Chapter Summaries

Li Qingyuan humiliated Mo Hong with an illusion before joining the cultivators gathered for the Ancient Secret Realm trial. The three Nascent Soul True Lords opened the gateway, and Li Qingyuan entered the secret realm with the disciples of Three Joys Immortal City.

• Li Qingyuan ignored Mo Hong, then used an illusion to make him collapse in terror and wet himself.
• The warship arrived at the gathering site, where cultivators from across the Yue Kingdom assembled.
• The Corpse Puppet Sect, Mysterious Heaven Sect, and Myriad Phenomena Sect arrived with their Nascent Soul True Lords, who exchanged tense words over the Mysterious Heaven Sect’s decline.
• The Ancient Secret Realm appeared, and the three True Lords combined their Spirit Tablets to open a gateway into it.
• True Person Miao Le sent the Three Joys Immortal City disciples into the secret realm for a one-year trial, and Li Qingyuan entered with them.

Li Qingyuan entered the Ancient Secret Realm with his combat supplies stored in the Mysterious Feminine Space and left the Three Joys Immortal City group after detecting Mo Hong’s hostility. He assumed the identity of Bloody Hand Butcher Zhou Gang and set out to claim a nearby Third-tier Spirit Plant.

• Li Qingyuan confirmed that he could carry his sealed combat supplies by placing them in the Mysterious Feminine Space before entering the Ancient Secret Realm.
• Blood Shadow and Wanyuan proposed joining forces, while Xuan Dan led the Mysterious Heaven Sect disciples away; Blood Shadow and Wanyuan then departed with their own sects and warned the Core Formation forces to stay out of the inner region.
• Zhao Tongxuan led the Three Joys Immortal City group onward and insisted that its Rogue Cultivators be treated as fellow disciples, while Mo Hong secretly resented his decision.
• Li Qingyuan intercepted Mo Hong’s hostile thoughts, left the group, and asked Li Yunmei to watch Mo Hong and Ding Xiaojun.
• After traveling a thousand li, Li Qingyuan changed his appearance into a younger Zhou Gang, took up his reinforced Fangtian Halberd, and chose a nearby Third-tier Spirit Plant as his first target.

Li Qingyuan found and harvested a Third-tier Moon Sun Fruit after killing two Unicorn Crimson Flame Lizards. He then staged a wounded appearance to ambush five Corpse Puppet Sect disciples, killed them with Ji Kun, and set off toward the next destination using True Person Miao Le’s map.

• Li Qingyuan spotted two Peak Second-tier Unicorn Crimson Flame Lizards guarding a nearly ripe Moon Sun Fruit and killed both with the Primordial Cone.
• Li Qingyuan collected the two fruits and had Ji Kun harvest the demons’ useful materials and Demonic Beast Cores.
• Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun concealed themselves and made the canyon look like the site of a fierce battle, with Li Qingyuan pretending to be badly wounded.
• Five Corpse Puppet Sect disciples arrived and demanded the Moon Sun Fruits and lizard materials, intending to kill Li Qingyuan and refine him into a corpse puppet.
• Ji Kun struck the disciples with a divine-sense sonic attack while Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun killed all five in less than two breaths.
• Li Qingyuan took the disciples’ Storage Bags and coffin artifacts, then left with Ji Kun for the next destination on True Person Miao Le’s map.

Li Qingyuan followed cultivators to a mountain where a Tier 3 Demonic Crown Crane guarded the Core Formation Spiritual Material, Demonic Jade Marrow Cleansing Bamboo. As the Myriad Phenomena Sect and Mysterious Heaven Sect prepared to fight the crane, Li Qingyuan retreated and planned to strike after they were weakened.

• Li Qingyuan reached a valley too late to find its spirit plants and demonic beasts, then continued searching the Ancient Secret Realm.
• After ten days, Li Qingyuan followed crowds to a mountain and saw a Tier 3 Demonic Crown Crane guarding Demonic Jade Marrow Cleansing Bamboo, which he wanted for refining elixirs and as Core Formation Spiritual Material.
• Huang Xiu of the Myriad Phenomena Sect and Xuan Ya of the Mysterious Heaven Sect agreed to join forces against the crane, while secretly preparing their disciples to attack each other.
• Huang Xiu demanded that the Rogue Cultivators withdraw, then killed a Peak Foundation Establishment Cultivator in one exchange and forced the others to retreat.
• Li Qingyuan withdrew with the crowd and planned to attack after the Myriad Phenomena Sect, Mysterious Heaven Sect, and Demonic Crown Crane had weakened one another.

