Chapter Summaries

Li Shiming claimed the Far Sailing Boat and a trove of resources after killing the Heavenly Travel Merchant Guild cultivators, then returned to Ten Thousand Beasts Sect with Jin Kai’s Fourth Grade Mystic Armor Puppet. He studied the puppet and spent three months building it a powerful Railgun, whose true combat effectiveness remained untested.

• Li Shiming seized the Far Sailing Boat, its navigation records, and Jin Kai’s possessions, including a comprehensive map of routes between the continents and a damaged Fourth Grade Mystic Armor Puppet.
• Li Shiming left the Spirit Beast Tide defensive line and returned to Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, where he began dismantling and studying the puppet.
• Li Shiming combined the Puppet Mechanism Art, artifact refining, and technology from his past life to design a Railgun powered by the puppet’s energy source.
• After three months, Li Shiming completed a Fourth Grade Railgun and a reusable cone-shaped projectile, and his tests showed the weapon could pierce a Nascent Soul cultivator’s defenses.

After finishing a large batch of Fourth Grade Spiritual Pills, Li Shiming discovered that Ren Xun’s ring held a radioactive Hell Aversion Crystal and learned its dangerous origin from Great Cultivator Hu. He then traveled with Feng Lanxin to the Tai Chu Sect’s hundred-year exchange gathering, where Shui Miao welcomed them.

• Li Shiming found a Fourth Grade Uranium Ore in Ren Xun’s Mustard Seed Ring and sealed it after feeling its radiation penetrate his defenses.
• Great Cultivator Hu identified the ore as Hell Aversion Crystal, explained that it came from the dangerous Hell Island, and gave Li Shiming an invitation to the Tai Chu Sect’s exchange gathering.
• Great Cultivator Hu told Li Shiming that the Gu Wind Sect had attacked the Spirit Beast Tide, and warned him to stay out of the conflict.
• Li Shiming and Feng Lanxin traveled toward the Tai Chu Sect and discussed its sermons, trade fairs, and auction.
• Shui Miao welcomed Li Shiming and Feng Lanxin when they entered the Tai Chu Sect’s controlled region.

Li Shiming attended Great Cultivator Qi’s lecture on heaven, yin and yang, and the Five Elements at the Tai Chu Sect. As the other listeners fell behind, Li Shiming remained the sole cultivator able to follow, and Great Cultivator Qi’s lecture continued to deepen.

• Shui Miao and Feng Lanxin discussed the Youthful Countenance Pill before Mi Yi approached and flirted with Li Shiming, prompting Feng Lanxin and Shui Miao to warn him away from her.
• Shui Miao led Feng Lanxin and Li Shiming into the Tai Chu Sect’s great hall, where they joined nearly a hundred Nascent Soul cultivators awaiting Great Cultivator Qi.
• Great Cultivator Qi lectured on heaven and earth, yin and yang, and the Five Elements, while Li Shiming and IBMz15 recorded and analyzed the lecture.
• As the lecture grew more profound, the other cultivators could no longer keep up, leaving Li Shiming as the only listener still following Great Cultivator Qi’s insights.

Li Shiming entered an epiphany during Great Cultivator Qi’s lecture, rapidly increasing the Spiritual Power of his five Nascent Souls and earning a Communication Token from the great cultivator. After settling into temporary lodgings with Feng Lanxin and Shui Miao, he discussed the gathering’s upcoming activities and his possible participation.

• Li Shiming’s Five Elements Runes absorbed Great Cultivator Qi’s insights and energy during the lecture, raising his Spiritual Power to more than two-thirds of the Nascent Soul Early Stage.
• Great Cultivator Qi ended the lecture after exhausting his insights, then gave Li Shiming a Communication Token that could summon his aid once.
• Shui Miao led Li Shiming and Feng Lanxin to their neighboring Temporary Cave Mansions, where Feng Lanxin remarked on Li Shiming’s gains.
• Li Shiming brewed Spirit Tea for Feng Lanxin and Shui Miao, who were impressed by its taste and rarity.
• Shui Miao described the grand gathering’s competitions, and Feng Lanxin suggested Li Shiming’s Spirit Beast could enter the duels.
• Feng Lanxin revealed that Li Shiming was a Grandmaster Alchemist, surprising Shui Miao.

Li Shiming entered the alchemy competition after learning its champion would receive Profound Yin Nether Fire, hoping to claim it for his Yin-aligned clone, Li Yuanba. After Feng Lanxin won the spirit pet bout, Grandmaster Yu judged Li Shiming’s pills and concluded that he had won the alchemy competition.

