Chapter Summaries

Ji An and Wei Chengyuan escaped the Nine Nether Land as the Nether River flooded and the sealing formation was opened. The Golden Core True Persons went inside to search for survivors, while Ji An rested at the Enforcement Squad and arranged a future visit with Wei Chengyuan.

• Ji An and Wei Chengyuan reached the exit and learned the passage was difficult to fly through because the air-restriction formation grew stronger upward.
• Ji An reached the sealed entrance first and drew the guards’ attention with a weak attack, allowing Zhang Dong to open the formation for them.
• True Person Han Chi, True Person Chi Yun, and True Person Cang Miao questioned the pair, then entered the Nine Nether Land to search for survivors and Soul Stones.
• True Person Han Chi ordered Ji An and Wei Chengyuan to remain at the Enforcement Squad overnight for observation, delaying Wei Chengyuan’s report to his family.
• Ji An inspected the Soul Stones in his guest room and agreed to host Wei Chengyuan for tea when he visited in the coming days.

After leaving the Nine Nether Land, Ji An sold his talismans, repaid his debt, and received a valuable talisman inheritance from Wei Chengyuan. He learned that a Golden Core level Yin Soul Beast remained in the realm, while Wei Chengyuan planned to return there with other cultivators.

• Ji An sold his stored talismans to Wei Xianglin and used the proceeds to buy materials for Purifying Spirit Talismans.
• Ji An spent half a month drawing talismans, repaid his debt, and saved four High-grade Spirit Stones before running out of materials.
• Wei Chengyuan visited Ji An and gave him a jade slip containing a talisman inheritance, including methods for making Third-grade Talisman Paper and cinnabar.
• Wei Chengyuan told Ji An that True Person Chi Yun was injured, a Golden Core level Yin Soul Beast had appeared, and only four people had returned alive.
• Wei Chengyuan said he and several others would reenter the Nine Nether Land after the Golden Core True Persons dealt with the beast.

Ji An upgraded the Gourd World’s spirit-field formation and prepared to leave the immortal city, while Wei Chengyuan departed for Central Continent. Before returning to his sect, Ji An agreed to help Master Gu Tai’s grandson join the Golden Spirit Sect if the family accepted its rules.

• Ji An bought second-tier spirit soil and materials, refined twelve Spirit Binding Stakes, and installed them in the Gourd World’s formation.
• Two years later, Wei Chengyuan told Ji An he was leaving for Central Continent because the Nine Nether Land could no longer offer a chance to comprehend Earth Generating Gold, and he invited him to an upcoming auction featuring Soul Tempering Pills.
• Ji An saw Wei Chengyuan off with a meal and drinks at the Drunken Immortal Inn.
• Ji An paid Master Gu Tai a deposit to have the Sky Soaring Armor’s leg and face armor refined.
• Master Gu Tai asked Ji An to recommend his twelve-year-old grandson Gu Hongming, who had Earth-grade aptitude, to the Golden Spirit Sect.
• Ji An said Gu Hongming could join the sect but would need to sever family ties to become a core disciple, and gave Master Gu Tai a year to decide before he returned to the sect.

Ji An learned why Master Gu Tai trusted him with Hong Ming and accepted a free Sky Soaring Armor faceplate as compensation for the background investigation. Three months later, Ji An attended the Red Rock Auction House, bought a bottle of Soul Tempering Pills, and watched True Person Han Chi win a Dark Night Purple Fruit that Ji An hoped to cultivate in the Gourd World.

• Master Gu Tai admitted that he had investigated Ji An through a trusted friend at the Golden Spirit Sect and offered to refine a Sky Soaring Armor faceplate for free.
• Ji An accepted the gift, let Master Gu Tai take his measurements, and said he would leave for the Golden Spirit Sect after his agreement with the Wei Family expired in a year.
• Three months later, Ji An attended the Red Rock Auction and remained uninterested in most of the items until Yue Qingyun put the Soul Tempering Pills up for sale.
• Ji An bid Thirty-four High-grade Spirit Stones for a bottle of Soul Tempering Pills, inspected the pills when they arrived, and completed the purchase.
• True Person Han Chi outbid the other guests for the Dark Night Purple Fruit, and Ji An considered asking him for seeds to try cultivating it in the Gourd World.

