Chapter Summaries

After killing Buddha Jue Yuan, Li Yuanba found the Jade Foot Sarira and was trapped in its trial, while Arhat Zhi Kong planned to use Buddha Jue Tu to reclaim the relic. With Li Shiming’s help, Li Yuanba resisted the Sarira’s Buddha Sound and received the complete Divine Foot Passage inheritance.

• Arhat Zhi Kong told Arhat Zhi Ming that Buddha Jue Yuan’s death was expected and that Buddha Jue Tu would retrieve the Divine Foot Passage Heritage Relic.
• Li Yuanba collected Buddha Jue Yuan’s corpse and Bronze Bell, then found the Jade Foot Sarira in his Storage Bracelet.
• Li Yuanba entered the Jade Foot Sarira’s trial and began sinking into its Buddha Sound, while Li Shiming warned him through their consciousness link.
• Li Shiming used IBMz15 to send the Life-Reaping Brahma Sound into Li Yuanba’s consciousness, helping him resist the trial as his body remained vulnerable on the battlefield.
• After six hours, the Buddha Sound vanished and Li Yuanba received the complete Divine Foot Passage inheritance, which Li Shiming also received and backed up in IBMz15.

Li Shiming mastered Lotus Steps by using IBMz15 to load the White Lotus Diagram into his consciousness, while Li Yuanba returned to the checkpoint with Buddha Jue Yuan’s corpse. Elder Lu identified Jue Yuan as a top Thousand Leaves Temple disciple and secretly marked Li Yuanba as he considered asking about a relic.

• Li Yuanba judged that memorizing the White Lotus Diagram would take too long, while Li Shiming used IBMz15 to process and imprint it into his consciousness.
• Li Shiming comprehended Lotus Steps, discovered it enabled true teleportation, and tested distances of up to three hundred meters.
• Li Shiming decided Li Yuanba could learn Lotus Steps too, but sent him back to report Jue Yuan’s battle record before attempting it on the battlefield.
• Li Yuanba returned safely to the checkpoint and presented Buddha Jue Yuan’s corpse at the Mission Pavilion, surprising cultivators who had expected him to lose to Wang Chengjun.
• Elder Lu confirmed that Li Yuanba had killed Jue Yuan, the third-ranked Buddha of Thousand Leaves Temple, in a fair fight and praised his potential.
• Li Yuanba suspected Elder Lu’s friendly touch and examined himself, while Elder Lu concealed the harmless mark he had left and planned to ask about a relic.

Li Yuanba obtained the Divine Foot Passage inheritance and learned Lotus Steps, while Elder Lu secretly plotted to seize it. He then joined the battlefield, killed numerous Buddhas, and gained a fearsome reputation.

• Elder Lu coveted the Divine Foot Passage inheritance and considered killing Li Yuanba if he refused to hand it over.
• Li Yuanba collected his reward for killing Buddha Jue Yuan, then used a formation to study the White Lotus Diagram transmitted by Main Body Li Shiming.
• After collapsing from the sudden influx of knowledge, Li Yuanba recovered, mastered Lotus Steps, and tested its long-distance movement.
• Elder Lu watched Li Yuanba leave and resolved to demand the inheritance before they returned to the sect.
• Li Yuanba reached a battle between twelve Buddhas and fifteen Demonic Cultivators, broke the Buddhas' defenses with his Sword Intent, and killed seven of them.
• Li Yuanba spent the next few days hunting Buddhas, sharpening his Sword Intent and earning a notorious reputation across the Battlefield.

Li Yuanba returned to the battlefield after exchanging his contribution points for formation knowledge, while Main Body Li Shiming found a flaw in the Righteous Path formation and waited to meet him. Meanwhile, Thousand Leaves Temple unleashed Jue Tu Buddha on the battlefield, forcing the Vast Array Sect to order a retreat as Li Yuanba and Elder Lu approached the rendezvous unaware of the danger.

• Main Body Li Shiming studied a flaw in the Righteous Path formation and planned to meet Li Yuanba the next morning.
• Li Yuanba exchanged his contribution points for formation knowledge and rare spiritual medicine before leaving Boundary Mountain Pass.
• Elder Lu disguised himself as a Foundation Establishment cultivator, suppressed his aura, and secretly tracked Li Yuanba.
• Arhat Zhi Kong sent Jue Tu Buddha to the battlefield, where Jue Tu slaughtered four Demonic Cultivators.
• The Vast Array Sect's Golden Core elders learned of Jue Tu's arrival and ordered their cultivators to retreat, but Li Yuanba and Elder Lu continued toward the rendezvous unaware of the threat.

