Chapter Summaries

You killed Meng Baichuan after taking the Dragon Pearl, then absorbed the fourth Dragon Pearl and recovered more of your strength while searching for the Black Tortoise. Your subordinates finally tracked him to the Qilian Mountains, where you caught up with him and Chamu Xue, who had swallowed the Dragon Pearl.

• You killed Meng Baichuan at the estate gate and took his Dragon Pearl, explaining that you had spared him only during your previous meeting.
• You absorbed the fourth Dragon Pearl, restoring your True Essence to the eighth layer of the Flying Sky Realm and strengthening your Spiritual Sense.
• You continued cultivating your techniques while your subordinates searched for the Black Tortoise near the Qilian Mountains.
• Your subordinates tracked the Black Tortoise using concealed methods, and you flew to the Qilian Mountains after receiving their message.
• You sensed the Dragon Pearl and pursued the Black Tortoise, then blocked his path alongside Chamu Xue, who had swallowed the Dragon Pearl.

After taking the fifth Dragon Pearl from Xuanwu, the narrator told Chamu Xue the truth about the destruction of his tribe, and Chamu Xue forgave Xuanwu but left him. The narrator could not remove the Dragon Pearl fused with Chamu Xue, absorbed the fifth Pearl, and continued cultivating as the remaining Pearls stayed out of reach.

• The narrator took the fifth Dragon Pearl from Xuanwu, leaving him alive, then told Chamu Xue about the Chamu Tribe's destruction while hiding that his father was still alive.
• Chamu Xue chose to forgive Xuanwu but left because he could no longer live with the man who had destroyed his tribe.
• The narrator brought Chamu Xue to the Central Plains, discovered the Pearl was symbiotically fused with him, and absorbed the fifth Dragon Pearl instead.
• Chamu Xue escaped his watchers, and the narrator let him go while his subordinates searched for the remaining Dragon Pearls.
• The narrator absorbed the fifth Pearl's spiritual power over a month, then spent the following months cultivating at places rich in Heaven and Earth Origin Qi.
• In March of the sixteenth year, the narrator condensed his True Essence to its limit after more than three months of secluded cultivation.

After restoring much of his cultivation, the narrator went to claim the sixth dragon pearl and encountered Chamu Long, the Chamu Tribe patriarch. He drove off the attackers, took the pearl, and left Fu Tianxiang and the others stunned by his display of five fake dragon pearls.

• The narrator restored the Nine Revolutions Undying Body and Life Creation Scripture to the seventh layer of the Flying Sky Scroll and his Blood Undying Body to the ninth layer of the Treading Air Scroll.
• The narrator learned that Fu Tianjiao and Fu Tianxiang had obtained a dragon pearl and hurried to the nearby town.
• Chamu Long summoned the dragon pearl with his bone flute, and the narrator recognized him as Chamu Xue’s father.
• The narrator seized the pearl and blasted away hundreds of martial artists who charged at him.
• Fu Tianxiang demanded the pearl back, so the narrator displayed five drained dragon pearl shells filled with True Essence and made them glow and fly around him.
• Fu Tianxiang, Fu Tianjiao, and the injured martial artists stared at the narrator in shock.

After cultivating at the Heavenly Mountain Sect, you subdued the martial artists who came to seize you and crippled Shen Henian. You stayed to refine the Dragon Pearl, while Fu Tianjiao fell in love with Chamu Long and later asked to use the now-empty pearl to restore his memories.

• You drew hundreds of martial artists to Heavenly Mountain as bait, then beat them and planted the Life and Death Talisman in them so they would gather treasures for you.
• You crippled Shen Henian in front of the Heavenly Mountain Sect after he tried to have you handed over.
• Chen Zhong and Mu Gu challenged you for the Dragon Pearl, and you offered to heal Chen Zhong if they brought you ten treasures that replenished qi and blood.
• You chose to remain at the Heavenly Mountain Sect and refine the Dragon Pearl instead of leaving to cultivate elsewhere.
• Fu Tianjiao and Chamu Long privately pledged themselves to each other, and Fu Tianjiao later asked you to lend her the Dragon Pearl to restore Chamu Long's memories.
• You gave Fu Tianjiao the Dragon Pearl, now an empty shell, to see whether Chamu Long could still activate it.

