Chapter Summaries

Yin Shilan successfully passed her Nascent Soul lightning tribulation with Li Shiming’s protection, and the Northern Shu Sect celebrated her advancement. Li Shiming brought her to the Heavenly Human Blessed Land and gave her treasured gifts, leaving the couple together in their new life as Nascent Soul cultivators.

• Old Ancestor Ge and Old Ancestor Zhan feared the consequences for the Northern Shu Sect if Yin Shilan failed her tribulation, while Li Shiming judged the incoming Heavenly Thunder to be weak.
• Yin Shilan endured three bolts of Heavenly Thunder without resisting and successfully received the Heaven and Earth Reward, completing her advancement to the Nascent Soul Stage.
• Li Shiming announced a year’s worth of stipend Contribution Points for every Northern Shu Sect cultivator, and Sect Leader Su thanked him on their behalf.
• Yin Shilan told Li Shiming she could finally stay by his side, and he promised to share the wider world with her.
• Li Shiming brought Yin Shilan to the Heavenly Human Blessed Land and gave her a Soul Crystal Ring containing the Land Turtle Shell they had made together, a Fourth Grade High Level Flying Boat, and a defensive magical robe.

Li Shiming gave Yin Shilan a Spiritual Treasure Flying Sword and the Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens Art, then helped her establish her new cultivation path. After visiting her parents at Inner Yang Mountain, Li Shiming formally asked to marry Yin Shilan and began telling Elder Yin about his life beyond the Northern Shu Continent.

• Li Shiming presented Yin Shilan with a Spiritual Treasure Flying Sword and the Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens Art, warning her to keep the sword's existence secret.
• Yin Shilan replaced her old Natal Magical Treasure with the compatible Spiritual Treasure Flying Sword and began cultivating the Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens Art under Li Shiming's guidance.
• After Yin Shilan stabilized her realm, she and Li Shiming traveled to Inner Yang Mountain to visit Elder Yin and Aunt Ren.
• Aunt Ren urged Li Shiming to marry Yin Shilan, and Li Shiming formally saluted her parents as his father-in-law and mother-in-law.
• Elder Yin showed Li Shiming the thriving market and asked him about the other continents, so Li Shiming recounted his journey since leaving the Northern Shu Continent.

Li Shiming and Yin Shilan left the Northern Shu Continent after saying goodbye to her family, and Li Shiming arranged protection and support for the Northern Shu Sect and Ren Fei'er. They reached the Eastern Qi Continent by sea, where Yin Shilan saw how vast and prosperous the Cultivation World was beyond her homeland.

• Aunt Ren encouraged Yin Shilan to leave with Li Shiming, and her parents blessed the couple as they formally became Dao companions.
• Li Shiming promised Yin Shilan she could return to visit her parents and gave Sect Leader Su the sect leader token and four powerful Fourth Grade Puppets to protect the Northern Shu Sect.
• Li Shiming gave Ren Fei'er a Ten Thousand Beasts Sect Core Disciple Identity Jade Disc and arranged for her to remain with their parents and receive a Master.
• Li Shiming placed the Suspended Mountain Peak in the Heavenly Human Blessed Land and departed the Northern Shu Continent with Yin Shilan aboard the White Emperor Light Cloud Boat.
• During their voyage, Li Shiming taught Yin Shilan about ocean travel, and she marveled at the Eastern Qi Continent's richer Spiritual Qi and greater cultivation resources.

Li Shiming brought Yin Shilan to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect and, after Great Cultivator Hu advised that she needed a specialist to guide her cultivation, arranged for her to become Great Cultivator Li’s disciple at Luan Phoenix Palace. Great Cultivator Li accepted Yin Shilan and promised her a Crimson Gold Phoenix within thirty years, while Yin Shilan began bonding with her new sect and its female cultivators.

• Li Shiming introduced Yin Shilan to his cave dwelling and Great Cultivator Hu, who gave her the token to Hundred Flowers Peak as a welcoming gift.
• Great Cultivator Hu urged Li Shiming to find Yin Shilan a Master at Luan Phoenix Palace to guide her in the Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens Art, and Li Shiming agreed to ask Great Cultivator Li.
• Li Shiming took Yin Shilan through the spirit beast region of Ten Thousand Beasts Blessed Land, but they found no Crimson Gold Phoenix eggs or hatchlings.
• Great Cultivator Li, Great Cultivator Ding, and Great Cultivator Jiang Hongye visited Li Shiming’s cave dwelling, where he asked Great Cultivator Li to accept Yin Shilan as her disciple.
• Great Cultivator Li accepted Yin Shilan and guaranteed that she would obtain a Crimson Gold Phoenix within thirty years, and Yin Shilan formally paid respects to her new Master.
• Great Cultivator Li and the other female cultivators discussed cultivation and daily life with Yin Shilan, while Li Shiming watched her happily join their conversation.

