Chapter Summaries

Cheng Buzheng organized the relocation of White Cloud Sect cultivators to the former Green Wood Sect station, promising to fortify it with a fourth-rank formation. He led the group there and began a powerful formation reconstruction, leaving the Green Wood Sect ruins shaking as the array took shape.

• Cheng Buzheng summoned the sect’s Foundation Establishment and Golden Core cultivators and offered them Cave Mansions at the former Green Wood Sect station, promising a fourth-rank Forbidden Great Array and contingencies.
• A middle-aged Foundation Establishment cultivator and other applicants volunteered to relocate, while True Person Huang and two early-stage Golden Core cultivators agreed to go and establish Cave Mansions.
• Three days later, Cheng Buzheng led the relocating cultivators aboard a Treasure Ship toward the Green Wood Mountain Range, where North Azure Sect cultivators greeted him and withdrew to Green Wood Immortal City.
• Cheng Buzheng released the incomplete formations around the Green Wood Sect ruins and linked them together with the Mystic Source Returning Flow technique.
• Cheng Buzheng channeled his Magic Power into the vast Array Diagram and made it descend into the ground, causing the ruins to shake violently as the White Cloud Sect cultivators watched in astonishment.

Cheng Buzheng transformed the Green Wood Sect ruins into a fortified stronghold, reorganizing its spirit veins into cultivation areas and assigning True Person Huang to oversee it. After Cheng Buzheng departed, True Person Huang led the cultivators in building facilities and establishing a thriving settlement.

• Cheng Buzheng completed the formation, recorded how to refine access tokens, and inspected the stripped ruins of the Green Wood Sect.
• Cheng Buzheng severed and redirected the spirit veins, shutting down most cultivation caves while reshaping the stronghold’s energy supply.
• Cheng Buzheng divided the stronghold into four regions: Foundation Establishment Peak, a Spirit Herb Garden, Golden Core Peak, and a peak reserved for Nascent Soul True Lords.
• Cheng Buzheng appointed True Person Huang to oversee the stronghold, gave him access instructions and tools to control and protect the formation, then departed after recovering his avatar’s strength.
• True Person Huang led the cultivators in building alchemy and artifact-refining chambers, public facilities, and assigned plots in the Spirit Herb Garden.

Cheng Buzheng completed several commissioned Magic Treasures and accepted an order from a black-robed old man to refine the Dark Underworld Heavenly Wheel. The old man’s payment appeared to include rare ingredients for the Seven Treasures Soul-Clearing Pill, but Cheng Buzheng learned that two essential herbs were unavailable and had been promised only after the treasure was finished, leaving Murong Wanwan’s need for the pill unresolved.

• Cheng Buzheng finished refining a sharp, spell-breaking needle Magic Treasure and sealed it among the completed commissions at Fudao Hall.
• A black-robed old man arrived with an Identity Token Cheng Buzheng had issued and asked him to refine the Dark Underworld Heavenly Wheel.
• Cheng Buzheng recognized the visitor as the Mortal Cultivator who had traded a Seven Treasures Soul-Clearing Pill in the Dark Market and accepted the commission and its payment of Spirit Medicines.
• The black-robed old man promised to provide Seven-Star Crystal Grass and Seven-Glow Dream Lotus when he returned to collect the finished treasure, and both men formalized their agreement with a heart-demon oath.
• Cheng Buzheng sent the white-haired Old Daoist to search nearby shops for the two promised herbs, but the shops had none and reported that other cultivators had also sought them.
• Cheng Buzheng realized the black-robed old man had deliberately withheld the two rare herbs as leverage, and that Murong Wanwan needed the Seven Treasures Soul-Clearing Pill.

Over six years, Cheng Buzheng completed his alchemy orders and made a Seven Treasures Soul-Clearing Pill before learning that Madam Yao had returned from exploring the ancient cultivator's Abandoned Mansion. He met her at the White Cloud Sect and heard that the expedition had cost several lives but yielded no valuable treasures.

• Cheng Buzheng refined the Dark Underworld Heavenly Wheel and, after obtaining the promised Spirit Medicines, successfully made a Seven Treasures Soul-Clearing Pill while completing numerous orders over nearly six years.
• Madam Yao visited the White Cloud Sect seeking Ancestor Cheng, and a Golden Core cultivator used Cheng Buzheng's Jade Talisman to relay the news to his Soul Puppet and true body.
• Cheng Buzheng collected devilish rare treasures from his true body, returned to the White Cloud Sect, and waited more than two years for Madam Yao to arrive.
• Cheng Buzheng welcomed Madam Yao and listened as she explained that her group spent three years breaking the Abandoned Mansion's formation, suffered several deaths, and found only worthless Spiritual Items in a fake mansion.