Li Yuanba used Lotus Steps to flee from Elder Lu and Jue Tu Buddha while carrying the Jade Foot Sarira, then reached a formation prepared by Main Body Li Shiming. Elder Lu caught up and found the formation blocking his attack, as Jue Tu Buddha continued closing in.

• Li Yuanba accelerated with Lotus Steps, widening the distance from Elder Lu and Jue Tu Buddha as he headed toward Main Body Li Shiming.
• Li Yuanba realized Elder Lu had marked him and concluded that Jue Tu Buddha was tracking the Jade Foot Sarira.
• Jue Tu Buddha attacked Elder Lu, who used a Secret Art to evade him and keep pursuing Li Yuanba.
• Li Yuanba reached Li Shiming's prepared formation, took out the Giant Mountain Talisman Treasure, and waited inside it.
• Elder Lu reached Li Yuanba and tried to seize him, but sensed the formation in time and stopped short, astonished that Li Yuanba had set it up so quickly.

Elder Lu fought Jue Tu Buddha while keeping his Golden Core strength suppressed, eventually pinning and killing him with his Natal Magical Treasure. He then demanded the Jade Foot Sarira from Li Yuanba, who bargained for a Silver Corpse and accepted Elder Lu’s offer of a corpse-refining method and Jue Tu Buddha’s body.

• Jue Tu Buddha used his killing-intent Essence Blood to damage Elder Lu’s Flying Sword Magical Treasure and tried to force him to reveal Golden Core strength.
• Elder Lu brought out his Jade Ruler Magical Treasure, suppressed Jue Tu Buddha, and killed him without exposing his Golden Core strength.
• Elder Lu retrieved the damaged Flying Sword Magical Treasure, stored Jue Tu Buddha’s corpse in a coffin, and demanded the Jade Foot Sarira from Li Yuanba.
• Li Yuanba offered the Jade Foot Sarira in exchange for a Silver Corpse, but Elder Lu instead offered the Moonlight Corpse Scroll and Jue Tu Buddha’s corpse.
• Li Yuanba accepted Elder Lu’s Purple Jade Slip and Refining Corpse Coffin into the Formation.

Li Yuanba and Li Shiming used the Jade Foot Sarira to distract Elder Lu, then killed him with a surprise Railgun attack. They fled the battlefield before eight Golden Core cultivators arrived, while Elder Lu’s fellow Vast Array Sect elders discovered his death.

• Li Yuanba traded the Jade Foot Sarira to Elder Lu for a Purple Jade Slip and a Refining Corpse Coffin, and Elder Lu’s consciousness was drawn into the Sarira’s trial.
• Li Yuanba summoned Jiang Chen to fight Elder Lu’s iron corpse while Li Shiming used a Wraith and monitoring equipment to distract Elder Lu’s combat instincts.
• Li Shiming emerged from stealth and fired the Superior-Grade Magic Tool Railgun, fatally piercing Elder Lu with the Third Grade Sword Foundation Projectile.
• Li Shiming stored Elder Lu’s corpse, exchanged Storage Bags with Li Yuanba, and both left after clearing the battlefield and triggering an explosion to erase traces.
• Eight Golden Core cultivators arrived and found the battlefield destroyed, while three Vast Array Sect elders opened Elder Lu’s Temporary Cave Mansion and found his puppet lifeless.

The Golden Core and Arhat confrontation ended when their Nascent Soul and Venerable elders ordered both sides to withdraw. Li Yuanba returned to the sect with supplies, while Li Shiming examined the spoils and planned how to strengthen his refining corpses.

• Arhat Zhi Ming and a Vast Array Sect Golden Core accused each other of causing the deaths of Jue Tu Buddha and Elder Lu, but their elders halted the confrontation and ordered both sides to withdraw.
• Li Yuanba received Fresnel Reflectors, top-grade Pills, and a Natal Flying Sword Magical Treasure before returning to the sect with the Vast Array Sect.
• Li Shiming collected Li Yuanba's Storage Bag and stored the Body of a Body-Training Arhat and Elder Lu's corpse in the Refining Corpse Coffin.
• Li Shiming scanned the Formation Knowledge into the IBMz15 and studied the Moonlight Corpse Scroll to find ways to strengthen Nezha and Jiang Chen.
• Li Shiming planned to refine Jue Tu Buddha's corpse into a second refining corpse and assessed the limits of using the Superior-Grade Magic Tool Railgun against Golden Core cultivators.

Li Shiming inspected Jue Tu Buddha’s and Elder Lu’s spoils, gaining valuable spiritual items, a corpse-nurturing Space Ring, and two Flying Boats. He discovered Elder Lu had prepared to turn Ten Thousand Swords Peak into a powerful Mountain Peak Magical Treasure and warned Li Yuanba about the threat.

