Recaps

Li Xiuchang broke through to the Spirit Transformation Stage by transforming his Nascent Soul into an exceptionally solid, diamond-like Primordial Spirit and joining it with his soul. After testing his new strength, he turned to the Second Nascent Soul and planned to make it an external incarnation using his ability to split his soul.

• Li Xiuchang nourished his soul with Nascent Soul magic power and Spiritual Sense until it formed a Primordial Spirit, then continued feeding it until it became a dazzling, nearly indestructible diamond-like form.
• Li Xiuchang connected his Primordial Spirit to his soul, unified them, and gained a substantial improvement to his soul and Spiritual Sense.
• Li Xiuchang completed the breakthrough to the Spirit Transformation Stage and sent his Primordial Spirit out of his body to explore and test its defenses.
• Li Xiuchang returned his Primordial Spirit to his body and decided to split off a fragment of his soul to join with the Second Nascent Soul, creating an external incarnation.

Li Xiuchang created a powerful clone by turning his Second Nascent Soul into a body for his Second Primordial Spirit, then discovered it could become a cube Vajra Great Seal when borrowing his original body's Dharma Image. After learning that the Four Demonic Sects were invading the Joyful Demonic Sect under the pretense of offering aid, he headed there eager to test his new strength.

• Li Xiuchang recovered from splitting his soul, condensed a Second Primordial Spirit, and fused it with a separated soul to create a clone sharing his consciousness.
• Li Xiuchang disguised the clone with the Skin-swapping Mask and strengthened its heavy, durable Nascent Soul body with Thousand Jun Stone.
• Li Xiuchang discovered that the clone could borrow his original body's Vajra Dharma Image and manifest as a cube Vajra with enhanced attributes, making it suitable as a Great Seal Magic Treasure.
• A female demon cultivator told Li Xiuchang that Senior Brother Mo Tu had led the Magic Dust Sect to the Joyful Demonic Sect's territory to plunder resources while the monks of the Pure Land Realm harassed the sect.
• The other three major demonic sects followed Mo Tu, turning their supposed relief effort into an invasion of the Joyful Demonic Sect.
• Li Xiuchang flew toward the Joyful Demonic Sect's territory, eager to fight demon cultivators and test the Cube Vajra Great Seal.

Li Xiuchang infiltrated the Joyful Demonic Sect’s territory and wiped out a Corpse Demon Sect group, then defeated Corpse Oil Daoist after the elder arrived to investigate. He claimed Corpse Oil Daoist’s yin soul and discovered a Jade Slip containing the Corpse Demon Sect’s Nine Refinements of Demonic Corpses.

• Li Xiuchang used the Immortal Concealment Talisman Brick to scout the Yin Yang Harmony Sect and found Corpse Demon Sect cultivators collecting suitable corpses.
• Li Xiuchang and his diamond clone killed the Corpse Demon Sect’s two early Spirit Transformation leaders and crushed their demonic corpses with the Cube Vajra Great Seal.
• Li Xiuchang staged his departure, then waited when his Spiritual Sense detected Corpse Oil Daoist and several Spirit Transformation demonic corpses approaching.
• Corpse Oil Daoist sent his demonic corpses to attack while Li Xiuchang used his Mind Monkey Dharma Form and diamond clone to fight back.
• Li Xiuchang pursued Corpse Oil Daoist, killed him, and subdued the yin soul that formed from his Primordial Spirit.
• Li Xiuchang looted Corpse Oil Daoist’s Storage Bag and found a Jade Slip recording the Nine Refinements of Demonic Corpses.

Li Xiuchang used corpse-refining techniques to command demonic corpses and helped stir the Dark Heaven Realm’s sects into war before studying the Nine Refinements of Demonic Corpses and advancing his cultivation. After the Buddhist Cultivators withdrew and the four great demonic sects attacked the weakened Joyful Demonic Sect, Li Xiuchang returned to the front line and spotted a familiar face.

