Chapter Summaries

Chen Ze learned that Chen Bei was studying the Trial Ground’s runes while the Profound Ice Qilin recovered, and agreed to close the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce in Longqing City. The Myriad Things General Store continued to grow, and rumors spread that Shen Wansan was connected to it.

• The Jade Green Lion and Full Moon Crystal Silver Snake could not absorb the violent Energy Crystals, so Chen Ze told them to continue cultivating.
• Chen Ze checked on the recovering Top-grade Spirit Vein and told Chen Bei to watch over the Profound Ice Qilin and continue researching the Trial Ground’s runes.
• Chen Bei deciphered the meaning of another rune while Chen Ze slept, and Zhao Ling'er served Chen Ze breakfast the next morning.
• Qi Wencheng told Chen Ze that the Myriad Things General Store had taken all the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce’s business in Longqing City, and Chen Ze agreed to close the chamber and expand elsewhere.
• Qi Wencheng and the others removed the chamber’s remaining goods, mortgaged its deed, and put its building up for sale, while Liu Wuhen prepared to use the closure to trouble Xuantian Hall.
• The Myriad Things General Store’s popularity and reputation grew, as cultivators and forces speculated about its origins and the name Shen Wansan spread.

Chen Ze continued cultivating as the Myriad Things General Store’s success alarmed rival factions and chambers of commerce. The Four Seas Chamber of Commerce began secretly gathering allies against the store, and Shen Wansan warned Chen Ze to prepare for their move.

• Chen Ze cultivated in the Myriad Things Space, raising the Nine Yang True Fire Art to Major Accomplishment and the Xuantian Record to Grandmaster proficiency.
• A major chamber of commerce debated how to respond to the Myriad Things General Store, whose pills and new magical treasures were drawing customers away from its competitors.
• Several factions investigated the store’s unusual business and supply channels but could not discover where its Cultivation Resources came from.
• The Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, whose businesses were suffering across the Dagan Dynasty, began contacting factions to prepare an attack on the Myriad Things General Store.
• Shen Wansan told Chen Ze about the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce’s plans, and Chen Ze ordered him to monitor their movements and prepare a response.

The emperor learned that Xuantian Hall was preparing to rise again and ordered the Centennial Competition moved forward to lure its members into the open. He also ordered an investigation into a mysterious third group that had captured Sun Tai and several Spirit Severing Realm cultivators, fearing it might come from the Spirit Realm.

• Prince Kang told the emperor that Xuantian Hall was rebuilding its power and had connections to numerous Lineages and sects.
• The emperor ordered increased surveillance of the various forces and a search for Xuantian Hall's core figures.
• The emperor moved the Centennial Competition to the Imperial City one month later and planned to use a Heaven-tier Ultimate Cultivation Technique as bait for Xuantian Hall.
• Prince Kang revealed that Xuantian Hall had returned to the Imperial City to investigate Sun Tai's whereabouts, despite having previously captured him.
• The emperor and Prince Kang suspected a third group had taken Sun Tai, four Attendants, and Xuantian Hall's assassins, and the emperor ordered an investigation into whether they came from the Spirit Realm.

Emperor Kang Yeyu resolved not to let Xuantian Hall control the Dagan Dynasty, while the dynasty prepared for the advanced Centennial Competition and its Heaven-tier Ultimate Cultivation Technique reward. Lin Yu prepared to compete for the Heaven Sword Sect and told his master Chen Ze that he and the others would bring back the prize.

• After Prince Kang withdrew, Emperor Kang Yeyu declared that he would not hand the Dagan Dynasty over to Xuantian Hall.
• Prince Kang began intensive preparations for the Centennial Competition, and the raised reward prompted forces across Dagan to select their strongest disciples.
• The Li Family prepared Li Feng for the competition and bought him Cultivation Resources from the Myriad Things General Store.
• The Heaven Sword Sect's Sect Master ordered the elders to prepare its disciples and guide Lin Yu, whose sword talent was strong but whose temperament was too upright.
• Lin Yu trained relentlessly and secretly told Chen Ze that he would compete; Chen Ze encouraged him to go and expected the disciples to meet one another.

