Chapter Summaries

Han Yuan used One Leaf Sword Qi Grass to cultivate Sword Qi Forest, discovering that attacks on its Spell Imprint accelerated his comprehension. As Sword Qi Forest neared Perfection Level, his Qi Swords began to imitate the grass’s sword trajectories with growing precision.

• Han Yuan infused a One Leaf Sword Qi Grass leaf with spiritual power and let its Sword Qi attack the Spell Imprint of Sword Qi Forest in his Dantian.
• He found that the damaged and recovered Spell Imprint grew clearer, improving his mastery of Sword Qi Forest.
• Five strands of Sword Qi formed a Combined Attack Formation, revealing sword technique insights as Han Yuan imitated their trajectories with the Qi Swords of Sword Qi Slash.
• Han Yuan consumed more leaves and advanced Sword Qi Forest to Minor Accomplishment and then Major Accomplishment within two days.
• He gave up trying to understand the sword path’s deeper mysteries and focused on cultivation, while his Qi Swords gradually began to match the Sword Qi Grass in spirit.
• Han Yuan brought his Qi Swords to forty-nine, and their increasingly complex formations surpassed the Perfection Level of Sword Qi Forest.

Han Yuan perfected Sword Qi Silk and, after his Qi Swords unexpectedly formed a tiger and a divine sword, gained a surge of Sword Dao insight amplified thirty-sixfold. Yue Xianxian waited outside his cave mansion for their promised duel while her gift, a Carefree Sword Pill, entered Han Yuan’s body and passed on its inheritance, including a request to kill Star Moon True Man.

• Han Yuan used the remaining One Leaf Sword Qi Grass to advance Sword Qi Silk to Perfection Level, enabling him to condense a thousand strands of swordlike silk.
• After cultivating for ten more days, Han Yuan opened his eyes to see a Qi Sword tiger facing a gigantic sword, then recalled the Sword Dao insights he had accumulated.
• Han Yuan’s die produced a multiplier of thirty-six, greatly intensifying his insights and sending him into a state of enlightenment.
• Yue Xianxian arrived outside Cangming Cave Mansion to challenge Han Yuan as promised, learned he had been in seclusion for three months, and decided to wait.
• Yue Xianxian’s gift broke free from its box and entered Han Yuan’s body, where the Jianmu Seed drove it from his Dantian and the Wood Spirit Heart helped refine it.
• Han Yuan received the Carefree Sword Pill’s inheritance, learning that it belonged to Carefree True Man and that its inheritor was asked to kill Star Moon True Man.

After leaving Cangming Tower, Han Yuan reunited with Yue Xianxian, who began teaching him spell combat. He tested a carefully weakened Qi Sword Slash, and Yue Xianxian continued guiding him after seeing his quick improvement.

• Han Yuan emerged from Cangming Tower and met Yue Xianxian, who reminded him she had promised to teach him spell cultivation.
• Yue Xianxian discovered Han Yuan had reached the Eighth Level of Qi Condensation, and Han Yuan concealed his cultivation with the Hidden Qi Art.
• At the practice ground, Han Yuan disguised Qi Sword Slash as the Myriad Wood Sword Technique and attacked Yue Xianxian with a deliberately weakened spell.
• Yue Xianxian blocked the direct attack with a Fire Round Shield and advised Han Yuan to vary his Sword Qi's trajectory.
• Han Yuan made the Sword Qi zigzag and circle around Yue Xianxian, but she cut it apart and explained how he could improve its control and power.
• Han Yuan pondered Yue Xianxian's advice for three minutes before launching another attack.

Han Yuan trained against Yue Xianxian, rapidly refining his Sword Qi with her guidance and the Ancient Wood Qi Control Art. As their sparring intensified, he used the Spirit Eye Technique and Wangcai’s flight ability to evade her attacks, but Yue Xianxian overwhelmed him with thirty-six Fire Arc Blades.

