Chapter Summaries

The allied cultivators prepared to counter the Buddhist cultivators’ mental attack and launched another assault on Lanruo Temple. Ji An’s overwhelming strikes shattered the Buddha Formation, and he pursued the fleeing defenders.

• True Monarch Canglong showed the allied cultivators a sound wave Spiritual Treasure, and True Monarch Xuanxiao agreed to take True Monarch Juque’s place in the attack on Lanruo Temple.
• True Monarch Qingluan learned that the allied forces would resume their assault the next day and was reassured that the campaign would continue.
• Ji An distributed third-rank Yin Thunder Beads to the Golden Core True Persons and prepared his forces for a full assault.
• The allied cultivators bombarded the Buddha Formation with magical treasures and Yin Thunder Beads while Ji An, True Monarch Xuanxiao, and True Monarch Xuanfeng unleashed their strongest attacks.
• Ji An’s attacks shattered the Buddha Formation, and he used Soaring Golden Light and the Silver Moon Blade to kill several fleeing Buddhist cultivators.

After cultivators captured the Lanruo Temple and Zhilan Temple nodes, the Buddhist defenders retreated and planned to relocate the population before more nodes fell. Ji An recovered his spiritual power in his small world and learned that the Fusang Tree had advanced to fourth-grade high quality.

• Monk King Jingci summoned reinforcements after Lanruo Temple and Zhilan Temple came under attack, but Monk King Ming Shan reported that Lanruo Temple's Buddha Formation had already been breached.
• Monk King Jingci and the other Monk Kings reached Zhilan Temple as its Buddha Formation collapsed, then ordered the defenders to retreat.
• Ji An and the cultivators at Lanruo Temple spared the remaining fanatical believers, while True Monarch Canglong confirmed that Zhilan Temple had also fallen.
• True Monarch Canglong proposed halting attacks the next day to relocate the population between the Buddha Formations, and the True Lords agreed.
• Ji An restored his spiritual power with spirit tea and a Vajra Bodhi Fruit, then Ayun told him that the Fusang Tree had advanced to fourth-grade high quality.

Ji An refined moon essence, observed the dormant desires within his Nascent Soul, and then used relics and the Immovable Wisdom King Art to break through in body refinement. He reached the Nascent Soul Late Stage in body cultivation and discovered that his body and Qi-and-Blood armor had gained formidable defensive strength.

• Ji An absorbed moon essence beneath the full moon, refined it into Moon Dew, and saw the dormant desires within his Nascent Soul briefly manifest.
• Ji An visited the Gourd World, inspected the growing Fusang Tree and other spirit plants, and began body refinement with Ayun’s medicinal paste.
• Ji An used the relics while circulating the Immovable Wisdom King Art, causing his Five Elements power and Qi and Blood Power to resonate and cleanse some of his Nascent Soul’s desires.
• Ji An’s bones, marrow, and body underwent intense changes, and his body-refinement cultivation broke through to the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Ji An found that his body had reached the level of an upper-grade fourth-grade Defensive Spiritual Treasure and that he could form Qi-and-Blood armor with mid-grade fourth-grade defensive strength.
• Exhausted and hungry after the breakthrough, Ji An asked Ayun to prepare a Musk Ox and ate Dragon Blood Fruits.

Ji An hunted Golden Core spirit fish, reflected on his past, and joined the campaign against the Buddhist cultivators. After the allies took more temple nodes and paused the war for three years, he arranged to receive fourth-tier top-grade resources to improve his imitation Five Innate Banners.

• Ji An caught two Golden Core Treasure Dragon Fish, warned Blue Shell to reach the Golden Core Stage within three years, and gave the fish to Ayun to cook.
• At Nanhua Sect, True Monarch Juque noticed Ji An's improved physique, and he and Ji An agreed to relocate brainwashed believers to Ring Mountain.
• Over the next half year, the allies moved more than two million people, captured six temple nodes, and repelled the Buddhist cultivators' attacks, though one True Lord died.
• At Luofeng Mountain, True Monarch Canglong announced a three-year pause in the campaign and said the first group of cultivators could leave with part of their rewards.
• True Monarch Canglong told Ji An that fourth-tier top-grade resources would take three years to gather, and Ji An agreed to wait and confirmed he planned to raise the grades of his imitation Five Innate Banners.

Ji An returned from the war in Central Continent, exchanged merit for pills, and resumed his duties at the sect. He warned Lin Lan to guard against Buddhist cultivators hiding among mortals as the enemy’s defeat approached.

