Chapter Summaries

Han Yuan ambushed Zhao Yumu, stole his Storage Ring, and helped Qian Fen and the other Golden Cores drive him into a killing formation. When Zhao Yumu summoned Ancestor Qingqiu for help, she recognized Qian Fen, leaving the confrontation poised to escalate.

• Qian Fen, Zhou Xuanlin, and another Golden Core pursued Zhao Yumu after he escaped using Wood Escape.
• Han Yuan ambushed Zhao Yumu during Wood Escape, cut off his arm, stole his Storage Ring, and blocked his attempts to flee into spirit trees.
• Han Yuan and the three pursuers herded Zhao Yumu into Qian Fen's Life-Snatching Seven Stars Formation, whose attacks he survived with a Fourth-Rank Defensive Talisman.
• Qian Fen replenished the formation while Zhao Yumu realized his Storage Ring was gone and summoned Ancestor Qingqiu with a token.
• Ancestor Qingqiu appeared, questioned Zhao Yumu, then recognized Qian Fen and chuckled as Qian Fen grew panicked.

Han Yuan disguised himself as Ancestor Qingqiu and ambushed Zhao Yumu after the other cultivators left, killing him and fleeing through the forest. Ancestor Qingqiu arrived to find Zhao Yumu dead and began investigating the brief remaining aura.

• Ancestor Qingqiu's projection told Zhao Yumu to hold out until her avatar arrived, while Qian Fen and the others continued attacking him.
• Ancestor Ziyun praised Qian Fen, Zhou Xuanlin, and their companion for drawing Ancestor Qingqiu's avatar away, then ordered them to delay briefly and leave.
• Qian Fen and the others departed, and Zhao Yumu lowered his shield and waited outside the formation for Ancestor Qingqiu.
• Han Yuan impersonated Ancestor Qingqiu, struck Zhao Yumu with an Earth Fire-imbued flying sword, and burned the body and head to ash.
• Han Yuan took Zhao Yumu's robes and magic treasure sword, then escaped with Wood Escape as the real Ancestor Qingqiu arrived and found the body.
• Ancestor Qingqiu sensed the remaining auras and wondered who had killed Zhao Yumu so quickly.

Han Yuan fled Ancestor Qingqiu after killing Zhao Yumu, while she tracked him with a talisman sealed with Zhao Yumu’s soul. Han Yuan’s boosted flying boat briefly pulled ahead, but its barrier and hull began to fail under the multiplied speed.

• Ancestor Qingqiu used Zhao Yumu’s remnant soul to create a Soul-Seeking Death Talisman and pursued Han Yuan to the market.
• Han Yuan took a life-filled wooden block from the battlefield, searched Zhao Yumu’s Storage Ring, and escaped using Wood Escape.
• Ancestor Qingqiu crushed much of Yunsheng Market with a palm strike, killing over a thousand cultivators, then caught sight of Han Yuan using Wood Escape.
• Han Yuan switched to Ancestor Ziyun’s Auspicious Cloud Flying Boat, and a Random Buff Multiplier of 18 greatly increased its speed.
• Han Yuan’s flying boat outpaced Ancestor Qingqiu, but its protective barrier thinned, its Spirit Stone consumption surged, and cracks appeared across its hull.

Han Yuan tried to escape Ancestor Qingqiu by strengthening his Earth Fiend Spiritual Fire and turning it into a devastating attack. His flying vessel shattered and Qingqiu’s sword strike engulfed him, but his talisman protected him as he fled, while her clone was destroyed.

• Han Yuan multiplied and absorbed his remaining Earth Fiend Spiritual Fire while the high-speed flight cracked his vessel and Ancestor Qingqiu closed in.
• Han Yuan raised his spiritual fire to top-grade Earth Rank, formed the Nine Fire Spirit Utterance, and cast it into his Earth Fire as the vessel broke apart.
• Ancestor Qingqiu launched a sword strike at Han Yuan as he threw the Earth Fire behind him.
• Han Yuan’s Earth Fire expanded and exploded, engulfing Ancestor Qingqiu’s clone, while her sword light swallowed Han Yuan.
• Han Yuan survived the sword attack using the Earthly Adamant Vajra Talisman and fled, and Ancestor Qingqiu’s true body learned that her clone had been destroyed.

