Chapter Summaries

Li Yunjing won the third-tier Primordial Yang Divine Sword Talisman, then spent the auction watching treasures beyond his means sell for staggering prices. After he and his companions pooled their remaining spirit stones to buy rare materials, the auction reached its final day, where the fourth-tier Soul-Extinguishing Lamp opened bidding.

• Li Yunjing secured the Primordial Yang Divine Sword Talisman after Wei Henian stopped bidding, spending all his mid-grade spirit stones.
• Li Yunjing, Yu Yunyi, Lu Ruoxi, and Fu Chao watched Golden Core Realm bidders purchase the Purple Lotus and Aster Fruits for high-grade spirit stones.
• Nascent Soul Realm cultivators bid for the Heaven-Reaching Fortune and Longevity Brush until Palace Master Qin of the Divine Firmament Dao Sect won it for one hundred and fifty top-grade spirit stones.
• Li Yunjing, Yu Yunyi, Lu Ruoxi, and Fu Chao pooled their remaining spirit stones to buy rare materials, nearly exhausting their funds.
• The auction entered its third day with high-tier treasures, and Di Fanshuang opened the final day's bidding with the fourth-tier Soul-Extinguishing Lamp.

At the auction’s climax, Ming Lingchuan won an ancient white jade ruyi for the Divine Firmament Dao Sect at ten thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones. After the auction, Li Yunjing and his companions prepared for the bandits watching them, and Li Yunjing used three days of cultivation to master the second volume of the Five Thunders Method and break through to the third layer of Foundation Establishment.

• Di Fanshuang auctioned the Soul-Extinguishing Lamp, which an unknown Nascent Soul Realm cultivator bought for twenty Top-grade Spirit Stones.
• Di Fanshuang revealed an ancient white jade ruyi as the auction’s star treasure, and Ming Lingchuan outbid the Primordial Yang Dao Sect to win it for ten thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones.
• After leaving the auction hall, Li Yunjing, Yu Yunyi, Lu Ruoxi, and Fu Chao noticed cultivators eyeing their wealth and agreed to prepare for a fight after three days of rest.
• Fu Chao went to find his brother for lethal weapons, while Li Yunjing led Yu Yunyi and Lu Ruoxi back to their courtyard to sort their treasures and cultivate.
• Li Yunjing mastered the second volume of the Five Thunders Method and broke through the bottleneck at the second layer of Foundation Establishment.

After advancing to the Second Heaven of the Foundation Establishment Realm, Li Yunjing prepared to leave the City of Glory with his companions and gave them puppet beasts to guard against danger. In the desert, eighteen cultivator bandits ambushed them, but Li Yunjing and the others quickly overwhelmed the attackers.

• Li Yunjing finished cultivating, strengthened his abilities, and crafted four second-grade, low-quality Puppet Mechanism Beasts during a four-day seclusion.
• Li Yunjing gave Yu Yunyi, Lu Ruoxi, and Fu Chao each a Puppet Mechanism Beast and revealed that four of his secondary professions had reached the second grade.
• Li Yunjing and his companions left the City of Glory on foot, passed through the desert, and fought off swarms of poisonous insects and other creatures.
• Eighteen cultivator bandits surrounded Li Yunjing and his companions, demanded their valuables, and threatened the women.
• Li Yunjing, Yu Yunyi, Lu Ruoxi, and Fu Chao counterattacked, killing or wounding several bandits with their powerful spirit artifacts.
• Li Yunjing cleaved a bandit's shield and split him in two as the remaining attackers watched in horror.

Li Yunjing and his companions defeated the Cultivator Bandits, then encountered a group of Barbarian mages near an oasis. The Barbarians summoned several hundred warriors, and both sides prepared to fight.

• Li Yunjing killed the bandit leader, burned his corpse, and pursued another fleeing bandit while Yu Yunyi, Lu Ruoxi, and Fu Chao defeated their own opponents.
• Li Yunjing and his companions chased the last bandit for a thousand li before Li Yunjing cut him off and killed him.
• Li Yunjing encountered seven Barbarian mages, who challenged him for entering their territory.
• Yu Yunyi, Lu Ruoxi, and Fu Chao joined Li Yunjing, and several hundred mounted Barbarian warriors gathered behind the mages.
• Li Yunjing and his companions unleashed their auras, making the Barbarian mages uneasy.

Li Yunjing and his companions fought the Spirit Bone Tribe after its shamans attacked them, slaughtering most of the tribe’s army and defeating the Spirit Bone Shaman. As another army and more shamans approached, the battle was still unfolding.

