Chapter Summaries

After breaking through to Golden Core Middle Stage, Li Shiming discovered that Bright Heart Sect had punished his family because of Bo Zhao’s order. He demanded Bo Zhao’s surrender and the execution of Xia Kingdom’s royal family, but Bright Heart Sect sent Bo Ran to negotiate without bringing Bo Zhao.

• Li Shiming returned home, enjoyed a peaceful evening with Si Qin, then cultivated overnight using a Nascent Soul level Spiritual Meridian.
• Li Shiming visited the Imperial City and learned through Mind Penetration that Bo Zhao had ordered Li Wenyuan’s demotion, punishment, and loss of property.
• Li Shiming gave Bright Heart Sect five days to hand over Bo Zhao and execute Xia Kingdom’s royal family, then returned home.
• Bo Zhao told his father, Bo Ran, that he had approved the suppression of Li Shiming’s family, and Bo Ran decided to visit Li Shiming to resolve the dispute.
• Bo Ran arrived in Xia Kingdom’s capital without Bo Zhao, and Li Shiming confronted him about the missing Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Li Shiming pressured Bright Heart Sect to hand over Bo Zhao and learned that the sect’s Old Ancestor Zang was near death. After the Jin Clan imperial family was executed, Li Shiming told his father and prepared to meet with the National Teacher, Meng Bin.

• Li Shiming confronted Bo Ran, rejected his offer of compensation, and demanded that Bo Zhao be handed over.
• Li Shiming used Old Ancestor Zuo’s message to dissuade Bright Heart Sect from interfering, and Bo Ran agreed to send Bo Zhao.
• Li Shiming learned through Bo Ran’s inner voice that Old Ancestor Zang had less than five years to live and could barely act.
• Mo Yan told Li Shiming that Meng Bin had executed the Jin Clan imperial family, and Li Shiming informed Li Wenyuan and discussed the family’s future.
• Meng Bin arrived to visit Li Shiming and waited respectfully in the front hall while Li Shiming went to find Li Shijie.

Li Shiming arranged for Li Shijie to become emperor of Xia Kingdom, then confronted Bo Ran over Bo Zhao’s escape and traveled to Bright Heart Sect. He demanded that the sect hand over Bo Zhao and Bo Ran, while Bright Heart Sect’s leaders considered the significance of his Shu Mountain Sect standing.

• Li Shiming offered Li Shijie the throne of Xia Kingdom, and Li Shijie agreed to become emperor with Li Shiming’s protection.
• Meng Bin arrived and agreed to support Li Shijie’s ascension, after which Li Shijie departed in a dragon carriage wearing a dragon robe.
• Bo Ran presented a substitute corpse and claimed it was Bo Zhao, but Li Shiming exposed the deception and said he would go to Bright Heart Sect for Bo Zhao.
• Li Shiming revisited his abandoned cave mansion, left a top-grade Spiritual Artifact beside its Spirit Spring, and continued to Bright Heart Sect.
• Li Shiming called on Bright Heart Sect from outside its protective formation, demanded Bo Zhao and Bo Ran, and summoned twelve Silver Corpses.
• Bo Ran reported the dispute to Bright Heart Sect’s Sect Master and elders, who questioned Li Shiming’s authority and his connection to Old Ancestor Zuo.

Li Shiming confronted Bright Heart Sect over Bo Ran and Bo Zhao, forcing the sect to send Great Elder Fan Xi to meet him. Their battle revealed Li Shiming’s overwhelming body-refinement strength, and the chapter ended with him closing in on the poisoned Fan Xi.

• Bright Heart Sect’s Sect Master learned that Li Shiming had arrived with twelve Silver Corpses and summoned Great Elder Fan Xi to confront him.
• Fan Xi attacked Li Shiming, but Li Shiming revealed his Great Elder-level body refinement and forced Fan Xi to retreat rather than fight at close range.
• Bright Heart Sect’s Sect Master and Elders realized they could not stop Li Shiming, while Bo Ran regretted provoking him and feared the sect would have to surrender him and Bo Zhao.
• Li Shiming used his Natal Magical Treasure IBMz15 to guide Fan Xi into the Spirit Severing Illusion Transformation Dragon’s ambush, where the beast bit him and poisoned his lower leg.
• Fan Xi paused as the poison spread, allowing Li Shiming to catch up and prepare to strike at close range.

Li Shiming killed Great Elder Fan Xi and demanded Bright Heart Sect hand over Bo Ran and Bo Zhao for harming his father and trying to deceive him. Shopkeeper Jing Mo sided with Li Shiming on behalf of Northern Shu Merchant Guild, and Bright Heart Sect seized Bo Ran as it moved to appease him.

