Chapter Summaries

The Supreme Grand Elder exiled Supervisor Sun to Hell Island and declared that the Central Continent Merchant Guild would protect Grandmaster Li, while the Jade Purity Sect continued moving Great Cultivators to Central Continent. Li Shiming found Qiu Hengyi’s treasure site occupied by the Ruyi Sect, exterminated the sect with the Asura Puppet and Asura Drum, and sent a Fourth Grade Nether Ghost to search for survivors and treasure.

• The Supreme Grand Elder ordered Supervisor Sun sent to Hell Island permanently and announced the Merchant Guild’s protection of Grandmaster Li, but the Jade Purity Sect showed no sign of backing down, and Wang Changdong and Meng You could not contact Li Shiming.
• Li Shiming reached Qiu Hengyi’s treasure site and discovered that the unmarked valley had become the Ruyi Sect’s mountain gate.
• Li Shiming overheard Ruyi Sect Demon Cultivators planning to slaughter another village to refine a demon treasure, so he summoned the Asura Puppet, Asura Drum, and a Fourth Grade Nether Ghost.
• The Asura Drum broke the Ruyi Sect’s defensive formation and killed its cultivators, including its Supreme Elder, within a short time.
• Li Shiming learned that the Asura Puppet grew stronger by absorbing souls, but rejected using that method for cultivation and sent the Fourth Grade Nether Ghost to search the sect for survivors and valuables.

Li Shiming discovered Qiu Hengyi’s Half-Life Blessed Land, passed its inheritance test, and gained access to the incomplete rules stored in its core. After leaving Ruyi Sect, he decided to travel to the Floating Splendor Archipelago while hiding his identity from the Jade Purity Sect.

• Li Shiming opened the Space Gate to Qiu Hengyi’s small cave heaven and found the jade stele describing the Half-Life Blessed Land inheritance.
• The jade stele attacked Li Shiming’s body and soul, then accepted him as an inheritor and began fusing him with the blessed land’s core.
• Li Shiming sensed that the core contained manifested rules that could help him advance, but left the incomplete-rule environment to avoid its harmful effects.
• Li Shiming retrieved the Fourth Grade Nether Ghost and its spoils, then vanished from Ruyi Sect while concealing his aura.
• Li Shiming chose to go to the Floating Splendor Archipelago for resources rather than return to the Eastern Qi Continent, where the Jade Purity Sect could target him.
• Li Shiming concealed the Water Thunder Nascent Soul inside Living Dead Zhao Qingfeng, then entered Great Power Zhai Ge’s blessed land himself.

Li Shiming used Living Dead Zhao Qingfeng’s concealed Nascent Soul Middle Stage identity to explore Yu An Island and acquire dragon-bloodline Demon Cores for the Phantom Spirit Dragon. After Rogue Cultivators began scheming against him, he heard news of a nest containing nearly a hundred dragon-bloodline Spiritual Beasts.

• Li Shiming arrived on Yu An Island, rented a Cave Dwelling, and surveyed its Rogue Cultivator markets.
• Li Shiming traded Fourth Grade Spiritual Pills for three Fourth Grade Demon Cores with dragon bloodlines, while the sellers noticed his valuable gear and suspected his unusual background.
• Zhang Teng, Daoist Wang, and Daoist Wu discussed targeting Li Shiming and planned how to deal with him.
• After spending two days in his Cave Dwelling, Li Shiming heard that Duo Ersun had found a Dragon Bloodline Spiritual Beast Nest and was selling its location to hunting squads.
• Li Shiming became interested in the nest, viewing its nearly hundred dragon-bloodline Spiritual Beasts as an opportunity.

Li Shiming bought genuine information about a Dragon Bloodline Spiritual Beast Nest from Duo Ersun, then followed the trail into an ambush set by three rogue Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators. He revealed the Living Dead Zhao Qingfeng and defeated the attackers with the Asura Drum, leaving with their spoils.

