Chapter Summaries

Li Shiming watched the Phantom Spirit Flood Dragon undergo its Fourth Grade heavenly tribulation and learned that it was a Five-Clawed Dragon, while Little Chick was a Crimson Gold Phoenix. After the Dragon passed the tribulation, Great Cultivator Hu offered to take Li Shiming as his disciple, leaving Li Shiming to consider the offer.

• Li Shiming left the Ten Thousand Beasts Blessed Land with the Phantom Spirit Flood Dragon and Little Chick, and Great Cultivator Hu took him to Tribulation Transcendence Mountain for the Dragon's tribulation.
• Great Cultivator Hu recognized the Phantom Spirit Flood Dragon as a Five-Clawed Dragon and Little Chick as a Crimson Gold Phoenix, then decided to take Li Shiming as his disciple if the Dragon survived.
• Li Shiming cast a lightning-resistance spell on the Phantom Spirit Flood Dragon, which endured three bolts of Heavenly Thunder and tore through the Thunder Cloud before completing its breakthrough.
• Great Cultivator Hu praised the Dragon's strength, and Li Shiming thanked him for his protection.
• Great Cultivator Hu solemnly offered to take Li Shiming as his disciple, and Li Shiming began weighing the offer.

Li Shiming became Great Cultivator Hu’s disciple and showed Feng Lanxin his newly contracted Crimson Gold Phoenix, earning her gratitude with a Youthful Countenance Pill. He then tested a method that let four of his Nascent Souls cultivate while he remained active, successfully breaking from the need for uninterrupted secluded cultivation.

• Li Shiming accepted Great Cultivator Hu as his Master, and Great Cultivator Hu gave him two sets of Nascent Soul Late Stage spiritual pill materials to practice with.
• Li Shiming named his pets Little Phoenix and Phantom Spirit Dragon, then told Grandmaster Jiang Hong and Feng Lanxin that he had contracted a Phoenix Faction spirit pet.
• Feng Lanxin visited Li Shiming, recognized Little Phoenix as a rare Crimson Gold Phoenix, and learned that Great Cultivator Hu had taken him as a disciple.
• Li Shiming gave Feng Lanxin a Youthful Countenance Pill, which she gratefully accepted and promised to help him in the future.
• Li Shiming used IBMz15 to devise and test a method in which four Nascent Souls cultivated while the Fire Thunder Nascent Soul controlled his body, and he moved around without interrupting their cultivation.

Great Cultivator Ding investigated Chen Zhou’s disappearance and sent Yuan Xun to confront Li Shiming, who defended himself and drove Yuan Xun from his mountain peak. Afterward, Li Shiming searched Chen Zhou’s possessions and found dragon-bloodline resources and a powerful secret technique.

• Great Cultivator Ding learned Chen Zhou had not left the Ten Thousand Beasts Blessed Land, then discovered Li Shiming had become Great Cultivator Hu’s disciple and ordered Yuan Xun to question him.
• Li Shiming checked Yuan Xun’s identity and agreed to meet him at his pavilion.
• Yuan Xun used a Spirit Secret Art to accuse Li Shiming of killing Chen Zhou, but Li Shiming’s Human Path Reincarnation Art countered the attack and triggered his mountain formation.
• Li Shiming ordered Yuan Xun to leave and said he would report the attack to the sect, so Yuan Xun departed in disgrace.
• Li Shiming examined Chen Zhou’s corpse and possessions, finding dragon-bloodline Spiritual Objects for the Phantom Spirit Dragon and the Dragon Dance Nine Heavens Secret Technique.

Li Shiming entered the Four Elephants Blessed Land for his initiation ceremony and met Great Cultivator Hu’s disciples and honored guests. After Great Cultivator Hu formally accepted him as a disciple, Li Shiming received an initiation gift and began his new place in the sect.

• Lu Heng guided Li Shiming through the space gate into the Four Elephants Blessed Land and led him to Great Cultivator Hu’s Cave Dwelling.
• Great Cultivator Hu introduced Li Shiming to his second senior brother, Yue Shan, who gave him Thunder Radiance Profound Iron, while Great Cultivator Hu presented him with a Core Disciple’s magical robe.
• Great Cultivator Ding tested Li Shiming with his spiritual pressure and then gave him a Jade Box as a reward, while Yuan Xun watched resentfully.
• Li Shiming greeted Sect Master Ji, Feng Lanxin, and other guests before Great Cultivator Chai arrived as a witness to the ceremony.
• Li Shiming offered Great Cultivator Hu Spirit Tea and formally entered his tutelage, receiving a Life-Saving Escape Talisman as his initiation gift.

