Chapter Summaries

True Lord Lei Zhong and his Junior Brother tried to seize a King of Medicine guarded by a deadly swarm of demonic insects, sacrificing a Gale Crane and planning to use cultivators as bait. They left to find a suitable target and encountered Gongzhi Yang, whom they invited to help with their plan.

• True Lord Lei Zhong persuaded his Junior Brother to keep pursuing the King of Medicine despite the swarm killing Junior Brother Ye, and they decided to use bait to distract the insects.
• Unable to find any living creatures nearby, True Lord Lei Zhong convinced his Junior Brother to send his Gale Crane toward the swarm; the insects caught and devoured it.
• True Lord Lei Zhong rejected using their Thought Attachment Bead and proposed seeking cultivators elsewhere as bait before they concealed the mountain with a restriction and departed.
• Gongzhi Yang collected a Taibai Mystic Essence Stone and reflected on the many treasures he had found while traveling through the Secret Realm.
• True Lord Lei Zhong and his Junior Brother approached Gongzhi Yang and offered to share a fortuitous opportunity, saying they needed his help to obtain it.

True Lord Lei Zhong and his Junior Brother brought Gongzhi Yang to a hidden treasure ground filled with rare Spirit Medicine, but concealed the danger guarding it. When a swarm of ancient blood-red demon insects emerged, Gongzhi Yang escaped with a Teleportation Talisman, leaving the two cultivators to summon their Ancestor's incarnation as the swarm closed in.

• Gongzhi Yang agreed to help True Lord Lei Zhong and his Junior Brother reach an opportunity they had discovered in the Secret Realm.
• True Lord Lei Zhong's Junior Brother dispelled their illusion, revealing a mountain foothill dense with Spirit Medicine and a mysterious fruit-bearing tree.
• True Lord Lei Zhong asked Gongzhi Yang to lure away the demonic insects, while he and his Junior Brother hid that the insects had devoured another fellow disciple.
• A swarm of enormous blood-red insects erupted from underground, and Gongzhi Yang recognized them as forbidden demon creatures from ancient times.
• Gongzhi Yang used a Teleportation Talisman to escape, and the swarm turned toward True Lord Lei Zhong and his Junior Brother.
• True Lord Lei Zhong and his Junior Brother decided to summon their Ancestor's incarnation, but the swarm accelerated toward them without fear of the luminous pearl.

Gongzhi Yang watched Venerable Tianzhao battle the Law-Devouring Blood Insects while True Lord Lei Zhong and his Junior Brother tried to seize the Medicine King. Gongzhi Yang swept the entire treasure ground into spatial turbulence, leaving the two disciples empty-handed as they fled.

• Gongzhi Yang hid in a spatial interstice and watched Venerable Tianzhao emerge to confront the Law-Devouring Blood Insects.
• Venerable Tianzhao recognized the White Jade Deer King Orchid Fruit, then drew the insects away so True Lord Lei Zhong and his Junior Brother could collect it.
• Venerable Tianzhao struck the insects with law lightning, but they recovered and pressed forward, forcing him to retreat as the battle shifted away from the treasure ground.
• True Lord Lei Zhong and his Junior Brother hurried toward the basin and discussed dividing the Medicine King’s treasures between themselves.
• Gongzhi Yang sent a torrent of spatial power through the basin, sweeping the Medicine King and surrounding Spirit Medicines into spatial turbulence.
• True Lord Lei Zhong and his Junior Brother found the treasure ground gone, wondered how to explain the loss to their master, and retreated.

Gongzhi Yang collected the Medicine King and other Spirit Medicines after the spatial torrent swept the treasure land into the interlayer, while Venerable Tianzhao questioned his disciples and speculated about who had caused the disturbance. The chapter ended with Solitary Cold True Lord watching the fifth-tier Earth-Surging Golden Light Array from folded space.

• The Law-Devouring Blood Insects abandoned their chase of Venerable Tianzhao, who realized his disciples had returned and then saw the vast crater left by the disaster.
• True Lord Lei Zhong and his Junior Brother emerged from underground, explained that a spatial torrent had swept away the treasured land, and were reprimanded by Venerable Tianzhao before his incarnation vanished.
• Gongzhi Yang gathered the rare Spirit Medicines and Medicine King from the treasure land, then let the basin evaporate and watched the insects search for their nest.
• True Lord Lei Zhong and his Junior Brother collected the shattered treasure pearl and set off to find enough Spirit Medicine to regain Venerable Tianzhao's favor.
• Venerable Tianzhao speculated that powerful rivals or awakened old monsters had caused the spatial torrent and resolved to monitor the revived Spirit Transformation Venerables.
• Solitary Cold True Lord appeared in folded space ten thousand miles from the shattered isle and examined the Earth-Surging Golden Light Array.