• Li Shiming accepted Shui Miao’s five batches of Spiritual Herbs and began refining them in his Server Room Space.
• Feng Lanxin told Li Shiming that she had entered the spirit pet bout, and her Phoenix Faction spirit pet later defeated Yuan Xun’s to take the championship.
• Li Shiming learned that the alchemy competition’s prize was Profound Yin Nether Fire, registered under the name Li Shizhen, and refined three Fourth Grade Intermediate Stage Spiritual Pills.
• Li Shiming returned to watch the contests, where Feng Lanxin received a Fourth Grade Spiritual Pill as her spirit pet bout prize.
• Grandmaster Yu examined Li Shizhen’s pills, recognized their exceptional quality, and determined that Li Shizhen had won the alchemy competition.

Li Shiming collected the Profound Yin Nether Fire after winning the alchemy competition, then found that a lesser sermon could not deepen his Five Elements Dao after Great Cultivator Qi’s teaching. He arranged to attend the main auction, where Mi Yi and Mu Jing confronted him before Feng Lanxin stepped in to protect him.

• Li Shiming collected his Spirit Pills and the Profound Yin Nether Fire from Grandmaster Yu, then decided to send the fire to Clone Li Yuanba.
• Li Shiming failed to benefit from a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator’s sermon and gave Shui Miao ten Fourth Grade Spiritual Pills.
• Shui Miao invited Li Shiming to the auctions and gave him their catalog, and he chose to attend the main auction.
• Li Shiming encountered Mi Yi and the hostile Mu Jing at the auction venue, but Yuan Xun intervened when Mu Jing provoked him.
• Feng Lanxin arrived with Shui Miao and placed herself between Mi Yi and Li Shiming.

Li Shiming attended an auction, traded Fourth Grade Spiritual Pills for formation materials, and failed to win the top-tier artifact-refining materials he wanted. He then joined a gathering of Grandmaster Alchemists, where he learned that the Tai Chu Treasure Cauldron remained masterless because its Artifact Spirit had approved no one.

• Li Shiming used ten Fourth Grade Spiritual Pills to win ten sections of Golden Bone Spirit Bamboo and bought other Fourth Grade formation and puppet materials.
• Li Shiming lost the Dragon Sand Secret Crystal and other top-tier materials to bidders in private rooms, then learned from Feng Lanxin that he could obtain such materials through sect Contribution Points.
• Li Shiming attended an internal gathering of Grandmaster Alchemists and was introduced to nine Grandmasters, including Jiang Hong, Xie Lang, and Yu.
• Grandmaster Yu explained that no Grandmaster Alchemist had earned the approval of the Artifact Spirit inside the Tai Chu Treasure Cauldron.

Li Shiming passed the Tai Chu Treasure Cauldron's hundred-question test and made the artifact acknowledge him as its master, astonishing the gathered Grandmaster Alchemists. Back at his temporary cave mansion, he let the Artifact Spirit control his Crimson Sun Spiritual Fire, and it successfully refined a furnace of high-grade Third Grade Spirit Pills.

• Li Shiming answered the Tai Chu Treasure Cauldron Artifact Spirit's increasingly difficult alchemy questions with help from IBMz15, while the gathered Grandmaster Alchemists speculated about how many Checkpoints he could pass.
• The Artifact Spirit accepted Li Shiming as its master and shared its extensive alchemy knowledge with him; Li Shiming learned that it had accumulated knowledge from generations of Grandmaster Alchemists.
• Li Shiming shrank the Tai Chu Treasure Cauldron into a small pill furnace, and Grandmaster Yu confirmed that the Tai Chu Sect would let him keep it.
• Li Shiming told the Grandmaster Alchemists that the Artifact Spirit had asked one hundred questions, then answered their questions without revealing his deeper Alchemy Inheritance.
• At his temporary cave mansion, Li Shiming gave the Artifact Spirit control of the Crimson Sun Spiritual Fire and Third Grade Spirit Pill materials, and it refined high-grade Third Grade Spirit Pills.

Li Shiming tested the Tai Chu Treasure Cauldron’s alchemy prowess, then left the Tai Chu Sect’s gathering to attend to other matters. After Mi Yi tracked him down to discuss a pill-refining arrangement, Mu Jing ambushed him with a concealed Fourth Grade Nether Ghost, which the Heavenly Ghost devoured.

