Chapter Summaries

Li Yun discovered that Absolute Fate Reverse Origin consumed lifespan and required first-grade aptitude, so he began an exhausting effort to raise his aptitude and unlock Super First Grade Internal Force. After six days of nonstop Ancient Sword observation, he collapsed from exhaustion, and Elder Ling stayed to watch over him.

• Li Yun used the system to load Absolute Fate Reverse Origin and upgraded it, discovering that it cultivated Origin Internal Energy by consuming the practitioner’s Life Origin.
• Li Yun learned that Absolute Fate Reverse Origin required first-grade aptitude, while his aptitude was only at the peak of Second Grade.
• Li Yun decided to raise the Reverse Fate Art and spent the next six days observing the Ancient Sword for at least twenty hours each day to accumulate Cognition Points.
• Li Yun collapsed into a deep sleep from exhaustion, and Elder Ling found him and stayed beside him to keep watch.
• Elder Ling tried to study the ancient book containing Absolute Fate Reverse Origin, found it incomprehensible, and cursed its creator.

After upgrading the Reverse Fate Art to the Great Success Realm, Li Yun experienced a profound transformation that left Gu Xiaoxian and Elder Ling alarmed and amazed. Chen Jiuxu arrived and identified the change as Spirit Root awakening and Life Treasure Fragrance.

• Li Yun woke from a long sleep, ate, and spent one billion Cognition Points upgrading the Reverse Fate Art to the Great Success Realm.
• Li Yun cultivated the advanced art and felt his life state rise as spirituality emerged throughout his body and a faint fragrance appeared.
• Elder Ling told Gu Xiaoxian he feared Li Yun was still obsessing over the sealed techniques, so they hurried to the Martial Armory.
• Gu Xiaoxian and Elder Ling found Li Yun sitting serenely with an extraordinary fragrance and hurried to summon help.
• Chen Jiuxu arrived at the Outer Sect Martial Armory, saw Li Yun's condition, and declared it Spirit Root awakening and Life Treasure Fragrance.

Chen Jiuxu revealed that Li Yun had cultivated the forbidden Reverse Fate Art and nearly awakened a true Spirit Root, but he ordered Li Yun to keep the technique secret and continue cultivating it. Li Yun learned that a fully awakened true Spirit Root could grant an Innate Divine Ability, though his remained incomplete.

• Chen Jiuxu confronted Li Yun about the Reverse Fate Art and the Life Treasure Fragrance, and Li Yun admitted Zhao Chuanfeng had given him the forbidden technique.
• Gu Xiaoxian realized Li Yun’s improved aptitude had come from successfully cultivating the Reverse Fate Art rather than consuming a Purple Profound Dao Fruit.
• Chen Jiuxu explained that Li Yun was the only person known to have succeeded with the technique and told him to keep it secret while cultivating toward Perfection Realm.
• Chen Jiuxu described how true Spirit Roots awakened through a person’s Life Origin and granted Innate Divine Abilities, unlike the Pseudo Spirit Roots common among disciples.
• Chen Jiuxu said Li Yun’s Spirit Root had not fully awakened and warned Gu Xiaoxian and Elder Ling not to discuss the Reverse Fate Art.

Li Yun used the Ancient Sword to gather enough Martial Cognition Points to perfect Absolute Fate Reverse Origin and fuse it with the Primal Chaos Art. After comprehending the new cultivation method, he realized his Half-Step Psychic Realm aptitude was barely sufficient to practice it—and that Super First Grade Internal Force was within reach.

• Chen Jiuxu ordered Zhao Chuanfeng to remain imprisoned in the Inner Sect Punishment Hall Dungeon for giving Li Yun the Reverse Fate Art.
• Li Yun checked his status panel and saw that his aptitude had advanced to Half-Step Psychic Realm, though perfecting Reverse Fate Art would normally require ten billion Cognition Points.
• Li Yun observed the Ancient Sword for two hours and gained seventy-two million Cognition Points, bringing his total to one hundred and sixty-seven million.
• Li Yun spent more than seventy million Cognition Points to raise Absolute Fate Reverse Origin to the Perfection Realm, then used fifty million to fuse it with the Primal Chaos Art.
• Li Yun comprehended the fused cultivation method and concluded that his Half-Step Psychic Realm aptitude barely met its requirements, securing his chance to attain Super First Grade Internal Force.

Li Yun cultivated the Primal Chaos Art and gained powerful Primal Chaos Internal Force that replenished his Life Origin. As he prepared to leave the Martial Armory, a mysterious Black Cat appeared and presented him with a black ring.

