Chapter Summaries

Ji An hosted cultivators from the Divine Wood Sect and Leiyin Pavilion, tended spiritual plants, and created a new metal-element Farming Spell. After forty years of cultivation and research, he used his accumulated spiritual opportunity to raise the Gourd World's Spirit Vein grade.

• Ji An offered to trade fourth-tier Green Jade Wheat seeds with the Divine Wood Sect, then planted an Azure Firmament Tree seed and used ashes and spiritual arts to nourish the Fusang Tree.
• Ji An absorbed Moon Dew, studied how to create a metal-element Farming Spell, and continued exchanging cultivation knowledge with True Monarch Zhuyin.
• Ji An and the Leiyin Pavilion cultivators reached an initial agreement to trade fourth-tier Spirit Fruits and spirit herbs.
• After the visitors left, Ji An announced that he would return to the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains to purify Spirit Veins, while Li Haoran discussed plans to travel after his disciple reached the Golden Core stage.
• Forty years later, Ji An completed the Mysterious Qi Genglin Art, a yin-and-yang-based Farming Spell that covered three hundred mu, and chose to use all his spiritual opportunity to raise the Gourd World's Spirit Vein grade.

Ji An cultivated lightning-struck spirit woods throughout the Gourd World, using Yimu Wood Divine Thunder and nurturing spells to expand his collection. After the Fusang Tree produced its first ripe golden mulberries, he planned to trade future high-grade spirit fruit harvests for pills that could advance his cultivation.

• Ji An cast Yimu Wood Divine Thunder across several Spirit Fields, destroying tens of thousands of spirit plants while finding and transplanting rare survivors.
• Ji An reviewed his growing collection of lightning-struck wood plants and continued planting seeds and nurturing the Spirit Fields.
• Fire Phoenix alerted Ji An that the Fusang Tree's first cluster of golden mulberries had ripened, and Ji An harvested them and cast the Vermillion Bird Profound Bright Art on the tree.
• Ji An cast Yimu Wood Divine Thunder over the Crimson Spiritual Field and found a surviving Blazing Fire Immortal Apricot, which he transplanted and nurtured.
• Ji An counted his fourth-tier high-grade spirit fruit trees and estimated that their future harvest could buy enough Nine Revolutions Returning Origin Pills to reach the Perfected Realm without waiting for the Five-Colored Flower.

Ji An returned to the sect after sealing the demonic rift and spent time at Crimson Flame Peak, where he helped his fellow cultivators prepare for their next steps. Lin Jiuxiao planned a dangerous breakthrough as his lifespan waned, while Ji An advised Liu Yu to pause cultivation and calm his restless mind.

• Ji An learned from Zhang Zeye that the rift to the True Demon Realm had been sealed, then remained until the Spirit Vein’s purification and the descent of Profound Yellow Merit Qi were complete.
• Ji An returned to Crimson Flame Peak, approved Han Shan’s handling of the mulberry harvest, and told him to give the Pill Cauldron Institute whatever mulberries it needed.
• Ji An told Han Shan that he would remain at the sect and be available to advise his Senior Sister and Junior Brother on cultivation.
• Lin Jiuxiao told Ji An he would attempt a breakthrough in half a month despite incomplete preparations, and Ji An learned that Lin Qiubai was also nearing the end of his lifespan.
• Liu Yu sought Ji An’s guidance about his stagnant cultivation, and Ji An urged him to stop cultivating temporarily and relax until he regained a calm state of mind.

Liu Yu decided to leave the Sect for ten years and live as a mortal to resolve his troubled state of mind. After Lin Jiuxiao died in a failed Nascent Soul tribulation, Ji An attended to the funeral arrangements before using the gathered Dao Rhyme to advance the Seven Luminaries Golden Branch, which unexpectedly grew several chi taller.

• Liu Yu told Ji An he would live as an ordinary person for ten years, accepted spiritual wine, and left to meet the Sect Master and arrange his departure.
• Half a month later, Lin Jiuxiao attempted to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm but died beneath the final Purple Heaven Divine Thunder, and Lin Qiubai collapsed in grief.
• Lin Lan arranged Lin Jiuxiao's funeral according to his wishes, while Lin Qiubai agreed to take over as Five Elements Hall Master.
• Ji An decided to leave for the Spirit-Severing Land after the funeral and used the Stone Turtle's accumulated Dao Rhyme to improve the Seven Luminaries Golden Branch.
• After cultivating for an hour, Ji An found that the Seven Luminaries Golden Branch had grown several chi taller and sensed its surging vitality and Metal Element Spiritual Opportunity.

