Chapter Summaries

Li Changsheng established the White Night Shop in North Sea City, refined pills, and cultivated until the Spirit Refining Chen Family forcibly summoned him with other alchemists. The Chen Family demanded that they perfect an incomplete pill formula under threat of death.

• Li Changsheng opened the White Night Shop and sold high-grade Sky Profound Pills and other medicines to North Sea City's warriors.
• Li Changsheng gathered ingredients for Liquid Condensing Pills, refined them, and used a Flawless pill to increase his dharma power.
• Li Changsheng learned that Spirit Refining families had bought up key Liquid Condensing Pill ingredients, leaving him unable to restock for the time being.
• Three Chen Family Great Grandmasters threatened Li Changsheng into accompanying them to the Chen Family, where he found other alchemists had also been forced to attend.
• Chen Jia ordered the alchemists to perfect an incomplete pill formula and threatened that they would not leave if they failed.
• When one alchemist objected, Chen Jia had him killed with a spear, and the remaining alchemists fell silent.

Li Changsheng studied the Chen Family’s incomplete spirit-strengthening pill formula and decided to advance his Medicine Refining Dao Fruit so he could complete it. He successfully refined the Spirit Strengthening Pill and, after using it to cultivate, condensed divine sense.

• The Chen Family confiscated the alchemists’ storage artifacts and made them study an incomplete pill formula that could strengthen mental power.
• Li Changsheng identified Illusion Flower as a main ingredient and decided to upgrade his Medicine Refining Dao Fruit rather than his Human Sword Dao Fruit.
• Li Changsheng upgraded his Medicine Refining Dao Fruit into the Alchemy Dao Fruit and deduced a complete formula, including the Spirit Devouring Demon Vine as a substitute main ingredient.
• Li Changsheng secretly refined the new pill, named it the Spirit Strengthening Pill, and eventually produced Flawless pills.
• Li Changsheng used the Spirit Strengthening Pill to cultivate the Spiritual Fire Meditation Method until he condensed divine sense, which reached three meters.

Li Changsheng cultivated the first layer of the Spirit Refining Pagoda Technique, then escaped the Chen Family and exposed its incomplete Spirit Refining pill formula. He left North Sea City concealed and planned to cultivate in a nearby mountain cave.

• Li Changsheng used Flawless-grade Spirit Strengthening Pills to master the first layer of the Spirit Refining Pagoda Technique after half a month, greatly expanding his divine consciousness.
• Chen Jia ordered the execution of alchemists Qian Feng and Lin Xin to force the others to perfect the Chen Family's pill formula.
• Li Changsheng fled the Chen Family, killed pursuing guards and a peak Great Grandmaster, and hid in North Sea City while the Chen Family's Spirit Refining Realm cultivator recaptured other fleeing alchemists.
• Li Changsheng scattered flyers revealing that the Chen Family possessed an incomplete Spirit Refining pill formula, prompting six Spirit Refining Realm cultivators to attack the family and kill its patriarch.
• The Chen Family published the pill formula to avert further attacks, while Li Changsheng concealed his identity and left North Sea City to seek a mountain cave for secluded cultivation.

Li Changsheng returned to North Sea City after advancing his cultivation and swordsmanship, only to find the Ice Whale Pavilion had monopolized the ingredients he needed for Liquid Condensing Pills. After switching to Ice Soul Pills and advancing his Spirit Refining Pagoda Technique, he met Zhang Yiqian and considered trading with her family for the scarce ingredients.

• Li Changsheng concealed a cave abode outside North Sea City and spent two months cultivating, reaching the mid-stage Great Grandmaster Realm and Great Accomplishment in Minute Subtlety swordsmanship.
• He returned to North Sea City and learned that the Ice Whale Pavilion had completed the leaked pill formula, named the resulting pill the God Forging Pill, and was selling it at auction.
• Unable to find Liquid Condensing Pill ingredients, Li Changsheng bought the Ice Soul Pill formula, refined Flawless Ice Soul Pills, and found they were only half as effective as Flawless Liquid Condensing Pills.
• After two more months, Li Changsheng ran out of Spirit Strengthening Pills but advanced his Spirit Refining Pagoda Technique to the second level, giving him a seventy percent chance of reaching the Spirit Refining Realm.
• Li Changsheng encountered Zhang Yiqian, heard that her family was establishing a business in North Sea City, and considered exchanging Flawless Spirit Nurturing Pills for the ingredients he needed.

