Chapter Summaries

Zhang Su recruited Lu Danxi, Shi Buyi, Luo Feng, and Shen Qingci to accompany him on his posting as warden of the Three Ridges Region, then set out from the Upper Sect. At the Guiyuan Sect, Leng Shuangyue defeated Yu Hualong and challenged the sect’s disciples until Zhang Su appeared to answer her challenge.

• Zhang Su invited Lu Danxi and Shi Buyi to join his retinue, promising each at least a thousand merit points per year, and both agreed.
• Zhang Su also agreed to take Shen Qingci and Luo Feng, used his merit points to buy Essence-Boosting Spirit Pills, and departed with his four companions for the Three Ridges Region.
• Leng Shuangyue challenged Yu Hualong at the Guiyuan Sect’s Martial Arts Arena and defeated him with a freezing sword strike that left only a shallow cut on his face.
• Yu Hualong reminded Leng Shuangyue that the Guiyuan Sect had Zhang Su, and she declared that she would become a personal disciple of the Upper Sect and could still defeat anyone at the Guiyuan Sect.
• Leng Shuangyue challenged the Guiyuan Sect to send someone to fight her, and Zhang Su appeared and accepted her challenge.

Zhang Su returned to the Guiyuan Sect as an Upper Sect Personal Disciple and the newly appointed Three Ridges Region Governor, driving Leng Shuangyue away and reassuring his former sect. He asked the Guiyuan Sect to provide people to help him establish authority in Three Ridges City, then turned to Supreme Elder Cang Xuan to discuss how to deal with the Jingyuan Sect.

• Zhang Su appeared during Leng Shuangyue’s challenge, and she bowed respectfully when she learned he was an Upper Sect Personal Disciple.
• Zhang Su ordered Leng Shuangyue to tell the Jingyuan Sect’s four Xiantian Realm Supreme Elders to report to Three Ridges City, and she left the Guiyuan Sect in disgrace.
• Zhang Su greeted Yu Hualong and promised to address the conflict between the Jingyuan Sect and the Three Sects Alliance as Three Ridges Region Governor.
• Zhang Su reunited with Zhao Qianfeng and introduced Shi Buyi and Lu Danxi as trusted companions who had helped him in the Upper Sect.
• At the Sect Main Hall, Zhang Su asked the Guiyuan Sect to send elders and disciples to help him establish a foothold in Three Ridges City, and Cang Xuan offered the sect’s full support.
• Zhang Su asked Cang Xuan how they should deal with the Jingyuan Sect.

Zhang Su tested his strength against Elder Cang Xuan, defeated him with Martial Dao True Intent, and developed Martial Sense under his guidance. He then set out for Three Ridges City, while Jingyuan Sect accepted that its four Supreme Elders would have to submit and Leng Shuangyue agreed to seek a place as an Upper Sect Registered Disciple.

• Cang Xuan advised Zhang Su to subdue Jingyuan Sect's four Xiantian Grandmasters and use them to help govern Three Ridges Region.
• Zhang Su sparred with Cang Xuan at the Martial Arts Arena; after his first sword was blocked, he used Infinite True Intent to overwhelm Cang Xuan with his next strike.
• Cang Xuan guided Zhang Su in an instinctive spar, and Zhang Su formed Martial Sense.
• Zhang Su stayed at Guiyuan Sect until its delegation for Three Ridges City was assembled, then departed with the sect members.
• Leng Shuangyue told Jingyuan Sect's four Supreme Elders about Zhang Su, and Situ Yue revealed that he had become the Upper Sect's Second Personal Disciple with Two-Star Combat Power.
• Leng Shuangyue agreed to enter the Upper Sect as a Registered Disciple, while Jingyuan Sect's elders resolved to go to Three Ridges City and preserve their sect by yielding to Zhang Su.

Zhang Su seized control of the Garrison Office, purged its Six Departments, and established a Hidden Market near Myriad Spirits City that quickly became profitable. As security concerns grew, four Jingyuan Sect Supreme Elders arrived to meet him, leaving the question of whether Zhang Su could win their support.

