Chapter Summaries

Murong Wanwan and Cheng Buzheng uncovered a Golden Core cultivator’s ambush and learned that his master, Horizon True Lord, supplied the Spirit Heart Crystals. After killing the cultivator, they set out for Horizon Island to meet his master and secure the crystals.

• Murong Wanwan met the ghost-masked cultivator at the Dark Market teleportation platform, and they traveled together to the outskirts of Origin Sea Immortal City.
• The cultivator lured Murong Wanwan into a formation and attacked her with icy arrows, but she dispelled them and suppressed him after revealing her Nascent Soul strength.
• Cheng Buzheng arrived, searched the Golden Core cultivator’s memories, and killed him with Thunder Dragon Heavenly Fire.
• Cheng Buzheng told Murong Wanwan that the cultivator had received the Spirit Heart Crystals from his master, Horizon True Lord, for trade in the Dark Market.
• Cheng Buzheng and Murong Wanwan departed for Horizon Island to meet Horizon True Lord and obtain the Spirit Heart Crystals.

Cheng Buzheng traveled to Horizon Island to trade with Horizon True Lord for Spirit Heart Crystals, while Horizon True Lord’s disciple continued serving him under the threat of secret miasma. After Cheng Buzheng revealed what he wanted, Horizon True Lord began to suspect he needed a large quantity, leaving their negotiations poised to continue.

• Horizon True Lord’s disciple reported that he had traded away the Spirit Materials and received a Heaven-and-Earth Rare Treasure-grade Spirit Medicine, then accepted Worry-Forgetting Pills and a new ten-year quota.
• Cheng Buzheng and Murong Wanwan arrived near Horizon Island, and Cheng Buzheng went alone to visit Horizon True Lord.
• Cheng Buzheng entered the island’s formation and accepted Horizon True Lord’s invitation to discuss a trade in Spirit Horizon Hall.
• Horizon True Lord tried to learn Cheng Buzheng’s background during their conversation but concluded that his claims about belonging to a major sect were fabricated.
• Cheng Buzheng said he wanted Spirit Heart Crystals, and Horizon True Lord suspected he needed far more than a few.

Cheng Buzheng agreed to trade for Horizon True Lord’s Spirit Heart Crystals, but Horizon True Lord secretly activated a killing formation to ambush him. Cheng Buzheng broke the array, defeated Horizon True Lord, captured his Nascent Soul, and began searching it for information.

• Cheng Buzheng agreed to buy Horizon True Lord’s Spirit Heart Crystals at the offered price after confirming the terms.
• Horizon True Lord used the palace’s hidden formation and the [Purple Nether Moon Eye] to inspect Cheng Buzheng, then decided to kill him and seize his resources.
• Horizon True Lord activated the island’s killing array, but Cheng Buzheng revealed his Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivation and shattered the array with the [Chaos Dao Tribulation Sword].
• Horizon True Lord abandoned his body and fled as a miniature Nascent Soul, but Cheng Buzheng restrained him with his Starry Sky Domain and captured him.
• Horizon True Lord begged for his life and offered his mines and Spirit Heart Crystals, but Cheng Buzheng refused and began using a soul-searching secret art.

Cheng Buzheng erased Horizon True Lord’s consciousness, seized his treasures, and learned how he had used the Primordial Mirage Bottle to steal spirit veins. After stripping Horizon Island’s treasury and palace, Cheng Buzheng summoned Murong Wanwan to help claim the valuable mineral veins beneath the island.

• Cheng Buzheng finished searching Horizon True Lord’s Nascent Soul and sealed the now-unconscious energy body in a Jade Box.
• Cheng Buzheng killed Horizon True Lord’s disciple, retrieved the Storage Bag, and sorted its contents, including several dozen Spirit Heart Crystals.
• Cheng Buzheng examined the Primordial Mirage Bottle and learned that Horizon True Lord had used it to steal a medium-sized spirit vein from an immortal clan, including the Helian Immortal Clan.
• Cheng Buzheng learned that Horizon True Lord had settled on the island for its mineral veins and that its Spirit Heart Crystal vein had already been mined out.
• Cheng Buzheng collected the Spirit Heart Crystals and other ores from Horizon True Lord’s treasury, then stripped the palace of its valuable materials.
• Cheng Buzheng notified Murong Wanwan that the island’s remaining mineral veins could be worth hundreds of millions of low-grade Spirit Stones.

