Chapter Summaries

Li Yun reached Body Tempering Tenth Level, impressing Qiao Meng and Qiao Tai, who agreed to recommend him to the Yellow Martial Sect. With new identification and a place in Sand City, Li Yun prepared to help Qiao Meng improve his cultivation.

• Qiao Meng and Qiao Tai were astonished when Li Yun confirmed he had reached Body Tempering Tenth Level.
• Qiao Tai asked Li Yun why he could not return to Bright City, and Li Yun said he suspected his family and friends were gone.
• Li Yun told Qiao Tai he wanted to join the Yellow Martial Sect, and Qiao Tai agreed to recommend him, with the process expected to take about seven days.
• Qiao Meng gave Li Yun identification documents, a bank card, and a phone so he could live openly in Sand City.
• After Qiao Tai left, Li Yun offered to advise Qiao Meng on making his Body Tempering more efficient, and Qiao Meng recited the Yellow Martial Origin Art for him.

After Qiao Meng explained the Yellow Martial Origin Art, Li Yun used his All Wonders points to perfect and limit-break the technique, awakening the legendary Yellow Martial God Divine Gate. Qiao Meng was stunned by his effortless achievement and asked him to teach her the art.

• Li Yun saw the Yellow Martial Origin Art appear on his panel and spent points to raise it to Perfection and break past its limits.
• While Qiao Meng waited, Li Yun entered a state of insight and manifested the Yellow Martial God Divine Gate, drawing in Spirit Qi.
• Qiao Meng recognized the legendary Divine Gate and was shocked that Li Yun had awakened it after hearing her explanation once.
• Li Yun explained that the breakthrough had deepened his understanding of Body Tempering and could help him reach the Eleventh Level faster.
• Qiao Meng teased Li Yun about his motives, then humbly asked him to teach her the Yellow Martial Origin Art.

After seven days of helping Qiao Meng improve her Yellow Martial Origin Art, Li Yun was invited to stay at her house to avoid trouble from Wang Lifeng. He accepted, while teasing Qiao Meng about her promise not to charge him rent.

• Li Yun guided Qiao Meng’s cultivation, helping her break through to the Great Accomplishment Realm and approach Perfection.
• Wang Lifeng arrived at Qiao Meng’s hotel room with two younger men, but she refused to let them in and shut the door on them.
• Qiao Meng suspected Wang Lifeng had come because he was jealous of her being seen with Li Yun and worried he might retaliate against him.
• Qiao Meng proposed that Li Yun complete his Entry Realm formalities with her father and stay at her house, where Wang Lifeng would be less able to bother him.
• Li Yun agreed to stay at Qiao Meng’s house, and she promised not to charge him rent.

Li Yun joined the Yellow Martial Sect as an Outer Sect Disciple and learned how its Martial Dao Repository distributed martial arts and awarded points for cultivation insights. After hearing how rarely submissions on foundational techniques earned high ratings, he kept quiet about his breakthrough with the Yellow Martial Origin Art and went to choose his martial skills.

• Qiao Tai helped Li Yun complete the enrollment process, assigned him to Outer Sect Class 72, and gave him his disciple card and clothing.
• Qiao Tai explained Li Yun's classes, dormitory assignment, and entitlement to one cultivation method and three martial skills.
• Qiao Tai brought Li Yun to the Martial Dao Repository and explained how disciples earned points through tasks or approved Experience Compendiums.
• Li Yun learned that submissions required strict review and that very few insights on the Yellow Martial Origin Art had earned ratings above level three.
• Li Yun kept his Limit Breaking-level cultivation of the Yellow Martial Origin Art secret from Qiao Tai and prepared to choose his martial skills.

Li Yun chose a cultivation art and three martial techniques before meeting the manipulative Wang Lifeng at the sect gate. Qiao Tai warned Li Yun about Wang Lifeng’s past, and Li Yun suspected the missing Ye Chen would return to take revenge.

