Chapter Summaries

At a family banquet, Chen Yi learned that Li Lingyue’s failing Incense Dao had weakened her cultivation as believers turned against her. Li Lingyue feared a great calamity was approaching and worried because her master had stopped responding.

• Chen Yi and Li Lingyue attended a lively family banquet with Chen Jing, Chen Yun, Shen Qingshan, and the Myriad Souls Banner, where Chen Yun lamented that their second sister was still missing.
• Chen Yun mistook Li Lingyue’s sudden illness for morning sickness, but Chen Yi knew something was wrong with her.
• On a walk after the banquet, Chen Yi asked Li Lingyue whether trouble had struck the Southern Border, and she revealed that misfortune among her believers had led many to curse her and destroy her temples.
• Li Lingyue told Chen Yi that the backlash had reduced her cultivation by half, but said she wanted to spend more time with him.
• Li Lingyue warned Chen Yi that the great calamity was approaching and said she could no longer contact her master, leaving her uneasy.

Li Lingyue explained the difficult requirements and uncertain odds of breaking through to the Martial King Realm, revealing that the Three Great Sacred Lands had a reliable method. After Chen Yun died, the protagonist handled her funeral and set off for the Southern Border to help the Empress, hoping to eventually earn the Sacred Lands’ aid.

• Li Lingyue told the protagonist that a Martial King breakthrough required perfected cultivation methods, a Heaven-Grade formation and spirit vein, and help from either ten Martial Kings or a thousand lower-realm Martial Artists.
• The protagonist learned that even with ideal bone structure, the breakthrough’s success rate was at most fifty percent before treasures, and failure could lower cultivation; Li Lingyue said the Three Great Sacred Lands had a reliable method, unlike the Shen Family.
• At eighty-eight, Chen Jing led troops against sea monsters in the North Sea while the Empress returned to handle trouble in the Southern Border, and Chen Yun reached the end of her life.
• The protagonist stayed behind at the Empress’s request, but Chen Yun died despite his efforts, and he arranged her simple funeral at Shen Mansion.
• After the mourning period, the protagonist rode Black Wind south to help the Empress, cultivating on the way and considering how he might win the Sacred Lands’ support for a Martial King breakthrough.

Chen was ambushed by ten Blood Moon Martial Kings, who trapped him and tried to take the Nine Provinces Cauldron. He used an Epic Entry to turn Long Jiu against his companions, then faced the remaining attackers with an Empress Golden Body Statue.

• Chen spotted ten Blood Moon Martial Kings surrounding him and realized the organization had drawn away his allies before attacking.
• Chen tried to enter the Nine Provinces Cauldron, but Blood Moon runes cut off his connection to Dachun and restrained the Shen Family Ancestor's Soul Slave.
• Blood Moon revealed that they wanted the Nine Provinces Cauldron, and Long Jiu attacked Chen while the others bound and shrank the cauldron.
• Chen fired the Epic Entry "A Flash of Inspiration" at Long Jiu, causing him to turn on his fellow Martial Kings.
• Meng Yi warned the others about Chen's Entry Slingshot, and six Martial Kings surrounded Chen as he took out an Empress Golden Body Statue.

Li Lingyue appeared as a powerful Golden Body Incense Avatar and helped Chen and Long Jiu defeat ten Blood Moon Organization assassins, but two Martial Saints ambushed her. Chen used the Entry Slingshot on one attacker, summoning a colossal Werewolf as the battle continued.

• Li Lingyue caught Meng Yi's throwing knife, revealed her full-strength Golden Body Incense Avatar, and killed the attacking Martial King.
• Li Lingyue and Long Jiu pursued and killed the fleeing assassins, but Long Jiu was also killed by the Empress's Dharma Image.
• Chen and Li Lingyue discovered that hidden attackers had placed strange symbols on her, and two Martial Saints burst from underground to ambush her.
• Chen refused to abandon Li Lingyue and used the Entry Slingshot to make one Martial Saint close his eyes.
• A colossal Werewolf appeared as the two Blood Moon Organization Martial Saints were fighting Li Lingyue.

