Chapter Summaries

Li Wuyang arrived in the Spiritual Stream Realm, a low-tier minor world attached to the Primordial World, and defeated Qingyun Sword Sect disciples who attacked him. After learning about the realm and finding no news of his missing companions, he agreed to visit the sect while seeking a place to recover and continue his search.

• Zhao Gan ordered his disciples to seize Li Wuyang and Xuan, suspecting them of being demonic-path spies.
• Li Wuyang defeated the Earth Immortal disciples with Huang Ting Sword Qi and forced Zhao Gan to apologize and introduce himself.
• Zhao Gan explained that the Spiritual Stream Realm was a lower minor world with a low cultivation ceiling, controlled chiefly by the Qingyun Sword Sect, Hundred Herbs Valley, and Tiangong Workshop.
• Li Wuyang asked whether anything unusual had happened, but Zhao Gan had no news of his missing companions or any powerful arrivals.
• Li Wuyang accepted Zhao Gan's invitation to the Qingyun Sword Sect and followed him with Xuan to settle in and search for news.

Li Wuyang brought the injured Xuan to the Qingyun Sword Sect, where he studied the Spiritual Stream Realm and learned of the Sea of Falling Stars. He decided to spend three years strengthening himself before exploring the ancient battlefield for a way back to the Primordial World and clues to his missing companions.

• Li Wuyang and Zhao Gan escorted Xuan to the Qingyun Sword Sect, where Qingyunzi welcomed them after sensing their unusual power.
• Li Wuyang claimed that he and Xuan came from outside the Spiritual Stream Realm and requested lodging and access to the sect’s texts.
• Li Wuyang studied the sect’s cultivation manuals and resources, judging the realm’s cultivation foundations weak compared with those of the Primordial World.
• Xuan stabilized his injuries and began cautiously refining a wisp of the Devour Origin Core while Li Wuyang searched for news of his missing companions and routes beyond the realm.
• Li Wuyang learned that the three major powers would open a passage to the Sea of Falling Stars in three years and resolved to explore it for a way home and clues about his companions.
• Li Wuyang took Xuan to a secluded cave dwelling and began cultivating to consolidate his strength and learn practical spells from the Huang Ting Jing.

Li Wuyang tried two techniques from the Huang Ting Jing in the Qingyun Sect cave abode, but his Palm Thunder attempts produced only smoke, sparks, and mishaps, while his spirit-food cooking turned poisonous. The chapter left him accepting that his life skills were badly lacking.

• Li Wuyang studied the Huang Ting Jing and attempted Huang Ting Palm Thunder, but his efforts caused pain, smoke, and a shock that made his hair stand on end.
• Xuan teased Li Wuyang about his failed cultivation, and Li Wuyang abandoned the technique.
• Li Wuyang tried the Spirit Transformation Art by cooking spirit grass and a Spirit Fragrance Pig in a stone pot.
• Jinbao refused to taste the dark-green concoction, so Li Wuyang tried it himself and vomited outside the cave.
• Li Wuyang dumped the failed dish off the cliff, where it withered plants and poisoned a passing Foundation Establishment stage demon rabbit.

Li Wuyang visited Qingyun Market and found a black stone that resonated with his Great Dao Imprint, but Liu Neng tried to seize it. After Zhao Gan intervened and Liu Neng returned the stone, Li Wuyang left the market with his find and looked forward to life in the Spiritual Stream Realm.

• Li Wuyang disguised himself and went to Qingyun Market, where he dismissed the vendors’ wares as fakes before finding a black stone that resonated with his Great Dao Imprint.
• Liu Neng snatched the stone and claimed it for his family, then ordered his lackeys to attack Li Wuyang.
• Little Fire set the lackeys’ crotches alight with a puff of sparks, and Li Wuyang denied that his dog had used magic.
• Zhao Gan recognized Li Wuyang, ordered Liu Neng to return the stone and apologize, and received Li Wuyang’s praise for his handling of the dispute.
• Li Wuyang paid the old stall owner ten low-grade spirit stones for the black stone and left the market pleased with his discovery.

Li Wuyang used a wisp of Primordial Purple Qi to open the black stone and uncovered a clump of imitation Breathing Soil that came to life as a clay doll. He named it Earth Doll and accepted it into his increasingly unusual group.

• Li Wuyang used Primordial Purple Qi to peel away the black stone’s layers and reveal a glowing clump of soil.
• The soil absorbed nearby earth and spiritual energy, formed into a clay doll, and called Li Wuyang “Daddy.”
• Li Wuyang realized his aura had brought the Breathing Soil essence to life, while Xuan congratulated him on acquiring “precious soil.”
• The clay doll called Xuan “Mother,” then hid behind Li Wuyang after Xuan gave it a cold look.
• Li Wuyang named the clay doll Earth Doll and promised to feed it dirt.