• Li Xiuchang seized dozens of demonic corpses, mastered the corpse-control method, and brought them under his command.
• Li Xiuchang and Senior Brother Mo fueled conflicts among the demonic sects, while Mo Tu explained that the Buddhist Cultivators would need to suffer a defeat to break the stalemate.
• Li Xiuchang gave Senior Brother Chen Changsheng a new Blood Demonic Path cultivation method, then interrogated Corpse Oil Daoist's Yin Soul and learned the complete Nine Refinements of Demonic Corpses.
• Li Xiuchang studied the corpse-refining inheritance, cultivated at the Spirit Transformation Stage, and practiced drawing third-grade talismans for a month.
• The Buddhist Cultivators of the Pure Land Realm feigned defeat and fled through the passage to the Wind Forest Realm, leaving the demonic sects to resume fighting among themselves.
• The four great demonic sects attacked the weakened Joyful Demonic Sect, and Li Xiuchang rushed to the front line, where he sensed a familiar face in a city occupied by the Magic Dust Sect.

Li Xiuchang suspected that the Desire Demon Sect witch who had targeted him before was connected to the Joyful Demonic Sect, while Mo Tu agreed to lead the effort to destroy the sect. The battle began with Mo Tu’s Ghost King breaking the protective formation, and Li Xiuchang stayed in the rear to capture fleeing Yin Souls as the decisive clash between peak experts still loomed.

• Li Xiuchang told Mo Tu about sensing a familiar woman, and Mo Tu warned that the witch who had used Dao Heart Seed Love on him might be nearby and advised him to avoid the main battlefield.
• Ancestor Shenxiu reassured the Joyful Demonic Sect’s Grand Elders that Ancestor Tianxiang was hiding nearby and would act at the critical moment.
• Mo Tu persuaded the Imperial Soul Sect, Corpse Demon Sect, and Ice Soul Sect to continue the assault, offering to use Yin Souls against the Joyful Demonic Sect’s elders in exchange for the sect’s mortals.
• The Four Great Demonic Sects struggled to break through the Joyful Demonic Sect’s protective formation until Mo Tu sent a Ghost King to shatter it, causing the Ghost King to ascend.
• Li Xiuchang disguised himself and stayed with the rear forces, capturing Yin Souls while the Joyful Demonic Sect’s Charm Techniques disrupted the attackers and demonic corpses helped breach the defenses.

The Four Great Demonic Sects and the Pure Land Temple forced the Joyful Demonic Sect’s Grand Elders into a chaotic battle that sent many experts ascending. As Li Xiuchang tried to escape the aftermath, Tianxiang’s bewitching caused further ascensions, including Senior Brother Mo Tu’s, leaving Li Xiuchang unsure whether to use his Immortal Concealment Talisman brick.

• Mo Tu persuaded the other three Demonic Sects to send experts who had become demons against the Joyful Demonic Sect, and their attacks forced four Grand Elders and five attackers to ascend.
• Fahua, Fakong, and the other Buddhist Cultivators from Pure Land Temple joined the fight against the Joyful Demonic Sect, while Ancestor Shenxiu retaliated against the other sects.
• Li Xiuchang retreated as the battle escalated, and Ancestor Shenxiu slaughtered demonic cultivators while the leaders of the other sects evaded him.
• Tianxiang bewitched experts near the Imperial Soul Sect, Corpse Demon Sect, and Ice Soul Sect leaders, causing them to attack and trigger ascensions.
• A bewitched resentful soul ambushed Senior Brother Mo Tu, drawing ascension radiance around him as Tianxiang revealed herself.
• After the Buddhist Cultivators and Joyful Demonic Sect Grand Elders ascended, Li Xiuchang hesitated over whether to send Senior Brother Mo Tu his Immortal Concealment Talisman brick.

Li Xiuchang escaped the ascension chaos with the Immortal Concealment Talisman, but Ancestor Tianxiang tracked him down and used a bewitching art to expose him. When she drew him close, he used the Length Cheat to blow out one of her eyes.