The protagonist watched Li Lingyue battle two Martial Saints, then fled with the Myriad Souls Banner and Demon Refining Pot from one of the injured enemies. When the Martial Saint cornered them and captured the Demon Refining Pot, the Myriad Souls Banner sacrificed itself with its strongest attack, leaving the protagonist wounded but alive.

• A gigantic Werewolf swallowed the Seer, and Li Lingyue struck the other Martial Saint into the earth before fighting him in the sky with Immortal Sword Fengming.
• The protagonist freed the Myriad Souls Banner from its master-recognition imprint, and the banner fled before returning when the wounded Martial Saint emerged.
• The protagonist, the Myriad Souls Banner, and the Demon Refining Pot ran from the Martial Saint, using the Nine Provinces Cauldron as cover while trying to awaken Dachun.
• The Demon Refining Pot struck the Martial Saint to save the protagonist, but he captured it and erased its connection to the protagonist.
• The Myriad Souls Banner used Soul-Turning Chaos and sacrificed itself in a blast of dark flames that destroyed the enemies and hurled the wounded protagonist away.

Chen Yi watched his simulation self avenge Li Lingyue by killing the badly wounded Martial Saint, who revealed Blood Moon’s plans and connection to the Luoding Village massacre. The simulation ended with Chen Jing ordering a hunt for Blood Moon, while Chen Yi made the organization his top target.

• Li Lingyue died in Chen Yi’s arms after passing on her master’s message about gathering seven Martial Gods to form the Seven Luminaries Immortal Array.
• The wounded Martial Saint rose from the demonic flames, and Chen Yi charged him in a fury, impaling him with the Purple Gold Iron Staff and repeatedly smashing him into the ground.
• The Martial Saint warned that Blood Moon would keep sending stronger killers after Chen Yi, and Chen Yi crushed his face and vowed to destroy the organization.
• Outside the simulation, Chen Yi resolved to prioritize investigating and destroying Blood Moon, then beat Myriad Souls Banner-er after the banner spirit joked that he sold his skills, not his body.
• Chen Jing returned, found Li Lingyue’s body and a Half Mask bearing Blood Moon’s emblem, and ordered the army to search the Great Wilderness for the organization.

At the Empress’s grave, Chen Yi met a woman from the Real Realm who reclaimed the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey and opened a rift into a vast universe. In the next year, he gained the Eternal Half-Emperor trait, which altered his realm according to his theoretical lifespan.

• Chen Yi mourned the Empress at her grave and recounted his adventures to Li Lingyue.
• A long-haired woman appeared, asked Chen Yi about the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey, and identified it inside the Demon Refining Pot.
• Chen Yi released the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey, who attacked him before the woman trapped him and called him to her side.
• The woman said she came from the Real Realm, took the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey, and departed through a vast spatial rift.
• Chen Yi speculated that he could meet the woman again in a future simulation and ask her about the Real Realm.
• At age ninety, Chen Yi drew the Eternal Half-Emperor trait, which raised his realm in the first half of his theoretical lifespan and lowered it in the latter half.

Chen Yi led the Demon Breaking Army against the Dragon Person Race’s biological weapons, then rescued Shen Yufeng and learned that the Dragon Person Race had attacked the Star Domain fifteen years earlier. The chapter left him with news that the Shen Family had endured five years of assault from a small Dragon Person force armed with powerful cannons.

• Chen Yi commanded one hundred thousand elite cavalry, stabilized the Northern Territory, and led the Demon Breaking Army south to support Dagan.
• Chen Yi caught the wounded Shen Yufeng with the Burning Cloud Hand and ordered his soldiers to try to save the falling Shen Family members.
• Shen Yufeng told Chen Yi that the Dragon Person Race’s attack on the Star Domain had begun fifteen years earlier.
• Shen Yufeng explained that the Dragon Person army had emerged from the Star Power Mysterious Realm and sealed the Empty Land Barrier, cutting off the Star Domain from the ground.
• Shen Yufeng said the Shen Family had endured five years of attacks from Dragon Person fighters wielding strange cannons powerful enough to hold back Martial King Realm experts.

