Chapter Summaries

He Song learned that the Azure Sea Realm held cultivators far more powerful than Spirit Transformation experts and considered how to exploit its opportunities without risking himself. After Wei Fan offered him and Meng Guan places on an expedition there, He Song focused on studying the Cross-Realm Teleportation Array and testing whether he could control a puppet across worlds.

• He Song realized that powerful cultivators and yin souls made the wider world far more dangerous, and resolved to keep his true strength concealed.
• He Song decided he needed to study the Cross-Realm Teleportation Array and establish another route to the Azure Sea Realm in case the existing arrays were destroyed.
• Wei Fan explained that the Nine Yang Sect was preparing to send a newly emerged Spirit Transformation cultivator and other cultivators to the Azure Sea Realm, and offered He Song and Meng Guan places.
• He Song suspected the world-spanning formation could detect Spirit Transformation cultivators and concluded that his concealment and arrays had kept him hidden.
• He Song considered sending a puppet through the teleportation array to test whether he could control it in the Azure Sea Realm and use it to explore that world.

He Song questioned Wei Fan about the Azure Sea Realm and learned from recorded messages that it was vast, powerful, and far richer in cultivation resources than the Azure Sky Realm. He decided to send a Nascent Soul Great Perfection follower through the Cross-Realm Teleportation Array to gather information before considering a journey himself.

• He Song asked Wei Fan whether anyone had returned from the Azure Sea Realm and how travelers could pay to come back.
• Wei Fan explained that no one had returned, described the Azure Sea Realm’s advantages, and gave He Song and Meng Guan Jade Slips containing messages from Nine Yang Sect seniors there.
• He Song read the records and learned about the Azure Sea Realm’s powerful sects, abundant resources, and connection to the Immortal Realm.
• He Song decided not to travel himself yet and considered sending a puppet or a follower to investigate first.
• He Song sent a Nascent Soul Great Perfection follower toward the Nine Yang Sect’s mountain gate to enter the Azure Sea Realm through the Cross-Realm Teleportation Array.

He Song declined to travel to the Azure Sea Realm for now but asked Wei Fan to reserve two teleportation slots for his friends. He accepted Wei Fan’s invitation to join the Nine Yang Sect, retained his Treasure Gathering Pavilion position, and settled into a nominal elder role beside Meng Guan and Wei Fan.

• He Song told Wei Fan he would remain in the Azure Sky Realm and asked him to reserve two Cross-Realm Teleportation Array slots for two friends.
• Wei Fan agreed to reserve the slots if He Song’s friends arrived within a month, then invited He Song to join the Nine Yang Sect.
• He Song accepted the invitation and said he would first settle his departure with the Treasure Gathering Pavilion.
• The Treasure Gathering Pavilion’s Pavilion Master promoted He Song to Holy Land Guardian and allowed him to serve the Nine Yang Sect while retaining his position.
• He Song became a nominal elder of the Nine Yang Sect and opened a cave abode beside Meng Guan’s and Wei Fan’s.

He Song joined Wei Fan and Meng Guan at the Nine Yang Sect’s Cross-Realm Teleportation Array, where he studied how it sent cultivators between the Azure Sky Realm and the Azure Sea Realm. He realized he might build arrays of his own if his follower and puppet could bring back the other realm’s aura.

• He Song’s cave abode was completed beside Meng Guan and Wei Fan’s, and he spent a pleasant month among the Nine Yang Sect cultivators.
• He Song’s follower arrived with a Nascent Soul-limit puppet, and Wei Fan arranged for them to travel to the Azure Sea Realm through the array.
• He Song, Meng Guan, and Wei Fan entered the forbidden ground where cultivators and mortals had gathered for the array’s activation.
• He Song recognized the gathered old man as a Nascent Soul cultivator he had encountered earlier, then focused on the formation diagram beneath the crowd.
• He Song learned that the array used the aura of each realm to pass through its world barrier, but that its stored aura would eventually run out.
• He Song planned to have his follower or puppet bring back Azure Sea Realm aura so he could build arrays in both realms and connect them.

He Song studied the Cross-Realm Teleportation Array as Wei Fan transported cultivators and mortals from the Azure Sky Realm to the Azure Sea Realm. He confirmed that he could control his puppet across worlds and prepared to explore the Azure Sea Realm through it, where the arrivals were being welcomed by the Nine Yang Sect.

