Chapter Summaries

Su Hao reunited with Fairy Feng Ling and heard how she had killed three Golden Core cultivators on their journey. After detecting two more cultivators following the group, he killed them and returned, leaving Feng Yu'er and Yun Qingping stunned by his strength.

• Su Hao reassured Fairy Feng Ling that her Azure Swallow could not harm him and listened as she recounted killing three Golden Core cultivators.
• Feng Yu'er asked to become Su Hao's apprentice, and he agreed to discuss teaching her later.
• Su Hao detected two Golden Core cultivators spying on the group and went to confront them.
• The two cultivators tried to attack and hide from Su Hao, but he killed them with the Universal Blade and searched their bodies.
• Su Hao returned to the group and confirmed that he had dealt with the pursuers, impressing Feng Yu'er and Yun Qingping.

Feng Yu'er asked Su Hao to teach her, and he agreed to train her as a student who would learn to become a Researcher over the next hundred years. He arranged for Ashan to teach her and Feng Cheng, while Yun Qingping struggled to process the prospect of waiting a century.

• Feng Yu'er explained that she wanted to protect herself and satisfy her curiosity by learning from Su Hao.
• Su Hao offered to make Feng Yu'er his student, provided she passed a hundred-year test and became a qualified Researcher.
• Feng Yu'er accepted, and Su Hao explained that he would teach her tools for exploring the unknown.
• Su Hao messaged Ashan to prepare lessons in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and other subjects for Feng Yu'er and possibly Feng Cheng.
• Fairy Feng Ling and Yun Qingping reacted with confusion, while Yun Qingping worried that he had no chance with Feng Yu'er.

Su Hao returned to Moon Valley with Feng Yu'er and Yun Qingping, accepting Yun Qingping as a student alongside Feng Yu'er and assigning both to study under Ashan, who was introduced as Yue Ying. Fairy Feng Ling also asked to join their lessons, and she led the group to report to the Disciple Record.

• Su Hao left Fairy Feng Ling and the others, then spent six days cultivating at the Experiment Base before responding to her Location Stone.
• Yun Qingping asked Su Hao to teach him, and Su Hao accepted him as a student under a hundred-year trial alongside Feng Yu'er.
• Su Hao brought Feng Yu'er and Yun Qingping to Moon Valley and introduced Ashan as Yue Ying, their introductory teacher.
• Yue Ying told Feng Yu'er and Yun Qingping to meet him at First-Light Slope and warned them not to reveal what they learned without permission.
• Fairy Feng Ling asked to join the lessons, and Su Hao told her to respect Yue Ying as a teacher.
• Fairy Feng Ling led the group to report to the Disciple Record.

Su Hao brought Fairy Feng Ling a chest of Spirit Power Stones and arranged to exchange them for Merit Points, which he planned to use for Golden Core cultivation methods. The chapter ended with Fairy Feng Ling drawing a crowd at the Disciple Record as everyone believed she had found the stones in Vein Province.

• Su Hao realized that Moon-Gazing Valley's leaders expected an invasion and resolved to defend the sect or relocate if necessary.
• Su Hao told Fairy Feng Ling he had found a chest of Spirit Power Stones and promised her half in exchange for claiming she had discovered it in an abandoned cave.
• Su Hao showed Fairy Feng Ling the chest, and she eagerly planned to trade the stones for Merit Points and Pills.
• Fairy Feng Ling asked Su Hao to make her separate defensive and escape Dharma Artifacts, and he agreed to provide them in a few days.
• Fairy Feng Ling carried the chest to the Disciple Record, where Cultivators gathered and praised her supposed luck finding it in Vein Province.

After a year of cultivating Spiritual Intent, Su Hao gained a vastly expanded perception and greater control over his abilities, meeting the requirement to attempt a breakthrough to the Golden Core Realm. He reviewed Ashan’s research and his students’ lessons as he prepared to advance.

• Su Hao and Fairy Feng Ling divided their Merit Points, and Su Hao exchanged his share for Golden Core and Nascent Soul cultivation methods.
• Su Hao returned to the Experiment Base and spent a year cultivating Spiritual Intent while researching materials and guiding Ashan’s project and students.
• Su Hao formed Spiritual Intent, extending his perception to eighty thousand meters and increasing his Mental Tentacles and Flying Sword capacity.
• Su Hao used Flash Step to reach the dining hall, ate, and reviewed Ashan’s research progress and the lessons of Feng Cheng, Feng Yu'er, and Yun Qingping.

Ashan taught Feng Yu'er, Feng Cheng, and Yun Qingping a new way to solve the chicken-and-rabbit problem while Su Hao studied the Golden Core Realm Spirit Method. Su Hao began a focused five-day attempt to break through to the Golden Core Realm.

