Chapter Summaries

Li Shiming traveled to a secret Cave Dwelling to strengthen Golden Corpse Nan Ming, refine new combat helpers, and consume Body Refinement Great Power Blood. After ten days of transformation, his body and cultivation talent had improved dramatically, leaving him better prepared to advance in the Great Cultivator Realm.

• Li Shiming set up a Refining Corpse Grand Formation and used Yin-Cold Energy and Fourth Grade Low Level refining-corpse materials to help Golden Corpse Nan Ming approach the Fourth Grade Mid-Rank.
• Li Shiming refined the Asura Puppet, equipped it with the Asura Drum, and gained another Nascent Soul Middle Stage combat helper.
• Li Shiming claimed the Nether Ghost Bracelet and gained control of the fourth-grade middle stage Nether Ghost inside it, while promising the Heavenly Ghost a different ghost to devour.
• Li Shiming entered the Heavenly Human Path's main hall and consumed a drop of Body Refinement Great Power Blood.
• After ten days, Li Shiming absorbed the blood's energy, greatly strengthening his body and raising his cultivation talent.

After absorbing Body Refinement Great Power Blood, Li Shiming discovered that his physical foundation and cultivation speed had improved, while Golden Corpse Nan Ming advanced to Golden Corpse Middle Stage. He continued his journey toward the Central Continent by sea, where a fleet of four Far Sailing Boats appeared and drew his wary attention.

• Li Shiming cultivated with all five Nascent Souls in Great Power Zhai Ge's Cave Heaven and found that his cultivation speed had greatly increased.
• Li Shiming discovered that Golden Corpse Nan Ming had advanced to Golden Corpse Middle Stage, with improved intelligence, spirituality, and speed.
• Li Shiming boarded the Blue Crystal Cloud Piercing Boat and traveled toward the Central Continent using a shipping route from his database.
• Li Shiming passed an inhabited cultivator island without stopping and continued across the ocean for more than three months.
• The Blue Crystal Cloud Piercing Boat detected a fleet of four Far Sailing Boats, and Li Shiming displayed the Central Continent Merchant Guild emblem as he watched them approach.

Huang Xi and three fellow Sea Cliff Sect cultivators tried to rob Li Shiming, believing his Central Continent Merchant Guild affiliation and Fourth Grade High Level Flying Boat promised great wealth. Li Shiming chose to fight them alone, unleashed the Samadhi Divine Wind, and killed one attacker with a single sword strike, leaving the other three surrounded by his divine ability.

• Huang Xi persuaded his three junior brothers to ambush Li Shiming and block his escape route.
• Li Shiming left the Blue Crystal Cloud Piercing Boat and decided to test his own strength against the four Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators without using his other weapons or allies.
• Li Shiming waited until the attackers came within ten thousand meters, then filled the area with his Samadhi Divine Wind divine ability, disrupting their Divine Sense and sense of direction.
• Li Shiming used Close In Distance, Far In Horizon to appear beside one disoriented cultivator and cut through his defenses with the Fourth Grade Sword Foundation.
• Li Shiming's Shattering Void Sword Intent destroyed the cultivator's Nascent Soul, killing him with one strike.

Li Shiming killed four Sea Cliff Sect Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators, seized their cargo, and sailed toward the Floating Splendor Archipelago with the four Far Sailing Boats. After arriving, he was targeted by greedy cultivators and swiftly attacked the first Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator who tried to stop him.

• Li Shiming used the Samadhi Divine Wind and Invisible Yuan Magnetism divine abilities to kill Huang Xi after Huang Xi's Golden Escape failed.
• Li Shiming expelled the Golden Core cultivators from the four Far Sailing Boats, seized their resources, and replaced the Sea Cliff Sect markings with the Central Continent Merchant Guild mark.
• Li Shiming sailed for five months with Golden Corpse Nan Ming and the Traceless Illusion Sword guarding the boats, then reached the Floating Splendor Archipelago.
• Cultivators in the archipelago watched the four cargo boats and waited for someone to test Li Shiming's strength.
• A rugged-faced Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator moved to block Li Shiming, who struck him with a flaming fist and set him ablaze.

Li Shiming deterred would-be attackers while transporting four Sea Cliff Sect Far Sailing Boats to a Central Continent Merchant Guild branch. He sold the boats and their cargo for 2,320,000 Contribution Points, then accepted Manager Ye Yan’s invitation to rest and learn about the Central Continent.

