Chapter Summaries

Ye Qingxuan reflected on the heavy cost of breaking the formations in the Void Glimpse Secret Realm, while Zhu Dafu bought the formation-breaking talismans Ye Qingxuan had requested. Zhu Dafu left Hundred Treasures Pavilion with four hundred talismans and the Spirit Stones saved by negotiating a discount.

• Ye Qingxuan noted that he had spent three million two hundred thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones on the Void Glimpse Secret Realm and that his reserves were substantial but not limitless.
• Zhu Dafu went to Hundred Treasures Pavilion in the Xuantian Sect Market to meet its manager, Ji Dongming.
• Zhu Dafu asked Ji Dongming for the maximum five percent discount on four hundred Tier Six Top-grade Formation Breaking Talismans, priced at three million two hundred thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones.
• Ji Dongming agreed to the discount, reducing the price to three million forty thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones.
• Zhu Dafu bought the talismans and left Hundred Treasures Pavilion with them and the one hundred sixty thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones he had saved.

Zhu Dafu arranged for Ye Zhaoheng to deliver four hundred Tier Six Top-grade Formation Breaking Talismans to Ye Qingxuan, who entered the Void Glimpse Secret Realm to break Starlight Hall’s guardian formation. After the formation collapsed, Ye Qingxuan searched the hall and found a palm-sized Miniature Starlight Hall at its center.

• Zhu Dafu reflected on his loyalty to Ye Qingxuan and waited at Tianfu Shop for Ye Zhaoheng to collect the four hundred talismans.
• Ye Zhaoheng delivered the talismans to Ye Qingxuan and then returned to secluded cultivation.
• Ye Qingxuan sent the talismans through the realm gate to his Clone Explorer and later entered the Void Glimpse Secret Realm through the Purple Rhombus Stone.
• Ye Qingxuan used one hundred talismans over three days to wear down and destroy the formation protecting Starlight Hall.
• Ye Qingxuan explored Starlight Hall and found a Miniature Starlight Hall in the floating palace at its center.

After spending three years preliminarily claiming the Starlight Hall, Ye Qingxuan discovered its treasures and the Starlight Sect’s inheritance. His attempt to break the final remnant formation triggered a devastating surge of power, revealing that the mountain at the secret realm’s center was a Mid-grade Spirit Treasure.

• Ye Qingxuan spent three years refining the Starlight Hall and reached preliminary master recognition, though he could only use it for storage and retrieval.
• Ye Qingxuan discovered the Starlight Hall held thousands of Spirit Treasures, tens of thousands of Pills, the Starlight Sect’s inheritance, and three thousand cubic measures of Starlight Stone.
• Ye Qingxuan put the Starlight Hall into his dantian and flew to the final Seventh-grade Remnant Formation to attempt to break it.
• When Ye Qingxuan activated a Tier Six Top-grade Formation Breaking Talisman, the remnant formation and the central mountain unleashed a force that devastated much of the secret realm.
• Ye Qingxuan took shelter inside the Starlight Hall, then emerged and realized the central mountain was a Mid-grade Spirit Treasure.

Ye Qingxuan used the damage to the Seventh-grade Remnant Formation and his remaining Formation Breaking Talismans to break through without damaging the Starlight Hall. He reached the central mountain and began refining its Mid-grade Spirit Treasure.

• Ye Qingxuan found that the Mid-grade Spirit Treasure’s power had damaged the Seventh-grade Remnant Formation, then recovered twenty-six usable Tier Six Top-grade Formation Breaking Talismans.
• Ye Qingxuan repeatedly activated the talismans from inside the Starlight Hall until the nineteenth one destroyed most of the formation bases and dissipated the formation.
• Ye Qingxuan entered the mountainous core of the Secret Realm and flew to its central giant mountain, where spiritual energy and drifting starlight were especially dense.
• Ye Qingxuan found the miniature mountain that served as the giant mountain’s artifact spirit and reflected on the great gains he owed in part to Luo Tian.
• Ye Qingxuan sat beneath the miniature mountain and began slowly refining the giant mountain.

Ye Qingxuan’s Clone gained preliminary recognition from Star Mountain and learned how the Starlight Sect had been destroyed by its ancestor. He took control of the Starlight Cave Heaven Secret Realm and discovered its valuable resources, leaving him with a stable source of Spirit Crystals and seventh-tier materials.

