Chapter Summaries

Wang Chen defeated the Fire-Eyed Long Ape clan without killing them and forced their leader to take him to their hidden wine pool. He collected the clan’s spirit wine and left them alive, while the Black Giant Ape roared in anger over the emptied pool.

• Wang Chen used the Lightning Severing Sword to knock more than a hundred Fire-Eyed Long Apes from the trees without killing them.
• The Black Giant Ape arrived with a White Ape, and Wang Chen demanded the clan’s wine in exchange for sparing them.
• After the Black Giant Ape agreed, Wang Chen promised to take only the wine and gave the White Ape Healing Pills for an injured ape.
• The Black Giant Ape led Wang Chen to the hidden wine pool, where he poured its spirit wine into his Cangqing Ring.
• After Wang Chen left, the Black Giant Ape roared at the empty pool.

Wang Chen used dragon meat and Monkey Spirit Wine to strengthen his body and advance his Heavenly Dragon Vajra Righteous Dharma. After spending one hundred thousand Heavenly Merit to gain ten thousand Fortune, he headed into an unexplored part of Fulong Mountain to search for an undiscovered Cave Mansion.

• Wang Chen roasted fourth-tier flood dragon meat, and a leopard that tried to ambush him was killed by his Flying Sword.
• Wang Chen ate dragon meat with Monkey Spirit Wine, improving his absorption of the flesh’s energy and gaining experience in the Heavenly Dragon Vajra Righteous Dharma.
• Wang Chen recalled extorting spirit wine from three Fire-Eyed Long Ape tribes and decided to seek a predecessor’s Cave Mansion rather than a mineral vein.
• Wang Chen spent one hundred thousand Heavenly Merit to receive ten thousand Fortune and hurried into an unmapped region of Fulong Mountain.

Wang Chen followed an inexplicable intuition to a cave behind a waterfall, then used all his remaining Heavenly Merit to uncover a hidden passage. He arrived in a secret chamber and found a long-dead cultivator wearing a Sumeru Ring.

• Wang Chen wandered through a gorge, entered a cave behind a waterfall, and searched it without finding anything unusual.
• Wang Chen spent all his remaining Heavenly Merit, and his heightened senses singled out a stalactite pillar.
• Wang Chen infused the pillar with Mana until it glowed with five colors and revealed True Script Runes.
• Wang Chen was transported to a secret chamber, where he found a dead gray-robed cultivator wearing a Sumeru Ring.

Wang Chen paid his respects to the dead cultivator, buried his remains, and examined the three relics left behind. He claimed a powerful Earth Element Prayer Mat and discovered that the bronze token controlled the failing Cave Mansion formation, which he could use to teleport out.

• Wang Chen bowed to the gray-robed cultivator, whose body crumbled into dust when it opened its eyes.
• Wang Chen gathered the ashes, buried them in a stone grave, and erected a blank stele.
• Wang Chen discovered that the prayer mat was a fourth-tier Spirit Treasure and refined it for his own use.
• Wang Chen learned that the Earth Element Prayer Mat gathered spiritual energy, protected his mind, and formed a defensive barrier, though it needed to be nurtured to restore its spiritual essence.
• Wang Chen found that the bronze token controlled the Cave Mansion formation, which was failing because its earth vein had nearly dried up, but the token could still teleport him out.

Wang Chen found a pristine fourth-tier Spirit Treasure and the lost Grand Unity Primordial Chaos True Law in a predecessor’s Sumeru Ring. He decided to save the cultivation art for after reaching the Nascent Soul realm, then realized the ring itself could help solve his shortage of funds.

• Wang Chen opened the predecessor’s Sumeru Ring and found only a Jade Slip and a fan inside.
• Wang Chen refined the fan, identified it as the Five Elements Primordial Fan, and added the pristine Spirit Treasure to his Equipment Slot.
• Wang Chen read the Jade Slip and discovered it contained the Grand Unity Primordial Chaos True Law, the source of the cultivation methods he had practiced.
• Wang Chen chose not to study or cultivate the ancient art until after he reached the Nascent Soul realm, and stored its Spiritual Light Law Seed in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Wang Chen worried that he still lacked the wealth to pay for his materials, then realized the predecessor’s Sumeru Ring was worth a great deal because it held at least ten times the capacity of his own.

After returning to Luodu, Wang Chen refined the Five Elements Primordial Fan and tested the Earth Element Prayer Mat before selling a rare Seven Void Ring to the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce. The deal cleared his outstanding materials balance and earned him an additional forty-five thousand Medium Spirit Stones.