• Golden Corpse Nan Ming killed a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator, and Li Shiming drove the remaining attackers back with his Spirit Attack.
• Li Shiming contacted the Central Continent Merchant Guild and guided the four Far Sailing Boats to its Floating Splendor Archipelago Eastern District branch.
• Supervisor Ye Yan identified the boats as belonging to the Sea Cliff Sect and assured Li Shiming the guild could handle their sale.
• Manager Ye Yan’s staff inventoried the boats and cargo, and Li Shiming accepted 2,320,000 Contribution Points for them.
• Li Shiming accepted Manager Ye Yan’s invitation to rest at the branch and seek information about the Central Continent.

Li Yuanba emerged from seclusion at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and met Li Shiming, who reforged Li Yuanba’s Natal Flying Sword, the Fourth Grade Form Intention Sword. After Li Yuanba tested the strengthened sword against its Artifact Tribulation, the Thunder Cloud expanded under his repeated attacks, leaving him facing a far more dangerous Heavenly Thunder.

• Li Shiming left the Central Continent Merchant Guild branch, while Li Yuanba emerged from seclusion and received praise and advice from Sword Elder.
• Li Yuanba left the Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion and met Li Shiming on an Uninhabited Small Island, where he entrusted him with the Fourth Grade Form Intention Sword.
• Li Shiming spent ten days inscribing fifty million tiny formations onto the sword, greatly improving its speed and durability, then returned it to Li Yuanba.
• Li Yuanba used the strengthened sword and Shattering Void Sword Intent to cut apart the Thunder Cloud before its first two Heavenly Thunders could threaten him.
• The Thunder Cloud expanded a hundredfold in response to Li Yuanba’s attacks, so he brought out his Nascent Soul Avatar, pushed his Sword Body to its limit, and poured Spiritual Power into the sword.

Li Yuanba survived the Form Intention Sword’s artifact tribulation by exploiting weaknesses in the final Heavenly Thunder, and the sword gained a Speed Rule Mark and a newly born Sword Spirit. After exchanging supplies with Li Shiming and setting off, Li Yuanba spotted Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion Sword Cultivators fighting several thousand li away.

• Li Yuanba used the IBMz15 and the Form Intention Sword’s speed and Shattering Void Sword Intent to split apart the final Heavenly Thunder, surviving the strike and gaining insight into One Sword Breaks All Techniques.
• The Form Intention Sword absorbed a Speed Rule Mark and developed a Sword Spirit, which learned the Sword Nurturing Secret Technique and began nurturing the sword more effectively than Li Yuanba’s Nascent Soul.
• Li Yuanba returned to Li Shiming, who gave him high-grade Fourth Grade cultivation-assisting Spiritual Pills, a Soul Crystal Ring, and the Fourth Grade Water Dragon Daoist Robe; Li Yuanba returned the Golden Corpse Black Shield.
• Li Yuanba left to enter seclusion, while Li Shiming dismissed the Concealment Formation and headed toward the Central Continent.
• While traveling, Li Yuanba saw a battle several thousand li away and recognized Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion Sword Cultivators among the fighters.

Li Yuanba arrived to rescue Lu Wei from three White Emperor Sect cultivators and used his mastery of Invisible Yuan Magnetism to bypass their force field. He killed the leading attacker and struck down a second, leaving the last enemy facing him.

• Li Yuanba reached the battlefield and identified Lu Wei as a fellow Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion cultivator fighting three Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators from White Emperor Sect.
• Li Yuanba revealed the Jian Clan’s Sword Scar, prompting the three enemies to retreat briefly, but their leader resumed the fight after seeing Li Yuanba’s newly advanced realm.
• Li Yuanba used Sword Escape and Close In Distance, Far In Horizon to appear within the leader’s Invisible Yuan Magnetism force field and stab him with his Fourth Grade Sword Foundation.
• Li Yuanba killed the leader with Shattering Void Sword Intent and collected his corpse.
• Li Yuanba’s Form Intention Sword pierced the cultivator on the left before he could activate his defensive treasure.

Li Yuanba killed three White Emperor Sect Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators, including Core Disciple Bao Long, and traveled with Lu Wei back to the pavilion. While inspecting Bao Long’s spoils, Li Yuanba found the White Emperor Art and valuable mountain-treasure refining methods that could help improve Ten Thousand Swords Peak.

