Chapter Summaries

Cheng Buzheng refined seven Pseudo Golden Core Pills and a False Nascent Soul Pill, then began clearing Fudao Hall’s outstanding orders so he could end its lease. Meanwhile, Murong Wanwan kept trying to conceive and prepared a revealing outfit to seduce him.

• Cheng Buzheng completed seven Pseudo Golden Core Pills using the origin of Golden Peak True Lord’s Nascent Soul, then used its remaining origin to refine a False Nascent Soul Pill.
• Murong Wanwan failed again to use a progeny-conceiving secret art and resolved to keep trying so Cheng Buzheng’s bloodline would continue.
• Murong Wanwan crafted a three-point-style outfit from a ruined palace gown, hoping it would entice Cheng Buzheng.
• Cheng Buzheng received Fudao Hall’s accumulated alchemy orders from the white-haired Old Daoist Soul Puppet and spent nearly half a year completing them.
• Cheng Buzheng moved on to the outstanding artifact-refining orders, which he needed to finish before dissolving Fudao Hall’s lease.

Cheng Buzheng prepared to close Fudao Hall after completing its remaining orders, while a Nascent Soul True Lord tried unsuccessfully to learn where Grand Origin One would cultivate after retiring. Once the final Demon Sealing Diagram was finished, Cheng Buzheng had completed every order, but the hall still needed to deliver its treasures and complete the Immortal Alliance’s contract termination procedures.

• Cheng Buzheng, disguised as a white-haired Old Daoist, delivered a Magic Treasure to a Nascent Soul True Lord, who asked why Grand Origin One was retiring.
• Cheng Buzheng told the Nascent Soul True Lord that Grand Origin One sought rare Spiritual Items and might not remain in any one Immortal City; he refused a reward for information he did not know.
• Cheng Buzheng waited for the last orders to be collected, then received the completed Demon Sealing Diagram from the artifact-refining chamber and stored it with two other unclaimed treasures.
• Cheng Buzheng collected the Dao One Spirit Cauldron and Thunder Dragon Heavenly Fire, cleared the refining chamber, and confirmed that all orders were complete.
• Cheng Buzheng decided that maintaining Fudao Hall would distract from his cultivation, but its recorded orders and lease agreement made closing the shop’s contract a complicated process.

Cheng Buzheng used an Innate Creation Pearl to deepen his refinement of the Chaos Dao Tribulation Sword, then purified the remaining third-tier divine blood while waiting for his artifact-refining orders to be delivered. After closing Fudao Hall and severing its ties to his former identity, he reunited with Murong Wanwan and gave her an advanced Life-Bound Magic Treasure and purified divine blood.

• Cheng Buzheng refined the Chaos Dao Tribulation Sword with an Innate Creation Pearl for over a month, advancing its refinement but remaining short of the Unity of Person and Treasure realm.
• While waiting for the last two artifact-refining orders, Cheng Buzheng purified his remaining third-tier divine blood in the Artifact Refining Chamber.
• The final customer collected their order, allowing the white-haired Old Daoist to complete the preparations for terminating Fudao Hall's lease.
• Cheng Buzheng closed Fudao Hall, reclaimed its rent, and burned the Immortal Alliance contract before telling Murong Wanwan that Grand Origin One no longer existed.
• Cheng Buzheng gave Murong Wanwan her Life-Bound Magic Treasure, advanced into a supreme treasure, along with purified third-tier divine blood to aid her cultivation.

Cheng Buzheng and Murong Wanwan shared a farewell before he left, while Bai True Person learned that Golden Peak True Lord had died and feared that Old Monster Cheng might uncover his role in the scheme. He sent a junior brother to investigate the Devil Lords and watch for Old Monster Cheng in Return to Origin Immortal City.

• Murong Wanwan prepared an intimate gift for Cheng Buzheng before his departure, and they spent half a year together.
• Cheng Buzheng gave Murong Wanwan the Soul Puppet so they could contact each other, then left the quiet room.
• A young cultivator told Bai True Person that Golden Peak True Lord's life plaque had shattered and that his disciples had scattered with his assets.
• Bai True Person suspected Golden Peak True Lord's death might expose his involvement and ordered his junior brother to investigate the three Devil Lords.
• Bai True Person instructed his junior brother to find out whether Old Monster Cheng was at the White Cloud Sect or had entered Return to Origin Immortal City, and gave him an Identity Token to enlist the city's array guardian in watching for him.