Li Shiming condensed a Phantom Clone and planned for it to accompany Yin Shilan on her upcoming trip to Luan Phoenix Palace. Great Cultivator Liu Ziyun visited to congratulate the couple and secure Li Shiming’s help refining pills, and Li Shiming accepted an alchemy commission in exchange for cultivation treasures for Yin Shilan.

• Li Shiming used a portion of one brain’s spirit and Chaos Spiritual Power to create a Phantom Clone, equipping it with a Sky Strike Thunder Hammer and a Divine Power Rune and rule mark.
• Li Shiming told Yin Shilan that his Phantom Clone could keep her company, and she revealed that her Master had ordered her to visit Luan Phoenix Palace in two months.
• Great Cultivator Liu Ziyun visited Li Shiming and Yin Shilan with a gift of resources for Yin Shilan’s future Crimson Gold Phoenix.
• Li Shiming agreed to accept alchemy commissions if the Central Continent Merchant Guild exchanged the remuneration for Nascent Soul Early-Middle Stage cultivation treasures.
• Great Cultivator Liu Ziyun provided twenty-six portions of Great Cultivator Spirit Herbs for Li Shiming to refine.

Li Shiming sent his Phantom Clone with Yin Shilan to Luan Phoenix Palace while his true body continued cultivating and refining pills. As they arrived at the palace, Great Cultivator Li announced that Li Shiming would have to undergo the sect’s traditional tests for a visiting bridegroom.

• Li Shiming’s true body cultivated and prepared to refine pills while his Phantom Clone accompanied Yin Shilan in the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect.
• After several months, Yin Shilan, the Phantom Clone, and five attendants boarded a Luan Phoenix Palace flying boat with Great Cultivator Li.
• During the month-long journey, Li Shiming studied the Phantom Clone’s replicated Nascent Soul, which let it store and recover energy.
• Great Cultivator Li brought the group through Luan Phoenix Palace’s spatial barrier and showed Yin Shilan the palace’s scenic outer grounds.
• As the flying boat neared the mountain gate, Great Cultivator Li told Li Shiming that Luan Phoenix Palace would put him through its traditional bridegroom tests, assuring Yin Shilan that they would not endanger his clone.

Li Shiming’s Phantom Clone arrived at Luan Phoenix Palace with Yin Shilan and faced the palace’s tests, quickly breaking a grand formation and enduring attacks from two Crimson Gold Phoenixes behind the defenses of his Golden Corpses. Palace Master Gu welcomed him and arranged a residence in Phoenix Perch Hall, where Yin Shilan could visit him despite the palace’s restrictions on male cultivators.

• Great Cultivator Li brought Yin Shilan into Luan Phoenix Palace while Li Shiming waited outside the cloud formation passage.
• Li Shiming used his mastery of formations to make the palace’s cloud-forest test disappear almost as soon as he entered it.
• Palace Master Gu sent two Crimson Gold Phoenixes to slow Li Shiming, but his five armored Golden Corpses blocked their soul-burning flames until he reached the steps and the phoenixes withdrew.
• Palace Master Gu welcomed Li Shiming at Phoenix Perch Hall, apologized for the test, and heard him dismiss the phoenixes’ attack as understandable.
• Palace Master Gu assigned Li Shiming a residence on the hall’s second floor and explained that Yin Shilan could visit him there, though male cultivators could not enter other areas without special invitation.

Li Shiming attended Yin Shilan’s initiation ceremony at Luan Phoenix Palace, where his influence drew superpower Great Cultivators and shaped the lavish proceedings. Yin Shilan became a Core Disciple and received a Crimson Gold Phoenix Egg, while Luan Phoenix Palace sought to strengthen its ties with her and Li Shiming.

