Chapter Summaries

Yi Chen tested the Ascension Pill on thirty clan members and confirmed it raised their Spiritual Power circulation speed fivefold for about a month. The Milky Way celebrated the breakthrough, but realized only Yi Chen could currently refine the pills, leaving others dependent on a distant cultivation-method transmission.

• Bai Ruoxin brought thirty clan members, and Yi Chen gave each an Ascension Pill and guided them through cultivation.
• Yi Chen confirmed the pills cleared meridian impurities temporarily and increased Spiritual Power circulation speed about fivefold for roughly a month.
• Yi Chen instructed Bai Ruoxin to reward the clan members with more pills, limit their dosage, and gather Ascension Grass and other spirit materials for production.
• Yi Chen returned to constructing Law Runes while Bai Ruoxin handled the preparations.
• People in the Live Stream Room celebrated the Ascension Pill, then recognized that other tribes could not reproduce it and would have to wait for a future cultivation-method transmission.

As the Ascension Pill unsettled the Local Galaxy Cluster, Yi Chen mass-produced pills to strengthen the Flame Mountain Tribe. After distributing them, he prepared to accompany Bai Ruoxin to deal with Ferocious Beasts the Four Routes Army could not handle.

• News outlets reported that the Ascension Pill could multiply cultivation speed, alarming the Various Races and prompting their rulers to reconsider their plans.
• Bai Ruoxin brought spirit materials to Yi Chen, who refined Ascension Pills in increasingly large batches.
• Over nearly two days, Yi Chen turned sixty-five stalks of Ascension Grass and other materials into about three hundred and thirty thousand pills.
• Yi Chen instructed Bai Ruoxin to distribute pills to tribesmen aged sixteen and older, the Four Routes Army, and other members according to merit and rank.
• Yi Chen told Bai Ruoxin to return after distributing the pills so they could go deal with Ferocious Beasts the army could not handle.
• While waiting, Yi Chen considered improving cultivation techniques to raise his strength before the expedition.

Yi Chen worked to improve the Heaven Severing Art while Bai Ruoxin took Little Golden Ball to face a level-52 Raging Fire Deer. The beast drew other Ferocious Beasts toward them as Yi Chen continued practicing remote control of his Spirit Sword, leaving Bai Ruoxin to gain combat experience under his watch.

• Yi Chen decided to improve the Heaven Severing Art and began comprehending Sword Intent while Bai Ruoxin prepared the Flying Magic Treasure.
• Bai Ruoxin flew to the Raging Fire Deer and sent Little Golden Ball to attack it, but its golden needles melted in the beast’s flames.
• Little Golden Ball revived and repeatedly tried to destroy the Raging Fire Deer with self-destructing attacks, but the beast evaded the explosions.
• The Raging Fire Deer called nearby Ferocious Beasts, including flying ones, to converge, and Bai Ruoxin raised the stone house and prepared her sword.
• Yi Chen continued observing through Divine Sense, then tried to control the Spirit Sword remotely, but it wobbled unsteadily.

Yi Chen experimented with controlling his Spirit Sword through Divine Sense and developed a way to guide it over long distances. He sent the sword after the fleeing Raging Fire Deer, which narrowly dodged its first strike before the sword turned back to attack again.

• Yi Chen practiced controlling the Spirit Sword through a connection between their Divine Senses while Little Golden Ball and Bai Ruoxin held off the Raging Fire Deer’s summoned beasts.
• The Raging Fire Deer fled, and Bai Ruoxin pursued it with Little Golden Ball aboard the Flying Magic Treasure.
• Yi Chen combined Spiritual Power and Sword Intent with his Divine Sense, extending his control of the Spirit Sword beyond his own hundred-meter sensing range.
• The Spirit Sword raced toward the Raging Fire Deer, which dodged its first strike as the sword passed within a hundred meters.
• The Spirit Sword stopped, turned around, and rushed at the Raging Fire Deer again, leaving it terrified.

Yi Chen tested his improved Heaven Severing Art by using a tracking Spirit Sword to wound the Raging Fire Deer, then let Little Golden Ball finish it off. As he practiced controlling the sword and moved on to hunt stronger Ferocious Beasts, viewers wondered how far his rapidly increasing strength could go.