• Li Yun selected the Yellow Martial Origin Art, Mountain-Splitting Blade, Nine Coiling Mountain Forms, and Earth-Splitting Leg, then left with Qiao Tai.
• At the Yellow Martial Sect gate, Qiao Tai introduced Li Yun to Wang Lifeng, who offered to help him while Li Yun answered with pointed politeness.
• After Qiao Tai and Li Yun left, Wang Lifeng ordered his companions to investigate Li Yun and find out where he lived.
• Qiao Tai warned Li Yun that Wang Lifeng was a cunning, dangerous man with a powerful grandfather and a history of disciples disappearing or dying.
• Qiao Tai told Li Yun how Wang Lifeng had pursued Xu Na, who publicly broke her engagement with Ye Chen before later disappearing and being found dead.
• Li Yun recognized the familiar pattern in Ye Chen’s story and suspected Wang Lifeng’s actions would bring his downfall.

Li Yun stayed with Qiao Tai and learned how to prepare an Experience Compendium while Wang Lifeng recruited Luo Han to kill him. Wang Lifeng revealed that Qiao Meng's grandmother was Yu Jinlan, the Meng Family's old madam.

• Qiao Tai took Li Yun to his home in Pastoral Court, where Qiao Meng asked about the Martial Arts he had chosen.
• Li Yun told Qiao Meng he had selected One-Star Upper Grade Martial Arts, then asked her how to prepare an Experience Compendium.
• Wang Lifeng learned Li Yun was not staying in the Yellow Martial Sect dorms and blamed Qiao Meng and Qiao Tai for keeping him away.
• Wang Lifeng went to a nightclub and asked Luo Han to kill Li Yun.
• Wang Lifeng told Luo Han that Qiao Meng's grandmother was Yu Jinlan, the Meng Family's old madam.

Wang Lifeng ordered Bald Arhat to kill Li Yun within three days while hiding rumors about Yu Jinlan’s illness. At dinner, Qiao Tai told Qiao Meng that her grandmother was ill, and Li Yun revealed he had already mastered his new techniques and was preparing an Experience Compendium.

• Wang Lifeng learned that Qiao Meng was Yu Jinlan’s granddaughter and ordered Bald Arhat to have Li Yun killed within three days, warning him not to spread news of Yu Jinlan’s illness.
• Li Yun advanced his cultivation at home, having perfected three martial techniques and improved his Spirit Qi absorption, but he held back from beginning Aperture Refining.
• Qiao Tai told Qiao Meng that Yu Jinlan was ill and urged her to visit her grandmother the next morning; Qiao Meng postponed accompanying Li Yun to the Martial Dao Repository.
• Qiao Tai warned Li Yun not to rush his Experience Compendium, and Li Yun said he had perfected his collected techniques and comprehended the Yellow Martial Divine Gate, leaving Qiao Tai stunned.

Qiao Tai learned that Li Yun had mastered the Yellow Martial Origin Art and comprehended the Yellow Martial Divine Gate after hearing it recited once, and warned him to conceal his talent for now. Li Yun resolved to push the Body Tempering Realm beyond its known limits, and Qiao Tai gave him seven of his personal Martial Arts to help.

• Qiao Meng explained that Li Yun had mastered the Yellow Martial Origin Art and comprehended the Yellow Martial Divine Gate after she recited it once, leaving Qiao Tai astonished.
• Qiao Tai warned Li Yun that revealing his extraordinary talent could make him a target, and advised him to delay submitting his Experience Compendium and keep the Yellow Martial Divine Gate secret.
• Li Yun said he wanted to continue earning Martial Arts and explained that he intended to push the Body Tempering Realm past its apparent limits by unlocking more Innate Apertures.
• Qiao Tai agreed to find one-star cultivation arts and Martial Arts for Li Yun, and Li Yun said he did not need high-star techniques yet.
• Qiao Tai gave Li Yun seven one-star Martial Arts from his personal collection, including the core Body Tempering cultivation art Origin Water Art.

