Chapter Summaries

Cheng Buzheng negotiated revised terms with the Supremes, who swore Heart Demon Great Oaths before he swore to reveal everything he knew about ascension. He explained two routes to the Spirit Realm, leaving the Supremes with the difficult task of finding a Spirit Treasure and mastering Unity of Person and Treasure.

• Demon Venerable Luosha and the other Supremes amended Cheng Buzheng’s oath provisions to limit their restrictions to the present matter.
• Hidden safeguards in several gifts and Spiritual Items were exposed and removed, and some Supremes exchanged their earlier gifts for better replacements.
• The Supremes swore Heart Demon Great Oaths, and Cheng Buzheng swore to disclose the truth about ascension without concealment.
• Cheng Buzheng described the first route: a cultivator would need at least Void Refinement strength and a powerful Magic Treasure to break the shackles and ascend by force.
• Cheng Buzheng explained that the second route required a Spirit Transformation cultivator to forge a Life-Bound Spirit Treasure and achieve Unity of Person and Treasure; he also mentioned an almost impossible method requiring a supreme great power.

Cheng Buzheng refused to surrender the Creation Heavenly Rhythm Vine and escaped the Supremes’ hall through a staged self-destruction, while his Myriad Transformation Dao Body received and inspected the negotiated treasures. Suspecting the Supremes might still come after him, the Dao Body chose to remain hidden for another eight or ten years before returning to his true body.

• The blue-robed youth rejected the Supremes’ demands for the Creation Heavenly Rhythm Vine, then used the Great Dao oaths to escape their restraint and destroy his Soul Puppet with Teleportation Guiding Jade.
• Demon Venerable Nether Sea and Venerable Zongbao reasoned that the youth was likely a human Nascent Soul cultivator and urged the Supremes to watch promising cultivators while they discussed plans for an assault on the Forbidden Sea.
• Cheng Buzheng’s Myriad Transformation Dao Body received the Storage Bag in the Outer Sea and tested its contents for tampering before examining the spiritual items.
• After waiting a month without drawing out a Supreme, Cheng Buzheng assessed the Dao Integration Pill, breakthrough Jade Slips, and other resources he had obtained in the exchange.
• Cheng Buzheng decided to remain hidden for another eight or ten years, then used the Storage Bag’s treasures and Spirit Stones to cultivate his incarnation in a sealed cave.

After nine years in seclusion, Cheng Buzheng returned to Immortal Alliance City and reunited with Murong Wanwan, who had obtained the Spirit Materials he needed. Murong Wanwan gave him the materials after persuading him to exchange insights with her, and the two returned to their cultivation.

• Cheng Buzheng emerged from seclusion on a desolate island and returned to Immortal Alliance City, carrying the Spirit Pills needed for his main body's cultivation.
• Murong Wanwan swallowed a Creation Womb-Nurturing Pill she had acquired at a Dark Market, hoping to become pregnant.
• Cheng Buzheng sent his Myriad Transformation Dao Body to Fudao Hall and prepared to begin closed-door cultivation in his meditation chamber.
• Murong Wanwan visited Cheng Buzheng and revealed that she had obtained the Spirit Materials he had requested.
• Cheng Buzheng agreed to exchange insights with Murong Wanwan, and afterward she gave him the Spirit Materials before returning to cultivate.

Cheng Buzheng gave Murong Wanwan a Life-Returning Pill, then sent a Soul Puppet to collect materials for forging a Magic Treasure before entering cultivation. Murong Wanwan began testing a conception-enhancing secret art, while at Fudao Hall True Person Qian hinted that he had a scarce Spirit Restriction to offer.

• Cheng Buzheng gave Murong Wanwan a Life-Returning Pill for protection, and she returned to her Quiet Room to cultivate.
• Cheng Buzheng examined the Spirit Materials and Spirit Medicine Murong Wanwan had gathered, sent a Soul Puppet to handle them, and swallowed a Spirit Pill to advance his cultivation.
• Murong Wanwan studied the Primordial Mother Womb-Nurturing Method and began practicing it, producing a strange display of infant-like figures within a Light Screen.
• At Fudao Hall, True Person Qian joked with the white-haired Old Daoist about payment for gathering supplies, then brought up the Immortal Alliance's purchase request for Spirit Restrictions.
• The white-haired Old Daoist realized True Person Qian likely wanted to sell him a scarce Spirit Restriction.