Han Yuan escaped a Nascent Soul Ancestor and reached Danxia Sect’s core territory, where he learned that the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm would soon open. Ancestor Ziyun contacted him and began to suspect that Han Yuan was the mysterious Old Demon Han.

• Han Yuan fled tens of thousands of li, checked a map, and discovered he had reached the mouth of Xufeng Valley in Danxia Sect territory.
• Han Yuan entered a nearby cultivator market and overheard that the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm would soon open, offering Rogue Cultivators more chances to gather herbs because of the war.
• Han Yuan decided not to enter the secret realm, despite his unusually good timing and the prospect of valuable Spirit Medicines.
• Ancestor Ziyun contacted Han Yuan after noticing his token had moved far from the front line, and Han Yuan explained that a Nascent Soul Ancestor had chased him.
• Ancestor Ziyun questioned Han Yuan about his Wood Escape Technique and growing strength, then asked whether he was Old Demon Han.

Ancestor Ziyun urged Han Yuan to infiltrate Danxia Sect during the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm opening, but Han Yuan chose to cultivate before deciding. A month later, Wangcai began a breakthrough and drew on Han Yuan’s power through their Contractual Spirit Script, setting up a shared transformation.

• Ancestor Ziyun asked Han Yuan to steal Danxia Sect’s Alchemy Canon and sabotage the sect, promising him a choice of treasures if he succeeded.
• Han Yuan worried about hidden Nascent Soul Ancestors and decided to cultivate for a while before the secret realm opened.
• Han Yuan rented a top-grade cave abode, practiced the Azure Wood Spirit Art, and refined the Profound Yin Yellow Earth and Profound Nether Heavy Water.
• After a month, Han Yuan sensed Wangcai breaking through in the Earth God Sect cave abode.
• The Contractual Spirit Script drew Han Yuan’s spiritual fire, heavy water, yellow earth, Wood Spirit Heart, Sword Qi, True Essence, vital blood, and Spiritual Sense into Wangcai’s breakthrough, transforming his flaming shell.

Wangcai broke through to peak Foundation Establishment, awakened his bloodline as the Wind Spirit Wolf King, and flew off to fight alongside Han Yuan. Han Yuan received a huge feedback multiplier that granted him six powerful artistic conceptions, triggering a vortex that led the market master to fear a Nascent Soul tribulation and order everyone to evacuate.

• Wangcai emerged from his egg as the Wind Spirit Wolf King, reaching peak Foundation Establishment and awakening his Five Elements and Wind powers.
• Wangcai shrank back into his ordinary Blazing Hound form and flew away from Cangming Tower to join Han Yuan.
• Han Yuan rolled a Random Buff Multiplier of 66 on Wangcai's bloodline-awakening feedback and comprehended six artistic conceptions at three percent.
• Han Yuan's breakthrough-like surge of power created a massive spiritual energy vortex above his location in the market.
• The market master mistook the vortex for an imminent Nascent Soul breakthrough and ordered everyone to flee the market.

As Han Yuan’s Nascent Soul breakthrough drew immense power into Xufeng Market, Shi Anlin fled and contacted the Danxia Sect, whose ancestor ordered him to monitor the breakthrough and recruit Han Yuan if possible. Amid the surge of heaven-and-earth power, Han Yuan’s treasures transformed, his Azure Wood Spirit Art reached Minor Accomplishment, and he realized he could cultivate multiple kinds of spirit essence.

