Chapter Summaries

Li Yuanba cultivated at Boundary Mountain City and attended a gathering of righteous- and demonic-path Golden Core cultivators, where they asked him to help obtain Li Shiming’s Spiritual Pills. He agreed to try to secure pills for the gathered cultivators’ personal use, leaving the group hopeful about his connection.

• Li Yuanba cultivated with the Ten Thousand Swords Peak Magical Treasure and continued nurturing the Form Intention Sword while considering how to obtain Star White Yan Gold.
• Jiang Pu invited Li Yuanba to a gathering in the Buffer Zone, where Li Yuanba joined three Vast Array Sect elders and three righteous-path elders for Spirit Deer Meat and cultivation discussions.
• Jiang Pu asked whether Li Yuanba could obtain Spiritual Pills from Grandmaster Li of the Shu Mountain Sect, and Li Yuanba said they were not related.
• Li Yuanba revealed that a good friend on the righteous-path side could request pills from Grandmaster Li, and he offered to try to secure pills for the gathered elders’ personal use.

Li Yuanba maintained his covert alchemy arrangement with the righteous and demonic elders, then crossed Boundary Mountain Pass to meet Li Shiming and exchange supplies. On his return, Thousand Leaves Temple’s arrival of two Great Arhats threatened his safe passage, forcing him to use another route through the pass.

• Li Yuanba arranged for six Golden Core Elders to send medicines and pill formulas through him to Li Shiming, earning fees and securing their long-term cooperation.
• After half a year, Li Yuanba requested permission to cross Boundary Mountain Pass and received the approval of both sides’ elders.
• Li Yuanba met Li Shiming inside the Sumeru Mustard Seed Array, exchanged Storage Bags, and accepted the array disk Li Shiming no longer needed.
• As Li Yuanba neared the Righteous Path Pass, he sensed danger and received Ying Hou’s message that two Great Arhats from Thousand Leaves Temple had arrived.
• Li Yuanba learned that the elders would open a passage at the Fifth Sub-Formation and hurried to return by that route.

Li Yuanba returned from the Righteous Path Pass with cultivation resources and learned that two Great Arhats from Thousand Leaves Temple might be pursuing him. He fled Boundary Mountain City, watched it with a concealed drone, and discovered the two Arhats sneaking into the city, then reported them to his sect.

• Li Yuanba safely crossed the Fifth Sub-Formation, returned to Boundary Mountain City, and sorted gifts and resources from his Storage Bag.
• He tasked Shopkeeper Xin Shun with delivering gifts and investigating the whereabouts of the two Great Arhats from Thousand Leaves Temple.
• After learning their whereabouts remained unknown, Li Yuanba prepared for an attack, left Boundary Mountain City, and hid inside the Sumeru Mustard Seed Array.
• Li Yuanba used a concealed drone to monitor Boundary Mountain City and spotted two bald figures appearing outside the Garrison Residence.
• He identified the figures as the two Great Arhats and reported their infiltration to the sect.

Zhi Shang Arhat and Zhi Hai Arhat infiltrated Boundary Mountain City to capture Li Yuanba, but found only a decoy and were trapped inside the Ten Thousand Mountains when the Senluo Sect sealed the Boundary Mountain Pass. Li Yuanba tracked their escape and returned to restore order while reinforcements from the Vast Array Sect arrived.

• Thousand Leaves Temple sent Zhi Shang Arhat and Zhi Hai Arhat to seize Li Yuanba, whom they believed might be a reincarnated bodhisattva.
• The two Arhats broke into Li Yuanba’s residence, discovered his stored aura was a decoy, and fled Boundary Mountain City as its grand array sounded the alarm.
• The Senluo Sect sealed the Boundary Mountain Pass after Li Yuanba reported the infiltration, preventing the Arhats from escaping through their planned route.
• Zhi Hai Arhat found a prepared safe house about a thousand li from the pass, while Li Yuanba tracked the pair with a drone and received a warning from Ying Hou.
• Ying Hou, Xin Tong, and Mu Peng learned Li Yuanba was safe, and Li Yuanba returned to Boundary Mountain City as Vast Array Sect reinforcements approached, telling Yue Xing and the shopkeepers to maintain order.

Li Yuanba met Old Ancestor Lu at Boundary Mountain City, and the two confronted the Thousand Leaves Temple Great Arhats hiding nearby. Old Ancestor Lu killed them and gave Li Yuanba their corpses, which contained Golden Blood, while Li Yuanba also discovered valuable treasures in their cave.

