Chapter Summaries

Wang Qi studied the Zhenhai Army’s curse-driven combat techniques and saw how their coordinated skills could reshape warfare. Two days later, he and Ai Changyuan watched the army launch its first battle against a demonic beast herd near Lande.

• Zu Zhipeng demonstrated how the Zhenhai Army’s soldiers activated their shared martial aura and specialized combat skills, while Wang Qi examined the changes in their souls.
• The soldiers displayed Fire Devour, Red Tiger, Burning Wood, Split Mountain, and Guard the Pass, and one shield-saber soldier countered Wang Qi’s mana attack.
• Wang Qi realized the God Plague Curse could guide and correct the soldiers’ movements, giving him new ideas for his cultivation method.
• Two days later, Wang Qi explained to Ai Changyuan that the Western Sea dragon clan was driving demonic beast herds toward Lande, while they waited for a spirit boat.
• Wang Qi and Ai Changyuan watched the Zhenhai Army ride a giant sword into its first official battle against the demonic beast herd.

Wang Qi watched the Zhenhai Army rout the sea demons through coordinated formations and linked spiritual power, then discussed how collective strength could challenge cultivators’ hierarchy. After developing a preliminary path to the Golden Core, he sensed a breakthrough omen from next door and wondered whether Ai Changyuan had succeeded with an artificial Golden Core.

• The Zhenhai Army used machine-written talisman firearms and coordinated defenses to break the sea demons’ charge and kill even Core Formation demons.
• Ai Changyuan estimated how many Zhenhai Army soldiers he could defeat, while Wang Qi argued that their collective power could eventually challenge the eternal hierarchy.
• Ai Changyuan agreed to set aside his work and research artificial Golden Core formation with Wang Qi.
• Two months later, Wang Qi used the Tianyan Tulu to develop protective divine abilities that Jarvis could also activate for him.
• Wang Qi felt an omen of a Golden Core breakthrough coming from next door and suspected Ai Changyuan had formed an artificial Golden Core.

Wang Qi and Ai Changyuan developed a method for artificially forming Golden Cores in a Ghost Soldier and refined it into a repeatable process. After testing the method and naming the surviving Ghost Soldier Heavenly Creation, Wang Qi began using a spiritual fruit to create an active magic artifact as a substitute for a Golden Core.

• Wang Qi entered Ai Changyuan's courtyard and observed the Ghost Soldier undergoing artificial Core Formation, but a minor lightning tribulation scattered its form.
• Ai Changyuan explained how specially ordered Telepathy Bottles could guide a concentrated telepathic link into a body to form a first-grade Golden Core, and Wang Qi recognized the achievement as a major step toward unifying his cultivation system.
• Wang Qi repaired and renamed the Ghost Soldier Heavenly Creation, then tested its ability to bring the rules of the high-speed domain into the ordinary domain and desynchronize their time from the planet.
• Residents of Beichang Harbor speculated about the repeated Golden Core signs coming from Wang Qi and Ai Changyuan's courtyard.
• Wang Qi and Ai Changyuan reduced the required Telepathy Bottles to three hundred and ninety-nine, and Wang Qi used a spiritual fruit as the foundation for an active magic artifact intended to substitute for a Golden Core.

Wang Qi developed artificial Golden Cores and datafied cultivation methods while preparing to travel overseas with Ai Changyuan. After consulting Xiao Yin about Golden Core and Divine Dao, Wang Qi received Feng Luoyi’s warning that the Demon Beast Tide had arrived.

• Wang Qi and Ai Changyuan crafted external Golden Cores from spirit fruits, and Wang Qi gave Ai Changyuan a gravitational Golden Core that could produce a qualitative transformation.
• Ai Changyuan delayed their overseas trip so he could take Qianqian home, while Wang Qi registered his artificial Golden Core design and shared his cultivation research with Ai Qinglan and Chen Youjia.
• Wang Qi completed the datafication of his own cultivation methods and created an installation package that could let Jarvis form his Golden Core under extreme circumstances.
• Wang Qi and Wu Shiqin developed a Thunder Essence Peach Golden Core, and Wang Qi further streamlined both their Golden Core installation packages.
• Wang Qi summoned Xiao Yin, the reader spirit for the Immortal Path Burning Books Outline, and searched for Golden Core and Divine Dao cultivation methods.
• Feng Luoyi warned Wang Qi to prepare for battle because the Demon Beast Tide had arrived.