• The Spirit Bone Shaman greeted Li Yunjing’s group and invited them to his tribe, but Li Yunjing sensed danger and refused.
• A shaman attacked with a totem eagle, prompting Li Yunjing, Lu Ruoxi, Yu Yunyi, and Fu Chao to strike back.
• The shamans summoned black smoke and sent their army against the four cultivators, who cut down most of the warriors and beasts.
• Fu Chao used a Forbidden Artifact to kill several shamans, while Li Yunjing and the others drove back the remaining troops with thunder arts.
• The Spirit Bone Shaman fought back with wind blades, but Li Yunjing killed him with Geng Gold Thunder as the others finished off the remaining riders.
• Another army arrived with an eagle and four or five Foundation Establishment Realm shaman archmages.

Li Yunjing, Yu Yunyi, Lu Ruoxi, and Fu Chao fled a Barbarian army into a secluded mountain, where a furious woman in white trapped them in her Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Spirit Sealing Array. As the woman used Demon-Extinguishing Incense to subdue the Golden Eagle King and the shamans, Li Yunjing tried to guide the Azure Cloud Boat through the illusions, but the array’s distortions left the group trapped in a deadly storm.

• Yu Yunyi fled with Li Yunjing, Lu Ruoxi, and Fu Chao aboard the Azure Cloud Boat as the Golden Eagle King and five shamans pursued them.
• Yu Yunyi steered the boat into a misty mountain, where a woman in white accused them of intruding and attacked; Yu Yunyi fired the Sky Thunder Cannon, damaging the mountainside.
• The woman in white trapped the Azure Cloud Boat in an illusion array, and Li Yunjing began searching for its formation nodes while the pursuers arrived.
• The woman in white rejected the shamans’ offer to cooperate, lit Demon-Extinguishing Incense, and trapped the Golden Eagle King and the shamans in the array.
• Li Yunjing took control of the Azure Cloud Boat and tried to navigate out, but the array surrounded the group with enormous illusory storms that seemed to threaten the boat.

Li Yunjing and the others escaped the illusion formation and used the Azure Cloud Boat’s Heavenly Thunder Cannon to kill the Golden Eagle King and the Five Great Shamans. They returned to the Spirit Bone Tribe, drove off the white-clad woman, and began exploring an ancient underground palace, where Fu Chao discovered a well.

• A thunderstorm shattered the illusion formation, allowing Li Yunjing and the Azure Cloud Boat to escape while the white-clad woman continued fighting the Golden Eagle King and the Five Great Shamans.
• Li Yunjing, Yu Yunyi, Lu Ruoxi, and Fu Chao charged the boat’s Energy Furnace with thunder and fired the Heavenly Thunder Cannon, killing the Five Great Shamans and the Golden Eagle King as the white-clad woman fled.
• Li Yunjing took the Golden Eagle King’s corpse and led the group back to the Spirit Bone Tribe to plunder it, but they found the white-clad woman slaughtering the tribe’s inhabitants.
• Li Yunjing fired the Sky Thunder Cannon at the white-clad woman, forcing her to flee, and the group entered the tribe’s enormous temple.
• The group explored the temple’s underground palace and found old ritual records, minor magical items, and a well that Fu Chao had uncovered.

Li Yunjing and his companions descended into an underground river, fought the monsters dwelling there, and encountered Zhao Yibai, an Ice Spirit Sect ancestor who had secretly cultivated Ghost Dao. Zhao Yibai attacked after revealing his identity, and the four retreated together in their Four Symbols Formation as his Ghost Fire struck at them.

• Li Yunjing led Yu Yunyi, Lu Ruoxi, and Fu Chao through the underground river, where he destroyed the ghost of Fairy Ling Hua with lightning.
• The four killed a Giant Demon and attacked a flock of Blood-Sucking Bats, with Li Yunjing using Fire God Thunder to burn many of them.
• Zhao Yibai appeared in green Ghost Fire and attacked Li Yunjing, who blocked him with the Heavenly Thunder Emperor Seal and summoned the Five Dragon Wheel embryo.
• Zhao Yibai identified himself as an Ice Spirit Sect ancestor and admitted he had cultivated a Ghost Dao Cultivation Method to extend his life.
• Li Yunjing and the others formed a Four Symbols Formation and retreated, while Zhao Yibai turned his Ghost Fire into a giant hand and struck at them.