• Zhang Su accused the Six Departments' heads of failing to protect the previous Garrison Commander, then had them seized and executed when they failed to satisfy him.
• Zhang Su ordered Shi Buyi and Yu Hualong to confiscate the department heads' property and investigate the Six Departments, while Cang Xuan suppressed resistance; the purge brought in over 1.7 million Essence Crystals and placed the Garrison Office under Zhang Su's control.
• Zhang Su proposed a Hidden Market where visitors could conceal their identities and trade only in Essence Crystals, and Dan Xuanzi agreed to supply spirit pills to attract customers.
• The Hidden Market opened in Three Ridges City and grew steadily, collecting 300,000 Essence Crystals in commissions during its first month, though Cang Xuan and Yuan Kun warned that its security was strained by hidden Xiantian Grandmasters.
• Zhang Su revealed that the Jingyuan Sect's four Xiantian Grandmasters had arrived, and he ordered them admitted to the Garrison Office.

Zhang Su brought the Jingyuan Sect’s four Xiantian Grandmasters under his command, then focused on the Hidden Market’s need for treasured medicines. He traveled to Myriad Spirits City, bought a hundred Dragon Beard Fruits and a larger Storage Bag, and began cultivating in the Precious Medicine Pavilion.

• Situ Yue and the Jingyuan Sect’s three other Xiantian Grandmasters submitted to Zhang Su after learning of his strength, and Zhang Su ordered them to guard the Hidden Market.
• The Hidden Market’s monthly revenue rose to five hundred thousand Essence Crystals, but Zhang Su recognized that it needed treasured medicines to attract Xiantian Grandmasters.
• Zhang Su took three million Essence Crystals from the Garrison Office and traveled with Elder Cang Xuan to Myriad Spirits City.
• Zhang Su and Elder Cang Xuan entered Myriad Spirits City after registering their identities and paying the entry fee.
• At the Precious Medicine Pavilion, Zhang Su bought a hundred Dragon Beard Fruits and a medium-capacity Storage Bag, then accepted a free Cultivation Room.
• After Elder Cang Xuan left to explore the city, Zhang Su swallowed a Dragon Beard Fruit and began cultivating his fleshly body.

Zhang Su reached the ninth body stage, learned that the tenth stage was a postnatal Dao body, and returned from Myriad Spirits City with treasured medicines for the Hidden Market. After advancing to the Absolute Peak Realm, he found the Hidden Market’s growth had outstripped its security and pill-making capacity, so he set out for the Haojin Upper Sect to recruit help.

• Zhang Su consumed sixty Dragon Beard Fruits, reached the ninth body stage, and perfected the Everlasting Life Art, then learned from Wen Qingyue that reaching the tenth stage required rare treasures, certain innate Dao bodies, or combining physical martial arts.
• Zhang Su explored Myriad Spirits City, bought a large stock of treasured medicines, learned that only Dao Realm cultivators could leave the Myriad Spirits Realm through the Alliance’s World Passage, and returned safely to Three Ridges City with Elder Cang Xuan.
• Zhang Su gave Yu Hualong treasured medicines and Essence Crystals to supply the Hidden Market, then assigned Elder Cang Xuan to manage the medicines after Yu Hualong admitted he feared being responsible for them.
• Zhang Su cultivated the Boundless Divine Skill to Seven Refinements and opened his Ren and Du Meridians, entering the Postnatal Absolute Peak Realm.
• Yu Hualong reported that Hidden Market commissions had reached one million Essence Crystals a month, while its six Xiantian Grandmasters struggled to maintain order; Dan Xuanzi also complained that he could not meet the growing demand for spirit pills.
• Zhang Su decided to recruit alchemists and additional guards from the Haojin Upper Sect, then left Three Ridges City with Lu Danxi to visit Danwu Peak.

Zhang Su returned to the Haojin Upper Sect, secured Primordial Unity Peak’s protection for his Hidden Market, and challenged the War Tower. He defeated multiple Two-Star Puppets and took first place from Lu Zhaixing, leaving Lu Zhaixing to face the result at the War Tower.

