Chapter Summaries

Feng Jun accepted Yi Jue’s copy of notes on the Primordial Chaos Heaven-Swallowing Art after she challenged him to consider divining its Nascent Soul Stage follow-up, despite the art’s enormous resource costs. The next day, he ended his celebration and gave departing guests generous return gifts, including soup made with Yu Dragon meat.

• Feng Jun recognized the value of the miscellaneous notes, but initially refused Yi Jue’s gift because it was valuable and he could not repay her.
• Yi Jue urged Feng Jun to treat divining a Nascent Soul Stage follow-up art as a challenge and promised to help with resources, while Feng Jun warned that cultivating the art could bankrupt him.
• Yi Jue offered to share the general approach to the divination in exchange, and Feng Jun accepted the notes without promising to complete the art.
• When it rained the next day, Feng Jun refused to continue expounding the Dao and announced that the celebration was over.
• Feng Jun offered departing guests generous return gifts and used twenty jin of the Yu Dragon meat True Immortal Yuan Fu had brought to make soup for everyone.

Feng Jun and True Immortal Yi Jue divined Mo Ran’s chances of forming a Nascent Soul and debated how he should temper his Golden Core. Mo Ran planned to gather lightning and ice treasures before revisiting their recommendations, while Guyue wondered whether similar preparations might help him.

• Feng Jun and True Immortal Yi Jue spent a day divining Mo Ran’s Nascent Soul chances, estimating his current odds at about forty percent and advising him to wait three and a half years.
• Mo Ran said he would not attempt Nascent Soul Formation unless his chances reached at least seventy percent, while Guyue and Xia Nishang compared the resource shortages facing Upper and lower realm cultivators.
• Feng Jun and True Immortal Yi Jue disagreed over whether Mo Ran should use ice-element or lightning Core Tempering, then recognized that they had overlooked different information about available treasures and controlled lightning.
• Mo Ran decided to visit Thunder Plains for a high-power generator and to collect ice-element treasures in Heavenly Zither before asking Feng Jun and True Immortal Yi Jue to compare the methods again.
• Feng Jun said proper preparations could likely raise Mo Ran’s chances to seventy percent, prompting Guyue to ask whether Heavenly Zither’s treasures could help with Nascent Soul Formation.

Guyue and Mo Ran agreed to gather partners and treasures for a divination about Nascent Soul Formation, while Xia Nishang later tried to approach Feng Jun. At Liba Beach, Feng Jun negotiated with Yi Jue over her plan to use the Earth Spirit to verify the Threefold Seizure Unity Contract, and he summoned it only after she promised not to act against it.

• Guyue listed the treasures and information he had prepared, and he and Mo Ran agreed to cooperate on their Nascent Soul Formation divination.
• Mo Ran invited Xia Nishang to join them, but Guyue suggested that Mo Ran recruit fellow disciples from Grand Void Sect and Xia seek partners in the Golden Crow Sect.
• Guyue and Mo Ran decided to travel to Thunder Plains by Teleportation Array instead of asking Feng Jun for a ride, then departed together on Guyue's Flying Boat.
• Xia Nishang sought Feng Jun, but Mei Jiushan told her that Feng Jun was in seclusion; she guessed he was discussing the Dao with Yi Jue and left a message for him.
• Yi Jue pressed Feng Jun to summon the Earth Spirit so she could verify the Threefold Seizure Unity Contract, while Feng Jun warned her not to capture or experiment on it.
• Feng Jun made Yi Jue promise not to casually act against the Earth Spirit, then summoned it.

Feng Jun and Xia Nishang agreed that Golden Core Peak cultivators could earn detailed Nascent Soul Formation Divination by guarding Liba Beach for thirty years. After Mo Ran and Guyue returned from Thunder Plains, they discussed the arrangement and planned to ask Feng Jun for a ride to Heavenly Zither.

• The Earth Spirit trembled before True Immortal Yi Jue, completed two days of tests for her Divination, and hurried away.
• Feng Jun agreed to give Xia Nishang one free Divination slot and set a thirty-year Liba Beach guard duty as the standard qualification for other candidates.
• Xia Nishang received Feng Jun's permission to tell Mo Ran about the arrangement, provided he passed it on to only one person.
• Mo Ran ordered a high-power Spirit Stone Generator from the Thunder Cultivators after observing Thunder Plains, while his relationship with Guyue grew closer.
• Guyue advised Mo Ran to use their existing Nascent Soul Formation quotas before inviting more people, and persuaded Mo Ran and Xia Nishang to ask Feng Jun for a ride to Heavenly Zither.

