Chapter Summaries

Jin Chenzi destroyed the blood moon and the Giant Flesh Tree, ending the immediate eldritch calamity but triggering a decline in the world's spiritual energy. Three days later, he led the Spirit Transformation cultivators through an Ascension passage, where a bloodstained jade tablet fell behind warning them not to ascend.

• Jin Chenzi used the Moon-Inviting Hook to unleash the Lunar Ice Soul Annihilation Divine Ray and destroy the Giant Flesh Tree and blood moon.
• Jin Chenzi told Dongfang Jie and the others that the world's spiritual energy would decline and offered Spirit Transformation cultivators the chance to leave with him.
• Cultivators across the world celebrated the blood moon's destruction while Great Qian's sects prepared for their patriarchs to depart.
• Jin Chenzi opened an Ascension passage at Righteous Qi Peak, and Dongfang Jie and the other Spirit Transformation cultivators followed him inside.
• A Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator retrieved a bloodstained sound-recording jade tablet that had fallen from the passage and heard Nie's voice warn them not to ascend.

After the immortal world’s envoy and Great Qian’s Spirit Transformation cultivators vanished into the Blood Moon’s realm, Aaron claimed control of the world and spent two centuries overseeing the strange path’s rise. The chapter left the Righteous Qi Sect under attack by the League of Aberrants, whose leader Chen San, also known as Xuanxuanzi, had reached the Dao Transformation realm.

• Jin Chenzi led Dongfang Jie and the other Spirit Transformation cultivators through the Ascension passage, only for them to emerge before the Blood Moon’s giant flesh tree and be trapped by its tendrils.
• Aaron drew the Moon-Inviting Hook from the kingdom gate, learned that the immortal world had lost its connection to the small world, and resolved to take control of it and resume the Medicine King Sect Ten Halls plan.
• Over the next two hundred years, spiritual qi declined while Blood Moon dust spread across the world, empowering aberrant cultivators and making the orthodox cultivation path increasingly weak.
• A swarm of aberrant cultivators attacked the Righteous Qi Sect, and its Supreme Elder and several Nascent Soul cultivators fought back against a flesh-bodied Aberrant Infant.
• Chen San, also known as Xuanxuanzi, appeared as the League of Aberrants’ Alliance Leader and revealed that he had reached the Dao Transformation realm before demanding the Supreme Elder’s head and spiritual roots.

Aaron learned that the League of Aberrants had destroyed the Righteous Qi Sect and that Great Qian’s remaining sects were under attack, driving cultivators west. He decided to address the influx, while a refugee fleet led by survivors of the Grand Void Sect arrived in the Far Western Lands.

• Bai Caiwei visited Aaron and reported that migrating cultivators from Great Qian were clashing with locals in the Far Western Lands.
• Bai Caiwei told Aaron that the League of Aberrants had captured Righteous Qi Peak, destroyed the Righteous Qi Sect, and was attacking the remaining great sects under Xuanxuanzi’s leadership.
• Aaron agreed that the westward migration needed to be managed and set out to resolve the issue of cultivators crossing into the Far Western Lands.
• Qing Yan and Quiet Void Child arrived in Yuanchen Kingdom with a fleet of flying boats and discussed the Grand Void Sect’s defeat and their plan to survive in the Far Western Lands.

Aaron revealed his Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivation to the refugee cultivators’ leaders and offered them refuge under the Medicine King Sect. The newcomers accepted his offer while secretly planning to wait for Old Monster Fang to die before challenging the sect’s power.

• Qing Yan and Quiet Void Child discussed joining forces with the Primordial Demon Sect against the Medicine King Sect, but Quiet Void Child rejected the idea as too risky.
• Aaron sensed that the refugee cultivators planned to hide and revealed his Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivation when two Medicine King Sect figures approached the fleet.
• Quiet Void Child, Crimson Flame, and Moon-Grasping Master came forward, and Moon-Grasping Master and Quiet Void Child asked Aaron to shelter their displaced followers.
• Aaron promised the refugees could settle peacefully in the Far Western Lands and pledged that the Medicine King Sect would fight the heretic cultivators.
• Quiet Void Child and the other Nascent Soul leaders praised Aaron publicly while privately deciding to wait for Old Monster Fang’s death before testing the Medicine King Sect.

