Chapter Summaries

Wang Chen acquired four precious Pills and successfully sent them through the Cangqing Ring to Ling Zhiyuan in the lower realm for Wu Zhao and Xi Jun. With that concern settled, he turned his attention to cultivating toward Nascent Soul, then received an invitation to True Person Huangfu’s celebration.

• Wang Chen collected two Longevity Pills and two Youth Preserving Pills from Myriad Treasures Pavilion.
• Wang Chen used the Cangqing Ring to transmit all four Pills to Ling Zhiyuan in the Cangqing Realm, intending them for Wu Zhao and Xi Jun.
• After the transmission succeeded, Wang Chen resolved to focus on breaking through to the Nascent Soul great realm.
• Su Ziling gave Wang Chen an invitation from True Person Huangfu to celebrate his taking a Dao companion.
• Wang Chen asked Su Ziling to learn about True Person Huangfu’s new Dao companion so they could prepare an appropriate gift.

Wang Chen commissioned Little Cauldron to refine an elegant phoenix hairpin Magic Treasure as a congratulatory gift for Huangfu Yongchun’s newest Dao companion, Ye Zifei. At Huangfu Yongchun’s celebration, the hairpin astonished the guests with how dramatically it enhanced Ye Zifei’s beauty.

• Wang Chen learned that his neighbor Huangfu Yongchun was taking his twelfth Dao companion, Ye Zifei.
• Wang Chen asked Little Cauldron to refine a phoenix hairpin Magic Treasure with cleansing and beautifying functions.
• Wang Chen and Su Ziling attended Huangfu Yongchun’s celebration and presented Ye Zifei with the hairpin.
• Ye Zifei opened the gift, and Huangfu Yongchun placed the hairpin in her hair.
• The hairpin enhanced Ye Zifei’s appearance and spiritual charm, surprising the guests, especially the female cultivators.

Wang Chen revealed that he was a Grand Artifact Refiner and promoted his bespoke Magic Treasure commissions at Huangfu Yongchun’s Dao companion ceremony. After the banquet, he discovered that Huangfu’s return gift was a high-grade dual-cultivation scripture.

• Wang Chen said he had forged the Phoenix Hairpin himself, surprising the guests and earning Huangfu Yongchun’s apology and praise.
• Wang Chen advertised his bespoke artifact-forging commissions, and several guests asked about his prices and requirements.
• Huangfu Yongchun and Ye Zifei completed their Dao companion ceremony, and the guests enjoyed a lavish banquet.
• Wang Chen exchanged contact information with fellow cultivators, then received a Jade Slip as a return gift from Huangfu Yongchun.
• Wang Chen discovered that the Jade Slip contained the Dragon Phoenix Imperial True Harmony Profound Scripture, a dual-cultivation method for cultivators from the Purple Mansion realm to the Nascent Soul realm.

Wang Chen received a commission from True Person Shen to forge a fire-aspected Magic Treasure Flying Sword, and Little Cauldron suggested the Crimson Firmament Sword formula. True Person Shen accepted Wang Chen’s price, leaving the forging job ready to proceed.

• Wang Chen and Su Ziling began studying the Dragon Phoenix Imperial True Harmony Profound Scripture together.
• True Person Shen asked Wang Chen to forge an affordable, powerful fire-aspected Flying Sword to replace one damaged in battle.
• Wang Chen consulted Little Cauldron, who recommended the Crimson Firmament Sword and explained that the cauldron needed a better fire seed to forge it.
• Wang Chen sent True Person Shen the sword plan, required materials, and forging fee, and True Person Shen accepted the quoted price.

Wang Chen bought a third-tier fire-aspect spiritual flame and began forging True Person Shen’s Crimson Firmament Sword. After taming the flame in the Life-Giving Creation Cauldron, he spent seven days and seven nights forging the sword.

• Wang Chen asked Shopkeeper Chen for a third-tier fire-aspect spiritual flame and agreed to pay one thousand High Spirit Stones.
• Wang Chen learned that the other four spiritual flames were far more expensive and scarce, then paid a deposit for the fire-aspect flame.
• Shopkeeper Chen notified Wang Chen four days later that the flame had arrived, and True Person Shen brought materials for a Flying Sword commission.
• Wang Chen agreed to forge True Person Shen’s Crimson Firmament Sword within half a month and accepted responsibility for the materials if the work failed.
• Wang Chen entered seclusion, summoned Little Cauldron, and spent a day and night taming the spiritual flame before forging the sword for seven days and seven nights.

Wang Chen completed the Crimson Firmament Sword for True Person Shen, successfully imbuing it with spiritual charm and refining it into a Magic Treasure. True Person Shen arrived to collect it and was astonished by its quality.