• Old Ancestor Lu arrived at the Garrison Residence and learned that Li Yuanba had prepared for the attack after being warned about the two Great Arhats.
• Li Yuanba led Old Ancestor Lu to the Great Arhats' cave, where Zhi Shang Arhat offered to withdraw and compensate him.
• Old Ancestor Lu broke through the cave's defenses, while Honored One Huijing used an Energy Clone to try to create an escape passage for his disciples.
• Old Ancestor Lu's Golden Corpse stopped the escape attempt and killed Zhi Shang Arhat and Zhi Hai Arhat.
• Old Ancestor Lu gave Li Yuanba the two corpses, each infused with Golden Blood, and left to prepare for possible retaliation.
• Li Yuanba searched the cave and found valuable Spiritual Objects, including a Phoenix Locking Dragon Sealing Seal containing a Golden Core Spiritual Vein.

Li Yuanba inventoried the Great Arhats’ belongings, returned to Boundary Mountain City, and witnessed Old Ancestor Lu confront Honored One Huijing after the Arhats’ deaths. After reassuring the Golden Core Elders, the story shifted to Li Shiming using his Meteor Ink Boat for the first time.

• Li Yuanba chose to keep the Great Arhats’ corpses unrefined for now and found Pure Bottle Liquid, two Great Divine Travel Talismans, and two high-grade Flying Sword Magical Treasures in their Space Rings.
• Li Yuanba cleared and sealed the Cave Dwelling, then considered using Li Shiming’s research to retaliate against Thousand Leaves Temple.
• Li Yuanba saw Old Ancestor Lu and Honored One Huijing confront each other in the Thirty-Three Heavens, but the brief clash ended without escalating into a major battle.
• Li Yuanba told the six Golden Core Elders that he had been attacked and that his grandmaster had rescued him.
• Li Shiming took out the Meteor Ink Boat and flew in it for the first time, relying on its strong defense while remaining able to attack.

Li Shiming used the Boundless Underworld Willow Scripture to bind a weakened Third Grade Fierce Ghost, then discovered it could fuse with the Heavenly Demon Shell and become a Heavenly Ghost. The new creature remained under his control and approached the False Nascent Soul Body without being repelled.

• Li Shiming studied the Boundless Underworld Willow Scripture and used it to bind the weakened Third Grade Fierce Ghost.
• Li Shiming fed the Third Grade Fierce Ghost a drop of Essence Blood, then destroyed the Ghost Banner Magical Treasure and punished it when it considered escaping.
• Li Shiming took the Third Grade Fierce Ghost into the Server Room Space, where it entered and fused with the Heavenly Demon Shell.
• Li Shiming named the fused creature the Heavenly Ghost and found it had stronger defenses while remaining under his control.
• Li Shiming ordered the Heavenly Ghost to approach the False Nascent Soul Body, and it made contact without being affected by its might.

Li Shiming tested the Heavenly Ghost’s possession of the False Nascent Soul Body before the Heavenly Travel Merchant Guild ambushed him with twelve Golden Core Cultivators. He turned their Four Aspects Array against them and launched a hundred Grand Mysterious Divine Thunder spells, leaving the ambushers under a devastating lightning attack.

• Li Shiming ordered the Heavenly Ghost to possess the False Nascent Soul Body, but found it could only move the body slowly.
• Li Shiming discovered that possessing the False Nascent Soul Body let the Heavenly Ghost draw nourishment from its qi and blood without a time limit.
• Four flying boats surrounded Li Shiming’s Meteor Ink Boat and trapped it in a variant Four Aspects Array.
• Li Shiming identified the attackers as Heavenly Travel Merchant Guild cultivators and secretly redirected the array’s Spiritual Power routes to ensnare them as well.
• Li Shiming used his Natal Magical Treasure IBMz15 to cast one hundred Grand Mysterious Divine Thunder spells at the twelve Golden Core Cultivators.

Li Shiming overwhelmed the Heavenly Travel Merchant Guild’s twelve Golden Core cultivators with Grand Mysterious Divine Thunder, sword techniques, and zither music. He killed the two Golden Core Late Stage cultivators with a spirit attack and a follow-up sonic assault, ending the battle without ever revealing himself aboard the Meteor Ink Boat.