• Li Xiuchang rushed to save Mo Tu, who fought Ancestor Tianxiang and promised to return to the Lower Realm with the monks.
• Mo Tu and his Ghost Kings held off Ancestor Tianxiang and Ancestor Shenxiu, but Tianxiang used Dao Heart Seed Love to make Shenxiu ascend in her place.
• Li Xiuchang concealed himself with the Immortal Concealment Talisman and headed toward the Magic Dust Sect's teleportation array while asking Chen Changsheng for help.
• Ancestor Tianxiang searched for Li Xiuchang, then spread pink smoke that stirred desire throughout the area and revealed his presence.
• Li Xiuchang resisted Tianxiang's bewitching art, then used the Length Cheat to explode one of her eyeballs.

Li Xiuchang used Length Value to break Ancestor Tianxiang’s charm-induced control and tricked her into being sent away with Send Enemy a Thousand Miles. After reuniting with Chen Changsheng, he learned that the group planned to seize the weakened Dark Heaven Realm, unaware that Ancestor Tianxiang had appeared in the Imperial Heaven Realm.

• Li Xiuchang burst Ancestor Tianxiang’s eyes and shattered her teeth with Length Value, eventually overcoming the pull of her Charm Techniques.
• Li Xiuchang conditioned Ancestor Tianxiang to ignore his finger-pointing, then used Send Enemy a Thousand Miles to make her vanish.
• Li Xiuchang escaped to an uninhabited place and met Chen Changsheng, who explained that he and Mo Tu had ascended to the Chaotic Star Realm.
• Chen Changsheng said he was investigating a Teleportation Array to the lower realms and warned Li Xiuchang to return to the Immortal Dust Sect in case Ancestor Tianxiang tracked him.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that he, Old Zhang, and the Chef couple planned to exploit the demonic sects’ losses and take the Dark Heaven Realm with reinforcements from the Imperial Heaven Realm.
• Ancestor Tianxiang appeared in the Imperial Heaven Realm’s imperial palace, causing a commotion.

After Ancestor Tianxiang escaped the Zhan Yue Immortal Dynasty’s Old Eunuchs gravely wounded, Li Xiuchang returned to the Immortal Dust Sect and learned that his senior brothers and sister were preparing to intervene in the Dark Heaven Realm. As they set out to negotiate and observe the conflict, Li remained behind to cultivate and study through his clone.

• Chen Changsheng told Li Xiuchang that Ancestor Tianxiang had escaped the Zhan Yue Immortal Dynasty’s Old Eunuchs, but her demonic body and most of her treasures had been destroyed or left behind.
• Chen Changsheng explained how national artifacts and immortal talismans could unleash power without triggering the Ascension Rule, and advised Li Xiuchang to return to the Immortal Dust Sect.
• Li Xiuchang returned to the Eastern Geng District, reunited Steadfast with Golden Horn, and joined his senior brothers and sister in discussing the danger Ancestor Tianxiang might still pose.
• Lu Yang, Zhang Wanzhi, and Xia Siyun examined Li Xiuchang for hidden marks, then discussed plans to defeat the remaining demonic experts and unify the Dark Heaven Realm with help from the Zhan Yue Immortal Dynasty.
• Chen Changsheng’s clone reported that the Zhan Yue Immortal Dynasty wanted the Wind Forest Realm in exchange for its cooperation, and the group accepted the arrangement.
• Several days later, Chen Changsheng, Lu Yang, and Xia Siyun left for the Dark Heaven Realm; Li Xiuchang kept Zhang Wanzhi’s Hundred Refinements Immortal Iron and prepared to cultivate while his clone attended classes.

Li Xiuchang adapted Nine Refinements of Demonic Corpses to strengthen his energy-crystal clone, then split off a fragment of his soul to create a second clone. With his true body and two clones sharing cultivation and work, his skills and Length Value advanced rapidly, and the chapter ended with news arriving from the Chaotic Star Realm.