• Wang Chen spent seven days refining the sword embryo in the Life-Giving Creation Cauldron, then carefully polished it over three more days.
• Wang Chen burned three hundred Heavenly Merit to improve his fortune before imbuing the Crimson Firmament Sword with spiritual charm.
• Wang Chen successfully completed the Flying Sword and soaked it in spiritual liquid for two days to remove its excess fiery aura.
• Wang Chen sent True Person Shen a Flying Sword message when the half-month period ended, and True Person Shen quickly came to collect the sword.
• True Person Shen examined the Crimson Firmament Sword and, astonished by its quality, asked Wang Chen whether it was truly the Magic Treasure he had refined for him.

Wang Chen completed a custom Flying Sword for True Person Shen, whose praise brought Huangfu Yongchun to commission a sword of his own. Huangfu offered a Lightning Severing Sword Art that reached Nascent Soul in exchange for the work, and Wang Chen asked to inspect it before deciding.

• True Person Shen praised the Crimson Firmament Flying Sword, paid the agreed fee, and left after Wang Chen offered to reforge it with better materials in the future.
• Wang Chen hoped True Person Shen would recommend his custom work, though the transaction earned him only five hundred Medium Spirit Stones after expenses.
• Three days later, Huangfu Yongchun visited Wang Chen after hearing about the sword and asked him to refine an ancient sword blank.
• Wang Chen examined the unusually heavy sword blank and agreed to try refining it.
• Huangfu Yongchun offered a Jade Slip containing the Lightning Severing Sword Art, which could be cultivated from Golden Core to Nascent Soul, as payment.
• Wang Chen asked to inspect the sword art before accepting the exchange.

Wang Chen refined a top-grade third-tier Flying Sword for Huangfu Yongchun and learned that the Lightning Severing Sword Art was one part of a seven-part sword formation capable of challenging Nascent Soul cultivators. Huangfu revealed that he had founded the Seven Severing Society and invited Wang Chen to join, leaving Wang Chen weighing the offer and its benefits.

• Wang Chen accepted the Lightning Severing Sword Art from Huangfu Yongchun in exchange for refining a Flying Sword.
• Wang Chen and Little Cauldron planned and refined the sword blank into a standard, attribute-less Flying Sword.
• After ten days of work and three days of rest, Wang Chen presented Huangfu Yongchun with a top-grade third-tier Flying Sword, stunning him.
• Huangfu Yongchun explained that he had traded the Seven Severing Sword Arts to six cultivators and that its formation could rival Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Huangfu Yongchun revealed the Seven Severing Society had six members and invited Wang Chen to become its seventh, explaining that its members supported one another against powerful enemies.

Wang Chen joined Huangfu Yongchun's Seven Severing Society and trained the Lightning Severing Sword Art until he broke through to the proficient level. After considering the sword formation's potential and reaffirming his principles, he encountered seven cultivators who briefly blocked his path before leaving.

• Wang Chen agreed to join the Seven Severing Society after Huangfu Yongchun explained its lack of restrictions and gave him the Lightning Severing Sword Art.
• Wang Chen cultivated the sword art in a secluded valley and used the Dragon Abyss Sword to unleash powerful lightning attacks.
• Wang Chen's Lightning Severing Sword Art advanced to the proficient level, and he considered the Seven Severing Sword Formation's potential.
• Wang Chen dismissed the idea of killing for the other sword arts and prepared to continue training.
• An intermediate-stage Golden Core cultivator and six companions arrived, saluted Wang Chen, and promptly left.

Wang Chen drew attention with his Lightning Severing Sword Art, then accepted Huangfu Yongchun’s invitation to join the Seven Severing Society. The gathering ended with Huangfu Yongchun proposing that the group hunt a fourth-tier green flood dragon guarding a spirit mine in Fulong Mountain.

• Wang Chen left after nearby cultivators mistook the spectacle of his sword practice for a rare treasure, and their leader warned his companions not to provoke him.
• A month later, Wang Chen accepted Huangfu Yongchun’s invitation to Gathering Immortals Pavilion, where True Person Shen and two other cultivators greeted him warmly.
• Huangfu Yongchun displayed the top-grade flying sword Wang Chen had forged, impressing the gathered True Persons with Wang Chen’s artifact-refining skill.
• Huangfu Yongchun introduced Wang Chen as the seventh and final member of the Seven Severing Society, who cultivated the Lightning Severing Sword Art.
• Huangfu Yongchun revealed that a fourth-tier green flood dragon lived in a deep pool in Fulong Mountain and proposed that the group slay it for the spirit mine it guarded.

Huangfu Yongchun revealed his preparations to lure and trap a fourth-tier flood dragon, then persuaded the Golden Core cultivators to join the hunt by offering them most of the spoils. After they signed a Dao pact, he set their departure for one month later, leaving them to train in the Seven Severing Sword Formation.

