Chapter Summaries

Li Shiming examined the spoils from his recent battles and found Yi Yichen's Baoze Mountain Refining Record, an artifact-refining inheritance that could help him upgrade his inventions. He then bought second-grade corpse-refining materials at a Great Market and left cautiously after confirming no one was following him.

• Li Shiming searched five Storage Bags and found Yi Yichen's Talisman Treasure, numerous spiritual artifacts, and a purple jade slip containing the Baoze Mountain Refining Record.
• Li Shiming learned that Yi Yichen's spirit furnace was an Artifact Refining Furnace and considered how artifact refining could help improve his weapons for the Foundation Establishment Stage.
• Li Shiming and Li Yuanba discussed the need for additional help when facing multiple enemies, and Li Shiming entered a Great Market the next day.
• Li Shiming bought second-grade corpse-refining materials from a demonic cultivation shop for fifteen thousand spirit stones using a Northern Shu Merchant Guild Storage Jade Token.
• Li Shiming used his Drone and Infrared Thermal Imaging to check for pursuers after leaving the Great Market, then relaxed when he found none.

Li Shiming completed Li Yuanba’s Lifebound Refining Corpse using Yun Xingyi’s body, producing the Peak Iron Corpse Jiang Chen. They traveled to the Six-Fingered Sound Demon’s Legacy Mansion and discovered its hidden entrance, where Li Shiming spotted valuable objects in the main hall.

• Li Shiming refined Yun Xingyi’s corpse in the Netherworld Ghost Realm Formation, and it became a Peak Iron Corpse with Sword Intent in its claws.
• Li Shiming altered Jiang Chen’s face, named it, and gave Li Yuanba a Corpse Storage Bag for it.
• Li Shiming and Li Yuanba set off together to explore the Six-Fingered Sound Demon’s Legacy Mansion.
• Near the mansion, Li Shiming detected strange Formation fluctuations and revealed a hidden cave entrance with a method he cast toward the shrubs.
• Li Shiming used a Drone to inspect the main hall and saw high-grade Spiritual Material furniture and a chessboard with black and white pieces that might have been Magical Treasures.

Li Shiming investigated the Legacy Mansion, discovered the Six-Fingered Sound Demon was alive and seeking to possess a visitor, and trapped him in rapidly hardening concrete. After analyzing and altering the mansion’s Formation, Li Shiming redirected its Spiritual Qi into the main hall, leaving the Six-Fingered Sound Demon cut off from its supply.

• Li Shiming used a Drone to inspect the Cave Dwelling and identified the apparently withered Six-Fingered Sound Demon as a living cultivator who might attempt Soul Possession.
• When the Six-Fingered Sound Demon triggered the ancient zither to destroy the Drone, Li Shiming’s trap burst open a Storage Bag and buried him beneath fast-setting C130 Concrete.
• Li Shiming waited outside, then entered the mansion and spent ten days analyzing its Formation with the IBMz15 while avoiding the sealed room.
• Li Shiming located the Spiritual Vein beneath the garden pond and modified the Formation to draw Spiritual Qi into the main hall.
• The redirected Spiritual Qi caused the mansion’s other Formations to collapse and its Spirit Plants to die, while the trapped Six-Fingered Sound Demon weakened without Spiritual Qi.

Li Shiming and Li Yuanba survived the Six-Fingered Sound Demon’s attempt to escape in his Golden Core and possess them, then subdued and destroyed his soul. After recovering, Li Shiming resumed searching the Legacy Mansion while Jiang Chen cleared the concrete from the demon’s room.

• Li Shiming stored the Go Set Magical Treasure in the Server Room Space, where Jiang Chen weakened and erased the Six-Fingered Sound Demon’s ownership spirit mark.
• The Six-Fingered Sound Demon sent his Golden Core through the concrete and the Cave Dwelling’s formations, targeting Li Yuanba for possession and Li Shiming for death.
• Jiang Chen intercepted the Golden Core, and Li Shiming used his Sword Bone thumb to store it in the Server Room Space, leaving the Six-Fingered Sound Demon’s soul exposed.
• Li Shiming, Li Yuanba, Jiang Chen, and the Primary Spirit attacked the demon’s soul until the Vajra Sutra caused it to dissipate.
• After two days of recovery, Li Shiming sent Jiang Chen to clear the concrete from the demon’s room and collected the valuable furnishings from the adjacent bedroom.