Huang Xiu and Xuan Ya led their sects against the Demonic Crown Crane while Rogue Cultivators rushed in, only for the Flame Dragon Lizard to erupt from underground and scatter them. As Xuan Ya and Huang Xiu fought the new Tier 3 Great Demon, Li Qingyuan spotted an opening and called Ji Kun to join him.

• Huang Xiu led the Myriad Phenomena Sect and Xuan Ya led the Mysterious Heaven Sect in attacking the Demonic Crown Crane, gradually injuring it.
• Over a hundred Rogue Cultivators charged toward the Demonic Jade Marrow Cleansing Bamboo, and Li Qingyuan detected another Great Demon beneath the earth.
• The Flame Dragon Lizard burst from the ground, killed dozens of cultivators, and forced the Rogue Cultivators and both sects to retreat.
• Xuan Ya fused twelve flying swords into a Third-grade Magic Tool while Huang Xiu summoned two quasi-Tier 3 puppets, and together they suppressed the Flame Dragon Lizard.
• Li Qingyuan recognized the opportunity and sent a voice transmission to Ji Kun, telling him it was time to make their entrance.

Huang Xiu trapped Xuan Ya with a Third-grade Grand Formation and tried to claim the Demonic Crown Crane and Demonic Jade Marrow Cleansing Bamboo, but Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun abruptly turned the battle against him. Li Qingyuan slaughtered the Myriad Phenomena Sect’s elite disciples while Ji Kun seized the crane’s Demonic Core, leaving Huang Xiu’s plan in ruins.

• Huang Xiu sealed Xuan Ya and the Flame Dragon Lizard inside a Third-grade Grand Formation, then ordered his disciples to kill the Demonic Crown Crane and take the spirit plants.
• Xuan Ya persuaded the Flame Dragon Lizard to join her in attacking the formation while Huang Xiu struggled to keep it intact.
• As a Myriad Phenomena Sect disciple reached for the crane’s Demonic Core, Li Qingyuan arrived and killed all ten Peak Foundation Establishment disciples in two breaths.
• Ji Kun used a Core Formation Divine Sense attack to seize the Demonic Core and fly away with the Demonic Crown Crane’s corpse.
• Li Qingyuan plucked out the Demonic Jade Marrow Cleansing Bamboo, and Huang Xiu shouted in despair.

Li Qingyuan defeated Huang Xiu after breaking his trapping formation and took his possessions, including an incomplete third-grade Puppet Technique. He left with two quasi-Tier 3 puppets and considered restoring the technique to create a puppet capable of fighting a Core Formation Cultivator.

• Li Qingyuan collected the Demonic Jade Marrow Cleansing Bamboo, the Demonic Crown Crane's corpse, and the Storage Bags of ten Myriad Phenomena Sect disciples as Huang Xiu attacked him with two quasi-Tier 3 puppets.
• Ji Kun held off the puppets while Huang Xiu trapped Li Qingyuan in a third-grade formation; Xuan Ya ordered the Mysterious Heaven Sect disciples to retreat, and the Flame Dragon Lizard escaped underground.
• Li Qingyuan used his Core Formation Divine Sense and Phantom God Eye Technique to find the formation's weakness, then broke it with his sword lights.
• Huang Xiu fled after the formation shattered, but Li Qingyuan pursued him through the explosions and killed him with the Primordial Cone.
• Li Qingyuan took Huang Xiu's Storage Bag and the two puppets, then found five drops of Thousand-Year Spirit Milk and an incomplete third-grade Puppet Technique inside.
• Li Qingyuan decided he could restore the Puppet Technique and wondered whether he could create a puppet capable of fighting a Core Formation Cultivator.

Li Qingyuan hid while exploring the Trial Secret Realm and learned that Nascent Soul Sect prodigies Wan Yuan and Xuan Dan had formed their cores. After Xuan Dan rescued his injured sister Xuan Ya from three attackers seeking a relic key, he sensed Li Qingyuan and sent his flying sword toward him.

• Li Qingyuan hid underground to evade Wan Yuan and his searchers, then changed his identity and explored the secret realm while gathering resources.
• Li Qingyuan killed a Sabertooth Tiger with seven flying swords and collected its core for Dragon Tiger Auspicious Elixir materials.
• Xuan Ya fled into the forest with a relic key while pursued by three cultivators who demanded the key and her Natal Soul Blood.
• Xuan Dan arrived as a Core Formation Cultivator, killed all three attackers, and rescued Xuan Ya.
• Xuan Dan sensed Li Qingyuan hiding nearby and sent his flying sword toward him.

