Chapter Summaries

Li Shiming met Great Cultivator Liu Ziyun after defeating and capturing Yan Gao and Wang He, then used the formation materials Liu delivered to build a massive formation. He activated it to drain Spiritual Qi from Yang Xing’s sealed Cave Heaven, leaving Yang Xing trapped as its energy rapidly dwindled.

• Li Shiming told Great Cultivator Liu Ziyun that his Five Golden Corpses had captured Yan Gao and Wang He, and said he planned to interrogate and kill them.
• Liu Ziyun delivered the Fourth Grade Formation Materials, and Li Shiming offered to accept high-grade Great Cultivator Alchemy Commissions during his remaining five months on the Eastern Qi Continent.
• Li Shiming refined one thousand eight hundred Formation Bases and set them in place, then activated the formation with the Jade Compass.
• The formation began extracting Spiritual Qi from Yang Xing’s incomplete Cave Heaven, and Yang Xing could not stop the rapid loss.

Li Shiming drained the Spiritual Qi from Yang Xing’s Cave Heaven, driving the Half-Step Great Power into Cultivation Deviation and allowing a Heart Demon to take over. He discovered that Yang Xing had died, but the Heart Demon was keeping the Cave Heaven alive by sustaining its Thunder and Lightning Rule.

• Yang Xing used a stored Spiritual Vein and his own Spiritual Power to preserve the Thunder Cloud as Li Shiming’s Formation continued draining the Cave Heaven.
• As the Cave Heaven’s rules faded and the Thunder Cloud weakened, Yang Xing lost his Dao heart, entered Cultivation Deviation, and became a Heart Demon that maintained the Thunder Cloud with Spirit Energy.
• Li Shiming noticed the Spiritual Qi was draining faster than expected and sent a strand of Divine Sense into the Cave Heaven, where Black Mist corroded it.
• Li Shiming recognized the Black Mist as a Heart Demon and sent the Heavenly Ghost into the Cave Heaven to find it.
• Li Shiming stopped the Heavenly Ghost when he sensed that the Thunder and Lightning Rule was the Cave Heaven’s only remaining rule, and realized Yang Xing’s Heart Demon was preserving the Cave Heaven.

Li Shiming discovered that Half-Step Great Power Yang Xing had died after his Heart Demon was trapped in Yang Xing’s blessed land. The Heavenly Ghost devoured the Heart Demon, took control of the blessed land, and absorbed enough Spirit Energy to reach the peak of the Fourth Grade Late Stage, leaving Li Shiming with a powerful new combat method.

• Li Shiming realized Yang Xing’s death had undone the seal on his Nascent Soul and decided to have the Heavenly Ghost devour the Heart Demon while preserving the blessed land’s control mark.
• A Jade Purity Sect Great Power sensed Yang Xing’s fall, ordered an investigation into Great Cultivator Wang He, and worried that the sect had lost a potential future Great Power.
• The Heavenly Ghost silently swallowed Yang Xing’s Heart Demon and inherited the Blessed Land Core’s Recognition of Ownership Mark, becoming master of the blessed land.
• The Heavenly Ghost’s Spirit Energy surged as it absorbed the Heart Demon, advancing to the peak of the Fourth Grade Late Stage and swelling to fill the tiny blessed land.
• Li Shiming summoned the gigantic Heavenly Ghost out of the blessed land and recognized its overwhelming spiritual pressure as a formidable new combat method.

Li Shiming claimed the Meridian Locking Compass, brought his captives and Five Golden Corpse Late Stage to Tai Chu Branch Sect, and studied the Thunder and Lightning Rule in Yang Xing’s fragile blessed land. News of his victory spread across the Cultivation World, while Liu Ziyun arrived at Tai Chu Branch Sect and could not reach him.