Yong Yan ascended as Great Zhou’s twelfth emperor while Chu Linger entered White Cloud Immortal City in disguise to assess whether Cheng Buzheng could help her take revenge on the White Immortal Clan. Meanwhile, Cheng Buzheng stored his spoils in the Cheng Immortal Clan’s treasury, believing he had fulfilled his parents’ wish to provide for their descendants.

• Yong Yan succeeded to the throne of Great Zhou, and Chu Linger left her former life as empress behind.
• Chu Linger entered White Cloud Immortal City disguised as a Qi Refining rogue cultivator and considered ways to approach and test Cheng Buzheng.
• Cheng Buzheng arrived at the Cheng Immortal Clan’s secret treasury and left a Soul Puppet as an anchor for the younger generation.
• Cheng Buzheng stored seized pills, spirit materials, Magic Tools, Treasure Tools, Magic Treasures, arrays, and cultivation records in the treasury.
• Cheng Buzheng collected the stored Spirit Stones and reflected that he had fulfilled his parents’ dying wish to look after the younger generation.

After teleporting away, Cheng Buzheng remained missing, and Chu Linger decided to enter the White Cloud Sect to find him. She disguised herself as Chu Yu, a girl with Double Spiritual Roots, and joined the sect, leaving her poised to approach Cheng Buzheng without revealing her identity.

• Cheng Buzheng teleported away, and two years later Chu Linger still could not discover where he had gone or who his Dao companion was.
• Chu Linger left White Cloud Immortal City and traveled to Pine Spirit Town, where she arranged a cover identity as Master Chu's neglected daughter.
• Chu Linger altered Master Chu's memories and presented herself as Chu Yu, then accompanied him to the county's Ascension Assembly.
• Chu Yu displayed Double Spiritual Roots, and the White Cloud Sect took her aboard its Treasure Ship the following day.
• Chu Linger reflected that her disguise and secret arts would let her infiltrate the White Cloud Sect and approach Cheng Buzheng.

Chu Linger joined White Cloud Sect by using the Illusory Soul Bewildering Spirit Art to pass its entrance formation while appearing to be the mortal girl Chu Yu. She secretly cultivated there for seven years, and the chapter ended with a scholar and Young Master Ma visiting Ye Family Bookstore to search its newly arrived books.

• The White Cloud Sect Sect Master required the Immortal Seedlings to enter a formation before they could join the sect.
• Chu Linger disguised herself as Chu Yu and used the Illusory Soul Bewildering Spirit Art to fool the formation, then joined White Cloud Sect.
• Chu Linger planned to cultivate secretly, use her stored Spirit Pills, and delay taking sect tasks for up to three years.
• Chu Linger spent seven years tending spirit herbs in Class C No. 98 Small Spirit Herb Garden while secretly advancing her cultivation.
• Scholar Zheng hurried to Ye Family Bookstore to search a new batch of books for annotations by Great Scholar Huang.
• Young Master Ma arrived looking for spiritual nourishment, and Mr. Ye directed him to the books Scholar Zheng was sorting.

Cheng Buzheng lived quietly in Qingshan Town as a mortal while waiting for a cultivation breakthrough, but two demonic cultivators arrived to harvest the town’s inhabitants. The chapter ended as they prepared to attack, repeating a massacre like the one they had caused in Boundary Lake Town ten years earlier.

• Young Master Ma found the erotic illustrations Scholar Zheng had hidden, teased him, and fled the bookstore as Zheng chased after him.
• Mr. Ye revealed that Zheng’s anger at Ma Jun was mostly an act, and Zheng returned to sorting and reading books.
• Zheng read an account of the deadly plague that had struck Boundary Lake Town ten years earlier and warned Mr. Ye to guard against epidemics.
• Mr. Ye was revealed to be Cheng Buzheng, who had spent seven years living peacefully in Qingshan Town without finding a breakthrough opportunity.
• Two demonic cultivators reached Qingshan Town and discussed how their sect secretly killed a town’s adults once every ten years to avoid attracting the White Cloud Sect’s attention.
• The senior cultivator ordered his junior to begin the attack before dawn, and the two headed toward Qingshan Town.