Li Qingyuan fought Xuan Dan, a newly formed Core Formation prodigy, and escaped after their spells clashed and he threatened Xuan Ya with a Five Elements Talisman Array. Seeking greater strength for the trials ahead, Li Qingyuan fed Ji Kun copied elixirs and demonic cores, and Ji Kun began showing signs of advancing to Tier 3.

• Xuan Dan’s Third-grade Magic Tool overwhelmed Li Qingyuan’s Cloud Mist Sword, but Li Qingyuan merged five talismans into a Five Elements Talisman Array and counterattacked.
• Xuan Dan caught up to Li Qingyuan with Star Shifting and Battle Reversal, then overpowered his Purple Profound Sword Art; Li Qingyuan used another talisman array to threaten Xuan Ya and escaped when Xuan Dan intervened.
• Xuan Dan and Xuan Ya discussed Li Qingyuan’s unusual abilities and decided to gather their sect’s junior disciples before pursuing the ruin’s opportunities.
• After escaping beyond Xuan Dan’s sensing range, Li Qingyuan decided he needed more combat strength to compete for Core Formation and Nascent Soul opportunities.
• Li Qingyuan copied masterwork elixirs and the Demonic Crown Crane’s demonic core for Ji Kun, which consumed them and began emitting a faint Tier 3 Great Demon aura.

Li Qingyuan joined Three Joys Immortal City's group and learned how Zhao Tongxuan had formed his core using a Spirit Condensing Pill hidden in the secret realm. Zhao Tongxuan revealed that Core Formation prodigies who once stayed in the realm for fifty years had all vanished, leaving Li Qingyuan alarmed about the secret realm's dangers.

• Li Qingyuan gathered supplies and fed Ji Kun pills and demonic beast cores as its Tier 3 aura grew stronger.
• Li Qingyuan met Li Yunmei and the Three Joys Immortal City group in a trading town, where Zhao Tongxuan invited him to rejoin them and called him a fellow disciple.
• In a soundproofed tent, Zhao Tongxuan explained that he had found a Spirit Condensing Pill hidden in the secret realm and used it to form his core.
• Li Qingyuan asked why disciples did not remain in the secret realm for decades to cultivate and gather resources.
• Zhao Tongxuan said that more than two thousand years earlier, Core Formation prodigies who stayed in the realm had all vanished when it opened again fifty years later.
• Li Qingyuan felt a chill and feared that the Trial Secret Realm might devour people.

Li Qingyuan and the other Foundation Establishment geniuses gathered at an unopened sect relic, where seven jade-slip keys revealed a Spirit Transformation inheritance. After the Core Formation Prodigies drove off the rogue cultivators, the factions entered the Grotto-heaven to compete for its opportunities.

• Zhao Tongxuan warned Li Qingyuan that Core Formation Prodigies had mysteriously vanished in the relic before, and Li Qingyuan resolved to conserve his strongest techniques.
• More than a thousand Foundation Establishment geniuses arrived, and Zhao Tongxuan introduced the Three Joys Immortal City group to the other factions' Core Formation Prodigies.
• The seven jade-slip keys merged, and Zhao Dai recognized the power behind them as a Spirit Transformation inheritance.
• A Primordial Spirit remnant opened the Spirit Transformation Grotto-heaven, and the seven Core Formation Prodigies killed rogue cultivators who rushed its entrance before forcing the rest to retreat.
• The factions led by Zhao Chong, Blood Shadow, Bai Qiulie, Ye Xiaoxiao, Xuan Dan, and Zhao Tongxuan entered the Grotto-heaven, and Li Qingyuan followed while hoping to find treasures to help Ji Kun advance.

Li Qingyuan entered the Myriad Laws Hall, a Spirit Transformation sect’s treasure repository, seeking a Wood-Attribute Core Formation Cultivation Method. He found the Burning Wood Technique and was transported to a battle space to prove himself worthy of obtaining it.

