Chapter Summaries

Great Power Luo Yuan recruited the dying Half-Step Great Power Lian Lei to capture Li Shiming, while Li Shiming discovered that his Phantom Clone had transformed into a true physical body. The clone accompanied Great Cultivator Hu across the Eastern Qi Continent, where Great Cultivator Su Tong secretly arrived and prepared to ambush Li Shiming at the Veiled Sun Branch Sect.

• Great Power Luo Yuan gave Lian Lei a jade slip about Li Shiming, and Lian Lei agreed to make one final repayment to the Jade Purity Sect by capturing him alive.
• The Jade Purity Sect sent Great Cultivator Su Tong to the Eastern Qi Continent under a disguised identity.
• Li Shiming discovered that the Phantom Clone's Nascent Soul had transformed its energy body into a physical body made from Great Cultivator Hua Ying's remains.
• Yin Shilan recognized the Phantom Clone by its aura, but Great Cultivator Hu and other Ten Thousand Beasts Sect cultivators mistook it for Li Shiming's main body.
• Great Cultivator Su Tong learned that Li Shiming would visit the Veiled Sun Branch Sect and hurried there to prepare for his arrival.

Li Shiming’s Phantom Clone was captured by Half-Step Great Power Lian Lei, who attacked while disguised as Great Cultivator Su Tong. Li Shiming’s true body sealed Lian Lei’s Blessed Land Anchor Point, leaving Lian Lei trapped and unable to reach the outside world.

• Great Cultivator Su Tong, secretly a Jade Purity Sect Great Cultivator, used Lian Lei’s Blessed Land to seize the Phantom Clone as it approached him.
• Li Shiming took control of the Four Golden Corpse Late Stage, which killed Great Cultivator Su Tong and evacuated Great Cultivator Hu and Great Cultivator Chai.
• Li Shiming used the Veiled Sun Branch Sect’s grand formation to seal the space around Lian Lei’s Blessed Land Anchor Point.
• Inside the Blessed Land, Lian Lei confirmed that the captured cultivator was Li Shizhen and demanded answers.
• The Phantom Clone warned Lian Lei to check outside, and Lian Lei discovered that the sealed Anchor Point prevented him from locating or attacking the outside world.

Li Shiming sealed Half-Step Great Power Lian Lei inside his blessed land with the Phantom Clone, then returned to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect as the Jade Purity Sect lost its intelligence network in Eastern Qi Continent. Over two years, Lian Lei remained trapped while Li Shiming used the Phantom Clone's observations to improve his understanding of the Thunder and Lightning Rule.

• Li Shiming hurried to the Veiled Sun Branch Sect, reinforced the formation sealing Lian Lei's blessed land, and ordered Great Cultivator Hu to impose confidentiality contracts.
• Inside the blessed land, Lian Lei restrained and tortured the Phantom Clone, but Li Shiming cut off its sensory connection and refused to release the seal.
• Lian Lei threatened that the Jade Purity Sect would attack, while the Phantom Clone insisted the sect would not dare come to Eastern Qi Continent.
• The Phantom Clone studied the blessed land's Thunder and Lightning Rule as Lian Lei waited for rescue.
• The Jade Purity Sect failed to contact Lian Lei, and Li Shiming helped the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect and other superpowers eliminate its intelligence personnel in Eastern Qi Continent.
• Over two years, Li Shiming stayed with Yin Shilan and used the Phantom Clone's observations to advance his understanding of the Thunder and Lightning Rule.

The Phantom Clone revealed that he was Li Shiming’s Energy Clone and used a Nascent Soul’s self-detonation to kill Half-Step Great Power Lian Lei. After collecting Lian Lei’s treasures and recording the dying Cave Heaven’s Thunder and Lightning Rule, the clone emerged as its body began reverting to an ordinary Energy Clone.

