Chapter Summaries

Li Shiming healed Zhong Qiang and brought him back to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect after killing Zhao Lingyu and two Veiled Sun Sect cultivators. Zhong Qiang reunited with Great Cultivator Hu, learned that Li Shiming was the Sect's Number One Grandmaster Alchemist, and began his return to life at the sect.

• Li Shiming gave Zhong Qiang a Second Grade High Level Healing Spiritual Pill, repairing his hidden injuries and restoring his appearance.
• Li Shiming killed two pursuing Veiled Sun Sect Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivators with Fourth Grade Puppets, then told Zhong Qiang that Zhao Lingyu was dead and showed him Zhao Lingyu's corpse.
• Li Shiming brought Zhong Qiang back to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect and reunited him with Great Cultivator Hu.
• Great Cultivator Hu comforted Zhong Qiang and learned that Li Shiming had avenged him by killing Zhao Lingyu.
• Great Cultivator Hu told Zhong Qiang that Li Shiming was the Sect's Number One Grandmaster Alchemist, and then called him the Eastern Qi Continent's Number One Grandmaster Alchemist.

Li Shiming arranged for Zhong Qiang to stay in his Cave Dwelling and supplied him with high-grade Spirit Pills to aid his cultivation. Meanwhile, Li Yuanba joined Yun Xiao’s squad on a mission to eliminate the Flower Butterfly Sect, leaving with the squad after they discussed its strength and their battle plan.

• Great Cultivator Hu asked Li Shiming to house Zhong Qiang and provide Spirit Pills, and Li Shiming agreed to cover the costs himself.
• Li Shiming made Zhong Qiang a room in his Cave Dwelling and gave him second-grade high-level Spirit Pills for cultivation.
• Li Yuanba ended his seclusion with a sharpened sword intent and a Fourth Grade Top-tier Form Intention Sword, then went to the affairs Cave Dwelling to seek a mission.
• Yun Xiao invited Li Yuanba to join his squad’s mission to eliminate the Flower Butterfly Sect, and Li Yuanba accepted.
• Yun Xiao introduced Li Yuanba to Yan Gan, Du Lei, Guo Ping, and Zhuo Xuan, and the squad set out aboard a Fourth Grade Flying Boat.
• Yun Xiao outlined the Flower Butterfly Sect’s eight exposed Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivators and assigned Guo Ping to help Li Yuanba learn the squad’s formation.

Li Yuanba joined Yun Xiao’s squad in a surprise raid on Flower Butterfly Sect, where his formation skills and Ten Thousand Swords Peak helped the sword cultivators wipe out the sect’s Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators. After the swift victory, the squad prepared to collect the spoils, and Yun Xiao learned that Li Yuanba’s unusual Magical Treasure still needed many Fourth Grade Flying Swords to reach its full power.

• Yun Xiao led the concealed squad to Flower Butterfly Sect and let Li Yuanba open a passage through its Sect Protecting Grand Formation.
• Li Yuanba used Ten Thousand Swords Unleashed to break the formations over eight peaks and launch a sudden attack on the Nascent Soul cultivators’ Cave Dwellings.
• Li Yuanba’s flying swords killed four Nascent Soul cultivators before they could respond, while Yun Xiao and the other sword cultivators killed the remaining four as they fled.
• Yun Xiao ordered the squad to kill Flower Butterfly Sect’s Golden Core cultivators, and Li Yuanba’s ten thousand flying swords helped clear the sky of them.
• Li Yuanba recalled the flying swords into Ten Thousand Swords Peak and explained that the Magical Treasure needed many Fourth Grade Flying Swords to reach its full power.

After Li Yuanba helped Yun Xiao’s team destroy Flower Butterfly Sect, he received his share of the spoils and learned that battle improved his sword intent. Meanwhile, Zhong Qiang advanced to the Golden Core Stage with Li Shiming’s help, then revealed that Zhao Lingyu had betrayed him over a treasure map leading to a Half-Step Rule Blessed Land Core.