After the Centennial Competition was moved forward, Qingyun Sect prepared Chen Fan and the others to compete while factions across the Dagan Dynasty rushed to buy supplies from the Myriad Things General Store. Wanze City flourished under Wanze Sect’s rule, and Zhao Yun and Zhao Wushan decided their sect would not participate in the competition.

• Qin Songyun summoned Chen Fan and the other disciples back, urged them to bring glory to Qingyun Sect, and provided resources for their training.
• Qingyun Sect and other factions bought pills, treasures, and manuals in bulk, driving the Myriad Things General Store’s profits sharply higher.
• Liu Yuquan and the other Feiyun Sect cultivators remained unaware of the news while secluded in the mountains, having received no word that their sect had been destroyed.
• Zhao Yun and Zhao Wushan’s Wanze Sect renamed Lunshi City as Wanze City, imposed order, expanded commerce and education, and attracted Rogue Cultivators.
• Zhao Yun and Zhao Wushan discussed the Centennial Competition and concluded that Wanze Sect would not participate because it was outside the Dagan Dynasty’s rule.

Xuantian Hall debated whether to exploit the Dagan Dynasty’s hastened Centennial Competition, but chose to investigate without exposing its strength until the Venerable Lord emerged from seclusion. Chen Ze learned of the competition and the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce’s suspected scheme to buy up Myriad Things General Store’s supplies, then told Shen Wansan to let the purchases continue while secretly cooperating.

• Xuantian Hall’s elders discussed the early Centennial Competition and its Heaven-tier Ultimate Cultivation Technique reward, then agreed to send disciples to investigate while avoiding rash action.
• Chen Ze received reports from his clones that the competition had been moved forward and its prize upgraded, and told them to take part casually.
• Concerned that the competition might be connected to the Wang Family’s rebellion, Sun Tai’s disappearance, and Xuantian Hall’s movements, Chen Ze left the Myriad Things Space to check on Shen Wansan.
• Shen Wansan told Chen Ze that the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce had contacted major Lineages and that Myriad Things General Store sales had risen sharply.
• Chen Ze and Shen Wansan suspected the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce was trying to buy up supplies and damage the store’s reputation, so Chen Ze ordered Shen Wansan to keep selling and discreetly play along.

Chen Ze advanced to the Second Layer of the Spirit Severing Realm while Myriad Things General Store outmaneuvered the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce and its allied Lineages. After their assassins were captured, the desperate factions prepared to turn to Xuantian Hall.

• Chen Ze instructed Shen Wansan to monitor the Dagan Dynasty's Centennial Competition and approved expanding Myriad Things General Store into other parts of Xuantian Continent.
• After eight days of cultivation with Energy Crystals, Chen Ze advanced to the Second Layer of the Spirit Severing Realm and chose to focus on mastering all five elemental spiritual powers.
• Shen Wansan told Chen Ze that the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce and several Lineages had realized their stockpiling scheme was failing, and Chen Ze told him to handle whatever tricks they tried.
• Shen Wansan had misled the factions into stockpiling goods before Myriad Things General Store restocked in bulk, cut prices, and launched promotions, leaving their inventory devalued and the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce under pressure from its allies.
• The Four Seas Chamber of Commerce sent assassins to kill Myriad Things General Store's shopkeepers, but the Spirit Severing Realm Doppelgangers captured them all and sent them to Myriad Things Space for reform.
• The Four Seas Chamber of Commerce and the Lineages realized they had badly misjudged Myriad Things General Store, but the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce planned to use Xuantian Hall as its final trump card.

Xuantian Hall's elders gathered to address the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce's worsening crisis as the Myriad Things General Store seized its customers and threatened its branches. Liu Wuhen secretly fueled the turmoil while the elders ordered negotiations with withdrawing Lineages and further investigations.