• Half-Step Great Power Lian Lei chose to kill the Phantom Clone rather than risk losing the Divine Firmament Thunder Pearl, and he released the clone’s restraints for a final battle.
• Half-Step Great Power Lian Lei realized the Phantom Clone was an Energy Clone when it revealed its mismatched Nascent Soul.
• The Phantom Clone used “Close In Distance, Far In Horizon” to bring the Nascent Soul beside Half-Step Great Power Lian Lei, then triggered its self-detonation.
• Half-Step Great Power Lian Lei died after the explosion wounded him, and the Phantom Clone evaded his final attack as the Cave Heaven began to collapse.
• The Phantom Clone collected Half-Step Great Power Lian Lei’s corpse, Soul Crystal Ring, Sky Strike Thunder Hammer, and the Cave Heaven’s Heavenly Secret Treasure, while IBMz15 recorded the Thunder and Lightning Rule.
• A Golden Corpse Late Stage removed the formations sealing the space, allowing the Phantom Clone to emerge as its materialized body began reverting to an Energy Clone.

After defeating Half-Step Great Power Lian Lei, Li Shiming learned that the Jade Purity Sect had sent him to attack and resolved to retaliate, while the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect announced Lian Lei’s death and cut off Jade Purity Sect alchemy commissions. Li Shiming studied Lian Lei’s collection of cultivation classics and invited Great Cultivator Ren Mu to help with his plans, ending after Ren Mu accepted his request in gratitude for the Fourth Grade Asking the Dao Tea.

• The Phantom Clone told Great Cultivator Hu and Great Cultivator Chai that Lian Lei had fallen and warned them to seal off the area as the cave heaven collapsed.
• The Ten Thousand Beasts Sect announced Lian Lei’s death and Li Shizhen’s refusal to accept Jade Purity Sect alchemy commissions, drawing support from other powers.
• Li Shiming reclaimed the Phantom Clone’s spoils and found many Jade Purity Sect classics, including secrets about advancing to Great Power, in Lian Lei’s Soul Crystal Ring.
• Li Shiming invited Great Cultivator Ren Mu to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect for intelligence support regarding the Jade Purity Sect.
• Li Shiming served Great Cultivator Ren Mu Fourth Grade Asking the Dao Tea, and Ren Mu entered a state of comprehension before promising to help with anything that did not involve the guild’s secrets.

Li Shiming learned from Great Cultivator Ren Mu that Jade Purity Sect possessed a Free Great Power, then obtained intelligence on the sect and secretly traveled with Yin Shilan toward the Western Yan Continent. He intercepted a Jade Purity Sect Flying Boat carrying new disciples and began setting up a powerful formation around the finished "Wrath of the Dragon," leaving his plan poised to unfold.

• Great Cultivator Ren Mu warned Li Shiming that Jade Purity Sect had a Free Great Power who might return if its mountain gate were attacked, but agreed to obtain detailed intelligence in confidence.
• Yin Shilan asked to accompany Li Shiming inside the Heavenly Human Blessed Land, and Li Shiming promised they would not part again.
• Li Shiming received Ren Mu's intelligence, left the Four Golden Corpse Late Stage corpses at the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, and secretly traveled with Yin Shilan toward the Western Yan Continent.
• Near the Western Yan Continent, Li Shiming used the Jade Purity Sect's disciple-recruitment route to locate and take control of its Large Flying Boat and its three Nascent Soul Early Stage Thunder Cultivators.
• Li Shiming arranged four Fourth Grade Top-tier Array Plates and additional Array Flags in the Flying Boat's bottom hold, then placed the finished "Wrath of the Dragon" at the formation's center.

Li Shiming secretly planted the Wrath of the Dragon aboard Jade Purity Sect’s flying boat, and its nuclear fission explosion devastated the sect’s mountain gate. He escaped to the Eastern Qi Continent and made a public appearance at the Veiled Sun Branch Sect to establish that he had been elsewhere when the attack occurred.

