Chapter Summaries

Chen Sheng studied the Blood Qi Golden Core Refinement Method and used Flood Dragon Blood Qi Pills to cleanse his False Core. After two years, he formed a Qi and Blood Golden Core, broke through to the Seventh Layer of Body Refining, and awakened a divine ability.

• Chen Sheng registered five Cultivation Methods, swore an oath not to reveal them, and received their inheritances in his Sea of Consciousness.
• True Lord Hanlou reviewed Chen Sheng’s choices and recognized his plans to combine alchemy and formations with sword cultivation.
• Chen Sheng exchanged his pill allotment for Blood Qi Pills made with Flood Dragon Essence Blood and began using them to purge impurities from his False Core.
• After half a month of study and seven days of cultivation, Chen Sheng found that the Blood Qi Golden Core Refinement Method was steadily cleansing his False Core.
• Two years later, Chen Sheng formed a blood-golden Qi and Blood Golden Core and advanced his Body Refining cultivation to the Seventh Layer.
• Chen Sheng transformed into a ninety-meter Crimson Flood Dragon, then returned to human form with the Divine Light of Breaking Restrictions and Spiritual Sense reaching fifteen kilometers.

Chen Sheng tested his Divine Light of Breaking Restrictions, then selected three routine duties to earn minor merits and build his reputation through alchemy and teaching. As he headed to Pill Pavilion to teach, its disciples discussed Elder Weixiang’s arrival and awaited his lecture with curiosity and skepticism.

• Chen Sheng used his Sword Heart and Formation Dao knowledge to locate a weak point in Nine Cloud Peak’s Guardian Array and briefly pierced it with his Divine Light of Breaking Restrictions.
• Chen Sheng chose to teach ten sessions at Pill Pavilion, refine a batch of Jade Purity Barrier Breaking Pills, and refine two batches of Small Azure Dragon Longevity Pills.
• Chen Sheng decided that teaching and specializing in breakthrough pills and longevity pills would help him gain recognition and expand his income.
• Chen Sheng flew toward Pill Pavilion to teach the Way of Deriving Fire.
• Pill Pavilion disciples learned that Elder Weixiang had joined the sect two years earlier and been promoted directly to Inner Sect Elder after impressing True Lord Hanlou with his alchemy skill.
• The disciples debated Elder Weixiang’s talent and teaching ability, with many looking forward to his lecture and some doubting his experience.

Chen Sheng taught the Alchemy Branch disciples the Way of Deriving Fire, then demonstrated it by refining a Jade Purity Barrier Breaking Pill. His lesson impressed the students and the Pill Pavilion elders, and Chen Sheng left after successfully completing the pill.

• Chen Sheng demonstrated his mastery of fire evolution and taught the disciples how to control flames according to their nature.
• Guest Elder Mo Shan recognized that Chen Sheng’s fire arts touched the bottleneck that had trapped him for seventy years, then left without further complaint.
• Chen Sheng brought out the Myriad Transformation Cauldron and explained how the fire arts applied to the Jade Purity Barrier Breaking Pill.
• Chen Sheng processed the twenty-eight ingredients and used the cauldron’s layered chambers to refine them into a Jade Purity Barrier Breaking Pill.
• Chen Sheng ended the lesson and left the Pill Pavilion, while True Person Huachen recognized that he had used the demonstration to make a name for himself.

Chen Sheng spent two years mastering the Profound Evolution Sword Formation True Explanation, converting his mana and merging his Tingyu Sword with his golden core. After half a year of painful cultivation, he formed a Sword Core and demonstrated its power, leaving his physical flying swords seeming unnecessary.

• Chen Sheng used Sword Qi and Sword Intent to form and transform sword formations without a sword case.
• After two years, Chen Sheng completed the conversion of his mana and swallowed the Tingyu Sword to merge it with his golden core.
• Chen Sheng endured half a year of pain as the Sword Pellet and golden core fused into a single Sword Core.
• Chen Sheng formed a returning Sword Qi blade and summoned 108 swords to unleash the Heavenly Dipper Wind-Thunder Sword Formation.
• Chen Sheng put away his sword case and considered using its flying swords to nourish his Sword Core or forge Formation Flags.