• The Four Seas Chamber of Commerce's regional presidents appealed to Xuantian Hall, prompting headquarters to summon the elders responsible for its branches.
• Liu Wuhen's Doppelganger joined the meeting and concealed that the Longqing City branch no longer existed while claiming the Myriad Things General Store had taken its trade.
• The elders learned that the Myriad Things General Store had pushed several Anyuan Dynasty branches to the brink of closure, and Liu Wuhen suggested lowering prices and increasing publicity.
• The elders agreed to consider a cautious price war while investigating the store's suppliers and mysterious backer.
• An elder reported that the cooperating Lineages were demanding to withdraw and seek compensation, and Liu Wuhen secretly welcomed the news.
• The leading elder ordered the elders to negotiate with the Lineages and intensify their investigation into the Myriad Things General Store.

As the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce crumbled under the Myriad Things General Store’s expansion, Xuantian Hall debated how to respond and decided to send envoys for peace talks. Liu Wuhen secretly reported the plan to Chen Ze, who had earned 2.5 billion Points from the stores’ recent sales.

• The Four Seas Chamber of Commerce’s negotiations and investigations failed, while several former allies ended cooperation and demanded compensation.
• Liu Wuhen urged Xuantian Hall to take extreme measures against the Myriad Things General Store, but the elders rejected rash action because of the store’s mysterious strength and the Dagan Dynasty’s scrutiny.
• Elder Tian persuaded the elders to send envoys for peace talks as a delaying tactic, and Liu Wuhen secretly sent the decision to Chen Ze.
• Chen Ze reclaimed 2.5 billion Points from recent earnings, boosted by 293 new stores and demand for Cultivation Resources ahead of the Dagan Dynasty’s Centennial Competition.

Chen Ze expanded Myriad Things Space and traveled to Star Moon City, where he overheard that the Star Moon Sect was searching for an Ancient Divine Artifact. A young cultivator revealed that he possessed a clue to the artifact, catching Chen Ze’s interest.

• Chen Ze spent more than 700 million Points on three expansion cards, enlarging Myriad Things Space, then exchanged another 500 million Points’ worth of supplies.
• Chen Ze took control of a Doppelganger in Star Moon City to hear Xuantian Hall’s proposed peace terms and explore the city.
• Chen Ze overheard restaurant patrons discussing the Star Moon Sect’s search for an Ancient Divine Artifact.
• Star Moon Sect disciples confronted a young cultivator, and a white-robed Nascent Soul Realm expert intervened to protect him.
• The young cultivator told the white-robed man that he had found a clue to the Ancient Divine Artifact, and Chen Ze listened with his divine sense.

Chen Ze investigated rumors of an Ancient Divine Artifact near Star Moon City and defended two seekers from the Star Moon Sect and a mysterious Black Robe. After effortlessly repelling Black Robe's attacks, Chen Ze warned him that continuing to fight could get him killed.

• Chen Ze asked Ji Hui about the rumored Ancient Divine Artifact, then approached a young cultivator and a man in white to learn that a vague clue pointed to a dangerous ruin near Star Moon City.
• The young cultivator said he sought revenge and the man in white hoped to break through his cultivation bottleneck, so Chen Ze offered to search for the artifact with them.
• A Star Moon Sect elder arrived, denied the artifact existed, and demanded that Chen Ze hand over the two seekers, but Chen Ze defeated his attack and sent the sect's charging disciples flying.
• Black Robe appeared and attacked the young cultivator, but Chen Ze protected him and stood against Black Robe's dark techniques and repeated attacks.
• Chen Ze blocked Black Robe with a Spiritual Power Shield and struck him back with a fireball, then warned him that he might die if he kept fighting.

Chen Ze captured Black Robe and sealed the area with a concealment formation before questioning the Star Moon Sect about an Ancient Divine Artifact rumored to lie in an undiscovered ruin. Gao Feng admitted that the sect was exploring the ruin and suppressing the news, while insisting the artifact remained inside.