• True Monarch Canglong let Ji An exchange merit for two Nine Revolutions Returning Origin Pills and five Purple Firmament Flying Immortal Pills.
• After parting from True Monarch Xuanfeng, Ji An returned to the sect, rested in his small world, and traveled to Sunrise Peak.
• Ji An met his grand-disciple Ding Yi outside Limitless Hall, then reunited with Lin Lan, who welcomed him and asked about the war.
• Ji An told Lin Lan that the allied forces had broken through the outer Buddha Formation and captured eight temple nodes, leaving the Buddhist cultivators close to defeat.
• Ji An warned Lin Lan that Buddhist cultivators might hide among mortals and ordered a surveillance network around the sect; Lin Lan said the sect had already strengthened its precautions.

Ji An discussed Crimson Flame Peak’s cultivation resources with Lin Lan, provided new spirit rice seeds, and named a newly discovered wheat variety Green Jade Wheat. After depositing pills with the Treasure Pavilion, he met Qin Yan, who asked when the sect could supply fourth-tier pills.

• Lin Lan told Ji An that Senior Sister Han had refined a third-tier High-Grade pill for late Golden Core cultivators, while the sect still lacked enough supplementary herbs.
• Ji An gave Lin Lan seeds for Pearl Blood Rice and Mysterious Frost Crystal Rice, then examined a newly discovered third-tier Wood Element wheat and named it Green Jade Wheat.
• Ji An awarded the wheat’s discoverer one thousand great merits and asked Lin Lan and Zhang Yi to handle merit rewards for the two rice varieties.
• Ji An deposited five fourth order low-grade Purple Firmament Flying Immortal Pills in the Treasure Pavilion, receiving four hundred and fifty thousand great merits.
• Ji An visited Qin Yan, who celebrated the Buddhist cultivators’ defeat and asked when the sect would be able to supply fourth-tier pills.

Ji An promised Qin Yan medicinal materials for pills and commissioned him to refine a sound wave type Spiritual Treasure from Kui Ox remains. Back in his small world, Ji An cultivated Green Jade Wheat seeds and gained an insight into the interplay of Water and Wood power.

• Ji An told Qin Yan that the medicinal materials for Jade Dew Condensing Flower Pills would mature in thirty years and promised to refine them for the Treasure Pavilion.
• Qin Yan said he could not upgrade Ji An's Fourth-Tier High-Grade Spiritual Treasures to top grade, so Ji An asked him to make a sound wave type treasure from Kui Ox hide and bone.
• Qin Yan agreed to refine the consumable treasure and asked Ji An to leave two hundred thousand great merit for the pill exchange.
• Ji An returned to Crimson Flame Peak, invited Liu Yu, Li Lingyu, and several disciples to visit, and entered his small world.
• Ji An strengthened twelve Green Jade Wheat seeds with cultivation arts and planted them in the Spiritual Field.
• After his Spirit Rain spell grew the wheat to its natural height, Ji An contemplated the Water and Wood divine intents and recognized that he possessed three kinds of Spirit Plants suitable for Spirit Food.

Ji An cultivated Green Jade Wheat, baptized spirit trees with Yimu Wood Divine Thunder, discussed Buddhist cultivation with his disciples, and refined a Nine Revolutions Returning Origin Pill. At the Spirit-Severing Land, he restored the eroded earth and gained new insight into the Yin and Yang transformations of the Five Elements, beginning to test that understanding through his Divine Mansions.

• Ji An used Yimu Wood Divine Thunder to baptize his spirit trees, and one Azure Dragon Wood survived as thunderstruck wood.
• Ji An discussed Buddhist cultivators and Divine Feet with Han Shan, Liu Yu, Li Lingyu, and the other guests at a banquet by Cold Pool.
• Ji An refined a Nine Revolutions Returning Origin Pill, which strengthened his cultivation and brought him closer to the bottleneck before the Three Flowers Realm.
• Ji An returned to the Spirit-Severing Land and restored its eroded ground with the Virtuous Merit Spirit Nurturing Incantation and Dragon Soars, All Things Born.
• Ji An gained insight into Yin and Yang transformations among the Five Elements and began testing the balance through his Water and Metal Divine Mansions.

Ji An killed the Sandworm with the Five Directions Banners and Chaos Five Elements Thunder, then returned to his cave dwelling to experiment with yin and yang Spiritual Opportunities. He successfully fused the yang and yin powers into white and black spiritual lights, giving birth to Yin and Yang Qi.