Cheng Buzheng traded Madam Yao a [Heavenly Yin Mystic Stone] at a forty-percent markup and sold her three rare demonic materials at a thirty-percent markup. After three years of cultivation, his Myriad Transformation Dao Body reached the peak of the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, and he set out for the Boundless Sea to fulfill Fudao Hall's order while a Soul Puppet remained behind as an anchor.

• Madam Yao tried to trade for Cheng Buzheng's [Heavenly Yin Mystic Stone], but he held firm until she accepted a price forty percent higher.
• Cheng Buzheng offered Madam Yao Sunken Sea Demon Silver, Purple River Evil Sand, and Black Ancient Demon Crystal, and she agreed to buy them at a thirty-percent markup.
• Cheng Buzheng returned to his quiet room and used Spirit Stones and heavenly treasures to cultivate his Myriad Transformation Dao Body for three years.
• Cheng Buzheng's Myriad Transformation Dao Body reached the peak of the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, but he realized it could not advance further until his true body broke through.
• Cheng Buzheng left the White Cloud Sect for the Boundless Sea to fulfill Fudao Hall's order, while his Soul Puppet stayed behind in the hidden chamber as an anchor.

After years of gathering resources and overseeing the White Cloud Sect, Cheng Buzheng learned that Murong Wanwan had reached Nascent Soul Middle Stage and began teaching her the fifth-grade Myriad Transformation Dao Body. More than two years into her training, her repeated mistakes tested his patience, but he softened his expectations and continued guiding her.

• Cheng Buzheng returned to Jin Kingdom six years after leaving and learned that the Devil Dao sects' upheaval had ended without him profiting from it.
• Over the next sixty years, Cheng Buzheng's Myriad Transformation Dao Body worked for Fudao Hall, guarded the White Cloud Sect, and traded heavenly treasures for resources to advance its cultivation.
• Murong Wanwan broke through to Nascent Soul Middle Stage after more than eighty years of seclusion, aided by Cheng Buzheng's Spirit Pills and her activated Phoenix Spirit Body.
• Cheng Buzheng traveled to Immortal Alliance City and taught Murong Wanwan the fifth-grade Myriad Transformation Dao Body.
• After more than two years of practice, Murong Wanwan kept failing to form her third divine power trace, and Cheng Buzheng repeatedly scolded her.
• Cheng Buzheng acknowledged that he had demanded too much, reassured Murong Wanwan that he would protect her, and resumed teaching her the divine ability.

Cheng Buzheng deceived Murong Wanwan into diligently cultivating the fifth-rank [Myriad Transformation Dao Body] by inventing an Abandoned Mansion that supposedly needed her help. After six years, she successfully simulated its Dao Seal, while Cheng Buzheng avoided a kiss and reminded her that she still needed to cultivate the ability in her Sea of Consciousness.

• Murong Wanwan noticed Cheng Buzheng's worry, and he claimed it came from a dangerous Abandoned Mansion belonging to True Lord Wondrous Pill that required two people to explore.
• Cheng Buzheng's story convinced Murong Wanwan to master [Myriad Transformation Dao Body], and she trained under his guidance for six years.
• Cheng Buzheng demonstrated how to connect divine ability traces to the Heavenly Dao's rhythm and form a Flood Dragon Dao Seal.
• Murong Wanwan followed his demonstration and successfully formed a miniature Dao Seal in the Crystal Ball.
• Murong Wanwan moved close to Cheng Buzheng, but he pulled away and urged her to keep practicing before trying to inscribe the ability in her Sea of Consciousness.

Cheng Buzheng prepared Murong Wanwan to cultivate the Myriad Transformation Dao Body, then searched for pills to restore her Nascent Soul origin. After a Nascent Soul Late Stage Devil Master confronted him over six rare treasures, Cheng Buzheng revealed his formidable sword ability, and the Devil Master launched a full attack.

• Cheng Buzheng gave Murong Wanwan a Seven Treasures Soul-Clearing Pill, Green Lotus Spirit-Restoring Pills, and precious cultivation pills, then warned her to wait for him before separating a clone.
• Cheng Buzheng completed Fudao Hall's orders and searched high-end Dark Markets for Spirit Pills that could restore Nascent Soul origin.
• A Nascent Soul Late Stage Devil Master emerged from hiding and demanded Cheng Buzheng's six Heaven-and-Earth rare treasures, while Cheng Buzheng offered them in exchange for the pills he sought.
• The Devil Master scared off several cultivators who had followed Cheng Buzheng, ruining Cheng Buzheng's hope of using them as bait.
• When Cheng Buzheng refused to surrender the treasures, the Devil Master attacked, and Cheng Buzheng countered with a powerful sword divine ability.
• The Devil Master summoned a demonic seal and a domain world to suppress Cheng Buzheng.

