Chapter Summaries

Li Shiming refined Fourth Grade spiritual pills from Yu An’s Fourth Grade Demon Core and proved his skill to Old Ancestor Yu. While reading the books Wuqing Mountain sent him, he learned that the Cloud Stepping Token could grant entry to the Green Field Blessed Land, which opened every four hundred years.

• Li Shiming used the Fire Phoenix Treasure Cauldron to refine pills and gave Li Yuanba a Fourth Grade Clear Spirit Fruit, helping him strengthen his cultivation.
• After twenty days, Li Shiming gave Yu An two Fourth Grade Initial Grade spiritual pills, and Yu An excitedly reported the full batch to Old Ancestor Yu.
• Old Ancestor Yu arranged for Li Shiming to receive a private auction box and ordered Wuqing Mountain to send him travel journals and formation texts.
• Li Shiming found a reference to the Cloud Stepping Token in Old Ancestor Yu’s travel journal and learned it was a key to entering the Green Field Blessed Land.

Li Shiming attended Wuqing Mountain’s auction and used a Fourth Grade Spiritual Pill, with Old Ancestor Yu’s support, to win a set of Fourth Grade Array Flags. The auction continued, and Li Shiming gained rare formation tools while preparing for the future opening of Green Field Blessed Land.

• Li Shiming learned that Green Field Blessed Land would open in about twelve years and considered the resources he would need to advance his five Golden Cores to the Nascent Soul Stage.
• Old Ancestor Yu ordered Wuqing Mountain’s Golden Core cultivators not to disturb Li Shiming before the auction, allowing him to cultivate and recover.
• Li Shiming arrived at the crowded auction and was escorted to private room Three, where he studied the auction formation and received Fourth Grade Spirit Tea.
• Li Shiming spotted a set of eight Fourth Grade Array Flags and realized he lacked enough Superior-Grade Spirit Stones to bid for them.
• Li Shiming offered a Fourth Grade Spiritual Pill as collateral, and Old Ancestor Yu arranged for it to be valued at five thousand Superior-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Li Shiming bid five thousand Superior-Grade Spirit Stones, won the Fourth Grade Array Flags, and completed the exchange with his Spiritual Pill.

Li Shiming gained the attention of Wuqing Mountain’s Nascent Soul Old Ancestors by refining Fourth Grade Spiritual Pills, and Sang Feng offered an Icy Spirit Cistanche as payment for future commissions. After strengthening his Cave Dwelling’s defenses, Li Shiming attended a hastily arranged gathering where he noticed that Jiang Nan had also been invited at the last minute.

• At the auction, Old Ancestor Yu invited Li Shiming to join Wuqing Mountain and offered to arrange alchemy commissions for him; Li Shiming agreed to let Wuqing Mountain help find clients.
• Old Ancestor Yu introduced Sang Feng, who gave Li Shiming a Fourth Grade Demon Core to refine in exchange for Fourth Grade Spirit Tea.
• Ten days later, Li Shiming delivered two Fourth Grade low-grade Spiritual Pills to Sang Feng, who offered an Icy Spirit Cistanche for three furnace openings.
• During the following two months, Li Shiming refined pills for Golden Core Late Stage cultivators and installed a defensive formation using eight Fourth Grade Array Flags and three hundred and sixty-five Third Grade Array Flags.
• Li Shiming attended Yang Fu’s gathering to obtain Fourth Grade Spirit Spring Water and noticed that most attendees were Golden Core early- or middle-stage cultivators.
• Li Shiming learned that Jiang Nan, the only other Golden Core Late Stage cultivator present, had also received Yang Fu’s invitation at the last minute.

Li Shiming rushed back from a gathering to stop Tai Yi, a White Rainbow Sect Great Elder, from attacking his Cave Dwelling, then chased him down and killed him. After returning to Wuqing Mountain, Li Shiming suspected Tai Yi had sought the Cloud Stepping Token and found valuable cultivation resources among his belongings.

• Tai Yi attacked Li Shiming's Cave Dwelling while Li Shiming was away, but its reinforced formation withstood his repeated strikes.
• Li Shiming sensed the attack, returned, and pursued Tai Yi after he fled; Yu An sent Wuqing Mountain's guards after them and contacted Old Ancestor Yu.
• In a desolate region, Li Shiming revealed his hidden Body Refinement Great Elder strength, disrupted Tai Yi's escape attempt, and killed him with his Third Grade Sword Foundation.
• Li Shiming returned safely to Wuqing Mountain with the guard team, while Yu An promised the mountain would investigate the attack and explain what had happened.
• Li Shiming concluded Tai Yi had likely targeted the Cloud Stepping Token and found Thousand Year Hundred Core Grass and 3,500 Superior-Grade Spirit Stones in Tai Yi's Space Ring.