• Zhang Su told Gu Changyuan about the Hidden Market and his plans for Three Ridges City, and Gu Changyuan agreed that Primordial Unity Peak would take thirty percent of its profits in exchange for protection.
• Zhang Su told Gu Changyuan that he had reached the Absolute Peak Realm, then went to the War Tower to test his combat strength.
• Zhang Su defeated one Two-Star Puppet, establishing two-star combat power and shocking the disciples gathered outside the War Tower.
• Zhang Su continued challenging the War Tower while Fang Ming hurried to tell Lu Zhaixing that Zhang Su had attained two-star combat power.
• Lu Zhaixing went with Fang Ming to the War Tower, where the Jade Stele revealed that Zhang Su had surpassed him and become the First Personal Disciple.

Zhang Su defeated twenty-eight Two-Star Puppets in the War Tower, surpassing Lu Zhaixing and claiming the top spot among the personal disciples. The Haojin Upper Sect’s sect master then announced an early Heart Sage Sect recruitment, giving eligible disciples one year to reach the Xiantian Realm.

• Lu Zhaixing entered the War Tower to reclaim first place, while Zhang Su’s record rose alongside his.
• Lu Zhaixing defeated twenty Two-Star Puppets, but Zhang Su continued to twenty-eight and took the top spot.
• Zhang Su explained his strength by pointing to his internal force, physical body, martial skills, and Martial Dao True Intent, and urged Lu Zhaixing to develop his Innate Dao Body.
• The sect master told the nine peak masters that the Heart Sage Sect would recruit disciples early, with applicants required to be Xiantian Realm martial artists under forty, but no longer required to have an Innate Dao Body.
• The sect master ordered the peak masters to prepare their qualifying direct disciples and help others reach the Xiantian Realm within the coming year.

After claiming the War Tower’s top ranking, Zhang Su learned that the Heart Sage Sect would hold a special disciple selection in one year and resolved to reach the Xiantian Realm in time. Gu Changyuan promised to protect and support the Hidden Market while Zhang Su focused on cultivation, and Zhang Su arranged its staffing before returning to plan how to reach the tenth body stage.

• Zhang Su visited the Martial Transmission Hall, studied Dao Body Exposition, and took twenty top-tier physical cultivation arts to layer their effects and break through his body’s limits.
• Gu Changyuan summoned Primordial Unity Peak’s personal disciples and announced that the Heart Sage Sect would recruit eligible Xiantian martial artists under forty in a special selection one year later.
• Gu Changyuan urged Zhang Su to pursue the selection, explaining that joining the Heart Sage Sect would protect the Hidden Market; Zhang Su agreed to reach the Xiantian Realm within a year.
• Zhang Su asked Lu Danxi to recruit Danwu Peak alchemists with an offer of at least four hundred thousand Essence Crystals a year and asked Elder Yao to recruit Xiantian elders for the Hidden Market.
• Zhang Su returned to cultivation, planning to advance his Boundless Divine Skill and use treasured medicines to reach the tenth body stage before the selection.

Zhang Su spent eleven months using Dragon Beard Fruits and mastering physical cultivation techniques as he pursued the legendary Tenth Body Stage instead of advancing to the Innate Realm. Just before his one-year deadline, his eleventh technique reached perfection and his body began to reassemble, signaling that he had finally reached the Tenth Body Stage.

• The Heart Palace Tokens spurred direct disciples across the Nine Peaks to attempt advancement, but Zhou Mubai died when his seventh-stage body burst under the Heaven and Earth Essence Qi, and three later attempts also failed.
• Lei Zhen, Lu Zhaixing, and Zhao Canghai successfully advanced to the Innate Realm, while their breakthroughs and Zhao Canghai's ninth-stage physique encouraged other disciples to pursue the same path.
• Elder Cang Xuan delivered a thousand Dragon Beard Fruits, explaining that the Hidden Market's growing business had funded the purchase and that Yu Hualong had prioritized Zhang Su's cultivation.
• Zhang Su perfected the Origin Embryo Art and then practiced one physical cultivation technique after another, but his body remained below the tenth stage as the months passed.
• Gu Changyuan and the sect master discussed Zhang Su's attempt to reach the Tenth Body Stage, while Han Qiubai and Lu Zhaixing worried that he would fail or miss the Heart Sage Sect's recruitment.
• After eleven months and eleven perfected techniques, Zhang Su's body violently reassembled, marking his breakthrough to the Tenth Body Stage.