Li Changsheng traded Flawless Spirit Nurturing Pills with the Zhang Family for herbs and used them to advance his Spirit Refining Pagoda Technique while the Chen Family established itself in North Sea City. After learning about the West Sea Islands’ powerful factions, he declined to join the North Sea Sect and reached the third level of his technique, but his supply of Spirit Devouring Demon Vine was nearly exhausted.

• Li Changsheng arranged to exchange Flawless Spirit Nurturing Pills with the Zhang Family for spirit herbs, then refined Spirit Strengthening Pills in large quantities.
• The Chen Family built a foothold in North Sea City by selling pills and intelligence.
• Zhang Yiqian gave Li Changsheng a detailed map of the West Sea Islands, which listed ninety-three Side Gate Grade forces and thirteen Orthodox Grade forces, including the nearby Xi Sect.
• Zhang Yiqian decided to leave for the North Sea Sect, but Li Changsheng refused to join her and chose not to search for Qingyuan Sect.
• Several months later, Li Changsheng advanced his Spirit Refining Pagoda Technique to the third level, expanding his divine consciousness to one hundred meters.
• Li Changsheng found that his Spirit Devouring Demon Vine was nearly used up, threatening his ability to refine Spirit Strengthening Pills.

Li Changsheng perfected his Microscopic Sword Technique and learned of a chance to explore the Cold Flood Dragon King's Demon Cave. After the cave's deadly defenses sparked a conflict between North Sea Island factions and the Demon Race, he registered to enter it.

• Li Changsheng reached perfection in his Microscopic Sword Technique and focused on cultivating the Donghe Sword Technique and Donghe Body Refining Sword Technique.
• Luo Hai led Ice Whale Pavilion experts to the Cold Flood Dragon King's Demon Cave after learning the Cold Flood Dragon King had likely died.
• A killing formation froze and destroyed Xiao Ju, and Demon Soldier Puppets killed Great Grandmasters sent to investigate the cave.
• Other factions and the Demon Race learned of the cave, fought over it, then agreed to send Great Grandmasters and Sun Radiance Realm great demons inside.
• North Sea City allowed registered Great Grandmasters to enter in exchange for seventy percent of their gains, and Li Changsheng registered.

Li Changsheng entered the Cold Flood Dragon King's Demon Cave, collected resources and manuals, and killed a pursuing Great Grandmaster after the palace's formation broke. He disguised his escape by injuring himself and returned to North Sea City, leaving the circumstances of the Great Grandmaster's death likely to raise suspicion.

• Li Changsheng boarded a Flying Boat to the Endless Ice Sea and killed dozens of Sun Radiance Realm great demons inside the Demon Cave, collecting their corpses and resources.
• Li Changsheng destroyed a Demon Soldier Puppet and joined the assault on a formation protecting a stone palace, which broke after seven days.
• A burst of icy chill froze two-thirds of the gathered Great Grandmasters and great demons; Li Changsheng entered the palace and took martial artist manuals from a secret chamber.
• Li Changsheng escaped the palace with several Great Grandmasters pursuing him, then killed the last pursuer with the Donghe Sword Technique.
• Li Changsheng injured himself, concealed his gains in an empty Storage Artifact, handed over seventy percent of his haul, and returned to North Sea City by Flying Boat.

Li Changsheng settled into a hidden island cave and used Heaven and Earth Spiritual Fire to strengthen his divine sense while cultivating the God Shaking Technique. After Ice Whale Pavilion identified him as the likely killer of Liu Xinghe, it launched a search and offered a bounty, while Li Changsheng continued his cultivation unaware of the pursuit.

• Li Changsheng hid in a cave on a nearby island and inspected the treasures and manuals he had taken from the Ice Flood Dragon's palace.
• Li Changsheng obtained the God Shaking Technique and the Nine Xi Meditation Method, which he could only cultivate after reaching the Spirit Refining Realm.
• Li Changsheng drew Heaven and Earth Spiritual Fire into his sea of consciousness and endured its painful refinement to strengthen his divine sense and Spirit Refining Pagoda Technique.
• Luo Hai discovered that Liu Xinghe had died and detained the Great Grandmasters who had returned from the Demon Cave.
• A Great Grandmaster described Li Changsheng to Ice Whale Pavilion, which uncovered his identity, searched North Sea Island, and offered a bounty for his capture or death.
• Li Changsheng continued cultivating his divine sense and the God Shaking Technique without knowing that Ice Whale Pavilion was hunting him.