• Huangfu Yongchun showed the gathered cultivators a 130-year-old Dragon-Attracting Grass and described his Dragon Trapping Great Formation.
• True Person Shen asked how the spoils would be divided, and Huangfu Yongchun said he wanted only the Flood Dragon Pill while the other six shared everything else equally.
• Huangfu Yongchun swore he would not retaliate against anyone who withdrew, and the Golden Core cultivators, including Wang Chen, agreed to join the hunt.
• Huangfu Yongchun had the cultivators sign a Dao pact covering secrecy, mutual aid, the hunt, and the division of spoils.
• Huangfu Yongchun set the expedition for one month later and told the cultivators to practice coordinating in the Seven Severing Sword Formation.

Wang Chen and the Seven Severing Society practiced the Seven Severing Sword Formation in a hidden valley to prepare for slaying the flood dragon. Back in Luodu, Wang Chen explored whether his Cultivation Panel could derive the rest of the Seven Severing Sword techniques.

• Huangfu Yongchun brought Wang Chen and the other Golden Core cultivators to a concealed valley and revealed the Illusion Array he had set up there.
• Huangfu Yongchun taught the Seven Severing Sword Formation, and the group practiced together until their coordination improved.
• Wang Chen used Human Virtue points to advance his Lightning Severing Sword Art, bringing it close to minor accomplishment.
• Huangfu Yongchun ended the training and told everyone to return to Luodu for three days of rest before awaiting his message.
• Wang Chen reviewed the other sword techniques he had seen and used his Cultivation Panel to investigate deriving the Seven Severing Sword arts.

Wang Chen joined Huangfu Yongchun and five other Golden Core cultivators in a trap to slay a fourth-tier flood dragon. After three days of waiting, the dragon arrived and was caught in the formation, leaving the seven cultivators to unleash the Seven Severing Sword Formation against its head.

• Wang Chen learned that deducing the six arts of the Seven Severing Sword required far more Human Virtue than he had and raised his Lightning Severing Sword Art to Minor Mastery.
• Huangfu Yongchun summoned Wang Chen and the other Golden Core cultivators, and they flew to a valley where he had prepared the Dragon Trapping Great Formation.
• Huangfu Yongchun planted the Dragon-Attracting Grass, and the group waited two days without sight of the flood dragon.
• On the third afternoon, a fourth-tier flood dragon entered the valley, spotted the grass, and swallowed it.
• Huangfu Yongchun activated the formation to bind the flood dragon, and the seven cultivators struck it with their Flying Swords and formed the Seven Severing Sword Formation.
• The seven Flying Swords dove toward the flood dragon's head with their power greatly increased.

Wang Chen and the six other True Persons fought the flood dragon with the Seven Severing Sword Formation, but the Demon King’s healing and heartbeat-based divine ability nearly overwhelmed them. Wang Chen destroyed his External Core to strike its right eye and break the ability, leaving the battle ongoing and his Sword Pellet spent.

• The flood dragon broke the seven swords’ attack, healed its wounds, and began tearing free of the formation’s restraints.
• Huangfu Yongchun used the True Word of War to reinforce the formation, and the seven True Persons resumed their coordinated sword assault.
• The flood dragon counterattacked with ice blades, then curled up and used pounding heartbeats to make the seven True Persons bleed and fall into its rhythm.
• Wang Chen self-detonated his External Core and combined its power with his Sword Pellet to pierce the flood dragon’s right eye.
• The flood dragon’s divine ability broke, and Huangfu Yongchun and the others recovered, while Wang Chen lost both his External Core and Sword Pellet.

Wang Chen and six Golden Core cultivators used the Seven Severing Sword Formation to fatally wound the fourth-tier flood dragon, and Wang Chen delivered the final blow. The flood dragon’s dying soul attacked Wang Chen but was swallowed by the Primordial Dao Stele, and the cultivators celebrated their victory.

• Huangfu Yongchun led the seven Golden Core cultivators in a combined sword attack that pierced the flood dragon and devastated its body as the Dragon Trapping Great Formation broke.
• Wang Chen struck the nearly dead flood dragon’s head with the Heavenly Dragon Vajra Palm and killed it, but its dragon soul attacked him in his Sea of Consciousness.
• The Primordial Dao Stele illuminated Wang Chen’s Sea of Consciousness and swallowed the dragon soul, granting him 900,000 Human Virtue points.
• Huangfu Yongchun and the other cultivators gathered behind Wang Chen and celebrated their victory over the fourth-tier Demon King.

After killing the fourth-tier flood dragon, Wang Chen and the Golden Core cultivators explored its lair and discovered a small Spirit Stone mine. They mined it destructively for five days, and Huangfu Yongchun divided the ore equally among the other six cultivators.