• Li Shiming used Mind Penetration on Duo Ersun and learned that a conspiracy targeted him, then bought the intelligence on the Dragon Bloodline Spiritual Beast Nest for three Nascent Soul Early Stage Fourth Grade Spiritual Pills.
• Duo Ersun gave Li Shiming a Jade Slip with a Sea Map and details about the dragon beast, then changed his face and hid in a secret Cave Dwelling.
• Li Shiming sensed a weak Concealment Formation on the route and deliberately entered the trap laid by Zhang Teng, Daoist Wang, Daoist Wu, and their Nascent Soul rogue cultivators.
• Li Shiming threw the Nether Ghost Bracelet to Daoist Wang, and the Fourth Grade Nether Ghost inside it seized control of him.
• Li Shiming summoned the Asura Puppet and Asura Drum as Daoist Wu's attack exposed the Great Cultivator aura of the Living Dead Zhao Qingfeng; the drum destroyed the attackers' souls.
• Li Shiming collected the rogue cultivators' valuables, found their spiritual resources and Magical Treasures meager, and left their corpses behind.

Li Shiming investigated a dragon beast clan and discovered a powerful chieftain guarding an ancient Dragon Vein Source Crystal. He used timed bombs to draw the clan out and wounded one of its guards with a deliberate arrow, hoping to provoke the chieftain.

• Li Shiming found more than ten Fourth Grade Low Level dragon beasts on a stone island and captured one that had ambushed Living Dead Zhao Qingfeng.
• Li Shiming controlled the dragon beast to scout its hidden underwater cave and discovered fifteen Fourth Grade Mid-Rank guards and a powerful Dragon Beast Chieftain.
• The chieftain broke Li Shiming's connection to the scout, but Li Shiming sensed an ancient Dragon Vein Source Crystal and decided not to give up.
• Li Shiming sent the Phantom Spirit Dragon toward the island and planted timed bombs around it to lure dragon beasts from the nest.
• After two guards left to investigate the explosions, Living Dead Zhao Qingfeng used the Thunderclap Mystic Bow to severely wound one of them.

Li Shiming’s Phantom Spirit Dragon infiltrated the Dragon Beast Nest and stole the clan’s Dragon Vein Source Crystal, escaping before the enraged Dragon Beast Chieftain could catch it. Back in the Heavenly Human Path, Li Shiming examined the ancient crystal, which the Phantom Spirit Dragon could absorb, but even his strongest sword could not scratch its Dark Red Rock shell.

• Li Shiming used Living Dead Zhao Qingfeng to lure the Dragon Beast Chieftain and most of its forces away while the Phantom Spirit Dragon entered the nest.
• The Phantom Spirit Dragon suppressed and poisoned the guard, then stole the Dragon Vein Source Crystal hidden inside a massive Dark Red Rock.
• The Phantom Spirit Dragon escaped through the sea and reached Li Shiming’s Concealment Formation, where he brought it into the Cave Heaven.
• The Dragon Beast Chieftain discovered the theft, gathered fourteen Fourth Grade Mid-Rank and over eighty Fourth Grade Low Level dragon beasts, and left the nest to hunt for the crystal and the human cultivator it blamed.
• Li Shiming let the Phantom Spirit Dragon lie on the Dark Red Rock and tried to cut it with two powerful swords, but neither left a mark.

Li Shiming left the abandoned Dragon Beast Nest and returned to Yu An Island, unaware that taking its treasure had drawn the Dragon Beast Clan after him. The beasts attacked the island in force, and Great Cultivators Diao Zhuo and Gan Bin fled, leaving Yu An Island’s defenses broken.

• Li Shiming found that the Dark Red Rock was ordinary stone stained by blood, while the Phantom Spirit Dragon rested on it; he gave up trying to deal with it and returned to cultivation.
• Living Dead Zhao Qingfeng found the Dragon Beast Nest deserted, then recorded the surrounding sea on the journey back to Yu An Island.
• A Fourth Grade Mid-Rank Dragon Beast attacked Yu An Island, and Great Cultivator Diao Zhuo offered doubled mission rewards and the chance to become his disciple to rally Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Dragon Beasts ambushed the cultivators outside the island, while the peak Fourth Grade Mid-Rank Dragon Beast blocked Diao Zhuo and the rest of the clan emerged from the sea.
• Diao Zhuo and Great Cultivator Gan Bin fled as nearly a hundred Fourth Grade Dragon Beasts threatened the island, and the Island Protection Grand Formation broke after Gan Bin left.
• Duo Ersun recognized the attackers as the Dragon Beast Clan whose location he had sold and realized Li Shiming might have provoked their revenge by taking the nest’s treasure.

