Chapter Summaries

Lu Yi reached the 14th Floor of the Trial Tower and took first place on the Qi Refining Trial List, though his mission remained incomplete until the rankings were finalized. After Donggong Mingyue and Liu Ningshuang finished their trials, the three disciples left for Drifting Soul Peak.

• Lu Yi discovered that he had reached first place on the Qi Refining Trial List, and Elder Xuan praised his achievement.
• Elder Xuan suggested that Lu Yi visit Elder Ming, and Lu Yi agreed to do so.
• Donggong Mingyue emerged after reaching the 14th Floor and learned that Lu Yi had ranked above her, then checked that he was not injured.
• Liu Ningshuang advanced to the 35th Floor of the Nascent Soul Trial List, and she was surprised to see Lu Yi in first place on the Qi Refining list.
• Lu Yi, Donggong Mingyue, and Liu Ningshuang bid Elder Xuan farewell and flew back to Drifting Soul Peak on the White Jade Boat.

Lu Yi claimed his Trial Tower rewards and, after completing the quest for first place on the Qi Refining Trial List, upgraded White Cloud Footwork to Ultimate. He discovered it let him walk on clouds and move at astonishing speed, just as Donggong Mingyue arrived to challenge him to a spar.

• Lu Yi claimed dozens of drops of Hundred Year Spiritual Milk, nine drops of Thousand Year Spiritual Milk, and the soul-nurturing Azure Fish Pendant from the Trial Tower.
• The next morning, Lu Yi claimed the Spirit Jade Mirror, Wind Spirit Liquid, and a random spell technique level increase for taking first place on the Qi Refining Trial List.
• The level increase raised White Cloud Footwork from lv9 to Ultimate, giving Lu Yi the ability to walk on clouds and move at more than twice his previous speed.
• Lu Yi tested his new ability by soaring through the air and darting across his cultivation room, delighted by his speed.
• Donggong Mingyue arrived and asked Lu Yi to spar.

Lu Yi accepted Donggong Mingyue’s challenge and fought her in a deserted wasteland, where their clash revealed the strength of her Innate Thunder Spiritual Body and his powerful Sword Intent. Donggong Mingyue eventually exhausted her Spiritual Qi while Lu Yi still had some left, and she stubbornly denied being tired as he sat down to rest beside her.

• Lu Yi accepted a task to defeat Donggong Mingyue, earning a reward of five drops of Hundred Year Spiritual Milk and a wisp of Thunder Intent.
• Donggong Mingyue led Lu Yi to an empty wasteland and revealed her lightning power as they began sparring.
• Lu Yi and Donggong Mingyue exchanged attacks, and their Sword Intent and lightning clashes shook the wasteland.
• Donggong Mingyue accused Lu Yi of hiding his strength after he explained that his Sword Intent had improved following a realization in the Trial Tower.
• The spar continued until Donggong Mingyue ran out of Spiritual Qi, while Lu Yi still had some remaining.
• Donggong Mingyue insisted she was not tired, and Lu Yi sat down to rest and invited her to keep him company.

Lu Yi shared his improved Tiger Bone Spiritual Ginseng Soup with Donggong Mingyue and persuaded her to spar with him daily. Five months later, his cultivation advanced to the Qi Refining Tenth Layer.

• Lu Yi served Donggong Mingyue his lv4 Tiger Bone Spiritual Ginseng Soup, and she praised its flavor and medicinal effects.
• Lu Yi promised to make the soup for Donggong Mingyue every day in exchange for sparring together daily, and she happily agreed.
• Donggong Mingyue left to cultivate after drinking the soup, while Lu Yi looked forward to the rewards from their daily sparring.
• Over the next five months, Lu Yi sparred with Donggong Mingyue and cultivated his arts and techniques, reaching the Qi Refining Ninth Layer after a little over a month.
• Lu Yi continued cultivating for more than three months and finally reached the Qi Refining Tenth Layer.

Lu Yi’s cultivation advanced greatly, and Donggong Mingyue came to tell him she had sensed a Heavenly Dao Restriction and planned to break through. Her grateful, affectionate embrace made Lu Yi wonder whether she had fallen for him.

