Chapter Summaries

Xiao Chen won the Li Mountain Cloud Chase by collecting all twelve Flowing Clouds, then joined Qiu Qichen’s expedition into the Ten Thousand Demons Mountain Range to obtain Spirit Turtle Eggs. After ten days of cautious travel and progress in comprehending yin and yang, the group found four male turtles—including a powerful mutated one—and Xiao Chen considered how much disturbance the valley could tolerate.

• Xiao Chen returned to Li Mountain with all twelve Flowing Clouds, astonishing the competitors and earning first place and ten drops of Flowing Cloud Dew.
• Xiao Chen refined the Flowing Cloud Dew and found that nine drops could increase his escape speed by roughly half a tenth.
• Xiao Chen set out with Qiu Xingwen and Song Jingyi to retrieve Spirit Turtle Eggs from the Ten Thousand Demons Mountain Range, carefully avoiding Golden Core Demonic Beasts.
• During the journey, Xiao Chen contemplated the Yin Yang Harmonizing Contract and gained a hazy sense of the Profound Mystery of yin and yang.
• At the valley where the Xu Earth Spirit Turtle lived, Xiao Chen and his companions found at least four male turtles, including a mutated turtle with two horns.
• Xiao Chen asked Song Jingyi how much disturbance they could make in the valley.

Xiao Chen and his companions tried to defeat a powerful Mutated Spirit Turtle so they could claim its Inner Core and the turtle eggs. After a failed attempt to poison it sent it rampaging into Golden Core Demonic Beast territory, Xiao Chen retrieved its Inner Core and shell, escaped a Golden Striped Tiger, and returned to resume the egg hunt.

• Xiao Chen trapped three male Spirit Turtles and killed them, but the Mutated Spirit Turtle's size, strength, and defenses forced him to retreat and devise a new plan.
• Xiao Chen used Qi Xingwen's advice to conceal Blood Wine inside a Spirit Fish, and the Mutated Spirit Turtle swallowed it, went mad, and charged upstream.
• Xiao Chen followed the turtle's trail and found it dead, gutted by a Golden Core Demonic Beast; he took its Inner Core and shell before a Golden Striped Tiger confronted him.
• Xiao Chen escaped with Night's Edge, hid until it recovered, and returned to Song Jingyi and Qi Xingwen with the turtle shell.
• Xiao Chen, Song Jingyi, and Qi Xingwen set out to retrieve the turtle eggs.

Xiao Chen returned from the Ten Thousand Demons Mountain Range with Spirit Turtle Eggs and valuable spoils taken from a battle between a Golden Eagle and the Amethyst Python. In secluded cultivation, he broke through to the Foundation Establishment Ninth Layer and deepened his comprehension of yin and yang, then realized at least ten days had passed.

• Xiao Chen, Song Jingyi, and Qi Xingwen found five viable Spirit Turtle Eggs and fled as the Amethyst Python began shedding its skin and drawing in Spiritual Energy.
• Xiao Chen watched the Golden Eagle and Amethyst Python fight, then collected nineteen Crown Feathers and seven violet scales before escaping the Golden Eagle's attack.
• Xiao Chen reunited with Song Jingyi and Qi Xingwen, delivered two eggs to Qiu Qichen, and agreed to sell the two eggs the Qiu Family could not afford in Li Province.
• Xiao Chen entered seclusion in a remote mountain cave and used the Crown Feathers and violet scales with the Wind Thunder Pair Swords to study wind, thunder, and yin and yang.
• Xiao Chen took the Three Revolutions Mysterious Origin Pill and broke through to the Foundation Establishment Ninth Layer, while his Pseudo-Core gained yin-yang properties and its Mana Capacity doubled.
• Xiao Chen discovered that his Spirit Gathering Array's Spirit Stones were depleted and decided to return promptly after realizing that at least ten days had passed.

Xiao Chen returned from his breakthrough to find the Yellow Springs Palace open and many cultivators trapped inside. After learning that the ruin contained Killing Intent and might hold valuable materials, he entered and began navigating its dangerous passages, leaving the chapter deep within the palace.

