Chapter Summaries

Cheng Buzheng prepared for his Golden Core breakthrough by learning the Golden Core version of the Blood Construction Formation and buying its required materials. He then left for a more suitable cultivation site, traveling on Little Roar toward Jin Kingdom.

• Chu Daofeng gave Cheng Buzheng an Identity Token for the Supervision Hall and advised him to practice Conceal Cultivation and Change Form.
• After four months of seclusion, Cheng Buzheng perfected his cultivation and used the Small Plate to deduce the Golden Core version of the Blood Construction Formation.
• Cheng Buzheng assessed his chances of forming a Golden Core at about seventy percent and decided to proceed with his extensive preparations.
• Cheng Buzheng traveled to Xuanfeng Immortal City, bought the Spirit Materials for his Pill Formation Array, and returned to the Teleportation Hall.
• Cheng Buzheng rode Little Roar across the border from Yue Kingdom into Jin Kingdom.

Cheng Buzheng rented a Cave Mansion in Immortal Alliance City and prepared a guarded Blood Pool formation for his Golden Core breakthrough. After three days of preparation, he began cultivating with Purple Jade Marrow and Spirit Blood, and the chapter ended with No. 3 Puppet supporting his ongoing breakthrough by supplying Spirit Stones.

• Cheng Buzheng arrived in Immortal Alliance City and rented a Cave Mansion to form his Golden Core in the city's dense Spiritual Energy.
• Cheng Buzheng set up protective formations and stationed three Puppets and Little Roar to guard the Cave Mansion and Secret Chamber.
• Cheng Buzheng fashioned the Blood Jade Pillars into a platform, filled the Blood Pool with Spirit Blood, and prepared himself over three days.
• Cheng Buzheng swallowed Purple Jade Marrow and activated the Purple Qi Pure Yang Technique, cultivating his Sea of Consciousness, Soul Infant, Treasure Body, and dantian at once.
• After the Spirit Blood was consumed, No. 3 Puppet placed Cheng Buzheng on a Jade Bed and crushed Spirit Stones to replenish the Secret Chamber's spiritual energy.

Cheng Buzheng underwent a dangerous Golden Core breakthrough in his cave mansion, using his deep foundation and a Golden Core Breaking Pill to stabilize the forming core. The chapter ended with his Soul Infant nearly submerged inside a pure-gold Pill Bead, while the celestial phenomenon above Immortal Mansion Spirit Mountain continued to draw attention.

• Cheng Buzheng's Soul Infant, Treasure Body, and Dantian changed as he drew on Great Sun Purple Qi, Spirit Blood Essence, and Purple Jade Marrow.
• Cheng Buzheng condensed his magical power into a crystal and spent three years cultivating in seclusion.
• A vast celestial phenomenon gathered above Immortal Mansion Spirit Mountain, leading cultivators to believe someone was forming a Golden Core.
• Cheng Buzheng moved the Pill Bead from his Dantian through his heart and into his Sea of Consciousness, while his body withered as it surrendered its Spirit Blood Essence.
• Cheng Buzheng swallowed a Golden Core Breaking Pill to repair the cracking Pill Bead as his Soul Infant sank into it.
• The Pill Bead turned pure gold, and the Soul Infant nearly disappeared inside it as the pill's remaining essence nourished the forming Golden Core.

Cheng Buzheng completed his breakthrough to the Golden Core Realm, transforming his body, dantian, and Sea of Consciousness before stabilizing his new power. The celestial phenomenon above Immortal Mansion Spirit Mountain dispersed, while cultivators in Immortal Alliance City speculated about his success.

• Cheng Buzheng adjusted his acupoints, connected his small universe with heaven and earth, and entered the Golden Core Realm with a lifespan of eight hundred years.
• Cheng Buzheng’s dantian expanded, his Treasure Body strengthened, and his Sea of Consciousness grew as his Golden Core gained three hundred and sixty-five star-shaped patterns.
• Cheng Buzheng completed his breakthrough and continued consolidating his Golden Core Realm with his eyes closed.
• The spiritual-energy vortex above Immortal Mansion Spirit Mountain dispersed, leaving five-colored rosy clouds before the sky cleared.
• A young stallkeeper asked Old Niu whether the senior had succeeded in forming a Golden Core, and Old Niu affirmed that he had.

