Chapter Summaries

Ji An received Qin Yan’s newly refined Frost Moon Furnace and exchanged cultivation insights with him before preparing to refine Spirit Nurturing Divine Fire Pills. Five years later, Ji An broke through to Golden Core Layer 8 and began refining the pills, reaching the point where he formally started combining the prepared ingredients.

• Ji An learned that the Five-Colored Deer had secretly carried Qin Yan’s message into the small world, then traveled to meet him at Red Copper Mountain.
• Qin Yan showed Ji An the third-tier High-Grade Frost Moon Furnace, which Ji An tested and stored in his dantian before exchanging cultivation insights with Qin Yan.
• Ji An prepared ingredients for Spirit Nurturing Divine Fire Pills, replanted spiritual seeds, and ordered Ayun to make medicinal paste from ripe Third Order Top-Grade Vajra Bodhi Fruits.
• Five years later, Ji An broke through to Golden Core Layer 8 while cultivating beneath the Gathering Origin Tree.
• Ji An began refining Spirit Nurturing Divine Fire Pills, experimented with the Nether Bone Fire and Frost Moon Furnace, and recorded his findings after wasting three Star Soul Fruits.
• After preparing ingredients for four furnaces of pills, Ji An restored his divine sense and formally began refining them.

Ji An refined Spirit Nurturing Divine Fire Pills with the Nether Bone Fire, improving their efficacy, while Lin Lan came to bid him farewell before traveling to seek enlightenment in Five Elements mutual generation. He supplied her with protective resources and advice, and she planned to depart the next morning.

• Ji An refined nine Spirit Nurturing Divine Fire Pills over three days, including five fine-quality pills with substantially improved efficacy.
• Lin Lan visited Ji An and said she had opened her fifth divine palace and was preparing to travel alone to seek enlightenment in Five Elements mutual generation.
• Ji An gave Lin Lan powerful talismans, Thunder Pearls, a Third Order puppet, and High-grade Spirit Stones, and explained how to use them.
• Ji An shared his insights on Five Elements mutual generation and advised Lin Lan to avoid unnecessary conflicts but act decisively when threatened.
• Lin Lan said Han Shan would temporarily take over the Department of Agriculture and that she would depart the next morning.

Ji An obtained the spirit seeds needed for the Five Splendor Pill and supported the sect’s Thunder Pearl production by planting more materials. Meanwhile, Central Continent faced the approaching True Demon Tribulation as Zhu Changhe prepared the Mysterious Yin Sect’s forces, while Ji An’s cultivation continued toward Nascent Soul formation.

• Ji An asked Zhang Yi to procure three kinds of fourth-tier spirit seeds, collected them for six hundred fifty major merits, and planted them in the Gourd World.
• Qin Yan told Ji An that the Artifact Refining Hall could mass-produce third-tier low-grade Thunder Pearls, though shortages of water-attributed materials remained.
• True Person Cang Song warned Lin Jiuxiao and Qin Yan that breached demon-cavern seals had put Central Continent into a Combat State, and they hurried back to report to their sect.
• Zhu Changhe learned of a new demon cavern, ordered Yun Nianrong to connect it to the existing cavern with a long-range Teleportation Array, and prepared to refine tribulation-crossing magic treasures.
• Ji An cultivated the Five Elements Cycle Scripture as a Soul Infant slowly formed inside his Golden Core.

Ji An helped the Golden Spirit Sect prepare for the True Demon Tribulation by gathering supplies and felling spiritual trees, then waited for Crimson Flame Peak’s Spirit Vein to advance. During its eruption, he fused his Earth Dao Seeds and hurried to Cloud Crane Mountain to seek another spiritual opportunity.

• Ji An learned that the True Demon Tribulation had begun in Central Continent and agreed to cut down harvestable spiritual trees for the sect.
• Ji An obtained the Department of Agriculture’s distribution map and spent half a month felling the trees.
• Five years later, Ji An sensed that Crimson Flame Peak’s Spirit Vein was about to advance and told Qin Yan to prepare for the eruption.
• During the eruption, Ji An gained an Earth Element epiphany, fused his Wu Earth and Ji Earth Dao Seeds, and increased his Dao Rhyme.
• Ji An flew toward Cloud Crane Mountain on the Li Di Flame Light Banner to seek the next Spirit Vein’s spiritual opportunity without risking teleportation.