• Li Shiming used the Spirit Severing Illusion Transformation Dragon to poison Great Elder Fan Xi, then killed him and collected his corpse and Space Ring.
• Bright Heart Sect's Sect Master invited Shopkeeper Jing Mo to mediate, hoping to avoid confronting Li Shiming directly.
• Shopkeeper Jing Mo recognized Li Shiming, pledged Northern Shu Merchant Guild's support, and learned Li Shiming had advanced to Golden Core Middle Stage.
• Shopkeeper Jing Mo confronted Bright Heart Sect's leaders and revealed that Li Shiming was Northern Shu Continent's First Alchemy Grandmaster and a Guest Elder of the guild.
• The Sect Master and several Golden Core Elders attacked Bo Ran, sealed his Golden Core and voice, and prepared to hand him over along with Bo Zhao.

Li Shiming resolved Bright Heart Sect's conflict by killing Bo Ran and Bo Zhao, then returned to spend time with his father, Li Wenyuan. He remained in the mortal world after receiving Elder Su's support, and accepted four sets of pill ingredients from Shopkeeper Jing Mo.

• Bright Heart Sect handed Bo Ran and Bo Zhao over to Shopkeeper Jing Mo after breaking into Bo Ran's Cave Dwelling, and its Sect Master promised not to antagonize Li Shiming again.
• Li Shiming killed Bo Ran and Bo Zhao, then returned home and played chess with Li Wenyuan.
• Li Shiming dismissed visiting court officials, and Li Shijie sent Royal Guards to keep the ancestral residence undisturbed.
• Shopkeeper Jing Mo delivered Elder Su's message that Li Shiming could stay in the mortal world as long as he wished.
• Shopkeeper Jing Mo offered three pill formulas and sets of Spiritual Medicines from the Northern Shu Merchant Guild, along with his own set, and Li Shiming accepted all four.

Li Shiming discovered a Seven Leaf Jade Lotus among Great Elder Fan Xi’s possessions and arranged for Silver Corpse Killborn to guide future descendants with spiritual roots. When Yu Gu asked him to help avenge the fallen Sky Ocean Sect against the Bright Heart Sect, Li Shiming refused and had Killborn drive him away.

• Li Shiming found a Seven Leaf Jade Lotus in Great Elder Fan Xi’s Space Ring and added it to his Nascent Soul advancement resources.
• Li Shiming gave Silver Corpse Killborn a space bracelet and resources to support descendants who had spiritual roots, and arranged for Li Shijie to bring the family’s juniors to the Old Residence every few years.
• Li Shiming met Yu Gu, who had advanced to Golden Core Initial Stage and asked him to join the Sky Ocean Sect’s remnants in fighting the Bright Heart Sect.
• Li Shiming refused, reminding Yu Gu that the Sky Ocean Sect had abandoned him during its retreat and that he had since joined another sect.
• Yu Gu erupted with Golden Core aura, but Silver Corpse Killborn seized him; Li Shiming ordered Killborn to spare Yu Gu and throw him out.

Li Shiming cultivated Southern Bright Leaving Fire and prepared Refining Corpse Nanming to undergo tribulation and advance to the Silver Corpse Realm. After killing Baili Luo, an old enemy who tried to flee, he completed Nanming’s breakthrough and left Elder Xie shaken by the corpse’s power.

• Li Shiming discovered that his Golden Core Middle Stage cultivation had formed a Southern Bright Leaving Fire Rule Pattern, allowing him to cultivate the divine power himself.
• Three months later, Li Shiming brought Refining Corpse Nanming to a remote formation to undergo tribulation, relying on IBMz15’s assessment that Nanming had an over eighty percent chance of success.
• Baili Luo and Elder Xie arrived with Seven Sects remnants after sensing the tribulation, and Baili Luo recognized Li Shiming and tried to escape.
• Li Shiming killed Baili Luo with a single Heart Sword strike and asked Elder Xie to take the corpse back, explaining their old feud.
• Nanming survived the thunder tribulation and emerged as a Silver Corpse, frightening Elder Xie with the aura of Southern Blazing Fire.
• Elder Xie realized how dangerous Li Shiming and Nanming were and decided inwardly that it was time to leave Sky Ocean Island.

Li Shiming confronted Old Ancestor Zang by posing as if he had several Nascent Soul allies, then pursued him as he fled. Old Ancestor Zang recognized Honored One Huijing, secured his promise to spare the Bright Heart Sect, and died after his remaining lifespan ran out.

