Chapter Summaries

Lin Firmament offered several billionaires the chance to cultivate and began selecting candidates for Purple Bamboo Academy from more than three hundred thousand applicants. She eliminated nearly everyone for insufficient talent, leaving the rejected candidates demanding an explanation.

• Lin Firmament found that Jin Ruyu, Qin Ya, and Zhang Lu had cultivation opportunities and invited them to study at Purple Bamboo Academy; Shi Wenke asked whether her daughter could take her place.
• Lin Firmament told Shi Wenke that her talented daughter Shi Xiaomo could pass the academy’s test on her own, allowing mother and daughter to cultivate together.
• Lin Firmament surveyed the gathered applicants and found several promising candidates, including the young sword inheritor, the glowing girl from Qingcheng Mountain, and Shi Xiaomo.
• Lin Firmament selected candidates based on talent and had staff separate them from the rest of the crowd, eliminating 298,000 applicants.
• A doctoral student from Imperial University and other rejected applicants demanded to know why they had failed, and a staff member explained that academic achievement did not guarantee cultivation talent.

Lin Firmament and her companions held the Purple Bamboo Academy’s entrance trial, using an illusion formation to select candidates. Several unusual applicants broke free, including two people with spirit bodies and Liu Gang, who was barely under the age limit.

• After rejected applicants protested, a staff member drove them away and the successful candidates gathered for the next test.
• Lin Firmament explained that the academy would choose the three hundred candidates who escaped Old Chen’s illusion formation fastest, then select thirty-three in a final test.
• Shi Xiaomo remained unaffected because her sheltered, content life left the beginner illusion formation with no desires to exploit.
• A Mount Shu youth broke free when his inherited flying sword awakened, and Lin Firmament recognized his Sword Spirit Body.
• The glowing girl from Qingcheng Mountain revealed a Wood Spirit Body, while Liu Gang also escaped the formation and Zhou Xiaoran confirmed he was twenty-nine years and eleven months old.

After three rounds of testing, thirty-three candidates won admission to Purple Bamboo Academy, and Lin Firmament led them and seven others to Purple Bamboo Island. There, she welcomed the waiting officials and educators and spotted the Old Taoist from Mount Wuyi among the crowd.

• Three hundred candidates entered the final willpower test, where many gave up, but Liu Gang endured easily and Shi Xiaomo narrowly passed.
• Lin Firmament and the other judges admitted thirty-three candidates and gave each a Purple Bamboo entry and exit credential.
• The next morning, Lin Firmament took the students across the sea to Purple Bamboo Island, where they introduced themselves during the journey.
• Lin Firmament led the group past the waiting officials, livestreamers, school principals, and student representatives, then greeted the Old Taoist from Mount Wuyi.

Lin Firmament began the world's first Cultivation Open Class on Purple Bamboo Island, explaining cultivation theory and its realms to a nationwide and global audience. After the thunder that followed her lecture faded without striking, she announced the establishment of Purple Bamboo Academy, prompting another rumble from the sky.

• Guests and viewers across the country and around the world gathered to watch Lin Firmament's open class livestream from Purple Bamboo Island.
• Lin Firmament opened the class with a dramatic display and introduced the Immortal Path, its cultivation realms, and the distinction between practitioners and their methods.
• Lin Firmament explained cultivation specialties, warned listeners not to abandon their ordinary lives recklessly, and broadened the audience's understanding of cultivation theory.
• Rolling thunder grew fierce during Lin Firmament's lecture but did not descend after she finished speaking.
• Lin Firmament asked the guests to bear witness as she established Purple Bamboo Academy, and rolling thunder rumbled overhead.

After the Cultivation Open Class, Lin Firmament organized cultivation courses at Purple Bamboo Academy, with talent and temperament tests and regular assessments to make cultivation more scientific. She recruited teachers for the academy and began introducing them to the students before explaining the rules for enrollment.

• Lin Firmament outlined plans for cultivation classes, student testing, and assessments every three days and seven days.
• After seeing the principals off, Lin Firmament answered Zhang Xuanzhi and Chen Chuping’s cultivation questions.
• Lin Firmament invited Magic Rice Ancestor Old Man to teach the spirit-medicine path, and he agreed.
• Lin Firmament asked the Old Taoist from Mount Wuyi to teach at Purple Bamboo Academy, and he accepted, introducing himself as Zhang Yuan.
• Lin Firmament introduced the five teachers to one another and the students, then began explaining the academy’s rules.

Qi Zi hid Lin Fan and the Three Lifetimes Method while sects and Ji Chutong searched for him in Three Saints City. After denying any knowledge of Lin Fan, Qi Zi led the Purple Mansion disciples east to return to the sect.