Ji An witnessed Cloud Crane Mountain’s Spirit Vein advance and gained more Dao Rhyme as the Golden Spirit Sect celebrated its two main Spirit Veins rising in grade. The sect’s leaders planned to seal the veins’ ranges and strengthen its halls, while Qin Yan prepared a tribulation-crossing treasure and considered a breakthrough to the late Golden Core stage.

• Ji An arrived at Cloud Crane Mountain just before its Spirit Vein advanced, then checked his gains and found more than three hundred points of Dao Rhyme.
• True Lord Yuxiao told the Golden Core cultivators that the sect’s two main Spirit Veins had advanced, and Zhang Zeye proposed sealing their ranges to make future upgrades easier.
• Lin Jiuxiao raised concerns about preserving materials for the True Demon Tribulation, but the cultivators agreed to Zhang Zeye’s plan and assigned True Lord Yuxiao and Lin Jiuxiao to help refine sealing formation plates.
• True Lord Yuxiao called for resources to support weaker halls, and Qin Yan reported that Gu Hongming might soon form a Golden Core and proposed refining tribulation-crossing magic treasures.
• Ji An and Han Shan supported Qin Yan’s proposal, and True Lord Yuxiao approved two treasures; Qin Yan then requested seclusion to attempt a breakthrough to the late Golden Core stage.

Qin Yan learned that he should complete his cultivation-method conversion before attempting to break through to late Golden Core. Lin Lan returned to the sect carrying a Demon Seed planted by a Nascent Soul-level demonic cultivator, and Ji An could suppress its effects but could not cure her.

• Ji An advised Qin Yan to harmonize the transmission of Soul power and spiritual power through a complete cultivation-method conversion before breaking through.
• Lin Lan returned to the Golden Spirit Sect after a Demonic Cultivator contaminated her Sea of Consciousness with a Demon Seed and demanded information about the sect's defenses.
• Lin Lan endured worsening clashes between spiritual qi and demonic qi, refused to take the enemy's pill, and crushed it before seeking help from Ji An.
• Ji An examined Lin Lan's Sea of Consciousness, confirmed the contamination, and used the Seal Spirit Art to temporarily suppress her pain.
• Ji An told Lin Lan that curing the Demon Seed required stronger purification and protection for her divine soul, then left to discuss the situation with the sect master.

After Lin Lan returned corrupted by a Nascent Soul devil cultivator, Ji An urged the sect to investigate its disciples and prepare for war with the Mysterious Yin Sect. The Golden Core cultivators agreed to investigate while making one final trade with Southern Continent, and the chapter ended with Lin Qiubai asking why devil cultivators had appeared near the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.

• Ji An promised to help Lin Lan, then reported her experience to True Lord Yuxiao and warned that the True Demon Tribulation had begun.
• Ji An proposed investigating every disciple and sealing the sect if more victims were found; True Lord Yuxiao agreed that the sect needed to consider the plan with its members and allies.
• After Ji An presented his proposal to the Golden Core cultivators, Lin Jiuxiao argued against sealing the sect immediately, while Han Shan and others supported Ji An.
• True Lord Yuxiao arranged one final trade with Southern Continent while Ji An organized a sect-wide investigation using Purifying Spirit Talismans, and the cultivators tested the talismans on themselves.
• Ji An said he would help Lin Lan and, if she could not be saved, end her life; he also revealed that he had reached the Golden Core ninth layer, boosting the sect's morale.
• Lin Qiubai asked why devil cultivators had appeared on the northwestern edge of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.

Ji An and the Enforcement Hall began inspecting the sect for demonic contamination, uncovering infiltrated disciples and leading a wider purge that found more than six hundred victims. After the purge, True Lord Yuxiao prepared to seal the mountain, and Ji An was reminded of Zhao Mengyao, whom he had not seen in a long time.

• True Lord Yuxiao ordered Lin Jiuxiao to contact Falling Maple Valley and directed the halls to prepare supplies and defenses before the sect sealed its mountain.
• Ji An and Liu Yu inspected the Enforcement Hall with Purifying Spirit Talismans, revealing a long-controlled disciple and two more contaminated disciples who transformed and were killed.
• Lin Qiubai killed the first contaminated disciple, and Ji An purified the corpses before the remaining Enforcement Hall Disciples completed their inspections.
• Five days later, Ji An reported that more than six hundred disciples had been contaminated; 136 recovered after treatment, while the rest were executed.
• True Lord Yuxiao said Falling Maple Valley would seal its mountain and that nearby families had sent core members into the sect, where they were settled near Azure Water Lake.
• Ji An recalled that Liu Yu and Zhao Mengyao were the only cultivators he had known in the past who were still alive.