Aaron broke through to Spirit Transformation, overturning the Medicine King Sect’s expected limits and forcing the Far Western Lands’ sects to reconsider their plans. Quiet Void Child and Red Flame Old Devil hoped the League of Aberrants would target Aaron and create an opening for them to reclaim Great Qian.

• Quiet Void Child and Red Flame Old Devil discussed waiting for Aaron to die before resisting the Medicine King Sect, while keeping their plans secret from the Righteous Qi Sect.
• Aaron began advancing toward Spirit Transformation as Bai Caiwei’s intelligence suggested the aberrant cultivators were weakening and their realm’s descent might be ending.
• A vast tide of spiritual energy gathered around Medicine King Sect, and Bai Caiwei recognized that Aaron was attempting to break through.
• Aaron completed his breakthrough to Spirit Transformation without facing a heart demon tribulation and considered claiming the right to define Spirit Transformation cultivators’ lifespans.
• Quiet Void Child learned from Red Flame Old Devil that Aaron had reached Spirit Transformation and proposed that the League of Aberrants might attack him, letting the sects return to Great Qian.

The League of Aberrants learned that spirituality was waning, then witnessed Xuanxuanzi ascend into the Crimson Moon as a Tribulation Immortal. Faced with the upheaval, Quiet Void Child chose to merge the Grand Void Sect into the Medicine King Sect.

• The Willow God, a barefoot woman, and a paper man discussed the Medicine King Sect’s Spirit Transformation cultivator and the declining spirituality in the world.
• A phantom Blood Moon appeared over Xuanxuanzi’s hall, and the aberrant cultivators heard the words “Valley Spirit” and “Mysterious Female.”
• Xuanxuanzi ascended through a pillar of red light into the Crimson Moon, and the League of Aberrants declared him a Tribulation Immortal.
• Qing Yan reported Xuanxuanzi’s ascension to Quiet Void Child, who decided to visit Patriarch Fang and surrender the Grand Void Sect to the Medicine King Sect.

Many years later, youths gathered to seek entry into the Medicine King Sect, whose legendary ancestor and Heaven-Piercing Jade Stele still shaped the cultivation world. As the new recruits began their examinations, they heard how the sect’s rare pills could even grant mortals spiritual roots.

• A cultivator told the youths how the Medicine King Sect had risen to prominence after the Blood Moon Calamity and described the Heaven-Piercing Jade Stele’s role in managing contributions and exchanges.
• A blue-robed Gold Core cultivator let seven youths spend contribution points to skip the entrance examinations and become outer disciples.
• The remaining youths were sent to take the three entrance examinations, while a little girl in red lamented that she had no contribution points.
• A Foundation Establishment cultivator explained that the Gu God had exchanged contributions for a Heaven-Seizing Creation Pill and a Heaven-Mending Creation Pill.
• The Foundation Establishment cultivator said the Heaven-Seizing Creation Pill could give mortals spiritual roots, but its low success rate and costly ingredients had led the ancestor to seal its formula.

Fang Lang failed the Medicine King Sect’s aptitude test, but Aaron recognized him as a distant relative and arranged for him to join the sect as a registered disciple. Aaron gave Fang Lang a way to improve his spirit roots and assigned Shen Wanshui to teach him, leaving Fang Lang poised to receive unusually generous support.

• At the Medicine King Sect’s assessment, Shen Bing revealed an ice-element variant spirit root, while Fang Lang was judged to have four spirit roots and was rejected.
• Aaron discovered a bloodline connection between Fang Lang and Fang Yu, then ordered Sect Master Xue Wuyou to bring Fang Lang into the sect.
• Xue Wuyou brought Fang Lang to Medicine King Peak, where Bai Junqi and other Nascent Soul cultivators gathered and speculated about his connection to the Patriarch.
• Aaron identified Fang Lang as a distant descendant, gave him Heavenly Wood Liquid and a jade slip for the improved Primal Unity Art, and accepted him as a registered disciple.
• Aaron assigned Shen Wanshui to instruct Fang Lang, and Shen promised to prioritize sect resources for his cultivation.