• Huangfu Yongchun put away the flood dragon corpse, and the cultivators erased the battle traces before heading to its lair.
• Huangfu Yongchun led the group through a cold pool into the flood dragon's cavern, where Wang Chen saw Spirit Stone ore scattered among the rocks.
• Huangfu Yongchun used a Magic Treasure compass to determine that the cavern held a small Spirit Stone mine with estimated reserves of seventy-three million Lower Spirit.
• The seven Golden Core True Persons worked in shifts for five days and nights, destructively excavating the mine and storing the ore.
• Huangfu Yongchun had the ore brought out and divided it equally among the other six cultivators.

After the Golden Cores divided the flood dragon and spirit mine spoils, Huangfu Yongchun led them back to Luodu Immortal City under strict orders to keep the dragon-slaying secret. Wang Chen gained most of the flood dragon meat but worried that selling his freshly mined spirit ores would reveal the vein.

• Huangfu Yongchun kept his promise to take only the flood dragon’s Demon Core, while Wang Chen and the other Golden Cores divided the spirit ores and materials they found.
• Huangfu Yongchun removed the fourth-rank Demon Core, then presided over the fair division of the flood dragon’s corpse.
• Wang Chen traded his share of refining materials for most of the flood dragon meat to support his body-refinement cultivation.
• Huangfu Yongchun warned everyone to honor their Dao oaths and keep the operation secret, then led the group out of the cavern.
• The group returned to Luodu Immortal City, and Wang Chen worried that selling his freshly mined ores would expose the spirit vein.

Wang Chen absorbed the spiritual energy from a large batch of ore into the Cangqing Ring, then tasked Su Ziling with processing valuable Medium Spirit Stone ore. After spending six days and nights deriving the remaining sword arts, he mastered the Seven Absolute Sword Art.

• Wang Chen fed several million Lower Spirit Stones' worth of spiritual energy from the ore to the Cangqing Ring, strengthening it and stabilizing his connection to the Cangqing Realm.
• Wang Chen gave Su Ziling tools and Medium Spirit Stone ore to cut and polish into standard Spirit Stones, and she eagerly accepted the work.
• Wang Chen used the Human Virtue he had earned from slaying the fourth-rank flood dragon to derive the other six absolutes of the Seven Absolute Sword Art.
• After six days and nights of derivation, Wang Chen formed six new Spiritual Light Law Seeds and unlocked the Seven Absolute Sword Art at Beginner level.

Wang Chen discovered that the Seven Absolute Sword Art destroyed his seven Tier 2 flying swords and decided to commission the materials for seven Tier 3 Magic Treasure swords. After selling much of his collection and paying a steep deposit to the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, he still needed to raise enough Spirit Stones to cover the balance within three months.

• Wang Chen found that his seven top-grade spirit swords had shattered while he practiced the Seven Absolute Sword Art, and he gathered their fragments to salvage materials.
• Su Ziling finished processing the ore and gave Wang Chen the Storage Bag of Medium Spirit Stones.
• After dual cultivation, Wang Chen sorted his possessions, kept what he needed, and sent the rest to be sold.
• Wang Chen consulted the Little Cauldron and took a list of materials for seven Magic Treasure flying swords to Shopkeeper Chen at the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce.
• Shopkeeper Chen quoted a high price and promised to gather the materials within three months, while Wang Chen negotiated a thirty-percent deposit and left needing more Spirit Stones for the balance.

Wang Chen sought ways to earn Spirit Stones to fund a set of Magic Treasures, and Huangfu Yongchun gave him a Fulong Mountain Survey Map to help him find opportunities. After Wang Chen left, Huangfu Yongchun's black-robed younger brother demanded to join him on another expedition to the Xuan You Immortal Mansion, and Huangfu Yongchun reluctantly agreed.

• Wang Chen told Huangfu Yongchun he needed more Spirit Stones to buy materials for a set of Magic Treasures, and Huangfu Yongchun offered to lend him some.
• Wang Chen declined the loan, so Huangfu Yongchun gave him an old Fulong Mountain Survey Map that recorded monster habitats and resource sites.
• Huangfu Yongchun urged Wang Chen not to be so anxious, and Wang Chen thanked him before leaving.
• Huangfu Yongchun's black-robed Third Brother questioned why he valued Wang Chen and gave him the map, which he called a Huangfu Family heirloom.
• Huangfu Yongchun told Third Brother to recover in his Cave Mansion after receiving a fourth-tier Flood Dragon Pill, but Third Brother demanded to join him on another Xuan You Immortal Mansion expedition.
• Huangfu Yongchun reluctantly agreed to take Third Brother with him.