Ji An reassured True Lord Yuxiao that he had an eighty percent chance of reaching the Nascent Soul Realm, then arranged for Lin Lan to recover from her contamination in the Gourd World. After revealing the small world to her, he began showing her its resources, including its dangerous Crimson Gold Carp.

• Ji An told True Lord Yuxiao he was eighty percent confident about breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm, lifting the sect master's spirits.
• Ji An visited Lin Lan, arranged Spirit Food for her recovery, and called Han Shan to take over her Department of Agriculture duties.
• Ji An brought Lin Lan into the Gourd World and told her she would stay there until she recovered, introducing her to Ayun and the transformed magical treasures.
• Ji An showed Lin Lan the Gathering Origin Tree and explained how it accelerated spirit plant growth, astonishing her with the world's abundant resources.
• Ji An warned Lin Lan to stay away from the magma pool's Golden Core-level Crimson Gold Carp, and she asked whether it was his spirit beast.

Ji An showed Lin Lan his small world and examined the mysterious stone she gave him, but none of his attacks could damage it. Three months later, Gu Hongming successfully formed his Golden Core, and Ji An returned to find the Treasure Dragon Fish on the verge of a breakthrough.

• Ji An explained the small world's spiritual plants to Lin Lan and told her to stay in the safe yellow land with Ayun's help.
• Lin Lan gave Ji An a strange yellow-jade stone that resisted his divine sense, sword, and Five Elements Divine Thunder, then returned his unused supplies.
• Lin Lan asked permission to build a small wooden house, and Ji An agreed before beginning his cultivation nearby.
• Ji An went to Red Copper Mountain to watch Gu Hongming's breakthrough and help the Stone Turtle absorb Dao charm.
• Gu Hongming formed his Golden Core, survived the lightning tribulation, and received congratulations from Ji An and True Lord Yuxiao.
• Ji An returned to his small world and found demon energy rising from the black Spiritual Field as the largest Treasure Dragon Fish neared a Golden Core breakthrough.

Ji An checked the Dao resonance gained from the spirit fish’s tribulation, while the Golden Spirit Sect sealed its mountain amid fears that demonic schemes had been discovered. As the Profound Yin Sacred Cult prepared to exploit the sealed sects, Ji An commissioned intelligent puppets to manage work in his small world.

• Ji An and Lin Lan discussed raising Brocade Feather Chickens and Musk Oxen in the small world, and Ji An later found that the spirit fish’s tribulation had added roughly one hundred and fifty points of Dao resonance.
• Zhu Changhe inspected the Bronze Zombie refined from True Monarch Beichen’s corpse and planned to cultivate it into a Moon Zombie.
• Lin Jiuxiao and Han Yan returned to Sunrise Peak with their procurement completed, and True Lord Yuxiao had the Golden Spirit Sect inspect its disciples and seal the mountain.
• Yun Nianrong reported that the Golden Spirit Sect and Falling Maple Valley had sealed their mountains, but Zhu Changhe told her the Profound Yin Sacred Cult would use the opportunity to expand.
• Ji An visited the Puppet Hall and commissioned Yang Qingfeng to make intelligent puppets for harvesting spirit fruits, cooking, and tending spirit fish and livestock.

Ji An commissioned four humanoid puppets, advanced his preparation for the Nascent Soul Realm, and told True Lord Yuxiao he was entering seclusion for his final cultivation stage. Meanwhile, Yun Nianrong and Chen Xingzhou agreed to target the Golden Spirit Sect as the demonic qi spread across the Western Continent.

• Ji An specified the puppets’ abilities and materials, paid Yang Qingfeng six hundred and eighty Great Merits, and arranged to collect them when they were finished.
• Yun Nianrong and Chen Xingzhou discussed attacking the Golden Spirit Sect and agreed that the Heavenly Demon Alliance would commit troops after the Mysterious Yin Sect’s methods broke its mountain-protecting formation.
• Ji An cultivated to the Great Perfection level and told Lin Lan that he still needed to complete Five Qi Chaoyuan before attempting a breakthrough.
• Ji An returned to Sunrise Peak, gave True Lord Yuxiao the Third Order Top-Grade Fire Repelling Pearl, and announced that he would enter seclusion after reaching the final step toward refining a Nascent Soul Pill.

Ji An completed his breakthrough preparations, refined a superior-grade Nascent Soul Pill, and arranged for Lin Lan and the tamed beasts to stay away from the coming tribulation. He asked True Lord Yuxiao to evacuate the disciples near Crimson Flame Peak before he attempted to break through.

