Chapter Summaries

After defeating Du Kong and the Red-haired Demonic Cultivator, Li Xiuchang learned that a bounty had drawn Nascent Soul Tribulation cultivators to hunt him. He hid in a cave, shattered his Diamond Core, and formed a powerful Diamond Nascent Soul, entering the Nascent Soul Realm.

• Li Xiuchang defeated Du Kong and pursued the Red-haired Demonic Cultivator until he destroyed his body and sealed his fleeing Nascent Soul with a Spirit Sealing Talisman.
• The Red-haired Demonic Cultivator confessed that he and Du Kong had sought Li Xiuchang because someone had placed a bounty on him, so Li Xiuchang decided to lie low and cultivate.
• Li Xiuchang prepared a concealed cave, used the Soul Slicing Saber and Equalizer Dao to shatter his Diamond Core, and controlled its released magic power.
• Li Xiuchang formed a transparent, exceptionally hard Diamond Nascent Soul that let him borrow an additional thirty percent of the power of heaven and earth.
• Li Xiuchang entered the Nascent Soul Realm after less than six years of cultivation and set his sights on reaching Spirit Transformation before turning thirty.

After Li Xiuchang reached the Nascent Soul Stage, his Second Diamond Core and Soul Slicing Saber grew stronger, and he planned to turn the core into a clone at the Deity Transformation Stage. He learned his senior brothers were trapped inside a wooden fish, then Chen Changsheng arrived with a clone to take him to rescue them.

• Li Xiuchang completed his Nascent Soul breakthrough, and his Soul Slicing Saber advanced to a Mid-grade Magic Treasure.
• Li Xiuchang decided to keep his Second Diamond Core intact for now and transform it into a Nascent Soul clone after reaching the Deity Transformation Stage.
• Zhang Wanzhi and Mo Tu remained trapped inside a wooden fish, where they had lost the first two games against a Faceless Monk and debated waiting for rescue.
• Li Xiuchang's Second Diamond Core completed its magical-power upgrade, and he added more Thousand Jun Stones to increase its weight and might.
• Chen Changsheng arrived at Li Xiuchang's cave as a clone and invited him to help rescue Zhang Wanzhi and Mo Tu.

Chen Changsheng and Li Xiuchang found Zhang Wanzhi and Mo Tu trapped inside a wooden fish, where a Faceless Monk challenged them to chess. After Chen Changsheng lost one game, he decided to use Gui Wuyan’s divination to cheat and try again.

• Chen Changsheng told Li Xiuchang that Gui Wuyan had sent him to help rescue Zhang Wanzhi and Mo Tu, and the two flew to their location together.
• Chen Changsheng and Li Xiuchang discovered an illusion array hiding a giant wooden fish and entered through a crack.
• Zhang Wanzhi and Mo Tu explained that the wooden fish’s Faceless Monk had trapped them in a best-of-three chess challenge, likely because they had disrupted trials in the Buddha-head space.
• Li Xiuchang explained that the Buddha-head trial had directed him to continue to the Pure Land Realm, a world the others had not heard of.
• Chen Changsheng played the Faceless Monk, conceded after struggling in the first game, and announced that he would use divination to win the next one.

Chen Changsheng helped Li Xiuchang, Zhang Wanzhi, and Mo Tu win the first game against the Faceless Monk through a chess match aided by Gui Wuyan’s costly divination. The Faceless Monk disqualified Chen Changsheng from the second game and began a team challenge whose outcome rested with two Nascent Souls.

• Chen Changsheng and Gui Wuyan played a long-distance chess match against the Faceless Monk, with Gui Wuyan consuming Longevity Pills and Longevity Noodles to pay for his divinations.
• The Faceless Monk resigned, but then expelled Chen Changsheng for suspected cheating and threatened to annul the victory if the others refused to continue.
• The Faceless Monk set up a team game in which the players had to obtain the Chess Basket containing a hidden piece, while their opponents could switch baskets once.
• The Faceless Monk brought two Nascent Souls from Li Xiuchang’s Beast Taming Bag to serve as opponents, and Li Xiuchang inspected the baskets before being isolated.
• Zhang Wanzhi and Mo Tu chose the left basket, leaving the two Nascent Souls with the right basket and the choice to switch.

Li Xiuchang helped Zhang Wanzhi and Mo Tu win their second game inside the giant wooden fish by deliberately giving them false information, then escaped with them and returned to the Immortal Dust Sect. The chapter ended with Li Xiuchang reuniting with his companions and going to see what Little Chen the Turtle had taught Jin Jiao.