Cheng Buzheng stripped Horizon Island of its Spirit Vein, mines, and formation before destroying it and leaving with Murong Wanwan. After they returned to Immortal Alliance City, he began cultivating the fifth rank of [Heart Spirit Divine Eye], using a [Seven Treasures Soul-Clearing Pill] to sustain his divine sense.

• Cheng Buzheng used the [Primordial Mirage Bottle] to devour the medium-sized Spirit Vein beneath Horizon Island, and the island’s Spirit Energy began to fade.
• Cheng Buzheng and Murong Wanwan excavated all seven small mine veins and took the formation pillars that had powered the island’s defensive formation.
• Cheng Buzheng destroyed Horizon Island, suppressed the resulting sea vortex, and gave Murong Wanwan a Storage Bag of Magic Treasures and Spirit Pills.
• Cheng Buzheng and Murong Wanwan teleported to Immortal Alliance City, where they went their separate ways so he could cultivate in a Quiet Room at Fudao Hall.
• Cheng Buzheng began cultivating the fifth-rank [Heart Spirit Divine Eye], and when his divine sense ran low, he swallowed a [Seven Treasures Soul-Clearing Pill] to replenish it.

Cheng Buzheng completed the fifth-rank deduction of the Myriad Transformation Dao Body and discovered its new Shared Divine Thought ability, which could let his incarnations perform Immortal Arts as seamlessly as his true body. He began cultivating the ability by merging the Dao Body with his Nascent Soul, and the chapter ended as the new incarnation entered his body.

• Cheng Buzheng used the Heart Spirit Divine Eye to test his connection to a distant Soul Puppet, then confirmed it worked after the puppet returned through the Great Teleportation Array.
• Cheng Buzheng converted Spirit Stones into Deduction Values and advanced the Myriad Transformation Dao Body to the fifth rank.
• Cheng Buzheng learned that the fifth-rank Myriad Transformation Dao Body could cast stronger divine abilities and had gained the Shared Divine Thought mystery.
• Cheng Buzheng summoned the Myriad Transformation Dao Body and began cultivating Shared Divine Thought by condensing Dao patterns with the aid of a Green Lotus Spirit-Restoring Pill.
• Cheng Buzheng merged the transformed light specks into a new Nascent Soul incarnation, which disappeared and entered his back.

Cheng Buzheng tested his Myriad Transformation Dao Body’s ability to refine pills, inventoried his treasures, and prepared resources for the avatar before deciding to return to the White Cloud Sect. After Jiang Siling warned him that a major event tied to the Forbidden Sea was coming, he left the Immortal Alliance City after saying farewell to his acquaintances.

• Cheng Buzheng used his Myriad Transformation Dao Body to attempt a fourth-grade pill refinement and confirmed it could wield his alchemical skills, despite the batch failing.
• Cheng Buzheng burned away waste stones, inventoried his pills and treasures, and set aside materials, magic treasures, and Spirit Stones to raise his avatar’s cultivation.
• Cheng Buzheng told Jiang Siling he planned to return to the White Cloud Sect because his background left him little prospect of obtaining resources in the Supervision Hall.
• Jiang Siling revealed that her master had warned her of a major event connected to the Forbidden Sea and ordered her not to disclose it; Cheng Buzheng suspected powerful factions might be pursuing a treasure or preparing a larger operation.
• Cheng Buzheng said farewell to Jiang Siling, returned to Immortal Alliance City, visited his acquaintances, and left a voice talisman at Chu Daofeng’s Cave Mansion when neither Chu Daofeng nor Shangguan Qingyu answered.

Cheng Buzheng tested pill refining through his Myriad Transformation Dao Body, then persuaded Little Roar to guard his clan’s distant possessions in exchange for extra rations and a Spirit Vein. He brought a medium-sized Spirit Vein to the deserted island and began merging it with the island’s earth vein, leaving the array installation underway.

• The Myriad Transformation Dao Body refined a Nine-Bend Primordial Yang Pill to confirm that Shared Divine Thought let it match Cheng Buzheng’s pill-refining skill.
• Cheng Buzheng convinced Little Roar to guard his possessions on the deserted island by promising it extra rations and a Spirit Vein.
• Cheng Buzheng traveled to the deserted island while the Myriad Transformation Dao Body brought Little Roar away from Immortal Alliance City.
• Cheng Buzheng used the Primordial Mirage Bottle to release a medium-sized Spirit Vein into the island’s earth vein and began suppressing and merging them.
• Cheng Buzheng arranged suppression, binding, defense, and Spirit Energy transmission arrays beneath the island, linking them with the Spirit Thunder Purgatory Array.

