Chapter Summaries

Chen Shao used the Red Alert System to obtain a pistol and planned to exploit his newfound power, but the Village Chief's daughter killed him while he assaulted her. Zhang Ming revealed that he had fabricated Chen Shao and began designing a more cautious replacement protagonist, Wang Shao.

• Chen Shao collected household items for the Red Alert System and exchanged 12 Resource Points for a Beretta 92F Pistol and 100 rounds of ammunition.
• After learning about the Rui Kingdom from the original owner's memories, Chen Shao grew confident and decided to pursue the Village Chief's daughter.
• Chen Shao killed the Village Chief's family and was killed by the Village Chief's daughter while he assaulted her.
• Zhang Ming watched Chen Shao's death by satellite and cursed him for wasting the Red Alert System's potential.
• Zhang Ming revealed that he had molded Chen Shao's identity and memories, then planned to create a more cautious protagonist named Wang Shao.
• Zhang Ming wondered whether Chen Shao might have been a real transmigrator and whether such people were rare among those who reached the world's pinnacle.

After transmigrating into Rui Kingdom, Wang Shao used the Red Alert System to build a force of Conscript Soldiers and attacked the Song Family, Xinwen County’s most powerful landlord family. He began a mortar bombardment of their fortified compound.

• Wang Shao awoke in an unfamiliar world and named the Red Alert System sprite Xiao Ai.
• Wang Shao ordered his Conscript Soldiers to slaughter the Song Family’s guards and advance on the landlord’s compound.
• Wang Shao recalled the suffering of the commoners and explained why he had chosen the Song Family as his first target.
• Wang Shao’s soldiers set up a mortar outside the Song Family compound, and he ordered them to fire twenty rounds rapidly.

After destroying the Song Family Black Fortress, Wang Shao reconsidered his plan to seize Xinwen County and chose to build up his resources and forces in the mountains instead. He established mining and livestock operations, laying the groundwork for a later return to Xinwen County.

• Wang Shao reflected on the deaths at the Song Family Black Fortress and concluded that he needed greater strength to improve people's lives.
• Wang Shao absorbed the fortress's supplies, gained Resource Points and Flesh Points, and decided against attacking more fortresses or seizing Xinwen County for now.
• Wang Shao ordered the Conscript Soldiers to give villagers some supplies and weapons, then led his group into the mountains of Wutai Prefecture.
• Wang Shao spent his Resource Points on a Mining Vehicle and Ore Refinery, began processing iron ore, and vowed to return to Xinwen County.
• Wang Shao established a Livestock Farm and planned to grow both Resource Points and Flesh Points by mining, breeding animals, and hunting wild beasts.

Wang Shao’s modern army conquered the capital of Rui Kingdom, but he discovered the world had cultivators when Li Changsheng appeared. Wang Shao killed Li Changsheng, unlocked the Red Alert System’s complete form, and received a new quest to investigate the cultivator system.

• Wang Shao watched his forces smash through Rui Kingdom’s defenses and enter the royal palace while the King of Rui fled to seek help from an Immortal Master.
• Li Changsheng of the Fengyun Sect called out, revealing that the world had a cultivation system, and Wang Shao ordered his helicopter to investigate.
• Wang Shao decided there was no turning back and shot Li Changsheng dead with the helicopter’s heavy machine gun.
• Wang Shao collected flesh from Li Changsheng’s corpse and unlocked the Red Alert System’s complete form.
• Wang Shao received information about new facilities and a Main Quest to find more information about the cultivator system.

Zhang Ming anticipated Wang Shao’s system-driven expansion in Wutai Prefecture and watched Qingping Prefecture’s Heavenly Pride Competition begin. The chapter ended as Ye Tian faced his early enemy Li Bai in the Foundation Establishment final match.