Chen Sheng cultivated the Spirit Condensing Pure Consciousness Art and hosted True Person Shifang, exchanging an improved barrier-breaking pill for insights into sword talismans. Three years later, Shifang returned as a mid-Golden Core cultivator while Chen Sheng expanded his bloodline through women from mortal royal families.

• Chen Sheng advanced his Clear Mind Visualization and extended his Spiritual Sense to thirty-one li before receiving True Person Shifang’s visit.
• Chen Sheng gave Shifang an improved Profound Origin Barrier Breaking Pill, and Shifang gifted him a Sword Qi Talisman to temper his Sword Core.
• Chen Sheng recruited women from mortal royal families to bear his children, planning for his bloodline to spread through the Yue Kingdom and improve his chances of reincarnating there.
• Three years later, True Person Shifang returned after breaking through to the mid-Golden Core stage, and Chen Sheng welcomed him with wine and fruit.
• Shifang presented Chen Sheng with high-grade Third-grade Sky-Rending Sword Qi Talismans and discussed alchemy, talismans, and disturbances in the Yue Kingdom’s Spiritual Veins.

Fifty years after establishing himself in the Three Origins Dao Sect, Chen Sheng watched the sect grand competition begin, with his children among the contenders and his family’s influence drawing marriage proposals. Chen Xihua entered a dangerous Lesser Realm, and Chen Sheng focused on Passage Number Seven as the battles began.

• Chen Sheng attended the grand competition as a high-grade Third-grade alchemist while True Lord Hanlou presided over the gathered disciples.
• True Person Shifang pointed out Chen Sheng’s children Chen Xihua, Chen Xihai, and Chen Ximei as contenders, and Chen Sheng discussed arranging marriages between the Chen family and Golden Core families.
• True Lord Hanlou opened thirty-two Space Passages into Lesser Realms and explained that the disciples would fight in pairs.
• The supervising Elders, Primordial Gang Talismans, and True Lord Hanlou’s divine soul provided three layers of protection for the competing disciples.
• Chen Xihua entered Passage Number Seven, whose Lesser Realm was a wind-eroded Gobi, while Chen Sheng watched from the Cloud Platform.

Chen Xihua defeated Xuan Peng with a concealed sword strike and advanced through the competition, winning eight duels. In his ninth duel, Xuan Jian used superior range and escape techniques to keep Chen Xihua at a distance, leaving Chen on the defensive.

• Chen Xihua ambushed Xuan Peng in the Gale Gobi with his Void-Reality Sword Whip, but Xuan Peng's Primordial Gang Talisman activated and forced him out of the Lesser Realm.
• Chen Xihua recovered and waited for his next opponent while True Person Shifang, Chen Sheng, and True Person Deming praised his swordplay.
• Chen Xihua won his next seven duels, and in the eighth he knocked away his opponent's Life-Bound Banner Flag and secured a concession.
• Chen Xihua's ninth opponent was Xuan Jian, a skilled Sword Branch disciple trained by the Myriad Sword Sect.
• Xuan Jian attacked from beyond Chen Xihua's sword-launching range and used his faster escape technique to retreat, keeping Chen Xihua under pressure across the grassland.

Chen Xihua and Xuan Jian fought a battle of distance and endurance, with Xuan Jian’s Way of Longitudinal Sword keeping Chen Xihua from closing in. Time ran out before either could defeat the other, leaving both dissatisfied with the draw.

• Chen Sheng asked True Person Shifang about Xuan Jian’s sword methods, and Shifang explained that Xuan Jian had learned restricted Myriad Sword Sect inheritances in exchange for Star Marrow Cold Gold.
• Chen Xihua raised his White Tiger Golden Light Shield and tried to outlast Xuan Jian, who stopped attacking from a distance and waited for him to lower his guard.
• Chen Xihua withdrew the shield and attempted to rush Xuan Jian, but Xuan Jian’s distant Sword Qi repeatedly forced him back.
• As time ran short, Chen Xihua burned his vitality and blood to charge at Xuan Jian, who used Man-Sword Unity to evade him across the grassland.
• True Lord Hanlou ended the match before either fighter could prevail; Chen Xihua and Xuan Jian were both exhausted and regretted failing to secure a victory.