A massive, dragon-driven Demon Beast Tide struck Land City, and the Border Guards moved to meet it while the Zhenhai Army stopped the tide at the Northwest Defense Line. Tu Zhenxi and the other cultivators held the engagement line until a Sea God Whale suddenly attacked from beneath them.

• Tu Zhenxi prepared the Border Guards for an enormous Demon Beast Tide and dismissed concerns that the Zhenhai Army would fail to hold its defense line.
• The Zhenhai Army's arquebusiers unleashed varied talisman attacks and halted the beast tide at the Northwest Defense Line.
• Tu Zhenxi led the Border Guards into the tide and helped stop its charge at the engagement line.
• The Border Guards and demon beasts exchanged deadly attacks as blood covered the sea and interfered with spiritual sense.
• Old Cheng warned the cultivators to retreat at least twenty zhang into the air, but Tu Zhenxi was struck by a Sea God Whale emerging from below.

Wang Qi faced a massive beast tide and targeted a Sea God Whale that threatened to break through the Border Guards' defenses. After using an extreme-cold arrow to expose the whale's vulnerable point, he prepared a second, more powerful shot.

• Feng Luoyi pointed out the Qi Accumulation Sea God Whale as the first major threat in the unusually large beast tide.
• The Sea God Whale smashed into the Border Guards' line, injuring Tu Zhenxi and creating gaps in the defenses with its bulk, parasites, and whale song.
• Wang Qi used his cultivation method to form an ice bow and fired an extreme-cold arrow at the whale, frosting a small patch on its forehead and provoking it.
• Wang Qi sensed the whale's vitality through entropy-flow perception and realized the cold arrow had stripped away part of its shell.
• Wang Qi formed a dark red arrow and prepared to fire at the exposed weak point.

Wang Qi used the Tian Shang Jue to fatally disrupt the Sea God Whale, turning its dying body into a barrier against the demon beast tide. As Transforming Demon Beasts attacked and Immortal Alliance elites fought back, a newly transformed jiao dragon emerged from the whale and recognized Wang Qi, charging at him in rage.

• Wang Qi struck the Sea God Whale twice with concentrated Tian Shang Jue attacks, causing its demonic power to spiral into disorder.
• Wang Qi summoned the Ghost Soldier Heavenly Creation, and black flames consumed the whale as its body blocked the incoming sea demons.
• Transforming Demon Beasts emerged from the horde and attacked the Border Guards, prompting elite Golden Core cultivators to engage them.
• Wang Nan warned nearby Border Guards to retreat when she sensed a Transforming-stage demon restoring the whale’s disordered power.
• A giant dragon-shaped demon burst from the Sea God Whale’s body, and Wang Nan identified it as a transformed jiao rather than a true dragon.
• Wang Qi appeared and called the demon a long worm; the Demon King recognized him and charged, vowing to kill the Qi-Accumulating Human-Demon.

Wang Qi fought the Black Whisker Jiao King, using his abilities and evolving his cultivation to counter the demon’s power. As the battle continued, Wang Nan seized Wang Qi and demanded that he cooperate.

• Wang Qi faced the Black Whisker Jiao King, who attacked him while Wang Nan tried to pull the demon away with Myriad Image Celestial Pull.
• Wang Qi endured the Jiao King’s blow with Flame of Life and used the Tiantian Xiangxing Ruler to slow the attack and create time to evolve resistance to the demon’s power.
• Wang Qi developed the Clear Light That Sweeps Away Filth, which dispelled the Jiao King’s demonic power, then charged into close combat.
• The Black Whisker Jiao King gathered Water Element spiritual qi and attacked with soul-filled Demonic God Curse-Resentment Chains, while Wang Qi evaded and countered them.
• Wang Nan shifted gravity to send Wang Qi toward her, grabbed him by the neck, and asked whether he would cooperate.