• Yi Chen's Spirit Sword repeatedly pursued the Raging Fire Deer, which dodged its attacks until the sword's power ran out and it fled.
• Bai Ruoxin brought Yi Chen's Spirit Sword back within range, and Yi Chen launched another attack that eventually wounded the Raging Fire Deer with its icy blade.
• Yi Chen sent Little Golden Ball to finish the wounded Raging Fire Deer while he practiced controlling the Spirit Sword.
• Bai Ruoxin carried Yi Chen toward more targets, and he used the Flying Sword to kill Ferocious Beasts that the Four Routes Army could not handle.
• Viewers discussed Yi Chen's growing strength and questioned what might happen if he maintained his rapid improvement.

The military debated how to use its Suppression Plan to redirect Yi Chen’s attention toward strengthening his tribe, then learned that Council Speaker Kang De had arrived with important information. The Council had already approved the plan, and Kang De’s revelation left the military leaders stunned.

• Viewers speculated that Yi Chen might eventually become strong enough to leave the Exile Planet and worried he might stop teaching New Cultivation Methods once he became invincible there.
• The military giants agreed that the Suppression Plan should proceed, using high-level ferocious beasts against fake serious criminals to create a sense of crisis around the Flame Mountain Tribe’s development.
• Marshal Tie Xue prepared to submit the plan to the Council, but received a message that Council Speaker Kang De wanted to attend the meeting.
• Kang De appeared before the military leaders and announced that the Council had approved the Suppression Plan and that he had important information to share.
• The military leaders rose in shock when Kang De said the time had come for them to learn that information.

Speaker Kang De told Marshal Tie Xue and the Military high command that the Council had secretly sought an alliance with the powerful Earth Tree Race, whose envoy warned that the Federation’s growing karmic debt to Yi Chen could bring disaster. The chapter left the Military leaders stunned by the warning that Calamity Qi would arise unless Yi Chen recognized the Human Race and absorbed its Merit Aura.

• Marshal Tie Xue accused the Council of risking the Federation’s independence by cooperating with the Allied Races, while Kang De denied any intent to infiltrate the Military and said he had come to reveal important information.
• Kang De explained that the Council had launched the Befriend the Distant and Attack the Near Plan after the Human Race’s defeat, discovered a race stronger than humanity, and later secretly supported Yi Tenglong before suppressing him.
• Kang De revealed that the Council had chosen the Earth Tree Race as a distant ally and described how its understanding of karma shaped its conquests and its treatment of other races.
• Kang De said that the Federation’s efforts to learn from Yi Chen had created tremendous karma, and that the Earth Tree Race’s envoy warned the debt would cause Calamity Qi if Yi Chen did not recognize humanity and absorb its Merit Aura.
• Marshal Tie Xue and the Military leaders were left stunned by the warning that forcing geniuses past the Spirit Sense Stage Ninth Level Peak threshold could bring disaster upon the Federation.

Council Speaker Kang De told Marshal Tie Xue and the Military that the Federation’s unpaid debt of Merit Aura to Yi Chen would produce a growing Calamity Fruit, which the Earth Tree Race Special Envoy planned to harvest in exchange for aid. The Military accepted the blame for letting it grow and began planning how to limit the danger and conceal the truth.

• Council Speaker Kang De explained that the Calamity Fruit could emerge on a Federation Life Planet or space battlefield and would grow more dangerous while the Federation withheld Yi Chen’s Merit Aura.
• Kang De said the Earth Tree Race Special Envoy intended to let the fruit mature before harvesting it, while offering aid to the Federation and compensation to Yi Chen.
• Marshal Tie Xue and the Military giants realized the Council expected them to take public blame for allowing the Calamity Fruit to grow, and they silently accepted the burden.
• After Kang De ended the meeting, Tie Xue ordered the Military leaders to keep the information secret except when protecting close family members from danger.
• Tie Xue directed the gathered leaders to devise ways to contain the Calamity Fruit’s harm and manage the consequences for the Military, and they began discussing countermeasures.

