Chapter Summaries

Han Yuan used Jianmu’s dominion and powerful fire abilities to defeat Hundred Herbs Daoist, then absorbed the purified soul power and reached Peak Nascent Soul. As the secret realm began to collapse, Jianmu’s instinct led Han Yuan to insert a root into its core instead of fleeing.

• Jianmu seized control of the surrounding powers, so Hundred Herbs Daoist escaped its range and launched Myriad Arrows Volley.
• Jianmu transformed Han Yuan’s Earth Wind Ten Thousand Jun into Earth Glazed Golden Body and withstood the arrows unharmed.
• Han Yuan repeatedly used Fire Wind Spirit Burn to drive Hundred Herbs Daoist across the secret realm, while Jianmu’s dominion restricted his escape.
• Han Yuan combined several fire abilities and amplifications to burn Hundred Herbs Daoist’s body, then absorbed the youth’s refined soul power.
• A roll of 10 supplied more soul power, advancing Han Yuan’s Nascent Soul to Peak Nascent Soul as the secret realm began to collapse.
• Han Yuan followed Jianmu’s instinct and inserted one of its roots into the core of the secret realm.

Han Yuan took control of the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm and used Jianmu to restore it, draw resources from it, and steer it through the Spatial Flow Layer. After infusing the realm with the Law of Wood to boost its growth and speed, he attracted the attention of an enormous black shadow.

• Han Yuan stopped the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm from collapsing, took control of it, and restored its ruined landscape with Wood Wind Spring Life.
• Han Yuan discovered Jianmu was draining the secret realm, so he slowed its absorption and left roots behind to draw energy and Dao essence while he was outside it.
• Han Yuan propelled the secret realm through the Spatial Flow Layer and used a fishing rod to pull a passing island into it for resources and insight.
• Han Yuan infused the secret realm's core with a strand of the Law of Wood from Jianmu, greatly increasing its resource-absorption efficiency and travel speed.
• A huge black shadow in the Spatial Flow Layer sensed the transformed secret realm and swam toward it.

Han Yuan returned to the Earth God Sect after defeating True Monarch Bing Ling and revealed his Nascent Soul-level combat strength to its leaders. He then checked on Cangming Cave Mansion, learned how it had developed, and ordered Chang Chun to prepare for Foundation Establishment.

• Han Yuan returned to the Earth God Sect, passed its Mountain Protecting Grand Formation's oath inspection, and told the sect's True Persons that he had challenged True Monarch Bing Ling using his own Nascent Soul-level strength.
• Han Yuan asked the sect not to publicize his strength and instructed it to establish a Wandering Merchant Association headquarters in its territory.
• Han Yuan visited Cangming Cave Mansion, praised Chang Chun's work, and heard that its annual revenue had reached around two million Spirit Stones.
• Chang Chun told Han Yuan that Qin Feng had formed the Eagle Society, while Qin Sisi and Di Qing had returned to work for their families.
• Han Yuan ordered Chang Chun to release Wu Chao from Confinement Cliff and prepare for Foundation Establishment, promising to handle the rest.

After six years on Confinement Cliff, Wu Chao was unexpectedly released and brought to Han Yuan, who honored his promise to give him an opportunity for Foundation Establishment. Han Yuan welcomed him with cultivation-boosting tea, and Wu Chao broke through from Qi Refining Level 4 to Level 5.

• Wu Chao endured the inmates’ mockery while continuing to cultivate and trusting that Han Yuan would keep his promise.
• Law enforcement disciples released Wu Chao early and told him Han Yuan was waiting for him.
• Wu Chao was given Inner Sect status at Spirit Script Peak and taken to Han Yuan’s cave mansion.
• Chang Chun guided Wu Chao to meet Han Yuan, who welcomed him and offered him tea.
• The tea improved Wu Chao’s cultivation, allowing him to break through to Qi Refining Level 5.

