Chapter Summaries

Li Xuan and Lou Gao finished the Tier 5 Heaven-Shaking Cannon and tested its immense power in eastern Ladi Canyon. Li Xuan limited production to three Tier 5 cannons and discussed a more affordable defense force, then returned to Burning Heaven Pavilion to help Lou Gao forge components.

• Li Xuan used Nirvana Fire to cure the cannon’s protective coating, then declined Lou Gao’s offer to become his forging disciple.
• Li Xuan decided to limit the Tier 5 Heaven-Shaking Cannons to three and chose a barren eastern field for their first test.
• Li Xuan fired the cannon, creating a crater one hundred meters wide and twenty meters deep, and Lou Gao celebrated their success.
• Lou Gao proposed making three hundred improved Tier 4 cannons and ten thousand shells, but Li Xuan suggested starting with one hundred cannons and three thousand shells because Ladi Canyon lacked funds.
• Li Xuan asked Bai Chuan to bring Sun Mu and Yang Wudi to meet him, then returned to Burning Heaven Pavilion and helped Lou Gao forge components.

Li Xuan gathered funds and supplies to mass-produce Heaven-Shaking Cannons, then spent a month forging them alongside Lou Gao and his disciples. With Ladi Canyon’s defenses strengthened, Lou Gao left for the Blacksmith’s Association, taking the Giant Whale Soul Tool ship to study.

• Li Xuan asked Yang Wudi to sell ten thousand Spirit-Nurturing Pills and told Sun Mu to send Ladi Canyon’s reserves and future income to Huang Shang for procurement.
• Li Xuan received Si Di’s materials list, sent it and five million Gold Soul Coins to Huang Shang, and declined Lou Gao’s offer of Blacksmith’s Association funds.
• Li Xuan worked with Lou Gao and his disciples for a month, helping produce three Tier 5 Heaven-Shaking Cannons, eighty Tier 4 cannons, and two thousand shells before materials ran out.
• Lou Gao decided to return to the Blacksmith’s Association, and Li Xuan gave him the Giant Whale Soul Tool ship to study.

Li Xuan finished the Heaven-Shaking Cannons and sought Puppetry Technique so he could have trusted Puppets operate them. After finding no instructions in the Slaughter Treasury books, he asked Huang Shang to search for a suitable snake-type Soul Beast Inner Core, then waited for an opportunity.

• Li Xuan decided to make Puppets to operate the cannons but found no Puppetry Technique in the copied books from the Slaughter Treasury.
• Han Shucheng reported that most of the Library's books had been copied, and Li Xuan promised to arrange a thousand-year Soul Ring for him when he reached level 30.
• Li Xuan inspected the Treasure Treasury and added six thousand-year Spirit Bones to its second-floor collection.
• Li Xuan concluded he would need to exchange for Puppetry Technique through the system using a snake-type Soul Beast Inner Core.
• Li Xuan sent Huang Shang a request to find a recently killed or dying top-tier snake-type Soul Beast, then rested while waiting for news.

After resting, Li Xuan agreed to teach the Breaking Clan and Speed Clan Alchemy in Medicine City. He began a public lesson by refining ten batches of Spirit-Nurturing Pills at once and answering the clansmen’s questions.

• Li Xuan asked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to search for news about Snake-type Soul Beast deaths, then agreed to meet Yang Wudi.
• Yang Wudi invited Li Xuan to Medicine City to teach the clans Alchemy, and Li Xuan gave him a copy of Douluo No. 1.
• Li Xuan traveled to Medicine City, where Bai He and members of both clans awaited him.
• Li Xuan explained to Bai Chuan that he would teach low-grade Alchemy while keeping the advanced methods and claiming the clans’ pill output.
• Li Xuan demonstrated Alchemy in the plaza, controlling ten flame cauldrons to produce one hundred Spirit-Nurturing Pills as the clansmen took notes and asked questions.
• Li Xuan stored the pills and began a question-and-answer session, promising to refine another batch an hour later.

Li Xuan taught the Breaking Clan and Speed Clan to refine Elixirs, then learned from Huang Shang that a Star Luo noble would soon hunt a fifty-thousand-year-old One-Horned Silver Flood Dragon. He traveled with Bai Chuan and Bang Chui to Spirit Master Town to reach the beast ahead of the hunting party and claim its Inner Core.

