Chapter Summaries

Zhou Ming and the cultivators fought off the Evil Spirit and Devil Monster tides, and he killed Mist Devil Demon Lord before absorbing his spirit and gaining Plane Analysis. After the battle, they collected and divided a huge haul, and Zhou Ming flew off with the loot to find a city where he could trade it.

• Zhou Ming and the others cut through the Devil Monster tide, and Zhou Ming killed Mist Devil Demon Lord with Golden Light Sword Cannon.
• Mist Devil Demon Lord tried to possess Zhou Ming, but Zhou Ming absorbed his spirit and gained about 1% Plane Analysis while preserving its memories in the system database.
• After fighting through the night, Zhou Ming and the cultivators survived as the tides retreated, leaving nearly eighty thousand Devil Monsters dead near the camp.
• The cultivators collected Spirit Cores, Soul Cores, Devil Monster Eyes, and valuable corpses, then Zhou Ming took the Soul Cores and a few choice items while the rest was divided among them.
• Unable to fit the massive haul in the Lightspeed's cargo hold, Zhou Ming packed it into a magical net bag and flew north toward a large city.
• The cargo merchant ship Immortal had spent more than a month buying Soul Cores cheaply in Devil Abyss Continent, but trouble had found its crew.

The Immortal’s crew sold its cargo in Devil Abyss Continent, but local forces attacked to seize the ship and its technology. After the Immortal crushed them, Zhou Ming arranged for the ship to transport Soul Cores back to the Ten Thousand Chariots Nation, where its return sparked a gold rush.

• The Immortal sold its goods in Qin Tian City for five billion Spirit Coins and used the proceeds to buy Soul Cores.
• The Six Major Sects and more than fifty cities assembled over a thousand immortals to demand taxes, stop the purchases, and seize the Immortal.
• Wang Shizhang ordered the Immortal’s armored crew and autocannons into battle, and they routed the local forces, killing most of the attackers.
• Zhou Ming met the Immortal and entrusted it with Soul Cores for the Bai, Mu, Jiang, and Gao families.
• The Immortal returned to the Ten Thousand Chariots Nation three months later, triggering a Soul Core gold rush there and in East Origin Nation.

After studying the Devil World’s vast resources and inhabitants, Zhou Ming led Mu Feiyan, Gao Xiuzhen, and Jiang Ruonan into an abyssal fissure to hunt Devil Race experts. They returned after more than three months with Plane Analysis at 72.1%, and Zhou Ming’s cultivation showed signs of breaking through.

• Zhou Ming learned from the Mist Devil Demon Lord’s memories that the Devil World was vast, resource-rich, and populated by many powerful Devil Kings and Devil Venerables.
• Zhou Ming concluded that humanity would eventually invade the Devil World for resources and prepared to enter the abyssal fissure with Mu Feiyan, Gao Xiuzhen, and Jiang Ruonan.
• On August 1st, Zhou Ming and the others entered the fissure wearing Sky-Soaring Battle Armor and carrying oxygen tanks.
• More than three months later, Zhou Ming and the others emerged after killing millions of Devil Race beings, including 1,184 Devil Kings and three Devil Venerables.
• The system’s Plane Analysis increased from 66.8% to 72.1%, but it reported that another five percentage points would require killing at least 1,000 Devil Venerables.
• After returning to the surface, Zhou Ming felt his cultivation nearing a breakthrough as the system shared insights gained from its analysis.

After breaking through to the Spirit Manifestation Late Stage, Zhou Ming explored the Yin Flame Dynasty and discovered that its rulers periodically seized millions of ordinary people for brutal construction projects. As Mu Feiyan and the others debated how to help, Zhou Ming offered a slower plan that could save the people permanently.

• Zhou Ming shattered his cultivation bottleneck, increased his soul power, and demonstrated his new strength by destroying a distant hill with a Golden Light Sword Cannon.
• After stabilizing his cultivation in the Devil Abyss Continent, Zhou Ming and his companions traveled east to the Yin Flame Dynasty and learned that its ruling class exploited ordinary people through recurring mass conscription.
• Mu Feiyan wanted to rescue villagers being seized for labor, but Gao Xiuzhen argued that saving a few people would not end their suffering.
• Jiang Ruonan proposed killing the emperor and ministers, but Zhou Ming warned that the dynasty's oppressive system would return unless its ruling class was uprooted.
• Zhou Ming told the women he had a slower method that might take a hundred years or more but could save the country's people permanently, and Mu Feiyan asked what it was.