• Li Shiming took Jue Tu Buddha’s calming bead bracelet and found Heart Demon-suppressing Pills in the monk’s Hundred Treasures Bag.
• Li Shiming discovered Elder Lu’s Space Ring contained a Refining Corpse Space with one Silver Corpse and nine Iron Corpses, which he planned to contract after reaching the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• Li Shiming found a Magical Treasure-grade Large Flying Boat, Elder Lu’s Black Flying Boat, three other Magical Treasures, and a collection of Jade Slips and materials.
• Li Shiming read Elder Lu’s records and learned that Elder Lu had gathered the materials and plans to refine Ten Thousand Swords Peak into a Mountain Peak Magical Treasure.
• Li Shiming told his Clone Li Yuanba about Elder Lu’s plans and warned him to be careful.

Li Shiming returned to Shu Mountain Sect, learned that the Righteous and Demonic conflict was escalating, and discovered the sect had sent a thousand Foundation Establishment cultivators south. He practiced refining ten furnaces of pills at once and then sought Elder Ma's guidance with the Shu Mountain Yellow Spirit Pill, leaving the demonstration underway.

• Li Shiming visited Xu Chuan, who told him that Earth Fiend Sect had clashed with Shu Mountain Sect and that the sect was mobilizing cultivators to seize Spiritual Herb mines in the south.
• Xu Chuan said Second Senior Brother and Third Senior Brother had gone on the mission, while his injuries had kept him behind.
• Li Shiming returned to Sword Holding Peak and successfully refined ten furnaces of Shu Mountain Mixed Yuan Pills simultaneously, producing a hundred high-grade pills.
• Li Shiming studied the Shu Mountain Pill Classic's Advanced Alchemist techniques and obtained three portions of Shu Mountain Yellow Spirit Pill materials.
• Li Shiming went to Pill Cauldron Peak and asked Elder Ma to guide him through refining the Shu Mountain Yellow Spirit Pill.
• Elder Ma recognized the scent of Second Grade Yellow Spirit Powder on Li Shiming and began demonstrating the pill's refinement.

Li Shiming became an Advanced Alchemist after refining the Shu Mountain Yellow Spirit Pill, then used IBMz15 to uncover how the One in a Hundred Pill Division Art created extra pills. Li Yuanba returned to Ten Thousand Swords Peak and asked the Sword Elder about the Lotus Steps used by a Buddha he had fought.

• Elder Ma refined a full cauldron of high-grade Shu Mountain Yellow Spirit Pills and taught Li Shiming the techniques in the Shu Mountain Pill Classic.
• Li Shiming refined his first batch of Shu Mountain Yellow Spirit Pills, producing eight pills, three of them high-grade, and Elder Ma recognized him as an Advanced Alchemist.
• Li Shiming accepted a task for one hundred batches, refined them in groups of ten, and used the Server Room Space and IBMz15 to produce pills efficiently.
• Li Shiming discovered that a fleeting Rune Pattern enabled the One in a Hundred Pill Division Art to create a genuine extra pill, then began using the art to double his pill output.
• Li Yuanba returned to Ten Thousand Swords Peak, reassured the Sword Elder, and asked about the White Lotus technique used by Buddha Jue Yuan.
• The Sword Elder identified the technique as Thousand Leaves Temple's Lotus Steps and explained that it was an introductory technique for Divine Foot Passage.

Li Yuanba met Old Ancestor Lu, who took the Six-Fingered Sound Demon's corpse in exchange for a set of Core Formation Resources and discussed Sword Elder's future with him. Afterward, Sword Elder explained the resources and urged Li Yuanba to claim them while reflecting on Old Ancestor Lu's unusually generous reward.

• Sword Elder explained how cultivators used rules of heaven and earth to turn the impossible into the possible, then took Li Yuanba to meet Old Ancestor Lu at Three Saints Peak.
• Old Ancestor Lu inspected Li Yuanba, discovered the Six-Fingered Sound Demon's corpse in his Storage Bracelet, and offered a set of Core Formation Resources in exchange for it.
• Old Ancestor Lu and Sword Elder discussed Sword Elder's possible return to Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion after he achieved Nascent Soul, while Li Yuanba listened to their private conversation.
• Old Ancestor Lu advised Li Yuanba not to rely only on sword techniques for survival, then privately indicated that he knew about Li Yuanba's hidden secret.
• Sword Elder urged Li Yuanba to claim his Core Formation Resources, explaining that they contained a complete plan for advancing to Golden Core.

