Chapter Summaries

Li Xuan had Lou Gao win the bid for a Seventy-Thousand-Year White Dragon Fish carcass, hoping the system would reclaim its Inner Core. After the auction, Lou Gao arranged for Li Xuan to hide until the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect left, and Li Xuan began preparing to dissect the fish in the Heaven-Grasping Bottle's space.

• Li Xuan asked Lou Gao to bid on the White Dragon Fish carcass, and Lou Gao won it for nine hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Li Xuan took the carcass into the Heaven-Grasping Bottle's space after the auction ended.
• Lou Gao warned Li Xuan to stay hidden until the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had left, then departed with Si Long and Si Yu.
• Li Xuan placed the White Dragon Fish carcass on a platform and took out the Three-Star Heavy Blade to dissect it.

Li Xuan dissected a White Dragon Fish and discovered a rare torso Spirit Bone hidden in its spine. He also found a living fish egg inside the corpse’s tail, leaving him with an unexpected chance to preserve the young fish.

• Li Xuan skinned and butchered the White Dragon Fish, storing its flesh and organs in a Void Pearl as fertilizer.
• Li Xuan found no Inner Core and initially thought the corpse had no Spirit Bone.
• Li Xuan used Filthy Flame to remove bone from the fish’s spine and uncovered a seventy-four-thousand-year torso Spirit Bone with the Spirit Realm talent.
• Li Xuan stored the valuable Spirit Bone because it was unsuitable for him to absorb.
• Li Xuan found a living, developing fish inside a fist-sized egg in the White Dragon Fish’s tail.

Li Xuan waited for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to leave Star Luo City, then went with Si Yu to buy laborers for developing Ladi Canyon. Si Yu brought him to a hidden underground slave market, where they discovered an extravagant venue beneath an ordinary shop.

• Li Xuan placed the White Dragon Fish roe in the hot spring, where it melted and released the little fish, then moved it to a jar of clean water after it floated belly-up.
• Si Yu told Li Xuan that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was leaving Star Luo City, and Li Xuan said he needed to buy slaves for Ladi Canyon.
• Li Xuan and Si Yu waited for the sect's convoy to depart, then left the White Tiger Auction after a Blacksmith's Association spy confirmed the city was clear of its people.
• Si Yu drove Li Xuan to Star Luo City's slave market and led him into a closed shop bearing the sign "Star Luo Slave Market."
• The shop's floor descended like an elevator, revealing a lavish underground slave market filled with nobles and richly dressed visitors.

Li Xuan and Si Yu visited the Star Luo City Black Market, where Li Xuan purchased a token for collecting five thousand slaves and bought rare ores and a lotus pendant at the Seven Treasure Pavilion. Li Xuan noticed something unusual about the pendant’s lotus seed, and the two left to begin their journey back.

• Si Yu explained the Black Market’s history and led Li Xuan through the vast slave market in disguise.
• Li Xuan purchased a token for collecting five thousand slaves, posing as a noble who needed workers to reclaim his territory.
• Li Xuan and Si Yu visited the Seven Treasure Pavilion, where Li Xuan bought rare ores for Si Yu and their associates.
• Li Xuan examined a lotus pendant and noticed its pale golden seed triggered a blue screen.
• Si Yu paid for the pendant, and Li Xuan took it as they left the market to head back.

Li Xuan melted the Earth Core Sinking Gold pendant and recovered an Earth Flame Golden Lotus seed, then gave the melted metal to Si Yu. After returning to Ladi Canyon with the slaves and building materials, Li Xuan planted the seed in the Heaven-Grasping Bottle’s Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where it immediately sprouted a golden leaf.