Three years after the Grand Competition, Chen Sheng had advanced his sword formations and welcomed True Person Qingxiao to Yunlan Mountain to request a batch of Breakthrough Pills. Chen Sheng defeated Qingxiao in a spar with his Star River Sun-Enticing Grand Formation, then gave him an exceptional Profound Origin Barrier Breaking Pill before Qingxiao departed.

• True Lord Hanlou declined to appoint a True Transmission Disciple after the Grand Competition, while Chen Xihua led the results with nineteen wins and one draw.
• Over the next three years, Chen Sheng refined his sword formations and practiced an incomplete Star River Sun-Enticing Grand Formation designed to restrain sword cultivators.
• True Person Qingxiao visited Chen Sheng at Yunlan Mountain and offered medicinal ingredients and twenty thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones for Breakthrough Pills.
• Chen Sheng and Qingxiao sparred, and Chen Sheng trapped Qingxiao in the Star River Sun-Enticing Grand Formation until Qingxiao conceded.
• The next day, Chen Sheng gave Qingxiao an exceptional Profound Origin Barrier Breaking Pill, and Qingxiao left for Myriad Sword Immortal City.

Chen Sheng perfected the second layer of the Spirit Condensing Pure Consciousness Art, greatly expanding his Spiritual Sense and completing his Four Symbols God-Suppressing Seal. Later, Chen Xihua told him he planned to enter the Five Elements Secret Realm in three years to prepare for Golden Core Formation, while the Chen family continued to prosper.

• After seven days and nights of visualization, Chen Sheng purified the White Jade Purifying Vase and perfected the second layer of the Spirit Condensing Pure Consciousness Art.
• Chen Sheng measured his Spiritual Sense at thirty-eight li and discovered he could see through illusions and inspect the Guardian Array’s workings.
• Chen Sheng’s Four Symbols God-Suppressing Seal reached Minor Success, giving him a powerful Spiritual Sense technique against cultivators of the same rank.
• Chen Xihua told Chen Sheng he planned to enter the Five Elements Secret Realm in three years to seek resources for Golden Core Formation.
• Chen Xihua reported that the Chen Clan Merchant Association was thriving and that an Inner Sect Elder had offered the family certain conveniences.
• Chen Sheng encouraged Chen Xihua to prepare for the Secret Realm and gave him two high-grade Third-grade life preservation Talismans.

Chen Sheng reached the eighth level of Body Refining, then spent a year mastering the first use of the Great Desolation Sky-Tearing Hand. He sparred with True Person Shifang in swordsmanship and formations, ending their long duel in a draw.

• Chen Sheng transformed into a fifty-zhang Crimson Blood Flood Dragon and reached the eighth level of Body Refining.
• Chen Sheng reflected on the Great Wilderness Dragon Transformation Chapter and resolved to cultivate the Great Desolation Sky-Tearing Hand to explore Void Power and develop a long-distance teleportation formation.
• After a year of practice with True Person Shifang, Chen Sheng used the Great Desolation Sky-Tearing Hand to tear a spatial rift and then close it with his dragon breath.
• Chen Sheng defeated True Person Shifang in a sword duel by seeing through the Crimson Thunder Sword formation and striking its hidden hub.
• True Person Shifang used Hundred Rune Incarnation, and Chen Sheng trapped his Rune Sea in linked sword formations; after three shichen of battling, they dispersed their techniques and agreed they had drawn.

Chen Sheng strengthened his Wind-Thunder Sword Formation to resist True Person Shifang’s restriction-breaking runes, then refined a high-grade Third-grade Black Tortoise Longevity Pill. He left with a successful pill but remained an outsider in the Longevity Pill market dominated by True Lord Hanlou.

• Chen Sheng decided to reinforce his Wind-Thunder Flying Swords with Array-Stabilizing Crystals and use the Illusory-Real Sword Formation to counter restriction-breaking runes.
• Chen Sheng spent months refining the crystals into the 108 flying swords and nourishing them with Sword Intent.
• Chen Sheng defeated True Person Shifang in a rematch when the reinforced sword formation withstood his restriction-breaking runes and trapped his Rune Sea.
• Several years later, Chen Sheng used a Three Powers Fire Formation and the Myriad Transformation Cauldron to refine a high-grade Third-grade Black Tortoise Longevity Pill.
• Chen Sheng reflected that True Lord Hanlou and his disciples controlled much of the Longevity Pill business, despite Chen Sheng’s success in refining breakthrough pills.