• Zhang Wanzhi and Mo Tu tried to fool two Nascent Soul opponents over which chess basket held a piece, while Li Xiuchang secretly told them the wrong basket; the opponents exchanged baskets, and Zhang and Mo discovered they had won.
• The Faceless Monk refused to release the defeated Nascent Souls, and Li Xiuchang asked him to kill them; after they became yin souls, Li Xiuchang subdued and sealed them in a Gourd Artifact.
• The Faceless Monk sent Li Xiuchang, Zhang Wanzhi, and Mo Tu out of the wooden fish, where Chen Changsheng was waiting; Zhang and Mo teased Li Xiuchang for doubting them, and he explained that Gui Wuyan's divination had prompted his choice.
• The group left the wooden fish untouched, and Chen Changsheng stayed behind to watch for its owner; Zhang Wanzhi and Mo Tu helped Li Xiuchang ascend back to the Immortal Shade Realm with the yin souls.
• Li Xiuchang, Zhang Wanzhi, and Mo Tu returned to the Immortal Dust Sect, where their companions welcomed them and Lu Yang prepared a meal; afterward, Li Xiuchang went to see Jin Jiao and check Little Chen the Turtle's training.

After returning to the Immortal Dust Sect, Li Xiuchang tested Golden Horn’s formidable defenses and learned that its lessons from Steady-Steady had convinced it that it was a turtle. He then told Chu Ya that Xia Siyun was about to become Lu Yang’s Dao Companion, but a drawing of a woman from Li Xiuchang’s travels stirred Chu Ya with a possible connection to his first love.

• Li Xiuchang discovered that Golden Horn had advanced to Late Third-grade and learned Turtle Mimicry Technique, believing itself to be a turtle after studying with Steady-Steady.
• Li Xiuchang tested Golden Horn’s shell with increasingly powerful punches, finding it could withstand an Early Fourth-grade attack with only a shallow dent, while Golden Horn cried out from fright.
• Chu Ya visited Li Xiuchang and asked about Xia Siyun’s relationship with Lu Yang after she had refused to see him.
• Li Xiuchang told Chu Ya that Xia Siyun and Lu Yang were about to become Dao Companions, leaving Chu Ya grief-stricken.
• Li Xiuchang drew a woman he had seen in the Sea Boat Realm, and Chu Ya said she resembled the woman he had fallen in love with when he was young.

Li Xiuchang helped Chu Ya sever his love for Senior Sister Xia, allowing him to begin forming his Nascent Soul. He then raised Su Qingchun, Wangcai, and the Malevolent Spirit Wolf King to fourth grade, leaving them as three powerful generals under his command.

• Li Xiuchang told Chu Ya about another man who had fallen in love at first sight with the same woman, and Chu Ya recognized that Dao Heart Seed Love had influenced his feelings.
• Chu Ya decided to stop pursuing Senior Sister Xia, severed the thread of love binding him to her, and entered Li Xiuchang’s cultivation room to form his Nascent Soul.
• Li Xiuchang returned to the Smoked Meat Factory, found Su Qingchun managing it efficiently, and prepared his three strongest Malevolent Spirits to break through to fourth grade.
• Li Xiuchang had the Three Great Malevolent Spirits absorb the Scrawny Old Man’s Malevolent Spirit and gave Paw Patrol the Catfish Demonic Cultivator’s Malevolent Spirit, then boosted their cultivation with Netherfrost Fruit Spirit Liquid.
• Su Qingchun, Wangcai, and the Malevolent Spirit Wolf King broke through to fourth grade, giving Li Xiuchang three fourth-grade generals under his command.
• Li Xiuchang asked the three Malevolent Spirits to show their Soul Pearls and saw that Su Qingchun’s radiated a peaceful aura unlike the sinister pearls of Wangcai and the Malevolent Spirit Wolf King.

Li Xiuchang experimented with enlarging and compressing Wangcai’s Soul Pearl, discovering a way to improve a Yin Soul’s cultivation, then tested whether the same method could work on his Nascent Soul. After the experiment failed to compress its magic power, he created meridians within the Nascent Soul and successfully prepared it to cultivate the Charcoal Burning Skill.

• Li Xiuchang enlarged Wangcai’s Soul Pearl and found that drawing out soul power to expand its body, then compressing it back into the pearl, slightly improved its cultivation.
• Li Xiuchang returned to the Four Immortals Merchant Association and reviewed its growth with Wang Long before returning to the Eastern Geng District.
• Chu Ya emerged from seclusion after forming a Heavenly Dao Nascent Soul and left to pursue a higher realm, while Zhang Wanzhi went to make up lessons with his masters.
• Li Xiuchang enlarged his Nascent Soul and tested whether transferring magic power could compress it, but its cultivation quality did not improve.
• Li Xiuchang enlarged his Nascent Soul until he could precisely shape its internal magic power, then created meridians for the Charcoal Burning Skill.