• Feng Yu'er correctly answered that there were fifty-four chickens and thirty-four rabbits, while Feng Cheng and Yun Qingping received twice as much homework for failing to focus.
• Ashan used a feet-lifting method to explain how to solve the problem, astonishing Feng Yu'er, Feng Cheng, and Yun Qingping.
• Su Hao reviewed the Golden Core Realm Spirit Method and resolved to spend five days attempting the breakthrough.
• Su Hao used Marble Space and Little Light to analyze his organs' rhythms, then entered the Meditation Room, took Essence Pills, and activated his Senior Brother Token.
• Su Hao began meditating and focused his Spiritual Power on his body's structures and vitality.

Su Hao studied how cultivation manuals designed the body and began following the Cloud Moon Wind Trick Immortal Method’s plan to build a Golden Core. After completing the breakthrough and beginning the month-long transformation of his spiritual power, he realized his expanded circulation left him short on spiritual power.

• Su Hao reasoned that the Cloud Moon Immortal Method’s six branches were complete body-modification plans and set aside thoughts of seeking other manuals until he mastered the one he had.
• Su Hao constructed spiritual power cores in his five viscera over several days, then used Marble Space’s data and Little Light’s analysis to synchronize their rhythms and form a circulation.
• Su Hao completed the Golden Core breakthrough, reaching the Five Transformations level, and began stabilizing the new circulation.
• After three days of stabilization, Su Hao found that his spiritual power was gradually changing from azure to gold, a process he expected to take a month, and enjoyed the feast Ashan had prepared.
• Su Hao sensed that his expanded spiritual power circulation had left him with a serious shortage of spiritual power.

Su Hao sought Pills to shorten the long process of accumulating Golden Core spirit power, then claimed a basin for a medicinal garden and protected it with a low-energy confusion Formation. He finished planning how to obtain Pills and Spirit Herbs from Primordial Tri-Unity Peak and prepared to make Location Stones for easier access.

• Su Hao decided that waiting years to convert spirit power was intolerable and resolved to borrow Pills while Ashan worked toward producing them.
• Su Hao claimed the basin near his Experiment Base for growing Spirit Herbs and designed the Three-Day Mind Confusion Array to guard it.
• Su Hao installed ninety-six Flying Nails around the basin and activated the Formation, which suppressed perception and caused vertigo.
• Su Hao tested the Formation on a rabbit, confirmed it worked, and surveyed the protected garden.
• Su Hao returned to his Storage Space and decided to make Location Stones so he could enter and leave Primordial Tri-Unity Peak more easily.

Su Hao traveled to Primordial Tri-Unity Peak and began stealing Pills from Elder Shen’s Herb Garden. Elder Shen chased the apparently Golden Core thief from room to room, but Su Hao kept vanishing with each room’s Pills.

• Su Hao used Flash Step and flight to reach Resplendent Shell Province, then placed a Location Stone near Primordial Tri-Unity Peak.
• Su Hao surveyed the peak and discovered that Elder Shen was guarding the Herb Garden alongside a Body Integration Cultivator and other cultivators.
• Su Hao used Little Light to identify bottles and jars, flashed into an Alchemy room, and stole its Pills.
• Elder Shen attacked the empty room, then chased Su Hao through neighboring rooms as Su Hao repeatedly vanished with more Pills.
• Elder Shen realized the thief had taken even his personal cultivation Pills and demanded to know who he was.

Su Hao raided Elder Shen’s Herb Garden, taking samples of many Spirit Herbs before Sect Leader Ling Xuan arrived and attacked him. Su Hao escaped with Flash Step, leaving Ling Xuan unable to find him.

• Elder Shen recognized Su Hao as the Crystal Armor Man and fled to summon Sect Leader Ling Xuan for help.
• Su Hao scanned the Herb Garden and used Teleport to collect portions of different kinds of Spirit Herbs.
• Ling Xuan arrived and unleashed a mass of Flying Swords at Su Hao as he harvested the fields.
• Su Hao used Flash Step to escape Ling Xuan’s attack, and Ling Xuan could not locate him with Divine Intent.
• Elder Shen arrived and saw the damaged Herb Garden.

Su Hao repeatedly evaded Ling Xuan while stealing Primordial Tri-Unity Peak’s Spirit Herbs and Spirit Power Stones, drawing Ling Xuan away from the Herb Garden. When Su Hao returned to harvest more herbs, Elder Shen attacked him with a new Dharma Artifact.