• Li Shiming used the Heavenly Ghost to remove Great Cultivator Wang He’s Spirit Mark from the Meridian Locking Compass, claimed the exotic treasure, and moved its Blessed Land Anchor Point into his body.
• Li Shiming took the Heavenly Ghost into the Heavenly Human Blessed Land and led the Five Golden Corpse Late Stage and two captured Peak Great Cultivators across the Eastern Qi Continent to Tai Chu Branch Sect.
• Li Shiming set up the Formation around the Tai Chu Blessed Land entrance, then entered Half-Step Great Power Yang Xing’s blessed land and recorded its Thunder and Lightning Rule with IBMz15.
• Li Shiming replenished Yang Xing’s blessed land with Lightning Spiritual Power and Spiritual Qi, then began comprehending the Thunder and Lightning Rule with One Hundred Ninety-One Brains.
• News spread that Li Shiming had defeated Great Cultivator Wang He and Great Cultivator Yan Gao; White Emperor Sect contracted its forces, while Jade Purity Sect struggled with the loss of Half-Step Great Power Yang Xing.
• Great Cultivator Liu Ziyun arrived at Tai Chu Branch Sect, but his attempts to contact Li Shiming failed.

Li Shiming emerged from fifty days of seclusion with stronger Thunder and Lightning Rule Marks and refused the White Emperor Sect and Jade Purity Sect’s request to reclaim their captured Peak Great Cultivators. When he tried to question the prisoners about the Jade Purity Sect, an oath protecting its secrets triggered both captives to take their own lives.

• Li Shiming named the thunder-and-lightning-rule domain the Thunder and Lightning Blessed Land and used Innate Yi Wood divine abilities to treat Great Cultivator Wang He and Great Cultivator Yan Gao.
• Great Cultivator Liu Ziyun delivered materials for five sets of Great Cultivator Spiritual Pills and relayed the White Emperor Sect and Jade Purity Sect’s request to have their two Peak Great Cultivators returned.
• Li Shiming refused to release Great Cultivator Wang He and Great Cultivator Yan Gao, and Great Cultivator Liu Ziyun left after delivering the message.
• Li Shiming told Great Cultivator Wang He that Half-Step Great Power Yang Xing had died and showed him Yang Xing’s Sky Strike Thunder Hammer.
• Li Shiming tried to use Mind Penetration to question Great Cultivator Wang He about the Jade Purity Sect, but an oath triggered Wang He’s suicide.
• Great Cultivator Yan Gao understood what Li Shiming wanted and also used the oath to take his own life.

After collecting the possessions of Great Cultivator Yan Gao, Great Cultivator Wang He, and Half-Step Great Power Yang Xing, Li Shiming found valuable rule research and the Cave Mystery Record, a classic on constructing blessed lands. He left with a plan for IBMz15 to study blessed-land construction and a wood-element exotic treasure Yang Xing had prepared as a core.

• Li Shiming took the Soul Crystal Rings and Natal Magical Treasures from the two dead Peak Great Cultivators and stored Yang Xing's corpse for possible future refinement.
• Li Shiming examined Yan Gao's Soul Crystal Ring and found Earth Element Rule research, a more complete White Emperor Art inheritance, cultivation supplies, and luxurious daily-use items.
• Li Shiming searched Wang He's Soul Crystal Ring and found thunder-element materials that could improve his Sky Strike Thunder Hammer, along with spirit herbs, pills, and rule research.
• Li Shiming found no materials or guidance for advancing to the Mahayana Stage in the two Peak Great Cultivators' possessions.
• Li Shiming examined Yang Xing's Soul Crystal Ring and discovered the Cave Mystery Record, which explained how cultivators constructed blessed lands.
• Li Shiming had IBMz15 begin researching blessed-land construction and identified Yang Xing's strange wood as a wood-element exotic treasure prepared to serve as a blessed land's core.