• Li Xuan used Nirvana Fire to melt the lotus pendant and reveal an Earth Flame Golden Lotus seed that absorbed the flame’s heat.
• Li Xuan appraised the seed and learned it was an immortal-grade plant that could produce Mystic Earth Core Fire.
• Li Xuan gave the recovered Earth Core Sinking Gold to Si Yu and stored the seed in a crystal box.
• Li Xuan and Si Yu collected three thousand slaves, rented a Soul Tool to transport them, and returned to Ladi Canyon after seven days.
• The Yellow Turban Warriors told Li Xuan that Bangchui was helping draw Mystic Pool Heavy Water from the land.
• Li Xuan planted the Earth Flame Golden Lotus seed beside the hot spring in the Heaven-Grasping Bottle and used Green Spirit Liquid, causing a golden lotus leaf to sprout.

Li Xuan stopped overseeing construction in Ladi Canyon and devoted himself to alchemy, using Nirvana Fire to raise his Alchemist profession to Level 2 after thirteen days of refining. He learned three Second-Grade Elixir formulas and began planting the herbs needed to make them in the Heaven-Grasping Bottle's space.

• Li Xuan inspected Ladi Canyon, entrusted the construction work to the Yellow Turban Warriors, and decided to focus on alchemy.
• Li Xuan studied his status panel and saw that his Alchemist experience had reached 9871 out of the 10000 needed for Level 2.
• Li Xuan spent thirteen days refining Spirit-Nurturing Pills with Nirvana Fire and successfully made ten First Grade Top-Tier pills in one batch.
• Li Xuan reached Alchemist Level 2 and received formulas for the Xuanling Pill, Second Grade Detoxification Pill, and Body Tempering Pill.
• Li Xuan checked his stored seeds, found all the ingredients required by the new formulas, and planted them near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

After emerging from seclusion, Li Xuan assessed construction in Ladi Canyon and planned a trip to acquire supplies and more slaves. While visiting Gengxin City to commission a secure storage chest, he discovered that a Void Grass stalk had evolved and was about to bloom into an unknown Void Eye.

• Li Xuan finished planting herbs, bathed, and learned from a Yellow Turban Warrior that canyon construction was behind schedule but the Heavy Water Mystic Pool had been secured.
• Li Xuan planned to buy construction materials, Second-Grade Elixir herbs, and slaves, and decided to visit Gengxin City to commission a chest fitted with Void Crystals.
• Li Xuan arrived in Gengxin City and asked Si Long to design and forge the large chest, explaining how its layers should hold Void Crystals.
• Li Xuan inspected his Void Grass and found that the first stalk he planted had grown a flower bud.
• Li Xuan appraised the stalk and learned that it had evolved into a Heavenly Treasure capable of producing an unknown Void Eye when it bloomed.

Li Xuan used Green Spirit Liquid to push the Void Grass through its hundred-thousand-year breakthrough, discovering that it evolved into an Immortal Grade Void Cave-Heaven Grass and produced a Void Eye. Bang Chui confirmed that the grass remained without a soul or intelligence, and Li Xuan concluded that rapid cultivation could not grant a plant the benefits of growth through its own effort.

• Li Xuan brought Bang Chui to inspect the Void Grass, and Bang Chui found that it had tremendous power but no intelligence or soul.
• Li Xuan prepared a Burning Heart Array and a Great Teleportation Talisman, then fed the Void Grass a drop of Green Spirit Liquid.
• The Void Grass bloomed, produced a Void Eye, and underwent a sudden evolution before becoming a 100,000-year Immortal Grade Void Cave-Heaven Grass.
• Li Xuan summoned Bang Chui again, and Bang Chui confirmed that the evolved grass had reached the hundred-thousand-year realm but still lacked a soul.
• Li Xuan told Bang Chui that the grass had been cultivated in only a few months and said that power gained through one’s own cultivation truly belonged to its owner.

Li Xuan absorbed the Void Eye, a pseudo External Soul Bone, and endured a painful transformation before unlocking its Small Cave-Heaven storage space and gaining a third eye. After resting, he set out to inspect construction at Ladi Canyon and looked forward to completing his Heaven-Shaking Cannon.