• Lin Firmament recorded a video for Lin Fan before her transmigration time ran out.
• Qi Zi received Qi Zixiao’s memories and arranged to lead the disciples back from Three Saints City at noon.
• Members of various sects confronted Qi Zi and asked where Lin Fan was, but he denied knowing his whereabouts.
• Ji Chutong also asked Qi Zi about Lin Fan, then left to search for him herself.
• The sect members split up to pursue their own plans to find Lin Fan.
• At noon, Qi Zi led the gathered Purple Mansion disciples out of Three Saints City and eastward.

Qi Zi'Fan's return journey was intercepted by a masked force seeking the Three Lifetimes Method, while Jiu Wu and Xiao Zhan were held back by the Old Madmen. The attackers faced Qi Zi'Fan and the Purple Mansion Disciples, but Divine Calculator threatened to expose their identities.

• Li Fu, Snow Maiden, and other cultivators chose to remain in the Central Province, while Qi Zi'Fan led the rest east toward home.
• Jiu Wu and Xiao Zhan were surrounded by Old Madmen, who said they wanted to keep them watching while younger cultivators challenged Qi Zixiao.
• Jiu Wu and Xiao Zhan attacked the Old Madmen despite their assurances that Qi Zixiao would not be harmed.
• Nearly a thousand masked cultivators confronted Qi Zi'Fan and demanded that the other Purple Mansion Disciples leave.
• Divine Calculator stepped forward and implied that he could identify the masked cultivators, making them fall silent.

Qi Zi'Fan and the Purple Mansion Disciples turned an apparent ambush around with three powerful Demon Beasts, leaving their attackers badly outmatched. Qi Zi'Fan's shameless taunts enraged the opposing Great Ascension cultivators, who had no answer to his rejection of moral judgment.

• Divine Calculator threatened to identify and expose the hidden attackers, while the Purple Mansion Disciples refused to back down.
• Qi Zi'Fan summoned the Ink Blood Toad, the Groundhog, and the Azure Scaled Eagle, whose attacks and pressure overwhelmed the attackers and revealed their disadvantage.
• The attackers brought out three Great Ascension cultivators as a trump card, but Qi Zi'Fan mocked them for arriving in separate groups.
• Dan the Fatty called the opposing cultivators orphans, and Qi Zi'Fan pretended to sympathize with them, provoking their fury.
• When a Great Ascension cultivator condemned Qi Zi'Fan's disgraceful words, Qi Zi'Fan pointed out that they called him a Demoness and rejected their attempt to shame him.

Qi Zi activated the Purple Mansion’s Sky Gazing Mirror against the Masked People, turning the battle into a slaughter and forcing the Old Madmen to intervene. As the attackers fled through a spatial passage, the mirror unleashed an even greater burst of power, drawing Jiang Yi’s attention and bringing him toward the battlefield.

• Qi Zi revealed the Sky Gazing Mirror, and its Imperial Armament might stunned both the Masked People and the Old Madmen fighting Jiu Wu and Xiao Zhan.
• Qi Zi swept the battlefield with the mirror, annihilating many Masked People and killing a Great Ascension Stage cultivator.
• Three Old Madmen blocked the mirror and opened a spatial passage so the surviving Masked People could escape.
• Qi Zi replenished his True Essence with the Power Bank and drove the Sky Gazing Mirror to unleash an even more powerful burst before the passage closed.
• Jiang Yi sensed the Sky Gazing Mirror from his Secluded Cultivation Place and vanished with a step toward it.

Qi Zixiao used the Sky Gazing Mirror to annihilate the attackers blocking his way, while Jiu Wu and Xiao Zhan held off the Old Madmen. Su Muxue arrived and took the mirror, sending the Old Madmen fleeing in every direction.

• The two Old Madmen abandoned their attempt to resist the Sky Gazing Mirror, and its divine light annihilated the remaining attackers while widening a spatial rift.
• Qi Zi asked Jiu Wu whether to use the mirror again, but Jiu Wu told him to wait while he and Xiao Zhan continued fighting the Old Madmen.
• Jiu Wu taunted the Old Madmen, who began withdrawing after their juniors failed to capture Qi Zixiao and obtain the Three Lifetimes Method.
• Su Muxue arrived, borrowed the Sky Gazing Mirror from Qi Zi, and pursued the fleeing Old Madmen.
• Su Muxue activated the Sky Gazing Mirror with overwhelming power, and the Old Madmen scattered and fled.

Su Muxue drove off the Old Madmen with the Sky Gazing Mirror, then tried to escort Qi Zi'Fan’s group east out of the Central Province. The Holy Mother of Jade Pool intercepted them with Peach Tree Mother, and she and Su Muxue began a fierce battle while arguing about their past.