Zhang Su formed a growth-type postnatal Dao body, then opened his Bridge of Heaven and Earth and endured an immense influx of Heaven and Earth Essence Qi to temper his innate true qi. After sealing the bridge and recovering from the breakthrough, he reached the Innate Realm, three years after arriving at the Upper Sect.

• Zhang Su reached the tenth body stage after a year of cultivating twelve physical arts and consuming more than nine hundred Dragon Beard Fruits.
• Zhang Su discovered that his balanced postnatal Dao body could grow indefinitely and named it the Infinite Dao Body.
• Zhang Su used his profound internal force to open the Bridge of Heaven and Earth and began absorbing Heaven and Earth Essence Qi to break through to Xiantian.
• Zhang Su repeatedly let the Heaven and Earth Essence Qi destroy and remake his innate true qi, while an enormous vortex gathered above the Boundless Cave and alerted the sect’s disciples and leaders.
• Zhang Su’s innate true qi survived its ninth tempering, consumed the remaining essence qi, and sealed the Bridge of Heaven and Earth.
• Zhang Su recovered from his injuries and opened his eyes as a martial artist of the Innate Realm.

After reaching the Innate Realm, Zhang Su discovered that his Infinite Dao Body strengthened his abilities and sought martial dao true intents to improve his combat power before the Heart Sage Sect recruitment. While devouring relics in Primordial Unity Peak’s memorial hall, he encountered an overwhelming force that made his Infinite True Intent collapse, and he realized it was not ordinary martial dao true intent.

• After the Heaven and Earth Essence Qi vanished, Zhang Su emerged from the Boundless Cave and was congratulated for reaching the Innate Realm at twenty.
• Han Qiubai told Zhang Su that his own attempt to reach the Innate Realm had injured his meridians, while Lu Zhaixing acknowledged Zhang Su had reached the tenth body stage and vowed to surpass him at the Heart Sage Sect.
• Zhang Su examined his system panel, confirmed that his Infinite Dao Body enhanced his true intent and other abilities, and decided to strengthen himself before the recruitment in one month.
• Zhang Su asked Gu Changyuan for martial dao true intent to devour, then consumed the powerful sword intent in an ancient sword and raised his Infinite True Intent to 38% Minor Accomplishment.
• Gu Changyuan led Zhang Su to Primordial Unity Peak’s memorial hall, where Zhang Su awakened and began devouring the martial dao true intents preserved in the relics.
• As Zhang Su devoured the eighth suitable true intent, his Infinite True Intent suddenly collapsed, and he realized the overwhelming force was something other than martial dao true intent.

Zhang Su advanced his infinite true intent to major accomplishment, then joined Primordial Unity Peak’s disciples on their journey to the Heart Sage Sect’s recruitment. As their flying ship reached the World Passage, an enormous black ship rushed toward it, apparently cutting ahead of the queue.

