Chapter Summaries

Li Yunjing unified his five-element power, broke through to the Eighth Heaven of Foundation Establishment Realm, and returned to the Star Moon Trading Firm, where he reunited with Zhao Qi. After three days together, he prepared to travel to Divine Firmament Island and Holy Sound Island.

• Li Yunjing fused his five-element arts into a new force and discovered his own Five Elements Absolute Art.
• Li Yunjing continued cultivating, broke through to the Eighth Heaven of Foundation Establishment Realm, and spent ten days consolidating his cultivation.
• Li Yunjing left seclusion and summoned Zhao Qi, telling her he would visit Divine Firmament Island and Holy Sound Island before returning for her.
• Li Yunjing stayed with Zhao Qi for three days, helping her advance her cultivation and gain insight into Wuxing qi and thunder power.

After leaving Flying Cloud Island, Li Yunjing was ambushed by Black Hand Tian Mingzi, who used a spatial treasure to suppress him and gain the upper hand. Li Yunjing feigned serious injury as Tian Mingzi prepared to finish him and seize his treasures.

• Li Yunjing left Zhao Qi to consolidate her cultivation, collected materials and Spirit Stones from Li Linzi at Star Moon Trading Firm Branch No. 3, and departed for Holy Sound Island.
• Sun Zirui learned that Li Yunjing had left Flying Cloud Island and relayed his movements to Black Hand Tian Mingzi, who had accepted a contract to kill him.
• Tian Mingzi ambushed Li Yunjing at sea, but Li Yunjing countered his ghostly attacks and destroyed his twelve Ghost Generals with the Yin-Yang Treasure Mirror.
• Tian Mingzi used the Mystic Heaven Compass to suppress Li Yunjing’s movement and unleash Space Blades, wounding him despite his defensive treasures.
• Li Yunjing feigned a crippling injury as Tian Mingzi gloated and planned to kill him, take his treasures, and flee the region.

Li Yunjing killed Tian Mingzi, survived an ambush by a stronger black-robed man thanks to a Flying Cloud Sect expert, and continued to Holy Sound Island. There he refined the Mystic Heaven Compass, learned the Sea Clan attack had been repelled, and found Ma Xingyuan running Branch No. 4 profitably.

• Li Yunjing used the Myriad Phenomena Lotus Lantern to deceive Tian Mingzi, then destroyed Tian Mingzi's body and Golden Core with his fists and lightning.
• A black-robed man attacked Li Yunjing, but a peak Golden Core Realm woman from the Flying Cloud Sect intervened and forced the attacker to escape.
• Li Yunjing collected Tian Mingzi's many treasures, refined the Mystic Heaven Compass aboard the Azure Cloud Boat, and gained insight into the Law of Space.
• Li Yunjing reached Holy Sound Island and heard that the Holy Sound Sect had repelled the Sea Clan invasion after a draw between the Nascent Soul Realm forces.
• Li Yunjing visited Branch No. 4, checked Ma Xingyuan's accounts, praised his profitable management, and took the shop's third-tier materials and Spirit Stones.

Li Yunjing settled his affairs in the East Sea and prepared to return to the mainland, leaving resources and cultivation guidance with the people he trusted. After reuniting with Zhao Qi, he planned to attend the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce auction, but revealed that an ambush on Flying Cloud Island meant they had to disguise themselves and leave at once.

• Li Yunjing gave Ma Xingyuan resources, a Barrier Breaking Pill, and three days of cultivation guidance that helped loosen Ma Xingyuan's bottleneck.
• Li Yunjing visited Elder Wu Cheng, closed out his mission, and received the contribution points he had earned.
• Li Yunjing left resources, Treasure Artifacts, and cultivation manuals with Xing'er and Yue'er before departing for Flying Cloud Island.
• Li Yunjing reunited with Zhao Qi and told her they would attend the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce auction before returning to the mainland.
• Li Yunjing told Zhao Qi that Golden Core Realm cultivators had ambushed him on Flying Cloud Island, so they decided to disguise themselves and leave immediately.

Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi traveled aboard a Four Seas Chamber of Commerce ship, hoping to avoid the Flying Cloud Sect’s spies, but a massive sea-beast attack threatened to sink it. They joined the passengers in fighting back, while the Demon Dragon King killed and devoured one of the ship’s Golden Core cultivators.

• Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi decided not to pursue the Flying Cloud Sect over his ambush and boarded a Four Seas Chamber of Commerce ship in disguise.
• Ten nights into the voyage, sea beasts attacked the ship, and Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi initially stayed in their cabin while the crew fought them.
• A single-horned demon dragon appeared and battered the ship, forcing the passengers and additional Golden Core cultivators to join the battle.
• Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi went to the deck and used their Sword Qi to kill ordinary demon beasts, helping ease the pressure on nearby passengers.
• The Demon Dragon King broke through the Four Seas elders’ defenses, poisoned one Golden Core cultivator, then caught and swallowed him.

Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi survived a demon attack on their ship after the Yinfeng Twin Sha intervened, then spent three months cultivating on the voyage to Four Seas Island. They arrived in Four Seas City for the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce auction, hired Yan Yang as their guide, and were directed toward Yuelai Inn.

• The Yinfeng Twin Sha answered the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce's plea, fought the Demon Dragon King, and forced it and the other demon kings to retreat.
• Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi stayed in their room during emergency repairs and spent the next three months cultivating aboard the ship.
• The ship reached Four Seas Island, where Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi saw the bustling harbor and entered Four Seas City.
• Li Yunjing hired Yan Yang for three days, and Yan Yang explained the city's rules and the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce's control of the island.
• Li Yunjing asked Yan Yang for lodging, and Yan Yang recommended Yuelai Inn in the western part of the city.

Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi settled into Yuelai Inn and headed out to learn about the upcoming Four Seas Chamber of Commerce auction. When they saw Lin Xuan being beaten by the Flying Dragon Gang over a jade pendant, Li Yunjing intervened, offered to buy it, and promised Lin Xuan resources to attempt Foundation Establishment.

• Yan Yang guided Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi through Four Seas City to Yuelai Inn, where they rented a private courtyard until the auction for thirty thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi planned to explore the auction and shop for supplies, including treasures Zhao Qi might need to form her core.
• Yan Yang led Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi toward the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, where they heard rumors that the auction would feature a legendary ancient magical artifact.
• Li Yunjing noticed Lin Xuan being beaten by Flying Dragon Gang members over an old jade pendant and intervened, paying Elder Chen a Mid-grade Spirit Stone to end the dispute.
• Li Yunjing offered to buy Lin Xuan's jade pendant and provide resources for him to reach Foundation Establishment, and Lin Xuan accepted.

Lin Xuan traded his family jade pendant to Li Yunjing for cultivation resources and guidance, while Li Yunjing uncovered that the pendant was a high-grade token linked to an ancient sect. After spending days shopping ahead of the auction, Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi arrived at the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, where powerful attendants greeted them.

• Lin Xuan offered Li Yunjing his family jade pendant, and Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi recognized its rare jade and ancient array markings.
• Li Yunjing explained the pill grades and offered Lin Xuan spirit stones, pills, and a Foundation Establishment cultivation method in exchange for the pendant; Lin Xuan accepted.
• Li Yunjing advised Lin Xuan on using the pills, then left him to eat while Lin Xuan packed up the leftovers.
• Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi arranged for Yan Yang to gather auction information, watched Lin Xuan leave safely, and spent the following days shopping around the market.
• Li Yunjing refined the jade pendant and discovered it was a token tied to a vanished sect, yielding a map and scattered secrets.
• Three days before the auction, Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi visited the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, where Foundation Establishment attendants asked whether they had come to buy or sell.

Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi entered the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce to buy rare cultivation materials and pills. After paying with hundreds of supreme-grade spirit artifacts, Li Yunjing refused Shi Meng’s offer to join the chamber but accepted a VIP Token and left a way to contact him.

• Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi posed as sixth-level Foundation Establishment cultivators from Heavenly Star Island and entered the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce.
• Li Yunjing listed the rare materials and medicinal formulas he wanted, then showed Shi Meng a pouch filled with Mid-grade Spirit Stones to prove he could afford them.
• Shi Meng brought treasures to a private room, where Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi selected ten items, including Mystic Ice Stone, a Soul Spirit Pill, and Nine Bends Yellow Spring Water.
• Shi Meng priced the items at 520,000 Mid-grade Spirit Stones, and Li Yunjing paid with 150 supreme-grade offensive spirit artifacts, 100 defensive spirit artifacts, and 130,000 Mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Shi Meng recognized Li Yunjing as a master artifact refiner and tried to recruit him, but he refused, introduced himself as Daoist Wutian, exchanged contact details, and accepted a VIP Token.

Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi attended the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce auction, where Li Yunjing bought a White Jade Ginseng to help save the old man in the Scripture Library. The auction continued with higher-tier treasures appearing, while the ginseng’s role in Li Yunjing’s plan remained unresolved.

• Li Yunjing accepted Shi Meng’s VIP Token and agreed to consider attending the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce auction.
• Shi Meng led Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi through a VIP passage to box ninety-nine at the crowded auction.
• Li Yunjing spotted the White Jade Ginseng and bid against another buyer, raising the price to sixty thousand mid-grade spirit stones.
• Li Yunjing won the White Jade Ginseng and told Zhao Qi he needed it for an important purpose.
• An attendant delivered the ginseng to Li Yunjing, and the auction continued with Third Tier treasures and later a Fourth Tier material.

Li Yunjing won the Dragon-Phoenix Yin-Yang Heavenly Secret Pendant at the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce auction and left the island with Zhao Qi to avoid trouble. During their journey, he reforged the Ten Thousand Poison Banner, raising it to a mid-grade Treasure Artifact.

• Li Yunjing watched the auction for several days before bidding on the pendant, which was said to come from the ancient Heavenly Secret Sect, and set a limit with Zhao Qi.
• Li Yunjing outbid the other cultivators with a bid of seven hundred thousand mid-grade spirit stones and won the Dragon-Phoenix Yin-Yang Heavenly Secret Pendant.
• Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi paid for the pendant, left the auction house, and sailed west from the docks; aboard the ship, Li Yunjing examined the pendant but could not discover its secrets.
• After a month at sea, Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi transferred to the Azure Cloud Boat and entered secluded cultivation.
• Li Yunjing used the Myriad Dao Glazed Furnace, Samadhi True Fire, rare materials, and three drops of Nine Bends Yellow Spring Water to reforge the Ten Thousand Poison Banner and fill it with poisons and poisonous creatures.
• Li Yunjing finished refining the Ten Thousand Poison Banner, which became a mid-grade Treasure Artifact with its power increased seven- or eightfold.

Li Yunjing returned to the Divine Firmament Dao Sect after strengthening the Ten Thousand Poison Banner and Myriad Phenomena Lotus Lantern, then arranged for Zhu Wanyun to cultivate and Zhao Qi to oversee his trading firm branches. Back at the sect, he reunited with his old friend Fu Chao.

• Li Yunjing refined the Ten Thousand Poison Banner and made lamp oil from Third-Order Demon King corpses to activate the Myriad Phenomena Lotus Lantern.
• At the Divine Firmament Temple, Li Yunjing accepted Zhu Wanyun as a cultivator under his guidance, and she chose to follow him.
• Li Yunjing assigned Zhao Qi to manage the Star Moon Trading Firm branches in Red Sun Market and Ten Thousand Sword City.
• Zhu Wanyun broke through to Foundation Establishment, and Li Yunjing left her in charge of Qiwu Villa with thirty second-tier Puppet Mechanism Beasts.
• Li Yunjing returned to the Divine Firmament Dao Sect and hurried to meet Fu Chao, and the old friends embraced after years apart.

Li Yunjing reunited with Fu Chao at the Divine Firmament Dao Sect, and the old friends reminisced, planned to investigate the Heavenly Ruins Secret Realm, and went to Donghua Pavilion together. There, Li Yunjing drove off He Bao after he provoked Fu Chao, while the restaurant’s elders were startled by Li Yunjing’s strength.

• Fu Chao reunited with Li Yunjing outside the Seven Stars Palace and told him he had reached the Fourth Heaven of Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Fu Chao offered to share a clue to the Heavenly Ruins Secret Realm, and Li Yunjing agreed to join him after Fu Chao finished investigating it.
• Fu Chao and Li Yunjing walked to Donghua Pavilion, where Fu Chao told Li Yunjing about beating He Bao and Li Yunjing promised to back him up in future fights.
• At Donghua Pavilion, Li Yunjing repelled the Golden Core Realm elders’ probing divine senses, astonishing them with his strength.
• He Bao mocked Fu Chao at the restaurant, but Li Yunjing warned him to stop; He Bao backed down and left with his lackeys.

Li Yunjing reunited with Fu Chao, learned that Yu Yunyi and Lu Ruoxi were serving at the Ghost Moon Kingdom front lines, and revealed how powerful he had become. After returning to the sect, he resumed leading the Purple Firmament Party and began planning its next moves.

• Li Yunjing and Fu Chao reminisced over dinner, and Fu Chao explained that Yu Yunyi and Lu Ruoxi had gone to the Ghost Moon Kingdom with powerful allies.
• Li Yunjing and Fu Chao agreed to handle sect affairs for two years before traveling to the front lines and the Heavenly Ruins Secret Realm, and Fu Chao warned him that the Ten Thousand Laws Society was recruiting allies against the Purple Firmament Party.
• Li Yunjing told Fu Chao he had killed several Golden Core Realm cultivators and Demon Kings, then gave him three Treasure Artifacts.
• Li Yunjing paid Fu Chao's bill, spent the night at Yu Yunyi's residence, and then returned to sect business, exchanging materials for contribution points and having treasures refined.
• Li Yunjing gathered the Purple Firmament Party's core members, heard their reports, and learned that nearly five thousand sect members belonged to the faction.

Li Yunjing strengthened his faction and visited Elder Li, offering rare medicines to repay the senior who had once guided him. The Source of Life promised to heal most of Li Cangqiong’s injuries, while Li Yunjing left with his teachings and a warning about the sect’s powerful rivals.

• Li Yunjing ordered the Purple Firmament Party to discipline its members and remove loafers and spies, then studied the Heavenly Ruins Secret Realm in the Scripture Library.
• Li Yunjing told Elder Yue that he wanted to repay Elder Li for his past guidance, and Elder Yue agreed to take him to the secluded valley where the senior lived.
• Li Yunjing offered Elder Li a thirty-thousand-year-old White Jade Ginseng and a gourd of Source of Life, which Elder Li said could heal more than seventy percent of his injuries.
• Elder Li accepted the treasures and gave Li Yunjing a jade slip recording his life’s teachings, while warning him not to underestimate the sect’s Golden Core Realm Vice Sect Leaders.
• Elder Yue revealed that Elder Li was Li Cangqiong, a former prodigy who had once contended with the Sect Leader, and Li Cangqiong began refining the Source of Life.

Li Yunjing returned to the Seven Stars Palace and learned that Palace Master Qin had summoned him. Instead of punishing him, Qin Jiuxiao appointed him First Deacon, accepted him as her ninth personal disciple, and gave him the first half of the Seven Stars Dao Canon; Li Yunjing then began taking charge of the palace.

• Xu Wuyi told Li Yunjing that Palace Master Qin wanted to see him, and escorted him to the cliffside courtyard.
• Palace Master Qin praised Li Yunjing’s accomplishments and appointed him First Deacon of the Seven Stars Palace, giving him the Seven Stars Token.
• Palace Master Qin took Li Yunjing as her ninth personal disciple and gave him the first half of the Seven Stars Dao Canon.
• Xu Wuyi revealed that he was Palace Master Qin’s eighth disciple and became Li Yunjing’s senior brother.
• Li Yunjing returned to the Seven Stars Palace and began taking charge with Xu Wuyi’s help, while the palace announced his new roles.

After becoming Qin Jiuxiao’s final disciple and the Seven Stars Palace’s First Deacon, Li Yunjing learned the palace’s strength and began taking charge. His first day brought a cautious invitation from Elder Zhao of Tian-Shu Peak and the support of several Seven Stars Palace disciples, while Li Yunjing prepared to secure his position and face growing rivals.