• Shi Anlin gathered Xufeng Market’s valuables and fled as a six-colored vortex formed over the market for Han Yuan’s breakthrough.
• Shi Anlin showed the scene to the Danxia Sect ancestor, who told him to watch for Heavenly Tribulation and try to recruit Han Yuan.
• Han Yuan absorbed the surging power to transform the Earth Fiend Spiritual Fire and strengthen the treasures in his five viscera.
• Han Yuan comprehended Artistic Conception and advanced the Azure Wood Spirit Art to Minor Accomplishment, receiving a sixteenfold effect multiplier.
• Han Yuan realized that the multiplied art allowed multiple kinds of treasures to become spirit essences and looked to the five treasures in his viscera.

Han Yuan’s spiritual items evolved into five spiritual pearls, giving him five additional Dantians and raising his cultivation to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage. As he continued cultivating, Shi Anlin waited outside his cave after suppressing talk about the apparent failed breakthrough.

• Han Yuan’s five spiritual items transformed into spiritual pearls that formed secondary Dantians and fed True Essence back to him.
• Han Yuan received the Minor Divine Abilities Wind Escape, Fire Domain, and Five Elements Conversion, and reached the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.
• Han Yuan discovered his expanded cultivation increased his rate of absorption and continued cultivating with Spirit Stones.
• Shi Anlin waited for a Heavenly Tribulation, then struck a cultivator who celebrated its absence and ordered everyone to keep quiet.
• Shi Anlin arrived outside Han Yuan’s rented cave dwelling and waited for him to leave seclusion.

Han Yuan rejected the Danxia Sect’s offer to help him reach the Nascent Soul realm and returned to cultivating. A month later, short on Spirit Stones, he noticed Shi Anlin waiting outside with another cultivator.

• Shi Anlin visited Han Yuan with Soul-Stabilizing Pills and invited him to join the Danxia Sect on behalf of its ancestor.
• Han Yuan refused the invitation, and Shi Anlin reported his rejection to the ancestor.
• The ancestor ordered Shi Anlin to watch Han Yuan and said Zhuge Tao would come to the market.
• Han Yuan cultivated for another month, reaching the Foundation Establishment Late Stage while spending thirteen hundred High-grade Spirit Stones.
• Han Yuan noticed Shi Anlin outside with a scholarly-looking middle-aged cultivator.

Zhuge Tao and Shi Anlin visited Han Yuan, whom they believed to be the wandering cultivator Tang Yuan, and invited him to discuss Artistic Conceptions. After Zhuge Tao explained the categories and displayed his Book Mountain, Han Yuan responded by manifesting his own earth-based mountain conception.

• Zhuge Tao introduced himself and invited Tang Yuan to discuss Artistic Conceptions, while Han Yuan checked for danger before accepting.
• Zhuge Tao explained that Artistic Conceptions belonged to the categories of heaven, earth, and man, and that Fire Artistic Conception had branches within each category.
• Zhuge Tao displayed his Book Mountain Natal Magic Treasure and explained how it embodied his Art of Mountain.
• Han Yuan drew on his understanding of the Art of Earth and summoned the Profound Yin Yellow Earth into a small, weighty mountain.

Han Yuan comprehended the Art of Mountain during a Dao discussion with Zhuge Tao, then refused Zhuge Tao’s invitation to join the Danxia Sect. As Han Yuan tried to leave the region, True Person Mingxiao personally invited him to join and promised he could avoid the sect’s battle and focus on cultivation.

• Han Yuan unexpectedly comprehended a trace of the Art of Mountain while observing Zhuge Tao’s Book Mountain, then explained his insights and helped Zhuge Tao improve his own understanding.
• Zhuge Tao invited Han Yuan to join the Danxia Sect, but Han Yuan refused, claiming he valued his freedom and planned to leave the region.
• After Han Yuan departed, Zhuge Tao told Shi Anlin that Han Yuan was too powerful to force into the sect and said the matter should be reported to the ancestor.
• Han Yuan left the market intending to flee immediately, but encountered True Person Mingxiao, who offered him a third invitation to join the Danxia Sect.
• Han Yuan asked whether he could retain some freedom and avoid the battle among the three sects, and Mingxiao agreed to let him cultivate peacefully.

