Chapter Summaries

Bu Zhi discovered that Bu Duan had tracked him and ordered him killed, then discussed [Akatsuki]’s urgent need for spirit stones with Deva Path. Bu Zhi agreed to buy [Akatsuki]’s treasures and gather the money, while Deva Path asked how they could obtain even more spirit stones in the Ancient Immortal Realm.

• Bu Zhi recognized Bu Duan, and Pain’s Human Path extracted and devoured Bu Duan’s soul.
• Deva Path learned from Bu Duan’s soul that a special medicine on Bu Zhi’s clothes had been used to track him.
• Deva Path told Bu Zhi that [Akatsuki] needed spirit stones and offered to exchange treasures and spirit medicines for them.
• Bu Zhi examined Deva Path’s storage ring and explained that selling the treasures in the Ancient Immortal Realm would be difficult.
• Bu Zhi agreed to buy the treasures, valued at roughly twelve billion spirit stones, and provide two billion first.
• Deva Path asked Bu Zhi how [Akatsuki] could obtain a large number of spirit stones in the Ancient Immortal Realm.

Deva Path arranged for Bu Zhi to sell Akatsuki’s magical artifacts, gather information on spirit veins, and handle a hundred Five Elements Spirit Stones carefully. As Akatsuki searched for new sources of spirit stones, Lin Chuan learned that the Cosmic Light Hall could widen its time difference by consuming them even faster.

• Deva Path asked Bu Zhi to locate major spirit veins and sell a ring containing a hundred Five Elements Spirit Stones.
• Deva Path gave Bu Zhi a list of cultivators serving Bu Chen, and Bu Zhi used the Immortal Allure Chamber of Commerce and the former clan head’s subordinates to sell the magical artifacts.
• Bu Zhi began gathering spirit-vein information and held back the Five Elements Spirit Stones until he could find suitable buyers.
• Deva Path sent White Zetsu’s clones and Mu Yuyi to search for spirit veins, then refused Zhongchuan Jin’s one-billion-spirit-stone payment to avoid joining the succession struggle.
• After two outside days of cultivation in the Cosmic Light Hall, the old man told Lin Chuan how to burn spirit stones faster and further widen the hall’s time difference.

Lin Chuan used a cultivation art from the old man to raise the Cosmic Light Hall’s time slowdown to twentyfold by spending twenty billion spirit stones a month. Akatsuki divided its efforts between cultivating, gathering medicinal herbs, refining pills, and selling valuables as Lin Chuan began training again.

• Lin Chuan calculated that twenty billion spirit stones and the Nine Heavens Mystic Jade could make time in the Cosmic Light Hall flow twenty times slower, and decided Akatsuki needed to spend the money to prepare for the Ancient Immortal Realm.
• Lin Chuan told Akatsuki about the plan, and everyone contributed their treasured magic artifacts to raise spirit stones.
• Shi Jin offered to refine pills for sale, while Qin Lang volunteered to leave and earn spirit stones because he could not cultivate.
• Lin Chuan assigned Vermilion Bird to search outside for Purple Heaven Divine Thunder, Shi Jin to refine pills, Pain to sell them, and everyone else to cultivate.
• Lin Chuan added 1.1 billion spirit stones to the Cosmic Light Hall and activated the art to reach a twentyfold time slowdown, while Zero Burial took the valuables and Qin Lang outside.
• Lin Chuan refused the old man’s suggestion to use immortal artifacts as fuel, then entered his private chamber to cultivate.

Deva Path met with Cherry Blossom Pavilion’s Jiang Boyue to discuss selling Five Elements spirit stones and establishing a long-term partnership. The meeting began awkwardly when Deva Path recognized Jiang Boyue’s leopard-print robes and learned they honored an immortal whose pills had been especially ugly.

