Chapter Summaries

Qi Yuan considered how to obtain a rare Foundation Establishment Spiritual Object, then ate Jiang Lingsu’s spiritual food and discovered that it strengthened his magical power. After hunting Attire Demons in the game, he exchanged messages with Jin Li, who told him that Aunt Qin’s injuries had improved.

• Qi Yuan learned that a first-grade Foundation Establishment Spiritual Object was worth ten thousand Spirit Stones or more, but decided that competing to win one was too troublesome.
• Jiang Lingsu served Qi Yuan spiritual ingredient soup, and he felt his magical power increase after eating it.
• Qi Yuan entered the game and hunted Attire Demons, noting that they gathered faster and seemed to be growing stronger.
• Qi Yuan replied to Jin Li’s messages and heard that medicine from the Xuanyuan Forbidden Area had greatly improved Aunt Qin’s injuries.

Qi Yuan taught Jin Li ordinary exercises and used the Divine Brush to make exercising increase cultivation inside the Xuanyuan Forbidden Area, though he suspected the change carried a hair-loss side effect. Jin Li brought her trusted confidants into the forbidden area with ladders and ordered them to try the exercises, leaving Aunt Qin to test them first.

• Jin Li asked Qi Yuan how to become stronger quickly, and Qi Yuan taught her push-ups, sit-ups, and pull-ups.
• Qi Yuan used the Divine Brush to change the Xuanyuan Forbidden Area’s rules so exercise would increase cultivation, and warned Jin Li about possible hair loss.
• Qi Yuan logged off for Seven Colors Peak, while Jin Li decided to trust his advice and summoned her confidants.
• Jin Li led more than thirty confidants, including Aunt Qin, to the Xuanyuan Forbidden Area and had them enter while carrying ladders.
• Jin Li told the group that exercising in the forbidden area would rapidly increase cultivation, and Aunt Qin began doing push-ups to test the claim.

Aunt Qin and Jin Li’s followers discovered that exercising in the Xuanyuan Forbidden Area rapidly increased their cultivation, though it caused hair loss. Meanwhile, Qi Yuan reached level 88 while hunting Attire Demons and amused himself by supplying their missing cries.

• Aunt Qin found that one push-up gave her the equivalent of half an hour of cultivation, and several followers soon broke through their bottlenecks.
• The followers tested push-ups, pull-ups, and sit-ups with ladders and rapidly increased their cultivation.
• Jin Li revealed that the exercises’ side effect was hair loss, which the followers accepted as a small price for growing stronger.
• Aunt Qin promised she could reach the Emperor Rank within two days, giving Jin Li hope for the coming duel.
• Qi Yuan reached level 88, defeated an Attire Demon, and pretended to voice the silent demons as he continued fighting.

Qi Yuan arranged to meet Jin Li beneath the Ancient Qixun Camphor Tree and prepared for Shinguang Sect’s Foundation Establishment Tournament. While he entered the game that night, his kitchen knife awakened and secretly went scavenging for food.

• Jin Li proposed meeting Qi Yuan beneath the Ancient Qixun Camphor Tree, and Qi Yuan agreed to bring barbecue while she brought wine.
• Jin Li celebrated Aunt Qin’s victory over Nanfeng Nation’s National Teacher but remained wary of the dangers still facing her.
• Qi Yuan walked his kitchen knife around Shinguang Sect as disciples discussed the tournament, its Yellow Flower Fruit reward, and the threat posed by Chu Tianxiong of Black Mountain Sect.
• Qi Yuan returned to Seven Colors Peak, tied the knife to a stake, and entered the game to avoid thinking about the tournament.
• The kitchen knife broke free, searched the Thatched Cottage for food, rummaged through a garbage heap, and tied itself back up.

Jiang Lingsu discovered that someone had rummaged through her garbage heap and suspected the visitor might be an unusual being at Shinguang Sect. She hired Qi Yuan to search for a powerful or talented individual, and the Foundation Establishment Tournament began with Qi Yuan welcoming the visiting representatives.