Ji An learned that leaving the small world would require a lengthy refinement process, then met Chen Moxuan, who had regained memories connected to Netherworld True Monarch. Keeping his old promise, Ji An accepted Chen Moxuan as his disciple and prepared to formally establish their relationship the next day.

• Ji An read the Inheritance Jade Slip and learned that refining the Gourd World into his body could take centuries and could not begin until he reached the complete ninth layer.
• On his way to Lin Jiuxiao's funeral, Ji An met Chen Moxuan, who recited words Ji An had once told Netherworld True Monarch and revealed that he had awakened memories during a lightning tribulation.
• Ji An brought Chen Moxuan to Crimson Flame Peak, guarded against possible hidden methods, and learned that Chen Moxuan could not describe reincarnation because a mysterious presence warned him not to speak.
• Chen Moxuan explained that he remembered Netherworld True Monarch's life but considered himself a separate person, and Ji An learned that he had joined the sect half a year earlier and reached the Eighth Layer of Qi Condensation.
• Ji An offered to take Chen Moxuan as his disciple, and Chen Moxuan accepted; Ji An told him to stay at Crimson Flame Peak until their formal ceremony the next day.

Ji An accepted Chen Moxuan as his final disciple, entrusted Lin Lan and the other disciples with guiding and supporting him, and arranged resources and sect matters before leaving to cultivate in the Spirit-Severing Land. Sixty years later, he returned to hear of major breakthroughs among his disciples and Han Yan’s declining health, then went back to his cave abode to refine Golden Lotus Averting Calamity.

• Ji An formally accepted Chen Moxuan as his final disciple and asked Lin Lan to guide his cultivation while the other disciples welcomed him.
• Ji An gave his disciples a systematic explanation of cultivation, assigned resources and inheritance-jade-slip preparations, and ordered them to honor his promise to the Lu Clan.
• Ji An left for the Spirit-Severing Land, where he cultivated for sixty years before returning to the sect after Lin Lan reported that disciples were ready to break through.
• Lin Lan told Ji An that Han Shan had reached the Golden Core ninth layer, Chen Moxuan had reached the Origin Seeking stage, and Han Yan’s lifespan was nearing its end.
• Ji An returned to Crimson Flame Peak, checked on True Monarch Wuyue’s work, and entered the Gourd World to refine Golden Lotus Averting Calamity, a treasure that could take its owner’s death up to three times.

Ji An refined Golden Lotus Averting Calamity, visited the aging Han Yan, and began transforming the Spirit-Severing Land. Meanwhile, Monk Kings Jingyue and Jingci expanded their Buddhist Territory and discussed cautiously establishing another one.

• Ji An finished refining Golden Lotus Averting Calamity and cultivated before visiting Han Yan at the Pill Cauldron Institute.
• Han Yan discussed her alchemy research and limited remaining lifespan with Ji An, who promised to oversee the sect’s future pill research and selection of a Green Lotus Heart-Burning Fire heir.
• Ji An left the institute, surveyed and numbered the Spirit-Severing Lands, then transformed a smaller plot by casting spells, filling a lake, and planting Grass Seeds.
• Monk King Jingyue and Monk King Jingci discussed their growing population and wish power at Golden Lotus Temple, while Jingyue urged caution about expanding their Buddhist Territory.
• Monk King Jingyue estimated that their current growth could allow them to open another Buddhist Territory in several decades.

Ji An returned to the Golden Spirit Sect after cultivating fourth-order Green Jade Wheat and refining his Fire Element Dao Rhyme with ripe mulberries. He learned that Lin Qiubai and Han Yan had died in succession, helped the sect choose new leaders, and ended by donating a small world to the sect.

• Ji An cultivated fourth-order Green Jade Wheat, gathered ripe mulberries, and deepened his understanding of the Fire Element while improving his cultivation.
• Ji An returned to the Golden Spirit Sect and learned from Li Haoran that Lin Qiubai had passed away the previous night.
• Ji An visited Han Yan at the Pill Cauldron Institute and recognized her sudden vigor as a Final Surge of Energy; she died shortly afterward.
• Lin Lan convened the sect leaders to appoint Zhang Zeye as Five Elements Hall Master and Li Lingyu as head of the Pill Cauldron Institute.
• Ji An presented the sect with a small world containing a third-order mid-grade Spirit Vein and asked the Department of Agriculture and Formation Hall to improve it.