• Han Zi Yan failed to find Xiao Chen, while several Divine Fire Sect informants went missing and Karma Mirror True Person focused on opening the Yellow Springs Palace.
• The linked entrances to the Yellow Springs Palace were exposed, and the palace opened amid a surge of demonic qi that drew cultivators from across He Province.
• After completing his breakthrough, Xiao Chen returned to find Yuan Magnetic Peak sealed and learned that cultivators had entered the supposed Secret Realm, unaware it was a trap.
• Xiao Chen hurried to the palace entrance, learned that trapped cultivators faced a Demonic Sect ruin filled with Killing Intent, and jumped inside despite Gong Lingfeng and Gu Qiuling's warnings.
• Xiao Chen crossed a passage where Cold Wind Sand formed relentless humanoid attackers, then passed murals and a blank-faced statue of Yellow Springs True Lord.
• Xiao Chen resisted the temptation of rare Spirit Herbs and life-extending fruit, keeping his attention on finding the palace's Killing Intent.

Xiao Chen crossed the White Lantern plaza, entered the demonic-qi maze, and rescued Yang Huai'an, Du Mingjie, and their group by smashing through its walls. After breaking into a side hall and meeting Lan Nianqin, he helped her retrieve a silk ribbon, and she led the group to the road to the Main Mausoleum.

• Xiao Chen burned away the White Lanterns with his Mystic Fire Crows and entered the palace beyond the plaza.
• Xiao Chen navigated the maze by punching through its walls and killed several Divine Fire Sect Demonic Cultivators who attacked him.
• Xiao Chen found Yang Huai'an, Du Mingjie, and thirty-five other cultivators trapped in the maze, then led them through the walls and rescued another group along the way.
• Xiao Chen broke into a side hall, where Lan Nianqin explained that she had left the maze three days earlier and was trying to obtain a silk ribbon.
• Xiao Chen shattered the Guardian Restriction, gave Lan Nianqin the ribbon, and followed her to the true maze exit and the road toward the Main Mausoleum.

Xiao Chen broke through the Divine Fire Sect’s blockade and entered the Main Mausoleum, where he discovered that the Golden Coffin had trapped the other cultivators inside a miniature city. An Artifact Spirit tried to lure him into the coffin with promises of inheritance and treasures, but Xiao Chen refused and asked whether the mausoleum held anything else.

• Xiao Chen arrived with nearly a hundred cultivators and killed the six demonic cultivators guarding the Bronze Gate, overcoming their Talismans, curse, and Soul-Shaking Bell.
• Xiao Chen entered the Main Mausoleum and found a vast golden underground palace centered on a Golden Coffin, with no cultivators visible around him.
• Yang Huai'an stepped onto the Golden Coffin and sank into it, while Xiao Chen saw that the coffin depicted a miniature city containing the trapped cultivators.
• The Golden Coffin’s Artifact Spirit appeared and mistook Xiao Chen for a Yellow Springs successor, then tried to guide him toward the inheritance and treasures inside the coffin.
• Xiao Chen rejected both the secret arts and the treasures, asked whether there were other places to explore, and left the Artifact Spirit at a loss.

Xiao Chen discovered that the Golden Coffin contained Yellow Springs Sha and absorbed it to condense a Yin Water Seal, while the Artifact Spirit tried to arrange his death and seize his body. After Xiao Chen killed Zhou Xingyuan, he completed the seal as the Golden Core cultivators outside drew closer to entering the palace.

• Karma Mirror True Person guarded the Yellow Springs Palace entrance and anticipated obtaining its secret legacy, while the restrictions weakened sooner than expected.
• Xiao Chen followed the Artifact Spirit's instructions to open the Golden Coffin, then discovered its flowing contents were concentrated Yellow Springs Sha and absorbed the baleful qi with the Profound Heaven Ingestion Secret Method.
• The Artifact Spirit tried to redirect Xiao Chen into the coffin for Body Seizure, but when he absorbed the Yellow Springs Sha, it chose Zhou Xingyuan as a new target and guided him through the miniature city's trials.
• The Artifact Spirit led Zhou Xingyuan to the Underground Palace with a Geng Metal Divine Thunder, and Zhou Xingyuan used it to blast Xiao Chen while he was cultivating.
• Xiao Chen survived, killed Zhou Xingyuan when the Artifact Spirit tried to seize his body, and returned to the coffin to condense the Yin Water Seal, increasing his chance of forming a core.