• Lu Yi strengthened his swordplay, Qi Guiding Art, body, and other techniques during five months of cultivation, reaching the Qi Refining Tenth Layer.
• Donggong Mingyue visited Lu Yi and was astonished to learn he had broken through to the Qi Refining Tenth Layer.
• Donggong Mingyue told Lu Yi she had sensed a Heavenly Dao Restriction and was going into seclusion to break through it.
• Donggong Mingyue credited Lu Yi’s Tiger Bone Spiritual Ginseng Soup and Spirit Nurturing Dew for helping her advance, and Lu Yi offered her improved versions.
• Donggong Mingyue hugged Lu Yi, then awkwardly claimed she was encouraging him, leaving him wondering whether she had fallen for him.

Lu Yi teased Donggong Mingyue before she left to enter seclusion and break through the Heavenly Dao Restriction. He then joined Jiang Fan and Bai Yulong to visit the Affairs Hall and choose their annual Sect Tasks, where his fame earned him an unusually warm reception.

• Lu Yi accepted a task to make Donggong Mingyue fall in love with him, but it remained incomplete, and he gave her spiritual food and wine for her seclusion.
• Donggong Mingyue promised to break through the Heavenly Dao Restriction and left, prompting Lu Yi to consider finding another sparring partner for resources.
• Jiang Fan and Bai Yulong invited Lu Yi to complete their annual Sect Tasks together, and he agreed.
• The three descended to the Affairs Hall, where fellow disciples greeted Lu Yi as a familiar figure from the Trial Tower.
• A middle-aged cultivator recognized Lu Yi at the task counter and eagerly offered to help him choose a task.

Lu Yi, Jiang Fan, and Bai Yulong accepted a nearby mission to deal with a Qi Refining Tenth Layer Heretical Cultivator in the Mohe Kingdom. After a week of travel, they reached the capital, where the city guards welcomed them as White Cloud Sect Immortal Masters.

• Lu Yi and his companions chose a mission to hunt a Heretical Cultivator with no known backing in the Mohe Kingdom.
• The three registered for the mission, borrowed Unicorn Spirit Horses, and rode out from the White Cloud Sect.
• Lu Yi decided to visit Old Lu and Old Mom after the mission, near New Year.
• After traveling for a week, the three arrived at the Mohe Kingdom's capital and saw its poor commoners gathered at the city gate.
• Qi Ming recognized the visitors as White Cloud Sect inner sect disciples, ordered the guards to welcome them, and let them enter the capital.

Lu Yi, Jiang Fan, and Bai Yulong arrived in the Mohe Kingdom capital and met its ruler and Imperial Preceptor, Li Qing, who explained that a Heretical Cultivator had been abducting people. The three began discussing the mission, and Lu Yi wondered whether providing disaster relief could earn him a mission reward.

• Lu Yi, Jiang Fan, and Bai Yulong rode through the bustling capital and joked about mortal pleasures on their way to the royal palace.
• Mo Ling welcomed the White Cloud Sect disciples, and Li Qing revealed that he had once been an Outer Sect Disciple of the sect.
• Jiang Fan and Lu Yi insisted that they hear about the mission before resting.
• Li Qing explained that people had been disappearing for four months and that he had fought the Heretical Cultivator, leaving them both injured.
• Mo Ling said the severe drought had brought many refugees to the capital, making it difficult to notice their disappearances.
• Lu Yi thought of the refugees and wondered whether providing disaster relief could trigger a mission reward.

Lu Yi accepted a mission to provide disaster relief in Mohe Kingdom and persuaded its ruler to commit royal resources by offering three Top Grade Qi Condensation Pills as an incentive. After the ruler promised to show results within days and arranged lodging for Lu Yi and his senior brothers, Bai Yulong and Jiang Fan protested that Lu Yi had given away pills that were far too precious.

• Lu Yi accepted the mission to provide disaster relief and asked Li Qing to locate the Heretical Cultivator, who had resumed abducting refugees.
• Lu Yi asked Mo Ling to aid the disaster victims, explaining that he could not ignore their plight after seeing their suffering.
• Mo Ling said Mohe Kingdom lacked the funds for relief, so Lu Yi offered three Top Grade Qi Condensation Pills and pointed out that Mo Ling's son could use them to enter the White Cloud Sect.
• Mo Ling promised to open the royal treasury and show Lu Yi the results within a few days, then arranged a palace for the three cultivators to stay in.
• After Mo Ling and the others left, Bai Yulong and Jiang Fan reproached Lu Yi for giving away the precious pills.