• Yun Xiao’s Nascent Soul Sword Cultivators stripped Flower Butterfly Sect of its resources, and Yun Xiao gave Li Yuanba his share and welcomed him into the team.
• Li Yuanba returned to his Cave Dwelling, received Contribution Points, and found that the battle had slightly improved his sword intent.
• Li Shiming supplied Zhong Qiang with spirit pills, and Zhong Qiang reached the Golden Core Initial Stage after half a year of cultivation.
• Li Shiming gave Zhong Qiang thirty Jade Bottles of Third Grade Spirit Pills, and Zhong Qiang began recounting how Zhao Lingyu had left him with only his Nascent Soul a century earlier.
• Zhong Qiang explained that Zhao Lingyu had betrayed him over Great Power Qiu Heng’s treasure map, which led to a Half-Step Rule Blessed Land Core capable of helping Nascent Soul cultivators become great cultivators.

Li Shiming cautiously opened Zhao Lingyu’s Soul Crystal Ring inside the Four Elephants Blessed Land and discovered its hidden Soul Chasing Hatred Talisman, a hoard of treasures, and a radiation-emitting Hell Aversion Crystal weapon. The chapter ended with Li Shiming weighing whether to claim the dangerous demonic treasure.

• Zhong Qiang asked whether Zhao Lingyu’s Mustard Seed Ring had fallen into Li Shiming’s hands and told him to check for a damaged jade map.
• Li Shiming recognized the ring’s ownership inside the Four Elephants Blessed Land, and he destroyed the Soul Chasing Hatred Talisman before it could report his identity.
• Li Shiming explored the Soul Crystal Ring and found numerous Fourth Grade Magical Treasures, two flying boats, a damaged jade map, and Zhong Qiang’s Golden Copper Armor Shield, which he returned to Zhong Qiang.
• Li Shiming discovered that a medium-sized Fourth Grade Mid-Rank flying boat still bore a powerful spirit mark he could not remove.
• Li Shiming opened the Jade Box beside the damaged map and found a sword-shaped weapon forged from radioactive Hell Aversion Crystal, then hesitated over recognizing ownership of it.

Li Shiming received the location of the other half of the treasure map from Zhong Qiang, then safely claimed the radiation-emitting Town Prison Demon Sword and brought Great Cultivator Hu a flying boat taken from Zhao Lingyu. The boat proved to be Great Cultivator Ba’s Azure Treasure Boat, and Great Cultivator Ba realized that his disciple and ceremonial vessel were missing.

• Zhong Qiang gave Li Shiming the location of the other half of the damaged jade map and entrusted him with pursuing Great Power Qiu Heng’s treasure.
• Li Shiming used a radiation suit to claim the Town Prison Demon Sword, learned its properties, and sealed the radiation-contaminated temporary cave mansion.
• Great Cultivator Hu and Yue Shan thanked Li Shiming for helping Zhong Qiang, and Li Shiming asked Great Cultivator Hu to remove the spirit mark from a flying boat.
• Great Cultivator Hu identified the boat as Great Cultivator Ba’s ceremonial vessel and erased its spirit mark, causing Great Cultivator Ba to sense its loss and suspect that Zhao Lingyu was in trouble.
• Li Shiming identified the boat as the Azure Treasure Boat and learned that it could travel ten thousand miles in a breath or transform into a palace; Great Cultivator Hu advised him to keep it hidden.

Li Shiming investigated Jian Wuwei’s disappearance and learned that he had contacted the Fish Soaring Merchant Guild, then set out to retrieve the other half of Zhong Qiang’s map. He recovered a missing Silver Wing Spirit Gu Insect and joined the map pieces, discovering that Qiu Hengyi’s treasure was in Central Continent.

