Chapter Summaries

Li Yun returned from the Demon Cave to the Beast-Grazing Land and found Sun Yifei and two companions still waiting at their meeting place. He brought them food and promised they would not die, leaving the three stunned by his arrival.

• Li Yun killed Weird Beasts and Demon People throughout the Demon Cave, earning Myriad Wonders Points and becoming the subject of rumors among Acquired and Innate Realm Martial Artists.
• On his fifth day in the Demon Cave, Li Yun entered his Demon Soul state, blended into a Demon People crowd, and returned to the Beast-Grazing Land.
• Li Yun avoided the armies and powerful experts in the Beast-Grazing Land, then sneaked away and headed for the woods where he had arranged to meet Sun Yifei and the others.
• Li Yun found Sun Yifei and two companions injured, exhausted, and despairing after more than three months stranded there.
• Li Yun appeared with a bag of food and drink, including braised Big Pig Trotters, and told Sun Yifei and the others they would not die.

Li Yun rescued Sun Yifei and two companions with food and medicine, then told them about the Purple Moon Continent and the threat posed by the being behind the Beast-Grazing Land. He urged them to get the warning back to Blue Star and left them admiring what they saw as his humility.

• Li Yun gave Sun Yifei and the others food, then hunted down more than four hundred Weird Demons in the surrounding woods.
• Li Yun gave the three Qi-Replenishing Pills and explained that they came from the Purple Moon Continent.
• Li Yun told Sun Yifei and the others how he had reached the Purple Moon Continent and warned that the being behind the Beast-Grazing Land was targeting both it and Blue Star.
• Li Yun urged them to deliver the warning to Blue Star and seek contact with the Purple Moon Continent, leaving Sun Yifei to call him far too humble.

Li Yun and Sun Yifei's group reached a Demon Cave that could lead back to Blue Star, but Li Yun could not safely take them with him. He gave them Heavenly Serpent Breath and two combat techniques, then imprinted the arts into their minds before leaving.

• Sun Yifei showed Li Yun the Demon Cave where Blue Star Martial Artists had been captured by Demon People.
• Li Yun refused to take Sun Yifei and his companions back, explaining that he could not risk revealing his secret.
• Li Yun gave them Heavenly Serpent Breath, a movement technique, and a saber technique copied from the Extinct Blade Sect.
• Li Yun used the System Panel to bring all three arts to Perfection, surpassed Heavenly Serpent Breath's limit, and gained the Serpent Spirit talent.
• Li Yun imprinted the three arts into Sun Yifei and his companions' minds, then left while they were absorbed in the techniques.

After returning to Blue Star from the Beast-Grazing Land, Li Yun reunited with Qiao Meng and Qiao Tai, who revealed that the authorities had concealed the place’s existence. Qiao Tai asked how Li Yun had escaped and whether he was still himself, readying to attack.

• Li Yun spent two more days hunting Weird Demons, gathered over a hundred thousand Myriad Wonders Points, then slipped through a Demon Cave back to Blue Star.
• Li Yun learned the cave was Demon Cave No. 19 near Sand City and returned home by taxi after three months away.
• Qiao Meng and Qiao Tai were stunned when Li Yun arrived at their residence and began eating the noodles Qiao Tai had cooked.
• Li Yun told them he had been away from Blue Star, and Qiao Tai identified the Beast-Grazing Land as his destination.
• Qiao Tai explained that knowledge of the Beast-Grazing Land had been kept secret and asked how Li Yun escaped and whether he was still himself, while moving Qiao Meng behind him and preparing to strike.

Li Yun returned from the Beast-Grazing Land and convinced Qiao Tai that he was not a Demon Person before warning him about the Primordial Demon Lord’s threat to multiple worlds. He demonstrated his Earth Burrowing Technique, leaving Qiao Tai and Qiao Meng stunned as he passed through a solid wall.