• Lin Lan watched over Ji An as he finally took the last step in his cultivation and told her to let Ayun and the others handle the tea-making.
• Ji An rested, studied the Nascent Soul Pill refining jade slip, and successfully refined a superior-grade pill on his first attempt.
• Ji An told Lin Lan she could not watch his breakthrough because her weakened body could not withstand the Nascent Soul Thunder Tribulation, then moved her, Ayun, and the tamed beasts to Condensing Emerald Cliff.
• Ji An went to Limitless Hall and asked True Lord Yuxiao to temporarily relocate the disciples living near Crimson Flame Peak.

Ji An prepared for his Nascent Soul breakthrough, then shattered his Golden Core and endured the Chaos Thunder Tribulation. His Nascent Soul entered the Mud Pill Palace and emerged victorious, making him the sect’s first True Lord.

• Ji An refined his Metal, Water, Wood, and Fire Dao Seeds, deepening his Five Elements understanding and increasing his cultivation speed.
• Ji An studied records of past breakthroughs while the disciples around Crimson Flame Peak temporarily relocated.
• Ji An began his breakthrough as a vast spiritual energy vortex formed and tribulation clouds gathered over Crimson Flame Peak.
• Ji An took the Phoenix Nirvana Pill and Nascent Soul Pill, then shattered his Golden Core and sent his Nascent Soul toward the Mud Pill Palace.
• Ji An’s five treasure banners formed a defensive array as the thunder tribulation struck, and True Lord Yuxiao ordered the evacuation of nearby low-level disciples.
• Ji An’s Nascent Soul survived the final tribulation and emerged, becoming the sect’s first True Lord.

Ji An completed his Nascent Soul breakthrough, formed his manifestation, and stabilized his realm, making the Golden Spirit Sect a Nascent Soul Sect. Meanwhile, cultivators debated where to seek shelter from the coming Great Tribulation, as hidden agents steered them toward Demon Cultivators.

• Ji An healed from the Purple Heaven Divine Thunder and formed a Nascent Soul Manifestation depicting the cycles of sea, land, sun, and moon; True Lord Yuxiao announced his success to the Golden Spirit Sect.
• True Lord Yuxiao ordered everyone to leave Crimson Flame Peak undisturbed, while Qin Yan, Lin Jiuxiao, Han Yan, and Han Shan discussed celebrating Ji An’s breakthrough and awaited his wishes.
• At a tavern near the Golden Spirit Sect, Chen Xianggui encouraged independent cultivators to consider joining Demon Cultivators as protection from the Great Tribulation, and the skinny monkey supported the idea with rumors about clans near the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.
• After the tavern gathering, Chen Xingzhou met the skinny monkey, who identified himself as Brother Xianrong and said they should follow the Alliance Leader’s and Clan Head’s instructions rather than let everyone join the Mysterious Yin Sect.
• Ji An stabilized his Nascent Soul Realm, summoned his magical treasures to guard him, and demonstrated his Nascent Soul’s power by casting Departing Fire Burns the Heavens and forming a Fire Phoenix.

After breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm, Ji An studied his new cultivation methods and discovered the Stone Turtle could convert Dao Rhythms and stabilize spaces. He established his role in the Golden Spirit Sect, arranged a lecture, and brought Lin Lan to Crimson Flame Peak to plan her treatment.

• Ji An studied the Five Elements Cycle Scripture and learned the Nascent Soul cultivation cycles, Mud Pill Palace construction, and methods for refining Solar and Lunar Essence.
• Ji An discovered that the Stone Turtle could convert Dao Rhythms and spiritual opportunities and stabilize the Mud Pill Palace and Gourd World.
• Ji An met True Lord Yuxiao, accepted the proposed Nascent Soul stipend, stepped away from sect affairs, and scheduled a lecture for three days later.
• Ji An visited Lin Lan, Big Yellow, and Golden Fur at Condensing Emerald Cliff and took Lin Lan back to Crimson Flame Peak to determine a treatment plan.
• Ji An told Han Shan to attend his lecture and learned that the Five-Colored Deer and Green Deer had boosted spirit herb growth, while Lin Lan prepared to resume cultivation after treatment.

Ji An used Fourth Order Purifying Spirit Talismans to greatly reduce Lin Lan’s contamination, though deeper contamination still required time and further treatment. After becoming a Nascent Soul True Lord, he addressed the sect’s Golden Core cultivators and established the Five Elements Hall, leaving the sect to compile updated cultivation methods for his review.