Qiao Tai moved Li Yun to his quiet old house in the Western Suburbs of Sand City to keep him safe and give him room to cultivate. While Bald Arhat sent two Body Tempering Fifth Layer fighters to hunt Li Yun at his old address, Li Yun began studying the seven Martial Arts manuals at the house.

• Qiao Tai offered Li Yun his old house in the Western Suburbs, and Li Yun accepted the offer.
• Qiao Meng helped Li Yun pack, and the three left the Muyuan Residential Compound under cover of night.
• Du Ma delivered Li Yun's file to Bald Arhat, who ordered Huang Wenlong and Xu Hai to find and kill Li Yun if possible.
• Huang Wenlong and Xu Hai drove to the Muyuan Residential Compound, unaware that Li Yun had already left.
• Qiao Tai brought Li Yun to the old house, where Qiao Meng said she would move in after visiting her grandmother and cook while Li Yun helped her cultivate.
• After Qiao Tai drove Qiao Meng back to Sand City, Li Yun recorded the seven manuals in the Gate of Myriad Wonders and began assigning points.

Li Yun trained his perfected Martial Arts at the Qiao Family Old Residence and met Xu Ruhai, a fellow Body Tempering Tenth Level Yellow Martial Sect disciple. After testing each other in a fierce fistfight, they shared wine, and Xu Ruhai promised to reveal top-secret news.

• Li Yun practiced his perfected Martial Arts and used Origin Water Spirit Wave to nourish his body, sensing that his Body Tempering cultivation would soon break through.
• Xu Ruhai appeared in the backyard, recognized Li Yun as a formidable fighter, and challenged him to a fistfight.
• Li Yun and Xu Ruhai exchanged powerful blows for three minutes before Xu Ruhai withdrew and learned that Li Yun had only recently joined the Yellow Martial Sect.
• Li Yun introduced himself as Li Fenghua, and Xu Ruhai proposed they become friends over wine.
• Li Yun found liquor and dried meat in the Qiao Family Old Residence storeroom, and Xu Ruhai promised to share top-secret news as they drank.

Xu Ruhai told Li Yun about a Spiritual Qi Acupoint that had nurtured a sentient Ginseng King thousands of years old, and persuaded him to help capture it. They headed for the acupoint, where Xu Ruhai had been trying unsuccessfully to catch the ginseng for nearly a month.

• Xu Ruhai told Li Yun that he had discovered a Spiritual Qi Acupoint and seen a Ginseng King escape into the earth.
• Xu Ruhai explained that the Ginseng King would likely return to the acupoint, but it repeatedly escaped whenever he tried to catch it.
• Xu Ruhai asked Li Yun to join him and his relative in capturing the Ginseng King, promising to split the reward among them.
• Li Yun agreed to help, and he and Xu Ruhai left for the Spiritual Qi Acupoint.
• Xu Ruhai told Li Yun that nearly a month had passed since the discovery and warned that stronger martial artists might learn about the ginseng.

Li Yun joined Xu Ruhai and Zhang Shenshu at a Spiritual Qi Acupoint to help catch the Ginseng King, then discovered the cavern could greatly accelerate his cultivation. After the others left him to watch the place, Li Yun began cultivating and decided he would stay, even if that meant taking over the Ginseng King's home.

• Xu Ruhai introduced Li Yun to Zhang Shenshu, and the three agreed to divide the Ginseng King's spoils equally.
• Xu Ruhai and Zhang Shenshu led Li Yun into the Spiritual Qi Acupoint, where he sensed dense Spirit Qi and a mysterious spark of insight.
• Li Yun offered to watch the cavern while Xu Ruhai and Zhang Shenshu went out to rest, and they warned him that the Ginseng King was crafty and could attack.
• After the two men left, Li Yun cultivated with four Body Tempering techniques and rapidly absorbed the cavern's Spirit Qi.
• Li Yun realized the Spiritual Qi Acupoint was a greater treasure than the Ginseng King and resolved to remain there to advance his cultivation.