Guyue asked Feng Jun to divine and complete several Grand Void secret arts, but Feng Jun proposed bringing his Contribution Points System to the Upper Realm instead. Yi Jue reviewed the selected arts and agreed to pursue all five, requesting Mid-Grade Spirit Stones for herself and usage rights for Liba Beach.

• Guyue explained that he wanted Feng Jun to improve several incomplete or underpowered Grand Void secret arts, while Feng Jun said he would accept Mid-Grade Spirit Stones rather than usage rights.
• Feng Jun suggested that Guyue take a Contribution Points System to the Upper Realm, and Yi Jue praised it as a useful tool for sect management and searching for information.
• Guyue asked Yi Jue whether completing the secret arts would cause problems, and she agreed to examine the selected arts despite her lingering attachment to Grand Void.
• Yi Jue reviewed Binding Qi into Force and One Tree Makes a Forest, noting their shortcomings and recounting their histories.
• True Adept Mo Ran admitted that he and Guyue had chosen five arts for Feng Jun to consider, and Yi Jue told them to leave all five with her for completion in exchange for Mid-Grade Spirit Stones and Liba Beach's usage rights.

Feng Jun explained to True Adept Mo Ran and the others that the Contribution Points System’s greatest benefit was transparent, consistent enforcement of access rules, reducing favoritism. Xia Nishang decided to return to the Red Phoenix Sect to inspect its installation and prevent private exceptions.

• True Immortal Yi Jue challenged the assumption that her ties to the Grand Void Sect no longer mattered and said she wanted to exchange divination knowledge with Feng Jun.
• Feng Jun demonstrated the Contribution Points System to True Adept Mo Ran, while Xia Nishang and True Adept Guyue listened closely.
• Feng Jun argued that machine-enforced permissions made access fairer and more transparent by limiting private favoritism.
• True Adept Mo Ran acknowledged that the system addressed problems sect rules and inspections could not fully prevent.
• Xia Nishang resolved to return to the Red Phoenix Sect, inspect the system’s use, and forbid favoritism.

Mo Ran, Guyue, and Xia Nishang planned to introduce the Contribution Points Management System to their sects, while Yi Jue insisted on competing with Feng Jun through a divination of Grand Void secret arts. After the system was installed in East City, Guyue advised Xia Nishang and Mo Ran to seek elderly Golden Core cultivators as partners, and recommended Real Person Roundy to Mo Ran because he possessed Nine Heavens Demon-Repelling Incense.

• Mo Ran and Guyue planned to bring the Contribution Points Management System to Heavenly Zither, and Xia Nishang decided to acquire one for her sect as well.
• Yi Jue objected to Feng Jun avoiding divination and told Mo Ran to tell Grand Void that her mood might be affected if the sect refused her help.
• Feng Jun escorted Mo Ran's group and the Huangfu Clan members to East City, where they would install and teach others to use the system, then returned to Liba Beach.
• Guyue advised Xia Nishang to approach elderly Golden Core cultivators as potential partners, and she reconsidered her plans to cooperate with top-tier sects.
• Guyue recommended that Mo Ran seek out Real Person Roundy, explaining that Roundy had never truly abandoned Nascent Soul Formation and owned Nine Heavens Demon-Repelling Incense.

True Adept Mo Ran invited Yuan Real Person to East City with the promise of an opportunity to form a Nascent Soul, while Guyue explained Yuan’s hidden wealth and reasons for guarding his secrets. Yuan arrived ahead of schedule with his powerful martial nephew Wu Xiu, leaving Mo Ran displeased as their meeting began.

• Guyue recalled that Yuan had denied owning Nine Heavens Demon-Repelling Incense and had warned him not to spread the rumor, then learned Yuan was still pursuing Nascent Soul Formation and had built a substantial private business.
• Mo Ran considered Yuan’s circumstances and agreed that he might be a suitable candidate for a Nascent Soul opportunity, while Xia Nishang asked for a teleportation route to the Golden Crow Sect.
• Mo Ran arranged Xia’s entry documents, and she left East City the next day as the Contribution Points Management System was installed.
• Guyue pressed Mo Ran to meet Yuan, and Mo Ran sent Yuan a message inviting him to come alone to East City for an opportunity to form a Nascent Soul.
• Yuan arrived on the fourth day with Wu Xiu, a Nascent Soul True Immortal, and Mo Ran pointedly noted that he had expected Yuan to come alone.
• Yuan greeted Mo Ran by recalling a meeting from nearly a century earlier, and Mo Ran replied with a strained smile.