• Li Shiming’s Grand Mysterious Divine Thunder destroyed the defenses and killed ten Golden Core early- and middle-stage cultivators, leaving only two Golden Core Late Stage cultivators standing.
• The two survivors tried to flee, but the Four Aspects Array they had set up trapped them, while Li Shiming swallowed a Third Grade Spirit Pill to restore his spiritual power.
• Li Shiming sent the Heart Sword and White Feather Sword against the survivors, and IBMz15 precisely controlled them to damage both opponents’ Natal Magical Treasures.
• Li Shiming summoned the Heavenly Sound Extinguishing Dao Zither and played Buddha’s Light First Appears, weakening the two cultivators’ will to fight but failing to suppress them completely.
• Li Shiming used Devil Enters the Ear to disrupt both cultivators’ minds, letting the zither music destroy their insides and split their Golden Cores.

Li Shiming defeated the Heavenly Travel Merchant Guild’s Golden Core cultivators, then discovered that Old Ancestor Weng Zhao, a Nascent Soul cultivator, had been waiting outside the Four Aspects Array. He escaped with “Lotus Steps” and learned that Old Ancestor Zuo was rushing to Little Observation Mountain.

• Li Shiming collected the defeated Golden Core cultivators’ corpses and sensed a powerful threat outside the Four Aspects Array.
• Li Shiming sent the sect a rescue message, used his Drone to survey the area, and prepared Spirit Stone Bomb No. 1s to disrupt his pursuer’s perception.
• Li Shiming withdrew the Four Aspects Array and detonated the bombs, allowing him to escape Old Ancestor Weng Zhao’s notice with “Lotus Steps.”
• Old Ancestor Weng Zhao spotted Li Shiming fleeing but chose not to pursue him, prioritizing his mission to rebuild the Heavenly Travel Merchant Guild’s branch and take over its Intelligence System.
• Li Shiming fled continuously until Old Ancestor Zuo contacted him, ordered him to return to the sect, and said he would reach Little Observation Mountain in ten breaths.

Li Shiming tracked the Heavenly Travel Merchant Guild’s Nascent Soul Old Ancestor with his advanced Drone as Shu Mountain Sect confirmed the threat and activated its defenses. Back at Sword Holding Peak, he kept his recent battle record secret and planned to expand his Drone surveillance network across the Northern Shu Continent.

• Li Shiming used IBMz15 to analyze Drone footage and identify the Nascent Soul Old Ancestor from the Heavenly Travel Merchant Guild, then ordered the Drone to follow him.
• Old Ancestor Zuo confirmed that the unknown cultivator was a Nascent Soul Old Ancestor, prompting Shu Mountain Sect and other forces to activate countermeasures.
• Elder Su greeted Li Shiming at the mountain gate and warned him that the Nascent Soul Old Ancestor might target him.
• Li Shiming returned to Sword Holding Peak and decided to keep secret that he had killed twelve Golden Core cultivators.
• Li Shiming inspected his rockets in the Underground Factory Area and decided to produce more Drones to monitor the skies over the Northern Shu Continent.

Li Shiming completed a drone surveillance and communications network across the righteous faction’s territory, then sent Li Yuanba a rocket in pieces for a secret test. The rocket crossed both Boundary Mountain arrays and flew into the righteous faction’s territory, while Li Shiming monitored its performance through the network.

• Li Shiming finished deploying fifteen surveillance drones and called Ye Lingyun to arrange stipends and deliveries for Yin Shilan and Li Yuanba.
• Li Yuanba received the secret Storage Bag at Boundary Mountain City, assembled the rocket on Ten Thousand Swords Peak, and launched it toward the Boundary Mountain Pass.
• Jiang Pu watched the rocket pass through the Senluo Sect array after a targeted Formation Breaking Talisman opened a passage.
• The rocket also crossed the righteous path’s Boundary Mountain array and changed course using the Drone Satellite System to avoid powerful forces.
• Li Shiming monitored the rocket’s flight and performance data through his Natal Magical Treasure IBMz15.

Li Shiming sent a Rocket through a flaw in Thousand Leaves Temple’s protective formation, unleashing Thunder Cloud Arts and thermite that killed hundreds of monks and destroyed buildings. Honored One Huijing stopped the attack but developed a Heart Demon, and four specialist arhats began treating him.