Cheng Buzheng returned to White Cloud Sect after investigating the Jin Kingdom, ended the sect’s lockdown, and ordered the elders to compensate its disciples. He left the Green Wood Sect’s lost territory unresolved and resumed closed-door cultivation to refine the Nine Heavens Soaring Dragon Pill.

• Cheng Buzheng retrieved the Primordial Mirage Bottle, left Little Roar with supplies, disguised himself as an old monk, and returned to his cave mansion without disturbing Murong Wanwan’s cultivation.
• Cheng Buzheng swallowed the Nine Heavens Soaring Dragon Pill and began a prolonged retreat to refine it and raise his cultivation.
• Cheng Buzheng’s Myriad Transformation Dao Body spent more than half a year investigating the Jin Kingdom before Cheng Buzheng returned to White Cloud Sect and summoned its elders.
• Cheng Buzheng told the elders he would investigate Ancestor Zhong’s death, then lifted the sect’s battle-readiness lockdown and ordered Elder Huang to arrange compensation for the disciples.
• Cheng Buzheng allowed the Heaven Escaping Boat to travel freely but postponed reclaiming the Green Wood Sect’s territory and forbade conflict with the North Azure Sect.

Cheng Buzheng toured White Cloud Sect’s forbidden grounds and treasury, then opened the sect’s final vault to inspect its most valuable contents. He discovered a mysterious formation ranked above the sect’s Nascent Soul-level scripture and opened its sealed Jade Box.

• Cheng Buzheng patiently answered the Golden Core True Persons’ cultivation questions before Golden Core True Person Huang led him to Ancestor Zhong’s former meditation hall.
• Golden Core True Person Huang showed Cheng Buzheng the sect’s depleted treasure vaults and explained that Ancestor Zhong’s access token was likely in his palace.
• Cheng Buzheng found and refined Ancestor Zhong’s Identity Token in the meditation hall’s Quiet Room.
• Cheng Buzheng used the token to enter the final treasure vault and inspected its materials, secret arts, cultivation methods, and spirit pills.
• Cheng Buzheng reached the most valuable shelf, used his token to break the Light Screen protecting No. A-1, [Mystic Baleful Great Array], and revealed its Jade Box.

Cheng Buzheng found Ancestor Zhong’s hidden secret chamber and overcame its formation to claim the treasures inside. He identified the original White Cloud Mystic Scripture and turned his attention to the last Jade Slip, which he suspected contained the Dragon-Capturing Hand.

• Cheng Buzheng recognized the incomplete Mystic Baleful Great Array in the treasure vault, found its other offerings disappointing, and returned to the Quiet Room.
• Cheng Buzheng exposed a secret chamber concealed behind the Rivers Rushing to Sea Painting and discovered that its Jade Boxes were protected by linked self-destruct restrictions.
• Cheng Buzheng studied and took control of the chamber’s formation, disabling the protections on the Jade Boxes.
• Cheng Buzheng collected four rare Spirit Materials, tested and kept ten Nine-Aperture Creation Pills for Murong Wanwan, and took a mid-grade Magic Treasure he believed he could dismantle for its materials.
• Cheng Buzheng read the original White Cloud Mystic Scripture, which contained a cultivation method reaching Nascent Soul Great Perfection, then suspected the final Jade Slip held the original Dragon-Capturing Hand.

Cheng Buzheng discovered that the blank silver page he had obtained matched the legendary Spirit Realm Heavenly Book and learned the Ruyi Refinement Method needed to unlock it. As his avatar began raising its cultivation, North Azure Sect’s True Lord Sikong prepared for a possible struggle with White Cloud Sect over Green Wood Sect’s former holdings.

• Cheng Buzheng read the Dragon-Capturing Hand jade slip and learned that White Cloud Sect’s founding ancestor had discovered the Ruyi Refinement Method for unlocking the Spirit Realm Heavenly Book and Heaven-Piercing Immortal Book.
• Cheng Buzheng recognized that the method might unlock his blank silver page, memorized it, and erased the jade slip’s secret account before returning the slips to their boxes.
• Cheng Buzheng’s true body considered the discovery but continued refining the Nine Heavens Soaring Dragon Pill, while his Myriad Transformation Dao Body prepared to cultivate with resources supplied by the main body.
• A North Azure Sect intelligence elder reported that Cheng Buzheng had returned to White Cloud Sect and that the sect had lifted its restrictions, while True Lord Zhong remained unseen.
• True Lord Sikong suspected White Cloud Sect was waiting for True Lord Zhong before claiming Green Wood Sect’s former holdings and ordered his intelligence elder to monitor Cheng Buzheng as he contacted allies and prepared for trouble.