• Gu Changyuan stopped the broken saber’s blade momentum from destroying Zhang Su’s infinite true intent and explained that momentum surpassed Martial Dao True Intent.
• Zhang Su devoured a trace of true intent in an iron spear and raised his infinite true intent to major accomplishment, reaching 8%.
• Gu Changyuan warned Zhang Su not to reveal that he could devour other people’s Martial Dao True Intent, and Zhang Su spent the following month perfecting sword techniques to gain compatibility points.
• Gu Changyuan sent twenty-three Primordial Unity Peak disciples, led by He Changgen, Cang Wuzi, and Liu Yunhe, to the Heart Sage Sect’s recruitment aboard a large flying ship.
• At Myriad Spirits City, He Changgen told the disciples that hundreds of millions of martial artists from thousands of worlds might compete and that the special recruitment could admit roughly one in a hundred.
• As the Haojin Upper Sect’s flying ship approached the World Passage, an enormous black ship bearing a thundercloud design sped toward the entrance without joining the queue.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• The Haojin Upper Sect’s flying vessel approaches the World Passage but is aggressively rammed by a much larger vessel belonging to the Thunder Upper Sect.
• The Thunder Upper Sect vessel enters the passage first, while Haojin disciples are angered by the humiliation. Elder He Changgen explains that the Thunder Upper Sect is the strongest of the 108 Upper Sects because it has produced four Heart Sage Sect disciples over the past thousand years.
• Rather than weakening the Haojin disciples’ morale, the incident motivates them. The special Heart Sage Sect recruitment, which expands the selection rate to one percent, is presented as a rare opportunity to improve the Haojin Upper Sect’s standing.
• Inside the World Passage, the disciples attempt to comprehend its hidden mysteries. Zhang Su uses Infinite True Intent and detects tiny fragments concealed within the silver flow.
• Trusting his instincts, Zhang Su devours one fragment. He experiences visions revealing the origin and development of the Myriad Spirits Realm: a mysterious black figure sends seven-colored lights into a primitive world, which gradually develops life, cultivation, and the 108 Upper Sects.
• His system reveals that he has received a gift from the Myriad Spirits Realm’s Heavenly Dao. Infinite True Intent advances from Major Accomplishment to the Perfected Realm, but Zhang Su must eventually “complete” the incomplete Myriad Spirits Realm before his Martial Dao True Intent can improve further.
• After exiting the World Passage, Zhang Su learns about the universe beyond the Myriad Spirits Realm and asks about the power required to destroy a world. Elder He explains the three stages of the Dao Realm: Entering the Dao, Transforming the Dao, and Proving the Dao. A Proving the Dao expert might be able to destroy a world with one strike.
• The group travels for three months to the Heavenly Martial Realm, waits there for a month, and then uses a massive spatial teleportation formation.
• During the journey, Zhang Su masters the remaining six forms of the Primordial Unity Sword Art, completing all nine forms. He also experiments with Divine Intent but discovers that his Infinite True Intent cannot advance further until the Myriad Spirits Realm is completed.
• The disciples finally arrive at the Heart Sage Sect. Its Heaven and Earth Essence Qi is over a hundred times denser than that of the Myriad Spirits Realm, and even its ordinary inhabitants are naturally born at the Innate level.
• Zhang Su and the others are shocked by the enormous gap between their home realm and the Heart Sage Sect. Lu Zhaixing and Elder He remind them that Heart Sage Sect natives are merely born Innate, while outsiders like them are trained cultivators with greater potential.
• The chapter ends as Zhang Su notices a young woman from the Thunder Upper Sect beginning a powerful breakthrough. Her Essence Qi vortex is several times larger than the one Zhang Su created when he advanced to the Innate Realm.

2. Character Developments

• Zhang Su: Becomes more confident and decisive. He trusts Infinite True Intent enough to devour an unknown Heavenly Dao fragment, gaining a major breakthrough and insight into the Myriad Spirits Realm’s history. He accepts the burden of eventually completing the realm without becoming overly discouraged. He also finishes mastering the Primordial Unity Sword Art and gains a clearer understanding of the power hierarchy beyond his world.
• He Changgen: Demonstrates both restraint and strategic wisdom. Instead of responding recklessly to the Thunder Upper Sect’s provocation, he explains the sect’s influence and turns the humiliation into motivation for the disciples.
• Haojin/Primordial Unity Peak disciples: Initially furious and humiliated by the Thunder Upper Sect, they regain their composure and become more determined to succeed in the Heart Sage Sect.
• Lu Zhaixing: Encourages the disciples not to feel inferior to Heart Sage Sect natives, emphasizing the difference between merely being born Innate and becoming a true cultivator through hardship.
• Thunder Upper Sect young woman: Is introduced as an exceptionally powerful cultivator whose breakthrough creates an immense Essence Qi phenomenon, establishing her as a likely rival or important figure.

3. Significant Themes

• Power and hierarchy: The Thunder Upper Sect’s arrogance reflects how strength and historical achievements determine status among the Upper Sects.
• Humiliation as motivation: The disciples’ anger after being rammed becomes fuel for ambition rather than a cause for despair.
• Heavenly Dao and karmic responsibility: Zhang Su’s breakthrough comes with a hidden obligation: receiving the realm’s gift means he must eventually help complete the incomplete Myriad Spirits Realm.
• Origins and world-building: The visions reveal that the Myriad Spirits Realm’s cultivation civilization was deliberately initiated by an unknown higher existence, raising questions about the black shadow and the purpose of the seven-colored light.
• Nature versus cultivation: Heart Sage Sect natives are naturally born Innate, but the story distinguishes innate advantages from the potential created through struggle, training, and life-and-death experience.
• Expansion of perspective: Zhang Su moves from focusing on local sect conflicts to confronting the scale of worlds, universes, realm-level sects, and planet-destroying experts.
• Opportunity and competition: The Heart Sage Sect recruitment offers a chance for the Haojin Upper Sect to change its position, but the arrival of powerful geniuses shows that the competition will be intense.