• Li Xuan spent a day demonstrating Elixir refining to the two clans, then attended a banquet with Yang Wudi and Bai He.
• Huang Shang reported that a Star Luo noble planned to hunt a fifty-thousand-year-old One-Horned Silver Flood Dragon in ten days, and Li Xuan decided to take its Inner Core.
• After seven more days of instruction, Li Xuan ended his lessons and left Medicine City with Bai Chuan, while Yang Wudi and Bai He discussed sending their children to serve him.
• Li Xuan asked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to locate the One-Horned Silver Flood Dragon, and Sky Dream confirmed he had found it.
• Li Xuan, Bai Chuan, and Bang Chui traveled to Spirit Master Town, where they arrived around noon and settled into Li Xuan's shop.

Li Xuan’s group reached a deal with the Gaishi Longshe couple over a dying One-Horned Silver Flood Dragon, letting Meng Dong absorb its Soul Ring while Li Xuan claimed its corpse. Li Xuan exchanged the beast’s Inner Core for a Puppetry Technique and left the forest, while Bai Chuan teased him about pursuing Zhu Zhuqing.

• Bai Chuan negotiated with Dragon Duke Meng Shu, who agreed that Meng Dong could take the Soul Ring while Li Xuan’s group kept the One-Horned Silver Flood Dragon’s corpse.
• Meng Dong killed the badly wounded beast and absorbed its Soul Ring as Li Xuan waited with Bai Chuan and Bangchui.
• Li Xuan dissected the corpse, found its Inner Core, and exchanged it with the system for a Puppetry Technique that would arrive after the next shop update.
• Meng Shu asked Li Xuan to meet his granddaughter, but Li Xuan declined and left with Bai Chuan and Bangchui.
• After fleeing more than ten kilometers, Li Xuan listened as Bai Chuan and Bangchui teased him about Zhu Zhuqing, then continued toward Ladi Canyon.

After returning to Ladi Canyon, Li Xuan obtained a Grade Four Puppetry Technique from the System Mall and studied how to build a Five-Thunder Puppet. His first wooden prototype exploded during a lightning test, but he concluded that better materials would solve the problem and could strengthen Ladi Canyon’s defenses.

• Li Xuan and his companions returned to Ladi Canyon through a hidden tunnel, and Li Xuan entered the Heaven-Grasping Bottle to rest while waiting for the System Mall to refresh.
• The refreshed System Mall offered Li Xuan Autumn Moon Hibiscus Paste, a Thunder Talisman, a Red Blood Pill formula, and a Grade Four Puppetry Technique, which he purchased.
• Li Xuan absorbed the Puppetry Technique, transcribed its extensive instructions, and designed a Tier 3 Five-Thunder Puppet using materials he had available.
• Li Xuan gathered the Purple Thunder Walnut Tree trunk and Gengjin Grass, then spent half a month building a Gold Thunder Puppet from ordinary wood.
• When Li Xuan commanded the Gold Thunder Puppet to use lightning, it exploded, and he decided ordinary wood could not withstand the power of thunder.

Li Xuan restored a use of the Yellow Turban Warrior Talisman and assigned the Yellow Turban Warriors to construct cannon emplacements and a tunnel in Ladi Canyon while planning improvements to the Heaven-Grasping Bottle's space. After approving a tunnel blueprint, he sent workers to inspect the mountain walls and prepared durable materials for Five-Thunder Puppets, leaving himself a month to rest while the projects progressed.

• Li Xuan checked the Yellow Turban Warrior Talisman and summoned a Yellow Turban Warrior, who confirmed it could now be used twice.
• Li Xuan asked the Yellow Turban Warriors to build cannon emplacements and a tunnel in Ladi Canyon, then offered them additional work renovating the Heaven-Grasping Bottle's space.
• Li Xuan summoned eight hundred Yellow Turban Warriors, who divided into teams to survey the space and design the tunnel.
• Li Xuan cut up the Hundred-Thousand-Year Purple Thunder Walnut Tree trunk and soaked the wood and Hundred-Thousand-Year Gengjin Grass in medicinal solutions for making durable Five-Thunder Puppets.
• The Yellow Turban Warriors presented Li Xuan with a plan for a twenty-kilometer tunnel, and he approved it and arranged for farmers to help with excavation.
• Li Xuan sent ten Yellow Turban Warriors to inspect Ladi Canyon's mountain walls, then returned to his bedroom to rest.