• He Song analyzed the Cross-Realm Teleportation Array and learned from Wei Fan that it required a vast number of high-grade Spirit Stones because supreme-grade Spirit Stones were scarce.
• Wei Fan activated the array, transporting the assembled cultivators and mortals to the Azure Sea Realm while He Song observed its operation and judged that he needed far greater formation expertise to comprehend it fully.
• Wei Fan explained that the travelers could not be sensed during their hours-long journey through the transmission passage, so He Song returned to his cave abode with Meng Guan and Wei Fan to wait.
• Several hours later, He Song used his secret art to control his puppet in the Azure Sea Realm and saw the arrivals surrounded by local cultivators.
• He Song resolved to test whether the Profound Origin Puppet Refining Technique could control other puppets across worlds and watched as the arrivals were received by the Azure Sea Realm's Nine Yang Sect.

He Song’s puppet and follower entered the Azure Sea Realm through the Nine Yang Sect and sought posts that would keep them safe while earning resources. After learning that both could refine Nascent Soul pills, they demonstrated their skill to Steward Zhang, who was impressed by the results.

• A Nine Yang Sect cultivator escorted He Song’s Nascent Soul Great Perfection puppet and follower from the formation to Steward Zhang.
• He Song reflected on how the six great sacred lands sent Azure Sky Realm’s talented cultivators to the Azure Sea Realm, where they could grow stronger with its resources.
• He Song offered Steward Zhang high-grade Spirit Stones and asked which sect posts could earn the most resources.
• He Song’s follower told him that he was proficient in pill refinement, so He Song presented both of them as skilled pill refiners.
• Steward Zhang brought them to an alchemy area, where their test batches impressed him with their high and top-grade quality.

He Song secured a pill hall master position in the Nine Yang Sect and learned how the sect nurtured its disciples and grew its power. As he studied the vast Azure Sea Realm, he considered learning its advanced teleportation arrays to improve his safety and travel.

• Steward Zhang appointed He Song and his companion as hall masters of adjacent pill halls, then publicly backed He Song before the pill peak's alchemists and master.
• He Song settled into the pill peak, managed his alchemists, and gained a stipend along with surplus pills.
• He Song learned that the Nine Yang Sect accepted disciples with Earth Spiritual Roots or special physiques, sheltered and supplied them, and relied on powerful alumni to protect later generations.
• He Song studied the Azure Sea Realm's immense scale and learned that Grand Ascension Holy Lands occupied only a small part of it, while developed teleportation arrays enabled travel across vast territories.
• He Song considered learning how to use or construct the Azure Sea Realm's teleportation arrays to improve his safety and travel.

He Song studied the Azure Sea Realm’s teleportation and spatial formations while expanding his resource gathering, aiming to master a Cross-Realm Teleportation Array and improve his escape options. After Qing Lingzi and Wang Youzi finally broke through to Spirit Transformation, He Song prepared to equip them for future work in the Azure Sea Realm.

• He Song learned that Yin Souls had long attacked the Azure Sea Realm and other cultivation worlds, but cultivators there had consistently kept them in check.
• He Song studied and mastered an ultra-long-distance teleportation array, while his puppets gathered resources and cultivated spirit herbs in the Azure Sea Realm.
• He Song began studying hidden and penetrating teleportation arrays, along with a spatial defensive formation, to build a composite formation and eventually comprehend the Cross-Realm Teleportation Array.
• Qing Lingzi and Wang Youzi succeeded in breaking through to the Spirit Transformation Realm after each had failed three times.
• He Song sent Qing Lingzi and Wang Youzi spells and secret arts and planned to forge four Dao artifacts for them once they consolidated their cultivation.

He Song prepared Qing Lingzi and Wang Youzi for their move to the Azure Sea Realm while recruiting and equipping more Nascent Soul followers to pursue Spirit Transformation. After comprehending three formations, he visited Wei Fan to ask to study the Nine Yang Sect’s Cross-Realm Teleportation Array blueprint.

