Chapter Summaries

Li Shiming used three Iron Corpses and their impending Golden Core tribulation to drive the injured Old Ancestor Weng Zhao from his hiding place. Old Ancestor Weng Zhao escaped after revealing his Nascent Soul aura, while the Iron Corpses began undergoing tribulation and he suspected Thousand Leaves Temple was behind the attack.

• Old Ancestor Weng Zhao hid behind a waterfall and began treating his severe injuries in a protected Temporary Cave Mansion.
• Li Shiming sent three Three-Headed Six-Armed Peak Iron Corpses to bombard the waterfall, interrupting Old Ancestor Weng Zhao's healing and drawing him toward them.
• The Three Iron Corpses used Buddha Light Ten Thousand Miles Talismans and triggered their Golden Core Tribulation Lightning, forcing Old Ancestor Weng Zhao to flee.
• Old Ancestor Weng Zhao briefly revealed his Nascent Soul aura to escape, alerting the grand array and the Six Great Sects.
• The Three Iron Corpses reached Li Shiming's prepared formations and were struck by Heavenly Thunder as they began their advancement.
• Old Ancestor Weng Zhao suspected that someone from Thousand Leaves Temple, possibly connected to Honored One Hui Ke, had tracked him.

Li Shiming tracked the badly wounded Old Ancestor Weng Zhao, repeatedly interrupting his attempts to heal and forcing him to keep fleeing. By daybreak, Weng Zhao was exhausted and still unable to locate or shake off his pursuer.

• The three refining corpses survived the Golden Core Tribulation Lightning and advanced into Silver Corpses, and Li Shiming stored them away before following Old Ancestor Weng Zhao.
• After Weng Zhao settled to heal, Li Shiming ordered Three Iron Corpses to bombard his formation, interrupting his recovery and wasting his last fourth-grade Healing Spirit Pill.
• When the Three Iron Corpses triggered their advancement tribulations, Weng Zhao fled, while Li Shiming's corpses entered a prepared formation and also advanced into Silver Corpses.
• Li Shiming used a False Nascent Soul aura to scare Weng Zhao away whenever he tried to stop, and Weng Zhao spent the night fleeing across the Northern Shu Continent.
• By daybreak, Weng Zhao was utterly exhausted, still seriously injured, and unable to find or lose the cultivator pursuing him.

Li Shiming took advantage of Old Ancestor Weng Zhao separating his Nascent Soul from his body and stole the body and Fourth Grade Array Disk. Old Ancestor Weng Zhao abandoned the pursuit as Li Shiming escaped, while Thousand Leaves Temple sent cultivators toward the scene.

• Old Ancestor Weng Zhao incapacitated two Thousand Leaves Temple Arhats and used them and his exposed main body as bait for his pursuer.
• Li Shiming spotted the trap with his Drone Satellite System and attacked with cannon shells carrying Thunder Cloud Art Talismans.
• Old Ancestor Weng Zhao's Nascent Soul moved toward the injured Arhats, allowing Li Shiming to approach and break into the Fourth Grade Array Disk's formation.
• Li Shiming took Old Ancestor Weng Zhao's main body and the array disk into his Server Room Space, severing the Nascent Soul's connection to its body.
• Li Shiming escaped with repeated Lotus Steps and Thunder Cloud Art while Old Ancestor Weng Zhao's Nascent Soul stayed behind and Thousand Leaves Temple cultivators rushed over.

Li Shiming returned safely to Shu Mountain Sect after escaping Old Ancestor Weng Zhao, who survived by possessing a prepared youth’s body and blamed Thousand Leaves Temple. At his Cave Dwelling, Li Shiming studied Weng Zhao’s captured Nascent Soul Body and began analyzing the restriction on his Space Ring.

• Old Ancestor Weng Zhao’s injured Nascent Soul reached a hidden Jade Coffin and possessed the youth inside, vowing revenge on Thousand Leaves Temple.
• Li Shiming returned to Shu Mountain Sect, where Elder Su and Elder Ma welcomed his safe return.
• In his Cave Dwelling, Li Shiming placed the Fourth Grade Meridian Locking Plate in the Server Room Space to supply Spiritual Qi to the captured Nascent Soul Body and False Nascent Soul Body.
• Li Shiming tried to copy the Nascent Soul Body’s Fire Attribute Patterns but stopped after suffering a severe headache, then found IBMz15 had recorded them in a file exceeding 1T.
• Li Shiming removed Weng Zhao’s Third Grade Dharma Robe, put it on, and used IBMz15 to analyze the restriction locking Weng Zhao’s Space Ring.

