Chapter Summaries

Li Shiming explored an ancient cultivator’s laboratory and discovered its research into eternal life, along with a Fifth Grade Pill Furnace and 108 Eternal Life Water Bear Insects. He contracted the insects and stored them away, then returned to the Peak Half-Step Great Power body, which still had thousands of years of life remaining.

• Thunder Duke examined the Peak Half-Step Great Power body, suspected it was the ancient cultivator’s spare body, and found a hidden doorway nearby.
• Thunder Duke entered a quiet chamber and collected a Fifth Grade Pill Furnace before Li Shiming read the records in the jade-carved ruyi.
• Li Shiming learned that the remains were an experimental base for eternal life, where the master had used 108 Eternal Life Water Bear Insects to preserve the spare body.
• Li Shiming remotely projected his consciousness through Thunder Duke and contracted all 108 unconscious Eternal Life Water Bear Insects.
• Thunder Duke shut down the Formation, gathered the awakened insects into a Spirit Beast Bag, and returned to the Peak Half-Step Great Power body, which still had several thousand years of lifespan.

Li Yuanba tested how one hundred and eight Eternal Life Water Bear Insects could protect him, while Great Power Leng Luo attacked the White Emperor Sect over its conflicts with the Jade Purity Sect. Great Power Xuan Yi defended the sect with its grand formation and countered Leng Luo’s lightning as the battle escalated.

• Thunder Duke searched the Ancient Remains, collected the Peak Half-Step Great Power’s body, and left after finding nothing else of value.
• Palace Master Feng paid Li Yuanba and Great Cultivator Ren Mu for their help, and Ren Mu asked Li Yuanba to assist him in the future.
• Li Shiming used IBMz15 to devise ways to apply the one hundred and eight Eternal Life Water Bear Insects, and Li Yuanba tested their entrapment formation and insect armor.
• After three Flying Boats carrying new Jade Purity Sect disciples were hijacked, Great Power Leng Luo attacked the White Emperor Sect, whose Great Power Xuan Yi prepared its grand formation for defense.
• Great Power Xuan Yi used the Invisible Yuan Magnetism force field to counter Leng Luo’s attacks, then concentrated the force field around Leng Luo.

Great Power Leng Luo attacked White Emperor Sect, but Great Power Xuan Yi wounded him with a surprise strike, and Leng Luo withdrew as their battle ended with both sides weakened. Leng Luo’s retaliation against other sects intensified the backlash against Jade Purity Sect, while Li Yuanba went into seclusion and Li Shiming continued traveling with Yin Shilan as his strength grew.

• Great Power Leng Luo overwhelmed Great Power Xuan Yi’s clone with lightning, but Great Power Xuan Yi struck from the void and wounded Leng Luo, who then withdrew.
• Great Power Xuan Yi emerged from the Inheritance Blessed Land and gathered the surviving energy of his damaged clone.
• The super forces blockaded Jade Purity Sect, its affiliated forces fled or disbanded, and its information network and resources were devastated.
• After recovering, Great Power Leng Luo destroyed hostile large sects to seize resources, further enraging the super forces as Jade Purity Sect struggled to recruit disciples.
• Li Yuanba entered seclusion while Li Shiming and Yin Shilan watched the sunrise on an island, and Li Shiming’s Boundless Immortal Fire continued strengthening his energy as he hesitated to attempt a breakthrough.

Great Power Leng Luo ignored Great Power Luo Yuan’s warnings and attacked the White Emperor Sect Mountain Gate, intending to restore the Jade Purity Sect through force. Fourteen Great Power Clones ambushed him, and although he escaped using a spatial Jade Token, he was struck by several attacks and may have suffered severe damage.

• Great Power Luo Yuan urged Great Power Leng Luo to rebuild the Jade Purity Sect slowly, but Leng Luo insisted on resolving its troubles quickly and planned another attack on the White Emperor Sect.
• Ten days later, Great Power Leng Luo left the Jade Purity Sect Mountain Gate and headed for the White Emperor Sect before the remaining Jade Purity Sect Information Network was destroyed.
• Great Power Leng Luo broke through the White Emperor Sect’s Blessed Land Space Barrier and attacked Great Power Xuan Yi’s weakened clone at the mountain gate.
• As Great Power Leng Luo prepared a powerful strike, the White Emperor Sect’s formation trapped him and more than a dozen Great Power Clones attacked.
• Great Power Leng Luo used a spatial Jade Token to escape after several attacks hit him, while the Great Power Clones worried about his possible retaliation.