• Han Yuan’s Sword Qi grew more agile, but Yue Xianxian repeatedly read its movements and pointed out its weaknesses.
• Han Yuan applied the Ancient Wood Qi Control Art to his Sword Qi, greatly increasing its speed and forcing Yue Xianxian to use a Fire Round Shield to defend herself.
• Han Yuan presented himself as a spell-type genius while privately relying on his Genius Stream Crouching Dao Method to conceal his deeper secrets.
• Yue Xianxian began moving as she attacked, and Han Yuan used the Spirit Eye Technique and Wangcai’s flight ability to dodge her Fire Arc Blades.
• Yue Xianxian unleashed thirty-six Fire Arc Blades, while Han Yuan summoned twelve Qi Swords to intercept some and strike back at her.

After Yue Xianxian warned Han Yuan about an approaching True Disciple Competition, he declined to participate and tested the strength of his spells and sword arts. He discovered that his Free Sword Intent produced a piercing attack beyond Foundation Establishment Great Perfection, leaving a wound the training target could not quickly heal.

• Yue Xianxian ended the sparring match after Han Yuan's combat ability improved enough to trouble her, then warned him about the dangers of relying only on spells.
• Yue Xianxian told Han Yuan that the sects would hold a True Disciple Competition in Bloody City in five days, and Han Yuan readily agreed not to participate.
• Han Yuan tested Qi Sword Slash and Sword Qi Forest against stone targets and found his attacks could reach Foundation Establishment Late Stage power.
• Han Yuan combined Sword Qi Silk with Spirit Script and Qi Control Art enhancements, producing an attack at Foundation Establishment Great Perfection power.
• Han Yuan used a Sword Pill infused with Free Sword Intent to pierce through the Foundation Establishment target, and the wound remained long after he left.

Han Yuan watched Du Yuanhe, Fu Chuhua, and Yue Xianxian depart with the True Disciples for a dangerous competition, leaving him to manage Spirit Script Peak. Meanwhile, two concealed infiltrators prepared to steal an inheritance, and one entered the sect disguised as the Outer Sect Disciple Zhao Donglai.

• Du Yuanhe introduced Han Yuan to his second senior brother, Fu Chuhua, and confirmed that Fu Chuhua and Yue Xianxian would join the True Disciple Competition.
• Du Yuanhe gave Han Yuan Spirit Script Peak’s spare Peak Lord token and left him to oversee the peak while he and the others departed.
• Han Yuan watched Du Yuanhe, Fu Chuhua, Yue Xianxian, and the other True Disciples board a Giant Flying Boat and leave the sect.
• Two concealed men discussed targeting Spirit Script Peak for its inheritance, and the younger man chose to infiltrate it.
• The younger man used Wood Escape to enter the sect disguised as Zhao Donglai and casually spoke with an Outer Sect Disciple about Qin Feng.

Zhao Yumu infiltrated the Earth God Sect to search for its Primordial Spirit inheritances while concealing his Golden Core cultivation inside spirit trees. As Han Yuan toured Spirit Script Peak, his Spirit Eye Technique detected an abnormal spirit tree, but its spiritual power quickly faded.

• At the Earth God Sect encampment, an elder warned the True Disciples that Zhao Yumu was a Special Grade Genius before learning Zhao Yumu had broken through to Golden Core and could not compete.
• Zhao Yumu entered the Earth God Sect by exploiting a weakness in its Mountain Protecting Grand Formation and set out to find a Primordial Spirit inheritance.
• Zhao Yumu merged with a spirit tree and used it to probe the sect’s formations and search the surrounding area without being detected.
• Yue Daoyuan showed Han Yuan the Menial and Outer Sect Disciple districts and explained Spirit Script Peak’s dwindling numbers.
• Han Yuan’s Spirit Eye Technique sensed unusually strong Wood Spirit Power from a spirit tree, but the tree’s fluctuations quickly dropped to those of a Yellow Grade Middle Grade spirit tree.

Han Yuan suspected a hidden Golden Core enemy had infiltrated Earth God Sect and used his Acting Peak Lord authority to gather support. After confirming that a recently ascended Golden Core disciple could evade the sect’s formation, Ancestor Ziyun recognized the danger.