Bai Ruoxin searched a vast swamp for a level 70 Swamp Crocodile while Yi Chen worked on a Law Rune. After the crocodile ambushed her Flying Magic Treasure, Yi Chen found it and attacked, but it deflected his Spirit Sword and fled.

• Bai Ruoxin searched the swamp with Little Golden Ball, then had it fire Hair Needles below as they flew over the area.
• The Swamp Crocodile attacked Bai Ruoxin's stone house with a poisonous Water Arrow, but she evaded it and rose to a safer height.
• Yi Chen's Law Rune collapsed, so he took control of the Flying Magic Treasure and searched the swamp with his Divine Sense.
• Yi Chen found the Swamp Crocodile, dodged its Water Arrow, and sent his Spirit Sword after it.
• The Swamp Crocodile knocked the Spirit Sword aside with another Water Arrow, then fled northwest through the mud.

Yi Chen hunted the Swamp Crocodile across its swamp territory, but its tough hide withstood his Sword Qi and its attacks repeatedly helped it escape. He used lightning to expose its weakness and bound it with the Immortal Binding Rope, but the crocodile shed its skin and fled; it finally turned to face him and appeared to surrender.

• Yi Chen warned Bai Ruoxin to take to the air, then pursued the Swamp Crocodile and attacked it with his Flying Sword and Sword Qi, which failed to pierce its hard shell.
• The Swamp Crocodile unleashed a huge black wave to force Yi Chen back, then hid in the silt, but Yi Chen found it again with his Divine Sense.
• Yi Chen used lightning and the Immortal Binding Rope to stun and bind the Swamp Crocodile, discovering that spell attacks could hurt it.
• The Swamp Crocodile shed its outer skin to escape the rope and fled as Yi Chen pursued it while the lightning continued to gather strength.
• The Swamp Crocodile turned toward Yi Chen and crouched in the mud as if it were giving up and surrendering.

Yi Chen defeated the Swamp Crocodile but spared it after it surrendered and handed over its Energy Crystal to Bai Ruoxin. After clearing the Four Routes Army’s remaining targets, Yi Chen returned with Bai Ruoxin to the Flame Mountain Tribe and resumed constructing Law Runes.

• Yi Chen accepted the Swamp Crocodile’s surrender and demanded its Energy Crystal in exchange for sparing its life.
• The Swamp Crocodile spat out its crystal, and Bai Ruoxin used the Beast Taming Art to bind it.
• Yi Chen warned the Swamp Crocodile not to harm his people, then left Bai Ruoxin to manage it as a potential reinforcement.
• Yi Chen killed the remaining Ferocious Beasts assigned to the Four Routes Army over the next three or four days.
• Bai Ruoxin returned to the Flame Mountain Tribe with Yi Chen, who resumed constructing Law Runes.

Over several months, the Flame Mountain Tribe expanded its territory and began moving from The Valley to build a vast Royal City, while Yi Chen advanced the tribe’s cultivation and completed the Law Runes for a Defense Array. The chapter ended with Yi Chen preparing to construct the Formation itself.

• The Human Race alliance kept gaining ground in the war, while the Federation Human Race waited anxiously for Yi Chen’s fifth teaching of the cultivation method.
• The General Political Department began relocating tribe members from The Valley to build a Royal City whose planned area Yi Chen had expanded to more than five hundred square kilometers.
• New Ascension Grass helped Yi Chen refine more Ascension Pills, raising ordinary tribe members’ average realm from Spirit Release Realm Fifth Level to Spirit Release Realm Eighth Level in three months.
• Yi Chen set aside the Pro-Spirit Fruit because he lacked suitable auxiliary materials and kept the Enlightenment Stones to use in creating a Blessed Grotto Heaven.
• The Four Routes Army expanded its influence to a total of nine million six hundred thousand square kilometers, giving Yi Chen a ninety-six-fold additional talent bonus.
• Yi Chen completed all the Law Runes required for the Defense Array and prepared to construct the Formation.

