Chapter Summaries

Ji Haoyuan learned that comprehending one of Myriad Laws Sacred Land’s great scriptures made him eligible to choose a Heavenly Lord or Mahayana cultivator as his master. After he left the Myriad Laws Tower, six Golden Bell chimes announced his success in passing all ten trials, leaving Nangong Jin stunned.

• Elder Wan told Ji Haoyuan that he could choose a Heavenly Lord or Mahayana cultivator as his master and warned him to keep his original heart.
• Ji Haoyuan learned that he could visit Elder Wan again if he obtained another access decree, then left the Myriad Laws Tower.
• Six Golden Bell chimes rang throughout Myriad Laws Sacred Land, announcing that someone had passed all ten trials of the Myriad Laws Diagram.
• Nangong Jin saw Ji Haoyuan emerge from the tower and asked whether the chimes marked his success.
• Ji Haoyuan confirmed that the chimes were likely related to him, and Nangong Jin was left disbelieving.

After Ji Haoyuan became a true disciple of the Myriad Laws Sacred Land, Nangong Jin explained his next steps and the privileges he had gained. At Leilin Peak, two Deity Transformation cultivators tried to force Ji Haoyuan into a dangerous mission, unaware that his new status put him beyond their authority.

• Nangong Jin told Ji Haoyuan that he should choose a master and outlined the Sacred Land’s potential mentors.
• Nangong Jin described the benefits of being a true disciple, including a Sixth-Order Spiritual Peak, attendants and guards, and a Seventh-Order life-preserving treasure.
• Ji Haoyuan and Nangong Jin arrived at Leilin Peak, where two Deity Transformation cultivators ordered Ji Haoyuan to go to Coral Flame Island and help Senior Brother Wang eliminate the Demon Race.
• Nangong Jin recognized that the two cultivators did not know Ji Haoyuan was a true disciple and knew that their mission order could not bind him.

Ji Haoyuan fought off two Affairs Hall disciples who tried to threaten him, revealing formidable Spirit Transformation strength. After Chongming Hall learned he had triggered the Six Chimes of the Golden Bell and become a true disciple, its elders rushed to bring him into their master's lineage, while others worried about their earlier hostility toward him.

• Ji Haoyuan asked Nangong Jin whether he could strike the two disciples without breaking sect rules, and Nangong Jin assured him he could.
• Ji Haoyuan immobilized the two disciples with a giant hand, shattered their Primordial Spirit Manifestations, and hurled them away with a warning.
• Lu Yuanshan, Dai Yunfang, and Pei Guanghua learned that Ji Haoyuan had triggered the Six Chimes of the Golden Bell and cleared the Myriad Laws Diagram.
• Lu Yuanshan and Dai Yunfang headed for Leilin Peak to recruit Ji Haoyuan, while Pei Guanghua went to report the matter to their master.
• Qin Shan, Feng Zitao, and the other Chongming Hall elders realized their master might favor Ji Haoyuan and regretted making an enemy of him.

Lu Yuanshan and Dai Yunfang invited Ji Haoyuan to become Tianxuzi’s disciple, offering extensive cultivation resources and privileges. Before Ji could decide, Qin Shan and Tang Luoyan arrived, apologized for their earlier conflict, and began presenting an explanation.

• Lu Yuanshan and Dai Yunfang visited Ji Haoyuan and invited him to take Tianxuzi as his master, listing the resources and privileges he would receive.
• Ji Haoyuan considered the serious obligations of a master-disciple bond and hesitated to accept immediately.
• Qin Shan and Tang Luoyan arrived and interrupted the invitation, prompting Lu Yuanshan and Dai Yunfang to grow wary.
• Qin Shan apologized to Ji Haoyuan for their previous misunderstanding, and Feng Zitao appeared carrying two people as their promised explanation.

Ji Haoyuan weighed competing offers from the grotto-heavens after Qin Shan and Tang Luoyan apologized and invited him to join Guangxuan Grotto-Heaven. Though Guangxuan offered the best terms, Ji Haoyuan’s past grievances and his ties to Ancestor Tianyuan led him to tentatively favor Cloud Void Grotto-Heaven, just as a white-clad boy arrived at Leilin Peak.