• Honored One Huijing sensed Li Yuanba’s Rocket approaching Thousand Leaves Temple but initially ignored it while tending to his troubled state of mind.
• Li Shiming used a Formation Breaking Talisman to guide the Rocket through a flaw in Thousand Leaves Temple’s Sect Protecting Grand Formation.
• The Rocket released three Thunder Cloud Arts and scattered thermite across the temple, killing monks and burning Buddha Halls.
• Honored One Huijing’s Dharma Aspect tore apart the thundercloud and extinguished the flames, but his Heart Demon worsened and his uncontrolled power damaged the buildings further.
• Honored One Huijing swallowed a Fourth Grade Spiritual Pill and summoned help, and four specialist arhats chanted scriptures until the red light faded from his eyes.

Li Shiming learned that the rocket attack on Thousand Leaves Temple had triggered Honored One Huijing’s Heart Demon, leaving him seriously injured and shifting suspicion away from Li Yuanba. He then tracked Old Ancestor Weng Zhao toward Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple, alerted Elder Su, and left the sect as Old Ancestor Zuo went to investigate.

• Li Shiming read the Northern Shu Merchant Guild’s report and concluded that Honored One Huijing’s Heart Demon stemmed from Li Yuanba’s earlier actions and the rocket attack on Thousand Leaves Temple.
• Li Shiming and Clone Li Yuanba laughed with relief at Thousand Leaves Temple’s misfortune, and their cultivation realms rose slightly.
• Li Shiming used the Drone Satellite System to track Old Ancestor Weng Zhao and suspected that Weng Zhao was heading to Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple.
• Li Shiming messaged Elder Su that a Nascent Soul Old Ancestor of the Heavenly Travel Merchant Guild had appeared at Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple.
• Old Ancestor Zuo left the mountain gate after receiving Li Shiming’s intelligence, and Li Shiming also departed to cause trouble for Old Ancestor Weng Zhao.
• Elder Su learned that Li Shiming had left and chose not to stop him.

Old Ancestor Weng Zhao went to Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple to contact Heavenly Travel Merchant Guild’s headquarters, while the Six Great Sects mobilized their Nascent Soul Ancestors to ambush him. Li Shiming infiltrated the guild’s secret stronghold and attacked two Golden Core cultivators.

• Abbot Faneng prepared Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple’s cross-continent real-time contact for Old Ancestor Weng Zhao at a high price.
• After Li Shiming reported Weng Zhao’s whereabouts, Old Ancestor Zuo coordinated the Six Great Sects, whose Nascent Soul Ancestors headed to Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple.
• Honored One Hui Ke led the operation, and the three Righteous Nascent Soul Ancestors arrived first and encircled Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple while waiting for the others.
• Li Shiming reached the Heavenly Travel Merchant Guild’s secret stronghold, analyzed its unfamiliar formation, and slipped into the valley with the Spirit-Sealing Phantom Serpent guarding the perimeter.
• Li Shiming entered the cave dwelling and used Devil Enters the Ear to daze two Golden Core Middle Stage Cultivators before his swords struck them.

Li Shiming broke into the Heavenly Travel Merchant Guild’s cave dwelling and killed dozens of cultivators before reaching its heavily guarded core. There, he attacked a Great Elder-level Body Refinement Golden Core cultivator, whose strength forced him to summon the False Nascent Soul Body, which the enemy recognized as Manager Feng Yi.

• Li Shiming silently killed two Golden Core Middle Stage cultivators, then assassinated a Golden Core Initial Stage cultivator and collected their belongings.
• Li Shiming killed fifteen Foundation Establishment cultivators and swept through the cave dwelling, killing thirty-six cultivators, including eleven Golden Core cultivators.
• Li Shiming reached the formation’s core and confronted a Great Elder-level Golden Core cultivator, then attacked him with Devil Enters the Ear, swords, the Silver Corpse, and ten Grand Mysterious Divine Thunders.
• The Great Elder-level cultivator’s body resisted Li Shiming’s attacks, and Li Shiming realized he was a powerful body-refinement cultivator.
• Li Shiming summoned the False Nascent Soul Body, which seized the Great Elder-level cultivator and held him fast.
• The Great Elder-level cultivator recognized his captor as Manager Feng Yi and was shocked that his missing superior had appeared.

Li Shiming overcame the Great Elder Level Body Refinement Golden Core Cultivator by combining Devil Enters the Ear, the Heavenly Sound Extinguishing Dao Zither, and the Heavenly Ghost’s possession. Afterward, he examined the cultivator’s unusual body and seized his space ring, finding valuable body-refinement resources and an inheritance.