Cheng Buzheng discovered that Demon Banner Sect cultivators were harvesting mortals for blood and souls, so he destroyed the sect and left a warning at its ruins. The sect’s destruction drew cultivators to loot the remains, while the stone stele endured as a lasting threat to anyone who preyed on mortals.

• Two Demon Banner Sect cultivators began draining blood from sleeping mortals in Qingshan Town, and Cheng Buzheng caught them and killed them.
• Cheng Buzheng restored a young couple who had been drained of blood, then realized the sect’s harvest endangered mortals across many towns.
• Cheng Buzheng unleashed his power across a three-thousand-li area, killing the Demon Banner Sect cultivators who were attacking mortals.
• Cheng Buzheng destroyed the Demon Banner Sect and raised a stone stele declaring that those who used mortals as blood food would be slain.
• Cultivators flocked to the ruins and fought over the sect’s remains, while the warning stele remained protected by those who later occupied the site.

Chu Linger reached the Perfection Realm of Foundation Establishment and decided to risk entering White Cloud Sect’s Back Mountain Forbidden Area to contact Cheng Buzheng. Two years later, Cheng Buzheng attended Zheng Juren’s celebratory banquet in Qingshan Town, then left early and returned to his quiet life.

• Chu Linger completed Foundation Establishment and resolved to seek Cheng Buzheng, whose help she needed to find a breakthrough resource and pursue revenge for her mother.
• Chu Linger planned to overcome the formation guarding the Back Mountain Forbidden Area so she could send Cheng Buzheng a message.
• Two years passed, and Zheng Juren celebrated his success at a banquet attended by Qingshan Town’s prominent residents and Cheng Buzheng.
• Cheng Buzheng noticed Ma Jun’s complicated feelings about Zheng Juren’s rise but did not blame him for them.
• Cheng Buzheng left the banquet early after promising to play chess with Zheng Juren the next day.

Chu Linger infiltrated White Cloud Sect’s forbidden back mountain and sent a message through the formation to Cheng Buzheng. After Scholar Zheng mistook Cheng Buzheng’s plans for a departure into official service, his words helped Cheng Buzheng realize that he had never truly become part of mortal life, leaving him with a sudden breakthrough in understanding.

• Chu Linger used a Void-Breaking Spirit Talisman to enter White Cloud Sect’s back mountain, reached an ancient hall, and sent a Sound Transmission Talisman into its protective formation before retreating.
• Cheng Buzheng sensed Chu Linger’s message and wondered how she had entered the forbidden ground, but decided to meet her after arranging for Ma Jun to watch the bookstore.
• Scholar Zheng visited Cheng Buzheng’s bookstore, played three games of Go with him, and heard that Cheng Buzheng planned to leave town the next day.
• Scholar Zheng assumed Cheng Buzheng was preparing to enter official service and warned him that his uncompromising nature could bring trouble, while offering to help and pass word to Ma Jun.
• Cheng Buzheng realized he had never truly blended into mortal life and understood that his years of experience had been a joke, prompting a sudden clarity in his mind.

Cheng Buzheng left his quiet life in Qingshan Town in Ma Jun’s care and returned to White Cloud Sect, where he convened the Golden Core elders to review the sect’s affairs. After praising and elevating Cheng Changqing, he dismissed the elders and prepared to continue his plans to experience mortal life.

• Cheng Buzheng reassured Ma Jun about his rivalry with Scholar Zheng and asked him to manage the bookstore during his absence.
• Cheng Buzheng drank with Ma Jun, left him the bookstore keys, and wrote a note about the pastries and wine before departing Qingshan Town.
• Cheng Buzheng returned to White Cloud Sect and summoned its elders, while Chu Linger decided his public return might be an invitation to meet him.
• Cheng Buzheng inspected Chu Linger’s Sound Transmission Talisman and suspected she had gone to great lengths to contact him.
• Cheng Buzheng heard reports from the Golden Core elders, praised Cheng Changqing’s progress, and settled the sect’s outstanding matters before dismissing them.