• Tang Luoyan explained that Shang Huaishan and Shang Jie had agreed to let Ji Haoyuan decide their fate after their families received benefits.
• Ji Haoyuan told Qin Shan and Tang Luoyan he did not want to see Shang Huaishan and Shang Jie again, and Feng Zitao carried them away.
• Qin Shan offered Ji Haoyuan Guangxuan Grotto-Heaven’s terms, including entry to the Lesser Profound Realm, another visit to the Myriad Laws Tower, and access to his master’s pills.
• Ji Haoyuan declined to decide immediately, and representatives from several grotto-heavens visited him over the following days.
• After comparing the offers, Ji Haoyuan tentatively decided to choose Cloud Void Grotto-Heaven unless a more suitable option appeared.
• An Auspicious Cloud carrying a boy in white flew toward Leilin Peak.

Bai Lu invited Ji Haoyuan to join Taicang Grotto-Heaven as Taixu Bai’s Chief Personal Disciple, offering him the position of successor and extensive resources. After learning that the role carried few obligations beyond cultivating and bringing glory to the Grotto-Heaven, Ji Haoyuan accepted the invitation.

• Disciples from various Grotto-Heavens recognized Bai Lu as Taixu Bai’s Daoist attendant and worried that Taicang Grotto-Heaven might compete for Ji Haoyuan.
• Bai Lu told Ji Haoyuan that Taixu Bai had invited him to become Taicang Grotto-Heaven’s Chief Personal Disciple.
• The watching disciples were shocked by the offer, which made Ji Haoyuan the Grotto-Heaven’s designated successor and promised him exceptional standing and resources.
• Ji Haoyuan asked Bai Lu what duties the position required, and Bai Lu said he only needed to cultivate and bring glory to Taicang Grotto-Heaven.
• Ji Haoyuan agreed to join Taicang Grotto-Heaven as its Chief Personal Disciple.

Ji Haoyuan accepted Bai Lu’s invitation and entered Taicang Grotto-Heaven, where its extraordinary spiritual energy and powerful inhabitants impressed him. After meeting Taixu Bai, whose shifting forms brought Ji Haoyuan into sudden enlightenment, he awoke to find the master smiling at him.

• Ji Haoyuan agreed to accompany Bai Lu to Taicang Grotto-Heaven, and the other Grotto-Heaven disciples departed.
• Bai Lu opened the passage with the Grotto-Heaven Golden Seal, and Ji Haoyuan entered Taicang Grotto-Heaven with him.
• Ji Haoyuan saw the Grotto-Heaven’s abundant spiritual energy, vast spiritual mountain, and several Sixth-Order warriors who greeted Bai Lu and the Chief Disciple.
• Bai Lu led Ji Haoyuan to his master’s palace, where they entered after the master invited them in.
• Ji Haoyuan watched the master’s form and appearance change repeatedly, fell into enlightenment, and awoke to see a white-robed middle-aged man smiling at him.

Ji Haoyuan became Taixu Bai’s Chief Personal Disciple after demonstrating his exceptional comprehension of the Formless Thousand Transformations True Scripture. Taixu Bai gave him cultivation treasures and promised to bring Ji Haoyuan’s companions and fellow Yanfa Sect members into the Myriad Laws Sacred Land.

• Ji Haoyuan recognized Taixu Bai’s guidance, knelt to greet him, and was appointed Chief Personal Disciple of Taicang Grotto-Heaven.
• Taixu Bai gave Ji Haoyuan a Grotto-Heaven Golden Seal, the Illusory Bubble divine ability, eighty-one Tong Shen Pills, and the Water-Fire Dragon Scissors.
• Taixu Bai told Ji Haoyuan to study Illusory Bubble and offered to guide him whenever he had questions.
• Taixu Bai directed Bai Lu to bring Ji Haoyuan’s companions to the sacred land, where they could enter the inner sect or, if close to Ji Haoyuan, Taicang Grotto-Heaven.
• Taixu Bai said Ji Haoyuan could return to the Southern Wasteland Domain after reaching Void Refinement and bring Yanfa Sect members to join the sacred land.
• Outside the palace, Bai Lu asked Ji Haoyuan for information about the people who had traveled with him so he could arrange their arrival.