• Li Shiming had the Tai Chu Treasure Cauldron refine a high-grade Fourth Grade Spiritual Pill and considered eventually letting Clone Li Yuanba use it.
• Li Shiming told Feng Lanxin and Shui Miao he was leaving, declined Feng Lanxin’s offer to escort him, and departed the Tai Chu Sect’s territory.
• Mi Yi tracked Li Shiming with a Thousand Mile Spirit Sensing Disk and proposed paying him with Fourth Grade Puppet mechanism materials to refine pills; Li Shiming agreed to discuss it later.
• Li Shiming detected a locking aura and encountered Mu Jing, who angrily asked whether he had met with Mi Yi.
• Li Shiming summoned the Heavenly Ghost, which detected and swallowed Mu Jing’s concealed Fourth Grade Nether Ghost, breaking their spiritual Contract.

Li Shiming escaped Mu Jing’s ambush and returned to his hidden Cave Dwelling, where he helped Li Yuanba refine the Profound Yin Nether Fire. A Ten Thousand Beasts Sect distress signal then drew him into a battle with Xiong Long of the Gu Wind Sect, and the chapter ended as Li Shiming told the injured Senior Brother Song to leave.

• Mu Jing fled after sensing the backlash from the Fourth Grade Nether Ghost’s death, but Li Shiming’s Railgun struck him and forced him to escape using a life-saving secret technique and Blood Escape.
• Li Shiming concealed himself and returned to the secret Cave Dwelling, where Li Yuanba refined the Profound Yin Nether Fire and advanced it to third grade.
• Li Shiming received a request for help from a Ten Thousand Beasts Sect cultivator and flew to aid Senior Brother Song, who was being pursued by Xiong Long of the Gu Wind Sect.
• Li Shiming attacked Xiong Long with Heavenly Thunder, surprising him, while Senior Brother Song offered to help.
• Li Shiming told the injured Senior Brother Song to leave as he prepared to face Xiong Long alone.

Li Shiming used lightning and spirit attacks to suppress Xiong Long and turn his Three Gold Dung Beetle Spirit Insects into prey for Little Phoenix. The battle remained unresolved, but Xiong Long could no longer control his insects as they were eaten one by one.

• Li Shiming’s Wood Thunder Nascent Soul Avatar repeatedly struck Xiong Long with Lightning Spells, slowing him and keeping him from counterattacking.
• Xiong Long raised the Thick Earth Hammer to defend himself and sent four formations of Three Gold Dung Beetle Spirit Insects to attack Li Shiming.
• Li Shiming used the Thundercloud Spell to attack the insects, then cast Devil Enters the Ear and the Human Path Reincarnation Art to disrupt their formation and trap most of them in a spiritual illusion.
• Li Shiming released Little Phoenix, which pecked apart and devoured the trapped Three Gold Dung Beetle Spirit Insects, growing stronger as it ate.
• Xiong Long tried to command his insects but could not reach or awaken them, while their spiritual Contracts were severed as they died.

Little Phoenix devoured thousands of Three Gold Dung Beetle Spirit Insects and advanced to become a Third Grade Great Demon, forcing Li Shiming to fight Xiong Long with his golden corpses. Xiong Long escaped using a great cultivator’s jade talisman, while Little Phoenix endured its heavenly tribulation and remained unharmed.

• Little Phoenix burned and swallowed the Three Gold Dung Beetle Spirit Insects until it advanced to the third grade and began attracting heavenly tribulation.
• Li Shiming ordered Golden Corpse Black Shield and Golden Corpse Nan Ming to attack Xiong Long, whose Nascent Soul Avatar they battered with their special abilities.
• Xiong Long used a forbidden wide-area attack, but Golden Corpse Black Shield blocked it with the Delusion Resentment Underworld Art, and the golden corpses continued breaking down his avatar’s defenses.
• Xiong Long destroyed a jade talisman that released a great cultivator’s aura and fled, suppressing the golden corpses as he escaped.
• Little Phoenix refused Li Shiming’s help, flew into the heavenly thunder, and survived the strike with its feathers burned away.

Little Phoenix became a Crimson Gold Phoenix after surviving its tribulation, then devoured the Three Gold Dung Beetle Spirit Insects and advanced to the late Third Grade. Li Shiming returned to the sect amid escalating attacks by the Gu Wind Sect and entered seclusion while both sects intensified their conflict.