After absorbing the consciousness in six Dragon Pearls, you restored Chamu Long’s memories and waited to see whether Zhang Yong would try to steal a Dragon Pearl. Zhang Yong attacked and died, and you left the Heavenly Mountain Sect after telling Fu Tianjiao that Chamu Xue was alive.

• You returned the empty Dragon Pearl to Fu Tianjiao and offered to restore Chamu Long’s memories, giving them a day to decide.
• Chamu Long and Fu Tianjiao agreed, and you healed Chamu Long’s injuries and used Lightning Intent and reminders of his past to restore his memories.
• Chamu Long mistook you for Qiu Tangbai and attacked, so you knocked him unconscious and pretended you were badly injured while holding a Dragon Pearl.
• Zhang Yong snuck into the room, stole the Dragon Pearl, and stabbed you with Chamu Long’s Dragon Tooth Bone Flute.
• Your body was unharmed, and you killed Zhang Yong with a slap as Fu Tianjiao, Fu Tianxiang, and other disciples arrived.
• You told Fu Tianjiao that Chamu Long had recovered his memories and that Chamu Xue was alive, then left the Heavenly Mountain Sect.

After killing Qiu Ruofeng and consuming his resources, you spent decades in seclusion, advancing your Blood Undying Body and perfecting your martial arts with help from the Primordial Spirit Pearl. By year 110, you had harmonized seven intents in your Nine Heavens Carefree Steps and begun improving the Nine Revolutions Undying Body.

• You returned to secluded cultivation with nearly 130 qi-and-blood-replenishing heavenly treasures, while ordering your subordinates to seek Qiu Ruofeng.
• Your subordinates brought you Qiu Ruofeng's head, and you had cultivated your Blood Undying Body to the Flying Sky Scroll Fifth Layer by the end of the seventeenth year.
• You realized the Primordial Spirit Pearl made you perfect your cultivation arts and martial techniques three or four times faster, while your siblings married and your parents urged you to have children.
• By the twenty-fifth year, you had restored your Blood Undying Body to the Flying Sky Scroll Ninth Layer and healed Chen Zhong's damaged heart meridian after Chen Zhong and Mu Gu gathered ten heavenly treasures.
• Your seventh intent of Nine Heavens Carefree Steps reached the Flying Sky Scroll Ninth Layer by year 110, while your parents and siblings died and you seized and consumed the eighth Dragon Pearl.

Zheng Qian’s simulation lasted nearly a thousand years, during which he advanced his techniques to eight-Intent fusion but died when the Five Decays of Heaven and Man arrived. After earning a perfect score, he chose rewards that brought him closer to breaking through to the Dao Condensation Realm.

• Over centuries of secluded cultivation, Zheng Qian fused eight Intents into all his techniques and martial arts as his lifespan dwindled.
• At year 979, Zheng Qian died during the Five Decays of Heaven and Man, ending the simulation before he could finish integrating Blood Intent into the Heaven Swallowing Divine Art.
• Zheng Qian reflected on his nearly thousand-year lifespan and recognized that his progress came from his developed techniques and comprehension of nine Intents.
• The simulator awarded Zheng Qian a perfect score and offered him five rewards to choose.
• Zheng Qian selected the Lightning Spirit Sword Body talent, Primordial Heaven-Connecting Scripture, eight-Intent Nine Revolutions Undying Body, eight-Intent Life Creation Scripture, and the Twenty-Seventh Layer Blood Undying Body.

Zheng Qian chose three powerful cultivation arts, received their infusion, and strengthened his abilities before starting another simulation. He entered the Sword Snow Stride world as Song Yujie, the fourth child of a family of herb merchants in Liangzhou City.

• Zheng Qian chose the Nine Revolutions Undying Body, Life Creation Scripture, and Blood Undying Body, then received and mastered the infused arts.
• Zheng Qian began a simulation in the Sword Snow Stride world and drew the Purple Talent Heart Like a Mirror.
• Zheng Qian’s simulated life began as Song Yujie, son of Song Fugui and Liu Yinglan, whose family ran two herb shops in Liangzhou City.
• Song Yujie grew rapidly and developed a large appetite, so his parents gave him more food and medicinal meals.