Han Yuan helped Wu Chao and Chang Chun break through from Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment in the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm, astonishing the Cangming Cave Mansion. As news spread and Liu Sisi failed to reach Han Yuan, she wondered whether her years of effort had been worth less than Wu Chao’s time on Confinement Cliff.

• Han Yuan offered Wu Chao either cultivation resources and Foundation Establishment Pills or his personal help, and Wu Chao chose the direct breakthrough.
• Han Yuan brought Wu Chao to the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm and guided him through rapid breakthroughs to the Twelfth Level of Qi Condensation and then Foundation Establishment.
• Han Yuan noticed that Wu Chao’s breakthrough had slightly improved his comprehension of the Art of Gold and strengthened the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm.
• Wu Chao returned to Cangming Tower, and Han Yuan then helped Chang Chun break through to Foundation Establishment as well.
• Wu Chao and Chang Chun left Cangming Tower, and their newly revealed cultivation auras caused news of their breakthroughs to spread through the sect and beyond.
• Liu Sisi came hoping to meet Han Yuan, but a light screen blocked her from entering Cangming Tower, leaving her to question the value of her years of effort.

Han Yuan welcomed Du Yuanhe and his disciples, revealed that he had reached the Nascent Soul Realm, and accepted a new residence on Spirit Script Peak. He used his power to lift Cangming Cave Mansion and move it with its fields and occupants to the newly named Cangming Peak, leaving a spirit-plant garden behind.

• Chang Chun greeted Du Yuanhe, Fu Chuhua, and Yue Xianxian at Cangming Cave Mansion, where they saw Wu Chao had broken through to Foundation Establishment.
• Liu Sisi left for her clan, while Qin Feng decided to remain at Cangming Cave Mansion after seeing Wu Chao's advancement.
• Han Yuan met the three visitors, told them he was at the Nascent Soul Realm, and gave each of them a valuable gift.
• Du Yuanhe offered Han Yuan a higher status and a Heaven Tier Spirit Vein, but Han Yuan chose an isolated peak and named it Cangming Peak.
• Han Yuan lifted Cangming Cave Mansion, its spirit fields, and its occupants into the air and moved them to Cangming Peak, while the abandoned ground became a lush garden of spirit plants.

Han Yuan learned that Wangcai had saved Yue Xianxian and was now far away, so he sent a Jianmu-root avatar to find the dog. As Han Yuan cultivated, his released spiritual energy strengthened Cangming Cave Mansion’s spirit vein, and a gigantic creature approached the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm.

• Yue Xianxian told Han Yuan that Wangcai had saved her and the others, and Han Yuan sensed that the dog was tens of millions of li away at the peak of Foundation Establishment.
• Han Yuan sent a Jianmu-root avatar toward Wangcai because he could not contact the dog from such a distance.
• Du Yuanhe noticed that Cangming Cave Mansion had moved, its formation had grown stronger, and Han Yuan’s cultivation was flooding the surroundings with spiritual energy.
• Yue Xianxian decided to stay and cultivate in Cangming Cave Mansion while Du Yuanhe returned to handle Spirit Script Peak’s affairs.
• Han Yuan continued drawing energy from the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm, and half a month later his fishing avatar spotted a Super Giant Whale moving toward it through the Spatial Flow Layer.

Han Yuan tried to stop a gigantic whale from biting into the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm, but his strongest attack barely left a mark. He discovered that the whale was feeding on the Law of Wood and sent it a tiny fragment from Jianmu, hoping to befriend it.

• The great whale bit through the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm's barrier, and Han Yuan struck it with Gold Wind Sword Slash, but the attack only left a faint mark.
• The whale ate the secret realm core along with soil, plants, and animals, then spat them back out and repaired the barrier with its saliva.
• Han Yuan realized the whale had consumed the Law of Wood from the core, while the secret realm recovered after he restored its scattered contents.
• As the whale prepared to leave, Han Yuan sent it a tiny fragment of Jianmu's first leaf through Space Teleportation.

Han Yuan befriended the giant whale by letting it taste the Law of Wood, and the whale returned with an unclaimed secret realm for the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm to absorb. After the absorption triggered a Random Buff Effect, three additional lands merged into Han Yuan’s realm.