Li Wuyang struggled to care for the energetic, dirt-eating Earth Doll, whose earth-sensing ability brought chaos to their cave. After Earth Doll found High-grade Earth Spirit Stones on Qingyun Sect's back mountain, Li Wuyang celebrated—until the child ruined his new clothes in a puddle.

• Earth Doll disrupted Li Wuyang's meditation, spell study, and sleep, while his strange appetite and abilities caused trouble in the cave.
• Earth Doll's ability attracted Golden Sacred Beetles and led to colorful mushrooms growing beneath his bed.
• Li Wuyang took Earth Doll for a walk through Qingyun Sect's back mountain to burn off his energy.
• Earth Doll sensed something tasty beneath a hillside, and Li Wuyang uncovered several High-grade Earth Spirit Stones.
• Li Wuyang praised and kissed Earth Doll, but Earth Doll jumped into a puddle and covered his new clothes in mud.

Li Wuyang agreed to judge the Qingyun Sect's outer sect tournament, where his scathing criticism unsettled the disciples and impressed the visiting observers. When the winner Han Li challenged him, Li stopped the youth's flying sword with two fingers, and his reputation spread across the sect and the Spiritual Stream Realm.

• Qingyunzi invited Li Wuyang to judge the Qingyun Sect's triennial outer sect tournament, and Li accepted.
• Li Wuyang harshly criticized the competitors' techniques, leaving the disciples rattled and the visiting observers silent.
• After Han Li won the final match, he challenged Li Wuyang to give him guidance.
• Li Wuyang caught Han Li's flying sword between two fingers and flicked it back, demonstrating the gap between their strength.
• Li Wuyang's reputation as Senior Li, a sharp-tongued expert who taught people lessons with two fingers, spread through the Qingyun Sect and the Spiritual Stream Realm.

Li Wuyang attended the Centennial Auction in Tiangong City and spent lavishly to acquire a damaged bronze fragment that carried an ancient aura of chaos. After returning to the Qingyun Sect, he uncovered strange runes beneath its rust and resolved to visit the Sea of Falling Stars in three years.

• Qingyunzi invited Li Wuyang to the Centennial Auction, and Li Wuyang traveled to Tiangong City with Little Fire and Yingying.
• Li Wuyang sensed an aura of chaos from a damaged bronze fragment and outbid the Hundred Herbs Valley elder and the Wang Family Patriarch to buy it for five thousand high-grade spirit stones.
• Li Wuyang bought several rare spiritual herbs by raising bids steeply, turning the auction into a display of his wealth.
• Li Wuyang returned to the Qingyun Sect and used Primordial Purple Qi to remove the fragment's rust, revealing strange runes and a stronger aura of chaos.
• Li Wuyang suspected the fragment was connected to the Sea of Falling Stars and the Chaos Demon Gods, and decided to go there in three years.

Li Wuyang confronted the Wang Family after they used a fabricated grievance to challenge the Qingyun Sect. He crushed their fighting stage with one stomp, revealed his Earth Immortal pressure, and left after Wang Bantian conceded, turning the dispute into a humiliating defeat for the Wang Family.

• The Wang Family summoned Qingyunzi and Li Wuyang over an alleged injury, but Li Wuyang rejected Qingyunzi's offer to settle the dispute with gifts.
• At the Wang Family estate, Li Wuyang exposed Wang Bantian's resentment over the auction and accepted his bet that a match would decide the matter.
• Wang Bantian sent Wang Meng to fight Li Wuyang on the reinforced granite stage.
• Li Wuyang lightly stomped and collapsed the stage, burying Wang Meng in the rubble.
• Li Wuyang released his Earth Immortal pressure, forcing Wang Bantian to end the dispute and apologize.
• Li Wuyang left with Qingyunzi, and his fearsome reputation spread throughout the Spiritual Stream Realm.

As the three-year deadline approached, Li Wuyang learned that the Sea of Falling Stars would open in half a month and agreed to join the Qingyun Sect expedition with Xuan. He prepared to leave for the dangerous region, hoping to uncover a path back to the Primordial World and find his scattered companions.

• Li Wuyang studied the bronze fragment and discovered that Breathing Soil (Fake) could gradually repair damaged magical artifacts.
• Qingyunzi told Li Wuyang that the Sea of Falling Stars would open at Three Realms Mountain in half a month and invited him to join the Qingyun Sect team.
• Li Wuyang agreed to go, and Xuan confirmed that she would accompany him.
• Xuan put Earth Doll into a hibernation-like sleep and stored him away so he could travel with them safely.
• Li Wuyang prepared his belongings and spent the night before departure looking forward to the Sea of Falling Stars and wondering where his companions were.