Li Xuan made a thousand basic farming Puppets, then used Green Spirit Liquid to bring the Earth Flame Golden Lotus to one hundred thousand years and began absorbing it as his fifth Soul Ring. The Sacrifice succeeded, but its Earth Core Glazed Fire caused him severe pain before he fell asleep in the hot spring.

• Li Xuan studied the Puppet Atlas and built a basic Puppet, then decided that a thousand would be enough to manage the farmland inside the Heaven-Grasping Bottle.
• Over twenty days, Li Xuan made more than a thousand ordinary Puppets and decided the Earth Flame Golden Lotus was ready to reach one hundred thousand years.
• Li Xuan poured Green Spirit Liquid onto the Earth Flame Golden Lotus, which bloomed as spiritual energy helped it break through to one hundred thousand years.
• Li Xuan entered the Earth Flame Golden Lotus's spiritual world, learned its Sacrifice method, and began absorbing its Soul Ring.
• The Earth Core Glazed Fire coursed through Li Xuan's meridians and caused half an hour of intense pain before the Golden Lotus merged into him and the Sacrifice ended.
• Li Xuan fell asleep floating in the hot spring as its energy washed over him.

After absorbing the Earth Flame Golden Lotus, Li Xuan discovered its Soul Ring skills, rare fire, and left leg Spirit Bone, then tested the bone’s Earth Escape Technique and Soul Power recovery ability. He visited the Yellow Turban Warriors’ camp, selected a simple Bamboo House design, and left to retrieve Void Hidden Bamboo seeds for construction.

• Li Xuan examined the Earth Flame Golden Lotus’s Soul Ring skills, Magma Break and Earth Spike, and summoned its Earth Core Glazed Fire.
• Li Xuan found a dark golden left leg Spirit Bone and discovered it granted Earth Escape Technique and Power of the Earth.
• Li Xuan tested Earth Escape Technique, traveling ten li underground before exhausting his Soul Power, then recovered energy through Power of the Earth.
• Li Xuan visited the Yellow Turban Warriors and learned they had drafted plans for the Heaven-Grasping Bottle’s space.
• Li Xuan chose a simple Bamboo House design and proposed using Void Hidden Bamboo as its building material.
• Li Xuan left the camp to retrieve his Void Hidden Bamboo seeds.

Li Xuan cultivated a Void Hidden Bamboo Emperor and arranged for the Yellow Turban Warrior to design a Bamboo House using it and other Heavenly Treasures. He then checked the tunnel excavation at Ladi Canyon, where the defensive works were progressing steadily.

• Li Xuan used Green Spirit Liquid to grow a Void Hidden Bamboo into a five-hundred-meter-tall Void Hidden Bamboo Emperor, then planted more cuttings and harvested over ten edible shoots.
• Li Xuan showed the Void Hidden Bamboo Emperor to the Yellow Turban Warrior, who confirmed that one stalk could supply enough material for the Bamboo House and agreed to revise its design to include other Heavenly Treasures.
• Li Xuan left the Heaven-Grasping Bottle's space and learned from Bai Chuan that one-third of Ladi Canyon's tunnels had been excavated, with completion expected in ten days.
• Li Xuan traveled to Ladi Canyon with Bai Chuan and Bangchui and inspected the thirteenth tunnel, its supports, and the Yellow Turban Warriors' excavation work.

Li Xuan prepared Purple Thunder Walnut Wood for making third-grade Five-Thunder Puppets while the parts dried, then cultivated the Void Hidden Bamboo Emperor to maturity and helped the Yellow Turban Warriors cut it into timber. He left the Heaven-Grasping Bottle’s space exhausted, with the bamboo processed and the Puppet work still underway.

• Li Xuan removed the soaked Purple Thunder Walnut Wood from its tank, confirmed it retained its lightning, and laid it out to dry before beginning to carve formations and shape Puppet parts.
• After two days of processing only one-twentieth of the wood, Li Xuan entered the Heaven-Grasping Bottle’s space and gave the Void Hidden Bamboo Emperor Green Spirit Liquid, bringing it to maturity at three thousand years.
• The Yellow Turban Warriors determined the mature bamboo could supply all their building plans, felled it, and asked Li Xuan to store it and lay it flat.
• Li Xuan used Filthy Flame to cut the enormous bamboo trunk along the Warriors’ marked lines, working until the trunk broke into timber.
• Exhausted, Li Xuan told the Yellow Turban Warriors he was going back to rest and left the Heaven-Grasping Bottle’s space.