Li Yunjing and his companions fled Zhao Yibai after their attacks failed to stop the Golden Core Realm pursuer. They hid in a city and headed to the Xu Mansion, hoping the family could help them get a message to the Divine Firmament Dao Sect.

• Li Yunjing activated the Primordial Yang Divine Sword Talisman, wounding Zhao Yibai, then ordered Yu Yunyi, Lu Ruoxi, and Fu Chao to retreat.
• Zhao Yibai pursued them through the underground passages, damaging the Heavenly Thunder Emperor Seal as the group escaped aboard the Azure Cloud Boat.
• Li Yunjing and his companions collapsed the Underground Palace and flew away, but Zhao Yibai tracked them down again with an Ice Arrow.
• Li Yunjing led the group into a crowded city, where they concealed their auras and appearances to avoid Zhao Yibai.
• After hearing that Young Master Xu was afflicted by an evil entity, Li Yunjing proposed seeking help from the Xu Family to send word to the Divine Firmament Dao Sect.
• Li Yunjing and the others walked to the Xu Mansion in the eastern district.

Li Yunjing and his companions entered the Xu Family estate to investigate the evil afflicting Young Master Xu, but discovered poisonous creatures and signs of a hidden demonic formation. After overhearing Master Xu reveal the family intended to sacrifice the visitors, Li Yunjing learned the Xu Family’s secret might even kill Golden Core Realm cultivators and considered using it against Zhao Yibai.

• Li Yunjing showed the Xu Family a display of lightning and was welcomed as an immortal master.
• Master Xu described Young Master Xu’s madness and self-mutilation, and Li Yunjing agreed to examine him the next day.
• Li Yunjing and his companions found poisonous creatures hidden around their courtyard, so they decided to assess the danger before helping Young Master Xu.
• Li Yunjing searched Xu Mansion at night and discovered demonic artifacts arranged in what appeared to be a formation.
• Li Yunjing overheard Master Xu say the Xu Family guarded something beneath its ancestral residence and planned to sacrifice the visitors if they could not save his son.
• Master Xu claimed the family’s secret technique could refine even Golden Core Realm cultivators to death, prompting Li Yunjing to consider using it against Zhao Yibai.

Li Yunjing discovered that the Xu Family intended to sacrifice him to break a seal beneath their mansion, so he confronted Master Xu and led his companions into the dungeon. There they found a Foundation Establishment cultivator who revealed that the Xu Family had trapped him to use him for the same purpose.

• Li Yunjing followed Master Xu into a hidden dungeon passage, killing guards who noticed him.
• Li Yunjing confronted Master Xu, who explained that his ancestors had inherited a cultivator’s belongings and that sealed demonic artifacts lay beneath the dungeon.
• Yu Yunyi, Lu Ruoxi, and Fu Chao joined Li Yunjing, and Fu Chao killed Master Xu before the group continued into the dungeon.
• Li Yunjing used a Puppet Mechanism Beast to kill Xu Family guards and gave the tortured prisoners in the cells a quick death.
• A prisoner in the deepest cell blocked Li Yunjing’s Sword Qi and revealed that he was Xu Changfeng’s fellow disciple from the Northern Emperor Sect, captured by the Xu Family as a sacrifice to break the seal.

Li Yunjing and the others freed Shan Baiyi, a Northern Emperor Sect True Disciple imprisoned for three hundred years, and arranged for him to summon aid against the Golden Core Realm cultivator Zhao Yibai. Shan Baiyi revealed the dungeon’s connection to the Nether Great Sage and Immortal Sword Guest, then prepared to hide until the battle began.

• Shan Baiyi explained how the Xu Family’s five Foundation Establishment cultivators had trapped him before leaving for a border war three hundred years earlier, after which the Xu Family declined.
• Li Yunjing, Yu Yunyi, Lu Ruoxi, and Fu Chao agreed to free Shan Baiyi in exchange for his help, asking him to contact the Northern Emperor Sect for reinforcements against Zhao Yibai.
• Li Yunjing promised Shan Baiyi lifespan-increasing pills if he delivered the message, and Shan Baiyi agreed to their terms.
• Li Yunjing and the others broke the dark iron cell’s bars and destroyed the Nether Beast that formed from them, freeing Shan Baiyi.
• Shan Baiyi disclosed that the dungeon had once been the Nether Great Sage’s demonic kingdom and that Immortal Sword Guest had sealed its demonic aura and treasures with the Demon Suppressing Seal.
• Li Yunjing told Shan Baiyi to hide in the city and leave when fighting began, while the four disciples continued investigating the dungeon.