• The giant whale returned to the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm for more Law of Wood, but Han Yuan continued exploring the Spatial Flow Layer instead of feeding it.
• The whale later came back pushing a secret realm about one-third the size of the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm, and Han Yuan studied its movements as it slowed the realm down.
• Han Yuan controlled the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm to devour the unclaimed secret realm, gaining land, spirit veins, and other resources.
• A giant die appeared and landed on 3, causing three additional lands of about three thousand li each to appear and merge into the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm.

Han Yuan fed Jianmu energy and Dao essence from the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm, causing it to grow and form new Law leaves while his cultivation advanced. The spiritual qi he released flooded Cangming Cave Mansion and the surrounding peaks as he broke through to the Nascent Soul Stage.

• Han Yuan sent a fragment of Jianmu's renewable Law of Wood to the Giant Whale, which swallowed it eagerly and flew off to find more food for the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm.
• Han Yuan used Jianmu's nine roots to absorb vast amounts of energy and Dao essence, growing Jianmu and producing shoots for the laws of metal, water, fire, and earth.
• The energy overflowed into Han Yuan's five secondary Dantians, while his released spiritual qi raised Cangming Cave Mansion's spiritual qi grade and stunned its cultivators.
• Chang Chun calmed the cultivators and arranged for them to guard the cave mansion or cultivate, while Yue Xianxian absorbed the surging spiritual qi and wondered what Han Yuan was doing.
• Jianmu's energy nurtured Han Yuan's Nascent Soul, advancing it to Nascent Soul Perfection and then through the bottleneck into the Nascent Soul Stage.

Han Yuan broke through to the Nascent Soul Stage, comprehended Wood Profundity, and used a 22-fold boost to deepen his insights. His cultivation was interrupted when the Super Giant Whale brought a much larger secret realm to the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm, where Han Yuan encountered a formidable clan of Bloodhoof Ox Demons.

• Han Yuan broke through to the Nascent Soul Stage and comprehended the Growth Profundity, which let him turn one unit of Wood Power into two.
• Han Yuan rolled a multiplier of 22 for Oneness with Heaven and Man and used the enhanced state to focus on two Wood Profundities.
• Jianmu consumed the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm's energy and matter, shrinking the realm by another third over two days.
• Han Yuan awoke when the Super Giant Whale arrived with a secret realm two or three times larger than the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm, whose attacks had reached the Void Insight level.
• The two secret realms collided and opened a passage, revealing a powerful group of Bloodhoof Ox Demons led by a transformed demon whose cultivation was at least near the peak of Spirit Transformation.
• Han Yuan asked the Bloodhoof Ox Demon leader to speak somewhere else.

Han Yuan escaped the Bloodhoof Ox Demons, and the giant whale destroyed their forces before sealing the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm. After strengthening Cangming Cave Mansion and planning a Cangming Guard, Han Yuan returned puzzled that his mark in the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm remained intact.

• Han Yuan dispersed his incarnation and fled as the Bloodhoof Ox Demons charged into the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm.
• The giant whale attacked the Bloodhoof Ox Demons, killing the weaker demons and forcing the Primordial Spirit-stage demons to flee, while the shape-shifting ox demon feigned death.
• The giant whale sealed the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm's ruptured barrier and swam away, while Han Yuan stayed away to conceal his location.
• Han Yuan emerged from cultivation, gave Chang Chun Top-grade Spirit Marrow, and instructed him to create the Cangming Guard and allocate cultivation slots to allied families and ancestors.
• Han Yuan toured the Earth God Sect, supported the apricot tree, hid treasures, and spoke with several ancestors before returning to Cangming Tower more than ten days later.
• Han Yuan found that his mark in the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm still existed and wondered why the Bloodhoof Ox Demon had not taken it over.