• Li Yun completed his cultivation, named his transformed energy Primal Chaos Internal Force, and discovered it could restore more Life Origin than it consumed.
• Li Yun gained new insight into creating an Internal Force condensation method but decided not to rush into making one.
• Li Yun selected and memorized several True Qi Realm martial skills on the Martial Armory's third floor.
• Li Yun spotted a Black Cat on a ventilation window, wondered how it had entered the sealed Martial Armory, and continued downstairs.
• The Black Cat suddenly appeared on Li Yun's shoulder, dodged his startled palm strike, and revealed a black ring in its mouth.

Li Yun received a Blood Soul Seal contract from an extraordinary Black Cat, making it his spirit beast companion. After putting on the black ring the cat had found, the ring absorbed his blood and vanished beneath his skin, revealing itself as the Divine Artifact Tianyuan, hidden in the Dream Ring.

• Li Yun approached the Black Cat to take its ring, but the cat bit his hand and drank two drops of his blood.
• The Black Cat sent a streak of bloodlight into Li Yun's brow, forming a Blood Soul Seal that bound it to him as its master.
• Li Yun learned that the Black Cat lived in the Celestial Eastern Mountains and had entered the Martial Armory through an air vent to follow the Life Treasure Fragrance on him.
• The Black Cat demonstrated how it shrank with bloodlight to pass through the vent, while Li Yun learned it had dug the black ring from a cave cliff.
• Li Yun put the ring on his left ring finger, and it absorbed his blood before sinking beneath his skin.
• Information surfaced in Li Yun's mind identifying the ring as the Divine Artifact Tianyuan, hidden in the Dream Ring.

Li Yun discovered that the Heavenly Origin Ring contained a real, bounded space that he could enter and turned it into a portable home. He left Nameless Cottage with Heipi and joined Zhang Ruohan on her way down the mountain to meet Huang Liying for a sparring match.

• Li Yun entered the Heavenly Origin Ring and found a mist-bounded space with a small tree, then confirmed that he could enter it himself.
• Li Yun sent Heipi out of the Martial Armory before greeting Elder Ling and leaving.
• Li Yun tested the ring in his bath and moved furniture and clothes into it, making the space into a small home.
• Li Yun set out to find Zhang Chu, but ran into Zhang Ruohan carrying her treasured sword toward the mountain gate.
• Li Yun asked to accompany Zhang Ruohan to her match with Huang Liying, and she agreed.
• Li Yun and Zhang Ruohan headed down the mountain with Heipi, chatting as they went.

Li Yun and Zhang Ruohan arrived at an inn in Ziyun Commandery, where she explained the stages of the Innate Realm and the difficulty of advancing through them. The chapter ended with Zhang Ruohan expressing her belief that Li Yun would become a Celestial Being.

• Li Yun followed Zhang Ruohan into Hongfu Inn, where they took the only available upper-class room and ordered food and wine.
• Li Yun asked Zhang Ruohan about her upcoming spar with Huang Liying, and Zhang Ruohan said her Sorrowful Wind Swordplay gave her confidence despite not reaching Perfection Realm.
• Zhang Ruohan explained that the Innate Realm consisted of Mortal Shedding, Spirit Cocoon, and Soaring Heaven, with each stage requiring a difficult transformation and accumulation of power.
• Zhang Ruohan said many Inner Sect Disciples left their sects to seek opportunities because bitter cultivation alone was insufficient to cross the Three Innate Realms.
• Zhang Ruohan admitted she might never reach Soaring Heaven, but told Li Yun she believed he would become a Celestial Being.

Li Yun and Zhang Ruohan left their inn to stroll along the Zijiang River, where Li Yun met the stunning courtesan Bixuan. He declined her invitation and left with Zhang Ruohan, while Bixuan recognized him as a disciple of the Celestial Martial Sect and vowed they would meet again.

• After dinner, Li Yun suggested that he and Zhang Ruohan take a walk because their room had only one bed.
• At the Zijiang River, Li Yun watched the women on the Red Boat Flower Pavilions while Zhang Ruohan teased him for showing interest in them.
• Bixuan heard Li Yun claim he pitied the women of the red boats and thanked him, drawing the attention of the crowd.
• Li Yun was struck by Bixuan's extraordinary beauty, but declined her invitation to board and left with Zhang Ruohan.
• Bixuan learned that Li Yun was from the Celestial Martial Sect and said they would meet again.

Li Yun and Zhang Ruohan returned to the inn after turning down Bixuan’s invitation, then spent the night together before Heipi warned them that an intruder had entered their old room. The chapter left Li Yun angry and alert after learning that the intruder had come for him.