Li Yunjing and the others broke the ancient seal beneath Xu Mansion and searched the ruined underground city for the Nether Great Sage’s demonic artifact. Zhao Yibai sensed the released demonic qi and headed toward them, leaving the group racing against time to find the relic and prepare to escape.

• Shan Baiyi left after agreeing to help, and Li Yunjing’s group continued deeper into the dungeon until they reached the sealed cave.
• Li Yunjing led Yu Yunyi, Lu Ruoxi, and Fu Chao in steadily attacking the seal, ordering them to rest and restore their strength between assaults.
• The four broke the barrier and entered a vast ruined underground city, where Fu Chao used Samadhi True Fire to burn away swarms of poisonous insects.
• Zhao Yibai sensed the demonic qi from Xu Mansion and set out to investigate while Li Yunjing prepared traps at the cave entrance.
• Li Yunjing and the others searched the ruins for the demonic artifact as he warned them to regroup near him once their formations broke.

Li Yunjing and the others found the Ten Thousand Poison Banner and Blood Demon Seal in the underground city, but Zhao Yibai pursued them and forced them to flee. As they escaped, two Golden Core Realm elders from the Northern Emperor Sect arrived to help them.

• Li Yunjing collected the weakened Ten Thousand Poison Banner after Yu Yunyi discovered it among the ruins.
• A formation explosion shook Northview City, and Zhao Yibai found the group with the Blood Demon Seal and tried to seize both demonic treasures.
• Li Yunjing used the Ten Thousand Poison Banner while Yu Yunyi, Lu Ruoxi, and Fu Chao worked to refine the Blood Demon Seal, but Zhao Yibai's defenses resisted their attacks.
• The four fled the collapsing underground city, and Zhao Yibai froze it with his Cold Ice True Qi before pursuing them into the sky.
• Li Yunjing and the others used the Heavenly Thunder Cannon and Blood Demon Seal to stall Zhao Yibai, while Shan Baiyi alerted the Northern Emperor Sect.
• Two Golden Core Realm Daoist nuns from the Northern Emperor Sect arrived as Zhao Yibai continued chasing the four.

Two Northern Emperor Sect Daoist Nuns helped Li Yunjing and his companions defeat Zhao Yibai, but a black-robed stranger rescued his Primordial Spirit. After a perilous half-year journey, the four Divine Firmament Dao Sect disciples returned to the sect’s mountain range.

• The Northern Emperor Sect’s Immortal Aunt Ruthless and a young Daoist Nun joined the battle and wounded Zhao Yibai while Li Yunjing, Lu Ruoxi, Yu Yunyi, and Fu Chao helped block his escape.
• Immortal Aunt Ruthless crushed Zhao Yibai’s body, but a black-robed figure knocked away the young Daoist Nun’s Blood Lotus tentacle and rescued his Primordial Spirit.
• The black-robed figure escaped in a cloud of smoke, and Immortal Aunt Ruthless told the four disciples to report Zhao Yibai’s case only to their sect’s higher-ups.
• The Daoist Nuns searched the Underground Palace beneath Northview City while Li Yunjing and his companions continued south, fighting bandits and surviving further dangers along the way.
• After half a year and more than eight hundred thousand miles, the four disciples reached the Divine Firmament Mountain Range, where Patrol Disciples challenged them.

Li Yunjing returned to the Divine Firmament Dao Sect and, with Xu Wuyi’s help, went to Divine Firmament Peak to seek promotion to True Disciple. After enduring the sect’s Path of Will, he reached the Examination Hall, where he gained new insight from the Divine Firmament Jade Records and awaited the examination.

• Li Yunjing said goodbye to Yu Yunyi, Lu Ruoxi, and Fu Chao before returning to Seven Stars Peak and telling Xu Wuyi about his dangerous trial.
• Li Yunjing asked whether completing his Trial Mission would earn him promotion, and Xu Wuyi agreed to take him to see the Sect Leader and handle his affairs.
• Xu Wuyi and Li Yunjing passed the patrol inspection and climbed Divine Firmament Peak’s Path of Will, reaching the summit after three hours.
• Xu Wuyi told Li Yunjing he had to pass the True Disciple examination before paying respects to the Sect Leader and led him to the Examination Hall.
• Li Yunjing gained insight from the characters on the Examination Hall plaque, and Xu Wuyi praised his comprehension before the hall’s guards admitted their request for an examination.