Li Shiming examined Old Ancestor Weng Zhao’s Space Ring, gaining precious resources, a fire divine-power inheritance, and a Fourth Grade Array Disk. He then had the Heavenly Ghost possess Weng Zhao’s Nascent Soul Body and tried to use Southern Blazing Fire to accelerate its recovery.

• Li Shiming found fifteen Fourth Grade Spirit Medicines, a Fourth Grade Metal, a garden of spirit trees, and a collection of cultivation jade slips in the Space Ring.
• Li Shiming passed the Crimson Jade Slip’s trial and inherited the orange fire seed of the Southern Blazing Fire divine power, but discovered that cultivating it drained his Golden Core’s Spiritual Power.
• Li Shiming removed Old Ancestor Weng Zhao’s spirit mark from the Fourth Grade Array Disk, claimed the Heavenly Dipper Four Aspects Array, and stored the ring’s treasures in the Server Room Space.
• Li Shiming identified the Rule Patterns on Weng Zhao’s Nascent Soul Body as Southern Blazing Fire and realized that Weng Zhao had used the divine power as his main cultivation path.
• Li Shiming sent the Heavenly Ghost to possess Weng Zhao’s Nascent Soul Body and attempted to have it practice Southern Blazing Fire to heal the body’s injuries faster.

Li Shiming used the Heavenly Ghost and a Nascent Soul Body to strengthen his Southern Bright Leaving Fire, then prepared for and passed the Heart-Shaped Sarira’s Mind Penetration inheritance test. He gained the complete Mind Penetration divine ability, though its usefulness against stronger cultivators remained uncertain.

• Li Shiming planted his Southern Bright Leaving Fire seed in the Nascent Soul Body, which circulated the technique for ten days and grew the seed into a small flame.
• Li Shiming concluded that he could use the Southern Bright Leaving Fire to attack but could not yet control it precisely enough to replace the Crimson Sun Spiritual Fire for alchemy.
• Li Shiming activated the Heavenly Dipper Four Aspects Array and used it to conceal the Heart-Shaped Sarira from Thousand Leaves Temple’s detection.
• Li Shiming entered the Heart-Shaped Sarira’s inheritance test and endured the thoughts and emotions of an enormous crowd, using IBMz15 to process them.
• The Heart-Shaped Sarira granted Li Shiming the complete Mind Penetration inheritance, letting him sense others’ thoughts and influence minds weaker than his own.

Li Shiming received Zhu Chang and agreed to refine three sets of pills for him, then cultivated his body with fourth-grade Celestial Nectar and oversaw his Underground Factory. The chapter left him stronger and planning to advance more Iron Corpses, though he intended to inform the sect before triggering more Heavenly Thunder.

• Li Shiming welcomed Zhu Chang of the Thousand Illusions Sect, sensed his sincere thoughts with Mind Penetration, and accepted three sets of pill materials along with gifts.
• Li Shiming promised to deliver Zhu Chang’s Spirit Pills in two days and began refining them in the Server Room Space.
• Li Shiming postponed refining magical treasures while Southern Blazing Fire continued strengthening his Fire Attribute Golden Core.
• Li Shiming swallowed a drop of fourth-grade Celestial Nectar and spent six hours cultivating the Vajra Body Protection Divine Art, bringing his body to at least Golden Core Late Stage strength.
• Li Shiming inspected seven Silver Corpses working in the Underground Factory and planned to advance the remaining Iron Corpses after reporting the Heavenly Thunder to the sect.

Weng Yi, the reborn Old Ancestor Weng Zhao, fled into Boundary Mountain City to escape his pursuer, but Li Yuanba discovered his identity through Mind Penetration. After Li Yuanba controlled two cultivators to attack him, Weng Yi revealed his power and Fourth Grade Longsword, and Li Yuanba seized the sword.

• Weng Yi traveled to Boundary Mountain City disguised as a Ju Chang Shop assistant, hoping to escape the righteous path and weaken his heart demon.
• Li Yuanba used Mind Penetration while patrolling town and recognized Weng Yi as Old Ancestor Weng Zhao, his enemy.
• Li Yuanba controlled two Qi Refining Cultivators to attack Weng Yi in their shared room at the Ju Chang Shop.
• Weng Yi killed both attackers with Southern Blazing Fire and his Fourth Grade Longsword, exhausting his weakened body.
• Li Yuanba broke through the shop’s formation, restrained Weng Yi with Sword Intent, and took the Fourth Grade Longsword.

Li Yuanba exposed and killed Old Ancestor Weng Zhao, who had possessed Weng Yi, using poisoned pills rather than risking a direct fight. He met Li Shiming in the Buffer Zone and handed over the corpse, where Li Shiming found Southern Blazing Fire patterns and a fading spark still inside it.