Ji Haoyuan chose two Spiritual Peak dojos as the Chief Personal Disciple of Taicang Grotto-Heaven and received an enormous endowment for his outside dojo. The chapter left him considering how the resources and powerful guardians bestowed upon him could overwhelm forces across the Southern Wasteland Domain.

• Ji Haoyuan asked Bai Lu to call him Steward Bai Lu and gave him a Jade Slip listing the companions who needed to be brought to the sacred land.
• Bai Lu explained that Chief Personal Disciples were entitled to one dojo inside their grotto-heaven and another outside it.
• Ji Haoyuan chose the peak Sixth-Order Daoxuan Peak within Taicang Grotto-Heaven, which was renamed Nanhua Peak.
• Ji Haoyuan and Bai Lu went to the core Affairs Hall, where Ji Haoyuan settled on high-grade Sixth-Order Ganyang Peak as his outside dojo.
• A deacon of the core Affairs Hall bestowed Ganyang Peak with spiritual seeds, treasure materials, one thousand spiritual maidservants, twenty Fifth-Order strongmen, and three Sixth-Order guardians.

Ji Qingfei, Miao Zixi, and the others arrived at Ganyang Peak and learned how Ji Haoyuan had risen to become a True Disciple and Chief Personal Disciple. On Lingya Island, True Person Leixia and her companions faced a threat from the Sand River Gang and weighed abandoning their possessions to escape.

• Nangong Jin escorted Ji Qingfei, Miao Zixi, and the others to Ganyang Peak, where Ji Haoyuan welcomed them.
• Ji Haoyuan told Ji Qingfei and the others about his position in the Myriad Laws Sacred Land and said someone had already gone to fetch True Person Leixia and the others.
• Zhang Tianyang told True Person Leixia and True Person Beichen that the Sand River Gang's leader was connected to a Vice Island Master and had targeted their group.
• Zhang Tianyang explained that the Sand River Gang had blocked their escape from Lingya Island and that Feng Zizhou had threatened to return in three days.
• True Person Leixia said they might have to abandon some of their possessions, though she feared the gang would demand even more.

True Person Leixia used Ji Haoyuan’s God Slaying Treasure Gourd to kill Feng Zizhou when he demanded that she and her companions join the Sand River Gang. She led the others out of the courtyard, but they were surrounded again by Sand River Gang cultivators.

• Feng Zizhou and more than ten Sand River Gang cultivators broke into the courtyard and demanded that everyone join their gang and accept restrictions being planted in them.
• True Person Leixia decided to attack first and told True Person Beichen and Zhang Tianyang to lead the others to safety.
• True Person Leixia activated the God Slaying Treasure Gourd and killed Feng Zizhou, destroying his Nascent Soul with its treasure light.
• True Person Beichen, Zhang Tianyang, and the others fled while True Person Leixia used the gourd to deter Feng Zizhou’s companions.
• Gang Leader Wen told the remaining Sand River Gang cultivators that more of their people were waiting outside and expected True Person Leixia’s group to run out of trump cards.
• True Person Leixia’s group was surrounded by dozens of cultivators, including four Nascent Soul Realm cultivators.

True Person Leixia and her companions were trapped on Lingya Island after fighting off the Sand River Gang, but a Sixth-Order Treasure Ship and a cultivator from the Myriad Laws Sacred Land arrived and swept the island into a scroll. True Person Leixia and her group were left outside the scroll as the newcomer took everyone else, leaving the island barren.

• True Person Leixia used the God Slaying Treasure Light and five Fourth-Order Puppets to kill a white-haired elder and repel the Sand River Gang's attack.
• True Person Leixia tried to flee with her companions on a flying puppet, but a Fifth-Order Sky-Sealing Restriction forced them back down.
• Island Master Feng appeared and revealed that he had trapped them, just as a Sixth-Order Treasure Ship smashed through Lingya Island's defenses.
• A young female cultivator from the Myriad Laws Sacred Land emerged from the ship and opened a scroll that swept Island Master Feng and everyone else on Lingya Island into its world.
• True Person Leixia and her companions remained outside the scroll while the island was left barren.