Zhou Ming rescued Wang Sandao and his resistance fighters from the Yin Flame Dynasty’s army, then gave them five texts and technologies to support a rebellion. To buy them time, Zhou Ming killed the emperor and left a banner ordering the dynasty to stop conscripting laborers for thirty years.

• Zhou Ming found Wang Sandao’s stronghold under siege and Gao Xiuzhen’s sword strikes wiped out the government troops attacking it.
• Zhou Ming saved the survivors and spent seven days giving them the All People Creation Art, the Dragon Snake Qi Refining Art, Saint Zhang’s Art of War, and two weapons-manufacturing guides.
• Wang Sandao asked how they could rebel after the dynasty had taken the able-bodied men, and Zhou Ming promised that no one in the Herding Provinces would be conscripted for thirty years.
• Zhou Ming and his companions flew to the imperial capital and attacked the Imperial Court Meeting, killing nobles and ministers and beheading the emperor.
• Zhou Ming left the emperor’s head and a white banner on the throne bearing the order, “For thirty years, no laborers may be conscripted!”

After ten years of exploring, Zhou Ming realized that he and his companions needed to find a Spirit Saint or evidence connected to one to advance their cultivation. They investigated an ancient battlefield where two Spirit Saints had fought, then returned to the Duan Victory Sect with a new plan to search for Spirit Saints more effectively.

• Mu Feiyan asked why Zhou Ming had warned the Yin Flame Dynasty against conscripting civilians for only thirty years, and Gao Xiuzhen explained that the warning was meant to give Wang Sandao and the others time to grow strong.
• Over ten years, Zhou Ming, Jiang Ruonan, Mu Feiyan, and Gao Xiuzhen explored more than a hundred thousand continents, collected some treasures, and found little that could help their cultivation.
• Zhou Ming sought Spirit Saint leads from powerful sects, punished two sects that tried to kill them for their treasures, and widened the distance between their stops.
• On Multiply Yuan Continent, Floating Cloud Elder told Zhou Ming about an ancient arena where two Spirit Saints had fought, and Zhou Ming took him there aboard the Lightspeed.
• Zhou Ming and his companions examined the devastated arena for several days, then returned to the Duan Victory Sect after finding no concrete breakthrough clues.
• While staying at the Duan Victory Sect, Zhou Ming devised a method to speed up their search for traces of Spirit Saints.

Zhou Ming used the system’s global search to find the Chao Saint Sect and hoped its Spirit Saint could help him advance, but the sect’s indifferent master offered no guidance. After Zhou Ming persuaded the Spirit Saint’s eight aging elders to attack their master, the Spirit Saint killed them, and Zhou Ming escaped with his companions.

• Zhou Ming ended Ye Kong’s injection binding, freed the system’s processing capacity, and searched the continent until he found the Chao Saint Sect and its Spirit Saint.
• Zhou Ming injection-bound an Inner Disciple and learned that the sect rarely accepted outsiders, while the Spirit Saint seldom taught anyone and kept only eight Direct Disciples.
• Zhou Ming traveled to the Chao Saint Sect, spent twenty years becoming a high-ranking elder, and met the Spirit Saint, whose indifference convinced Zhou Ming that he would offer no help.
• Zhou Ming persuaded the eight elders to attack their master, but the Spirit Saint survived their cannon blast and killed all eight with a single strike.
• Zhou Ming fled aboard the Lightspeed as the Spirit Saint pursued him, then escaped when the ship reached the vacuum; Mu Feiyan, Gao Xiuzhen, and Jiang Ruonan rebuked him for the failed scheme.

Zhou Ming discovered that knowledge and information could earn him Spirit Saints’ attention, allowing him to befriend several and trade for useful leads, though they refused to teach him how to reach their stage. After a failed attempt to explore an ancient Spirit Saint’s tomb, he learned of the Ice and Snow Saintess’s recurring invasions and saw a possible opportunity in her conflict.

• Zhou Ming considered returning to the Ten Thousand Chariots Nation to pursue Technology Enlightenment, but decided to keep searching for opportunities among Spirit Saints.
• Over the next twenty years, Zhou Ming visited more than ten Spirit Saint dojos and began presenting himself as a Spirit Communication Envoy with a map and knowledge of the plane.
• Zhou Ming befriended four or five Spirit Saints, exchanged information with them, and traded his map for cultivation methods, Spirit Saint locations, and the location of an ancient Spirit Saint’s tomb.
• Zhou Ming explored the tomb but barely escaped its traps and collapse without gaining anything.
• Zhou Ming learned that the Ice and Snow Saintess repeatedly invaded warmer lands and had resisted several Spirit Saints’ attempts to defeat her, and he recognized a genuine need.