• Seven teams led by Core Formation Prodigies reached the enormous Spirit Transformation sect and scattered to search its palaces for inheritances.
• Zhao Tongxuan led the Three Joys Immortal City disciples toward a grand hall, while Liu Chuan left without saying goodbye; Li Qingyuan went alone to the Myriad Laws Hall.
• Li Qingyuan observed that the hall sent challengers into a battle space to fight puppets for their chosen cultivation methods or spells.
• Li Qingyuan flew into the hall’s star-filled inner world and caught a shooting star containing the Wood-Attribute Core Formation Cultivation Method Burning Wood Technique.
• Li Qingyuan chose the technique, crushed its shooting star, and was transported to the place of battle.

Li Qingyuan defeated a Third-grade Puppet in the Myriad Laws Hall and obtained the Burning Wood Technique and Flame Burst Spell. His search for a Third-tier body-refining method led him to a moon-bright challenge that forced him to face a Late Tier 3 Ape Puppet, leaving him wondering how a Foundation Establishment cultivator could survive.

• Li Qingyuan fought the Third-grade Puppet with his body and magic power, then used the Primordial Cone to defeat it and claim the Burning Wood Technique.
• He searched the Starry Sky Hall, captured a Third-tier Flame Burst Spell, and defeated another puppet with a single strike to obtain it.
• Li Qingyuan searched for a Third-tier body-refining method but found only Second-tier options.
• A dazzling moon-like light pursued Li Qingyuan and transported him to an arena despite his attempt to flee.
• Li Qingyuan faced a Late Tier 3 Ape Puppet and realized he had no idea how to fight it as a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Shang Xiuxin and her allies fought Yan Kui and the Corpse Puppet Sect over the Golden Condensing Grass, until Shang Xiuxin’s hidden peach blossom power killed Yan Kui and devastated her followers. Elsewhere, Li Qingyuan defeated an Ape Puppet and received a jade slip containing a Fourth-tier Spell.

• Yan Kui sent a Core Formation corpse puppet against Shang Xiuxin and ordered her disciples to seize the Golden Condensing Grass, but Lan Xin joined Li Yunmei and the others to complete the Six Harmonies Sword Formation.
• Yan Kui unleashed her Core Formation corpse puppet, which broke the sword formation and heavily injured Lan Xin, Li Yunmei, and the other women.
• Shang Xiuxin used a peach blossom power that destroyed the corpse puppet, killed Yan Kui, and struck down more than ten Corpse Puppet Sect disciples.
• Lan Xin and Shang Xiuxin finished off the surviving enemies, and the women swore Dao Heart Oaths to keep Shang Xiuxin’s secret.
• Li Qingyuan defeated a Late Tier 3 Ape Puppet, but the puppet and its Demonic Beast Core vanished before he could collect them.
• Li Qingyuan received a jade slip for defeating the puppet and discovered that it contained a Fourth-tier Spell.

Li Qingyuan acquired the Heart Demon Pupil, disguised himself as Corpse Puppet Sect disciple Zhen Youde, and joined the battle for the Heavenly God Sect’s Pill Treasure Pavilion. He seized a core Pill Tower amid the fighting, where the scent of pills excited Ji Kun inside his Space Ring.

• Li Qingyuan read the Heart Demon Pupil’s abilities, stored the technique, and feigned injuries before teleporting out of the Myriad Laws Hall.
• After discovering that no one had tried to rob him, Li Qingyuan transformed into Zhen Youde and posed as a Corpse Puppet Sect body cultivator.
• Li Qingyuan joined Shangguan Sha and gathered Corpse Puppet Sect allies on their way to the Pill Treasure Pavilion, where Blood Shadow and Zhao Chong fought over its core buildings.
• Li Qingyuan charged into the battle, killed and injured numerous Limitless Sect cultivators, and entered a core Pill Tower.
• The Corpse Puppet Sect and Limitless Sect divided the six core Pill Towers, while Li Qingyuan smelled the pill fragrance and Ji Kun grew excited inside his Space Ring.

Li Qingyuan raided the Pill Tower’s first floor, then helped Shangguan Sha’s faction attack rival cultivators before killing Shangguan Sha and slaughtering the trapped survivors. He collected the tower’s third-grade elixirs and discovered an unranked Ancient Samsara Pill formula on the top floor, whose description shocked him.

• Li Qingyuan collected nearly a hundred second-grade Masterwork elixirs and directed Shangguan Sha toward the third-grade pills on the second floor.
• Shangguan Sha ordered Corpse Puppet Sect disciples to suppress affiliated cultivators fighting over the elixirs, and Li Qingyuan joined his side before suddenly killing him.
• Li Qingyuan activated a formation and, with Ji Kun, used Primordial Cones and Five Elements Talisman Arrays to kill the Foundation Establishment cultivators trapped in the Pill Tower.
• Li Qingyuan gathered the dead cultivators’ Storage Bags and Corpse Puppets, then collected the third-grade elixirs, including Spirit Condensing Pills and Longevity Pills.
• Li Qingyuan reached the Pill Tower’s third floor, retrieved the Ancient Samsara Pill formula from a jade box, and was shocked by its description.

Li Qingyuan discovered a formula for an elixir that could strengthen his loved ones’ Spirit Roots after reincarnation, then lured Blood Shadow and the Corpse Puppet Sect into a deadly trap. He escaped as the Pill Tower exploded, leaving Blood Shadow furious and badly battered.

• Li Qingyuan decided to refine the Ancient Samsara Pill so his parents, Luo Ling, and their children could have a path to stronger cultivation after reincarnation.
• Blood Shadow sent Yang Xuan and Yang Xiu with disciples into Li Qingyuan’s Pill Tower, but they failed to return, and he led the rest of the Corpse Puppet Sect inside.
• Blood Shadow found the corpses of dozens of sect members and ordered a retreat, but Li Qingyuan detonated talisman arrays and corpse puppets to attack them.
• Li Qingyuan blocked Blood Shadow’s strike, escaped the Pill Tower, and revealed himself as Zhen Youde before fleeing.
• The Pill Tower and its formation exploded, leaving Blood Shadow with heavy losses and prompting Zhao Chong and Zhao Dai to warn each other about Zhen Youde.

Li Qingyuan cultivated the Heart Demon Pupil and overcame visions rooted in the abandonment he suffered in his past life and his fears about his children. After learning that Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk might lie ahead, he set out toward the rumored spirit pool and the people gathered there.

• Li Qingyuan settled into a crude cave dwelling, kept in touch with Li Yunmei, and began cultivating the Heart Demon Pupil.
• The Heart Demon Pupil forced Li Qingyuan to relive his abandonment as an infant and confront his guilt about not witnessing his twins' birth.
• Li Qingyuan let go of his past and resolved that he had given his children a strong start, reaching the Heart Demon Pupil's beginner stage.
• After several days of cultivation, Li Qingyuan achieved minor accomplishment in the Heart Demon Pupil and learned how it could affect other cultivators.
• Li Yunmei told Li Qingyuan that Zheng Fa and Lu Huan were attempting to reach the False Core Realm, while Shang Xiuxin led others toward a rumored spirit pool containing Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk.
• Li Qingyuan packed away his formation and rushed toward the spirit pool, intending to settle his debts with Mo Hong and Ding Xiaojun.

Disguised as Chen Yuanjie, Li Qingyuan reached the Spirit Transformation cave abode and discovered Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk inside its powerful formation. He arranged for Li Yunmei to lure Mo Hong and Ding Xiaojun away, setting the stage for a confrontation.

• Li Qingyuan reviewed Li Yunmei’s reports about the looted treasures and the battles at the cave-heaven’s major sites.
• Li Qingyuan arrived at the cave abode and saw Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk simulated as spirit fish within its spiritual spring.
• Li Qingyuan decided to seize the milk for making Purifying Elixir Liquid and asked Li Yunmei to lure Mo Hong and Ding Xiaojun away.
• Li Yunmei pretended she was going to meet Liu Chuan, and Mo Hong and Ding Xiaojun volunteered to accompany her.
• Mo Hong and Ding Xiaojun secretly planned to kill Liu Chuan and capture Li Yunmei, while Li Yunmei resolved to settle her feud with Ding Xiaojun.

Li Qingyuan killed Mo Hong and helped Li Yunmei kill Ding Xiaojun, then staged an attack so Xuan Ya would believe the Corpse Puppet Sect had assaulted her. The factions gathered at the Spirit Transformation cave mansion, where Zhao Chong called for a plan to break its formation and claim the Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk.

• Li Qingyuan ambushed Mo Hong, used his inner demon to disable him, and killed him.
• Li Yunmei stabbed Ding Xiaojun to death, and Li Qingyuan took both victims' Storage Bags.
• Li Qingyuan staged an attack on Li Yunmei as Xuan Ya arrived, then fled after using three corpse puppets to blunt her attack.
• Li Yunmei convinced Xuan Ya to stay with her, and the Mysterious Heaven Sect disciples later brought her to the Spirit Transformation cave mansion.
• The seven great factions gathered, where Zhao Chong explained that the formation could not be broken by force and asked everyone to suggest a plan.