Chapter Summaries

Li Shiming developed Thousand Li Mutual Vision, a device that enabled video calls through the Sky Ocean Sect’s Identity Jade Discs, and negotiated an exclusive sales deal with Yun Ze. Yun Clan Merchant Guild’s limited release sparked intense demand among sect cultivators.

• Li Shiming demonstrated Thousand Li Mutual Vision to Yun Ze, who tested its video call function and asked whether it could be copied.
• Li Shiming offered the devices to Yun Clan Merchant Guild, and he and Yun Ze agreed that Li would receive thirty percent of sales in exchange for exclusivity and keeping his involvement secret.
• Li Shiming handed Yun Ze the first batch of one hundred devices under a secret contract.
• Yun Clan Merchant Guild gave ten devices to selected partners, while its experts failed to discover how to replicate them.
• Cultivators who tried the devices wanted them for their own friends, and the guild reserved another ten at five hundred Spirit Stones each, selling out immediately.

Li Shiming used his earnings from the Yun Clan Merchant Guild to build a mid-grade magic tool Gatling gun, combining intricate formations with his cultivation-world manufacturing equipment. He tested it on an uninhabited island and found that it fired thirty powerful ice crystal bullets per second, though its ammunition consumed spirit stones rapidly.

• The Yun Clan Merchant Guild sold five hundred of Li Shiming’s Thousand Li Mutual Vision devices for five hundred spirit stones each, earning him a share worth more than eighty thousand spirit stones.
• Li Shiming converted most of his earnings into formation materials and mid-grade tool blanks, then used his clone and Third Grade Sword Foundation to carve and assemble a Gatling gun over seven days.
• Li Shiming took the completed weapon to an uninhabited island and tested its formation-powered ice crystal bullets, which could threaten late-stage Qi Refining cultivators.
• The Gatling gun fired thirty bullets per second and consumed one spirit stone every ten seconds; Li Shiming estimated that only a cultivator like Baili Jin Yan might withstand its full assault.

Kui Yun ordered two Holy Ice Sect cultivators to renew their attempt to kill Li Shiming after they mistakenly killed someone else. Meanwhile, Li Shiming discovered Elder Baili’s Essence Blood inside the Clone and later detected two suspicious figures approaching Eagle Beak Island, leaving their intentions unclear.

• Kui Yun learned that Li Shiming was alive, scolded the two cultivators who had killed the wrong person, and sent them back with a Formation Breaking Talisman.
• Li Shiming searched the Clone and found a drop of Essence Blood in its heart that released Spirit Energy while it cultivated the Ice Heart Jade Thought Art.
• Li Shiming decided to let the Essence Blood gradually deplete rather than risk removing it, postponing plans to take the Clone outside.
• Li Shiming continued studying formation knowledge with IBMz15 until the Goggles warned him of an approaching figure.
• Li Shiming used a Monitoring Probe to spot two dark-blue figures near Eagle Beak Island, and one reached toward the formation.

Li Shiming tracked two Holy Ice Sect cultivators to a concealed island stronghold and attacked them with his Bronze Corpse and Gatling Gun. He added the Devil Sound Lotus when their defenses held, but one cultivator resisted its effects and prepared to strike at Li Shiming.

• Two Late-Stage Qi Refining cultivators failed to break Eagle Beak Island's Small Mountain Protection Formation and left, so Li Shiming followed them out to sea.
• Li Shiming discovered their hidden island stronghold and narrowly avoided detection by Kui Yun, who flew away to report their failure to Master.
• Li Shiming used IBMz15 to enter the island's formation and found the two cultivators alone in a Cave Dwelling, awaiting Elder Baili's judgment.
• Li Shiming sent the Bronze Corpse into the Cave Dwelling, where its Gatling Gun overwhelmed the cultivators' shield but did not defeat them outright.
• Li Shiming used the Devil Sound Lotus's Life-Reaping Brahma Sound, but the Qi Refining Stage 8 cultivator took a Pill, regained his clarity, and told his companion to attack Li Shiming.

Li Shiming defeated two Holy Ice Sect cultivators in the underwater Cave Dwelling, then rigged the stronghold with explosives and surveillance while waiting for the Foundation Establishment cultivator to return. As he hid nearby, he practiced the Soul Control Art and created a divided soul to watch the island, while Yin Shilan and Ren Fei'er failed to reach him.

• Li Shiming used his Spirit Sense Jade Sword and Azure Kite Wooden Sword to kill the Qi Refining Stage 7 cultivator, then stopped the Qi Refining Stage 8 cultivator from self-destructing and killed him with the Bronze Corpse's Gatling Gun.
• Li Shiming absorbed the two cultivators' souls, searched the Cave Dwelling, and identified it as a Holy Ice Sect stronghold linked to Baili Jin Yan.
• Li Shiming planted two tons of Solid Explosive beneath the Cave Dwelling, installed a Pinhole Surveillance Probe, and set up a relay to transmit its signal beyond the Formation.
• Li Shiming hid in an underwater reef in a Diving Suit and waited for the absent Foundation Establishment cultivator, preparing to flee if the explosives failed.
• Li Shiming combined the collected souls into a Primary Spirit and made a divided soul, which he sent to monitor the nearby island from the sea surface.
• Yin Shilan visited Eagle Beak Island and assumed Li Shiming was cultivating, while Ren Fei'er waited to contact him and planned to collect the stories he owed her.

Li Shiming detonated a massive explosive beneath the island where Elder Baili and Kui Yun had arrived, catching both cultivators in the blast. Elder Baili escaped at the cost of his Magical Treasure, while Li Shiming found Kui Yun’s corpse and began searching the wreckage for loot.

• Li Shiming learned that Elder Baili had come to the island and heard him order a mission offering a Nominal Disciple position to whoever killed Li Shiming.
• Li Shiming triggered the explosives beneath Elder Baili and Kui Yun from his hiding place on the seabed.
• Elder Baili blasted a way out, lost his damaged Magical Treasure, and escaped with Blood Escape, leaving Kui Yun behind.
• The explosion destroyed Li Shiming’s Split Soul, but he later confirmed that Kui Yun had died and Elder Baili had fled.
• Li Shiming searched the vanished island’s wreckage and collected Kui Yun’s Storage Bag and a sword-shaped piece of metal.

Li Shiming returned to Eagle Beak Island after an explosion that injured Elder Baili and killed Kui Yun, and his new formation insights formed an Array Starlight in his consciousness. He examined the spoils, set aside the dangerous treasures, and began refining a Jade Flying Boat taken from two Holy Ice Sect cultivators.

• Li Shiming received IBMz15's research on the Holy Ice Sect formation and comprehended his Formation Knowledge until it formed an Array Starlight in his consciousness.
• Li Shiming returned to Eagle Beak Island, went into the Underground Space, and reflected that he would use larger amounts of explosives if necessary to kill a Golden Core cultivator.
• Li Shiming opened Kui Yun's Storage Bag with Spiritual Sense and found Spiritual Artifacts, Spirit Stones, Pills, and a wooden Flying Boat, but decided the items were too risky to use.
• Li Shiming examined the belongings of two Holy Ice Sect Late-Stage Qi Refining cultivators and found a Jade Flying Boat bearing the sect's mark.
• Li Shiming used the Dragon's Eye Awakening Touch Art to refine the Jade Flying Boat.

Li Shiming cultivated the Sword Body Secret Scripture with Third Grade Sword-Shaped Metal and discovered that his cultivation speed exceeded his spiritual-root limit. Yin Shilan visited him after worrying about his silence, gave him a protective Talisman Treasure, and the two held hands.

• Li Shiming began cultivating the Sword Body Secret Scripture with Elder Baili’s broken Sword-Shaped Metal, then confirmed it did not conflict with his Vajra Body Protection Divine Art.
• Li Shiming found his body had grown and his Five Elements Qi Absorption Art cultivation speed had reached 27.01, surpassing its calculated limit of 27.
• The IBMz15 warned Li Shiming that Yin Shilan had arrived, so he returned to his Cave Dwelling and activated the Small Mountain Protection Formation.
• Yin Shilan told Li Shiming she had worried about him during his five days without news and gave him a Golden Core-derived Talisman Treasure for protection.
• Li Shiming accepted the Talisman Treasure, thanked Yin Shilan, and gently placed his hand over hers; she blushed but did not pull away.

Li Shiming learned about the Heaven Piercing Bow Talisman Treasure and his new formation insight from Yin Shilan, then began upgrading the Bronze Corpse to wield more weapons. He strengthened its bones and completed a three-headed, six-armed modification, leaving it ready for further advancement.

• Yin Shilan explained that the Heaven Piercing Bow Talisman Treasure could threaten even Late-Stage Foundation Establishment cultivators, and Li Shiming learned that his Starry Sea was a prerequisite for becoming an Advanced Formation Master.
• Li Shiming declined to take the Intermediate Formation Master examination for now, then ordered another batch of goods from Yun Ze.
• After finding the Mid-Grade Magic Tool Gatling Gun less powerful than he had hoped, Li Shiming decided to modify the Bronze Corpse into a three-headed, six-armed weapon platform.
• Li Shiming replaced the Bronze Corpse’s bones with bones from a Foundation Establishment cultivator and used the Netherworld Ghost Realm Formation to refine them.
• Li Shiming surgically added two heads and four arms to the Bronze Corpse, connecting their bones, nerves, muscles, and blood vessels.

Li Shiming completed the Three Heads Six Arms Bronze Corpse’s modification, improved his Mid-Grade Magic Tool Gatling Guns, and set out for Qingyi Island after Ren Fei’er asked him to rescue her. Ren Fei’er had secretly gone there to test whether Li Shiming cared about her, but her attempt to lure Sea Beasts with Spirit Attraction Liquid drew five of them and more were approaching.

• Li Shiming guided the Bronze Corpse’s autonomous modification in the Netherworld Ghost Realm Formation, where its three heads awakened and the two new heads became subordinate to the original.
• Li Shiming found that the Bronze Corpse retained its Heavenly Spiritual Root, adapted to its six arms, and gained at least thirty percent more combat strength after the modification and bone replacement.
• Li Shiming built five improved Mid-Grade Magic Tool Gatling Guns, while Ren Fei’er and Yin Shilan both stopped responding to him for several days.
• Ren Fei’er sent Li Shiming a plea to rescue her on Qingyi Island, and he retrieved the Bronze Corpse and set out on his Jade Flying Boat.
• Ren Fei’er revealed that she had run away from home to test whether Li Shiming cared about her, then accidentally spilled half a bottle of Spirit Attraction Liquid and drew five Sea Beasts toward her formation.

Ren Fei'er was overwhelmed by a Sea Beast horde on Qingyi Island and faced a masked squad of cultivator hunters until Li Shiming arrived and rescued her. The Spirit Attraction Liquid's pull ended, but Li Shiming and Ren Fei'er still had to finish clearing the Sea Beasts.

• Ren Fei'er used her Spirit Attraction Liquid and dwindling resources to defend Qingyi Island from a seemingly endless swarm of Sea Beasts.
• A masked squad of six Late-Stage Qi Refining cultivators watched Ren Fei'er, then attacked her to seize her resources.
• Li Shiming rushed to Qingyi Island, where the Three Heads Six Arms Bronze Corpse's Gatling Guns and his Buddha's Light First Appears cleared a path through the Sea Beasts.
• Li Shiming killed the surviving masked cultivator and found Ren Fei'er protected by her mother's Guardian Spiritual Power.
• Ren Fei'er woke, recognized Li Shiming, and embraced him before they turned their attention back to the remaining Sea Beasts.

Li Shiming saved Ren Fei'er from a Sea Beast horde, met her powerful mother Elder Ren, and collected a fortune from the aftermath. After returning to sect life, he learned Elder Baili was recovering in seclusion and later noticed the Yun Clan Merchant Guild growing less cooperative with him.

• A phantom reached for Ren Fei'er, but Li Shiming tried to defend her with his Azure Kite Wooden Sword before Ren Fei'er revealed that the attacker was her mother, Elder Ren.
• Elder Ren punished Ren Fei'er, gave Li Shiming a replacement Metal Attribute sword, and advised him to focus on building his Spiritual Power foundation before taking her daughter away for a year of closed-door cultivation.
• Li Shiming collected the Sea Beast corpses and the remains of his sword, then killed another Sea Beast as he departed Qingyi Island.
• Li Shiming learned that Elder Baili had returned to the Holy Ice Sect injured and entered closed-door cultivation, then resumed his cultivation while Ren Fei'er remained out of contact.
• Over the following half year, the Yun Clan Merchant Guild stopped buying Thousand Li Mutual Vision and began rejecting some of Li Shiming's orders and raising prices.

After half a year of cultivation, Li Shiming had grown stronger and amassed considerable wealth, but he wanted a new business partner and more protection from the Yun Clan Merchant Guild. He went to Dui Peak seeking an Intermediate Formation Master assessment, where the sect instead certified him based on his Array Starlight Sea and granted him new resources and authority.

• Li Shiming absorbed the Third Grade Metal, advanced to Qi Refining Fifth Level, and strengthened his body, Bronze Corpse, sword arts, and Soul Control Art.
• Li Shiming sold more than ten thousand sea beast corpses through various identities, earning 2.4 million Spirit Stones, while growing wary of the Yun Clan Merchant Guild’s dealings.
• Li Shiming created the Thousand Li Mutual Vision Second Generation and flew to Dui Peak to apply for an Intermediate Formation Master assessment.
• Martial Uncle Zhuge and Martial Uncle Chang saw Li Shiming’s Array Starlight Sea and jointly certified him as an intermediate formation master.
• Martial Uncle Chang opened intermediate formation knowledge to Li Shiming for free, while Martial Uncle Zhuge assigned him sect duties and warned him not to misuse his new formation authority.
• Li Shiming checked his identity jade disc and discovered he could access maintenance missions and call upon external sect formation nodes for protection.

Li Shiming partnered with Yu Yongan and the Hidden Dragon Merchant Guild to launch Thousand Li Mutual Vision Second Generation, which the guild used to host an anonymous remote auction. At the auction, a Foundation Establishment Pill drew intense bidding, and Li Shiming waited for the right moment to bid.

• Li Shiming met Yu Yongan at Central Peak and proposed cooperating on Thousand Li Mutual Vision Second Generation, including its group-chat function.
• Yu Yongan agreed to formal cooperation, and one day later he and Li Shiming signed a detailed Contract for the new devices.
• The Hidden Dragon Merchant Guild announced an auction and distributed Thousand Li Mutual Vision Second Generation devices to registered participants, introducing its clearer display and anonymous group function.
• The remote auction proceeded with high bids, while Li Shiming held back from ordinary items and focused on the Foundation Establishment Pill.
• The auctioneer presented the Foundation Establishment Pill with no reserve price, and bids began appearing as Li Shiming watched without bidding yet.

Li Shiming won a Foundation Establishment Pill through Yu Yongan and prepared to supply Hidden Dragon Merchant Guild with five hundred communication devices, while the Yun clan debated handing him over to Holy Ice Sect. He inspected Sky Ocean Sect’s grand formation with Yin Shilan, repaired damaged spiritual lines, and left with a chance to study its ancient formation technology.

• Yu Yongan gave Li Shiming the Foundation Establishment Pill he had won at auction and arranged to deduct its cost from Li’s order for five hundred devices.
• Li Shiming examined the computer managing the communication network and checked on his Clone, whose Essence Blood was gradually being absorbed.
• The Yun clan head ordered Yun Ze to lure Li Shiming outside so the clan could hand him over to Holy Ice Sect, despite Yun Ze’s warning that Li was vigilant.
• Li Shiming and Yin Shilan inspected Quake Peak’s formation nodes, studied an ancient lightning Formation Flag, and discovered damaged Spiritual Power Lines.
• Li Shiming repaired the damaged lines under Yin Shilan’s supervision, successfully restoring the flow of spiritual power.

After learning that becoming an Advanced Formation Master could earn him four Foundation Establishment Pills, Li Shiming met Yun Ze, who revealed that the Holy Ice Sect had hired the Yun Clan Merchant Guild to kill him. Yun Ze trapped Li Shiming in a formation that sealed Spiritual Power, but Li Shiming survived the maids’ attack and killed all four.

• Li Shiming and Yin Shilan split five hundred Merit Points each, and Yin Shilan told him that Advanced Formation Masters could receive at least four Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Yun Ze invited Li Shiming to meet at Gen Peak, where Li Shiming noticed the suspicious courtyard and detected Spirit Suppression Powder in the tea.
• Yun Ze admitted that the Holy Ice Sect had offered the Yun Clan Merchant Guild a high price for Li Shiming’s head.
• Yun Ze activated a formation that sealed Spiritual Power, and four Body-Refining maids attacked Li Shiming with short swords.
• Li Shiming’s body withstood the swords, and he killed all four maids with his hands, shocking Yun Ze.

Li Shiming exposed the Yun Clan Merchant Guild’s assassination plot, crippled Yun Ze, and summoned the Enforcement Hall. After Yun Gang tried to kill him, Li Shiming used the Sect Grand Formation to protect himself and publicly accused the Yun Clan, leaving the matter before gathered Foundation Establishment cultivators.

• Li Shiming destroyed Yun Ze’s Spiritual Qi Vortex, crippling his spiritual root, and took his Storage Bag.
• Li Shiming discovered that a cube of Spirit Restriction Gold inside a Na Gold Box had imprisoned spiritual power in the courtyard, then called Martial Uncle Xu of the Enforcement Hall.
• Deacon Xu arrived with twelve Law Enforcement Cultivators, and Li Shiming reported the assassins, the Spirit Restriction Gold, and the Yun Clan Merchant Guild’s alleged collusion with the Holy Ice Sect.
• Yun Gang attacked Li Shiming, but the Sect Grand Formation blocked his strike, and Li Shiming shouted his accusations across the Nine Peaks.
• More than twenty Foundation Establishment cultivators gathered as Li Shiming asked them to uphold justice and Yun Gang claimed the evidence had been planted.

Li Shiming exposed the Yun Clan’s collusion with Holy Ice Sect and survived attempts by Yun Gang and Peak Lord Zhao to silence him, but the sect’s lenient punishment left him distrustful and wary. A month later, Sect Master Yu offered him compensation, and Li Shiming refused it, citing the danger the Yun Clan still posed.

• Li Shiming accused Yun Gang of trying to kill him and played footage showing Yun Ze’s role in the Yun Clan’s plot with Holy Ice Sect.
• Peak Lord Zhao tried to kill Yun Ze, but Martial Uncle Zhuge used the Sect Grand Formation to stop him and protect Yun Ze.
• Li Shiming handed Deacon Xu the evidence and left Gen Peak, while Deacon Xu took Yun Ze and reported the case.
• The sect revoked the Yun Clan Merchant Guild’s commercial rights, imprisoned three senior members, and sent Yun Gang to the Sky Ocean Sea Line, but Li Shiming remained dissatisfied and stayed mostly in his Cave Dwelling.
• Sect Master Yu summoned Li Shiming a month later and offered one hundred and fifty thousand spirit stones in compensation, but Li Shiming refused and asked only for the return of his test-version Thousand Li Mutual Vision.

Li Shiming refused compensation after Peak Lord Zhao destroyed his Thousand Li Mutual Vision, deepening his distrust of Sky Ocean Sect as he withdrew from view. Half a year later, Elder Yin emerged after advancing to the Golden Core Middle Stage and learned of the attack on Li Shiming, while Elder Baili revealed that he had mistaken the incident for a trap by Ren and suffered serious losses.

• Li Shiming rejected one thousand spirit stones from Peak Lord Zhao and asked for the broken fragments of his Thousand Li Mutual Vision, then left Sect Master Yu's presence.
• Deacon Xu told Sect Master Yu that Peak Lord Zhao had sent the device to a merchant guild for research, where it burned during dismantling.
• Li Shiming stayed out of sight for half a year while his cooperation with the Hidden Dragon Merchant Guild continued and materials flowed to Eagle Beak Island.
• Elder Yin emerged from seclusion after advancing to the Golden Core Middle Stage, and Sect Master Yu explained that Li Shiming had been attacked on Gen Peak.
• Elder Yin reviewed the case records and contacted Elder Baili, demanding that Holy Ice Sect hand over the person behind the attack.
• Elder Baili accused Ren of ambushing him, destroying his Magical Treasure, and killing his direct disciple, while Elder Yin ended the call after announcing his advancement and promising to discuss revenge later.

After Elder Yin intervened in the Yun Clan affair, Peak Lord Zhao sent Yun Song to apologize to Li Shiming and offer compensation. Li Shiming accepted the sect’s handling of the matter, then visited Martial Uncle Zhuge to ask about the Thirty-Three Heavens.

• Elder Yin reprimanded Peak Lord Zhao for mishandling Li Shiming’s case, then reassured Yin Shilan and said he would visit Fei'er with her.
• Peak Lord Zhao ordered the Yun Clan’s leading merchant guild members treated as traitors and sent Yun Song to seek Li Shiming’s forgiveness.
• Li Shiming learned about the Thirty-Three Heavens in his formation studies and decided to ask Martial Uncle Zhuge for information.
• Yun Song apologized to Li Shiming and presented a Foundation Establishment Pill and a Transcendent-Grade Body Armor; Li Shiming accepted the compensation and trusted the Enforcement Hall’s handling of the case.
• Li Shiming visited Martial Uncle Zhuge, who urged him to claim his formation resources and encouraged him to seek guidance.