4. Character Interactions

• The Haojin disciples complain to He Changgen after the Thunder Upper Sect’s vessel collides with theirs, prompting him to explain the Thunder Upper Sect’s history and influence.
• He Changgen advises the disciples to seek insight from the World Passage without forcing comprehension, leading Zhang Su to discover the Heavenly Dao fragment independently.
• Zhang Su questions He Changgen about world-destroying power and the structure of the Dao Realm, gaining important information about the wider cultivation universe.
• Lu Zhaixing and He Changgen reassure the disciples after they see that all Heart Sage Sect natives are born Innate, reinforcing their confidence and emphasizing their greater potential as trained cultivators.
• Zhang Su observes the Thunder Upper Sect’s young woman from a distance as she begins an extraordinary breakthrough, setting up a likely future confrontation or comparison.

Zhang Su watched Lu Tingxue’s superior dao body earn her direct entry into the Heart Sage Sect, then faced the sect’s puppet assessment himself. He survived forty waves before conceding against the first Six-Star Puppets, and waited in the plaza for the final results.

• Lu Tingxue absorbed vast amounts of heaven and earth essence qi, and He Changgen identified her as the Thunder Upper Sect’s superior dao body, which qualified her for direct entry.
• The Heart Saint Spirit sent those with superior dao bodies and third-tier special lifeforms directly into the sect, then began the assessment for everyone else.
• Zhang Su entered the tower and fought successive waves of increasingly powerful puppets, using his sword techniques and infinite true intent to survive through the fortieth wave.
• Zhang Su conceded when the forty-first wave brought Six-Star Puppets that he could not defeat, then returned to the plaza and waited with Lu Zhaixing, Lei Zhen, and the Haojin Upper Sect disciples.
• The trial ended, and the Heart Saint Spirit announced that those issued Heart Sage Sect Identity Tokens would become disciples while everyone else had to leave within one day.

Zhang Su and three other Haojin Upper Sect members received Heart Sage Sect tokens, then learned their recruitment rankings and settled into the sect. After discovering that his Infinite Dao Body was an intermediate growth-type Dao Body whose enhancements would accumulate as his physical body advanced, Zhang Su set out to receive the Heart Force Canon inheritance.

• Lei Zhen, Zhang Su, Lu Zhaixing, and Zhao Canghai received tokens, while the Haojin Upper Sect's other 208 members were eliminated.
• Zhang Su checked the rankings and found himself 999,999th overall and 51st among the Myriad Spirits Realm recruits; Zhao Canghai ranked last on both lists.
• He Changgen gave each of the four a Storage Bag containing one million Essence Crystals and promised annual support for their cultivation and Zhang Su's Hidden Market.
• The four chose neighboring cave residences, and Zhang Su learned from Little Blue that his Infinite Dao Body was an intermediate growth-type Dao Body with enhancements that accumulated as his physical body advanced.
• After waiting three days for his place in the queue, Zhang Su set out for the Heritage Hall to receive the Heart Force Canon inheritance.

Zhang Su learned the Heart Force Canon from the Inheritance Sacred Stele, perfected it in just over a month, and climbed to thirty-fifth place on the Myriad Spirits Realm Heart Force Rankings. After learning about the Grand Void Illusion Realm as a way to build heart force, he headed there to try it.

