Chapter Summaries

After becoming the Rank Ren Outer Sect chief, Li Yun moved into a private courtyard and discovered he could still gain Cognition Points by observing the Ancient Sword. Meanwhile, Huang Yiyi searched for him at Rank 95 Academy but was mistaken for one of many fake fiancées and driven away without learning where he lived.

• Li Yun escaped the crowds at Rank 95 Academy and moved into Youyun Small Abode, a private residence arranged by Zhang Cong.
• Li Yun found that further aptitude gains from the Reverse Fate Art would require raising it to Minor Accomplishment, which he expected to cost 10 million Cognition Points.
• Li Yun realized he could earn 200 Cognition Points per second by observing the Ancient Sword and began studying it through the night.
• Huang Yiyi arrived at Rank 95 Academy and claimed to be Li Yun's childhood fiancée, but the disciples dismissed her as another impostor among several women using the name Yiyi.
• Zhang Chu recognized Huang Yiyi but pretended not to know her, and the disciples drove her away without telling her where Li Yun lived.

Li Yun advanced the Reverse Fate Art to Minor Accomplishment, raising his aptitude and physical strength before further improving his martial arts. After spending the day observing the Ancient Sword to build Cognition Points, he learned Huang Yiyi had come looking for him and discovered she had followed Zhang Chu to his abode.

• Li Yun spent ten million Cognition Points to advance the Reverse Fate Art to Minor Accomplishment, raising his aptitude from Subordinate Fourth Rank to Third Grade Lower and then Third Grade Middle.
• Li Yun broke past the Body Tempering Thirteenth Layer limit, increased his strength from three thousand jin to four thousand, and improved several martial arts with 400,000 Cognition Points.
• Li Yun found that his improved aptitude let him gain 500 Cognition Points per second from observing the Ancient Sword, so he stayed at Youyun Small Abode to cultivate it.
• Zhang Chu told Li Yun that Huang Yiyi had visited Rank 95 Academy the previous night, and that he and the other disciples had driven her away.
• Huang Yiyi appeared beneath the archway, and Zhang Chu realized she had followed him to Li Yun's abode.

Huang Yiyi barged into Li Yun’s residence and insisted she was his fiancée, but Li Yun summoned the Discipline Hall Patrol to remove her. Lin Tieshu arrived and ordered Huang Yiyi arrested, leaving her humiliated and furious.

• Huang Yiyi ignored Zhang Chu and approached Li Yun, who denied knowing her and threatened to report her for trespassing.
• Li Yun met Lin Tieshu outside and learned that Gu Yunzheng had been expelled from the sect.
• Li Yun told Lin Tieshu that Huang Yiyi had entered his residence and claimed to be his fiancée, so Lin Tieshu led the patrol inside.
• Zhang Chu argued with Huang Yiyi, who refused to leave and said she would stay to care for Li Yun.
• Lin Tieshu ordered the Discipline Hall Patrol to arrest Huang Yiyi, who realized Li Yun had summoned them and grew humiliated and furious.

Li Yun had Huang Yiyi escorted away while insisting he did not know her, then beat Zhang Chu for letting her follow him. Zhang Ruohan arrived, drove Zhang Chu off, and asked Li Yun to help her improve her Sorrowful Wind Swordplay before he left for the Heavenly Mansion Ruins.

• Lin Tieshu had the Discipline Hall Patrol shackle Huang Yiyi and escort her away after she claimed to be Li Yun’s fiancée.
• Li Yun denied knowing Huang Yiyi at Youyun Small Abode, and Lin Tieshu took her away despite realizing they knew each other.
• Li Yun beat Zhang Chu for allowing Huang Yiyi to follow him, then insisted he did not know her.
• Zhang Ruohan arrived, beat Zhang Chu again, and ordered him to stop disturbing Li Yun’s cultivation.
• Zhang Ruohan asked Li Yun to guide her Sorrowful Wind Swordplay before he left for the Twelve Palaces of the Heavenly Mansion Ruins.