• Li Yuanba questioned Weng Yi about his Fourth Grade Longsword Treasure and persuaded him to record the Greedy Heaven Dreaming Sleep Incantation on a Jade Slip.
• Li Shiming analyzed the incantation and confirmed it was not among the cultivation methods stored in Old Ancestor Weng Zhao's Space Ring.
• Li Yuanba had steward Yue Xing deliver Weng Yi ten First Grade Top Grade Spiritual Pills, one of which he had poisoned with venom from a Spirit-Sealing Phantom Serpent.
• Weng Yi swallowed the poisoned pill and died, revealing himself as Old Ancestor Weng Zhao; Li Yuanba collected the corpse and flew toward the Boundary Mountain Pass.
• Li Yuanba and Li Shiming met in the Buffer Zone, where Li Shiming took the corpse and found Southern Blazing Fire patterns and a nearly extinguished spark within it.

Li Shiming refined Weng Zhao’s former body into a Bronze Corpse that carried Southern Blazing Fire, then named it Nanming and discovered it could wield Weng Zhao’s Fourth Grade Longsword. Back in his cave, he began cultivating the Greedy Heaven Dreaming Sleep Incantation while expanding his Drone Satellite System into the Ten Thousand Mountains.

• Li Shiming used his blood and a Silver Corpse’s blood to refine Weng Zhao’s former body in the Server Room Space.
• Li Shiming gave Clone Li Yuanba Grade Three High Level Spiritual Pills and drones, then returned through the Righteous Path Pass as the Golden Core Elders discussed his connection to Li Yuanba.
• Li Shiming found that the newly formed Bronze Corpse contained a Southern Blazing Fire seed guarded by Southern Blazing Fire Rule Patterns and could wield Weng Zhao’s Fourth Grade Longsword without rejection.
• Li Shiming placed the Bronze Corpse in his Refining Corpse Space, named it Nanming, and began cultivating the Greedy Heaven Dreaming Sleep Incantation while awake.
• Li Shiming connected to the Drone Satellite System as it expanded through the Ten Thousand Mountains and planned to establish it in the other two Demon Sect territories.

Li Shiming accepted Thousand Leaves Temple’s Divine Eye Art inheritance test, despite Old Ancestor Zuo’s warning that his chances were low. He endured the test with no visible difficulty, leaving Honored One Hui Ke to realize Li Shiming might gain the complete inheritance.

• Old Ancestor Zuo summoned Li Shiming to meet Honored One Hui Ke, who had arrived to deliver the promised chance at the Divine Eye Art inheritance.
• Old Ancestor Zuo warned Li Shiming that he could take the test now or wait until he was stronger, but Li Shiming chose to proceed.
• Honored One Hui Ke brought out the Eye Relic and instructed Li Shiming to send his Divine Sense into it while Old Ancestor Zuo stayed nearby to protect him.
• The Eye Relic drew Li Shiming’s consciousness into a twisting world of mirrors that tormented the mind, but his many brains and IBMz15 absorbed the strain.
• Honored One Hui Ke realized Li Shiming might pass the final stage and obtain the complete Divine Eye Art inheritance, while Old Ancestor Zuo watched with quiet satisfaction.

Li Shiming received the Divine Eye Art from the Eye Relic and discovered that it could greatly improve his microscopic observations, research, and combat analysis. After the Six Great Sects learned the missing Heavenly Travel Merchant Guild Nascent Soul Old Ancestor had left the Northern Shu Continent, Li Shiming left the sect with his body refinement greatly strengthened and headed out to pursue his plans.

• Li Shiming used the Divine Eye Art to glimpse Honored One Hui Ke's cultivation patterns, and Old Ancestor Zuo warned him not to observe stronger cultivators or let Thousand Leaves Temple dictate how he handled the inheritance.
• Li Shiming tested the Divine Eye Art in the Server Room Space and learned it let him observe nanoscale details, see formation nodes, and potentially exploit momentary gaps in an enemy's spiritual power.
• After more than a month without finding the Heavenly Travel Merchant Guild Nascent Soul Old Ancestor, the Six Great Sects learned from the Thousand Illusions Sect's divination that he had left the Northern Shu Continent.
• Li Shiming left the sect after consuming Fourth Grade Celestial Nectar had brought his Vajra Body Protection Divine Art close to perfection and strengthened his Third Grade sword foundation.
• Li Shiming traveled aboard the Third Grade Meteor Ink Boat, used Mind Penetration and the Divine Eye Art to survey the land, and continued manufacturing 27 Nanometers CPUs in the Server Room Space.