• Zhang Su saw Lu Tingxue leading the Heart Force Rankings with 99 strands while he and Lu Zhaixing, Lei Zhen, and Zhao Canghai had none.
• Zhang Su and the others received the Heart Force Canon from the Inheritance Sacred Stele, and Zhang Su raised his compatibility with it to 100%.
• Zhang Su used heart force to understand a body cultivation technique, then cultivated the Heart Force Canon to perfection and gained thirteen threads of heart force per day.
• Zhang Su found himself ranked thirty-fifth with two wisps of heart force and learned that Treasured Medicines and Cosmic Treasures were too expensive for him.
• Lu Zhaixing, Lei Zhen, and Zhao Canghai told Zhang Su about the Grand Void Illusion Realm and its Reincarnation Illusion Realm, which could increase heart force.
• Zhang Su decided to try the Grand Void Illusion Realm and left his cave residence with Little Blue guiding him.

Zhang Su discovered that sealed-memory Reincarnation Illusion Realms dramatically increased his Heart Force, while his Compatibility Points protected him from their effects on his will. After nine reincarnations, he rose to eighth place in the Myriad Spirits Realm Heart Force Rankings and returned to the Grand Void Illusion Realm the next morning.

• Zhang Su realized he was still inside the Grand Void Illusion Realm and learned that an illusion without sealed memories had not improved his Heart Force.
• Zhang Su experienced a desperate Reincarnation Illusion Realm as Fang Mu and gained thirty strands of Heart Force, while his Compatibility Points calmed the murderous resentment it left behind.
• Zhang Su underwent nine Reincarnation Illusion Realms, reaching 551 strands of Heart Force before the realm's daily limit stopped him.
• Zhang Su checked the Myriad Spirits Realm Heart Force Rankings and found himself in eighth place with five threads, prompting Wei Quan and other disciples to investigate his sudden rise.
• Lei Zhen, Lu Zhaixing, and Zhao Canghai suspected Zhang Su's progress came from the Grand Void Illusion Realm and decided to ask him about it the next day.
• Lu Tingxue dismissed Zhang Su's rise as likely the result of Treasured Medicine, while Zhang Su left his cave dwelling early the next morning to return to the Grand Void Illusion Realm.

Zhang Su gained three strands of Heart Force by enduring ten reincarnations in the Grand Void Illusion Realm, then let Lu Zhaixing, Lei Zhen, and Zhao Canghai try his Desperate Realm illusion. After they confirmed it increased their Heart Force, Zhang Su planned to sell the illusion realms to earn Essence Crystals and waited to see whether anyone would buy them.

• Zhang Su completed ten Reincarnation Illusion Realms, gained 300 wisps of Heart Force, and rose to second place in the rankings with eight strands.
• Lu Zhaixing, Lei Zhen, and Zhao Canghai visited Zhang Su, learned how he gained Heart Force, and tried his illusion realm; Zhao Canghai gained the most, with twenty threads.
• Lu Tingxue saw Zhang Su reach second place and ordered Fang Hanyan to investigate his rapid rise before deciding to spend her remaining Essence Crystals on Treasured Medicine.
• Zhang Su discussed selling his Desperate Realm illusion with the three disciples, and Lu Zhaixing suggested pricing ordinary realms at ten thousand Low-Grade Origin Crystals and Purgatory Illusions at one hundred thousand.
• Zhang Su agreed to prepare a harder Purgatory Illusion, while Lei Zhen and Zhao Canghai agreed to help spread word about his realms in the Communication Space.

Zhang Su’s Desperate Realm illusion series brought in customers and helped him gain heart force rapidly, while Lu Tingxue struggled to keep her lead. He bought the Heart Sage Sect’s costly Azure Emperor Longevity Art and wondered whether heart force could help him master it.

• Lei Zhen followed Lu Zhaixing’s plan and publicized Zhang Su’s achievements, prompting disciples to buy his Desperate Realm illusion realms.
• Wei Quan gained twenty-five threads of heart force from Zhang Su’s illusion realm, while Fang Hanyan gained eight and Lu Tingxue gained only three.
• Zhang Su customized his illusion realms to intensify despair and raised his gains to as many as forty threads per reincarnation, bringing his total to twelve strands and narrowing the gap with Lu Tingxue.
• Lu Tingxue decided to seek better treasured medicine and borrow or request more essence crystals so Zhang Su would not overtake her.
• Zhang Su selected and purchased the Azure Emperor Longevity Art for one million essence crystals, leaving him with just over five hundred thousand.
• After seeing that his compatibility with the art was only eight percent, Zhang Su wondered whether he could use heart force to reach the Initiation Realm.