• Han Yuan sensed strange Wood Spirit Power in spirit trees that Yue Daoyuan could not detect, and he asked Yue Daoyuan to summon the Golden Core True Persons.
• Han Yuan invited the Liu Family and Di Family ancestors to Spirit Script Peak, then went to Ancient Wood Peak to seek Ancestor Ziyun’s help.
• Han Yuan showed Ancestor Ziyun that he had mastered the Ancient Wood Qi Recovery Art to Perfection and received a token to claim his reward.
• Han Yuan told Ancestor Ziyun that a likely Golden Core enemy had infiltrated the sect, and Ancestor Ziyun explained that the Mountain Protecting Grand Formation tracked disciples over sixty.
• Ancestor Ziyun learned that Zhao Yumu had reached Golden Core at fifty-nine and realized he could have passed through the formation undetected.

Ancestor Ziyun planned to use a fake Primordial Spirit inheritance to lure Zhao Yumu into a trap and provoke a war with the Cloud Sun Sect. Han Yuan returned to Spirit Script Peak burdened by the possibility that his report had set the bloodshed in motion, and resolved to help protect his fellow disciples.

• Ancestor Ziyun told Han Yuan to conceal the details of the infiltrator and revealed a plan to bait him with a fake Primordial Spirit inheritance.
• Ancestor Ziyun found the False Dao Art stone slab and gave it to Han Yuan to help lure the infiltrator out of the sect.
• Ancestor Ziyun instructed Han Yuan to stage the handoff and gave him an Earthly Adamant Vajra Talisman for protection.
• Ancestor Ziyun explained that the plan could lead to an all-out war against the Cloud Sun Sect and urged Han Yuan to make the fake inheritance seem authentic.
• Han Yuan returned to Spirit Script Peak, feared his report would cause countless deaths, and resolved to do what he could to protect the sect's disciples.

Han Yuan gathered Golden Core True Persons to prepare for a hunt after warning that powerful enemies and possible spies had infiltrated Spirit Script Peak. The elders agreed to capture the infiltrators without seeking help from other peaks, though Han Yuan privately suspected the threat was far greater than they believed.

• Han Yuan received word that Liu Jizhen and Di Yu were willing to meet him, then found Liu Jizhen waiting at the Spirit Script Peak Main Hall.
• Han Yuan told Liu Jizhen and Di Yu that enemies had infiltrated the peak and demonstrated his cultivation and spell strength to win their support.
• Di Yu and Liu Jizhen agreed to vouch for Han Yuan's intelligence and assist his plan, warning him that unreliable information could damage his standing.
• Yue Daoyuan brought five more Golden Core True Persons to the hall, where Han Yuan explained the threat and the elders agreed to hunt the infiltrators without requesting aid from other peaks.
• Fu Changqing declared that Spirit Script Peak would trap the intruders, while Han Yuan privately noted that they might be strong enough to fight five opponents alone.

Zhao Yumu met with the informant Qian Yin and used her help to infiltrate Spirit Script Peak’s Scripture Repository. He reached its fourth floor, where he hoped to find the inheritance manuals he sought.

• Zhao Yumu found Qian Yin, who gave him intelligence about Spirit Script Peak and its recently appointed Acting Peak Master, Han Yuan.
• Zhao Yumu had Qian Yin conceal him in a Wooden Talisman and accompany him to the Scripture Repository.
• Zhao Yumu used his formation skills and wood-escape Minor Divine Ability to pass through the barriers to the second and third floors.
• Zhao Yumu found none of the manuals he wanted on the third floor and used a Tier 4 Barrier Breaking Talisman to enter the fourth floor.

Han Yuan helped the elders prepare a trap for the infiltrators by crafting a counterfeit cultivation-method tablet. Back at Cangming Cave Mansion, he suspected there might be spies among his workers and arranged a meal with Liu Sisi to test them.

• Fu Changqing explained that the sect’s formation and loyalty oaths limited the likely infiltrators, while the elders planned to monitor young Foundation Establishment cultivators and use a fake inheritance tablet as bait.
• Han Yuan returned to Cangming Cave Mansion, checked on Wangcai, and crafted a counterfeit Nascent Soul Cultivation Method stone tablet with a taunting message hidden inside.
• Han Yuan handed the counterfeit tablet to Fu Changqing, who approved it as a decoy and told Han Yuan to return to his cave mansion and activate its formation if fighting began.
• Han Yuan considered whether spies might have joined Cangming Cave Mansion’s staff and messaged Qin Feng to prepare Spirit Food and invite Liu Sisi, hoping to test the musicians for a spy.