Lu Yi gave Mo Ling Top Grade Qi Condensation Pills as a reward to spur disaster relief, and Mo Ling ordered porridge distribution and a purge of corrupt officials. That night, Lu Yi and Jiang Fan went out to look for the Heretical Cultivator and saw refugees heading to the palace for food.

• Lu Yi told Bai Yulong and Jiang Fan that he had Top Grade Qi Condensation Pills to offer Mo Ling, and the three settled into the palace.
• Mo Ling ordered the royal treasury opened for disaster relief, palace expenses cut, and corrupt officials purged, then promised Li Qing a pill for overseeing the work.
• Bai Yulong invited Lu Yi and Jiang Fan to stroll through the capital at night in hopes of encountering the Heretical Cultivator.
• Bai Yulong went into a pleasure house while Lu Yi and Jiang Fan continued through the city streets.
• Lu Yi and Jiang Fan saw refugees heading to the palace for porridge, and Jiang Fan remarked that the people would be grateful to Lu Yi.

Lu Yi killed the Heretical Cultivator in Mohe Kingdom, completed the disaster relief mission, and left for the sect with Jiang Fan and Bai Yulong. During their journey, a Peak Foundation Establishment cultivator confronted them over the death of his Blood Puppet, leaving Lu Yi wondering whether he could fight back.

• Qin Fang told Lu Yi and Jiang Fan that the Heretical Cultivator had appeared in the capital, and they collected Bai Yulong from Spring Breeze Pavilion before heading to the north of the city.
• Lu Yi overtook the fleeing Heretical Cultivator and killed him with one sword strike, then claimed his task reward and searched his Space Ring.
• Lu Yi and the others confirmed the Heretical Cultivator’s identity and returned to the palace, while a blood-robed cultivator in a mountain cave discovered that his Blood Puppet had been destroyed.
• Mo Ling thanked Lu Yi and received a porcelain bottle as a reward for his disaster relief efforts, and Lu Yi, Jiang Fan, and Bai Yulong departed the capital with their mission rewards.
• While camping on the way back to the sect, Lu Yi and his companions were confronted by a Peak Foundation Establishment cultivator seeking revenge for his Blood Puppet, and Jiang Fan used a Water Curtain Talisman to shield them.
• As the attacker’s blood mist battered the water curtain, Lu Yi realized he felt no danger from the powerful cultivator and wondered if he could defeat him.

Lu Yi killed a powerful Blood Spirit Sect cultivator who had trapped him and his companions, then concealed his strength from Jiang Fan and Bai Yulong. After returning to White Spirit Peak for the New Year, he shared his abundant Hundred Year Spiritual Milk with his parents so they could improve their cultivation.

• Lu Yi accepted a mission to kill the Heretical Cultivator, escaped the blood-mist barrier, and slew him with a lightning-wreathed sword strike.
• Lu Yi found a Blood Spirit Sect token and the cultivator's possessions, then used the Forget Dust Technique to make Jiang Fan and Bai Yulong forget that he had fought the enemy himself.
• Lu Yi told Jiang Fan and Bai Yulong that a passing senior had killed the cultivator, and they agreed to report the Blood Spirit Sect token after returning to the sect.
• Lu Yi returned home before the New Year and reunited with Wang Siqi and Lu Gaoyang.
• Lu Yi revealed that he had obtained several thousand drops of Hundred Year Spiritual Milk and gave the remaining supply to his parents to improve their cultivation.

Lu Yi cultivated with Thousand Year Spiritual Milk, returned to the White Cloud Sect after celebrating the New Year with his parents, and received a Dao lecture from the Drifting Soul Peak Master. Hoping to improve his Sword Intent and use his newly earned enlightenment, he asked Elder Ming to explain the Sword Dao.

• Lu Yi used Thousand Year Spiritual Milk to speed his cultivation and accepted a task to break through to the Qi Refining Eleventh Layer for a strand of Grand Dao Qi.
• Qi Feiyu visited Lu Yi's family, and over the New Year many stewards and elders came to meet Lu Yi before his parents sent him back to Drifting Soul Peak.
• The Drifting Soul Peak Master noticed Lu Yi had reached the Qi Refining Tenth Layer, gave him a Dao lecture, and earned him one opportunity for enlightenment.
• Lu Yi asked the Drifting Soul Peak Master about improving his Sword Intent, and she directed him to Elder Ming at the Scripture Pavilion.
• Lu Yi asked Elder Ming to explain the Sword Dao, and Elder Ming invited the listening disciples to join the lecture as Lu Yi prepared to listen.