Li Yun reached the Body Tempering Eleventh Level and used the Gate of Myriad Wonders to master the Two-Star Upper Grade Earth Burrowing Technique. After locating the Ginseng King nearby, he pretended to suffer a serious injury to lure it closer.

• Li Yun advanced to the Body Tempering Eleventh Level and sensed 160 Innate Apertures within himself.
• The Gate of Myriad Wonders revealed the Earth Burrowing Technique, which Li Yun raised to the Perfection Realm using 210 All Wonders points.
• Li Yun learned that he could use the technique for only three minutes without True Qi, but planned to use it to catch the Ginseng King.
• Li Yun secretly sensed the Ginseng King hiding less than 300 meters away and absorbing Spirit Qi while watching him.
• After Divine Tree Zhang brought him food, Li Yun pretended to be gravely wounded by spitting blood and falling backward.

Li Yun feigned a serious injury to lure the elusive Ginseng King into range, but Xu Ruhai’s sudden arrival scared it underground just as Li Yun was about to strike. Li Yun kept up the act to avoid alerting the hidden Ginseng King, while Xu Ruhai left to fetch water.

• Li Yun lay still and pretended to be badly injured until the Ginseng King cautiously emerged from the ground.
• Li Yun continued acting weak as the Ginseng King came closer and raised a root to strike him.
• Xu Ruhai entered the Spiritual Qi Acupoint and shouted a warning, causing the Ginseng King to retreat underground.
• Li Yun claimed his old ailment had flared up and secretly signaled Xu Ruhai to play along.
• Xu Ruhai realized Li Yun was pretending and hurried out to find him water.

Li Yun tricked the Ginseng King into revealing itself, then used the Earth Burrowing Technique to catch it underground and haul it back to the Spiritual Qi Acupoint. The captured Ginseng King begged him for mercy.

• Li Yun pretended to be helpless while the Ginseng King whipped him with its roots, growing bolder as he feigned distress.
• Li Yun suddenly grabbed four of the Ginseng King's roots, but it burrowed underground and used the earth's strength to drag him forward.
• Li Yun activated the Earth Burrowing Technique and followed the roots underground despite the crushing pressure.
• Li Yun caught the startled Ginseng King, hauled it and all sixteen roots to the surface, and returned to the Spiritual Qi Acupoint.
• The panicked Ginseng King made strange cries and bumped its head against Li Yun's chest as if pleading for mercy.

Li Yun caught the Ginseng King, but its desperate bite sealed a master-servant Contract that made him reconsider sharing it with Xu Ruhai and Zhang Shenshu. He brought the bound Ginseng King out and left Xu Ruhai stunned by his success.

• Li Yun bound the Ginseng King and prepared to take it from the Spiritual Qi Acupoint, intending to honor his agreement with Xu Ruhai and Zhang Shenshu.
• The Ginseng King broke free enough to bite Li Yun, and its blood-triggered ritual made it acknowledge him as its master.
• The Ginseng King promised it could sense buried treasures, plant spirits, and Spirit Medicines, and offered to lead Li Yun to a nearby ripe Spirit Medicine.
• Li Yun said its fate depended on what his two friends decided, then carried it out of the Spiritual Qi Acupoint.
• Xu Ruhai and Zhang Shenshu were chatting beneath a tree when Li Yun appeared with the bound Ginseng King, leaving Xu Ruhai astonished.

Li Yun caught the Ginseng King, which made a contract with him, and offered Xu Ruhai and Zhang Shenshu the Earth Burrowing Technique and another spirit medicine as compensation for losing their share. After finding a White-Leaf Jade Peony, Li Yun began teaching them the technique, but the two struggled to understand it.

