Chapter Summaries

Li Yuanba killed Yingchuan Bodhisattva's Clone with the Form Intention Sword and Fourth Grade Sword Foundation, gaining a crack in the bottleneck to Half-Step Great Power. He returned to Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion, where Sword Elder placed him in seclusion with the resources needed for advancement, while Yingchuan Bodhisattva and Sword Elder prepared for the consequences of the conflict.

• Li Yuanba used his Form Intention Sword and Fourth Grade Sword Foundation to drive Chaos Sword Intent into Yingchuan Bodhisattva's Clone, killing it despite its attempt to strike him with an ice needle.
• Yingchuan Bodhisattva's Clone left behind a Soul Crystal Ring, and Li Yuanba sensed that his bottleneck to Half-Step Great Power had cracked open before flying toward Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion.
• Yingchuan Bodhisattva suffered damage through the lost Clone and blamed Huinan Bodhisattva for provoking Li Yuanba, while Sword Elder considered a full-scale war against Great Thunderclap Temple.
• The Golden Winged Great Peng brought Li Yuanba back to Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion, where Sword Elder recognized that Li Yuanba was deep in comprehension and had no bottleneck to advancement.
• Sword Elder carried Li Yuanba to the sect's Half-Step Great Power advancement peak and arranged a Metal Element Heavenly Secret Treasure for his seclusion.

Li Yuanba completed his advancement to Half-Step Great Power by forming a blessed land around a Space Stone and stabilizing it with a Metal Element Heavenly Secret Treasure. As Li Shiming worried over what the process meant for his own advancement, the news spread and prompted Yingchuan Bodhisattva and Palace Master Feng to reassess Li Yuanba.

• After a hundred days of absorbing Spiritual Qi, Li Yuanba collapsed his Nascent Soul into a point of light and attached it to a Space Stone, entering an embryonic blessed land.
• Li Yuanba spent ten years within the growing blessed land, then placed a Metal Element Heavenly Secret Treasure inside and controlled its energy with help from IBMz15.
• Sword Elder sensed Gold Element Rule power from the Space Stone and confirmed that Li Yuanba had become a Half-Step Great Power.
• Li Shiming studied Li Yuanba's advancement records and became less confident about advancing his own five Nascent Souls.
• After the news spread, Yingchuan Bodhisattva decided to offer benefits to reconcile with Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion, while Palace Master Feng learned that Li Yuanba had advanced before her.

After Yin Shilan emerged from forty-five years of seclusion as a Peak Great Cultivator, Li Shiming and Great Cultivator Hu agreed to keep her advancement quiet while she stabilized her realm. Her master, Great Cultivator Li, later invited her to Luan Phoenix Palace to receive its inheritance for advancing to Half-Step Great Power, and Li Shiming decided to accompany her.

• Yin Shilan emerged from seclusion as a Peak Great Cultivator, and Li Shiming congratulated her.
• Great Cultivator Hu visited after sensing Yin Shilan's aura, celebrated her advancement, and agreed to keep it quiet while she continued cultivating.
• Yin Shilan spent several years stabilizing her realm with Li Shiming before Great Cultivator Li came to visit her.
• Great Cultivator Li confirmed Yin Shilan's advancement and invited her to Luan Phoenix Palace to receive its Half-Step Great Power inheritance.
• Li Shiming agreed to travel to Luan Phoenix Palace with Yin Shilan, and Great Cultivator Li promised the palace would protect them.

Li Shiming and Yin Shilan arrived at Luan Phoenix Palace, where Palace Master Feng welcomed them and offered Li Shiming membership and access to the palace’s Inheritance Blessed Land; he declined both while Yin Shilan went to receive an inheritance. Meanwhile, Li Yuanba advanced his blessed land by adding the Sword Intent and Space Rules, causing it to expand rapidly.