• Ji An tried to control the Five Elements’ yang Spiritual Opportunities but found that they interfered with one another and exceeded his Soul Power.
• Ji An sensed the approaching Sandworm, lured it into a prepared area, and used the Five Directions Banners, Five Elements Divine Mountain, and Chaos Five Elements Thunder to kill it.
• Ji An realized he could gather the Five Elements’ yang power by first balancing yin and yang, then transforming and separating the ten Spiritual Opportunities.
• Ji An returned to his sealed cave dwelling, where Ayun prepared Bodhi Wishful Incense and top-grade fourth-rank Enlightenment Tea for his experiment.
• Ji An controlled the ten Spiritual Opportunities until the yang powers fused into white light and the yin powers fused into black, giving birth to Yin and Yang Qi.

Ji An discovered a way to convert Yin and Yang Qi into the Five Elements and used his improved spells to begin transforming a Spirit-Severing Land from its barren center. After establishing that his spells could endure for forty-five minutes, he left Yue Ling'er and two spirit beasts to guard the site while he recovered his magical power in the small world.

• Ji An mastered the conversion between Yin and Yang Qi and the Five Elements, then completed the transformation of his small world's Spirit-Severing Land as the Five Elements Divine Mountain began absorbing Merit Qi.
• Ji An flew to the center of a new Spirit-Severing Land and used spirit stones and the Five Directions Banners to cast earth- and water-based spells across the barren soil.
• Ji An confirmed that no powerful sandworms attacked and repeatedly cast his spells until their effects lasted forty-five minutes and the Spirit Rain briefly moistened the sand.
• Ji An activated a formation and summoned Yue Ling'er to guard the area, telling her he planned to remain there for three years.
• Ji An sent Big Yellow and Golden Fur to assist Yue Ling'er, then returned to the small world and cultivated with a Nine Revolutions Returning Origin Pill.

Ji An strengthened the Five Elements Divine Mountain by joining it with the Five Directions Banners, then continued transforming Spirit-Severing Land into a high-tier Spirit Vein. Meanwhile, Lotus Temple’s leaders prepared to abandon their failing eastern campaign while secretly building a foothold deeper in the land.

• Ji An cultivated in the small world, expanded his spells across the Spirit-Severing Land, and planted seeds that grew into an oasis.
• The Five Elements Divine Mountain transformed into a burly man and revealed that it could combine its power with the Five Directions Banners.
• Ji An watched the six spiritual treasures merge and test their strength, confirming that their attack could threaten Ninth Layer Nascent Soul cultivators.
• After a year and a month, Ji An had transformed four hundred thousand mu of Spirit-Severing Land into a Grade 1 High-tier Spirit Vein and gained Profound Yellow Merit Qi.
• At Lotus Temple, Monk King Jingci learned that the Karma Fire of Sentient Beings had failed against the enemy’s Bodhi Wishful Incense and that the outer Buddha Formation was collapsing.
• Monk King Jingyue reported that five temples and a Lotus Demon Subduing Formation had been established in the Spirit-Severing Land, and the two Monk Kings planned a secret retreat and transfer of their followers.

Ji An prepared the sect for his impending journey to the Central Continent, reviewing its growth and instructing Lin Lan on security, cultivation, and collecting spirit seeds. After returning to Crimson Flame Peak, he used Yimu Wood Divine Thunder to cultivate lightning-struck wood and successfully nurtured another surviving tree.

• Ji An told Lin Lan that he would leave for the Central Continent with True Monarch Xuanfeng and warned her about the Buddhist cultivators and Monk King Jingyue.
• Lin Lan reported the sect’s expanding resources, agricultural progress, and dealings in the Southern Continent, while Ji An advised her to avoid monopolizing distant benefits and to prepare for outside pressure.
• Ji An ordered Lin Lan to reward Zhang Yi with one million major merits, approved cultivating additional varieties of lightning-struck wood, and told her he would take Green Deer with him.
• Ji An returned to Crimson Flame Peak and used Yimu Wood Divine Thunder to baptize its Grade 2 Top-Grade spirit plants, then destroyed several third-tier spirit woods in the underground cavern.
• After the eighth lightning strike, Ji An found a dark spirit wood still alive and cast the Virtuous Merit Spirit Nurturing Incantation upon it.

Ji An cultivated his wood spirit plants and arranged to expand the Gourd World’s resources before visiting Qin Yan to test the newly refined Kui Niu Drum. The spirit treasure proved powerful and could temper the body, while Ji An’s Gui Water Divine Thunder infused it with black lightning that also nourished his internal organs.