Yi Chen designed and tested a small defensive Formation made from forty-three Law Runes, discovering that it could block weak attacks but left chaotic Law Power inside and remained visibly exposed. The viewers recognized it as a Forbidden Restriction and speculated about its purpose while lamenting how long they would wait to learn Yi Chen’s later teachings.

• Yi Chen combined forty-three Law Runes into a five-meter Defense Array and connected them to a Spirit Stone with Spirit Stone powder.
• Yi Chen activated the Formation and found that its Energy Shield could resist attacks from Qi Condensation Realm cultivators, while chaotic Law Power made staying inside dangerous.
• Yi Chen realized the Formation’s materials remained visible because its Invisibility Law Rune had not taken effect, then shut it down to revise the rune combinations.
• Viewers in the Live Stream Room recognized Yi Chen’s work as a Forbidden Restriction and debated whether it could block attacks or Scanner scans.
• The viewers discussed their long wait for Yi Chen’s Fifth and Sixth Cultivation Method Teachings, then changed topics after worrying about making predictions about him.

Yi Chen completed a defensive Formation that blocked the live broadcast and an unexplained presence watching him, then drained and reactivated it with more Spirit Stones. He concluded that a mysterious Ferocious Beast was the likeliest source of the surveillance and resumed cultivating while quietly observing events.

• Yi Chen activated his newly built Formation, discovered it blocked entry as well as outside scanning, and realized he had to exhaust its energy to get out.
• Viewers panicked when the live broadcast could no longer show inside the Formation, while news outlets feared losing their supply of Yi Chen-related headlines.
• Yi Chen and Little Golden Ball attacked the Energy Shield until the Array Eye's Spirit Stone ran out and the Formation shut down.
• Yi Chen placed two Spirit Stones in the Array Eye and reactivated the Formation, confirming that it blocked both outside perception and the faint feeling of being watched.
• Yi Chen ruled out the Heavenly Dao's will as the watcher and considered a mysterious Ferocious Beast the likeliest possibility before settling down to cultivate.

Yuan Huo broke through the Heart Tribulation Stage with the help of Soul Elder, who urged him to build influence and eventually capture Yi Chen for his cultivation methods. Unbeknownst to Yuan Huo, Soul Elder and more than ten Soul Race survivors planned to use him while hiding over a hundred million sleeping clansmen inside the black stone.

• Viewers lamented that a huge mosaic hid Yi Chen from the Live Stream Room as the military’s Suppression Plan and Tuition Plan continued.
• Yuan Huo sensed his Heart Tribulation approaching and chose to challenge it directly rather than pay tuition.
• Soul Elder’s power helped Yuan Huo shatter the heart-trial illusions, including an illusion of Yi Chen, and reach the Heart Tribulation Stage First Level.
• Yuan Huo decided to acquire factories and companies, raise his status, and cultivate his own forces so he could approach the planet’s administrator and upper ranks.
• Soul Elder revealed to his clansmen inside the black stone that more than one hundred million Soul Race members lay sleeping in jade boxes.

Soul Elder explained how the Soul Race fell from power and why he planned to use Yuan Huo and the rapidly cultivating Human Race to restore it. As Yi Chen cultivated on Exile Planet, he found an Intelligence Organization document that caught his attention.

• Soul Elder recounted how resource shortages and internal conflict destroyed the Soul Race’s rule over the Milky Way, forcing the Soul Emperor and more than one hundred million clansmen into slumber.
• Soul Elder explained that Yi Chen’s Divine Sense made the Human Race dangerous to the Soul Race, but he chose to act after finding Yuan Huo and judging that mental-attack cultivation methods would not appear soon.
• Soul Elder planned to build strength by using Yuan Huo to rise in the Federation, cultivating powerful Human puppets, and eventually capturing Yi Chen.
• Yi Chen advanced to Spirit Dao Stage Fourth Level in a little over a month with his talent bonus and Spirit Stones.
• Yi Chen shut down his Defense Array to retrieve the documents from his mailbox, restarted it, and spotted an Intelligence Organization document that interested him.