The Jade Purity Sect collapsed after Great Power Luo Yuan withdrew from its affairs and its remaining cultivators abandoned the mountain gate. Li Yuanba, returning to combat missions after learning Great Power Leng Luo had been gravely injured, was pulled into a thunder-filled blessed land and confronted by Leng Luo, who blamed him for Sword Elder Ghost’s attack.

• Great Power Luo Yuan stopped responding to the Jade Purity Sect and stayed in the Inheritance Blessed Land, leaving its remaining cultivators without resources.
• Sect Master Gu Ran found farewell notes from the Jade Purity Sect’s remaining Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators, realized he was alone, and left the mountain gate.
• After learning Great Power Leng Luo had fled severely injured, Li Yuanba returned toward the Eastern Qi Continent while Li Shiming traveled back with Yin Shilan.
• On a mission journey to the Southern Zhao Continent, Li Yuanba discovered a Blessed Land Anchor Point Carrier on a small island and was pulled into Great Power Leng Luo’s thunder-dominated blessed land.
• Li Yuanba used Sword Elder’s Sword Token, but its Sword Light failed to reach Great Power Leng Luo and worsened Leng Luo’s injuries.
• As Great Power Leng Luo moved to attack Li Yuanba, Li Yuanba summoned Thunder Duke, who vanished and reappeared beside Leng Luo.

Li Yuanba, Thunder Duke, and Red Devil battled the gravely wounded Great Power Leng Luo inside his Cave Heaven, wearing him down with coordinated attacks until he died. The blessed land lost its master and fell into a state of death, while Li Yuanba approached Leng Luo's corpse in exhaustion.

• Thunder Duke repeatedly used Space Movement to attack Great Power Leng Luo at close range, while Red Devil launched a flame attack that Leng Luo evaded only partially.
• Leng Luo unleashed Thunder Explosion, but Li Yuanba protected himself with armor formed from one hundred and eight Eternal Life Water Bear Insects, and Thunder Duke and Red Devil resumed their assault.
• Li Yuanba used the Thunder Sound Bell to damage Leng Luo's already-injured soul, giving Thunder Duke and Red Devil further chances to strike.
• Thunder Duke and Red Devil continued attacking for hours, preventing Leng Luo from escaping or recovering, while Li Yuanba sustained the Thunder Sound Bell's attack.
• Great Power Leng Luo died from his accumulated injuries, and his blessed land lost its master and sank into a state of death.
• Exhausted from the battle, Li Yuanba went to Leng Luo's corpse and carefully lifted it.

Li Yuanba escaped Great Power Leng Luo’s collapsing blessed land with valuable treasures and Leng Luo’s corpse, then discovered that the corpse’s Soul Crystal Ring contained an unfamiliar race’s remains, technology, and weapons. He planned to study the finds and use the seventy-three Half-Step Great Power corpses as refined corpses.

• Thunder Duke carried Red Devil and Li Yuanba out of the collapsing blessed land, and Li Yuanba kept the Pitch Black Jade Ball before leaving for Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion.
• Li Yuanba inspected Great Power Leng Luo’s corpse and recovered a ten-times-larger Soul Crystal Ring and a Fifth Grade Sky Strike Thunder Hammer for Li Shiming to study.
• Li Yuanba collected a Fifth Grade Thunder Element Artifact Refining Material and three Heavenly Secret Treasures, learning that they had supported Leng Luo’s Thunder Blessed Land.
• Li Yuanba claimed the Soul Crystal Ring and found seventy-three Half-Step Great Power corpses and two Great Power corpses of an unfamiliar winged intelligent race.
• Li Yuanba discovered a foreign Flying Boat, unusual armor, and weapons in the ring, and planned to test the equipment with a refined corpse.

Li Shiming studied a Winged Intelligent Creature corpse and used the Refining Corpse Grand Formation to transform it. The corpse unexpectedly revived as a living being infused with Supreme Yang Energy, bearing a mysterious Holy Spirit Rule.

• Li Shiming returned to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, while Yin Shilan entered seclusion with the Heavenly Spirit Jade Pearl to advance her cultivation.
• Li Yuanba delivered his spoils of war and stayed to help Li Shiming refine corpses in the sealed valley.
• Li Shiming and IBMz15 studied a Winged Intelligent Creature corpse, discovered Supreme Yang Energy and Space Rule in its wings, and designed ten billion Refining Corpse Talismans for it.
• Li Shiming used the Server Room Space to copy the talismans onto a second corpse, then placed the first corpse in the Refining Corpse Grand Formation.
• The corpse's wings released Supreme Yang Energy, overcoming the Yin-Cold Energy and reviving it as a living being while the talismans strengthened its original power.
• Li Shiming sensed a single, unfamiliar Holy Spirit Rule within the revived Winged Intelligent Creature.