Solitary Cold True Lord secretly slipped through a weak point in the Earth-Surging Golden Light Array, while the Formation Master and Venerable Zongbao sensed a faint disturbance but found no clear flaw. Half a month later, True Lord Hanyue noticed an abnormal mark for Solitary Cold True Lord on a Sea Suppressing Alliance treasure mirror and identified his residence.

• Solitary Cold True Lord found a weak southeast node in the Earth-Surging Golden Light Array and opened a tiny breach through the spatial turbulence layer.
• Venerable Zongbao and the Formation Master sensed a faint fluctuation, but the Formation Master’s repeated inspection revealed no flaw.
• The Formation Master used an Array Evolution Diagram to examine the array while the other Spirit Transformation cultivators struggled to understand its complex patterns.
• Half a month later, True Lord Hanyue inspected a Treasure Mirror at Sea Suppressing City and reviewed the marked cultivators who had left without reporting.
• True Lord Hanyue noticed Solitary Cold True Lord’s unusually dim green mark and identified his residence as Palace Complex No. 58, Side Hall No. 88.

True Lord Hanyue used the [Heaven-Peering Treasure Mirror] to inspect Solitary Cold True Lord and saw what appeared to be ordinary meditation, though she remained suspicious. Hidden in the Secret Realm, Solitary Cold True Lord watched Ning Taibai and a long-bearded Old Daoist prepare to use a [Lesser Realm-Breaking Talisman] on a powerful remnant array, and recognized the talisman’s name.

• True Lord Hanyue activated the [Heaven-Peering Treasure Mirror] and searched Solitary Cold True Lord’s cave mansion, finding him apparently meditating and deciding to monitor him more closely.
• Solitary Cold True Lord, concealed in a spatial interlayer, watched Ning Taibai and a long-bearded Old Daoist attack a remnant array around a secluded valley.
• Ning Taibai warned that the damaged array might be above the fourth rank and could draw danger, but the long-bearded Old Daoist insisted they continue because he sought a chance to break through before his lifespan ended.
• Ning Taibai revealed a [Lesser Realm-Breaking Talisman] and said it required a Mortal Cultivator’s origin to activate; the long-bearded Old Daoist accepted the risk and took the talisman.
• Solitary Cold True Lord criticized Ning Taibai for making his fellow disciple spend his origin while withholding his own likely life-saving treasure, then recognized the [Lesser Realm-Breaking Talisman].

Ning Taibai secretly killed his junior brother by sabotaging the [Lesser Realm-Breaking Talisman], while Solitary Cold True Lord recognized the talisman’s extraordinary value and considered stealing it. Ning Taibai summoned Venerable Daoyuan to break open the damaged formation, and a figure of light began to emerge from the Ruyi.

• The long-bearded Old Daoist poured his dwindling Nascent Soul origin into the [Lesser Realm-Breaking Talisman], but Ning Taibai’s hidden tampering drained his remaining power and killed him.
• Ning Taibai took his junior brother’s treasures, burned his body, and kept the talisman.
• Solitary Cold True Lord realized the talisman might require Law origin for its full power and decided to seize it, but paused when Ning Taibai chose not to waste it on the formation.
• Ning Taibai cleared away traces of the killing and used the Ruyi to summon Venerable Daoyuan, telling him about the damaged formation.
• Venerable Daoyuan decided to inspect the formation, and a figure of light rose from the jade Ruyi.

Venerable Zongbao reassured the Sea Suppressing Alliance cultivators and sensed the fluctuation from the Lesser Realm-Breaking Talisman, setting out toward Solitary Cold True Lord. Meanwhile, Venerable Daoyuan attacked the ancient formation with Ning Taibai’s treasure seal, and Solitary Cold True Lord watched as the formation neared collapse.

• Venerable Zongbao reprimanded Ji Longzi, then told the Sea Suppressing Alliance cultivators to keep reporting places protected by remnant formations and promised discoverers half the treasure’s value.
• Venerable Zongbao and Ji Longzi revealed that the reprimand had been staged to reassure the cultivators and encourage them to search the Secret Realm.
• Venerable Zongbao sensed a distant fluctuation, recognized activity ahead, and departed toward Solitary Cold True Lord.
• Venerable Daoyuan arrived at Ning Taibai’s damaged formation and borrowed Ning Taibai’s treasure seal to attack it.
• Venerable Daoyuan infused the seal with law-origin power, damaging it as the formation’s Array Patterns began to break apart.
• Solitary Cold True Lord watched from a fold of space and realized the formation was about to collapse.

Solitary Cold True Lord and Cheng Buzheng became interested in an ancient pill furnace and the Spirit Pills it might contain, but Venerable Daoyuan and Venerable Zongbao contested access to it. As the two Spirit Transformation cultivators fought outside the formation, Solitary Cold True Lord waited for a chance to claim the treasure without exposing himself.

• The ruined formation shattered, revealing a barren land and an enormous pill furnace with Earth Fire still burning beneath it.
• Venerable Daoyuan entered the formation, but Venerable Zongbao arrived and refused to leave; the two agreed to settle their contest with a bout outside.
• Venerable Daoyuan instructed Ning Taibai to guard the pill furnace while he fought Venerable Zongbao.
• Venerable Zongbao attacked with her dragon-headed cane, and Venerable Daoyuan countered with a treasure seal as their clash devastated the surrounding mountains.
• Solitary Cold True Lord judged the fight too restrained to interest him and considered whether the pill furnace contained Primordial Shou Mountain Copper and ancient Spirit Pills.
• Cheng Buzheng focused on the potential treasures but held back because the furnace was difficult to seize quickly and using a spatial torrent risked exposure.

Solitary Cold True Lord killed Ning Taibai and stole the ancient pill furnace while Venerable Daoyuan and Venerable Zongbao fought. He escaped through the spatial interlayer, leaving the Venerables unable to locate him, and prepared to inspect the furnace’s contents.

• Solitary Cold True Lord emerged near the damaged formation, killed Ning Taibai, and erased the traces of his presence.
• Solitary Cold True Lord destroyed the formation foundation, freed the pill furnace, and shrank it to palm size as Venerable Daoyuan noticed him.
• Solitary Cold True Lord escaped with the furnace through spatial ripples, while Venerable Daoyuan searched for him and Venerable Zongbao suspected how he had vanished.
• Solitary Cold True Lord examined the furnace in the spatial interlayer, identified Shoushan Copper as its likely material, and slid its lid open to see what was inside.

Solitary Cold True Lord discovered that the Spirit Pill had become a tiny but extraordinarily potent grain, then realized Venerable Zongbao had tracked him and confronted her. After pretending to surrender and asking how she had found him, he learned her mark relied on his recorded soul fluctuations and tainted aura, then dropped his act and thanked her as a fellow Daoist.

• Solitary Cold True Lord detected the pill grain’s immense, pure medicinal essence and sealed it in a jade bottle, concluding that the pill furnace’s long nurturing had wasted most of the original pill’s potency.
• Solitary Cold True Lord sensed he was being watched and used his divine sight to discover Venerable Zongbao was following him through the outside world.
• Venerable Zongbao called for Solitary Cold True Lord to appear, and he left the spatial interlayer to meet her rather than risk disrupting the Harvest Plan.
• Venerable Zongbao demanded the pill furnace, its Spirit Pills, and Solitary Cold True Lord’s escape art, then demonstrated that she could enter the spatial interlayer.
• Solitary Cold True Lord pretended to submit and asked how Venerable Zongbao had tracked him, and she explained that his recorded soul fluctuations and tainted aura identified him.
• Solitary Cold True Lord’s resigned expression vanished, and he thanked Venerable Zongbao as a fellow Daoist for clearing up his doubts.

Solitary Cold True Lord revealed that he had been probing Venerable Zongbao to discover how she tracked him, then refused to return her pill furnace and declared that her avatar could not leave. When Solitary Cold True Lord unleashed the power of his true body, Venerable Zongbao fled, but his sword strike destroyed her avatar.

• Venerable Zongbao mistook Solitary Cold True Lord for an old Spirit Transformation cultivator and coveted his spatial escape art and sealing secret technique.
• Solitary Cold True Lord admitted that he had pretended to submit so he could learn how Venerable Zongbao had tracked him.
• Venerable Zongbao asked Solitary Cold True Lord to return her pill furnace, but he refused and said the Secret Realm's opportunities belonged to whoever obtained them.
• Solitary Cold True Lord tried to keep Venerable Zongbao's avatar from leaving, then revealed an overwhelming surge of law power that convinced her his true body was present.
• Venerable Zongbao fled, but Solitary Cold True Lord struck her with a sword radiance that destroyed her avatar in a burst of profound light particles.

Solitary Cold True Lord pursued Venerable Zongbao after his avatar regenerated, forcing Zongbao to self-detonate his law origin and flee as a fragment of divine sense. Solitary Cold True Lord tracked down the fragment, but hesitated to destroy it when Zongbao claimed she had hidden a final wisp of divine thought.

• Venerable Zongbao re-formed his destroyed avatar and fled, while Solitary Cold True Lord prepared a law sword to stop him.
• Solitary Cold True Lord's sword drove Venerable Zongbao to self-detonate his law origin, but Zongbao escaped as a tiny point of divine-sense light through a spatial rift.
• Solitary Cold True Lord followed the light into the spatial turbulence and attacked it with a sword formed from Chaos law origin.
• Venerable Zongbao warned Solitary Cold True Lord that her true body might already know of him, but he showed her a Light Screen proving he had destroyed a hidden wisp of divine thought.
• Venerable Zongbao claimed she had left another wisp of divine thought, making Solitary Cold True Lord pause before erasing the fragment he had cornered.

Solitary Cold True Lord discovered that Venerable Zongbao had hidden a strand of divine sense using a law-based secret art and negotiated her silence in exchange for letting it survive. After Venerable Zongbao swore a heart-demon oath and departed, Solitary Cold True Lord resolved to be more cautious and accelerate his plans.

• Venerable Zongbao claimed her secret art had concealed her divine sense from Solitary Cold True Lord’s Heavenly Luo Divine Eye, and he confirmed this by using the power of his law origin.
• Solitary Cold True Lord agreed to spare Venerable Zongbao’s hidden divine sense if she swore not to reveal his existence to anyone.
• Venerable Zongbao accepted the condition and made a heart-demon great oath, after which Solitary Cold True Lord let her leave the Secret Realm.
• Venerable Zongbao lamented the loss of several hundred years of cultivation and considered postponing the Human and Demon Races’ attack on the Purgatory Clan while planning to investigate Solitary Cold True Lord.
• Solitary Cold True Lord regretted his miscalculation and decided to advance the Harvest Plan and deal with shops in the Sea Suppressing Alliance, Immortal Alliance, and Demon Alliance cities ahead of schedule.

In a teahouse, Old Daoist told his two friends that a rare opportunity could make them rich by stockpiling Thought-Severing Powder. The eavesdropping cultivators heard enough to become interested, but they hesitated because Old Daoist had a history of bad tips and had not revealed his source.

• Old Daoist gathered his two friends' attention by hinting at secret news about the recently opened Secret Realm.
• Old Daoist's friends complained that his previous advice to stockpile soul-type Spirit Medicines had cost them years of hardship.
• Old Daoist claimed that the Secret Realm's harvest of soul-type Spirit Medicines made a different Spirit Medicine unusually valuable, then privately revealed his information to his friends.
• Old Daoist persuaded Old man Long and Cultivator Wang to join him in stockpiling Thought-Severing Powder and keep the plan secret.
• Eavesdropping Mortal Cultivators considered following the plan but doubted Old Daoist's reliability and worried the niche powder might be difficult to resell.

Rumors that the Secret Realm contained vast quantities of [Mind-Nourishing Flower] drove down soul-type Spirit Medicine prices and sent [Thought-Severing Powder] soaring. The [Evergreen Sect] struggled to respond, while the Spirit Vine Immortal Clan decided to sell its stock quickly rather than risk its survival on the rumors being false.

• News of abundant [Mind-Nourishing Flower] spread, causing soul-type Spirit Medicine prices to fall and [Thought-Severing Powder] prices to rise.
• The [Evergreen Sect] Sect Master questioned his steward about the market collapse and the origins of the rumors, learning they began with Qi Refining juniors who could not be identified.
• The Sect Master of the Evergreen Sect worried that the market storm threatened his sect.
• A young Mortal Cultivator told the Spirit Vine Immortal Clan patriarch that soul-type Spirit Medicine prices had fallen again and buyers had disappeared, including the channel used by Primordial Sea Shop.
• The patriarch ordered the clan to sell its Spirit Medicine quickly, even at a loss, and warned the young cultivator never to gamble with the clan's fate.