Ancestor Zhong summoned the White Cloud Sect’s Golden Core cultivators after the White Cloud Bell rang three times and announced that the sect had gained a new Golden Core cultivator. The cultivator was Cheng Buzheng, an Inner Disciple rather than one of the gathered elders’ disciples.

• True Person Huang and the other Golden Core cultivators left their cultivation after hearing the White Cloud Bell ring three times.
• The Golden Core cultivators gathered at White Cloud Hall, where Ancestor Zhong sat at the head of the meeting.
• Ancestor Zhong revealed that the Immortal Alliance had reported a new Golden Core cultivator from the White Cloud Sect.
• The gathered cultivators guessed that the breakthrough belonged to one of their disciples, but Ancestor Zhong named Cheng Buzheng as the new Golden Core cultivator.

After learning that Cheng Buzheng had formed a Golden Core, the White Cloud Sect’s leaders recognized him and planned a celebration banquet. Sect Leader Fang was spurred by the news to risk another breakthrough, while Ancestor Zhong took charge of arranging the banquet and invitations.

• Sect Leader Fang recalled Cheng Buzheng’s rapid rise and resolved to attempt a Golden Core breakthrough despite the risks.
• Ancestor Zhong asked Sect Leader Fang about Cheng Buzheng, and Fang revealed he had handled Cheng’s Foundation Establishment paperwork.
• Sect Leader Fang conjured a detailed portrait of Cheng Buzheng, allowing Martial Uncle Huang, True Person Shen, and the other Golden Core cultivators to recognize and remember him.
• Ancestor Zhong ordered a grand Golden Core Celebration Banquet for three years later and said he would handle Cheng Buzheng’s remaining Immortal Alliance mission term.
• Ancestor Zhong assigned Sect Leader Fang to arrange invitations and ordered the Golden Core cultivators to attend unless absolutely necessary.

After consolidating his Golden Core, Cheng Buzheng spent Spirit Stones to deduce the Star River Heavenly Cycle Canon to the third-rank upper-grade limit and began cultivating with it. His dantian’s vortex expanded, but the Grade-D Cave Mansion could not supply enough spiritual energy for a Golden Core cultivator.

• Cheng Buzheng woke from a year of cultivation, cleaned the Secret Chamber with golden flames, and had his puppets and Thunder Roar Beast resume their guard.
• Cheng Buzheng spent ten million low-grade Spirit Stones to gain ten Deduction Value points.
• Cheng Buzheng used the Small Plate to deduce the Star River Heavenly Cycle Canon first to the third-rank lower-grade limit, then to the middle-grade limit and upper-grade limit.
• Cheng Buzheng circulated the newly deduced technique, causing his dantian’s vortex to grow as 365 phantom planets appeared around him.
• Cheng Buzheng absorbed the Secret Chamber’s spiritual energy, then found that its slow replenishment was insufficient for Golden Core cultivation.

Cheng Buzheng used the Small Plate to develop an Alchemical Formula that could turn the Bipolar Pill into a Spirit Pill nourishing essence, energy, and spirit. After many failed attempts, he created a second-tier formula using Demonic Beasts and Desolate Beasts, then began spending Deduction Value to advance it.

• Cheng Buzheng circulated the Star River Heavenly Cycle Canon and noted its powerful effects on his Treasure Body, divine sense, and spiritual power.
• Cheng Buzheng considered the cost and scarcity of third-tier Spirit Pills and decided to base his cultivation plans on the Bipolar Pill.
• Cheng Buzheng used Spiritual Power Value to combine the Bipolar Pill formula with soul-related formulas, but his early deductions produced unsuitable results.
• Cheng Buzheng completed seventy-seven deductions and obtained a new second-tier Alchemical Formula using Demonic Beasts and Desolate Beasts as its main ingredients.
• Cheng Buzheng spent one of his Deduction Values to begin advancing the new formula.