Li Shiming presented Great Cultivator Hu with Fourth Grade Spirit Tea he had stir-fried himself, impressing the Nascent Soul Great Cultivators and prompting Great Cultivator Hu to protect the method's value. After the ceremony, Great Cultivator Hu discussed Li Shiming's cultivation techniques, their origins, and how he would support his disciple's future cultivation.

• Li Shiming gave Great Cultivator Hu thirty leaves of Fourth Grade Spirit Tea he had stir-fried himself, and Great Cultivator Hu brewed tea for Great Cultivator Chai and Great Cultivator Ding.
• Great Cultivator Chai praised Great Cultivator Hu for taking Li Shiming as a disciple, while Great Cultivator Ding reconsidered his thoughts of dealing with Li Shiming.
• After the guests left, Great Cultivator Hu advised Li Shiming to describe Fourth Grade Spirit Tea stir-frying as difficult and to provide him small amounts so he could secure benefits for Li Shiming.
• Li Shiming told Great Cultivator Hu that he practiced the Five Rhymes Qi Refining Art, Jade Purity Thunder Canon, Taiqing Mysterious Turtle Art, and Human Path Reincarnation Art.
• Great Cultivator Hu explained the origins and risks of Li Shiming's techniques, warned him not to reveal the Jade Purity Thunder Canon, and promised to gather cultivation resources and guidance for him.

After becoming Great Cultivator Hu’s Official Disciple, Li Shiming used his resources to help his spirit pets grow and began advancing Silver Corpse Nanming to a Golden Corpse. Nanming formed a corpse core and continued absorbing energy, but its advancement was still underway.

• Lu Heng told Li Shiming that Senior Brother Zhong Qiang had been missing for more than a hundred years.
• Li Shiming received congratulatory visitors for several days after his Master Acknowledgment Ceremony.
• Li Shiming gave Little Phoenix and the Phantom Spirit Dragon twenty Third Grade Top Grade Spirit Beast Yuan Increase Pills each.
• Li Shiming chose Silver Corpse Nanming for advancement and obtained permission to use Tribulation Transcendence Mountain.
• Li Shiming placed a Golden Corpse Core in Nanming’s mouth, and the Silver Corpse entered an advancement state.
• Nanming’s Corpse Pill transformed into a corpse core, which absorbed energy as golden threads spread through its body.

Li Shiming helped Nanming survive its tribulation and complete its transformation into a Golden Corpse, discovering that it had gained a living body, tremendous speed, and stronger Southern Blazing Fire. Back at his Cave Dwelling, he began preparing to use Nanming’s flames to refine a new Sky Strike Thunder Hammer from Fourth Grade Thunder Radiance Profound Iron.

• Nanming absorbed the Golden Corpse Core and advanced to a six-meter-tall Golden Corpse, with Li Shiming preparing it to undergo the heavenly tribulation.
• Nanming survived the tribulation after the remaining Golden Corpse Core energy preserved its vitality, and the Heaven and Earth Reward repaired its body.
• Li Shiming realized Nanming had inherited the Golden Corpse’s extreme speed and that its awakened Southern Blazing Fire prevented the tribulation from treating it as an ordinary refined corpse.
• Nanming recovered as a newly formed Golden Corpse with a true soul and living tissues, and Li Shiming confirmed its Southern Blazing Fire was stronger than his own.
• Li Shiming returned to his Cave Dwelling with Nanming and found that it could cultivate by absorbing Spiritual Qi and practicing Southern Blazing Fire.
• Li Shiming gave Nanming Fourth Grade Thunder Radiance Profound Iron and planned to use its Southern Blazing Fire to refine a Sky Strike Thunder Hammer designed with help from Natal Magical Treasure IBMz15.

Li Shiming spent three months refining a powerful Sky Strike Thunder Hammer but hid its final activation to avoid drawing attention. After Great Cultivator Hu received three intermediate-stage pills from him, he rewarded Li Shiming with valuable resources, including a Fourth Grade Twelve-Leaf Golden Lotus that improved his Spiritual Qi absorption.

• Li Shiming used Southern Blazing Fire and IBMz15 to forge the Sky Strike Thunder Hammer, engraving it with three million six hundred thousand small arrays over three months.
• Li Shiming stopped short of activating the hammer, fearing that completing it would bring heavenly tribulation and expose his artifact-refining ability.
• Li Shiming gave Great Cultivator Hu three Nascent Soul Late Stage Fourth Grade Intermediate Stage Spiritual Pills, and Hu promised him an alchemy reward while asking him to keep his success quiet.
• Great Cultivator Hu's Clone returned with five drops of Ten Thousand Year Stone Stalactite, a Fourth Grade Twelve-Leaf Golden Lotus, and twelve portions of Fourth Grade Formation Material in exchange for Li Shiming's pills and spirit tea.
• Li Shiming planted the golden lotus in his spirit spring and found that its transformed Spiritual Qi increased his absorption speed by five percent.