• Li Yuanba’s Form Intention Sword killed the remaining two White Emperor Sect cultivators after two had already fallen, leaving Lu Wei stunned and the last enemy terrified.
• Form Intention Sword pursued the last cultivator’s Nascent Soul and destroyed it, after which Li Yuanba collected the spoils without sharing them.
• Lu Wei thanked Li Yuanba, explained the enmity between the White Emperor Sect and sword cultivators, and traveled with him toward the pavilion aboard his flying boat.
• Li Yuanba searched Bao Long’s Soul Crystal Ring and claimed the Fourth Grade High Level White Jade Sky-Bearing Boat.
• Li Yuanba found a complete copy of the White Emperor Art and sent it to Main Body Li Shiming to study and record.
• Li Yuanba discovered Bao Long’s notes on refining mountain-type magical treasures, giving him useful knowledge for strengthening Ten Thousand Swords Peak.

Li Yuanba showed Sword Elder his strengthened Form Intention Sword and learned that it had reached the rare spiritual treasure level. After Sword Elder gave him a secret technique to conceal and nurture it, Li Yuanba hid its aura and discovered that its Sword Spirit also greatly improved his cultivation.

• Li Yuanba used the Form Intention Sword’s Speed Rule Mark to accelerate his Sword Escape and returned to his Cave Dwelling, where Sword Elder stopped him to ask about the sword.
• Li Yuanba invited Sword Elder inside, showed him the Form Intention Sword, and gave him thirty portions of Fourth Grade Spirit Tea.
• Sword Elder identified the Form Intention Sword as a spiritual treasure, explained how rare such treasures were, and gave Li Yuanba a secret technique to conceal and nurture it.
• Li Yuanba used IBMz15 to master the technique’s complex Rune Pattern and concealed the Form Intention Sword’s spiritual treasure aura.
• Li Yuanba suspected Sword Elder was a Mahayana Stage Cultivator, then began cultivating and found that the Form Intention Sword’s Sword Spirit accelerated his cultivation and purified his Spiritual Power.

Li Shiming began establishing a Drone Satellite System on Central Continent and headed toward Qiu Hengyi's Treasure, but changed course to visit the Central Continent Merchant Guild Headquarters. There, he was astonished by the Guild's vast high-grade Spirit Fields.

• Li Shiming launched ten upgraded drone satellites near Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion before flying toward Qiu Hengyi's Treasure.
• Li Shiming exchanged 320,000 Contribution Points for Thousand Thunder Tempering Gold to strengthen the Sky Strike Thunder Hammer.
• Li Shiming spent 1.2 million Contribution Points to access a broad selection of classics in the Central Continent Merchant Guild's Library Pavilion.
• Li Shiming changed course to visit the Central Continent Merchant Guild Headquarters and passed through its Cave Heaven barrier using his Guest Elder Jade Disc.
• Li Shiming saw the Guild's extensive Third and Fourth Grade Spirit Fields and realized how its resources could support many Nascent Soul cultivators.

Li Shiming explored the Central Continent Merchant Guild Headquarters, trading Fourth Grade Spiritual Pills for pill furnaces and refining materials before collecting the Thousand Thunder Tempering Gold. He reunited with Wang Changdong, who invited him to dine at Cloud Heaven Pavilion the next day.

• Li Shiming visited a shop and traded Fourth Grade Spiritual Pills for three Fourth Grade Pill Furnaces and two sets of pill furnace refining materials.
• Li Shiming entered the Treasure Pavilion and met Wang Changdong, who recognized him as the alchemist who had refined a Limb Regrowth Pill for him.
• Wang Changdong retrieved the Thousand Thunder Tempering Gold for Li Shiming from the Treasure Pavilion.
• Li Shiming examined the Thousand Thunder Tempering Gold and found it suitable for strengthening the Sky Strike Thunder Hammer.
• Wang Changdong invited Li Shiming to Cloud Heaven Pavilion at noon the next day, and Li Shiming agreed.

Li Shiming met Wang Changdong at Cloud Heaven Pavilion, where he discovered spirit meals and shared his exceptional Fourth Grade Spirit Tea with Wang Changdong and Meng You. The two great cultivators gave him Life-Preserving Jade Talismans in return, strengthening their ties with him.