• Li Shiming destroyed his radiation-contaminated Isolation Suit and watched as the Wrath of the Dragon corroded the flying boat’s isolation formations during its journey to Jade Purity Sect.
• The Wrath of the Dragon detonated after the flying boat arrived, and its blast annihilated the mountain gate’s central area and many cultivators.
• Great Power Luo Yuan found the sect in ruins, discovered that nearly all its Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators had perished, and ordered survivors to search for the injured and rebuild.
• Li Shiming used Close In An Instant and the Golden Winged Great Peng to hurry toward the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, then reached the Eastern Qi Continent two days later.
• Li Shiming met selected great cultivators at the Veiled Sun Branch Sect to show that he had been on the Eastern Qi Continent during the Jade Purity Sect disaster.

After the Jade Purity Sect’s mountain gate was destroyed by Li Shiming’s “Wrath of the Dragon,” Great Power Luo Yuan struggled to contain Radiation Pollution and rebuild the sect while investigating the attacker. Li Shiming reflected on the weapon’s power and cost, and the chapter left him feeling his retaliation had improved his chances of advancing while his connection to the explosion remained unknown.

• Great Power Luo Yuan split the polluted rain clouds but had to return to his blessed land, allowing Radiation Pollution to fall over the Jade Purity Sect’s ruins.
• Great Cultivator Ren Mu concluded Li Shiming had likely destroyed the mountain gate, then used news of Li Shiming’s appearance at the Veiled Sun Branch Sect to ease suspicion around himself.
• After reports from departing cultivators revealed the polluted ruins, Great Power Luo Yuan ordered the Jade Purity Sect to replace contaminated soil, recall its cultivators, abandon its resource points, and investigate the attack.
• Li Shiming told Yin Shilan that he had destroyed the Jade Purity Sect’s mountain gate, and she accepted his retaliation without objection.
• Li Shiming analyzed the “Wrath of the Dragon” with IBMz15, weighing its devastating power against its delivery flaws and nearly century-long production time.
• After two months without word linking him to the explosion, Li Shiming trusted Great Cultivator Ren Mu and felt his chances of advancing to Half-Step Great Power had improved.

The Jade Purity Sect struggled to rebuild after the explosion of "Wrath of the Dragon," while the White Emperor Sect exploited its weakness to seize its resources and isolate its mountain gate. Li Shiming learned that Luo Yuan was unlikely to threaten him soon and continued tracking radiation’s effects, which remained devastating ten years later.

• Luo Yuan learned that the Jade Purity Sect’s recalled cultivators had disappeared and that the White Emperor Sect was suspected of taking them.
• The White Emperor Sect blockaded the Jade Purity Sect’s mountain gate and seized its resource points and affiliated territories across the Western Yan Continent.
• Luo Yuan challenged Xuan Yi, but Xuan Yi’s Clone retreated, leaving Luo Yuan to conserve his dwindling Cave Heaven energy.
• Li Shiming learned of the White Emperor Sect’s expansion and concluded that Luo Yuan would be unable to threaten him for at least several hundred years.
• Li Shiming arranged for the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect to build an Information Network to monitor the Western Yan Continent and gather data on radiation’s effects.
• Ten years later, more than half of the Jade Purity Sect’s Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment cultivators had died, while surviving cultivators across all levels suffered lasting physical or spiritual damage.

After decades of radiation devastated the Jade Purity Sect, Great Power Luo Yuan sent a plea for help as he feared the sect’s survivors would perish. Meanwhile, Li Yuanba advanced to Peak Great Cultivator and received new privileges from Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion.

• Great Power Luo Yuan saw that radiation had reduced the Jade Purity Sect’s survivors to just over two thousand and sent the sect’s predicament to a distant power through an Array Plate.
• Li Yuanba used Top Grade Great Cultivator Spiritual Pills and five high-grade auxiliary pills to attempt his breakthrough in the Sword Blessed Land.
• Sword Elder and Jian Wuwei sensed Li Yuanba’s rising cultivation, and Sword Elder told Jian Wuwei that his disciple was advancing to Peak Great Cultivator.
• Li Yuanba stabilized his cultivation at Peak Great Cultivator, and Sword Elder praised his Chaos Sword Intent as nearly matching the Sword Intent Monument.
• Sword Elder granted Li Yuanba access to the pavilion’s core classics, promised a Heavenly Secret Treasure for his future Cave Heaven, and gave him priority access to the Sword Intent Monument.