• He Song decided to send controlled Nascent Soul followers to the Azure Sea Realm to seek Spirit Transformation and recruited more than a dozen candidates whose loved ones or descendants were under his protection.
• He Song gave the new followers the Nine Refinements Return to Origin Technique, breakthrough insights, and the promise of Mysterious Yellow Bodyguard Pills; they began secluded study.
• After Qing Lingzi and Wang Youzi consolidated their cultivation, He Song forged four Dao artifacts and gave each of them offensive and defensive artifacts, along with a small supply of Spirit Transformation treasures.
• He Song explained the Azure Sea Realm plan and his conditions to Qing Lingzi and Wang Youzi, who agreed to remain loyal and entered seclusion to refine their artifacts.
• He Song finished comprehending two teleportation arrays and a spatial defensive grand formation, then went to Wei Fan to request permission to examine the Cross-Realm Teleportation Array blueprint.

He Song studied the Nine Yang Sect’s Cross-Realm Teleportation Array, entered a state of enlightenment, and advanced to the Mid Nascent Soul Stage. More than a century later, while he continued trying to comprehend the array, Meng Guan broke through to the Spirit Transformation Realm.

• He Song asked Wei Fan for permission to study the Cross-Realm Teleportation Array, and Wei Fan gave him a token granting access to its forbidden grounds.
• He Song studied the array, attained enlightenment, greatly advanced his formation knowledge, and broke through from the Early Nascent Soul Stage to the Mid Nascent Soul Stage.
• He Song realized his new formation knowledge could help him create stronger composite arrays and study Void Refinement Stage formations, then returned his attention to the Cross-Realm Teleportation Array.
• More than a hundred years later, Wei Fan helped Meng Guan break through to the Spirit Transformation Realm, and they sent He Song messages with the news.
• He Song congratulated Wei Fan and Meng Guan while continuing to study the array, having found no further opportunity for enlightenment.

After Meng Guan reached Spirit Transformation, He Song continued studying the Cross-Realm Teleportation Array rather than feigning a breakthrough. Centuries later, he mastered the array and prepared to use Meng Guan’s journey to the Azure Sea Realm to obtain the auras needed to build arrays in both realms and send his followers there to gather resources.

• He Song congratulated Meng Guan on his breakthrough but chose to keep studying the Cross-Realm Teleportation Array before staging his own public breakthrough.
• Wei Fan explained that the holy lands kept new Spirit Transformation cultivators’ identities secret and promised Meng Guan and He Song generous status in the Azure Sea Realm’s Nine Yang Sect.
• He Song planned to send puppets and followers, including Qing Lingzi and Wang Youzi, to the Azure Sea Realm to gather resources for him.
• Several centuries later, He Song fully comprehended the array and devised a plan to obtain cultivator auras through Meng Guan’s passage between realms.
• He Song and his Azure Sea Realm forces gathered the array materials, while Wei Fan agreed to intercept an Azure Sea Realm cultivator’s aura when Meng Guan traveled there.
• He Song met Meng Guan and Wei Fan at the array site as his puppets and followers prepared to depart; Qing Lingzi and Wang Youzi planned to leave the Nine Yang Sect and gather resources for him.

He Song obtained an Azure Sea Realm cultivator’s aura from Wei Fan and had a puppet begin constructing a Cross-Realm Teleportation Array in the Azure Sky Realm. Meanwhile, Qing Lingzi and Wang Youzi founded Serene Valley in the Azure Sea Realm, giving He Song’s followers a base outside the Nine Yang Sect.

• Wei Fan activated the Cross-Realm Teleportation Array, sending Meng Guan, Qing Lingzi, Wang Youzi, and He Song’s other followers and puppets to the Azure Sea Realm, while secretly collecting a thread of its cultivator’s aura for He Song.
• Wei Fan handed He Song the aura and warned him to keep it safe; He Song then gave it to a puppet and had the puppet begin building a Cross-Realm Teleportation Array in a hidden cave abode.
• The Nine Yang Sect welcomed Meng Guan and offered resources and information to Qing Lingzi and Wang Youzi, who accepted the help and left with their followers and puppets.
• He Song’s people began organizing within the Nine Yang Sect and preparing to establish a sect outside it, while Meng Guan received a warm welcome as a Spirit Transformation cultivator and branch grand elder.
• Qing Lingzi and Wang Youzi used their strength and Nine Yang Sect connections to establish Serene Valley within the sect’s sphere of influence.