• Shopkeeper Jing Mo warned Li Shiming that Old Ancestor Zang was preparing to leave seclusion and hunt him down, and said Old Ancestor Ling was on the way.
• Li Shiming went to the edge of the Xia Kingdom and prepared an array, decoys, Honored One Huijing, and a Drone to meet Old Ancestor Zang.
• When Old Ancestor Zang approached, Li Shiming revealed the auras of his supposed allies, causing Old Ancestor Zang to abandon his Flying Boat and flee.
• Li Shiming tracked and pursued Old Ancestor Zang, steering him away from the Bright Heart Sect until the exhausted cultivator stopped running.
• Old Ancestor Zang recognized Honored One Huijing, asked him to spare the Bright Heart Sect, and died after Honored One Huijing agreed.

After Old Ancestor Zang’s death, Li Shiming chose to preserve the Bright Heart Sect’s power on Sky Ocean Island and accepted its offer to become Honorary Great Elder. He left the chapter with the sect’s first annual offering in hand while seeking information about the Fourth Grade Pearl.

• Li Shiming examined Old Ancestor Zang’s corpse and identified a powerful Fourth Grade Pearl whose function he planned to research.
• Li Shiming decided not to destroy the Bright Heart Sect, judging that its continued strength would help keep Sky Ocean Island stable and protect the Xia Kingdom Li Clan.
• The Bright Heart Sect’s Sect Master offered Li Shiming the title of Honorary Great Elder and ten percent of the sect’s annual income, and Li Shiming accepted through Elder Zhang.
• Shopkeeper Jing Mo told Li Shiming that the Northern Shu Merchant Guild would cooperate with the Bright Heart Sect and agreed to collect records about high-grade Spiritual Objects.
• Meng Bin delivered Bright Heart Sect’s annual offering, which Li Shiming found consisted mostly of low-grade resources and Alchemy Materials.

After Li Wenyuan died, Li Shiming left Xia Kingdom and traveled back toward Bright Heart Sect. Yu Gu tried to attack the Li Clan ancestral home but was killed by Silver Corpse Killborn, while Li Shiming continued his journey over the sea and reconnected with the Drone Satellite System.

• Li Wenyuan died beneath the tree after finishing a game of go with Li Shiming, and Li Shiming entrusted Mo Yan with the funeral before leaving Xia Kingdom.
• Li Shiming practiced Close In Distance, Far In Horizon as he traveled, informed Bright Heart Sect that he was leaving Sky Ocean Island, and then continued by Meteor Ink Boat.
• Yu Gu learned that Li Shiming had left and flew to the Li Clan ancestral home, intending to destroy it.
• Silver Corpse Killborn blocked Yu Gu's killing intent, killed him, and took his body underground while Meng Bin witnessed the fight and kept it secret.
• Li Shiming sensed Killborn's actions through their connection and ordered it to collect Yu Gu's spatial bracelet for the Li Clan.
• Li Shiming traveled around Vast Array Sect's territory and, after reaching the Northern Shu Continent, reconnected his Natal Magical Treasure IBMz15 to the Drone Satellite System.

Li Shiming returned to Shu Mountain Sect at the Golden Core Middle Stage and accepted a queue of pill-refining orders from its Golden Core Late Stage elders before going into seclusion. There, he tested Silver Corpse Nanming’s Southern Bright Leaving Fire and prepared to use it to refine a Flying Sword from Starfall Goldstone.

• Li Shiming returned to Shu Mountain Sect, where Elder Su welcomed him and learned he had advanced to the Golden Core Middle Stage.
• Seven Golden Core Late Stage cultivators, including a Great Elder, visited Li Shiming to request pills, and he arranged their orders in a queue.
• Li Shiming stopped accepting Golden Core Middle Stage pill-refining orders and entered seclusion, halting even the Northern Shu Merchant Guild’s requests.
• Li Shiming brought Silver Corpse Nanming into the Server Room Space and tested its control over the Southern Bright Leaving Fire inside a Fourth Grade formation.
• Li Shiming found that the fire was powerful but could only be controlled within one meter, making it suitable for artifact refining rather than combat.
• Li Shiming prepared to use Silver Corpse Nanming’s fire to melt Starfall Goldstone for a Flying Sword designed by IBMz15.

Li Shiming refined Flowing Light Starfall, a Third Grade Flying Sword Magical Treasure whose intricate runes triggered an Artifact Tribulation. After the sword survived the heavenly lightning and gained a new sword intent, Old Ancestor Zuo examined it and warned Li Shiming not to spend too much time on artifact refining.