Chu Linger slipped into the Back Mountain Forbidden Area to seek Cheng Buzheng, hoping for his help, but broke down and told him that Shangguan Qingyu had died protecting her from the White Immortal Clan. Cheng Buzheng realized the clan was behind both Shangguan Qingyu’s death and the plot against him, and marked them as enemies.

• Chu Linger waited until the Golden Core elders left, used a concealment secret art to enter the Forbidden Area, and was invited into Cheng Buzheng’s hall.
• Cheng Buzheng recognized Chu Linger as the daughter of his old friends and welcomed her as his niece.
• When Cheng Buzheng asked where Shangguan Qingyu was, Chu Linger wept and revealed that an attacker had forced her mother to stay behind so she could escape.
• Cheng Buzheng suspected the White Immortal Clan, and Chu Linger confirmed that its young clan master had attacked her mother.
• Chu Linger recounted the oppression she and Shangguan Qingyu had suffered, and Cheng Buzheng concluded that the White Immortal Clan was plotting against her and became determined to oppose them.

Cheng Buzheng weighed the danger of confronting the White Immortal Clan and decided to delay revenge until he could protect Chu Linger. He agreed to help her obtain a Golden Core Breaking Pill in exchange for her waiting a hundred years before seeking vengeance, and promised further breakthrough attempts if she failed.

• Cheng Buzheng concluded that Ancestor Bai was no match for him but feared that killing him would draw Venerable Daoyuan into pursuit.
• Chu Linger asked Cheng Buzheng to help her personally avenge her mother, Shangguan Qingyu, and acknowledged that the attempt could cost her life and make her a hunted fugitive.
• Chu Linger requested a Golden Core Breaking Pill or another Spiritual Item to help her reach the Golden Core realm.
• Cheng Buzheng said he would travel to the Boundless Sea to seek the pill or a suitable Spiritual Item for her.
• Cheng Buzheng required Chu Linger to wait a hundred years before taking revenge if she succeeded, and promised her two more breakthrough opportunities if her first attempt failed.

Chu Linger rejected Cheng Buzheng’s hundred-year delay before agreeing to wait fifty years to avenge her mother, and he promised to help her reach the Golden Core Realm. When she revealed that her current cultivation art was incomplete, Cheng Buzheng offered several alternatives, including the specially deduced Four Seas Azure Dragon Sutra.

• Chu Linger refused to wait a hundred years to pursue revenge, explaining that time might weaken her resolve.
• Cheng Buzheng pressed Chu Linger to consider the danger of confronting Bai True Person unprepared, then offered to shorten the wait to fifty years.
• Chu Linger accepted the fifty-year delay, and Cheng Buzheng promised to find Spirit Pills and medicines to help her breakthrough.
• Chu Linger chose to remain hidden as an Outer Sect Disciple and told Cheng Buzheng that she had only mastered the first two volumes of the Dragon Transformation Sutra.
• Cheng Buzheng offered Chu Linger several cultivation arts, and she examined them before being drawn to the Four Seas Azure Dragon Sutra, which he had specially deduced for her.

Chu Linger chose the [Four Seas Azure Dragon Sutra], and Cheng Buzheng arranged for Murong Wanwan to return to the White Cloud Sect to guide and watch over her. After reuniting with his wife through a Soul Puppet, Cheng Buzheng traveled to the Profound Wind Sea Region to retrieve a promised Spiritual Item, but found the [Golden Core Breaking Pill] missing from its compartment.

• Chu Linger chose the [Four Seas Azure Dragon Sutra], and Cheng Buzheng told her that Murong Wanwan would return to guard the sect and advise her.
• Cheng Buzheng contacted Murong Wanwan through his Soul Puppet, and she hurried to renew the lease on their Class-B Cave Mansion before returning to the Jin Kingdom.
• Murong Wanwan left Immortal Alliance City, while Cheng Buzheng traveled through a teleportation array to the Profound Wind Sea Region.
• Cheng Buzheng entered the underground treasure vault on the deserted island and found that the compartment where he had stored the [Golden Core Breaking Pill] was empty.

