sect was a powerful alchemy sect whose Sect Master was the highest-ranked alchemist in the Dagan Dynasty.
• Chen Dong and Chen Ze learned that Ji Mingyuan, the Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator who had brought Chen Dong there, was waiting in the great hall.
• Ji Mingyuan offered to make Chen Dong a registered disciple and asked him to cultivate diligently toward becoming an alchemist.
• Chen Dong privately asked Chen Ze what to do, and Chen Ze told him to agree first.

Chen Dong became Ji Mingyuan’s disciple and received a foundational alchemy scripture designed for cultivators with Earth Spiritual Roots. Chen Ze studied it through Chen Dong and concluded that Ji Mingyuan’s approach could open a new path for alchemy.

• Chen Dong agreed to become Ji Mingyuan’s disciple and performed the formal ceremony.
• Ji Mingyuan brought Chen Dong to a secluded courtyard, gave him the Basic Alchemy Technique, and explained how Earth Spiritual Roots could assist in alchemy.
• Chen Ze took control of Chen Dong’s body and examined the scripture, suspecting Ji Mingyuan was testing a new theory.
• Chen Ze read the scripture and became immersed in its alchemy methods, principles, and account of Spiritual Roots.
• Chen Ze returned to his main body and studied the scripture’s teachings, while Chen Dong continued learning from the text in the Danxin Sect courtyard.

Chen Ze understood how cultivators without Fire Spiritual Roots could still learn alchemy by controlling Earth Fire or cultivating Fire-type techniques. He recognized that Ji Mingyuan’s Basic Alchemy Technique offered both paths, and the chapter left him ready to pursue them.

• Chen Ze realized that alchemy depended on controlling fire, understanding herbs, and managing their ratios rather than possessing a Fire Spiritual Root.
• Chen Ze learned that all cultivators had five elemental powers, though his Ultimate Earth Spiritual Root overwhelmed the other four attributes.
• Chen Ze understood that his Legendary-level Ignition Art drew on his latent Fire Attribute power to produce unusually powerful Fireballs.
• Chen Ze identified two ways to refine pills: use the Alchemy Technique to control Earth Fire or cultivate Fire-type techniques to create and control his own flames.
• Chen Ze realized that Ji Mingyuan had given him both approaches so he could pursue alchemy along two complementary paths.

Chen Ze decided to learn Ji Mingyuan’s Basic Alchemy Technique and a fire-element cultivation technique, while having Chen Dong study alchemy inside the Danxin Sect and uncover Ji Mingyuan’s intentions. As Chen Ze considered how alchemy might explain spiritual-root improvement, he began searching for the Fire Attribute power within his body.

• Chen Ze decided Ji Mingyuan’s alchemy theory was worth testing and planned to learn the Basic Alchemy Technique without changing his usual cultivation routine.
• Chen Ze sent Chen Dong instructions to study diligently, investigate Ji Mingyuan’s motives, and work toward becoming his true disciple; Chen Ze promised to help him obtain a fire-element cultivation technique.
• Chen Ze reasoned that pills which increased a Five Elements attribute might improve spiritual roots, and suspected that knowledge of such pills had been lost or deliberately obscured.
• Chen Ze considered Qin Songyun’s Profound Sun Clear Spirit Pill and saw Chen Fan’s relationship with Qin Songyun as an opportunity to learn more about the pill recipe.
• Chen Ze began practicing Ji Mingyuan’s Basic Alchemy Technique and searched within his body for Fire Attribute power, eventually sensing it.

Chen Ze found the Fire Attribute power in his dantian and used it to draw out Earth Fire, but the flame was too weak to keep the Earth Fire burning. Ji Mingyuan arrived after sensing the array activate and praised Chen Ze’s rapid progress.

• Chen Ze guided a tiny pale-red flame from his dantian into his palm while practicing Ji Mingyuan’s Basic Alchemy Technique.
• Chen Ze descended into Chen Dong and used the array in Chen Dong’s courtyard to try drawing out Earth Fire.
• Chen Ze drew out Earth Fire twice, but it went out each time as soon as the tiny flame touched it.
• Ji Mingyuan appeared after sensing the array activate, and Chen Ze warned Chen Dong to avoid revealing too much of his talent.
• Ji Mingyuan praised Chen Ze for exceeding his expectations.

Ji Mingyuan taught Chen Ze how to control his Fire Attribute power, but Chen Ze still failed to keep the Earth Fire burning. Ji Mingyuan left expecting Chen Ze to improve, while Chen Ze planned to rely on his system and reflect on the lesson.

• Chen Ze summoned a small flame again, and Ji Mingyuan said his main problem was poor control rather than weak Fire Attribute power.
• Ji Mingyuan taught Chen Ze to guide the flame more precisely, and Chen Ze successfully summoned a steadier flame.
• Chen Ze directed the flame into the Earth Fire array, but the Earth Fire quickly went out again.
• Ji Mingyuan encouraged Chen Ze and left to reconsider whether his instruction had been mistaken.
• Chen Ze reviewed Ji Mingyuan's lesson, decided the problem was still his own, and returned control of Chen Dong's body to him.