Cheng Buzheng’s Myriad Transformation Dao Body broke through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and continued cultivating, but its progress was interrupted when a Grand Elder of the Netherworld Sacred Sect arrived outside White Cloud Sect. Cheng Buzheng considered the visitor’s possible motives, spotted him through the sect’s formation, and set out to meet him.

• Cheng Buzheng consumed Spirit Stones and heavenly treasures to advance the Myriad Transformation Dao Body to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, then used Thunder Dragon Heavenly Fire to clear away the exhausted materials.
• The Myriad Transformation Dao Body continued cultivating in seclusion with more of Cheng Buzheng’s stored resources.
• Three years later, a Grand Elder of the Netherworld Sacred Sect appeared outside White Cloud Sect’s sect-protecting formation and requested a meeting with a White Cloud Sect cultivator.
• Cheng Buzheng heard the visitor while cultivating and considered whether he had come to visit, probe White Cloud Sect, seek a conflict, or test Cheng Buzheng’s strength.
• Cheng Buzheng used his sight to locate the visitor beyond the formation, chuckled, and left the quiet room to meet him.

Cheng Buzheng faced True Lord Blood Yin, who used a false claim about True Lord Zhong to challenge him for White Cloud Sect’s [Mystic Baleful Great Array]. Their battle began, and three hidden Nascent Soul observers watched while questioning Blood Yin’s real motive.

• True Lord Blood Yin claimed True Lord Zhong had borrowed [Nine-Aperture Creation Pills] and demanded that White Cloud Sect accommodate him, but Cheng Buzheng refused to accept the story and said Zhong was away.
• Blood Yin proposed a sparring match with the [Mystic Baleful Great Array] as the stake, offering a bag of Spiritual Items in return, and Cheng Buzheng accepted.
• True Lord Blood Yin attacked with a blood-red saber, and Cheng Buzheng countered with his sword pellet as their battle shook the void.
• White Cloud Sect activated its Forbidden Great Array while cultivators nearby retreated or watched the fight from a safe distance.
• Three hidden Nascent Soul Cultivators observed the apparent stalemate and discussed Blood Yin’s motives, noting that the array’s supporting formation brought a sect additional quotas.

True Lord Blood Yin revealed that he had reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, but Cheng Buzheng matched his strength and the two ended their battle in a stalemate. Blood Yin abandoned his attempt to claim the Green Wood Sect’s Spirit Vein, while the Ancestor of the Black Fiend Sect departed to pursue a separate plan; Cheng returned to the White Cloud Sect and ordered its disciples not to spread rumors.

• True Lords discussing Blood Yin’s plans for the Green Wood Sect’s Spirit Vein and Madam Yao’s dangerous Abandoned Mansion expedition revealed that the Black Fiend Sect’s Ancestor hoped to recruit Cheng Buzheng for the expedition.
• Blood Yin unleashed his Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivation, and Cheng Buzheng revealed that his own cultivation matched it, shocking the concealed Devil Lords.
• Blood Yin concluded he could not defeat Cheng or claim the Spirit Vein, and the two combatants agreed to end their battle.
• The Black Fiend Sect’s Ancestor left after secretly communicating, and Blood Yin later followed in the same direction.
• Cheng Buzheng returned to the White Cloud Sect, ordered the disciples not to spread rumors, and left them discussing the battle’s aftermath.

After a year of peace, Madam Yao visited Cheng Buzheng and invited him to explore a dangerous ancient cultivator’s Abandoned Mansion. Cheng Buzheng refused, but offered to trade a yin-attribute heaven-and-earth treasure for a treasure with metal, fire, or earth attributes, then returned to cultivation.

• Cheng Buzheng resumed raising his incarnation’s cultivation while True Lord Sikong learned of the recent events and warned that White Cloud Sect should not push North Azure Sect too far.
• White Cloud Sect’s strength deterred other sects from pursuing its resources, and the Jin Kingdom’s Cultivation World remained peaceful for a year.
• Madam Yao arrived at White Cloud Mountain Range, and Cheng Buzheng resisted her innate charm before inviting her into the sect.
• Madam Yao offered Cheng Buzheng a share in an ancient cultivator’s Abandoned Mansion, but he declined because he planned to enter closed-door meditation.
• Cheng Buzheng offered to exchange a yin-attribute heaven-and-earth treasure for a treasure of the same grade with metal, fire, or earth attributes, and Madam Yao departed without accepting.
• Cheng Buzheng returned to his quiet room and resumed cultivating.