• Li Xiuchang enhanced rare spirit-plant seeds, planting Sixth-Tier Netherfrost Grass and Heartburning Grass along with other tobacco varieties.
• Chen Changsheng praised Li Xiuchang's clone and modified the first three refinements of Nine Refinements of Demonic Corpses for it.
• Li Xiuchang used his blood and Buddha Heart Steel to refine the clone, creating a Blood Diamond Clone with increased durability and renewed potential for growth.
• After his true body awoke, Li Xiuchang split off a fragment of his soul and took direct control of the Blood Diamond Clone.
• Li Xiuchang divided duties among his true body, Second Nascent Soul, and Blood Diamond Clone, doubling his Length Value gains as his Talisman Dao and Array Path improved over three months.
• After nine years of cultivation, Li Xiuchang received good news from the Chaotic Star Realm.

Li Xiuchang prepared his clones and subordinates for the coming war to unify the Dark Heaven Realm while improving their strength and refining a Treasure Body for his Second Nascent Soul Clone. After Chen Changsheng and Senior Brother Mo returned through the completed teleportation array, Li Xiuchang sent his clones to join the battle and published a lucrative series of posts explaining how to make medicinal talismans.

• Li Xiuchang reviewed the Dark Heaven Realm's infighting and spent three months improving his talisman and formation skills, raising his Length Value and strengthening Golden Horn and the malevolent spirits.
• Li Xiuchang used the Undying Armor to forge a Treasure Body for his Second Nascent Soul Clone, while the Blood Diamond Clone absorbed blood and metal materials to improve its defenses and gain new attacks.
• Chen Changsheng and Senior Brother Mo returned to the Dark Heaven Realm with Pure Land Realm Monks and experts from the Zhan Yue Immortal Dynasty, and Chen Changsheng said the final battle would begin the next day.
• Li Xiuchang sent his two clones and their subordinates to the Dark Heaven Realm, while his main body stayed behind to train and publish a multi-part medicinal-talisman method on the Preaching Ranking.
• Talisman masters praised Li Xiuchang's medicinal-talisman posts as a major breakthrough, and they protested when he immediately began posting a separate series on improving medicinal talismans.

Li Xiuchang helped the allied forces defeat the Dark Heaven Realm’s demonic sects, and the Magic Dust Sect took control of the realm and began imposing the New Demonic Path. After helping choose the sect’s leaders and claim spoils, Li Xiuchang returned to the Immortal Dust Sect, where Chu Ya revealed that he had become involved with a woman and needed help.

• Li Xiuchang released improved alchemical-talisman methods, gained devoted support from Talisman Masters, and considered creating a foundation for low-tier practitioners.
• Mo Tu and a three-realm allied army defeated the Dark Heaven Realm’s native devil-forming experts, while Li Xiuchang and his allies hunted the fleeing remnants of the Four Great Demonic Sects.
• The New Demonic Cult and its allies purged the remaining demonic sects, unified the Dark Heaven Realm under the Magic Dust Sect, and outlawed cultivation methods that required killing people.
• Mo Tu appointed Li Xiuchang and several Senior Brothers and Sisters as Vice Sect Masters, and Li Xiuchang claimed treasures including the Mutated Old Ghost, Earth Vein Blood, and Demonic Corpses.
• After months of cultivation in the Immortal Dust Sect, Li Xiuchang met with Chu Ya, Song Yu, and Pang Yuanfu, and Chu Ya asked them for help because he had become involved with a woman.

Chu Ya sought help using his Junior Brothers’ identities to evade Ye Yuqiu, while Li Xiuchang managed the Four Immortals Merchant Association and welcomed his clones back from the Dark Heaven Realm. He discovered that the Mutated Old Ghost could turn Yin souls into Fierce Fiend Soul Stones, opening a way to cultivate powerful Yin souls.