• After fifteen years and three more months of refining, Ye Qingxuan’s Clone reached ten percent progress and Star Mountain’s Artifact Spirit entered his consciousness sea.
• Star Mountain revealed that it was a One-star Mid-grade Spirit Treasure containing Fourth Layer Realm Star Profound Meaning Rules and gave Ye Qingxuan control of the secret realm’s entrances and exits.
• Ye Qingxuan learned that the Starlight Ancestor had sacrificed the Starlight Sect’s cultivators to advance his cultivation, but died when his Inner Demon erupted during the breakthrough.
• By sensing Star Mountain, Ye Qingxuan discovered a Seventh-grade Spirit Vein, a Seventh-grade Starlight Stone Spirit Mine, and a garden holding one hundred and eight Tier Seven Spirit Medicines.
• Ye Qingxuan decided to preserve the medicine garden and use the secret realm as a steady source of Spirit Crystals and seventh-grade Starlight Stones.

After surveying the Starlight Cave Heaven Secret Realm, Ye Qingxuan calculated its abundant annual yields and planned to use them to enter the tier-seven market after reaching the void glimpse realm. He chose to develop the realm with puppets for now and resolved to build up Dongxuan City's cultivators so his growing commercial empire would have enough people to operate.

• Ye Qingxuan tallied the spirit treasures, veins, mines, and other resources he had acquired in the Starlight Cave Heaven Secret Realm and estimated its yearly yields.
• Ye Qingxuan planned to accumulate spirit crystals and seventh-grade goods in the realm, then enter the tier-seven market outside Xuantian Sect after breaking through to the void glimpse realm.
• Ye Qingxuan considered mining with Dongxuan City cultivators but rejected it because long-term confinement could breed resentment and divert too many people from city management.
• Ye Qingxuan decided to use low-tier puppets, controlled by a clone stationed in the secret realm, to mine its resources.
• Ye Qingxuan resolved to expand Dongxuan City and cultivate more loyal subordinates once Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land advanced to tier 5 and his cultivation improved.

Ye Qingxuan found that Star Mountain had to remain in the Starlight Cave Heaven Secret Realm, then used Starlight Hall and a formation to suppress Unicorn Flood Dragons trying to escape. He began setting up a second, larger formation as the strongest dragons continued to threaten the barrier.

• Ye Qingxuan decided not to take Star Mountain out of the Secret Realm because using it risked destabilizing the space, though it could produce Star Spirit Light for his cultivators.
• Ye Qingxuan noticed more than a dozen Sixth-grade Unicorn Flood Dragons attacking their prison’s Top-grade Tier 6 Great Formation and hurried to the lake.
• Ye Qingxuan deployed Starlight Hall to suppress the dragons, but his limited control over the Spirit Treasure could not stop them.
• Ye Qingxuan arranged Tier Six High-grade Formation Disks, using their power to strengthen Starlight Hall’s suppression and force nine Initial Stage dragons into the lake.
• Ye Qingxuan began arranging a second, larger Tier Six High-grade Formation while the remaining dragons’ attacks slowed.

Ye Qingxuan suppressed the Unicorn Flood Dragons in the Starlight Cave Heaven Secret Realm, then returned his attention to Qingxuan Cave Heaven and waited for it to advance to Tier 5. After absorbing its origin feedback and reaching the Spirit Transmutation Middle Stage, he set out to improve his Earth Immortal Body and accelerate the formation of his Fifth Element Spirit Root.

• Ye Qingxuan used Starlight Hall and a Tier 6 High-grade Suppression Grand Formation to trap the Unicorn Flood Dragons in the lake, then sent his Explorer Clone to continue handling the secret realm.
• Ye Qingxuan’s Nanxuan and Xixuan clones continued hunting Azure Devil Race members despite being pursued by elite squads, bringing Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land close to its Tier 5 advancement.
• Ye Qingxuan cultivated in seclusion while Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land accumulated enough origin to begin advancing, a process that lasted twenty years.
• Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land advanced to Tier 5, expanded the combined area of Qingxuan Cave Heaven and Qingxuan Blessed Land to more than 58 million square kilometers, and fed origin back to Ye Qingxuan.
• Ye Qingxuan spent three years absorbing the feedback, reaching the Spirit Transmutation Middle Stage, then went to improve his Earth Immortal Body so his Fifth Element Spirit Root could condense sooner.

After raising his Earth Immortal Body to Tier 5, Ye Qingxuan expanded the Spirit Plant cultivation throughout the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land and prepared to develop a force of subordinate cultivators. He finished planting and placed Auxiliary Puppets to tend the new crops, then remained in seclusion with further plans for the Blessed Land.