• Zhang Ming watched Wang Shao’s progress in Wutai Prefecture and expected him to unite technology with the Immortal Path and expand his rule.
• Zhang Ming went to the Flowing Light Sword Sect’s plaza to watch the second stage of Qingping Prefecture’s Heavenly Pride Competition.
• The three powers selected ninety Heavenly Prides across the Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, and Golden Core realms.
• Ye Tian entered the competition as a Foundation Establishment Inner Disciple and secured a top-three spot.
• Ye Tian and Li Bai fought in the final match.

After Ye Tian tied with Li Bai and ranked second among the Inner Disciples, Zhang Ming recalled striking a deal with him for rare high-level cultivation resources. Zhang Ming watched Ye Tian compete in the Heavenly Pride Competition and declared himself Ye Tian’s devoted fan.

• Ye Tian tied with Li Bai and placed second among the Inner Disciples, earning a place in the sect’s team for the Heavenly Pride Competition.
• Zhang Ming recalled that Ye Tian had agreed to find him at least three items of Nascent Soul rank or higher in exchange for the [Yin-Yang Profound Water Netherworld Technique].
• Zhang Ming watched the Heavenly Pride Competition from the Spiritual Plant Institute’s grand plaza while Chen Dayong asked whom he supported.
• Zhang Ming called himself Ye Tian’s die-hard fan and invited Chen Dayong to become an i Tian.

On the eve of the Heavenly Pride Competition, the organizers combined the Foundation Establishment and Golden Core trials into one Secret Realm, which Zhang Ming believed was done to give Ye Tian a chance to show off. As the competitors gathered, Ye Tian drew hostility from his own sect and Blood Mist Cave, while Azure Cloud Fortress signaled goodwill; the elders then began announcing the competition rules.

• Zhang Ming concluded that the Secret Realm change was meant to let Ye Tian, whose strength had advanced beyond his Foundation Establishment level, compete with Golden Core cultivators.
• Competitors discussed the reputations of notable entrants, including Teng Jingye, Mu Luo, Shui Ningshuang, Li Bai, and Ye Tian.
• Blood Mist Cave cultivators recognized Ye Tian as their top kill-list target and openly directed their killing intent toward him.
• Azure Cloud Fortress cultivators offered Ye Tian friendly looks, while many Flowing Light Sword Sect cultivators insulted him and coveted his rumored secret treasure.
• Ye Tian remained unconcerned by the crowd's attention as the Nascent Soul elders announced that the Heavenly Pride Competition had begun and prepared to explain its rules.

The Heavenly Pride Competition turned violent on its fourth day, and Zhang Ming watched Ye Tian quickly rack up kills. Deep in the Secret Realm, Ye Tian sensed something wrong just before a black hole opened and unleashed a flood of black smoke, interrupting the live projection.

• Zhang Ming started an i-Tian chant that rallied the menial and Outer Disciples to cheer for Ye Tian.
• The sixty contestants entered the vast Secret Realm, and the competition began under rules allowing cultivators to hunt beasts and opponents, except Golden Core cultivators could not attack Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• After three quiet days, battles erupted across the Secret Realm, and Zhang Ming counted six Foundation Establishment Demon Beasts among Ye Tian's kills.
• Ye Tian sensed an unfamiliar aura in the sky and retreated as space cracked open and formed a huge black hole.
• Black smoke with scarlet eyes poured from the black hole, and the live projection was obstructed.

After learning that upheaval in Ye Tian’s Secret Realm could bring greater gains, Zhang Ming left to investigate rumors of a hidden realm near Qingping Prefecture. He found its entrance more than a thousand meters underground and began breaking its weakened third-grade array, estimating that it would take about a month.

• Zhang Ming anticipated that Ye Tian’s altered Secret Realm trip would soon yield items for their deal.
• Zhang Ming reviewed intelligence gathered by Steward Niu and identified a report that matched anomalies on his satellite map.
• Zhang Ming traveled to the mountains at Qingping Prefecture’s edge and located a Secret Realm entrance buried underground.
• Zhang Ming sensed the array guarding the entrance and determined that its original fourth-grade formation had weakened to third grade.
• Zhang Ming began breaking the array and estimated the work would take roughly a month.