True Person Qian traded six rare Spirit Restrictions to the white-haired Old Daoist for six taels of Hard Rock Goldstone, helping Cheng Buzheng gather materials for a special Magic Treasure. Cheng Buzheng began refining a Spirit-Suppressing Stele to control a Spirit Vein before planting the Creation Heavenly Rhythm Vine Seed, and the chapter ended as he carefully inscribed its Spirit Restrictions.

• True Person Qian showed the white-haired Old Daoist thirteen scarce Spirit Restrictions, and the two agreed on six taels of Hard Rock Goldstone for the six restrictions the Shop had not recorded.
• True Person Qian left Fudao Hall, and the white-haired Old Daoist sent a Storage Bag of Spirit Materials through the Stone Gate to Cheng Buzheng's Artifact Refining Chamber.
• Cheng Buzheng used the materials and Thunderlight Heavenly Fire to begin refining a Spirit-Suppressing Stele based on a blueprint derived from the Realm Stele in Xianyang Tower.
• Cheng Buzheng shaped the stele over several days, then began the delicate work of inscribing its Spirit Restrictions and arranging its structure without error.

Cheng Buzheng finished refining a Spirit-Suppressing Stele and used the remaining materials to create a Life-Returning Pill. He then traveled to a hidden island to plant the Creation Heavenly Rhythm Vine Seed, while considering the future location of his clan’s headquarters.

• Cheng Buzheng completed the Spirit-Suppressing Stele, then moved to an Alchemy Chamber and refined a Life-Returning Pill.
• Cheng Buzheng retrieved the Spirit-Suppressing Stele and left Fudao Hall without handling its accumulated orders.
• Cheng Buzheng traveled to a hidden underground plaza and reflected on the risks of keeping the clan’s Teleportation Array there and his plans for a future headquarters.
• Cheng Buzheng decided to plant the Creation Heavenly Rhythm Vine Seed on the island, where the Spirit-Suppressing Stele could protect the medium-sized Spirit Vein beneath it.

Cheng Buzheng planted the Creation Heavenly Rhythm Vine, preserved his collected arts in a protected inheritance wall, and watched over the approaching harvest of a rare spirit fruit. He later returned to Fudao Hall to investigate an incomplete ancient Magic Treasure diagram, where Murong Wanwan’s incarnation arrived as he studied it.

• Cheng Buzheng suppressed the island’s earth vein with the Spirit-Suppressing Stele and planted the Creation Heavenly Rhythm Vine Seed, which drained most of the Spirit Energy as it grew into a sapling.
• Cheng Buzheng recorded his collected divine abilities and other knowledge in a Heavenly Crystal Jade Wall protected by the Soul Seed Secret Art, then took two-thirds of the family’s Spirit Stone reserves.
• Cheng Buzheng left a Soul Puppet to guard the not-yet-ripe Ancient Flood Dragon Blood Spirit Fruit, then returned to Fudao Hall to process orders and later investigated an incomplete ancient Magic Treasure construction diagram.
• Cheng Buzheng studied the worn beast-skin diagram in Fudao Hall when Murong Wanwan’s incarnation appeared beside him, prompting him to ask whether she had finished refining a Magic Treasure.

Cheng Buzheng collected a ripe Ancient Flood Dragon Blood Spirit Fruit and continued studying an ancient magic treasure diagram while Murong Wanwan searched a Dark Market for a pregnancy secret art. The chapter ended with Murong Wanwan asking a stall owner about divine abilities and learning that their methods were rarely traded.

• Murong Wanwan demanded that Cheng Buzheng's true body emerge from seclusion within three years, while privately hoping a Mystic Yang Pregnancy Pill would help her conceive his child.
• A Soul Puppet harvested the ripe Ancient Flood Dragon Blood Spirit Fruit, and Cheng Buzheng's Myriad Transformation Dao Body collected it and returned to Fudao Hall.
• Cheng Buzheng resumed deciphering the ancient magic treasure diagram and recorded more than one hundred Spirit Restrictions, many of them incomplete.
• Murong Wanwan visited a high-end Dark Market and inspected a stall selling cultivation techniques and secret arts, but none suited her.
• Murong Wanwan asked the Nascent Soul stall owner whether he sold divine abilities, and he explained that such methods were rarely traded.