Xiao Chen discovered the Yellow Springs Path’s inheritance and collected its secret chamber gifts, including several rare spiritual objects and Spirit Tools. After learning of a hidden herb garden on Hundred Herbs Island, he fled the Yellow Springs Palace by random teleportation when violent fighting erupted outside.

• Xiao Chen absorbed the Inheritance Jade Slip’s contents and learned the Yellow Springs Path’s Secret Canon and the aptitude requirements for its cultivation.
• Xiao Chen entered the secret chamber and collected rare Fire, Water, Metal, Wood, and Earth spiritual objects, along with an offensive White Bone Banner and a defensive shield.
• Xiao Chen found a command token and route map to Hundred Herbs Island’s hidden Spirit Herb Garden, which contained rare fourth-order treasures including Amethyst Bodhi Trees.
• Xiao Chen heard violent explosions outside and decided the palace was too dangerous to remain in.
• Xiao Chen activated the Random Teleportation Array and vanished, while the array collapsed and destroyed the secret chamber.

Xiao Chen escaped Yellow Springs Palace with its inheritance and treasures while Golden Core True Persons battled over the empty palace and He Province fell into chaos. After cracking twenty-three Storage Bags and heading toward Fragrant River Market, he intervened in a pursuit, leaving Hu Feipeng convinced he had encountered a Demonic Cultivator.

• Golden Core True Persons fought inside Yellow Springs Palace while Jade Bloom True Person clashed with Poison Fiend True Person, and rogue cultivators across He Province began killing one another.
• Xiao Chen emerged from underground after teleporting into a mountain, found the black bear he had met before, and rested in its cave.
• Xiao Chen cracked twenty-three Storage Bags, collected 137,700 Spirit Stones and assorted magical artifacts, and set aside Initial Understanding of Array Dao for later study.
• Xiao Chen decided to travel to Fragrant River Market rather than return to Yuan Magnetic Peak, and he concealed his tracks with the Stealth Cloak.
• Xiao Chen stopped Hu Feipeng's pursuer and displayed a White Bone Staff, causing Hu Feipeng to fear that the cloaked stranger was a Demonic Cultivator.

Xiao Chen uncovered the Spirit Lake Rogue Cultivator’s role in gathering sacrifices for the Divine Fire Sect and ambushed her during a handover in the Birch Forest. After breaking through her Spirit Locking Smoke, he captured her and prepared to interrogate her.

• Xiao Chen questioned a female cultivator who revealed that Godmother was the Spirit Lake Rogue Cultivator, also known as Jade Rong Fairy, and that the sacrifices would be handed over in the Birch Forest near Scented Fragrance Town.
• Xiao Chen ambushed the Spirit Lake Rogue Cultivator and her adopted daughters as they brought sacrifices to the forest, killing Third Sister and trapping the eldest sister in the Lesser Three Talents Sword Formation.
• The Spirit Lake Rogue Cultivator used Spirit Locking Smoke to shield herself and admitted she gathered sacrifices for the Divine Fire Sect while doing business with the Hui Dong Merchant Guild.
• Xiao Chen weakened the Spirit Locking Smoke with volleys of Li Fire Thunders and the Luo Tian Sacred Fire, then bound the Spirit Lake Rogue Cultivator with the Immortal Binding Cord.
• Xiao Chen told the captured Spirit Lake Rogue Cultivator that she would answer his questions.

Xiao Chen captured Spirit Lake Rogue Cultivator and learned that the Hui Dong Merchant Guild secretly cooperated with the Divine Fire Sect and possessed Five-Colored Jade Coral. He raided the guild headquarters to take the coral, then returned to Fragrant River Market to investigate reports that Jade Bloom True Person might have fallen.