Mo Ran, Guyue, Yuan Real Person, and Wu Xiu settled their suspicions and discussed sharing a Nascent Soul Formation opportunity. Yuan Real Person revealed he had collected extensive information about treasures, giving them a promising way to support their Divination.

• Mo Ran objected to Yuan Real Person bringing Wu Xiu, and Wu Xiu explained that he had come to help his uncle pursue Nascent Soul Formation.
• Guyue entered and confronted Yuan Real Person over his earlier suspicion, while Yuan Real Person apologized and agreed that three people could share the opportunity.
• Yuan Real Person proposed that the group face the danger together, and Guyue agreed to cooperate after asking how many Nascent Soul Formation treasures Yuan Real Person possessed.
• Guyue explained that their Divination could use treasure information and other traces instead of physical treasures, and Yuan Real Person recognized why Guyue had asked for incense powder.
• Yuan Real Person revealed that he had collected an enormous amount of information about treasures, surprising Mo Ran.

Guyue Real Person explained Feng Jun’s divination bargain to Yuan Real Person and Wu Xiu True Immortal, then the group spent weeks arranging treasures and discussing a management system. Yuan Real Person and Wu Xiu returned from the Hot Spring Sector with treasure records, only to find that Wanqing True Immortal and other Golden Crow Sect cultivators had arrived in East City.

• Yuan Real Person offered Nascent Soul Formation treasures in exchange for divination, while Guyue Real Person explained that Feng Jun required thirty years of guarding his foundation.
• Wu Xiu True Immortal considered visiting Kunhao, and Guyue warned him about Yi Jue True Immortal and urged everyone to keep her whereabouts secret after she killed Ouyang Beishan’s incarnation.
• Yuan Real Person, Guyue Real Person, and Mo Ran Real Person spent five days dividing the treasures, then arranged the preparations and inspected Mo Ran’s Contribution Points Management System.
• Yuan Real Person rejected buying the management system after learning its main selling point was fairness and transparency, then returned to the Hot Spring Sector with Wu Xiu to collect treasures and records.
• Two months later, Yuan Real Person and Wu Xiu returned to East City and found Wanqing True Immortal, two Golden Core Peak cultivators, and Xia Nishang had arrived.

Feng Jun arrived in East City and divined for True Adept Mo Ran, while the Golden Crow Sect’s delegation explained why it had come to pursue the Nascent Soul opportunity. Mo Ran learned that he could raise his formation chances above eighty percent, but doing so would require costly treasures and leave him deep in debt.

• Guyue explained that the Red Phoenix Sect had first systematically valued Feng Jun’s divination, while Yuan Real Person questioned why the Golden Crow Sect had sent a Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Xia Nishang confronted Senior Sister Ranyun after discovering that she had brought a crowd to ask about the opportunity for Nascent Soul Formation.
• Ranyun explained that her master had spread news of Feng Jun’s divination, prompting the Golden Crow Sect to send additional cultivators and resources.
• Feng Jun arrived with True Immortal Yi Jue and privately gave Mo Ran the result of a day’s divination.
• Mo Ran revealed that his chances could exceed eighty percent, but increasing them from seventy-nine to eighty-one percent required six more treasures.

Feng Jun discovered that Yuan Real Person’s long-stalled Nascent Soul Formation stemmed from concealing a past Heavenly Demon possession. After recommending a way to repair his sea of consciousness, Feng Jun left Yuan Real Person preparing to sever the devoured divine soul and use a generator to temper it.

• Yuan Real Person asked to undergo Nascent Soul Formation before standing guard, and Feng Jun agreed after Guyue and Mo Ran vouched for him.
• Feng Jun’s Divination revealed that Yuan Real Person had concealed a Heavenly Demon possession and lingering damage to his sea of consciousness.
• Yuan Real Person explained that he had hidden the possession after killing a junior martial brother while possessed, fearing punishment and damage to his cultivation.
• Feng Jun confirmed the Heavenly Demon’s aura had been gone for at least one hundred and seventy years and said Yuan Real Person could prepare for Nascent Soul Formation after severing the devoured divine soul and recuperating for half a year.
• Feng Jun advised Yuan Real Person to use lightning to temper his sea of consciousness and plant the severed soul in a Yin Soul Stone, then explained that Mo Ran’s generator could provide the lightning.

After Feng Jun repaired Yuan Real Person’s mutated Divine Soul, he estimated Yuan’s chance of forming a Nascent Soul at roughly fifty percent and arranged for further recovery. True Immortal Wanqing offered a Primal Fire Embryo in exchange for Divination, and Feng Jun accepted it as payment for five slots, leaving the Golden Crow Sect’s Divination arrangements underway.

• Feng Jun told Yuan Real Person that he could repair the remaining damage to his sea of consciousness and estimated his chances of Nascent Soul Formation at forty-five to fifty-five percent.
• True Immortal Wanqing asked Feng Jun to perform Divination for Golden Crow Sect cultivators near a Ten-Thousand-Year Lava Pool, but Feng Jun declined to travel there.
• Wanqing proposed bringing Feng Jun to the Blazing Flame Sector through a Space Anchor Point and suggested inviting True Immortal Yi Jue along.
• Feng Jun asked Wanqing to settle the Divination fee and refused to let Golden Crow Sect transfer its karmic burden to another cultivator.
• Wanqing offered a Primal Fire Embryo for Feng Jun’s disciple with a Profound Yin Physique, and Feng Jun agreed to count it as payment for five Divination slots.

Feng Jun agreed to provide divinations for the Golden Crow Sect in exchange for a Primal Fire Embryo and returned to Kun Hao with several True Immortals. Back at Liba Beach, he learned that Mei Yeyu needed costly materials to repair his damaged natal flying sword.

• Feng Jun and True Immortal Wanqing settled on ten Nascent Soul Formation divination opportunities for the Primal Fire Embryo, and Golden Crow Sect cultivators were welcomed at Liba Beach to gain guardianship time.
• Feng Jun agreed to divine at the Ten-Thousand-Year Lava Pool in the Blazing Flame Sector, and the group prepared to travel there before descending to the lower realm.
• Feng Jun brought three True Immortals into Kun Hao, causing a surge of spiritual energy that alarmed Yue Qing, Buzui True Adept, and the Gongyang siblings.
• Mei Yeyu asked Feng Jun about the Seventeen-Hole Swordheart Lotus after a Sand Flood Dragon battle had badly damaged his natal flying sword.
• Feng Jun told Mei Yeyu that repairing the sword required expensive materials, and Mei Yeyu asked to borrow Spirit Stones to buy them.

Feng Jun settled the final materials needed to repair Mei Yeyu’s flying sword, then learned from the Big Shot that it wanted him to acquire a Primal Fire Embryo and eventually a Primal Water Embryo. He declined to help with upcoming Core Embraces at Liba Beach, citing the risks and other urgent matters.

• Feng Jun gave Mei Yeyu a Nineteen-Hole Swordheart Lotus, completing the materials needed to repair her flying sword.
• The Big Shot told Feng Jun it had detected a Primal Fire Embryo on Wanqing True Immortal and asked him to find out its value, while proposing a plan to take it by force if necessary.
• Feng Jun refused to trade away the Earth Spirit and said he would try to obtain a Primal Fire Embryo without fighting, possibly through the Red Phoenix Sect or the Golden Crow Sect.
• The Big Shot revealed that it also wanted a Primal Water Embryo from the Mysterious Water Sect so it could develop further.
• Buzui Adept and Qingya Adept asked Feng Jun to attend their disciples’ Core Embraces, but he refused to intervene and advised them to postpone the ceremonies.

Feng Jun helped Guyue True Adept calculate the costs and odds of Nascent Soul Formation, then suggested a way for him to manage the expense. Guyue left to ask Yuan Real Person for help, while Feng Jun and Yi Jue True Immortal reflected on the resources cultivation required.

• Qingya True Adept and Buzui True Adept told Feng Jun that Four Dao Platform wanted him to divine Nascent Soul Formation, and Feng Jun said its members could visit Liba Beach if they followed its rules.
• Feng Jun calculated that Guyue True Adept could raise his Nascent Soul Formation odds from eighteen percent to fifty-nine percent with extensive preparation, but Guyue balked at the cost.
• Guyue True Adept asked Feng Jun to find a cheaper plan, and Yi Jue True Immortal suggested aiming for fifty-one percent before Guyue pressed for a fifty-fifty option.
• Feng Jun explained a way for Guyue True Adept to manage the costs, and Guyue left to approach Yuan Real Person.
• Feng Jun and Yi Jue True Immortal discussed how wealth and resources shaped cultivation.

Guyue borrowed 50,000 mid-grade Spirit Stones from Yuan Real Person to support his Nascent Soul Formation, while Feng Jun's Divination revealed a costly way for Xia Nishang to attempt hers decades earlier. The chapter leaves Xia Nishang facing a choice between waiting for a better opportunity and spending another 300,000 mid-grade Spirit Stones to raise her chance of success sooner.