Han Yuan joined Danxia Sect openly under the name Tang Yuan and was assigned Yangxing Peak, while Zhuge Tao was tasked with secretly monitoring him. After settling in, Han Yuan contacted Ancestor Ziyun and revealed that he was already inside the sect as its fourth-highest-ranking elder.

• Han Yuan agreed to join Danxia Sect, and he and Zhuge Tao flew toward the sect while discovering each other's unusual cultivation abilities.
• Zhuge Tao showed Han Yuan Danxia Sect's powerful mountain-protecting formation and said he would personally guard its Formation Eye.
• Han Yuan entered Danxia Sect, completed the entry rites, and received Yangxing Peak, a cultivation chamber, spirit stones, and pills.
• Han Yuan sealed himself inside the cultivation room, activated the Fire Domain, and contacted Ancestor Ziyun to accept the infiltration mission.
• Han Yuan told Ancestor Ziyun that he was already inside Danxia Sect and ranked as its fourth-highest elder, leaving the ancestor stunned.

Han Yuan learned from Ancestor Ziyun that the war could end after he struck the Danxia Sect during the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm, then reflected on how strength shaped the conflict. A ninetyfold Mind Transformation effect made him relive his two lifetimes ninety times, leaving him with immense worldly experience.

• Ancestor Ziyun discovered Han Yuan could contend with Golden Core Perfection cultivators despite still having Foundation Establishment cultivation and praised him as a rare prodigy.
• Ancestor Ziyun told Han Yuan to exploit the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm to rob or devastate the Danxia Sect while the Heaven God Sect intensified its attack, creating grounds to end the war.
• Han Yuan considered the war a restrained contest among powerful factions and concluded that strength determined peace, war, and survival.
• A huge phantom die rolled a ninety, multiplying Han Yuan's Mind Transformation effect.
• Han Yuan relived his two lifetimes ninety times and concluded he would need no more worldly experience until reaching the Primordial Spirit Realm.

Han Yuan repeatedly activated the Spirit Gathering Formation and rolled a 132 multiplier, causing it to draw in enough spiritual energy to condense High-grade Spirit Stones around him. As he cultivated inside a growing Spirit Stone Giant Egg, a second roll boosted the flow of Earth Vein Essence, rapidly advancing his foundation and understanding.

• Han Yuan activated and deactivated the Spirit Gathering Formation fifty times, eventually rolling a 132 multiplier that made High-grade Spirit Stones condense from the gathered spiritual energy.
• Han Yuan began cultivating, absorbing the spiritual energy while Spirit Stones accumulated outside his ten-meter radius and joined into a giant egg around him.
• The enhanced formation connected to earth veins and spirit veins across the Danxia Sect’s mountain range, drawing their essence toward the Spirit Stone Giant Egg.
• A giant die rolled 128, multiplying the flow of Earth Vein Essence into the egg and nourishing Han Yuan.
• Han Yuan’s Primal Spirit Dao Foundation began transforming, while his cultivation insights and understanding of talisman crafting, Spirit Script, spells, and cultivation methods improved rapidly.

Wangcai endured dangerous encounters on his journey to find Han Yuan and came to the aid of Du Yuanhe, Yue Xianxian, and Fu Chuhua when the Danxia Sect cornered them. After Wangcai and the three disciples killed Zhuge Yi and the other attackers, Yue Xianxian recognized him.

• Wangcai traveled through the wilderness, surviving attacks by beasts and cultivators while growing stronger and more experienced.
• Wangcai heard a fight and recognized Du Yuanhe and Yue Xianxian among a group of Earth God Sect cultivators being pursued by eight Danxia Sect enemies.
• Du Yuanhe, Yue Xianxian, and Fu Chuhua refused to abandon one another as the enemy surrounded them and killed two of their companions.
• Wangcai arrived and unleashed his Fire Domain, which harmed the enemies but spared Du Yuanhe's group.
• Wangcai joined Du Yuanhe, Yue Xianxian, and Fu Chuhua in killing Zhuge Yi and the other five enemies who remained.
• Wangcai returned to his small black dog form, and Yue Xianxian recognized him.