• Xu Wuyi handed Li Yunjing the Seven Stars Palace’s responsibilities and explained its forces, resources, and role in the Divine Firmament Dao Sect.
• Li Yunjing began approving formation projects and managing the Seven Stars Palace’s finances and affairs.
• Elder Zhao invited Li Yunjing to cooperate with Tian-Shu Peak in exploring ancient ruins, but Li Yunjing declined for the time being and suspected a hidden motive.
• Wang Zifeng, Liu Yunfei, and several other disciples congratulated Li Yunjing and pledged their support.
• Li Yunjing left for Qiwu Villa and, in the following days, visited key locations and met elders and deacons to learn how the Seven Stars Palace operated.

Li Yunjing overhauled the Seven Stars Palace’s formation projects and began reforming its entrenched practices, eventually winning the elders’ respect by displaying his strength. Meanwhile, Tianhongzi and Elder Zhao plotted to lure him out of the Divine Firmament Dao Sect and kill him using Wei Henian as bait.

• Li Yunjing reviewed the Seven Stars Palace’s research projects, cut funding for slow or uncertain work, and endured days of angry arguments before negotiating an agreement with the researchers.
• Li Yunjing assigned Wang Zifeng to oversee the projects and began addressing the palace’s other problems, despite veteran elders quietly obstructing his reforms.
• Li Yunjing sparred with elders at a martial tournament, astonishing the palace by challenging Golden Core Realm opponents while at the Eighth Heaven of Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Elder Zhao warned Tianhongzi not to underestimate Li Yunjing, and the group agreed to lure him away from the sect and stage his death in a secret realm.
• Elder Zhao proposed using Wei Henian to attack Li Yunjing’s friends and draw Li Yunjing out, and Junior Brother Yan approved the scheme.

Tianhongzi and Elder Zhao arranged for Yan Song to recruit Wei Henian into their plot against Li Yunjing, while Li Yunjing spent six months strengthening his position and studying the Seven Stars Palace’s fifth-tier formation. As rivals planned to provoke Long Feiyang into testing Li Yunjing, Yan Song found the battered Wei Henian in the East Sea and asked him to work for him.

• Tianhongzi and Elder Zhao agreed that Yan Song should pressure Wei Henian into helping them kill Li Yunjing while concealing their involvement.
• Li Yunjing spent six months organizing the Seven Stars Palace, advancing his formation skills, and beginning to study the Heavenly Dipper Seven Stars Array.
• Zhou Yifeng recruited Zhao Lingyun and Sun Hexuan to scheme against Li Yunjing, then agreed to invite Long Feiyang and provoke him into challenging Li Yunjing.
• Yan Song reached the East Sea and drove off Ji Qiaoqiao and the Primordial Yang Dao Sect disciples who were fighting Wei Henian.
• Yan Song asked Wei Henian to work for him, while Wei Henian concealed his recent treasure-seeking expedition and escape from the Primordial Yang Dao Sect.

Wei Henian agreed to help Yan Song target Li Yunjing in exchange for Tian-Shu Peak's support and resources, while secretly planning to exploit the arrangement for his own benefit. Meanwhile, Zhou Yifeng persuaded Long Feiyang to confront Li Yunjing, though Long Feiyang remained convinced that Li Yunjing was no threat.

• Wei Henian accepted Yan Song's offer to work against Li Yunjing and demanded that Li die in agony.
• Yan Song gave Wei Henian a Nine-Turn Origin-Restoring Pill and promised further resources and support.
• Wei Henian took the pill aboard the Azure Cloud Boat and secretly resolved to use Tian-Shu Peak while strengthening himself.
• Yan Song dismissed Wei Henian as a pawn as the Azure Cloud Boat headed west.
• Zhou Yifeng invited Long Feiyang to Donghua Pavilion and urged him to join forces against Li Yunjing.
• Long Feiyang agreed to seek out Li Yunjing, dismissing Zhou Yifeng's warnings and threatening to punish him if they proved false.