• Bu Zhi told Deva Path that Cherry Blossom Pavilion offered one billion spirit stones for a hundred Five Elements spirit stones and wanted to meet him.
• Deva Path agreed to meet Cherry Blossom Pavilion that day, and Bu Zhi arranged for them to meet at Return-to-Origin Market.
• Deva Path reached the market quickly and followed Bu Zhi to the Immortal Allure Inn, where Bu Zhi explained that Jiang Boyue led Cherry Blossom Pavilion’s affairs in the Ancient Immortal Realm.
• Jiang Boyue greeted Deva Path in a private room while wearing an extravagant leopard-print robe.
• Jiang Boyue explained that the robes honored his sect’s founder and the immortal who had inspired the sect’s founding.
• Deva Path asked whether that immortal’s pills had been especially ugly, and Jiang Boyue was shocked that he knew.

Pain and Jiang Boyue signed an agreement for Cherry Blossom Pavilion to buy Akatsuki’s Five Elements Spirit Stones, then Pain revealed he had even more stones and offered Jiang Boyue exclusive agency rights. The chapter ended with Jiang Boyue stunned as Pain produced another twenty stones.

• Pain avoided explaining how he knew about Cherry Blossom Pavilion’s pill-making secrets, and he and Jiang Boyue turned to discussing a transaction.
• Jiang Boyue offered to buy all of Akatsuki’s Five Elements Spirit Stones for ten million spirit stones each, with Cherry Blossom Pavilion handling the sales privately.
• Pain and Jiang Boyue signed a purchase agreement witnessed by the Deva Path.
• Pain sold Jiang Boyue more than a hundred Five Elements Spirit Stones for over 1.3 billion spirit stones, surprising him with the quantity.
• Pain offered Jiang Boyue exclusive agency rights and produced more than twenty additional Five Elements Spirit Stones.

Deva Path secured an exclusive agency agreement with Cherry Blossom Pavilion for Akatsuki’s Five-Element Spirit Stones, while Shi Jin and Xiao Heng planned to boost demand with new pill formulas. Meanwhile, the Six Paths of Pain robbed spirit veins across the Ancient Immortal Realm, leaving Lin Chuan with nearly ten billion additional spirit stones.

• Deva Path persuaded Jiang Boyue to sign an agreement giving Cherry Blossom Pavilion exclusive rights to distribute Akatsuki’s Five-Element Spirit Stones, then traded two stones for ordinary medicinal herbs.
• Zero Burial learned from Shi Jin that Cherry Blossom Pavilion had grown from alchemy notes he left behind as the Carefree Pill Immortal.
• Xiao Heng proposed developing pills that required Five-Element Spirit Stones, and Shi Jin revealed he was already experimenting with such formulas.
• The Six Paths of Pain used Yomotsu Hirasaka and Banshō Ten'in to steal spirit stones from major factions’ spirit veins, spreading fear of a mysterious thief.
• Lin Chuan examined the nearly ten billion spirit stones accumulated in his storage ring and celebrated his new wealth.

Deva Path wandered through the marketplace, amused by rumors about the spirit stone thief, and sold a fabricated story blaming Lin An for the thefts. He then noticed a group of black-robed cultivators with familiar auras and overheard one teasing Wei Wu.

• Deva Path listened to cultivators trade rumors about the spirit stone thief and pretended to know the truth.
• A cultivator paid Deva Path one hundred spirit stones for inside information, and Deva Path falsely accused Lin An of stealing the spirit stones.
• The buyer believed Deva Path's story and began reselling it for ninety spirit stones.
• Deva Path continued through the marketplace and noticed several black-robed cultivators with familiar auras.
• Deva Path overheard a young man tease Wei Wu about being prettier than a woman, and Wei Wu replied that it was not his fault.

Deva Path followed Lin Long and the other protectors through a market to see how much they had grown. After the five lured their pursuer into a forest and ambushed him, Deva Path watched from a distance.