Li Shiming looted the Six-Fingered Sound Demon's Legacy Mansion, finding an inheritance, rare materials, and a sealed golden coffin before leaving with Li Yuanba for the Vast Array Sect. They parted near the sect’s territory, where Li Yuanba reached its mountain gate with a Vast Array Token as a wounded youth arrived behind him.

• Li Shiming searched the mansion’s study, storeroom, and garden, collecting jade slips, Spiritual Materials, and a Second Grade Lotus before sealing the Cave Dwelling.
• Li Shiming took the Six-Fingered Sound Demon's Black Zither and Space Ring, discovering the Immortal Turtle Breathing Technique, the Heavenly Sound Secret Manual, Third Grade Spiritual Medicines and ores, and a frightening golden coffin.
• Li Shiming gave the Six-Fingered Sound Demon's useless corpse to Li Yuanba, then sealed the mansion and traveled with him toward the Vast Array Sect.
• A thousand li from the sect, Li Shiming handed Li Yuanba the Vast Array Token and departed; Li Yuanba encountered a wounded one-armed youth fleeing more than ten pursuers.
• The youth and Li Yuanba crossed the Vast Array Sect boundary, where their pursuers stopped, and Li Yuanba continued to the mountain gate as the resentful youth arrived behind him.

Li Yuanba endured the Vast Array Sect’s lethal heart-inquiry trial and became one of only six survivors admitted as disciples. Elder Lu examined his abilities and discovered that Li Yuanba had a Gold Attribute Heavenly Spiritual Root, a powerful Body Tempering method, and Sword Intent.

• Li Yuanba spent ten days waiting with other Vast Array Token holders before a Golden Core cultivator brought them to the Heavenly Demon Hall for the heart-inquiry stage.
• The Heavenly Demon Diagram and stone-steles killed most of the applicants, while Li Yuanba survived the tests of sincerity and steadfastness and swore never to betray the Vast Array Sect.
• Elder Lu admitted the six survivors as disciples, warned them to keep the heart inquiry secret, and brought the Foundation Establishment cultivators to the outer sect.
• Elder Lu asked Li Yuanba about his strengths, and Li Yuanba identified himself as a Sword Cultivator and agreed to an examination.
• Elder Lu discovered Li Yuanba’s Gold Attribute Heavenly Spiritual Root, powerful Body Tempering method, Sword Intent, and Sword Cultivator inheritance, and wondered whether a large sect had sent him.

Li Yuanba joined the Vast Array Sect, received a well-appointed Cave Dwelling, and was assigned to the Outer Sect Combat Division. Meanwhile, Li Shiming traveled through the Ten Thousand Mountains and intervened when Shu Mountain Sect disciple Xu Chuan was poisoned and cornered by Vast Array Sect cultivators.

• Elder Lu welcomed Li Yuanba into the Vast Array Sect, gave him Contribution Points and supplies, and assigned him a Cave Dwelling.
• Li Yuanba inspected his Cave Dwelling on Chaoyun Peak and learned that the Outer Sect Combat Division required him to complete three level-one missions each year.
• As Li Shiming crossed the Ten Thousand Mountains, IBMz15 detected a battle between Xu Chuan and two Vast Array Sect cultivators.
• Li Yuanba found a level-two mission identifying Xu Chuan as a True Inheritor Disciple of the Shu Mountain Sect, while a Vast Array Sect Foundation Establishment Mid-Stage cultivator approached the fight.
• A hidden Vast Array Sect cultivator poisoned Xu Chuan as he tried to flee, leaving him surrounded and weakened.
• Li Shiming wrapped Xu Chuan in Sword Light and carried him away, telling him he was there to help him escape.

Li Shiming rescued Xu Chuan from Vast Array Sect pursuers, then agreed to help him obtain a rare Moyang Three-Leaf Clover in exchange for assistance leaving the Ten Thousand Mountains and a chance to join the Shu Mountain Sect. They set out together toward a dangerous area inhabited by Spirit Beasts, while Li Shiming discovered that the mission targeting Xu Chuan had been updated to include two companions.