Zhang Ming returned from a Nascent Soul Secret Realm with a small haul and learned that the Heavenly Pride Competition Secret Realm remained sealed, with Ye Tian and an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon still inside. After resting, he examined his rewards and found useful cultivation records alongside a suspicious demonic artifact.

• Zhang Ming opened a doorway into a Secret Realm and cleared its traps, Demon Beasts, and trials, obtaining three Jade Talismans and two Nascent Soul magical artifacts.
• Zhang Ming returned to Branch 13 and confirmed that the Heavenly Pride Competition Secret Realm was still sealed and out of contact.
• Zhang Ming learned that the black mist creature was an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon and speculated that Ye Tian would gain major cultivation benefits from killing it.
• Zhang Ming rested for three days, then identified his Jade Talismans as a demonic cultivation method, a toxic miasma spell, and alchemy records containing twelve fourth-grade pill formulas.
• Zhang Ming examined a Soul Devouring Banner and a black bead, complaining that his Secret Realm haul included a major pitfall.

Zhang Ming claimed True Lord Shenzhang’s artifact, resisted the Nascent Soul cultivator’s attempt to seize his body, and absorbed his memories. After months of waiting, he learned that Ye Tian had returned from the Secret Realm and went to meet him.

• Zhang Ming activated True Lord Shenzhang’s orb, drawing the demonic cultivator’s soul into his soul world.
• True Lord Shenzhang tried to take over Zhang Ming’s body, but Zhang Ming bound him with tentacles and destroyed him.
• Zhang Ming absorbed True Lord Shenzhang’s memories and considered using them to leap from Golden Core to Mahayana.
• Zhang Ming decided to wait for Ye Tian’s fuller explanation of the Nascent Soul path before making his deductions.
• Several months later, Steward Niu told Zhang Ming that Ye Tian had returned from his six-month trip, and Zhang Ming rose to welcome him.

After Ye Tian returned from the Heavenly Pride Competition, Zhang Ming watched him face a crowd of romantic entanglements and turned his attention to Wang Shao’s rapid conquest of Wutai Prefecture. Wang Shao’s growing empire faced an eventual cultivator counterattack, while Zhang Ming studied the techniques his campaign had uncovered.

• Only seven of the sixty cultivators who entered the Heavenly Pride Competition returned, and Ye Tian emerged after three days of questioning under the protection of Xiao Ru, who was rumored to be the sect master’s daughter.
• Zhang Ming watched Ye Tian reunite with Xiao Ru, then saw several other women call out to Ye Tian and leave him flustered.
• At Branch 13 of the Spiritual Plant Institute, Zhang Ming considered using the Enlightenment Technique to awaken his wicker chair.
• Zhang Ming surveyed Wang Shao’s expansion across Wutai Prefecture: in half a year, Wang Shao had built a million-strong army, controlled ten million li, and ruled a population of about one billion.
• Zhang Ming recognized that Wang Shao’s slaughter of cultivators would provoke a counterattack, but observed that Wang Shao was integrating cultivator inheritances with technology through the Red Alert System’s Research Center.
• Zhang Ming praised the ingenuity of Wutai Prefecture’s cultivation techniques and considered using them to cultivate even in worlds with little or no Spiritual Energy.

Zhang Ming received three Jade Slips from Ye Tian, completing their transaction and advancing his Level Skip plan. Ye Tian revealed that he had reached the threshold of Golden Core and warned that Qingping Prefecture was becoming unstable, leaving Zhang Ming to suspect the Secret Realm disaster had nearly wiped out Blood Mist Cave’s next generation.