• Little Phoenix absorbed the Heaven and Earth Reward, grew golden Flame Feathers, and completed its transformation into a Crimson Gold Phoenix.
• Little Phoenix killed and devoured the trapped Three Gold Dung Beetle Spirit Insects, including four Fourth Grade insects, and advanced to the late stage of the Third Grade Great Demon realm.
• Li Shiming and Senior Brother Song encountered Deng Zhang, whose body had been destroyed in a Gu Wind Sect ambush, and escorted him back to the sect.
• Lu Heng told Li Shiming that Gu Wind Sect cultivators had attacked several Ten Thousand Beasts Sect cultivators, and Li Shiming confirmed that Song Tong and Deng Zhang were among the victims.
• Li Shiming sealed his mountain peak and entered seclusion, while Ten Thousand Beasts Sect retaliated against the Gu Wind Sect and the fighting shifted back toward the ocean.

Li Shiming was summoned from seclusion to join the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect’s war effort, where he was assigned to distribute recovery pills rather than fight. The sect’s overwhelming force destroyed the Gu Wind Sect’s base on Purple Leaf Island, and Li Shiming remained with the concealed fleet as he considered the scale of the war.

• Li Shiming received a War Order and flew to Great Cultivator Hu, who assigned him to support the campaign by distributing and, if needed, refining Spirit Pills.
• Great Cultivator Ding led the sect’s concealed force of War Flying Boats and Nascent Soul cultivators across the ocean to Purple Leaf Island.
• The Ten Thousand Beasts Sect attacked the Black Mist array’s energy nodes, broke the formation, and exposed Purple Leaf Island.
• Great Cultivator Ding ordered the force to wipe out the Gu Wind Sect cultivators, and the sect’s attacks quickly killed the island’s Nascent Soul and lower-level defenders.
• Li Shiming distributed recovery Spirit Pills to the depleted cultivators, then returned to Great Cultivator Hu and observed the Concealment Formation.

Li Shiming watched Great Cultivator Zhao return to Purple Leaf Island and saw him block a full-force strike from the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect cultivators. Great Cultivator Hu and Great Cultivator Ding confronted Zhao Qingfeng, whose twelve Silver Wing Spirit Gu Insects fought their spirit pets to a stalemate.

• Zhao Qingfeng sensed the Concealment Formation near Purple Leaf Island and saw the devastation left by the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect.
• Li Shiming and the other cultivators followed their combat order and launched a full-force attack, but Zhao Qingfeng blocked it before they retreated.
• Great Cultivator Hu and Great Cultivator Ding confronted Zhao Qingfeng and brought out their Crimson Gold Phoenix and Four-Clawed Dragon.
• Zhao Qingfeng released twelve Silver Wing Spirit Gu Insects, which split into groups to fight the two spirit pets.
• The Silver Wing Spirit Gu Insects endured the spirit pets' attacks and kept them at bay, leaving both sides deadlocked.

Great Cultivator Hu and Great Cultivator Ding severely injured Zhao Qingfeng, who escaped into the sea, and the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect launched a pursuit against Gu Wind Sect cultivators. As Li Shiming headed back, he spotted one of Zhao Qingfeng’s Silver Wing Spirit Gu Insects and sent a Crawler Robot to investigate the nearby mountain.

• Great Cultivator Hu and Great Cultivator Ding fused with their spirit pets and attacked Great Cultivator Zhao, whose Silver Wing Spirit Gu Insects blocked their strikes before his Nascent Soul Avatar shattered.
• Zhao Qingfeng escaped through the sea using his Silver Wing Spirit Gu Insects, leaving Great Cultivator Hu and Great Cultivator Ding to conclude that he was severely injured.
• Great Cultivator Ding doubled the mission rewards and announced a Pursuit Order against Gu Wind Sect cultivators, while Great Cultivator Hu told Li Shiming to return to the sect.
• Li Shiming replayed IBMz15’s recorded footage and identified a Silver Wing Spirit Gu Insect on a distant mountainside.
• Li Shiming stayed three hundred li from the mountain and sent a technology-based Crawler Robot there by drone.

Li Shiming used a purely technological drone and Crawler Robot to locate Great Cultivator Zhao hiding in a mountain cave, then attacked him from three hundred li away with a Railgun. After the first strike worsened Zhao’s existing injuries, Li Shiming fired again, while Zhao summoned two Silver Wing Spirit Gu Insects to defend himself.