• Palace Master Feng welcomed Li Shiming and Yin Shilan to Luan Phoenix Palace and held a banquet for them in War Phoenix Hall.
• Palace Master Feng invited Li Shiming to join Luan Phoenix Palace and offered him a place in its Inheritance Blessed Land, but he refused both offers.
• Yin Shilan went to the Inheritance Blessed Land to receive a Half-Step Great Power inheritance, while Li Shiming moved into Phoenix Perch Hall.
• News of Li Shiming’s visit drew Great Cultivators from across the Central Continent, and he received selected visitors through his Phantom Clone.
• Fifty years after constructing his blessed land, Li Yuanba added the Sword Intent Rule and Space Rule to it, and the Space Rule expanded its radius from thirty meters to over one hundred and twenty meters.

Li Shiming accidentally triggered a Half-Step Great Power heavenly tribulation after sharing Clone Li Yuanba’s Gold Element Rule comprehension and testing its power. As the Thunder Cloud intensified, he summoned one hundred and eight Eternal Life Water Bear Insects, provoking an enormous surge in its might while Palace Master Feng ordered the witnesses to retreat.

• Li Shiming’s Gold Element Rule reached the Half-Step Great Power level through the comprehension shared by Clone Li Yuanba, and testing it caused Heaven and Earth to lock onto him.
• Li Shiming fled Luan Phoenix Palace and faced the first two bolts of Heavenly Thunder, healing himself between strikes as the second bolt left him badly injured.
• Palace Master Feng arrived with other cultivators, ordered them to keep away from Li Shiming, and later commanded everyone to retreat ten li as the Thunder Cloud’s pressure grew.
• Li Shiming summoned one hundred and eight Eternal Life Water Bear Insects, causing the Thunder Cloud to expand several times and its lightning to become terrifyingly powerful.

Li Shiming survived a Half-Step Great Power heavenly tribulation with armor formed by his Eternal Life Water Bear Insects, then returned to Luan Phoenix Palace to study his extraordinary strength. When he used his newly gained Half-Step Great Power spatial energy, Heaven and Earth triggered another tribulation, leaving him facing a powerful Heavenly Thunder protected by the insects.

• Li Shiming used his one hundred and eight Eternal Life Water Bear Insects as armor to withstand all nine bolts of the Half-Step Great Power heavenly tribulation.
• The Heaven and Earth Reward strengthened Li Shiming’s body, soul, perception, and Chaos Spiritual Power, but his Nascent Soul remained at the Great Cultivator limit.
• Palace Master Feng asked Li Shiming about his realm, and he said he remained a Great Cultivator who could wield Half-Step Great Power strength.
• Li Shiming returned to Luan Phoenix Palace and secluded himself, while news of his tribulation spread and super forces judged that he had taken the wrong cultivation path.
• When Clone Li Yuanba’s progress gave Li Shiming Half-Step Great Power Sword Intent and Space Rules, Li Shiming’s use of Divine Foot Passage triggered another heavenly tribulation.
• Li Shiming returned to the previous tribulation site and summoned the Eternal Life Water Bear Insects to form armor as an extreme Heavenly Thunder gathered overhead.

Li Shiming endured two more Half-Step Great Power Heavenly Tribulations, receiving diminishing Heaven and Earth Rewards that strengthened his body, soul, and spiritual power. After returning to Luan Phoenix Palace, he met Great Power Meng Jun, who told him that his unusual cultivation had not ruled out advancing to Half-Step Great Power but made constructing a Cave Heaven unpredictable.

• Palace Master Feng watched as Li Shiming survived nine bolts of Heavenly Thunder and received a second Heaven and Earth Reward.
• Li Shiming manifested his Half-Step Great Power Sword Intent Rules, triggering a third Heavenly Tribulation, and Palace Master Feng ordered the Great Cultivators to guard the area.
• Li Shiming endured another nine bolts of Heavenly Thunder and received a weaker third Heaven and Earth Reward, while IBMz15 recorded data from the lightning.
• Li Shiming stopped testing for further tribulations, assessed his increased strength, and returned to Luan Phoenix Palace with Palace Master Feng.
• Palace Master Feng brought Great Power Meng Jun to meet Li Shiming, and Meng Jun explained that his five Nascent Souls made Cave Heaven construction uncertain but did not prevent him from advancing to Half-Step Great Power.