Zhao Yumu searched Spirit Script Peak for valuable scriptures and treasures, finding little until he penetrated the guarded underground cavern beneath the Golden Core elders’ grounds. There, he discovered a stone slab whose mysterious patterns immediately clarified some of his doubts about Wood Dao and formation cultivation.

• Zhao Yumu found the Scripture Repository’s fourth floor empty, then visited other sites with Qian Yin but gained nothing.
• Zhao Yumu asked Qian Yin to contact an informant working in True Disciple Han’s residence, then used Wood Escape to search Spirit Script Peak’s main hall and surroundings.
• Zhao Yumu investigated the Golden Core elders’ cultivation grounds and noticed a guarded cave leading deeper underground.
• Zhao Yumu altered the cave entrance formation, passed through five light barriers, and reached a plaza surrounded by nine Cultivation Rooms.
• Zhao Yumu saw a patterned stone slab floating inside a pillar of restraining light and felt his doubts about Wood Dao and formation cultivation clear.

Zhao Yumu infiltrated the Earth God Sect and stole a slate he believed contained a Nascent Soul cultivation method, fighting off the elders as he escaped. He discovered the slate was a fake message that mocked him, while the elders continued pursuing him.

• Zhao Yumu identified the slate as a possible Nascent Soul inheritance treasure and attacked the pillar of light to take it.
• Yue Mingxiong and three other elders emerged from their Cultivation Rooms and tried to stop Zhao Yumu, who used spirit plants to hold them back.
• Zhao Yumu broke through the pillar’s defenses, took the slate, and fled as Yue Mingxiong and the elders pursued him.
• Zhao Yumu shattered a light-screen restriction with a Formation Flag and escaped outside while preparing to use a Spatial Teleportation Talisman.
• Zhao Yumu read the slate’s cultivation instructions and learned that only the intended inheritor could cultivate the method; the slate mocked him for stealing it.
• Zhao Yumu realized the inheritance was fake and grew furious as the elders continued chasing him.

Zhao Yumu escaped the Earth God Sect cave after fighting off its Golden Core cultivators, but he was badly wounded and forced to flee through the spirit-tree forest. The seven pursuers split up to track him, leaving Zhao Yumu racing to find a way out before they closed in.

• Zhao Yumu used eight Third-tier Spirit Seeds to widen the gap from the pursuing Golden Core cultivators, then decided to risk searching for the cultivation technique inheritance rather than immediately teleporting away.
• Yue Mingxiong attacked Zhao Yumu with Fire Pythons, but Zhao Yumu countered with ice spikes and escaped through the cave’s final defensive layer.
• Fu Changqing and two other cultivators ambushed Zhao Yumu outside the cave, but he fought them evenly while retreating and slipped through a hole in the activated formation.
• Seven Golden Core cultivators bombarded Zhao Yumu, shattering his shield and injuring him, but he survived and escaped into a spirit tree using the Wood Escape Technique.
• Fu Changqing ordered the seven pursuers to split up and search the forest, while the injured Zhao Yumu raced to escape before they tracked him down.

Han Yuan used a meal with Liu Sisi to leak carefully chosen information while watching for an undercover agent among the musicians. After Zhao Yumu escaped the Back Mountain Stone Cave, the agent Hua Die brought him to Cangming Tower, where he approached Han Yuan unseen.

• Han Yuan entertained Liu Sisi and hinted that Inheritance Secret Treasures could accelerate cultivation, while a musician named Hua Die listened and gathered information.
• Hua Die received a coded message from Qian Yin that the Special Envoy had arrived, then quietly left Cangming Cave Mansion.
• A violent disturbance erupted from the back mountain, and Han Yuan learned that Zhao Yumu had broken out of the Back Mountain Stone Cave.
• Han Yuan sent Wangcai to Liu Sisi, checked his talismans, and waited in his study at Cangming Tower.
• Hua Die returned with Zhao Yumu concealed as a Wooden Talisman and told him that Han Yuan likely possessed a powerful Inheritance Treasure.
• Zhao Yumu merged with the Great Banyan Tree, entered Cangming Tower invisibly, and moved toward Han Yuan.