• Su Muxue chased down the fleeing Old Madmen and used the Sky Gazing Mirror to intimidate them, killing several before the rest scattered.
• Su Muxue returned to Jiu Wu and Xiao Zhan, and they took Qi Zi'Fan’s group east at great speed.
• The Holy Mother of Jade Pool appeared with Peach Tree Mother and struck at the group, forcing Su Muxue to block her with the Sky Gazing Mirror.
• The Holy Mother of Jade Pool called Su Muxue a demoness and attacked, while Su Muxue called her Lian'er and asked why she still could not let go.
• Qi Zi'Fan wondered whether the two women were love rivals as they fought and argued over what had happened between them in the past.

Su Muxue and the Holy Mother of Jade Pool fought while Violet Palace’s disciples speculated about their past, and Qi Zi concluded that Su Muxue had once deceived the Holy Mother in a romance. As Violet Palace tried to escape through a prepared reverse teleportation array, a mysterious sword strike threatened to disrupt their departure, but a fist blocked it.

• Violet Palace’s junior disciples whispered about the grudge between Su Muxue and the Holy Mother of Jade Pool, while Zhong Feiyu compared their exchange to a spurned lover confronting someone who had deceived her.
• Qi Zi connected Su Muxue’s past disguise and a failed marriage to the Holy Mother of Jade Pool, deciding that the two women had once loved each other.
• The Holy Mother of Jade Pool attacked Su Muxue, who kept calling her Lian'er and insisting their affection remained, making her allies urge her to stop provoking the Holy Mother.
• Jiu Wu and Xiao Zhan revealed that Violet Palace had secretly prepared a reverse teleportation array, and Su Muxue held off the Holy Mother while they prepared to escape.
• Su Muxue withdrew the Sky Gazing Mirror and began teleporting the group, but a terrifying sword ray struck before the array could finish; a fist imprint intercepted it.

The Central Province battle ended with Su Muxue escaping unscathed, while Huo Yuan killed several Old Madmen who had been weakened by the clash. Back at Purple Mansion, Qi Zi ordered preparations to sell immortal phones and blacklisted Zou Hu, who was left wondering what the red exclamation mark meant.

• Long Wu stopped Jiang Yi from striking Su Muxue and the others, then left after suspecting Gu Xinglian still had feelings for Muxue.
• Huo Yuan ambushed and killed several Old Madmen after they regrouped, while the other Old Madmen arrived too late to intervene.
• Su Muxue returned the Sky Gazing Mirror to Qi Zi, and Qi Zi disbanded the Saintess Squad after returning to Purple Mansion.
• Qi Zi told Chen Cheng and Zhou Yining to prepare an outer-sect shop to sell immortal phones to outsiders at a higher price.
• Qi Zi saw Zou Hu's worried messages, added him to the blacklist, and left Zou Hu puzzled by the red exclamation mark beside his message.

Lin Fan reviewed the growing Immortal Device business before he and Qi Zixiao began investigating the three statues from Three Saints City inside the Bronze Coffin. Meanwhile, Mo Daolin noticed that the Big Dipper Holy Land and its surroundings had become strangely obscured, and Su Muxue joined the statue investigation after forgetting why she had come.

• Lin Fan checked the Immortal Device’s rising user activity and moved the three statues into the Bronze Coffin to study them with Qi Zixiao.
• Su Muxue exaggerated her role in rescuing Jiu Wu and Xiao Zhan, then Mo Daolin told her that the Big Dipper Holy Land and the surrounding region were impossible to see clearly.
• Mo Daolin sent Su Muxue to borrow the Sky Gazing Mirror, while he, Jiu Wu, and Xiao Zhan stayed behind to play Fight the Landlord.
• Su Muxue arrived at the coffin, praised Qi Zi for stealing the statues, and advised him to plan future thefts with her help.
• Su Muxue proposed that they search the statues for the Three Lifetimes Method and smash them if they found nothing, then forgot why she had come.

Qi Zi, Qi Zixiao, and Su Muxue uncovered the Three Lifetimes Method by smashing the three statues in Three Saints City. Qi Zixiao received the inheritance, leaving Su Muxue pleased that they had gained it before Huo Yuan could.

• Su Muxue decided to smash the statues, and Qi Zi and Qi Zixiao agreed to let her try.
• Su Muxue steadily increased her strength until all three statues cracked and collapsed, revealing a ball of divine light in each.
• Qi Zi touched the divine lights, summoning three illusory figures that cursed them for breaking the statues instead of kneeling and praying for three years.
• The figures’ instructions required the first cultivator to touch them to receive the Three Lifetimes Method, so they passed the inheritance to Qi Zixiao.
• The illusory figures vanished after the inheritance, and Su Muxue celebrated their gain and joked that Huo Yuan would never learn about it.