• Guyue asked Yuan Real Person to lend him 100,000 mid-grade Spirit Stones, offering collateral and double repayment, but Yuan Real Person refused the full loan because of the risk.
• Guyue used Feng Jun's arguments about Yuan Real Person's family and the Wuliu Sector's accounts to persuade him, and Yuan Real Person agreed to lend 50,000 mid-grade Spirit Stones on reduced repayment terms.
• Yuan Real Person and True Immortal Wu Xiu discussed how Feng Jun had changed the way people approached Nascent Soul Formation, and True Immortal Wu Xiu predicted others would ask Feng Jun for loans.
• Feng Jun divined that Xia Nishang's chance of Nascent Soul Formation would reach seventy-five percent in sixty years, or seventy-nine percent with 300,000 mid-grade Spirit Stones' worth of additional treasures.
• Feng Jun discovered that Xia Nishang could attempt Nascent Soul Formation in half a year with a seventy-six percent chance if she used several costly treasures, requiring an additional 300,000 mid-grade Spirit Stones.

Xia Nishang weighed whether to accelerate her Nascent Soul Formation and sought help paying for the required treasures. As Red Phoenix and the Golden Crow Sect considered support, True Immortal Wanqing and two True Adepts discussed how Feng Jun’s Divination could turn Nascent Soul Formation into a contest of wealth.

• Xia Nishang chose to attempt Nascent Soul Formation in half a year but lacked the Spirit Stones to cover the costs, and Feng Jun refused to lend her money.
• Xia Nishang learned Red Phoenix could give her twenty thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones and lend another thirty thousand, then asked True Immortal Wanqing for support from the Upper Sect.
• True Immortal Wanqing reviewed Xia Nishang’s list, reduced the expenses by nearly fifty thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, and suggested she also request more support from Red Phoenix.
• True Adept Ranyun and True Adept Jiangxia confronted True Immortal Wanqing, arguing that native Golden Crow disciples deserved support because Feng Jun’s Divination could raise formation odds by stacking treasures.
• True Immortal Wanqing recognized that Feng Jun’s method might make Nascent Soul Formation a contest of financial resources, while Xia Nishang anxiously contacted Red Phoenix’s leadership.

Feng Jun’s divinations prompted the Red Phoenix Sect, Golden Crow Sect, and Supreme Clarity Sect to compete to support cultivators seeking Nascent Soul Formation. After the group traveled to the Blazing Flame Sector, Yi Jue pressed Feng Jun to examine the risks of Xia Nishang using its fire-element cultivation chamber.

• Feng Jun divined that Ranyun and Real Person Jiangxia had only nine and eleven percent chances of Nascent Soul Formation, respectively.
• The Red Phoenix Sect agreed to cover Xia Nishang’s Nascent Soul Formation expenses, and True Immortal Wanqing said the Golden Crow Sect might provide treasures as well.
• Real Person Jiangxia and Ranyun sought further support, while Guyue urged the Supreme Clarity Sect to back his own Nascent Soul Formation efforts.
• True Immortal Wanqing brought Feng Jun and the others to the Blazing Flame Sector, where they settled into a Golden Crow Sect estate for three days of rest.
• Xia Nishang agreed not to use the fire-element cultivation chamber, but Yi Jue asked Feng Jun to divine what risks it might pose and how they could be resolved.

Feng Jun’s divinations revealed the risks and costs facing cultivators seeking to form their Nascent Souls, while his warnings helped Jiangxia Real Person recognize how comparison was affecting her resolve. After touring the Blazing Flame Sector, he agreed to hear three more of Jiangxia Real Person’s ideas when she returned.

• Feng Jun divined that using the fire-element cultivation chamber would cost Xia Nishang her shortcut to Nascent Soul formation, and Xia Nishang chose to keep her existing opportunity rather than pursue a potentially better result.
• Feng Jun toured the Blazing Flame Sector and learned that Golden Crow Sect disciples and affiliated-courtyard disciples made up most of its cultivators, leaving him wary of how easily he might once have been detained.
• Feng Jun divined a costly plan that raised Jiangxia Real Person’s Nascent Soul success rate from fifteen to fifty-three percent, but her proposed alternative added only one percentage point for another three hundred thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Jiangxia Real Person pressed Feng Jun to seek a better outcome, and he warned her that comparing herself with Xia Nishang had given her an Inner Demon and could undermine her resolve.
• Jiangxia Real Person accepted Feng Jun’s rebuke, said she would consult her Nascent Soul companion, and planned to return with no more than three ideas.