• Ye Tian gave Zhang Ming three Jade Slips that matched what Zhang Ming urgently needed for his Level Skip plan.
• Ye Tian told Zhang Ming that he had reached the threshold of Golden Core and planned to enter seclusion within days.
• Ye Tian explained that Outer Realm Heavenly Demons could secretly replace living beings and grow stronger by slaughtering others, while killing them granted merit.
• Zhang Ming considered how the demons’ slaughter-based growth might compare to Golden Fingers and what he could learn from its plunder and assimilation.
• Ye Tian said Qingping Prefecture was becoming unstable and that he intended to break through quickly to protect the Sword Sect.
• Zhang Ming realized Blood Mist Cave might have lost nearly an entire generation of Foundation Establishment and Golden Core prodigies in the Secret Realm.

After predicting that Ye Tian would emerge from seclusion to save the Flowing Light Sword Sect, Zhang Ming decided to use clones so he could observe Ye Tian while staying safe. Blood Mist Cave then launched a devastating surprise attack, and the sect’s defenses and counteroffensive faltered until it faced possible collapse within a month.

• Zhang Ming considered how the Heavenly Pride Competition’s deaths had weakened Qingping Prefecture and predicted that Ye Tian would eventually turn the tide.
• Zhang Ming concluded Ye Tian might save the Flowing Light Sword Sect after emerging from seclusion, and chose clones over an External Incarnation to monitor him while protecting himself.
• A few days after Ye Tian left, Blood Mist Cave launched a surprise attack that badly damaged the Flowing Light Sword Sect’s strongholds, cities, and markets.
• The Flowing Light Sword Sect’s counteroffensive repeatedly failed, as Blood Mist Cave seemed to know its internal arrangements.
• Within a month, the Flowing Light Sword Sect began to decline toward collapse, leaving outsiders stunned.

Zhang Ming watched the Flowing Light Sword Sect suffer repeated defeats and concluded that the Heavenly Dao was favoring Blood Mist Cave to set up Ye Tian’s eventual return. He decided to keep out of trouble and wait for Ye Tian to turn the war around.

• Zhang Ming observed Blood Mist Cave’s attacks striking the Flowing Light Sword Sect’s mountain-gate formation.
• Zhang Ming recalled how the sect had lost nearly all its outer strongholds and suffered heavy casualties after its failed counterattack.
• Zhang Ming judged that the outer formations had failed because of the Heavenly Dao’s interference rather than Blood Mist Cave’s infiltration.
• Zhang Ming watched seemingly evenly matched battles repeatedly end in Blood Mist Cave’s favor and concluded that the Heavenly Dao was paving the way for Ye Tian.
• Zhang Ming decided to stay steady and wait for Ye Tian to emerge from seclusion and lead the Flowing Light Sword Sect to victory.

Zhang Ming decided to abandon his physical body and become an Energy Lifeform to continue his Level Skip research. Meanwhile, the Flowing Light Sword Sect remained on the brink of defeat until a Bloody Skeleton Giant appeared and launched a new attack.

• Zhang Ming concluded that his Level Skip plan required him to discard his body and transform into an Energy Lifeform.
• Zhang Ming chose to continue the plan rather than pursue a slower, uncertain path.
• The Flowing Light Sword Sect suffered repeated defeats against Blood Mist Cave and fell into a tense stalemate near its mountain gate.
• A ten-thousand-zhang Bloody Skeleton Giant appeared on the horizon, throwing the surrounding spiritual energy into chaos.
• The Flowing Light Sword Sect's higher-ups recognized the attack and shouted warnings that Blood Mist Cave had come.

The Bloody Skeleton Giant shattered the Flowing Light Sword Sect’s protective array and devastated the sect until Ye Tian emerged from seclusion, saved a young woman, and killed it. After the sect repelled Blood Mist Cave, Zhang Ming wondered whether Ye Tian’s extraordinary cultivation was connected to Spiritual Energy and considered investigating with surveillance satellites.