• Chu Ya explained that Ye Yuqiu, a powerful cultivator he had once rejected, was waiting outside the Immortal Dust Sect, and he asked Li Xiuchang, Song Yu, and Pang Yuanfu for blood to make disguises with Mother Can't Discern Ointment.
• Chu Ya used Pang Yuanfu’s blood to disguise himself as Pang Yuanfu and prepared to leave the sect, while Li Xiuchang returned home and approved Wang Long’s recruitment documents for the Four Immortals Merchant Association.
• Li Xiuchang encouraged Wang Long to recruit more trusted talisman masters and revealed that he was a Peak Second Tier Talisman Master, prompting Wang Long to renew his resolve to practice.
• Half a month later, Li Xiuchang’s two clones returned from the Dark Heaven Realm with Zhang Wanzhi and Chen Changsheng, bringing treasures and hundreds of demon corpses.
• Li Xiuchang examined the Earth Vein Blood, gave the Cold Soul Jade to Su Qingchun to help Yin souls purge Malevolent Energy, and tested the Mutated Old Ghost’s ability to absorb soul power.
• Li Xiuchang found that the Mutated Old Ghost could form a Fierce Fiend Soul Stone from absorbed soul power and restore its soul body by devouring a Fierce Ghost.

Li Xiuchang used the Cold Soul Jade and Su Qingchun’s Righteous Qi to help Su Qingchun possess the consciousnessless Mutated Old Ghost, then sent his clones and himself to pursue cultivation and crafting work. Meanwhile, Chu Ya’s disguise as Pang Yuanfu failed to protect him from three Desire Demon Sect cultivators, who chased him and urged him to join their sect as its Holy Son.

• Li Xiuchang discovered that the Mutated Old Ghost had lost its consciousness to Malevolent Energy and proposed that Su Qingchun use a split soul to control it.
• Li Xiuchang advised Su Qingchun to pursue both the Confucian Path and the Ghost Path, and Su Qingchun sent a split soul into the Mutated Old Ghost.
• The Malevolent Energy overwhelmed Su Qingchun’s split soul until Li Xiuchang wrote the opening lines of the Song of Righteous Qi, letting Su Qingchun drive it back and control the Mutated Old Ghost.
• Li Xiuchang divided tasks among his clones and went to Zhang Wanzhi to discuss refining the Rainbow Soul Banner and improving Nine Refinements of Demonic Corpses.
• Three Desire Demon Sect cultivators followed Chu Ya after he left the Immortal Dust Sect disguised as Pang Yuanfu.
• Chu Ya recognized the white-clad woman’s Charm Techniques, severed his love silks, and fled as the three cultivators pursued him and tried to recruit him as their Holy Son.

Chu Ya, disguised as Li Xiuchang, was captured by Ancestor Tianxiang, while Li Xiuchang learned through a strange connection that Chu Ya was in danger. Chen Changsheng advised Li Xiuchang to wait rather than alert the Immortal Dust Sect, and the chapter ended when Chu Ya sent Li Xiuchang a message.

• Chu Ya escaped three Desire Demon Sect pursuers, disguised himself as Li Xiuchang, and entered a marketplace without noticing the Dharma Image appearing behind him.
• Li Xiuchang trained with Zhang Wanzhi, reached Fifth-Tier artifact-refining skill, upgraded the Rainbow Soul Banner into a Mid-grade Spirit Treasure, and strengthened his Blood Diamond Clone with demonic beast bones and meat.
• While feeding the Blood Diamond Clone, Li Xiuchang saw through the Dharma Image as Ancestor Tianxiang confronted Chu Ya and learned that Chu Ya had taken on Li Xiuchang's appearance.
• Ancestor Tianxiang hypnotized Chu Ya, learned that Li Xiuchang was his junior brother, and carried Chu Ya toward the Immortal Dust Sect.
• Chen Changsheng confirmed that Li Xiuchang's vision was real and advised him not to alert the sect's Grand Elders; after Gui Wuyan gave no reply, Li Xiuchang waited inside the sect.
• Several days later, Li Xiuchang received a transmission from Chu Ya.

Li Xiuchang helped Chen Changsheng and Zhang Wanzhi set a trap for Ancestor Tianxiang, who tried to capture him at the White Crane Inn. Ye Yuqiu intervened, Ancestor Tianxiang escaped by sending a substitute to ascend, and Chu Ya began to feel affection for Ye Yuqiu after she saved him.

