Chapter Summaries

Qi Zi inscribed the General Principles of Daoist Arts Under Heaven with Dao laws, triggering an immense eruption of Merit Golden Cloud that astonished the Cultivation World. While Qi Zi fainted, Qi Zixiao concealed how little she knew about the event and ended by offering to teach Wu Lian.

• Sister A'Wu told Qi Zi to write the book's title with Dao laws, and he inscribed General Principles of Daoist Arts Under Heaven before collapsing under the pressure.
• The golden book rose above the Purple Mansion Holy Land as immense Merit Golden Cloud spread across the Cultivation World and drew the attention of experts everywhere.
• A golden divine thunderbolt struck the book and sent it flying, but it returned unharmed and grew brighter as it bathed in the Merit Golden Cloud.
• Long Wu, Gu Xinglian, the Holy Son, and other distant observers reacted to the upheaval, while the Holy Son withdrew into Secluded Cultivation Place.
• Wu Lian asked Qi Zixiao whether she would soon gain a third Merit Golden Ring, and she claimed the commotion came from refining the book and restoring its hidden contents.
• Qi Zixiao asked Wu Lian if he wanted to learn and offered to teach him.

Qi Zi’s casually written General Principles of Daoist Arts Under Heaven was recognized by the Heavenly Dao, earning Qi Zixiao a third Merit Golden Ring and drawing the Purple Mansion elders to witness the upheaval. The chapter ended with Mo Daolin taking custody of the book while promising to return it whenever Qi Zi wanted it.

• Wu Lian agreed to refine Qi Zixiao’s arrows without charging her Spirit Stones, then hurried back to the Artifact Refining Pavilion to work on them.
• Sister A'Wu woke Qi Zi after the book’s success, and Qi Zi confirmed that the General Principles of Daoist Arts Under Heaven had caused the commotion.
• The book descended after being struck by golden lightning, and a third Merit Golden Ring formed behind Qi Zi amid heavenly auspicious signs.
• The Purple Mansion elders gathered, praised Qi Zi’s achievement, and Su Muxue warned him that his growing strength and fame would bring greater danger.
• Qi Zi offered the General Principles of Daoist Arts Under Heaven to Mo Daolin, who accepted it and said Qi Zi could take it back whenever he wished.

Qi Zi let the elders inspect the General Principles of Daoist Arts Under Heaven, and its hidden pages sent Su Muxue and Mo Daolin into epiphanies. The chapter ended with Xiao Zhan opening the book easily and discovering a page containing Universe in the Sleeves.

• Qi Zi offered the elders a chance to inspect the General Principles of Daoist Arts Under Heaven in exchange for their favor, and Su Muxue swore not to use what she learned against Qi Zixiao.
• Su Muxue opened a page visible only to her, saw the Heaven Devouring Magic Art, and entered an epiphany.
• Mo Daolin opened another hidden page, saw Planting Oneself as a Seed, and entered an epiphany after studying it.
• Xiao Zhan swore not to use what he learned against Qi Zixiao and opened the book with ease.
• Qi Zi saw that Xiao Zhan's page contained the divine ability Universe in the Sleeves.

Qi Zi'Fan’s General Principles of Daoist Arts Under Heaven let Purple Mansion Holy Land elders obtain cultivation arts and divine abilities, though they left unsure how to master them. Back in Saintess Pavilion, Qi Zixiao wondered whether the techniques could transform her master, while Qi Zi'Fan stared at her chest and failed to answer.

• More than a dozen elders opened the General Principles of Daoist Arts Under Heaven and obtained different techniques, while the others failed to open it and fled in embarrassment.
• Qi Zixiao and Wu Lian arrived, and Qi Zi'Fan explained what had happened; Wu Lian then opened the book and read it.
• Qi Zixiao discovered she could read the entire book, and she and Qi Zi'Fan speculated about its rules before teasing each other about how she might repay his favor.
• Qi Zi'Fan and Qi Zixiao guarded the elders for two days as they studied, then returned to Saintess Pavilion after the elders departed with troubled expressions.
• Qi Zixiao asked whether Su Muxue could become like the Ruthless Empress by mastering the Heaven Devouring Magic Art, then wondered whether her master could become an Emperor through Planting Oneself as a Seed.
• Qi Zixiao turned toward Qi Zi'Fan after he did not answer and found him staring fixedly at her chest.