Li Wuyang and the Qingyun Sect team entered the Sea of Falling Stars, where he discovered that his bronze compass pointed toward something far away. After Xuan instantly destroyed a powerful Chaos Beast, the group set off in the compass's direction.

• Qingyunzi led the Qingyun Sect team through the stabilized passage into the Sea of Falling Stars alongside the groups from Hundred Herbs Valley and Tiangong Workshop.
• Li Wuyang found that the bronze compass had stabilized and pointed toward a distant location, and Xuan confirmed its direction.
• A Chaos Beast erupted from the ground and attacked the group, but Xuan destroyed it with a single touch.
• Qingyunzi led the group onward in the direction indicated by the compass.

Following the Tracking Compass through the Sea of Falling Stars, Li Wuyang's group discovered a sentient boot named Tatian that promised information in exchange for rescuing its partner, the Earthsplitter glove. The group agreed to help, setting off with Tatian toward the Thousand Illusions Spider’s nest.

• Xuan protected the group from the Sea of Falling Stars’ chaotic creatures as they followed the compass through strange regions.
• The Tracking Compass led Li Wuyang and the others into a stone forest, where they found a talking boot lamenting its missing master.
• Tatian explained that its master had vanished during an ancient battle, but refused to share more details with the group.
• Tatian offered to provide information and guidance if the group rescued its partner, the Earthsplitter glove, from a Thousand Illusions Spider.
• Li Wuyang accepted Tatian’s deal, and Xuan and Qingyunzi agreed to help.

Li Wuyang’s group reached the Thousand Illusions Spider’s nest to retrieve Earth-Splitting, but Xuan had to defeat the spider and dissolve its web after Li Wuyang’s attacks failed to free the glove. The Earth-Splitting Gauntlet then reacted to the Earth Doll and the Tracking Compass, suggesting the compass had led Li Wuyang to an earth-element Origin Power.

• The Tatian Boot guided Qingyunzi, Li Wuyang, Xuan, and the others through the illusions and traps to the Thousand Illusions Spider’s cavern.
• Li Wuyang resisted the spider’s mental assault, wounded it with Huang Ting Sword Qi, and failed to cut through the web holding Earth-Splitting.
• Xuan struck the Thousand Illusions Spider with the Power of Annihilation, erasing it, then dissolved the web and freed the glove.
• The Earth-Splitting Gauntlet broke away from the Tatian Boot and reacted to the Earth Doll as the Tracking Compass pointed directly at it.
• Li Wuyang suspected the compass had been leading him to an earth-element Origin Power connected to the glove and the Earth Doll.

Li Wuyang rescued the Earth-Splitting Gauntlet, which sensed the Breathing Soil within Earth Doll and strengthened him before choosing Li Wuyang as its wearer. The group prepared to follow the Tracking Compass onward, though its destination remained unreached.

• The Earth-Splitting Gauntlet sensed the Breathing Soil in Earth Doll and drew close to Li Wuyang.
• Xuan explained that the gauntlet and Earth Doll shared an earth-origin aura, and Li Wuyang took the sleeping Earth Doll out of his personal space.
• The Earth-Splitting Gauntlet infused Earth Doll with earth-element essence, strengthening his body and aura.
• The gauntlet told Li Wuyang it would protect Earth Doll and pass on its inheritance after he awakened, then fitted itself onto Li Wuyang's right hand.
• Li Wuyang tested the gauntlet's power while the Tatian Boot complained, and the group rested before following the Tracking Compass onward.

Li Wuyang and Xuan entered the Chaos Market, where they traded Xuan’s annihilation aura for clues about Li Wuyang’s missing companions and learned that the Earth-Splitting Gauntlet held a sought-after Heart of the Earth fragment. As they left the information stall, Li Wuyang saw an armored gang threatening a walking sunflower vendor and faced a choice about intervening.

• Li Wuyang, Xuan, and the Tatian Boot entered the Chaos Market while Qingyunzi and the others stayed outside.
• Li Wuyang offered a spirit stone for information, but the stall owner rejected it, so Xuan paid with a wisp of annihilation aura.
• The gray-mist stall owner reported possible traces of Li Wuyang’s companions near Shattered Star Lake, Lava Rift Valley, and Illusory Light Forest, then gave directions after receiving more aura.
• The stall owner warned Li Wuyang that the Stomach of the Glutton was searching for the Heart of the Earth fragment in his Earth-Splitting Gauntlet.
• Li Wuyang saw armed humanoid creatures threaten a walking sunflower vendor for its Life Crystal and considered whether to intervene.