Li Shiming examined the rare treasures in Yang Xing’s Soul Crystal Ring, claimed control of the Spirit Beast bound by its Ancient Contract Paper, and discovered that the Heavenly Ghost could erase the marks in Natal Magical Treasures. He began redesigning Ruyi Mountain Suppressing Peak while Little Phoenix and the Phantom Spirit Dragon cultivated to strengthen their foundations.

• Li Shiming identified a ring containing immense teleportation energy and used the Ancient Contract Paper to command its distant Spirit Beast to come to him.
• Li Shiming ordered the Heavenly Ghost to lick the Sky Strike Thunder Hammer, and it erased the Natal Magical Treasure’s Spirit Mark; it cleared the marks from several other treasures as well.
• Li Shiming claimed Great Cultivator Yan Gao’s mountain peak treasure, Ruyi Mountain Suppressing Peak, and had IBMz15 design new Enchanting Runes for it.
• Li Shiming refined pills in five furnaces while the design was prepared, then took Great Cultivator Spiritual Pills to cultivate in the Precious Lotus Great Hall.
• Little Phoenix and the Phantom Spirit Dragon absorbed Special Energy in a special space in the Ten Thousand Beasts Blessed Land to stabilize their foundations.

A Fourth Grade Late Stage Thunder Beast raced toward the Eastern Qi Continent, and Li Shiming recognized it as the spirit beast he had summoned with the Ancient Contract Paper. After ordering it not to attack local cultivators, he met the legendary beast, bonded with it, and rode it as Great Cultivator Hu and Great Cultivator Ding arrived.

• The Warning Formation detected a powerful lightning spirit beast approaching, so Great Cultivator Hu and Great Cultivator Ding went to intercept it.
• Great Cultivator Hu and Great Cultivator Ding prepared to fight the beast, but it flashed past them without attacking and they chased after it.
• Li Shiming received Great Cultivator Hu's message and ordered the beast through the Ancient Contract Paper not to attack cultivators of the Eastern Qi Continent.
• Li Shiming identified the arriving spirit beast as a legendary Thunder Beast, welcomed it, and fed it lightning condensed with the Divine Firmament Thunder Pearl's power.
• The Thunder Beast showed Li Shiming a memory of its birthplace, a vast sea of powerful golden lightning, and let him ride on its back.
• Great Cultivator Hu and Great Cultivator Ding tracked the Thunder Beast toward the Tai Chu Branch Sect, where Li Shiming was waiting.

Li Shiming welcomed Great Cultivator Hu and Great Cultivator Ding with his newly acquired Thunder Beast, then used it to strengthen the Thunder and Lightning Rule in his blessed land. After refining Great Cultivator Spiritual Pills for Liu Ziyun, he revealed his capacity to produce five furnaces at once but warned that he could spare only two months for alchemy.

• Li Shiming told Great Cultivator Hu and Great Cultivator Ding that the Thunder Beast was his spirit pet, and the two Great Cultivators left to attend to sect affairs.
• Li Shiming brought the Thunder Beast into the Thunder and Lightning Blessed Land, where it expanded the Thunder Cloud into a sea of lightning and gradually strengthened the Thunder and Lightning Rule.
• Li Shiming refined five furnaces of Great Cultivator Spiritual Pills, keeping three perfect-quality batches and preparing ten pills from the other batches for Liu Ziyun.
• Liu Ziyun arrived at the Tai Chu Branch Sect grounds and examined the ten pills Li Shiming had prepared for him.
• Li Shiming told Liu Ziyun that he could refine up to five furnaces at once but had only two months available for alchemy.

Li Shiming raised Little Phoenix and the Phantom Spirit Dragon with Fourth Grade Late Stage resources until both reached the threshold for advancement. They successfully advanced near the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, and Li Shiming put them away before going to meet the Great Cultivators who had gathered to watch.