• Deva Path recognized Wei Wu, Faye, Lin Long, Gao Ze, and Suigetsu, then followed them without revealing himself.
• The five discussed the missing divine envoys and realized Lin Long’s suspicions that someone was tracking them.
• Lin Long led the group out of the market and toward a distant forest to confront their pursuer.
• The protectors hid in the forest, then trapped the black-clothed man in ice mirrors while an earth technique seized his legs.
• Deva Path watched the ambush from behind a boulder and murmured that it was interesting.

Lin Long's group was ambushed by the Five Cities Alliance after killing a scout who activated a teleportation formation, leaving them badly outnumbered. Just as Lin Long prepared to call Lin Chuan for help, a black hole appeared above their pursuers and the Northern and Southern Dipper Divine Envoys announced their arrival.

• Pain secretly followed Lin Long's group and watched them lure a black-clothed scout into an ambush.
• Lin Long and Gao Ze's coordinated Ice Release overwhelmed the scout, who crushed a silver stone to summon the Five Cities Alliance before he died.
• Nearly a hundred alliance members, including the five family heads, emerged from the teleportation formation and pursued Lin Long's group.
• Lin Long recalled that her group had started the feud by killing alliance members and taking spiritual herbs, while Gao Ze and Wei Wu panicked at their overwhelming odds.
• Lin Long decided to contact Azure Dragon for help, but a black hole appeared above the Five Cities Alliance and the Northern and Southern Dipper Divine Envoys spoke from it.

Pain summoned the Akatsuki Divine Envoys after the Five Cities Alliance attacked Lin Long and four others, who were protectors under Lin Chuan. The Akatsuki overwhelmed the alliance, and as its members fled, the Four Red Yang Formation sealed them inside.

• Pain used the Akatsuki rings to summon the Divine Envoys after seeing the Five Cities Alliance attack Lin Long and the other four.
• The Divine Envoys emerged from Yomotsu Hirasaka and attacked the nearly two hundred Five Cities Alliance cultivators.
• Lin Long and the other four returned in Akatsuki robes and greeted the Divine Envoys as protectors under the Azure Dragon.
• Lin Chuan rejected the alliance's plea for mercy, and the Five Cities Alliance members scattered in a desperate attempt to escape.
• Nearby cultivators gathered to watch as the fleeing alliance members were trapped by the Four Red Yang Formation.

Akatsuki trapped the Five Cities Alliance inside the Four Red Yang Formation and annihilated its forces in a one-sided battle. The alliance’s final leaders died attacking Lin Long, Gao Ze, and Wei Wu, leaving Akatsuki victorious.

• Zero Burial formed the Four Red Yang Formation, sealing the Five Cities Alliance inside while the World Suppressing Disk blocked their escape.
• Lin Chuan killed a Great Perfection Void Refinement family head with a Big Ball Rasengan, then burned numerous cultivators with Amaterasu.
• Akatsuki’s members divided their attacks across the battlefield, killing alliance cultivators and preventing them from escaping.
• Three remaining family heads charged Lin Long, Gao Ze, and Wei Wu, but Pain used Amenotejikara and other abilities to thwart their attacks and kill them.
• With all five family heads dead, Akatsuki completely annihilated the Five Cities Alliance.

After [Akatsuki] annihilated the Five Cities Alliance, cultivators across the Ancient Immortal Realm warned their factions not to provoke the organization. Lin Chuan brought the group to the Cosmic Light Hall to cultivate, then Deva Path went to meet Bu Zhi and prepare for Bu Lianshi’s return to the Bu Clan.

• Watching cultivators surveyed the devastated battlefield and found that [Akatsuki] had taken all the valuables.
• Cultivators and clan leaders ordered their people to avoid [Akatsuki], while the great powers reconsidered its strength in the Ancient Immortal Realm.
• Lin Chuan brought Lin Long, the five guardians, and the others to the Cosmic Light Hall, where they cultivated for about a year as only half a month passed outside.
• Bu Zhi told Deva Path that he had gathered trusted members of the Bu Clan who were willing to follow Bu Lianshi, and Deva Path asked him to bring them to the Immortal Allure Inn.
• Deva Path stepped through a spatial black hole and went to meet Bu Zhi in person.