Li Yun spent Cognition Points advancing his Sorrowful Wind Swordplay while Zhang Ruohan watched him, and Liu Ningkong provoked Zhao Chuanfeng with claims about Li Yun and Zhang Ruohan. Zhao Chuanfeng flew into a rage and vowed not to let Li Yun off.

• Li Yun used 1,400,000 Cognition Points to advance the Sorrowful Wind Swordplay from Entry Realm to Minor Accomplishment Realm, leaving him with 600,000 points.
• Li Yun picked up his Ancient Sword to study it, and Zhang Ruohan wondered why he was hugging a sword to rest.
• Zhao Chuanfeng struggled to progress beyond Minor Accomplishment Realm and grew angry at Li Yun’s rise to Rank Ren Chief.
• Liu Ningkong visited Zhao Chuanfeng and claimed Zhang Ruohan was close to Li Yun and had gone to his independent courtyard.
• Zhao Chuanfeng drew his sword and threatened Liu Ningkong, who left with a female disciple.
• Zhao Chuanfeng watched Liu Ningkong leave and vowed never to let Li Yun off.

Zhao Chuanfeng attacked Youyun Small Abode after Liu Ningkong provoked him, and Zhang Ruohan defended Li Yun with a powerful sword skill. Elder Hai Fen arrived with patrols as Zhang Ruohan appealed to him for justice.

• Zhao Chuanfeng learned where Youyun Small Abode was, destroyed its plaque, and demanded that Li Yun come out.
• Zhang Ruohan blocked Zhao Chuanfeng from entering and refused to let him reach Li Yun.
• Liu Ningkong appeared with fellow Inner Sect Disciples and taunted Zhao Chuanfeng into confronting Zhang Ruohan.
• Zhao Chuanfeng charged past Zhang Ruohan, who drew her sword and sent him flying with Sorrowful Wind Swordplay.
• Elder Hai Fen arrived with Discipline Hall Patrols, and Zhang Ruohan reported Zhao Chuanfeng and Liu Ningkong to him.

Hai Fen condemned Zhao Chuanfeng for slashing the plaque of an Outer Sect Disciple and threatened to take the case to the Punishment Hall Main Branch. Gu Xiaoxian then confronted Liu Ningkong and Zhao Chuanfeng, leaving Liu Ningkong to fake a faint while Zhao Chuanfeng faced Gu Xiaoxian’s fury.

• Hai Fen ordered Lin Tieshu to summon an elder from the Inner Sect Punishment Hall and defended the importance of protecting Outer Sect Disciples.
• Zhao Chuanfeng panicked as Hai Fen accused him of undermining the sect by publicly slashing the plaque of an Outer Sect chief disciple.
• Liu Ningkong tried to sneak away, but Gu Xiaoxian emerged from Youyun Small Abode with Zhang Cong and Li Yun and called him back.
• Gu Xiaoxian rebuked Liu Ningkong for egging Zhao Chuanfeng on, and Liu Ningkong pretended to faint.
• Gu Xiaoxian turned his anger on Zhao Chuanfeng and called him a stupid pig beyond saving.

Gu Xiaoxian pressured Zhao Chuanfeng to answer for bullying Li Yun, and the Inner Sect Punishment Hall forced Zhao to apologize and accept punishment. Li Yun graciously waived compensation, while Zhao hid his growing hatred.

• Gu Xiaoxian threatened to take Zhao Chuanfeng’s case to the main hall unless Zhao apologized publicly, compensated Li Yun, and stopped bullying Outer Sect Disciples.
• Xie Yuchuan arrived from the Inner Sect Punishment Hall, promised the Outer Sect an explanation, and warned Zhao that refusing to apologize would cost him his sect status.
• Zhao Chuanfeng agreed to apologize and serve at least three months in the Inner Sect Punishment Hall Dungeon.
• Zhao publicly apologized to Li Yun, who said the broken plaque was unimportant and renamed his residence Nameless Cottage.
• Gu Xiaoxian praised Li Yun’s magnanimity, while Zhao concealed his intense killing intent toward him.