• Jiang Lingsu used a Sensing Talisman to learn that a living being had lingered outside her house during the Hour of the Ox and suspected Qi Yuan might know something about unusual people.
• Jiang Lingsu gave Qi Yuan a thousand Spirit Stones to help her find a special individual destined to aid her, describing the person as possibly powerful, talented, or not even human.
• Qi Yuan accepted the job, wondered whether Jiang Lingsu was trying to keep him, and tried out names for his Kitchen Knife before sensing that it increased his combat strength.
• The Foundation Establishment Tournament began at Shinguang Sect, where representatives from various sects and the Changshan Prince arrived.
• Qi Yuan welcomed the tournament guests at the Shinguang Sect mountain gate.

Qi Yuan represented the Shinguang Sect at the Foundation Establishment Tournament, where he warned Chu Tianxiong of a coming calamity after the Black Mountain Sect criminal mocked Jiang Ran and Zheng Jianghe. The tournament began, and Qi Yuan’s first opponent, Duan Tianjiao, was mysteriously sent flying before he even made a move and immediately conceded.

• The sect representatives arrived at the Shinguang Sect, including four Core Formation True Persons, and Changshan Prince exchanged greetings with Qi Yuan.
• Chu Tianxiong mocked Jiang Ran and Zheng Jianghe, prompting Qi Yuan to predict that Chu Tianxiong would soon face a Sign of Bloody Calamity.
• The Foundation Establishment Tournament began as Qi Refining disciples competed in spell contests, which Qi Yuan found dull.
• Qi Yuan faced Duan Tianjiao of the Demonic Desire Sect and watched her feet warily because of her foot-picking habit.
• Before Qi Yuan could circulate his spiritual power, Duan Tianjiao was sent flying, praised his Remote Acupoint Strike Technique, and conceded.

Qi Yuan advanced through the Foundation Establishment Tournament as opponents repeatedly conceded, while Changshan Prince explained how his powerful master had secured the Yellow Flower Fruit for him. In the final round, Chu Yundong challenged Qi Yuan with a Foundation Establishment magical artifact, raising suspicions about Black Mountain Sect’s ambitions.

• Qi Yuan won another match when a Sword Cultivator from Suspended Mountain suddenly conceded, and he suspected his master had arranged the convenient victories.
• Changshan Prince told Qi Yuan that his master had once taken an Ancient Qixun Camphor Tree from the Demonic Desire Sect, earning the great sects’ gratitude and their compliance over the Yellow Flower Fruit.
• Qi Yuan joked that his overbearing master had fallen for him, and Changshan Prince urgently told him to keep quiet.
• Qi Yuan’s opponents continued conceding until the final round, when Chu Yundong of Black Mountain Sect challenged him with a Foundation Establishment magical artifact.
• The sect elders suspected Black Chicken Old Demon was behind Black Mountain Sect’s move and considered whether his cultivation had advanced, while Changshan Prince could not warn Qi Yuan under the tournament rules.

Qi Yuan won the Foundation Establishment Tournament by vanishing and knocking out Chu Yundong with one punch, then claimed the Yellow Flower Fruit reward. As he returned to Seven Colors Peak, he warned Chu Tianxiong of his bad luck and reassured Jiang Ran, who remained worried about the Black Mountain Sect’s threat.

• Qi Yuan used the Minor Stealth Technique to disappear and struck Chu Yundong from behind, winning the tournament with a single punch.
• A sect elder awarded Qi Yuan the first-grade Foundation Establishment Spiritual Object, Yellow Flower Fruit, which he planned to save for Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment.
• Changshan Prince praised Qi Yuan and left to drink with the Shinguang Sect master, while Chu Tianxiong glared at Qi Yuan with greed.
• Qi Yuan told Chu Tianxiong that his Sign of Bloody Calamity was worsening, then teased him by suggesting he kowtow to Jiang Ran for good fortune.
• Jiang Ran thanked Qi Yuan for helping her and warned him that Chu Tianxiong was dangerous and favored by Black Chicken Old Demon.
• Jiang Ran watched Qi Yuan leave and worried that the Black Mountain Sect’s continued stay in Rong City left her and the Shinguang Sect powerless.

Qi Yuan returned to Seven Colors Peak with a Yellow Flower Fruit and tried to present it to Ruan Yixi, but her restriction blocked him and strange phenomena followed. Meanwhile, Zheng Jianghe prepared to confront Black Mountain Sect in Rong City, where Chu Tianxiong and the sect’s disciples settled into a residence marked by a newlywed woman’s murder.

• Qi Yuan tried to pass Ruan Yixi’s restriction and offer her the Yellow Flower Fruit as a bride price, but the barrier remained closed and the sky stirred with strange phenomena.
• Jiang Lingsu asked Qi Yuan about the disturbance, and he said he would sharpen his blade because he wanted to eat fish.
• Zheng Jianghe insisted on going to Rong City despite his lingering injuries, while a physician warned him to be careful around Black Mountain Sect.
• Chu Tianxiong brought the Black Mountain Sect disciples to stay in an abandoned residence in Rong City to provoke Shinguang Sect.
• Chu Tianxiong recounted how he had killed a newlywed woman and her family, claiming he had done so to cultivate a Dao art.

The Masked Man entered the Black Mountain Sect courtyard claiming he had come to kill a fish, then slaughtered the disciples and killed Chicken Worshipping Ancestor with a single slash. He caught a black fish and left the courtyard covered in corpses.

• Liu Wei invited Chu Tianxiong to join the Black Mountain Sect disciples in a night of violence and abuse, and Chu Tianxiong complained about Qi Yuan.
• The Masked Man arrived at the sect courtyard with a Kitchen Knife and said he had come to kill a fish.
• After Chu Tianxiong demanded that he remove his mask, the Masked Man decapitated him and killed more than half the disciples with Summer Eight Slashes.
• Chicken Worshipping Ancestor attacked the Masked Man with core light, but the Masked Man killed him with the Heaven Severing Sword Drawing Technique.
• The Masked Man killed the remaining disciples, washed his Kitchen Knife by the pond, and caught a black fish.

Qi Yuan left the Chen Residence after killing Chu Tianxiong and the other Black Mountain Sect disciples, while Zheng Jianghe discovered the massacre and burned the scene to protect him. Qi Yuan then comforted Qianqian’s grieving parents outside the Shinguang Sect, saying the sect knew of their case and urging them to rest.

• The Masked Man caught a black fish at the pond, put it in a bamboo tube, and left the corpse behind while wondering whether to loot it.
• Zheng Jianghe learned that Black Mountain Sect disciples were staying at the Chen Residence and led Shinguang Sect disciples there to investigate.
• Qi Yuan emerged from the Chen Residence and told Zheng Jianghe that the Black Mountain Sect disciples had let him catch fish before vanishing in a puff of smoke.
• Zheng Jianghe and his group found Chu Tianxiong, the Chicken Worshipping Ancestor, and more than a dozen others dead, then set the Chen Residence ablaze to hide the scene.
• Qi Yuan brought fish soup to Qianqian’s parents as they knelt outside the Shinguang Sect and told them the sect knew about their case and they should rest.

Qi Yuan learned that the Black Mountain Sect disciples he had killed were being investigated, then panicked that the sect might trace the killings to him. He disguised himself and secretly went to Shinguang Sect’s Library Pavilion to research Black Mountain Sect’s strength.

• Jiang Ran told Qi Yuan that a mysterious Masked Man had killed Chu Tianxiong, Chicken Worshipping Ancestor, and the other Black Mountain Sect disciples in Rong City.
• Jiang Lingsu said investigators believed the Masked Man was likely a Sword Cultivator who had used a saber to conceal his Dao techniques, and Qi Yuan worried his Kitchen Knife might draw suspicion.
• Qi Yuan asked Jiang Lingsu and Jiang Ran to testify that he had stayed on Seven Colors Peak, then fretted that Black Mountain Sect might come after him.
• After Jiang Lingsu and Jiang Ran left, Qi Yuan disguised himself with a hat and pot soot, took his Kitchen Knife, and slipped away from Seven Colors Peak.
• Jiang Lingsu visited Qi Yuan’s empty courtyard, noticed the black fish in his tank, and left without investigating further.
• Qi Yuan climbed to the third floor of Shinguang Sect’s Library Pavilion and secretly searched for information about Black Mountain Sect’s strength.

Qi Yuan learned that Black Mountain Sect was weaker than he had feared and began planning to attack it while Black Chicken Old Demon was away. Meanwhile, Dong Xian’s Old Artifact noticed Qi Yuan’s Kitchen Knife and urged him to buy it.

• Qi Yuan studied Black Mountain Sect’s strength and learned it had only seven Core Formation True Persons, with its middle-stage Origin Core sect master as its strongest member.
• Qi Yuan confirmed with Zheng Jianghe that Black Chicken Old Demon lived at Ten Thousand Demons Ridge and was likely in seclusion, then decided he needed an excuse to leave Shinguang Sect.
• Dong Xian spoke with Old Artifact about Black Chicken Old Demon and the struggle for the Great Shang throne as he carried bamboo slips through Shinguang Sect.
• Old Artifact spotted Qi Yuan’s Kitchen Knife and urgently told Dong Xian to buy it, so Dong Xian forced himself to approach Qi Yuan.

Qi Yuan left Seven Colors Peak to avoid suspicion over the deaths of Chu Tianxiong and the others, then traveled to Bloodless City disguised as a Rogue Cultivator. There, he learned how Black Mountain Sect extorted blood-crystal miners and left without staying with Liu Piao, while her daughter prepared to meet the sect over the mines.

• Dong Xian met Qi Yuan, whose knife Old Artifact recognized as bearing the recent blood of a Core Formation Cultivator, and Old Artifact warned him to treat Qi Yuan as a friend.
• Qi Yuan told Jiang Lingsu he was leaving the sect to avoid being cornered by Black Mountain Sect over Chu Tianxiong's death.
• On the Spirit Boat to Bloodless City, Qi Yuan met Liu Piao, who warned him that Black Mountain Sect took an excessive share of the blood crystals mined there.
• After arriving, Qi Yuan declined Liu Piao's invitation to stay and left to catch the last Spirit Boat.
• Liu Piao's daughter, Xiao Rou, arrived and said she had to meet Black Mountain Sect with the other mine owners about their blood-crystal operation.

Qi Yuan attacked the Black Mountain Sect, claiming its disciples had killed his family, and swiftly overwhelmed its defenders. After Whirlwind Elder recognized his connection to the Chicken Worshipping Ancestor's death, Qi Yuan flew to face two Core Formation elders.

• Liu Piao warned her daughter that confronting the Black Mountain Sect over the blood crystal mine would bring trouble, while her daughter questioned whether a frail-looking man could defend their interests.
• At the Black Mountain Sect, Yu Linglong learned that the sect planned to pressure Suspended Mountain over the Masked Man, whom disciples suspected of using swordsmanship.
• Qi Yuan crossed the White Bone Bridge, killed its five guards, and severed the bridge before confronting the Black Mountain Sect's deacons.
• Qi Yuan killed three Foundation Establishment deacons and dozens of disciples, then smashed open the sect's mountain gate.
• Whirlwind Elder recognized Qi Yuan as the likely killer of the Chicken Worshipping Ancestor, and two Core Formation elders noticed Qi Yuan had no Golden Core as he attacked them.

Qi Yuan destroyed the Black Mountain Sect’s defenders, killed its sect master and Yu Linglong, and learned that the Black Chicken Old Demon sought the Purple Mansion Realm through her Purple Bamboo Body. He prepared to kill the surviving disciples, seize the sect’s Library Pavilion, and leave before the Black Chicken Old Demon arrived.

• Qi Yuan killed two Core Formation elders after Whirlwind Elder realized Qi Yuan was not at Foundation Establishment.
• Black Wind Daoist offered to settle the feud, while Yu Linglong tried to tempt Qi Yuan into sparing the sect, but Qi Yuan attacked instead.
• Black Wind Daoist activated the sect’s grand array and used his Heavy Iron Golden Core, which Qi Yuan split with his kitchen knife.
• Qi Yuan killed one Yuan Dan elder, while Yu Linglong devoured another elder’s Yuan Dan to restore her cultivation.
• Yu Linglong revealed her Purple Bamboo Body and the Black Chicken Old Demon’s plan, but Qi Yuan killed her and destroyed her remains.
• Qi Yuan decided to eliminate the surviving disciples, take the Library Pavilion, and leave the Black Mountain Sect.

After destroying Black Mountain Sect, Qi Yuan left and learned that the sect’s fall would soon be discovered. He headed for Soaring Sky Pavilion to spread a rumor about Purple Bamboo Bodies in the sect, hoping other cultivators would strip it bare before Black Chicken Old Demon returned.

• Qi Yuan looted Black Mountain Sect, focusing on its Library Pavilion, then left and asked a Cloud Rabbit Carriage of Bloodless City mine owners for directions to Soaring Sky Pavilion.
• Duan Qianrou warned Qi Yuan that Black Mountain Sect was dangerous, and he hurried away after claiming he had come to look at the stars.
• Duan Qianrou and the other mine owners discovered Black Mountain Sect’s collapsed bridge, ruined gate, and scattered corpses, and realized the sect had been wiped out.
• Qi Yuan worried that Black Wind Daoist or others in Black Mountain Sect might also have Purple Bamboo Bodies, but decided not to return himself.
• Qi Yuan went to Sky Cloud Market to use Soaring Sky Pavilion’s jade slip channels to publicize the presence of Purple Bamboo Bodies in Black Mountain Sect.

Qi Yuan paid Soaring Sky Pavilion to publicize that Black Mountain Sect possessed a Purple Bamboo Body, then returned to Shinguang Sect to sleep. The announcement brought Divine Infant experts to Black Mountain Sect, where they fought over the corpses while Qi Yuan woke up ready to play games.

• Qi Yuan paid Bu Chi Su three thousand Spirit Stones to publicize that Black Mountain Sect had a Purple Bamboo Body.
• Qi Yuan secretly returned to Shinguang Sect and fell asleep as news of Black Mountain Sect’s extermination and the Purple Bamboo Body spread.
• Five disguised cultivators, including several claiming to be Monk Wu Dian, arrived at Black Mountain Sect to search for the Purple Bamboo Body.
• The cultivators found Yu Linglong missing and identified the sect master’s corpse as a Blue Bamboo Body, then tore it apart to claim its benefits.
• The Divine Infant experts began fighting over Black Mountain Sect’s corpses, while Qi Yuan woke refreshed and called for the Little Clothing Monsters.

Qi Yuan returned after destroying the Black Mountain Sect, concealed his involvement from Jiang Lingsu, and claimed he wanted Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment. After she gave him a costly Essence Nurturing Pill, he decided to investigate the fallout from the sect’s destruction.

• Jiang Lingsu noticed Qi Yuan had returned because his Kitchen Knife was tied up in her courtyard, and she asked whether his foundation breakthrough had succeeded.
• Qi Yuan said his attempt with the first-grade Yellow Flower Fruit had failed, then declared that he wanted Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment instead.
• Jiang Lingsu gave Qi Yuan an Essence Nurturing Pill, and he realized its value and promised to protect her.
• Jiang Lingsu told Qi Yuan that the Black Mountain Sect had been wiped out and suspected he was involved, but he denied it.
• Jiang Lingsu used the Kunqian Mirror and saw that Qi Yuan’s cultivation was at Qi Refining Completion.
• Qi Yuan scolded his Kitchen Knife for rummaging through garbage and planned to go outside to learn what had happened after the Black Mountain Sect’s destruction.

Qi Yuan encountered the Level 95 Ugly Clothing Monster Emperor in the Attire Forbidden Area and fled to a mass grave, where he dug a pit and logged off. Half an hour later, a procession of Clothing Monsters appeared in the graveyard, dancing amid fire and music.

• Qi Yuan discussed Jin Li's plans to leave Nanqian Kingdom and encouraged her to join him in grinding monsters.
• Qi Yuan found signs of damage in the Attire Forbidden Area and searched for whoever had caused it.
• Qi Yuan dug a pit for shelter, encountered the Ugly Clothing Monster Emperor, and attacked it with Overlord Power.
• Qi Yuan fled until the monster stopped pursuing him, then dug a pit in a mass grave and logged off.
• A procession of Clothing Monsters entered the graveyard, set their clothes ablaze, and danced to the sound of gongs and firecrackers.