Old Daoist Zeyi set a plan in motion that flooded the human alliances’ markets with soul-type Spirit Medicine, causing prices to collapse. A shop owner chose to honor his buyback price despite the losses, while the Evergreen Sect realized its Bright Soul Orchid stock might become worthless.

• Old Daoist Zeyi divined that the time had come to deliver the final blow, and Soul Puppets across the three human alliances began acting.
• At a frontier shop, Xiao Fan warned the shopkeeper that soul-type Spirit Medicine prices were about to fall, while a customer named Wood tried to sell his stock.
• The young proprietor stopped the shopkeeper from accepting Wood’s apology gift and ordered Xiao Fan to pay him the previous day’s price.
• The proprietor explained that honoring the shop’s promise would build trust, even as he and the shopkeeper worried about their unsold Spirit Medicine.
• Soul-type Spirit Medicine flooded the market and prices plunged, leaving many factions with losses and years of recovery ahead.
• The Evergreen Sect’s steward warned its Sect Master that the sect’s Bright Soul Orchid might rot in storage unless the market recovered or the sect found another use for it.

The Evergreen Sect Master agreed to sell spirit medicines at low prices, while Cheng Buzheng’s Thought-Severing Powder scheme earned a fortune and helped drive down soul-type medicine prices. Disguised as Old Daoist Zeyi, Cheng Buzheng then used a story about soul-origin injuries to arrange another purchase of spirit medicine for his Harvest Plan.

• The Evergreen Sect Master approved the deacon’s proposal to sell the sect’s spirit medicines cheaply and promised to look after the deacon’s grandson.
• The Primordial Sea Shop manager told the young owner that Thought-Severing Powder had earned at least six million Spirit Stones, but none of the soul-type spirit medicines had sold.
• The young owner ordered Manager Wang to stop selling Thought-Severing Powder and warned him not to ignore instructions again.
• Cheng Buzheng revealed that the Thought-Severing Powder stockpile and rumors about Nourishing Spirit Flowers were parts of his Harvest Plan.
• Old Daoist Zeyi asked a Golden Core steward at Immortal Alliance Headquarters to purchase more low-grade soul-type spirit medicines.
• Old Daoist Zeyi explained that a strange poison had damaged his soul origin and that consuming large quantities of soul-type spirit medicine could help restore it.

Old Daoist Zeyi arranged for news of his need for soul-type Spirit Medicine to spread, prompting demonic factions to sell their stores and harvests. As the medicine flooded the market, Fairy Cold Moon connected Solitary Cold True Lord’s anomaly to a soul-origin injury and set out to verify it.

• Old Daoist Zeyi gave the Immortal Alliance Golden Core steward Spirit Stones to buy soul-type Spirit Medicine and arranged for a spy to carry the story to the Demon Alliance.
• Old Daoist Zeyi explained that the rumor would drive demonic factions to sell their Spirit Medicine before Gongzhi Yang returned, while also preventing them from destroying their stock.
• A Demon Alliance Grand Elder received Shadow Pavilion’s report and a Demonic Sword True Lord’s decree ordering his sect to sell every mature stalk of soul-type Spirit Medicine within three days.
• Demonic factions across the alliance harvested their mature Spirit Medicine and sent it to Sea Suppressing City and Immortal Alliance City to sell.
• Fairy Cold Moon connected Solitary Cold True Lord’s anomaly in the [Heaven-Peering Mirror] to an injury in his soul origin and went to question him.

Cheng Buzheng, disguised as Solitary Cold True Lord, sold soul-related Spirit Medicine to visiting Nascent Soul cultivators and claimed an oath prevented him from sharing a secret art for healing soul injuries. After the visitors left, a familiar voice stopped him as he prepared to return to seclusion.

• Nascent Soul cultivators gathered outside Solitary Cold True Lord’s hall, speculating about his injuries and trying to sell him their stockpiled Spirit Medicine.
• Solitary Cold True Lord bought some Spirit Medicine at forty percent of its market price, and most of the sellers departed.
• Several cultivators asked to trade for his supposed soul-healing secret art, but Solitary Cold True Lord said a heart-demon oath bound him and directed them to Gongzhi Yang on Heavenly Demon Island.
• The departing cultivators discussed whether his story was true and decided to watch his movements for signs he might contact the Demon Alliance.
• Cheng Buzheng revealed that Solitary Cold True Lord was a Soul Puppet and that the secret art did not exist, then heard a familiar voice call him to wait.