Chapter Summaries

Ji An killed a late Golden Core Fox Beast in the ruined mountaintop and harvested its materials, but found no sign of the inheritance he sought. Elsewhere, True Person Juling sold a map to True Lord Xuanji and True Person Changle and told them about the battle, leaving them with a possible lead to a fortune.

• Ji An searched the ruined mountaintop, then resisted the Fox Beast’s illusion and killed it with Wrath of the Earth, the Li Di Flame Light Banner, and his other attacks.
• Ji An cut up the Fox Beast and sealed its bones and hide before storing the materials in his Void Stone.
• True Person Juling considered returning to the battle site to search for spoils, then met True Lord Xuanji and True Person Changle, who asked to buy a map.
• True Person Juling sold them the map for four High-grade Spirit Stones and added a note explaining why the ruins differed from the map.
• True Person Juling told True Lord Xuanji and True Person Changle about the materializing devil and the cultivator with a silver-white treasure banner, then departed.

True Lord Xuanji and True Person Changle pursued Ji An through the demon-corrupted ruins, planning to attack when his mana ran low and relying on a secret art to disable his Puppets. As they prepared their ambush, they exposed and drove away the two cultivators tailing them, while Ji An continued searching the ruins unaware that his Golden Winged Bird had been compromised.

• True Person Changle confirmed the map’s accuracy, and True Lord Xuanji decided the cultivator with the silver-white banner was their target.
• True Person Juling and his companion chose to follow the Golden Puppet Sect disciples, hoping to profit from their pursuit.
• Ji An emerged from a ruined underground palace and continued searching while True Lord Xuanji and True Person Changle watched him from above.
• True Person Changle reported that Juling and his companion were following them, and True Lord Xuanji planned to attack Ji An when his mana ran low.
• True Lord Xuanji used a secret art to make Ji An’s Golden Winged Bird Puppet go dull and unresponsive.
• True Person Changle confronted the hidden followers with scouting Puppets, causing them to abandon their pursuit and flee.

Ji An destroyed the puppet army with repeated Wrath of the Earth spells and captured True Lord Xuanji, then brought him into the Gourd Stone small world. After discovering Xuanji’s connection to the world fragment and preventing him from detonating hidden puppets, Ji An left him under guard.

• Ji An noticed the approaching puppets, put Golden Fur away, and unleashed Wrath of the Earth and Silver Moon Blades against the attackers.
• True Person Changle was killed, while True Lord Xuanji was petrified and captured by Ji An.
• Ji An sealed Xuanji, gathered the puppet wreckage and petrified remains, and questioned him about the attack and how the puppets had evaded detection.
• Ji An took Xuanji into the Gourd Stone small world, where Xuanji recognized it as a world fragment and realized Ji An would not let him live.
• Ji An left Xuanji guarded by Big Yellow and the Golden Feathered Eagle, then extracted the contents of two Void Stones and secured an intact puppet before Xuanji could detonate it.

Ji An inventoried his spoils, rested, and sent Puppets to scout White Tiger Mountain and Kirin Mountain while continuing to restrain True Lord Xuanji. After finding two active formations on Kirin Mountain, Ji An prepared for a dangerous expedition and left the small world, while True Lord Xuanji secretly hoped he would die.

• Ji An found a mature Yin Soul Fruit, pills, talismans, and Puppet-refining notes among his spoils, then kept True Lord Xuanji powerless with the Seal Spirit Art.
• Ji An rested in the small world before sending Puppets to scout White Tiger Mountain, where they encountered dangerous Magic Beasts but found no worthwhile target.
• Ji An's Puppets later discovered the still-operating Thick Earth Hall and Five Elements Genesis Hall on Kirin Mountain, prompting him to prepare for a personal expedition.
• Ji An gathered talismans, recharged his magical treasures, replenished his spiritual power, and left the Gourd World for Kirin Mountain.
• True Lord Xuanji watched Ji An depart and secretly hoped that he would die so Xuanji could claim the small world.

Ji An spent three days breaking the formation protecting Thick Earth Hall, only to find its inheritance niches empty, then continued toward the summit of Kirin Mountain. There, an invisible fiend ambushed him, crippled his defenses, and pinned him down while saying he smelled good.