• Ye Qingxuan raised his Earth Immortal Body to Tier 5, accelerating the condensation of his Fifth Element Spirit Root and the transformation of his World Map.
• Ye Qingxuan considered relocating mortals and cultivators into the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land, but decided he first needed to cultivate more subordinate cultivators.
• Ye Qingxuan planned to grow thirteen thousand Sixth-grade Spirit Purifying Trees to exchange with the Dihuan Realm Alliance for a Sixth-grade Spirit Vein Source, and to plant more Spirit Purifying Trees and other special Spirit Plants.
• Ye Qingxuan spent more than a year expanding the Spirit Plant plantings throughout the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land.
• Ye Qingxuan spent over three years refining Auxiliary Puppets, inscribed them with plant-growth spells, and distributed them to tend the new Spirit Plants.

Ye Qingxuan strengthened his Profound Meaning Rules and raised all four of his cultivation arts to Tier 6 Peak, then upgraded and expanded the formations in Qingxuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land. After around fifty-four years of closed-door cultivation, he unsealed his Disciple Token and examined the messages accumulated during his absence.

• Ye Qingxuan spent three years traveling through Qingxuan Cave Heaven and raised all his comprehended Elemental Profound Meaning Rules to the Second Layer Realm, becoming capable of facing an ordinary Peak Spirit Transmutation Realm Expert.
• Ye Qingxuan used stored Tier 6 Spirit Materials to raise his attainments in Pill Dao, Formation Dao, Artifact Dao, and Talisman Dao to Tier 6 Peak over more than six years.
• Ye Qingxuan upgraded the Cave Heaven Blessed Land's formations and expanded its Energy Conversion Array and Earth Vein Array, increasing its overall growth speed by around twenty percent.
• After roughly fifty-four years of closed-door cultivation, Ye Qingxuan unsealed his Disciple Token, read the messages that had arrived, and left Qingxuan Cave Heaven.

Ye Qingxuan reunited with Ye Qingxiao and Yu Xueqing after they reached the Spirit Transformation Realm, then warned Ye Qingxiao against rushing to the Xuanmu Realm to hunt the Azure Devil Race. Ye Qingxiao and Yu Xueqing prepared to leave for a three-hundred-year Garrison Mission, and Ye Qingxuan gave him Quiet Heart Tea to help keep his mind settled.

• Ye Qingxiao and Yu Xueqing arrived at Qingxuan Blessed Land to visit Ye Qingxuan, who had recently exited cultivation.
• Ye Qingxiao boasted that he could cover for Ye Qingxuan in Xuantian Sect, and Ye Qingxuan teased him while serving tea.
• Ye Qingxiao complained that Yu Xueqing had stopped him from returning to the Xuanmu Realm to hunt the Azure Devil Race, and Ye Qingxuan backed her decision.
• Ye Qingxuan reminded Ye Qingxiao that Ancestor had died after venturing to the Xuanmu Realm soon after reaching the Spirit Transformation Realm, and Ye Qingxiao agreed to stay away.
• Ye Qingxiao explained that he and Yu Xueqing would undertake a three-hundred-year Garrison Mission, and Ye Qingxuan gave him a box of Quiet Heart Tea for the journey.
• Ye Qingxiao and Yu Xueqing chatted with Ye Qingxuan until evening, then departed together.

Ye Qingxuan decided which clones to advance and refined forty-eight Tier Six Demonic Cores into powerful Nuclear Explosion Pills. With Clone Explorer upgraded and sent to Xuanmu Realm, Ye Qingxuan prepared to use the pills against the Unicorn Flood Dragons and turned his attention toward expanding Dongxuan City and raising subordinates.

• Ye Qingxuan chose to keep Clone Nanxuan and Xixuan at their current cultivation and sent them from Number Nine Devil Realm World to Number Three Devil Realm World to hunt Azure Devil Race members.
• Ye Qingxuan decided to raise Clone Explorer and Clone Mysterious Merchant to the Early Spirit Transmutation Realm, with Explorer temporarily replacing Mysterious Merchant in Xuanmu Realm.
• After Clone Explorer returned to Qingxuan Cave Heaven, Ye Qingxuan spent sixteen days refining forty-eight Tier Six Demonic Cores into Tier Six Top-grade Nuclear Explosion Pills while Explorer advanced to the Early Spirit Transmutation Realm.
• Ye Qingxuan gave Clone Explorer five Nuclear Explosion Pills and sent him to Xuanmu Realm, reserving two pills to destroy the Unicorn Flood Dragons and three for contingencies.
• Ye Qingxuan planned to distribute three pills to each of his other clones and keep the remaining twenty-one in Qingxuan Cave Heaven, then prepare Dongxuan City’s expansion and cultivate more subordinates.