After forming his Golden Core, Fang Lang went with Shen Wanshui to pay his respects to Aaron and witnessed Xiaoqing's advancement through a heavenly tribulation. Xiaoqing survived the final strike and reached the Nascent Soul realm.

• After sixty years of cultivation, Fang Lang formed his Golden Core and received congratulations from Medicine King Sect cultivators.
• Shen Wanshui told Fang Lang to visit Aaron, and Fang Lang followed him toward Aaron's cave abode.
• A powerful heavenly phenomenon revealed that Xiaoqing was advancing from a third-rank demonic beast to a fourth-rank one.
• Xiaoqing's transformation revealed that it had broken beyond the Longlife Turtle bloodline and grown closer to the Black Tortoise.
• Xiaoqing used its Mystic Turtle Shield to withstand the final lightning strike and reached the Nascent Soul realm.

Aaron explained the Five Elements Mystic Light to Fang Lang and sent him to earn contribution points toward a Nascent Soul Pill. Fang Lang became famous for taking opponents’ five-element treasures, but while returning to the Medicine King Sect, he was confronted by a group led by a Nascent Soul cultivator.

• Aaron praised Xiaoqing for reaching the fourth tier, then taught Fang Lang that his Five Elements Golden Core could cultivate the Five Elements Mystic Light.
• Aaron ordered Fang Lang to master the divine ability, complete missions, and gather twenty-five million contribution points before seeking him again.
• Shen Wanshui explained that the Primal Unity Nascent Soul Pill cost fifty million contribution points and offered to introduce Fang Lang to a Shen Family genius with a variant ice spiritual root.
• After mastering the Five Elements Mystic Light, Fang Lang defeated Golden Core cultivators and became known across the Central Region as Treasure-Seizing True Person.
• While returning to the Medicine King Sect after killing a Core Formation cultivator, Fang Lang sensed an ambush and confronted a group led by a Nascent Soul cultivator.

Fang Lang received a Primal Unity Nascent Soul Pill from Aaron, who then disguised him as a Foundation Establishment cultivator and sent him to lead a poor clan as a heart-tempering trial. After ten years of running the Li Family, Fang Lang gambled its future on relocating near the Medicine King Sect as the Jade Flute Gentleman prepared to attack it.

• Fu Zhen brought his son Fu Shen to seek Fang Lang as a master and gave him intelligence that Tu Yao, the Jade Flute Scholar, was about to achieve Spirit Transformation.
• Aaron rejected a proposal to kill Tu Yao, and a hundred years later Fang Lang learned that Tu Yao had successfully achieved Spirit Transformation.
• Fang Lang presented his contribution points to Aaron, who gave him a Primal Unity Nascent Soul Pill and assigned him a mortal-world heart-tempering trial.
• Aaron disguised himself as Li Ruhe and made Fang Lang, under the identity Li Huojia, the head of the impoverished Li Family, restricting his power to Foundation Establishment Early Stage.
• After ten years of managing the Li Family's meager finances and work raising Black Mountain Pigs, Fang Lang ordered the clan to borrow money and relocate near the Medicine King Sect.
• The Li Family bought a spirit vein near the Medicine King Sect, while a white-robed cultivator with a jade flute declared that the sect's time had come to end.

Jade Flute Gentleman Tu Yao attacked the Medicine King Sect, blaming it for the destruction of his former sect, and challenged Aaron. Aaron countered Tu Yao’s powerful music attack with the Black Jade Seal, but Tu Yao then revealed an immortal formation and a damaged immortal artifact.