• Li Shiming received an Intelligence Department report that Jian Wuwei had contacted the Fish Soaring Merchant Guild before vanishing from the Eastern Qi Continent.
• After Great Cultivator Hu confirmed that Great Cultivator Ba had not traced Zhao Lingyu’s disappearance to him, Li Shiming left the sect to retrieve Zhong Qiang’s half of the map.
• Li Shiming followed his Silver Wing Spirit Gu Insect to an island, where it fought another Silver Wing Spirit Gu Insect that had made the island its home.
• Li Shiming subdued the weakened insect with Devil Enters the Ear and stored it in the Gu Wind Bag.
• Li Shiming found the jade map hidden in a damaged rock and joined it with the other half to form a complete Jade Token.
• Li Shiming learned that Qiu Hengyi’s treasure was in Central Continent and decided he would have to travel there.

Li Shiming infiltrated Fish Soaring Merchant Guild Headquarters to investigate Jian Wuwei’s disappearance and discovered that the guild was secretly using demonic methods to drain captured cultivators. He found Jian Wuwei among the prisoners and intervened, but concealed his identity before confronting the guild’s captors.

• Li Shiming entered Fish Soaring Merchant Guild Headquarters unseen and discovered that its grand formation included cruel Demon Sect methods.
• After monitoring the headquarters, Li Shiming followed Chang Chi into a hidden underground chamber, where forty-three Golden Core cultivators were being drained for their energy.
• Li Shiming discovered Jian Wuwei and five other Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivators bound in a second chamber and being drained through a spirit gourd.
• The Phantom Spirit Dragon bit Chang Chi’s Nascent Soul with its deadly poison, stopping him from absorbing the Nascent Soul Blood.
• Li Shiming hid his Sword Intent Soaring Art aura and wore a mask rather than reveal his identity to Jian Wuwei.

Li Shiming rescued Jian Wuwei and five other Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivators from the Fish Soaring Merchant Guild Headquarters’ underground prison, then prepared to fight his way out with them. After he brought them through the final barrier, the headquarters’ grand array detected their presence and alerted its cultivators.

• Li Shiming found forty-three Golden Core cultivators whose souls had been erased and promised to avenge them, then studied the formations holding the six Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivators.
• Li Shiming disabled the formations and removed the twenty-four Needle-shaped Demonic Treasures imprisoning Jian Wuwei, then freed the other five cultivators.
• Li Shiming gave the six Fourth Grade Healing Spiritual Pills, and they recovered enough to fly while he claimed the Blood Light Spirit Gourd.
• Jian Wuwei asked Li Shiming to release the forty-three Golden Core cultivators, and Li Shiming killed them with lightning after explaining they could only survive as Living Dead.
• Li Shiming prepared thirty Thundercloud Spells and led the six cultivators through the final barrier, triggering an alert across the headquarters.
• The Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator detected the six cultivators’ auras near the underground entrance and realized the Nascent Soul Furnaces had escaped.

Li Shiming attacked Fish Soaring Merchant Guild Headquarters with thirty Thundercloud Spells to avenge Jian Wuwei, then defeated the guild’s Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator. He trapped and destroyed the cultivator’s escaping Nascent Soul, and took the dead cultivator’s Mustard Seed Ring.

• Li Shiming unleashed thirty Thundercloud Spells over Fish Soaring Merchant Guild Headquarters, killing its two Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivators and devastating the headquarters.
• The Fish Soaring Merchant Guild’s Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator formed a Nascent Soul Avatar and attacked Li Shiming, but Li Shiming’s Traceless Illusion Sword pierced it.
• Li Shiming struck the Nascent Soul Avatar with a Thunder Strike Spell, forcing the cultivator’s Nascent Soul to escape using a jade talisman.
• Li Shiming used Close In Distance, Far In Horizon and the Sky Strike Thunder Hammer to intercept and destroy the fleeing Nascent Soul.
• Li Shiming collected the cultivator’s Fourth Grade Mid-Rank Natal Magical Treasure and took the Mustard Seed Ring from his corpse.