Palace Master Feng brought Li Shiming to Luan Phoenix Palace’s Library Pavilion, where he copied and studied its Half-Step Great Power inheritance. Meanwhile, Li Yuanba strengthened his Cave Heaven and treasures while Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion faced a growing conflict and he remained unable to leave his Cave Heaven.

• Palace Master Feng told Li Shiming that Great Power Meng Jun had opened Luan Phoenix Palace’s Half-Step Great Power inheritance to him, and Li Shiming thanked her.
• Li Shiming signed a contract, copied more than a thousand Jade Slips in the Library Pavilion, and studied the inheritance for ten days as reference for his own cultivation.
• Great Thunderclap Temple joined four other super forces in confronting Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion after Li Yuanba advanced to Half-Step Great Power and Great Power Leng Luo disappeared.
• Li Yuanba discovered that his Cave Heaven slowly increased its energy production to sustain the four Half-Step Great Power combatants he had summoned.
• Li Yuanba used Cave Heaven energy to strengthen Ten Thousand Swords Peak and Form Intention Sword, and considered whether to borrow Eternal Life Water Bear Insects to resist his heavenly tribulation.

After learning that Great Thunderclap Temple’s Thousand Hands Hall had killed his disciple Lou Wu, Li Yuanba prepared a retaliation from within his blessed land. He sent a sword-light weapon toward Great Thunderclap Temple, and it bypassed the mountain gate’s defenses.

• Li Yuanba summoned his master, Jian Wuwei, into his blessed land and learned that Lou Wu had been killed by Venerables from Thousand Hands Hall during the war between Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion and five allied superpowers.
• Li Yuanba suppressed his anger when it threatened the blessed land, then insisted that Jian Wuwei provide detailed information about Thousand Hands Hall so he could retaliate.
• After receiving the information three days later, Li Yuanba formed a sword-light weapon from his Natal Flying Sword, infused it with ten years of Metal Element Energy, and strengthened it with three rules.
• Li Yuanba sent the weapon toward Great Thunderclap Temple, where its divided Artifact Spirit consciousness used the Space Rule to pass through the mountain gate’s defenses.

Li Yuanba used a long-range flying sword attack to avenge Lou Wu by killing Great Thunderclap Temple's Great Honored Ones and wiping out Thousand Hands Hall. The attack shifted the balance of power on the Central Continent, though Li Yuanba's sword needed years to recover before it could strike again.

• Li Yuanba's merged sword light breached Great Thunderclap Temple's mountain-gate formation and killed more than six Great Honored Ones.
• The sword light reached Thousand Hands Great Hall, split into one hundred blades, and killed every monk of Thousand Hands Hall before Huinan Bodhisattva's clone arrived.
• Huinan Bodhisattva recognized Li Yuanba's sword-light marker, but learned Li Yuanba had remained in secluded cultivation and inferred that a remote flying-sword assassination had been used.
• Jian Wuwei told Great Cultivator Lou that Li Yuanba had avenged Lou Wu, and Great Cultivator Lou wept after learning the extent of the attack.
• The Boundless Sect, Northern Dipper Sect, Returning Origin Sect, and Flying Feather Sect recalled hostile cultivators and offered to negotiate with Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion.
• The attack's immense energy cost left Li Yuanba unable to repeat it for years, but news of the strike restored him to the ranks of the Cultivation World's strongest combatants.

After returning to the Eastern Qi Continent, Li Shiming developed pills to advance the Eternal Life Water Bear Insects beyond the Fourth Grade Late Stage. Their simultaneous breakthrough triggered a massive heavenly tribulation, leaving their survival uncertain as the first thunderbolts struck.