Cheng Buzheng used a Deduction Value to master the formula for the Godly Extreme Pill, a third-tier pill with four grades that could greatly accelerate Golden Core cultivation. He realized his powerful three-attribute cultivation method would otherwise require thousands of years to reach the Golden Core peak.

• A black, white, and gray Pill Bead entered Cheng Buzheng’s Golden Core and carried his consciousness into the experience of an old man refining pills.
• Cheng Buzheng watched the old man repeatedly refine pills until the vision ended and a torrent of memories returned to him.
• Cheng Buzheng digested the memories and mastered the Godly Extreme Pill formula, which produced ordinary, fine, peerless, and ultimate grades.
• Cheng Buzheng learned that the highest-grade Godly Extreme Pill had three times the effect of the ordinary grade and could equal three years of arduous cultivation for an early Golden Core cultivator.
• Cheng Buzheng calculated that his three-attribute cultivation method would require about 2,100 years to reach the Golden Core peak, far longer than his lifespan allowed.

Cheng Buzheng assessed how the Godly Extreme Pill could speed his Golden Core cultivation and calculated the vast time and resources he would need to reach the Golden Core peak. He decided to seek Soul-Cleansing Grass, essential to refining the pill, and resolved to overcome the difficulty of finding it.

• Cheng Buzheng calculated that reaching the Golden Core peak with Godly Extreme Pills would take nearly three hundred and eight years and require more than six hundred third-tier Desolate Beasts.
• Cheng Buzheng identified three-hundred-year-old Soul-Cleansing Grass as the scarce ingredient he needed to cleanse the Desolate Beasts' chaotic will.
• Cheng Buzheng concluded that the herb could be found through information gathered in the Endless Sea's Immortal Cities.
• Cheng Buzheng chose to pursue the Godly Extreme Pill as a reliably refinable way to catch up with cultivators who had powerful backing.

Cheng Buzheng used Deduction Value to advance his escape ability, Space-Time Light Escape, to the third rank and confirmed that each rank could be reached at its limit in one deduction. After he cultivated it, a brief supernatural phenomenon appeared over Immortal Mansion Spirit Mountain, leaving the cultivators of Immortal Alliance City to speculate about its cause.

• Cheng Buzheng decided to abandon the Mysterious Nether Chisel and reserve his Spirit Stones while prioritizing escape, attack, and defense abilities.
• Cheng Buzheng spent Deduction Value to deduce Space-Time Light Escape from the first rank to the third rank, with each deduction bringing it to the limit of its rank.
• Cheng Buzheng cultivated Space-Time Light Escape after its Pill Bead entered his Golden Core, and his consciousness witnessed a Mystic Light fleeing a towering giant through the stars.
• Dark clouds gathered over Immortal Mansion Spirit Mountain as a streak of Mystic Light circled above it, then both vanished within moments.
• Cultivators in Immortal Alliance City discussed the phenomenon and wondered whether it came from a secret art rather than a breakthrough.

Cheng Buzheng used his remaining Deduction Value to master several divine abilities and refine his Soul Puppetry Art, strengthening his defenses and preparations for Golden Core cultivation. He finished ready to craft Third-order Soul Puppets but lacked the rare materials they required.

• Cheng Buzheng deduced One Sword Tilts the Heavens and Crossing Tribulation Divine Light, completing his offensive, escape, and defensive divine abilities.
• Cheng Buzheng weighed which abilities to deduce next and chose Great Luo Dharma Eye, World Purifying Soul Lotus, Heart Spirit Divine Eye, and Third-order Puppetry Art.
• Cheng Buzheng deduced Great Luo Dharma Eye, then transformed Nine Nether Soul Lotus into World Purifying Soul Lotus, which protected and nourished his soul and calmed his mind.
• Cheng Buzheng deduced Heart Spirit Treasure Eye into Heart Spirit Divine Eye, increasing his Telepathic Link range a thousandfold to thirty million li, though he still needed a Spirit Heart Crystal to cultivate it.
• Cheng Buzheng refined his Soul Puppetry Art and mastered Third-order Soul Puppet crafting, but doubted he could find the rare materials in Immortal Alliance City.