• Xiao Chen forced Spirit Lake Rogue Cultivator to reveal the Hui Dong Merchant Guild's factions, its dealings with the Divine Fire Sect, and the location of the Five-Colored Jade Coral.
• Xiao Chen traveled to Guardian Immortal Mountain, where he overheard Li Yongfeng discuss the Divine Fire Sect's victory at Yellow Springs Palace and rumors that Jade Bloom True Person's Brocaded Myriad Flower Basket had shattered.
• Xiao Chen attacked the Hui Dong Merchant Guild warehouse, defeated its three guards, and spent hours searching its sealed boxes before finding the Five-Colored Jade Coral.
• Xiao Chen found the guild headquarters deserted after the raid and returned to Fragrant River Market to learn more about the situation in He Province.
• Xiao Chen reached the Qiu Family residence and asked the Clan Elder where the other Daoists had gone.

Xiao Chen reached Seeking Plum Mountain and fought off a squad of Demonic Cultivators, but Ghost Flood Dragon True Person attacked him and forced him to fake his death and flee. While escaping into the Black Flame Mountain Range, Xiao Chen reconsidered his chances of forming his core and decided to target Azure Sky Sect for the Yin Fire Seal or Yang Water Seal.

• Xiao Chen learned that Jade Bloom True Person had survived Yellow Springs Palace, though she had destroyed her bonded Spirit Tool, and joined the defenders at Seeking Plum Mountain.
• Xiao Chen used his many Top-Grade Magical Artifacts to kill nine Demonic Cultivators in a quarter of an hour, drawing the attention of Ghost Flood Dragon True Person.
• Ghost Flood Dragon True Person trapped Xiao Chen with his Heaven Imprisoning Claw, but Xiao Chen used Night's Edge to escape after the claw appeared to crush him.
• Xiao Chen fled several hundred li and worried that witnesses would make it dangerous for him to return openly and pursue Points for a Breakthrough Spirit Pill.
• Xiao Chen calculated that his cultivation resources and the Way of Yin and Yang could give him a strong chance of forming his core, then chose to seek the Yin Fire Seal or Yang Water Seal at Azure Sky Sect.

Xiao Chen captured and interrogated Li Yongfeng, learning that Li Province’s righteous sects had suffered heavy losses and that the Hui Dong Merchant Guild had aided the White Bone Gate. After killing Li Yongfeng and heading toward the Azure Sky Sect, Xiao Chen heard rumors that the sect had already fallen and Azure Sky Mountain had become a demonic domain.

• Xiao Chen ambushed Li Yongfeng, but Wang Jingcheng transformed into a fast White Bone Giant and delayed Xiao Chen while Li Yongfeng fled.
• Xiao Chen used the White Bone Giant’s punch to propel himself past Li Yongfeng, then trapped and captured him with the Lesser Three Talents Sword Formation.
• Xiao Chen learned that Jade Sand True Person had died, Sword-Bearing True Person and several others were injured, and the Divine Fire Sect had spread rumors to weaken the righteous cultivators.
• Li Yongfeng admitted that he had supplied the White Bone Gate with Essence Blood and intelligence, so Xiao Chen killed him and took his Storage Bag.
• As Xiao Chen traveled toward the Azure Sky Sect, he disguised himself among fleeing cultivators and heard that Azure Sky Mountain had become a demonic domain and the sect had been destroyed.

Xiao Chen witnessed the White Bone Gate Master Gu Weiyuan transform into a resource-hungry demon body and chase after two Golden Core cultivators. After the danger left Azure Sky Ravine, Xiao Chen found and absorbed the Nether Flame Evil he needed, leaving him ready to pursue the Way of Wood and attempt to Impact Golden Core.

