Chapter Summaries

Han Yuan used Spirit Scripts and the Yin-Yang Transformation Deduction Method to rapidly learn how to deploy formations, despite True Person Jiu Feng warning that the shortcut limited his adaptability. After three months and more than a hundred consultations, Han Yuan deployed eight High-grade Earth Grade Formations and saw a die spinning as his formation insights settled.

• Han Yuan realized Spirit Scripts could serve as miniature formations and used the Forest Spirit Script to devise a deployment method for the Bewildering Forest Formation.
• Han Yuan successfully established the Bewildering Forest Formation, and True Person Jiu Feng recognized that its natural-seeming design came from Han Yuan's Spirit Script-based method.
• True Person Jiu Feng warned Han Yuan that relying on fixed Spirit Script references would make him quick to learn formations but unable to adapt them to local conditions.
• Han Yuan chose the shortcut and learned fixed deployment methods for formations from the Yellow Grade Formation Primer, the Mysterious Grade Formation Detailed Explanation, and the Earth Grade Formation True Understanding.
• Over three months, Han Yuan consulted True Person Jiu Feng more than a hundred times and deployed eight High-grade Earth Grade Formations.
• Han Yuan reflected on his formation insights, gained a measure of understanding, and saw a die spinning.

Han Yuan’s enhanced Formation Insight let him transform his crude formations into a powerful, realistic combined formation. True Person Tianle entered it and found herself facing attacks and environments that felt real, while Han Yuan continued refining his work.

• A ninefold random buff multiplied Han Yuan’s Formation Insight, giving him broad formation skills beyond copying Spirit Script formations.
• Han Yuan recognized the flaws in his old formations and began revising the eight High-grade Earth Grade Formations.
• He stacked the eight formations together, raised their grade beyond Perfected Earth Tier, and embedded Spirit Scripts to strengthen and smooth the flow of power.
• True Person Tianle entered the formation and was attacked by meteors that split apart instead of disappearing when struck.
• As she retreated, Tianle moved into a lifelike forest within the formation and realized it differed from True Person Jiu Feng’s formations.

Han Yuan used a composite formation and his Ancient Wood Spirit Call Minor Divine Ability to overwhelm True Person Tianle, then explained how Spirit Scripts enhanced his formations. After she agreed to teach him spirit planting, he simulated Spirit Gathering Grass in the formation and began learning how to grow it.

• Han Yuan summoned hundreds of powerful Tree Spirits inside his formation, forcing True Person Tianle to call for him to stop as they drained her spiritual power.
• Han Yuan explained that he had combined eight formations with a wood-element Minor Divine Ability, using Spirit Scripts to boost their power.
• True Person Tianle asked about Han Yuan’s skills and agreed to teach him spirit planting after he said he wanted to learn.
• Han Yuan used real Spirit Gathering Grass as a reference and successfully simulated clumps of it inside the formation.
• True Person Tianle began teaching Han Yuan how to grow Spirit Gathering Grass.

Han Yuan spent a year improving his cultivation knowledge and mastering five arts before sensing an intruder on an Iron Chain Bridge. He recognized the powerful Sword Master Cangjian and earned the senior’s offer of guidance.

• Han Yuan studied the Danxia Sect and Cloud Sun Sect canons, advanced all five arts to the third tier, and improved his Artistic Conceptions.
• True Person Wu You checked the Misty Area and reported that the hostile group still had not left.
• Han Yuan sensed a fluctuation on another Iron Chain Bridge, and the group activated the Eight Extremes Golden Blade Formation.
• A young man destroyed the formation’s golden blades with Sword Qi, then identified himself as Sword Master Cangjian.
• Han Yuan asked whether Sword Master Cangjian had entered the mystic realm twenty or one hundred and twenty years earlier, and Cangjian offered to guide him.

Han Yuan demonstrated his swordsmanship to Sword Master Cangjian and revealed a safe way to reach the trial's final platform. Cangjian discovered the endpoint, destroyed the cultivators lying in ambush there, and left their Storage Rings for Han Yuan.

• Han Yuan impressed Sword Master Cangjian with his Sword Intent and received the Nine Swords of Guicang.
• Han Yuan told Sword Master Cangjian that an Iron Chain Bridge led to the final platform, where cultivators were waiting in ambush.
• Sword Master Cangjian revealed that he had been trapped for over a hundred years despite nearing a breakthrough to the Primordial Spirit realm.
• Sword Master Cangjian crossed the mist-covered region, found the Space Gate, and resolved to repay Han Yuan's kindness.
• Sword Master Cangjian destroyed the formation and killed the Nascent Soul Cultivators concealed within it, leaving their Storage Rings for Han Yuan.