• Ji An scouted Kirin Mountain and attacked the formation protecting Thick Earth Hall with his magic treasures and companions.
• After three days, Ji An broke the formation and searched the hall, but found only empty niches, including one marked for the Nascent Soul section of the Five Elements Cycle Scripture.
• Ji An continued toward the summit, where an unseen shadow briefly emerged from the Five Elements Genesis Hall before disappearing.
• Ji An approached the summit halls under the protection of his magic treasures, but an invisible enemy seized his ankle and attacked his Earth Kirin and Fire Phoenix.
• The enemy disabled Ji An's defenses and froze his spiritual power, then knocked him down and said, "You smell so good!"

Ji An survived a Nascent Soul fiend’s attack when the Stone Turtle swallowed her and restored his frozen flames. At the Five Elements Genesis Hall, he triggered its highest-grade trial and revealed that he had chosen the difficult path, “Five Elements Cycle, Myriad Laws Return to One.”

• A Nascent Soul fiend entered Ji An’s Sea of Consciousness and tried to devour his soul and body.
• The Stone Turtle appeared, swallowed the fiend, and revived Ji An’s Primordial Life Fire and Green Lotus Heart-Burning Fire.
• Ji An recovered, found his two Dharma treasures damaged, and rode them to the Five Elements Genesis Hall.
• The five pillars on the platform lit up and transported Ji An into a hall, while other cultivators flew toward the radiance outside.
• A talking puppet announced that Ji An had triggered the highest-grade trial and asked which cultivation path he had chosen.
• Ji An named his path as “Five Elements Cycle, Myriad Laws Return to One,” and the puppet invited him to begin the trial.

Ji An completed the Earth, Metal, and Fire Element trials with first-class superior evaluations, earning the Five Elements Sect’s highest-tier inheritance. The puppet entrusted him with the sect’s preserved jade slips and explained that the cultivation technique could lead beyond Nascent Soul to the Three Flowers Realm, though only by breaking free of this world’s limits.

• Ji An contained One Yuan Heavy Water, cultivated dense Metal Element power, and delayed the meeting of Wood and Fire spiritual light, earning a first-class superior evaluation for the Earth Element trial.
• Ji An also completed the Metal and Fire Element trials with first-class superior evaluations, convincing the puppet that he was worthy of the sect’s highest-tier reward.
• Ji An told the puppet about his Daoist name, the Golden Spirit Sect, and the people and experiences that had shaped his life.
• The puppet gave Ji An a jade box containing the Five Elements Sect’s most essential surviving inheritance, and Ji An promised to pass it on through worthy disciples alongside the Golden Spirit Sect.
• The puppet explained that the technique could lead to the Three Flowers Realm beyond Nascent Soul and that one of the sect’s patriarchs had returned from beyond this world to leave behind the inheritance.

Ji An persuaded the remnant soul in the puppet to leave the Five Elements Sect Ruins and received inheritance blueprints for the Mysterious Origin Water Control Banner. After returning to the outside world, he planned to leave Cloud Sea Immortal City, then interrupted his journey to deal with his captive, True Lord Xuanji.

• Ji An urged the puppet to leave the ruins, and the puppet revealed that human cultivators had destroyed the sect’s Teleportation Arrays during the True Demon Tribulation.
• The puppet agreed to accompany Ji An, asked him to scatter the ashes of his fellow disciples in the mountains, and gave him access to inheritance blueprints for several Innate Spirit Treasure imitations.
• Ji An and the puppet left the ruins; Ji An scattered the ashes, escaped through a weak point in the Dharma Restriction, and returned to True Person Feiyun.
• Ji An told True Person Feiyun that he planned to transfer the Crimson Flame Pavilion and leave Cloud Sea Immortal City while maintaining their pill-refining agreement.
• While traveling, Ji An heard the sound of a tribulation, stored the puppet in his Void Stone, and entered the Gourd World with True Lord Xuanji.
• Ji An told True Lord Xuanji that it was time to die, and Xuanji closed his eyes and accepted his fate.

Ji An used the Chaos Divine Thunder to kill True Lord Xuanji and gained a large amount of Dao Rhyme, prompting Golden Dragon Mountain to investigate Xuanji’s death. He then discussed the inherited cultivation methods and his plans to leave Central Continent with True Monarch Lianshan.

• Ji An sealed True Lord Xuanji, had the Golden Feathered Eagle carry him toward a lightning tribulation, and used the Chaos Divine Thunder to kill him.
• After the purple clouds dispersed, Ji An left Spiritual Peaches as a gift for the cultivator whose breakthrough had been disturbed and checked the Stone Turtle’s increased Dao Rhyme.
• A duty disciple discovered True Lord Xuanji’s extinguished soul lamp, and True Lord Xuan Ye ordered an investigation using the Hidden Star Disk.
• Ji An learned that the inheritance jade slips concealed higher-realm methods until he reached the appropriate cultivation level, while True Monarch Lianshan offered to guide him.
• Ji An told True Monarch Lianshan that he planned to find a flying vessel and return to Western Continent, and Lianshan approved of his decision to leave Central Continent.