• Ling Xuan learned from Elder Shen that the Crystal Armor Man had stolen the Medicine Valley’s Pills and damaged the herb fields, so he decided to wait for him.
• Su Hao watched Ling Xuan from a distance, then raided a Warehouse and took one-third of Primordial Tri-Unity Peak’s Spirit Power Stones before Flash Stepping away.
• Ling Xuan found the missing Spirit Power Stones and waited in the Warehouse, allowing Su Hao to return to the Herb Garden and resume harvesting.
• Elder Shen attacked Su Hao with his Twelve Heaven Gate Spikes, but Su Hao severed three Flying Shuttles with his Crystal Longsword while the others bounced off his Diamond Armor.

Su Hao harvested a small patch of every Spirit Herb in Primordial Tri-Unity Peak’s Medicine Valley while Elder Shen and the Nascent Soul Cultivators failed to stop him. After escaping, Su Hao returned to the sect to search its Library Pavilion, leaving Sect Leader Ling Xuan furious and still unwilling to abandon the Spirit Power Stones.

• Elder Shen attacked Su Hao with Blade Whirl Dance, but Su Hao redirected the Art Method behind him and shattered several of his Protective Barriers.
• Five Nascent Soul Cultivators arrived and attacked Su Hao, but he severed their Dharma Artifacts and returned their Art Methods; Eighth Elder stopped his black-smoke attack when Elder Shen threatened to cancel his pill allotment.
• Sect Leader Ling Xuan stayed behind to guard the Spirit Power Stones, while Su Hao harvested a small patch of each Spirit Herb in the medicine fields and left the rest behind.
• Su Hao Teleported away from Primordial Tri-Unity Peak, reviewed his collected pills, and decided to gather more supplies and record the sect’s books.
• Su Hao used Little Light to locate the Library Pavilion and Teleported inside, prompting Ling Xuan to curse him while Elder Shen felt less alone in his resentment.

Su Hao became the infamous Crystal Thief after raiding several Immortal Sects for Pills, then returned to his Experiment Base to focus on cultivation. He reached the Full Chamber stage of the Golden Core Realm and began tempering his spiritual power toward the Revolving Pill stage.

• Su Hao told Ashan to study and cultivate the Spirit Herbs in the sealed basin, warning him not to enter the mist.
• Su Hao raided Immortal Sects for Pills, and his thefts spread panic and earned him the name Crystal Thief.
• Su Hao returned to the Experiment Base with enough Pills for the Golden Core and Nascent Soul Realms, reviewed Ashan's records, and began cultivating.
• Su Hao swallowed large quantities of Pills and spent five months converting spiritual power until he reached Full Chamber in the Golden Core Realm.
• Su Hao repaired his body, then began cultivating the Revolving Pill stage to bring his abundant spiritual power under control.

Su Hao studied the altered Nascent Soul cultivation methods and concluded that the breakthrough involved a dangerous human tribulation controlled by Nascent Soul Elders. He chose to seek guidance from Feng Qianye, who did not recognize him or his Master Feng Ling.

• Su Hao paused his spiritual-power conversion and studied the Wind Pulse Nascent Soul Method, discovering that its crucial instructions had been obscured with coded language.
• Su Hao inferred that Nascent Soul Elders had altered the methods to force Golden Core cultivators to seek their guidance and submit to their control.
• Su Hao examined the Spirit Method and Art Method, concluded that a human tribulation threatened cultivators at the moment of breakthrough, and decided to ask Feng Qianye for guidance.
• Su Hao flew to Feng Qianye's cave and introduced himself as Feng Wei, a 56th Generation Disciple of the Wind Vein seeking advice about breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Feng Qianye appeared, questioned Su Hao about his identity, and asked who his Master Feng Ling was.

Su Hao met Feng Qianye to ask for guidance on the Nascent Soul cultivation texts, and she was astonished to learn he had reached the third Golden Core level only five years after joining the sect. Seeing his rapid progress as a chance to advance her own cultivation, Feng Qianye invited him in and agreed to explain the texts, while requiring him to report his progress every six months.

• Su Hao told Feng Qianye that his grandmaster was Feng Hua, then asked for guidance on cultivating Spirit Sense and breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Feng Qianye learned that Su Hao was a 56th Generation Disciple who had joined five years earlier and had defeated Feng Yu'er in the Senior Brother Token Competition four years ago.
• Feng Qianye suspected Su Hao's cultivation could help her reach the Integrated Body Realm and privately decided not to reveal his existence to others yet.
• Su Hao presented the Nascent Soul Art Method, Spirit Method, and Mental Method texts and asked Feng Qianye to explain them.
• Feng Qianye warned Su Hao about the dangers of a Nascent Soul breakthrough and ordered him to report his progress every six months; Su Hao agreed.
• Feng Qianye began explaining the Art Method line by line.