• Li Xuan used Appraisal of Herbs to learn that the Void Eye was an upgradeable, Hundred-Thousand-Year pseudo External Soul Bone, then decided to absorb it.
• Li Xuan poured Soul Power and Spirit-Nurturing Pills into the Void Eye until it absorbed the energy and shot into his forehead, causing severe pain.
• Bang Chui used his Second Spirit Skill, All Things Revive, to heal Li Xuan, who then comprehended the Void Eye's Small Cave-Heaven storage space.
• Li Xuan merged his Void Pearls and Void Crystals into the Void Eye, expanded its space, and discovered that he could open a third eye on his forehead.
• Li Xuan slept for a day and night, then headed to inspect construction at Ladi Canyon while thinking about the Heaven-Shaking Cannon.

Li Xuan spent half a year in secluded cultivation at Ladi Canyon, advancing from Level 34 to Level 37 while learning to refine Second-Grade Mystic Spirit Pills. After emerging from seclusion, he learned the construction project needed more materials and agreed to buy another batch.

• Li Xuan decided to cultivate in seclusion and refined his first batch of Second-Grade Mystic Spirit Pills, then improved his technique with a second batch.
• Li Xuan used the Mystic Spirit Pills to cultivate and spent the next half year growing medicinal herbs, refining elixirs, and raising his Soul Power Level to Level 37.
• Li Xuan failed to break through to Level 38 and emerged from the Heaven-Grasping Bottle's space when Bangchui came to summon him.
• Bangchui told Li Xuan that the Yellow Turban Warrior wanted to discuss construction materials, then used Earth Escape to deliver the message.
• The Yellow Turban Warrior told Li Xuan that the workers had used eighty percent of their materials, and Li Xuan agreed to purchase another batch.

Li Xuan toured Ladi Canyon and inspected the completed Burning Heaven forging complex, built to harness and suppress its violent Earth Fire. With the facilities ready, he left for Gengxin City to recruit Lou Gao and acquire supplies for making Heaven-Shaking Cannons.

• The Yellow Turban Warrior told Li Xuan that Ladi Canyon’s underground works were complete and that its Forging Room had been built with Earth Fire and Mystic Pool Heavy Water.
• Li Xuan and Bangchui toured the canyon, where the Yellow Turban Warrior showed them the secured underground passages, stone roads, and twelve towers surrounding the Burning Heaven Main Pavilion.
• The Yellow Turban Warrior explained that the twelve Burning Heaven Pavilions stabilized the powerful Earth Fire vein and showed Li Xuan the Earth Core Fire Furnace inside the main building.
• Bangchui fainted from the heat during the tour, so Li Xuan carried him out and ended the visit.
• Li Xuan left Ladi Canyon in an ordinary carriage and headed for Gengxin City to recruit Lou Gao and purchase ore.

Li Xuan visited Gengxin City to invite Lou Gao to Ladi Canyon to forge Heaven-Shaking Cannons, and Lou Gao agreed after seeing the complete blueprints. Li Xuan returned five days later with Lou Gao and two of his disciples, and they reached the camp outside Ladi Canyon, where Lou Gao immediately took the blueprints to study.

• Li Xuan entered Gengxin City while Si Long was giving a public lecture and met Lou Gao at the Blacksmith's Association.
• Li Xuan showed Lou Gao the Heaven-Shaking Cannon blueprints, and Lou Gao agreed to travel to Ladi Canyon after five days of preparations.
• Li Xuan bought supplies in eight nearby cities, including eighteen hundred laborers, then returned to Gengxin City to collect Lou Gao, Si Di, and Si Yu.
• Li Xuan brought Lou Gao and his disciples to the camp outside Ladi Canyon after a day's travel.
• Lou Gao asked to see the blueprints again and hurried away with his disciples to study them.

Li Xuan brought Lou Gao and his disciples to Burning Heaven Pavilion, where Lou Gao was astonished by its Earth Vein Fire and forging facilities. After Li Xuan showed him rare ores, Lou Gao began planning a fourth-tier Heaven-Shaking Hand Cannon and left Li Xuan to rest.