Li Xiuchang discovered that his Nascent Soul could cultivate independently at ten times his body's speed and planned to create a second Nascent Soul to accelerate his progress further. Chen Changsheng revealed that he was building a cross-realm Teleportation Array to help the people of the Immortal Shade Realm escape, and Li Xiuchang agreed to assist him.

• Li Xiuchang opened meridians in his Nascent Soul and found that cultivating the Charcoal Burning Skill with it was about ten times faster than cultivating with his physical body.
• Li Xiuchang confirmed that his body and Nascent Soul could cultivate at the same time, though his body's contribution was negligible.
• Li Xiuchang planned to transform his Second Diamond Core into another Nascent Soul so the two could cultivate together.
• Chen Changsheng told Li Xiuchang that his main body had entered seclusion to construct a Teleportation Array linking the Immortal Shade Realm to other worlds.
• Chen Changsheng asked Li Xiuchang to send one of his clones to another realm each day, and Li Xiuchang agreed and sent the clone away.

Li Xiuchang formed a Second Nascent Soul and discovered that it could cultivate in tandem with his main Nascent Soul, greatly accelerating his progress toward Spirit Transformation. After arranging a new class schedule and taking Golden Horn out with him, he met Chen Changsheng’s clone, who gave Golden Horn a secret technique before Li Xiuchang sent him away.

• Li Xiuchang enlarged the Second Diamond Core, formed a Second Nascent Soul, and expanded it to match his physical body, also enlarging the second Dantian space.
• Li Xiuchang placed his main Nascent Soul inside the Second Nascent Soul and found that their synchronized cultivation yielded about twenty times the experience of idle cultivation, leading him to expect to attempt Spirit Transformation in three years.
• Li Xiuchang revised his curriculum, replacing Chen Changsheng’s unavailable Talisman Arts class with Xia Siyun’s Pill Arts class and declining Gui Wuyan’s offer to teach Divination Arts.
• Li Xiuchang began cultivating both Nascent Souls with spirit stones at home and stored them in the second Dantian while attending classes outside.
• Li Xiuchang took Golden Horn out to meet people and encountered Chen Changsheng’s clone, who gave Golden Horn a secret technique before Li Xiuchang sent the clone away.

Li Xiuchang brought Golden Horn to meet Senior Brother Gui Wuyan and learned more about his fellow senior brothers and sisters. When Gui Wuyan divined the Pure Land Realm, he spent a year of his lifespan but used a pill to regain two years, leaving him pleased with the bargain.

• Li Xiuchang examined Chen Changsheng's secret art, Return Their Body, and decided Golden Horn would focus on defense despite its limited active offense.
• After Zhang Wanzhi was called away to extra lessons, Li Xiuchang took Golden Horn to meet Gui Wuyan, who gave Golden Horn a Disaster Sign as a meeting gift.
• Gui Wuyan shared gossip about Chen Changsheng, Lu Yang and Xia Siyun, and Mo Tu, including that Lu Yang and Xia Siyun had disbanded their Mandarin Duck Sect.
• Li Xiuchang asked whether Gui Wuyan knew about the Pure Land Realm, and Gui Wuyan began divining it despite the risk to his lifespan.
• Gui Wuyan's hair turned white and the light faded from his eyes, but he swallowed a pill that restored two black hairs and his vitality, then declared that he had gained nine years of life from the divination.

Li Xiuchang learned from Gui Wuyan that the Pure Land Realm was a sealed Buddhist world with no way out, though it had been created to cultivate powerful Buddhist Cultivators. After leaving Gui Wuyan, Li Xiuchang searched the Library Pavilion for clues about his neighboring senior brothers and sisters and found a book mentioning the Mandarin Duck Couple.

• Gui Wuyan risked his life to calculate secrets about the Pure Land Realm, then told Li Xiuchang it had no Upper Realm or passage to the outside world.
• Gui Wuyan revealed that a powerful being had created the Pure Land Realm to cultivate formidable Buddhist Cultivators, but he could not answer Li Xiuchang's question about the Desire Demon Sect cultivator.
• Li Xiuchang decided he would not enter the Pure Land Realm until he knew how to leave, and considered asking Chen Changsheng to send a clone to investigate.
• Li Xiuchang left Gui Wuyan and searched the outer sect Library Pavilion for information about his neighboring senior brothers and sisters.
• Li Xiuchang found the ancient book Immortal Shade Love Stories and identified a powerful couple known as the Mandarin Duck Couple.