Qi Zi and Qi Zixiao discussed cultivation techniques and the Cultivation World's missing Great Emperor, while hidden figures prepared to break their seals. On Earth, Lin Fan learned that his parents had met Lin Firmament and urged him to marry, leaving him anxious about the secret of his body-swapping with Qi Zixiao.

• Qi Zixiao scolded Qi Zi for looking at her body, and he teased her until she pinned him down and made him beg for mercy.
• Qi Zi questioned whether Heaven Devouring Magic Art and Planting Oneself as a Seed could help Mo Daolin become a Great Emperor, and wondered why the Cultivation World had produced none for millions of years.
• Mysterious figures discussed the exposed Big Dipper matter and vowed to break their seals and pursue a higher realm.
• Jiang Yi worried that years of preparation had been ruined, while Gu Xinglian sent Lu Yao to the Jade Pool secret realm and ordered her to block Qi Zixiao.
• Ji Chutong wondered why Lin Fan had disappeared and failed to reply after their promised duel.
• Lin Fan read Lin Firmament's messages and learned that his parents had visited and urged him to marry, while Lin Firmament warned him not to do so until their body-swapping issue was resolved.

Lin Fan learned that Hua Nation’s Spiritual Qi Revival could cause the country to expand inside an unchanged Earth, potentially leading to disaster. He proposed that the ministers consider extending the revival worldwide, but their memories of past humiliation made them reluctant to share the advantage.

• Lin Firmament warned Lin Fan that Hua Nation’s growth during Spiritual Qi Revival could cause catastrophic problems because the rest of Earth was not expanding.
• Lin Fan discussed the danger with the eleven ministers of the Resident Happiness Living Department and asked them to find a solution.
• The ministers recognized that letting the whole world undergo Spiritual Qi Revival would let Earth grow together and prevent the imbalance.
• The ministers hesitated to share the revival because they remembered the humiliation Hua Nation had endured while it was weak and struggling to catch up.

Lin Fan and the Ministers accepted that Hua Nation had to help bring about global Spiritual Qi Revival and discussed turning the effort into an advantage. Seventh Vice Minister then revealed that Hua Nation had confirmed the existence of aliens, leaving Lin Fan eager to learn more.

• Second Vice Minister asked whether there was any alternative to global Spiritual Qi Revival, but Lin Fan said they either had to remove Hua Nation's formations or proceed with the worldwide plan.
• The Ministers agreed that Hua Nation could preserve its lead through its cultivation inheritances and use Spiritual Qi Revival as a national project to gain benefits and trade for needed materials.
• The Vice Minister told Lin Fan that overseas materials he wanted could now be obtained through exchanges tied to Spiritual Qi Revival, and Lin Fan approved.
• Seventh Vice Minister asked Lin Fan what he thought of aliens, and Lin Fan said he believed they existed in great numbers.
• Seventh Vice Minister revealed that the Resident Happiness Living Department had confirmed aliens existed and promised to send Lin Fan its information, prompting Lin Fan to ask about UFOs and alien origins.

Lin Fan learned that Eagle Country had recovered a crashed UFO containing evidence of a technological Zerg race, and he agreed with the Ministers to avoid contact until Earth could better protect itself. Back at the academy, he checked on the students and found the Old Man cultivating Spirit Rice and beginning his own cultivation.

• The Seventh Vice Minister told Lin Fan that confirmed aliens came from the Technological Side and that the latest known UFO incident had occurred over a hundred years earlier.
• Lin Fan reviewed the files and learned that Eagle Country had studied a crashed UFO at Area 51, where photographs showed a humanoid beetle-like alien he identified as a Zerg.
• Lin Fan warned the Ministers that contacting the Zerg could provoke a dangerous interstellar conflict, and they agreed to avoid contact while focusing on the global Spiritual Qi Revival.
• Lin Fan found the forty students cultivating in their dormitories and left them undisturbed.
• Lin Fan visited the Old Man in the medicinal field, where the Old Man showed him Spirit Rice seedlings and revealed that he had entered the path.
• Lin Fan went to chat with Old Chen and continued refining medicine for Shi Wenke and her daughter, while Bob arrived at Area 51 in Eagle Country looking worn out.