Cheng Buzheng completed his deduction of the Golden Core Stage Pure Yang Purple Qi Technique and began inscribing several newly deduced divine abilities into his Golden Core. Strange celestial phenomena drew attention across Immortal Alliance City, while a distant shadow noticed the emergence of new laws but could not identify their source.

• Clouds and spiritual energy above Immortal Mansion Spirit Mountain produced a giant sword, a colossal eye, and a twelve-petaled lotus, baffling cultivators across Immortal Alliance City.
• Hall Master Chu and other Nascent Soul True Lords assumed a Venerable was responsible for the celestial phenomena.
• A vast shadow in the starry sky sensed several new laws, failed to divine their source, and concluded their creator was still at a low level.
• Cheng Buzheng saw the Small Plate glow red, suspected its unusual behavior signaled something beyond his current understanding, and set the mystery aside.
• Cheng Buzheng completed his deduction of the Golden Core Stage Pure Yang Purple Qi Technique, including a special method for breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Cheng Buzheng inscribed several divine abilities into his Golden Core and ended his seclusion without cultivating the Heaven-Human Perception-Severing Method.

Cheng Buzheng refined three treasures in the Secret Chamber after advancing to the Golden Core Stage, learning their identities and abilities. He exhausted much of his magic power and Divine Sense, then began restoring them as spiritual energy flowed into the chamber.

• Cheng Buzheng inspected his cultivation panel and decided to carefully consider his divine ability slots before spending more Spirit Stones.
• Cheng Buzheng refined the octagonal crystal and identified it as Blood Linglong, a treasure that purified spiritual blood, then stored it away.
• Cheng Buzheng refined the small pill furnace and discovered it was the Great Wilderness Furnace, which could improve pill refining and artifact crafting.
• Cheng Buzheng refined the Jade Bed and identified it as the Mind-Clearing Spirit Jade Bed, which cleared the mind, prevented cultivation deviation, and gathered spiritual energy.
• Cheng Buzheng began restoring his depleted magic power as the Secret Chamber's spiritual energy surged into him and then replenished from the Spirit Vein node.

After emerging from seclusion, Cheng Buzheng handled the messages about his Golden Core breakthrough and accepted the sect’s plans for a grand celebration banquet while rejecting offers from other factions. He then moved into a C-Grade Cave Mansion and regained third-tier Honorary Alchemist status at the Treasure Pagoda, leaving him with Honor Points and Primordial Yang Pills.

• Cheng Buzheng rewarded Little Roar with a Second-order High-grade Bipolar Pill and collected the Sound Transmission Talismans and Jade Slips waiting outside his Cave Mansion.
• Cheng Buzheng learned that the sect had learned of his breakthrough, agreed to the Ancestor’s Golden Core Celebration Banquet arrangements, and politely rejected invitations to join other factions.
• Cheng Buzheng moved into a C-Grade Cave Mansion and restored his Honorary Alchemist status at the Treasure Pagoda.
• Cheng Buzheng mastered the Primordial Yang Pill formula, submitted ten pills to the Treasure Pagoda, and became a third-tier Honorary Alchemist with a substantial amount of Honor Points.

After becoming a third-order Honorary Alchemist, Cheng Buzheng cultivated connections with Golden Core cultivators while gathering rare materials, pills, and treasures. He remained short of several key resources for his Soul Puppet and Divine Ability, but had strengthened his combat and escape options with two Magic Treasures.

• Cheng Buzheng learned that his third-order Honorary Alchemist status let him go decades between tasks, though he would lose it after a hundred years without accepting another task.
• Cheng Buzheng asked fellow Golden Core cultivators for cultivation advice and told them his sect’s technique preserved his youthful appearance.
• Cheng Buzheng attended private trading gatherings and exchanged Primordial Yang Pills for rare materials, including some needed to make a third-order Soul Puppet.
• Cheng Buzheng gathered nearly a hundred third-order low-grade Desolate Beasts but remained short of the Strange Spirit Pearl, Heaven Soul Iron, and enough three-hundred-year-old Soul-Cleansing Grass.
• Cheng Buzheng spent heavily on Spirit Heart Crystals for his Heart Spirit Divine Eye but still needed six more to perfect the Divine Ability.
• Cheng Buzheng bought the Spirit-Slaying Sword and Immortal Cloud Boat, reserving his remaining funds for rare materials and postponing a Life-Bound Magic Treasure.