Li Shiming found Yu An Island devastated by the Dragon Beast Clan and discovered a great cultivator suffering from Cultivation Deviation. He had the Heavenly Ghost devour the cultivator’s soul and Heart Demon, then took the surviving Nascent Soul and watched the Heavenly Ghost advance to Fourth Grade Mid-Rank.

• Li Shiming approached Yu An Island, sensed cultivator blood, and saw that the island had been destroyed by the Dragon Beast Clan.
• Li Shiming learned that the Dragon Beast Chieftain had tortured Duo Ersun for information about the cultivator who stole the Dragon Beast Nest’s treasures, but Duo Ersun knew little about him.
• Li Shiming found a hidden Cave Dwelling and discovered a great cultivator whose soul was nearly consumed by a Heart Demon.
• Li Shiming sent the Heavenly Ghost to devour the great cultivator’s soul and Heart Demon, leaving the Nascent Soul intact, and stored the cultivator’s body and Nascent Soul in a Spirit Beast Bag.
• Li Shiming fled to an uninhabited island, where the Heavenly Ghost advanced from Fourth Grade Low Level to Fourth Grade Mid-Rank and neared that realm’s peak.

Li Shiming discovered that the Heavenly Ghost could control Great Cultivator Luo Pei but could not restore his full combat strength, so he decided to use Luo Pei’s identity to seek the Fuliu Sect’s Innate Yi Wood inheritance. On the way, Luo Pei cultivated his Overwhelming Blackwater Technique, giving Li Shiming insight into its water-element methods and several combat arts.

• Li Shiming found that the Heavenly Ghost could use some of Luo Pei’s Nascent Soul techniques, but Luo Pei’s controlled body and soul together had only limited Great Cultivator-level combat power.
• After learning Luo Pei was one of Yu An Island’s three Great Cultivators, Li Shiming decided to travel as Luo Pei and leave Living Dead Zhao Qingfeng as a remote attack weapon.
• Li Shiming chose to seek the Fuliu Sect’s Innate Yi Wood inheritance without using his Guest Elder Jade Disc or Li Shizhen identity, and sent Luo Pei toward the sect in a flying boat.
• While traveling, Li Shiming examined Luo Pei’s Mustard Seed Ring and found his annotated Overwhelming Blackwater Technique among thousands of Jade Slips.
• Li Shiming had Luo Pei cultivate the technique and learned from his water-element Great Cultivator insights, then summarized Black Ice Armor, Black Ice Shield, Black Ice Arrow, and Overwhelming Blackwater as useful Secret Arts.

Li Shiming used Great Cultivator Luo Pei to trade five pills for a chance to inherit the Fuliu Sect’s Wood Element Divine Power, Innate Yi Wood. He entered the trial through Luo Pei and became trapped in an illusion as a tree facing endless solitude.

• Great Cultivator Luo Pei visited Great Cultivator Mao Jing and requested access to the Innate Yi Wood inheritance.
• Luo Pei offered Mao Jing five Great Cultivator Fourth Grade Intermediate Stage Spiritual Pills, and Mao Jing arranged an inheritance trial ten days later.
• Li Shiming controlled Luo Pei during the wait, then followed Mao Jing into the Fuliu Sect’s wood-element Blessed Land.
• Li Shiming secretly placed his Wood Thunder Nascent Soul inside Luo Pei to undergo the trial in his place.
• The ancient tree drew Li Shiming’s Divine Sense into an illusion where he experienced life as a seed that grew into a tree through ages of loneliness.