• The Ginseng King acknowledged Li Yun as its master, and Xu Ruhai and Zhang Shenshu told him to keep it despite their agreement to share it.
• Li Yun offered to teach Xu Ruhai and Zhang Shenshu the Two-Star Upper-Grade Earth Burrowing Technique and promised them another spirit medicine as compensation.
• The Ginseng King led the three to a White-Leaf Jade Peony with two blossoms, and Zhang Shenshu asked them to wait for it to bloom fully.
• Li Yun agreed to stay and teach the technique, while Xu Ruhai looked forward to using it after completing Aperture Refining.
• Li Yun recited the technique's principles, but Xu Ruhai and Zhang Shenshu became completely confused by the lesson.

Li Yun demonstrated his perfected Earth Burrowing Technique, prompting Xu Ruhai to hurry off and try to comprehend it inside the Spiritual Qi Acupoint. While Li Yun and Zhang Shenshu talked, Zhang Shenshu revealed his family's faded legacy and explained that he had reached Body Tempering Sixth Layer by cultivating the unusual Big Tree Stump technique.

• Li Yun explained the Earth Burrowing Technique seven times, then demonstrated how he could burrow underground without True Qi because he had perfected it inside the Spiritual Qi Acupoint.
• Xu Ruhai realized Li Yun had perfected the technique and rushed to the Spiritual Qi Acupoint, giving Zhang Shenshu his share of the Hundred-Leaf Jade Peony.
• Zhang Shenshu told Li Yun that his ancestor had refined one hundred and twenty apertures, achieved Spirit Condensation, forged the Cangshan Sword God, and become an Inner Sect Elder before dying in battle against Weird Demons.
• Zhang Shenshu explained that the Zhang Family had declined into Zhang Family Village and now had only two or three Aperture Refining cultivators.
• Zhang Shenshu said he had struggled to cultivate the Yellow Martial Origin Art, so he switched to the Big Tree Stump technique and reached Body Tempering Sixth Layer.

Li Yun discovered that Zhang Shenshu’s [Big Tree Stump] was a supreme-grade Cultivation Technique and used his points to master and Limit Break it, gaining the Tree Heart talent. He invited Zhang Shenshu to explore the technique together, leaving him astonished that Li Yun had reached Entry Realm in half an hour.

• Li Yun joked with Zhang Shenshu, then asked to examine his [Big Tree Stump] technique.
• Zhang Shenshu explained that he had found the technique in the Western Suburbs and that it helped him reach the Body Tempering Sixth Layer and absorb Spirit Qi faster near trees.
• Li Yun’s System Panel identified [Big Tree Stump] as a one-star supreme-grade technique.
• Li Yun spent points to raise [Big Tree Stump] to Perfection Realm and Limit Break it, gaining the Tree Heart talent.
• Li Yun invited Zhang Shenshu to discuss the technique, and Zhang Shenshu was amazed that Li Yun had reached Entry Realm so quickly.

Li Yun demonstrated that his Big Tree Stump technique had surpassed the Perfection Realm, astonishing Zhang Shenshu, then guided him through the technique. Zhang Shenshu reached the Perfection Realm and gained hope of breaking the technique’s limits, leaving him grateful to Li Yun and more confident in his martial future.

• Li Yun explained Big Tree Stump to Zhang Shenshu, whose Mastery Realm understanding could not keep pace with Li Yun’s insights.
• Li Yun demonstrated a Big Tree Stump stance beyond the Perfection Realm, resonating with nearby trees and drawing in spiritual energy and Spirit Mechanism.
• Zhang Shenshu eagerly accepted Li Yun’s offer to correct his form, and Li Yun guided him toward the technique’s Tree Heart mysteries.
• Zhang Shenshu advanced from the Mastery Realm to Great Accomplishment in half a day, then reached the Perfection Realm the next day.
• Zhang Shenshu realized the improved technique could greatly increase his Body Tempering efficiency and thanked Li Yun, promising to repay his kindness.