Ji An returned to Cloud Sea Immortal City, learned that True Lord Xuanji had died under mysterious circumstances, and upgraded the Gathering Origin Tree in his small world. After studying the art for breaking through to late Golden Core, he struggled with its demanding cultivation cycle and then brought True Monarch Lianshan to stay in his cave dwelling.

• Ji An returned to Cloud Sea Immortal City, asked Li Qingqiu about recent events, and arranged to meet True Person Guangping.
• Wan Jinrong told Ji An that True Lord Xuanji had suffered Death and Soul Annihilation, and Ji An decided to leave for a northern immortal city to seek a cultivation art.
• Ji An discovered that his cave dwelling's spiritual qi had improved, then used the Stone Turtle to raise the Gathering Origin Tree to Third Order Top-Grade, whereupon it sprouted more than a dozen flower buds.
• Ji An studied an inheritance jade slip and learned that late Golden Core cultivation required him to temper his divine soul alongside his mana, but his first night's attempt left him exhausted and unsuccessful.
• Ji An introduced True Monarch Lianshan to his cave dwelling, and True Monarch Lianshan chose an unused room for his stay.

Ji An sought True Monarch Lianshan’s help with his cultivation and learned to dissolve the hidden soul he had created through an altered Buddhist technique. After leaving Cloud Sea Immortal City and heading north, Ji An and the puppet were attacked by True Lord Tianyan, who mistook him for someone else and offered an apology when he sensed the puppet’s Nascent Soul Late Stage power.

• Ji An explained his difficulty coordinating Soul power and mana, and True Monarch Lianshan discovered that Ji An had altered and cultivated the Immovable Wisdom King Art.
• True Monarch Lianshan warned Ji An to stop the meditation and visualization practice, explained how to turn the body god into soul energy, and gave him Sandalwood Soul Nourishing Incense.
• Ji An ended his leases in Cloud Sea Immortal City, collected a Spirit Stone reward for improving the Black Stone Mountain Spirit Field, and arranged for True Person Guangping to pass word to his fellow disciples.
• True Lord Tianyan learned that Ji An had returned to the immortal city and decided to investigate him personally, suspecting he possessed a treasure that produced high-grade spirit wood.
• Ji An departed north with True Monarch Lianshan, and True Lord Tianyan attacked them before backing down and offering fourth-tier Phoenix Pattern Gold after sensing the puppet’s power.

Ji An and True Monarch Lianshan escaped Tianyan, then entered Ji An’s small world, where Lianshan discovered a Gathering Origin Tree and explained its role in the Five Elements Cycle Scripture. Ji An tested the Five Qi Pills he made from its leaves and showed Lianshan the small world’s rare resources, leaving Lianshan impressed by Ji An’s talent and cultivation.

• True Monarch Lianshan accepted Phoenix Pattern Gold and an Earth Compassion Pearl from Tianyan, who fled after apologizing for the misunderstanding.
• After reaching a cave, Lianshan revealed that his Nascent Soul power was irreversibly declining and asked Ji An to find a high-grade Spirit Vein Node.
• Ji An used the Gourd Stone to bring Lianshan into his small world, where Lianshan recognized the Third Order Top-Grade Gathering Origin Tree.
• Lianshan explained how Gathering Origin Tree leaves could be refined into Five Qi Pills to help cultivators balance Five Elements power and advance their cultivation.
• Ji An refined and swallowed a Five Qi Pill, but noticed almost no effect, leading Lianshan to conclude that his Five Elements power was exceptionally balanced.
• Ji An showed Lianshan the small world’s resources and lightning-struck peach tree, and Lianshan praised his mastery of Farming Spells.

Ji An settled in Chongming Mountain Immortal City, prepared to leave Central Continent for the Far North in ten years, and reunited with Li Haoran and Qin Yan. As Ji An continued cultivating and arranged future exchanges with his sect, Li Haoran chose to remain in Central Continent to fight demons and sharpen his sword arts.