After Tai Yi’s attack on Li Shiming’s Cave Dwelling, Yang Fu apologized and Li Shiming accepted his explanation, while Wuqing Mountain dealt with the damage to its reputation. Old Ancestor Yu gave Li Shiming a permanent Nascent Soul-grade Cave Dwelling, where Li Shiming moved his workshop and resumed his research as other forces began taking interest in him.

• Old Ancestor Yu questioned Yu An about the attack, and Yu An said he was still investigating the unidentified Great Elder.
• Yang Fu visited Li Shiming, admitted Tai Yi was a White Rainbow Sect disciple he had introduced, and gave Li Shiming Fourth Grade Spirit Spring Water as an apology; Li Shiming agreed to let the matter end.
• Old Ancestor Yu told Li Shiming that Wuqing Mountain had not forgiven Yang Fu and offered him a permanent Nascent Soul-grade Cave Dwelling without rent.
• Li Shiming moved into the new Cave Dwelling, reinforced its defenses against attacks and surveillance, and set up his equipment and Silver Corpses to continue his research.
• Cultivators began to suspect Li Shiming could refine Fourth Grade Spiritual Pills, and nearby forces started seeking ways to approach him.

Hong Ting took the fake Cloud Stepping Token from Li Shiming’s former Cave Dwelling and was ambushed after leaving Wuqing Mountain, diverting suspicion away from Li Shiming. As Li Shiming expanded his drone satellite network and continued cultivating, Old Ancestor Yu brought Old Ancestor Zhang Kai to meet him.

• Hong Ting rented Li Shiming’s former Cave Dwelling, found the hidden box, and mistook Li Shiming’s fake Cloud Stepping Token for the real one.
• Hong Ting left Wuqing Mountain with the token and was besieged by cultivators, while Li Shiming watched through a drone satellite and welcomed the distraction.
• Yu An told Li Shiming that Hong Ting had obtained the Cloud Stepping Token and was being pursued, then left materials and payment for Li Shiming to refine Third Grade Spirit Pills.
• Li Shiming released Honored One Huijing to help cultivate the Jade Purity Thunder Canon and deployed more drone satellites, discovering that the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect attacked any that came within a thousand li.
• Old Ancestor Yu received Old Ancestor Zhang Kai and introduced him to Li Shiming, who invited both Nascent Soul cultivators into his Cave Dwelling.

Li Shiming refined a Fourth Grade Detoxification Spiritual Pill for Zhang Kai and earned the attention of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect after curing Zhang Kai’s poison. Jiang Hong became intrigued by Li Shiming’s skill and set out to meet him at Wuqing Mountain.

• Li Shiming welcomed Zhang Kai and Yu with Fourth Grade Spirit Tea, then agreed to refine a detoxification pill in exchange for Nascent Soul Advancement Resources.
• Li Shiming produced six Fourth Grade Intermediate Detoxification Spiritual Pills and gave Zhang Kai two after ten days.
• Zhang Kai swallowed a pill while traveling and discovered that it had neutralized the poison afflicting him.
• After Zhang Kai returned to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, Jiang Hong examined the remaining pill and concluded that Li Shiming had deliberately controlled its quality.
• Zhang Kai described Li Shiming’s pill-furnace tea brewing, prompting Jiang Hong to insist on meeting him and offer to cover Zhang Kai’s payment.

Grandmaster Jiang Hong invited Li Shiming to join the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect after learning that he was a rogue cultivator without a sect. Li Shiming accepted in principle and agreed to demonstrate his alchemy skills by refining a furnace of pills.

• Old Ancestor Zhang Kai delivered Li Shiming a Fourth Grade Eight Directions Sublimation Pill as payment for his previous alchemy.
• Grandmaster Jiang Hong introduced himself and tested Li Shiming by asking him to brew Fourth Grade Spirit Tea, then praised his temperature control and the tea.
• Grandmaster Jiang Hong confirmed Li Shiming belonged to no sect and invited him to join the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect as his recommender.
• Li Shiming agreed, asking the sect to compensate Wuqing Mountain for its kindness; Grandmaster Jiang Hong promised the sect would take extra care of it.
• Grandmaster Jiang Hong gave Li Shiming ingredients and a pill formula for the Great Sun Harmony Qi Pill, and Li Shiming asked him to wait seven days for the refinement.