The Ice and Snow Saintess questioned whether the snow race should launch its next war against humanity, knowing their repeated invasions failed because of harsh conditions, poor discipline, and inferior equipment. When Zhou Ming broke into the snow race’s sacred land claiming he could help strengthen them, the Saintess captured him and ordered him brought to the temple.

• The Ice and Snow Saintess reflected on the snow race’s history of failed invasions and the reasons their armies struggled in human territory.
• She considered abandoning the approaching millennium war but decided the snow race’s growing population and food shortage left the south as their only viable direction for expansion.
• Zhou Ming arrived at the Ice and Snow Temple and tried to convince two elders that he wanted to join the snow race and could make them stronger.
• The elders attacked Zhou Ming, and the Ice and Snow Saintess restrained him before their ice spikes could hit him.
• The Saintess froze Zhou Ming inside a diamond-shaped block of ice and ordered the elders to bring him into the temple.

Zhou Ming convinced the Ice and Snow Saintess to test his plan for strengthening the Snow Clan by growing grain in the snowfields. After he succeeded, the Snow Clan welcomed him and embraced his three-step strategy for rising to power.

• The Ice and Snow Saintess questioned Zhou Ming about his claim that he could strengthen the Snow Clan, and he outlined the clan’s economic, political, and cultural problems.
• Zhou Ming proposed developing agriculture, but the Ice and Snow Saintess doubted grain could grow in the snowfields, so he asked for one hundred workers and three months to prove it.
• Three months later, Zhou Ming showed the Ice and Snow Saintess and the elders a successful wheat harvest grown in a greenhouse.
• The Ice and Snow Saintess apologized for the clan’s earlier suspicions and ordered a banquet to welcome Mister Bai into the Snow Clan.
• At the banquet, Zhou Ming presented his three steps—develop agriculture, build institutions and industry, then strengthen the military—and the Snow Clan leaders cheered.

Zhou Ming helped the Snow Tribe build greenhouses and use its vast coal reserves to develop agriculture, then discovered that wine could keep the volatile Snow Tribe members working peacefully. Five years later, the core regions had secured a food surplus, and Zhou Ming had found a way to make the tribe’s ambitious projects run smoothly.

• Zhou Ming concluded that the snowfields’ abundant coal came from ancient forests buried beneath the ice and outlined a long-term plan to build up Snow Tribe agriculture and industry.
• Over five years, the Snow Tribe built fifty million Light-Gathering Ice Valleys across nearly five billion mu, producing enough food to feed its core regions and more.
• Zhou Ming struggled to control the Snow Tribe members’ frequent fights and learned that their diet contributed to their hot tempers.
• When surplus grain began to spoil, Zhou Ming opened a brewery, and the Snow Tribe members rushed to drink the wheat beer and eagerly restrained themselves for more.
• Zhou Ming began using wine to keep Snow Tribe members obedient and productive, helping his projects and reforms proceed smoothly.

Zhou Ming helped transform the snow race and used the Ice and Snow Saintess’s guidance and the system to pursue a breakthrough to the Spirit Saint Stage. Still unable to break through and worried about returning to Mu Feiyan and the others, he faced the Saintess’s sudden decision to attack humanity with a billion soldiers.

• The Ice and Snow Saintess taught Zhou Ming about reaching the Spirit Saint Stage, and his cultivation quickly rose to the peak of the Spirit Manifestation Late Stage.
• After witnessing Zhou Ming’s talent, the Ice and Snow Saintess asked him to join the snow race, and Zhou Ming agreed to secure her help.
• Over the next dozen years, Zhou Ming led agricultural, industrial, educational, and administrative reforms while the Ice and Snow Saintess forcefully crushed opposition.
• Nearly twenty years after the reforms began, the system used a Soul Model to devise breakthrough methods for Zhou Ming, but he remained stuck one step short of the Spirit Saint Stage after another ten years.
• Worried that Mu Feiyan and the others would come looking for him as their thirty-year agreement neared its end, Zhou Ming wondered how to leave the snowfields.
• The Ice and Snow Saintess entered the Cultivation Room and announced that she would send one billion elite snow race soldiers to attack humanity.

The snow race army under the Ice and Snow Saintess conquered the Desperate Great Wall and seized forests more than three thousand li into human territory. Zhou Ming’s wife Mu Feiyan arrived at his camp and called him her husband, leaving the snow race elders suspicious and the Ice and Snow Saintess alarmed.