Li Xiuchang uncovered the past identities of three senior brothers and sisters, then devoted himself to Marrow Refining and studying formations. Two months later, Chen Changsheng reported that he had found the Pure Land Realm, though one of his clones had been captured there.

• Li Xiuchang learned that Senior Brother Lu Yang and Senior Sister Xia Siyun were the Mandarin Duck Couple, who had ascended and later returned to the Immortal Shade Realm.
• Li Xiuchang found Senior Brother Chen Changsheng’s past recorded as Chen Changshou, the cautious Turtle Immortal who had ascended after a long life of avoiding danger and romance.
• Li Xiuchang failed to find records of Zhang Wanzhi, Mo Tu, and Gui Wuyan, but concluded that he had identified the origins of three of his six senior brothers and sisters.
• Li Xiuchang returned home and practiced Marrow Refining with Arhat Tree Sap while studying formations, then continued his studies and training over the next two months.
• Chen Changsheng told Li Xiuchang that he had located the Pure Land Realm, where one of his clones had ascended and been captured.

Li Xiuchang advanced his cultivation, skills, and malevolent spirit forces while preparing for future expeditions. After completing Marrow Refining and reaching Peak Fourth-grade Body Cultivator cultivation, he poured his Length Values into enlarging his Vajra Dharma Image, but it still had not broken through.

• Chen Changsheng told Li Xiuchang that his captured clone was alive and planned to negotiate with the Pure Land Realm’s leaders about cooperation and an inter-realm Teleportation Array.
• Li Xiuchang attended class at Eastern Geng District Number Thirteen, where Lu Yang discussed their Spicy Immortal Chili Sauce and Xia Siyun began preparing a Longevity Pill for Senior Brother Gui.
• After two months of study, Li Xiuchang raised Spirit Plant Cultivation to Fourth-grade, improved several other skills, and accumulated more than six hundred inches of Length Value.
• Li Xiuchang enlarged the Soul Pearls of Wangcai, the Wolf King, and Su Qingchun, strengthening his malevolent spirit forces, and planned to gather more spirits from the New Demonic Path village and Green Cui Mountain.
• Half a month later, Li Xiuchang completed Marrow Refining and reached Peak Fourth-grade Body Cultivator cultivation, then spent Length Values enlarging his Vajra Dharma Image without triggering a breakthrough.

Li Xiuchang broke through to fifth-rank Body Refining and learned about Chen Changsheng’s plans to build a Teleportation Array between the Immortal Shade Realm and the Dark Heaven Realm. He then set out with Golden Horn and Paw Patrol to visit their old home, leaving Steady Steady behind.

• Li Xiuchang spent three hundred inches of length to break through to fifth-rank Body Refining, gaining immense qi and blood, stronger Spiritual Sense, and resistance to seals and evil beings.
• Li Xiuchang shaped his Vajra Dharma Image into a large rectangular prism and imagined using it as a Great Seal through his future clone.
• Chen Changsheng told Li Xiuchang that the Pure Land Realm had agreed to help him build a Teleportation Array, and he planned to establish the Immortal Shade Realm’s side in his Eastern Geng District home.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that his clone was preparing to build the other formation in the demonic-cultivator-ruled Dark Heaven Realm, which Li Xiuchang hoped to visit to slay demons.
• Li Xiuchang told Chen Changsheng he would be away, then left in the Abalone Flying Boat with Golden Horn and Paw Patrol to visit their old home.
• Steady Steady tried to join them, but Li Xiuchang refused and left, prompting Steady Steady to angrily call them wicked disciples.

Li Xiuchang freed the Wolf Souls from the mine, visited the New Demonic Path village to collect two Fifth-Tier Fierce Ghosts, and tested his strength against them. On the way to Green Cui Mountain, he tried riding Golden Horn but found it uncomfortable and disappointing, leaving him still without a suitable mount.

• Li Xiuchang reunited the twenty miner Wolf Souls with Wangcai and the Paw Patrol, then collected them into the Rainbow Soul Banner to bring them to the Yin Soul Factory.
• Li Xiuchang visited the New Demonic Path village, made snacks for the children, and entered the building sealing Fierce Ghosts.
• Li Xiuchang climbed to the sixth floor, resisted three Sixth-Tier Yin Souls, and turned back when a barrier blocked the staircase to the seventh floor.
• Li Xiuchang subdued a Fifth-Tier Crow Soul and an old-man Fierce Ghost, then collected Spirit Medicine and left the village.
• Li Xiuchang tried riding Golden Horn toward Green Cui Mountain, but the beetle's size, noisy flight, and awkward riding positions convinced him it was a poor mount.

Li Xiuchang found the Yin-Soul Wolf King's former pack after learning it had been driven from Green Cui Mountain by a White Feathered Eagle. After reuniting the wolves, he learned their lost Precious Medicine was a Golden Root Grass and decided to reclaim it.

• Li Xiuchang reached Green Cui Mountain, where the Yin-Soul Wolf King found its former habitat abandoned and asked him to uncover what had happened to the pack.
• Wangcai captured a rat demon, which revealed that the wolves had been driven from Green Cui Mountain by a Tier 3 White Feathered Eagle after fighting over a Precious Medicine with the Sparrow Clan.
• Li Xiuchang flew to Green Cloud Mountain and released the wolf souls, reuniting the Yin-Soul Wolf King with its former pack.
• The Wolf King and its demons explained that the Precious Medicine grew atop a vast Coin Earth vein and had deep roots and a golden fruit.
• Li Xiuchang recognized the plant as Golden Root Grass, became excited by its rare fruit, and promised to seek justice against the White Feathered Eagle.

Li Xiuchang learned that the Golden Root Grass was guarded by the fifth-stage Golden Falcon, whose parents included the eighth-stage Silver Falcon King and the Golden-winged Great Peng. After investigating the area and learning more about the Golden Falcon, he devised a scheme involving a mysterious metal ore that could reflect attacks, and the rumor reached the Golden Falcon.

• Li Xiuchang learned that the Golden Falcon had taken the Golden Root Grass and that its mother was the eighth-stage Silver Falcon King, so he reconsidered confronting it directly.
• The Disaster Sign warned Li Xiuchang against his plan to send the Golden Falcon away, so he investigated the area around the Golden Root Grass instead.
• Li Xiuchang discovered the Golden Root Grass was enclosed in a metal structure and would mature in less than half a month, then received information about the Golden Falcon from Senior Brother Wang Long.
• Li Xiuchang learned that the Golden Falcon absorbed rare metals to cultivate and that the Golden Root Grass fruit suited its needs.
• Li Xiuchang returned to Green Cloud Mountain and spread news of a mysterious golden ore that reflected attacks, and the rumor reached the Golden Falcon.

Li Xiuchang used Golden Horn as fake reflective metal to lure the Golden Falcon away from the Golden Root Grass, then broke into the cage and harvested the mature fruit. The Golden Falcon still had not returned, and Li Xiuchang confirmed that Golden Horn and the Yin Souls were safe.

• The Golden Falcon sent the White Feathered Eagle to investigate the reflective gold on Green Cloud Mountain, where it found Golden Horn disguised as an ore deposit.
• After the White Feathered Eagle reported back, the Golden Falcon sent it and a group of sparrows to guard the supposed metal while it waited for the Golden Root Grass to mature.
• Li Xiuchang sensed the grass nearing maturity and ordered the Yin Soul Wolf King, Wangcai, and Golden Horn to drive the White Feathered Eagle away and replace Golden Horn with a golden iron block.
• The Golden Falcon left to protect the metal, and Li Xiuchang broke through the cage’s formations while the Golden Falcon was away.
• Li Xiuchang waited until the Golden Root Grass fully matured, stored its fruit, and then confirmed that Golden Horn, Wangcai, and the others had escaped safely.

Li Xiuchang learned how Golden Falcon was nearly killed by a Pig Demon before Silver Falcon King’s clone rescued it, then discovered that the Golden Root Grass fruit could grow stronger through repeated smelting and hammering. He named the seemingly limitless material Hundred Refinements Iron and realized it was an ideal match for his Length Cheat.

• Li Xiuchang avoided the demonic wind near Green Cui Mountain and studied the Coin Earth Grass fruit by hammering it.
• Through the wolf pack, Li Xiuchang learned that Golden Falcon had fought a powerful Pig Demon over a fake metal mine, and Silver Falcon King’s clone had rescued it.
• Li Xiuchang found that repeated smelting and hammering made the fruit denser and stronger, raising it from third-tier to fourth-tier material.
• Li Xiuchang used his Length Cheat to add material and enlisted Golden Horn, Wangcai, and the Yin-Soul Wolf King to help hammer it.
• Li Xiuchang named the upgradeable material Hundred Refinements Iron and realized he could use the Length Cheat to keep producing more of it.