Li Yuanba studied the Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion’s inheritance, received the Crossing Void Shuttle from Li Shiming, and set out for the Western Yan Continent to claim mature Great Cultivator resources. His arrival sent the other contenders fleeing, leaving him as the uncontested victor before the resources matured.

• Li Yuanba studied the Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion’s core classics, while Li Shiming’s Phantom Clone brought him the Heavenly Spirit Jade Pearl and exchanged it for the Crossing Void Shuttle.
• After two months in the core Library Pavilion, Li Yuanba accepted a mission in the Western Yan Continent and gave Jian Wuwei Spiritual Pills, including fifty high-grade pills for Great Cultivators.
• Jian Wuwei warned Li Yuanba about the White Emperor Sect, but Li Yuanba declared he was confident he could defeat its cultivators if no Great Power intervened.
• Li Yuanba traveled underwater in the Crossing Void Shuttle to a White Emperor Sect resource point, where twenty Great Cultivator Spirit Herbs would mature in seven days.
• The Great Cultivators gathered at the resource point recognized Li Yuanba, and Cui Cheng fled; the other contenders withdrew as well, leaving Li Yuanba as the sole claimant.

Li Yuanba took Great Cultivator Spirit Herbs from the Great Cultivator Resource Point and entered the ruined Jade Purity Sect to investigate the radiation left by Wrath of the Dragon. After Great Power Luo Yuan's Clone discovered his drone and pursued him, Li Yuanba escaped, while Luo Yuan unleashed his fury on the cultivators blockading the sect.

• Li Yuanba spent seven days at the Great Cultivator Resource Point, collected twenty Great Cultivator Spirit Herbs, and left as the Cultivation World recognized him as its second-ranked great cultivator.
• Li Yuanba used a Jade Purity Sect Identity Jade Disc to pass through the Blessed Land Space Barrier and sent a concealed drone to survey radiation at the sect's mountain gate.
• Great Power Luo Yuan's Clone caught the drone, which self-destructed, and then targeted Li Yuanba.
• Li Yuanba fled using Close In An Instant and Sword Escape, and sent a Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion SOS Sword Light to make his identity known.
• Great Power Luo Yuan's Clone hesitated at the SOS signal, allowing Li Yuanba to escape into the sea, then killed nearly forty Nascent Soul Early-Middle Stage cultivators with a single strike.

Li Yuanba escaped Great Power Luo Yuan and spent the next ten years building his reputation through combat missions for Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion. Alarmed by his strength and rapid rise, five superpowers agreed to join forces and use five supreme treasures to capture or kill him.

• Li Yuanba fled Western Yan Continent after Jian Clan Sword Light deterred Great Power Luo Yuan, then returned to Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion and resumed taking combat missions.
• Over the next ten years, Li Yuanba killed more than a hundred renowned cultivators, including Peak Great Cultivators, strengthening Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion's position.
• Great Cultivators from five superpowers met to plan Li Yuanba's death, fearing his rise would upset the balance of power on Central Continent.
• The factions agreed to send large forces, while the Returning Origin Sect offered seven Great Cultivators and the Heart Inquiry Rope to uncover Li Yuanba's secret if he were captured alive.
• After discussing Li Yuanba's extraordinary cultivation speed, the five superpowers committed the Boundless Flame Peak, Northern Dipper Formation Diagram, Thunder Sound Bell, Eye of the Storm, and Heart Inquiry Rope to the operation.

Li Shiming reforged Li Yuanba’s Form Intention Sword and sent him out to seek battle, where Li Yuanba accepted a wanted mission for the powerful Rogue Cultivator Chao Qi. At Chao Qi’s Black Market, Li Yuanba walked into a hidden Big Dipper Grand Formation and began searching for the enemy behind the trap.