• Zhou Ming advised the Ice and Snow Saintess to seize nearby forests, avoid advancing too deeply, and use the war to secure trade with the humans.
• Three months later, the Ice and Snow Saintess led one billion elite snow race troops south by rail, while Zhou Ming asked her to let his human friends visit him.
• The snow race army broke through the Desperate Great Wall, defeated the human allied forces, and occupied forests more than three thousand li into human territory.
• The human allied forces failed in several counterattacks, and the two sides settled into a stalemate.
• Mu Feiyan arrived at Zhou Ming’s camp, ran to him, and called him her husband as the snow race elders watched suspiciously and the Ice and Snow Saintess reacted from afar.

Zhou Ming’s soul power surged during a breakthrough, and he believed he had become a Soul Saint, though the system said his soul-power data had a problem. The Ice and Snow Saintess examined him while Mu Feiyan and Gao Xiuzhen celebrated the prospect of leaving the Snow Region.

• The Ice and Snow Saintess questioned Zhou Ming about Mu Feiyan and Gao Xiuzhen, warned him to focus on his duties, and let him go.
• Six months later, Zhou Ming returned to Snow Region Holy City with Mu Feiyan and Gao Xiuzhen after the Snow Clan front line stabilized; Mu Feiyan vowed to stay by his side.
• Over the next five years, Zhou Ming lived with the women in the Snow Region, while the Ice and Snow Saintess grew increasingly irritable watching their affection and hearing their cultivation noises.
• Zhou Ming began a breakthrough that drew vast soul power and created a vast heavenly phenomenon, but his soul-power entropy value stopped at 303.
• Zhou Ming sensed across ten thousand miles and celebrated what he thought was his breakthrough to Soul Saint, while the system said it needed time to investigate a data problem.
• Mu Feiyan blurted out that they could leave the Snow Region, and the Ice and Snow Saintess heard her before taking Zhou Ming’s hand to examine his cultivation.

The Ice and Snow Saintess learned that Zhou Ming had only reached the Quasi Spirit Saint Stage and sought a way to keep him with the Snow Clan. She proposed marrying him, while the system revealed its flawed breakthrough formula and urged him to accept so it could analyze her Spirit Saint soul.

• The Ice and Snow Saintess confirmed that Zhou Ming had not reached the Spirit Saint Stage, and Mu Feiyan and Gao Xiuzhen worried they would remain trapped in Snow Clan territory.
• The Ice and Snow Saintess discussed how to keep Bai Feiyang with the Snow Clan, and Elder Uma proposed marrying him to the Saintess.
• The Ice and Snow Saintess accepted the proposal and confronted Zhou Ming with an offer of marriage, threatening to kill the two human women if he refused.
• The system confessed that its flawed formula had kept Zhou Ming from advancing and urged him to marry the Saintess so it could analyze her soul and derive a correct breakthrough method.
• Zhou Ming mentally cursed the system and stammered as the Ice and Snow Saintess demanded his answer.

Zhou Ming agreed to marry the Ice and Snow Saintess to survive, then arranged for Gao Xiuzhen to take Mu Feiyan away from danger. He became the Snow Clan’s Saint Husband, and after years of political and military achievements and intensive dual cultivation, he felt on the verge of reaching the Spirit Saint Stage.

• Zhou Ming reluctantly accepted the Ice and Snow Saintess’s marriage proposal, and she declared he would become the Snow Clan’s Saint Husband in three days.
• Zhou Ming warned Gao Xiuzhen that the Ice and Snow Saintess threatened Mu Feiyan’s life, and Gao Xiuzhen agreed to take Mu Feiyan away while Zhou Ming promised to reunite with them.
• Mu Feiyan resisted leaving, but Zhou Ming comforted her and knocked her unconscious so Gao Xiuzhen could carry her onto the Lightspeed and leave Snow Region Holy City.
• Zhou Ming married the Ice and Snow Saintess and later earned the Snow Clan’s support through reforms, educational achievements, and victories against the human allied forces.
• Zhou Ming and the Ice and Snow Saintess practiced dual cultivation, allowing his system to derive a Soul Power Compression Formula and generate breakthrough plans.
• After three years, Zhou Ming felt that he was about to break through to the Spirit Saint Stage.

Zhou Ming reached the Spirit Saint Stage but remained under the Ice and Snow Saintess’s watch, then chose to fight beside her against two human Spirit Saints and helped kill them. Their souls pushed the system’s Plane Analysis rate to 99.91%, while Jiang Ruonan’s impending breakthrough gave Mu Feiyan and Gao Xiuzhen hope of rescuing Zhou Ming.