Li Wuyang used the Earth-Splitting Gauntlet to rescue a sunflower vendor from the Bone-Shattering Gang, earning a reputation in the Chaos Market and provoking the gang’s backers, the Stomach of the Glutton. After gathering information, he and his companions set out toward the compass’s destination, an ancient Chaos Altar rumored to reveal a way out of the Sea of Falling Stars.

• Li Wuyang intervened when the Bone-Shattering Gang tried to rob a sunflower vendor and challenged the thugs to fight.
• Li Wuyang defeated the gang with the Earth-Splitting Gauntlet while Xuan kept Qingyunzi and the others from interfering.
• The one-eyed thug threatened Li Wuyang with retaliation from the Stomach of the Glutton, but Li Wuyang knocked him unconscious and took the gang’s valuables.
• Li Wuyang’s reputation spread through the Chaos Market, where vendors warned him that the Stomach of the Glutton was a powerful, vindictive organization.
• Li Wuyang gathered information about dangerous areas and set out with his companions toward an ancient Chaos Altar believed to be connected to escaping the Sea of Falling Stars.

Li Wuyang’s group reached the Chaos Altar, where four powerful factions gathered to compete for it. As the altar resonated with Li Wuyang’s Dao Imprint and drew the factions’ attention to his Earth-Splitting Gauntlet, he proposed they discuss how to divide the altar’s spoils.

• Li Wuyang’s group followed the compass through dangerous spatial rifts and found the ancient, nine-tiered Chaos Altar.
• The Demon Lord, the Demon Saint, the Azure Dragon, and a rogue cultivator sword immortal arrived with their followers and eyed one another warily.
• Xuan explained that the Pool of Sacrifice atop the altar required a specific key and vast energy to activate.
• The Demon Lord noticed the Heart of the Earth aura on Li Wuyang’s gauntlet and sensed a Dao resonance, causing all four factions to focus on Li Wuyang’s group.
• Li Wuyang stood his ground and proposed that the gathered factions hold a meeting to discuss the altar’s equity distribution.

Li Wuyang bluffed the Demon Saint, Demon Lord, Azure Dragon, and Sword Immortal into believing he knew how to activate the Chaos Altar, then proposed that they compete by offering treasures. Xuan judged that all four offerings could work, but none of them was enough.

• Li Wuyang claimed he knew how to activate the Chaos Altar and used the Tracking Compass to make his bluff convincing.
• Li Wuyang redirected the four factions' argument over who would go first into a proposal for a treasure offering contest.
• The Demon Lord offered a Soul Devouring Pearl, the Demon Saint a Golden Crow Feather, the Azure Dragon a Profound Nether True Water Bead, and the Sword Immortal his essence blood.
• Li Wuyang asked Xuan to assess the four offerings, and she said they would all work but were not enough.

Xuan explained that activating the Returning to Origin altar required the four origin powers of earth, water, fire, and wind as catalysts, along with vast Chaos Energy and the proper incantation. Li Wuyang proposed that the four powerhouses cooperate, leaving them to negotiate how to share the risks and benefits.

• The Demon Saint, Demon Lord, Azure Dragon, and Sword Immortal questioned Xuan after he said their treasures were not enough to activate the altar.
• Xuan explained that the treasures held extreme, single-attribute energies that could trigger the Chaos Laws and destroy the altar.
• Xuan said the altar needed earth, water, fire, and wind origin powers, and Li Wuyang realized that his gauntlet, companions, and Profound Nether True Water might supply or imitate them.
• Xuan added that the treasures could serve as catalysts, but they also needed vast Chaos Energy from the Sea of Falling Stars and the proper activation incantation.
• Li Wuyang proposed a temporary mutual aid group, and the four powerhouses seriously considered cooperating as negotiations began.

Li Wuyang, Xuan, and four powerful figures negotiated how to cooperate in activating the Chaos Altar and formed a Homecoming Group. With their agreement reached, preparations began, but the risks of the altar and the allies’ reliability remained uncertain.

• The Demon Saint, Demon Lord, Azure Dragon, and Sword Immortal argued over who would lead the altar activation until Li Wuyang proposed a five-person leadership group with votes on major decisions.
• Li Wuyang and Xuan negotiated priority places, securing one and a half spots while each powerful figure received one, with remaining places tied to energy contributions.
• Xuan proposed a Chaos Contract and a formation requiring all five powerful figures and Li Wuyang to guide Chaos Energy together, and the group reluctantly agreed.
• Xuan explained the activation procedure, while Li Wuyang kept the negotiations moving until the parties reached a Homecoming Group Cooperation Agreement.
• Xuan began drawing the formation diagram as the four powerful figures prepared to guide energy, and Li Wuyang remained wary as the altar activation approached.