Li Yuanba established a cultivation routine on Water Cloud Peak while Li Shiming produced large quantities of high-grade Shu Mountain Yellow Spirit Pills before the sect's ingredients ran out. Senior Sister Ye Jingxian brought Wan Zheng and Lu Shi to ask Li Shiming to refine Azure Glaze Five Elements Pills, and the sect's cultivators learned that his pills would be marked with his seal.

• Li Yuanba set up a formation on Water Cloud Peak and began cultivating Purple Qi Comes From The East while taking Shu Mountain Mixed Yuan Pills.
• Li Yuanba received Core Formation resources and knowledge from Old Ancestor Lu, including spirit medicines for four spiritual pills and a Vast Array Sect jade slip.
• Li Shiming refined Shu Mountain Yellow Spirit Pills in large batches, secretly keeping extra pills, until he exhausted the sect's stock of ingredients after a little over thirty days.
• Senior Sister Ye Jingxian visited Li Shiming with Wan Zheng and Lu Shi, who asked him to refine their Azure Glaze Five Elements Pill formula.
• Li Shiming agreed to refine the pills from the fifty portions of ingredients Wan Zheng and Lu Shi provided, accepting the normal payment.
• The sect recalculated the Contribution Points for high-grade Shu Mountain Yellow Spirit Pills and marked Li Shiming's batch with his unique seal.

Li Shiming completed fifty furnaces of Azure Glaze Five Elements Pills for Wan Zheng and Lu Shi, then unexpectedly broke through to Foundation Establishment Mid-Stage while they waited for him. He delivered their pills and promised to help with future alchemy, while Ye Jingxian hoped he would soon become an Advanced Alchemist capable of refining her core-formation pills.

• Li Shiming finished refining fifty furnaces of Azure Glaze Five Elements Pills, producing 990 high-grade pills and 10 top-grade pills while keeping 330 high-grade pills for Wan Zheng and Lu Shi.
• As Wan Zheng, Lu Shi, and Ye Jingxian waited outside Sword Holding Peak, Li Shiming's Five Elements Thunder Spiritual Power broke through his Foundation Establishment Early Stage bottleneck.
• Li Shiming emerged after four hours with an unstable aura, and the three senior disciples realized he had advanced to Foundation Establishment Mid-Stage.
• Wan Zheng and Lu Shi assumed Li Shiming's alchemy had failed and tried to reassure him, but he presented them with 330 high-grade Azure Glaze Five Elements Pills.
• Li Shiming offered to refine pills for his senior brothers in the future, and Ye Jingxian urged him to become an Advanced Alchemist so he could refine her core-formation pills.

Li Yuanba continued cultivating Purple Qi Comes From The East and developed an evil-breaking Sword Intent, while Li Shiming met Cai Hong of the Northern Shu Merchant Guild. Li Shiming accepted the guild’s Guest Alchemist offer and received a Mountain Piercing Pill formula and materials.

• Li Yuanba absorbed Innate Primordial Purple Qi, strengthening his Dao Body and giving his Sword Intent an evil-breaking effect.
• Elder Su introduced Li Shiming to Cai Hong, who explained that his Golden Core was a Fake Core.
• Cai Hong invited Li Shiming to become a Northern Shu Merchant Guild Guest Alchemist, offering an annual stipend, resource priority, and freedom to choose whether to take alchemy work.
• Li Shiming accepted the offer and received a Guest Identity Token.
• Cai Hong gave Li Shiming a Mountain Piercing Pill formula and a complete set of materials, including a Third Grade Spiritual Medicine.

Li Shiming joined the Northern Shu Merchant Guild as a Guest Alchemist, learned about its powerful backing, and accepted large-scale pill-refining missions. His marked pills spread through the cultivation world over the following year, while he eventually stopped cultivating Purple Qi Comes From The East after its benefits ceased.

• Elder Su approved of Li Shiming joining the Northern Shu Merchant Guild, praised his cultivation progress, and explained the guild's ties to the Six Great Righteous and Demonic Sects and unaffiliated Nascent Souls.
• Li Shiming refined his Guest Identity Token, contacted Yin Shilan, and accepted missions to refine one thousand furnaces each of Qian Yuan Returning Jade Pill and Heavenly Treasure Uniting Qi Pill.
• Cai Hong hurried to deliver two thousand portions of alchemy materials, and Li Shiming began refining pills at a pace of five furnaces per day.
• Over the next year, the Northern Shu Merchant Guild sold Li Shiming's unusually effective high-grade pills, and his reputation spread among Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Li Shiming's three attendants reached Qi Refining Peak and cared for the Spirit Plants on Sword Holding Peak while settling their strength.
• After finding that Innate Primordial Purple Qi no longer improved his Dao Body, Li Shiming stopped cultivating Purple Qi Comes From The East and stored his Fresnel Reflectors.