• Qiao Tai questioned Li Yun’s escape from the Beast-Grazing Land, suspecting that he had submitted to the Devil Master, while Qiao Meng defended him.
• Li Yun cursed the Primordial Demon Lord to argue that he could not be one of his fanatical Demon People, easing Qiao Tai’s suspicion.
• Qiao Tai asked Li Yun to explain how he entered and escaped the Beast-Grazing Land, and Li Yun recounted his journey to the Purple Moon Continent.
• Li Yun warned Qiao Tai and Qiao Meng that the Primordial Demon Lord threatened the Purple Moon Continent and might target more worlds, urging Blue Star to seek allies.
• Li Yun demonstrated his Earth Burrowing Technique by walking through a solid wall, leaving Qiao Tai and Qiao Meng astonished.

Li Yun demonstrated his ability to merge with water and a tree, then told Qiao Tai and Qiao Meng about his Sixteenth Layer of Body Tempering and the differences between Blue Star and the Purple Moon Continent. Back on Blue Star, he planned to stay and review what he had learned while asking Qiao Tai to keep his return low-profile if possible.

• Li Yun emerged from a wall, hid in a basin of water, and merged into a tree, stunning Qiao Tai and Qiao Meng.
• Li Yun explained that his transformations came from his Five Elements Sovereign Talent and said Martial Dao cultivated to its deepest depths could become myth.
• Li Yun told Qiao Tai that he had reached the Sixteenth Layer of Body Tempering and opened all Three Hundred Sixty Apertures.
• Li Yun clarified that such heights were rare on the Purple Moon Continent, naming Xue Chang'an as the strongest Houtian Realm martial artist he had encountered.
• Qiao Tai worried that Blue Star would be overshadowed if it contacted the more advanced Purple Moon Continent, and Li Yun said strength would determine any partnership.
• Li Yun said he would remain on Blue Star to sort through his gains and asked Qiao Tai to use his judgment about reporting the news while keeping a low profile.

Qiao Tai defied Yellow Martial Sect rules to insist on reporting urgent news about the Weird Demons directly to the Sect Master. He left the decision with the Eastern District guards after threatening to shout if they refused to announce him.

• Qiao Tai went to the Yellow Martial Sect's Eastern District to report urgent news, following Li Yun's request to keep the matter discreet.
• Jiang Xing and Wu stopped Qiao Tai and ordered him to leave or report through an Outer Sect Elder.
• Qiao Tai refused, saying he had to speak to the Sect Master and was willing to accept punishment afterward.
• When Jiang Xing and Wu threatened him, Qiao Tai warned that he would shout before they could kill him and that they would bear responsibility if his report went undelivered.
• Wu finally agreed to act, warned Qiao Tai that he would regret it, and left Jiang Xing to watch him.

Qiao Tai risked punishment to deliver urgent news about the Weird Demon directly to Sect Master Zhao Gongnian, and Zhao allowed him into East District No. 1 Villa. The chapter ended with Qiao Tai facing Zhao, who greeted him warmly and asked after Madam Meng.

• Jiang Xing angrily confronted Qiao Tai for breaking sect rules, but accepted that the news was too important to ask about.
• The Martial Artist surnamed Wu reported Qiao Tai's message to the guards at East District No. 1 Villa, who initially berated him before deciding to notify Zhao Gongnian.
• Zhao Gongnian ordered Qiao Tai admitted and warned that both Qiao Tai and the Martial Artist surnamed Wu would be expelled if the news proved to be a stunt.
• The Martial Artist surnamed Wu escorted Qiao Tai to the villa, and Qiao Tai reassured him that he would not drag him down.
• Qiao Tai entered the hall and paid his respects to Zhao Gongnian, who greeted him warmly and asked about Madam Meng's health.

Qiao Tai told Zhao Gongnian that Li Fenghua had returned from the Beast-Grazing Land with news of the Primordial Demon Lord’s expansion and its threat to Blue Star. Zhao Gongnian was stunned by Li Fenghua’s achievements and the danger facing multiple worlds, and the chapter ended with him leaping to his feet.