Murong Wanwan searched a Dark Market for a conception secret art, bought the rare and costly [Yin-Yang Conversion Progeny Method], and learned she still needed several treasures to use it. The stall owner then revealed that he had one of the needed treasures, the [Five-Colored Auspicious Ganoderma], and began calculating how much to charge her.

• Murong Wanwan examined the stall owner's ordinary conception secret arts, rejected them, and accepted his offer to inspect another technique.
• Murong Wanwan discovered that the complete [Yin-Yang Conversion Progeny Method] greatly increased the chance of pregnancy but required eight specified rare treasures for each attempt.
• Murong Wanwan decided to buy the secret art, believing Cheng Buzheng could help supply the missing treasures, and negotiated its price with the stall owner.
• The stall owner gave Murong Wanwan the original text on ancient beast skin, and she thoroughly checked it for authenticity and hidden tricks before completing the trade.
• As Murong Wanwan prepared to leave, the stall owner offered her a [Five-Colored Auspicious Ganoderma], and she demanded his price.
• The stall owner weighed how much to overcharge Murong Wanwan for the rare treasure, settling on a price well above market value without driving her away.

Murong Wanwan returned from two years of searching Dark Markets with rare treasures for the Yin-Yang Conversion Progeny Method and reunited with Cheng Buzheng, whose avatar had spent the time analyzing Spirit Restrictions. She asked about his seclusion and then presented the secret art she had obtained as a beauty-preserving art, leaving her true purpose concealed.

• Murong Wanwan bargained with a masked stall owner and bought a Five-Colored Auspicious Ganoderma for fifty percent above market price.
• Murong Wanwan searched other Dark Markets for pregnancy-related secret arts, high-grade Spirit Pills, and the remaining rare treasures, but found only two duplicate treasures over two years.
• Murong Wanwan returned to Immortal Alliance City as her three-year deadline for Cheng Buzheng approached and went to Fudao Hall.
• Cheng Buzheng's Myriad Transformation Dao Body finished analyzing an incomplete Spirit Restriction and welcomed Murong Wanwan, who asked whether his seclusion was nearing its end.
• Murong Wanwan told Cheng Buzheng she had obtained a secret art requiring rare Spiritual Items and claimed it was a beauty-preserving art that granted the bearing of a peerless banished immortal.

Cheng Buzheng gave Murong Wanwan rare treasures for a secret art, while she secretly sought the last ingredient needed to try to conceive his child. After her search failed, Cheng Buzheng emerged from seclusion and began using his Small Plate to master Spirit Restrictions.

• Cheng Buzheng gave Murong Wanwan the two rare treasures he had on hand and promised the rest of the materials he possessed.
• Murong Wanwan searched Immortal Alliance City for a [Heaven-Nurtured Crystal Stone] but found no leads, then delivered her collected gains to her true body.
• Murong Wanwan's true body examined the storage bag containing a [Mystic Yang Pregnancy Pill] and continued hoping to conceive Cheng Buzheng's child.
• Cheng Buzheng emerged from years of closed-door cultivation, gathered a vast number of Spirit Stones, and converted them into Spiritual Power Value with his Small Plate.
• Cheng Buzheng began deducing Spirit Restrictions, mastering them one by one through the Small Plate.

Cheng Buzheng mastered more than five hundred Spirit Restrictions and tried to use them to deduce a Spirit Treasure construction diagram. After repeated failures, he realized the restrictions needed a powerful central core to bear their combined power, giving him a direction for his next search.

• Cheng Buzheng completed the deductions of nearly two hundred incomplete Spirit Restrictions, spending more than half the Spirit Stones in the Small Plate.
• Cheng Buzheng used the Great Luo Dharma Eye to create rough Magic Treasure frameworks and repeatedly spent Deduction Value trying to turn them into a Spirit Treasure diagram, but every attempt failed.
• Cheng Buzheng reviewed the failures and realized that Spirit Restrictions had to be linked into one whole rather than substituted into an existing Magic Treasure diagram.
• Cheng Buzheng tried again with more than five hundred Spirit Restrictions linked to the Devouring Spirit Restriction, but the central restriction collapsed under their combined power.
• Cheng Buzheng concluded that he needed a powerful special Spirit Restriction as the core and resolved to search for one in the Cultivation World.

After six years of secluded cultivation, Cheng Buzheng continued to advance toward the Half-Step Supreme realm while his avatar managed Fudao Hall and collected Spirit Restrictions. The chapter ended when True Person Qian rushed into Fudao Hall with news that threatened Cheng Buzheng's plans to remain there.