• Ji An examined Lin Lan’s Sea of Consciousness, then used the Stone Turtle to advance two Bodhi Woods to Fourth Order so they could produce Purifying Spirit Talismans.
• Ji An used one Fourth Order Purifying Spirit Talisman to purify more than seventy percent of Lin Lan’s surface contamination, but warned that deeper contamination remained and her soul needed time to recover.
• Ji An addressed the Golden Core True Persons at Sunrise Peak, shared advice on Golden Core cultivation, and declined to hold a Nascent Soul celebration.
• Ji An proposed renaming the Skill Distribution Hall as the Five Elements Hall and assigning it similar responsibilities.
• Ji An directed the sect’s cultivators to compile updated Foundation Establishment Realm and Origin Seeking cultivation methods and submit them for his final review.

Ji An supplied the Five Elements Sect with pills and abundant high-tier resources, revealing that he had a small world for growing spiritual plants and promising to help advance the Sect’s Spirit Vein. The Sect agreed to expand the Five Elements Hall, while True Lord Yuxiao stepped down as Sect Master and Lin Jiuxiao was chosen to succeed him.

• Ji An gave the Sect eight hundred Third Order Top-Grade Five Qi Pills and offered a large stock of spiritual fruits, spirit tea, and Spirit Cleansing Sand for exchange.
• Ji An revealed that he had obtained a five-hundred-mu small world filled with high-tier spiritual plants, and the cultivators inventoried his offerings at 824,000 great merits.
• Qin Yan explained that improved jade tokens depended on acquiring scarce materials, and Zhang Zeye described how the Sect’s paired Spirit Veins could advance in grade.
• Ji An promised to collect materials for the Spirit Vein’s further advancement when he traveled abroad, and the Sect agreed to place all of Sky Ascension Peak under the Five Elements Hall.
• True Lord Yuxiao gave up the Sect Master position and recommended Lin Jiuxiao as his successor; Ji An and the others supported the choice, and Yuxiao approved additional resources for the new Sect Master.

Lin Jiuxiao became the Golden Spirit Sect’s nineteenth Sect Master, while Ji An gave Liu Yu and Han Shan Five Qi Pills and continued helping Lin Lan recover in the small world. After purifying more of Lin Lan’s Sea of Consciousness, Ji An advanced the Virtuous Merit Spirit Nurturing Incantation to its beginner level.

• Han Shan, Han Yan, Qin Yan, Liu Yu, Zhang Zeye, and the other hall leaders agreed on pill allowances for the Sect Master, and True Lord Yuxiao announced Lin Jiuxiao as the nineteenth Sect Master.
• Han Yan, Qin Yan, and Zhang Zeye delivered supplies to the Treasure Pavilion and discussed how Longevity Peaches and Star Fruit could benefit the sect.
• Ji An gave Liu Yu and Han Shan bottles of Third Order Top-Grade Five Qi Pills, then refused Han Shan’s request to visit Lin Lan in the small world.
• Liu Yu told Ji An that Zhong Yuefei had reached Chaoyuan Stage fifth layer and Li Lingyu had reached Chaoyuan Stage fourth layer, but the True Demon Tribulation made travel dangerous.
• Ji An used a Purifying Spirit Talisman to cleanse a little over twenty percent of the contamination deep in Lin Lan’s Sea of Consciousness and said she would need two more talismans.
• Ji An practiced the Virtuous Merit Spirit Nurturing Incantation and produced golden lotuses from the earth, reaching the beginner level.

Ji An cultivated Solar and Lunar Essence, learned Dragon Soars, All Things Born, and brewed fourth-order Enlightenment Tea to improve his spell training. In the Stone Turtle’s mystical space, he discovered its Bagua had changed into the Innate Bagua as he began raising the Virtuous Merit Spirit Nurturing Incantation.

• Ji An ordered the Enlightenment Tea Tree raised to the fourth order, then studied Dragon Soars, All Things Born while Lin Lan and Ayun roasted its leaves.
• Ji An absorbed Moon Dew, Morning Sun Purple Dew, Bing Fire Golden Essence, and Sunset Spirit Essence over several days.
• Ji An cast Dragon Soars, All Things Born over the spirit plants, reaching Beginner 1% in the spell.
• Lin Lan and Ayun served Ji An tea made from the fourth-order Enlightenment Tea Tree, sharpening his thoughts.
• Ji An used the Stone Turtle to raise the Virtuous Merit Spirit Nurturing Incantation and discovered that its Bagua pattern had become the Innate Bagua.