• Qiao Tai met Zhao Gongnian alone and explained that he urgently needed to report a major discovery by Li Fenghua.
• Qiao Tai described Li Fenghua’s rapid rise to the Body Tempering Twelfth Level, and Zhao Gongnian praised Qiao Tai for recognizing and protecting him.
• Qiao Tai recounted how Li Fenghua entered the Beast-Grazing Land, rescued captured Blue Star martial artists, reached the Purple Moon Continent, and eventually returned to Blue Star.
• Qiao Tai warned that the Primordial Demon Lord was expanding the Beast-Grazing Land and turning those who resisted into Weird Beasts, while those who submitted became Demon People.
• Qiao Tai said Blue Star and the Purple Moon Continent might have to unite to resist the invasion, and Zhao Gongnian sprang up in shock.

Li Yun brought the Extinct Blade Sect’s manuals to the Qiao family’s old house and helped Qiao Meng overcome the language barrier with a Spiritual Imprint. As he studied and enhanced the manuals, he uncovered the nine grades of True Qi and the deeper nature of Innate Aperture Refining.

• Li Yun set eighteen bookshelves of manuals from the Extinct Blade Sect Armory in the Qiao family’s courtyard, and Qiao Meng discovered she could not read their script.
• Li Yun gave Qiao Meng Purple Jade containing a Spiritual Imprint so she could quickly learn the Purple Moon Continent’s script.
• Li Yun began spending his Myriad Wonders Points to raise the Extinct Blade Sect’s Innate Cultivation Techniques to Perfection Realm or Limit Breaking.
• Li Yun’s study revealed that Innate Apertures connect the body’s inner world to the outside world, allowing World Spiritual Energy to nourish the body and produce True Qi.
• Li Yun learned that True Qi had nine grades, from Low-Grade to Saint-Grade, and concluded that most Aperture Refining cultivators and Innate Masters had only Low-Grade or Mid-Grade True Qi.

After ten days and nights of studying Innate Cultivation Techniques, Li Yun exhausted his Myriad Wonders Points and collapsed into sleep. Qiao Tai told Qiao Meng that the Yellow Martial Sect and the True Martial Platform had agreed to keep Li Fenghua hidden for now, but the Platform would verify he was uncorrupted and might claim some of his manuals.

• Li Yun spent all one hundred thousand Myriad Wonders Points studying more than four hundred Innate Cultivation Techniques, then collapsed from exhaustion.
• Qiao Meng carried the sleeping Li Yun to bed and found Qiao Tai waiting in the hall.
• Qiao Tai told Qiao Meng that the Sect Master had praised him and planned to make him the Yellow Martial Sect's Seventeenth Outer Sect Elder.
• Qiao Tai explained that the Sect Master had taken him to the True Martial Platform's Cangnan Headquarters, where they secured permission to keep Li Fenghua hidden as an Outer Sect Disciple for now.
• Qiao Tai said the True Martial Platform would send someone to verify that the Devil Master's Will had not corrupted Li Fenghua and might require some manuals from the Purple Moon Continent.
• Qiao Meng angrily objected that the True Martial Platform had no right to take the manuals Li Fenghua had brought back.

Qiao Tai explained how Li Fenghua could pass along the Beast-Grazing Land news and valuable techniques while avoiding unwanted fame, and Qiao Meng agreed not to urge Li Yun to flee. After ten days and nights of studying without sleep, Li Yun finally woke the following afternoon.

• Qiao Tai explained that the Sect Master's arrangement would let Li Fenghua receive credit for the news while remaining out of the spotlight.
• Qiao Meng told Qiao Tai that Li Fenghua had studied Cultivation Techniques and Martial Arts for ten days and nights without sleeping.
• Qiao Tai warned Qiao Meng not to advise Li Yun to flee, explaining that the True Martial Platform would offer valuable compensation for any techniques it requested.
• Qiao Tai checked on the exhausted Li Yun, then ate food Qiao Meng prepared and went to sleep.
• The following afternoon, Qiao Tai and Qiao Meng saw Li Yun wake and leave his room.

After recovering from an exhausting ten days of studying techniques, Li Yun agreed to share some Purple Moon Continent martial arts with the True Martial Platform in exchange for something of equal value. He planned to enter seclusion again to grow stronger before the Beast-Grazing Land threatened Blue Star further.