• Li Shiming and Yin Shilan left Luan Phoenix Palace and discussed its Half-Step Great Power inheritance on their flight back to the Eastern Qi Continent.
• Li Shiming returned to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect and used IBMz15 to devise the Eternal Life Water Bear Pill from an ancient formula and substitute spirit medicines.
• Li Shiming refined pills in the Hundred Herbs Furnace and, over two years, prepared 108 Top Grade pills along with more than ten thousand high-grade pills.
• Li Shiming fed all 108 Eternal Life Water Bear Insects high-grade pills, then gave each one a Top Grade pill when their energy reached a critical point.
• The Eternal Life Water Bear Insects advanced to Half-Step Fifth Grade, formed the Earth Fiend Formation, and faced a tribulation of 972 Heavenly Thunders.
• Li Shiming realized he had miscalculated the number of thunderbolts as the first 108 struck and covered every Eternal Life Water Bear Insect in lightning.

Li Shiming’s one hundred and eight Eternal Life Water Bear Insects survived their tribulation and reached Half-Step Fifth Grade, drawing the attention of the Cultivation World’s superpowers. He intercepted Huinan Bodhisattva’s clone in the Thirty-Three Heavens, where the clone recognized the insects’ power and considered bringing Li Shiming into the Great Thunderclap Temple.

• The one hundred and eight Eternal Life Water Bear Insects endured nine rounds of Heavenly Thunder, reached Half-Step Fifth Grade, and formed armor around Li Shiming.
• Li Shiming’s virtual Sensing God Monument showed him how to construct a Cave Heaven, but its illusion ended before revealing what followed.
• Li Shiming detected an approaching Great Power Clone, alerted Great Cultivator Hu, and left the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect to intercept it.
• Li Shiming summoned the Eternal Life Water Bear Insects and met Huinan Bodhisattva’s clone in the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Huinan Bodhisattva’s clone recognized that Li Shiming’s armor consisted of one hundred and eight Half-Step Fifth Grade Spirit Insects and considered taking him back to the Great Thunderclap Temple.

Li Shiming battled Huinan Bodhisattva's clone, whose Buddha lotus blocked his attacks and enabled swift Space Movement. After the clone’s powerful strike failed to harm Li Shiming’s insect armor and drained most of its energy, Li Shiming attacked as the clone tried to escape.

• Huinan Bodhisattva's clone offered to take Li Shiming as a disciple, but attacked after Li Shiming mocked the Great Thunderclap Temple’s defeat by Li Yuanba.
• Li Shiming used the Northern Dipper Formation Diagram and Space Movement to evade the clone’s attacks, while the clone’s Inheritance Buddha Lotus blocked the Traceless Illusion Sword.
• The clone unleashed a huge Buddha hand to suppress Li Shiming, but the one hundred and eight Eternal Life Water Bear Insects absorbed and healed the damage.
• The clone’s attack consumed most of its energy, and Li Shiming rushed in with his Half-Step Fifth Grade Sword Foundation and Traceless Illusion Sword as the clone tried to flee.

Li Shiming defeated Huinan Bodhisattva's Clone and took the Inheritance Buddha Lotus, then retaliated against Great Thunderclap Temple by destroying much of its mountain gate. Huinan Bodhisattva arrived after the attack was over, leaving the temple badly damaged and Li Shiming already escaping.

• Li Shiming drained Huinan Bodhisattva's Clone's energy, interrupted its Mutual Destruction Secret Art with the seventy-two Holy Spirits, and had the Heavenly Ghost swallow its soul.
• Li Shiming took the Buddhist lotus into the Server Room Space and learned from Luan Phoenix Palace's intelligence why his actions had drawn the Great Powers' attention.
• Li Shiming mounted the Golden Winged Great Peng and traveled to the Great Thunderclap Temple Mountain Gate to warn the Great Powers against scheming against him.
• Huinan Bodhisattva realized his Clone and the Inheritance Buddha Lotus were lost, then planned to recruit other Great Powers for another ambush after they recovered their energy.
• Li Shiming passed through Great Thunderclap Temple's defenses and unleashed two waves of 150 Boundless Immortal Fire-enhanced fireballs, destroying nearly half the mountain gate.
• Huinan Bodhisattva arrived at the mountain gate on the sixth breath, after Li Shiming had escaped on the Golden Winged Great Peng.