Zheng Qian awakened his past-life wisdom while serving as Xu Fengnian’s study companion and began rapidly restoring his former cultivation in secret. By Year Eleven, he had recovered to the peak of the Grandmaster Realm and was preparing to break through after gathering nearly all the treasures and locations he needed.

• Zheng Qian excelled at school and martial arts, reaching early Houtian Realm and becoming Ximen Longhua’s seventh disciple.
• The Xu family brought Zheng Qian into the Northern Liang King’s Mansion as Xu Fengnian’s companion and study attendant.
• After turning six, Zheng Qian awakened his past-life wisdom and learned the martial arts classifications of Sword Snow Stride.
• Zheng Qian used the Heaven Swallowing Divine Art to restore his cultivation to early Innate Realm in one night, then concealed his strength while growing closer to Xu Fengnian.
• Over the following years, Zheng Qian secretly recovered to the peak of the Grandmaster Realm and collected five of the six treasures required for his breakthrough.
• By Year Eleven, Zheng Qian had found three suitable locations for his breakthrough and expected to obtain the final treasure within two months.

After recovering to the peak of the ninth layer of the Treading Air Realm, the narrator lost his study-companion position when Xu Fengnian left Liangzhou City and decided to consume several smaller spirit veins to speed up his recovery. He planned to use his restored strength to seize the spirit vein beneath Northern Liang King's Mansion.

• The narrator prepared a heavenly treasure and broke through to the Great Grandmaster Realm, restoring his true cultivation to the peak of the ninth layer of the Flying Sky Realm.
• While serving as Xu Fengnian's study companion, the narrator secretly absorbed Heaven and Earth Origin Qi from Northern Liang King's Mansion and recovered to the peak of the seventh layer of the Great Grandmaster Realm.
• Over the next three years, the narrator's strength recovered to the peak of the ninth layer of the Treading Air Realm, and his sea of consciousness took shape again.
• Xu Fengnian left Liangzhou City with Jian Jiuhuang to travel beyond the borders, and the mansion steward told the narrator he no longer needed to attend the mansion.
• The narrator chose to enter and devour the small spirit veins he had discovered, intending to recover quickly enough to seize the spirit vein beneath Northern Liang King's Mansion.

After recovering to the Flying Sky Realm Third Heaven, the protagonist entered the Northern Liang King's Mansion as Tianxin to seize the spirit vein beneath Tingchao Pavilion. He left Xu Yanbing and the mansion’s other defenders unconscious, ready to continue toward the vein.

• After refining the spirit veins he knew, the protagonist recovered to the Flying Sky Realm Third Heaven and restored the Primordial Spirit Pearl to the size of a peanut.
• After resting, the protagonist adopted the alias Tianxin and entered the Northern Liang King's Mansion, heading for Tingchao Pavilion to reach the spirit vein.
• The protagonist used a tornado to sweep away Wei Shuyang, Song Yu, an unidentified attacker, and the mansion guards, leaving them unconscious.
• At Xu Xiao’s command, Han Laoshan attacked the protagonist, who struck him with lightning and left him badly burned and unconscious.
• Xu Yanbing rushed to attack after Han Laoshan fell, but the protagonist struck him with a stronger bolt of lightning and knocked him unconscious.

You overpowered Xu Yanbing, Li Chungang, and Qi Lianhua before breaking into the spiritual vein beneath the Northern Liang King's Mansion to restore your cultivation. After two and a half months, you reached the Flying Sky Realm Ninth Heaven Peak and prepared to sweep across the world, where you expected to encounter the Power of Destiny.

• You knocked Xu Yanbing unconscious with a single move and continued toward Tingchao Pavilion, using the Earth Intent to cover great distances with each step.
• Li Chungang and Qi Lianhua appeared to block your path, but you struck them with lightning and left them seriously injured.
• You tore open the ground before Tingchao Pavilion, leaped into the fissure, and began devouring the spiritual vein beneath the mansion.
• Your appearance and defeat of the mansion’s experts drew investigations from powerful factions, but no one could identify you.
• After two and a half months, you had refined a third of the spiritual vein, recovered to the Flying Sky Realm Ninth Heaven Peak, and created the early cultivation method called the Immortal Divine Soul.
• You planned to sweep across the world for a simulation score and encounter the Power of Destiny.