• Qiao Tai was astonished that Li Yun had recovered so quickly, and Qiao Meng prepared food for him.
• Qiao Tai told Li Yun that the True Martial Platform wanted to examine him for the Devil Master's Will and exchange for some of his techniques and martial arts.
• Li Yun agreed to cooperate, saying he wanted to support Blue Star's Martial Dao, and asked to delay meeting the Sect Master for a few days.
• Li Yun said he would enter seclusion while waiting for the True Martial Platform, arguing that he needed to prepare for the Beast-Grazing Land's invasion.
• Qiao Meng called Li Yun a madman, martial arts fanatic, and cultivation maniac as he carried his food into the hall.

Li Yun went into seclusion at the Spiritual Qi Acupoint in the Western Suburbs to attempt the Aperture Refining Realm and create his own Xiantian Cultivation Technique. Qiao Tai learned about the Purple Moon Continent’s nine grades of True Qi, while Li Yun began combining the insights from more than four hundred perfected techniques.

• Li Yun told Qiao Meng and Qiao Tai to find him at the Spiritual Qi Acupoint if the True Martial Platform sent someone, then tunneled away to begin seclusion.
• Qiao Tai and Qiao Meng discussed Li Yun’s likely breakthrough and the quality of True Qi he might cultivate.
• Qiao Meng explained the Purple Moon Continent’s nine grades of True Qi, prompting Qiao Tai to decide to study its Xiantian Cultivation Techniques.
• Qiao Meng refused to teach Qiao Tai to read the Purple Moon Continent’s script, and Qiao Tai left to answer the Sect Master.
• Li Yun released the Ginseng King at its birthplace and asked it to stay hidden and watch the area.
• Li Yun began using the insights from more than four hundred perfected Xiantian Cultivation Techniques to create a technique of his own.

Zhao Gongnian learned that Li Fenghua had brought back an Innate Cultivation Technique from the Purple Moon Continent and decided to demand compensation from the True Martial Platform for Li’s contributions. An old man from the True Martial Platform arrived at Villa No. 1 and challenged Zhao Gongnian over his demand for Nine-Leaf Ganoderma Lotuses.

• Qiao Tai told Zhao Gongnian that Li Fenghua had entered Seclusion, and Zhao agreed to let him finish Aperture Refining before meeting anyone from the True Martial Platform.
• Qiao Tai showed Zhao Gongnian an Innate Cultivation Technique from the Purple Moon Continent and explained its system of nine grades of True Qi.
• Zhao Gongnian concluded that the Purple Moon Continent had more advanced Martial Dao foundations and praised Li Fenghua for sharing its Cultivation Techniques and Martial Arts.
• Zhao Gongnian resolved to make the True Martial Platform compensate Li Fenghua, demanding at least two Nine-Leaf Ganoderma Lotuses.
• An old man accompanied by several Martial Artists appeared at Villa No. 1 and rebuked Zhao Gongnian for coveting the lotuses.

Liu Yunshi arrived at the Yellow Martial Sect to test whether Li Fenghua had been corrupted by the Devil Master's Will, while Zhao Gongnian objected to the True Martial Platform’s demands. The chapter ended with Zhao Gongnian ordering Qiao Tai to take the True Martial Platform’s men to Li Fenghua after Liu Yunshi insisted on proceeding by the book.

• Liu Yunshi challenged Zhao Gongnian over the True Martial Platform’s reluctance to award Li Fenghua a Nine-Leaf Ganoderma Lotus, and Zhao Gongnian defended Li Fenghua’s contributions.
• Liu Yunshi demanded that Li Fenghua undergo an immediate test for corruption by the Devil Master's Will, but Zhao Gongnian said Li Fenghua had entered Seclusion.
• Qiao Tai explained that Li Fenghua had said they could fetch him if the True Martial Platform arrived, and Zhao Gongnian ordered Qiao Tai to check on him.
• Liu Yunshi sent Zhang Che and Xiao Wunian to accompany Qiao Tai and ensure Li Fenghua was brought back.
• Zhao Gongnian erupted in anger, triggering Villa No. 1’s formations, then calmed them and ordered Qiao Tai to take the True Martial Platform’s men with him.