• Li Shiming used Southern Blazing Fire and 10-nanometer control to forge and inscribe Flowing Light Starfall with hundreds of thousands of Six-Trigram Arrays.
• After ten days of inscription, Li Shiming completed Flowing Light Starfall, which was already fully refined by him.
• An Artifact Tribulation formed over Sword Holding Peak, and Old Ancestor Zuo and Elder Su came to observe it.
• Flowing Light Starfall flew into the heavenly lightning, endured its strike, and absorbed some of its power through its Spirit Storage Runes.
• Li Shiming sensed that the sword's new Heavenly Tribulation Lightning Sword Intent could guide his Lightning Sword Intent toward greater strength.
• Old Ancestor Zuo inspected Flowing Light Starfall and warned Li Shiming that artifact refining should not distract him from cultivation.

Li Shiming returned Flowing Light Starfall to Old Ancestor Zuo, who praised its power and offered to seek Li Shiming’s help with future magical treasures. Meanwhile, Li Yuanba reassured his fellow Golden Core cultivators that Li Shiming’s pill-refining channel remained available, then agreed to arrange pills for Senior Brother Qi Jin’s cultivation and lingering injury.

• Old Ancestor Zuo praised Flowing Light Starfall, returned it to Li Shiming, and said he would ask Li Shiming to refine a magical treasure if the opportunity arose.
• Elder Su warned Li Shiming to keep his artifact refining secret and avoid letting it further burden his cultivation, so Li Shiming planned to leave his remaining Flowing Light Starfalls unfinished.
• Li Yuanba continued cultivating sword intent while waiting for a breakthrough, then welcomed Senior Brother Qi Jin, who requested Third Grade Spirit Pills for cultivation and treatment of a stubborn injury.
• Li Yuanba accepted Qi Jin’s pill materials and payment and promised to ask Li Shiming to refine the pills.
• Jiang Pu arrived worried that Li Shiming had stopped taking pill orders, and Li Yuanba assured him the special channel would continue as long as its news stayed secret.

Li Yuanba rushed to Boundary Mountain Pass after righteous Golden Core cultivators attacked its grand formation, arriving too late to prevent the barrier from falling. He fought the invading force alone and left the remaining Golden Core Late Stage attackers facing his overwhelming strength.

• Senior Brother Qi Jin advised Li Yuanba to seek a breakthrough through combat and promised to find him a suitable opponent.
• Li Yuanba delivered precious materials to Li Shiming's Silver Corpse at Boundary Mountain Pass.
• Li Yuanba received an urgent warning that six teams of Golden Core cultivators were attacking the Boundary Mountain Grand Array and hurried to the pass after checking for Nascent Soul Old Ancestors.
• A team of seven Golden Core Middle and Late Stage cultivators broke through the pass's defenses and destroyed a transport convoy as they advanced on Jiang Pu, Meng Sheng, and Shi Can.
• Li Yuanba used Ten Thousand Swords Peak to suppress the attackers, then killed five Golden Core Middle Stage cultivators with his Third Grade Sword Foundation and other attacks.
• Li Yuanba engaged the two surviving Golden Core Late Stage cultivators while Jiang Pu, Meng Sheng, and Shi Can stopped in shock at his combat strength.

Li Yuanba killed two Golden Core Late Stage cultivators during an attack on the Boundary Mountain Pass and learned that Linghe Sect and Wuya Sect had sent more than thirty cultivators into the Ten Thousand Mountains. Suspecting they were seeking a valuable treasure in the Southern Yuan Mountain Range, he quietly followed them there and hid, intending to discover their target.

• Li Yuanba broke through a Golden Core Late Stage cultivator’s talismans and defenses, then killed him before Jiang Pu and the others arrived.
• Li Yuanba used Form Intention Sword to kill the other Golden Core Late Stage cultivator, while Jiang Pu identified the attackers as cultivators from Linghe Sect and Wuya Sect.
• Jiang Pu reported that the enemy cultivators had entered through the checkpoint in batches under commercial pretexts, and Li Yuanba learned the sect had sent its nearly exhausted Golden Core Late Stage defender away because he was nearby.
• After returning to Boundary Mountain City, Li Yuanba tracked more than thirty enemy cultivators heading in five teams toward the Southern Yuan Mountain Range and suspected they sought a treasure there.
• Li Yuanba left Jiang Chen to watch Boundary Mountain City, traveled to the Southern Yuan Mountain Range, and concealed himself in a fourth-grade formation to follow the invaders.