Li Shiming salvaged what he could from the Fish Soaring Merchant Guild headquarters, gave the rescued cultivators compensation, and parted ways with them. Jian Wuwei headed toward the Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion, where Li Yuanba learned his master had been rescued and offered to refine pills for his squad.

• Li Shiming gathered Fourth Grade treasures and usable formation materials, took the headquarters’ Spiritual Vein, and gave a Fourth Grade Magical Treasure to each of five cultivators who had lost their Natal Magical Treasures.
• Li Shiming gave Jian Wuwei the Mustard Seed Ring of the defeated Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator, then parted from the six rescued cultivators.
• Five cultivators swore a Blood Oath to seek revenge on the Fish Soaring Merchant Guild, while Jian Wuwei left separately and used the ring’s Fourth Grade flying boat to travel.
• Li Yuanba learned that Li Shiming had rescued his master, Jian Wuwei, while completing a task with Yun Xiao’s squad.
• Yun Xiao’s squad gave Li Yuanba Fourth Grade Flying Swords for their members to nurture with sword intent, strengthening his Ten Thousand Swords Peak.
• Li Yuanba offered to refine his teammates’ spirit medicines, and Du Lei gave him seven Fourth Grade Spirit Medicines to test his alchemy skills.

Li Yuanba impressed his fellow Nascent Soul Sword Cultivators with his alchemy and began refining pills in exchange for fourth-grade flying swords. Meanwhile, Li Shiming accepted an invitation from Great Cultivator Liu Ziyun to become a Guest Elder of the Central Continent Merchant Guild.

• Li Yuanba showed Du Lei and the squad his fourth-grade pills, and the sword cultivators arranged for him to refine their spirit medicine in exchange for fourth-grade flying swords containing sword intent.
• Li Yuanba began refining pills and replenished his Six Yang Spiritual Fire by entering his golden corpse state inside a Refining Corpse Grand Formation.
• Great Cultivator Hu introduced Li Shiming to Great Cultivator Liu Ziyun, who gave him a rough blank of a fourth-grade top-tier mountain-peak magical treasure.
• Great Cultivator Liu Ziyun invited Li Shiming to become a Guest Elder of the Central Continent Merchant Guild and explained its duties and benefits.
• After confirming the appointment would not affect his sect, Li Shiming accepted and received a Guest Elder Jade Disc.

Great Cultivator Hu warned Li Shiming that joining the powerful but controversial Central Continent Merchant Guild could expose him to dangerous conflicts, then explained that he had accepted the arrangement to repay a favor to Great Cultivator Liu Ziyun. Li Shiming accepted five years of alchemy work and received materials and resources from his assigned specialist, Xin Jingyun, who remained unsure of his unusual abilities.

• Great Cultivator Hu told Li Shiming he had reservations about his joining the Central Continent Merchant Guild, explaining that its powerful enemies could bring immense trouble and that he had arranged it to repay Great Cultivator Liu Ziyun.
• Li Shiming studied the Fourth Grade Top Tier Mountain Peak Magical Treasure and assigned IBMz15 to research how to perfect it.
• Li Shiming used the Guest Elder Jade Disc to accept five great cultivator Fourth Grade Spiritual Pill missions from the Eastern Qi Continent.
• Xin Jingyun collected the five sets of Alchemy Materials, visited Li Shiming, and agreed to help obtain the miscellaneous items on his list.
• Li Shiming told Xin Jingyun he would finish the five missions in about one hundred and twenty days, and she delivered his five-year allocation of spiritual resources and talismans.

During half a year of alchemy work, Li Yuanba gathered more fourth-grade flying swords for Ten Thousand Swords Peak while Li Shiming completed missions for the Central Continent Merchant Guild and gained fame among Eastern Qi Continent’s great cultivators. Li Shiming finished his latest delivery to Xin Jingyun and arranged to rest, while Xin Jingyun left with rare Fourth Grade Spirit Tea.