• Tu Yao played his jade flute, killing and injuring Medicine King Sect disciples before the sect activated its fifth-rank protective formation.
• Tu Yao confronted Xue Wuyou over the Medicine King Sect’s past destruction of the Immortal Sound Sect, and his piercing note wounded Xue Wuyou despite the formation.
• Aaron appeared on Xiaoqing and invited Tu Yao to make his move rather than continue arguing about the past.
• Tu Yao summoned a phoenix with his Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix tune, but Aaron’s Black Jade Seal manifested a Black Tortoise that tore the phoenix apart.
• Tu Yao revealed a detachable immortal formation that fired Immortal Realm Purifying Fire and then brought out the damaged Nine Dragon Guillotine.

Aaron defeated Jade Flute Recluse, who revealed that he had become a Blood Demon cultivator to pursue Ascension, and pursued him to the Eastern Sea. There, Aaron learned that the local Spirit Transformation cultivators had arranged Jade Flute Recluse’s capture to test the path to the upper realm, while Aaron chose to remain in the mortal world.

• Aaron used the Moon-Inviting Hook and Formless Sword to kill Jade Flute Recluse’s body, but Jade Flute Recluse revived as a Blood Demon and escaped after Aaron’s demonic fire wounded him.
• Aaron rode Xiaoqing in pursuit of Jade Flute Recluse to the Eastern Sea.
• Jade Flute Recluse called on the Black Nightmare King, Gu God, and Northern Spirit Venerable for help, but they trapped him in a formation and greeted Aaron as their Patriarch.
• Gu God and Northern Spirit Venerable explained that they had let Jade Flute Recluse find the Blood Demon Scripture so he could test whether the path to the upper realm remained open.
• Aaron declined to take part in their search for another route to immortality, saying he wanted to stay in the mortal world.

Fang Lang advanced to Spirit Transformation and took over Aaron’s supposed duty guarding the aberrant realm passage, while Aaron left to continue his work across worlds. After waking from his long slumber, Aaron sought a new world whose Imprint could accelerate his plans to regain the Creator’s throne.

• Fang Lang reached Nascent Soul, thanked Aaron for helping him overcome the heart demon tribulation, and became Aaron’s true personal disciple.
• Aaron offered Fang Lang Spirit-Transforming Paste in exchange for eventually taking over the duty of guarding the aberrant realm passage, then secretly planned to use the arrangement as an excuse to travel.
• Five hundred years later, Fang Lang advanced to Spirit Transformation and took responsibility for the Medicine King Sect and the passage as Aaron departed on Xiaoqing.
• Over the following centuries, the passage weakened and closed while Aaron remained away, leaving Fang Lang to grow old and fear that his master would never return.
• In Green Forest City, Lilliat observed the changing world of Secrecy as the fallen Fate Controllers’ worshippers dwindled and Aaron’s flower fairies helped with her work.
• Aaron awoke, assessed his progress digesting Mother Tree of Flesh, and divined a world that could accelerate his ongoing Imprint ritual.

Aaron awakened at twenty-seven in Great Xin, inhabiting the life of an impoverished, debt-ridden man with no stable job. After finding no sign of the supernatural in the technologically advanced world, he used his limited spiritual resources to activate a future simulator.

• Aaron woke in a filthy, cramped room and recalled his avatar's history of debt, impulsive spending, and odd jobs.
• Aaron asked a Magic Sound streamer for a refund for the five hundred yuan he had tipped the previous night.
• Aaron searched Great Xin's news and discovered that the world appeared to have no genuine supernatural phenomena.
• Aaron sensed that his avatar had brought only four points of Tower spirituality and three points of Yao spirituality, with reinforcements arriving slowly from the main body.
• Aaron activated the future simulator, and a flood of text appeared on his private light screen.

Aaron used the simulator to test possible futures and learned that conspicuous lottery winnings led to robbery or kidnapping, while divined numbers could change. After confirming the simulator’s accuracy, he went to the lottery shop to discuss an investment and asked Old Liu for a stack of scratch-offs.

• Aaron’s first simulation ended with him being robbed and stabbed after winning ten scratch-off prizes.
• Aaron’s second simulation ended with him kidnapped by creditors after his divined lottery numbers failed to match the drawing.
• Aaron reasoned that the future could change and that flaunting sudden wealth could put him in danger.
• Aaron spent the day at home and used the Magic Sound girl’s continued silence to confirm the simulator’s predictions were credible.
• Aaron went downstairs the next morning and told lottery shop owner Old Liu he had loftier ambitions before asking for a stack of scratch-offs.

