Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ping'an transferred the Sha-Drawing Thunder-Refining Arrays to the Mystic Weight Sect, then used Yellow Springs Water, the Mirage Beast Crystal, and the Merit List to form a Reincarnation Golden Core. He overcame a threefold lightning tribulation and reached the Golden Core Realm.

• Jiang Ping'an offered the Mystic Weight Sect ten Sha-Drawing Thunder-Refining Arrays and their blueprints in exchange for two hundred thousand spirit stones, one million merit points, and fifteen percent of sales.
• Mo Ruyan gave Jiang Ping'an Yellow Springs Water, and he agreed to wait half a year before entering seclusion to form his core.
• Jiang Ping'an merged the Yellow Springs Water, Mirage Beast Crystal, and Merit List to form a dark-gold Reincarnation Golden Core.
• A threefold lightning tribulation descended over Daheng Peak, and Li Xuanxiao concealed the mountain-protecting grand formation so Jiang Ping'an could face it.
• Jiang Ping'an endured the heavenly and heart-demon lightning, then transformed the reincarnation lightning's destructive power into Dao Patterns on his Golden Core.
• Jiang Ping'an overcame the tribulation, received the heavens' auspicious light, and achieved the Golden Core Realm.

After forming a Reincarnation Golden Core, Jiang Ping'an learned about the rare treasures Mirage Cloud Marrow and Hundred-Life Yellow Millet and gained the Rollback divine ability. He agreed to help Mystic Weight Sect attack Five Hopes Mountain Marketplace in three months, then visited Mo Ruyan and offered to seek the treasure she needed to advance to Yang God.

• Jiang Ping'an consolidated his Golden Core and found that Dreamland Heavenly Dao's suppression of his Divine Soul had weakened, allowing him to use one percent of his Spiritual Sense.
• Jiang Ping'an questioned Su Wanying about Mirage Cloud Marrow and Hundred-Life Yellow Millet, then discovered and mastered the Rollback divine ability.
• At his Golden Core celebration, Jiang Ping'an and Li Xuanxiao agreed to uproot Five Hopes Mountain Marketplace in three months.
• Jiang Ping'an visited Mo Ruyan at Black Yin Mountain, and they discussed her Yang God advancement and the scarce Solar Golden Cicada Molt she needed.
• Jiang Ping'an offered to seek Solar Golden Cicada Molt at the Ancient Solar Altar, though Mo Ruyan doubted he was strong enough to go there.

Li Xuanxiao led the Mystic Weight Sect to conquer Five Hopes Mountain Marketplace, while Jiang Ping'an helped drive off its Golden Core allies. After earning battle rewards, Jiang Ping'an traveled to Great Luo Holy City, created and refined a pill suited to his Reincarnation Golden Core, and began using it to advance his cultivation.

• Li Xuanxiao ordered the Mystic Weight Sect to attack Five Hopes Mountain Marketplace and used five hundred Qi Refining Realm disciples with Sha Thunder Orbs to break its mountain-guarding grand array.
• Jiang Ping'an and his three Sword Souls held off one of Five Hopes Mountain Marketplace's Golden Core True Lords while Li Xuanxiao fought the other, and both enemies retreated.
• Li Xuanxiao secured the surrender of most of Five Hopes Mountain Marketplace's cultivators, and Jiang Ping'an returned to the Mystic Weight Sect before receiving one million merit points and five hundred thousand spirit stones.
• Jiang Ping'an traveled to Great Luo Holy City, used his panel and Proficiency Points to create the Profound Yellow Reincarnation Pill recipe, and bought ingredients and equipment to refine it.
• Jiang Ping'an successfully refined ten Profound Yellow Reincarnation Pills and took one, which gave him cultivation equivalent to a year of hard training.

Jiang Ping'an entered the Ancient Solar Altar during its brief opening to search for the Solar Golden Cicada Molt. He discovered the Nascent Soul Dao Lords Yuan Youyou and Xue Haishan fighting, but ignored Yuan Youyou’s plea for help and continued his search.

• Jiang Ping'an reached the Ancient Solar Altar and waited in a concealed valley for the summer solstice.
• Xue Haishan arrived and offered to help Yuan Youyou search the altar, but Yuan Youyou repeatedly refused.
• When noon sunlight opened the true Ancient Solar Altar, Jiang Ping'an used his Divine Wheel to withstand the scorching entrance and flew inside.
• Jiang Ping'an sensed Xue Haishan attacking Yuan Youyou while Innate Fire Spirit Beasts swarmed them.
• Yuan Youyou called on Jiang Ping'an for help, but Jiang Ping'an ignored him and flew away to search for the Solar Golden Cicada Molt.

Jiang Ping'an found the Solar Golden Cicada Molt in the Ancient Solar Altar, subdued its guardian, and then rescued Yuan Youyou from the Blood Luo Cult Master. He and Yuan Youyou left the altar together after forcing the Blood Luo Cult Master to abandon his pursuit.

• Jiang Ping'an searched the eastern and southern sides of the Ancient Solar Altar but found no Solar Golden Cicada Molt, while Yuan Youyou called for help against the Blood Luo Cult Master.
• Jiang Ping'an dispersed several Innate Fire Spirit Beasts and found the Solar Golden Cicada Molt on the western side, where the Solar Golden Cicada attacked him.
• Jiang Ping'an trapped the Solar Golden Cicada with his Divine Wheel, secured its molt, and released it after it surrendered.
• Jiang Ping'an found Yuan Youyou badly wounded and attacked the Blood Luo Cult Master, giving Yuan Youyou time to join him.
• Jiang Ping'an and Yuan Youyou fought off the Blood Luo Cult Master's attempt to divide them, then fled the Ancient Solar Altar together.

Jiang Ping'an reached Dream Trace Immortal Valley with Yuan Youyou and used his newly created Reincarnation Soul Forging Technique to awaken Yuan Youyou's descendant, Yuan Tiangang. The chapter ended with Yuan Tiangang awake but wary of the unfamiliar Jiang Ping'an.

• Jiang Ping'an asked Yuan Youyou to help him obtain Hundred-Life Yellow Millet, and learned that Yuan Youyou's descendant had remained trapped in a dream after planting it.
• Yuan Youyou brought Jiang Ping'an to Dream Trace Immortal Valley and showed him the unconscious young cultivator, Yuan Tiangang.
• Jiang Ping'an discovered Yuan Tiangang's Divine Soul had sunk into the Abyss of Chaos and devised a method to forge a new Divine Soul using the original as its core.
• Jiang Ping'an created the Reincarnation Soul Forging Technique and used one hundred thousand Proficiency Points to make it feasible.
• Jiang Ping'an performed the technique and called Yuan Tiangang awake, and Yuan Tiangang sat up and warily asked who he was.

Jiang Ping'an awakened Yuan Tiangang from a years-long dream, while concealing the method he used. Dream Trace Immortal Valley’s leaders decided to recruit him and obtain his technique, and Jiang Ping'an agreed to stay while claiming he needed half a month to recover.

• Yuan Tiangang woke after five or six years asleep, and Yuan Youyou and Huangfu Wuyan examined his Divine Soul but found only something they could not identify.
• Yuan Tiangang thanked Jiang Ping'an, who concealed his method when Yuan Youyou asked how he had awakened him.
• Yuan Youyou and Huangfu Wuyan discussed Jiang Ping'an’s abilities and decided to ask him to awaken another disciple and invite him to join Dream Trace Immortal Valley.
• Yuan Youyou asked Jiang Ping'an to awaken another sleeping disciple, and Jiang Ping'an agreed but said he needed half a month to recover his Divine Soul.

Jiang Ping'an negotiated his entry into Dream Trace Immortal Valley in exchange for merit points and access to Hundred-Life Yellow Millet, then used a bowl to gain thirty million Proficiency Points. After returning to Black Yin Mountain, he reunited with Mo Ruyan and gave her the Solar Golden Cicada Molt.

• Jiang Ping'an awakened a Dream Trace Immortal Valley disciple who had slept for thirty-three years, and Yuan Youyou proposed that he join the sect.
• Huangfu Wuyan approved Jiang Ping'an’s entry as a True Disciple, granting him merit points for awakening disciples and permission to exchange for up to three bowls of Hundred-Life Yellow Millet each year for his own use.
• Yuan Youyou gave Jiang Ping'an three bowls of Hundred-Life Yellow Millet, and Jiang Ping'an returned to Mystic Weight Sect aboard his treasure ship.
• Jiang Ping'an ate a bowl of Hundred-Life Yellow Millet, converted the dream’s comprehension into thirty million Proficiency Points, and calculated that acquiring enough millet to master the ninth volume of the Dao Scripture could take decades.
• Nearly two months later, Jiang Ping'an returned to Black Yin Mountain, where Mo Ruyan greeted him anxiously.
• Jiang Ping'an gave Mo Ruyan the Solar Golden Cicada Molt, and she wept with joy and embraced and kissed him.

Jiang Ping'an prepared to leave the Mystic Weight Sect for Dream Trace Immortal Valley, while arranging for Mo Ruyan to undergo her Yang God breakthrough. He arrived at the Immortal Valley with Dongfang Jintang, Xuan Shuang, and Xiu Yun and settled them on Xuanji Peak, awaiting his initiation ceremony.

• Jiang Ping'an gave Mo Ruyan the Solar Golden Cicada Molt and learned that her Yang God breakthrough and ninefold Heavenly Tribulation would take around fifteen years at Black Yin Mountain.
• Jiang Ping'an told Mo Ruyan he would join Dream Trace Immortal Valley and return in fourteen years, then left Black Yin Mountain two days later.
• Jiang Ping'an told Dongfang Jintang, Xuan Shuang, and Xiu Yun he was leaving the Mystic Weight Sect, and all three agreed to accompany him.
• Jiang Ping'an informed Li Xuanxiao of his departure for Dream Trace Immortal Valley, and Li Xuanxiao accepted his decision and kept the Sha-Drawing Thunder-Refining Array proceeds.
• Jiang Ping'an formally left the Mystic Weight Sect with the three women and reached Dream Trace Immortal Valley nearly two months later.
• Yuan Youyou welcomed Jiang Ping'an and brought the group to Xuanji Peak, where he received cave abode jade talismans and awaited his initiation ceremony.

Jiang Ping'an joined Dream Trace Immortal Valley as a True Disciple and began awakening slumbering cultivators according to the sect's list. After awakening Huangfu Yu, he agreed to move Huang Zhili's Cultivation Partner ahead in exchange for one million merit points, while Senior Brother Zhao headed to Xuanji Peak to seek a similar arrangement.

• Jiang Ping'an accepted Huangfu Wuyan's list of slumbering Disciples and arranged to awaken one person every half month.
• After his initiation ceremony, Jiang Ping'an told the other True Disciples that their loved ones were on the list but refused to reveal their positions.
• Jiang Ping'an awakened Huangfu Yu, whose recovery gave onlookers hope that their own sleeping relatives and friends could be saved.
• Huang Zhili offered Jiang Ping'an one million merit points to awaken Wang Xuewei eight days later, ahead of her place on the list.
• Huang Zhili asked Senior Brother Zhao to keep their arrangement confidential, and Senior Brother Zhao flew to Xuanji Peak seeking Jiang Ping'an.

Jiang Ping'an earned merit points by awakening sleeping disciples, exchanged them for Hundred-Life Yellow Millet, and continued helping people in Dream Trace Immortal Valley. After awakening a Golden Core Realm cultivator at great cost, he postponed his other appointments, while Huangfu Wuyan and the elders discussed training disciples with Reincarnation Golden Cores.

• Jiang Ping'an awakened Wang Xuewei out of turn and received five hundred thousand merit points in advance after the Logistics Hall deputy hall master confirmed she was on the list.
• Dongfang Jintang passed Dream Trace Immortal Valley's assessment and became a disciple, while Xuan Shuang chose to remain by Jiang Ping'an's side.
• Jiang Ping'an earned ten million merit points, exchanged them for a bowl of Hundred-Life Yellow Millet, and gained thirty million Proficiency Points.
• Xiu Yun reached the peak of the Qi Refining Realm but declined to attempt Foundation Establishment because she feared its risks.
• Jiang Ping'an used the Reincarnation Soul Forging Technique to awaken the Golden Core Realm cultivator Lin Yichen, then claimed he needed three months to recuperate and postponed his appointments.
• Huangfu Wuyan questioned the awakened Feng Yong and then met with the elders, who agreed that Jiang Ping'an's Reincarnation Golden Core and powerful Divine Soul enabled his method and decided to train disciples with Reincarnation Golden Cores.

Dongfang Jintang reached the peak of the Foundation Establishment Realm and prepared to form her core, while Jiang Ping'an faced a limit on how much Hundred-Life Yellow Millet he could exchange for. He visited Feng Jiuzhen to request custom pills, but when he rejected her price, she trapped him inside Qiwu Mountain’s grand array.

• Dongfang Jintang told Jiang Ping'an she had reached the peak of the Foundation Establishment Realm, accepted his Core Formation Treasures, and stayed with him for a month before entering seclusion.
• Huangfu Wuyan told Jiang Ping'an to focus on cultivation and limited him to exchanging for one bowl of Hundred-Life Yellow Millet per year.
• Yuan Youyou advised Jiang Ping'an to seek Feng Jiuzhen for custom Spirit Pills, and Jiang Ping'an eventually went to visit her at Qiwu Mountain.
• Feng Jiuzhen demanded 500 million merit points to tailor and refine pills for Jiang Ping'an, and he refused and tried to leave.
• Feng Jiuzhen altered Qiwu Mountain’s grand array to prevent Jiang Ping'an from leaving, insisting their transaction had been established.

Jiang Ping'an negotiated a deal with Feng Jiuzhen to improve his cultivation and study her alchemy, while Dongfang Jintang overcame tribulation and became a Golden Core True Lord. The chapter ended with Jintang joining the sect as a True Disciple and choosing to remain with Jiang Ping'an.

• Jiang Ping'an broke through Qiwu Mountain's defensive formation and escaped after Feng Jiuzhen tried to arrange a cultivation deal, then Feng Jiuzhen reported his strength to Huangfu Wuyan.
• Yuan Youyou mediated between Jiang Ping'an and Feng Jiuzhen, who agreed to accept five hundred million merit points and let him study her Art of Alchemy and Pill Recipes for thirty years.
• Feng Jiuzhen failed to pressure Jiang Ping'an with her Nascent Soul aura and told him to visit her cave abode, but he stayed away to prolong their standoff.
• Dongfang Jintang formed her core, survived three layers of Heavenly Tribulation, and became a Golden Core True Lord.
• After recovering, Dongfang Jintang reunited with Jiang Ping'an and used the Ode to Yin-Yang Bliss with him, greatly improving his cultivation gains.
• Dongfang Jintang registered as a True Disciple but received no spiritual peak, and she remained with Jiang Ping'an.

Jiang Ping'an visited Feng Jiuzhen so she could investigate his unusual cultivation and teach him alchemy. After Feng Jiuzhen entered his Sea of Consciousness to examine his Divine Soul, Jiang Ping'an hugged her Divine Soul, leaving her furious and confused by the blissful sensation she experienced.

• Jiang Ping'an visited Feng Jiuzhen on Qiwu Mountain, answered her questions about his cultivation, and let her examine his unstable magical power.
• Feng Jiuzhen lent Jiang Ping'an her Art of Alchemy, and he used his Proficiency Points to master it after returning to Xuanji Peak.
• Feng Jiuzhen summoned Jiang Ping'an again and insisted on examining his Divine Soul inside her cave abode.
• Jiang Ping'an let Feng Jiuzhen enter his Sea of Consciousness, where he embraced her nine-colored Divine Soul and she embraced him in return.
• Feng Jiuzhen pushed Jiang Ping'an away and ordered him to leave, then privately wondered whether he had done more than hug her.

Jiang Ping'an sought Earth Rank Pill Recipes from Feng Jiuzhen, and their repeated examinations brought them from Spiritual Union to an intimate relationship. After giving him a recipe, Feng Jiuzhen wondered about the connection between their Divine Souls and told him hers had always been nine-colored.

• Jiang Ping'an visited Feng Jiuzhen for Earth Rank Pill Recipes, and she invited him into her Cultivation Chamber for another examination after becoming captivated by his appearance.
• Feng Jiuzhen's Divine Soul entered Jiang Ping'an's Sea of Consciousness, where the two embraced; afterward, she scolded him for hugging her again, but allowed him to kiss and embrace her.
• Feng Jiuzhen tested Jiang Ping'an's alchemy knowledge, called his correct answer wrong, and chased him with a magic whip before giving him an Earth Rank Pill Recipe.
• When Jiang Ping'an returned the recipe several days later, Feng Jiuzhen brought him back to the Cultivation Chamber, where his praise of her beauty softened her and they became lovers.
• Afterward, Feng Jiuzhen asked whether their Spiritual Union meant their Divine Souls had mated, and Jiang Ping'an asked why her Divine Soul was nine-colored.

Jiang Ping'an obtained Feng Jiuzhen’s Nine Revolutions Coiling Dragon Pill recipe, improved it with his proficiency panel, and received nine pills made from his revisions. He began taking them in seclusion to solidify his unstable foundation, and the first pill strengthened his Golden Core and condensed his mana.

• Feng Jiuzhen tested Jiang Ping'an on a Pill Recipe, chased him with a golden whip, and gave him another Earth Rank Pill Recipe.
• After refining Feng Jiuzhen’s Yuan Yin, Jiang Ping'an received the Nine Revolutions Coiling Dragon Pill recipe, mastered and improved it, then presented his revisions to Feng Jiuzhen.
• Feng Jiuzhen approved Jiang Ping'an’s revisions and later gave him nine pills, explaining that they would solidify his foundation before she improved his acquired spirit apertures.
• Jiang Ping'an paused dual cultivation with Dongfang Jintang so he could take the pills, and Dongfang Jintang moved back to Jadeglow Cave Abode.
• Jiang Ping'an swallowed the first Nine Revolutions Coiling Dragon Pill and endured seven days of seclusion as its medicinal power tempered his Golden Core and mana.

After finishing nine furnaces of Heaven-Reaching Pills, Jiang Ping'an improved all nine of his great spirit apertures until they rivaled innate ones, causing a massive surge in spiritual qi when he cultivated again. He told Dongfang Jintang, Xuan Shuang, and Xiu Yun what had happened, then agreed to find Dongfang Jintang a spirit peak of her own.

• Jiang Ping'an studied Feng Jiuzhen's nine Heaven-Reaching Pill Recipes, then watched her refine the pills and began taking them to improve his spirit apertures.
• After nine months, Jiang Ping'an finished all nine furnaces of Heaven-Reaching Pills and resumed cultivation, drawing spiritual qi from across Xuanji Peak in a huge vortex.
• Dongfang Jintang, Xuan Shuang, and Xiu Yun asked Jiang Ping'an why the spiritual qi had surged, and he revealed that all nine of his great spirit apertures now rivaled innate ones.
• Jiang Ping'an warned Dongfang Jintang, Xuan Shuang, and Xiu Yun to keep the Heaven-Reaching Pills secret and discussed how his cultivation affected them.
• Dongfang Jintang chose to move to a spirit peak, and Jiang Ping'an promised to find her a good one as soon as possible.

Jiang Ping'an advanced his cultivation, helped Dongfang Jintang obtain Cold Mirror Peak, and secured permission from Huangfu Wuyan to leave Dream Trace Immortal Valley. He flew to Black Yin Mountain to resolve a personal karmic entanglement, but his expression changed when he saw the mountain.

• Jiang Ping'an asked Feng Jiuzhen to examine his spirit apertures, then visited Yuan Youyou and arranged for Dongfang Jintang to receive a spirit peak and Yuan Youyou's sleeping descendant to be awakened.
• Jiang Ping'an awakened Yuan Youyou's descendant, and Dongfang Jintang later received Cold Mirror Peak, which suited her cultivation.
• Jiang Ping'an's cultivation recovered to the middle stage of the Golden Core Realm and reached the late stage three years later, after nearly fourteen years in Dream Trace Immortal Valley.
• Jiang Ping'an asked Huangfu Wuyan for permission to leave for one or two years, agreed to take disciples when he returned, and received three Thousand Mile Teleportation Talismans.
• Jiang Ping'an quietly left Dream Trace Immortal Valley and flew to Black Yin Mountain, where he saw something that made his expression change drastically.

Jiang Ping'an searched Black Yin Mountain for Mo Ruyan and learned that her tribulation had apparently failed two years earlier, but he found no trace of her. Back at Dream Trace Immortal Valley, he began selecting disciples, leaving the fate of Mo Ruyan unresolved.

• Jiang Ping'an captured Yinluo Sect disciples Zhou Huai and Wei Pingle at Black Yin Mountain and learned that a Yin God had reportedly died during a tribulation there two years earlier.
• Jiang Ping'an questioned Yin Feng and the Golden Core True Lord surnamed Luo, who confirmed that they had witnessed the tribulation’s aftermath but had not seen the Yin God.
• Yin Feng and the Golden Core True Lord surnamed Luo suspected Jiang Ping'an was searching for the Yin God but decided against reporting him to Dream Trace Immortal Valley.
• Jiang Ping'an searched Black Yin Mountain for three days without finding a token from Mo Ruyan or meeting a Ghost King, then returned to Dream Trace Immortal Valley.
• Huangfu Wuyan arranged for five Nether True Qi cultivators to meet Jiang Ping'an, who selected Huangfu Jingpeng, Jin Ruoshan, and Yuan Feixue as Registered Disciples.

Jiang Ping'an prepared to form a Reincarnation Nascent Soul, gathered the required treasures, and passed the Reincarnation Soul Forging Technique to his disciples before entering seclusion. After three years, he successfully formed his Nascent Soul, but now had to face the six layers of lightning tribulation with few powerful Spirit Artifacts.

• Jiang Ping'an took Huangfu Jingpeng, Jin Ruoshan, and Yuan Feixue as Registered Disciples and told them the Reincarnation Soul Forging Technique required a Reincarnation Golden Core and a powerful Divine Soul.
• Jiang Ping'an arranged with Feng Jiuzhen to suspend his merit-point payments for five years so he could save for the treasures needed to form a Nascent Soul.
• After reaching the perfection of the Golden Core Realm and obtaining the Six Paths Golden Lotus, Three Lives Soul Crystal, and Karma Glazed Lamp, Jiang Ping'an agreed to pass the technique to his disciples before entering seclusion.
• Jiang Ping'an taught the Reincarnation Soul Forging Technique to Huangfu Jingpeng, Jin Ruoshan, and Yuan Feixue, then earned more than one hundred and fifty million merit points by rescuing disciples for those seeking to cut the line.
• Three years into Jiang Ping'an's seclusion, a vast spiritual qi vortex and tribulation clouds formed over Xuanji Peak, drawing Feng Jiuzhen, Yuan Youyou, Dongfang Jintang, Xuan Shuang, Xiu Yun, and many cultivators to watch.
• Jiang Ping'an emerged with a Nascent Soul aura, but Feng Jiuzhen and Yuan Youyou realized he lacked powerful Spirit Artifacts as he rose above the mountain to face the Heavenly Tribulation.