Li Shiming encountered Ren Fei'er fleeing from Chu Ke and Earth Fiend Sect cultivators, then offered to help her leave the sect for the Thousand Illusions Sect. After Chu Ke sent a distress signal, a Golden Core Elder began approaching, and Li Shiming prepared to face the escalating confrontation.

• Li Shiming entered the Earth Fiend Sect's barren territory to deploy ten upgraded drones.
• Li Shiming recognized Ren Fei'er fleeing from six Foundation Establishment cultivators and Chu Ke, a True Inheritor of the Earth Fiend Sect.
• Li Shiming stopped the pursuers with a shout and learned that Chu Ke was trying to force Ren Fei'er to become his Dao companion and cultivation cauldron.
• Li Shiming offered Ren Fei'er the choice to remain in the Earth Fiend Sect under his protection or join the Thousand Illusions Sect or Shu Mountain Sect, and she chose the Thousand Illusions Sect.
• Chu Ke activated an SOS Talisman, and Li Shiming sensed a Golden Core Middle Stage Elder approaching from the Checkpoint.

Li Shiming protected Ren Fei'er, killed Chu Ke's reinforcements, and defeated Zuo Tai after the Earth Fiend Sect elder attacked him. He continued deeper into Earth Fiend Sect territory while Chu Xun mobilized forces to find and intercept the unknown intruder.

• Li Shiming shielded Ren Fei'er as his aura killed six Foundation Establishment cultivators and crippled Chu Ke.
• Zuo Tai arrived to answer Chu Ke's distress call, recognized Li Shiming, and attacked him with his flying sword.
• Li Shiming damaged Zuo Tai's Natal Magical Treasure, pursued him, and used IBMz15's predictions to strike a gap in his defense and kill him.
• Li Shiming collected the enemies' belongings, gave them to Ren Fei'er to inspect, and took her deeper into Earth Fiend Sect territory aboard the Meteor Ink Boat.
• Chu Xun sensed Chu Ke's death, failed to contact Zuo Tai, and rallied allies while ordering the checkpoint's grand formation activated.

Li Shiming discovered an inheritance of the Earth Fiend Demonic Skill among the spoils from a Golden Core cultivator and used it to transform his Earth Attribute Golden Core’s Spiritual Power into Earth Fiend Power. He found that his Five Elements Qi Absorption Array could keep producing Earth Fiend Power, then tested it with the mountain Magical Treasure Galan Peak.

• Ren Fei'er traveled with Li Shiming in silence and examined the spoils he had given her, finding several precious Spiritual Objects in a spatial bracelet.
• Li Shiming inspected a mountain Magical Treasure and a Jade Slip from the defeated Earth Fiend Sect cultivator, discovering an inheritance of the Earth Fiend Demonic Skill.
• Li Shiming learned that the technique drew Earth Fiend Power from ley lines or other practitioners, and that drawing it from ley lines devastated the land.
• Li Shiming absorbed Earth Fiend Power from the dead Golden Core cultivator, raising the quality of his Earth Attribute Golden Core and discovering that his Five Elements Qi Absorption Array could generate more Earth Fiend Power from Fire Attribute Spiritual Power.
• Li Shiming formed Earth Fiend armor, partially refined the mountain Magical Treasure Galan Peak, and used Earth Fiend Power to make it expand into a mountain.

Li Shiming deployed the Drone Satellite System across the Earth Fiend Sect’s territory, avoided a Nascent Soul Old Ancestor near the checkpoint, and then returned in disguise. He began breaking through the checkpoint’s formation as Chu Xun and a group of Golden Core cultivators approached, including a Great Elder-level opponent.

• Li Shiming tested Galan Peak’s amplified strength with Earth Fiend Power, then put the exhausted Ren Fei'er to sleep and stored her in the Server Room Space.
• Li Shiming traveled invisibly through the Earth Fiend Sect’s territory and deployed ten drones that linked to the righteous forces’ Drone Satellite System.
• The drone system detected a Nascent Soul Old Ancestor at the checkpoint, so Li Shiming turned away and surveyed the sect’s lands until the ancestor left.
• Li Shiming returned to the checkpoint, concealed his identity with Earth Fiend Power and a change of clothes, and began breaking through its fully activated formation.
• Chu Xun summoned Senior Brother Zhao and the other Golden Core cultivators to intercept Li Shiming, who recognized a Great Elder-level Golden Core cultivator among them.