Lu Yi entered enlightenment while listening to Elder Ming explain the Sword Dao, raising his Sword Intent to twenty percent and drawing attention from White Cloud Peak's elders. After reporting the Blood Spirit Sect threat and spending three months cultivating, he reached the peak of the Qi Refining Tenth Layer and sensed the Heavenly Dao restriction guarding the path to the Eleventh Layer.

• Lu Yi accepted a task to listen to Elder Ming's Sword Dao exposition and used a stored enlightenment reward to enter a state of enlightenment.
• Lu Yi's Sword Intent grew to twenty percent, astonishing Elder Ming, the Scripture Pavilion disciples, and the Nascent Soul elders who gathered to watch.
• Lu Yi returned to his cave residence, accepted a task to break through to the Qi Refining Eleventh Layer faster than Donggong Mingyue, and began cultivating.
• Lu Yi, Jiang Fan, and Bai Yulong submitted their sect task and reported that a Blood Spirit Sect Foundation Establishment disciple had tried to intercept them.
• Lu Yi cultivated for three months with Thousand Year Spiritual Milk and reached the peak of the Qi Refining Tenth Layer, where he sensed the Heavenly Dao restriction before the Eleventh Layer.

Lu Yi broke through the Heavenly Dao Restriction to reach the Qi Refining Eleventh Layer and became the Drifting Soul Peak Master's Personal Disciple. After earning several mission rewards, he stored away powerful Foundation Establishment treasures and prepared to cultivate his new techniques.

• Lu Yi spent more than a week attacking the Heavenly Dao Restriction, then broke through after thunder shook Drifting Soul Peak; the Drifting Soul Peak Master realized he, not Donggong Mingyue, had advanced.
• Lu Yi told the Drifting Soul Peak Master he had reached the Qi Refining Eleventh Layer, and she accepted him as her second Personal Disciple after Ningshuang.
• The Drifting Soul Peak Master agreed to seek sword-path Foundation Establishment treasures for Lu Yi and to expound on the Dao for him once a month.
• The Drifting Soul Peak Master sent Lu Yi to buy Magnolia Wine and Magnolia Pastry, and he completed the errand mission to earn an increase to Spirit Nurturing Dew.
• Lu Yi claimed rewards for three completed missions, including Grand Dao Qi, Thunder Shadow Step, the Purple Jade Silk Skirt, Thousand Year Spiritual Milk, and a Jade Spirit Robe with three Enlightenment Tea Leaves.
• Lu Yi put away the Grand Dao Qi and other treasures, changed into the Jade Spirit Robe, and planned to cultivate Thunder Shadow Step.

Lu Yi celebrated Donggong Mingyue’s breakthrough by giving her a Top Grade artifact and discovered that task rewards improved when their targets grew stronger. After reaching the Qi Refining Twelfth Layer, he took a solo Sect Task in the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range, where he found an unexpected reward for searching for Heavenly Star Grass.

• Lu Yi cultivated the Thunder Shadow Step and decided to keep using White Cloud Footwork until the newer technique became more useful.
• Donggong Mingyue broke through to the Qi Refining Eleventh Layer, became the Peak Master’s third Personal Disciple, and learned Lu Yi had already reached that realm months earlier.
• Lu Yi gave Donggong Mingyue the Purple Jade Silk Skirt and discovered that defeating her now rewarded him with Thousand Year Spiritual Milk and Thunder Intent.
• Lu Yi trained and cultivated for months, maxed out the Thunder Shadow Step, and broke through to the Qi Refining Twelfth Layer, earning two wisps of Grand Dao Qi.
• Lu Yi accepted a solo Sect Task to search for Heavenly Star Grass in the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range and issued himself a matching task, whose reward surprised him.

Lu Yi traveled to the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range, found Heavenly Star Grass, and killed the Foundation Establishment serpent guarding it with one sword strike. After spending four days cultivating and practicing a new spiritual food recipe, he hid as a wounded old man and a blood-stained young man flew toward him while fighting.