• Li Shiming finished browsing classics at the Library Pavilion and went to Cloud Heaven Pavilion to meet Wang Changdong.
• Wang Changdong treated Li Shiming to spirit cuisine made from peak mid-stage Fourth Grade materials, and Li Shiming was astonished by its cultivation benefits.
• Meng You joined them, recognized Li Shiming as the renowned Eastern Qi Continent alchemy grandmaster, and invited him to drink spirit tea.
• Li Shiming revealed that he had stir-fried Cloud Heaven Pavilion's Fourth Grade Spirit Tea and brewed an even higher-quality pot for Wang Changdong and Meng You.
• Li Shiming gave each great cultivator a box of Fourth Grade Spirit Tea, and Meng You and Wang Changdong gave him a Life-Preserving Jade Talisman apiece.

Li Shiming stayed at the Central Continent Merchant Guild Headquarters for three months, refining Great Cultivator Spiritual Pills for Wang Changdong and Meng You while strengthening the Sky Strike Thunder Hammer. He declined their offer to settle on the Central Continent and left for the ocean, where he planned to complete the hammer and face its Artifact Tribulation safely.

• Li Shiming used the Fire Thunder Nascent Soul and Golden Corpse Nan Ming to refine Thousand Thunder Tempering Gold, while the Wood Thunder Nascent Soul fused it into the Sky Strike Thunder Hammer.
• Li Shiming refined five furnaces of Great Cultivator Spiritual Pills for Wang Changdong and Meng You, including one Fourth Grade High Level furnace for each.
• Meng You offered Li Shiming a Great Cultivator cave mansion and stipend if he settled on the Central Continent, but Li Shiming said he could not leave the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect for long.
• Wang Changdong and Meng You shared a farewell meal with Li Shiming, and they agreed to stay in contact through jade tablets.
• Li Shiming left the Merchant Guild Headquarters to find a safe place in the ocean and complete the Sky Strike Thunder Hammer’s final strengthening before its Artifact Tribulation.

Li Shiming faced the Artifact Tribulation of his Sky Strike Thunder Hammer as three Jade Purity Sect cultivators arrived, intending to take advantage of his peril. He used the tribulation lightning to kill all three and survived the final bolt with minor injuries.

• Li Shiming completed the Sky Strike Thunder Hammer and began its Artifact Tribulation on an Uninhabited Small Island.
• Gan Tuo, Li Gang, and Kang Miao recognized the hammer and hurried toward Li Shiming, hoping to seize his treasures if he died.
• Li Shiming prepared his thunder defenses with the Divine Firmament Thunder Pearl, then used Gan Tuo to shield himself from the first bolt of Heavenly Thunder.
• Li Shiming threw Li Gang into the second bolt and Kang Miao into the third, killing all three cultivators along with their Nascent Souls.
• Li Shiming endured the last bolt, used the Divine Firmament Thunder Pearl to absorb some of its power, and healed his minor injuries with a Fourth Grade High Level Healing Spiritual Pill.

Li Shiming’s Sky Strike Thunder Hammer gained a Thunder and Lightning Rule Mark and an Artifact Spirit, but Great Cultivator Duan Zhang attacked him in an attempt to seize the Divine Firmament Thunder Pearl. Li Shiming escaped the ambush and fled at full speed, yet Duan Zhang pursued him using Thunder Escape enhanced by rule power.

• Li Shiming sensed that the Sky Strike Thunder Hammer had gained a Thunder and Lightning Rule Mark and an Artifact Spirit, then transmitted the Jade Purity Thunder Canon to it.
• Li Shiming detected a Dark Thunder attack and used Close In Distance, Far In Horizon to escape as Great Cultivator Duan Zhang emerged from the sea.
• Great Cultivator Duan Zhang revealed that he had tracked the aura of the Divine Firmament Thunder Pearl and pursued Li Shiming to capture him.
• Li Shiming repeatedly used Close In Distance, Far In Horizon while Duan Zhang chased him with Thunder Escape powered by Thunder and Lightning Rule power.
• Li Shiming considered using the Silver Wing Spirit Gu Insects or Zhao Qingfeng’s body with the Thunderclap Mystic Bow, but doubted either could stop Duan Zhang.

Li Shiming used the Thunderclap Mystic Bow and repeated Dark Thunder traps to escape Great Cultivator Duan Zhang, who abandoned the pursuit and planned to identify him through the Jade Purity Sect. After reaching safety, Li Shiming headed toward Qiu Hengyi’s treasure cache while concealing himself and setting up surveillance.