• Li Shiming’s Phantom Clone received visits from Central Continent superpower Great Cultivators, who discussed alliances with the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect.
• Palace Master Gu escorted Li Shiming to Luan Phoenix Great Hall, where male cultivators from across the superpowers greeted him before the ceremony.
• Palace Master Feng opened the ceremony with the Luan Phoenix Ancestral Avatar, and Yin Shilan performed a grand bow before it.
• Palace Master Feng named Yin Shilan a Core Disciple and gave her a Crimson Gold Phoenix Egg in recognition of her contribution to Luan Phoenix Palace.
• Great Cultivators and Luan Phoenix Palace Female Cultivators congratulated Yin Shilan and presented gifts, while Palace Master Feng considered how to deepen the palace’s bond with her.

Yin Shilan became a Core Disciple of Luan Phoenix Palace, hatched and contracted a Crimson Gold Phoenix with Li Shiming's help, and began receiving the sect's Core Inheritance. Li Shiming later left the palace to meet Clone Li Yuanba near Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion, where the two exchanged Golden Corpses and spiritual pills.

• Yin Shilan opened her congratulatory gifts, and Li Shiming told her to accept the valuable offerings from the Central Continent's superpowers.
• Li Shiming used an incubation formation to hatch Yin Shilan's Crimson Gold Phoenix, which bonded with her and was named Little Phoenix.
• Li Shiming gave Yin Shilan spiritual pills and two Great Power Life-Preserving Jade Talismans before she stayed at Luan Phoenix Palace to receive its Core Inheritance.
• Li Shiming left Luan Phoenix Palace with the Five Golden Corpse Late Stage and traveled toward Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion to meet Clone Li Yuanba.
• Li Shiming gave Li Yuanba a Golden Corpse Late Stage, while Li Yuanba handed him five Golden Corpse Middle Stages to advance.

After returning to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect with Yin Shilan, Li Shiming’s Phantom Clone was ambushed by seven rogue Great Cultivators who sought to abduct her. Li Shiming’s Golden Corpses turned the fight against the attackers, while the chapter ended as one Golden Corpse seized the two Dragon Beasts assaulting the flying boat.

• After receiving her inheritance at Luan Phoenix Palace, Yin Shilan returned with Li Shiming to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect and then toured the Central Continent with him.
• Seven Great Cultivators calling themselves the Seven Immortals of the Western Sea intercepted the Emerald Flying Boat and revealed that they had been hired to take Yin Shilan.
• Li Shiming protected Yin Shilan with a Golden Corpse and array flags, then sent three armored Golden Corpses to face the seven attackers.
• The seven attackers formed the Big Dipper Formation and used a Water Shield to freeze the charging Golden Corpses, but the Corpses shattered the ice and broke through the barrier.
• Two fourth-grade mid-stage Dragon Beasts attacked the flying boat, and the Golden Corpse guarding it grabbed both of them by the neck.

Li Shiming’s Golden Corpses Late Stage defeated the Seven Wolves of the Western Sea, but the spoils revealed no reliable clue about who had hired them. Li Shiming and Yin Shilan returned to the Eastern Qi Continent, where she reunited with his real body and settled back into their home.

• Li Shiming’s three Golden Corpses Late Stage killed the seven Great Cultivators and their two Dragon Beasts, while the two surviving cultivators were shot down as they fled.
• Li Shiming collected the spoils and found that the attackers were pirates, but their stolen treasures pointed to too many superpowers to identify their employer.
• Li Shiming and Yin Shilan turned back toward the Eastern Qi Continent, and Yin Shilan refused his offer to assign her a Golden Corpse Late Stage.
• Li Shiming brought Yin Shilan home to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, where she met the stationed Great Female Cultivators and then reunited with his real body in the Heavenly Human Blessed Land.

After emerging from thirty years of seclusion at the Great Cultivator Middle Stage, Li Shiming reunited with Yin Shilan and traveled to the Central Continent to help Li Yuanba advance to Great Cultivator. Li Yuanba began his breakthrough under Li Shiming’s protection.

• Li Shiming emerged from seclusion and reunited with Yin Shilan, whose cultivation had reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Li Shiming decided to travel to the Central Continent and told Yin Shilan he would return within twenty days.
• Li Shiming rode the Thunder Beast across the ocean and met Li Yuanba at the Underwater Cave Mansion near the Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion.
• Li Shiming set up a formation centered on a projection of the Sword Intent Monument to support Li Yuanba’s breakthrough.
• Li Yuanba swallowed Great Cultivator Spiritual Pills and began advancing while Li Shiming monitored him through their soul connection.