Ye Qingxuan refined the artifact spirits of Starlight Hall and Star Mountain while preparing a tier-six East Xuan Auction and upgrading his equipment. Meanwhile, his clone explorer trapped the unicorn flood dragons above their lake and sent two nuclear explosion pills into its depths.

• Ye Qingxuan transferred Starlight Hall and Star Mountain's artifact spirits into his consciousness sea, where his immortal soul began refining them.
• Ye Qingxuan prepared to craft tier-six goods for an East Xuan Auction that would accept tier-six spirit materials instead of spirit stones.
• Ye Qingxuan's mysterious merchant clone returned to Qingxuan Cave Heaven and reached the early spirit transmutation stage, while Ye Qingxuan upgraded most of his Boundary Suppressing Pagodas to top-grade spirit tools.
• Ye Qingxuan's clone explorer returned to the Starlight Cave Heaven Secret Realm and opened a crack in the weakened formation over the unicorn flood dragon's lake.
• The clone explorer threw two tier-six top-grade nuclear explosion pills into the lake and fled as the tier-six peak unicorn flood dragon and the other flood dragons tried to escape.
• Ye Qingxuan's suppression grand formation held all the unicorn flood dragons above the lake's surface, preventing them from fleeing.

Ye Qingxuan’s Clone Explorer used two Tier Six Top-grade Nuclear Explosion Pills to destroy the Unicorn Flood Dragons threatening the Starlight Hall, which survived by suppressing the blast. Ye Qingxuan sent the hall and formation disks to Dongxuan, Gui Xuanzi, then planned to use the dragon remains for Bloodline Fruit and Sixth-tier Flying Ships and other auction items.

• Two Tier Six Top-grade Nuclear Explosion Pills killed the Unicorn Flood Dragons and shattered the formations beneath the lake.
• The Starlight Hall revived and contained the explosions’ destructive power until it dissipated.
• Ye Qingxuan’s Clone Explorer collected eleven Tier Six Demonic Cores, over one hundred Tier 5 Monster Cores, and the dragon remains, then carried them and the Starlight Hall out of the Starlight Cave Heaven Secret Realm.
• Ye Qingxuan handed the Starlight Hall and the collected spoils to his Main Body, then returned to the Starlight Cave Heaven Blessed Land to continue maintaining the secret realm.
• Ye Qingxuan sent the Starlight Hall and Tier Six Top-grade Formation Disks through a Realm Gate to Dongxuan, Gui Xuanzi, for Dongxuan City’s defenses.
• Ye Qingxuan decided to refine the dragon Essence Blood into Bloodline Fruit and use the remains to make Sixth-tier Flying Ships and other items for the East Xuan Auction.

Ye Qingxuan summoned Xueyu, Jiang Wen, Li Mu, and Liu Feifeng to assign preparations for an auction and encourage Dongxuan City's population and Guard Teams to grow. After promising the city would expand following the auction, he asked whether the four wanted Direct Cultivation Advancement Pills.

• Ye Qingxuan summoned Xueyu, Jiang Wen, Li Mu, and Liu Feifeng to Wan Ling Mountain and ordered them to publicize a sixth-grade-item auction scheduled for ten years later, with bids paid mostly in sixth-grade spirit materials.
• Ye Qingxuan told the four to encourage mortal residents to have children by offering contribution points and free medicinal cuisine, and to prepare the Guard Teams for expansion.
• Jiang Wen, Li Mu, and Liu Feifeng warned that Dongxuan City’s population and spirit veins were nearing capacity, while Xueyu remained silent and accepted Ye Qingxuan’s orders.
• Ye Qingxuan promised Dongxuan City would expand after the auction, reassuring the three commanders that new land and spirit veins would support future growth.
• Ye Qingxuan asked Xueyu, Jiang Wen, Li Mu, and Liu Feifeng whether they were willing to take Direct Cultivation Advancement Pills.

Ye Qingxuan persuaded Xueyu, Jiang Wen, Li Mu, and Liu Feifeng to accept his support in advancing their cultivation, then prepared Dongxuan City for its East Xuan Auction. The auction’s newly revealed offerings stirred Xingluo State’s Spirit Transformation Level Powers, some of whose Venerates began to harbor malicious intentions.