Chen Sheng gave Chen Xixing a high-grade Third-grade Black Tortoise Longevity Pill to anchor the Merchant Association’s auction, strengthening the Chen Clan’s reputation. Twenty years later, Chen Sheng used a Breakthrough Pill to overcome his bottleneck and advance to the mid-Golden Core stage.

• Chen Xixing asked Chen Sheng for a valuable finale item for the Merchant Association’s autumn auction in Three Origins Immortal City.
• Chen Sheng gave Chen Xixing a high-grade Third-grade Black Tortoise Longevity Pill and directed him to set aside thirty percent of the proceeds for the clan’s younger generation.
• The auction sold the pill for 270,000 Mid-grade Spirit Stones, and True Person Wei Xiang gained renown among Golden Core cultivators for longevity pills.
• Twenty years later, Chen Sheng encountered a bottleneck at the peak of the early Golden Core stage and took a high-grade Third-grade Breakthrough Pill.
• After a month of cultivation, Chen Sheng broke through to the mid-Golden Core stage, and his divine sense reached eighty-four li.

After stabilizing his mid-Golden Core cultivation, Chen Sheng assessed the Three Nascent Soul Tribulations and the resources that could help him overcome them. He planned to build his strength and become a Fourth-Tier Grandmaster to secure sect resources, while wondering whether he would live to see the Ancient Yue Grotto-Heaven open.

• Chen Sheng stabilized his mid-Golden Core stage and found that his magical power had increased by fifty percent.
• Chen Sheng resolved to prepare for the Nascent Soul realm and calculated that his alchemy skills could help him reach Golden Core Perfection and extend his lifespan.
• Chen Sheng reviewed the Core Shattering, Inner Demon, and Heavenly Lightning Tribulations and considered the dangers each posed.
• Chen Sheng identified the Hunyuan Secret Realm and Thunder Secret Realm as sources of Nascent Soul-forming resources and decided that becoming a Fourth-Tier Grandmaster would help him obtain them.
• Chen Sheng recalled that the Ancient Yue Grotto-Heaven held Nascent Soul Fruits, but noted that its opening was unpredictable and wondered whether it would open during his lifetime.

The Chen Clan gathered on Yunlan Mountain as Chen Xihua used a Five Elements Golden Core Pill to form a Golden Core, bringing the clan a major celebration. Chen Sheng reunited with his descendants, praised Chen Xixing for managing the clan, and welcomed guests and younger generations at a banquet.

• A vast five-colored phenomenon appeared over Yunlan Mountain as Chen Xihua began forming his Golden Core, and Chen Sheng arrived at the Cloud Viewing Platform to watch.
• Chen Sheng spoke with his children, gave Chen Xiyang a Green Spirit Cultivation Method, advised Chen Xihe, and praised Chen Xilong for expanding the family.
• Chen Sheng thanked Chen Xixing for caring for the clan and gave him Third-grade Mana Increasing Pills and the Unicorn Demon King's Demon Core to aid his cultivation.
• Chen Xihua formed a Five Elements Golden Core and returned to the platform, where Chen Sheng and Chen Xixing congratulated him.
• Chen Xixing arranged a grand feast, and Chen Sheng welcomed congratulatory guests and met his younger descendants, giving Chen Xiaolin a Water Absorbing Pendant.
• Chen Xihua introduced several Golden Core sect colleagues to Chen Sheng, who invited them to visit Nine Cloud Peak.

After Chen Xihua formed his Golden Core, he told Chen Sheng he planned to take assignments beyond the sect once he had prepared his flying sword. Twenty years later, Chen Sheng judged the Three Origins Dao Sect’s Alchemy Assembly, where his son Chen Xihe competed for entry into the sect.