After emerging from seclusion, the protagonist healed Xu Xiao’s hidden injuries instead of accepting his request to protect Xu Fengnian, then returned home. By the seventeenth year, he had perfected the third layer of the Immortal Divine Soul and turned his attention to raising his simulation score.

• Xu Xiao asked the protagonist to protect Xu Fengnian, but the protagonist refused and healed Xu Xiao’s injuries with the Life Creation Scripture.
• The protagonist drove back Li Chungang, Qi Lianhua, Xu Yanbing, Xu Longxiang, Chen Zhibao, Yuan Zuozong, and Chu Lushan when they rushed to Xu Xiao’s aid.
• The protagonist told Xu Xiao that he had healed him and that they owed each other nothing, then left the Northern Liang King’s Mansion.
• The protagonist returned home, where his parents welcomed him with a feast, and he ate the entire table of food.
• In the seventeenth year, the protagonist perfected the third layer of the Flying Scroll of the Immortal Divine Soul and planned to raise his simulation score to eighty.

The Heart of Heaven swept through North Mang and the Liyang Dynasty, devouring their accumulated Power of Destiny and using it to strengthen his Primordial Spirit Pearl and refine the Immortal Divine Soul. After harvesting most of the Western Regions’ destiny, he left some minor powers untouched and began another round of expansion.

• In his eighteenth year, the Heart of Heaven defeated North Mang’s first-grade experts, subdued the Northern Mang Imperial Court, and discovered that the Power of Destiny could greatly enhance cultivation and prolong life.
• Over the next year and a half, he devoured North Mang’s destiny and refined it, enlarging his Primordial Spirit Pearl and integrating Wood Intent and Earth Intent into the Immortal Divine Soul.
• From the twentieth through the twenty-fourth year, he visited Liyang’s major powers and drained their destiny, suppressing Wang Xianzhi and Hong Xixiang and killing those who tried to stop him.
• His actions frightened Xu Xiao into abandoning his original plan for Xu Fengnian and altered the Child of Destiny’s expected fate.
• By the twenty-seventh year, he had refined Liyang’s destiny, integrated Fire Intent, Wind Intent, and Lightning Intent into the Immortal Divine Soul, and expanded his Spiritual Sense to a seventy-meter radius.
• In the twenty-eighth year, he traveled to the Western Regions and devoured most of its accumulated destiny, leaving only minor powers untouched.

The protagonist exhausted the Power of Destiny from Northern Liang and Western Chu to develop the Immortal Divine Soul, then relied on himself to perfect it and other techniques. By year 153, the account had advanced through several later milestones without revealing what happened in those years.

• In year 29, the protagonist used the Power of Destiny to fuse the Devouring Intent into the Immortal Divine Soul.
• In year 30, the protagonist drained the destiny of Northern Liang and Western Chu, trapping Xu Fengnian and other Northern Liang experts in illusions.
• In year 31, the protagonist completed the Devouring Intent and made substantial progress integrating the Blood Intent, while absorbing all available mortal-world destiny.
• From years 32 to 60, the protagonist perfected the Immortal Divine Soul, fused all Nine Intents into it, and reached the Flying Sky Realm limit for the Primordial Spirit Pearl.
• In year 73, the protagonist fused all Nine Intents into the Heaven Swallowing Divine Art and began perfecting the Nine Revolutions Undying Body.

Over centuries, you perfected your cultivation methods and martial arts, strengthened the Blood Undying Body, and created the Great Evolution Soul Curse. After completing the soul technique with all nine Intents, you began developing a powerful fist technique.