Li Xuan welcomed Lou Gao back to Ladi Canyon, where Lou Gao asked to study the Giant Whale and encouraged Li Xuan and Bangchui to attend Star Luo Royal Academy. Li Xuan agreed to go with Bangchui and, after leaving Lou Gao in Zhou Chen’s care, returned to the Main City to summon Bai Chuan and Bangchui.

• Li Xuan learned that Lou Gao had returned and traveled to Tool City to welcome him.
• Lou Gao explained that he wanted to borrow space to dismantle and study the Giant Whale, and Li Xuan agreed to have a shipyard built for him.
• Lou Gao presented Li Xuan with admission documents for himself and Bangchui at Star Luo Royal Academy, urging them to make friends and gain experience.
• Li Xuan agreed to attend the academy with Bangchui and toasted Lou Gao before they both got drunk.
• After Zhou Chen arranged for Lou Gao to be settled in, Li Xuan burned the alcohol from his body and returned to the Main City.
• Li Xuan had a servant summon Bai Chuan and Bangchui, then waited for them in his study.

Li Xuan agreed to attend Star Luo Royal Academy and began preparing to leave Ladi Canyon with Bai Chuan and Bangchui. After using the Treasure Hunting Compass to locate Zhu Zhuqing’s Iron-Cutting Dagger in Star Luo City, he decided to visit her before going to the academy and delayed departure to arrange a Shipbuilding Factory for Lou Gao.

• Li Xuan told Bai Chuan and Bangchui that he would attend Star Luo Royal Academy and take them with him, then gave Bangchui an incense bracelet and peace pendant to conceal his aura.
• Bangchui reminded Li Xuan about the Treasure Hunting Compass, and Li Xuan discovered it could not search for people but could locate Zhu Zhuqing’s Iron-Cutting Dagger in Star Luo City.
• Li Xuan decided to visit Star Luo City before the academy and summoned Zhou Chen, Han Shucheng, Sun Mu, Yang Wudi, Bai He, and Brother Si Yu for a meeting.
• Li Xuan entered the Heaven-Grasping Bottle and arranged for the Yellow Turban Warriors to build a Shipbuilding Factory for Lou Gao, changing the departure plan to three days later.
• Li Xuan planted Grey Gold Pear Wood seeds to supply timber for Lou Gao’s shipbuilding research, while the Yellow Turban Warriors began planning the factory.

Li Xuan assigned Ladi Canyon’s affairs to his trusted subordinates before leaving for Star Luo Royal Academy and arranged for them to build a Shipbuilding Factory for Elder Lou. The factory’s structure was nearly complete by the next morning, and Li Xuan prepared to continue his departure plans.

• Li Xuan cut the remaining Void Hidden Bamboo Emperor into pieces, then returned to the City Lord’s Mansion with the Yellow Turban Warriors.
• Li Xuan delegated Ladi Canyon’s administration, research, finances, liquor production, and alchemy to Zhou Chen, Han Shucheng, Sun Mu, Tao Lin, Yang Wudi, and Bai Chuan.
• Li Xuan asked Si Yu to help Elder Lou research the Giant Whale and build seafaring ships, then told Zhou Chen to recruit farmers to speed construction of the Shipbuilding Factory.
• Li Xuan secretly placed an improved Burning Heart Seal on Zhou Chen and checked the Treasure Hunting Compass for Zhu Zhuqing’s location in Star Luo City.
• Li Xuan sorted and stored his Purple Thunder Walnut Wood and medicinal liquid before going to sleep.
• The next morning, Li Xuan found the Shipbuilding Factory’s basic structure nearly finished and learned that Zhou Chen had organized six shifts of farmers to complete it safely.

Li Xuan finished arranging the shipyard in Ladi Canyon and set out for Star Luo City with Bai Chuan and Bangchui. After arriving, he discovered that Zhu Zhuqing was at the Zhu Family residence and decided to join Bai Chuan on a visit that night.

• Li Xuan transplanted his Heavenly Treasures and Immortal Grade Spirit Plants, studied the Bamboo House blueprints, and spent the night carving Five-Thunder Puppet parts.
• The Yellow Turban Warrior reported that the Shipbuilding Factory was complete, and Li Xuan asked Zhou Chen to oversee its remaining work.
• Li Xuan showed Lou Gao around the shipyard, gave him Jade Vein Golden Branch Grass, and left him in charge of the factory.
• Li Xuan, Bai Chuan, and Bangchui departed for Star Luo City and arrived ten days later, then settled in a courtyard owned by Huang Shang.
• Li Xuan used the Treasure Hunting Compass to locate Zhu Zhuqing at the Zhu Family residence and said he would accompany Bai Chuan there that night.