After the Star Domain fell and Shen Yufeng died, Chen Yi concluded that the Human World would lose the coming war and memorized the Seven Luminaries Immortal Array. Dragon Person Race fighters then attacked him, but Chen Yi defeated Maham and seized his Soul Body.

• Shen Yufeng revealed that the Dragon Person Race had enslaved the Shen Family and forced them to produce Spirit Beads and build a huge Altar before she escaped during the Demon Race’s attack.
• Chen Yi realized the Five Domains could not withstand the Dragon Person Race and memorized the Seven Luminaries Immortal Array from the Empress’s bloodstained paper.
• More than a dozen Dragon Person Race fighters arrived, and one fired a Magic Bullet Cannon at Chen Yi, whose gravity control diverted the shell into a hill.
• Maham charged Chen Yi, but Chen Yi punched him into the ground, dragged him out, and tore him in half.
• Maham attacked Chen Yi in Soul Body form, but Chen Yi remained unharmed and grabbed Maham’s head to smash it against a rock.

Chen Yi and the Demon Breaking Army fought the Dragon Person Race as the Earthly Venerable targeted him and revealed that her people were waging war against four Void Realms at once. Surrounded and outmatched, Chen Yi learned the Human World held something the Dragon People needed, but the Earthly Venerable prepared to kill him before explaining what it was.

• Chen Yi tore Maham's soul apart, then challenged the Dragon People to attack him together.
• The Earthly Venerable arrived, identified Chen Yi by his former names and background, and ordered the other Dragon People to attack his soldiers.
• Chen Yi told his Deputy General to lead the soldiers back to the Great Khan, but the soldiers refused to abandon him, so he ordered them to fight.
• The Earthly Venerable froze and returned the Demon Breaking Army's arrows, while the Dragon People bombarded the army with Magic Bullet Cannons.
• Chen Yi used the Nine Provinces Cauldron to break the Earthly Venerable's Heavenly Net, then asked what the Dragon People wanted from the Human World.
• The Earthly Venerable revealed that the Dragon People were fighting three other Void Realms as well and said the Human World possessed something they needed, then prepared to kill Chen Yi.

You fought the Dragon Person Earthly Venerable and was badly wounded, but Black Wind rescued you and revealed himself as a Dragon Scale Horse. After Black Wind died, you learned that the Dragon Person Race feared his kind, then died attacking the Earthly Venerable while declaring that the Human World would prevail.

• The Earthly Venerable overwhelmed you, broke your limbs, and demanded that you beg for mercy, but you refused.
• Black Wind rushed in, carried you away, and evaded the Earthly Venerable's attacks as she recognized him as a Dragon Scale Horse.
• Black Wind collapsed and died from his injuries despite your pleas for him to stop running.
• You inferred that the Dragon Person Race had exterminated Dragon Scale Horses because they feared them, and the Earthly Venerable confirmed their enmity.
• You challenged the Earthly Venerable's confidence in victory, then burned your ruined body and charged at her, dying in battle.

After inheriting seventy-two years of memories and reaching Spirit Condensation Sixth Level, Chen Yi discovered that entries consumed during a simulation could still be inherited if they had been acquired beforehand. He equipped a new set of entries, revealed the Martial King power granted by Eternal Half-Emperor, then jumped into the courtyard to try flying.