Han Yuan used True Person Cang Jian’s favor to secure guidance for the Earth God Sect’s ancestors, then accepted the Storage Rings and entered a pure white room. He decided to break through there and prepared an enhanced Spirit Gathering Array, ending as he swallowed a Golden Core Forming Pill.

• True Person Cang Jian guided the Earth God Sect’s Nascent Soul cultivators for a month, helping Ancestor Ziyun and True Person Tianle break through their artistic-conception bottlenecks.
• After True Person Cang Jian left, Ancestor Ziyun gave Han Yuan the Storage Rings, and True Person Wu You led the sect’s cultivators back through the teleportation array.
• Han Yuan entered a separate pure white room containing three White Pearls and chose to use its safety and abundant spiritual energy to break through before taking a treasure.
• Han Yuan set up a mid-grade Tier 4 Spirit Gathering Array, combined it with eight Earth-tier arrays, and raised its gathering effect to roughly High-grade Tier 4.
• Han Yuan spread his Spirit Stones across the room, took out twelve Golden Core Forming Pills, and swallowed one.

Han Yuan broke through to the Golden Core Realm, forming five Golden Cores from his Yuan Spirits while absorbing immense spiritual energy and Five-Element insights. As he fed his breakthrough with treasures from his flying boats and storage rings, a consciousness within the Jianmu Seed awakened and secretly tried to seize his body.

• Han Yuan used the Golden Core Forming Pill to condense five Golden Cores in his viscera, fusing the five Yuan Spirits and absorbing their insights into various intents.
• While Han Yuan focused on comprehending those insights, a young man’s consciousness awakened inside the Jianmu Seed and resolved to use his breakthrough to mature the seed and take over his body.
• The Jianmu Seed siphoned spiritual energy from the five Golden Cores, but the young man failed to notice that the energy carried Han Yuan’s mark.
• Han Yuan drew in the reserves of all nine Spirit Gathering Arrays and fed the Jianmu Seed and Yuan Spirits with Spirit Stones, spirit herbs, ores, and other treasures from his flying boats and storage rings.

Han Yuan’s breakthrough consumed the treasures in the Spirit Gathering Array and brought him into the Jianmu Seed, where a 49-fold breakthrough multiplier let him fuse with it before the Immortal remnant soul could. He awakened to find Jianmu had become his second body and realized he had reached the Nascent Soul Realm.

• Over three months, the Jianmu Seed absorbed Han Yuan’s spiritual energy and essence until the young man used his remaining Law Origin to make it sprout.
• A gigantic die appeared before Han Yuan and rolled 49, multiplying all effects of his breakthrough.
• Han Yuan’s soul fused with the Jianmu Seed first, repelling the young man, whose remnant soul shattered and became nourishment for Jianmu.
• Han Yuan absorbed the Jianmu inheritance and multiplied insights while the five elemental spirits transformed again.
• Han Yuan awakened in an emptied room and discovered his primary Dantian spanned ten li, with a hundred-meter Jianmu Sapling at its center.
• Han Yuan realized Jianmu had become his second body and that he had reached the Nascent Soul Realm.

After breaking through into the Sprouting Stage, Han Yuan examined Jianmu and the changes to his Dantians, soul, body, and artistic conceptions. He was teleported to Furious Wind God Valley, where he assessed the violent gales and considered using them to temper his body.

• Han Yuan learned that Jianmu had sprouted two leaves bearing the Laws of Earth and Wood, and he examined the vast spiritual power in his main and auxiliary Dantians.
• Han Yuan discovered that his Sea of Consciousness generated soul power, his body had grown comparable in strength to a spiritual treasure, and his Wood Artistic Conception had reached ninety-nine percent.
• Han Yuan grabbed a gray pearl, triggering his teleportation to the second trial before he could choose between the offered options.
• Han Yuan arrived in Furious Wind God Valley, found a hollow in the stone wall, and hid there as a destructive gale swept through the gorge.
• Han Yuan watched the gale pulverize his ice spike and considered using Wind Escape to cross the valley or enduring the wind to temper his body.

Han Yuan turned the canyon’s hurricane into an opportunity to temper his body, absorb Wind Power, and improve his understanding of the Art of Wind and Free Sword Intent. After crossing the canyon and returning to his original position, he welcomed another gale and began cultivating again.

• Han Yuan let the hurricane batter him while Jianmu absorbed Wind Power and his comprehension of the Art of Wind improved.
• A Peak Nascent Soul cultivator saw Han Yuan moving freely through the gale and resolved to show him respect and seek his friendship.
• Han Yuan rescued a cultivator caught in the wind and learned that the canyon’s starting point lay behind him because stronger cultivators began farther ahead.
• After seven days, the gale weakened, and Han Yuan absorbed the benefits of Random Doubling before adjusting his expectations about his rate of growth.
• Han Yuan used Wind Escape to race back across the canyon, startling the cultivators he passed.
• When another gale arrived, Han Yuan eagerly entered it to cultivate again, leaving the other cultivators baffled.