Li Shiming named the Winged Intelligent Creature Holy Spirit, helped it survive its Heavenly Tribulation, and discovered its versatile combat abilities. As Li Shiming began refining more Holy Spirits, Great Power Luo Yuan mourned Leng Luo and resolved to rebuild the ruined Jade Purity Sect.

• Li Shiming named the Winged Intelligent Creature Holy Spirit and used the Fifth Grade Sky Strike Thunder Hammer and Anti-Thunder Secret Technique to aid it through its Heavenly Tribulation.
• Holy Spirit survived the Ninth Heavenly Tribulation Lightning, received the Heaven and Earth Reward, and demonstrated abilities including spatial movement, defenses, and powerful ranged attacks.
• Li Shiming began auctioning opportunities for alchemy and limited his yearly production of Great Cultivator Spiritual Pills as he sought more Fourth Grade Top Tier Refining Corpse Material.
• Li Shiming used the Fifth Grade Boundless Immortal Fire to refine pills, nearly lost a furnace, and completed the process much faster than before.
• Great Power Luo Yuan learned that Leng Luo had fallen and found the Jade Purity Sect deserted, then suppressed thoughts of revenge and vowed to rebuild the sect.

Li Shiming auctioned fifty alchemy commissions in exchange for Fourth Grade Top Tier Refining Corpse Material, then used the materials to refine seventy-three Holy Spirits. After completing the tribulations, he kept seventy-two Holy Spirits for himself and sent Li Yuanba away with one Holy Spirit and Thunder Duke.

• Great Cultivator Hu announced that Li Shiming would auction fifty alchemy commissions, accepting only Fourth Grade Top Tier Refining Corpse Material as payment.
• The auction earned Li Shiming eighty-five portions of the required material, and the Cultivation World's demand drove its value higher.
• Li Yuanba delivered Li Shiming's completed Great Cultivator Spiritual Pills to Great Cultivator Hu, who decided to distribute them monthly over a year.
• Li Shiming finished refining seventy-three Holy Spirits, each of which survived a Half-Step Great Power Heavenly Tribulation.
• Li Shiming kept seventy-two Holy Spirits to form powerful formations and gave Li Yuanba one Holy Spirit along with Thunder Duke before they parted.

Li Shiming discovered that the Valley's tribulation-scarred aura could serve as a cultivation site for thunder cultivators, while Li Yuanba gifted Jian Wuwei a Spiritual Treasure flying sword that made him far stronger. Over the next twenty years, Li Shiming researched the Eternal Life Water Bear Insects and found a pill that could improve their strength, as Jian Wuwei rose to prominence among great cultivators.

• Li Shiming recognized the Valley's thunder-and-lightning aura as a rare cultivation resource and planned to tell Great Cultivator Hu so Ten Thousand Beasts Sect could use it.
• Li Yuanba returned to Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion after refining seventy-three Holy Spirits into Refined Corpses and congratulated Jian Wuwei on advancing to Great Cultivator.
• Li Yuanba gave Jian Wuwei a custom-made Spiritual Treasure flying sword, which Jian Wuwei made his Natal Flying Sword before Sword Elder advised him to conceal its aura.
• Li Shiming spent twenty years studying the Eternal Life Water Bear Insects with help from Ten Thousand Beasts Sect and found that Mystic Crystal Pills improved their strength.
• Jian Wuwei gained recognition as a leading new-generation great cultivator after defeating powerful enemies with his Shattering Void Sword Intent and Spiritual Treasure flying sword.

Li Shiming discovered that his progress had brought him close to heaven and earth’s limit, then learned that Great Power Luo Yuan’s clone was approaching the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect. He confronted the clone and trapped it with formations, Eternal Life Water Bear Insects, and Holy Spirits, leaving the battle poised to begin.

• Li Shiming mastered Space Movement within a restricted space and noted the improvements from refining the fifth-grade Boundless Immortal Fire, while avoiding further advancement that might trigger a heavenly tribulation.
• The Drone Satellite System detected a Great Power Clone heading toward the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, and Li Shiming identified it as likely belonging to Great Power Luo Yuan.
• Li Shiming warned Great Cultivator Hu to watch over the sect, then went to meet the clone while Great Cultivator Hu ordered the transfer of important Core Disciples.
• Great Power Luo Yuan’s clone crossed ten li to seize Li Shiming, but Li Shiming evaded the attack and trapped it inside an Imprisonment Grand Formation strengthened by the Northern Dipper Formation Diagram.
• Li Shiming summoned one hundred and eight Eternal Life Water Bear Insects as armor and surrounded the clone with seventy-two Holy Spirits in an Earth Fiend Formation; the clone recognized them as Otherworldly God War Soldiers and accused Li Shiming of betraying the Cultivation World.