Ye Yuehong arrived with a Sixth-Order strongman and other servants to escort True Person Leixia and her companions to the Myriad Laws Sacred Land, explaining that Ji Haoyuan had become a true disciple and Taixu Bai’s Chief Personal Disciple. After the strongman killed Vice Island Master Feng and his allies, Ye Yuehong began deciding the fate of the remaining Lingya Island leaders.

• Ye Yuehong introduced herself as a registered disciple of Taicang Grotto-Heaven and said she had come on Senior Brother Nanhua’s orders to bring True Person Leixia and the others to the Sacred Land.
• Ye Yuehong explained that Senior Brother Nanhua had become a true disciple and Taixu Bai’s Chief Personal Disciple, then invited True Person Leixia’s group aboard the Treasure Ship.
• After hearing what Lingya Island had done, Ye Yuehong released Vice Island Master Feng, Gang Leader Wen, and the others from the painting scroll.
• A Sixth-Order strongman killed Vice Island Master Feng and his companions with one punch, annihilating their Primordial Spirits.
• The surviving island masters begged for mercy, and Ye Yuehong asked True Person Leixia how she wanted them dealt with; Leixia left the decision to Ye Yuehong.
• Ye Yuehong judged the remaining island masters guilty for doing nothing and turned to Senior Gu.

After Ye Yuehong and True Person Leixia returned to the Myriad Laws Sacred Land, Ji Haoyuan mastered the Illusory Bubble divine ability and tested the power of his Water-Fire Dragon Scissors. He continued refining the treasure’s restrictions until a Message Talisman reached him.

• Senior Gu’s phantom fist swallowed the Island Masters and Vice Island Masters of Lingya Island, and Ye Yuehong released those she had taken in.
• Ye Yuehong and True Person Leixia returned to the Myriad Laws Sacred Land aboard their sixth-rank Treasure Ship.
• Ji Haoyuan completed the Illusory Bubble divine ability and learned that it could make him and his targets or attacks temporarily harmless as bubbles.
• Ji Haoyuan tested his Water-Fire Dragon Scissors, which tore open the void with water and fire power.
• Ji Haoyuan refined eight more restrictions in the Water-Fire Dragon Scissors, greatly increasing their might.
• A Message Talisman landed in Ji Haoyuan’s hand.

Ji Haoyuan welcomed True Person Leixia and the others to Ganyang Peak after Ye Yuehong brought them safely to the Myriad Laws Sacred Land. After arranging their stay and rewarding Ye Yuehong, he received a visit request from Sun Mingcheng and replied that he was available to meet.

• Ji Haoyuan left Nanhua Peak and met Nangong Jin at Ganyang Peak as Ye Yuehong, True Person Leixia, True Person Beichen, Zhang Tianyang, and the others arrived by Treasure Ship.
• Ji Haoyuan welcomed the newcomers and arranged for them to cultivate at Ganyang Peak and in Taicang Grotto-Heaven.
• After hearing what True Person Leixia and the others had experienced, Ji Haoyuan thanked Ye Yuehong with six Tong Shen Pills and asked her to tell the Dao Palace that Zuo Linjun was his friend.
• Ji Haoyuan received a Message Talisman from Sun Mingcheng of Cloud Void Grotto-Heaven, who asked to visit him, and sent a reply agreeing to meet.

Ji Haoyuan heard about the upcoming Dao Art Exchange and realized that other True Disciples hoped to challenge him while he was still at Spirit Transformation. After Taixu Bai praised him for mastering Illusory Bubble, his master placed a more profound method in his mind.