Cheng Buzheng defeated a Nascent Soul Late Stage Devil Master with a destructive Chaos Sword Qi, killed his fleeing Second Nascent Soul, and sorted through the spoils before returning to his secluded base. After completing accumulated work and traveling to the Profound Wind Sea Region, he visited Madam Yao at Mysterious Yin Sect to propose a new transaction.

• Cheng Buzheng fused four specially made swords into a chaos-colored crystal longsword, broke the Devil Master's domain and demonic seal, and destroyed his body.
• The Devil Master's Second Nascent Soul escaped the first strike, but Cheng Buzheng pursued and killed it before collecting the Storage Bag; the crystalline sword crumbled afterward.
• Cheng Buzheng returned to Immortal Alliance City, sorted the spoils, found three Blood Heaven Spirit-Transforming Pills, and discovered no record of the Second Nascent Soul secret technique.
• Over the following three years, Cheng Buzheng completed orders, reforged Magic Treasures, forged seven sets of specially made longswords, and sold surplus items for Spirit Stones.
• Cheng Buzheng traveled through Xuanfeng Immortal City and his hidden base, then went to Mysterious Yin Sect and told Madam Yao he wanted to make a transaction.
• Madam Yao complained about their previous deal and teased Cheng Buzheng, while he recognized that she was trying to secure more profit in their next exchange.

Cheng Buzheng negotiated a trade with Madam Yao and asked her to help locate a Buddha Heart Fruit to restore Murong Wanwan’s Nascent Soul origin. Madam Yao revealed who possessed one, while Cheng Buzheng’s demand that she swear a heart-demon oath left their trust strained.

• Cheng Buzheng pretended to leave when Madam Yao complained, prompting her to pull him back and hear his offer.
• Cheng Buzheng traded three demonic heaven-and-earth treasures with Madam Yao at their usual rates, then offered her an additional half-percent profit for help finding a Nascent Soul-restoring treasure.
• Madam Yao said she knew someone who possessed a Buddha Heart Fruit, and Cheng Buzheng refused to let her use the information to demand more profit.
• Madam Yao threatened to end their dealings, but Cheng Buzheng apologized while making clear he would leave if she truly wanted to sever ties.
• Cheng Buzheng declined Madam Yao’s seductive invitation, completed the trade, and learned the identity of the Buddha Heart Fruit’s owner.
• Madam Yao offered to swear a heart-demon oath, and Cheng Buzheng accepted her offer, making her realize he genuinely distrusted her.

Madam Yao swore a heart demon oath confirming that Bloodflame True Lord possessed the Buddha Heart Fruit, and Cheng Buzheng began considering how to obtain it without violating the alliance decree. Two years later, the dying Old Zhou revealed a dangerous secret to his grandson Zhou An, then died when a hidden restriction destroyed his Sea of Consciousness.

• Madam Yao swore a heart demon oath that the information she gave Cheng Buzheng was true, and they parted on better terms.
• Cheng Buzheng identified Bloodflame True Lord of the Demon Flame Sect as the holder of the Buddha Heart Fruit and considered ways to approach him without openly attacking.
• Two years later, Zhou An returned to White Cloud Immortal City and found his grandfather Old Zhou near death.
• Old Zhou asked Zhou An whether he would risk his life for a chance to break through, and Zhou An agreed.
• Old Zhou began telling Zhou An a secret that could transform the Jin Kingdom Cultivation World, but a hidden restriction erupted and killed him before he could finish.

After his grandfather died, Zhou An honored his memory, arranged matters for his mortal descendants, and left the White Cloud Sect. In North Azure Immortal City, he secured a private meeting with Xu Yique, a North Azure Sect Foundation Establishment cultivator, while his former intermediary realized Zhou An had used him.

• Zhou An found only dozens of Spirit Stones in his grandfather's Storage Bag, buried him, and vowed to reach Foundation Establishment.
• Zhou An returned his grandfather's rented dwelling, left White Cloud Immortal City and the White Cloud Sect, and took a Spirit Medicine search mission.
• Zhou An visited his mortal clan, gave the elders Spirit Pills and cultivation texts, and warned them not to attend the White Cloud Sect's Immortal Ascension Convention.
• Zhou An spent his savings befriending a North Azure Sect junior and persuaded him to arrange an introduction to martial uncle Xu.
• At Butterfly Fragrance Tower, Zhou An asked the junior to leave so he could speak privately with Xu Yique, who agreed and dismissed the junior.
• The junior realized Zhou An had never intended to join the North Azure Sect and vanished after leaving the private room.