• Li Shiming returned to the Ten Thousand Beasts Blessed Land, reunited with Little Phoenix and the Phantom Spirit Dragon, and fed them prepared dragon and phoenix resources.
• Li Shiming released his eleven Silver Wing Spirit Gu Insects and provided them with Fourth Grade insect resources while continuing to refine pills for Great Cultivator Liu Ziyun.
• After two months, Li Shiming found the Phantom Spirit Dragon saturated with energy and gave Little Phoenix another portion of resources until it reached the same state.
• Li Shiming brought both spirit pets to a formation near the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, where they endured six hours of erupting energy and advanced to Fourth Grade Late Stage.
• Great Cultivator Hu, Great Cultivator Ding, Great Cultivator Chai, and three female Great Cultivators watched the advancement and marveled at the spirit pets’ bloodlines and the resources invested in them.
• Li Shiming fed the exhausted spirit pets spirit pills, put them in the Heavenly Human Blessed Land, removed the formation, and flew to greet the gathered Great Cultivators.

Li Shiming hosted the Luan Phoenix Palace Great Cultivators, agreed to refine pills for them, and spent two months fulfilling the order. After he delivered the pills, Great Cultivator Li announced that Luan Phoenix Palace would leave three Great Cultivators to assist the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect for a hundred years.

• Li Shiming welcomed Great Cultivator Li, Great Cultivator Ding, and Great Cultivator Jiang into the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, where Great Cultivator Li gave him insights on raising a Crimson Gold Phoenix.
• Li Shiming agreed to refine up to ten furnaces of Great Cultivator Spiritual Pills for Luan Phoenix Palace, and the two sects agreed to deepen their cooperation.
• Luan Phoenix Palace delivered a Fourth Grade Phoenix Tree as payment, and Li Shiming planted it in the Heavenly Human Blessed Land, where Little Phoenix eagerly perched on it.
• Li Shiming began refining the pills while Great Cultivator Hu managed visiting Great Cultivators, with the Five Golden Corpse Late Stage helping secure the sect.
• After two months, Li Shiming gave Great Cultivator Li twenty Great Cultivator high-grade Spiritual Pills, and she announced Luan Phoenix Palace would leave three Great Cultivators to assist the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect for a hundred years.

Li Shiming returned to the Northern Shu Continent after a century away and reached Thousand Illusions Sect seeking Yin Shilan. When a Golden Core cultivator denied that she was there, Li Shiming’s aura triggered the sect’s alarm, and he demanded an explanation from Old Ancestor Ge.

• Li Shiming left the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect and crossed the ocean toward the Northern Shu Continent aboard the White Emperor Light Cloud Boat.
• At the continent’s border, Li Shiming met Honored One Hui Ke and Li Nuo, identified himself, and continued inland without being stopped.
• Li Shiming arrived at Thousand Illusions Sect and asked a Golden Core cultivator to take him to Yin Shilan, but the cultivator claimed she was not there.
• Li Shiming’s anger unleashed his great cultivator aura, knocking the Golden Core cultivator unconscious and setting off the sect’s alarm.
• Old Ancestor Ge came out to meet Li Shiming, who demanded that she explain the cultivator’s denial.

Li Shiming returned to the Thousand Illusions Sect and discovered that Yin Shilan had been deprived of his resources and confined to a poor Cave Dwelling for a hundred years. After promising to make the cultivators who took her resources repay ten times their value, he transformed her mountain into a protected home and left the sisters with control of its defenses.

• Li Shiming reunited with Ren Fei'er and learned from Old Ancestor Ge that Yin Shilan had been kept in a poor Cave Dwelling.
• Li Shiming discovered that Yin Shilan remained at the Golden Core Middle Stage because Nascent Soul cultivators had taken the resources he left her.
• Yin Shilan explained that Old Ancestor Ge had been pressured into surrendering her resources and confining her, and Li Shiming ordered the thieves to repay ten times what they took within twenty days.
• Li Shiming promised Yin Shilan they would never be separated again and decided to improve the mountain around her Cave Dwelling.
• Li Shiming raised the mountain, fortified it with Fourth Grade Array Flags, and spread the Glazed Gold Flower across it as a defense for Yin Shilan and Ren Fei'er.