• Wang Chen returned to Water Curtain Cave, crushed the bronze token to seal the Cave Mansion, and flew back to Luodu the following afternoon.
• Wang Chen spent half a month refining the Five Elements Primordial Fan and found that the Earth Element Prayer Mat greatly improved his cultivation efficiency.
• Wang Chen visited the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce and asked Shopkeeper Chen to appraise the Sumeru Ring from the Cave Mansion.
• Shopkeeper Chen recognized the ring as a rare Seven Void Ring, and Wang Chen negotiated for it to clear his materials balance plus extra Medium Spirit Stones.
• Wang Chen and Shopkeeper Chen settled on clearing the outstanding balance and adding forty-five thousand Medium Spirit Stones for the ring.

After settling his debt with the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, Wang Chen hurried to aid True Person Sun, who had been ambushed by bandit cultivators in Fulong Mountain. The Seven Severing Society members reached the battle and attacked, but faced a formidable group led by three high-level Golden Core cultivators.

• Wang Chen paid the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce the balance he owed and received forty-five thousand Medium Spirit Stones.
• Huangfu Yongchun summoned Wang Chen and other members of the Seven Severing Society after True Person Sun sent a plea for aid from Flying Horse Peak.
• Five members of the society traveled toward Fulong Mountain, unable to use the Seven Severing Sword Formation because two members were absent.
• Huangfu Yongchun used the Heavenly Secret Art to locate True Person Sun, whom the group found trapped with two companions beneath a failing Defense Array.
• Huangfu Yongchun ordered an attack, and Wang Chen and the others launched their Flying Swords at the bandit cultivators.
• Wang Chen identified fourteen enemies, including six Golden Core cultivators and three high-level Golden Core leaders.

Wang Chen pursued a high-level Golden Core bandit cultivator after the Seven Severing Society’s ambush failed to stop the fleeing bandits. He stripped away the enemy’s defensive treasure and landed a sword strike and palm blow, leaving the fight’s outcome unresolved.

• The bandit cultivators scattered as Huangfu Yongchun and the others attacked, and Wang Chen pursued the high-level Golden Core he had targeted.
• Wang Chen caught up with the fleeing cultivator, and their flying swords clashed after the man turned to counterattack.
• Wang Chen used Innate Great Capture, but the high-level Golden Core blocked it with his Eight-Faced Treasure Shield.
• Wang Chen struck with the Five Elements Primordial Fan, which drained the shield’s power and knocked it to the ground.
• Wang Chen’s Dragon Abyss Sword struck the high-level Golden Core’s head as his Heavenly Dragon Vajra Palm hit the man’s chest; a Jade Pendant at the man’s waist shattered.

Wang Chen killed a ninth-layer Golden Core bandit and flew off to steal another kill, earning Heavenly Merit while helping True Person Shen defeat an enemy. The remaining bandits escaped, and the Golden Cores regrouped with True Person Sun before deciding to return to the city.

• Wang Chen crushed a ninth-layer Golden Core bandit with his palm, gained 90,000 Heavenly Merit, and took the fallen shield.
• Wang Chen detected a battle nearby, ambushed True Person Shen's opponent with Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, and beheaded the wounded Golden Core before True Person Shen could finish him.
• Wang Chen gained another 60,000 Heavenly Merit, but the remaining enemies escaped before he could steal more kills.
• Huangfu Yongchun signaled the Golden Cores to regroup, and True Person Sun thanked them for rescuing him.
• True Person Sun explained that bandits had ambushed his herb-gathering party on the return from Fulong Mountain, and the group decided to return to the city.

After sharing Monkey Wine with the Seven Severing Society, Wang Chen ordered four more third-tier spirit fires to forge the Seven Severing Swords. He returned to the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce with a fourth-tier Spirit Treasure to exchange for the large deposit, and Shopkeeper Chen asked how he wanted to trade it.

• True Person Sun gave Huangfu Yongchun, Wang Chen, and the other True Persons third-tier Pills and treated them to a banquet.
• Wang Chen shared his Monkey Wine with the group and gave each True Person a gourd when they parted.
• Wang Chen ordered four third-tier spirit fires from Shopkeeper Chen so Little Cauldron could fuse them with his fire spirit fire into fourth-tier Five Elements Fire.
• Wang Chen decided to search Fulong Mountain for predecessor Cave Mansions and use his Heavenly Merit points to empower his fortune.
• Wang Chen brought a small dark-gold bell to the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, where Master Zhu identified it as the mid-grade fourth-tier Yueshan Bell.
• Shopkeeper Chen asked Wang Chen how he wanted to exchange the Yueshan Bell.

