Chapter Summaries

Chen Ze used the monster attack in the secret realm to summon his Doppelganger without drawing attention, then killed the Third-Order Monster Beast that had ambushed him. He returned to find Li Tieshan and the Rogue Cultivators still battling a Fourth-Order Monster Beast, while he suspected Liu Yichen had led them to the beasts deliberately.

• A pack of Third-Order Monster Beasts ambushed the group, and Liu Yichen ordered the Rogue Cultivators to fight while the Liu Family members guarded him.
• A Fourth-Order Monster Beast appeared, and Chen Ze noticed that Liu Yichen and Li Tieshan seemed to have expected it.
• Chen Ze drew the Third-Order Monster Beast that had attacked him away from the others and summoned his Doppelganger to carry out an arranged task.
• Chen Ze killed the Third-Order Monster Beast with a strike from the Primordial Sword Scripture and returned to the main battlefield.
• Li Tieshan fought the Fourth-Order Monster Beast with support from the Rogue Cultivators, and Chen Ze sensed Li Tieshan was holding something back.

Chen Ze watched Li Tieshan kill a Fourth-Order Monster Beast and grew suspicious of the Rogue Cultivators’ coordination and the Liu Family’s intentions. While his Doppelgangers began looting the secret realm, the Liu and Cao Families headed in opposite directions toward unknown destinations, and the City Lord’s Mansion remained unaccounted for.

• Chen Ze observed Li Tieshan and more than a dozen Rogue Cultivators defeat a Fourth-Order Monster Beast without casualties, noticing that their coordination seemed unusual.
• Li Tieshan killed the beast, but showed no interest in its corpse as the other Rogue Cultivators divided the spoils; Chen Ze watched him and Liu Yichen closely.
• A Doppelganger told Chen Ze that his hundred summoned Doppelgangers had arrived, and Chen Ze ordered them to follow his plan to collect every treasure in the secret realm.
• Chen Ze’s Doppelgangers split up to search and loot, while those embedded in several Longqing City Lineages explored without a fixed destination.
• The Cao Family, like the Liu Family, followed a predetermined route, but Chen Ze learned that their direction was opposite the Liu Family’s.
• Chen Ze wondered whether the two families sought different inheritances and why none of his Doppelgangers had encountered the City Lord’s Mansion group.

Chen Ze followed the Liu Family through the secret realm, where he noticed its strange pattern of monster beasts and suspected the Liu and Cao Families knew about a hidden force. After reaching an ancient palace and being dismissed with the other Rogue Cultivators, Chen Ze turned to leave, only to face an unidentified cultivator with a dagger.

• Chen Ze learned that his Doppelgangers found few treasures and almost never encountered monster beasts, unlike the group traveling with the Liu Family.
• Chen Ze sensed a powerful force shaping the secret realm and continued following Liu Yichen while sending Doppelgangers to explore the Liu and Cao Families' routes.
• Chen Ze fought alongside Li Tieshan and noticed the Rogue Cultivators' coordination remained unusually seamless, even when he deliberately created openings.
• The group reached an ancient palace, and Liu Yichen told the Rogue Cultivators their escort mission was over and they could leave.
• Chen Ze started to leave with the Rogue Cultivators, noticed Li Tieshan still watching the palace, and turned to find an unidentified Rogue Cultivator confronting him with a dagger.

Chen Ze discovered that the Liu Family had staged a trap in which its people ambushed the recruited Rogue Cultivators, then confronted the real Liu Yichen and learned that the man posing as Liu Yichen was his younger brother, Liu Yifei. As the Liu Family prepared to attack him, Chen Ze summoned dozens of Doppelgangers and outnumbered them.