• Li Yun explained that he had refused Bixuan’s invitation because he did not want to disrespect Zhang Ruohan, and they returned to the inn holding hands.
• Zhang Ruohan told Li Yun that she had killed Huang Yiyi, who had been waiting in Wulin Town in hopes of using him to return to the Celestial Martial Sect.
• Li Yun carried Zhang Ruohan to bed, and the bed collapsed; they changed to an ordinary room and went back to sleep fully clothed.
• Heipi slipped through the window and warned Li Yun that someone had entered their previous room.
• Li Yun told Zhang Ruohan that Heipi was a spirit beast that had acknowledged him as its master, and learned that the intruder had come for him.

You Wu and the Meng Po Society attacked Hongfu Inn to capture Li Yun, but Zhang Ruohan confronted You Wu while Li Yun encountered another group of assassins in the Rear Courtyard. Li Yun slaughtered most of them, leaving three terrified attackers to retreat.

• You Wu discovered that Li Yun had escaped and recognized Zhang Ruohan as the person who had intervened.
• Zhang Ruohan killed the guards at the doorway and fought You Wu, identifying her as an assassin from the Meng Po Society.
• Zhang Ruohan unleashed her Great Success Realm Sorrowful Wind Swordplay as Li Yun sensed the battle and worried about her safety.
• Heipi detected masked assassins vaulting into the Rear Courtyard and attacked one of them.
• Li Yun used his Battle Techniques to kill four more masked men, while the three survivors panicked and tried to retreat.

Li Yun and Zhang Ruohan defeated the Meng Po Society assassins at Hongfu Inn and fled after learning the group had targeted them. Lian Si pursued them, then returned to Bixuan, who revealed the attack had gone against her orders and feared it could provoke Chen Jiuxu.

• Li Yun killed the three fleeing True Qi Realm assassins after they ambushed him at the inn.
• Wounded by Zhang Ruohan, You Wu attacked Li Yun, but his Sorrowful Wind Swordplay overwhelmed her and Zhang Ruohan killed her.
• Zhang Ruohan and Li Yun left Hongfu Inn immediately, while Lian Si arrived later and vowed to hunt them down.
• Lian Si returned to Bixuan on a boat by the Zijiang River, where Bixuan slapped and reprimanded her for disobeying orders and endangering the Meng Po Society.

Bixuan suspected You Wu and Lian Si had been compromised and set out in disguise to find Li Yun herself. At a Taoist temple on Green Peak Mountain, Li Yun refused to return to the Celestial Martial Sect before taking revenge on the Meng Po Society, then encountered a mysterious Old Daoist whose appearance triggered a surge in Cognition Points.

• Bixuan ordered Lian Si to find Li Yun without provoking the Celestial Martial Sect, then doubted Lian Si's loyalty and left in disguise to search for him herself.
• At a Taoist temple on Green Peak Mountain, Zhang Ruohan told Li Yun her swordplay had reached the Perfection Realm and urged him to return to the Celestial Martial Sect for safety.
• Li Yun refused to return and insisted he needed revenge on the Meng Po Society to find peace of mind and continue cultivating Martial Dao.
• An Old Daoist emerged from a nearby stone doorway and praised Li Yun's words, causing Li Yun to gain two million Cognition Points.

Li Yun and Zhang Ruohan met an old Daoist in a wilderness Taoist Temple, and Li Yun tried to stay close after sensing an immense divine aura from him. The old Daoist said he was no Martial Artist and offered to recite the Taoist scriptures he had learned as a child.

• Li Yun noticed the old Daoist’s divine aura produced a million Cognition Points per second and approached him deferentially.
• The old Daoist rejected Li Yun’s offer of support and insisted he was merely a temple caretaker, not a reclusive Martial Artist.
• Li Yun explained that he and Zhang Ruohan were Celestial Martial Sect disciples who had taken shelter in the temple, and Zhang Ruohan politely greeted the old Daoist.
• The old Daoist recalled how visiting Martial Artists had mistreated him and told the pair about his childhood among the temple’s disciples.
• The old Daoist lamented that he could not return to his youth, then offered to recite the Taoist scriptures he had learned from his temple master.

Li Yun listened as a mysterious Old Daoist recited the Wuwei Sutra and experienced a dreamlike vision before the Daoist vanished. Though Zhang Ruohan remembered nothing, Li Yun discovered the Wuwei Sutra was loading in his system, confirming the encounter was real.

• Li Yun persuaded the Old Daoist to recite the Wuwei Sutra while Zhang Ruohan left to hunt.
• The Old Daoist chanted, and Li Yun became dazed as the Daoist seemed to merge with heaven and earth.
• Zhang Ruohan returned with two rabbits and found Li Yun confused, while the Old Daoist had disappeared and she remembered no meeting.
• Li Yun checked his system and saw 30 billion Martial Cognition Points and the Wuwei Sutra loading as a Mind Secret Technique.
• Li Yun hid what he had realized by telling Zhang Ruohan he had dreamed of an Old Daoist, and she began roasting the rabbits.