Han Yuan encountered the badly injured Bloodhoof Ox Demon in the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm and fought him using his Wood Profundities and Jianmu-rooted flying sword. The ox demon’s attacks failed to break through Han Yuan’s defenses, but he believed he could win by exhausting Han Yuan’s mana.

• Han Yuan entered the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm and found the giant whale’s scattered remains of the Bloodhoof Ox Demon.
• When Han Yuan tried to collect the ox demon’s upper half, the demon revived and clashed with him.
• Han Yuan empowered his flying sword with Wood Profundity: Growth and Wood Profundity: Withering, then exchanged blows with the ox demon’s horns.
• The Bloodhoof Ox Demon attacked Han Yuan’s Primordial Spirit with a blood ox phantom, but Jianmu blocked and absorbed the assault.
• Han Yuan repeatedly attacked as his sword regenerated and the Withering Profundity weakened the demon’s defenses.
• The Bloodhoof Ox Demon recognized Han Yuan’s unusually strong Profundities and resolved to outlast him by relying on his greater mana reserves.

Han Yuan defeated the Bloodhoof Ox Demon after an eighteen-day battle and absorbed the Blood Ox Secret Realm into the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm. The enlarged realm stabilized with Jianmu’s help, and Han Yuan began absorbing its contents.

• Han Yuan and the Bloodhoof Ox Demon fought across the secret realms for eighteen days until the demon withdrew from the Blood Ox Secret Realm.
• Han Yuan confirmed the demon had left, then broke through the restrictions protecting the Blood Ox Secret Realm’s core and cracked it with his sword.
• Han Yuan used the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm to absorb the collapsing Blood Ox Secret Realm over three days.
• The die appeared and rolled 19, multiplying the Blood Ox Secret Realm’s resources as nineteen realms fused into the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm.
• The Hundred Herbs Secret Realm grew to three hundred thousand li across, and Jianmu’s roots stabilized it when its core could no longer support its size.
• Han Yuan infused the realm with his Growth and Withering Profundities, discovered vitality in its core, and began absorbing everything within it.

Guan Yuqi, Wang Chongba, Zhao Jiu, and hundreds of other cultivators joined Han Yuan’s Cangming Guard after the Cangming Cave Mansion openly recruited across the Earth God Sect. Chang Chun welcomed the new recruits into the cave mansion and revealed its extraordinary cultivation resources, leaving them to choose their methods.

• Guan Yuqi, Wang Chongba, and Zhao Jiu swore to join the Cangming Guard alongside five hundred other recruits.
• Chang Chun told the recruits that Han Yuan would provide them with abundant resources, then led them into the cave mansion.
• Qin Feng, Di Qing, and Wu Chao joined the Cangming Guard to secure closer ties to Han Yuan.
• Chang Chun brought the recruits to the Scripture Repository and offered each one a Nascent Soul-level cultivation method.
• Most of the recruits chose the Nascent Soul portions of the five Primordial Spirit cultivation methods.

Chang Chun equipped the newly formed Cangming Guards with cultivation methods, magic tools, and pills as Jianmu began its second great devouring, flooding Cangming with spiritual energy. The Earth God Sect’s disciples and ancestors cultivated amid the surge while Han Yuan gained far greater benefits, and Jianmu grew closer to its sapling stage with two new Law Leaves.

• Chang Chun guided the Cangming Guards through converting their cultivation, choosing magic tools, and collecting pills for their training.
• Jianmu released a vast tide of spiritual energy from Cangming Tower, and the Cangming Guards and other residents began cultivating.
• Guan Yuqi used the Azure Sea Scripture to absorb the spiritual energy and rapidly transform his body and meridians.
• The Earth God Sect’s five Nascent Soul Ancestors entered Cangming Cave Mansion and joined the cultivation after the spiritual energy spread across the sect.
• Han Yuan’s Jianmu consumed spiritual veins and Dao essence in the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm, growing to 250 meters and gaining Thunder and Light Law Leaves.

The giant whale ventured into the Spatial Outer Flow Layer, stole two seeds from a Seven-Colored Lotus, and survived a fierce pursuit by the beast guarding it. After returning to the Spatial Flow Layer, it found Han Yuan and offered him one of the enormous lotus seeds.