• A Rogue Cultivator ambushed Chen Ze, but Chen Ze dodged the dagger and struck him with a Fireball.
• Chen Ze realized that Rogue Cultivators who had joined Li Tieshan in fighting the Fourth-Order Monster Beast were attacking the others, while Li Tieshan, Liu Yichen, and the Liu Family watched.
• Chen Ze killed his attacker with a sword strike, then deflected another sword attack from behind and confronted Li Tieshan.
• Li Tieshan revealed that he was the real Liu Yichen and that the man posing as Liu Yichen was his younger brother, Liu Yifei.
• Chen Ze put away his flying sword and summoned dozens of Doppelgangers, leaving the Liu Family shocked and outnumbered.

Chen Ze and his Doppelgangers defeated Liu Yichen and the Liu Family in the secret realm, then seized Liu Yichen’s attempt to call for help. Liu Yichen fell as his hopes of claiming the inheritance collapsed.

• Li Tieshan, revealed as the real Liu Yichen, attacked Chen Ze, but a Doppelganger met his sword strike while the others charged the Liu Family members.
• Chen Ze’s Doppelgangers overwhelmed the Liu Family, badly injuring Liu Yifei and forcing Feng Yizhi to surrender.
• Two Doppelgangers fought Liu Yichen, who could not reach his brother as the rest of the Liu Family fell.
• Liu Yichen activated a communication talisman, but Chen Ze’s formation blocked the message and Chen Ze took the talisman.
• Desperate and surrounded, Liu Yichen tried to break through toward Chen Ze, but a heavy blow sent him crashing to the ground.

Chen Ze subdued the Liu Family and used the Soul Searching Technique on Feng Yizhi, learning that the family had sacrificed Rogue Cultivators and Fourth-Order Monster Beasts to claim the palace inheritance. He sent Feng Yizhi to mine for the rest of his life, but still lacked key details about the sacrifices.

• Chen Ze ordered his Doppelgangers to gather and cremate the Rogue Cultivators' bodies while he considered how to uncover the Liu Family's plan.
• Feng Yizhi begged Chen Ze for mercy and offered to reveal everything, but Chen Ze searched his soul instead.
• Chen Ze learned Feng Yizhi's memories were vile, sent him to the Mine for life, and regretted using the Soul Searching Technique.
• Chen Ze discovered the Liu Family had explored the secret realm for generations and found a method to obtain the palace inheritance.
• Chen Ze learned the Liu Family planned to use the inheritance secret art to strengthen Liu Yichen, sacrificing Rogue Cultivators and Fourth-Order Monster Beasts as offerings.

Chen Ze had his doppelganger search Liu Yichen’s soul to uncover the mystic realm’s secrets, then sent him to the Myriad Things Space. He learned that the Cao Family had found a palace and ordered his doppelganger to stay alert.

• Chen Ze sent the mutilated Liu Yifei into the Myriad Things Space and had Li Hengwen heal him.
• Chen Ze chose Liu Yichen for soul searching, gave him a healing pill, and had his doppelgangers strip and capture the Liu Family members.
• A doppelganger searched Liu Yichen’s soul and told Chen Ze it had learned all the mystic realm’s secrets.
• Chen Ze sent the unconscious Liu Yichen into the Myriad Things Space, where Li Hengwen managed more than eighty miners.
• A doppelganger reported that the Cao Family had discovered a palace, and Chen Ze ordered it to watch for ambushes and capture them if necessary.

Chen Ze watched the Cao Family ambush the Rogue Cultivators and sent his Doppelgangers to defeat and capture them. After learning the Cao Family could contact the outside world, he left their inheritance candidate behind for soul-searching and ordered his Doppelgangers to search for the City Lord's Mansion personnel.

• Chen Ze recalled the Doppelgangers near the Cao Family, then monitored the group and received intelligence from the Doppelganger that had searched Liu Yichen's soul.
• Chen Ze saw the Cao Family ambush the Rogue Cultivators and ordered his Doppelganger to end the fight.
• The Doppelganger summoned reinforcements from the Myriad Things Space, while Chen Ze sealed off the battlefield with three formations.
• Chen Ze's Doppelgangers quickly subdued the Cao Family members, sealed their cultivation, and sent them to the Myriad Things Space without killing them.
• Chen Ze learned that the Cao Family could contact the outside world and kept its inheritance candidate behind for soul-searching.
• Chen Ze ordered the remaining Doppelgangers to explore the secret realm and search for the City Lord's Mansion personnel while he organized Liu Yichen's memories.