After Zhao Chuanfeng and Liu Ningkong were punished, Li Yun completed his Sorrowful Wind Swordplay training and traveled with Gu Xiaoxian to Mount Tianfu to seek the Twelve Palaces of the Heavenly Mansion’s inheritance. There, he met Tianye Sect Elder Yuan Bukong and claimed he had come because he might be expelled if he failed the Outer Sect Grand Competition.

• The Inner Sect Punishment Hall sentenced Zhao Chuanfeng to three months in the dungeon and Liu Ningkong to six months, making the incident a subject of sect-wide gossip.
• Li Yun gained more than ten million Cognition Points by studying the Ancient Sword and perfected the Sorrowful Wind Swordplay, then gave Zhang Ruohan some guidance.
• Gu Xiaoxian escorted Li Yun from the sect to Mount Tianfu, where Li Yun saw the ruins guarded by the Four Great Sects.
• Yuan Bukong approached Gu Xiaoxian and Li Yun, and Gu Xiaoxian introduced Yuan as an Outer Sect Elder of the Tianye Sect.
• Li Yun told Yuan Bukong he was eighteen and might have to leave the sect if he failed to place in the top thousand at the Outer Sect Grand Competition, explaining that he had come to seek a chance to remain.

Li Yun received warnings from Gu Xiaoxian and Wei Zong before entering the Radiant Stage to seek the Twelve Palaces of the Heavenly Mansion’s inheritance. He arrived in a pristine training ground where hundreds of young disciples practiced Zhuang Gong.

• Yuan Bukong told Gu Xiaoxian that fifteen disciples from Tianyen Sect and Tinnu Sect had entered the Radiant Stage and none had returned.
• Wei Zong reported that unaffiliated martial artists were sneaking onto Mount Tianfu after hearing rumors about the inheritance, and Gu Xiaoxian refused to share the sects’ entry slots.
• Wei Zong led Li Yun toward the Radiant Stage and warned him to guard against disciples from the other sects and to conceal any core inheritance he found.
• Wei Zong revealed that Tianye Sect had sent nine disciples and that Li Yun had received Celestial Martial Sect’s final slot after two earlier groups returned empty-handed.
• Li Yun released his True Intent on the stone platform, vanished, and appeared in a vast training ground where hundreds of young disciples practiced Zhuang Gong.

Li Yun explored the recreated Twelve Palaces of the Heavenly Mansion and watched a Tianyen Sect disciple steal an azure-blue book before being killed for groping its keeper. An irresistible urge to take the book seized Li Yun, and he hid in a tree as a Tinnu Sect disciple rushed toward the woman.

• Li Yun surveyed the lifelike Martial Arts Arena and mountain path, avoiding contact with the recreated disciples of the Twelve Palaces of the Heavenly Mansion.
• Li Yun spotted a Tianyen Sect disciple approaching a platform where two disciples fought and climbed a tree to observe.
• The Tianyen Sect disciple snatched an azure-blue book from the referee, then groped her and was torn apart by a ghostly claw.
• The platform's people glowed red as the woman returned to normal, and Li Yun realized the recreated disciples were dangerous.
• Li Yun felt a powerful urge to take the book but resisted and climbed back into the tree when a Tinnu Sect disciple rushed onto the platform.

Li Yun witnessed a bizarre platform trap that killed anyone who took the azure-blue book, but he memorized its contents before the book vanished. The book added an incomplete Heavenly Mansion Internal Force Condensation Method to his panel, which he cultivated to its limit before agreeing to fuse it with the Primordial Chaos Stance.

• A Tinnu Sect disciple grabbed the azure-blue book but was compelled to assault the woman's chest, and she killed him with black Qi.
• Li Yun picked up the book, fled while memorizing it, and watched it vanish before the platform reset to its original scene.
• Li Yun discovered the Heavenly Mansion Internal Force Condensation Method on his panel and found that his Martial Cognition Points had increased by 500,000.
• Li Yun waited on a secluded cliff for the method to finish loading, then raised the incomplete manual to Great Accomplishment Realm.
• The system offered to fuse the Heavenly Mansion Internal Force Condensation Method with the Primordial Chaos Stance, and Li Yun agreed.