• Li Shiming had the Living Dead Zhao Qingfeng fire the Thunderclap Mystic Bow, forcing Great Cultivator Duan Zhang to slow down and fall behind.
• Li Shiming cast Dark Thunder traps that repeatedly disrupted Duan Zhang’s Thunder Escape and widened the gap between them.
• Duan Zhang gave up the chase, resolved to investigate Li Shiming’s aura, and planned to report that the Divine Firmament Thunder Pearl had been taken by a Central Continent cultivator.
• Li Shiming escaped and considered learning Close In An Instant because Close In Distance, Far In Horizon had not given him a decisive speed advantage.
• Li Shiming concealed his aura and body, flew toward Qiu Hengyi’s treasure cache, and waited for the Drone Satellite System to monitor his route.

The Jade Purity Sect traced the Divine Firmament Thunder Pearl to Li Shiming and secretly arranged to track him through his Central Continent Merchant Guild Guest Elder Jade Disc. After a month in hiding, Li Shiming emerged unaware that his location had been exposed, then tested his newly learned Close In An Instant divine power.

• Great Cultivator Duan Zhang identified Li Shiming as the likely cultivator who had taken the Divine Firmament Thunder Pearl, and the Jade Purity Sect began searching for him across the Central Continent.
• Li Shiming spent a month cultivating in Great Power Zhai Ge's Cave Heaven, while the Wood Thunder Nascent Soul used the Sky Strike Thunder Hammer to accelerate its cultivation of the Jade Purity Thunder Canon.
• Li Shiming emerged from the Cave Heaven and connected to the Drone Satellite System, unaware that his Guest Elder Jade Disc had reported his location to the Central Continent Merchant Guild supervisor working with the Jade Purity Sect.
• Li Shiming used the Heritage Relic of Divine Foot Passage to learn Close In An Instant, then tested the divine power by traveling three thousand li in an instant.

Li Shiming discovered that the Jade Purity Sect had used his Central Continent Merchant Guild Guest Elder Jade Disc to track him and ambush him. He killed five Nascent Soul Middle Stage Thunder Cultivators, escaped with Close In An Instant, and left Great Cultivator Duan Zhang planning to seek reinforcements.

• Li Shiming realized the Nascent Soul cultivators pursuing him were tracking his Guest Elder Jade Disc and concluded that someone in the Central Continent Merchant Guild had betrayed him to the Jade Purity Sect.
• Li Shiming concealed himself, summoned the Living Dead Zhao Qingfeng and four Fourth Grade Puppets, and launched a coordinated attack on the searching Thunder Cultivators.
• The Thunderclap Mystic Bow killed one Nascent Soul Middle Stage Thunder Cultivator, while the Railguns destroyed the bodies of four others and left their Nascent Souls alive.
• Li Shiming used Close In An Instant to escape three thousand miles away before Great Cultivator Duan Zhang reached his position.
• Great Cultivator Duan Zhang recognized that Li Shiming had mastered Close In An Instant and decided the Jade Purity Sect needed to send several Great Cultivators to pursue him again.

Li Shiming retaliated against Jade Purity Sect by ambushing its Thunder Cultivators, then ended his guest elder agreement after learning the sect had used his Jade Disc to track him. Wang Changdong and Meng You brought the betrayal to the Supreme Grand Elder, who criticized their secrecy about Li Shiming’s alchemy skills.

• Great Cultivator Duan Zhang told the Jade Purity Sect cultivators that Li Shiming had escaped, but Li Shiming ambushed them again and destroyed one cultivator while leaving four more with only their Nascent Souls.
• Duan Zhang took the surviving cultivators and Nascent Souls aboard his Flying Boat, and Li Shiming stopped pursuing them.
• Li Shiming told Wang Changdong and Meng You that the Jade Purity Sect had used his Guest Elder Jade Disc to ambush him, so he was terminating his Central Continent Merchant Guild agreement.
• Wang Changdong and Meng You met in the Merchant Guild Headquarters and asked the Supreme Grand Elder to address the betrayal.
• The Supreme Grand Elder criticized Wang Changdong and Meng You for keeping Li Shiming’s Grandmaster Alchemist standing quiet to preserve their own access to his alchemy.