• Li Shiming reforged Li Yuanba’s Form Intention Sword with Iridescent Glaze Gold, inscribing one billion Speed Runes, one billion Sharpness Runes, and four hundred million Fortification Runes.
• Li Shiming lent Li Yuanba the Golden Winged Great Peng, and Li Yuanba left the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect with ten portions of Fourth Grade Asking the Dao Tea.
• Li Yuanba returned to Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion, accepted a wanted mission for Chao Qi, and traveled to the Central Continent Black Market where Chao Qi was staying.
• Li Yuanba asked Yu Jin to let him arrest Chao Qi, but Yu Jin hesitated before yielding as Li Yuanba entered the Black Market.
• Li Yuanba arrived at Chao Qi’s Cave Dwelling and discovered that a concealed Big Dipper Grand Formation had trapped him.

Li Yuanba turned the Northern Dipper Formation Diagram against the cultivators who had trapped him, killing Yu Chao and claiming the supreme treasure. As the remaining Great Cultivators tried to break free, Minghai Great Honored One attacked Li Yuanba’s soul with the Thunder Sound Bell, prompting Li Shiming to take remote control of his body.

• A Flying Feather Sect Great Cultivator attacked Li Yuanba from within the formation, but Li Yuanba dodged and killed him with the Form Intention Sword.
• Li Yuanba used Ten Thousand Swords Unleashed to confuse the formation’s hidden cultivators, located Yu Chao, and killed him with the Xingyi Sword.
• Li Yuanba claimed the Northern Dipper Formation Diagram and discovered that all the besieging Great Cultivators were trapped inside it, including cultivators from nearly every Central Continent superpower.
• A Northern Dipper Sect Great Cultivator warned the others that Yu Chao had fallen and urged them to break the formation, while Minghai Great Honored One used the Thunder Sound Bell to attack Li Yuanba’s soul.
• Li Shiming remotely took control of Li Yuanba’s body, and his many brains divided the Thunder Sound Bell’s soul attack among themselves.

Li Shiming took control of Li Yuanba’s body and used the Big Dipper Grand Formation, a Golden Corpse Late Stage, and the Sun Shooting Bow to kill Minghai Great Honored One and five other Great Honored Ones. After Li Yuanba regained control, he faced Great Cultivator Cui Cheng, whose Boundless Flame Peak threatened to break through the formation.

• Li Shiming remotely controlled Li Yuanba, wounded Minghai Great Honored One with an arrow, and killed the other five Great Honored Ones with close-range sword strikes.
• Li Yuanba’s Form Intention Sword pierced Minghai Great Honored One after the Thunder Sound Bell’s soul attack stopped, and Li Yuanba sealed the bell in a Jade Box.
• Li Yuanba saw that the Golden Corpse Late Stage had killed four Flying Feather Sect Great Cultivators, while Great Cultivator Le remained protected by the Eye of the Storm.
• Li Yuanba found that Boundless Sect’s six Great Cultivators were attacking the formation with the Boundless Flame Peak, while Returning Origin Sect’s seven Great Cultivators posed little threat.
• Great Cultivator Cui Cheng used the Boundless Flame Peak to suppress Li Yuanba, but Li Yuanba blocked its strike with the Northern Dipper Formation Diagram and feared the formation would not withstand another blow.

Li Yuanba used the Northern Dipper Formation Diagram and his Form Intention Sword to eliminate the Boundless Sect and Returning Origin Sect cultivators trapped in the formation. He then concentrated the formation’s power against Great Cultivator Le, whose Eye of the Storm began to run short of energy.