Zhou Yichen took advantage of the weakening gales in Furious Wind God Valley to reach a better cultivation cave, while cultivators throughout the canyon began advancing because Han Yuan was absorbing the wind. Han Yuan continued deeper into the trial, unaware that countless cultivators and forces now owed him favors.

• Zhou Yichen saw Han Yuan pass his cave again and realized the gales had weakened enough for him to attempt moving forward.
• Zhou Yichen braved the gale, reached a farther natural cave, and discovered that its stronger essence of heaven and earth would speed his cultivation.
• Cultivators across the first half of Furious Wind God Valley seized the weakened gales to advance, temporarily setting aside their conflicts.
• Han Yuan continued absorbing Wind Power and moved farther ahead to find stronger gales, unaware of the cultivators following in his wake.
• Cultivators from eighty-one entrances became indebted to Han Yuan as his progress helped them escape their long confinement.

Han Yuan developed Wind Domain to improve his cultivation in Furious Wind God Valley, then used his growing mastery of the storms to create the offensive Minor Divine Ability Tidal Wave of Wind. He planned to perfect both abilities and attempt to fuse them into his first Divine Ability.

• Han Yuan noticed that his Art of Wind had risen from 49% to 51% after a year of cultivation and continued absorbing the furious wind.
• Han Yuan studied how Fire Domain worked and used its principles to create Wind Domain, which greatly increased his Wind Power absorption.
• Han Yuan repeatedly practiced Wind Domain until it reached Major Accomplishment, expanding its range and helping him comprehend the storms.
• Han Yuan created and named the entry-level offensive Minor Divine Ability Tidal Wave of Wind.
• Han Yuan combined Wind Domain with Tidal Wave of Wind to multiply its power and resolved to perfect both abilities before trying to fuse them into a Divine Ability.

Han Yuan advanced through Furious Wind God Valley by using its storms to cultivate, steadily improving his wind abilities and absorbing immense Wind Power through Jianmu. After Jianmu sprouted a third leaf, Han Yuan gained fresh insight into the Laws and felt close to comprehending a new Divine Ability.

• Han Yuan used Wind Domain and Tidal Wave of Wind to slow a storm and absorb its Wind Power as he advanced through the caves.
• A Peak Nascent Soul cultivator witnessed Han Yuan cultivating in the storm, then tried to follow him after seeing his extraordinary speed.
• Near cave 950, Han Yuan sensed a powerful Nascent Soul Expert and retreated to cave 945 to avoid him.
• Song Jinnian of Star Pavilion caught up with Han Yuan and watched him charge into the next storm.
• Jianmu absorbed the storm's Wind Power and sprouted a third leaf, prompting Han Yuan's Art of Wind to improve and Tidal Wave of Wind to reach Perfection Level.

After three years of enlightenment, Han Yuan perfected his divine abilities and found more than three thousand cultivators gathered behind him in Wind God Valley. He intimidated them when they begged for help crossing the valley, and the cultivators began offering their possessions, service, and allegiance.

• Han Yuan created Five Elements Wind Dragon Slash, and a random buff multiplied his comprehension, refining it into six divine abilities at Minor Accomplishment.
• Han Yuan discovered that over three thousand cultivators had gathered nearby, including Song Jinnian, who thanked him for helping them cross much of Wind God Valley.
• Han Yuan started to leave, but Song Jinnian asked whether he would help them continue through the valley.
• Han Yuan used Earth Wind Ten Thousand Jun to crush Song Jinnian and then the gathered cultivators, warning that he could take everything they owned.
• Song Jinnian offered all his possessions and swore to serve Han Yuan, while Jia Qixin asked to join Han Yuan's sect.
• The other cultivators began stepping forward to offer compensation or request admission to Han Yuan's sect.

Han Yuan gathered cultivators at the end of Wind God Valley, organizing them into the Earth God Sect and the newly founded Wandering Merchant Association while collecting their names and contributions. He secretly escaped the secret realm concealed in a piece of spirit wood, provoking a brief, restrained reaction from the realm’s will.

• Han Yuan healed the three thousand cultivators, then accepted oaths from 130 Rogue Cultivators who joined the Earth God Sect.
• At Song Jinnian’s suggestion, Han Yuan established the Wandering Merchant Association, named the cultivators its elders, and set its headquarters at the Earth God Sect.
• The cultivators registered their details and contributed half their wealth as an association entry fee, while the new sect members helped collect and inventory it.
• Han Yuan led the group through the gale to a Space Gate, and Song Jinnian and most of the cultivators left the secret realm.
• Han Yuan used Wood Escape to hide in spirit wood carried by a sect member, then slipped out of the secret realm as its will briefly stirred.