• Li Shiming failed to pierce the Great Elder Level Body Refinement Golden Core Cultivator’s defenses, then used the Server Room Space to take the opponent’s flying sword.
• Li Shiming trapped the cultivator with Devil Enters the Ear and the Heavenly Sound Extinguishing Dao Zither, drawing him into an illusion.
• Li Shiming sent the Heavenly Ghost into the disoriented cultivator, and it devoured his spirit and possessed his body.
• Li Shiming examined the cultivator’s still-functioning Golden Core and rune-covered body, then took his space ring.
• Li Shiming found Body Refinement Spiritual Liquid, Body Refinement Spiritual Pill, a heavy axe, and the Mountain Splitting Overlord Body Art in the ring.

Li Shiming looted a Heavenly Travel Merchant Guild warehouse, finding rare Starfall Goldstone and a Fourth Grade Meridian Locking Plate. At Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple, Old Ancestor Weng Zhao discovered that six Nascent Soul Ancestors had surrounded him and prepared to fight.

• Li Shiming had the Heavenly Ghost cultivate the Mountain Splitting Overlord Body Art through the Body Refinement Golden Core body and stored that body and the Nascent Soul Body in the Server Room Space.
• Li Shiming opened the guarded warehouse and collected its cultivation resources, including nearly five hundred Third Grade Spirit Pills and enough Starfall Goldstone for ten flying sword Magical Treasures.
• Li Shiming replaced the Meridian Locking Plate's energy supply with a Spirit Gathering Formation and took the Fourth Grade treasure.
• The Sect Protecting Grand Formation alerted Abbot Faneng that more than two Nascent Soul Ancestors were approaching, and Old Ancestor Weng Zhao accused him of betrayal.
• Old Ancestor Weng Zhao killed Abbot Faneng with a fireball and set Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple ablaze before flying out to face the attackers.
• Old Ancestor Zuo, Honored One Hui Ke, Old Ancestor Lu, and three other Nascent Soul Ancestors surrounded Old Ancestor Weng Zhao in a Six Harmonies Formation, and their Nascent Soul Avatars rose to confront his.

Old Ancestor Weng Zhao used the Six Nascent Soul Ancestors’ coordinated assault to escape their encirclement, then fled with Honored One Hui Ke in pursuit. He left Hui Ke badly struck by spending his Nascent Soul’s origin on a golden rune attack, and continued fleeing at greater speed.

• Old Ancestor Weng Zhao attacked Honored One Hui Ke, but Hui Ke evaded while maintaining the Six Harmonies Formation, allowing the other five Nascent Soul Ancestors to strike together.
• Old Ancestor Weng Zhao detonated his Nascent Soul Avatar, used a Spirit Mark in the flames at Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple to escape with Flame Escape, and fled using Nascent Soul Leaving the Body.
• Honored One Hui Ke pursued Old Ancestor Weng Zhao with Close In Distance, Far In Horizon as the other five Nascent Soul Ancestors followed.
• Old Ancestor Weng Zhao paused to lure Honored One Hui Ke within range, then struck him with a golden rune pattern that broke through his Buddhist Swastika Seal and sent him flying.
• Old Ancestor Weng Zhao used the rebound from the attack to flee faster, while Honored One Hui Ke was left behind.

Li Shiming watched Old Ancestor Weng Zhao escape a battle with six Nascent Soul Ancestors, then lured him into a cave mansion packed with TNT explosives. Weng Zhao survived the blast but was badly injured and fled by Flying Boat, while Li Shiming suspected he could exploit his weakness again.

• Li Shiming watched the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple burn and saw Old Ancestor Weng Zhao escape the six Nascent Soul Ancestors.
• Old Ancestor Weng Zhao followed a map to the Heavenly Travel Merchant Guild's Secret Stronghold, where Li Shiming detonated more than two hundred tons of TNT explosives.
• Old Ancestor Weng Zhao survived the explosion and the collapse of half the mountain, but his injuries worsened and the stronghold was destroyed.
• Old Ancestor Weng Zhao threatened his unseen attacker, then left in a Flying Boat before the sects' Nascent Soul Ancestors could arrive.
• Li Shiming analyzed Old Ancestor Weng Zhao's movements, suspected he was seriously injured, and tracked the Flying Boat for another chance to attack.