• Li Shiming escaped with Xu Chuan after rescuing him from three Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivators and one Foundation Establishment Mid-Stage cultivator of the Vast Array Sect.
• Xu Chuan neutralized his poison inside Li Shiming's concealed formation, learned Li Shiming's identity, and agreed to take him out of the Ten Thousand Mountains after completing his mission.
• After Li Shiming showed his Thousand Illusions Sect entry token, Xu Chuan offered him a chance to join the Shu Mountain Sect as an Inner Sect Disciple and later as his master's Nominal Disciple.
• Xu Chuan revealed that he sought a Moyang Three-Leaf Clover, and Li Shiming agreed to help harvest it in exchange for the opportunity to join the Shu Mountain Sect.
• Xu Chuan led Li Shiming toward a dangerous Spirit Beast region, while Li Shiming saw that the mission targeting Xu Chuan had been revised to include two cultivators of similar strength.

Xu Chuan and Li Shiming reached the Spirit Beast Territory in search of the Moyang Three-Leaf Clover, while Li Yuanba took Vast Array Sect missions nearby and confronted Mao Bin and Ling Bin. Li Yuanba released Jiang Chen to ambush Mao Bin, and the chapter ended as Mao Bin’s three Talismans and Ling Bin’s flying axe struck Jiang Chen.

• Xu Chuan warned Li Shiming that they had reached the Spirit Beast Territory and asked him to deliver the Moyang Three-Leaf Clover to the Shu Mountain Sect if Xu Chuan died or they were separated.
• Li Yuanba left the Vast Array Sect to complete three missions against Foundation Establishment Rogue Cultivators near the Golden Crow Mountain Range.
• Li Yuanba found Zhang Tiande with Mao Bin, Ling Bin, and two other cultivators, and identified Mao Bin and Ling Bin as wanted targets.
• Li Yuanba removed his mask to distract Mao Bin and released Jiang Chen, who struck Mao Bin’s Spiritual Artifact Shield.
• Mao Bin activated three powerful Talismans while Ling Bin sent a flying axe at Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen and Li Yuanba defeated five cultivators, while Li Shiming and Xu Chuan fought a troop of spirit monkeys after entering their territory. The battle left Xu Chuan revealing a powerful sect secret art as Li Shiming assessed his abilities.

• Jiang Chen killed Mao Bin, seized Ling Bin, and used his body to crush two Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivators before Li Yuanba helped kill Zhang Tiande.
• Li Yuanba collected the five cultivators’ heads and Storage Bags, found a token marked “Tai Chu,” then put Jiang Chen away and traveled onward.
• Li Shiming and Xu Chuan encountered a Spirit Monkey King and four Foundation Establishment Early Stage White Monkeys, and Li Shiming trapped them in his Nine Palaces Sword Formation.
• Li Shiming used Golden Thunder to weaken a White Monkey while Xu Chuan attacked the Spirit Monkey King with a flying sword empowered by a sect secret art.

Li Shiming pursued the wounded Spirit Monkey King into its hidden cave and killed it after securing its Monkey Wine. He kept the wine’s discovery secret, then met up with Xu Chuan to discuss the Spirit Monkey King’s corpse.

• Two White Monkeys self-destructed, disrupting Li Shiming’s Nine Palaces Sword Formation and allowing the injured Spirit Monkey King to escape.
• Li Shiming chased the Spirit Monkey King to a concealed cave, where he found it drinking Monkey Wine.
• Li Shiming fought the Spirit Monkey King at close range and summoned Nezha to keep it occupied while he collected the wine.
• Li Shiming stored the Monkey Wine and its lees, then killed the Spirit Monkey King after it lost the ability to fight.
• Li Shiming summoned Xu Chuan by releasing his lightning aura, and Xu Chuan arrived ashamed that the Spirit Monkey King had escaped him.

Li Shiming and Xu Chuan encountered a Four-Clawed Jiao Great Demon while traveling through the Ten Thousand Mountains, forcing Xu Chuan to draw it away and Li Shiming to flee. After rerouting Li Yuanba around the danger and making camp, Li Shiming used Monkey Wine to advance his Vajra Body Protection Divine Art, leaving him much stronger and noticeably more muscular.