• Lu Yi entered Ten Thousand Beasts City and hired Lin Ting to lead him to Heavenly Star Grass in the mountains.
• Lin Ting guided Lu Yi to a cliff beside a Foundation Establishment serpent, and Lu Yi accepted a mission to gather the grass.
• Lu Yi killed the serpent with one sword strike, gathered the Heavenly Star Grass, and let Lin Ting keep his payment.
• Lu Yi stayed in the mountains, carved out a temporary cave, and raised Charcoal Grilled Meat Chop to level 3 over four days.
• Lu Yi sensed a powerful battle nearby and hid with his aura concealed as a wounded white-haired old man fled past, pursued by a blood-stained young man.

Lu Yi killed a Blood Spirit Sect Golden Core cultivator who was about to capture the wounded Li Donglai, then learned that the Nascent Soul cultivator’s death site was a trap targeting Ten Thousand Beasts City. He warned White Cloud Sect’s outpost, where Elder Yu Lufei rushed to confront the threat.

• Lu Yi ambushed and killed the Blood Spirit Sect Golden Core cultivator, then used Forget Dust Technique on the injured Li Donglai and took him to safety.
• Lu Yi accepted a task to save Li Donglai, who recovered enough to warn him that Blood Spirit Sect cultivators had set a trap at the Nascent Soul cultivator’s death site to slaughter cultivators in Ten Thousand Beasts City.
• Lu Yi accepted a task to notify White Cloud Sect, received the Blood Essence Pill formula, and hurried to Ten Thousand Beasts City.
• Lu Yi met Nangong Moyu at the White Cloud Sect outpost and told him that the death site was a Blood Spirit Sect trap.
• Elder Yu Lufei ordered Nangong Moyu to bring people after him and vanished toward the Blood Spirit Sect cultivators’ location.

Lu Yi rescued Li Donglai amid a battle between White Cloud Sect and Blood Spirit Sect Nascent Soul cultivators, then returned to the sect with valuable resources. Nine months later, he reached the Qi Refining Thirteenth Layer, broke the final Heavenly Dao Restriction, and gained a clearer perception of Dao methods.

• Lu Yi returned to Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range to rescue Li Donglai and killed an Azure Scale Tiger, discovering that Foundation Establishment beasts could reward him with Thousand Year Spiritual Milk.
• Lu Yi escorted the injured Li Donglai toward Ten Thousand Beasts City while Nascent Soul cultivators fought, and the Blood Spirit Sect cultivator eventually fled.
• Lu Yi reunited with Yu Lufei and Nangong Moyu, learned that the White Cloud Sect planned to retaliate, and saw Lin Ting's corpse among the casualties.
• Lu Yi returned to the sect, gave Donggong Mingyue Perfect Qi Condensation Pills and Hundred Year Spiritual Milk, and heard that a dying Blood Spirit Sect Spirit Transformation ancestor was gathering essence blood to extend his life.
• After nine months of cultivation, Lu Yi reached the Qi Refining Thirteenth Layer, gained five strands of Grand Dao Qi, and broke the final Heavenly Dao Restriction.

Lu Yi reached the peak of the Qi Refining Thirteenth Layer and went to tell the Drifting Soul Peak Master, who had found him a Sword Intent Grass for sword-path Foundation Establishment. The chapter ended with her revealing the heavenly treasure as Lu Yi prepared for his breakthrough.

• Jiang Fan and Bai Yulong visited Lu Yi after reaching Foundation Establishment, and Lu Yi gave them robes and pills before also sending gauntlets and pills for Tie Man.
• Lu Yi later took a sect task, witnessed the escalating conflict between the White Cloud Sect and the Blood Spirit Sect, and killed Blood Spirit Sect cultivators he encountered, including two at Foundation Establishment.
• After another half year of cultivation, Lu Yi reached the peak of the Qi Refining Thirteenth Layer and went to inform the Drifting Soul Peak Master.
• Lu Yi accepted a task to clean the Bamboo House for his master in exchange for the Golden Core secret technique Transformation Art.
• The Drifting Soul Peak Master reacted with surprise to Lu Yi's cultivation speed and gave him a Sword Intent Grass she had found for his sword-path Foundation Establishment.