Zhou An used his knowledge that Ancestor Zhong of the White Cloud Sect had likely died to bargain with Xu Yique for help breaking through to Foundation Establishment. Xu Yique agreed to provide three Foundation Establishment Pills and swore a heart-demon oath not to scheme against Zhou An, who then asked him to pay for a cave dwelling.

• Zhou An revealed to Xu Yique that his grandfather's work at the White Cloud Sect's Longevity Hall suggested Ancestor Zhong had died, and he swore a great heart-demon oath to affirm the information was true.
• Xu Yique offered to reward Zhou An, but Zhou An insisted that he wanted help breaking through and warned that the secret would spread if Xu Yique confined him.
• After Zhou An prepared to leave, Xu Yique offered three Foundation Establishment Pills, and Zhou An accepted.
• Zhou An demanded that Xu Yique swear not to scheme against him, and Xu Yique took a Heart Demon Great Oath.
• Zhou An asked Xu Yique to help him rent a cave dwelling because he had spent his remaining Spirit Stones meeting him.

Cheng Buzheng’s scheme brought Zhou An into contact with Xu Yique, who carried news of the hidden Spirit Vein to the Demon Flame Sect. Bloodflame True Lord attacked the White Cloud Sect outpost, and Cheng Buzheng prepared to use the assault as leverage to claim the Buddha Heart Fruit.

• Zhou An accepted Xu Yique’s Spirit Stones and Foundation Establishment Pill, then headed to a high-end Cave Mansion to attempt a breakthrough while two followers trailed him.
• Xu Yique reported the Spirit Vein secret to a powerful figure and received Purple Jade Marrow as a reward.
• Bloodflame True Lord attacked the Green Wood Mountain Range outpost, and Huang True Person activated the Great Array and contacted the White Cloud Sect Ancestor.
• Cheng Buzheng revealed that he had secretly engineered Zhou An’s meeting with Xu Yique to draw Bloodflame True Lord into attacking the outpost.
• Cheng Buzheng prepared to use evidence of the attack to force Bloodflame True Lord to surrender the Buddha Heart Fruit.

Cheng Changqing killed Zhou An and took his two Foundation Establishment Pills, while Cheng Buzheng confronted three disguised Devil Lords attacking the White Cloud Sect’s stronghold. The Devil Lords failed to overcome him and retreated, leaving the siege unresolved.

• Cheng Changqing received an order to leave no future trouble, traveled to North Azure Immortal City, and killed Zhou An during his attempted breakthrough.
• Cheng Changqing took Zhou An’s Foundation Establishment Pills and other valuables, erased the evidence, and restored the Cave Mansion.
• Cheng Buzheng arrived at the Green Wood Mountain Range and identified three concealed Nascent Soul Cultivators as a threat to the White Cloud Sect’s stronghold.
• Cheng Buzheng used a Recording Stone and fought the three Devil Lords while concealing his full strength and pressuring Devil Master Bloodflame.
• The three Devil Lords concluded that the risk of exposure outweighed the value of the Spirit Vein and retreated.

Cheng Buzheng intercepted Devil Master Bloodflame and two Devil Lords, forcing them to settle their attack on the White Cloud Sect by handing over the Buddha Heart Fruit. After returning to the sect, Cheng Buzheng secretly left for the Jin Kingdom borderlands, while Devil Master Bloodflame began to suspect that someone had engineered the encounter.

• Cheng Buzheng stopped Devil Master Bloodflame and the two Devil Lords as they tried to leave, then demanded compensation for attacking his sect.
• When the Devil Lords revealed that Devil Master Bloodflame possessed a Buddha Heart Fruit, Cheng Buzheng insisted on receiving it and threatened to fight if they refused.
• Devil Master Bloodflame gave Cheng Buzheng the Buddha Heart Fruit, and Cheng Buzheng carefully checked it for hidden traps before sealing it away.
• Cheng Buzheng returned to the Green Wood Mountain Range encampment, reassured the White Cloud Sect cultivators, and went back to the White Cloud Sect before secretly departing for the Jin Kingdom borderlands.
• After returning to his sect, Devil Master Bloodflame questioned Xu Yique and examined his memories, but remained suspicious that Cheng Buzheng had somehow arranged the events.