Li Yun fused the Primordial Chaos Stance with the Heavenly Mansion Internal Force Condensation Method, cultivated to the first level of the Force Refining Realm, and found his Internal Force was only Eighth Grade. He searched the ruins for more cultivation methods and encountered an arrogant Tinnu Sect disciple, whom he planned to let test the ruins’ trial.

• Li Yun used the Ancient Sword to gain Cognition Points and raised the Primal Chaos Art to the Perfection Realm.
• Li Yun cultivated Internal Force and entered the first level of the Force Refining Realm, finding that his Internal Force was Eighth Grade.
• Li Yun stopped cultivating and searched the ruins for fragments that could restore the Primal Chaos Art.
• Li Yun found a young man studying an earthen-yellow book beside a stone platform and watched for signs of a trial.
• A hostile Tinnu Sect disciple insulted Li Yun and shoved him, while Li Yun silently stepped aside and considered using him to test the ruins.

Li Yun discovered that fusing all twelve Stance Intents into Primal Chaos True Intent let him take the Heavenly Mansion Internal Force Condensation Method from the mysterious young man safely. He then questioned the injured Tinnu Sect disciple about the changes in the ruins, threatening him with two carved stones until the disciple agreed to explain.

• The Tinnu Sect disciple fused three Stance Intents, snatched the Cultivation Techniques, and provoked the young man, who attacked and severely injured him.
• Li Yun used all twelve Basic Stance Cultivation stances to form Primal Chaos True Intent, took the Cultivation Techniques, and memorized another part of the Heavenly Mansion Internal Force Condensation Method.
• Li Yun returned the Cultivation Techniques to the dazed young man and dragged the unconscious Tinnu Sect disciple away before waking him.
• Li Yun threatened to replace the disciple’s injured balls with carved stones unless he explained the abnormal change in the ruins, and the disciple agreed to talk.

Li Yun learned that the ruins had grown more dangerous and were yielding more Cultivation Techniques, then fused two portions of the Heavenly Mansion Internal Force Condensation Method into the Primal Chaos Art. His Internal Force rose from Eighth Grade to Sixth Grade, and he headed for another technique site before encountering a fleeing boy pursued by an armed woman.

• Li Yun questioned a Tinnu Sect disciple, who revealed the ruins had changed, outsiders had entered, and new Cultivation Techniques could be obtained through Zhuang Gong True Intent.
• Li Yun learned of three more locations where techniques had appeared and acquired two portions of the Heavenly Mansion Internal Force Condensation Method, one by finding it himself and one from the Tinnu Sect disciple's account.
• Li Yun charged the Ancient Sword for Cognition Points, raised both techniques to Great Accomplishment, and fused them into the Primal Chaos Art.
• Li Yun tested the sublimated art and found that it doubled his Internal Force cultivation speed and raised his Internal Force quality from Eighth Grade to Sixth Grade.
• Li Yun set out for the western small house, but on the way he saw a fat boy fleeing with a black-covered book while a woman pursued him with a sword.

Li Yun recovered a section of the Heavenly Mansion Internal Force Condensation Method after the fat man used him to escape, then caught up with him in the gourd-shaped Valley. After they fought to a standstill, the fat man tried to make peace and introduced himself as Mei Zheren.

• The fat man shouted for Li Yun to block the pursuing fat woman, leaving Li Yun holding the black book.
• Li Yun used his primal chaos true intent to distract the fat woman, read the book to learn another section of the Heavenly Mansion Internal Force Condensation Method, and returned it to her.
• Li Yun chased the fat man toward the gourd-shaped Valley, where he overheard him plotting with a thin teenager to steal cultivation techniques.
• Li Yun confronted the fat man and tested his strength, discovering that he had Force Refining Realm cultivation and nimble movement.
• Li Yun and the fat man exchanged a fierce series of attacks and knocked each other back with a final punch.
• The fat man apologized, offered to share a cultivation technique, and introduced himself as Mei Zheren.