• Li Yuanba spent most of the half year refining Nascent Soul Early Stage Fourth Grade Spiritual Pills for sword cultivators, accepting payment only in fourth-grade flying swords infused with sword intent.
• Li Yuanba used the Flying Sword Object Transmission Secret Art to receive a flying sword and fused it into Ten Thousand Swords Peak, bringing its collection of such swords to forty-five.
• Li Shiming’s alchemy missions earned him renown among Eastern Qi Continent’s great cultivators, and his Guest Elder status with the Central Continent Merchant Guild protected him from open challenges.
• Li Shiming gave Xin Jingyun the refined pills and said he planned to rest for several years, while agreeing to assist with urgent missions when he was not in seclusion.
• Xin Jingyun delivered Li Shiming’s requested research materials, and he thanked her with ten leaves of his prized Fourth Grade Spirit Tea.

Li Shiming learned that Jian Wuwei had been wounded and pursued by Eagle Pavilion Stronghold, then saved him from the rogue cultivators with long-range attacks. Jian Wuwei accepted Li Shiming’s help and agreed to travel to the Central Continent, where he would deliver a Storage Bag to Li Yuanba.

• The Intelligence Department informed Li Shiming that Jian Wuwei was being hunted by fifteen Nascent Soul cultivators from Eagle Pavilion Stronghold, so Li Shiming set out to help him.
• Jian Wuwei fled while injured and depleted, refusing to use his Communication Token to ask Li Shiming for help.
• Li Shiming secretly attacked the pursuers with Fourth Grade Top Tier Cone Magical Treasures, killing twelve of them and driving the remaining three away.
• Li Shiming appeared before Jian Wuwei, gave him a healing Spiritual Pill, and explained how the Intelligence Department had tracked his situation.
• Jian Wuwei told Li Shiming he needed to reach the Central Continent, and Li Shiming offered to arrange passage on a Far Sailing Boat.
• Li Shiming gave Jian Wuwei a Storage Bag for Li Yuanba, and Jian Wuwei resolved to repay Li Shiming for saving his life twice.

Li Shiming sent the injured Jian Wuwei back toward the Central Continent aboard the Central Continent Merchant Guild’s Far Sailing Boat, then returned to his cultivation. Little Phoenix began its breakthrough to the fourth grade, survived two heavenly bolts, and was struck by a devastating final bolt that scattered its flames before it reappeared.

• Li Shiming arranged for Xin Jingyun to have the Far Sailing Boat return for Jian Wuwei, gave him three healing pills, and watched him depart for the Central Continent.
• Li Shiming returned to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect and continued refining pills and cultivating until he sensed Little Phoenix was about to break through.
• Li Shiming took Little Phoenix to Tribulation Transcendence Mountain, where it formed a Fourth Grade Demon Core and gained a single Flame Rune.
• Little Phoenix used flames to weaken the first two bolts of Heavenly Thunder, but Li Shiming realized he could not support it with his Thunder Method during the final strike.
• The final bolt hit Little Phoenix and scattered its transformed flames, but a small Crimson Gold Phoenix appeared among them and drew the flames back toward itself.

Little Phoenix survived her heavenly tribulation and advanced to Fourth Grade, making Li Shiming’s Crimson Gold Phoenix impossible to keep secret. As Li Shiming celebrated with his fellow disciples, he recognized the danger that the Phoenix’s growing reputation would bring.