Qi Zi explained that the Three Lifetimes Method relied on blood sacrifice and true-spirit Body Seizing, making it powerful but dangerous and unlikely to allow anyone to become immortal. Su Muxue told him to keep it secret, then used the Sky Gazing Mirror to investigate the Big Dipper, where the chapter left them puzzled by a costly concealment formation hiding even ordinary areas.

• Qi Zi explained that the Three Lifetimes Method used blood sacrifices to protect a true spirit while it seized a genius's soul and body, but the resulting karma likely prevented its founder from becoming immortal.
• Su Muxue and Qi Zi agreed that the method was dangerous and should not be shared, though Qi Zi could keep it in mind in case of utter necessity.
• Su Muxue collected the statue fragments and remembered that Qi Zi's master had asked her to investigate the Big Dipper with the Sky Gazing Mirror.
• Su Muxue activated the Sky Gazing Mirror and forced back some of the mist obscuring the Big Dipper.
• Su Muxue, Qi Zi, and Qi Zixiao saw no obvious irregularities, but wondered why the Big Dipper had paid so much to conceal even its surroundings from the mirror.

Qi Zi absorbed part of the inheritance and broke through to Spirit Severance Peak, while Qi Zixiao and he discussed preparing for her future tribulation. At Purple Mansion Palace, Su Muxue reported that the Big Dipper Holy Land was suspicious, and the elders decided to seek a disciple to investigate from a distance.

• Su Muxue returned the Sky Gazing Mirror to Qi Zi and left to reply to Qi Zi's master's message.
• Qi Zi explained that the inheritance had given him cultivation power, then used Purple Qi Comes From The East to break through to Spirit Severance Peak.
• Qi Zixiao explained the stages leading to tribulation, and Qi Zi considered using Merit Golden Rings to improve her chances of surviving it.
• Su Muxue told Mo Daolin, Jiu Wu, and Xiao Zhan that the Big Dipper Holy Land looked hazy through the Sky Gazing Mirror and might be concealing something.
• Mo Daolin refused to let Su Muxue investigate in person, and the group decided to ask whether a disciple in the Northern Wilderness could investigate from a distance.

Qi Zi and Qi Zixiao discussed the danger surrounding the Big Dipper Holy Land, and Qi Zi began compiling the General Principles of Daoist Arts Under Heaven in hopes of earning merit. Back as Lin Fan, he watched Lin Firmament’s report on the Eagle Country’s half-zombies and the newly established Purple Bamboo Academy, where he was expected to serve as principal.

• Mo Daolin arranged for the Mission Hall to issue a mission to investigate whether the Big Dipper Holy Land was in a normal state, and dozens of disciples accepted it.
• Qi Zi and Qi Zixiao discussed the possible consequences of trouble at the Big Dipper Holy Land and agreed they needed to protect themselves.
• Qi Zi started recording the arts they had spread in a beast-hide book, planning to add famous works from Earth and test whether they could earn heavenly merit.
• Lin Fan watched Lin Firmament report that the Eagle Country had created tens of thousands of weak half-zombies who inherited Hanba’s will and knelt before him.
• Lin Firmament explained that she had created Purple Bamboo Academy and told Lin Fan to let its teachers and students settle in before he taught them cultivation; she planned to bring cultivation methods and divine abilities in three days.

Lin Fan surveyed Purple Bamboo Academy and agreed to introduce Wang Dong to Zhou Qi, the student he had fallen for at first sight. Lin Fan discovered that Zhou Qi was actually a man in disguise, leaving him unsure how to break the news to Wang Dong.

• Lin Fan reflected on Purple Bamboo Academy’s unusual mix of students and teachers, then went out to inspect the academy.
• Wang Dong asked Lin Fan to introduce him to the girl he liked, describing her as adorable before finally naming Zhou Qi.
• Lin Fan used his Divine Sense to find Zhou Qi dressed as a woman and secretly sharing a dormitory with Mu Wanqing.
• Lin Fan realized Wang Dong had fallen for Zhou Qi’s feminine appearance and worried about how Wang Dong would react to the truth.

Lin Fan arranged for Wang Dong to share a dorm room with Zhou Qi, who was secretly a cross-dressing man and the younger brother Zhou Na was searching for. When Zhou Na asked Lin Fan to take her home to find him, Lin Fan stalled by claiming they needed transportation.

• Lin Fan laughed at Wang Dong, then agreed to arrange for him to share a dorm room with the girl he liked.
• Lin Fan moved Zhou Qi out of Mu Wanqing's dorm room and brought him to Wang Dong's room, where Zhou Qi agreed to stay and helped Wang Dong unpack.
• Zhou Na told Lin Fan that her younger brother's phone was off and asked him to take her home so she could find him.
• Lin Fan realized Zhou Na was looking for Zhou Qi and delayed her by saying they needed transportation.