Li Shiming and Li Yuanba advanced their cultivation and prepared to leave their sects, with Li Yuanba carrying a set of Core Formation Resources that attracted the attention of Demonic Cultivators. Ji Hongbo also left Shu Mountain Sect with Foundation Establishment cultivators, intent on acting against Li Shiming as Elder Su’s influence grew.

• Li Shiming reached the limit of his Foundation Establishment body and spirit, refined his Dao body into an Immaculate Dao Body, and decided to wait before attempting to become a Grandmaster Alchemist.
• Li Yuanba’s cultivation transformed his human form toward pure Yang and his Corpse Refinement State toward pure Yin, while he also cultivated Divine Sense and reached Foundation Establishment Mid-Stage.
• Li Yuanba told Sword Elder he was leaving the sect; Sword Elder warned him that news of his Core Formation Resources had spread and authorized him to pass through Boundary Mountain Pass.
• Li Yuanba left the Vast Array Sect, and Demonic Cultivators followed him, believing he carried the Core Formation Resources; he welcomed the chance to test his Supreme Yang Sword Intent.
• Li Shiming obtained permission from Elder Su and Elder Ma to leave Shu Mountain Sect, then departed the mountain gate.
• Ji Hongbo led Foundation Establishment cultivators out of Shu Mountain Sect after deciding Li Shiming’s rise threatened Elder Ji’s competition with Elder Su for Nascent Soul resources.

Li Shiming entered the Hang Family Market, where Young Master Hang lured him into a pavilion as part of a scheme with Ji Hongbo to deal with him. On the third floor, Li Shiming discovered two rare Third Grade Five Elements Formation Materials and quietly assessed the pavilion’s formation.

• Li Shiming stopped at the Hang Family Market and browsed its stalls, where he bought an ancient jade slip from Qi Bao despite Young Master Hang’s warning that Qi Bao deceived customers.
• Young Master Hang repeatedly invited Li Shiming to his family’s pavilion, and Li Shiming accepted after learning Hang Jian was away.
• Li Shiming examined the pavilion’s formation with his Divine Sense while Young Master Hang led him past its first and second floors.
• Young Master Hang brought Li Shiming to the third floor, intending to trap him there on Ji Hongbo’s behalf.
• Li Shiming spotted two Third Grade Five Elements Formation Materials serving as formation nodes and was pleased to find the rare materials he needed.

Li Shiming was ambushed by Ji Hongbo and five Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivators, but killed them with his Nine Flying Swords. He left Ji Hongbo alive after destroying his Spirit Lake and planned to take him back to Shu Mountain Sect for judgment.

• Li Shiming recorded the confrontation as Young Master Hang and Ji Hongbo trapped him on the Market’s third floor.
• Ji Hongbo’s five Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivators attacked Li Shiming, and his Nine Flying Swords killed all five.
• Li Shiming killed Hang Yuqing as Ji Hongbo retreated into the formation with a Talisman Treasure.
• Ji Hongbo surrendered after Li Shiming threatened him, but Li Shiming destroyed his Spirit Lake and spared him for the sect to judge.
• Li Shiming took Ji Hongbo’s Storage Bracelet and collected his Talisman Treasure and defensive Spiritual Artifact.

Li Shiming took the Pavilion’s Third Grade Five Elements Formation Materials, disabling the Market’s great formation and triggering a riot. After Hang Jian arrived and attacked him over Hang Yuqing’s death, Li Shiming barricaded himself inside the Pavilion and called for help; three Golden Core cultivators came to protect him while they awaited Shu Mountain Sect’s elders.

• Li Shiming took the two Third Grade Five Elements Formation Materials, causing the Market’s great formation to vanish and the cultivators to begin looting.
• Hang Jian arrived, found Hang Yuqing dead, and discovered Li Shiming emptying the Pavilion’s Warehouse; Li Shiming sent distress messages to Shu Mountain Sect and the Northern Shu Merchant Guild.
• Li Shiming activated and reinforced the Pavilion’s formation to hold off Hang Jian, while Hang Jian demanded that he surrender and explain why he had killed Hang Yuqing.
• Three Dongyuan Golden Core cultivators arrived in response to the Merchant Guild’s request and refused Hang Jian’s plea to seize Li Shiming.
• The three cultivators agreed to protect Li Shiming while they waited for Shu Mountain Sect’s elders, leaving Hang Jian unable to attack the Pavilion.