Li Changsheng advanced his cultivation and swordsmanship while hiding on a small island, but Ice Whale Pavilion trackers discovered him and Fan Chen, a first-realm Spirit Refining expert, caught up with him at sea. Li Changsheng survived Fan Chen’s first spell with his powerful body, and Fan Chen launched the Ice Whale Technique.

• Li Changsheng exhausted the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Fire, advanced the Spirit Refining Pagoda Technique to the fourth layer, and continued strengthening himself with demon flesh-and-blood pills.
• Li Changsheng raised the Vajra Dao Fruit to level 9, then advanced the Donghe Sword Technique to Great Accomplishment before reaching a bottleneck near Perfection.
• Li Changsheng sensed approaching Great Grandmasters, but they recognized him and sent up a signal before he could stop them.
• Fan Chen followed the signal, used the Tracking Technique, and pursued Li Changsheng into the sea.
• Fan Chen attacked Li Changsheng with Thousand Layer Ice Rain, but Li Changsheng tore through the icy force with the Great Sun Ripping Hand.
• Fan Chen unleashed the Ice Whale Technique at Li Changsheng.

Li Changsheng fought Fan Chen, whose Yin God and defensive talisman nearly overwhelmed him. After comprehending Nascent Sword Intent, Li Changsheng destroyed Fan Chen’s Yin God and fled to recover, leaving his injuries to heal over the next several days.

• Li Changsheng evaded Fan Chen’s Ice Whale Technique and resisted his third-level God Shaking Technique before wounding him with the Donghe Sword Technique.
• Fan Chen recognized Li Changsheng’s powerful sword inheritance, swallowed a healing pill, and sent out his Yin God to attack.
• Li Changsheng’s sword strikes barely harmed Fan Chen’s Yin God, while Fan Chen battered his Spirit Refining Pagoda and blocked his attack on Fan Chen’s body with a defensive talisman.
• Under pressure, Li Changsheng perfected the Donghe Sword Technique and comprehended Nascent Sword Intent.
• Li Changsheng used Nascent Sword Intent with the Ten Directions Sword Technique to shatter Fan Chen’s Yin God, then took his Storage Artifact and escaped.
• Li Changsheng rested in a cave on a small island, recovering his mana and repairing his Spirit Refining Pagoda while his divine consciousness injury continued to heal.

Li Changsheng upgraded his Intermediate Space Dao Fruit and discovered that he could create a deadly but mana-intensive Space Rift. After Ice Whale Pavilion ordered his pursuit, he traveled in disguise to Mysterious Snake Island to refine Ice Soul Pills.

• Li Changsheng absorbed the spatial substance in Fan Chen's Storage Artifact, advancing his Intermediate Space Dao Fruit to level 4 and learning to create a Space Rift that could slice through a Fourth-grade weapon.
• Luo Hai learned that Fan Chen had died and ordered Ice Whale Pavilion to keep tracking Li Changsheng, fearing his ability to injure Spirit Refining Realm experts.
• Li Changsheng trained on an unnamed island, strengthened his Nascent Sword Intent, and advanced his God Shaking Technique to the third layer.
• After running out of flawless-grade Ice Soul Pills, Li Changsheng disguised himself with a mask and black robe and traveled to Mysterious Snake Island.
• Li Changsheng arrived at the trading market on Mysterious Snake Island, intending to refine a batch of flawless-grade Ice Soul Pills and leave soon afterward.

Li Changsheng refined Ice Soul Pills at Mystic Snake Market and stayed for its once-in-a-decade auction, where he bought a section of Phantom Vine. The auction then revealed a damaged Fortune Plate said to enhance luck, and the chapter ended as the skeptical crowd dismissed it.

• Li Changsheng rented an alchemy room at Mystic Snake Market and spent more than a month refining flawless Ice Soul Pills.
• After learning that the market's auction would include a section of Phantom Vine, Li Changsheng exchanged goods for Spirit Crystals and obtained an invitation.
• Zhao Zi Luo opened the auction, where a Fourth-grade Crimson Blood Spear sold for six Low-grade Spirit Crystals.
• Li Changsheng outbid a Yin God Realm expert and bought the section of Phantom Vine for eighty-six Low-grade Spirit Crystals.
• The auction sold the Soul Suppressing Art for three hundred and sixty-six Low-grade Spirit Crystals before presenting a damaged Fortune Plate with a starting bid of three hundred Low-grade Spirit Crystals.
• The martial artists doubted the Fortune Plate's value and did not bid.

Li Changsheng won the Incomplete Luck Disc at auction, escaped the attention of bidders, and secluded himself until he reached the Great Grandmaster Perfection Realm. After improving his Spirit Refining techniques and considering how to strengthen his body, he set off for Wind Thunder Island to seek thunderous essence.