After obtaining four spirit fires, Wang Chen fused them with the cauldron’s fire to create a fourth-tier Five Elements spirit fire and began forging all seven swords of the Seven Severing Sword Formation at once. The demanding refinement continued as he cast in another batch of materials.

• Wang Chen reflected on the risks of revealing his wealth and resolved to avoid trading with the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce for three years.
• Wang Chen advanced to the eighth layer of Golden Core and gained one Physique point from eating fourth-tier flood dragon meat.
• Shopkeeper Chen delivered four third-tier spirit fires and precious artifact-refining materials in exchange for the Yueshan Bell.
• Wang Chen merged the five elemental spirit fires in the Life-Giving Creation Cauldron, raising the fire to the fourth tier.
• Wang Chen smelted and divided his materials, then relied on Little Cauldron to shape seven sword embryos at once.
• Wang Chen cast a second batch of materials into the cauldron and focused entirely on forging the Seven Severing Swords.

Wang Chen completed the Seven Severing Swords after exhausting his strength, Spirit Stones, and the Life-Giving Creation Cauldron. After recovering and leaving seclusion, he asked Su Ziling what had happened and learned that something had come up.

• Wang Chen fed his remaining high-grade Spirit Stones into the Life-Giving Creation Cauldron as the Seven Severing Swords reached their final stage.
• Wang Chen controlled the newly forged swords with his blood essence, then merged them into a fourth-tier Spirit Treasure greatsword.
• Wang Chen let Little Cauldron rest and restored the cauldron to its miniature form before hanging it around his neck.
• Wang Chen recuperated for three days, emerged from seclusion, and summoned Su Ziling to ask whether anything had happened.
• Su Ziling had news for Wang Chen after he had instructed her not to disturb him except in an emergency.

After declining Huangfu Yongchun’s invitation to hunt criminal and bandit cultivators, Wang Chen secluded himself in a remote valley to practice the Seven Severing Sword Formation. His effort finally advanced the sword art from beginner to proficient.

• Wang Chen apologized to three visitors who wanted to commission Magic Treasures because his current orders were full.
• Huangfu Yongchun invited Wang Chen to join the Seven Severing Society in a bounty-hunting campaign, but Wang Chen declined to focus on rest, cultivation, and his new sword.
• Wang Chen left Luodu Immortal City and chose a secluded valley at the southern foot of Fulong Mountain as a practice site.
• Wang Chen practiced controlling the Seven Absolutes Flying Sword’s seven blades, improving the Seven Severing Sword Formation through his own effort rather than relying entirely on Human Virtue.
• Wang Chen’s Seven Absolute Sword Art gained experience and advanced from the beginner level to the proficient realm.

Wang Chen completed his cultivation of the Seven Absolute Sword Art and flew toward Luodu Immortal City to prepare for forming a Nascent Soul. When a fleeing cultivator drew him into a fight, Wang Chen tested the sword formation and killed all four Golden Core opponents.

• Wang Chen saw that the Seven Absolute Sword Art had reached mastery and returned toward Luodu Immortal City with the sword case on his back.
• Wang Chen planned to raise his Golden Core cultivation and gather resources for Nascent Soul formation, relying on offerings from the Cangqing Realm.
• A bedraggled middle-aged cultivator fleeing three pursuers changed course and called Wang Chen Fellow Daoist Zhang, hoping to use him as a shield.
• The middle-aged cultivator activated an Evasion Technique as the three pursuers attacked, but Wang Chen deployed the Seven Severing Sword Formation and sealed the space.
• The formation trapped all four Golden Core True Persons, and Wang Chen's Flying Swords killed them.

After defeating four Golden Core True Persons, Wang Chen returned to Luodu and cultivated in seclusion, but a summons from Ling Zhiyuan revealed that Hanhai Dao Palace in the Cangqing Realm was under siege. Wang Chen descended to protect Xi Jun and found that the Mountain River Great Formation had nearly failed.

• Wang Chen gained 190,000 Heavenly Merit points after defeating four Golden Core True Persons with the Seven Severing Sword Formation, then decided to focus on cultivation rather than hunt for more treasure.
• Wang Chen returned to Luodu and spent two months cultivating in seclusion before Ling Zhiyuan summoned him from the Cangqing Realm.
• Ling Zhiyuan told Wang Chen that Hanhai Dao Palace was surrounded and in danger of falling, while Wang Chen's original body and Xi Jun were at risk.
• Wang Chen arranged for Su Ziling to refuse visitors, then descended to the Cangqing Realm to protect his original body and Xi Jun.
• Wang Chen awoke in the secret chamber at the core of the Mountain River Great Formation and discovered that sixty-five of its seventy-two pillars had lost contact.