Ji An bought True Person Han Chi’s Dark Night Purple Fruit spirit seed and planted it in the Gourd World, where it sprouted. A year later, after improving his spells and collecting a finished faceplate, he met Master Gu Tai and his grandson before preparing to leave.

• Ji An asked Zhang Dong to arrange a meeting with True Person Han Chi and offered ten High-grade Spirit Stones for the Dark Night Purple Fruit spirit seed.
• Ji An entered the Gourd World, used the Azure Dragon Startled Insects Art to strengthen the seed, and planted it near the Gathering Origin Tree, where it sprouted.
• Ji An tended the Gourd World’s Spirit Fields, ate grilled Treasure Dragon Fish, and spent a year practicing his spells, including raising Spiritual Roar to Major Mastery.
• Ji An stored his belongings, retrieved his deposit, and went to Divine Brush Spirit Armor Pavilion to collect the faceplate from Master Gu Tai.
• Master Gu Tai introduced his grandson Gu Hongming to Ji An, and Ji An offered the boy encouragement as Master Gu Tai gave him parting advice.

Ji An tested and accepted the Spirit Armor Master Gu Tai had made, then took Gu Hongming south toward the Western Continent. The Gu Clan’s enemies sent pursuers after them, but Ji An’s speed left the trackers behind as he pressed on toward home.

• Ji An tested the faceplate with an Explosive Fireball, confirmed its strength, and promised Master Gu Tai that Senior Brother Zhu would teach Gu Hongming artifact refining.
• Ji An tried on the full Spirit Armor, paid the remaining balance, and gave Master Gu Tai five jars of Pine Nut Wine before departing with Gu Hongming.
• Master Gu Tai told his son that the Gu Clan might give the Primal Spirit Mud formula to True Monarch Tianshui if their enemies kept threatening them.
• Brother Han learned that Gu Hongming had left with one cultivator and sent Song Tao to track them, intending to capture the boy and kill Ji An.
• Song Tao lost sight of Ji An after his cloud-riding speed increased, and Brother Han ordered the group to continue pursuing them through the night.
• Ji An flew south without resting, leaving the pursuers behind, while Gu Hongming grew exhausted and asked when they would stop.

Ji An and Gu Hongming traveled west through the Northern Lands, but an approaching cultivator forced them into a confrontation near Silver Moon City. The cultivator was Zhang Daoyan, still hostile over Ji An winning a Nine Nether Land slot, and the chapter ended as Ji An charged through Zhang’s puppets’ barrage.

• Ji An encouraged Gu Hongming about his future at the sect and promised to ask whether a senior brother might take him as a disciple.
• After two months of travel, Ji An bypassed Silver Moon City and stopped in the open Northern Lands to build shelter for Gu Hongming.
• Ji An spotted an approaching cultivator on a snow-white eagle, prepared for a fight, and recognized him as Zhang Daoyan, the cultivator who had lost the auction slot to him.
• Zhang Daoyan declared that Ji An would die and revealed an array of puppets, while Ji An ordered his own puppets to protect Gu Hongming.
• Ji An charged into the spells fired by Zhang Daoyan’s puppets, leaving Zhang stunned.

Ji An killed Zhang Daoyan and a corrupted snow eagle, then fled with Gu Hongming after discovering Demon Infants in both corpses. After two months, they reached Harmony Peak and found its territory devastated by demonic cultivators, where three Chaoyuan Stage cultivators confronted them.

• Ji An used Spiritual Roar and his Geng Metal Spirit Severing Sword to kill Zhang Daoyan and stop the transformed snow eagle, then found a Demon Infant inside each body.
• Ji An destroyed the corpses, gathered the puppets, and escaped with Gu Hongming, suspecting the demonic cultivator had companions nearby.
• A gray-robed demonic cultivator inspected the remains and decided to leave for the Western Continent, where he believed he could build strength without Nascent Soul cultivators nearby.
• After two months of travel, Ji An and Gu Hongming reached Harmony Peak's territory and found dried corpses bearing marks of extracted souls.
• Three Harmony Peak cultivators surrounded Ji An and Gu Hongming, prompting Ji An to ready the Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner as he wondered what had happened in the Western Continent.

Ji An returned to the Western Continent, investigated a demonic cultivator attack with Harmony Peak cultivators, and traveled with Gu Hongming to Crimson Flame Peak. He reunited with his disciples and introduced Gu Hongming, who would join the Artifact Refining Hall.