Li Shiming passed the Innate Yi Wood Divine Power trial and gained its highest-level inheritance, which granted extended lifespan and powerful healing. Great Cultivator Luo Pei joined Fuliu Sect after Great Cultivator Mao Jing promised to help him find a Water Element Divine Power, while Li Shiming concealed that he was the true inheritor.

• Li Shiming endured the loneliness trial and received the Innate Yi Wood Divine Power Rune, then shared it with Li Yuanba.
• Li Shiming learned that the divine power extended lifespan and could heal himself and cultivators of equal or lower realms.
• Great Cultivator Mao Jing offered to recruit Great Cultivator Luo Pei into Fuliu Sect and help him seek a Water Element Divine Power.
• Great Cultivator Luo Pei accepted the offer, and Great Cultivator Mao Jing scheduled his sect-joining ceremony for three days later.
• Li Shiming studied the inheritance while staying in Great Cultivator Luo Pei's cave mansion, then received a visit from Great Cultivator Hu Shiming.

Great Cultivator Luo Pei healed Hu Zijian with the Innate Yi Wood Divine Power and then formally joined Fuliu Sect. After the initiation ceremony, he received a Great Cultivator Jade Slip and entered the Treasure Pavilion to choose his sect benefit.

• Great Cultivator Hu Shiming brought his injured son Hu Zijian to Great Cultivator Luo Pei, who used the Innate Yi Wood Divine Power to nearly heal him in one casting.
• Great Cultivator Hu Shiming told Hu Zijian to address Luo Pei as Martial Uncle Luo, recognizing Luo Pei as a member of Fuliu Sect.
• Three days later, Great Cultivator Luo Pei joined Fuliu Sect in a discreet ceremony at Yi Wood Blessed Land and was welcomed as Junior Brother by Great Cultivator Mao Jing and Great Cultivator Hu Shiming.
• Great Cultivator Mao Jing gave Luo Pei a Great Cultivator Jade Slip and arranged a water-element spiritual peak for his Cave Dwelling.
• Great Cultivator Hu Shiming advised Luo Pei to choose artifact-refining materials rather than a pre-made magical treasure, and Luo Pei entered the Treasure Pavilion to make his choice.

Li Shiming settled Great Cultivator Luo Pei into the Fuliu Sect and chose Ice Secret Gold to craft him a water-element Flying Sword. While the Jade Purity Sect continued searching for Li Shiming, he studied the Overwhelming Blackwater Technique to design the weapon, and Luo Pei explored the sect’s Library Pavilion.

• Great Cultivator Luo Pei chose the Ice Secret Gold from the Treasure Pavilion, and Li Shiming planned to refine it into a water-element Flying Sword spirit treasure.
• Great Cultivator Hu Shiming showed Great Cultivator Luo Pei his new mountain cave mansion and explained its resources and support from the Fuliu Sect.
• Li Shiming withdrew the Nascent Soul from Great Cultivator Luo Pei and had his five Nascent Souls cultivate in the Cave Heaven, while the Jade Purity Sect expanded its search for him.
• Li Shiming began designing Luo Pei’s Flying Sword and studied the Overwhelming Blackwater Technique with IBMz15.
• Great Cultivator Luo Pei spent his time studying the Fuliu Sect’s Library Pavilion and gained access to its texts and cultivation techniques.

Great Cultivator Luo Pei accepted Fuliu Sect’s mission to guard the Fifth Resource Point, where unknown cultivators were surveying the area. Along the way, he endured an artifact tribulation and gained the Black Water Sword, then arrived safely and began strengthening his bond with it while Li Shiming monitored the formation.