Chen Ze combined information obtained by soul-searching members of the Liu and Cao Families and learned how Longqing City's three powers had explored the secret realm and sought its inheritances. He discovered that activating a palace's inheritance required killing designated Fourth-Order Monster Beasts and sacrificing cultivators, while the Cao Family risked being absorbed by the Liu Family if it fell further behind.

• Chen Ze's Doppelganger finished soul-searching a Cao Family member and sent him to the Myriad Things Space to work as a miner.
• Chen Ze sent four Doppelgangers to cautiously explore the palace the Cao Family had found, then reviewed the information gathered from both families.
• Chen Ze learned that the Liu Family, Cao Family, and City Lord's Mansion each occupied a palace, and that their discoveries had given them influence and advantages in the secret realm.
• Chen Ze learned that killing all designated Fourth-Order Monster Beasts could open a palace's altar, but completing its sacrifice also required many immortal cultivators as offerings.
• Chen Ze learned that the Liu and Cao Families had recruited Rogue Cultivators as sacrifices and that the Cao Family intended to pursue the inheritance despite lacking a genius like Liu Yichen.
• Chen Ze realized the Cao Family was falling behind the Liu Family and could eventually be swallowed up if the balance of power continued to shift.

Chen Ze entered the palace and touched a stone slab, which pulled his consciousness into an illusory realm showing cultivators sacrificing monster beasts and their fallen comrades at the altar. He concluded that the Liu Family and Cao Family had only guessed that the ritual would grant the inheritance, and resolved not to sacrifice innocent people.

• Chen Ze sent his consciousness to Qi Shi and learned that the altar stood inside the palace, while the other Doppelgangers had found nothing unusual nearby.
• Chen Ze entered the palace with two Doppelgangers and examined the altar and an unfamiliar stone slab.
• After Chen Ze touched the slab, its power pulled his consciousness into an illusory realm depicting cultivators defeating monster beasts, then bringing their corpses and their dead comrades to the altar.
• Chen Ze returned to his body and told Qi Shi that the slab had shown the same ritual the Liu Family performed, but had not confirmed that it would grant the inheritance.
• Chen Ze refused to use innocent people as offerings, even if that meant abandoning the inheritance.

Chen Ze refused to use people as sacrifices to activate the ancient altars and instead took the palaces for himself. He recycled both altars for a million Points and decided to keep the palaces in Myriad Things Space.

• Chen Ze rejected activating the altars, deciding that sacrificing people or corpses violated his Dao Heart and that he did not need the inheritance.
• Chen Ze summoned one hundred Doppelgangers, who inspected the first palace before transferring the palace and altar into Myriad Things Space.
• Chen Ze and the Doppelgangers collected the Cao Family's palace in the same way, then sent the Doppelgangers to search for the palace discovered by the City Lord's Mansion.
• Chen Ze recycled the two altars through Myriad Things Shop, receiving one million Points for their Hundred Moon Profound Stone.
• Chen Ze considered recycling the palaces too, but chose to keep them for the Doppelgangers to use after renovations.

City Lord's Mansion spies found that both palaces and the Liu and Cao Family groups had vanished, so they headed toward the palace discovered by the City Lord's Mansion. Meanwhile, Chen Ze reviewed his earnings as the families mined in the Myriad Things Space and prepared to search the secret realm more thoroughly.