Li Shiming faced Senior Brother Zhao and fourteen Earth Fiend Sect Golden Core cultivators, then used his combat abilities to kill five Golden Core Middle Stage cultivators within a few breaths. Senior Brother Zhao trapped him with a mountain peak treasure, leaving Li Shiming unable to dodge and preparing to reveal more of his strength.

• Senior Brother Zhao questioned Li Shiming about his Earth Fiend Power and had the Golden Core cultivators surround him.
• Li Shiming slipped through ten magical treasures and killed a Golden Core Middle Stage cultivator with his Third Grade Sword Foundation Magical Treasure.
• Li Shiming killed another Golden Core Middle Stage cultivator, then used “Devil Enters the Ear” to stun the group and kill three more.
• Senior Brother Zhao ordered the surviving cultivators into a tight formation, and Li Shiming collected the five fallen cultivators’ corpses and Space Items.
• Senior Brother Zhao used a mountain peak treasure to seal a wide area around Li Shiming, restricting his movement.

Li Shiming ambushed Senior Brother Zhao and the eight other Earth Fiend Sect Golden Core cultivators, killing the eight while Senior Brother Zhao survived behind his powerful Earth Fiend Power. With a Nascent Soul Old Ancestor approaching, Li Shiming brought out the Heavenly Ghost and Refining Corpse Nanming to help break Senior Brother Zhao’s defense, and the chapter ended as Nanming’s Southern Blazing Fire opened a small gap in it.

• Li Shiming used Lotus Steps to escape Senior Brother Zhao’s Mountain Peak Magical Treasure, then released Galan Peak and thirteen Silver Corpses to suppress the nine Golden Core cultivators and seal off communications.
• Li Shiming failed to kill Senior Brother Zhao with his first strike, but killed the other eight Golden Core cultivators with successive blows from his Third Grade Sword Foundation.
• Li Shiming spotted a Nascent Soul Old Ancestor approaching the checkpoint and realized Senior Brother Zhao had been stalling for his Master’s arrival.
• Li Shiming summoned the Heavenly Ghost, which controlled a Great Elder level Body Refinement Golden Core and joined the assault on Senior Brother Zhao.
• Li Shiming brought out Refining Corpse Nanming and directed it to form a cluster of Southern Blazing Fire while he and the Heavenly Ghost kept Senior Brother Zhao from moving.
• Refining Corpse Nanming’s Southern Blazing Fire burned through Senior Brother Zhao’s Earth Fiend Power, opening a small gap in his defense.

Li Shiming killed Senior Brother Zhao, escaped the Earth Fiend Sect’s territory with Ren Fei’er, and arranged for her to leave the sect and join the Thousand Illusions Sect. After they reached Inner Yang Mountain, Ren Fei’er reunited with her parents, who asked Li Shiming where he had found her.

• Li Shiming killed Senior Brother Zhao, stored his corpse, and escaped through the pass formation before Old Ancestor Lou Song arrived and vowed to find him.
• Li Shiming brought the sleeping Ren Fei’er across the pass, asked her to keep his rescue secret, and contacted Shopkeeper Lai to arrange her release from the Earth Fiend Sect.
• Li Shiming asked Zhu Chang to take Ren Fei’er into the Thousand Illusions Sect, and Zhu Chang agreed to make her his True Inheritor Disciple.
• After three days of travel, Li Shiming and Ren Fei’er reached Inner Yang Mountain, where Elder Yin greeted them and reproached his daughter for leaving home.
• Elder Ren asked Li Shiming where he had found Ren Fei’er after explaining that her family’s efforts to locate her had failed.

Li Shiming returned Ren Fei'er to her parents, gave them gifts, and continued his Drone Satellite System deployment in the Yin Yang Sect’s territory. There, he encountered a seductive Golden Core cultivator whose spiritual attack backfired, leaving her powerless in his hands.

• Li Shiming told Elder Ren and Elder Yin that Ren Fei'er had been accepted as a True Inheritor Disciple by the Thousand Illusions Sect, then left gifts and urged them to send her there soon.
• Elder Ren found a Youthful Countenance Pill in her box and decided to save it for Ren Fei'er, while Elder Yin received a box of Third Grade Spirit Tea.
• Li Shiming traveled invisibly into the Yin Yang Sect’s territory and launched drones to extend the Drone Satellite System across the continent.
• A Yin Yang Sect female cultivator approached Li Shiming, tried to ensnare him with spiritual temptation, and began performing the Heavenly Devil Dance.
• Li Shiming struck her with Devil Enters the Ear, triggering spiritual backlash that aged her appearance and cost her combat power.
• Li Shiming took the female cultivator’s Space Ring and sealed her Golden Core with Lightning Spiritual Power.