• Great Cultivator Mao Jing told Great Cultivator Hu Shiming and Great Cultivator Luo Pei that unknown cultivators had appeared near the Fifth Resource Point, and Great Cultivator Luo Pei volunteered to guard it.
• Great Cultivator Luo Pei flew toward the resource point, stopped over a remote stretch of sea, and passed the Black Water Sword’s artifact tribulation with Li Shiming’s lightning-resistance technique and defensive treasures.
• Great Cultivator Luo Pei discovered that the Black Water Sword had become a spiritual treasure with an Artifact Spirit and a Tidal Rule Imprint, which replenished cultivation he had lost during the tribulation.
• As Great Cultivator Luo Pei approached the Fifth Resource Point, Li Shiming recognized Nascent Soul cultivators surveying the earth veins and terrain, and they fled when they saw the ceremonial boat.
• Great Cultivator Luo Pei entered the formation with three Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators, learned that the intruders’ identities were unknown, and settled into the resource point’s best Cave Dwelling.
• Great Cultivator Luo Pei used the Spirit Control Nurturing Treasure Secret Technique to strengthen his bond with the Black Water Sword, while Li Shiming assigned one brain to monitor the formation.

Li Shiming used Great Cultivator Luo Pei to face twelve Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators from the Boundless Sect, who had come to seize the Fifth Resource Point and make a name for themselves. He unleashed the Black Water Sword’s power in a single overwhelming attack, leaving all twelve defeated beneath the black wave.

• The resource point’s Formation warned Li Shiming that twelve Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators had surrounded the Fifth Resource Point.
• Li Shiming sent the Water Thunder Nascent Soul into Great Cultivator Luo Pei, allowing him to use divine abilities, then flew out to meet the attackers.
• Fan Xiang of the Boundless Sect identified himself and mocked Great Cultivator Luo Pei, while the twelve cultivators formed a Battle Formation to counter his aura.
• Great Cultivator Luo Pei unleashed Blackwater Surging through the Black Water Sword, producing a ten-thousand-zhang wave far more powerful than Li Shiming had expected.
• The black wave shattered all twelve defensive treasures and swallowed the twelve Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators, ending the battle with one strike.

Great Cultivator Luo Pei examined the spoils from the Boundless Sect cultivators he had killed and considered refining Golden Corpses to strengthen his defenses. Li Shiming claimed several valuable items, including a cultivation-boosting pill and a meditation mat, while setting aside the powerful Chaotic Sky Winged Boat because using it could provoke a Great Power.

• Great Cultivator Luo Pei decided that the five Core Disciple corpses he and Li Shiming possessed could serve as Golden Corpse materials, and he planned to acquire the remaining Fourth Grade materials.
• Great Cultivator Luo Pei recovered a Fourth Grade Top Tier Shield Magical Treasure and searched the Boundless Sect cultivators' Space Items, finding flying boats, spiritual resources, and other valuable supplies.
• Great Cultivator Luo Pei found Fan Xiang's Great Power Life-Preserving Jade Talisman and carefully stored it after concluding that Fan Xiang had died before he could activate it.
• Li Shiming claimed Fan Xiang's Chaotic Sky Winged Boat but decided not to use it because its Great Power-crafted wings could provoke the power behind it.
• Great Cultivator Luo Pei gave Li Shiming a Boundless Earth Spirit Pill, which could increase a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator's chance of advancing to Great Cultivator by ten percent.
• Li Shiming claimed Fan Xiang's Boundless Jade Meditation Mat, a rare item that aided cultivation, calmed the mind, and reduced the risk of Cultivation Deviation.

Great Cultivator Luo Pei concealed from Fuliu Sect that he had killed twelve Boundless Sect cultivators, then returned to the Fifth Resource Point after Boundless Sect’s Great Cultivator Ge Guang attacked it. Ge Guang confronted him but, after judging his displayed strength, withdrew and returned the resource point to Fuliu Sect.

• Great Cultivator Luo Pei kept the deaths of the twelve Boundless Sect cultivators secret and gave their Spiritual Objects to Main Body Li Shiming.
• After three quiet months, Fuliu Sect ordered Great Cultivator Luo Pei back to the sect, but an urgent message sent him back toward the attacked Fifth Resource Point.
• Great Cultivator Luo Pei met Great Cultivator Hu Shiming, who identified the attacker as Boundless Sect’s Great Cultivator Ge Guang and explained his Soul Shocking Sword Intent.
• Great Cultivator Ge Guang questioned Great Cultivator Luo Pei about the twelve missing cultivators, and Luo Pei claimed he had frightened them off.
• Great Cultivator Hu Shiming accepted Ge Guang’s challenge to settle control of the resource point in the Thirty-Three Heavens, with Great Cultivator Luo Pei supporting him.
• After seeing Great Cultivator Luo Pei’s combat strength, Great Cultivator Ge Guang ruled him out as the culprit and returned the Fifth Resource Point to Fuliu Sect.