After exhausting his supply of Godly Extreme Pills, Cheng Buzheng sought more Soul-Cleansing Grass and acquired a stalk while traveling between Immortal Cities. On his way home, Lin Jingwan, deputy pavilion master of the Immortal Fragrance Pavilion, invited him to discuss the Blood Spirit Jade he had been selling, and he followed her to a private room.

• Cheng Buzheng finished refining his last Godly Extreme Pill and realized he needed more three-hundred-year-old Soul-Cleansing Grass to advance quickly.
• Cheng Buzheng obtained a stalk of Soul-Cleansing Grass from a merchant on a small island.
• Hong'er tried to bring Cheng Buzheng to her madam, but he initially refused and continued on his way.
• Lin Jingwan introduced herself and explained that she wanted to discuss buying Cheng Buzheng's Blood Spirit Jade, mentioning that she had learned of it through Duan Pin.
• Cheng Buzheng agreed to speak with Lin Jingwan and followed her and Hong'er to a teahouse private room.

Cheng Buzheng met with Lin Jingwan and Guest Elder He of the Fragrant Pavilion, who sought to buy his Blood Spirit Jade. After weighing the risks of refusing and continuing to sell it in small batches, he admitted he had another batch and asked how much the pavilion wanted.

• Lin Jingwan introduced Cheng Buzheng to Guest Elder He, an early-stage Golden Core cultivator, who offered him tea.
• Lin Jingwan asked to buy Cheng Buzheng's Blood Spirit Jade, but Cheng Buzheng claimed he had sold it all.
• Lin Jingwan explained that the Fragrant Pavilion had traced the jade through its purchases and Duan Pin, and assured Cheng Buzheng that the pavilion was trustworthy.
• Cheng Buzheng considered the pavilion's strength, the danger of drawing attention, and the safety of trading in Immortal Alliance City.
• Cheng Buzheng admitted that he still had another batch of Blood Spirit Jade and asked how much the pavilion wanted.

Cheng Buzheng agreed to sell Lin Jingwan a large batch of Blood Spirit Jade, but after he left, Lin Jingwan and Guest Elder He discussed whether to seize it from him and decided to test his abilities instead. Lin Jingwan then sent Hong'er out so she could be alone with Guest Elder He.

• Lin Jingwan eagerly agreed to buy all of Cheng Buzheng's Blood Spirit Jade and asked to trade immediately.
• Cheng Buzheng left to fetch the Spirit Materials for their deal.
• Lin Jingwan considered attacking Cheng Buzheng to avoid paying, but Guest Elder He warned that he was dangerous and advised against acting rashly.
• Lin Jingwan and Guest Elder He decided to test Cheng Buzheng and involve him in their plans.
• Lin Jingwan dismissed Hong'er, then flirted with Guest Elder He as they spoke privately.

Cheng Buzheng returned to the teahouse and completed his sale of Blood Spirit Jade to Madam Lin after preparing his Teleportation Array Disk and noticing a faint, suspicious fragrance. He left with the payment, still wary of Madam Lin and Guest Elder He.

• Cheng Buzheng failed to probe the teahouse’s second-floor private room, returned to his Cave Mansion, and prepared his Teleportation Array Disk.
• Cheng Buzheng returned to the teahouse, where Madam Lin and Guest Elder He waited for him in the private room.
• Cheng Buzheng detected a faint, unusual fragrance, sealed his pores, and stayed alert while Madam Lin examined the Blood Spirit Jade.
• Guest Elder He verified the Spirit Materials, and Madam Lin raised her offer until Cheng Buzheng accepted.
• Cheng Buzheng collected the mid-grade Spirit Stones and stood to leave.