Yi Chen reviewed reports of powerful forces and ferocious beasts threatening the Flame Mountain Tribe’s expanding territory, then focused on ways to strengthen the tribe. After more than a month of cultivation, he had reached Spirit Dao Stage Fourth Level, and Bai Ruoxin brought him newly collected spirit materials and Spirit Mines to inspect.

• Yi Chen learned that the Sea Breeze Tribe was taming Ocean Ferocious Beasts and conquering Sea Islands, while a powerful flying ferocious beast was trying to unify a southern mountain range.
• Yi Chen concluded that defeating and annexing these forces could rapidly expand the Flame Mountain Tribe, but he also needed to raise the tribe’s overall strength against growing threats.
• Yi Chen summoned Jin Hu to fetch Bai Ruoxin and the spirit materials and Spirit Mines collected over the past month.
• The Live Stream Room viewers saw that Yi Chen had advanced to Spirit Dao Stage Fourth Level and worried that his progress could disrupt the Military’s plans.
• Bai Ruoxin brought Yi Chen more than forty new kinds of spirit materials and over a dozen new kinds of Spirit Mines, all Grade Three or higher.

Yi Chen discovered that newly found spiritual materials and Spirit Mines could rapidly strengthen the Flame Mountain Tribe, then refined more than seventy thousand Marrow Cleansing Pills. The tribe’s average cultivation talent was poised to rise sharply, accelerating Yi Chen’s plans to unify the planet.

• Yi Chen identified valuable resources, including Soul Stabilizing Flowers, Marrow Cleansing Grass, and Enlightenment Stones, and realized their potential to improve the tribe’s cultivation.
• Yi Chen told Bai Ruoxin to prepare materials and have the Intelligence Organization monitor the Sea Breeze Tribe, the mountain range, powerful Ferocious Beasts, and the Human Race.
• Yi Chen developed the Marrow Cleansing Pill formula and refined more than seventy thousand pills, which could permanently improve users’ cultivation talent.
• Viewers in the Live Stream Room concluded that Yi Chen had shifted his focus from personal cultivation to strengthening his tribesmen, while the influx of resources threatened to speed up the tribe’s growth beyond their expectations.

Yi Chen ordered the distribution of Marrow Cleansing Pills as part of a plan to establish Universal Conscription, then developed and refined pills to strengthen the Flame Mountain Tribe. He left the tribe better equipped with Realm Breaking Pills and Pro-Spirit Pills while continuing to consider how to support its cultivators.

• Yi Chen gave Bai Ruoxin over seventy thousand Marrow Cleansing Pills and instructed her to work with the General Political Department on Universal Conscription.
• Yi Chen improved the Realm Breaking Pill formula, refined three thousand pills, and sent them to the Four Routes Army for its warriors.
• Yi Chen found auxiliary ingredients for Pro-Spirit Pills despite the Military Think Tank's plan to encourage direct use of Pro-Spirit Fruits.
• After nearly half a month of testing, Yi Chen improved the Pro-Spirit Pill formula and refined two thousand pills.
• Yi Chen stopped refining Pro-Spirit Pills, judging that the tribe would need more only after its clansmen advanced to higher realms.

Yi Chen reassigned the Pro-Spirit Pills to the Four Routes Army’s leaders and ordered Zhan Cheng’s abilities assessed. After finishing several batches of spirit pills, he began planning the lengthy Spirit Gathering Array project while balancing it with cultivation.

• Yi Chen gave the Pro-Spirit Pills to Bai Ruoxin to distribute through the Four Routes Army’s leaders, hoping to strengthen their authority and stabilize the army.
• Yi Chen learned that Zhan Cheng had cut ties with the Holy Water Tribe and worked at a Breeding Farm, so he ordered someone to monitor and assess him.
• Yi Chen considered Zhan Cheng’s past leadership and planned to send him to the Four Routes Army for further assessment if he continued to show no problems.
• Yi Chen refined more than five hundred Mind Stabilizing Pills, completing his work on five kinds of spirit pills over nearly two months.
• Yi Chen calculated that building Spirit Gathering Arrays for the Flame Mountain Tribe and Four Routes Army would take nearly a year, and decided to divide his time between the project and cultivation.