• Ji An used the Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner’s power to transform spirit plants, sacrificing hundreds of fruit trees and Mystic Leaf Sword Bamboo to produce a fourth-tier lightning-struck bamboo.
• Ji An instructed Ayun to cut down two-thirds of the eligible high-grade Spirit Wood in the Gourd World so he could reorganize its land and increase future lightning-struck wood yields.
• Ji An visited Qin Yan, who showed him the fourth-tier mid-grade Kui Niu Drum he had refined from Azure Dragon Wood and a Kui Ox bone.
• Qin Yan struck the drum to demonstrate its silver lightning, powerful attacks, and drumbeat that cleared the mind while sending tempering currents through the body.
• Ji An tested the drum himself and found that its lightning stimulated his muscles and tempered his bones and marrow.
• Ji An circulated Gui Water Divine Thunder through his mana and struck the drum again, releasing black lightning that pulverized stone and gently nourished his internal organs.

Ji An tested the Kui Niu Drum and found that its elemental thunder could temper his Five Elements Divine Mansions, then accepted Qin Yan’s completed treasure and discussed refining with him. A month later, Ji An joined fellow Nascent Soul cultivators preparing to assault the Buddhist cultivators’ second Buddha Formation, and asked them to recommend an artifact refiner to upgrade his banners.

• Ji An used the Kui Niu Drum with different elemental thunder auras and discovered that its resonance nourished and tempered his body.
• Qin Yan explained the drum’s long service life and gave Ji An its wooden rack and refinement method; Ji An paid him three hundred thousand Great Merit and offered him Fusang flower nectar.
• Ji An and Qin Yan discussed raising the grades of Spiritual Treasures, and Qin Yan recorded the relevant methods on jade slips for Ji An.
• Han Shan visited Ji An, who praised his cultivation progress and encouraged him to pursue the Nascent Soul level.
• A month later, Ji An and True Monarch Xuanfeng met with True Monarch Canglong, True Monarch Juque, and other cultivators to plan their assault on the second Buddha Formation.
• Ji An received materials in exchange for Bodhi Wishful Incense and asked for an artifact refiner to upgrade his banners; True Monarch Xuanxiao offered True Monarch Pao Shan’s help.

Ji An commissioned True Monarch Pao Shan to raise the Plain Cloud World Banner to Fourth-Tier Top-Grade, paying with Bodhi Wishful Incense. After three months of renewed fighting, Pao Shan returned with the upgraded banner, leaving Ji An ready to continue improving his Five Directions Banners.

• Ji An traveled with True Monarch Xuanxiao to meet True Monarch Pao Shan and showed him the Plain Cloud World Banner.
• True Monarch Pao Shan agreed to upgrade the banner in three to four months for fifty sticks of Bodhi Wishful Incense, and Ji An left the banner and materials with him.
• Ji An asked the Five Elements Divine Mountain about fighting with one of the Five Directions Banners missing and learned that it would mainly reduce the mountain’s ability to sustain battle.
• The war against the Buddhist cultivators resumed as both sides settled into a stalemate and the cultivators worked to wear down the enemy’s stored power of faith.
• True Monarch Pao Shan visited Ji An after three months and announced that the Plain Cloud World Banner had reached Fourth-Tier Top-Grade.

Ji An used his upgraded Spiritual Treasures to help break the Buddhist cultivators’ Buddha Formation after a year of assault. The enemy had secretly withdrawn from the temples, and Ji An planned to attack the inner formation to learn whether they had fled the Eastern Continent.

• Ji An praised True Monarch Pao Shan for upgrading the Plain Cloud World Banner, then hired him to upgrade the Li Di Flame Light Banner as well.
• True Monarch Pao Shan accepted Bodhi Wishful Incense and learned that Leiyin Pavilion planned an exchange visit to the Golden Spirit Sect after the Buddhist cultivators were driven away.
• Ji An unleashed several Spiritual Treasures against the Buddha Formation, strengthening the allied cultivators’ assault as Monk King Jingci warned that the formation could not last two years.
• After a year of continued attacks, Ji An led the final strike that shattered the Buddha Formation, and the cultivators captured its temple node.
• True Monarch Xuanfeng and True Monarch Juque reported that the Buddhist cultivators had secretly withdrawn, so Ji An planned to attack the inner Buddha Formation the next day.

After the Buddhist cultivators abandoned their strongholds, Ji An and the Central Continent cultivators broke the remaining Buddha Formations and received their promised rewards. On his journey home, Ji An revealed that he earned merit by using Farming Spells to transform Spirit-Severing Land, leaving True Monarch Xuanfeng eager to learn the method.

• Ji An and the cultivators breached the Buddha Formations, occupied the temples, and found that the enemy's high-level cultivators had withdrawn.
• Three days later, the cultivators broke the formation at Lotus Temple, and True Monarch Canglong chose to secure the region rather than pursue the fleeing Buddhist cultivators.
• Ji An and True Monarch Xuanfeng stayed while the rewards were arranged, and Ji An received three Nine Revolutions Returning Origin Pills.
• After the banquet, Ji An and True Monarch Xuanfeng left Luofeng Mountain and traveled beyond the Spirit-Severing Land.
• True Monarch Xuanfeng asked how Ji An earned merit, and Ji An explained that he transformed Spirit-Severing Land with Farming Spells before demonstrating them.

Ji An returned to Crimson Flame Peak after helping transform a Spirit-Severing Land, then agreed to purify a spreading demonic domain in the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains. Meanwhile, the Buddhist cultivators secretly established a settlement in the Spirit-Severing Land, and the chapter ended as Ji An began burning away the demonic qi.

• Ji An and True Monarch Xuanfeng discussed Farming Spells for transforming a Spirit-Severing Land before parting ways.
• Ji An returned to Crimson Flame Peak and told Lin Lan that the Buddhist cultivators had fled toward the Eastern Sea.
• Lin Lan gave Ji An a jade slip describing a spreading demonic domain, and Ji An said he would investigate it with True Monarch Wuyue.
• Monk King Jingyue and Monk King Jingci celebrated their growing settlement in the Spirit-Severing Land and planned to build a new Buddhist Territory.
• Ji An and True Monarch Wuyue reached the demonic domain, and Ji An began burning its demonic qi while assigning spirit treasures to assist True Monarch Wuyue.

Ji An found the fissure feeding demonic qi into the Western Continent and began purifying the surrounding land, spending ten years cleansing a third of the affected region while researching a Metal Element Farming Spell. When cultivators from the Divine Wood Sect and Leiyin Pavilion arrived, he returned to the sect to receive them and arranged separate banquets.

• Ji An located a black fissure in an underground cavern, suppressed its demonic qi with the Vermillion Bird Profound Bright Art, and reported his discovery to True Monarch Wuyue and the spiritual treasures.
• Ji An studied True Monarch Wuyue's spiritual power circulation to develop a Metal Element Farming Spell, then declined Ayun's proposal to excavate spirit soil for the Five Elements Divine Mountain.
• After sending True Monarch Wuyue back to the sect, Ji An spent ten years purifying the demonic-qi-tainted region and cleared one-third of it.
• True Monarch Wuyue arrived with word that True Monarch Canglong and True Monarch Xuanxiao had brought cultivators from the Divine Wood Sect and Leiyin Pavilion to the sect.
• Ji An returned to Sunrise Peak, learned from Lin Lan that the Divine Wood Sect wanted a private trade, and arranged a banquet for its cultivators that night and one for Leiyin Pavilion the following night.

Ji An hosted True Monarch Canglong and True Monarch Zhuyin, a veteran Spirit Farmer from the Divine Wood Sect, and discussed trading rare spiritual plants and fruits. They completed a deal for his Lightning Struck Crimson Cloud Pine nuts, and agreed on future trades for other high-grade produce.

• Ji An welcomed True Monarch Canglong and met his senior brother, True Monarch Zhuyin, who praised Ji An’s Third Order Top-Grade Crimson Cloud Pines and skill as a Spirit Farmer.
• Ji An served the guests fourth-grade spiritual wine and dishes with Lightning Struck Wood honey, which True Monarch Zhuyin identified as honey from a Spiritual Peach Tree.
• True Monarch Zhuyin offered Azure Firmament Tree seeds, Xuan Yin Tree seeds, and other rare seeds, while Ji An explained that he had no fourth-grade high-grade spiritual fruits available to trade yet.
• Ji An offered more than six thousand jin of pine nuts and named several Lightning Struck Wood products he could trade in the future, while True Monarch Zhuyin asked about their quantities and exchange terms.
• Ji An traded six thousand jin of pine nuts for Fourth-Tier Top-Grade Azure Firmament Tree seeds and one Nine Revolutions Returning Origin Pill.