Li Shiming hosted a gathering where his Fourth Grade Spirit Tea and Crimson Gold Phoenix impressed the Nascent Soul cultivators, strengthening his standing among them. The guests discussed an impending Spirit Beast Tide and formed three teams to intercept it, while Li Shiming agreed to refine their demon cores into pills.

• Li Shiming hosted Feng Lanxin, Grandmaster Jiang Hong, Lu Heng, and other Nascent Soul cultivators, then brewed Fourth Grade Spirit Tea that left the guests deeply impressed.
• Feng Lanxin asked to see Little Phoenix, and Li Shiming showed the guests his juvenile Crimson Gold Phoenix, prompting their admiration and envy.
• Feng Lanxin explained that a Spirit Beast Tide was expected soon, and Zhang Kai said the cultivators would bring Li Shiming their demon cores to refine instead of asking him to join the battle.
• The Nascent Soul cultivators formed three teams to intercept the Spirit Beast Tide, and Li Shiming agreed to refine pills for them after the gathering.

Li Shiming left the sect to observe the Spirit Beast Tide and finished refining the Sky Strike Thunder Hammer, which became a Fourth Grade transcendent magical treasure and triggered a Nascent Soul-level Heavenly Tribulation. Six Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivators sensed the Thunder Cloud and saw an opportunity, leaving the hammer’s tribulation—and Li Shiming’s safety—at risk.

• Li Shiming told Great Cultivator Hu he planned to leave the sect, and Great Cultivator Hu gave him two Life-Saving Talismans while ordering Yue Shan to watch over him.
• Several cultivators tracked Li Shiming after he left, but he escaped them with “Close In Distance, Far In Horizon,” and Yue Shan lost his trail.
• Li Shiming summoned the Phantom Spirit Dragon, the Golden Corpse, and Honored One Huijing, then completed the Sky Strike Thunder Hammer inside the Server Room Space.
• The Sky Strike Thunder Hammer absorbed Li Shiming’s and IBMz15’s comprehension of the Jade Purity Thunder Canon, gained five Dao rhythms, and became a Fourth Grade transcendent magical treasure.
• A Nascent Soul-level Thunder Cloud formed over Li Shiming, and six Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivators sensed it and decided the disturbance presented an opportunity.

Li Shiming faced the Sky Strike Thunder Hammer’s Artifact Tribulation while his Phantom Spirit Dragon and Golden Corpse ambushed and killed six approaching Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivators. The hammer absorbed the three bolts of Heavenly Thunder, passed the tribulation, and gained an infant Artifact Spirit as its quality improved.

• Li Shiming watched the first bolt of Heavenly Thunder strike the Sky Strike Thunder Hammer, which absorbed it without letting any lightning reach him.
• Li Shiming sent the Phantom Spirit Dragon and Golden Corpse to ambush six approaching Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivators, and the Phantom Spirit Dragon’s attack sparked mistrust among them.
• The Phantom Spirit Dragon stunned the cultivators with its dragon roar, allowing the Golden Corpse to kill five; it then caught and killed the sixth as he tried to escape.
• The Sky Strike Thunder Hammer absorbed the second bolt of Heavenly Thunder by binding it within its scattered thunder-element runes.
• The Sky Strike Thunder Hammer flew into the thunder clouds and contained the third bolt, causing the clouds to dissipate and the artifact to pass its tribulation.
• Li Shiming sensed that the transformed Sky Strike Thunder Hammer had gained an infant Artifact Spirit and several Heavenly Thunder runes.

Li Shiming explored a Legacy Mansion belonging to a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator and discovered that its owner, Netherworld Emperor Lord, had prepared it as a trap for Soul Possession. Trapped inside with a Fourth Grade Mid-Rank Nether Ghost, Li Shiming prepared to fight.

• Li Shiming made the Sky Strike Thunder Hammer the Wood Thunder Nascent Soul's Natal Magical Treasure, then found six Jade Token fragments among the six Nascent Soul cultivators' rings and assembled a map to a Legacy Mansion.
• Li Shiming followed the map to a water pool, found a hidden stone door behind its source, and ordered Golden Corpse Nan Ming to open it.
• Li Shiming explored the mansion, collected a Fourth Grade Spirit Tea tree and tea set, and found the Azure Wave Illusion Scripture inscribed on a corridor wall.
• Li Shiming spotted a soul-targeting Formation and treasure cabinets containing Fourth Grade Magical Treasures, while Netherworld Emperor Lord revealed his plan to possess a suitable cultivator's body.
• A Fourth Grade Mid-Rank Nether Ghost attacked Li Shiming, and a force sealed the Cave Dwelling so he could not escape using Close In Distance, Far In Horizon.