• Murong Wanwan noticed the surge in Spirit Energy, realized Cheng Buzheng had ended his seclusion, and visited his Quiet Room.
• Cheng Buzheng and Murong Wanwan spent three months together before she left with six rare treasures, and Cheng Buzheng resumed cultivating.
• Over the next six years, Cheng Buzheng's true body stayed in seclusion while his avatar handled Fudao Hall, collected Spirit Restrictions, and made occasional visits to White Cloud Sect.
• True Person Qian hurried into Fudao Hall and told Cheng Buzheng that his plans to spend his twilight years in the shops would likely fall through.

True Person Qian wagered a piece of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures that Cheng Buzheng would lose his job, expecting the Immortal Alliance’s order to close Fudao Hall. When Zheng True Person arrived with a secret order concerning rare treasures, Grand Origin One came out to meet him and led him to a private room.

• True Person Qian proposed a wager, and Cheng Buzheng accepted after insisting that they each put up a piece of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
• True Person Qian placed a yellow clod of earth on the counter, then began explaining that something had happened at the Immortal Alliance’s Spirit Source Hall.
• Zheng True Person arrived at Fudao Hall with Spirit Source Hall personnel and told Cheng Buzheng that an order from above concerned rare treasures.
• True Person Qian grew confident that the order meant Fudao Hall would close and that he would win the wager.
• Cheng Buzheng summoned Grand Origin One, who greeted Zheng True Person and agreed to hear the Immortal Alliance’s order in private.

Grand Origin One received the Immortal Alliance’s order to exchange rare Spiritual Items for goods from its list, including overpriced magic treasures and secret arts. He accepted the quota by selecting three top-grade Magic Treasures, then vanished to investigate how widespread the Alliance’s operation was.

• Zheng True Person told Grand Origin One that the Immortal Alliance would reclaim Fudao Hall within seven days if he refused the exchange.
• Grand Origin One inspected the exchange list, judged most offers poor value, and recognized a divine ability taken from the Xianyang Secret Realm.
• Zheng True Person stated the quota assigned to shops on Immortal Arts Heavenly Spirit Street, and Grand Origin One agreed to meet it.
• Grand Origin One marked three top-grade Magic Treasures on the exchange list, and Zheng True Person summoned an Immortal Alliance representative to complete the transaction.
• After the exchange, Grand Origin One wondered how far the Immortal Alliance’s operation extended and vanished to make inquiries.

Cheng Buzheng reclaimed the Spirit Material he had won from True Person Qian after agreeing to hear about a powerful Spirit Restriction. True Person Qian revealed that it appeared on a surviving fragment of the Supreme Emperor Clan’s inherited treasure diagram, but kept the source of his knowledge secret and agreed to prove the claim with a Heart Demon Great Oath.

• After the Immortal Alliance cultivators departed, Grand Origin One appeared at Fudao Hall and told the shopkeepers he would return in a few days.
• Cheng Buzheng collected the two Spirit Materials he had won from True Person Qian, who regretted the loss and begged to get one back.
• True Person Qian offered information about an unknown Spirit Restriction in exchange for the Spirit Material, and Cheng Buzheng returned it so he would explain.
• True Person Qian said the Spirit Restriction was recorded on an incomplete construction diagram for the Supreme Emperor Clan’s shattered inherited treasure, the Supreme Emperor Spirit Cauldron.
• When Cheng Buzheng questioned how True Person Qian knew the clan’s secret, True Person Qian refused to reveal his source and asked Cheng Buzheng to keep it confidential.
• Cheng Buzheng agreed to keep the secret but required True Person Qian to swear a Heart Demon Great Oath to verify his claim.

Cheng Buzheng concluded that the Imperial Sovereign Immortal Clan might possess a fragmentary blueprint for the Supreme Emperor Spirit Cauldron, while Grand Origin One investigated the Immortal Alliance Spirit Source Hall’s sweeping operation without discovering its purpose. Three years later, Supreme Emperor Palace finished his training and left for his clan, traveling through Sea Suppressing Immortal City and flying out over the sea.

