Chapter Summaries

Li Shiming survived the ninth Heavenly Tribulation Lightning with energy from his five Blessed Lands, and the Sky Strike Thunder Hammer became a Fifth Grade Spiritual Treasure with an Artifact Spirit and then his Natal Magical Treasure. While he refined a new flying sword, the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect celebrated its rise to a super sect, and three years later Li Shiming completed the Dust Severing Sword, which passed its Artifact Tribulation.

• Li Shiming used energy from all five Blessed Lands to shield himself from the ninth Heavenly Tribulation Lightning, which exhausted itself against the shield before striking the Sky Strike Thunder Hammer.
• The Heaven and Earth Reward nurtured an Artifact Spirit inside the Sky Strike Thunder Hammer, and Li Shiming tested its enhanced Falling Thunder Art before making it his Natal Magical Treasure.
• Li Shiming placed a Fourth Grade Spiritual Treasure Sky Strike Thunder Hammer in the Sect Treasure Vault as a reward for the first Thunder Cultivator to reach Peak Great Cultivator.
• The Ten Thousand Beasts Sect held its advancement ceremony as a super sect, and the donated Spiritual Treasure drew many Thunder Cultivators to seek membership.
• Li Shiming refined the Dust Severing Sword from Peerless Luster Profound Gold, inscribed it with Sword Intent and Space Rule Runes, and successfully completed its Artifact Tribulation.

Li Shiming accompanied Yin Shilan to Luan Phoenix Palace for guidance as she sought an Advancement Opportunity, then brought her to Eagle Beak Island, where memories of their early days awakened one. The chapter ended as Li Shiming supplied the island with spiritual energy to support her advance to Half-Step Great Power.

• Li Shiming took Yin Shilan to Luan Phoenix Palace, where Great Power Meng Jun’s Clone advised her on cultivation and guided her in Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens for a month.
• Li Shiming and Yin Shilan left Luan Phoenix Palace and traveled by the Flying Feather Wind Treading Boat to Sky Ocean Island.
• Li Shiming rebuilt Eagle Beak Island, restoring its landscape to match the place where he and Yin Shilan had first met.
• As Yin Shilan revisited the island, her peaceful memories stirred an Advancement Opportunity, and Li Shiming formed a Meridian Locking Plates Formation to gather spiritual energy for her advancement.

Li Shiming helped Yin Shilan advance to Half-Step Great Power and stabilize her Blessed Land before turning to the challenge of cultivating Fifth Grade Spirit Pets. He sent his Great Power Clone to Luan Phoenix Palace to meet Sword Elder and Great Power Meng Jun about a private request.

• Li Shiming guided Yin Shilan through her advancement as she used the Dao Rhythm Golden Lotus to construct her Blessed Land with Little Phoenix.
• Li Shiming sent one hundred and eight Eternal Life Water Bear Insects into Yin Shilan's Blessed Land and used IBMz15 to help balance its energy until Little Phoenix took control.
• After ten years, Li Shiming recalled the insects, entered his own Cave Heaven, and left Eagle Beak Island, which Northern Shu Sect later vacated as cultivators treated it as a holy land.
• Li Shiming considered publicly refining Fifth Grade Spiritual Pills to obtain Fifth Grade Spiritual Herbs and gather data for upgrading his Spirit Pets.
• Li Shiming sent his Great Power Clone to Luan Phoenix Palace, where Sword Elder and Great Power Meng Jun welcomed it and Great Power Meng Jun introduced their private request.

Li Shiming agreed to refine Fifth Grade Spiritual Pills for Sword Elder and Great Power Meng Jun in exchange for information about an Ancient Remains filled with Half-Step Fifth Grade Refining Corpses and Wraiths. He began refining their pills while studying the Ancient Remains, which he planned to explore for materials to advance his Refining Corpses.

• Li Shiming agreed to refine five furnaces of Fifth Grade Spiritual Pills in exchange for Sword Elder's information about Half-Step Fifth Grade Refining Corpse Materials.
• Sword Elder told Li Shiming that the Ancient Remains contained many Half-Step Fifth Grade Refining Corpses and Wraiths, and that Great Powers could not draw on Cave Heaven energy inside it.
• Sword Elder and Great Power Meng Jun gave Li Shiming two sets of Fifth Grade Spiritual Herb materials and pill formulas to refine first.
• Li Shiming returned to the Eastern Qi Continent with the materials and had IBMz15 analyze the pill formulas and the Ancient Remains map.
• Li Shiming began refining both furnaces in the Server Room Space while researching ways to improve his Refining Corpses.

Li Shiming delivered high-grade Fifth Grade Spiritual Pills to Sword Elder and Great Power Meng Jun, then traveled to the Ancient Remains in search of Half-Step Fifth Grade Refining Corpse Material. He found the material among black tombstones while his Holy Spirits and Heavenly Ghost defeated the undead creatures that attacked him.

• Li Shiming gave Sword Elder and Great Power Meng Jun two high-grade Fifth Grade Spiritual Pills each, and they supplied him with three more portions of Spiritual Herbs for future alchemy.
• Sword Elder told the other Great Powers that Li Shiming had refined a full batch of high-grade Fifth Grade Spiritual Pills, spreading the news throughout the Cultivation World.
• Li Shiming entered the Ancient Remains through a Space Gate and discovered a bone-covered land filled with Yin-Cold Energy and living skeletons.
• Li Shiming summoned the Heavenly Ghost and one hundred and thirty-three Holy Spirits to deal with the skeletons and Refining Corpses as he traveled through the remains.
• Li Shiming found Half-Step Fifth Grade Refining Corpse Material beside a black stone stele after the Heavenly Ghost and Holy Spirits subdued a Half-Step Fifth Grade Refining Corpse.

Li Shiming explored deeper into the Ancient Remains, collecting Half-Step Fifth Grade Refining Corpse Materials while the Holy Spirits and Heavenly Ghost dealt with its inhabitants. After ten days, he discovered a hidden barrier whose membrane could isolate everything, leaving him poised to investigate what lay beyond it.

• Li Shiming and his spirit pets defeated groups of Half-Step Fifth Grade Refining Corpses and more than three hundred Fourth Grade Nether Ghosts, which the Heavenly Ghost devoured.
• At the third mountain peak, Li Shiming used Devil Enters the Ear to collapse a Half-Step Fifth Grade Wraith, and the Heavenly Ghost swallowed its Spirit Energy.
• After a day of exploration, Li Shiming reached the tenth mountain peak having slain several hundred Half-Step Fifth Grade Refining Corpses and Wraiths.
• IBMz15 concluded that thirty-six portions of Half-Step Fifth Grade Refining Corpse Material could refine a Fifth Grade Refining Corpse, but that existing Half-Step Fifth Grade Refining Corpses could not advance without mastering rules.
• As the Yin-Cold Energy grew stronger, Li Shiming used the Holy Spirits' Space Movement to locate a hidden position and found a thin membrane barrier there.

Li Shiming withdrew from the Ancient Remains after discovering a fallen Great Power Sword Cultivator and sensing the threat of a fifth-grade Wraith. Outside, he uncovered the cultivator’s hidden blessed land and Soul Crystal Ring, gaining a sword-intent arsenal and valuable Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion knowledge.

• Li Shiming used IBMz15 to reveal a silver fish’s film, found a fallen Great Power Sword Cultivator inside, and took the corpse and its Natal Flying Sword.
• Li Shiming suspected a fifth-grade Wraith had killed the Sword Cultivator and decided to leave the Ancient Remains with the Heavenly Ghost and Holy Spirits guarding him.
• Li Shiming sensed a fifth-grade Wraith as he exited the Ancient Remains, then flew away on the Golden Winged Great Peng.
• Li Shiming found a concealed Space Stone fused into the corpse, reached the Sword Cultivator’s intact blessed land, and claimed control of its Sword Intent trees.
• Li Shiming searched the Soul Crystal Ring and found the complete Sword Intent Soaring Art, Mahayana Stage classics, and Fifth Grade Pill Formulas.

Li Shiming returned to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect after exploring the Ancient Remains, bringing back treasures including the concealment artifact "Mirror Flower Water Moon." Five Great Power Clones then asked him to refine pills, and he accepted their offer of one Fifth Grade Spiritual Herb per furnace, leaving them to wait until he finished his existing commissions.

• Li Shiming examined his gains, mastered "Mirror Flower Water Moon," and returned toward the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect on the Golden Winged Great Peng.
• Sword Elder worried about Li Shiming's dangerous expedition while Great Powers sought to verify his Fifth Grade pill-refining ability and commission him.
• As Li Shiming neared the Eastern Qi Continent, the Drone Satellite System detected five Great Power Clones, and Great Cultivator Hu informed him they had come as visitors.
• Li Shiming arrived at the reception room, sent his Phantom Clone to escort Great Cultivator Hu away, and asked the five visitors why they had come.
• The leading Great Power Clone offered one Fifth Grade Spiritual Herb for each furnace, and Li Shiming agreed to refine pills after completing his promises to Sword Elder and Great Power Meng.
• The leading Great Power Clone gave Li Shiming a Great Power Exclusive Contact Formation, which he recognized had been specially prepared for him.

Li Shiming advanced his Phantom Clone into a Great Power Thunder Cultivator by giving it a blessed land and guiding it through a heavenly tribulation. The Cultivation World learned that another Free Great Power had appeared at Thunder Hell and began investigating its identity and connection to Li Shiming.

• Li Shiming began advancing the Phantom Clone by converting its Chaos Spiritual Power into thunder-element spiritual power and having it construct a blessed land.
• Over five years, the Phantom Clone's blessed land expanded to a radius of ten thousand meters and absorbed more than two hundred Half-Step Fifth Grade Spirit Pets.
• Li Shiming brought the Phantom Clone to Thunder Hell, where it endured the nine bolts of its Great Power heavenly tribulation.
• Heaven and Earth reward energy transformed the Phantom Clone's energy body toward flesh and blood, completed its blessed land, and made it a true Great Power Thunder Cultivator.
• Li Shiming had the Phantom Clone refine Great Power Leng Luo's Fifth Grade Sky Strike Thunder Hammer as its Natal Magical Treasure.
• Intelligence personnel reported the tribulation, and the super forces began searching for the new Free Great Power and its connection to Li Shiming.

Li Shiming concealed his Phantom Clone’s identity, named him Li Taibai, and introduced him to Great Power Meng Jun as a close friend and newly advanced Thunder Cultivator Great Power. After Li Taibai met Meng Jun, word of the new Free Great Power spread, and the Cultivation World’s superpowers sent congratulatory gifts.

• Li Shiming returned to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect with his Phantom Clone and named him Li Taibai before sending him into his Cave Heaven to stabilize his realm.
• Li Shiming discovered he could not create another Great Power Clone, then told Great Power Meng Jun that Li Taibai was his friend and had recently advanced to Great Power.
• Li Shiming began researching how to refine a Fifth Grade Refining Corpse while waiting for Great Power Meng Jun’s clone to arrive with Spiritual Herbs.
• Great Power Meng Jun’s clone visited Li Shiming, delivered three leftover portions and ten more portions of Spiritual Herbs, and asked to meet Li Taibai.
• Li Taibai appeared before Great Power Meng Jun, introduced himself as a Rogue Cultivator, and confirmed her impression that he and Li Shiming were close friends.
• Great Power Meng Jun informed Sword Elder and other superpowers about Li Taibai, prompting them to send congratulatory gifts.

Li Shiming used Great Power Leng Luo’s corpse to refine a Flying Yaksha in Thunder Hell while Li Taibai established himself as the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect’s Thunder Cultivator ancestor. The Flying Yaksha emerged and faced a heavenly tribulation, transforming into a monstrous form as the ninth bolt prepared to fall.

• Li Taibai met the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect’s cultivators and set up a Thunder Element Spirit Gathering Formation for its Thunder Cultivators.
• Li Shiming prepared a Refining Corpse Grand Formation and used the Thousand Hands Guanyin Contemplation Record with IBMz15 to draw six hundred billion Refining Corpse Talismans on Great Power Leng Luo’s body.
• Li Shiming placed Great Power Leng Luo’s body in the formation, where it transformed into a Flying Yaksha with black wings and several Rule Runes.
• Heavenly tribulation lightning struck the Flying Yaksha, injuring it as Li Shiming used the Lightning Resistance Secret Technique to weaken the blows.
• As the ninth bolt approached, the Flying Yaksha transformed into a bronze-skinned, red-eyed, clawed creature with enlarged black wings.

Li Shiming's Flying Yaksha survived its Ninth Heavenly Tribulation and strengthened his position among the Great Powers. He began grooming Tang Zhe as a possible successor for the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect while continuing to study the Flying Yaksha's abilities.

• The Flying Yaksha endured the Ninth Heavenly Tribulation, recovered from its severe injuries, and received Heaven and Earth Reward Energy.
• News of Li Shiming's Fifth Grade Refining Corpse spread, alarming the Great Powers and discouraging them from opposing him.
• Li Shiming noticed Tang Zhe comprehending Thunder and Lightning Rule aura, and Li Taibai offered to accept him as a disciple if he advanced to Great Cultivator within ten years.
• Li Taibai gave Tang Zhe cultivation resources, and Tang Zhe vowed to meet the ten-year condition.
• Li Shiming tested the Flying Yaksha, found that it surpassed him in thunder and lightning and spatial abilities, and gained further insight into those rules.
• Li Shiming decided not to refine another Flying Yaksha yet and continued nourishing an empty body from the Ancient Remains as a Spare Body.

Li Yuanba prepared to advance to Great Power, prompting Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion to secure its mountain gate and guard his tribulation. He survived the first eight bolts of heavenly lightning, but the final, strongest bolt was about to fall.

• Li Yuanba's blessed land reached full energy, and he notified Sword Elder that he was ready to undergo tribulation.
• Sword Elder alerted Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion, whose cultivators returned to the mountain gate and fortified its defenses to protect Li Yuanba.
• Li Yuanba took his blessed land vessel to the prepared tribulation site, where Thunder Duke, Red Devil, the Golden Body Bodhisattva Guardian, and Thunder Beast stood guard.
• Li Yuanba prepared with the Innate Yi Wood divine ability, Li Shiming's Thunder Resistance Secret Technique Talisman, and his Form Intention Sword, then used Space Cracks and Chaos Sword Intent to withstand the early lightning bolts.
• After the seventh and eighth bolts injured him, Li Yuanba healed with Innate Yi Wood energy, while Sword Elder urged him to use the Great Power Defense Talisman against the final bolt.

Li Yuanba survived the Ninth Heavenly Tribulation, became a Free Great Power, and entered seclusion to stabilize his realm. Three years later, he emerged and fused Ten Thousand Swords Peak into his Blessed Land to let it nurture far more powerful energy flying swords.

• Li Yuanba cut through the final bolt of heavenly lightning with Chaos Sword Intent and endured its remaining power as his Innate Yi Wood Divine Power healed him.
• The Heaven and Earth Reward strengthened Li Yuanba's body and soul to the Great Power level, while Sword Elder and Jian Wuwei congratulated him.
• Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion announced Li Yuanba's advancement, and he returned to his Blessed Land to stabilize his realm as Sword Elder discussed a possible Explaining the Dao Ceremony with other Great Powers.
• After three years in seclusion, Li Yuanba emerged and fused Ten Thousand Swords Peak into the ground of his Blessed Land, severing its connection to Li Shiming.
• The Blessed Land began nurturing ten thousand Half-Step Great Power-level energy flying swords toward the Great Power level.

Li Yuanba adjusted to his new Great Power realm and tested how his Taiji Dao Body let him transform into a Flying Yaksha. As his Explaining the Dao Ceremony approached, he returned to Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion with a powerful Thunder Cultivator Flying Yaksha, where Li Shiming arrived bearing a Fifth Grade Flying Sword from the Ancient Remains.

• Li Yuanba emerged from seclusion with a Great Power's Sword Body and agreed to hold an Explaining the Dao Ceremony on the first day after the new year.
• Li Yuanba tested his Taiji Dao Body at the bottom of the sea, transforming into a Flying Yaksha whose speed, defense, and Space Rule abilities increased while Yin-Cold Energy killed nearby lifeforms.
• Li Shiming sent Li Yuanba the Thunder Cultivator Flying Yaksha refined from Great Power Leng Luo's body, and Li Yuanba trained and fought alongside it for several months.
• Li Yuanba returned to Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion with the Flying Yaksha, and Sword Elder prepared to host Great Power Clones at the ceremony using Li Yuanba's Fourth Grade Top Tier Asking the Dao Tea.
• Li Shiming arrived at Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion, explained that Li Taibai was guarding the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, and gave Sword Elder a Fifth Grade Flying Sword.
• Sword Elder recognized the Flying Sword as Yun Ji Martial Grand-Uncle's Natal Flying Sword and asked whether Li Shiming had entered the Ancient Remains.

At Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion, Li Yuanba lectured on the Gold Element Rule and unexpectedly awakened the founding ancestor’s Dao resonance in the Dao Discussion Stone. The other listeners were forced to leave as the lecture overwhelmed them, while Li Shiming stayed to share Li Yuanba’s insights, and a Dao lotus reached toward him.

• Li Shiming gave Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion Yun Ji’s Fifth Grade Natal Flying Sword, strengthening his ties with the sect, and Great Power Clones later visited to befriend him.
• Li Yuanba arrived at Explaining Dao Peak through Space Movement and began lecturing on the Gold Element Rule to the assembled cultivators.
• As Li Yuanba’s lecture deepened, the Dao Discussion Stone manifested golden Dao lotuses that lifted and surrounded him, revealing that he had awakened the founding ancestor’s Dao resonance.
• The Great Cultivators and then the Great Power Clones withdrew as the lecture overwhelmed their souls, while Sword Elder regretted attending with a clone rather than his true body.
• Li Shiming remained beside Li Yuanba, sharing and recording his insights through their connection, until a Dao lotus extended toward him.

Li Shiming received a vast inheritance from the Dao Lotus on Explaining Dao Peak, then joined Sword Elder and the other Great Powers for tea and trading. After Mi Bin befriended him, he offered a Fifth Grade Spirit Spring Eye in exchange for ten chances to have Li Shiming refine pills, leaving Li Shiming to consider the deal.

• Li Shiming used his One Hundred Ninety-One Brains and IBMz15 to absorb the Gold Element Rule and Sword Intent knowledge transmitted by the Dao Lotus, while Li Yuanba also received an inheritance.
• The Dao Lotuses merged into Li Shiming and Li Yuanba, and the two opened their eyes after the full nine-day lecture.
• Sword Elder welcomed Li Shiming and the gathered Great Powers to drink Li Shiming's Fourth Grade Asking the Dao Tea and trade spiritual objects.
• Mi Bin exchanged a Fifth Grade Spirit Spring for Li Shiming's contact information, then waited until the others had left to propose another deal.
• Mi Bin offered a Fifth Grade Spirit Spring Eye in exchange for ten opportunities to have Li Shiming refine pills.

Li Shiming used his new Fifth Grade Spirit Spring to share tea with Yin Shilan, then entered seclusion to study the Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion Founder’s Dao Rhythm inheritance. Meanwhile, Li Taibai accepted Tang Zhe as his first disciple and began teaching him the Jade Purity Thunder Canon.

• Li Shiming met Yin Shilan through a Space Gate and urged her to focus on mastering her blessed land rather than quickly increasing its energy.
• Li Taibai welcomed Tang Zhe, who had reached the Great Cultivator Realm in eight years, and made him his first disciple.
• Li Taibai gave Tang Zhe a Fourth Grade Top Tier Sky Strike Thunder Hammer and two Life-Saving Talismans, then spent five days guiding him in the Jade Purity Thunder Canon.
• Li Shiming began seclusion in his blessed land to absorb the Dao Rhythm inheritance and refine his Gold Element and Sword Intent Rule Runes.
• A Dao lotus emerged from Li Shiming and more than doubled his thinking ability, including IBMz15’s computing power, as his sword intent rapidly improved.

After thirty years of seclusion, Li Shiming and Li Yuanba emerged with greatly increased strength, each benefiting from the Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion Founder's inheritance. Li Yuanba identified sword intent as the likely key to activating the Dao Discussion Stone, while Li Shiming discovered that his dao lotus doubled IBMz15's computing speed when it was housed inside.

• Li Shiming completed several Great Powers' alchemy commissions and contacted them to arrange collection of their Fifth Grade high-grade Spiritual Pills.
• Li Yuanba emerged from seclusion with ten thousand fifth-grade energy flying swords, each containing powerful Chaos Sword Intent.
• Sword Elder sensed Li Yuanba's strength and asked how he had activated the Dao Discussion Stone; Li Yuanba proposed that exceptionally powerful sword intent was the key.
• Sword Elder urged Li Yuanba to take disciples for Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion, but Li Yuanba said he would wait for the right opportunity.
• Li Shiming examined his dao lotus and found that placing IBMz15 inside it doubled its computing speed.

Li Shiming refined Yun Ji’s body into a Fifth Grade Flying Yaksha called Sword Servant, then successfully transformed two Fifth Grade Otherworldly God War Soldiers into Holy Spirits. The reports unsettled the cultivation world and eased Sword Elder’s fears about Yun Ji’s fate, though he suspected Li Yuanba’s Flying Yaksha had been made from Great Power Leng Luo.

• Li Shiming inscribed six hundred billion Refining Corpse Talismans on Yun Ji’s body and refined it into a Flying Yaksha, replacing its Shattering Void Sword Intent with his Chaos Sword Intent.
• The new Flying Yaksha survived its tribulation, while Sword Elder wondered whether it had been refined from Yun Ji’s corpse and feared confronting Li Shiming.
• Li Shiming refined two Fifth Grade Otherworldly God War Soldiers into powerful Holy Spirits and guided them through separate heavenly tribulations.
• Li Shiming named the Flying Yaksha Sword Servant, gave it a Spiritual Treasure flying sword, and stored the two Holy Spirits in his Cave Heaven.
• After hearing that Li Shiming had refined more Flying Yakshas, Sword Elder abandoned his suspicions about Yun Ji but guessed that Li Yuanba’s Flying Yaksha had been made from Great Power Leng Luo.