Li Shiming used his Sky Strike Thunder Hammer against the Netherworld Emperor Lord, but a formation tied to a Space Crack protected the Nether Ghost’s scattered clones. He sent his invisible Heavenly Ghost into the formation, where it began devouring the clones, and the Netherworld Emperor Lord pleaded for his life and offered treasures and Veiled Sun Sect inheritance.

• Golden Corpse Nan Ming attacked the Netherworld Emperor Lord while Li Shiming struck him with a heavenly-thunder method, but the Fourth Grade Nether Ghost endured the damage.
• Li Shiming unleashed the Sky Strike Thunder Hammer, but the Netherworld Emperor Lord split into one hundred clones and hid them in the formation’s nodes, where spatial energy blocked the attack.
• Li Shiming’s IBMz15 analyzed the formation, and he sent the invisible Heavenly Ghost into a node after discovering that only Third Grade beings could enter.
• The Heavenly Ghost swallowed the Netherworld Emperor Lord’s clones one by one, while Li Shiming kept the Sky Strike Thunder Hammer ready and refused to intervene.
• The Netherworld Emperor Lord lost more than half his clones and begged Li Shiming to spare him, offering a great treasure and the Veiled Sun Sect’s Inheritance Cultivation Technique.

Li Shiming defeated the Netherworld Emperor Lord, claimed the Cave Dwelling and its resources, and discovered a powerful corpse-refining formation. He left Li Yuanba there to cultivate for two years, hoping to help him reach Great Elder level.

• After the Heavenly Ghost consumed most of the Netherworld Emperor Lord’s clones, Li Shiming cut down the weakened Nether Ghost with five Flowing Light Starfalls, and the Heavenly Ghost devoured its remains.
• Li Shiming claimed the Cave Dwelling’s formation core, moved its three Nascent Soul level Spiritual Meridians into the Heavenly Human Path great hall, and found the owner’s corpse-refining chamber.
• Li Shiming made the ownerless corpse refinement recognize him as master, then suppressed its loosening breakthrough bottleneck.
• Li Shiming released Li Yuanba and placed him in the Fourth Grade Corpse Refining Grand Formation, where Li Yuanba could cultivate safely in the Corpse Refinement State for two years.

Li Shiming left Clone Li Yuanba in a secure Cave Dwelling and examined Netherworld Emperor Lord’s remaining possessions before advancing the powerful refined corpse to a Golden Corpse. After it survived a severe heavenly tribulation, Li Shiming named it Black Shield, adding another formidable combatant to his side.

• Li Shiming left Clone Li Yuanba in the Cave Dwelling, concealed its entrance, and examined Netherworld Emperor Lord’s Mustard Seed Ring.
• Li Shiming found a Fourth Grade Demonic Sword and the Veiled Sun Corpse Refining Method, which IBMz15 analyzed for hidden dangers.
• Li Shiming fed a Golden Corpse Core to the refined corpse, which advanced from a Silver Corpse to a Golden Corpse and manifested three talismans.
• The Golden Corpse endured three increasingly powerful bolts of Heavenly Thunder using its demonic fist, black shield, and armor, then received Heaven and Earth Reward.
• Li Shiming witnessed the Golden Corpse’s immense strength and speed and named it Black Shield.

Li Shiming helped the Heavenly Ghost advance to Fourth Grade, then joined Lu Heng on the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect’s sea battlefield to fight spiritual beasts. They took over a battlefront as Little Phoenix confronted the approaching beasts.

• Li Shiming used a Formation, an Electromagnetic Shielding Metal Round Cage, lightning rods, and the Sky Strike Thunder Hammer to protect the Heavenly Ghost through its tribulation, and the Heavenly Ghost advanced to Fourth Grade.
• Li Shiming discovered that cultivators were gathered off the coast to fight spirit beasts, then flew to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect’s battlefield and met Lu Heng on its super-large flying boat.
• Lu Heng asked Li Shiming to team up against spiritual beasts, and Li Shiming agreed to split the spoils evenly so Little Phoenix could gain battle experience.
• Li Shiming and Lu Heng replaced six exhausted Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivators at a battlefront and prepared to fight the approaching spiritual beasts.
• Little Phoenix perched on Li Shiming’s shoulder and chirped at the beasts, making most of them shudder.

