Chapter Summaries

Li Shiming’s influence and wealth grew as Great Powers sought his pills, and he nurtured Hu Sheng and Jian Jiuming into Great Cultivators. In Thunder Hell, he helped Little Phoenix advance to the fifth grade, leaving the Phantom Spirit Dragon eager for its own breakthrough.

• Great Powers sent clones to request pills from Li Shiming, giving him a lucrative source of Fifth Grade Spiritual Herbs and pills.
• Li Shiming accepted Hu Sheng as a disciple and raised him to the Great Cultivator Realm before giving him a Fourth Grade Top Tier Magical Treasure and two Life-Saving Talismans.
• Li Yuanba accepted Jian Jiuming as a disciple and used top-tier resources and guidance to help him reach the Great Cultivator Realm.
• A hundred years later, Li Shiming brought Little Phoenix and the Phantom Spirit Dragon to Thunder Hell, where they revealed that Little Phoenix needed a Fifth Grade Flame and the Phantom Spirit Dragon needed Fifth Grade Spirit Water to advance.
• Little Phoenix swallowed two Hundred Herbs Pills and half of Li Shiming’s Fifth Grade Boundless Immortal Fire, underwent nirvana, and emerged as a fifth-grade phoenix after weathering its heavenly tribulation.
• Little Phoenix flaunted its new fifth-grade aura at the Phantom Spirit Dragon, which revealed itself and urged Li Shiming to help it advance next.

Li Shiming supplied Fifth Grade Spirit Spring Water to help the Phantom Spirit Dragon advance to fifth grade, and the dragon survived its heavenly tribulation. A century later, Li Shiming planned for Yin Shilan’s safe advancement and his disciples’ futures while preparing to leave the Cultivation World after she attempted to become a Great Power.

• Li Shiming gave the Phantom Spirit Dragon Fifth Grade Spirit Spring Water, which enabled it to evolve from Half-Step Fifth Grade to fifth grade.
• Li Shiming prepared the Phantom Spirit Dragon for its heavenly tribulation, and it used Fifth Grade Cloud Mist, its tough dragon body, and healing energy to survive all nine bolts.
• Heaven and Earth Reward Energy elevated the Phantom Spirit Dragon’s soul, while the Cultivation World learned of its advancement and showed little surprise at Li Shiming’s growing strength.
• Over the following century, Li Shiming and Li Taibai trained Tang Zhe and Hu Sheng, while Li Yuanba guided Jian Jiuming; the three disciples became known as the generation’s great prodigies.
• Li Shiming planned to leave the Cultivation World after Yin Shilan attempted to advance to Great Power, and he monitored her cultivation to improve her chances of success.
• Li Shiming hoped Tang Zhe and Hu Sheng would reach Half-Step Great Power before he left, allowing them to inherit suitable Ten Thousand Beasts Sect blessed lands.

Li Shiming sent the Sword Servant to investigate an unusually powerful beast tide and discovered an ancient formation concealing an underwater altar and a Space Gate. Beyond the gate, the Sword Servant found a vast space where more than ten million spirit beasts were being created and sent toward Eastern Qi Continent.

• Great Cultivator Hu told Li Shiming that the beast tide included at least three discovered Fourth Grade Late Stage Spirit Beasts and that the Sea Defense Line might not hold.
• Li Shiming sent Li Taibai to help defend against the tide and dispatched the Sword Servant to scout ahead.
• The Sword Servant found Fourth Grade Spirit Beasts among the vanguard and traced the beast tide to a concealed underwater formation.
• The Sword Servant entered the Space Gate on an underwater altar and discovered that it led to a space packed with spirit beasts that ignored him.
• The Sword Servant reached the center of the space and saw spirit beasts continually being created in white light, while IBMz15 estimated their number exceeded ten million.

Li Shiming uncovered the Ancient Spirit Beast Breeding Ground’s origin, claimed it, and brought it back to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect. He discovered that its spirit beasts could feed his spiritual pets and might help them reach the fifth grade.

• The Sword Servant found the hidden control room and learned that the Ancient Spirit Beast Breeding Ground created spirit beasts as food, while its overflow had caused the recurring beast tides.
• Li Shiming used the Sword Servant to claim the breeding ground and seal it inside a Jade Box, cutting off its connection to the energy-filled space.
• The Sword Servant returned the Jade Box to Li Taibai, then took over protecting the battlefield as Li Taibai departed; Great Cultivator Hu recognized the Sword Servant as a great power.
• Li Shiming released the breeding ground behind his Cave Dwelling and found that its spirit beasts carried an aura beneficial to spiritual pets.
• Li Shiming summoned the Golden Winged Great Peng, the Thunder Beast, the Silver Wing Spirit Gu Insects, and the Eternal Life Water Bear Insects to feed on the spirit beasts, hoping they would advance to the fifth grade.

Li Shiming used the Ancient Spirit Beast Breeding Ground to feed his spirit pets and studied its secrets while the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect profited from the beast tide. After giving Hu Sheng's Crimson Gold Phoenix a chance to advance and providing Great Cultivator Hu with Longevity Pills, Li Shiming began seeking ways to extend his master's life.

• Li Shiming's spirit pets devoured spirit beasts in the Ancient Spirit Beast Breeding Ground, while he studied how the beasts could help them build a foundation for reaching Fifth Grade.
• The Ten Thousand Beasts Sect harvested the beast tide's resources, and Li Shiming refined its Fourth Grade demon cores into high-level Spiritual Pills.
• Great Cultivator Hu asked Li Shiming to reward Hu Sheng, and Li Shiming agreed to raise Hu Sheng's Crimson Gold Phoenix to Fourth Grade Late Stage.
• Li Shiming noticed Great Cultivator Hu's declining lifespan and gave him three Longevity Pills, then contacted Great Powers to seek lifespan-extending Spiritual Herbs.
• Hu Sheng brought his Crimson Gold Phoenix to Li Shiming, who sent it into the breeding ground and told Little Phoenix to guide it while limiting Little Phoenix to ten thousand spirit beasts.
• Li Shiming continued studying the Ancient Spirit Beast Breeding Ground, hoping to create an imitation to leave for the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect.

Li Shiming watched Yin Shilan face the Heavenly Tribulation to advance to Great Power, but the unexpectedly powerful lightning overwhelmed her defenses. As the ninth strike gathered, he entered the tribulation to protect her, risking his own life rather than let them be separated.

• Li Shiming prepared Thunder Hell and used the Sky Strike Thunder Hammer, Lightning Resistance Secret Technique, and Innate Yi Wood divine power to support Yin Shilan as she began her advancement.
• Yin Shilan endured the first five bolts with her Defense Spiritual Treasure, healing pills, and Li Shiming's protections, but her injuries and exhaustion worsened.
• Yin Shilan summoned Little Phoenix to help resist the sixth and seventh bolts, shared Little Phoenix's injuries, and then merged with her to face the eighth.
• After the eighth bolt nearly destroyed her body, Yin Shilan dissolved her Contract with Little Phoenix and prepared to face the final strike alone.
• Li Shiming rushed to Yin Shilan, shielded her and Little Phoenix, and declared that he would face the heavens with her as the ninth bolt gathered.

Li Shiming risked his life to cut apart Yin Shilan’s Ninth Heavenly Tribulation Lightning, allowing her and Little Phoenix to become fifth-grade mighty ones. The couple left Thunder Hell together, while Li Taibai stayed behind to clear the lingering thunder and the Great Powers learned of Yin Shilan’s advancement.

• Li Shiming poured the power of his five blessed lands and 190 brains into the Dust Severing Sword and split the Ninth Heavenly Tribulation Lightning and Thunder Cloud in two.
• Li Shiming survived with severe injuries and a cracked Dust Severing Sword, then healed Yin Shilan before the Heaven and Earth Reward Energy arrived.
• Yin Shilan became a mighty one, and Little Phoenix advanced to the fifth grade after sharing in the tribulation.
• Li Shiming took Yin Shilan and the spirit pets into the Cave Heaven, while Li Taibai remained at Thunder Hell to clear the lingering thunder.
• The Great Powers learned that Yin Shilan had advanced to a mighty one with Li Shiming’s help, defying their expectations of her talent.

Great Power Meng Jun and Sword Elder responded to Yin Shilan’s advancement by sending congratulations, while Li Yuanba benefited from Li Shiming’s insights and reached the Great Power Middle Stage. As Li Yuanba traveled to Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, Li Shiming remained in recovery, with his blessed land energy depleted after helping Yin Shilan advance.

• Great Power Meng Jun decided to support Yin Shilan and sent a Great Power Clone carrying two treasures to offer congratulations.
• Sword Elder sent a congratulatory gift to Ten Thousand Beasts Sect after learning Li Yuanba was in seclusion.
• Li Yuanba absorbed Li Shiming’s shared insights, advanced to the Great Power Middle Stage, and emerged from seclusion after five days.
• Sword Elder told Li Yuanba that Yin Shilan had advanced to Great Power, and Li Yuanba set out to congratulate her.
• Li Yuanba arrived at Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, where Great Power Clones had gathered ahead of Yin Shilan’s grand ceremony.
• Li Shiming continued recovering from helping Yin Shilan, with his body healed but his five blessed lands’ energy dangerously depleted.

Li Shiming prepared for Yin Shilan’s Ascension Ceremony while keeping watch on the gathering Great Power Clones, and his spiritual strength astonished them when he appeared at her sermon. After Yin Shilan preached, Li Shiming restored her and served spirit tea that the guests eagerly took away.

• Li Taibai welcomed arriving Great Power Clones as Li Yuanba joined him and revealed the Thunder Servant, prompting the guests to speculate about the strength of the Li Clan Lineage.
• Great Powers from across the Cultivation World sent their clones to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, so Yin Shilan’s Ascension Ceremony was moved ahead of schedule.
• Li Shiming emerged from seclusion and prepared a sermon draft for Yin Shilan before her ceremony.
• Li Shiming appeared beside Yin Shilan’s preaching platform, and his gaze spiritually suppressed the gathered Great Power Clones.
• Yin Shilan gave a sermon before the Great Powers, after which Li Shiming invited them to refreshments and restored her with his Innate Yi Wood divine ability.
• Li Shiming brewed spirit tea with Fifth Grade Spirit Spring water, and the Great Power Clones eagerly stored cups of it to take away.

After ten years of artifact refining, Li Shiming prepared to put five newly refined Fifth Grade Spiritual Treasures through Artifact Tribulation. As he began with his Fifth Grade Sword Foundation, Xie Gan approached the site intending to seize the treasure, breaking the rule against approaching another cultivator’s tribulation.

• Li Shiming planned to replace or complete his Natal Magical Treasures using five Fifth Grade Materials cultivated in his blessed lands.
• Yin Shilan visited Li Shiming with spirit fruits she had cultivated to Half-Step Fifth Grade quality, and he praised her talent and research.
• Li Shiming went to Thunder Hell to complete the final work on five Spiritual Treasures while Li Taibai attended a Great Power gathering on his behalf.
• Li Shiming finished inscribing Sword Intent and Gold Element Rule Runes onto his Fifth Grade Sword Foundation, triggering its Artifact Tribulation.
• Xie Gan sensed the tribulation while returning to the Cultivation World and approached, hoping to take the Fifth Grade Spiritual Treasure.
• As the Thunder Tribulation gathered, Li Shiming noticed Xie Gan nearing the site and recognized that he had broken the rule forbidding others from approaching a cultivator undergoing tribulation.

Li Shiming completed the Fifth Grade Sword Foundation’s tribulation while Xie Gan Great Power tried to kill him and seize the treasure. After trapping Xie Gan Great Power inside a formation that blocked his escape, Li Shiming faced sixteen attacking figures and evaded their arrows.

• Xie Gan Great Power ignored Li Shiming’s warning and demanded the Fifth Grade Sword Foundation, then revealed his Sun Shooting Sect origins by drawing a spiritual bow.
• Li Shiming endured the first eight bolts of Heavenly Thunder with the Fifth Grade Sword Foundation while Xie Gan Great Power waited for a chance to attack.
• As the Ninth Heavenly Tribulation Lightning fell, Xie Gan Great Power released a charged arrow, but Li Shiming’s Dust Severing Sword repeatedly disrupted his attack.
• Li Shiming survived the tribulation, reclaimed the Dust Severing Sword, and activated the Northern Dipper Formation Diagram and Nine Heavens Star Constellation Formation Diagram to trap Xie Gan Great Power and block his escape.
• Xie Gan Great Power used a gray flag to create sixteen indistinguishable figures, which fired arrows at Li Shiming, but Li Shiming used Space Movement to evade them.

Li Shiming defeated Xie Gan Great Power, claimed his Clone Transformation Flag, and entered his collapsing blessed land. There, he salvaged a Fifth Grade Spiritual Root and discovered the Fifth Grade Long Arrow it had nurtured.

• Xie Gan Great Power attacked with sixteen clones, but Li Shiming dodged his arrows while his body was strengthened by Heaven and Earth Reward Energy.
• Xie Gan Great Power struck a node in Li Shiming's layered Formation, but Li Shiming used Devil Enters the Ear to destroy fifteen clones and badly injure him.
• Li Shiming killed Xie Gan Great Power with Chaos Sword Intent, then collected his remains and claimed the Clone Transformation Flag, Spiritual Treasure Longbow, and Space Stone.
• Li Shiming entered Xie Gan Great Power's collapsing blessed land and moved its Fifth Grade Spiritual Root, along with its Spiritual Soil, into his own Spirit Plant Cave Heaven.
• The Fifth Grade Spiritual Root revealed the powerful Fifth Grade Long Arrow it had nurtured.

Li Shiming looted Xie Gan Great Power’s collapsing Blessed Land and discovered Otherworldly Spirit Crystals among his collection. He completed the Five Elements Ring and weathered its Artifact Tribulation while the superpowers wondered which Free Great Power he had killed.

• Li Shiming collected Xie Gan Great Power’s wooden residence and Metal Element Heavenly Secret Treasure before escaping the collapsing Blessed Land with its Anchor Point.
• Li Shiming found five Fifth Grade Otherworldly God War Soldier corpses and six Otherworldly Spirit Crystals in Xie Gan Great Power’s Soul Crystal Ring, then learned from jade slips that the crystals contained convertible Holy Spirit Energy.
• The Heavenly Ghost digested Xie Gan Great Power’s soul energy and neared advancement, while Li Shiming gave it Xie Gan’s Fifth Grade Longbow and prepared to refine another spiritual treasure.
• Li Shiming completed the Five Elements Ring, which strengthened his five-element techniques and released powerful Five Colors Divine Light, then used it to withstand the Artifact Tribulation.
• Sword Elder and other superpowers concluded that Li Shiming had killed another Great Power and sent messages asking for the Free Great Power’s identity, but Li Shiming did not check them during the tribulation.

Li Shiming refined several Natal Spiritual Treasures, including the Immortal Execution Sword and the Space Piercing Spirit Wings, after agreeing not to destroy Sun Shooting Sect over Xie Gan’s attack. Sword Elder and Great Power Meng Jun negotiated with Great Power Wanfu, who offered favorable terms to prevent Li Shiming from seeking revenge.

• Li Shiming answered Sword Elder and Great Power Meng Jun that Xie Gan had attacked him during his Artifact Tribulation and that he had killed Xie Gan, then agreed not to destroy Sun Shooting Sect after they warned him of the consequences.
• Li Shiming refined a new Sky Strike Thunder Hammer, replaced his old one, and kept the old hammer’s Recognition of Ownership Mark for Li Taibai.
• Li Shiming forged the durable Immortal Execution Sword with fifty billion Sword Intent Rule Runes, survived its Artifact Tribulation, and gave the Dust Severing Sword to the Sword Servant.
• Li Shiming refined the Space Piercing Spirit Wings, completing the five spiritual treasures he had prepared for himself.
• Sword Elder and Great Power Meng Jun met Great Power Wanfu at Sun Shooting Sect, where Wanfu offered favorable terms in hopes of preserving the sect.

Li Shiming threatened Great Power Wanfu with the newly refined Immortal Execution Sword, prompting Wanfu to offer substantial compensation to settle their conflict. After accepting the gifts, Li Shiming gave Sword Elder and Great Power Meng Jun spirit peaches and tea, then passed the two supreme treasures to Li Yuanba, who claimed them and began using their yin and yang powers.

• Li Shiming sent the Immortal Execution Sword across the continent to Sun Shooting Sect, where its killing intent froze Great Power Wanfu and showed him how far Li Shiming surpassed him.
• Great Power Wanfu agreed to pay heavy compensation, and Sword Elder and Great Power Meng Jun later brought Li Shiming a Gift List and the treasures, including the Radiant Sun Pearl and Dark Moon Pearl.
• Li Shiming apologized for the threatening sword strike, accepted the compensation, and served Sword Elder and Great Power Meng Jun Fifth Grade spirit peaches and Spirit Tea.
• After the two Great Power Clones departed, Li Yuanba arrived at Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, and Li Shiming handed him the Radiant Sun Pearl and Dark Moon Pearl.
• Li Yuanba made both pearls recognize him as their master and absorbed their Supreme Yang and Supreme Yin power to strengthen his human and Refined Corpse forms.

Li Shiming and Li Yuanba prepared to leave the Cultivation World after strengthening their disciples and arranging protection for their sects. As the group departed, Yin Shilan discovered that Li Taibai and Li Yuanba were both Li Shiming’s clones.

• Li Shiming refined Great Power Wanfu into Bow Servant, created five more Fifth Grade Otherworldly God War Soldiers, and helped Tang Zhe and Hu Sheng advance to Half-Step Great Power.
• Great Cultivator Hu recognized that Li Shiming planned to leave and accepted his decision, while Li Shiming promised to leave a Half-Step Fifth Grade Refined Corpse as the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect’s trump card.
• Li Yuanba told Sword Elder and Jian Wuwei that he would leave with Li Shiming, Li Taibai, and Yin Shilan, and Sword Elder gave him information about destinations beyond the Cultivation World.
• The Cultivation World learned that the Li Clan Lineage had departed, leaving the Great Powers relieved but concerned about losing Li Shiming’s alchemy.
• While traveling over the sea on the Golden Winged Great Peng, Yin Shilan recognized Li Taibai as the Phantom Clone, and Li Shiming revealed that Li Yuanba was also his clone.

Li Shiming, Li Yuanba, Li Taibai, and Yin Shilan entered Fallen Immortal Land and met Great Power Yin Hai, who explained its domains, enemies, and Immortal Alliance. The group learned they needed to register with the Immortal Alliance, while Li Shiming concealed his role in the fate of several missing Central Province cultivators.

• Li Yuanba passed through the Light Gate into Fallen Immortal Land and met Great Power Yin Hai, who identified him as a Sword Cultivator from Central Province.
• Li Shiming and Li Taibai joined Li Yuanba, and Li Shiming brought Yin Shilan out and introduced her to Yin Hai as his Dao companion.
• Yin Hai welcomed the four Free Great Powers to his castle and explained the struggle between the Immortal Domain and the Divine Domain, as well as the threat posed by Otherworldly God War Soldiers.
• Yin Hai gave Li Shiming a compass pointing toward the Immortal Alliance, where newcomers could verify their identities and choose missions or act independently.
• When Yin Hai asked about Central Province cultivators who had disappeared, Li Shiming gave a partly false account of Great Power Leng Luo, Huiyue Bodhisattva, and Great Power Wanfu.

Li Shiming and his companions reached the Immortal Alliance, registered as members, and learned how its Identity Jade Discs handled communication and missions. After reviewing the available tasks, they accepted an emergency rescue mission to Seventy-Three Immortal Abode.

• Li Shiming was knocked out of Space Movement by the formation around Jiao Chi's immortal residence, then learned that cultivators could not leap over immortal residences and detoured around it.
• Li Shiming, Li Yuanba, Li Taibai, and Yin Shilan followed the compass to the Immortal Alliance and registered at Azure Sun Hall, where Li Shiming used the name Li Shizhen.
• Liu Hong gave the four newcomers Identity Jade Discs and explained that they enabled communication, mission listings, and exchanges for Contribution Points.
• Li Shiming decided to use missions to learn about Fallen Immortal Land and rejected garrison duties that lasted for centuries.
• Li Shiming, Li Yuanba, Li Taibai, and Yin Shilan accepted an emergency mission to rescue Seventy-Three Immortal Abode, which was under attack.

Li Shiming used the Immortal Alliance’s Teleportation Formation to reach Seventy-Three Immortal Abode and rescue Great Power Xiang Liang from an attack by eleven Otherworldly God War Soldiers. He killed the attackers and collected their corpses and an Otherworldly Spirit Crystal, leaving Xiang Liang safe and impressed by his strength.

• Li Shiming and his companions used the Teleportation Formation to reach Seventy Immortal Abode, then traveled by Space Movement toward Seventy-Three Immortal Abode.
• Li Shiming found eleven Otherworldly God War Soldiers besieging Seventy-Three Immortal Abode, where Great Power Xiang Liang was struggling to hold the defenses.
• Li Shiming used Space Movement to evade the soldiers’ Battle Formation and killed the Half-Step Fifth Grade Otherworldly God War Soldiers.
• Li Shiming locked down the Fifth Grade soldier’s spatial abilities and killed it with the Immortal Execution Sword, collecting its Otherworldly Spirit Crystal and the soldiers’ corpses.
• Li Yuanba, Li Taibai, and Yin Shilan joined Li Shiming, and Xiang Liang emerged from Seventy-Three Immortal Abode without objecting to the mission’s payment.

Li Shiming and his companions left Great Power Xiang Liang’s immortal abode and headed toward the dangerous region near the god domain. At Seven Immortal Abode, they joined a battle against Otherworldly God War Soldiers, where Li Yuanba’s overwhelming attack wiped out the enemy force.

• Great Power Xiang Liang welcomed Li Shiming, Li Yuanba, Li Taibai, and Yin Shilan into his immortal abode and explained that attacks by Otherworldly God War Soldiers were more common near the god domain.
• Li Shiming gathered his companions’ Contribution Points and decided to travel toward the region between the immortal domain and the god domain rather than spend points returning to the Immortal Alliance.
• Li Shiming sent Yin Shilan into the blessed land and took Li Yuanba and Li Taibai toward Seven Immortal Abode to meet cultivators and learn about the region.
• A woman guarding Seven Immortal Abode recognized the trio as newcomers and opened the formation for them while two Sword Cultivator Great Powers fought three Fifth Grade and thirty Half-Step Fifth Grade Otherworldly God War Soldiers.
• Li Yuanba recognized Great Power Yi Yao, identified himself as a Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion cultivator, and entered the battle with his Purple Cloud Sword and ten thousand Energy Flying Swords.
• Li Yuanba’s Energy Flying Swords overwhelmed and killed all thirty-three Otherworldly God War Soldiers.