Ji An gave the sect the Netherworld True Monarch’s small world and received a Spirit Bone from Li Haoran that he believed came from the Three Flowers Realm. After Ji An gave Li Haoran Fusang mulberries, Li Haoran’s sword intent advanced through the Five Elements, and he prepared to leave for the Southern Continent.

• Ji An opened the small world to the sect’s cultivators, then handed Lin Lan six Inheritance Jade Slips to inscribe with cultivation methods and spells.
• The Nascent Soul cultivators discussed the small world’s value at Moon Reflection Peak, where Li Haoran said he would leave for the Southern Continent in a few days to temper his sword intent.
• Li Haoran showed Ji An a powerful black Spirit Bone, and Ji An judged it to be from the Three Flowers Realm and agreed to exchange Spirit Fruits for it.
• Ji An examined the Spirit Bone in the Gourd World and found that its Pure Yin Qi nourished his Nascent Soul, though it strained his body.
• Ji An gave Li Haoran two clusters of Fourth-Tier Top-Grade Fusang mulberries, and Li Haoran’s sword intent transformed through the Five Elements after he ate them.

Li Haoran collected mulberries from Ji An and arranged to retrieve more spirit fruits in thirty years, while Ji An prepared his disciples and traded a large harvest for pills, seeds, and upgraded treasures. After strengthening all five directional banners, Ji An sought a master array refiner to make small defensive magic arrays, offering spirit fruits to cover the costs.

• Li Haoran asked Ji An when the remaining spirit fruits would ripen, and Ji An promised to store them in the Treasure Pavilion for him in thirty years.
• Ji An studied the spatial properties of the Ink Jade Bone, recorded the Virtuous Merit Spirit Nurturing Incantation on an Inheritance Jade Slip, and ordered Han Shan to train disciples in perfected Yimu Wood Divine Thunder.
• After thirty years of harvests, Ji An sent Yue Ling'er back to the sect with thirty fourth-tier top-grade Thunderstruck Earth Spirit Fruits for Li Haoran, then left for Central Continent.
• Ji An traded spirit fruits with the Divine Wood Sect and Leiyin Pavilion for pills, Kun Spirit Rice seeds, and upgraded the Green Lotus Treasure Color Banner and Mysterious Origin Water Control Banner to fourth-tier top-grade.
• Ji An met True Monarch Miaoyou of the Taiyan Sect and asked him to refine fourth-tier top-grade small defensive magic arrays, offering spirit fruits to pay for the materials and work.

Ji An bought True Monarch Miaoyou’s Nine Bends Heavenly River Array and tested whether Stone Turtle could cross the Heavenly Net. After confirming that it could retrieve objects from beyond the barrier, Ji An returned to the starry sky in preparation for observing Miaoyou’s breakthrough, and Stone Turtle made him invisible.

• True Monarch Miaoyou demonstrated his Nine Bends Heavenly River Array, and Ji An tested its defenses before agreeing to buy it with spirit fruits and tea.
• After leaving the Taiyan Sect, Ji An flew into the starry sky and confirmed that neither he nor his Nascent Soul could pass through the Heavenly Net.
• Ji An sent Stone Turtle beyond the Heavenly Net, and it brought an ordinary Outer-Heaven Star Stone back inside.
• Ji An studied the array instructions, then sent his Nascent Soul and Stone Turtle back into the starry sky to wait for True Monarch Miaoyou’s tribulation.
• Ji An asked Stone Turtle to make him invisible, and a strange membrane formed around him until his body vanished.

Ji An watched True Monarch Miaoyou survive the Yin and Yang Divine Thunder and break through to the Three Flowers Realm, gaining insight into his own cultivation. He then improved the Gourd World's Spirit Vein, discovered it had developed day and night, and returned to his sect with advice to favor the Taiyan Sect in future trade.

• Ji An secretly observed True Monarch Miaoyou undergo tribulation, and Miaoyou survived nine waves of Purple Heaven Divine Thunder and the final Yin and Yang Divine Thunder to reach the Three Flowers Realm.
• Ji An returned to a secluded cave, spent Dao resonance to raise the Gourd World's Spirit Vein, and found that its spiritual qi density and size had increased.
• Ji An discovered that the Gourd World now had day and night, ordered Ayun to organize work and build a courtyard, and rested through the first night.
• Ji An left the small world the next morning and traveled west for ten days before returning to his sect.
• Ji An reported Miaoyou's breakthrough at Limitless Hall and advised that his sect offer the Taiyan Sect suitable trade concessions.