• The Bloody Skeleton Giant destroyed the Flowing Light Sword Sect’s Sect Protecting Grand Array and attacked its cultivators and buildings.
• Ye Tian emerged from seclusion, rescued a young woman from the giant’s attack, and pierced the giant’s chest with his longsword, destroying it.
• The Flowing Light Sword Sect’s cultivators rallied behind Ye Tian and drove back the enemies from Blood Mist Cave.
• Zhang Ming watched from the shadows and wondered whether Ye Tian’s strength and Spiritual Energy absorption meant the Qingping Prefecture storyline was nearing its end.
• Zhang Ming suspected that Spiritual Energy might explain the differences between prefectures and considered looking for answers through surveillance satellites.

After killing the Blood Mist Cave Ancestor, Ye Tian led the Flowing Light Sword Sect to destroy Blood Mist Cave and reclaim Qingping Prefecture. As the sect prepared for a joint invasion by Ten Thousand Buddha Temple and the Demon Country, Ye Tian recognized that his growing strength had made him their target.

• Ye Tian rose to elder and led the Flowing Light Sword Sect in reclaiming its territory and pushing into Blood Mist Cave's lands.
• Two months later, Ye Tian transformed into a golden armored giant, shattered Blood Mist Cave's protective array, and led the sect's assault until Blood Mist Cave was destroyed.
• Xiao Ru asked whether the sect should attack Azure Cloud Fortress, but Ye Tian refused and predicted that Ten Thousand Buddha Temple and the Demon Country would move against Qingping Prefecture.
• After returning to the sect, Ye Tian received word that Ten Thousand Buddha Temple and the Demon Country had allied to invade Qingping Prefecture.
• Ye Tian concluded that the two factions feared his extraordinary combat power and wanted to stop him from growing stronger.

Ye Tian found that his Primal Chaos Golden Core consumed more Spiritual Energy than the former Deity Transformation Ancestor’s cave abode could provide, and he prepared to confront the forces invading Qingping Prefecture. Meanwhile, Zhang Ming reflected on Ye Tian’s relentless rise and continued developing his Level Skip project, considering how he might retain a human form without his physical body.

• Ye Tian depleted the cave abode’s Spiritual Energy and concluded that even all of Qingping Prefecture’s resources could raise him only to Nascent Soul, so he relied on fifth-grade pills and considered seeking resources in upper prefectures.
• Ten Thousand Buddha Temple and the Demon Country invaded Qingping Prefecture, attacking Azure Cloud Fortress, whose plea for help reached the Flowing Light Sword Sect.
• Ye Tian summoned the sect’s elites and set out to face the two invading hegemonic forces, which together possessed nearly ten Deity Transformation Ancestors.
• Zhang Ming returned to Branch 13 and reflected that Ye Tian’s escalating troubles seemed driven by an unstoppable Momentum of the times.
• Zhang Ming continued the Level Skip project, judged it sixty percent complete, and considered whether an energy being could keep a human form and its blessings.

Zhang Ming developed [Fission Divine Skill], a cultivation method that could give practitioners enormous Mana reserves and potentially create a Spirit Particle Golden Core. His research also revealed that the Southern Wilderness World’s Spiritual Energy was declining and that a vast Spirit Gathering Array concentrated it in selected regions, leaving him eager to study its design.

• Zhang Ming explained that [Fission Divine Skill] could make practitioners’ bodies function like Spirit Particle Fission Reactors, with a perfected version potentially forming a Spirit Particle Golden Core.
• Zhang Ming considered spreading [Fission Divine Skill] so others could become energy bodies, noting that the method depended little on Spiritual Energy.
• Zhang Ming used data from the Spiritual Energy Spectrum Analyzer and long-term surveys to confirm that the world’s total Spiritual Energy was gradually declining.
• Zhang Ming discovered that a colossal World Spirit Gathering Array gathered Spiritual Energy across the Southern Wilderness, shaping the distribution of the upper prefectures, Zhong Province, and the lower prefectures.
• Zhang Ming marveled at the array’s use of the earth and Circulatory Stars and decided that studying it could rapidly improve his Array Dao attainments.