• Li Xiuchang and Chen Changsheng arranged to meet Chu Ya at White Crane Inn, and Zhang Wanzhi equipped Li Xiuchang with Father-Son Armor before accompanying him with Chen Changsheng.
• Ye Yuqiu arrived at the inn, seized Chu Ya, and fought Ancestor Tianxiang when she attacked Li Xiuchang.
• Li Xiuchang warned Ye Yuqiu that Ancestor Tianxiang had planted a love seed in Chu Ya, prompting Ye Yuqiu to intensify her attack and trigger the Ascension Rule.
• Ancestor Tianxiang used an immortal-level substitute to ascend in her place, while Chu Tianfan and the other Immortal Dust Sect Grand Elders arrived and a talisman saved Ye Yuqiu from ascending.
• After Chu Ya awoke and learned Ye Yuqiu had been injured saving him, his guilt and concern stirred new affection for her.

After Ancestor Tianxiang escaped, the Immortal Dust Sect tightened security while Chu Ya set out with Ye Yuqiu to sever his love silks. Three months later, Li Xiuchang returned from the Dark Heaven Realm and prepared to use his accumulated Length Value to break through to Sixth Tier Body Cultivator.

• Chu Ya recounted how Ancestor Tianxiang had abducted him, and the Immortal Dust Sect Grand Elders realized she had targeted Li Xiuchang to plant Dao Heart Seed Love.
• Zhang Wanzhi tracked Ancestor Tianxiang to Immortal Severing Cliff, but Gui Wuyan stopped him from pursuing her into the lower realm.
• Ye Yuqiu examined Li Xiuchang, then agreed to travel with Chu Ya and protect him as he severed his love silks; the Immortal Dust Sect activated its outer formation.
• After three months, Senior Brother Mo confirmed Ancestor Tianxiang had left no tracking mark on Li Xiuchang, and Li Xiuchang returned from the Dark Heaven Realm.
• Li Xiuchang improved his cultivation and arts while his Blood Diamond Clone practiced, then summoned his Vajra Dharma Image and spent Length Value to attempt a Sixth Tier Body Cultivator breakthrough.

Li Xiuchang advanced to Sixth-grade Body Cultivation, entered the Origin World through his Dharma Form, and found that its Great Daos made cultivation easier. After reaching the middle stage of Spirit Transformation and helping his Yin Souls choose paths, he agreed to consider Wenwen’s request to visit the Divine Turtle Realm, while Chen Changsheng delayed a trip to the newly connected Underground World after discovering its native people and Confucian traditions.

• Li Xiuchang spent six hundred inches of Length Value to break through to Sixth-grade Body Cultivation and form a Golden Body.
• Li Xiuchang asked Zhang Wanzhi about the Origin World, then entered it as his golden Mind Monkey Dharma Form and explored its natural and man-made Great Daos.
• Li Xiuchang returned from the Origin World after comprehending the Five Elements Dao and advanced to the middle stage of Spirit Transformation a little over ten days later.
• Wangcai and the Yin Soul Wolf King reached fifth grade, and Li Xiuchang chose the Yin aspect of the Yin and Yang Dao for Wangcai and the Soul Dao for the wolf.
• Li Xiuchang agreed to consider Wenwen’s request for help in the Divine Turtle Realm and visited Chen Changsheng, who said his new teleportation array led to the Underground World.
• Chen Changsheng told Li Xiuchang that he had found native people in the Underground World who preserved the Confucian Path, and said he would investigate further before taking the others there.

Chen Changsheng and Li Xiuchang discussed the decline of the Confucian and Buddhist Paths, the vast Demon Suppressing Realm, and plans involving Wengwa. After Zhao Yuansi became a Sixth-Tier Alchemy Grandmaster, Li Xiuchang congratulated him, and Zhao Yuansi asked whether he would take over Danxiang Tower.

• Chen Changsheng told Li Xiuchang that the Demon Suppressing Realm's people had once prospered through Confucian cultivation before the Confucian Path was severed and their civilization declined.
• Chen Changsheng and Li Xiuchang suspected that the Buddhist Path also faced difficulties, and Chen Changsheng revealed that he had sent clones to investigate whether passages from different worlds led to the same Demon Suppressing Realm.
• Chen Changsheng proposed that monks help Wengwa clear the Divine Turtle Realm before he took Wengwa to other worlds of demonic cultivators.
• After half a month of secluded cultivation, Li Xiuchang learned that Zhao Yuansi had broken through and become a Sixth-Tier Alchemy Grandmaster.
• Li Xiuchang prepared a congratulatory gift for Zhao Yuansi, while Su Qingchun handwritten a poetry collection using authors Li Xiuchang named, including Li Bai and Su Shi.
• At Zhao Yuansi's celebration, Li Xiuchang gave him Spirit Medicine and later met with him and Su Qingchun; Zhao Yuansi asked whether Li Xiuchang wanted to take over Danxiang Tower.

Li Xiuchang took over Danxiang Tower from Zhao Yuansi, transformed its first-floor offerings into a hit, and traveled to the Pure Land Realm to seek reinforcements for Wanwan. There, he discovered Lying Grass growing in Master Hui Ren’s room and found information about the trial grounds hidden within the Buddhist Dao Origin.

• Zhao Yuansi transferred Danxiang Tower to Li Xiuchang for six hundred million Spirit Stones after explaining that he would manage the sect’s Market merchants.
• Li Xiuchang put Little Zhu in charge of Danxiang Tower and stocked its shelves with his unusual creations, which quickly sold out and attracted eager customers.
• After two months of cultivation, Li Xiuchang traveled to the Pure Land Realm and asked Master Hui Ren to send monks to help his turtle friend in a demonic cultivator world.
• Hui Ren showed Li Xiuchang Lying Grass growing around his sleeping mat, then arranged for monks to travel to the Divine Turtle Realm.
• Li Xiuchang entered the Origin World from the Pure Land Realm, studied the Buddhist Dao’s Sentient Dao, and received information about the trial grounds from within the Buddhist Dao Origin.

Li Xiuchang discovered that the Pure Land Realm’s trial grounds were hidden beneath a stone Buddha at Pure Land Temple, and he brought Chen Changsheng and Zhang Wanzhi to investigate. Zhang Wanzhi befriended the trial’s creator, Shi Tian, and secured Li Xiuchang permission to enter the trial early as Shi Tian opened the entrance.

• Li Xiuchang learned from the Buddhist Dao Origin how to reach the Pure Land Realm and where its trial grounds were hidden.
• Li Xiuchang brought Chen Changsheng and Zhang Wanzhi to the stone Buddha in Pure Land Temple’s back mountain, where Chen Changsheng’s formations revealed an entrance beneath its feet.
• Zhang Wanzhi began forcing the entrance open, prompting the great wooden fish to arrive from the Myriad Mountains Realm and attack him.
• Zhang Wanzhi fought off the wooden fish, then changed tactics and persuaded its owner, Shi Tian, to make peace.
• Shi Tian agreed to let Li Xiuchang take the trial early and opened the doorway beneath the stone Buddha.

Li Xiuchang passed the Buddhist trial, gained insight into the Sentient Dao, and learned the Great Dream True Scripture. After returning, he and his senior brothers brought Shi Tian to the Magic Dust Sect, where an extravagant welcome left Shi Tian resigned to explaining some of his secrets.

• Li Xiuchang entered the Origin World trial, chose the Buddhist Origin branch concerning all beings being equal, and used its teachings to strengthen his Equalizer Dao.
• A little monk awarded Li Xiuchang the Great Dream True Scripture, which he mastered in a dream and then tested alongside the Dream Entering Pill.
• Li Xiuchang left the trial and accepted Shi Tian's invitation to visit the Magic Dust Sect, while Zhang Wanzhi and Chen Changsheng pressed Shi Tian for information.
• Chen Changsheng told Li Xiuchang that Shi Tian might not have created the trial and that the little monk could have been the wooden fish's true master.
• The Magic Dust Sect staged a grand welcome for Shi Tian, including a golden statue of him, and Shi Tian accepted that he would have to reveal some secrets.

Shi Tian shared fragments about Immortal Shade, the severed Confucian Path, and the Demon Suppressing Realm before revealing that he came from the Seventh Layer World. Li Xiuchang settled in the Dark Heaven Realm to cultivate and train, advanced his Soul Slicing Saber into a Spirit Treasure, and then heard that new neighbors had arrived in the Eastern Geng District.

• After a vegetarian meal at the Magic Dust Sect, Shi Tian answered questions by revealing that Immortal Shade connected to another world, the Confucian Path's origin had been destroyed, and a terrifying being was sealed in the Demon Suppressing Realm.
• Shi Tian told Li Xiuchang and the others that he came from the Seventh Layer World, explained that passages in his world connected to many realms, and gave Zhang Wanzhi a wooden fish for contacting him before departing.
• Li Xiuchang stayed in the Dark Heaven Realm, studied the Nine Refinements of Demonic Corpses, taught the Great Dream True Scripture to his ghosts, and reclaimed a thousand-mu medicine field to practice spirit planting.
• Li Xiuchang focused on advancing Spirit Plant Cultivation and Artifact Refining, while his clones cultivated other arts and the Magic Dust Sect trained craftsmen for the Dark Heaven Realm.
• On the tenth anniversary of his cultivation, Li Xiuchang's Soul Slicing Saber advanced into a Low-grade Spirit Treasure and gained more than a twenty-percent increase in power from Misty Qi.
• After another two months, Zhang Wanzhi and Chen Changsheng told Li Xiuchang that unfamiliar new neighbors had arrived in the Eastern Geng District.

Li Xiuchang expanded his second Dantian space, used its Misty Qi to strengthen his treasures, and helped recruit Xue Qingshan to expose Devil Dao remnants. The chapter ended with Li Xiuchang’s Second Nascent Soul Clone awakening after the Equalizer Dao broke through.

• Li Xiuchang invested 1,150 inches of Length Value to expand his second Dantian space into a twenty-meter cube and used its Misty Qi to empower the Rainbow Soul Banner and Soul Slicing Saber.
• Mo Tu revealed that the new neighbor, Xue Qingshan—formerly Xue Lihai—had left the Bloodthirsty Sect and crippled his cultivation to join the Immortal Dust Sect.
• Li Xiuchang and Mo Tu offered Xue Qingshan a place in the Magic Dust Sect if he helped locate Devil Dao forces, and Xue Qingshan agreed after seeing the sect for himself.
• Li Xiuchang lent Xue Qingshan the Rainbow Soul Banner and sent him back to the Immortal Dust Sect to contact the Bloodthirsty Sect and uncover demonic remnants.
• Li Xiuchang planted spirit plants in his enlarged Dantian space and continued farming and refining artifacts in the Magic Dust Sect.
• Half a month after Xue Qingshan returned to the Bloodthirsty Sect, Li Xiuchang’s Second Nascent Soul Clone awakened as the Equalizer Dao broke through.

Li Xiuchang reached minor mastery in Equalizer Dao, advanced to the Void Refinement Stage, and learned that the Immortal Dust Sect needed him for a task involving the demonic path. Elder Xu hinted that Li Xiuchang might again be asked to infiltrate demonic cultivators, leaving him facing an assignment he had already anticipated.

• Li Xiuchang used his minor mastery of Equalizer Dao to comprehend natural daos in dreams, while his Spirit Plant Cultivation Arts advanced to the Sixth Tier.
• Xue Qingshan seized control of the Bloodthirsty Sect with a Mahayana Stage Yin Soul and arranged a Demonic Arts Convention, claiming he had found another Demon Sealing Land.
• Li Xiuchang's cultivation reached the peak of Spirit Transformation, and he broke through to the Void Refinement Stage; his Second Nascent Soul Clone broke through as well.
• Li Xiuchang discovered that his stronger Spiritual Sense, upgraded Soul Slicing Saber, and expanded second Dantian had greatly increased his power.
• Mo Tu gave Li Xiuchang the later cultivation methods for the "Charcoal Burning Skill" and told him the Immortal Dust Sect wanted him to meet Elder Xu.
• Elder Xu summoned Li Xiuchang and awkwardly confirmed his suspicion that the sect might want him to disguise himself as a demonic cultivator and infiltrate them again.