Wangcai left Yue Xianxian and the others to find Han Yuan, but its journey led it into the territory of powerful demonic beasts. The Wind Wolf Demon King recognized Wangcai’s extraordinary bloodline and carried it off toward the Wind Wolf Clan’s ancestral land, leaving Wangcai longing for Han Yuan to rescue it.

• Wangcai claimed five Storage Pouches from the defeated cultivators and gave the other three to Yue Xianxian and her companions before leaving to find Han Yuan.
• Du Yuanhe discovered that Han Yuan was beyond the range of his True Disciple token, while Fu Chuhua suggested Wangcai might have been the one breaking through in the cave abode.
• Wangcai entered the edge of a ferocious beast mountain range’s core region and fled when the Wind Wolf Demon King and Great Strength Ox King fought over a Blood Edge Stone.
• The Wind Wolf Demon King sensed Wangcai using Wind Power, decided its bloodline could be emperor-grade or higher, and abandoned the fight after handing the Blood Edge Stone to the Great Strength Ox King.
• The Wind Wolf Demon King caught Wangcai and carried it toward the Wind Wolf Clan’s ancestral land despite Wangcai’s protests.

After fifty days of secluded cultivation, Han Yuan emerged with immense gains in his cultivation, spirit essences, and spiritual potential, along with a chamber full of extraordinarily valuable Spirit Stones. Concerned about where the Spirit Stones had come from, he collected them and quietly left Danxia Sect.

• Zhuge Tao inspected Yangxing Peak, found Tang Yuan’s cave dwelling still sealed, and returned to preparations for the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm.
• Han Yuan opened his eyes and discovered that his cultivation enhancements had brought him to Foundation Establishment Perfection, strengthened his body and spirit roots, and greatly improved his spirit essences.
• Han Yuan realized that the Jianmu Seed was close to being fully refined and had grown substantially during his seclusion.
• Han Yuan found himself surrounded by Spirit Stones approaching top grade and estimated their total spiritual energy at ten trillion Low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Han Yuan collected the Spirit Stones in his Storage Rings and quietly departed Danxia Sect.

Han Yuan told Ancestor Ziyun that he had secretly taken almost all the Spirit Stones from the Danxia Sect’s spirit vein, forcing the Earth God Sect to keep its war with them going. Ancestor Ziyun warned Han Yuan to leave Northern Yuan Continent, explained the wider Yuheng Realm, and presented two dangerous routes away; Han Yuan weighed his options.

• Han Yuan contacted Ancestor Ziyun and admitted he had taken more than ninety percent of the Spirit Stones from the Danxia Sect’s spirit vein.
• Ancestor Ziyun saw Han Yuan’s Spirit Stones and told him the Earth God Sect had to continue the war while pretending it knew nothing about the theft.
• Ancestor Ziyun warned Han Yuan that the Danxia Sect could track his aura and urged him to leave Northern Yuan Continent.
• Ancestor Ziyun explained that Northern Yuan Continent was an isolated sea-region of the Yuheng Realm and described the Northern Domain and the perilous Central Continent.
• Ancestor Ziyun offered Han Yuan a route to the Northern Domain or access to a hidden teleportation array to the Central Continent, and Han Yuan considered whether to leave at once.

Han Yuan agreed to enter the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm to keep Danxia Sect cultivators from reinforcing their sect, but decided to wait outside and block the entrance instead. After everyone entered, he killed Shi Jinglin and prepared to control the passage.

• Ancestor Ziyun concluded that the weakened spirit vein might undermine Danxia Sect’s formation and assigned Han Yuan to delay its cultivators inside the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm.
• Han Yuan returned to Xufeng Market, disguised his aura, and gathered information about the secret realm’s outer region, guarded medicinal gardens, and ten-day limit.
• Han Yuan decided it would be safer to block the secret realm’s entrance than enter it, and waited until the cultivators had all gone inside.
• Shi Jingfeng asked Han Yuan why he had not entered, and Han Yuan approached the gate.
• Han Yuan killed Shi Jinglin with a sword strike and burned the corpse.