• Ji An showed Gao Longxiang and his companions his sect token, then identified the corpses at Feilong Mountain as victims of a blood-focused demonic cultivator.
• Ji An suspected the attack might be the work of a female demon he had encountered before, then left Feilong Mountain with Gu Hongming.
• After half a month of travel, Ji An and Gu Hongming reached Azure Cloud Immortal City and continued toward Crimson Flame Peak.
• Ji An returned to his training ground and showed Gu Hongming the thousands of Tier Two spirit plants growing there.
• Zhang Xuening, Han Shan, and Lin Lan welcomed Ji An back, and he introduced Gu Hongming as the grandson of a friend who would join the Artifact Refining Hall.

After returning to Crimson Flame Peak, Ji An rested, inspected the peak’s spirit plants, and gained sudden enlightenment that raised his Fire in Wood Dao Seed to High-tier. He decided to leave for the Southern Continent after a year of recuperation, despite the promise his new insight held for the sect’s Fire Element plants.

• Ji An learned that Song Tao and the others had left, heard that Wei Songnian wanted to report an important matter, and planned to meet him after resting; he also learned Zhong Yuefei had reached the Origin Seeking Stage.
• Ji An rewarded Han Shan and Lin Lan with Pearl Blood Rice seeds, then returned to his cave abode and slept for three days and two nights.
• Ji An unpacked his travel gains, inspected Crimson Flame Peak’s fields, and released two Treasure Dragon Fish into the Cold Pool, where he found the Azure Water Turtle had reached the Sixth Layer of Foundation Establishment.
• Ji An cast the Azure Dragon Startled Insects Art and Sacred Flame Mantra over the Fire Element garden and suddenly comprehended the deeper meaning of Ding Fire.
• Ji An’s Fire in Wood Dao Seed advanced to High-tier, and he considered how the Sacred Flame Mantra might benefit the sect’s Fire Element plants before deciding to spend at most one year in the sect and then travel to the Southern Continent.

Ji An inspected Crimson Flame Peak’s spirit plants and found that the Soul Nurturing Wood had advanced to top-grade Second-tier. The Green Lotus Treasure Color Banner showed its affinity for the Green Lotus Heart-Burning Fire, leaving Ji An determined to obtain a Seed of Fire from a Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire.

• Ji An surveyed the tea trees, mulberries, vines, and pines, then cast nourishing arts over the Spirit Fields and reconnected with the Fire Crystal Ant queen.
• Ji An discovered that the Azure Flame Purple Spirit Gourd vine had separate Wood and Fire energy channels and had reached mid-grade Second-tier without flowering.
• Ji An found the Emerald Leaf Red Lotus nearing the end of its life cycle, transplanted Fire Coral, and watched the Green Lotus Treasure Color Banner circle the Green Lotus Heart-Burning Fire.
• Ji An patrolled the Copper Pattern Mulberries and Mystic Leaf Sword Bamboos, then used Earth Evasion to reach the underground Soul Nurturing Wood.
• Ji An found the Soul Nurturing Wood had reached top-grade Second-tier, greeted Golden Fur, counted four high-grade Second-tier Earth Spirit Fruit Trees, and cast spells over the plants.

Ji An returned to Crimson Flame Peak, reviewed his disciples’ cultivation and accounts, and tested a Soul Tempering Pill before traveling to Sunrise Peak to see Jia Yu. He told Jia Yu he had completed his goal in the Northern Lands and was preparing to head to the Southern Continent.

• Ji An ate dinner with Lin Lan and Han Shan, checked the Spirit Seeds and accounts, and learned that the tea harvest and sect debts had accumulated during his absence.
• Ji An arranged for eight new Spirit Tea Trees to be planted and gave Lin Lan and Han Shan Pearl Blood Rice to test.
• Ji An refined a Soul Tempering Pill and found that it increased his Soul Power by about one percent.
• Ji An discovered that two Treasure Dragon Fish in the Cold Pool had been mostly eaten, then teleported to Condensing Emerald Cliff and flew to Sunrise Peak.
• Ji An reunited with Jia Yu at the Treasure Pavilion and explained that he had completed his Northern Lands goal and was preparing to travel to the Southern Continent.

Ji An returned to the Golden Spirit Sect, reported the threat of a Golden Core Demonic Cultivator to True Lord Yuxiao, and learned that Harmony Peak’s weakening could destabilize the Western Continent. He left the chapter with True Lord Yuxiao examining Ji An’s Purifying Spirit Talismans and explaining the nature of demonic cultivation.