Wang Qi and Wang Nan fought the Black Whisker Jiao King, with Wang Nan restraining it while Wang Qi tested his techniques. Wang Qi used a new move that unleashed vacuum energy and shattered the jiao dragon’s defense, leaving the battle’s outcome obscured by the ensuing chaos.

• Wang Nan deflected the Black Whisker Jiao King’s Evil Dragon Calamity-Extinguishing True Wave and altered gravity to restrain the battlefield.
• Wang Qi attacked the jiao dragon with several Tianyan techniques while searching for a decisive move.
• The Jiao King trapped Wang Qi inside its Yin-Yang Purgatory, a barrier of opposing icy and scorching spiritual qi.
• Wang Qi used Tian Shang Jue on himself to halt his movement and make his position definite, creating indeterminate momentum.
• The resulting vacuum-energy explosion shattered the Yin-Yang Purgatory and scattered the Jiao King’s demonic power as its mournful cry rang out.

Wang Qi used the Misty Unfixed Cloud Sword to defeat the Black Whisker Jiao King and disrupt the Demon Beast Tide, then reflected with Feng Luoyi on the interaction between microscopic and macroscopic laws. Back in Land City, Mao Zimiao heard that Wang Qi might be in the Western Sea.

• Wang Qi defeated the Black Whisker Jiao King with the Misty Unfixed Cloud Sword and created a cloud of mist that deterred Golden Core demon beasts.
• A woman manipulated gravity to confuse low-level sea demons and send them crashing into one another.
• Mao Kaicheng and the Border Guards watched Primordial Spirit cultivators stop the advancing Demon Race, then brought the injured Tu Zhenxi to Mao Zimiao for treatment.
• Mao Zimiao discussed who could use the Flame of Life, and her younger sister suggested Wang Qi might be capable of it.
• Wang Qi told Feng Luoyi that his experience with the Tian Shang Jue showed microscopic and macroscopic laws acting together, and concluded that the Misty Unfixed Cloud Sword did not prove the observer effect.

After recognizing how spells brought microscopic and macroscopic laws together, Wang Qi gained a new spiritual power and prepared for a mission to cross a West Sea blockade and investigate a dragon tied to the West Sea Dragon King's abnormal change. He reunited with Mao Zimiao at the Langde branch, where they brought demon materials to be appraised.

• Wang Qi understood how spells highlighted particular laws, and Jarvis helped him form a new spiritual power that Feng Luoyi warned him not to test recklessly.
• Wang Qi assessed his fight with the transformed jiao dragon and learned from Feng Luoyi that his mission had changed to crossing a blockade to find a dragon that might know why the West Sea Dragon King had changed.
• Feng Luoyi told Wang Qi to collect a package of artifacts from the Immortal Alliance branch in three days, and Wang Qi began preparing for his journey with Ai Changyuan.
• Mao Zimiao returned and complained when Wang Qi greeted her without surprise, so he grabbed her ear to catch up with her.
• Wang Qi and Mao Zimiao queued at the Langde branch appraisal department to exchange demon materials, including the Black Whisker Jiao King's corpse, for contribution points.

Wang Qi reflected on how the West Border’s Demon Beast Tide economy circulated merit points, then prepared for an upcoming sea voyage by buying equipment and supplies. He began testing a way to use an After Tomorrow’s Will to control his magical power in combat, and left Mao Zimiao watching his sword formation take shape.

• Wang Qi and Mao Zimiao discussed Border Guards’ risks, expenses, and the West Border’s role in circulating merit points through Demon Beast Tides.
• Wang Qi bought computing-device parts, recovery supplies, a high-grade robe, nearly a hundred talisman swords, and a silk scarf while preparing to go out to sea with Ai Changyuan.
• Wang Qi invited Mao Zimiao to his courtyard to show her a new idea, and she found that his magical power was spread throughout the courtyard.
• Wang Qi explained that he was testing a way for an After Tomorrow’s Will to direct his magical power despite the usual gap between human consciousness and computing-device logic.
• Wang Qi sent countless swords into the courtyard and formed a sword formation as Mao Zimiao watched.

Wang Qi connected Jarvis to his spiritual power and magical artifacts, allowing the AI to control formations, defenses, remote mechanisms, and spells. He demonstrated the system to Mao Zimiao and considered how to turn cultivation techniques into an easy-to-use skill interface.