Chen Ze decided to keep Ji Mingyuan’s Spirit Fire Returning Yuan Method and tested it in the Automated Training Room, where it strengthened the Fire Attribute power in his dantian. He could produce a steadier flame afterward, but it still was not strong enough to draw out Earth Fire.

• Chen Ze reviewed his progress and concluded that his weak Fire Attribute power, rather than Ji Mingyuan’s instructions, was preventing him from drawing out Earth Fire.
• Chen Ze decided against exchanging for a higher-grade technique, both to avoid exposing himself to Ji Mingyuan and because the Black-tier High-grade method suited his needs.
• Chen Ze cultivated the Spirit Fire Returning Yuan Method in the Automated Training Room, and the Fire Attribute power in his dantian began to awaken and grow.
• Chen Ze used the Basic Alchemy Technique to form a flame that was more solid and steady, but it remained too weak to draw out Earth Fire.
• Chen Ze checked his panel and saw that his cultivation had risen to 190 points, while the Spirit Fire Returning Yuan Method and Basic Alchemy Technique had each reached Beginner proficiency.

Chen Ze discovered that his new Fire-element cultivation technique raised his cultivation slowly, but it strengthened his Fire Attribute power without interfering with his other cultivation. He decided to pursue all five elemental powers gradually, then returned to his daily cultivation with a clearer mind.

• Chen Ze found that the Spirit Fire Returning Yuan Method barely increased his cultivation points and concluded that raising proficiency mattered more than switching to higher-tier techniques.
• Chen Ze sensed that cultivating Fire-element techniques did not interfere with the Automated Training Room or weaken his Earth Attribute power.
• Chen Ze realized he could use his system and Doppelgangers to develop all five elemental powers, but decided to proceed gradually.
• Chen Ze cultivated for two more hours, gained four cultivation points, then returned to Zhao Ling'er and enjoyed her music and food.
• The next day, Chen Ze cultivated the Spirit Fire Returning Yuan Method and Basic Alchemy Technique, accepting their slow progress as he focused on strengthening all five elemental powers.

Chen Ze took control of Qi Shi aboard a Flying Boat bound for Longqing City's newly opening Ancient Ruin, learning that the Liu Family and other factions were sending Golden Core cultivators to compete for its treasures and inheritances. As the Flying Boat neared the secret realm, Chen Ze spotted Liu Yichen and recognized another unexpected survivor beside him.

• Qi Shi told Chen Ze that the secret realm near Longqing City was about to open, and Chen Ze traveled to observe him aboard the Liu Family's Flying Boat.
• Chen Ze took control of Qi Shi and learned that the Ancient Ruin was at least ten thousand years old, admitted only Golden Core cultivators, and contained treasures and inheritances.
• Qi Shi explained that the Liu Family had confiscated the Rogue Cultivators' Storage Rings and would reward them based on what they found, while the Cao Family and City Lord's Mansion were also involved.
• Qi Shi pointed out Liu Yichen, the Liu Family's young master, and Chen Ze noticed that another person beside him was still alive.

Chen Ze accompanied the Liu Family’s hired Rogue Cultivators to the secret realm and learned that Feng Yizhi had survived because Liu Yichen protected him. After suspecting the Liu Family had screened the recruits for hidden motives, Chen Ze arrived at the secret realm and wondered what trouble the Liu Family intended to stir up.

• Chen Ze recognized Feng Yizhi beside Liu Yichen and learned from Qi Shi that Feng Yizhi was Liu Yichen’s loyal lackey and a guest elder of the Liu Family.
• Liu Yichen urged the Rogue Cultivators to cooperate with the Liu Family and promised them compensation for the secret-realm expedition.
• Chen Ze sensed an aura from the main cabin probing the recruits and concluded that the Liu Family was conducting a final screening.
• Chen Ze asked Qi Shi about Li Tieshan, the strongest recruited Rogue Cultivator, whose identity and backing seemed mysterious.
• The flying vessel landed at the secret realm, where Chen Ze saw ancient trees, rare plants, and people from Longqing City’s Lineages and the City Lord’s Mansion.

Chen Ze entered the secret realm with the Liu Family and found a pristine world unlike the one outside. As Liu Yichen led the Liu Family toward a destination guided by their secret information, Chen Ze planned to find a chance to investigate Li Tieshan and summon his Doppelgangers.

• Chen Ze received a Jade Token from the City Lord's Mansion after the gathered Lineages and Rogue Cultivators arrived at the secret realm.
• Chen Ze noticed Li Tieshan among the Liu Family's Rogue Cultivators, exchanged a wary look with him, and decided to investigate his purpose inside the secret realm.
• The secret realm opened, and Liu Yichen led the Liu Family through the rift first, followed by Chen Ze and the other cultivators.
• Chen Ze entered a vast, untouched Cave Mansion filled with forests, rare herbs, unusual beasts, and dense Spiritual Energy, then inspected his Jade Token without discovering anything about it.
• Liu Yichen consulted the Liu Family's secret information and led his group deeper into the secret realm, while Chen Ze went along and waited for a chance to fall behind.