Li Yunjing entered the True Disciple Palace on Divine Firmament Peak and passed the assessment after the elders verified his task for Palace Master Qin. He received a new Identity Token, the second volume of the Divine Firmament Jade Records, a Great Sun Dao Robe, and increased benefits before the elders discussed his talent and achievements.

• Xu Wuyi reminded Li Yunjing that the Examination Hall elder would verify his task before granting him True Disciple status and its benefits.
• Li Yunjing presented his Identity Token and Yu Yuanhua's proof of completing the front-line task personally issued by Palace Master Qin, surprising Elder He and another elder.
• Li Yunjing instinctively blocked the Golden Core Realm cultivators' attempts to peer into his sea of consciousness, and Elder He declared that he had passed the assessment.
• An elder transformed Li Yunjing's Identity Token into a purple-gold True Disciple token and copied the second volume of the Divine Firmament Jade Records into it.
• Elder He gave Li Yunjing a Great Sun Dao Robe and explained that his benefits had increased tenfold, while the other elder warned him to uphold the sect's principles and not bully fellow disciples.
• After Li Yunjing left, Elder He and the other elder discussed his battle record, Supreme Five Elements Spiritual Root, and delayed advancement to True Disciple.

Li Yunjing became a True Disciple of the Divine Firmament Dao Sect and met Sect Leader Ming Lingchuan, who ordered his Demonic Artifacts reforged. Palace Master Qin then asked about his latest trouble, leaving Li Yunjing to realize that the sect had acted on the City of Glory vice city lord’s complaint.

• Elder He and another elder praised Li Yunjing and discussed the Divine Firmament Dao Sect’s campaign in the Hengyue Mountain Range and its rivals.
• Li Yunjing left the Examination Hall as a True Disciple, and Xu Wuyi congratulated him and advised him to pay his respects to the Sect Leader.
• A golden-armored elder escorted Li Yunjing into the Divine Firmament Palace, where he met Ming Lingchuan and Palace Master Qin.
• Li Yunjing asked Ming Lingchuan for cultivation guidance, then panicked when Palace Master Qin mentioned that he had gotten into trouble and offered up the Ten Thousand Poison Banner and Blood Demon Seal.
• Ming Lingchuan judged the Demonic Artifacts ordinary and ordered Li Yunjing to have them reforged, while Palace Master Qin pressed him to recall his other mistake.
• Li Yunjing remembered that the vice city lord of the City of Glory had reported him to the Law Enforcement Hall over the banquet incident involving Long Feiyang.

Li Yunjing accepted a three-year punishment in the Divine Prison after Palace Master Qin and Ming Lingchuan used it to steer him toward cultivation and away from sect power struggles. He secured a powerful formation disk and permission to choose a spiritual-power cultivation method before leaving Divine Firmament Palace, where Xu Wuyi asked what had happened.

• Li Yunjing denied wrongdoing, but Palace Master Qin sentenced him to three years in the Divine Prison, and Ming Lingchuan explained that the punishment would give him time to cultivate.
• Li Yunjing understood Palace Master Qin's intentions and asked for help repairing his damaged Lesser Five Elements Formation Disk.
• Palace Master Qin gave Li Yunjing a third-grade Great Five Elements Divine Thunder Demon-Extinguishing Array for protection.
• Li Yunjing asked Ming Lingchuan for a better spiritual-power training method, and Ming Lingchuan allowed him to choose one from the fifth floor of the Scripture Library.
• Li Yunjing left Divine Firmament Palace pleased with his rewards, and Xu Wuyi asked him what had happened.

Li Yunjing returned to Splendid Peak as a True Disciple, then used the Sect Leader’s permission to memorize a spiritual cultivation method in the Scripture Library. As he left, he reunited with an old acquaintance: a purple-robed Golden Core elder who noticed his promotion.

• Li Yunjing told Xu Wuyi that Palace Master Qin had sentenced him to three years in Divine Prison but rewarded him with the Great Five Elements Divine Thunder Demon-Extinguishing Array and permission to select a spiritual cultivation method.
• Xu Wuyi parted from Li Yunjing at the teleportation array and considered giving up his chief steward position to prepare for a Golden Core breakthrough.
• Li Yunjing returned to Splendid Peak, where disciples gathered to congratulate him on becoming a True Disciple, and then went to the Scripture Library.
• Li Yunjing selected the Purple Firmament Divine Spirit-Forging Heavenly Secret Art and spent a day memorizing its contents before his confinement.
• As Li Yunjing left the fifth floor, he recognized a purple-robed Golden Core elder, who greeted him and remarked on his promotion.