Ji An reviewed the Taiyan Sect’s progress, supplied it with valuable spirit seeds, and hosted a banquet for his disciples before resuming his cultivation. A century later, he discovered Buddhist cultivators hiding in a city inside a Spirit-Severing Land and began studying their movements with puppets.

• Lin Lan reported the sect’s growth, including its improving halls, spirit fields, and Chen Moxuan’s breakthrough to the Chaoyuan Stage fifth layer.
• Ji An gave Lin Lan Fourth Order spirit seeds for the Department of Agriculture and told her to invite the disciples and elders to a banquet.
• Ji An hosted a banquet at Crimson Flame Peak, celebrated his disciples’ progress, and gave each guest two jars of spirit wine.
• Ji An spent a century cultivating until he approached perfection, then discovered a Buddhist-style city hidden within a Spirit-Severing Land.
• Ji An sent disguised Puppet Beasts to observe the Buddhist cultivators and analyze their movements.

Ji An discovered a vast Buddhist city in the Spirit-Severing Land and tested that his Soaring Golden Light could penetrate its formations. He organized a surprise assault with the sects’ Nascent Soul True Lords, and the chapter ended as they reached the sacred mountain.

• Ji An infiltrated the Buddhist Territory, confirmed he could pass through the Buddha Formation, and reported the enemy’s strength to Lin Lan and the sect’s leaders.
• Ji An traveled to the Divine Wood Sect and persuaded True Lord Canglong to rally Nascent Soul cultivators for a decapitation operation; he demonstrated that he could pass through a mountain-protecting formation.
• Two months later, Ji An led the assembled True Lords to the Buddhist Territory and infiltrated the first temple through its Buddha Formation.
• Ji An captured the temple’s abbot, searched his soul, destroyed the Teleportation Array and the Golden Buddha Statue, then rushed toward the inner formations.
• Ji An broke through five Lotus Demon Subduing Formations and joined six Ninth Layer Nascent Soul cultivators near the sacred mountain.

Monk King Jingci and Monk King Jingyue tried to defend Golden Lotus Temple as Central Continent cultivators attacked its Buddha Formation. Monk King Jingyue launched a counterattack, but Ji An trapped him in the Five Directions Banners’ domain and left him withered on the ground.

• Monk King Jingci summoned Golden Lotus Temple’s chief monks after several Buddha Formation nodes went offline and ordered them to maintain order and patrol.
• Ji An set out to destroy the remaining inner-layer nodes while True Monarch Canglong directed the cultivators to attack in three groups.
• Monk King Jingyue urged Monk King Jingci to prepare the Karma Fire of Sentient Beings, then used Divine Feet to emerge from the formation and attack the cultivators with the Lion’s Roar Skill.
• Monk King Jingyue wounded and killed cultivators as he moved through the battlefield, drawing Ji An’s attention.
• Ji An used the Five Directions Banners to distort the laws around Monk King Jingyue and restrict his Divine Feet, then spent his spiritual power trapping him in a yellow-sand domain.
• Ji An withdrew the Five Directions Banners, revealing Monk King Jingyue lying on the ground with his body withered.

Ji An helped the cultivators defeat the Buddhist forces after killing Monk King Jingyue, who had relied on Divine Feet to escape danger. With the enemy scattered and their stronghold captured, Ji An sold the cultivation methods and seeds for substitute-death treasures to the victorious sects.

• Ji An confirmed that the Buddhist cultivator who comprehended Divine Feet had died inside the Five Directions Banners domain, and he retrieved a Void Stone from the remains.
• Monk King Jingci told the Monk Kings that Monk King Jingyue had entered nirvana, and they agreed to release the Karma Fire of Sentient Beings while escaping separately.
• When the Buddhist cultivators released the Karma Fire of Sentient Beings three days later, Ji An and the other teams countered it with fire spells, allowing the enemy to flee while the True Lords pursued them.
• True Monarch Canglong reported that the surprise attack had killed twenty-six Nascent Soul Buddhist cultivators and more than seven hundred Golden Core Buddhist cultivators, and the victors agreed to exile the remaining Buddhist cultivators to the mines.
• Ji An proposed auctioning two Merit Golden Lotuses and offered to sell their refinement method, seeds, and cultivation instructions; True Monarch Canglong, True Monarch Xuanxiao, and other cultivators agreed to buy them.

Ji An arranged for the sect to send five thousand cultivators to help search the Buddhist cultivators’ territory, then returned to cultivate and study the Ink Jade Bone. Ayun reported that the Nethermoon Azure Jade Tree was beginning to advance in grade, and Ji An confirmed that its life force had surpassed the limits of a Fourth-Tier Top-Grade spirit tree.

• True Monarch Canglong asked Ji An to provide disciples for a coordinated search after the Buddha Formation nodes were destroyed, and Ji An agreed to return in half a month with them.
• Ji An learned from Lin Lan that the sect had forty-six Golden Core cultivators, five hundred and eighty Origin Seeking cultivators, and seven thousand four hundred Foundation Establishment disciples, then ordered her to gather mission candidates and prepare spirit boats.
• Ji An cultivated in the Gourd World and studied the Ink Jade Bone, deepening his understanding of Yin and Yang power after discovering traces of life force and Yin and Yang Aura in its dried marrow.
• Ayun told Ji An that the lightning-struck Nethermoon Azure Jade Tree was showing signs of advancing in grade, and Ji An examined it and confirmed its life force had exceeded that of a Fourth-Tier Top-Grade spirit tree.

Ji An accumulated merit, returned to the Sect, and created an Azure Firmament Divine Jade Tree from a top-grade Azure Firmament Tree. He gave the Sect a Five Elements Divine Mountain embryo and told Lin Lan he would soon leave to explore the world, with his return uncertain.

• Ji An instructed Ayun to harvest and preserve the first tea leaves from spiritual trees that reached fourth-tier top-grade, then refined two Buddhist cultivators’ corpses beneath Nethermoon Azure Jade Trees.
• Ji An helped search the Buddhist Territory, where the cultivators found a hidden Nascent Soul-level Buddhist cultivator; the attack killed three Golden Spirit Sect disciples, and Central Continent offered compensation.
• After two hundred years, Ji An received Profound Yellow Merit Qi for transforming another Spirit-Severing Land and returned to the Sect after fully refining the Gourd Stone.
• Ji An turned an Azure Firmament Tree into a spiritual seed, planted it, and used Dragon Soars, All Things Born to grow an Azure Firmament Divine Jade Tree.
• Ji An merged Yellow Emperor's Virtue Earth into a Five Elements Divine Mountain embryo and gave it, with its refining instructions, to Lin Lan for the Sect.
• Ji An told Lin Lan he planned to leave in a month to explore the world and could not say whether he would return.

Ji An prepared to leave the Five Elements Sect, entrusted Qin Yan with gifts and knowledge about the Starfield, and gathered his closest disciples for a final banquet. He left them with parting gifts and the hope that they would meet again.

• Ji An told Lin Lan he would leave quietly after a banquet and asked the disciples to manage Crimson Flame Peak's spirit plants, keeping their proceeds for two hundred years.
• Ji An visited Qin Yan at Red Copper Mountain, gave him pills and spirit fruits, and urged him to shoulder responsibility for the sect.
• Ji An showed Qin Yan a Star Map and explained that Three Flowers Realm cultivators had to cross the starry sky to reach another habitable world.
• Ji An advised Qin Yan to travel beyond the sect for opportunities after reaching the Nascent Soul Late Stage, and Qin Yan hoped they would meet again on the Starry Road.
• Ten days later, Ji An held a banquet at Crimson Flame Peak, reminisced with Liu Yu and Li Lingyu, and gave Storage Bags of parting gifts to those present.

Ji An left the Golden Spirit Sect and traveled across the world before deciding to take the final step beyond the heavens. After the net of laws consumed his Profound Yellow Merit Qi, he passed through it and arrived beyond the heavens.

• Ji An said farewell to his fellow disciples, left his cave abode, and flew away from Crimson Flame Peak with his spirit beasts in the Gourd World.
• Ji An crossed the Far North and reached Green Hill, where he introduced himself to Hu Lingshan and departed without fighting.
• Ji An spent more than forty years traveling through Southern Continent, the Eastern Sea, and Western Continent, fighting demon beasts and observing the transformed Buddhist lands.
• Ji An returned to Lantuo Temple, rose through the astral clouds, and poured his remaining Profound Yellow Merit Qi into the net of laws.
• Ji An passed through the net of laws and arrived beyond the heavens.