• Zhou Ming advanced to the Spirit Saint Stage, but the Ice and Snow Saintess remained too strong for him to escape alone, so he stayed and wrote weekly letters to Mu Feiyan and the others.
• Three years later, Spirit Saint A and Spirit Saint B arrived to demand the snow race withdraw, and Spirit Saint A recognized Zhou Ming as the Spirit Communication Envoy.
• Although the two human Spirit Saints urged Zhou Ming to rejoin humanity, he attacked Spirit Saint A to feed the system’s Plane Analysis with his soul.
• After three days of battle, Zhou Ming killed Spirit Saint A, and the Ice and Snow Saintess killed the fleeing Spirit Saint B; their souls raised the Plane Analysis rate to 99.91%.
• As the human allied forces despaired after losing their Spirit Saints, Jiang Ruonan began advancing to the Spirit Saint Stage, and Mu Feiyan and Gao Xiuzhen hoped she could help save Zhou Ming.

After Plane Analysis reached 100%, Zhou Ming created a convincing clone to keep the Ice and Snow Saintess occupied while he escaped the Snow Region Holy City. His main body reunited with Jiang Ruonan, Mu Feiyan, and the others, and they set off for home aboard the Lightspeed.

• Jiang Ruonan reached the Spirit Saint Stage, and Mu Feiyan and Gao Xiuzhen asked her to help rescue Bai Feiyang; they delayed their plans after receiving his encrypted letter promising to escape within half a year.
• Zhou Ming's intelligence network reported Jiang Ruonan's breakthrough, and he sent an urgent telegram that persuaded the women not to attack the Snow Region Holy City.
• After devouring two Spirit Saint Stage souls, Zhou Ming completed Plane Analysis and asked the system to create a clone with a soul fragment of at least 100 soul-power entropy points.
• Zhou Ming and the system created a clone body using his blood and Snow Race genetic material, and the Ice and Snow Saintess supported the experiments, unaware of his escape plan.
• When Jiang Ruonan and Mu Feiyan fought the Ice and Snow Saintess outside the castle, Zhou Ming sent his clone to drive the women away while his main body escaped south.
• Zhou Ming reunited with Jiang Ruonan, Mu Feiyan, and the others at a Human World sect, and the four boarded the Lightspeed to travel home.

After returning to the Eastern Yuan Nation, Zhou Ming and Jiang Ruonan learned that a Devil Saint had driven the human nations to the brink of defeat. They revealed that they had both reached the Spirit Saint Stage, and Zhou Ming demonstrated his power as Jiang Ruyue realized the Eastern Yuan Nation might be saved.

• Zhou Ming and his companions returned to Free and Unfettered Palace, where Jiang Ruyue explained that the Devil Race was preparing to attack the Eastern Yuan Nation.
• Jiang Ruyue recounted how the Ten Thousand Chariots Nation and Eastern Yuan Nation had exploited Devil Abyss Continent, provoking a Devil Saint who created sunlight-resistant Demon Beasts and destroyed their fleets.
• Jiang Ruyue told Zhou Ming and Jiang Ruonan that the Devil Race had seized hundreds of Yuan Continents and that the Eastern Yuan Nation had become its next target.
• Zhou Ming and Jiang Ruonan said they had both reached the Spirit Saint Stage, but Jiang Ruyue doubted they could defeat the Devil Saint.
• Zhou Ming took Jiang Ruyue into the sky and demonstrated his power by gathering clouds into a vast sphere and dispersing them as rain.
• Jiang Ruyue realized Zhou Ming and Jiang Ruonan could save the Eastern Yuan Nation.

After returning from another continent as a Spirit Saint, Bai Feiyang gave Ten Thousand Chariots Nation a chance to resist the Devil Race and helped trigger a financial and political reversal. The Devil Race army advanced toward Eastern Yuan Nation, with the Three Nations Alliance now backed by two Spirit Saints.

• The Devil Saint’s invasion had killed hundreds of thousands of immortals and forced Ten Thousand Chariots Nation and Eastern Yuan Nation to plan evacuations, while Jiang Ruyue suspended Eastern Yuan Nation’s migration amid protests.
• Zhou Ming returned to the Bai family residence and urged Bai Jian to seize business opportunities, hinting that he had reached Spirit Saint Stage; he also visited the Mu family, while Gao Xiuzhen prepared supplies to resurrect Zhang Shanhe.
• Ten Thousand Chariots Nation announced that Bai Feiyang had returned as a Spirit Saint, and Jiang Ruyue introduced her mother, Jiang Ruonan, as Eastern Yuan Nation’s Spirit Saint.
• Markets soared as citizens celebrated, and elite migrants rushed back from New Yuan Continent to reclaim their property.
• Three months later, the Devil Race army advanced beneath a vast black cloud toward Eastern Yuan Nation, expected to arrive in ten days.