Li Shiming reunited with Yin Shilan and Ren Fei'er, outfitted Yin Shilan’s cave mansion, and gave them access to his vast collection of cultivation texts and treasures. As he began refining pills for Yin Shilan, news of his return spread across the Northern Shu Continent, and Elder Su realized Li Shiming had gone first to the Thousand Illusions Sect.

• Li Shiming installed a spiritual meridian and luxurious furnishings in Yin Shilan’s cave mansion, then offered to guide her cultivation and take her to the Eastern Qi Continent.
• Li Shiming brought out the Library Pavilion and Treasure Pavilion for Yin Shilan and Ren Fei'er, then began refining Third Grade Spirit Pills for Yin Shilan.
• Old Ancestor Zhan declared the hovering mountain a forbidden zone and contacted the other Old Ancestors after Li Shiming concealed it with a formation.
• Elder Su heard that Li Shiming had returned at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage but stayed away because he felt the Shu Mountain Sect had wronged him.
• Ye Jingxian asked to find Li Shiming, and Elder Su concluded that he had first visited the Thousand Illusions Sect.

Xiao Lu agreed to join the Northern Shu Continent’s Nascent Soul cultivators in pursuing Li Shiming, tempted by the secret of his Cave Heaven. Meanwhile, Li Shiming cared for Yin Shilan and helped Ren Fei'er prepare to resume cultivation, unaware that the pursuing cultivators were heading toward the Thousand Illusions Sect.

• Xiao Lu learned that Li Shiming had returned as a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator and possessed a Cave Heaven, then agreed to help capture him.
• The Northern Shu Continent’s Nascent Soul Old Ancestors set out with Xiao Lu toward the Thousand Illusions Sect without warning its cultivators.
• Li Shiming gave Ren Fei'er cultivation notes for her chosen Fuliu Sect technique and promised to guide her through recultivation.
• Li Shiming planned to restore Yin Shilan’s depleted body with Third Grade Spirit Fruit and Spirit Tea before sending her into closed-door cultivation.
• Li Shiming reflected that Yin Shilan’s hundred years of hardship had strengthened her state of mind, but he remained troubled because he could not act against the Thousand Illusions Sect if she objected.

Li Shiming settled Yin Shilan in the Heavenly Human Blessed Land with a lavish cultivation setup, then returned to find Ren Fei'er’s mountain under attack. After Old Ancestor Li was killed by the mountain’s Golden Flower Sea, Li Shiming revealed his Great Cultivator presence and forced the attackers to the ground.

• Li Shiming arranged for Ren Fei'er to switch cultivation methods while he watched over her progress, then brought Yin Shilan into the Heavenly Human Blessed Land.
• Li Shiming gave Yin Shilan authority over the Great Power Palace, left Little Phoenix to accompany her, and provided a Formation and top-grade spiritual pills for her cultivation.
• Li Shiming returned to find Old Ancestor Li and eight Nascent Soul cultivators attacking the mountain while Ren Fei'er watched from the Cave Dwelling.
• Old Ancestor Li charged through the Golden Flower Sea and was killed by its petals.
• Li Shiming appeared above the mountain, subdued the remaining cultivators with his Great Cultivator aura, and Xiao Lu identified him as Li Shizhen.

Li Shiming forced the Seven Great Sects of the Northern Shu Continent to merge, sparing the Old Ancestors on the condition that those who had participated in coercing Lan'er enter death seclusion. As the sects began relocating to the Thousand Illusions Sect, Elder Su became the Shu Mountain Sect's sect master and traveled with its cultivators toward their new home.