• Black Robes searching the Liu Family's palace site found it empty and could not find the Liu Family group, so their leader sent them toward the other palace.
• Black Robes at the Cao Family's palace site also found it empty, and both groups met on the road after discovering that neither palace remained.
• The spies realized their plans had failed and decided to check the palace discovered by the City Lord's Mansion.
• Chen Ze checked on the Liu and Cao Families mining in the Myriad Things Space, where Liu Yichen and Liu Yifei still could not work.
• Chen Ze reclaimed three days of earnings totaling 9.23 million Points and Spirit Stones, including 4 million Points from Dark Azure Jade, and instructed Xiao Ping and Xiao An to cultivate new Spirit Herb Seeds.

Chen Ze broke through to the ninth layer of the Golden Core Realm while his Doppelgangers explored the secret realm, but he could not find the City Lord's Mansion's group. After investigating clues from the Liu and Cao Families, he learned that only the City Lord's Mansion's special Jade Token could guide its holders to the final palace.

• Chen Ze broke through to the ninth layer of the Golden Core Realm and told Zhao Ling'er that the secret realm contained a mysterious palace.
• After his Doppelgangers searched through the night without finding the City Lord's Mansion's group, Chen Ze realized they might have overlooked information about how to locate the palace.
• Chen Ze asked a Doppelganger to review the Cao Family's memories and told Li Hengwen to soul-search Liu Yifei for secret-realm information.
• Chen Ze learned that the Liu and Cao Families' special Jade Tokens guided their holders to their own palace, while the City Lord's Mansion's Jade Token alone led to the final palace.
• Chen Ze lamented the wasted effort and wrongly blaming his Doppelganger, then received another apologetic voice transmission from a Doppelganger that had overlooked important information.

Chen Ze learned from the Doppelganger that Liu Yichen's memories held a route to the final palace and set out to follow it. After verifying several route segments, they neared the palace, but the Doppelganger struggled to reconstruct the next part from Liu Yichen's scattered memories.

• The Doppelganger recalled that Liu Yichen's memories mentioned a route to the final palace, which the Liu Family had discovered before the City Lord's Mansion took its Jade Token.
• Chen Ze took control of the Doppelganger who had searched Liu Yichen's soul and ordered him to reconstruct the route while another Doppelganger led the way.
• The Doppelganger reconstructed the first route segment, and Chen Ze's group set off without summoning the other Doppelgangers.
• Chen Ze and the Doppelganger verified the route by finding traces of battle where Liu Yichen's memories said demonic beasts appeared.
• The Doppelganger struggled to recover the next route segment from Liu Yichen's memories, and Chen Ze chose not to have Liu Yichen's soul searched again.

Chen Ze and his Doppelganger followed the route toward the final palace, but six masked Black Robes from the City Lord's Mansion blocked their way. When Chen Ze refused to turn back, the two sides clashed, and he struck first as the Black Robes called for reinforcements.

• Chen Ze praised the Doppelganger for finding the next section of the route and recalled the other Doppelgangers to Myriad Things Space to recover.
• Chen Ze and the Doppelganger were surrounded by six Black Robes who claimed the barren area ahead held nothing and ordered them to leave.
• Chen Ze refused to detour for the City Lord's Mansion, and both he and the Doppelganger revealed their late Golden Core Realm cultivation.
• After the tall Black Robe threatened them and called for reinforcements, Chen Ze used his flying sword to disable one enemy and left the other three to the Doppelganger.
• The tall Black Robe urged his allies to hold Chen Ze back and charged him with his Magic Artifact.

Chen Ze and his Doppelganger defeated the six Black Robes blocking their way, but ten reinforcements from the City Lord's Mansion arrived. Chen Ze and his Doppelganger attacked them, and the battle continued with the nine remaining reinforcements fighting back.

• Chen Ze used his flying sword to defeat two Black Robes, though the sword cracked, while his Doppelganger overwhelmed three others with the Thirteen Swords of Star Movement.
• Chen Ze struck the tall Black Robe with the Taihe Sword, leaving all six Black Robes unable to stand as he and his Doppelganger prepared to leave.
• Ten Black Robes from the City Lord's Mansion arrived, and Chen Ze and his Doppelganger chose to fight them rather than retreat.
• Chen Ze and his Doppelganger charged the reinforcements, and Chen Ze crippled one Black Robe with a single sword strike.
• The remaining nine Black Robes unleashed their techniques and secret skills as Chen Ze and his Doppelganger fought back with sharper swordsmanship.