• Xiao Chen watched from hiding as Thousand Bamboo True Person and Bright Moon True Person investigated Azure Sky Ravine and discovered the White Bone Gate was operating there.
• Gu Weiyuan consumed the White Bone Gate disciples to complete his transformation into a massive demon body, then attacked the two Golden Core cultivators.
• Thousand Bamboo True Person and Bright Moon True Person fled, while Gu Weiyuan briefly seized Xiao Chen with strands of hair before Night's Edge triggered and made him vanish.
• After the demon body left, Xiao Chen entered the caverns beneath Azure Sky Ravine and searched for three days until he found a sealed cavern beneath the depleted Main Spirit Vein.
• Xiao Chen released and absorbed the cavern's Nether Flame Evil, forming a Yin Fire Seal that intertwined with his Yang Fire Seal and prepared him to comprehend the Way of Wood before attempting to Impact Golden Core.

Xiao Chen prepared in a secluded volcanic crater and successfully formed a Flawless Golden Core, while the White Bone Demon Body devastated Ten Thousand Flowers Valley and plunged He Province into chaos. The chapter left Xiao Chen newly advanced to Golden Core as the surrounding sects struggled to respond to the spreading threat.

• Xiao Chen traveled beyond He Province, secured a dead volcano with defensive and Spirit Gathering formations, and spent days preparing for his breakthrough.
• Xiao Chen refined the Phoebe Zhennan Branch and Subduing Dragon Ginseng, deepening his comprehension of the Great Dao of Wood and purifying his mana.
• Jade Zither True Person sent Zhong Lixue and the other disciples to Yuan Magnetic Peak, then stayed behind as the White Bone Demon Body destroyed Ten Thousand Flowers Valley and killed its remaining defenders.
• Thunder Sound True Person urged the Spirit Origin Sect to seek cooperation against the White Bone Demon Body, but Jade Bloom True Person resisted and the Divine Fire Sect continued its offensive.
• News of Xiao Chen's supposed death spread, while Lin Ping'an divined an auspicious Rise result and withdrew to cultivate.
• On May eleventh, Xiao Chen used spiritual materials and the Yin Yang Harmonizing Contract to break through, transform his bones, and form a Flawless Golden Core.

Xiao Chen completed his Golden Core breakthrough, gaining powerful true essence, a thirty-li Divine Sense range, and a Golden Body. He chose Featherweight Player III for its immediate combat and cultivation benefits, then began refining his Spirit Tools as he prepared to face the demonic threats.

• Xiao Chen converted his mana into true essence, expanded his Divine Sense range to thirty li, and forged his Golden Body, completing his Golden Core breakthrough.
• Xiao Chen considered Enhanced Forest Illusion, Worth Waiting II, and Featherweight Player III, then chose Featherweight Player III to improve his cultivation speed and combat power.
• Xiao Chen gathered his formation equipment and used true essence to initially refine the White Bone Soul Summoning Banner and Ghost Mask Profound Light Shield.
• Xiao Chen found that fully refining the White Bone Soul Summoning Banner required far more mana than expected, revealing the unusually high demands of the Spirit Tools prepared by Yellow Springs Path.

While the Azure Flame Sect besieged the Li Fire Sect to seize its Spirit Fires, Xiao Chen returned to Qi Yun Peak after forming his Golden Core and learned of the sect’s crisis. Bright Flame True Person let him choose a cultivation technique and spells, and Xiao Chen selected the Myriad Images Spring Return Scripture and several manuals.

• The Azure Flame Sect attacked the weakened Li Fire Sect and Four Seas Sect, drove Azure Pine True Person into the Ten Thousand Demons Mountain Range, and besieged Qi Yun Peak under Bright Flame True Person’s defense.
• Xiao Chen tested his new Golden Core strength, discovered that Golden Light Shrinking Earth carried him twenty-five thousand li a day, and reached Li Province.
• Xiao Chen approached Qi Yun Peak at night, where Bright Flame True Person recognized him and learned that he had formed a Golden Core.
• Bright Flame True Person explained the Azure Flame Sect’s siege and the Li Fire Sect’s dwindling Spirit Stone reserves, and Xiao Chen asked to see the sect’s cultivation techniques.
• Bright Flame True Person gave Xiao Chen a Formation Flag to enter the Scripture Pavilion, where Xiao Chen chose the Myriad Images Spring Return Scripture, a Yellow Grade Sword Art, a Yellow Grade Escape Technique, and two other spells.