• Li Shiming ordered Xiao Lu to tell the Eastern Qi Continent's forces not to return to the Northern Shu Continent without his command, then confronted the Old Ancestors over Lan'er's lost century of cultivation.
• Li Shiming ordered the Seven Great Sects to merge at the Thousand Illusions Sect and required those who had forced Lan'er to enter death seclusion; he left five Golden Corpse Late Stage behind to enforce his decision.
• Old Ancestor Ling revealed that Li Shiming was the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect's Great Cultivator, who had defeated powerful rivals and made even super forces wary of opposing him.
• The Seven Great Sects agreed to the merger, and Old Ancestor Fan and Old Ancestor Zuo made Elder Su the Shu Mountain Sect's sect master.
• The five Golden Corpse Late Stage lifted the Shu Mountain Sect's mountain gate and Spiritual Vein from the earth and carried them, along with the cultivators, toward the Thousand Illusions Sect.

Li Shiming oversaw the relocation of the Seven Great Sects into one territory and established the Northern Shu Sect, then used IBMz15 and his supernatural forces to combine the seven old formations into a new grand formation. The new formation sealed the merged sect’s Spiritual Qi within its boundaries, while Li Shiming stood as its sole great cultivator.

• The Five Golden Corpse Late Stage set the Shu Mountain Sect’s Mountain Gate beside the Thousand Illusions Sect, and Li Shiming inspected his former home and cave residence.
• Li Shiming reunited with Elder Su, accepted the Shu Mountain Sect Leader’s Jade Token, and reassured Elder Su that the Shu Mountain inheritance would be preserved.
• Over three months, the six remaining sects joined the Shu Mountain Sect, and Li Shiming received the Yin Yang Sect’s token, marking the founding of the Northern Shu Sect.
• Li Shiming and IBMz15 analyzed the seven old grand formations and designed a new one using their existing Formation Bases.
• Li Shiming, the Five Golden Corpse Late Stage, and the Heavenly Ghost relocated the Formation Bases as the cultivators watched.
• The new grand formation covered all seven sects and locked Spiritual Qi inside the Northern Shu Sect.

Li Shiming established the Northern Shu Sect’s grand formation, management system, and Contribution Point exchange, then showed the sect’s leaders its vast library, resources, and cultivation grounds. The sect’s cultivators eagerly took on missions, while Li Shiming watched the Seven Peaks begin to unite and the Treasure Pavilion’s resources replenish.

• Li Shiming moved the Library Pavilion and Treasure Pavilion to the Northern Shu Main Peak, linked them and the seven former formations into a powerful grand formation, and convened the sect’s leaders.
• Li Shiming introduced missions, Contribution Points, exchanges for resources, and cultivation time on the Main Peak, and said the Seven Peaks’ masters would take turns serving as sect leader for one hundred years each.
• The assembled leaders chose Elder Su as the first sect leader, then inspected the Library Pavilion and discovered cultivation methods far beyond their former inheritances.
• The leaders entered the Treasure Pavilion and saw abundant magical treasures and pills, prompting them to resolve to earn Contribution Points through missions.
• Northern Shu Sect cultivators embraced missions and helped restore order across the continent, while Li Shiming watched the Seven Sects begin to unite and the Treasure Pavilion’s supplies return to a positive cycle.

After three years of preparing and guiding Yin Shilan, Li Shiming helped her advance to the Nascent Soul Stage and protected her as thunder clouds gathered for her tribulation. The Northern Shu Sect watched from afar as its first new Nascent Soul cultivator prepared to face the thunder.

• Li Shiming decided Yin Shilan was ready to advance after three years of cultivation and careful preparation.
• Li Shiming took Yin Shilan to the Suspended Mountain Peak and activated the formation he had prepared for her breakthrough.
• Yin Shilan successfully formed a Nascent Soul with the help of Fourth Grade Top Tier Spiritual Pills and abundant Spiritual Qi.
• Li Shiming bestowed a Lightning Resistance Secret Technique on Yin Shilan and reassured Ren Fei'er about her safety and future advancement.
• A Thunder Cloud gathered above Yin Shilan as cultivators of the Northern Shu Sect watched from afar.