• Wang Qi created a protocol linking Jarvis with his spiritual power, then showed Mao Zimiao how Jarvis controlled the Opening and Closing Yin-Yang Gate Sword Array.
• Wang Qi explained that Jarvis had refined the Chaos Cavern Dharma Robe and demonstrated how electromagnetic signals let it remotely control a Mechanism Beast.
• Wang Qi revealed that he had developed a divine ability to replace the silver needles he had used to transmit signals through his body.
• Wang Qi summoned three Wisdom Kings to test Jarvis's spellcasting and explained his idea of limited Magical Power Slots or a Skill Bar.
• Zhen Chanzi questioned how Wang Qi's proposed skill interface differed from the Game Path, then asked what Wang Qi meant by calling himself the user's dad.

Wang Qi tested using Jarvis to control magical artifacts with the Devil’s Great Curse and God Plague Curse, then joined Ai Changyuan in a remote Core Formation experiment. The chapter ended as their formation disk lit up, demonstrating Wang Qi’s remote technique.

• Wang Qi had Mao Zimiao refine flying swords and tested whether the Devil’s Great Curse could overwrite their imprints.
• Wang Qi used the God Plague Curse to let Jarvis seize control of more flying swords, then destroyed the curses and the swords’ formation arrays.
• Wang Qi concluded that Jarvis could operate the curses as dangerous, last-resort weapons without forcing him to sacrifice his own computational power.
• Ai Changyuan contacted Wang Qi to test a gravitational model from the Path of the Misty, and Wang Qi prepared a vermilion fruit on a formation disk.
• Ai Changyuan activated a formation through Telepathy Bottles, the Myriad Immortal Illusion Realm, and Immortal Alliance satellites, and Wang Qi called the result Remote Core Formation.

Wang Qi tested a calculator-based method for remotely advancing the Tianyan Tulu and granting divine abilities, then used its success to pitch Su Junyu on funding further development. The chapter ended with Su Junyu trying to disconnect while Wang Qi hurriedly proposed other ways they could cooperate.

• Wang Qi joked with Mao Zimiao about remote cultivation and Remote Core Formation before an energy disturbance struck, which he calmly handled with an Imprisoning Thunder Mantra.
• After Mao Zimiao left, Wang Qi planned to recruit volunteer programmers and create high-level programming languages for applications on his operating system.
• Su Junyu contacted Wang Qi after cultivating the Tianyan Tulu, and Wang Qi confirmed that Su had a strong Myriad Immortal Illusion Realm signal and plenty of mana.
• Wang Qi sent Su Junyu a data package through the Telepathy Bottle, rapidly advancing Su's Tianyan Tulu through thirteen transformations and catalyzing a low-level Mind Reading ability.
• Wang Qi asked Su Junyu to contribute merit points toward developing stronger divine abilities, but Su tried to end the connection until Wang Qi offered other ways to cooperate.

Su Junyu gathered Myriad Dharma Sect disciples to recruit them for Wang Qi’s open-source Myriad Image Hexagram Script project, demonstrating that code could directly grant cultivation insights and divine abilities. He revealed that the technique could teach spells such as Mind Reading, then urged the disciples to use it to overcome their reputation for struggling with human relationships.

• Su Junyu presented Wang Qi’s Myriad Image Hexagram Script to the gathered disciples and explained its advantages as a higher-level programming language.
• The disciples objected to doing unpaid work on another person’s project, but Su Junyu said Wang Qi planned to make the language freely available.
• Su Junyu used Wang Qi’s code to give two cultivators, Zhou and Li, matching Tianyan Tulu attainment by activating spiritual power they had cultivated beforehand.
• The disciples dismissed the beginner-level Mind Reading ability until Su Junyu explained that code could directly grant spells and divine abilities, including ones outside a cultivator’s usual path.
• Su Junyu urged the disciples to learn Mind Reading so the Myriad Dharma Sect could counter mockery that its members wanted Dao companions but could not understand the human heart.