Li Shiming used the seventy-two Otherworldly God War Soldiers to counter Great Power Luo Yuan's clone, who resorted to an inherited talisman to immobilize them and seize Li Shiming. Li Shiming counterattacked with the Frost Moon Ice Soul Needle, and the Holy Spirits destroyed the clone's energy body, leaving its soul trapped in a protective pearl inside the Heavenly Ghost.

• Li Shiming ordered the seventy-two Otherworldly God War Soldiers to change formation and attack, while Great Power Luo Yuan's clone tried to break through their defenses.
• Great Power Luo Yuan's clone activated an inherited talisman whose golden lightning immobilized all seventy-two Otherworldly God War Soldiers, then used the Inheritance Blessed Land's energy to confine Li Shiming.
• Li Shiming endured the clone's strike with protection from the one hundred and eight Eternal Life Water Bear Insects and counterattacked with the Frost Moon Ice Soul Needle, freezing the clone.
• The seventy-two Holy Spirits escaped confinement and shattered Great Power Luo Yuan's clone's energy body with their flying swords.
• The Heavenly Ghost swallowed the pearl containing the clone's soul, and Li Shiming learned that it would take about thirty days to refine the pearl and devour the soul.

Great Power Luo Yuan mourned the loss of his clone and entered a thousand-year long sleep, while the Jade Purity Sect’s ruined mountain gate became a radiation-tainted forbidden area. Li Shiming returned to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, then claimed the Soul Pearl for his Phantom Clone and discovered how it could protect and nourish a clone’s soul.

• Great Power Luo Yuan felt the destruction of his clone’s soul, gave up on rebuilding the Jade Purity Sect soon, and sealed himself inside a Formation to begin a thousand-year long sleep.
• The Jade Purity Sect’s mountain peak collapsed over the Inheritance Blessed Land entrance, and Radiation Pollution turned the sect’s mountain gate into a Restricted Area.
• Li Shiming returned to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, told Great Cultivator Hu that he had killed Great Power Luo Yuan’s clone, and asked him to keep it secret.
• Li Shiming reviewed the battle and tested the Heavenly Ghost’s defense before the Heavenly Ghost refined the Soul Pearl and devoured the clone’s soul fragment inside it.
• Li Shiming transferred ownership of the Soul Pearl to his Phantom Clone, which discovered that the Soul Pearl nourished and protected its soul.

Li Shiming’s Heavenly Ghost devoured the soul fragment of Great Power Luo Yuan’s clone and advanced to Half-Step Fifth Grade, surviving a Half-Step Great Power heavenly tribulation. Afterward, Li Shiming claimed the clone’s Soul Crystal Ring and discovered the Jade Purity Sect’s complete inheritance classics among its contents.

• Li Shiming sensed the Heavenly Ghost transforming and rushed with it to a valley used for heavenly tribulations.
• The Heavenly Ghost compressed its Spirit Energy and reached Half-Step Fifth Grade, triggering a Half-Step Great Power heavenly tribulation.
• The Heavenly Ghost used its inherited defensive shell technique, Li Shiming’s Lightning Resistance Secret Technique, and Void Transformation to survive the ninth lightning strike.
• Heaven and earth restored the Heavenly Ghost’s injuries and granted it comprehensive Heavenly Demon and Wraith inheritances, while its Contract with Li Shiming remained intact.
• Li Shiming claimed Great Power Luo Yuan’s clone’s Soul Crystal Ring and found the complete Jade Purity Sect inheritance, including records and formulas for advancing to Great Power.

Li Yuanba accepted Palace Master Feng’s invitation to help Luan Phoenix Palace in its contest against Great Thunderclap Temple, hoping the trip might bring him a breakthrough opportunity. Great Thunderclap Temple prepared a Golden Body Bodhisattva Guardian to face him, leaving the match poised for a dangerous confrontation.

• Li Yuanba decided to leave seclusion and seek an opportunity to advance to Half-Step Great Power.
• Palace Master Feng invited Li Yuanba to support Luan Phoenix Palace in its five-on-five contest against Great Thunderclap Temple.
• Li Yuanba arrived at Thousand Ren Mountain, where Palace Master Feng and Great Cultivator Ren Mu welcomed him onto Luan Phoenix Palace’s team.
• Mingfeng Great Honored One learned Li Yuanba would fight for Luan Phoenix Palace and asked Great Thunderclap Temple’s Bodhisattva for guidance.
• The Bodhisattva ordered Mingfeng Great Honored One to use the Golden Body Bodhisattva Guardian, a secret guardian made from a fallen Half-Step Bodhisattva’s golden body.