• Your family died of old age, and you discovered the major forces had recovered only part of the Power of Destiny you had devoured; further attempts to use it for your Primordial Spirit brought no benefit.
• By the 273rd year, all your techniques except the Blood Undying Body had harmonized all nine Intents, and you began improving the Blood Undying Body decades later.
• In the 422nd year, you perfected the Blood Undying Body with five harmonized Intents, greatly increasing your Divine Blood and making you nearly impossible to kill while it remained.
• You began creating the Great Evolution Soul Curse in the 423rd year, then devoured the major forces' accumulated Power of Destiny and used it to advance the technique to seven harmonized Intents.
• You incorporated Lightning Intent and then Destruction Intent into the Great Evolution Soul Curse, completing its nine-Intent harmony by the 603rd year, though its range remained under a hundred meters.
• In the 604th year, you started creating a forceful fist technique to complement your powerful body.

Over the centuries, you perfected the Great Destruction Fist and the Life and Death Talisman, then unified the mortal world under Great Gan. You continued harvesting the Power of Destiny to prolong your life, but each century’s supply became insufficient to keep you alive for another hundred years.

• You perfected the Great Destruction Fist by merging all Nine Intents, using the Heaven Destroying Absolute Sword as a reference.
• You completed the Life and Death Talisman and tested it on peak Treading Air Realm Land Immortals, leaving the talismans in their bodies when you released them.
• You decided to unify the world of Sword Snow Stride and chose a faction to support, controlling enemy experts with the Life and Death Talisman.
• After fifteen years, you unified the mortal world as Great Gan and became its reclusive ancestor instead of its emperor.
• Over the following centuries, you periodically harvested the Power of Destiny to extend your life, but each harvest added only thirty to fifty years as your lifespan neared its limit.

Zheng Qian’s simulation ended after he survived until Year 1,545 and died in the mortal world, and he chose five rewards from his perfect score. After absorbing them, he reached the peak of the Flying Sky Realm and prepared to begin making arrangements for the Dao Condensation Tribulation.

• In Year 1,535, over a hundred immortals descended through the Heavenly Gate to kill Zheng Qian, but he slew them and used their Power of Destiny to extend his life.
• Zheng Qian refused to enter the Immortal Realm and died in Year 1,545, ending the simulation.
• The Simulator awarded Zheng Qian a perfect score and offered him five rewards to choose.
• Zheng Qian chose Heart Like a Mirror, the Primordial Heaven-Connecting Scripture, the Nine Revolutions Undying Body, the Immortal Divine Soul, and the Blood Undying Body.
• Zheng Qian absorbed the rewards, mastered the techniques, and reached Flying Sky Realm Ninth Heaven Peak with nine Intents at 99.99% each.

Zheng Qian prepared to break through the Dao Condensation Tribulation and decided to hunt sea beasts to earn money for powerful Spirit Artifacts and other supplies. He asked the Liu family for records about the tribulation and a detailed nautical chart, and Liu Jinque and Liu Wuyang had little reason to refuse.

• Zheng Qian planned to strengthen his life-preserving abilities, stock up on recovery supplies, study Dao Condensation Tribulation records, and acquire powerful treasures before breaking through.
• Zheng Qian learned that top-grade Spirit Artifacts were expensive and decided to earn money by hunting high-rank sea beasts rather than resorting to robbery.
• Zheng Qian ended his seclusion and flew to the Liu family's inner city to seek the Liu family's help.
• Zheng Qian asked Liu Jinque and Liu Wuyang to let him read the Liu family's Dao Condensation Tribulation records and provide a detailed nautical chart of the waters around the Myriad Star Islands.
• Liu Jinque and Liu Wuyang stood to strengthen the Liu family's relationship with Zheng Qian, since the records and chart held little value to them.

Zheng Qian memorized the Liu family's records on the Dao Condensation Tribulation and its sea chart, then left Snow Wood Island to hunt sixth-tier sea beasts. He killed a mid-level sixth-tier Ice Armor Blood Shark and prepared to continue hunting.

• Liu Jinque agreed to Zheng Qian's request and had Liu Yuhua bring him the Liu family's records and sea chart.
• Zheng Qian memorized the information, including details about the Dao Condensation Tribulation and nearby sea beasts.
• The Liu family discussed befriending Zheng Qian and how to deal with the Dark Night Cult and the dangerous item it sought.
• Zheng Qian left Snow Wood Island and headed toward a high-tier sea beast marked on the chart.
• An Ice Armor Blood Shark ambushed Zheng Qian, who seized it with a giant True Essence hand and killed it with a strike to its head.