Zhao Yumu infiltrated Cangming Tower and stole the stone slab from Han Yuan, believing it to be the genuine inheritance treasure. Han Yuan exposed Zhao Yumu’s theft and attacked as a Nascent Soul Ancestor’s voice rang out, while purple clouds appeared above the fleeing intruder.

• Zhao Yumu searched Cangming Tower for the inheritance treasure and entered Han Yuan’s study.
• Zhao Yumu noticed the paperweight stone slab, mistook it for the hidden inheritance, and snatched it from Han Yuan.
• Zhao Yumu broke the slab’s disguise and recognized it as Spirit-Connecting Ink Jade, then tried to escape after hearing a Nascent Soul Ancestor.
• Han Yuan attacked Zhao Yumu with Sword Qi Silk, forcing him to interrupt his Spatial Teleportation Talisman.
• A figure appeared amid a vast sea of purple clouds and locked onto the fleeing Zhao Yumu.

Zhao Yumu infiltrated the Earth God Sect and stole a Nascent Soul Cultivation Method, but Ancestor Ziyun caught him and drove him off with help from the Cloud Sun Sect’s Ancestor Zhuifeng. After the theft, Ancestor Ziyun ordered a war to exterminate Cloud Sun Sect, while Han Yuan secretly kept Zhao Yumu’s Storage Ring.

• Zhao Yumu tried to escape the Earth God Sect with a Spatial Teleportation Talisman, but Ancestor Ziyun shattered his defensive barrier and struck him as he teleported away.
• Han Yuan found Zhao Yumu’s flickering Storage Ring and secretly took it before returning to Cangming Tower.
• Zhao Yumu reached Ancestor Zhuifeng with the stolen stone slab, and Zhuifeng helped him flee before facing Ancestor Ziyun in battle.
• Earth God Sect and Cloud Sun Sect Golden Core cultivators clashed outside the sect, and Ancestor Zhuifeng eventually escaped after losing nine followers.
• Ancestor Ziyun announced that Earth God Sect would launch a war to exterminate Cloud Sun Sect and reclaim its inheritance.
• Han Yuan examined the Storage Ring in the Cultivation Room.

Han Yuan broke Zhao Yumu’s Spiritual Sense imprint on a Space Ring and found High-grade Wood Attribute Spirit Stones, recovery pills, Invisibility Talismans, and the Wood Escape technique. After studying the technique, he tried to cultivate it using his Wood Spirit Heart, but his attempt stalled until the Sword Pill within it began to tremble.

• Han Yuan spent three days wearing away Zhao Yumu’s Spiritual Sense imprint and claimed the Space Ring for himself.
• Han Yuan discovered 299 High-grade Wood Attribute Spirit Stones and used one to advance the Jianmu Seed to 1/360.
• Han Yuan found recovery pills, three peak third-rank Invisibility Talismans, and a wooden board containing the Wood Escape technique.
• Han Yuan studied Wood Escape for three days, then went to the Great Banyan Tree to attempt its first steps.
• Han Yuan used his Wood Spirit Heart to try communicating with heaven and earth, but the Sword Pill inside it suddenly trembled.

Han Yuan mastered Wood Escape by combining his Wood Spirit Heart with sword intent, then received a twentyfold boost that greatly expanded its range and speed. After learning that an Inner Sect competition would award Foundation Establishment Pills before the war with the Cloud Sun Sect, he decided to place twenty-ninth.

• Han Yuan's Wood Spirit Script and Sword Spirit Script combined into "Wood Sword," allowing him to master entry-level Wood Escape by transforming into green light and merging with a Great Banyan Tree.
• A die granted Han Yuan a twentyfold increase to Wood Escape, letting him travel farther, enter ordinary trees, and activate the technique instantly at increased cost.
• Han Yuan tested Wood Escape by traveling to a tree near Cangming Cave Mansion and discovered its boosted range and ability to work through ordinary trees.
• Han Yuan used Wood Escape to visit Chang Chun, who explained that the sect had declared war on the Cloud Sun Sect and would hold an Inner Sect competition before the fighting began.
• Chang Chun told Han Yuan that the top thirty competitors would receive Foundation Establishment Pills, and Han Yuan decided he would aim for twenty-ninth place.