• Little Phoenix survived the final bolt of Heavenly Thunder, received the Heaven and Earth Reward, and advanced to Fourth Grade Early Stage.
• Great Cultivator Hu warned Li Shiming that the tribulation’s commotion had exposed Little Phoenix, and Li Shiming took her back to his Cave Dwelling to inspect her Nirvana Flame abilities.
• Li Shiming gave Little Phoenix a Space Ring filled with Spirit Beast Yuan Increase Pills, then welcomed Zhong Qiang, Yue Shan, and Lu Heng, who congratulated him and presented Little Phoenix with a flower crown.
• Zhong Qiang advised Li Shiming to guard his whereabouts, while the group discussed the dangers Little Phoenix’s bloodline and Phoenix Cry posed to her and her master.
• Li Shiming and his fellow disciples shared stories and strengthened their bonds as news of the Crimson Gold Phoenix spread throughout the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect.

Jian Wuwei returned to the Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion and reunited with his grandfather, Sword Elder, who learned of his injuries and promised to protect Li Yuanba. Sword Elder met Li Yuanba, delivered the flying swords sent by Grandmaster Li Shizhen, and gave him a token of support.

• Jian Wuwei passed through the Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion's barrier and reunited tearfully with his grandfather, Sword Elder.
• Jian Wuwei explained how his father had sacrificed himself to send him to the Northern Shu Continent, and Sword Elder learned that Jian Wuwei's foundation was depleted.
• Sword Elder sent Jian Wuwei to recover in his old Cave Dwelling and agreed to look after Li Yuanba, then went to meet him.
• Li Yuanba attacked when Sword Elder appeared beside him, but Sword Elder stopped his weapons and escape technique effortlessly.
• Sword Elder gave Li Yuanba the Storage Bag of flying swords from Grandmaster Li Shizhen and a token granting him access to Sword Elder's help.

Li Yuanba upgraded Ten Thousand Swords Peak with five Fourth Grade Top Artifact Tribulation Flying Swords infused with Sword Elder’s Shattering Void Sword Intent, triggering an Artifact Tribulation. He faced the first two strikes as Sword Elder and the Yun Xiao Squad watched, and the second thunderbolt’s remaining force struck toward him.

• Sword Elder borrowed Li Yuanba’s five Fourth Grade Top Artifact Tribulation Flying Swords, infused them with Shattering Void Sword Intent, and returned them.
• Li Yuanba replaced the five core Flowing Light Starfall swords in Ten Thousand Swords Peak with the upgraded flying swords, triggering a Heavenly Tribulation.
• Li Yuanba moved outside his Cave Dwelling as Thunder Cloud gathered, and nearby sword cultivators and the Yun Xiao Squad watched from a distance.
• Li Yuanba unleashed Ten Thousand Swords Peak’s flying swords to meet the first Heavenly Thunder, which damaged many swords but was ultimately repelled.
• The second Heavenly Thunder overwhelmed most of the hundred Fourth Grade Flying Swords, and its remaining force struck toward Li Yuanba as he countered with his Fourth Grade Form Intention Sword and Supreme Yang Sword Intent.

Li Yuanba used his sword intents and the Five Fourth Grade Top Artifact Tribulation Flying Swords to protect Ten Thousand Swords Peak through its artifact tribulation. Afterward, he comprehended Shattering Void Sword Intent and began cultivating it as his second sword intent.

• Li Yuanba deployed his Nascent Soul Avatar and multiple sword defenses to withstand the final bolt of heavenly lightning, preserving Ten Thousand Swords Peak as it became an Artifact Tribulation Magical Treasure.
• Sword Elder told Li Yuanba to return and comprehend what he had witnessed, then vanished; Yun Xiao and the other team members watched Li Yuanba leave, eager to speak with him later.
• Li Yuanba recovered in his Cave Dwelling while observing the Shattering Void Sword Intent within the Five Fourth Grade Top Artifact Tribulation Flying Swords and studying it with help from IBMz15.
• After forty days of seclusion, Li Yuanba condensed his own initial Shattering Void Sword Intent and recognized it as his second sword intent, compatible with the Sword Intent Soaring Art.
• Li Yuanba saw a sprout of Shattering Void Sword Intent form within the Cultivation Technique Rune Short Sword in his Nascent Soul.