Li Yun fought the fat and skinny youths after realizing their claim that they wanted to make friends was a lie. He accepted half a Thousand-Year Wood Heart to end the conflict, and the system recognized it as Thousand-Year Willow Wood and began loading a body-refining method.

• Li Yun attacked the fat youth again, and the skinny youth joined in with a sneak attack.
• Li Yun fought both youths, using his Martial Arts and Internal Force to hold his own while trying to develop a Battle Technique.
• The fat and skinny youths tried to retreat and offered Li Yun half a Thousand-Year Wood Heart to settle their dispute.
• Li Yun questioned the youths, then accepted the wood after the fat youth apologized and explained how they had found it.
• The system identified the wood as Thousand-Year Willow Wood, awarded Li Yun 100 Cognition Points, and began loading the Willow Wood Body Refining Method.

Li Yun exchanged cultivation methods with Pang Yu and Xie An, then secretly returned to the Banana Grove to observe the Ancient Sword and earn Cognition Points. Meanwhile, Pang Yu and Xie An hid from Li Yun and planned to explore the ruins’ core area for a treasure pearl.

• Pang Yu told Li Yun that he and Xie An had entered the ruins by accident, then offered five sections of the Heavenly Mansion Internal Force Condensation Method in exchange for Li Yun’s four.
• Li Yun and Pang Yu compared their sections, found no overlap, and exchanged them despite Pang Yu giving one more section.
• Li Yun used his Primal Chaos True Intent to obtain the remaining Cultivation Techniques in the Banana Grove, then shared a copy with Pang Yu before they parted.
• Li Yun secretly returned to the Banana Grove to observe the Ancient Sword and cultivate his seven newly acquired condensation methods.
• Pang Yu and Xie An hid in a Little Valley, discussed the risk that Li Yun might expose them, and planned to seek a treasure pearl in the ruins’ core area.

Li Yun raised the quality of his Internal Force to the Third Grade and began learning the Willow Wood Body Refining Method. He left the chapter intending to perfect the method’s theory before seeking the resources needed to cultivate it.

• Pang Yu told Xie An that his ancestor’s map revealed a Precious Orb from beyond the heavens that could grant power to defy immortals.
• Li Yun fused Internal Force condensation methods into the Primal Chaos Art and perfected it, raising his Internal Force from Sixth Grade to Third Grade.
• Li Yun realized his improved Internal Force let him unleash a devastating sword strike that could kill opponents below the True Qi Realm.
• Li Yun spent one hundred thousand Cognition Points to initiate the Willow Wood Body Refining Method and learned it could eventually grant him a Willow Wood Spirit Body.
• Li Yun decided to raise the Willow Wood Body Refining Method to Perfection Realm in theory before gathering the resources to cultivate it.

Li Yun consumed the Thousand-Year Wood Heart and used his perfected Willow Wood Body Refining Method to greatly strengthen his physique and begin condensing a Willow Wood Spirit Body. He then went looking for Pang Yu, only to find him and Xie An surrounded by five Force Refining Realm experts.

• Li Yun spent 12.6 million Cognition Points to raise the Willow Wood Body Refining Method to the Perfection Realm.
• Li Yun ate the Thousand-Year Wood Heart in repeated bites and refined its medicinal power, pushing his physical strength beyond the Twentieth Layer of Body Tempering.
• Li Yun checked his System Panel and saw that his Willow Wood Spirit Body was condensing at eleven percent.
• Li Yun decided to seek Pang Yu and trade for the fat man's remaining Thousand-Year Wood Heart, possibly offering martial arts or guidance on Internal Force condensing methods.
• Li Yun found Pang Yu and Xie An surrounded by five Force Refining Realm experts, fighting while retreating toward the valley.