Bob visited Area 51 under the pretense of boosting morale, pretending to be an arrogant fool while secretly stealing damaged chip fragments from an extraterrestrial spacecraft. He returned home with the fragments, revealing that his bumbling advice had concealed his real purpose.

• Bob worried that Hua Nation’s advances and Moose’s growing influence threatened his position, so he decided to seek a way to regain the initiative.
• Bob went to Area 51 and claimed he wanted to encourage researchers and help them develop weapons from the extraterrestrial technology.
• Bob gave researchers absurd suggestions, including shielding the spacecraft with tinfoil and using strong acid to open its core control room.
• Bob toured the damaged spacecraft, used its toilet, and left after delivering a speech that the researchers dismissed as nonsense.
• Bob secretly took several damaged chip fragments from the spacecraft without the researchers noticing.
• Bob returned to his residence, mocked those who thought he was an idiot, and revealed the chip fragments in his hand.

Bob ordered the mysterious object investigated, then rushed to negotiate with Hua Nation after it offered Spiritual Qi Revival services to other countries. As Eagle Country’s construction project began amid costly demands, Lin Fan met an excited young girl who arrived on a flying wooden kite and left her wondering whether it would be safe if she went inside.

• Bob told Thor to investigate the mysterious object and broadcast any signals it emitted across the universe.
• The Resident Happiness Living Department announced Spiritual Qi Revival services, prompting countries and factions to compete for Hua Nation’s construction teams.
• The Capitalist Income Protection Guild hired a Hua Nation team, and Chen Jie made increasingly demanding requests of their Eagle Country hosts before work began.
• Lin Fan spent his free time teaching cultivation and refining spiritual medicine for Shi Wenke and Shi Xiaomo.
• A girl arrived at Purple Bamboo Island riding a wooden mechanical kite, astonishing Lin Fan and the Servant Disciples.
• The girl greeted Lin Fan excitedly and agreed to go inside with him, but hesitated over leaving her wooden kite behind.

Lin Fan learned that Zhou Xianyan had built a flying wooden kite using skills from her grandfather’s Lu Ban Book and suspected she was a descendant of Lu Ban. He accepted her as a specially admitted student, while revealing that her kite could do far more than the legends claimed.

• Zhou Xianyan told Lin Fan how her carpenter family and her grandfather’s Lu Ban Book had inspired her to build wooden kites until one finally glowed and flew.
• Lin Fan suspected Zhou Xianyan was descended from Lu Ban, and Zhou Xiaoran explained how Lu Ban’s descendants might have adopted the surname Zhou.
• Zhou Xianyan met Zhou Xiaoran and Zhou Na, then asked to stay at the academy and attend classes.
• Lin Fan agreed to make an exception and enroll Zhou Xianyan as a specially admitted student, telling Zhou Xiaoran to arrange the paperwork and notify her family.
• Lin Fan told Zhou Na that Zhou Xianyan’s wooden kite could do far more than fly for the ten days or half a month described in legends.

After explaining how Zhou Xianyan’s wooden kite worked and why her talent made her a valuable special admission student, Lin Fan and Qi Zixiao resumed their busy routines in worlds that had entered a quiet period. They began keeping diaries across transmigrations, each accusing the other of being indecent, and the chapter ends with Lin Fan planning a thesis for Purple Bamboo Academy’s newly cultivated students.

• Lin Fan explained that Zhou Xianyan’s wooden kite used a spiritual-energy core and protective array, and Zhou Na agreed that her cousin was impressive.
• After synchronizing memories, both Qi Zixiaos blushed and cursed Lin Fan for teasing her and joking about meeting in person.
• Qi Zixiao focused on crafting arrows, improving her techniques, preparing for tribulation, and cultivating as the Contention of the First Sequence approached.
• After several uneventful transmigrations, Lin Fan and Qi Zixiao decided to write diaries and discovered that both had done so.
• Lin Fan noted that nearly all forty-one students had entered the Dao and planned to assign them a thesis.