Xiao Chen rapidly refined his true essence and mastered several fire spells and an escape technique before the Azure Flame Sect began attacking the Li Fire Sect. As he asked Bright Flame True Person to open the formation so he could fight, Yun Xiang True Person sensed that Xiao Chen posed a far greater danger than the enemy outside.

• Xiao Chen used Hextech, Spirit Stones, and Six Harmonies Divine Water to refine his true essence, then mastered Chasing Stars and Catching the Moon, True Yang Nine Dragons Dance, and Jade Terrace Fire Lotus.
• Thousand Bamboo True Person tried to persuade Bright Flame True Person to surrender, but Bright Flame True Person and Yun Xiang True Person refused to hand over the Li Fire Sect's Spirit Fire.
• Yun Xiang True Person revealed that her dantian injury had ended her hopes of reaching Nascent Soul and asked Bright Flame True Person to look after her disciple Mei Yong.
• The Azure Flame Sect resumed its assault on Qi Yun Peak, and Yun Xiang True Person urged Bright Flame True Person to use the killing formation even if it cost her life.
• Xiao Chen asked Bright Flame True Person to open the formation so he could face the attackers, and Yun Xiang True Person recognized that he had formed a Golden Core.
• Yun Xiang True Person used her sensing technique on Xiao Chen and felt an overwhelming chill, judging that he could kill her without giving her any chance to fight back.

After forming his core, Xiao Chen fought the Azure Flame Sect’s three Golden Core True Persons and used his overwhelming strength and the White Bone Soul Summoning Banner to capture all three as Spirit Puppets. He headed for Azure Flame Peak to finish the campaign, while Bright Flame True Person and Yun Xiang True Person secured Qi Yun Peak and dealt with the Jiang Family.

• Xiao Chen dismissed Bright Flame True Person’s caution and led Yun Xiang True Person and Bright Flame True Person out to face the Azure Flame Sect’s Golden Cores.
• Golden Mace True Person’s fire spells failed against Xiao Chen, whose enormous True Yang Fire Dragon overwhelmed the enemy’s fire dragon and drove Golden Mace True Person to flee.
• Xiao Chen stopped Golden Mace True Person, blocked his maces with the Ghost Mask Profound Light Shield, and captured his Essence Soul with the White Bone Soul Summoning Banner.
• Xiao Chen returned to the battlefield and captured Returning Goose True Person and Azure Firmament True Person as Essence Souls, leaving the Azure Flame Sect’s Golden Core forces defeated.
• Xiao Chen set out for Azure Flame Peak, while Bright Flame True Person sealed Qi Yun Peak and ordered the Jiang Family seized.
• Yun Xiang True Person killed the Jiang Family’s Third-tier Alchemist after he begged for mercy and claimed the Fuling Huiqing Pill could spare his clan.

Xiao Chen seized the Azure Flame Sect’s books and treasures, claimed the Big Dipper Spirit Fire, and found several rare spiritual items while sorting the spoils. As he prepared to settle accounts with the Jiang Family, the Li Fire Sect began decorating Qi Yun Peak and summoned the bewildered Old Man Wu for an unexplained ceremony.

• Xiao Chen stormed the Azure Flame Sect’s Scripture Pavilion, gathered its books, and found Xiong Qiming waiting at the Sect Warehouse to pledge the Xiong Family’s loyalty.
• Xiong Qiming revealed the Big Dipper Spirit Fire and explained that it needed to remain on its Fire Nurturing Platform, so Xiao Chen claimed it and appointed Xiong Qiming to guard it.
• Xiao Chen looted the Sect Warehouse and the three Golden Core True Persons’ Storage Bags, collecting Spirit Stones, artifacts, a formation set, and several unusual objects.
• Xiao Chen discovered an Origin Returning Divine Stone, Seven Fragrance Jade Treasure Silk, and an unidentified crystal, then decided to return and settle accounts with the Jiang Family.
• On Qi Yun Peak, the Li Fire Sect decorated the mountain and summoned Old Man Wu, who received a High-Grade Magic Tool robe without learning why he had been called.