Li Yuanba advanced to the Great Cultivator Realm with Li Shiming’s help, then returned to Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion and was welcomed by its cultivators. He sensed that one of the unfamiliar Sword Cultivator Great Cultivators greeting him was at the Peak Great Cultivator level.

• Li Shiming supplied Li Yuanba with transformed spiritual power as Li Yuanba comprehended the Sword Intent rules and broke through to the Great Cultivator Realm.
• Li Shiming left after sensing Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion’s Great Cultivators approaching, and Great Cultivator Lou and Great Cultivator Teng recognized Li Yuanba’s aura and waited for him.
• Li Yuanba emerged from the sea, greeted Great Cultivator Lou and Great Cultivator Teng, and returned with them to Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion.
• Jian Wuwei and other cultivators welcomed Li Yuanba at the mountain gate, and Jian Wuwei jokingly complained that his disciple had surpassed him again.
• Li Yuanba noticed that an unfamiliar Sword Cultivator Great Cultivator among those welcoming him had the aura of a Peak Great Cultivator.

Li Yuanba stabilized his new Great Cultivator realm, learned that the Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion was fighting over scarce Great Cultivator resources, and prepared to join its battles. He found more than ten Great Cultivator missions on his upgraded Identity Jade Disc, all involving the seizure of resource points.

• Jian Wuwei introduced Li Yuanba to Jian Tianyi and explained that the pavilion needed both his alchemy and combat strength amid conflicts over Great Cultivator resources.
• Li Yuanba asked Jian Wuwei to bring him twenty-four sets of Great Cultivator Spirit Herbs and arrange an identity for his Golden Corpse Late Stage.
• Li Yuanba cultivated for a year, stabilized his realm, and sensed the power of his sword cultivator Nascent Soul and Great Cultivator Sword Body.
• Jian Wuwei questioned Li Yuanba about the Spiritual Pills, and Li Yuanba admitted he had asked Li Shizhen to refine them before agreeing to take combat missions.
• Li Yuanba browsed the Great Cultivator Missions on his upgraded Identity Jade Disc and found more than ten missions focused on seizing Great Cultivator resource points.

Li Yuanba accepted a mission to contest the Boundless Sect’s Great Cultivator Resource Point, where he found numerous rival cultivators gathering to seize its soon-maturing resources. After arriving, he analyzed the defensive Formation and rested, while his uncontrolled Chaos Sword Intent unsettled the other Great Cultivators.

• Li Yuanba chose a mission at a Boundless Sect Great Cultivator Resource Point and received intelligence on its location, maturity date, and likely challengers.
• He used Close In An Instant to travel toward the resource point, monitored the area with a drone-satellite mirror, and saw that at least nine Great Cultivators had already arrived.
• After recovering his spiritual power, Li Yuanba approached the gathered cultivators, who recognized him from Hell Blessed Land and congratulated him on advancing to Great Cultivator.
• Li Yuanba spoke with Sun Great Cultivator of Returning Origin Sect and learned that few cultivators from the outer continents knew about the resource point’s maturation.
• Li Yuanba analyzed the Boundless Sect’s Formation with Divine Eye Art and IBMz15, identifying flaws and possible ways to enter the resource point.
• Li Yuanba rested, but his uncontrolled Chaos Sword Intent disturbed Sun Great Cultivator and the other cultivators nearby.

Li Yuanba slipped into Boundless Sect’s Great Cultivator Resource Point and reached its two mature clusters of Golden Silk Azure Spirit Grass. When the defenders opened the formations to confront him, the other Great Cultivators united against him, and his Golden Corpse Late Stage charged into their ranks.

• Several Great Cultivators withdrew rather than compete with Li Yuanba, while four others formed an alliance and stayed.
• As the resources matured, twelve Great Cultivators attacked the outer formation while three Boundless Sect Great Cultivators defended it.
• Li Yuanba used Close In An Instant to bypass the outer formation, enter the resource habitat, and find two clusters of Golden Silk Azure Spirit Grass.
• The Boundless Sect defenders opened the formations and told the attackers that an intruder had entered; the Great Cultivators turned against Li Yuanba.
• Li Yuanba’s Golden Corpse Late Stage guarded the passage, then rushed the assembled Great Cultivators and struck the one who had called for its destruction.