• Xu Chuan shared a Jade Slip containing sect intelligence with Li Shiming and warned him that its information might be outdated.
• Li Shiming and Xu Chuan found an unmarked lake on their route and flew across it, where a Four-Clawed Jiao Great Demon emerged.
• Xu Chuan provoked the Four-Clawed Jiao Great Demon and fled with a Talisman, while Li Shiming used Thunder Escape to reach the lakeshore.
• Li Shiming redesigned Li Yuanba's route to avoid the lake and traveled alone with the Drone to scout the surrounding terrain.
• Li Shiming made a concealed cave shelter for the night, recovered his spiritual power, and cultivated with Monkey Wine.
• Li Shiming absorbed the Monkey Wine's energy, advanced his Vajra Body Protection Divine Art to the middle tier of the Foundation Establishment Early Stage, and found that his muscles had grown larger.

Li Shiming cultivated the 'Sword Body Secret Scripture' and devised a plan to draw the flame-covered Giant Bear away from the nearly mature Moyang Three-Leaf Clover. After provoking the beast into a berserk chase, he reached its nest, where the extreme heat made the next step dangerous.

• Li Shiming cultivated the 'Sword Body Secret Scripture' and improved his physique without drinking Monkey Wine.
• Li Shiming scouted the Moyang Three-Leaf Clover’s mountain with a Drone and prepared a hidden cave and monitors while waiting for Xu Chuan, who did not arrive.
• Li Shiming used a timed bomb to reveal that a flame-covered Giant Bear guarded the herb and judged that it was just short of becoming a Great Demon.
• Li Shiming repeatedly bombed distant locations and used the Drone to confirm that the nearly mature Moyang Three-Leaf Clover grew beside Earth Fire inside the Giant Bear’s nest.
• Li Shiming exploited the Giant Bear’s growing fury and sensing range, then flew to its nest while the beast chased explosions away from it.

Li Shiming stole the Moyang Three-Leaf Clover from the Giant Bear’s lair and discovered that the Little Flame he took could refine ore into pure metal. He reunited with Li Yuanba, left the Ten Thousand Mountains with him, and parted near the defensive line.

• Li Shiming harvested the Moyang Three-Leaf Clover, and the Little Flame entered his Spirit Lake after following his Spiritual Sense.
• Li Shiming escaped the Giant Bear by hiding beneath the magma while a small Rocket lured the pursuing beast away.
• Li Shiming discovered that Little Flame could refine First Grade and Second Grade Ore into nearly pure metal, though it became tired and absorbed his Fire Thunder Spiritual Power.
• Li Shiming traveled to meet Li Yuanba, gave him half of the Monkey Wine, and the two journeyed together out of the Ten Thousand Mountains.
• Li Yuanba carried Li Shiming by Jade Flying Boat to a city near the defense line, then they parted and went their separate ways.

Li Shiming used Xu Chuan’s token to leave the Ten Thousand Mountains hidden in a Shu Mountain Sect cargo cart, passing the checkpoint without inspection. He reached the Heavenly Tang Kingdom’s Capital City while searching for cultivators and suspected they were stationed near its Imperial City.

• Li Shiming showed Xu Chuan’s Jade Token to the Shu Mountain Sect shopkeeper in Boundary Mountain City and waited three days for a shipment.
• The shopkeeper hid Li Shiming beneath a cargo cart, and he crossed the checkpoint and left the Ten Thousand Mountains after seven double-hours.
• Li Shiming sensed Golden Core auras at the boundary, then flew away and discovered that nearby cities had no visible cultivators.
• Li Shiming learned from a map and books that he was in the Heavenly Tang Kingdom and decided to search its Capital City for sect cultivators.
• Li Shiming entered the Capital City invisibly and smiled when he approached the Imperial City, believing cultivators were stationed there.

Li Shiming reached the Heavenly Tang Kingdom and sent Yin Shilan a message through a Thousand Illusions Sect garrison cultivator. Yin Shilan hurried out of the sect with Liang Yexuan, and Li Shiming flew to meet her as her Flying Boat arrived.

• Li Shiming met Chu Gang, bought a map, and paid him to deliver a Jade Slip to Yin Shilan.
• Chu Gang learned Yin Shilan's standing in the Thousand Illusions Sect and sent the Jade Slip by spirit bird.
• Yin Shilan received Li Shiming's message and contacted Chu Gang, telling him to keep Li Shiming at the Imperial Palace until she arrived.
• Yin Shilan set out with Liang Yexuan, who learned that Li Shiming had crossed the North Sea to reach her.
• Li Shiming waited on the Imperial Palace roof, then flew toward Yin Shilan's arriving Flying Boat.