Lin Firmament and Qin Zishi traded accounts of their repeated transmigrations, teasing each other over their laziness and attraction to the Saintess while events unfolded in Eagle Country and the Cultivation World. The chapter ended with the Northern Dipper’s destruction still unexplained as the Six Great Holy Masters met to discuss the crisis.

• Lin Firmament and Qin Zishi recounted their daily cultivation and repeated teasing of the Saintess, while Lin Firmament described being distracted by women he was asked to protect.
• Qin Zishi mocked Lin Firmament for watching livestreams, and Lin Firmament reported that Uncle-Master Xiao Zhan’s Cave Residence exploded during an attempt to practice Universe in the Sleeves.
• Lin Firmament visited Mu Wanqing as she advanced to the late Qi Refining stage and heard that vampires and half-zombies in Eagle Country were fighting over their supposed lineages.
• Qin Zishi investigated an angel in Eagle Country, discovered it was a mass of spiritual energy, and destroyed it with Divine Sense; believers then denounced Qin Zishi as a heretic before half-zombies devoured them.
• Lin Firmament reported that Tai Yi Holy Master Jiang Yi destroyed a Demon Cave containing ancient Demon Race remnants, but found no evidence connecting it to the destruction of the Northern Dipper.
• The Six Great Holy Masters held a meeting about the unresolved destruction of the Northern Dipper, while Lin Firmament continued teasing the Saintess.

Qi Zixiao and Lu Fang recorded developments across the Cultivation World and Earth as Spiritual Qi Revival spread, while the mysterious destruction of major sects threw the Cultivation World into turmoil. The chapter left the Holy Lands weighing whether the Life Forbidden Zones were behind the attacks and showed Hua Nation managing Earth’s growing upheaval better than other countries.

• Qi Zixiao noted the Holy Son’s brief emergence from seclusion, Su’s Heaven Devouring Magic Art experiments, and Zhou Xiaoran’s breakthrough, while Lu Fang described students’ papers and the growing religious chaos in Eagle Country.
• Aunt-Master Su became a Quasi-Emperor and livestreamed a fight with Qi Zixiao’s Master, with both tearing off each other’s arms for viewers’ gifts.
• Qi Zixiao reported that Bear Country had completed Spiritual Qi Revival, Chicken Country was preparing for it, and the Snow Maiden and Dan the Fatty had grown stronger.
• Qi Zixiao went to Chicken Country to kill a Foundation Establishment Stage Nine-tailed Fox during a Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, then noted that the Amaterasu Goddess’s Divine Sense was gathering faith there.
• The Blazing Fire Heaven Sect was silently wiped out, prompting the Holy Lands to search the Cultivation World with the Divine Calculator and suspect the Life Forbidden Zones.
• Qi Zixiao observed that Spiritual Qi Revival had affected nearly half of Earth and that Hua Nation remained orderly as overseas faith-based cultivation methods emerged.

Lin Fan reviewed the sweeping changes caused by Spiritual Qi Revival before calling his students together for their first assessment. The students gathered on the greatly expanded Purple Bamboo Island, ready to demonstrate their cultivation.

• Lin Fan saw reports of Earth’s rapid transformation, the recent destruction of ten Southern Wilderness sects, and preparations for the approaching First Sequence Battle.
• Lin Fan asked Zhou Xiaoran to summon all the students for a temporary assessment.
• Forty-one students gathered, most carrying artifact-grade Flying Swords refined by Zhou Xianyan.
• Lin Fan explained that the assessment would gauge their strength, not expel anyone, and said cultivation required experience beyond secluded training.
• Lin Fan noted that all the students had reached Foundation Establishment or higher, while most of the teachers had reached Foundation Establishment Late-Stage or peak.

Lin Fan finished assessing the students and sent them on a one-to-three-month vacation to train, gather materials, and repay the academic credits they owed. As the students set out across the transformed Earth, they asked Liu Gang where they should go.