• True Person Qian left Cheng Buzheng after swearing a Heart Demon Great Oath, and Cheng Buzheng considered whether the Imperial Sovereign Immortal Clan’s fragmentary Supreme Emperor Spirit Cauldron diagram held the missing Spirit Restriction for his magic treasure.
• Grand Origin One found Spirit Source Hall squads operating throughout Immortal Alliance City and Xuanfeng Immortal City, but could not determine what the Immortal Alliance was preparing for.
• Grand Origin One decided he could leave with his wife if the Immortal Alliance’s operation endangered them, then departed Xuanfeng Immortal City by teleportation array.
• Three years later, Supreme Emperor Palace finished his training at the Supreme Emperor Artifact Shop and used his clan identity to receive passage ahead of the teleportation line.
• Supreme Emperor Palace traveled to Sea Suppressing Immortal City, left the city, and flew out over the sea toward his clan.

Supreme Emperor Palace returned to Supreme Emperor Island hoping to consult his ancestor about difficulties in artifact refinement, but learned the ancestor remained in seclusion. After reporting to Zongyuan Pavilion, he entered the Scripture Library’s fifth floor to study the clan’s ancestral artifact-refining insights.

• Supreme Emperor Palace reached Supreme Emperor Island and waited for Taihuang Liuxin to admit him through the clan-protecting array.
• Supreme Emperor Palace told Taihuang Liuxin that his experiences in Immortal Alliance City had matured him and that he had returned to resolve problems in his artifact refinement.
• Taihuang Liuxin informed Supreme Emperor Palace that the ancestor had been in closed-door meditation for decades, so Supreme Emperor Palace decided to study the clan’s stored insights instead.
• Supreme Emperor Palace rested for several days, reported to Zongyuan Pavilion, and then entered the Scripture Library’s fifth floor using his Identity Token.
• Supreme Emperor Palace found that he lacked the clan points or permission to access the protected texts, so he began reading the artifact-refining records on an unguarded bookshelf.

Cheng Buzheng disguised himself as Supreme Emperor Palace and infiltrated Supreme Emperor Island to search for the incomplete [Supreme Emperor Spirit Cauldron] diagram, but learned that its core Spirit Restriction was too damaged to study. After narrowly avoiding suspicion from Taihuang Liuxin, he left the island to seek Spirit Materials and returned to a hidden underwater chamber where his real body waited.

• Supreme Emperor Palace spent nearly two years studying the Imperial Sovereign Immortal Clan’s artifact-refinement texts, then decided to test what he had learned by refining a treasure.
• After resting for seven days, Supreme Emperor Palace left Supreme Emperor Island to seek six Spirit Materials, while Taihuang Liuxin questioned him and watched him depart with lingering doubts.
• Supreme Emperor Palace descended into a hidden underwater chamber, where the disguised figure transformed back into Cheng Buzheng beside the captive Supreme Emperor Palace.
• Cheng Buzheng recalled that he had chosen to impersonate Supreme Emperor Palace after discovering that the clan’s incomplete [Supreme Emperor Spirit Cauldron] diagram had lost nearly half of its core Spirit Restriction.
• Cheng Buzheng realized Taihuang Liuxin had repeatedly tested his identity, but concluded that the elder’s suspicions had likely come from intuition rather than any specific mistake.

Cheng Buzheng failed to elevate his Life-Bound Magic Treasure beyond the magic treasure rank, but deduced a powerful Spirit Restriction and began seeking its origins among major artifact-refining factions. While his true body cultivated in seclusion, his Myriad Transformation Dao Body destroyed the Supreme Emperor Palace and pursued ways to infiltrate other factions, leaving the story with him preparing to lure out a suitable target.

• Cheng Buzheng used the Creation Small Plate to attempt to advance his Life-Bound Magic Treasure, but the deduction collapsed because its core Spirit Restriction could not withstand the combined power of the other restrictions.
• Cheng Buzheng suspected the Supreme Emperor Divine Axe had obtained the Spirit Restriction from another source and resolved to investigate powerful artifact-refining factions.
• The Myriad Transformation Dao Body destroyed the Supreme Emperor Palace, retrieved its Soul Puppet, removed its formations, and left the underwater chamber to collapse.
• Cheng Buzheng kept his true body in secluded cultivation while the Myriad Transformation Dao Body visited more than a dozen artifact-refining factions and was refused access to their exclusive Magic Treasure diagrams.
• The Myriad Transformation Dao Body captured cultivators from True Luo Palace and another sect, but soul protections prevented him from searching their memories and accessing their inheritances.
• Cheng Buzheng identified five factions whose core cultivators might be replaceable, but found no opportunity to act and prepared to lure one of them out.