Li Shiming reunited with Yin Shilan and asked Liang Yexuan to compare his prospects at Thousand Illusions Sect and Shu Mountain Sect. Liang Yexuan recommended Shu Mountain Sect if he could enter as an Inner Sect Disciple, then challenged him to a spar and was startled when his Sword Intent damaged her Phoenix Scarf.

• Li Shiming reunited with Yin Shilan in the Imperial Palace, where Liang Yexuan joined them for tea and conversation.
• Li Shiming explained how he had established his foundation and crossed the North Sea, and Yin Shilan comforted him when he recalled a terrifying sea encounter.
• Li Shiming asked Liang Yexuan to compare joining Thousand Illusions Sect as an Outer Sect Disciple with entering Shu Mountain Sect as an Inner Sect Disciple.
• Liang Yexuan said Shu Mountain Sect was the better choice if Li Shiming could secure Inner Sect status, while Yin Shilan urged him to prioritize his cultivation.
• Liang Yexuan challenged Li Shiming to a match outside the city, and his Sword Intent struck one of the phoenixes from her Phoenix Scarf, alarming her.

Li Shiming reached Guan Mountain Town to seek Elder Su, while Yin Shaotao delayed passing on his arrival and alerted True Inheritor Ji first. Ji sent the Fiery Mountain Four Tigers to kill Li Shiming, and they broke into his fortified courtyard as he cultivated.

• Li Shiming arrived at Guan Mountain Town, presented Xu Chuan's token at the Shu Mountain Sect residence, and was told to wait for news.
• Li Shiming rented an Elite Courtyard and reinforced its formation before cultivating the Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Art.
• Yin Shaotao learned that Li Shiming had come to see Elder Su, reported the news to True Inheritor Ji first, and sent it to Elder Su an hour later.
• True Inheritor Ji ordered the Fiery Mountain Four Tigers to kill Li Shiming, and they obtained a high-authority Jade Token for his courtyard.
• The Fiery Mountain Four Tigers surrounded Li Shiming's Elite Courtyard and shattered its Defensive Formation with a combined attack.

Li Shiming’s cultivation was interrupted by an ambush in Guan Mountain Town, but he exposed the plot and summoned public and sect scrutiny. Elder Su arrived, took Li Shiming into the sect, and Ji Hongbo then sought reassurance from Elder Ji, who ordered him to reflect in seclusion.

• Li Shiming sensed the Defensive Formation breaking, escaped the courtyard, dismantled the Isolation Formation, and shouted that the Fiery Mountain Four Tigers and the inn were plotting to kill him.
• Li Shiming revealed Xu Chuan’s token and his mission to meet Elder Su, prompting the townspeople and sect cultivators to alert the Shu Mountain Sect.
• The Law Enforcement Team arrived, secretly signaled the Fiery Mountain Four Tigers, and tried to arrest Li Shiming, but Elder Su appeared and ordered the team to take the four attackers away.
• Elder Su took Li Shiming into the sect as a guest and left the shopkeeper facing the consequences.
• Ji Hongbo reported to Elder Ji, who said the conflict was permitted competition between True Inheritors and ordered Ji Hongbo into seclusion for three months.

Li Shiming delivered the Moyang Three-Leaf Clover to Elder Su and spent two months cultivating in a Golden Core-level Cave Dwelling while Elder Su recovered from his injuries. After learning that Xu Chuan was alive and had recommended Li Shiming as a Nominal Disciple, Elder Su questioned Li Shiming about his cultivation methods before deciding whether to accept him into the Shu Mountain Sect.

• Elder Su confirmed Li Shiming's identity, took the Moyang Three-Leaf Clover, and gave him a Cave Dwelling at Sky Eye Peak.
• Li Shiming cultivated in the Cave Dwelling for two months, greatly increasing the Thunder Spiritual Power in his Spirit Lake.
• Elder Ji concluded that Li Shiming had brought Elder Su the Spiritual Herb needed to recover, thwarting his plan to delay Elder Su's treatment.
• Elder Su recovered after refining and taking a Three Yang Revival Pill, then went to summon Li Shiming from the Cave Dwelling.
• Elder Su told Li Shiming that Xu Chuan's Soul Lamp was still lit and revealed that Xu Chuan had recommended him as a Nominal Disciple.
• Elder Su investigated Li Shiming's aptitude and physique, then asked him to name the Main Cultivation Method and Body Tempering techniques he had practiced.