• Lin Fan assessed the students, praised their progress, and let Li Bai keep his sword sheathed rather than waste the Sword Intent he had nurtured.
• Lin Fan warned the students about dangers such as Hot Weapons and sent them out for one to three months to undergo trials and collect materials for their outstanding academic credits.
• Zhou Xiaoran offered to accompany the students, but Lin Fan refused and told her and the other teachers to take vacation too.
• Most teachers left Purple Bamboo Island, while Old Man, Old Chen, Zhang Yuan, and the Servant Disciples stayed behind.
• The forty-one students flew away on four fierce birds and marveled at how much Earth had grown, then asked Liu Gang where they should go.

Liu Gang shared intelligence about emerging ruins, and Purple Bamboo Academy's students divided up routes to explore them. As Earth continued to expand, signs of its Spiritual Qi revival reached the Tian Shu Star Region, drawing the attention of an old demon, a Daoist nun, and Jehovah.

• Liu Gang sent the class confidential information about suspected ruins, and the students planned expeditions to earn academic credits.
• Mu Wanqing and Zhou Xianyan decided to investigate the mutated Da Hong Pao Mother Tree and seek permission to bring it back to Purple Bamboo Island.
• Astronauts prepared to leave the International Space Station as Earth's growth and changing gravity forced it to retire early.
• A glowing stone stele in the Tian Shu Star Region alerted an old demon, who recognized writing linked to the Divine Province Ancestral Land and secretly sent followers to investigate.
• A Daoist nun sensed the ancestral land's Spiritual Qi revival and decided to return to her Daoist sanctum.
• Jehovah rejoiced at the pure faith he sensed on Earth and saw it as an opportunity for his future.

The Da Hong Pao Mother Tree displayed a spectacular transformation, drawing the attention of factions across Earth. As groups prepared to seize it, their plans threatened to bring them into conflict with Hua Nation and its cultivators.

• Jehovah regained strength from a surge of Faith Power and left the Western Divine Court to descend upon Earth and reclaim its believers.
• Bob ordered angels and believers to bring the Da Hong Pao Mother Tree back for the Capitalist Income Protection Guild.
• The First Generation commanded revived Ninja to travel to Hua Nation and seize the tree, while Moose and the Druid clan also mobilized to claim it.
• Hogwarts leaders agreed to send a force with weapons, instructing them not to attack Lin Fan if they encountered him.
• Pantheons and extraordinary organizations rallied toward Hua Nation after the tree's brilliant light and Dao Rhyme-like runes marked it as an extraordinary prize.

Mu Wanqing and Zhou Xianyan reached the transforming Da Hong Pao Mother Tree and proposed an arena challenge to prevent a chaotic fight over it. The Resident Happiness Living Department approved their plan and prepared to livestream the contest to students nationwide.

• Mu Wanqing and Zhou Xianyan flew to Mount Wuyi as factions gathered around the Da Hong Pao Mother Tree, which police guarded.
• Mu Wanqing warned that joining the police would make them targets, and explained that moving the tree could disrupt its transformation.
• Mu Wanqing proposed contacting the authorities to arrange an arena challenge, with the winner claiming the tree, and Zhou Xianyan agreed.
• The Minister and Second Vice Minister approved the arena challenge and arranged for students to watch the contest online.
• The officials joked that Old Seven could snatch more tea from Purple Bamboo Island if they lost access to the tree.

Mu Wanqing and Zhou Xianyan’s livestreamed contest for the Da Hong Pao Mother Tree inspired the Resident Happiness Living Department to require fair arena battles for treasures in ruins around the world. After foreign superpower groups reluctantly agreed and brought their trump cards, the tree’s transformation peaked and the first challenger stepped onto the arena.

• Mu Wanqing and Zhou Xianyan agreed to livestream the contest, and the Resident Happiness Living Department announced rules and stationed experts to enforce them.
• Mu Wanqing explained that the contest could let Hua Nation require fair arena battles for ancient ruins worldwide, prompting Zhou Xianyan to understand the ministers’ broader plan.
• Foreign superpower organizations argued over the rules, but several groups agreed and the others chose to bring out their trump cards to compete for the tree.
• After more than a day, the Da Hong Pao Mother Tree’s runic effects peaked, and the Resident Happiness Living Department’s representative declared the arena battles open.
• A thin, middle-aged man from Monkey Country mocked the hesitant crowd, leaped onto the arena, and challenged someone to fight.