After Cheng Buzheng’s battle with three Devil Lords spread across the Six Kingdoms, rumors about True Lord Zhong’s death unsettled White Cloud Sect while Cheng Buzheng remained in Immortal Alliance City. There, he gave Murong Wanwan the [Buddha Heart Fruit] so she could cultivate the [Myriad Transformation Dao Body], and she prepared to pursue both alchemy and artifact refining.

• News of Cheng Buzheng’s battle and True Lord Zhong’s death spread through the Six Kingdoms, and rumors accusing Cheng Buzheng of killing True Lord Zhong troubled White Cloud Sect.
• True Lord Sikong heard of Cheng Buzheng’s strength and felt fortunate that he had relinquished the Green Wood Sect Spirit Vein.
• Cheng Buzheng met Murong Wanwan at Fudao Hall and told her about his years in White Cloud Sect and how he obtained the [Buddha Heart Fruit].
• Murong Wanwan confirmed she could cultivate the [Myriad Transformation Dao Body] and insisted on helping bear the cost of cultivating their avatars.
• Murong Wanwan chose to continue studying both alchemy and artifact refining, then took the [Buddha Heart Fruit] into seclusion.
• Cheng Buzheng entered the Artifact Refining Chamber to nurture the [Dao One Spirit Cauldron] and fulfill Fudao Hall’s orders while Murong Wanwan cultivated.

Murong Wanwan emerged from seclusion with her cultivation improved, and Cheng Buzheng trained her in pill and artifact refinement before returning to the Jin Kingdom. Later, Cheng Buzheng broke through to the Nascent Soul Late Stage in his Immortal Alliance City cave mansion, and the breakthrough’s Spirit Energy storm faded as his cultivation stabilized.

• Murong Wanwan reunited with Cheng Buzheng alongside her incarnation and began refining pills under his instruction.
• Over seven years, Cheng Buzheng trained Murong Wanwan in pill and artifact refinement and simulated many recipes and processes for her.
• Cheng Buzheng handed Fudao Hall’s orders to Murong Wanwan, returned to the Jin Kingdom, and prepared for his breakthrough.
• Cheng Buzheng’s breakthrough began in his Immortal Alliance City cave mansion as a vast Spirit Energy storm gathered around Immortal Mansion Spirit Mountain.
• Cheng Buzheng used the remaining power of the [Nine Heavens Soaring Dragon Pill] to shatter his bottleneck and advance to the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Cheng Buzheng’s cultivation and domain expanded as his body, dantian, and Sea of Consciousness strengthened, and the Spirit Energy storm dissipated.

Cheng Buzheng completed his breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Late Stage and stabilized his cultivation, while his Myriad Transformation Dao Body advanced to the same realm. He then prepared to improve his divine abilities by converting Spirit Stones with the Creation Small Plate.

• Murong Wanwan sensed Cheng Buzheng’s breakthrough through the shared Spirit Vein and refrained from interrupting his cultivation.
• After half a year of cultivation, Cheng Buzheng fully entered the Nascent Soul Late Stage and resumed stabilizing his realm.
• Cheng Buzheng reconnected with his Soul Puppets and Myriad Transformation Dao Body, which then consumed Spirit Stones and rare treasures to break through to the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Cheng Buzheng used spirit fire to clear the incarnation’s spent resources, then continued supplying resources to advance it toward the peak of the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Cheng Buzheng stabilized his own Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivation and reviewed his divine abilities on the Heavenly Jade Disc panel.
• Cheng Buzheng used the Creation Small Plate to transform a pile of Spirit Stones into Waste Stones, causing a subtle change in the panel.

Cheng Buzheng used the Creation Small Plate to raise four divine abilities to the fifth grade, gaining new mysteries that strengthened his combat and disguise abilities. With his Deduction Value reduced to 43, he reviewed his upgraded abilities and looked ahead to cultivating them.

• Cheng Buzheng deduced [Soul-Slaying Spirit-Extinguishing Sword] to the fifth grade and gained [Soul Source Chaos], which could briefly numb an enemy’s mind and will.
• Cheng Buzheng upgraded [Great Sun Tathagata Sword] and gained [Great Sun Golden Fire], a mystery that increased its offensive power.
• Cheng Buzheng raised [Earth Zhenyuan Sword] to the fifth grade and gained [Primordial Force Field], which suppressed enemies and hindered their escape.
• Cheng Buzheng upgraded [Heaven-Covering Transformation] and gained [Life Simulation], allowing it to copy a living being’s characteristics, including Magic Power attributes and bloodline.
• Cheng Buzheng checked his panel, saw that Deduction Value had fallen to 43, and considered the four divine abilities still awaiting cultivation.