• Li Changsheng outbid another buyer for the Incomplete Luck Disc, then watched Spirit Refining Realm cultivators purchase the finale weapon, Feather Thorn, for five thousand six hundred Low-grade Spirit Crystals.
• Li Changsheng evaded people following him, waited several days before leaving the marketplace, and returned to his small island to cultivate.
• Li Changsheng refined Ice Soul Pills until his mana reached the Great Grandmaster Perfection Realm.
• Li Changsheng cultivated the Spirit Refining Pagoda Technique and God Shaking Technique, then trained with the Donghe Body Refining Sword Technique while saving his Spirit Strengthening Pills.
• Li Changsheng decided to visit Wind Thunder Island to seek thunderous essence and improve his body before attempting the Spirit Refining Realm.

Li Changsheng killed a Blood Snake Clan Demon King on the way to Wind Thunder Island, then gathered Thunderous Essence during a storm. He traded intermediate Thunderous Essence for an ancient Thunderous Essence Pill formula and headed toward a nearby marketplace.

• Li Changsheng avoided a Demon King's attack, feigned being suppressed by its spirit-refining technique, and killed it with God Shaking Technique and the Donghe Sword Technique.
• Li Changsheng took the Demon King's storage items and corpse, then continued to Wind Thunder Island while absorbing spatial matter from the discarded Storage Artifact.
• Li Changsheng gathered more than seventy strands of superior Thunderous Essence and a large amount of intermediate Thunderous Essence during ten days of storms.
• A Grandmaster offered Li Changsheng the Thunderous Essence Pill Formula in exchange for two hundred strands of intermediate Thunderous Essence, and Li Changsheng accepted the trade.
• Li Changsheng found a nearby marketplace on his map and set out for it using Water Evasion Technique.

Li Changsheng refined flawless-grade Thunderous Essence Pills and cultivated the Thunderous Essence Body Cultivation Chapter to Perfection. Seeking high-grade Fire Fiends for his next cultivation goal, he agreed to join five peak Great Grandmasters exploring the Blazing Fire Sect Branch Ruins, and the group reached the ruin after crossing demonic mist.

• Li Changsheng studied the Thunderous Essence Pill formula, practiced with medium thunderous essence, and eventually refined more than a hundred flawless-grade pills from high-grade thunderous essence.
• Li Changsheng consumed the flawless-grade Thunderous Essence Pills and cultivated the Great Grandmaster Chapter of the Thunderous Essence Body Cultivation Chapter to Perfection over two months.
• Li Changsheng searched Mountain-Sea Market for high-grade Fire Fiends but found none.
• Zuo Changan invited Li Changsheng to cooperate in exploring the Blazing Fire Sect Branch Ruins, where high-grade and possibly Innate Fire Fiends could be found among dangerous Fire Blood Worms.
• Li Changsheng joined Zuo Changan, Bai Xin, Gao Yunxu, Zhou Ziyang, and Zhao Jingping, and all six swore not to attack one another before setting out.
• Zuo Changan led the group by treasure ship to an island shrouded in demonic mist, and they found the Blazing Fire Sect Branch Ruins.

Li Changsheng entered the Blazing Fire Sect ruins with Zuo Changan and four other Great Grandmasters, only to discover Zuo had led them to a Spirit Refining Realm cultivator who planned to sacrifice their souls. Li Changsheng killed the black-robed man with a Space Rift, then left the ruins and settled on a small island to inspect his spoils.

• Zuo Changan led the group through swarms of Blood Fire Insects and into a ruined hall, where the black-robed cultivator Xueze revealed that Zuo had brought five people to be used as sacrifices.
• When Xueze suppressed the group and reached for Bai Xin, Li Changsheng froze him briefly with the God Shaking Technique and severed one of his arms with the Donghe Sword Technique.
• Xueze's counterattack killed the other Great Grandmasters, including Zuo Changan, while Li Changsheng endured repeated injuries and fought back with his defensive arts and sword techniques.
• As Xueze tried to escape, Li Changsheng created a Space Rift in the passage; Xueze ran into it and died.
• Li Changsheng took Xueze's resources, found the formation beyond the hall impossible to break, and left the ruins before more people arrived.
• Li Changsheng rode his Treasure Ship away from the demonic mist, settled in a temporary cave on an unnamed island, and began inspecting Xueze's resources.