• Li Shiming used ultrasonic scans from a Crawler Robot to map a hidden cave inside a mountain and found Great Cultivator Zhao recovering there.
• Great Cultivator Zhao avoided returning to the Gu Wind Sect because another great cultivator coveted his twelve Silver Wing Spirit Gu Insects, and his severe injuries left him with little combat strength.
• Li Shiming decided to attack Zhao himself and fired a Railgun from three hundred li away, sending a Fourth Grade Cone-Shaped Magical Treasure through the mountain and striking Zhao.
• The impact disrupted Zhao’s cultivation, triggered the energies within his existing wounds, and forced him to seal the spiritual power in his Nascent Soul.
• Li Shiming rescanned the cave and fired a second maximum-power Railgun shot, while Zhao summoned two Silver Wing Spirit Gu Insects to meet the attack.

Great Cultivator Zhao’s injuries worsened after Li Shiming’s railgun struck him again, and his Silver Wing Spirit Gu Insects went berserk and forced his Nascent Soul to flee. Li Shiming salvaged Zhao’s body and a Fourth Grade Spirit Locking Disk, then warned Great Cultivator Hu that the insects were hunting Zhao’s Nascent Soul.

• Li Shiming’s second railgun shot aggravated Great Cultivator Zhao’s injuries until he lost control of his Silver Wing Spirit Gu Insects.
• The berserk insects attacked Great Cultivator Zhao, who sent out his Nascent Soul to escape them.
• Li Shiming sent a Silver Corpse into Zhao’s cave mansion, then entered himself and stored Zhao’s original body and a Fourth Grade Spirit Locking Disk.
• Li Shiming realized the Silver Wing Spirit Gu Insects were pursuing Zhao’s Nascent Soul and chose not to approach them.
• Li Shiming informed Great Cultivator Hu, who told him to return to the sect and said he had already set out.

Li Shiming learned that Great Cultivator Zhao’s Nascent Soul had been devoured by Silver Wing Spirit Gu Insects and received Zhao’s natal magical treasure from Great Cultivator Hu. While searching Zhao’s preserved body and belongings, Li Shiming discovered ten dormant Silver Wing Spirit Gu Insects and several valuable treasures, including rare Traceless Illusion Gold.

• Great Cultivator Hu told Li Shiming that Great Cultivator Zhao’s Nascent Soul had been devoured by two Silver Wing Spirit Gu Insects, and promised him a reward for providing information.
• Great Cultivator Hu gave Li Shiming Zhao Qingfeng’s Fourth Grade Top Tier bamboo-whip magical treasure, and Li Shiming accepted it.
• Li Shiming searched Great Cultivator Zhao’s preserved body, claimed his Mustard Seed Ring, and found a Fourth Grade Top Tier Gu Wind Bag containing ten hibernating Silver Wing Spirit Gu Insects.
• Li Shiming decided not to contract the Silver Wing Spirit Gu Insects until he found a reliably effective Contract Secret Art.
• Li Shiming claimed Zhao’s Blue Crystal Cloud Piercing Boat and inspected the Fourth Grade materials in the Mustard Seed Ring.
• Li Shiming discovered Traceless Illusion Gold hidden in an apparently empty Jade Box and had IBMz15 begin researching how to refine it into a Flying Sword.

Li Shiming searched Great Cultivator Zhao’s Mustard Seed Ring and gained valuable Gu Wind Sect knowledge, pills, puppet materials, and magical treasures. He then claimed the damaged Water Dragon Daoist Robe and contracted one Silver Wing Spirit Gu Insect, learning that controlling it required great mental strength.

• Li Shiming found the Tuo Luo Insect Codex and Great Cultivator Zhao’s notes on raising and contracting Silver Wing Spirit Gu Insects.
• He used Golden Corpse Nan Ming to make six high-grade healing pills intended to treat Great Cultivator Zhao’s badly injured body.
• Li Shiming discovered enough fourth-grade puppet materials for three puppets and identified a Six Gates Ice Tower among Great Cultivator Zhao’s magical treasures.
• He claimed the damaged Water Dragon Daoist Robe, whose preserved Water Dragon Body Protection spell could withstand a great cultivator’s strike.
• Li Shiming used ten brains to contract one Silver Wing Spirit Gu Insect, then summoned it and needed twenty brains to control it comfortably.
• He learned the insect could act beyond his Divine Sense range when given a command, but would turn on him if his mental strength fell too low.