At a Myriad Dharma Sect gathering, Su Junyu promoted Wang Qi’s cultivation method as a way for the sect’s disciples to improve their lives and image, while boasting about Wang Qi’s romantic past. Chen Youjia, Wang Qi’s girlfriend, concealed her jealousy and joined the gathering’s launch of the Cangjie Plan, ending with a silent complaint that Wang Qi’s friends did not even know about her.

• A Myriad Dharma Sect disciple lamented how other Immortal Academy students had advanced in romance while the sect’s researchers struggled with their work, and Chen Youjia privately felt proud of her relationship with Wang Qi.
• Su Junyu announced that a new cultivation method offered hope for single disciples and revealed that Wang Qi had developed it using the Tianyan Tulu and computational artifact theory.
• Su Junyu explained that Wang Qi’s Myriad Image Hexagram Script would be public, but users of its divine abilities would have to pay unless they helped with the project.
• Su Junyu boasted about Wang Qi’s romantic exploits, making Chen Youjia jealous; she messaged Wang Qi and learned he was with old Immortal Academy classmates.
• Su Junyu launched the Cangjie Plan to change the Myriad Dharma Sect’s lives and reputation, while Chen Youjia silently resented that Wang Qi’s friends did not know she was his lover.

Wang Qi continued developing a high-level language for cultivation while preparing to infiltrate the dragon race, and Feng Luoyi sent him a gun that activated powerful spells stored in Telepathy Bottles. The new artifact gave Wang Qi access to dragon-slaying sword energy and a technique for identifying banished immortals, marking a major advance in spellcasting technology.

• Wang Qi reviewed the Myriad Dharma Sect disciples' progress with Su Junyu and learned that Chen Youjia seemed to be in a bad mood, though Su Junyu concealed the reason.
• Wang Qi continued strengthening his connection with Jarvis and considered how his developing language could let him alter and evolve his cultivation methods.
• Wang Qi collected a package at the Lande branch of the Immortal Alliance and used a code to activate the Telepathy Bottles inside.
• Feng Luoyi explained that the package contained a mid-grade Treasure Weapon gun, ten bottles of End-Heaven Dragon-Slaying Sword Qi, and four bottles holding a banished immortal identification technique.
• Wang Qi stored the artifact and Telepathy Bottles, recognizing that the technology could make spells cheaper and expand their use among cultivators and mortals.

Wang Qi and Wu Shiqin sparred, and he conceded that her mastery of Tian Ge Xing surpassed his. When Wu Shiqin and Mao Zimiao joined Wang Qi and Ai Changyuan on their sea voyage, the two men worried that their secret plan to leave the ship would become harder to carry out.

• Wang Qi and Wu Shiqin fought using Tian Ge Xing, and Wu Shiqin defeated him with her mastery of its electromagnetic techniques.
• Wang Qi praised Wu Shiqin's combat strength, and she asked to join his training voyage with Senior Brother Ai.
• Mao Zimiao also insisted on coming, and Wang Qi agreed to let her join if Ai Changyuan approved.
• Wang Qi and Ai Changyuan set sail with Wu Shiqin and Mao Zimiao, complaining that they had been unable to refuse their companions.
• Ai Changyuan showed Wang Qi the Tiantian Chart and said they would follow their original route, though they still had to figure out how Wang Qi could leave without alarming the other three.

Wang Qi and Ai Changyuan sailed into the chaotic Western Sea while hiding their real purpose from their companions. As Wang Qi navigated toward the blockade, he and Ai Changyuan discussed the dragon clan’s unexplained conflict and Wang Qi’s unusual soul, leaving them about a week from entering the blockade.

• On the third day of the voyage, Wang Qi’s group stopped at Far God Island, where Lu Qianqian admired the scenery and Ai Changguang questioned Ai Changyuan about their destination.
• Wang Qi secretly navigated the ship through routes crowded with Demon Beasts, adjusting their course as the Western Sea’s turmoil shifted their movements.
• Wang Qi and Ai Changyuan discussed the dragon clan’s unusual power struggle and whether it might be connected to banished immortals.
• Ai Changyuan asked about Wang Qi’s soul, and Wang Qi explained that he did not know the nature of his innate difference.
• Wang Qi changed their heading east and estimated that they would reach the blockade in about seven or eight days.