Li Yuanba defeated a group of fifteen Great Cultivators with the Golden Corpse Late Stage and his Chaos Sword Intent, securing the mature Golden Silk Azure Spirit Grass. After returning to the Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion, he handed the grass to Jian Wuwei to register the completed mission.

• The Golden Corpse Late Stage grievously injured one Great Cultivator while Li Yuanba's Form Intention Sword shattered two magical treasures and damaged several others.
• The Great Cultivators withdrew from the contest, and Li Yuanba healed the injured opponent before guarding the Golden Silk Azure Spirit Grass until it matured.
• Li Yuanba picked two clusters of Golden Silk Azure Spirit Grass and used Close In An Instant to leave the Resource Point, earning a reputation as a powerhouse among Great Cultivators.
• On his return, Li Yuanba reflected that he needed stronger opponents to improve his combat skills.
• Li Yuanba met Jian Wuwei, gave him the Jade Box to register the mission, and received it back after Jian Wuwei inspected the grass.

Li Yuanba entered another competition for a Great Cultivator resource, where he faced a crowd of rivals and the unexpected arrival of Peak Great Honored One Minghai. Their exchange ended with both escaping serious harm, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Li Yuanba returned to the Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion, handed the Golden Silk Azure Spirit Grass and auxiliary herbs to his Phantom Clone, then prepared for another resource mission.
• Li Yuanba arrived at a resource point watched by twenty-eight Great Cultivators and swiftly disarmed and subdued the cultivator who ambushed him.
• Twenty-seven Great Cultivators prepared to join forces against Li Yuanba, but Minghai Great Honored One arrived and drove them away with his presence and a Buddhist chant.
• Minghai Great Honored One recognized Li Yuanba, then secretly attacked him with Thunderclap Sound Divine Power as they spoke.
• Li Yuanba evaded the sound attack and struck Minghai Great Honored One with the Form Intention Sword, but Minghai repelled the Chaos Sword Intent from his body.

Li Yuanba defeated Minghai Great Honored One in a fierce contest for the Resource Point, forcing him to yield after Chaos Sword Intent repeatedly wounded him. As Li Yuanba claimed the point, the watching Great Cultivators recognized his strength as comparable to a Peak Great Cultivator and hesitated to challenge him.

• Li Yuanba used Xingyi Sword and his close-combat techniques to wound Minghai Great Honored One, while Minghai defended himself with the Kasaya, Golden Bell, Vajra Pestle, and Thunderclap Sound Divine Power.
• Minghai Great Honored One struggled to manage the Chaos Sword Intent in his wounds as Li Yuanba attacked from close range and at a distance.
• Minghai Great Honored One conceded the resources to Li Yuanba, who used Innate Yi Wood divine power to heal his wounds.
• Minghai Great Honored One thanked Li Yuanba and departed, while Li Yuanba sat at the Resource Point and the watching Great Cultivators reassessed his strength.
• A Great Cultivator at the Great Cultivator Middle Stage arrived, saw Li Yuanba at the Resource Point, and joined the other cultivators rather than approach.

Li Yuanba stopped taking ordinary Great Cultivator missions after other factions objected to his strength, and he spent the following years cultivating and strengthening the sword intent in Ten Thousand Swords Peak. He accepted a defensive mission at a Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion resource point, where he unexpectedly encountered Great Cultivator Jian Tianyi, another Peak Great Cultivator sent to defend it.

• Li Yuanba enjoyed his evenly matched battle with Minghai Great Honored One and continued taking missions to gather Great Cultivator Spirit Herbs.
• Jian Wuwei told Li Yuanba that factions had demanded he stop taking ordinary Great Cultivator missions because they regarded him as a Peak Great Cultivator, and he explained that Li Yuanba could join Peak Great Cultivator Missions instead.
• Li Yuanba spent several years cultivating and used Chaos Sword Intent to improve the sword intent in the Fourth Grade Energy Flying Swords inside Ten Thousand Swords Peak.
• Li Yuanba accepted a task to defend a Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion Great Cultivator Resource Point where nine Spirit Herbs were due to mature and more than thirty Great Cultivators were expected to compete.
• Li Yuanba entered the Defensive Formation using Close In An Instant and was startled when Peak Great Cultivator Jian Tianyi's Shattering Void Sword Intent locked onto him.
• Li Yuanba and Jian Tianyi realized they had both accepted the defensive task and laughed at the unexpected meeting.