Li Shiming and Lu Heng fought in the Spirit Beast Tide while Golden Corpse Black Shield protected Li Shiming from ambushes. After the golden corpse killed two Fourth Grade Spiritual Beasts, Li Shiming kept only the Chameleon Lizard's skin and left the other spoils to Lu Heng.

• Lu Heng warned Li Shiming to prepare his Nascent Soul Avatar as the Azure Armor Phosphorescent Bull cleared a path through the Spirit Beast Tide.
• Golden Corpse Black Shield caught and killed a Fourth Grade Phantom Leopard that had leapt toward Li Shiming, then Lu Heng collected and processed its remains.
• A Fourth Grade Chameleon Lizard ambushed Li Shiming, but Golden Corpse Black Shield battered through its avatar and killed it.
• Lu Heng explained the Chameleon Lizard's valuable parts and handed the spoils to Li Shiming, who kept its skin and let Lu Heng have the rest.

Li Shiming left the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect’s Flying Boat after refining a Fourth Grade High Level Chameleon Cloak, then used it to infiltrate the Spirit Beast Tide and search for its source. He spotted a Heavenly Travel Merchant Guild Flying Boat carrying the injured Jin Kai and Ren Xun and began considering what to do.

• Li Shiming gave most of the spoils from his battle with Lu Heng to Lu Heng, who entrusted him with Fourth Grade Demon Cores and asked him to refine pills.
• Li Shiming declined to fight another round, accepted requests for alchemy through Lu Heng, and refined the Fourth Grade High Level Chameleon Cloak from a Fourth Grade Chameleon Lizard’s skin.
• Lu Heng gathered a large number of alchemy requests and Demon Cores for Li Shiming while he refined the cloak.
• Li Shiming used the cloak to transform into a Fourth Grade Chameleon Lizard and move undetected through the Spirit Beast Tide, but found no source or Cave Heaven.
• Li Shiming saw a Heavenly Travel Merchant Guild Flying Boat carrying the seriously injured Jin Kai and Ren Xun, while Ren Xun warned that a Spirit Beast Tide likely lay ahead.
• Jin Kai ordered the Flying Boat to approach the continent and the crew to report their arrival so the merchant guild could send people to meet them.

Li Shiming ambushed the injured Jin Kai and the Heavenly Travel Merchant Guild with the Heaven and Earth Net Restriction, seeking revenge before Jin Kai could recover. Ren Xun was killed, while Jin Kai remained trapped at a distance as Li Shiming wore down his strength with repeated lightning attacks.

• Jin Kai ordered Ren Xun to spread news of Great Power Zhai Ge Blessed Land so Luo Wei could not claim it uncontested.
• Li Shiming prepared the Heaven and Earth Net Restriction, released two Golden Corpses and the Phantom Spirit Dragon, and waited for the Heavenly Travel Merchant Guild’s flying boat to enter the trap.
• Jin Kai’s boat entered the restriction, and Li Shiming attacked Jin Kai from long range with the Sky Strike Thunder Hammer.
• Li Shiming used Close In Distance, Far In Horizon to stay beyond Jin Kai’s reach while the Golden Corpses and Phantom Spirit Dragon attacked Ren Xun.
• The two Golden Corpses killed Ren Xun, and Jin Kai recognized Li Shiming and the Golden Corpses.
• Li Shiming continued harrying Jin Kai with lightning, while the trapped Jin Kai struggled to decide whether using his Nascent Soul Avatar would worsen his injuries.

Li Shiming wore down the seriously injured Jin Kai with lightning, his Golden Corpses, and the Phantom Spirit Dragon before defeating him with five Nascent Soul Avatars. After collecting Jin Kai and Ren Xun’s belongings and bodies, Li Shiming turned his attention to the cultivators aboard the Heavenly Travel Merchant Guild’s Far Sailing Boat.

• Jin Kai begged Li Shiming to spare him, but Li Shiming refused and sent his Golden Corpses to attack.
• The Phantom Spirit Dragon bit Jin Kai and poisoned him while Li Shiming kept striking from a distance and evading Jin Kai’s attacks.
• Jin Kai unleashed his Nascent Soul Avatar and a vast storm of golden energy needles, but Li Shiming used Close In Distance, Far In Horizon to escape the attack.
• Li Shiming summoned five Nascent Soul Avatars and overwhelmed Jin Kai with lightning and Heavenly Tribulation Lightning Sword Intent, killing him.
• Li Shiming collected Jin Kai and Ren Xun’s Mustard Seed Rings and corpses, then prepared to deal with the cultivators aboard the Far Sailing Boat.