After learning about the Nascent Soul breakthrough from Feng Qianye, Su Hao returned to his Experiment Base and built a greenhouse Formation to help transplanted Spirit Herbs recover. He discussed Ashan’s research and the students’ training, then left while Ashan hinted that he might soon learn to travel through space himself.

• Su Hao considered how spirit power amplified Spiritual Intent into Spirit Sense and how he could apply the principle to his Perception Rune.
• Su Hao found that the transplanted Spirit Herbs were damaged and wilting, so he built a greenhouse experimental field with a Formation.
• Ashan arrived with Feng Cheng, Feng Yu'er, and Yun Qingping, explained greenhouse technology, and announced that he would teach them chemistry.
• Ashan told Su Hao that his research into spirit-power transformations was progressing toward a testing phase, and Su Hao encouraged him and the students.
• Su Hao vanished after promising to send Ashan instructions for controlling the greenhouse Formation, while Ashan privately anticipated learning to pry open space.
• Ashan refused to answer Feng Cheng's question about Su Hao's Art Method unless the students did three months of cooking and laundry.

Su Hao abandoned blind meditation and used experiments on preserved Nascent Soul Cultivators to investigate how to cultivate Spirit Sense. He discovered that the Primordial Yin-Yang Spirit Root described by cultivators was a resonant state between Spiritual Power and spiritual power, then began considering how to make that resonance permanent.

• After ten days of fruitless cultivation, Su Hao decided to compare the bodies of two Nascent Soul Cultivators with records from before their deaths.
• Su Hao designed experiments to distinguish bodily changes caused by Nascent Soul cultivation from those caused by Spirit Sense.
• After eliminating more than sixty possibilities, Su Hao filled the nerves in his arm with spiritual power and experienced it resonating with his Spiritual Power.
• Su Hao concluded that the Primordial Yin-Yang Spirit Root was not a physical substance but a synchronized state between Spiritual Power and spiritual power.
• Su Hao repaired the nerve damage in his arm and began working out how to solidify and spread the resonance throughout his body.

Su Hao used Ashan’s research to develop a way to transform spirit power so it synchronized with Spiritual Power, challenging the world’s belief that reaching the Nascent Soul Realm required years of Spiritual Power cultivation. After gathering data and testing a new Activator, he successfully transformed the spirit power in his left arm and declared that Spirit Sense could be achieved in a blink.

• Su Hao realized he could adjust spirit power fluctuations to match Spiritual Power, unlike other Cultivators who trained their Spiritual Power to match their spirit power.
• Su Hao reviewed Ashan’s research, optimized its Collection Tool Runes into a Composite Collection Rune, and sent Ashan the result.
• Su Hao collected data on his spirit power and on spirit power synchronized with Spiritual Power, using the nerves in his left arm despite the pain.
• Su Hao compared the data and designed a Spirit Power Nature Transformation Activator Rune.
• Su Hao exposed his left arm’s spirit power to the Activator’s light and confirmed that the spirit power had successfully transformed.

Su Hao used the Activator Rune to cultivate Spirit Sense in less than twenty days, then enhanced its perception with his Core Perception Rune. After testing its range and precision, he began studying the Nascent Soul Spirit Method to pursue the Nascent Soul Realm.

• Su Hao entered the Activator Rune and spent two hours guiding his spiritual power through its transformation.
• After his spiritual power settled, Su Hao gained Spirit Sense that could perceive minute details within three thousand meters.
• Su Hao activated his Core Perception Rune and extended his Spirit Sense across eighty thousand meters, observing people throughout the Immortal Sect.
• Su Hao summarized the limits and strengths of his enhanced perception and sent his experimental data to Ashan.
• Su Hao opened the Nascent Soul Spirit Method materials and began studying how to transform his body and reach the Nascent Soul Realm.

Su Hao studied the Spirit Method and used Little Light’s simulations and his Life Children to devise a way to accelerate his Nascent Soul breakthrough. After confirming the plan, he began twenty days of uninterrupted cultivation.

• After mastering Spirit Sense, Su Hao concluded he could use his Life Children to complete the Spirit Method’s bodily transformation far faster than ordinary cultivators.
• Su Hao asked Ashan to prepare abundant nutritious food for his seclusion, and Ashan sent Feng Cheng, Feng Yu'er, and Yun Qingping on indefinite leave.
• Su Hao had Little Light simulate Spirit Method cultivation, found that the first model predicted tissue damage, and added Life Children’s repair ability to the simulations.
• Su Hao cultivated at different metabolic speeds to collect data, then spent three days running simulations until Little Light confirmed an accelerated plan.
• Su Hao designed a regimen that raised his metabolism to 120 times normal and began twenty days of uninterrupted cultivation to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm.