Chapter Summaries

Qin Yuan advanced as an alchemist while Tang Xichen demonstrated her sword aura in a sparring match with Chen Sheng. Two years later, news arrived that Li Huayao had died and Zhang Yue and his wife had disappeared after the Zhou Clan revealed a long-planned trap that devastated the Zhang and Li Clans.

• Qin Yuan refined six Yellow Bud Pills with Eighty Percent Efficacy, and Chen Sheng praised his progress as a Mid-grade Alchemist.
• Qin Yuan sparred with Tang Xichen, then Chen Sheng fought her and was defeated when she used Sword Aura.
• Huang Wangyou and Chen Sheng learned that Li Huayao had been killed and Zhang Yue and his wife had vanished, and Huang Wangyou mourned her old friend.
• The Zhou Clan lured the Zhang and Li Clans into attacking Jade Spring Mountain, where three Zhou Clan Foundation Establishment cultivators ambushed and defeated them.
• The Zhou Clan counterattacked Yunlong Market, Cool Mountain, and White Dragon Lake, nearly wiping out the Zhang and Li Clans and seizing their resources.

As the Tang Family settled into a lively domestic life, Tang Xichen reached the Qi Condensation Eighth Layer and told Chen Sheng she planned to leave Qianji Market for Linglong Immortal City to seek Foundation Establishment. Chen Sheng agreed to support her journey, while insisting she explain her decision to Qin Yuan.

• Chen Sheng and his wife honored Li Huayao at his unmarked grave as Tang Yijing's growing family filled the expanded courtyard with children.
• Huang Wangyou worried that Tang Xichen's ambition had left Qin Yuan waiting, but Chen Sheng said the younger generation should decide their own affairs.
• Tang Xichen emerged from seclusion after reaching the Qi Condensation Eighth Layer and told Chen Sheng she would travel to seek a Foundation Establishment opportunity.
• Tang Xichen chose to join a Qingmu Merchant Association caravan to Linglong Immortal City, refusing to let her family spend its savings on a Foundation Establishment spirit item.
• Chen Sheng accepted Tang Xichen's decision and agreed to speak with Huang Wangyou, but told her to explain her feelings to Qin Yuan herself.

Tang Xichen left to seek Foundation Establishment in Linglong Immortal City, while Qin Yuan stayed behind and waited for her return. Three years later, Chen Sheng attempted Foundation Establishment but failed after his mana could not pass the required barrier.

• Tang Xichen told Qin Yuan she planned to travel and would not return until she succeeded in Foundation Establishment, then urged him to start a family.
• Tang Xichen departed with a merchant caravan, gave Qin Yuan a piece of Green Jade, and left after he promised to wait for her.
• Three years later, Huang Wangyou and Chen Sheng read Tang Xichen's letter saying she had reached Linglong Immortal City, joined a Monster Hunting Team, and was progressing well.
• Chen Sheng decided to attempt Foundation Establishment after clearing his meridian blockages, while Huang Wangyou said she needed six or seven more years to reach Qi Condensation Perfection.
• Chen Sheng took a Pulse-Protecting Pill and attempted Foundation Establishment, but his mana was too impure to pass the Mana Barrier, leaving him gravely injured and unsuccessful.

Huang Yueyang tested seven children in Tang Yijing’s family and found two with Low-grade Spiritual Roots, while Chen Sheng accepted that Foundation Establishment was beyond his reach in this life. He shifted his focus to mastering the Crimson Flood Dragon Burning River Seal.

• Huang Yueyang used the Spirit Testing Disk to test Tang Wenlong, Tang Wenbao, and Tang Wenhu, and found that none had a Spirit Root.
• Huang Yueyang tested Wen Ya and found she had a Low-grade Fire Spiritual Root.
• Huang Yueyang reported that two of the seven children had Low-grade Spiritual Roots and gave Tang Yijing jade slips with basic cultivation instructions for them.
• Chen Sheng recovered from his failed Foundation Establishment attempt and decided not to force another breakthrough in this life.
• Chen Sheng began focusing on cultivating the Crimson Flood Dragon Burning River Seal, determined to overcome its difficulty through persistent practice.

After two years of cultivation, Chen Sheng mastered the first step of the Crimson Flood Dragon Burning River Seal and tested the powerful defense of its Crimson Scale Armor. As Qin Yuan advanced and prepared to seek experience away from home, a letter from Tang Xichen brought news of her progress and a body-refining method for him.

• Chen Sheng opened a new Hidden Meridian and formed Crimson Scale Armor, which withstood blows from his top-grade Ghost-Head Broadsword and repaired itself.
• Qin Yuan emerged from secluded cultivation at Qi Condensation Seventh Level, and Chen Sheng celebrated his breakthrough with him.
• Qin Yuan told Chen Sheng he planned to gain experience around Thousand Mechanisms Workshop, and Chen Sheng agreed to let him go.
• Tang Xichen sent a letter reporting that she had reached Qi Condensation Ninth Level, formed a renowned demon-hunting team, and obtained a complete superior Body Refining Method.
• Chen Sheng memorized Tang Xichen's method and gave its Jade slip to Qin Yuan, telling him it could help him break through the Blood-Qi Barrier.

Chen Sheng celebrated his sixtieth birthday, and his disciple Qin Yuan returned after years of traveling to offer him a rare ganoderma and pill formula. Qin Yuan planned to continue training before traveling to Linglong Immortal City, while Chen Sheng urged him to spend time with his elderly grandfather.

• Chen Sheng celebrated his sixtieth birthday as prominent figures from Qianji Market came to pay their respects.
• Qin Yuan returned to Chen Sheng’s residence, bowed to his master, and presented a five-hundred-year-old ganoderma and a Crimson Spirit Pill formula.
• Qin Yuan recounted his travels through nearby market towns, where he posed as a rogue cultivator alchemist, hunted demonic beasts, gathered herbs, and fought robber cultivators.
• Chen Sheng told Qin Yuan that Huang Wangyou had recently reached Qi Condensation Perfection and that his grandfather’s health had declined.
• Chen Sheng shared that Qin Yuan’s Senior Sister was safe in Linglong Immortal City and nearing Qi Condensation Perfection.
• Qin Yuan said he would reach the third realm of Body Refining before traveling to Linglong Immortal City, and Chen Sheng urged him to spend time with his grandfather.

After Huang Yueyang died, Chen Sheng took charge of teaching the younger generation and completed the first layer of Crimson Scale Armor. When a caravan from Linglong Immortal City passed without a letter from Chen'er, Chen Sheng asked the Qingmu Merchant Association to investigate, leaving him waiting for news.

• Huang Wangyou failed to break through to Foundation Establishment and happily gave up daily cultivation, while Chen Sheng agreed to her choice.
• Huang Yueyang died at ninety-eight after seeing Qin Yuan demonstrate his mastery of the Flame Control Technique, and he entrusted Chen Sheng with his Incomplete Formulas.
• Chen Sheng comforted Huang Wangyou through her grief, then taught the family’s juniors basic fire techniques and supervised their cultivation.
• Three years later, Chen Sheng opened all eight meridians and completed the first layer of Crimson Scale Armor.
• Chen Sheng learned that the caravan from Linglong Immortal City had passed through without news from Chen'er, so Manager Li promised to have the next caravan investigate.

Chen Sheng learned that his daughter Tang Xichen had vanished after being pursued by Lin Tunan of the Chongyun Lin Clan, while Lin Tunan used the treasure ginseng she was suspected of finding to refine Foundation Establishment Pills. The news caused Huang Wangyou to collapse, and after she recovered, Chen Sheng resolved to avenge Tang Xichen while comforting his wife.

• Chen Sheng received a message from Manager Li and went to the Qingmu Merchant Association, where Zhou Chun gave him information about his daughter.
• Chen Sheng learned that Lin Tunan had pursued Tang Xichen into the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range and returned with the Profound Origin Treasure Ginseng, while Tang Xichen's whereabouts remained unknown.
• Huang Wangyou read the report, spat blood, and fainted; Physician Zhang diagnosed her with emotional distress and prescribed treatment.
• Chen Sheng cared for Huang Wangyou for two days and swore to destroy the Chongyun Lin Clan and take revenge on Lin Tunan.
• Huang Wangyou woke on the third morning, and Chen Sheng comforted her as she gradually recovered, though she sometimes gazed west toward Linglong Immortal City.

After Qin Yuan left to seek revenge in Linglong Immortal City, Chen Sheng kept his family safe in Qianji Market and prepared a hidden storehouse for his next life. He also made progress with formations and the Wave Breaking Seal, ending with a powerful demonstration of the seal’s strength.

• Qin Yuan grieved for Lin Tunan, then bid farewell to Chen Sheng and left for Linglong Immortal City.
• Chen Sheng refused invitations to leave Qianji Market and taught the younger family members alchemy and the Flame Control Technique.
• Huang Wangyou and Chen Sheng swept Li Huayao’s grave and spent time together afterward.
• Chen Sheng studied formations and eventually succeeded in setting up the Minor Maze Formation as part of his plan to create a Secret Abode for his next life.
• Chen Sheng used the Wave Breaking Seal to shatter a stone roller and recognized it as a powerful Trump Card.

Chen Sheng bought three Qi Condensation Late-stage Puppets at the Qingmu Merchant Association auction and refined them in his Pill Workshop. After testing their combat abilities, he decided they would protect him in his next life and support him in future battles.

• Chen Sheng attended the Qingmu Merchant Association auction and bid three thousand Spirit Stones for three Qi Condensation Late-stage Puppets.
• The red-faced cultivator withdrew his bid after sensing Chen Sheng's Qi Condensation Great Perfection aura, and Chen Sheng won the Puppets.
• Chen Sheng studied the Puppets' manual and inspected their Spirit Cores, power sources, and joint mechanisms in his Pill Workshop.
• Chen Sheng used Essence Blood and spiritual sense to refine the three Puppets and establish ownership.
• Chen Sheng tested their formations and combat abilities, concluding that their sword formation was effective but their movements were rigid.

Chen Sheng trained Tang Wenhe in alchemy and, after Tang became a High-grade Alchemist, handed him control of the pill workshop. At one hundred years old, Chen Sheng quietly left Qianji Market for the first time, having finally put the workshop and his family affairs in order.

• Chen Sheng demonstrated alchemy to Tang Wenhe and corrected his timing for condensing pills.
• Chen Sheng reflected on his family’s limited progress in alchemy and remembered his deceased wife, Huang Wangyou, and the losses that had driven her to grief.
• Over the next decade, Chen Sheng reached the Body Tempering Third Realm and waited for the workshop to produce another High-grade Alchemist.
• Tang Wenhe made a High-grade Yi Fa Pill, and Chen Sheng entrusted him with the pill workshop.
• Chen Sheng held a Pill Appraisal Convention, named Tang Wenhe the workshop’s next master, and passed on his connections.
• After the workshop ran smoothly for two years, Chen Sheng left Qianji Market quietly at the age of one hundred.

Chen Sheng chose Yan Land as the site of his Secret Abode, reasoning that it could best aid him early in a future Rotation, and traveled there safely. In Yan City, he revisited places from his past life and discovered that people worshipped his former self as the Benevolent King.

• Chen Sheng decided to establish his Secret Abode in Yan Land, where his descendants were numerous and scarce resources would make the cache especially useful.
• Chen Sheng traveled through remote terrain for two months, using concealment and warning formations to avoid danger, and reached Yan City.
• Chen Sheng found Yan City largely familiar despite the passage of a hundred and fifty years, then visited Drunken Immortal Abode and ordered dishes he had loved in his past life.
• A procession celebrating the Benevolent King's Tour passed through the street, and a waiter told Chen Sheng the Benevolent King was worshipped as Yan's protector and local City God.
• Chen Sheng realized the Benevolent King was his former self and reflected that his past deeds had become legends and that Yan's people were also his descendants.

Chen Sheng established a concealed Secret Abode in the Cloudwalk Mountains, then traveled toward Linglong Immortal City and used his power to rescue a caravan from bandits. After a journey of more than a year, he entered the city and found its cultivators and patrols far stronger than those in Qianji Market.

• Chen Sheng built a two-level Secret Abode in the Cloudwalk Mountains, filling its visible chambers with worldly treasure and hiding his true resources behind traps and concealment measures.
• Chen Sheng burned the Sand Scorpions bandits to ash with River-Burning, saving Chen Huajiao's caravan as it crossed the desert.
• At Starry Net Market, Chen Sheng sold the spoils from several Qi Condensation Late-stage Robber Cultivators and joined a caravan bound for Linglong Immortal City.
• Chen Sheng traveled with the caravan for more than a year, then paid a Low-grade Spirit Stone to enter Linglong Immortal City.
• Chen Sheng observed the city's powerful cultivators, including Qi Condensation Late-stage patrols, Qi Condensation Perfection captains, and several Foundation Establishment cultivators.

After spending eight years learning Linglong Immortal City’s patrols and defenses, Chen Sheng arranged a custom puppet commission with the Lin Clan and used the refining session to launch a prepared ambush. He detonated ten Huntian Thunders in the enclosed workshop, killing Lin Zhenbei and the Lin Clan artifact refiners present.

• Chen Sheng spent eight years working as a patrol captain and studying Linglong Immortal City, then commissioned a specially designed Top-grade Puppet from the Lin Clan’s Treasure Artifact Pavilion.
• Lin Xuan quoted Chen Sheng a price of eight thousand Spirit Stones, but Chen Sheng insisted on his original requirements and paid the deposit.
• Lin Zhenbei examined the design, recognized it as Humanoid Armor, and invited Chen Sheng to discuss its mechanisms before beginning the refinement.
• Lin Zhenbei completed the puppet while Chen Sheng and several Lin Clan artifact refiners watched in the workshop.
• Chen Sheng detonated all ten Huntian Thunders in the enclosed refining area, destroying the workshop and killing Lin Zhenbei and the Lin Clan descendants present.

After dying in an explosion that devastated the Lin Clan’s Treasure Artifact Pavilion, Chen Sheng gained Dragon's Vigor Tiger's Might and Alchemy Prodigy in his next life. Rescued from a river as Chen Yu, he recovered with extraordinary strength, trained Bai Li, and prepared to leave the boy and his grandfather behind.

• Lin Tunan arrived at the ruined Treasure Artifact Pavilion, mourned the dead, and received a bill for 117,000 Low-grade Spirit Stones from Lixiao Sect cultivators.
• The Myriad Lives Tome recorded Chen Sheng's second life and granted him Dragon's Vigor Tiger's Might and Alchemy Prodigy.
• Old Man Bai rescued Chen Sheng, who had been swept down the White Dragon River after river bandits killed his father, Chen Manlou.
• Chen Sheng recovered rapidly and promised to repay Old Man Bai by helping Bai Li, then taught Bai Li the Xuanyuan Ocean Overturning Art and Five Peaks Mountain Suppressing Palm.
• After Bai Li trained diligently, Chen Sheng told him to care for Old Man Bai and said they might meet again in the Jianghu before he left.

Chen Sheng traveled toward a Secret Abode in Yan Land through a drought-stricken realm overrun by refugees and bandits. After joining a caravan as a guard and helping it survive repeated attacks, he reached Hedong, with Willow Leaf City less than a hundred li away.

• Chen Sheng disguised himself as an older Jianghu wanderer and set out for the Secret Abode in Yan Land, fighting through several bands of roaming bandits along the way.
• Chen Sheng assessed the drought and widespread disorder as signs that the dynasty was nearing its end and predicted a royal descendant would rise after the rebellion reshaped the realm.
• Chen Sheng joined a well-armed caravan after demonstrating his mounted archery, securing a chance to travel safely toward Yan Land.
• Over the next month, Chen Sheng helped the caravan repel bandits by picking off their leaders and guarding the convoy's rear.
• The caravan reached Hedong, bringing Chen Sheng within a hundred li of Willow Leaf City and closer to his destination.

Chen Sheng and the caravan were surrounded by a vast bandit force in a willow grove, and he led a desperate breakout through their weakest flank. After only six riders survived the charge and flight, Chen Sheng said farewell and rode toward Yan Land.

• Chen Sheng recognized the bandits’ assembly whistles and warned the caravan scouts that they were surrounded.
• Thousands of bandits overwhelmed the caravan’s defenses, and Chen Sheng judged that escaping was their only chance.
• Chen Sheng shot three signal-bearing bandits and led more than twenty riders toward a weak point in the southwest.
• Chen Sheng and his companions fought through the bandits and escaped through thorny brush, but only six riders survived.
• Chen Sheng said farewell to the five surviving companions and rode toward Yan Land.

Chen Sheng reached the hidden retreat he had prepared in his Previous Life and recovered its stored treasures. He established the Little Myriad Marvel Spirit Array, leaving himself with a concealed, spirit-rich cultivation ground.

• Chen Sheng arrived at Yan Land’s Cloudwalk Mountains and left his horse in a concealed hollow before descending a sheer cliff into a secluded valley.
• Chen Sheng opened the hidden Water Curtain Cave with the Resonance Lock and entered after concealing his rope and tracks.
• Chen Sheng retrieved a Jade Box containing a Spirit Locking Formation and a top-grade Storage Bag, then reclaimed its Dharma Artifacts and medicinal pills.
• Chen Sheng swallowed a Grain Abstinence Pill and set up the Little Myriad Marvel Spirit Array with sixteen Formation Flags and Spirit Stones.
• Chen Sheng confirmed that the array concealed the Stone Chamber and gathered enough spiritual energy for his early and middle Qi Refinement stages.

Chen Sheng tested his Spirit Root, resumed cultivating the Lihuo Art, and spent years in seclusion inside the Secret Abode, advancing to the Qi Condensation Late-stage. With the abode’s resources nearly exhausted, he packed up and left Water Curtain Cave to seek cultivation elsewhere.

• Chen Sheng discovered he had dual low-grade Fire and Wood Spiritual Roots and chose to cultivate the Lihuo Art using his past-life experience.
• After two years of cultivation, Chen Sheng reached Qi Condensation First Level, formed spiritual sense, and bound one Bronze Puppet to guard him.
• Chen Sheng continued cultivating in seclusion for twenty years, reaching Qi Condensation Seventh Level and mastering the Myriad Strands Realm of fire control.
• Chen Sheng opened the Crimson Flood Dragon Hidden Meridian, used a Breakthrough Pill to reach the Qi Condensation Late-stage, and decided to leave because the Secret Abode’s resources were nearly exhausted.
• Chen Sheng collected the Formation Disk, flags, and remaining belongings, then rode the Azure Cloud Shuttle out of Water Curtain Cave.

Chen Sheng returned to the White Dragon River after twenty-three years, searching for the Brocade Banner Bandits but finding the region peaceful and transformed. He reunited with Old Man Bai at the Duke of England’s residence and learned that Bai Li had become a celebrated duke after helping pacify the realm.

• Chen Sheng searched the White Dragon River for the Brocade Banner Bandits but found no trace of them and saw that the region had prospered.
• Chen Sheng followed the river to the Duke of England’s residence and discovered that Old Man Bai was still alive there.
• The one-armed Old Soldier recognized Chen Sheng’s name, welcomed him in, and escorted him to Old Man Bai.
• Old Man Bai recognized Chen Sheng, rejoiced at their reunion, and heard that Chen Sheng had spent the years cultivating with his master.
• Old Man Bai told Chen Sheng that Bai Li had protected villagers, joined the army during the realm’s troubles, and been granted the title Duke of England after peace returned.