• Chen Xihua told Chen Sheng he planned to take outside assignments and travel after refining his Life-Bound Flying Sword and nurturing his Sword Core.
• Chen Sheng reflected on the dangers of cultivation and wondered whether Chen Yuquan had died while crossing the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range.
• Twenty years later, Chen Sheng attended the Alchemy Assembly in Three Origins Immortal City as one of its five judges.
• Chen Sheng watched Chen Xihe refine a Second-tier Top-grade Water Spirit Pill and said that entering the Outer Sect would be enough.
• The assembly began its competition, with the top twenty set to enter the Outer Sect and the top five to enter the Inner Sect.

Chen Xihe placed thirteenth in the Alchemy Gathering and joined the Alchemy Branch, where Chen Sheng introduced him to Elder Mo Shan. Thirty years later, Chen Sheng refined a top-grade third-tier Taiqing Dust-Transforming Pill and became a top-grade third-tier alchemist.

• Chen Xihe placed thirteenth in the Alchemy Gathering, and Chen Sheng praised his Second-tier Top-grade alchemy skills.
• Chen Sheng brought Chen Xihe to Alchemy Cloud Peak and introduced him to Elder Mo Shan, who promised to look after him.
• Thirty years later, Chen Sheng used his four flame manifestations and the Four Symbols True Spirit Array to refine a Taiqing Dust-Transforming Pill.
• Chen Sheng collected the top-grade third-tier Pill and declared that he had become a top-grade third-tier alchemist at age 255.

Chen Xixing presided over the Chen Clan Auction, whose finale was Chen Sheng’s improved Taiqing Dust-Transforming Pill. The pill sold for 370,000 Mid-grade Spirit Stones, while the crowd discussed Chen Sheng’s alchemy talent and future prospects.

• Chen Xixing opened the auction and sold several spiritual items amid fierce bidding.
• Chen Xixing presented the top-grade third-grade Taiqing Dust-Transforming Pill, claiming it gave mid-Golden Core cultivators a fifty percent chance to break through to the late stage.
• An Elder of the Three Origins Dao Sect’s Alchemy Branch verified the pill’s authenticity and effects.
• Golden Core cultivators bid against one another until the pill sold for 370,000 Mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Auction attendees speculated that Chen Sheng had become a top-grade third-grade alchemist and might one day reach the Fourth Tier Grandmaster realm.

After the Taiqing Dust-Transforming Pill helped the Zhang Clan Leader break through to the late Golden Core stage, Chen Sheng received congratulations and recognition across the Dao Sect. He accepted the appointment as Danming Hall Master, gaining responsibility for the inner sect Pill Workshops.

• The Zhang Clan Leader broke through to the late Golden Core stage with the Taiqing Dust-Transforming Pill, and Chen Xixing visited to congratulate him as the Zhang Clan considered a marriage alliance.
• True Person Huachen sent True Person Yuxuan to Nine Cloud Peak with a Snow Ginseng and instructed him to treat Weixiang with respect.
• True Lord Chongxu praised Weixiang’s achievements in alchemy and formations, sent him a Dragon Blood Vine gift, and asked whether he would take a vacant Hall Master position.
• True Person Hualong and True Person Shifang visited Chen Sheng to congratulate him and praised Chen Xihe’s alchemy progress.
• True Person Deming delivered True Lord Chongxu’s gifts and offered Chen Sheng the vacant Danxiao or Danming Hall Master position.
• Chen Sheng accepted the Danming Hall appointment because its inner sect Pill Workshops and access to resources would support his alchemy and cultivation.

Chen Sheng received a secret art from his son Chen Xihua that could improve Spirit Roots by fusing them with refined Spirit Marrow. He planned to gather the materials for its first stage and eventually raise his aptitude as he pursued the Nascent Soul realm.

• Chen Sheng managed Danming Hall's pill production and received a Sect exchange list containing rare Nascent Soul formation spiritual items, though several of the most valuable remained unavailable to him.
• Three months later, Chen Xihua sent Chen Sheng a sealed jade box containing an ancient jade slip he had found in a Western Regions desert Cave Mansion.
• Chen Sheng opened the box and deciphered the jade slip, discovering the Myriad Origin Spirit Return Technique, which could raise a Spirit Root to high-grade, Earth-grade, or even Heaven-grade.
• Chen Sheng reviewed the rare materials required for all three stages and decided to begin by collecting the twelve spiritual objects needed for the first stage.