• Ji An rented a third-tier High-Grade cave abode, planned to leave on a Merchant Airship in ten years, and commissioned the Myriad Treasure Tower to refine a flying Spirit Tool for True Monarch Lianshan.
• Ji An visited True Person Feiyun, explained that he would leave Central Continent, and told him where to find him for future alchemy commissions.
• Li Haoran and Qin Yan went to the Crimson Flame Pavilion seeking Ji An, learned he could be found in the Phoenix Mountain Range, and traveled there to meet him.
• Ji An told Li Haoran and Qin Yan that he had explored the Five Elements Sect Ruins and planned to return to Western Continent after the True Demon Tribulation; he offered Qin Yan artifact-refinement jade slips.
• Li Haoran declined to return to Western Continent and decided to remain in Central Continent to battle True Demons and temper his sword arts.

Ji An arranged Phoenix Nirvana Pill commissions and exchanges with True Person Huayin and True Monarch Zhenyue before learning from True Monarch Lianshan how cultivators earn merit to leave the world. After refining two premium pills, Ji An asked whether a Three Flowers Realm patriarch could leave the world again after returning from the starry sky.

• Li Haoran handed his supplies to Ji An and prepared to travel to regions plagued by demonic qi, while Qin Yan planned to study artifact refinement and seek certification.
• Two years later, True Person Huayin and True Monarch Zhenyue visited Ji An, entrusted him with materials for five more batches of Phoenix Nirvana Pills, and offered pill exchanges.
• Ji An agreed to deliver the pills in five days and arranged to exchange Spirit Nurturing Divine Fire Pills for Purple Cloud Jade Ganoderma Pills.
• After leaving Ji An’s cave, True Person Huayin promised True Monarch Zhenyue that they would become Dao Companions after her Nascent Soul breakthrough.
• While Ji An refined Phoenix Nirvana Pills in the Gourd World, True Monarch Lianshan explained that cultivators needed merit to pass through the world’s laws and leave for the starry sky.
• Ji An refined two premium Phoenix Nirvana Pills and asked True Monarch Lianshan whether a Three Flowers Realm patriarch could leave again after returning from the starry sky.

After returning from the Central Continent, Ji An learned that Harmony Peak had declined and flew toward its mountain gate with Qin Yan. They saw enormous, unusual tribulation clouds and realized a Nascent Soul Thunder Tribulation was underway.

• True Monarch Lianshan advised Ji An to harvest leaves from the Heaven and Earth Spirit Tree regularly and lamented that he would not live to see it reach the fourth tier.
• Ji An exchanged Phoenix Nirvana Pills with True Person Huayin and commissioned Qin Yan to gather materials and refine a Mysterious Origin Water Control Banner.
• Ji An gave Qin Yan Five Elements Banner refining methods and third-tier artifact-refining secrets, while considering the more advanced inheritance he had obtained.
• Seven years later, Ji An and Qin Yan boarded a merchant airship from Chongming Mountain Immortal City and traveled back toward the Western Continent.
• After arriving in the Western Continent, Ji An learned that Harmony Peak had seen no Golden Core Thunder Tribulation since his departure and flew closer to investigate.
• Ji An identified the enormous tribulation clouds over Harmony Peak as evidence of a Nascent Soul Thunder Tribulation and accelerated toward them so the Stone Turtle could absorb Dao resonance.

Ji An investigated the Nascent Soul tribulation at Harmony Peak, learned from True Monarch Lianshan about Demonic Cultivators and how to counter their methods, and then faced Yun Nianrong, an old enemy who ambushed him. Their battle began with Ji An’s Departing Fire Burns the Heavens destroying her blood river and damaging her magic treasure.

• Ji An recognized the black vortex over Harmony Peak as a Demonic Cultivator’s Nascent Soul tribulation, warned the disciples, and sent Qin Yan to report the danger while he stayed behind to gather intelligence.
• Yun Nianrong ordered two Golden Core Layer 3 cultivators to pursue Qin Yan and approached Ji An herself, intending to capture him and delay news of the breakthrough.
• Ji An entered the Gourd Stone’s small world to consult True Monarch Lianshan, who explained the Demonic Cultivator’s likely recovery period, the limits of its power, and ways to defend against Demonic Seeds.
• True Monarch Lianshan alerted Ji An to Yun Nianrong’s approach, and Ji An recognized her as the enemy who had harmed him before.
• Yun Nianrong attacked Ji An with a river of blood and blood-red lotuses, but Ji An’s Departing Fire Burns the Heavens evaporated the river and damaged her magic treasure.