Li Shiming retaliated against Huinan Bodhisattva by devastating Great Thunderclap Temple, prompting the cultivation world to recognize him as an extreme threat. After returning to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect and accepting the title of old ancestor, he strengthened his intelligence and surveillance networks while preparing for possible attacks by allied Great Powers.

• Huinan Bodhisattva found Great Thunderclap Temple's Mountain Gate ruined and more than sixty thousand monks dead, but turned back when Li Shiming's distant aura made pursuit too risky.
• The super forces learned that Li Shiming had infiltrated Great Thunderclap Temple, and they raised his threat level after linking the attack to Huinan Bodhisattva's missing clone.
• Great Cultivator Hu and the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect's cultivators welcomed Li Shiming home and honored him as the sect's old ancestor, which he accepted.
• Li Shiming found that the Heavenly Ghost had grown stronger after devouring Huinan Bodhisattva's clone's soul, then had it erode the Divine Firmament Thunder Pearl and the Inheritance Buddha Lotus.
• Li Shiming ordered the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect to build intelligence networks across the continents and expanded drone satellite and Investigation Formation coverage around the Eastern Qi Continent.

Li Shiming claimed the Divine Firmament Thunder Pearl and Inheritance Buddha Lotus as his own, then prepared at Thunder Hell to advance his spirit pets to Half-Step Fifth Grade. Little Phoenix, the Phantom Spirit Dragon, the Thunder Beast, and the Golden Winged Great Peng all survived their tribulations and gained new strength.

• After ten years, the Heavenly Ghost devoured the Spirit Marks in the Divine Firmament Thunder Pearl and Inheritance Buddha Lotus, and Li Shiming recognized both supreme treasures as his own.
• Li Shiming discovered the Divine Firmament Thunder Pearl strengthened his Thunder and Lightning Rule and transformed the Inheritance Buddha Lotus into the Daoist Sect-style Dao Rhythm Golden Lotus.
• Li Shiming prepared Thunder Hell for his spirit pets' tribulations, relying on IBMz15's simulations and the Thunder and Lightning Rule marks left across the valley.
• Little Phoenix and the Phantom Spirit Dragon advanced to Half-Step Fifth Grade and survived their heavenly tribulations with Li Shiming's support.
• Li Shiming infused the Thunder Beast with enhanced Thunder Element Spiritual Power, helping it advance and gain the ability to launch attacks with simulated Heavenly Thunder might.
• The Golden Winged Great Peng survived its tribulation, gained the Five Colors Divine Light, and became capable of continuous Space Movement over distances exceeding ten thousand li.

Li Shiming raised all eleven Silver Wing Spirit Gu Insects to Half-Step Fifth Grade and traveled to the Central Continent with Yin Shilan. Meanwhile, Li Yuanba arranged to leave the Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion and join Li Shiming, earning Sword Old Ancestor’s approval.

• Li Shiming used IBMz15’s calculations and newly refined Spirit Pills to guide eleven Silver Wing Spirit Gu Insects through tribulations, and all advanced successfully to Half-Step Fifth Grade.
• Li Shiming learned that the Great Powers were waiting for him to fail in his advancement rather than risk confronting him, and he reopened Thunder Hell before setting out for the Central Continent with Yin Shilan.
• Li Yuanba summoned Jian Wuwei and asked him to seek permission for Li Yuanba to leave his blessed land and spend time with Li Shiming.
• Jian Wuwei obtained Sword Old Ancestor’s agreement, and Li Yuanba sent a Thunder Duke through the Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion’s formations using Space Movement.
• Sword Old Ancestor’s Clone praised Li Yuanba’s prospects and said Li Yuanba would likely become a Great Power before needing to inherit the Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion’s legacy.

Li Shiming developed Li Yuanba’s blessed land by filling it with Half-Step Great Power-level beings, accelerating its growth and bringing Li Yuanba closer to advancing. Meanwhile, Huiyue Bodhisattva returned to Great Thunderclap Temple, learned who had taken its treasures, and secretly began investigating Li Shiming; the chapter left Li Yuanba cultivating amid the blessed land’s surplus energy.

• Li Shiming moved the seventy-two Holy Spirits into Li Yuanba’s blessed land, then returned to the Eastern Qi Continent with the Space Stone.
• Five years later, Li Shiming filled the blessed land with his spirit pets and other Half-Step Great Power-level beings to test its energy production and growth.
• Huinan Bodhisattva told Huiyue Bodhisattva that Great Thunderclap Temple had suffered devastating attacks and lost its treasures, including the Thunder Sound Bell, the Inheritance Buddha Lotus, and the Golden Body Bodhisattva Guardian.
• Huiyue Bodhisattva learned that Li Yuanba had the Thunder Sound Bell and Guardian while Li Shizhen had taken the Inheritance Buddha Lotus, then secretly ordered the temple to gather intelligence on Li Shiming.
• Li Shiming’s research showed that Li Yuanba’s blessed land could support 203 Half-Step Great Power-level existences, and he estimated Li Yuanba might attempt to advance to Great Power in three to five hundred years.
• Li Shiming recalled his spirit pets from the blessed land, leaving Li Yuanba alone as its energy strengthened his body and accelerated the land’s growth.

Li Shiming detected a Great Power approaching and fled across the ocean, where he faced Huiyue Bodhisattva of the Great Thunderclap Temple. He escaped by summoning the Golden Winged Great Peng, while Huiyue abandoned the pursuit and returned toward his temple.

• Li Shiming stopped refining pills after the Drone Satellite System detected a vast concealed presence, then left the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect to confront it.
• Li Shiming recognized Huiyue Bodhisattva as a Great Power Main Body and fled toward the ocean to keep the battle away from the Eastern Qi Continent.
• Huiyue Bodhisattva pursued Li Shiming and offered to let him join the Great Thunderclap Temple, but Li Shiming mocked him and revealed the Dao Rhythm Golden Lotus, which Huiyue recognized as the transformed Inheritance Buddha Lotus.
• Li Shiming resisted Huiyue Bodhisattva's Cultivation Realm Suppression and maintained a prolonged chase using Space Movement.
• Li Shiming summoned the Golden Winged Great Peng, which outpaced Huiyue Bodhisattva and carried him beyond the Bodhisattva's perception.
• Huiyue Bodhisattva stopped chasing Li Shiming and returned toward the Great Thunderclap Temple without attacking the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect.

Li Shiming returned to the Great Thunderclap Temple Mountain Gate and used the Wrath of the Dragon inside Great Power Leng Luo’s collapsing Freedom Blessed Land. The ensuing chain collapse destroyed the mountain gate and the blessed lands of Huiyue Bodhisattva and Huinan Bodhisattva, leaving Li Shiming to discover that both Bodhisattvas had fallen.

• Li Shiming made another Wrath of the Dragon and flew toward the Great Thunderclap Temple Mountain Gate on the Golden Winged Great Peng.
• Huiyue Bodhisattva returned to the mountain gate, restoring the Great Thunderclap Temple’s prestige as other forces agreed to return its resources.
• Li Shiming placed the Wrath of the Dragon inside Great Power Leng Luo’s Pitch Black Jade Ball and had the Golden Winged Great Peng drop it above the mountain gate before fleeing.
• Huiyue Bodhisattva warned Huinan Bodhisattva and attacked the Pitch Black Jade Ball, but it collapsed and triggered the instantaneous release of multiple blessed-land spaces.
• The collapsing spaces destroyed Huinan Bodhisattva’s Inheritance Blessed Land and Huiyue Bodhisattva’s Freedom Blessed Land, killing both Bodhisattvas and obliterating the Great Thunderclap Temple Mountain Gate.
• Li Shiming returned to survey the ruined region, found Radiation Pollution and remains of the collapsed blessed lands, and sensed that both Bodhisattvas had fallen.