Aaron used Yao’s spirituality to win a small scratch-off prize, then went to the Great Library and used Tower’s spirituality to rapidly study in search of ways to make money before his creditors caught up with him. He left with a plan to solve a mathematical problem for money, while Mu Xinyun mistakenly imagined his nosebleed meant he liked her.

• Aaron used Yao’s spirituality to choose scratch-offs, won two thousand yuan, and left Old Liu’s shop with the cash.
• Aaron recalled his debts and the private loan companies that threatened him, including Brother Dog’s operation and Golden Lisa Investment Company.
• Aaron went to the Great Library, used Tower’s spirituality to absorb information at extraordinary speed, and searched for ways to earn money.
• Mu Xinyun introduced herself to Aaron, but he asked her not to disturb his studies and continued researching ways to profit from his knowledge.
• Aaron developed a plan to solve a difficult mathematical problem and sell the result, then suffered a nosebleed and left the library.
• Mu Xinyun mistook Aaron’s nosebleed for a reaction to her, then regretted not exchanging contact information before he left.

Aaron used money from investments to repay his debts and retrieve the compromising negatives from Sister He, then confronted Flower Dog over another loan. He refused to sign a voluntary organ donation agreement and left after agreeing to exchange the cash for his contract the next day, while Flower Dog planned to pursue him for a kidney transplant match.

• Aaron paid Sister He and recovered his loan contract and film negatives from Golden Lisa Investment Company.
• Sister He warned Aaron that Flower Dog had been looking for him and offered to lend him more money.
• Aaron called Flower Dog and arranged to meet him downtown to repay his debt.
• Flower Dog tried to get Aaron to sign a voluntary organ donation agreement, but Aaron offered cash and demanded his contract in return.
• Flower Dog claimed he had not brought the contract and told Aaron to come to an address the next day to exchange them.
• Flower Dog sent a lackey to follow Aaron and revealed that a wealthy kidney patient had offered five million for a suitable match.

Aaron hid from Flower Dog’s gang after realizing they were tracking him, then used the arriving Yao and Tower spiritualities to start another simulation. The simulation followed his training, revenge, rise to fame, and eventual death as a fugitive.

• Aaron escaped Flower Dog’s underling, bought supplies with cash, and hid at a campsite to avoid being kidnapped.
• After midnight, Aaron felt Yao and Tower spiritualities appear and launched the Future Simulator.
• Aaron trained at martial arts schools, fused Iron Garment Fist with local techniques, and created Eagle Claw Iron Shirt.
• Aaron discovered that Ye Rongtian had targeted him for a kidney transplant, then killed Flower Dog and Ye Rongtian.
• Aaron became a wanted fugitive after Ye Rongtian’s murder, reached Great Mastery, and escaped repeated manhunts.
• Aaron’s simulation ended when a shell killed him after he was surrounded on Day 300.

Aaron used online martial arts manuals and spirituality to create three Secret Martial Arts, then simulated a life in which he built a powerful company and confirmed the supernatural before being killed. After the simulation, he used the Demon Heart Art to erase Feng Ping’s martial arts obsession when Feng Ping followed him.

• Aaron bought access to every secret manual on the Ancient Martial Arts Forum and studied the materials to develop his martial arts.
• Aaron cultivated the Eagle Claw Iron Shirt and created the Demon Heart Art and Great Radiance Fist by incorporating spirituality.
• Feng Ping recognized Aaron as a martial artist, but Aaron denied it and left him uncertain.
• In the simulation, Aaron built a company, investigated mysterious events, confirmed supernatural powers, and died in an attack at age 64.
• Aaron concluded that money and revenge had not fulfilled his purpose and wondered whether his Secret Martial Arts had limits against powerful enemies.
• Feng Ping followed Aaron, and Aaron unknowingly used the Demon Heart Art to drain Feng Ping’s joy and obsession, leaving him uninterested in martial arts.