Ji An drove Yun Nianrong into retreat, then witnessed the demonic cultivator at Harmony Peak survive the Nascent Soul Thunder Tribulation and hurried to report the breakthrough. Back at the Golden Spirit Sect, he revealed that the Five Elements Cycle Scripture could be cultivated to the Nascent Soul Late Stage.

• Ji An burned away much of Yun Nianrong’s Blood River, but she escaped by burning her essence blood; True Monarch Lianshan discussed Ji An’s spells and the Nascent Soul Thunder Tribulation with him.
• Yun Nianrong returned to her hiding place and learned that two black-robed cultivators had failed to kill their target because it possessed a Third Order Top-Grade puppet.
• Ji An watched the demonic cultivator survive the Purple Heaven Divine Thunder and form a Nascent Soul, then fled to spread the news.
• Ji An checked his Dao Rhyme gains and found that observing the breakthrough had earned him roughly five thousand points.
• At the Golden Spirit Sect, True Lord Yuxiao congratulated Ji An on reaching the sixth layer of Golden Core, and Ji An announced that the Five Elements Cycle Scripture could be cultivated to the Nascent Soul Late Stage.

Ji An returned to Crimson Flame Peak with valuable Five Elements Sect inheritances and helped the sect plan to strengthen its Spirit Vein against the True Demon Tribulation. Green Deer passed its Golden Core tribulation, while Ji An encouraged his disciples as Han Shan prepared to form his core.

• Ji An presented the Five Elements Sect inheritances and Nascent Soul Pill formula, and the sect awarded him massive merit while prioritizing Spirit Vein cultivation and training Formation Masters.
• Ji An advised the sect to avoid confronting the Nascent Soul demonic cultivators for now, prepare its defenses, and guard against Demon Seed contamination.
• Ji An returned to Crimson Flame Peak, reunited with his aged Grey Feather Sand Goose, and dismissed the Spiritual Farmer Disciples from their duties.
• Ji An gave Green Deer a Jade Vine Fruit and a Profound Wood Life Essence Pill, and Green Deer passed its Golden Core tribulation three days later.
• Ji An praised Lin Lan, Han Shan, and Wei Baiyang, and promised them premium-grade Golden Core Pills as they advanced in cultivation.

Ji An returned to Crimson Flame Peak, reviewed the sect’s agricultural growth, and tended its Spirit Fields before joining a meeting about the newly declared Profound Yin Sacred Cult. The sect considered the cult’s alliance offer and weighed cautious cooperation against the danger of future conflict.

• Lin Lan reported the Department of Agriculture’s expansion and growing pill-material supplies, while Ji An urged its disciples to study the sect’s inherited cultivation knowledge.
• Ji An learned that Liu Yu had left to travel after struggling with cultivation at the Five Qi Chaoyuan stage and planned to ask Li Lingyu about the matter.
• Ji An toured Crimson Flame Peak, used farming spells to nourish its Spirit Plants, and found Golden Fur sleeping beside the third-tier High-Grade Soul Nurturing Wood.
• Sunrise Peak sounded the alarm after Azure Cloud Immortal City reported that the force at Harmony Peak had named itself the Profound Yin Sacred Cult and offered an alliance pact.
• At Limitless Hall, Qin Yan argued that the sect needed time to grow stronger, and Ji An said the sect could cautiously trust the cult’s claim that a demon den supplied its resources while remaining vigilant.

True Lord Yuxiao and Zhu Changhe prepared to negotiate while remaining wary of each other, and Ji An reunited with Liu Yu after his return to the sect. Ji An’s Green Deer demonstrated its new plant-growing spell, and the chapter left its potential to develop a stronger farming spell still ahead.

• True Lord Yuxiao’s sect agreed to negotiate with the demonic cultivators in Azure Cloud Immortal City under strict safeguards, and he volunteered to represent them.
• True Lord Yuxiao assigned Ji An to retrieve Spirit Veins from Crimson Flame Peak’s volcano and planned to take purification talismans to the negotiations.
• Zhu Changhe explained to Yun Nianrong why he wanted peace talks, ordered her to lead negotiations without making concessions, and told her to contact northwest Demon Cultivator forces.
• Ji An welcomed Zhong Yuefei, Li Lingyu, and Liu Yu, who said he had overcome a decades-long difficulty reaching the Five Qi Chaoyuan realm.
• Ji An introduced his Golden Core Green Deer, which shrank on command and demonstrated an innate spell that accelerated the growth of Wood Element Spirit Plants and benefited Fire Element Spirit Plants.