Li Yuanba faced Mingfeng Great Honored One in the first bout of the sparring match between Luan Phoenix Palace and Great Thunderclap Temple. After Thunder Duke and the Golden Body Bodhisattva Guardian clashed, Li Yuanba killed Mingfeng, leaving the match underway.

• Palace Master Feng and Great Thunderclap Temple agreed to settle their grievances through a five-on-five sparring match, and Li Yuanba volunteered to fight first.
• Mingfeng Great Honored One entered the arena and summoned the Golden Body Bodhisattva Guardian, whose aura reached the Half-Step Bodhisattva realm.
• Li Yuanba summoned Thunder Duke, who fought the Golden Body Bodhisattva Guardian to a deadlock.
• Li Yuanba attacked Mingfeng with Form Intention Sword and Fourth Grade Sword Foundation, repeatedly wounding him and slowing his movements.
• Li Yuanba continued his assault until Mingfeng's life force was exhausted and Mingfeng died before he could recall the Golden Body Bodhisattva Guardian.

Li Yuanba defeated Great Thunderclap Temple’s fighters, took the Golden Body Bodhisattva Guardian, and learned how to control it. Huinan Bodhisattva sought its return, but Sword Elder told him that Great Thunderclap Temple would have to offer a ransom.

• After Mingfeng Great Honored One fell, Li Yuanba stored his body and the Golden Body Bodhisattva Guardian, then defeated the Great Thunderclap Temple Great Honored One who challenged him.
• Li Yuanba’s victory ended the duel, and Palace Master Feng thanked him as Great Thunderclap Temple’s remaining fighters withdrew or were knocked out.
• Li Yuanba found the Guardian’s control token in Mingfeng Great Honored One’s Soul Crystal Ring and used it to command the Guardian, discovering that it was an ancient body-refining Half-Step Bodhisattva.
• Huinan Bodhisattva learned that Great Thunderclap Temple had lost its only Golden Body Bodhisattva Guardian and used divination to discover Li Yuanba was already inside Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion.
• Huinan Bodhisattva asked Sword Elder to arrange the Guardian’s return, but Sword Elder said Great Thunderclap Temple would have to offer Li Yuanba something in exchange.

Li Yuanba ignored Great Thunderclap Temple’s demand to return the Golden Body Bodhisattva Guardian and set out for Southern Zhao to seek cultivation experience. After Huinan Bodhisattva used divination to predict his destination, a Bodhisattva clone pursued him, closing in as Li Yuanba fled.

• Huinan Bodhisattva demanded the Golden Body Bodhisattva Guardian, but Sword Elder defended Li Yuanba and Huinan ended their contact.
• Li Yuanba rejected the demand, finished scanning the Guardian, and left Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion for a journey to Southern Zhao.
• Li Yuanba sensed that someone was using a predictive ability to track him, so he summoned the Golden Winged Great Peng and sped south.
• Huinan Bodhisattva’s attempt to calculate Li Yuanba’s moving position cracked one of his tortoise shells, but a second calculation predicted that Li Yuanba was heading to Southern Zhao.
• As Li Yuanba approached a commercial island, he sensed danger, teleported away, and was pursued by a Bodhisattva using Space Movement.
• Li Yuanba saw through the Divine Eye Art that the Bodhisattva catching up to him was a clone.

Li Yuanba summoned Sword Elder’s clone with his Sword Token when Yingchuan Bodhisattva pursued him, and Sword Elder’s single strike wounded the attacker. With the bodhisattva clone distracted and held by Li Yuanba’s summoned fighters, Li Yuanba launched a powerful sword strike, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Li Yuanba fled through the sea in the Crossing Void Shuttle, then activated his Sword Token and summoned Sword Elder’s clone when Yingchuan Bodhisattva continued pursuing him.
• Sword Elder’s clone identified Yingchuan Bodhisattva and warned that Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion would wage all-out war against Tianluo Temple if Li Yuanba were harmed.
• Sword Elder’s clone pierced Yingchuan Bodhisattva’s defenses with a single sword strike before dispersing, and he urged Li Yuanba to run.
• Li Yuanba stayed to fight, sending two Thunder Dukes and Red Devil against Yingchuan Bodhisattva while the bodhisattva tried to expel the invading sword intent.
• The Thunder Dukes restrained Yingchuan Bodhisattva, Red Devil shattered his Ice Armor, and Li Yuanba struck with Form Intention Sword infused with his Chaos Sword Intent and latest Sword Intent Monument comprehension.