• Chen Yi inherited his simulation gains and advanced to Spirit Condensation Sixth Level.
• Chen Yi realized that an entry acquired before a simulation could be inherited even if Entry Slingshot consumed it during the simulation.
• Chen Yi equipped sixteen entries and disguised his displayed realm as Golden Body to keep the Myriad Souls Banner from noticing his true cultivation.
• Chen Yi revealed his Martial King aura across White Cloud County Town, startling Shen Qingshan before he quickly withdrew it.
• Chen Yi jumped through the window into the courtyard, and the Myriad Souls Banner asked what he was doing.

After breaking through to the Martial King Realm, Chen Yi tested his newfound ability by flying through the night sky and learned his True Qi was Fire Element. He resolved to counter the Dragon Person Race invasion and set out to uncover its strongholds, hoping to earn another simulation opportunity.

• Chen Yi praised Black Wind for his loyalty, then flew into the sky at full speed while Black Wind marveled at his power.
• The Myriad Souls Banner panicked when it realized Chen Yi had reached the Martial King Realm, but it remained helpless in his grasp.
• At sunrise, Chen Yi examined his cultivation, learned his True Qi was Fire Element, and reflected on Martial King Realm cultivation.
• Chen Yi recalled the Seven Luminaries Immortal Array and decided he needed to solve the Dragon Person Race invasion to pursue eternal life.
• Chen Yi checked his guidance task to destroy six Dragon Person Race strongholds and decided to interrogate a known enemy to find their locations.

Chen Yi bought Zhang Mansion and moved into the renovated Chen Mansion, where he held a modest housewarming celebration. County Magistrate Chen Cang attended uninvited to build ties with him, while Chen Yi reflected on Shen Qingshan’s future and resolved to help him rise even higher.

• Chen Yi told Chen Yun he had bought Zhang Mansion with his master’s money and invited her family to move in, but she declined to avoid disgracing Shen Qingshan.
• Chen Yi moved into Chen Mansion, made Dachun its first head butler, and assigned the estate’s servants to Dachun’s management.
• Chen Yi hosted a small housewarming banquet for Chen Yun’s family and people from Yuelai Inn.
• County Magistrate Chen Cang arrived with lavish gifts and tried to establish a relationship with Chen Yi.
• Chen Yi considered Shen Qingshan’s potential future as a Dagan general and resolved to raise him to the position of Shen Family Ancestor.

Chen Yi traveled to the Chixin Sect to capture the Dragon Person Race member possessing Yin Rui, but a chance encounter with Li Liushui delayed him briefly. He tore the Dragon Person free and escaped as the sect’s disciples rushed toward the commotion.

• Chen Yi flew to the Chixin Sect and detected a Dragon Person Race member possessing Yin Rui.
• Li Liushui arrived, spoke with Chen Yi, and then continued his inspection of Dagan.
• Chen Yi infiltrated the sect and found Yin Rui reading in the Library Pavilion while the Dragon Person read along in soul form.
• The Dragon Person attacked Chen Yi with a soul attack, but Chen Yi was immune and grabbed it.
• Chen Yi tore the Dragon Person from Yin Rui, causing both Yin Rui and the Dragon Person to scream and leaving Yin Rui unconscious.
• As Chixin Sect disciples rushed toward the Library Pavilion, Chen Yi slipped into the forest without being discovered.

Chen Yi captured a Dragon Person Race member and ambushed Sect Leader Yu, learning that Yu had helped the Dragon Person Race establish hidden outposts. After discovering the Chixin Sect’s ancient pagoda could connect the outposts, Chen Yi released his captive to help him use its formations.

• Chen Yi imprisoned the Dragon Person Race member in the Myriad Souls Banner beside Feng Yucheng and waited for Sect Leader Yu to return.
• Chen Yi caught Sect Leader Yu writing a map to an outpost at Bolang Valley and forced him to answer questions.
• Sect Leader Yu revealed that he had helped establish outposts at Bolang Valley and Hanfeng Temple for the Dragon Person Race.
• Chen Yi remembered that the ancient pagoda’s Demon Bridge Formations connected the outposts, but Sect Leader Yu could not activate them.
• Chen Yi released the Dragon Person Race member, who accused Yu Qian of betraying the Dragon Person Race.