• Sun Mingcheng invited Ji Haoyuan to consider attending the Dao Art Exchange hosted by Cloud Void Grotto-Heaven, and Ji Haoyuan gave no definite answer.
• True Disciples from other Grotto-Heavens visited Ji Haoyuan, and he inferred that they wanted to defeat him at the exchange to boost their reputations.
• Bai Lu brought Ji Haoyuan to meet Taixu Bai, who praised him for mastering Illusory Bubble and said few cultivators below Void Refinement could defeat him.
• Taixu Bai sent Ji Haoyuan a more profound method by directing a streak of golden light into his glabella.

Ji Haoyuan received Taixu Bai’s Seven Transformations of Heaven Robbery and learned that he could compete in the upcoming true disciple technique exchange for useful treasures. After considering three possible first transformations, he chose the Thunder Kui Ox Transformation.

• Taixu Bai taught Ji Haoyuan the Seven Transformations of Heaven Robbery and explained that he would need to find the source materials for its transformations himself.
• Taixu Bai urged Ji Haoyuan to represent Taicang Grotto-Heaven in the technique exchange, where first place could earn treasures from Kunyangzi of Yuhua Grotto-Heaven.
• Ji Haoyuan returned to his Cave Mansion and studied the technique, gaining insight into its first transformation.
• Ji Haoyuan considered the Battle God Ape, Vast Sea True Dragon, and Thunder Kui Ox transformations and their required materials.
• Ji Haoyuan chose the Thunder Kui Ox Transformation as the direction for his first transformation.

Ji Haoyuan formed a nascent Thunder Kui Ox Transformation Seed and briefly drew on its power, then anticipated the true disciple exchange. At the exchange’s opening in Cloud Void Grotto-Heaven, Venerable Feiyao and other disciples gathered, hoping to bring Ji Haoyuan into a Dao demonstration.

• Ji Haoyuan formed a Kui Ox Transformation Seed and briefly boosted his strength and spiritual power to the Late Deity Transformation stage, but the seed quickly went dormant.
• Venerable Feiyao and the true disciples with him discussed Ji Haoyuan, the Chief Personal Disciple of Taicang Grotto-Heaven, and the prospect of defeating him in a Dao demonstration.
• Kong Yunsheng and Fairy Haitang urged Venerable Feiyao to invite Ji Haoyuan to the exchange, and Venerable Feiyao asked them to make it happen.
• The day of the true disciple exchange arrived, and Sun Mingcheng, disciples from Chongming Hall, Venerable Feiyao, and others gathered at a mountain peak in Cloud Void Grotto-Heaven.

Ji Haoyuan arrived at the exchange among personal disciples and watched as the Dao arts contest began under the supervision of Tianxuzi and Kunyangzi. He correctly predicted Su Yaqin would defeat Venerable Beikong, who recovered from his injuries after the match.

• Ji Haoyuan arrived just before the exchange began and greeted Sun Mingcheng, Lu Yuanshan, Dai Yunfang, and Pei Guanghua.
• The first two stages of the gathering concluded, and the participants began their exchange of Dao arts.
• Tianxuzi and Kunyangzi appeared, set rules for the contest, and promised rewards to the champion.
• Venerable Beikong and Su Yaqin began the first match, while Ji Haoyuan predicted Su Yaqin would win.
• Su Yaqin shattered Venerable Beikong's Primordial Spirit Manifestation, and a spiritual light healed his injuries.

Su Yaqin defeated a succession of challengers with Yuhua Grotto-Heaven’s Three Disasters Method before Venerable Feiyao ended her winning streak. Feiyao then challenged Ji Haoyuan, who accepted and prepared to enter the stage.

• Su Yaqin restored her strength after defeating Venerable Beikong and invited another challenger to the Technique Practice Stage.
• Meng Wan of Linghai Grotto-Heaven fought Su Yaqin, but Su used the Black Sun Wind Disaster to defeat her.
• Su Yaqin defeated several more true disciples, including Sun Mingcheng, and comprehended the Great Sun Fire Disaster during the matches.
• Venerable Feiyao defeated Su Yaqin’s Black Sun Wind Disaster and Great Sun Fire Disaster with one move of the Seven Stars Greedy Wolf Sword.
• Venerable Feiyao challenged Ji Haoyuan, the chief disciple of Taicang Grotto-Heaven, and Ji accepted the invitation.