He Song completed preparations for the Cross-Realm Teleportation Arrays linking the Azure Sky Realm and the Azure Sea Realm, while gathering Yin-contaminated treasures and arranging to build up his forces and wealth in both worlds. The chapter ended with the first cross-realm teleportation succeeding, as two treasure-laden puppets appeared in the arrays and reestablished contact with He Song.

• He Song established Serene Valley and built Cross-Realm Teleportation Arrays beneath its mountain gate and in the Azure Sea Realm.
• He Song’s puppets gathered cultivator aura, compared prices, and amassed resources, while he concluded that Yin-contaminated treasures were the most promising goods to trade across realms.
• He Song turned Nascent Soul Cultivator corpses into puppets and sent them into the Myriad Monster Realm to collect treasures contaminated by Yin energy.
• He Song planned to use Azure Sea Realm resources to strengthen his puppets and accelerate their cultivation through a self-reinforcing cycle.
• After preparing high-grade Spirit Stones, cultivator auras, and treasures, He Song activated both Cross-Realm Teleportation Arrays for their first transmission.
• Several hours later, the two puppets reappeared in the arrays on opposite sides and reestablished contact with He Song.

He Song secretly completed a cross-realm exchange, secured cultivation treasures from the Azure Sea Realm, and used a Crimson Sun Golden Flame Fruit to advance his cultivation. As Yin-tainted goods from Serene Valley began attracting the Azure Sea Realm’s great powers, a puppet in the Myriad Monster Realm revealed why the six great holy lands had not pursued the same trade.

• He Song removed the Cross-Realm Teleportation Array and its treasures, leaving a puppet behind as a decoy, while another puppet carried goods into the Azure Sea Realm and departed from Serene Valley.
• He Song collected the resources after confirming the exchange had drawn no attention, then consumed a Crimson Sun Golden Flame Fruit and refined the new treasures to raise his cultivation.
• Serene Valley began selling Yin-tainted treasures, and the Azure Sea Realm’s great powers recognized their uses and bought them in large quantities.
• He Song wondered why the six great holy lands had not searched the Azure Sky Realm for Yin-tainted goods to sell, but could not determine their reason.
• A puppet He Song had sent into the Myriad Monster Realm showed him something that let him conclude why the six great holy lands had avoided the trade.

He Song discovered a vast lake ringed with spirit ore and concluded that the six great holy lands had stripped the Azure Sky Realm of most of its treasures before abandoning it. He collected the ore and continued cultivating, expecting to reach Late Nascent Soul within several hundred years, but he still knew little about the treasures needed to break through to the Void Refinement Stage.

• He Song inferred that the lake had formed when a massive Ore Vein was forcibly removed, likely by the six great holy lands as they left the Azure Sky Realm.
• He Song reasoned that the six great holy lands had little reason to return to the Azure Sky Realm, leaving him safe to grow stronger there with few rivals.
• He Song controlled his puppet to collect the spirit ore around and beneath the lake, then resumed refining heavenly treasures in seclusion.
• He Song calculated that his accumulated spiritual fruits could let him reach Late Nascent Soul within several hundred years, though he had prepared two fruits to help him break through the bottleneck.
• He Song considered how quickly he might advance to Great Perfection Nascent Soul and seek Void Refinement breakthrough treasures, but realized his Nine Yang Sect puppets had not yet reached Nascent Soul and he knew little about those requirements.

After more than six hundred years of secluded cultivation and puppet-led work, He Song reached the peak of the Mid Nascent Soul Stage and reflected on the deaths he had witnessed, reaffirming his cautious pursuit of immortality. He used two treasured spirit fruits to break through to the Late Nascent Soul stage.

• He Song considered how Serene Valley could use its abundant resources to strengthen his puppets and followers, while noting that supplying them with breakthrough treasures and secrets remained difficult.
• He Song's puppets survived longer in the Myriad Monster Realm as he studied escape and concealment arts and marked dangerous places for them to avoid.
• After six hundred and thirty years, He Song reached the peak of the Mid Nascent Soul Stage and reflected on how weakness and short lifespans led to suffering and death.
• He Song reaffirmed his plan to survive, cultivate quietly, and grow stronger rather than risk himself in contests for power.
• He Song consumed two spirit fruits and successfully broke through from the Mid Nascent Soul Stage to the Late Nascent Soul stage.