• Li Yuanba escaped Boundless Flame Peak, used Ten Thousand Swords Peak to suppress the Boundless Sect cultivators, and killed Great Cultivator Cui Cheng with the Form Intention Sword before the other five Great Cultivators fell to his energy flying swords.
• Li Yuanba sealed and stored Boundless Flame Peak after discovering it bore a Spirit Mark left by a great power.
• Li Yuanba kept the Golden Corpse Late Stage on Great Cultivator Le while he attacked the seven Returning Origin Sect cultivators, killing them with one Form Intention Sword strike without revealing their suspected treasure.
• Li Yuanba contracted the Big Dipper Grand Formation around Great Cultivator Le and repeatedly attacked him with its suppression force.
• Great Cultivator Le blocked the formation’s attacks with the Eye of the Storm, but the treasure began to run short of energy without Spiritual Qi to absorb.

Li Yuanba defeated the ambush by five Super Powers, secured their treasures, and received Sword Elder’s protection after the Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion removed the treasures’ Spirit Marks. He later found a Heart Inquiry Rope among the spoils and realized the Returning Origin Sect had intended to interrogate him about his rapid advancement.

• Li Yuanba sealed Great Cultivator Le’s Nascent Soul and the four Nascent Souls hidden in Le’s Spirit Gathering Gourd, then used Mind Penetration to collapse Great Cultivator Yu Jin’s soul and destroyed the Black Market’s buildings and Formations.
• Li Yuanba returned to the Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion and asked Sword Elder to remove the Spirit Marks from Boundless Flame Peak, Eye of the Storm, and Thunder Sound Bell.
• Sword Elder expelled the Spirit Marks and offered to handle any trouble, after Li Yuanba revealed that all thirty-one Great Cultivators involved in the ambush had died.
• Sword Elder ordered the Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion to seize Great Cultivator Resource Points from the weakened Five Great Super Powers.
• Li Yuanba examined the spoils of war and found a Heart Inquiry Rope, which he recognized as a tool the Returning Origin Sect had planned to use to question him.

After recovering from his battle with the Five Great Super Powers, Li Yuanba accepted a mission to guard a Great Cultivator Resource Point and tested several supreme treasures on the way there. He arrived at the resource point as he prepared for powerful cultivators to contest its maturing herbs.

• News of Li Yuanba killing thirty-one Great Cultivators spread, raising his reputation above Li Shiming among many factions.
• After a month of rest and studying the five supreme treasures, Li Yuanba accepted a mission to guard a Great Cultivator Resource Point where Spirit Herbs were about to mature.
• On his journey, Li Yuanba tested the Thunder Sound Bell and discovered its soul-destroying attack could reach ten thousand meters.
• Li Yuanba tested the Boundless Flame Peak and Eye of the Storm, finding the former costly and better suited to Li Shiming, while the latter could defend against and threaten Peak Great Cultivators.
• The Phantom Clone met Li Yuanba, collected Great Cultivator Le's Nascent Soul, and left to restore its physical body.
• Li Yuanba kept the five treasures with him and arrived at the Great Cultivator Resource Point after half a day of travel.

Li Yuanba guarded a Great Cultivator Resource Point with Great Cultivator Wu Ge, sharing insights on sword intent and giving Wu Ge Top Grade Asking the Dao Tea. Li Yuanba’s sword light drove away the cultivators competing for the herbs, and he left it hanging over the resource point as he departed with the harvested spirit herb.

• Li Yuanba arrived at the resource point, where Great Cultivator Wu Ge welcomed him and showed him the nearly mature Great Cultivator Spirit Herbs.
• Li Yuanba and Great Cultivator Wu Ge discussed sword intent, then Li Yuanba gave Wu Ge Top Grade Asking the Dao Tea and agreed to protect him while he drank it.
• Li Yuanba sent a sword light into the sky, prompting Great Cultivator Ren Mu and the other Great Cultivators gathered outside to withdraw.
• Great Cultivator Wu Ge gained a breakthrough after drinking the tea, and he continued discussing his new insights with Li Yuanba.
• The resource point remained unchallenged until its Great Cultivator Spirit Herb was harvested, and Li Yuanba left the sword light in place as he departed with the herb.