After four years of cultivation, Cheng Buzheng visited North Azure Sect to reveal that True Lord Zhong had died and negotiate a peaceful division of Green Wood Sect’s legacy. The two sects agreed to settle the division through a best-of-three contest between their disciples, and Cheng Buzheng departed after the terms were set.

• Cheng Buzheng emerged from seclusion and decided to address North Azure Sect’s threat before handling the accumulated Fudao Hall orders.
• Cheng Buzheng told True Lord Sikong that True Lord Zhong had died, and True Lord Sikong accepted the news and promised to keep it secret.
• Cheng Buzheng and True Lord Sikong discussed Green Wood Sect’s legacy and agreed to divide it into the sect grounds and its other assets.
• True Lord Sikong proposed that each sect choose three disciples, with the winner of a best-of-three contest receiving first choice of the legacy.
• Cheng Buzheng and True Lord Sikong finalized the contest rules, then Cheng Buzheng departed as three streaks of light rose from North Azure Sect.

True Lord Sikong and Cheng Buzheng arranged a Golden Core spell battle to determine who would choose first from the Green Wood Sect's legacy, while secretly recognizing that neither sect could safely keep its medium-sized Spirit Vein. Cheng Buzheng selected and equipped three White Cloud Sect cultivators, and the chapter ended with the Blood Skull Devil Lord dismissing the contest as a face-saving formality.

• True Lord Sikong ordered three North Azure Sect Golden Core cultivators to avoid an easy victory and aim for one loss and two draws, keeping his reasons secret.
• True Lord Sikong concluded that the North Azure Sect could not hold Green Wood Sect's medium-sized Spirit Vein without another Nascent Soul cultivator and planned to give it up while concealing the danger.
• Cheng Buzheng told White Cloud Sect's Golden Core elders that a spell battle would decide which sect chose first, then selected three cultivators, including True Person Huang.
• Cheng Buzheng gave each chosen cultivator a low-grade Magic Treasure on the condition that he would reclaim it if they failed.
• A Corpse Refining Sect cultivator reported the coming battle to Blood Skull Devil Lord, who said the contest was only meant to preserve North Azure Sect's dignity.

Cheng Buzheng and True Lord Sikong gathered at Green Ram Mountain for the arranged duel between White Cloud Sect and North Azure Sect, while cultivators watched and wagered below. True Person Liu and True Person Xuanqing began the first match, which ended with Xuanqing unleashing a powerful sword strike as Liu prepared to counter.

• Blood Skull Devil Lord dismissed a proposal to win over True Lord Sikong, and Devil Dao forces secretly sent cultivators to contact North Azure Sect.
• True Lord Sikong destroyed the devil cultivators who infiltrated North Azure Sect, and word of the duel brought crowds to Green Ram Mountain.
• Cheng Buzheng arrived with White Cloud Sect’s three Golden Core cultivators, and True Lord Sikong offered them time to recover before the matches.
• True Person Liu and True Person Xuanqing entered the formation and fought with fire techniques and sword arts as spectators watched and placed bets.
• True Person Xuanqing unleashed a vast sword strike with his Sever technique, and True Person Liu called upon Ten Thousand Fires Return as One.

Cheng Buzheng secured the Green Wood Sect’s grounds through a wager duel with True Lord Sikong, who quietly arranged the first match and accepted a draw in the second. After returning to White Cloud Sect, Cheng Buzheng began repairing the Green Wood Sect’s damaged protection formation while the sect’s Foundation Establishment cultivators waited for him to allocate its Cave Mansions.

• True Person Xuanqing deliberately lost the first duel after a Nascent Soul True Lord intervened, and True Lord Sikong awarded the match to White Cloud Sect.
• A second duel ended in a draw after Cheng Buzheng agreed to preserve North Azure Sect’s dignity.
• True Person Huang defeated North Azure Sect’s late-stage Golden Core cultivator, giving White Cloud Sect the wager duel.
• Cheng Buzheng and True Lord Sikong signed an agreement transferring the Green Wood Sect’s grounds to White Cloud Sect, and Cheng Buzheng departed aboard the Dragon-Head Treasure Ship.
• Back at White Cloud Sect, Cheng Buzheng began modifying the Green Wood Sect’s damaged formation so it could protect the Spirit Vein as a fourth-tier great array.
• White Cloud Sect’s Foundation Establishment cultivators gathered to await Cheng Buzheng’s return from seclusion and the allocation of Cave Mansions around the new Spirit Vein.