• The giant whale shrank itself and entered the dangerous Spatial Outer Flow Layer, where spatial fragments hurt it but gradually toughened its skin.
• The giant whale reached a stone peak and stole two seeds from a nine-seeded Seven-Colored Lotus in a pool of Space Power.
• The strange beast guarding the lotus struck the giant whale with azure beams and chased it until it left the peak's ten-thousand-mile radius.
• The giant whale's wounds rapidly healed as it digested the Law of Wood, and it returned to the Spatial Flow Layer after ten days.
• Han Yuan recognized the returning giant whale, gave it a fragment of the Law of Wood, and watched it offer him one enormous lotus seed.

Han Yuan used Jianmu’s Law Resonance to ripen the Starry Sky Seven-Colored Lotus Seed, attracting a giant whale that accepted his gift and guarded the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm. After the seed reached seventh-rank peak grade, Han Yuan began refining it.

• Han Yuan intercepted the Starry Sky Seven-Colored Lotus Seed and learned that consuming all nine mature seeds could help him complete seven Spatial Profundities and increase his chance of condensing Spatial Law.
• Han Yuan used Jianmu’s Law Resonance to strengthen Wood Profundity: Growth, repeatedly rerolling its multiplier until he obtained a 128-fold effect.
• Han Yuan spent his mana and drew on the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm’s energy to ripen the lotus seed while a giant whale entered the realm.
• Han Yuan gave the whale a fragment of the Law of Wood, and the whale became friendly, patched the hole it had made, and guarded the realm.
• After several days, the lotus seed reached seventh-rank peak grade, and Han Yuan arrived to refine it as it enveloped him in seven-colored radiance.

Han Yuan concealed himself underground in the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm to refine the lotus seed, while the Earth God Sect’s cultivators reaped major breakthroughs from the spiritual qi tide. Jia Qixin arrived in the Northern Yuan Continent with more than a hundred Nascent Soul cultivators to join the Earth God Sect and clashed with the Ice Spirit Sword Sect’s ruler over who governed the region.

• Han Yuan used Jianmu’s phantom and the Stealth Technique to protect himself while he refined the lotus seed underground.
• True Person Dand Ding, Ancestor Ziyun, True Person Wu You, True Person Jiu Feng, and True Person Tianle awakened after advancing their cultivation, while many Earth God Sect disciples also broke through.
• Jia Qixin led more than a hundred Nascent Soul cultivators into the Northern Yuan Continent aboard a fast flying vessel to join the Earth God Sect.
• True Monarch Bing Ling learned of the vessel’s arrival, tracked it down, and challenged Jia Qixin for entering Ice Spirit Sword Sect territory without permission.
• Jia Qixin said his group had come to join the Earth God Sect, and one of his Nascent Soul companions insisted that the sect must have another Primordial Spirit expert.

True Monarch Bing Ling mistook Jia Qixin’s mention of the Wandering Daoist for evidence of the Earth God Sect’s hidden strength and prepared to flee Northern Yuan Continent. Meanwhile, more than a hundred Nascent Soul Cultivators arrived at the sect, prompting its leaders to seek Han Yuan, who was still in seclusion refining lotus seeds.

• Jia Qixin told True Monarch Bing Ling that he and the others wanted to join the Wandering Daoist’s command, and she directed them to the Earth God Sect before fleeing.
• True Monarch Bing Ling ordered the Ice Spirit Sword Sect to abandon most of its territory and announced she would leave Northern Yuan Continent in three days.
• Jia Qixin and the other Nascent Soul Cultivators traveled to the Earth God Sect, where the five Nascent Soul True Persons saw them approaching the mountain gate.
• Ancestor Ziyun sent True Person Tianle to summon Han Yuan, while the sect leaders suspected the visitors had come because of him.
• Han Yuan received Tianle’s warning through the message system but stayed in seclusion and sent a temporary incarnation to investigate.