• Black Robe tried to flee, but Chen Ze restrained him and pulled him back.
• Chen Ze formed a concealment formation as the Star Moon Sect reinforcements watched from afar without daring to approach.
• Chen Ze questioned Geng Mingzhi and Bian Yuanliang, who said they had heard about the artifact from a drunken Star Moon Sect disciple.
• Gao Feng confirmed the rumor came from a disciple's drunken slip and explained that the sect had ordered people spreading the news captured.
• Chen Ze accused the Star Moon Sect of hiding the ruin to keep the artifact for itself, and Gao Feng claimed the sect was only exploring it to prevent danger.

Chen Ze questioned Gao Feng and Black Robe about the ancient ruins and the Ancient Divine Artifact, but learned little before Black Robe was taken away for Li Hengwen to search his memories. After releasing the others, Chen Ze warned Geng Mingzhi to leave Star Moon City and departed, leaving the prospect of exploring the ruins together unresolved.

• Gao Feng told Chen Ze that the ruins were dangerous and that only Star Moon Sect's top experts could explore them, but he knew little about their secrets.
• Black Robe mocked the others, refused to explain what he knew, and shouted that Chen Ze would never obtain the divine artifact before fainting under Chen Ze's pressure.
• Chen Ze sent Black Robe to Li Hengwen to search his memories, then removed the Concealment Formation and ordered everyone to leave.
• Geng Mingzhi asked Chen Ze whether they would explore the ruins together, and Chen Ze told him to forget the ruins and leave Star Moon City before departing.

Geng Mingzhi and Bian Yuanliang accepted Chen Ze’s pills, gained strength, and resolved to cultivate before pursuing vengeance. Chen Ze then confronted Star Moon Sect experts watching the ruin and claimed he was interested in the Ancient Divine Artifact.

• Geng Mingzhi refused to leave before avenging his Lineage, despite Bian Yuanliang warning that the ruin was too dangerous.
• Geng Mingzhi and Bian Yuanliang discovered Chen Ze had left them jade bottles containing pills, then left the city to take them in seclusion.
• Geng Mingzhi’s meridians were repaired and his strength increased, while Bian Yuanliang’s Spiritual Sense grew sharper.
• Geng Mingzhi and Bian Yuanliang decided to cultivate so they could repay their blood-deep hatred.
• Chen Ze sought out the Star Moon Sect experts secretly watching the area and startled them by appearing behind them.
• Lei Tingzi questioned Chen Ze about his presence in Star Moon City, and Chen Ze said he was a Rogue Cultivator interested in the Ancient Divine Artifact.

Chen Ze tried to leave after the Star Moon Sect rejected his explanation, but its elders surrounded him and forced a battle. He unleashed three formations and overwhelmed them, while Qing Lin discovered that the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation was Sixth-grade, leaving the sect members wavering.

• Chen Ze sensed Geng Mingzhi and the others leaving the city, then announced he would depart rather than become enemies with the Star Moon Sect.
• Dozens of Star Moon Sect elders surrounded Chen Ze, and he chose to fight after realizing a peaceful resolution was impossible.
• Chen Ze deployed three formations and attacked, breaking through the elders' defenses and knocking several down.
• Qing Lin tried to break Chen Ze's formation with runes, but the Sixth-grade Immortal Slaying Sword Formation destroyed them.
• Qing Lin warned the Star Moon Sect members that they were trapped inside a Sixth-grade Formation, and they began to consider retreating.

Chen Ze defeated the Star Moon Sect elders and sent them into the Myriad Things Space, then learned that Xuantian Hall’s negotiators had arrived. He entered Ji Hui’s body to meet their stern black-robed elder.

• Lei Tingzi urged the Star Moon Sect members to attack Chen Ze together, and Chen Ze resumed his assault with the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and a Five Elements palm strike.
• Lei Tingzi ordered the elders to use their combined attack technique, but Chen Ze’s Sword Qi pillar overwhelmed their sword formation and left them badly injured.
• Chen Ze attacked again, knocked the Star Moon Sect elders unconscious, and sent them into the Myriad Things Space.
• Chen Ze dismissed the three formations and heard Ji Hui report that Xuantian Hall’s negotiators had arrived.
• Chen Ze sent his Doppelganger to recover in the Myriad Things Space and descended into Ji Hui’s body, where a black-robed Xuantian Hall elder awaited him in a secret chamber.