He Song consolidated his Late Nascent Soul cultivation while arranging a cross-realm shipment of treasures and resources. He discovered that his puppets and followers in the Azure Sea Realm had grown far stronger over several centuries, leaving him with dozens of Spirit Transformation puppets and seven Nascent Soul followers.

• He Song reaffirmed his plan to build a force in the Azure Sea Realm whose members would gather resources for him in exchange for cultivation support and protection for their families.
• He Song prepared treasures and morale-boosting letters for Serene Valley, and instructed Qing Lingzi and Wang Youzi to sell the shipment to powerful factions and gather heavenly treasures for his cultivation.
• He Song inspected his Azure Sea Realm forces and found that several dozen puppets had reached Spirit Transformation while his Nascent Soul followers had increased from two to seven.
• He Song traced the puppets’ rapid growth to his consciousness using the Profound Origin Puppet Refining Technique and Serene Valley’s resources to reforge Nascent Soul puppets into Spirit Transformation puppets.
• He Song realized that the puppets’ expanding numbers had created a snowball effect, steadily increasing the resources available to strengthen even more of them.

He Song considered how to keep control of his growing puppet force as his Spirit Transformation puppets began to strain his attention. His Azure Sea Realm puppets found a technique to control puppets’ life and death and the Spirit Transformation chapter of the Spirit Puppet Technique, which offered intelligent puppets and easier control.

• He Song realized that his increasingly powerful puppets could soon outgrow his ability to control them, and he sought techniques that would let them fight independently while keeping them obedient.
• He Song ordered his puppets in the Azure Sea Realm to search for methods to improve puppet combat ability, reduce control burdens, and prevent betrayal.
• The puppets found a technique that let He Song destroy a puppet’s core by activating magical power placed within it.
• The puppets also obtained the Spirit Transformation chapter of the Spirit Puppet Technique, a method He Song had previously known only in an incomplete Qi Refining version.
• He Song learned that the technique created intelligent Spirit Puppets and included methods for long-distance control and reducing the cost of controlling them.

He Song mastered the Spirit Puppet Technique and used resources from the Azure Sea Realm to strengthen his puppets while securing his position in the Azure Sky Realm. Four of his puppets broke through to the Void Refinement Realm, making Serene Valley a Void Refining faction.

• He Song comprehended the Spirit Puppet Technique’s Spirit Transformation Chapter and a secret technique for controlling a puppet’s life and death.
• He Song sent four Nascent Soul-limit puppets from the Azure Sea Realm to the Azure Sky Realm, while sending one Nascent Soul-limit puppet back in exchange to protect himself.
• He Song used resources gathered through Qing Lingzi and Wang Youzi to transform his Azure Sea Realm puppets into Spirit Puppets and buy four treasures to raise Nascent Soul-limit puppets to the Void Refinement Realm.
• He Song transformed only the Azure Sky Realm puppets that frequently handled matters for him because that realm lacked the resources to upgrade them all.
• Four puppets in the Azure Sea Realm completed their reforging and broke through to the Void Refinement Realm, making Serene Valley a Void Refining faction.

He Song secured Serene Valley’s position under the Nine Yang Sect, deployed its Void Refinement Puppets to protect the sect and gather resources, and obtained the Spirit Puppet Technique - Void Refinement Chapter. As he studied it, Wei Fan unexpectedly visited his cave abode, leaving He Song wondering what he had come to discuss.

• The Nine Yang Sect enfeoffed Serene Valley with a vast territory, placing it under the Flowing Cloud Sect’s oversight and granting it protection and official standing.
• He Song sent a Void Refinement Puppet to build relations with the Flowing Cloud Sect and neighboring sects, then dispatched three Void Refinement Puppets to seek resources while one stayed to guard Serene Valley.
• He Song found he could control four Void Refinement Puppets and more than a hundred Spirit Transformation Realm puppets, and used Nine Yang Sect contributions to exchange for the Spirit Puppet Technique - Void Refinement Chapter.
• He Song studied the chapter’s puppet-refining methods and secret arts, despite making slow progress because of his cultivation level.
• A puppet in the Nine Yang Sect’s mountain gate sensed Wei Fan’s arrival, and He Song invited him into his cave abode and asked why he had come.