Cheng Buzheng returned to the White Cloud Sect and gave Chu Linger a portion of [Purple Origin Essence] to help her break through to the Golden Core Realm. After reassuring her that he would not pursue the secret behind her family’s feud, he arranged for her to cultivate in a high-energy Quiet Room as the chapter ended.

• Cheng Buzheng left three breakthrough-assisting Spiritual Items in the family treasure vault and returned to the White Cloud Sect’s Back Mountain Forbidden Area.
• Chu Linger failed to inscribe the third-tier Coiling Dragon Hidden Killing Array and worried that her revenge plan would be less certain without mastering it.
• Cheng Buzheng summoned Chu Linger and gave her a portion of [Purple Origin Essence] to assist her Golden Core breakthrough.
• Chu Linger asked Cheng Buzheng why the White Immortal Clan had targeted her and her mother, but he said he did not want to know the secret or claim anything her mother had left her.
• Cheng Buzheng promised to destroy the White Immortal Clan if Chu Linger could not avenge herself, then gave her an Identity Token and directed her to cultivate in a Quiet Room.

Chu Linger began a breakthrough in the White Cloud Sect’s Back Mountain Forbidden Area, and Cheng Buzheng gathered Spirit Energy to help her advance toward the Golden Core realm. Murong Wanwan returned from the Boundless Sea and agreed to watch over Chu Linger before she and Cheng Buzheng retired together.

• Chu Linger entered a meditation chamber and, after two months, unleashed powerful fluctuations as she approached the Golden Core realm.
• Cheng Buzheng reinforced the formation around the Back Mountain Forbidden Area and gathered Spirit Energy to support Chu Linger’s breakthrough.
• After months passed without Chu Linger emerging, Murong Wanwan arrived at the White Cloud Sect and reunited with Cheng Buzheng.
• Cheng Buzheng told Murong Wanwan about Chu Linger and asked her to keep watch over the cultivator in the rear hall.
• Murong Wanwan agreed, and she and Cheng Buzheng entered the central Quiet Room.

Bai True Person investigated the White Cloud Sect and planned to seize an opportunity in the Primordial Demon Abandoned Mansion, while Bai Yuan concealed his true attitude. After stabilizing her Golden Core cultivation, Chu Linger used the [Listening Secret Art] on Uncle Cheng’s Quiet Room and heard intimate sounds that left her flustered and listening again.

• Bai Yuan reported that Ancestor Cheng had returned to the White Cloud Sect and that no suspicious Nascent Soul Cultivators had left the Return to Origin Mountain Range.
• Bai True Person gave Bai Yuan a bottle of Spirit Pills and asked him to join an outing, while Bai Yuan secretly regarded the gift with mockery.
• Bai True Person decided to investigate further, pursue the Primordial Demon Abandoned Mansion’s opportunity, and hasten his cultivation before leading Bai Family disciples away.
• Chu Linger stabilized her Golden Core cultivation and left the Quiet Room to speak with Uncle Cheng.
• Chu Linger used the [Listening Secret Art] on the occupied Quiet Room, heard intimate sounds, and resumed the interrupted technique despite her embarrassment.

Cheng Buzheng and Murong Wanwan decided to enter the mortal world together so he could seek a breakthrough through mortal experience, while Murong Wanwan planned to guard him and continued trying to conceive a child. Cheng Buzheng went out to receive the sect elders, who were gossiping outside the hall when he arrived.

• Chu Linger overheard Cheng Buzheng and Murong Wanwan and hurried back to the Quiet Room, flustered by what she heard.
• Cheng Buzheng refused Murong Wanwan’s wish to stay together at the sect, but proposed that they undergo mortal transformation together, sealing his memories and abilities as well as his senses.
• Murong Wanwan agreed to accompany Cheng Buzheng and guard him, while they planned to leave a Soul Puppet to oversee the sect and Chu.
• Murong Wanwan began a secret art to improve their chances of conceiving, while Cheng Buzheng dressed and headed to the front hall.
• The Golden Core elders joked about Cheng Buzheng and Elder Zhang’s bedroom prowess until the First Elder reprimanded them for making jokes outside the Ancestor’s hall.