• Ji An told Jia Yu that he had comprehended three kinds of Five Elements mutual generation divine intent and collected the minor merits owed to him.
• Jia Yu warned Ji An that Harmony Peak might lose its Golden Core inheritance, while Ji An learned that Liu Su Yun had died and left him her Earth Spirit Fruit Tree.
• Ji An reported that a Demonic Cultivator who parasitized cultivators and bred Demon Infants had appeared in Red Rock Immortal City and Silver Moon City.
• Jia Yu summoned Ji An to meet Ancestor Yuxiao, and Ji An described the Demonic Cultivator and presented Purifying Spirit Talismans.
• True Lord Yuxiao judged that the talismans could detect demonic qi and explained that Demonic Cultivators gained power by cultivating murky yin, though their path was difficult in the end.

Ji An learned that complete Nascent Soul cultivation inheritances might survive in the sealed ruins of the Five Elements Sect and Skywater Sect, and True Lord Yuxiao arranged for him to brief the sect’s Chaoyuan cultivators. Back at Condensing Emerald Cliff, Ji An reviewed the Department of Agriculture’s gains, tended his Spiritual Peach Trees, and encouraged his disciples to prepare for advancement, with Lin Lan willing to become hall master.

• True Lord Yuxiao explained that the Five Elements Cycle Scripture came from the Five Elements Sect Ruins and said he would alert the other Western Continent sects to the threat of demonic cultivators and convene a meeting in three days.
• Ji An heard Kong Yunyi report that the Department of Agriculture had 256 Foundation Establishment Cultivators and that medicinal herbs were growing faster and improving in quality.
• Ji An tended the two supreme-grade Spiritual Peach Trees and found that his Farming Spells had grown stronger.
• Ji An guided Lin Lan and Han Shan in cultivation, then offered the first of them to reach the Chaoyuan Stage the hall master position; Lin Lan accepted and Han Shan declined.
• Ji An urged both disciples to advance quickly and hoped they would reach the Chaoyuan Stage before he reached the Golden Core Stage.

Ji An cultivated in the Gourd World, then visited Zhu Xiangrong to sell him a spirit armor and recommend Gu Hongming as a disciple. Zhu Xiangrong agreed to accept Gu Hongming if he was willing, and Ji An planned to ask him after returning.

• Ji An promised Lin Lan and Han Shan a ten-thousand-minor-merit-point debt reduction if either reached the Origin Seeking stage before he reached the Golden Core Stage; Han Shan claimed he had a seventy-to-eighty-percent chance.
• Ji An planted tea seeds and fed Spirit Devouring Insects to the pond fish and Fire Crystal Ants in the Gourd World, then returned to his chamber to cultivate.
• Ji An visited Zhu Xiangrong at Red Copper Mountain and offered him a second-tier high-grade Sky Soaring Armor taken from a rogue cultivator.
• Zhu Xiangrong examined the armor and bought it from Ji An for ten High-grade Spirit Stones.
• Ji An recommended that Zhu Xiangrong take Gu Hongming, who had Earth-grade aptitude, as a disciple, and Zhu Xiangrong agreed to accept him if he was willing.

Zhu Xiangrong accepted Gu Hongming as his personal disciple, while Ji An hosted a banquet for Zhong Yuefei’s breakthrough and warned his fellow disciples about Golden Core demonic cultivators. Wei Songnian visited Ji An and presented him with another Second Soul Nurturing Wood sapling.

• Zhu Xiangrong accepted Gu Hongming as his personal disciple and wondered why the talented disciple had not apprenticed under a Golden Core cultivator.
• Ji An hosted a banquet celebrating Zhong Yuefei’s breakthrough to Origin Seeking and heard her describe the difficulties of overseeing the Pill Cauldron Institute.
• Ji An warned his fellow disciples about Golden Core demonic cultivators and gave guests Purifying Spirit Talismans and Jade Dew Golden Tooth Tea.
• Wei Songnian and Yin Qiuyun arrived at Crimson Flame Peak, where Wei Songnian privately showed Ji An a sapling inside a sealed jar.
• Ji An recognized the sapling as another Second Soul Nurturing Wood and praised Wei Songnian’s good fortune.