Li Yun created an Innate Aperture Refining technique and entered the Innate Aperture Refining Realm, producing King Grade True Qi from the start. As Qiao Tai led Zhang Che and Xiao Wunian toward the Spiritual Qi Acupoint, Li Yun’s breakthrough shook the area and left him wondering how powerful his true qi could become.

• Qiao Tai took Zhang Che and Xiao Wunian to the Qiao Family Residence, where Qiao Meng learned they had come to monitor Li Fenghua’s test and treated them coldly.
• Qiao Tai and Qiao Meng deliberately took over two hours to lead Zhang Che and Xiao Wunian to the Spiritual Qi Acupoint.
• Li Yun absorbed spirit qi and used his knowledge of more than four hundred perfected and limit-broken Xiantian Cultivation Techniques to create an Innate Aperture Refining technique.
• Li Yun’s 720 Innate Yin-Yang Apertures produced true qi, allowing him to enter the Innate Aperture Refining Realm and unleashing an aura that shook the Spiritual Qi Acupoint.
• Li Yun discovered that his newly formed true qi was King Grade and wondered whether it could eventually reach Emperor or even Saint Grade.

After forming King Grade True Qi, Li Yun decided to return to the Purple Moon Continent to improve his cultivation and technique. When he emerged from the Spiritual Qi Acupoint, he encountered True Martial Platform officials who had come to test him for contamination by the Devil Master's Will.

• Li Yun calmed down after discovering his newly formed True Qi was King Grade and resolved to return to the Purple Moon Continent.
• Ginseng King alerted Li Yun that people, including strangers, were outside the Spiritual Qi Acupoint, so Li Yun emerged to meet them.
• Zhang Che asked Qiao Tai to bring Li Fenghua out for an official test, while Qiao Meng sarcastically objected to the suspicion.
• Xiao Wunian explained the True Martial Platform's concerns and asked Qiao Tai and Qiao Meng to understand the need to protect Great Xia.
• Li Yun appeared with a commanding presence that stunned Zhang Che and Xiao Wunian, and Qiao Tai realized he had advanced to the Aperture Refining Realm.
• Qiao Tai introduced Li Yun to the officials, and Li Yun asked what he needed to do for the test.

Li Yun arrived at Yellow Martial Sect and agreed to the True Martial Platform's examination for corruption by the Devil Master's Will. Liu Yunshi revealed the Detection Gate, the treasure the Platform had developed to identify the corrupted.

• Li Yun arrived at Yellow Martial Sect with Qiao Tai, and Liu Yunshi was relieved that nothing had happened to him.
• Zhao Gongnian and Liu Yunshi sensed Li Yun's newly cultivated True Qi and learned that it was probably King Grade, astonishing them with its quality.
• Liu Yunshi explained that Li Yun's survival in the Beast-Grazing Land made his condition crucial to Great Xia's plans to venture beyond Blue Star.
• Li Yun agreed to undergo a thorough examination and asked Liu Yunshi what method the True Martial Platform would use.
• Liu Yunshi produced the Detection Gate, a treasure the True Martial Platform had refined to detect people corrupted by the Devil Master's Will.

Li Yun passed the True Martial Platform’s Detection Gate, which found no trace of the Devil Master’s Will, while he secretly learned how the device worked and noticed its flaws. Liu Yunshi asked to speak with him privately, but Zhao Gongnian suspected the True Martial Platform was trying to recruit him.

• Liu Yunshi explained the Detection Gate’s history and the True Martial Platform’s plans to send volunteers through the Beast-Grazing Land toward the Purple Moon Continent.
• Li Yun walked through the Detection Gate and let it scan him as the Gate of Myriad Wonders absorbed its secrets.
• After three minutes, the Detection Gate gave no alarm, and Liu Yunshi confirmed that Li Fenghua had passed the test.
• Li Yun recognized that the Detection Gate had exploitable flaws but chose not to reveal them, then asked to return to cultivation.
• Liu Yunshi requested a private conversation with Li Yun, but Zhao Gongnian blocked him and accused him of trying to lure away the Yellow Martial Sect’s prodigy.