Li Shiming left Wuqing Mountain to join the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, whose leaders welcomed him as a powerful Grandmaster Alchemist. He arrived at the sect and was brought to the Sect Leader’s residence, leaving his new life there about to begin.

• Grandmaster Jiang Hong told Old Ancestor Zhang Kai that Li Shiming’s alchemy skill might surpass his own, explaining why he had offered Li Shiming a special sect-entry slot.
• Li Shiming told Old Ancestor Yu he was leaving for the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect; Old Ancestor Yu returned his Cave Dwelling token but let him keep the dwelling, and Old Ancestor Zhang Kai promised the sect would look after Wuqing Mountain.
• Old Ancestor Zhang Kai and Grandmaster Jiang Hong escorted Li Shiming toward the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, where Li Shiming focused on advancing to the Nascent Soul Stage and learned that a blessed land shielded the sect’s territory.
• Li Shiming saw the sect’s many suspended mountain peaks and learned that each represented a Nascent Soul cultivator; Grandmaster Jiang Hong said Li Shiming might receive one even while still at the Golden Core Stage.
• Grandmaster Jiang Hong brought Li Shiming to the Sect Leader’s palace on a suspended mountain peak, where a woman’s voice invited them inside.

Li Shiming joined Ten Thousand Beasts Sect and received the resources and cave dwelling allotted to a Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator. After choosing a peak that coincided with a node in the sect’s great array, he discovered a Fourth Grade spiritual plant space and Spirit Spring inside its cave dwelling, and the sect began installing a Nascent Soul level Spiritual Meridian there.

• Grandmaster Jiang Hong introduced Li Shiming to Sect Master Ji, who welcomed him after learning of his alchemy talent and seeing his Great Sun Harmony Qi Pills.
• Li Shiming swore an oath to Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, received his identity jade disc, and was allotted Nascent Soul Early Stage resources and a cave dwelling.
• Li Shiming chose a peak located at a great array node and activated the sealed cave dwelling at its summit.
• Li Shiming found a Fourth Grade spiritual plant space and Spirit Spring inside the cave dwelling, though the peak had no spiritual meridian yet.
• A Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator and thirty Golden Core cultivators arrived to install a Nascent Soul level Spiritual Meridian in the peak.

Li Shiming settled into his Suspended Mountain Peak in the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, strengthened its defenses, and arranged for his spirit pet and research work. He agreed to refine Fourth Grade Spiritual Pills for Martial Aunt Song in a month and contracted with Hua Yan to have Spirit Planter Grandmasters cultivate Third Grade Beast Saliva Fruit on his mountain.

• Li Shiming reinforced his Cave Dwelling's formations while the Construction Team assembled components that lifted his mountain peak into the air.
• Li Shiming met Martial Aunt Song, agreed to refine Fourth Grade Spiritual Pills for her in one month, and requested Nascent Soul Advancement Resources as payment.
• Li Shiming inspected the mountain's formations, settled Honored One Huijing, Clone Li Yuanba, and the Phantom Spirit Flood Dragon, and prepared an underground space for research and production.
• Old ancestor Hua Yan offered to manage the mountain's Spirit Fields through his disciples, and Li Shiming agreed to receive his share of the Third Grade Beast Saliva Fruit.
• Hua Yan's two Spirit Planter Grandmasters restored the mountain's Spirit Fields and planted Third Grade Beast Saliva Fruit seeds.

Li Shiming settled into the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect and learned from Grandmaster Jiang Hong about the sect’s factions, his place in the Phoenix Faction, and the inheritance and missions that could help him advance. After receiving a rare tea tree and studying the faction’s alchemy inheritance, he met Martial Aunt Song, who brought Ten Thousand Year Lightning Strike Wood Sap.

• Grandmaster Jiang Hong visited Li Shiming, gave him a Fourth Grade tea tree, and learned that Li Shiming’s cave dwelling contained a Fourth Grade Spirit Spring.
• Grandmaster Jiang Hong explained that he and Li Shiming belonged to the Phoenix Faction, advised Li Shiming to seek a phoenix-bloodline spiritual pet, and urged him to complete alchemy missions for contribution points.
• Grandmaster Jiang Hong gave Li Shiming the Phoenix Faction’s alchemy inheritance for three months of study, and Li Shiming planted the tea tree in his Fourth Grade Spiritual Plant Space.
• Martial Aunt Song visited Li Shiming and brought a Fourth Grade Spirit Medicine and Ten Thousand Year Lightning Strike Wood Sap as payment.