Li Yuanba concealed himself in his Corpse Refinement State and followed thirty-three Golden Core cultivators from Linghe Sect and Wuya Sect as they entered the Southern Yuan Mountain Range. After their formation drew the attention of a Great Demon, Great Elder Jing Geng killed it and ordered the group to hide and rest until nightfall.

• Li Yuanba transformed into his Corpse Refinement State to conceal his identity and watched the Golden Core teams gather.
• Great Elder Jing Geng learned that the second team had been wiped out, then ordered the third and fourth teams to hurry to the rendezvous.
• The thirty-three cultivators formed the Mystic Mist Secret Formation and entered the Southern Yuan Mountain Range while Li Yuanba secretly followed them.
• Great Elder Jing Geng detected and killed an Earth-Drilling Gold-Sucking Rat, allowing the group to continue without alerting nearby spirit beasts.
• An Iron-Feathered Golden Eagle spotted the moving mist, but Dong Wei shifted the formation to trap it and Great Elder Jing Geng killed it.
• Great Elder Jing Geng ordered the group to rest in a concealed formation on a mountain peak and continue after nightfall.

Li Yuanba followed Great Elder Jing Geng’s group into a hidden cave in the Southern Yuan Mountain Range and discovered they had come for a Fourth Grade Lotus. Great Elder Jing Geng trapped the other Golden Core cultivators above a deadly pond, where poisonous roots began attacking them.

• Li Yuanba hid underground, then followed Great Elder Jing Geng and thirty-three Golden Core cultivators deeper into the Southern Yuan Mountain Range.
• Great Elder Jing Geng revealed a concealed cave and sent Dong Wei to hide its entrance with a formation; Li Yuanba entered by exploiting his knowledge of the array.
• Li Yuanba followed the cave to a hidden space with a Nascent Soul-level Spiritual Meridian and learned that Great Elder Jing Geng’s target was a Fourth Grade Lotus.
• Great Elder Jing Geng sent twenty-nine Golden Core cultivators above the pond, then sealed the gap behind them.
• Black Stinky Roots rose from the pond, releasing poisonous mist that corroded Magical Treasures and trapped the Golden Core cultivators in a desperate fight.

Great Elder Jing Geng sacrificed twenty-nine Golden Core cultivators to mature a Fourth Grade Corpse Lotus, while Li Yuanba secretly entered the space. Just as Jing Geng claimed the lotus, Li Yuanba stole it, and an approaching Fourth Grade Spirit Beast and a threat at the entrance left Jing Geng in immediate danger.

• Great Elder Jing Geng watched the Black Stinky Roots drag twenty-nine Golden Core cultivators into the pond, where the Corpse Lotus absorbed their bodies, Golden Core energy, and souls.
• A Wolf-Head Humanoid Fourth Grade Spirit Beast sensed that the Corpse Lotus had matured ahead of schedule and flew toward the mountain space.
• Li Yuanba used the formations to sneak near Great Elder Jing Geng and saw the Corpse Lotus mature as the approaching spirit beast neared.
• Great Elder Jing Geng entered the space and cut the mature Corpse Lotus into a Jade Box, but Li Yuanba appeared on a White Lotus, seized the box, and vanished.
• Great Elder Jing Geng searched the space for Li Yuanba, then heard Dong Wei say one word before the communication went silent and activated a golden talisman in terror.

Li Yuanba hid inside a gigantic corpse to escape a Wolf-Head Humanoid Fourth Grade Spirit Beast, while Great Elder Jing Geng and the other Golden Core cultivators were killed. Trapped inside the corpse, Li Yuanba absorbed its powerful Yin-Cold Energy and advanced his Corpse Refinement State.

• Great Elder Jing Geng fled using a life-saving talisman as the Wolf-Head Humanoid Fourth Grade Spirit Beast shattered Formation Master Dong Wei’s formation and killed him and the two Golden Core cultivators.
• The spirit beast detected the Corpse Lotus’s aura on Jing Geng, chased him down, and killed him before returning to search for the missing lotus.
• Li Yuanba hid inside a gigantic corpse at the bottom of the pond, where its overwhelming pressure immobilized him and concealed him from the spirit beast.
• After the spirit beast left, Li Shiming took control of Li Yuanba’s body but found they could not escape until Li Yuanba’s spiritual power recovered.
• Li Shiming circulated Evil Corpse Spirit Record, drawing Yin-Cold Energy from the corpse and advancing Li Yuanba from Silver Corpse Initial Stage to Silver Corpse Middle Stage.
• The corpse’s energy strengthened Li Yuanba’s body to Great Elder level Body Tempering and continued to flow into him.