Chen Yi learned the locations of five Dragon Person Race strongholds and ordered Yu Qian to keep helping them build more while reporting each new one. He chose to head to Bolang Valley in the Eastern Wilderness to retrieve the Nine Provinces Cauldron, and Dachun agreed to become its Artifact Spirit.

• Chen Yi questioned Huchacha and learned from Yu Qian how to read the Teleportation Formations, identifying strongholds at Chixin Sect, Bolang Valley, Hanfeng Temple, Dashiguo, and Changhai Forest.
• Chen Yi let Yu Qian continue cooperating with the Dragon Person Race, ordering him to report any new strongholds and warning him not to betray their arrangement.
• Chen Yi chose Bolang Valley as his first target because it was near the Nine Provinces Cauldron, despite knowing Huchacha's disappearance might make the Dragon Person Race suspicious of Yu Qian.
• Chen Yi returned to Chen Mansion and asked Dachun to accompany him and become the Nine Provinces Cauldron's Artifact Spirit.
• Dachun agreed to become the Artifact Spirit because the cauldron would greatly help Chen Yi.

Chen Yi flew with Dachun to the Eastern Wilderness, learned the Dragon Person Race's language from Huchacha, and awakened the Nine Provinces Cauldron by making Dachun its Artifact Spirit. After sensing the Earth Spirit, Chen Yi ignored the Myriad Souls Banner's urging to pursue it and entered the cauldron's Small World with Dachun.

• Chen Yi flew with Dachun on the Flame Iron Heavy Sword and decided to learn the Dragon Person Race's language from Huchacha.
• Chen Yi used a trait to learn the language quickly, while Huchacha taught him after the Myriad Souls Banner insulted it.
• Chen Yi reached Bolang Valley, dug down to the buried Nine Provinces Cauldron, and had Dachun touch it.
• Dachun awakened the Nine Provinces Cauldron as its core Artifact Spirit, activating its Small World and beginning to restore memories by eating peaches.
• Chen Yi sensed the Earth Spirit but refused to follow the Myriad Souls Banner's urging, choosing instead to explore the cauldron's Small World with Dachun.

Chen Yi destroyed a Dragon Person Race outpost in Bolang Valley, then traveled to Lake of Ten Thousand Demons to retrieve the Demon Refining Pot. He revealed himself to the Heng Ha Demon Generals and began fighting them to reclaim the territory for the Human Race.

• Chen Yi named his inner Small World the Cauldron World and set out to handle his next mission.
• At Bolang Valley, Chen Yi ambushed two Dragon Person Race soldiers, but they self-destructed rather than reveal their secrets; their deaths completed one out of six outpost objectives.
• Chen Yi traveled to Lake of Ten Thousand Demons, where he sensed the Demon Refining Pot sealed beneath the lake and found the Heng Ha Demon Generals guarding it.
• Chen Yi challenged the demons' claim to the Great Wilderness and used the Star River Divine Skill to make Ha Demon float upward.
• Chen Yi claimed to be Shen Yi of the Shen Family and declared that he had come to reclaim the Great Wilderness for the Human Race.

Chen Yi defeated two Demon Kings and rescued the Demon Refining Pot from its seal beneath Lake of Ten Thousand Demons. He then headed to Changhai Forest to destroy another Dragon Person Race outpost and quickly defeated its lone guard.

• Chen Yi overwhelmed the two Demon Kings, knocked them unconscious, and left them alive.
• Chen Yi broke the sealing formation beneath Lake of Ten Thousand Demons and claimed the Demon Refining Pot as his artifact.
• The Demon Refining Pot mistook the Myriad Souls Banner for an evil artifact, and Chen Yi persuaded it that the banner had turned over a new leaf.
• Chen Yi traveled to Changhai Forest and found a remote Dragon Person Race outpost guarded by a single soul-form member.
• Chen Yi punched the outpost's guard and ended the battle.