• Li Xuan found Lou Gao, Si Di, and Si Yu studying the Heaven-Shaking Cannon blueprints through the night and brought them breakfast.
• Lou Gao estimated that he could forge a Heaven-Shaking Hand Cannon in half a month, but Li Xuan stopped his disciples from setting up a forge and took them to Burning Heaven Pavilion.
• Lou Gao was amazed by the pavilion’s Earth Vein Fire, Fire Spirit Stone furnace, and Mystic Pool Heavy Water, and agreed to forge Li Xuan a fourth-tier hand cannon in about a month.
• Li Xuan showed Lou Gao boxes of rare ores, and Lou Gao and his disciples reacted with excitement as they examined the treasures.
• Lou Gao resumed studying the blueprints with Si Di and Si Yu while Li Xuan left a carriage for them and returned to the temporary camp to rest.

After a month of construction and cultivation, Li Xuan received Lou Gao’s Tier 4 Heaven-Shaking Hand Cannon and tested its destructive power. The weapon impressed him but its costly shells made him consider how to fund Ladi Canyon, and he decided to hold off on selling elixirs for now.

• Li Xuan finished arranging supplies and slaves for Ladi Canyon, then broke through to Soul Power Level 38 after returning to cultivation.
• Si Yu brought Li Xuan to meet Lou Gao, who had completed a Tier 4 Heaven-Shaking Hand Cannon for him and said that making a Tier 5 version would take more research.
• Lou Gao showed Li Xuan the cannon and its shells, then took him to a shooting range to test it.
• Li Xuan fired a shell that traveled about one thousand meters and exploded with power equivalent to a full-strength attack from a level 75 Soul Saint, but each shell cost one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Li Xuan considered selling elixirs through the Breaking Clan to raise money, but decided to wait until the Tier 5 cannon was complete.

Li Xuan prepared to leave Ladi Canyon to buy supplies and establish shops for selling his Detoxification Pills and Fasting Pills. He set plans in motion for the territory’s future farming and business, then departed with Bangchui, leaving the Yellow Turban Warrior to finish construction.

• Li Xuan stored Lou Gao’s dangerous Heaven-Shaking Cannon and accepted a list of materials to buy for his experiments.
• Li Xuan realized he could safely sell Detoxification Pills and Fasting Pills, and Lou Gao approved the plan after trying them.
• Li Xuan planned to open shops near the Spirit Beast Forest and listed the supplies, overseers, and Soul Beast livestock needed to develop Ladi Canyon.
• Li Xuan told the Yellow Turban Warrior he would be away, and the Warrior said construction should finish in about half a year.
• Bangchui asked to travel with Li Xuan, who agreed on the condition that Bangchui bring books to study.
• Li Xuan and Bangchui set out by carriage toward the nearby Spirit Master Town.

Li Xuan and Bang Chui tried to establish a business in Spirit Master Town by selling Elixirs, but drew little interest until Li Xuan cured a poisoned man in public. He sold ten Detoxification Pellets to the man’s young companion and learned that she was Zhu Zhuqing.

• Li Xuan and Bang Chui found no shops for sale in Spirit Master Town, so they set up a roadside stall selling Fasting Pills and Detoxification Pills.
• After passersby ignored the stall, Bang Chui spotted a burly middle-aged man whose arm had turned purple-black from poison.
• Li Xuan gave the man a Detoxification Pellet, which quickly cleared the poison and drew a crowd of curious onlookers.
• The little girl, Zhu Zhuqing, bought ten Detoxification Pellets for ten Gold Soul Coins and received a Fasting Pill as a bonus.
• Li Xuan introduced himself to Zhu Zhuqing and froze when she told him her name.

Li Xuan sold Detoxification Pills from his stall and planned to expand his business once he had enough protection. The next day, he accepted Zhu Zhuqing’s invitation to help her hunt a Soul Ring, and they entered the Star Dou Forest.