Li Changsheng refined the Blazing Fire Sect Branch Ruins’ treasures, perfected his Great Sun Flame Body, and was caught in the aftermath of a battle between a woman and the Dragon-Snake Demon King. The woman forced him to help her detoxify, then left after warning him to stay silent; later, Jiang Ying broke through to the Dharma Aspect Realm and set a Xi Sect record.

• Li Changsheng used the High-grade Fire Fiends and Innate Fire Fiend to cultivate the Great Sun Flame Body, reaching perfection and mastering the Great Sun Ripping Hand.
• Li Changsheng sensed a battle approaching and recognized the demon mist around the Blazing Fire Sect branch ruins.
• A woman wielding a Grade One Spirit Refining Weapon defeated the Dragon-Snake Demon King, which self-destructed and seriously injured Li Changsheng.
• The woman seized Li Changsheng and forced him to help detoxify her, then warned him to keep silent before leaving.
• Li Changsheng fled far away, while the woman returned to her faction.
• Jiang Ying entered seclusion at the Xi Sect and reached the Dharma Aspect Realm three months later, becoming the sect’s youngest cultivator at that realm.

Li Changsheng used the Fortune Plate to create a Spirit Dao Fruit and cultivated his Spirit Refining Secret Methods until they reached their limits. He learned that the Nine Nether Grotto-Heaven was opening, offering a chance to find the Nine Nether Ice Flame and raise his Spirit Dao Fruit.

• Li Changsheng used the Fortune Plate to conceive a Spirit Dao Fruit, then absorbed the Innate Spirit Essence of Spirit in Heaven and Earth Spiritual Fire to raise it to Level 1.
• Li Changsheng cultivated the Spirit Refining Pagoda Technique, God Shaking Technique, and Netherworld Blood Pupil, using Spirit Strengthening Pills made with Blazing Demon Vine to advance them to the sixth level.
• Li Changsheng found that his Spirit Refining Secret Methods had reached their limits and decided to seek more Heaven and Earth Spiritual Fire and a Side Gate Grade Spirit Refining Technique before breaking through.
• Li Changsheng gathered information in Longxi Market but found that Heaven and Earth Spiritual Fire and Side Gate Grade techniques were difficult to obtain.
• Li Changsheng heard that the Nine Nether Grotto-Heaven was about to open and learned that it contained the Nine Nether Ice Flame.

Li Changsheng traveled to the Nine Nether Grotto-Heaven with the Great Grandmasters and reunited with Zhang Yiqian, who sought Nine Nether Ice Flame and merit for a Spirit Refining method. After the grotto-heaven opened, Li Changsheng ventured deep inside to avoid competing with North Sea Sect disciples and encountered Nine Nether Ice Flame Insects.

• Li Changsheng boarded a North Sea Sect Flying Boat from Nine Creeks Market and arrived at Nine Nether Island.
• Li Changsheng met Zhang Yiqian, who explained that she wanted Nine Nether Ice Flame and merit to obtain a Profound Grade Spirit Refining method.
• Zhang Yiqian warned Li Changsheng to avoid the dangerous depths of the grotto-heaven.
• Li Changsheng entered the Nine Nether Grotto-Heaven and separated from Zhang Yiqian to explore.
• Li Changsheng headed deep into the grotto-heaven to avoid competing for Ice Flame in the outer regions and encountered Nine Nether Ice Flame Insects.

Li Changsheng hunted Nine Nether Ice Flames in the Nine Nether Grotto-Heaven, raising his Spirit Dao Fruit to level 4 and mastering the seventh layer of the Spirit Refining Pagoda Technique. After a far stronger Nine Nether Ice Flame Insect attacked his consciousness, he escaped to the grotto-heaven’s outermost region.

• Li Changsheng killed Nine Nether Ice Flame Insects and absorbed two Scarlet Grade Nine Nether Ice Flames, raising his Spirit Dao Fruit to level 2.
• Li Changsheng killed a Yin God Realm demon king-level Nine Nether Ice Flame Insect and absorbed Orange Grade flames, raising his Spirit Dao Fruit to level 3.
• Li Changsheng gathered spirit herbs and Nine Nether Ice Flames, then used a Scarlet Grade flame to cultivate the Spirit Refining Pagoda Technique to the seventh layer in three days.
• Li Changsheng killed another demon king-level insect and took its Orange Grade Nine Nether Ice Flame, but a much stronger insect struck him with a devastating divine consciousness attack.
• Li Changsheng's seventh-layer Spirit Refining Pagoda Technique blocked the attack, and he fled to the outermost region of the Nine Nether Grotto-Heaven.