Li Yun perfected the Reverse Fate Art and awakened his Spirit Root and an Innate Divine Ability, but was suddenly struck by extreme hunger and rapid aging. He urged Zhang Ruohan to carry him into Green Peak Mountain in search of a way to survive.

• Li Yun spent ten billion Martial Cognition Points to raise the Reverse Fate Art to the Perfection Realm while Zhang Ruohan prepared rabbits nearby.
• After understanding how the art strengthened the Life Origin, Li Yun began cultivating it, and Zhang Ruohan waited with the roasted rabbits.
• A scorching heat engulfed Li Yun as a beam of light and a starry vortex appeared, then merged into his body as his skin and temperature returned to normal.
• Li Yun celebrated awakening his Spirit Root and an Innate Divine Ability, then became ravenously hungry and rapidly began to age.
• Li Yun ate the roasted rabbits and told Zhang Ruohan to carry him into the mountains, so she took him toward the depths of Green Peak Mountain.

Li Yun survived his accelerated aging by draining the life force of fifteen trees, restoring his youth and revealing the effects of his awakened Spirit Root. He explained the danger of activating his Life Origin to Zhang Ruohan and concluded that his new Innate Divine Ability gave him an almost immortal body.

• Zhang Ruohan set Li Yun down, and he sat against a tree as his body’s radiant vortex reappeared.
• Li Yun drained the tree’s life force, rapidly regaining his youth and strength as the tree withered.
• Li Yun moved from tree to tree and drained fifteen of them, while Zhang Ruohan sensed the powerful Life Treasure Fragrance around him.
• As dusk approached, Li Yun returned to Zhang Ruohan, kissed her, and thanked her for staying beside him.
• Li Yun explained that activating his sealed Life Origin had accelerated its depletion and nearly killed him after his Spirit Root awakened.
• Li Yun said his awakened Innate Divine Ability gave him an almost immortal body, leaving Zhang Ruohan confused about what that meant.

Li Yun explained his Innate Divine Ability, All Things Return to Origin, and insisted on taking revenge on the Meng Po Society instead of returning to the Celestial Martial Sect. After Zhang Ruohan agreed to investigate the society while he waited, Li Yun prepared to use his Cognition Points to strengthen himself.

• Li Yun told Zhang Ruohan that All Things Return to Origin transformed foreign substances into nourishment for his Life Origin and could seize vitality from anything he touched.
• Li Yun refused Zhang Ruohan's pleas to return to the Celestial Martial Sect and insisted he would personally settle his grievance with the Meng Po Society.
• Li Yun and Zhang Ruohan spent the night together in the forest before she again urged him to return to safety.
• Zhang Ruohan agreed to investigate the Meng Po Society overnight, ordered Li Yun to stay put, and left after he promised to wait.
• Li Yun planned to use his 20 billion Cognition Points to improve his cultivation and martial arts before confronting the Meng Po Society.

Li Yun broke through to the Force Refining Tenth Layer while cultivating in the woods, and Heipi recovered by absorbing the Spirit Qi around him. After sensing unusually dense Spirit Qi to the west, Li Yun followed it to a secluded Valley with a clear pool and a ruined cabin, where he began searching for clues about its former resident.

• Li Yun cultivated with the Primal Chaos Art and broke through from the Ninth Layer of Strength Refining to the Force Refining Tenth Layer in less than half an hour.
• Li Yun discovered Heipi secretly absorbing the Spirit Qi and invited him closer when he saw the spirit beast recovering.
• Li Yun sensed that Spirit Qi was denser to the west and decided to investigate while Zhang Ruohan was away.
• Li Yun carried Heipi on his shoulder and traveled through the forest to a secluded Valley.
• Li Yun found a clear pool and a partly collapsed wooden cabin, then began searching the area for anything left behind.

Li Yun discovered an emerald-green snake fighting Heipi in the valley and wondered whether it was another spirit beast. After Heipi subdued it with Li Yun’s help, the snake pleaded for mercy, and Heipi told Li Yun that it wanted to acknowledge him as its master.

• Li Yun found no clues in the valley and settled beside the pond to cultivate.
• An emerald-green snake emerged from the pond and attacked Heipi, and the two fought to a draw before the snake’s speed and poisonous mist gave it an advantage.
• Heipi unleashed a bloody light that enlarged his body and struck the snake with a claw from several meters away.
• Li Yun attacked the snake with Sorrowful Wind Swordplay, blasting it aside so Heipi could pin its vital spot.
• Li Yun prepared to kill the subdued snake, but Heipi told him that it wanted to acknowledge him as its master.