Li Shiming completed alchemy for Martial Aunt Song, then accepted and finished nine of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect’s Fourth Grade Spiritual Pill missions. Sect Master Ji praised his results, raised his authority, and rewarded him with Contribution Points and a Supreme Profound Pill.

• Li Shiming finished refining pills for Martial Aunt Song early, checked the sect missions, and accepted nine Fourth Grade Spiritual Pill missions.
• Sect Master Ji noticed Li Shiming’s willingness to complete the sect missions and took an interest in his alchemy ability.
• Martial Aunt Song received two high-quality Fourth Grade Spiritual Pills from Li Shiming and gave him two more sets of materials, then learned he would spend four months on sect missions.
• Li Shiming completed two more furnaces for Martial Aunt Song and then spent four months refining the sect’s nine furnaces of pills.
• Li Shiming submitted eighteen Fourth Grade Intermediate Stage Spiritual Pills to Sect Master Ji, who awarded him two thousand Contribution Points, raised his authority, and gave him a Supreme Profound Pill.

Li Shiming used the Nascent Soul Stage Library Pavilion to absorb formation knowledge before returning to alchemy work for Nascent Soul Advancement Resources. His reputation spread after the sect distributed pills he had refined, and Old Ancestor Bao Da arrived with five portions of resources to secure his services.

• Li Shiming entered the Nascent Soul Stage Library Pavilion and rapidly copied its formation records into his Array Starlight Sea.
• After realizing that refining pills and gathering Nascent Soul Advancement Resources mattered more than studying immediately, Li Shiming agreed to refine nine furnaces of pills for Martial Aunt Song in exchange for three portions of resources.
• Old Ancestor Bao Da learned that Li Shiming's sect pills were unusually consistent in quality, and word of Li Shiming's alchemy skill spread among the sect's Nascent Soul cultivators.
• After four months, Li Shiming delivered Martial Aunt Song's pills and welcomed Old Ancestor Bao Da and two other Nascent Soul cultivators seeking his services.
• Old Ancestor Bao Da offered five portions of Nascent Soul Advancement Resources, prompting the other two cultivators to look at him with dissatisfaction.

After three years of alchemy, Li Shiming had gathered thirty-five portions of Nascent Soul Advancement Resources, while the Phantom Spirit Flood Dragon began a dangerous transformation after absorbing a Dragon Vein Source Crystal. With Sect Master Ji’s help, Li Shiming strengthened their contract and fed the spirit pet a dragon demon core, leaving it transformed into a Four-Clawed Golden Dragon.

• Li Shiming reflected on his stockpile of Nascent Soul Advancement Resources and planned to attempt advancement if he found an Advancement Opportunity before Green Field Blessed Land opened.
• The Phantom Spirit Flood Dragon emerged from its three-year sleep and began shedding its skin as its dragon bloodline strengthened.
• Li Shiming shared the spirit pet’s pain as it grew to fifteen meters and unleashed a powerful dragon aura above the mountain.
• Sect Master Ji gave Li Shiming a dragon-lineage contract technique and a Third Grade dragon demon core, while explaining that the Phantom Spirit Flood Dragon’s transformation was dangerous.
• Li Shiming strengthened his contract with the Phantom Spirit Flood Dragon and helped it absorb the demon core’s energy.
• The Phantom Spirit Flood Dragon grew golden scales, four claws, and horns, prompting Sect Master Ji to identify it as a Four-Clawed Golden Dragon.

Li Shiming’s Phantom Spirit Flood Dragon transformed into a Four-Clawed Golden Dragon with overwhelming strength, prompting Grandmaster Jiang Hong to warn him that Dragon Lineage cultivators might try to seize it. Li Shiming stayed within the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, improved his combat preparations, and made 190 semi-finished Flowing Light Starfalls, which he would need to activate outside the sect.

• The Phantom Spirit Flood Dragon transformed, revealing its exceptionally pure dragon bloodline and greatly increased strength, invisibility, and deadly poison.
• Sect Master Ji charged Li Shiming five thousand Contribution Points for the inherited Secret Art and Demon Core, while Grandmaster Xie Lang invited him to join Dragon Lineage research; Li Shiming refused.
• Grandmaster Jiang Hong warned Li Shiming to remain inside the sect because Dragon Lineage cultivators might try to take the Phantom Spirit Flood Dragon and extract its bloodline.
• Li Shiming tested the Phantom Spirit Flood Dragon’s abilities and learned that it could easily kill Golden Core Great Elders, leading him to seek ways to strengthen his own combat power.
• Li Shiming exchanged Contribution Points for Starfall Goldstone and spent the next year refining 190 semi-finished Flowing Light Starfalls while remaining inside the sect.
• Li Shiming concluded that activating the Flowing Light Starfalls would require him to leave the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect.