Great Cultivator Luo Pei helped Fuliu Sect recover its injured cultivators and was promised an inheritance of Sweet Dew Divine Water to strengthen his combat power. As tensions spread across the Central Continent, he left the sect and prepared to refine Golden Corpses, relying on careful simulations to face their heavenly tribulation.

• Great Cultivator Luo Pei opened the Fifth Resource Point’s altered formation and healed its three injured Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators with the Innate Yi Wood Divine Power.
• Great Cultivator Hu Shiming brought Great Cultivator Luo Pei to meet Great Cultivator Mao Jing, who said Fuliu Sect would seek support from its allies against the Boundless Sect.
• Great Cultivator Mao Jing arranged for Great Cultivator Luo Pei to attempt the Sweet Dew Divine Water inheritance in exchange for five hundred thousand Contribution Points.
• Great Cultivator Luo Pei studied information about Sweet Dew Temple while conflicts involving the Jade Purity Sect and Boundless Sect spread across the Central Continent.
• Great Cultivator Luo Pei left Fuliu Sect in a fourth-grade Small Flying Boat and considered his stockpile of resources for refining Golden Corpses as IBMz15 simulated the process.

Great Cultivator Luo Pei entered Sweet Dew Temple to attempt the Sweet Dew Divine Water inheritance trial, while Li Shiming guided the Water Thunder Nascent Soul through its Buddhist tests. The trial succeeded, granting Li Shiming the divine power and recorded memories of a Daoist Sect almighty’s cultivation.

• Great Cultivator Luo Pei met Honored One Bei Tian at Sweet Dew Temple and learned the inheritance trial required unwavering Buddhist faith, though he chose to proceed.
• Honored One Bei Tian left the Jade Bottle inheritance treasure in a pavilion and sealed the area, and Great Cultivator Luo Pei added his own Formation before beginning the trial.
• Li Shiming used IBMz15 and his other brains to guide the Water Thunder Nascent Soul through eighty-one reincarnations, ensuring it entered the Buddhist Sect in every life.
• The Water Thunder Nascent Soul’s final reincarnation became a Daoist Sect almighty, giving Li Shiming access to recorded cultivation memories and insight into rules.
• The trial transformed the Buddhist world into a seal that entered the Water Thunder Nascent Soul and formed the Sweet Dew Divine Water Divine Power Rune.
• Li Shiming learned that Sweet Dew Divine Water gathered into a single drop that grew from a stream into an ocean as its power developed.

Great Cultivator Luo Pei obtained the Sweet Dew Divine Water Divine Power Inheritance and set out for the Fuliu Sect, where Great Cultivator Diao Zhuo and Great Cultivator Gan Bin intercepted him over Yu An Island’s missing resources. Their fight began in the Thirty-Three Heavens, and Luo Pei destroyed Diao Zhuo’s Natal Magical Treasure with the Black Water Sword.

• Great Cultivator Luo Pei demonstrated the Sweet Dew Divine Water divine power to Honored One Bei Tian, who then reported the inheritance to Sweet Dew Temple’s Great Honored Ones.
• Luo Pei returned the Sweet Dew Divine Water droplet to his Water Thunder Nascent Soul and replaced it with the Earth Thunder Nascent Soul before heading back toward the Fuliu Sect.
• Great Cultivator Diao Zhuo and Great Cultivator Gan Bin ambushed Luo Pei and demanded the resources they believed he had taken from Yu An Island.
• Luo Pei flew to the Thirty-Three Heavens to fight the two cultivators, protecting himself with three Fourth Grade Top Defensive Magical Treasures.
• Luo Pei attacked Diao Zhuo with the Black Water Sword, whose Black Ice Arrow shattered Diao Zhuo’s Natal Magical Treasure.