Zero Burial met Bu Zhi to propose a partnership supporting Bu Lianshi’s return to power in the Bu Clan. He revealed Akatsuki’s pill and its power, and Bu Zhi swallowed one after swearing loyalty to Bu Lianshi and secrecy.

• Zero Burial used Yomotsu Hirasaka to arrive before Bu Zhi at the Immortal Allure Inn and revealed his true appearance.
• Zero Burial told Bu Zhi he wanted a mutually beneficial partnership to help Bu Lianshi reclaim her place in the Bu Clan.
• Zero Burial created a pill from the Fruit of the God Tree and explained that it granted great strength, but that he could revoke its power.
• Zero Burial offered pills to Bu Zhi and trustworthy Bu Clan disciples if they swore to protect the secret and serve Bu Lianshi unto death.
• Bu Zhi swore his oath, swallowed the pill, and felt chakra fuse with the spiritual energy in his dantian.

Zero Burial enlisted Bu Zhi to strengthen Bu Lianshi’s position within the Bu Clan and asked about a major auction in the Ancient Immortal Realm. He revealed that he planned to auction a pill formula capable of improving Spirit Root quality, leaving Bu Zhi astonished by its value.

• Zero Burial explained immortal chakra to Bu Zhi and gave him seventeen pills to distribute to trusted Bu Clan members who swore loyalty to Bu Lianshi.
• Bu Zhi arranged for the members to take the pills, experienced immortal chakra’s dramatic boost to his own strength, and handed Zero Burial more than ten billion spirit stones from the treasure sales.
• Zero Burial asked Bu Zhi about the Ancient Immortal Auction, and Bu Zhi explained that the major forces would hold it in about three months.
• Zero Burial gave Bu Zhi the Five Elements Foundation Nurturing Pill formula to appraise and promote for the auction.
• Bu Zhi read that the pill could improve Spirit Root quality and reacted with shock at the unprecedented formula.

Zero Burial arranged for Bu Zhi to auction three copies of the Five Elements Foundation Nurturing Pill formula, using demand for Five Elements Spirit Stones to fund Akatsuki’s Cosmic Light Hall. After Zero Burial vanished, Bu Zhi learned that Qin Ming of the Qin Clan had come to see him.

• Zero Burial explained that the pill could improve any cultivator’s Spirit Root and gave Bu Zhi three single-use formula copies to auction anonymously.
• Bu Zhi agreed to make the formulas the Ancient Immortal Auction’s finale and hurried off to arrange the sale.
• Zero Burial told Bu Zhi that only three copies had been found so far, then escaped through Yomotsu Hirasaka.
• A trusted subordinate told Bu Zhi that Qin Ming of the Qin Clan of Thunder Region wished to meet him, and Bu Zhi went to see him.

Bu Zhi intervened when the Qin Clan of Thunder Region tried to take a purple jade pendant from Lu Wei, who wanted the Immortal Allure Chamber of Commerce to auction it. The Qin Clan’s interest in the pendant became clearer when Lu Wei revealed that the lightning in the small world it opened was likely the legendary Purple Heaven Divine Thunder.

• Bu Zhi arrived at the Immortal Allure Inn’s discussion hall and ignored Qin Mu’s interruption to ask Lu Wei what had happened.
• Lu Wei explained that a purple jade pendant had led his group into a lightning-filled small world, where most of the cultivators had died, and that the survivors had decided to auction the pendant.
• Lu Wei said an injured group member had contacted the Qin Clan, prompting Qin Mu and Qin Ming to pressure him to hand over the pendant.
• Qin Ming offered to buy the pendant before the auction, but Lu Wei refused and entrusted it to the Immortal Allure Chamber of Commerce instead.
• After Qin Lang threatened Lu Wei, Bu Zhi confronted the Qin Clan and privately asked Lu Wei why they wanted the pendant; Lu Wei said the lightning was likely Purple Heaven Divine Thunder.