Li Shiming left the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect with Honored One Huijing and used repeated Flowing Light Starfall Artifact Tribulations to cultivate. He broke through the Jade Purity Thunder Canon to Great Elder level and continued tempering his Heavenly Tribulation Lightning Sword Intent as local cultivators approached.

• Li Shiming left the sect with Honored One Huijing, while three Great Elders pursued them and fell farther behind.
• After escaping beyond the sect’s range, Li Shiming used Drone Satellites and a concealment formation to prepare for the Flowing Light Starfall Artifact Tribulations.
• Li Shiming repeatedly completed Flowing Light Starfall and endured its Heavenly Tribulation Lightning to strengthen his Jade Purity Thunder Canon and Heavenly Tribulation Lightning Sword Intent.
• Eleven nearby Golden Core cultivators flew toward the thunderous mountain peak, but Li Shiming ignored them and continued his work.
• When the thirty-fourth bolt struck, Li Shiming’s Jade Purity Thunder Canon broke through to Great Elder level and golden lightning runes appeared across his body.
• Li Shiming continued tempering his Heavenly Tribulation Lightning Sword Intent, which formed an illusory electric longsword as mysterious substances from the lightning fused with it.

Li Shiming completed the Thunder Tribulation of his Flowing Light Starfall Flying Sword Magical Treasures and discovered that the Identity Jade Disc had revealed his location to three Great Elders. When they tried to capture him for Chen Zhou, Li Shiming killed them with his newly strengthened flying swords.

• Li Shiming drove off eleven Golden Core cultivators with a shout powered by Devil Enters the Ear and Sonic Power.
• After one hundred and ninety bolts of heavenly lightning fell, Li Shiming completed the tribulation of all one hundred and ninety Flowing Light Starfalls and realized the three pursuing Great Elders had tracked him through his Identity Jade Disc.
• Li Shiming identified the Heaven and Earth Net Restriction the three Great Elders set up and used Mind Penetration to learn that Chen Zhou had sent them to seize his Dragon Faction spirit pet.
• Li Shiming summoned one hundred and ninety-one Flowing Light Starfall Flying Sword Magical Treasures and killed the three Great Elders before they could escape the restriction.

Li Shiming returned to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect after killing the three Dragon Faction Great Elders who had pursued him, while Old Ancestor Chen Zhou wrongly suspected a Nascent Soul cultivator was responsible. Li Shiming kept the Heaven and Earth Net Restriction Array Disk and the Great Elders’ resources, then focused on preparing to advance to the Nascent Soul Stage before retaliating against Chen Zhou.

• Li Shiming collected the concealed Heaven and Earth Net Restriction Array Disk, erased the traces of the battle, and returned safely to his Cave Dwelling.
• Grandmaster Jiang Hong welcomed Li Shiming back and advised him to avoid risks until he advanced to the Nascent Soul Stage.
• Old Ancestor Chen Zhou found the three Great Elders’ Life Jade Tokens shattered and suspected a Nascent Soul cultivator had killed them, while coveting Li Shiming’s Four-Clawed Golden Dragon.
• Li Shiming fed the three Dragon Faction spirit pet corpses to the Phantom Spirit Flood Dragon, then examined the array disk and removed its Positioning Mark.
• Li Shiming found Nascent Soul Advancement Resources and Fourth Grade Dragon Blood Profound Gold in the three Great Elders’ Mustard Seed Rings and resolved to investigate Chen Zhou after advancing.

Li Shiming left the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect to seek the Green Field Blessed Land, hoping to find an opportunity to advance to the Nascent Soul Stage. He reached its newly revealed location in disguise, where cultivators gathered and a battle broke out before the blessed land opened.

• Li Shiming finished his alchemy assignments, gathered his resources, and left the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect with the Cloud Stepping Token while concealing his Identity Jade Disc from Old Ancestor Chen Zhou.
• The Cloud Stepping Token revealed Green Field Blessed Land's location, and Li Shiming flew toward the marked mountain range after disguising his face and identity.
• Li Shiming arrived and met Lai Yuan and Lai Li of the Veiled Sun Sect; he refused Lai Yuan's proposal to attack the other token holders.
• More Golden Core cultivators arrived, and a pair of Golden Core Late Stage cultivators began fighting while the others watched.
• The two battling cultivators suddenly coordinated their attacks against two Golden Core Middle Stage cultivators, revealing that they were allies.