Ji An accepted Wei Songnian’s Soul Nurturing Wood and planted it in the Gourd World, then nurtured an Artifact Spirit in the Green Lotus Treasure Color Banner. As Ji An prepared to leave for the Southern Continent, True Lord Yuxiao gave him lightning talismans and advice on comprehending Five Elements mutual generation.

• Ji An accepted Wei Songnian’s Soul Nurturing Wood, promised continued trade and support for the Wei Clan, and offered a chance for Yin Qiuyun to become an Origin Seeking cultivator.
• Ji An planted the Soul Nurturing Wood in the Gourd World and used the Yellow Dragon Vitality Increasing Art to nourish it.
• After a year of cultivation, Ji An fed spiritual fiend to the Green Lotus Treasure Color Banner, which developed an Artifact Spirit.
• Ji An reviewed Crimson Flame Peak’s thriving Spirit Plants and promised Zhang Xuening and the others rewards for their tea-making work.
• Ji An visited True Lord Yuxiao to say farewell, received two Low-grade Third-tier lightning talismans, and discussed his preparations and cultivation before leaving for the Southern Continent.

Ji An bought a large supply of spirit soil and acquired a deficient Blazing Fire Immortal Apricot seed in Rongman Immortal City, while Mu Changqing plotted to rob him. Elsewhere, Yun Nianrong completed the final refinement of her ninth demonic head and prepared to pursue a breakthrough into the Blood Core Realm.

• Ji An disguised his appearance and entered Rongman Immortal City to search for spirit supplies and rare seeds.
• Ji An bought the shop's stock of three kinds of Mid-grade Second-tier spirit soil for two hundred ten thousand Spirit Stones.
• Ji An negotiated to buy a withered Blazing Fire Immortal Apricot seed for five hundred Spirit Stones after identifying its flaw.
• Mu Changqing sent a trusted clerk to follow Ji An and considered having combat-skilled cultivators rob him.
• Yun Nianrong tempered her ninth demonic head with Netherworld Demonic Fire, completing her Nine Sons Soul Devourer Demonic Artifact.
• Yun Nianrong planned to find a secluded place and break through into the Blood Core Stage.

Yun Nianrong refined the Netherworld Demonic Fire into a Seed of Fire, but a powerful gray-robed Demonic Cultivator confronted her as she tried to leave. Meanwhile, Ji An tended his Gourd World, discovered his Spirit Devouring Insects transforming, and learned of a spiritual region suspected of nurturing Five Elements mutual generation.

• Yun Nianrong completed the demonic skull's refinement of the Netherworld Demonic Fire and fled toward the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains to prepare for a breakthrough.
• Yun Nianrong met a gray-robed cultivator who offered to make her his subordinate and restore the Demonic Sect, then attacked him; he revealed pressure at least as strong as a late Golden Core Demonic Cultivator.
• Ji An rented a cave dwelling, sent Golden Fur and the Golden Feathered Eagle to guard it, and entered the Gourd World with the Stone Turtle's help.
• Ji An found Spirit Devouring Insects undergoing a transformation in their jade shells and inspected the growing spirit trees and plants in his small world.
• Ji An planted and nurtured a Blazing Fire Immortal Apricot seed, tended his other Spirit Fields, and cultivated through the night.
• Ji An spent half a month exploring the immortal city, found no further major treasures, and learned of a spiritual region suspected of nurturing Five Elements mutual generation.

Ji An comprehended the Water generating Wood and Wood Generating Fire divine intents, then followed True Lord Yuxiao’s instruction through five years of cultivation and opened his Middle Dantian. Having completed the Five Qi Chaoyuan stage, he exchanged six hundred thousand minor merit points for a Golden Core Pill and awaited preparations for his breakthrough.

• Ji An comprehended the Water generating Wood and Wood Generating Fire divine intents amid the rain at Rotten Peach Mountain, greatly improving his cultivation efficiency.
• Ji An returned to the Golden Spirit Sect, where True Lord Yuxiao explained the Five Qi Chaoyuan cultivation method and its final hurdles.
• Ji An cultivated in seclusion at Crimson Flame Peak for five years until his Primordial Life Fire became clear gold and he opened his Middle Dantian.
• Ji An visited True Lord Yuxiao at Sunrise Peak and reported that his cultivation had reached completion.
• True Lord Yuxiao deducted six hundred thousand minor merit points for Ji An’s Golden Core Pill and told him to prepare for the breakthrough.