• An old man tested Li Xuan’s Detoxification Pill, saw it clear the poison from his finger, and bought ten pills; other customers then bought the remaining stock.
• Li Xuan decided to limit sales until the Heaven-Shaking Cannon could protect him, and considered preparing shops for future expansion.
• Zhu Zhuqing invited Li Xuan to help her reach an eight-hundred-year Hell Spirit Cat, offering him three hundred Gold Soul Coins a day; Li Xuan agreed to bring Bangchui along.
• Li Xuan, Bangchui, Zhu Zhuqing, and Uncle Han traveled by carriage toward the Star Dou Forest, where Zhu Zhuqing explained that her family required her to hunt her second Soul Ring as a trial.
• After Bangchui concealed his aura with a refined bone, the group entered the forest, planning to pass through the Purple Fluorescent Scorpion territory.

Li Xuan and Zhu Zhuqing fled a Purple Fluorescent Scorpion attack, leaving Uncle Han behind to fight. At dawn, Uncle Han arrived badly poisoned, and Li Xuan treated him while the group took shelter in a cave near a Ghost Smoke Willow’s territory.

• As the group camped in the Star Dou Forest, Bang Chui warned Li Xuan that a three-thousand-year Purple Fluorescent Scorpion was nearby.
• When the Purple Fluorescent Scorpions attacked, Li Xuan sent Bang Chui into the Heaven-Grasping Bottle, and Zhu Zhuqing led Li Xuan away while Uncle Han confronted the giant scorpion.
• Li Xuan and Zhu Zhuqing reached a cave, where Bang Chui confirmed that no powerful Soul Beasts were nearby; Li Xuan brought him out of the Heaven-Grasping Bottle, and the group waited through the night.
• At dawn, Uncle Han collapsed at the cave entrance, badly poisoned, and Li Xuan gave him Detoxification Pills that began to counteract the poison.
• Zhu Zhuqing cried over Uncle Han as Li Xuan and Bang Chui carried him inside; after feeding him rice porridge, Li Xuan confirmed the cave was relatively safe and kept watch outside.

Li Xuan and Bangchui cared for Uncle Han until he recovered, then joined him and Zhu Zhuqing in hunting a Hell Spirit Cat for Zhu Zhuqing's second Soul Ring. The target proved stronger than expected, and after Li Xuan supplied Zhu Zhuqing with a better dagger, the wounded beast unleashed its innate berserk ability.

• Uncle Han woke after Li Xuan and Bangchui helped clear the poison, and Li Xuan lent Zhu Zhuqing a Void Eye while he and Bangchui scouted and studied nearby Soul Beasts.
• After three days of recovery, Uncle Han led Li Xuan, Bangchui, and Zhu Zhuqing toward a Hell Spirit Cat believed to have eight hundred years of cultivation.
• The group found a Hell Spirit Cat with nine hundred and sixty years of cultivation, and Zhu Zhuqing fought it while Uncle Han kept Li Xuan from interfering.
• Li Xuan sent Zhu Zhuqing his Iron-Cutting Dagger through the Nether Eye, letting her wound the Hell Spirit Cat more severely.
• The Hell Spirit Cat grew larger, lengthened its claws, and turned its eyes red as it activated its innate berserk skill.

Zhu Zhuqing defeated a berserk nine-hundred-year Hell Spirit Cat and absorbed its Soul Ring, suffering severe internal injuries. When she and Li Xuan returned to the cave, Zhu Zhuyun ambushed them with Spirit Masters, but Li Xuan used his Killing Domain to frighten the attackers into submission.

• Zhu Zhuqing evaded the berserk Hell Spirit Cat, wounded it with Hell Stab, and waited for it to die before its yellow-purple Soul Ring appeared.
• Despite Uncle Han's warning, Zhu Zhuqing absorbed the nine-hundred-year Soul Ring and suffered severe internal injuries.
• Li Xuan, Bangchui, Zhu Zhuqing, and Uncle Han returned to the cave, where Bangchui sensed people inside and Uncle Han was knocked unconscious.
• Zhu Zhuyun emerged with several Spirit Masters and admitted her role in the false information that had led Zhu Zhuqing to the Hell Spirit Cat.
• Zhu Zhuyun ordered Li Yun and Bai Feng to attack Li Xuan, who spread his Killing Domain and made the attackers fear his power.
• Li Xuan demanded that Zhu Zhuyun and her people kneel, kowtow, and leave.