Chen Ze rejected Xuantian Hall’s intimidating approach and used his Spirit Severing Realm power to force its envoy into discussing cooperation. He demanded the hall reveal its core secrets and true strength, leaving the negotiations at a standstill when the elder hesitated.

• Chen Ze recognized Xuantian Hall’s display of force as a negotiation tactic and unleashed his Spirit Severing Realm aura.
• Chen Ze destroyed the chamber’s furniture with his power, terrifying the Xuantian Hall elder.
• The elder apologized and claimed Xuantian Hall had come sincerely to seek cooperation.
• Chen Ze challenged the elder about Xuantian Hall’s past assassination attempts and proposed terms for cooperation.
• Chen Ze demanded a clear account of Xuantian Hall’s core secrets and true strength, and the elder hesitated.

An Xuantian Hall elder tried to persuade Chen Ze to cooperate by revealing an Ancient Ruin, a spirit mine, and a mysterious artifact, but Chen Ze grew suspicious after learning Xuantian Hall had made another move. Chen Ze sent the negotiating elders to Myriad Things Space for verification, where Li Hengwen found their claims were only partly true.

• The Xuantian Hall elder told Chen Ze about an Ancient Ruin, hidden Grand Elders, and a mysterious spirit mine to win his cooperation.
• Chen Ze rejected the elder's offers of treasures and pills, citing Xuantian Hall's history of betrayal.
• After a doppelganger reported Xuantian Hall's backup plan, Chen Ze prepared to kill the elder, who then revealed a sealed artifact said to remake Heaven and Earth.
• Chen Ze received similar reports from his stores, ordered the Xuantian Hall negotiators sent to Myriad Things Space, and knocked the elder unconscious.
• Li Hengwen reported that some of the Xuantian Hall elders' information was true but that other parts still needed verification.

Chen Ze investigated the Ancient Ruin after learning that the Star Moon Sect Master and the sect members had been missing inside for a month. He sent a doppelganger into the ruin, where it encountered dangerous passages and a powerful demonic beast, while the chapter ended with the cave’s runes unleashing a crushing force.

• Li Hengwen told Chen Ze that the Star Moon Sect Master and the members who entered the Ancient Ruin had not returned after a month, and that the sect knew little about the ruin or the rumored Ancient Divine Artifact.
• Chen Ze told Ji Hui to monitor Xuantian Hall, then controlled a doppelganger and went to investigate the ruin’s entrance.
• The doppelganger fought off a massive python in the mist and reached a fork, where Chen Ze directed it to summon another doppelganger and explore both passages.
• The doppelganger entered the green-mist passage, resisted its corrosive force and attacking vines, and was pulled into a cave.
• The doppelganger battled a winged, lion-like demonic beast and tried to subdue it, but the cave runes flared and subjected them both to overwhelming pressure.

Chen Ze's Doppelgangers fought through separate passages in the ruins, and one passed a trial in a statue-filled chamber to uncover the secret of the Ancient Divine Artifact. The Doppelganger transmitted the information to Chen Ze, leaving him poised to learn what the ruins concealed.

• One Doppelganger defeated a giant spider, escaped a cave into a forest, and told Chen Ze that he had entered the ruins and could access the Myriad Things Space.
• Chen Ze shifted his attention to another Doppelganger, who defeated a shadow by using the glowing wall symbols and opened a sealed stone door.
• The second Doppelganger entered a stone chamber filled with strange statues and approached a glowing Crystal Ball.
• The Crystal Ball subjected the Doppelganger to visions and hardships, which he endured until he passed its trial.
• The Crystal Ball bestowed its power and information about the ruins, and the Doppelganger told Chen Ze that he had discovered the secret of the Ancient Divine Artifact.