Li Xuan and Bai Chuan infiltrated the Zhu Family to find the Iron-Cutting Dagger, which led Li Xuan to a hidden chamber beneath a well. There he reunited with the injured Zhu Zhuqing, gave her healing elixirs, and invited her to join Star Luo Royal Academy before leaving.

• Li Xuan persuaded Bai Chuan to accompany him to the Zhu Family and gave him a Mayfly Pill to boost his speed.
• Li Xuan and Bai Chuan crossed the Zhu Family grounds and used the Treasure Hunting Compass to locate the Iron-Cutting Dagger near a well.
• Li Xuan descended into the well and discovered a hidden passage leading to a chamber filled with Starfire Fruit.
• Li Xuan found the Iron-Cutting Dagger and elixirs in the chamber, then encountered Zhu Zhuqing and gave her a Hundred Healing Pill for her wound.
• Li Xuan invited Zhu Zhuqing to join Star Luo Royal Academy, left her more elixirs, and departed while Zhu Zhuqing watched him go.

Li Xuan, Bang Chui, and Bai Chuan arrived at Star Luo Royal Academy, where Li Xuan and Bang Chui registered as students and received identity badges. They headed to the Academic Affairs Office to collect their dormitory keys and bedding, while Bai Chuan waited outside.

• Bai Chuan drove Li Xuan and Bang Chui to Star Luo Royal Academy, where Tang Hongning welcomed them after checking their admission notices and hearing their Spirit Master ranks.
• Tang Hongning praised Li Xuan's talent and Bang Chui's healing abilities, then directed them toward the academy.
• At the mountain entrance, Li Xuan gave Gold Soul Coins to the registration teacher, who issued identity badges numbered 17842 and 17843 and explained the enrollment steps.
• The registration teacher let Bai Chuan enter as the students' servant, and Bai Chuan drove them to the Academic Affairs Office.
• Li Xuan and Bang Chui entered the Academic Affairs Office to collect their bedding and dormitory keys while Bai Chuan waited by the carriage.

Li Xuan and Bang Chui enrolled at Star Luo Royal Academy after impressing Pang Tianhao with their cultivation and talent, and secured places in Advanced Class 3. They settled into a courtyard near the Mimic Cultivation Environments, where Li Xuan learned of possible treasures tied to the Yin-Yang Sacred Tiger and planned to search for them later.

• Li Xuan and Bang Chui tested at Soul Power Levels twenty-eight and twenty-six, respectively, and Pang Tianhao invited them to join Advanced Class 3 as reserve members of the Star Luo Royal Team.
• Li Xuan paid for a courtyard, collected their academy supplies, and traveled there with Bang Chui and Bai Chuan.
• Bang Chui showed Li Xuan the short blade Lou Gao had forged for him, and Bai Chuan praised Bang Chui's blade technique.
• Li Xuan, Bang Chui, and Bai Chuan cleaned the courtyard and celebrated their enrollment with hot pot and Chi Xuan Wine.
• Bai Chuan told Li Xuan about rumored treasures connected to the Yin-Yang Sacred Tiger, and Li Xuan said he would investigate once his Treasure Hunting Compass was ready.

Li Xuan and his companions settled into Star Luo Royal Academy while he continued building the Five-Thunder Puppet and urged Bai Chuan to cultivate. He discovered that Zhu Zhuqing had moved into a neighboring courtyard, invited her to lunch, and realized he was attracted to her, while Bai Chuan and Bangchui speculated that she liked him too.

• Bai Chuan gathered academy information, and Li Xuan decided to let him advance to Title Douluo through cultivation rather than spend the potential of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring early.
• Bangchui recognized Zhu Zhuqing's scent near their courtyard, and Li Xuan went to greet her and invited her to lunch.
• Zhu Zhuqing accepted Li Xuan's invitation, then arrived at his courtyard with gifts for him, Bangchui, and Bai Chuan.
• Over lunch, Zhu Zhuqing said she had reached Soul Power level twenty-nine and thanked Li Xuan for the Elixirs; Bangchui offered to accompany her when she absorbed her next Soul Ring.
• After Zhu Zhuqing left, Bangchui and Bai Chuan discussed her apparent feelings for Li Xuan, who returned to making Puppets after they teased him about his shyness.