Wang Chen discovered that the Mountain River Great Formation had lost power because most of its pillars had gone silent, then used spirit stones from the Cangqing Ring to restore it. Meanwhile, Chen Mo and the warriors of Hanhai Dao Palace faced the enemy’s final assault as their wounded Grand Celestial Master could no longer fight.

• Wang Chen examined his body and found it had grown stronger, but his attempt to use the formation’s water mirror failed.
• Wang Chen discovered that the Cangqing Ring had descended with him and still held his treasures, though this world suppressed their power.
• Wang Chen used spirit stones to supply the Mountain River Great Formation after learning that most of its pillars had lost contact.
• Chen Mo and the Dao Palace warriors endured a siege after internal strife, an enemy invasion, and the failure of the palace-protecting formation left them badly weakened.
• After the Grand Celestial Master was gravely injured, the enemy launched its final assault, and Chen Mo fired the first shot of the battle.

After seven days of siege, Hanhai Dao Palace faced destruction until Wang Chen emerged, restored its protective formation, and charged alone into the enemy army. He fought through the soldiers toward their command, where the enemy's commander and mages awaited.

• Chen Mo and the Dao Palace warriors endured renewed cannon fire and a rain of magical fire while the Grand Celestial Master was gravely wounded and their defenses were depleted.
• A translucent barrier stopped the fireballs, and the restored palace formation healed the defenders' wounds.
• Wang Chen appeared beside Chen Mo, told the warriors to leave the rest to him, and leaped from the wall to confront the besieging army.
• Wang Chen struck the earth with the Seven Absolutes Greatsword, then fought through enemy soldiers with blazing, powerful sword strikes.
• Wang Chen pushed toward the enemy's central command, deflecting bullets and arrows as he cut through the troops protecting the commander and mages.

Wang Chen tore through the enemy army with the Seven Absolutes Greatsword, defeating its strongest fighters and killing its commander. The enemy forces broke into panic, and the siege of Hanhai Dao Palace fell into chaos.

• Wang Chen charged through the enemy ranks, using the Seven Absolutes Greatsword’s powers of Lightning, Wind, and Fire to kill hundreds and blast through an elite guard unit.
• More than a dozen enemy experts intercepted Wang Chen, but he split a fifth-tier Martial Ancestor in two and slaughtered the others in close combat.
• Wang Chen cut through several hundred heavily armored cavalry and reached the enemy commander’s central army.
• Wang Chen used the sword’s Heaven power to destroy the commander’s war chariot, killing the commander and his guards.
• Wang Chen attacked the Daoists and Celestial Masters, triggering a rout that spread through the central army and disrupted the forces besieging Hanhai Dao Palace.

Wang Chen returned to Hanhai Dao Palace, defeated the attacking army, and rescued the gravely injured Xi Jun. He learned that ten years had passed in the Cangqing Realm and heard how Great Zhou had expanded before facing growing unrest and a new enemy.

• Wang Chen routed the enemy army and returned to Hanhai Dao Palace, where its warriors welcomed him as National Preceptor.
• Wang Chen found Xi Jun near death from spell backlash and battle wounds, then healed her with spiritual pills.
• Xi Jun recovered enough to tell Wang Chen that he had been gone for ten years, and the two reunited in private.
• Wang Chen learned that Great Zhou had destroyed Great Yan, pushed Great Qi to the far north, and annexed neighboring kingdoms.
• Xi Jun explained that Great Zhou had halted its expansion to address refugees, bandits, and rebellions, but a new enemy had appeared.

Wang Chen learned that Great Qin was using Great Yan’s rebellious tribes to invade Hanhai and divert Wu Zhao’s northern campaign. After reassuring the wounded Xi Jun, he set out for Hanhai City as the besieging enemy began to withdraw.

• Great Qin’s western campaign had kept Great Zhou on the defensive, while Qin-backed tribes and Yan remnants invaded Hanhai Commandery to capture its Dao Palace and tie down Wu Zhao and Ling Zhiyuan.
• Xi Jun told Wang Chen she was grateful he had returned, and he promised to handle what came next before she fell asleep.
• Wang Chen ordered Daoist nuns to care for Xi Jun and gave the female physician Healing Pills to dilute for the wounded.
• Wang Chen left for Hanhai City with an officer and climbed the palace wall to survey the city.
• Wang Chen heard horns as the enemy army besieging Hanhai City began to withdraw.