Chen Ze and the Doppelganger defeated the City Lord's Mansion's forces and reached the palace with 101 Doppelgangers. They subdued the guards and surrounding troops, leaving the City Lord's Mansion unable to stop them as they approached the palace and its altar.

• Chen Ze and the Doppelganger defeated sixteen Black Robes, took their Magic Artifacts and Storage Rings, and continued toward the palace.
• Chen Ze summoned 100 Doppelgangers and told them to find out what the City Lord's Mansion wanted before killing anyone.
• Chen Ze and the 101 Doppelgangers reached the palace, captured several guards, and moved toward the gates.
• The City Lord's Mansion's members and several Black Robes rushed out, but the Doppelgangers overwhelmed and captured them.
• The Black Robes suspected Chen Ze's group had also caused the Cao and Liu Families' palaces and members to disappear.

Chen Ze investigated the City Lord's Mansion's altar and questioned its captured leader, Mao You, about their mission in the secret realm. He learned the Mansion was trying to stop the Liu Family and Cao Family from activating the altars with human sacrifices, but it lacked the power to restrain them outside the secret realm.

• Chen Ze entered the palace, found an unfinished array around its altar, and saw no evidence of preparations for a sacrifice.
• Chen Ze confiscated the City Lord's Mansion people's Storage Rings and asked them to identify their leader; Zhang Xi first claimed the role, but Mao You stepped forward and offered himself for questioning.
• Chen Ze threatened to search Mao You's soul and kill the others if Mao You lied, then asked why the Mansion had entered the secret realm in two disguises.
• Mao You said the black-robed group had entered the Liu Family and Cao Family palaces to stop those Lineages from claiming the inheritances and sacrificing people to activate the altars.
• Xiao Ping confirmed that none of the confiscated Storage Rings contained cultivators' corpses, supporting Mao You's account.
• Mao You explained that the City Lord's Mansion could not restrain the Liu Family and Cao Family in Longqing City, so it had planned to interfere with them inside the secret realm.

Chen Ze released Mao You and the City Lord's Mansion group, then collected the palace into the Myriad Things Space. He launched an eight-day scavenging competition for the Doppelgangers, with names as prizes.

• Mao You explained that the City Lord's Mansion had searched for the palace altars and suspected Chen Ze's group was behind their disappearance.
• Chen Ze confirmed Mao You's teammates were alive, learned the secret realm would remain open for eight more days, and ordered Mao You's group to leave.
• Chen Ze told Qi Shi that he spared the group because the City Lord of Longqing City wanted to improve the world, though Qi Shi could not return there.
• Chen Ze used the Doppelgangers to collect the palace into the Myriad Things Space.
• Chen Ze announced an eight-day scavenging competition, and the Doppelgangers rushed off to compete for names bestowed by him.

Chen Ze removed the secret realm’s altars and then broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm after overcoming a heart demon that blurred the memories of his past and present lives. The chapter ended with Chen Ze celebrating his new cultivation and finding that all 666 of his Doppelgangers had reached the Nascent Soul Realm.

• Chen Ze recycled the three inheritance altars in the palaces, earning 1.5 million Points and ending the secret realm’s inheritance hopes.
• Chen Ze sensed his cultivation advancing and entered the Automated Training Room to attempt a breakthrough.
• Chen Ze faced illusions that mixed memories from his previous life and this life, then calmed his mind and recognized both lives as real.
• Chen Ze absorbed Spiritual Energy until a Nascent Soul formed, successfully reaching the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Chen Ze checked his system panel and discovered that all 666 of his Doppelgangers, including himself, were Nascent Soul Realm cultivators.