Han Yuan learned that the Ice Spirit Sword Sect had led an alliance to blockade the Earth God Sect, then traveled to challenge its Primordial Spirit ancestor, True Monarch Bing Ling. The two arrived above a Wild Forest and prepared to spar.

• Han Yuan emerged from the buried secret realm into the Cloud Sun Sect and discovered that the Earth God Sect had sealed off outside communication.
• Han Yuan learned that the Ice Spirit Sword Sect and eight Nascent Soul powers had attacked and blockaded the Earth God Sect after it destroyed the Cloud Sun Sect and Danxia Sect.
• Han Yuan decided to confront the Ice Spirit Sword Sect’s Primordial Spirit ancestor and traveled there using his Five Elements Evasion techniques.
• Han Yuan called out to True Monarch Bing Ling and challenged her to a spar outside the Ice Spirit Sword Sect.
• True Monarch Bing Ling accepted the challenge, and she and Han Yuan faced each other above a Wild Forest.

Han Yuan sparred with True Monarch Bing Ling, revealing formidable fire and earth-wind techniques before her Primordial Spirit forced him to defend. After neither could overcome the other, they ended the fight peacefully and agreed to resolve the Ice Spirit Sword Sect’s dispute with the Earth God Sect.

• Han Yuan and True Monarch Bing Ling exchanged powerful attacks, and both recognized the other as a formidable Nascent Soul expert.
• True Monarch Bing Ling sent her Primordial Spirit to attack Han Yuan, but he used his Earth Wind Domain and shield to block it.
• True Monarch Bing Ling withdrew her Primordial Spirit, and both cultivators ended the spar without further attacks.
• Han Yuan explained that he had come to mediate the Ice Spirit Sword Sect’s dispute with the Earth God Sect, and True Monarch Bing Ling promised to investigate and withdraw her people.
• Han Yuan offered True Monarch Bing Ling a gift, and she accepted it.

The Earth God Sect was on the verge of defeat as the Ice Spirit Sword Sect and eight allied sects attacked its defenses. The attackers suddenly withdrew, and Han Yuan sent word that he had temporarily resolved the crisis, leaving the sect leaders stunned and eager to learn what had happened.

• Ancestor Ziyun and the other Earth God Sect Nascent Soul True Persons discussed the failing defenses and worried about Han Yuan's safety and the sect's future.
• Elder Changhe offered the Earth God Sect surrender terms, then led fourteen Nascent Soul cultivators and many Golden Core cultivators in a renewed assault on the Mountain Protecting Grand Formation.
• Elder Changhe warned that he could disrupt the sect's teleportation formation, while the Earth God Sect cultivators struggled to see a way out.
• Elder Changhe and the allied forces abruptly received orders to withdraw, and cultivators began leaving the former Danxia Sect and Cloud Sun Sect territories as well.
• Han Yuan messaged the five Earth God Sect leaders that the matter had been temporarily resolved, leaving them shocked and sending him questions.

While wandering, Han Yuan developed a framework for studying Divine Ability Formulas and chose to focus on comprehending nature. He then used Jianmu to reach through the hidden entrance of the closed Hundred Herbs Secret Realm, finding himself able to move within it as a root.

• Han Yuan analyzed three paths to mastering Divine Ability Formulas—Orthodox Inheritance, Enlightenment Cultivation, and Inquiry Cultivation—and decided to make Inquiry Cultivation his main path.
• Han Yuan observed a waterfall and rapidly improved a spell, then concluded that unusual and dangerous places offered better chances to comprehend the laws of heaven and earth.
• Han Yuan traveled to the former entrance of the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm and sensed a faint fluctuation of Space Power, but found no way to enter normally.
• Han Yuan summoned Jianmu and carefully extended one of its roots through the spatial fluctuation.
• Han Yuan's consciousness followed the root into the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm, where he discovered that he could move and fly as a length of root.

Han Yuan explored the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm through a Jianmu root and discovered that Hundred Herbs Daoist was using the realm to heal his wounded soul. When Hundred Herbs Daoist tried to seize the root, he pulled Han Yuan’s entire Jianmu tree into the secret realm.

• Han Yuan spotted puppets tending medicinal gardens throughout the secret realm and suspected its owner had a hidden purpose.
• At the secret realm’s core, Hundred Herbs Daoist formed a body from Wood Power and recognized Han Yuan’s root as part of Jianmu.
• Hundred Herbs Daoist revealed that he had been luring cultivators into the realm to harvest their souls and heal his injuries, then demanded the root as the price of making Han Yuan his disciple.
• Han Yuan formed a body and challenged Hundred Herbs Daoist, but the Daoist’s wooden arrow destroyed it and he trapped the Jianmu root.
• When Hundred Herbs Daoist tried to collect the root, he drew the entire Jianmu tree into the secret realm, leaving him pale at the sight of it.