Lu Wei revealed that the jade pendant might contain Evil-Slaying Divine Thunder, prompting Bu Zhi to defy Qin Ming and protect the auction consignment. After learning the pendant had gone to the auction, Zero Burial decided to attend in hopes of using the thunder to strengthen Qin Lang.

• Lu Wei told Bu Zhi that the jade pendant likely held Purple Heaven Divine Thunder, possibly Evil-Slaying Divine Thunder, and explained why he wanted to auction it.
• Bu Zhi refused Qin Ming's demand for the pendant, and the two clashed until Qin Ming left after threatening Bu Zhi.
• Bu Zhi told the Bu Clan elders about the thunder, and the clan sent word to other forces while Lu Wei's pendant remained in the auction's hands.
• Bu Zhi secretly informed Pain about the pendant, and Zero Burial considered using Evil-Slaying Divine Thunder to reshape Qin Lang's body.
• Bu Zhi told Zero Burial that the pendant had already been sent to the auction, so Zero Burial decided to attend the Ancient Immortal Auction.

Qin Lang went to a lightning-struck swamp to gather Thunder Fruits and strengthen his Bing Fire Yang Thunder before the Purple Heaven Divine Thunder auction. He joined Shi Shuiqing’s team’s negotiations, but a mid Void Refinement cultivator interrupted to demand a larger share of the profits.

• Qin Lang searched for a team of independent cultivators to enter the swamp and gather Thunder Fruits.
• Qin Lang joined Shi Shuiqing’s fourteen-person team after proving that he was an early Void Refinement cultivator with a lightning attribute.
• Shi Shuiqing offered Qin Lang one-tenth of the Thunder Fruit profits, and a middle-aged cultivator proposed having the Deva Path witness an agreement.
• A young mid Void Refinement cultivator interrupted Qin Lang and demanded one-eighth of the profits, citing an earlier offer.

Qin Lang joined Shi Shuiqing’s rogue cultivator team after frightening off Qin Qiu, who had tried to claim a place in it. As the fifteen-person group headed toward the swamp, Qin Qiu reported Qin Lang’s lightning aura to his brother Qin Xia as a powerful treasure and revealed that he had marked someone in the team to track them.

• Shi Shuiqing refused Qin Qiu’s demand to join the team and stood with Qin Lang, while the other members backed her decision.
• Qin Lang released his aura, frightening Qin Qiu into fleeing, then declined other teams’ invitations and agreed to join Shi Shuiqing’s group as Zhu.
• Qin Lang reassured Shi Shuiqing that he was not worried about Qin Qiu and signed an agreement with the team.
• Shi Shuiqing and the other fourteen cultivators set out for the swamp with Qin Lang.
• Qin Qiu told Qin Xia that Qin Lang carried a powerful lightning treasure and said he had marked someone in the team so he could track them.
• Qin Xia decided to report the matter to the family and asked Qin Qiu to wait.

Qin Lang led Shi Shuiqing’s group through the swamp while using his exceptional lightning sense to find Thunder Fruits. Near their planned resting place, he detected a concealed underground lightning source and persuaded the group to investigate.

• Seventh told Qin Lang that the group had rejected an arrogant lightning-element cultivator, while Qin Lang realized the man had left a tracking mark on Seventh and chose not to reveal it.
• Qin Lang privately anticipated that the marked cultivator might bring valuable loot to them if he tracked them down.
• Qin Lang used his lightning perception to guide the group to three Thunder Fruits as they traveled through the swamp.
• When Qin Lang sensed a hidden lightning fluctuation near a familiar resting hill, Shi Shuiqing decided the group should investigate.
• Qin Lang led the group toward the source and realized it was underground, with a ferocious beast concealing its lightning fluctuations.