• Ye Qingxuan promised Xueyu, Jiang Wen, Li Mu, and Liu Feifeng a long-term supply of advancement pills and support for their breakthroughs, and all four pledged loyalty to him.
• Ye Qingxuan sent the four to prepare for the East Xuan Auction and Dongxuan City's expansion, then planned to upgrade the city's three City Guard Great Formations.
• News of the auction drew many lower-realm cultivators to Dongxuan City, boosting its revenues, while Spirit Transformation Level Powers initially showed little interest.
• Three years before the auction, Ye Qingxuan released details of its Sixth-grade offerings, including pills, talismans, formation disks, flying boats, and magic treasures, but withheld the Nuclear Explosion Pill and Seventh-grade Starlight Stones.
• Spirit Transformation Level Powers across Xingluo State began gathering Tier 6 Spirit Materials, and some Spirit Transmutation Realm Venerates started entertaining malicious intentions.

Treasure Pavilion's leaders debated Dongxuan City's growing influence and its threat to their business. Gu Daoxu decided to annihilate Dongxuan City.

• Wang Mingan argued that Dongxuan City had cut into Treasure Pavilion's profits and urged the pavilion to destroy it.
• Bai Qingan reflected on how Dongxuan City had sold him the Enlightenment Pill that enabled his breakthrough, but his lingering resentment remained.
• Chen Xuandao questioned whether a neutral force should attack Dongxuan City and warned that its auction goods suggested a formidable foundation.
• Wang Mingan cited his investigations into Dongxuan City's limited experts and defenses, then urged Gu Daoxu to seize the city and its supply channels.
• Gu Daoxu agreed with Wang Mingan and ordered Treasure Pavilion to annihilate Dongxuan City.

Treasure Pavilion and Xingluo City investigated Dongxuan City and considered their next moves ahead of its East Xuan Auction. After upgrading Dongxuan City's formation, Ye Qingxuan prepared to hold the auction three years later, confident it could repel hidden threats.

• Gu Daoxu ordered Treasure Pavilion to wait until the auction ended before secretly attacking Dongxuan City, and said he would personally bring its true foundation.
• Xingluo City's Xingze Jun learned that Dongxuan City's origins remained unclear and decided to visit Ye Qingxuan in three years.
• Ye Qingxuan tested Dongxuan City's upgraded top-grade Tier 6 formation and determined that Starlight Hall could help it unleash Tier 7 power briefly.
• Ye Qingxuan returned to Wan Ling Mountain to await the East Xuan Auction.

Three years later, Ye Qingxuan prepared Dongxuan City for the East Xuan Auction by restoring the Starlight Hall’s power and using it to strengthen the city’s defensive formation. As Spirit Transmutation Realm Venerates gathered at the opened East Xuan Blessed Land, Ye Qingxuan sensed Xingze Jun’s arrival and recognized him as a Peak Spirit Transmutation Realm expert.

• Ye Qingxuan finished refining the Starlight Hall and Star Mountain, returned their Artifact Spirits, and placed the Starlight Hall in Dongxuan City’s formation eye.
• Ye Qingxuan announced the East Xuan Auction and opened the East Xuan Blessed Land, drawing cultivators and onlookers to Dongxuan City.
• Dozens of Spirit Transmutation Realm Venerates arrived, entered the city, and took seats in the East Xuan Blessed Land while the city’s mortals soon resumed their lively exchanges.
• Ye Qingxuan observed the Venerates’ disdain for Dongxuan City’s Spirit Energy and considered his plans to expand the city after the auction.
• Ye Qingxuan sensed Xingze Jun at Dongxuan City’s gate and realized he was a Peak Spirit Transmutation Realm expert; Xingze Jun suppressed his Spiritual Sense’s warnings and led Bai Li and his subordinates toward the auction.

Spirit Transformation Realm powers and rogue cultivators gathered for Ye Qingxuan’s East Xuan Auction, where bids would be paid in spirit minerals under fixed exchange prices. The auction moved from mid-grade goods to high-grade talismans, and Huangji Sect Master Cheng Yuan won a contested lot of Purple Lightning Talismans.

• Ye Qingxuan announced the auction’s spirit-mineral payment rules, including the requirement that Tier Six Spirit Mines make up at least sixty percent of payment.
• Ye Qingxuan opened the auction with ten Sixth-order Mid-grade Explosive Flame Talismans, which a rogue cultivator bought for twenty-one thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones.
• Ye Qingxuan auctioned more than twenty batches of Sixth-order Mid-grade items before presenting ten Tier 6 High-grade Purple Lightning Talismans.
• Cheng Yuan bid against Liu Jiangshui for the Purple Lightning Talismans and secured them for eighty thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones.