Chapter Summaries

Li Yunjing stocked the Star Moon Trading Firm before leaving Xing'er and Yue'er to return to the Divine Firmament Dao Sect, where Xu Wuyi investigated his rapid cultivation and then taught him the foundations of Formation Dao. The chapter leaves Li Yunjing with three days to contemplate the lessons before Xu Wuyi teaches him a formation.

• Xing'er told Li Yunjing that the Star Moon Trading Firm had drawn many customers, including Fang Yuxuan, so Li Yunjing decided to buy more stock.
• Li Yunjing spent 20,000 Low-grade Spirit Stones gathering goods, gave the supplies to Xing'er and Yue'er, and left for the Divine Firmament Dao Sect after an affectionate farewell.
• At Seven Stars Palace, Xu Wuyi used the Thousand-Mile Tracking Mirror to check whether Li Yunjing had been possessed, then found no irregularities despite his rapid cultivation.
• Xu Wuyi taught Li Yunjing the foundational principles of Formation Dao over nine days and nights.
• Xu Wuyi told Li Yunjing to cultivate and contemplate for three days before returning to learn a formation.

Li Yunjing learned the basics of Formation Dao from Xu Wuyi and mastered the Lesser Five Elements Formation during three months of study. After completing his training, he arranged for Jin Shouyun and Su Guo to join Seven Stars Peak as temporary disciples.

• Li Yunjing failed to turn his Water-Fire Harmony technique into a formation and realized Formation Dao required far more study than he had expected.
• Xu Wuyi taught Li Yunjing the Lesser Five Elements Formation, and Li Yunjing quickly memorized its instructions before beginning hands-on training.
• After three months, Li Yunjing successfully activated the formation and demonstrated its powerful Five Elements attacks.
• Li Yunjing contacted Fu Chao and learned that Jin Shouyun and Su Guo had reached the seventh level of the Qi Refining Realm and completed their tasks to enter the inner sect.
• Li Yunjing explained Seven Stars Peak's requirements to Jin Shouyun and Su Guo, then offered them temporary disciple positions, which both accepted.

Li Yunjing brought Jin Shouyun and Su Guo to Seven Stars Peak, where they became temporary disciples and received a purchasing assignment for the second half of the year. After Jin Shouyun shared rare second-rank Spirit-Clearing Tea, he revealed where he had found it and that a Frost Spider guarded the tree.

• Li Yunjing took Jin Shouyun and Su Guo to Seven Stars Peak and guided them through its strict inspections.
• Xu Wuyi approved Jin Shouyun and Su Guo's temporary status and assigned Li Yunjing a task for the second half of the year, warning him to protect the sect's interests.
• Li Yunjing found Jin Shouyun and Su Guo neighboring residences in Seven Stars Garden at the mountain's foot.
• Jin Shouyun brewed high-grade second-tier Spirit-Clearing Tea for Li Yunjing and Su Guo, explaining that each leaf was worth seven or eight hundred Low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Jin Shouyun revealed that he had taken three leaves from a Nine-Curved Spirit-Clearing Tea Tree guarded by a Frost Spider, and Li Yunjing asked whether other demonic beasts were nearby.

Li Yunjing arranged with Jin Shouyun and Su Guo to seize the Nine-Curved Spirit-Clearing Tea Tree, then met with friends at Elegant Fragrance Garden and secured supplies for his Star Moon Trading Firm. He left Fu Chao astonished by revealing that he had killed a Second-Order Black Tortoise himself.

• Li Yunjing proposed that he, Jin Shouyun, and Su Guo split the Nine-Curved Spirit-Clearing Tea Tree’s harvest, and he gave each of them a piece of second-rank Tortoise Shell to demonstrate his strength.
• Jin Shouyun agreed to prepare for a strike when the tea tree ripened, while Su Guo accepted an equal share after Li Yunjing and Jin Shouyun insisted.
• Li Yunjing visited Elegant Fragrance Garden, learned that Yue Zhouwang was away on an advancement mission, and encouraged Ma Xingyuan to keep cultivating as he gave him Giant Turtle meat for a banquet.
• Li Yunjing asked Fu Chao to supply forty thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones’ worth of goods for his Star Moon Trading Firm, and Fu Chao agreed to deliver them by the day after tomorrow.
• Li Yunjing served Fu Chao Second-Order Black Tortoise meat and gave him three pieces of Mystic Turtle Tortoise Shell, then revealed that he had killed the beast himself.

Li Yunjing discussed his growing strength, Wei Henian, and Lu Ruoxi’s attempt to reach Foundation Establishment with Fu Chao before returning to cultivate and develop a new four-element technique. He then visited Yang Wenzheng at the Heavenly Craft Hall to ask Yang’s master to help craft the Five Dragon Wheel.

• Li Yunjing told Fu Chao he might defeat a first-heaven Foundation Establishment cultivator with a Divine Firmament Thunderbolt Bead, but admitted he was no match for Xu Xun and was not ready to pursue Yu Yunyi.
• Fu Chao said their people had raided three of Wei Henian’s relay stations, and told Li Yunjing that Lu Ruoxi had entered seclusion to attempt Foundation Establishment.
• Li Yunjing learned that two Divine Firmament Warships had been badly damaged in the fighting in the Orchid Mountain Range, then paid Ma Xingyuan for the meal and gave him a thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Li Yunjing fused Wood, Water, Fire, and Wind powers during cultivation, forming a black-and-white stream of energy, but concluded that incomplete Five Elements mastery prevented him from fully evolving Yin and Yang.
• Li Yunjing went to the Heavenly Craft Hall and showed Yang Wenzheng his Five Dragon Wheel plans; Yang praised the design and offered to introduce him to his master, a veteran Foundation Establishment expert and high-grade second-tier artifact refiner.

Li Yunjing negotiated with Deacon Wei Fan to refine a Five Dragon Wheel and upgrade his Mystic Jade Inner Armor and Gale Boots, trading away his valuable materials and tortoise shells. Li Yunjing left believing he had gotten a good deal, while Wei Fan admitted he had profited heavily and promised Yang Wenzheng he would improve the finished tools to make things right.

• Li Yunjing showed Wei Fan his Five Dragon Wheel design, and Wei Fan criticized it before estimating the cost of making the Spirit Tool embryo.
• Li Yunjing offered his prepared materials and seventy-six Mystic Turtle shells, and Wei Fan proposed using them to pay for the Five Dragon Wheel and upgrade Li Yunjing's Mystic Jade Inner Armor and Gale Boots.
• Li Yunjing bargained for the Gale Boots to incorporate the Thunder Evasion Technique, and Wei Fan agreed to deliver all three Low-grade Spirit Tools in three months.
• After Li Yunjing left, Wei Fan laughed that he had made at least fifty thousand Spirit Stones in profit, while Yang Wenzheng concealed the truth and accepted a Mystic Turtle leg from his friend.
• Yang Wenzheng confronted Wei Fan about fleecing Li Yunjing, and Wei Fan promised to raise the tools to the peak of the Low-grade Spirit Tool rank.

After spending much of his wealth on treasures, Li Yunjing restocked his trading firm and returned to find Xing'er and Yue'er being harassed. He drove off their tormentors, reassured the women, and left them supplies before departing.

• Li Yunjing bought Qi Replenishing Pills from Wang Weizhi and collected forty thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones' worth of goods from Fu Chao.
• Li Yunjing arrived at Star Moon Trading Firm and found a young master and four lackeys harassing Xing'er and Yue'er.
• Li Yunjing struck all five men and warned the young master, who fled with his lackeys.
• Li Yunjing learned that Liu Ruyan had returned and Fang Yuxuan was away in Great Black Mountain, then gave Xing'er and Yue'er the supplies he had collected.
• Li Yunjing spent the night with Xing'er and Yue'er, dined with them the next day, and left them Mystic Turtle meat.

Li Yunjing strengthened the Star Moon Trading Firm’s security after learning it had been targeted, while the Thirteen Flying Eagles prepared to assassinate him for a huge bounty. The chapter revealed that Wei Henian and a fellow True Disciple had arranged the plot, and that the earlier trouble at the firm was bait to draw Li Yunjing out.

• Li Yunjing told Fang Yuxuan to hire powerful guards for the Star Moon Trading Firm and warned him to report any further trouble.
• Li Yunjing asked Fang Yuxuan about a second-tier Red Sun King Snake in Great Black Mountain, but Fang Yuxuan had not encountered one.
• Boss Wang and the Thirteen Flying Eagles planned to kill Li Yunjing using Blood Sha Talismans and the Cold-Blooded Thirteen Life-Killing Sword Formation.
• Thirteenth Brother revealed that he had provoked Li Yunjing by targeting Xing'er and Yue'er to lure him out.
• Wei Henian and a True Disciple surnamed Han revealed they had hired the assassins and planned to eliminate them afterward to conceal their involvement.

Li Yunjing caught three men trying to burn down the Star Moon Trading Firm, killed them, and learned that a wealthy young man had hired them. He headed for Mulberry Village to confront the culprit, but sensed danger as he approached Mulberry Ridge.

• Wei Henian and a Han-surnamed true disciple discussed targeting Li Yunjing, Yu Yunyi, Lu Ruoxi, and Fu Chao, and the disciple decided to visit Lu Ruoxi.
• Li Yunjing finished checking the Star Moon Trading Firm’s inventory and instructed Xing'er and Yue'er to gather second-tier cultivation materials.
• Li Yunjing discovered three black-clad men spreading oil outside the trading firm, beat them, and killed them after learning a wealthy young man had hired them to burn the signboard.
• Li Yunjing identified the employer from a portrait and learned the man would meet the hired attackers in Mulberry Village beneath Mulberry Ridge.
• Li Yunjing left Xing'er and Yue'er to handle the bodies and flew toward Mulberry Ridge, where he sensed danger and prepared his artifacts for a fight.

Li Yunjing was lured into an ambush at Mulberry Village by Wei Henian’s Thirteen Flying Eagles and fought his way through their overwhelming numbers. After killing the young master and most of the attackers, he fled into the sky, but the three Foundation Establishment leaders and the surviving pursuers chased after him.

• Li Yunjing smelled blood near Mulberry Village, discovered a concealed force of more than a hundred cultivators, and realized Wei Henian had hired the Thirteen Flying Eagles to kill him.
• The Thirteen Flying Eagles’ three Foundation Establishment leaders surrounded Li Yunjing as the young master and their men closed in from the other side.
• Li Yunjing cut through the Qi Refining cultivators with the Azure Sea Listening Waves Sword, while the attackers tried to exhaust his magical power and the young master fired poisoned needles.
• Li Yunjing charged the young master and struck him twice with Palm Lightning, killing him despite attacks from two peak Qi Refining cultivators.
• Li Yunjing used a Flight Talisman to escape after killing most of the ambushers, and the three Foundation Establishment leaders and surviving Eagles pursued him through the air.

Li Yunjing survived the Thirteen Flying Eagles’ ambush by using the terrain, an Earth Escape Technique, and a Divine Firmament Thunderbolt Bead, which killed the remaining Eagles and their followers. After his strength mysteriously recovered, he kept evading the three surviving Foundation Establishment cultivators through Mulberry Ridge, leaving them unable to catch or trap him.

• Li Yunjing fled into Mulberry Ridge, eluding the Thirteen Flying Eagles until they cornered him in Gravel Valley.
• Li Yunjing emerged from underground and threw a Divine Firmament Thunderbolt Bead, destroying the nine Eagles and their attendants while injuring himself and the three Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• The Thin Man in Hemp Clothes, the Woman in Red, and Black-Clad Boss Wang attacked Li Yunjing, but he evaded their blows and damaged Boss Wang’s spirit sword with the Azure Sea Listening Waves Sword.
• Mysterious power restored Li Yunjing’s strength, and he used Chasing Wind, Snatching Shadows to create illusions and escape Gravel Valley as the three cultivators pursued him.
• Li Yunjing burrowed underground again, then escaped their bombardment and flew away when the Woman in Red and the Thin Man prepared Blood Sha Talismans.

Li Yunjing lured the Thirteen Flying Eagles into Gravel Valley and used the Lesser Five Elements Formation, his spirit sword, and the Five Thunders Method to defeat them. After killing Wang Wei, he questioned the wounded Feng Xueting about their employer and considered using the battle to strike back at Wei Henian.

• Li Yunjing returned to Gravel Valley and trapped Boss Wang, the Thin Man, and the Woman in Red inside the Lesser Five Elements Formation.
• Li Yunjing weakened the three with the formation's fire and earth attacks, then wounded the Thin Man with a concealed sword strike.
• Li Yunjing unleashed a Five Thunders Method lightning sphere that killed the Thin Man, heavily wounded Feng Xueting, and left Boss Wang helpless.
• Li Yunjing destroyed Boss Wang's paper crane, killed him, and searched his body after Boss Wang tried to attack him by surprise.
• Feng Xueting identified herself as the third of the Thirteen Flying Eagles and said Wang Wei alone knew their employer's identity.
• Li Yunjing threatened Feng Xueting while considering how to use her testimony and the battle against Wei Henian.

Li Yunjing forced Feng Xueting to submit to him through the Book of Contracts, binding her life and death to his. He ordered her to clean up the battlefield, while keeping her as a tool for his planned scheme against Wei Henian.

• Feng Xueting tried to seduce Li Yunjing and offered to submit, but he demanded a way to ensure her loyalty.
• Feng Xueting revealed the Book of Contracts and explained how blood essence could bind her to its owner, while concealing its flaw.
• Li Yunjing activated the Book with his blood essence, then forced Feng Xueting to add hers and become bound to him.
• The Book of Contracts revealed Feng Xueting's age, cultivation, spiritual roots, techniques, and spells to Li Yunjing.
• Li Yunjing promised Feng Xueting future support and ordered her to dispose of the Thirteen Flying Eagles' corpses.
• Feng Xueting obeyed and spent two hours cleaning up the battlefield before returning at daylight.

Li Yunjing killed the Thirteen Flying Eagles, took their enormous stockpile of wealth, and bound Feng Xueting to serve him and help implicate Wei Henian. After returning to the Star Moon Trading Firm, he introduced Feng Xueting to Xing'er and Yue'er, then prepared to meet Fu Chao and Yu Yunyi, but Lu Ruoxi sent him a message expressing concern.

• Feng Xueting collected the Thirteen Flying Eagles' resources and burned their corpses, while Li Yunjing inspected their treasure and discovered a fortune worth more than two million Spirit Stones.
• Li Yunjing rewarded Feng Xueting with 50,000 Low-grade Spirit Stones and instructed her to fabricate Wei Henian's crimes, promising protection through his and the Fu Family's backing.
• Li Yunjing brought Feng Xueting to the Star Moon Trading Firm and ordered her to live there, obey Xing'er and Yue'er, and recover from her injuries.
• Xing'er and Yue'er welcomed Li Yunjing back, learned Feng Xueting would serve them, and left him to rest after he explained some of what had happened.
• Li Yunjing contacted Fu Chao and Yu Yunyi about the ambush, arranged to meet them at Elegant Fragrance Garden, and received a concerned message from Lu Ruoxi.

After surviving Wei Henian’s ambush at Mulberry Ridge, Li Yunjing returned to Divine Firmament Dao Sect and met with Yu Yunyi, Lu Ruoxi, and Fu Chao to plan their response. They agreed to protect Feng Xueting and use her testimony to keep Wei Henian occupied while concealing how much Li Yunjing had accomplished.

• Li Yunjing left Xing'er and Yue'er in charge of Star Moon Trading Firm, gave them a communication talisman, and returned through the teleportation array to Divine Firmament Dao Sect.
• At Elegant Fragrance Garden, Li Yunjing told Yu Yunyi, Lu Ruoxi, and Fu Chao that Wei Henian had set him up and recounted how he killed bandits and captured Feng Xueting.
• Li Yunjing proposed using Feng Xueting to testify against Wei Henian, and Fu Chao suggested making her a dead warrior of the Fu Family to support the account and reduce attention on Li Yunjing.
• Li Yunjing told Fu Chao where to find Xing'er and Yue'er so the Fu Family could take Feng Xueting into protection, while Yu Yunyi and Lu Ruoxi grew curious about his shop.
• Li Yunjing left to seek treatment from Elder Liu and ask Seven Stars Palace to pursue justice, while Yu Yunyi and Lu Ruoxi contacted their families and allies to support the plan.

Li Yunjing reported his ambush by Wei Henian’s forces to Xu Wuyi and Elder Liu, who agreed that Seven Stars Palace would support him if the Fu, Yu, and Lv Families challenged the Ten Thousand Laws Society. Elder Liu advised Li Yunjing to stay out of the dispute, cultivate diligently, and wait for higher-ranking figures to settle it.

• Li Yunjing returned to Seven Stars Peak injured and told Xu Wuyi that he had been ambushed, describing how he used the Lesser Five Elements Formation to kill a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
• Li Yunjing said Feng Xueting could testify and that the Fu, Yu, and Lv Families planned to report Wei Henian to the Law Enforcement Hall.
• Xu Wuyi took Li Yunjing through the guarded, maze-like fourth floor of the Discussion Hall to meet Elder Liu.
• Li Yunjing admitted that he intended to join forces with the three families against Wei Henian, and Elder Liu agreed to warn the Ten Thousand Laws Society when the dispute reached a crucial point.
• Elder Liu told Li Yunjing to let the families lead the dispute, avoid getting involved himself, and focus on cultivation and Formation Dao.

After Li Yunjing reported the Ten Thousand Laws Society’s attack, his allies rallied behind him while the Fu Family and Law Enforcement Hall moved against Wei Henian. Li Yunjing recovered in seclusion as accusations against the Society spread through the Divine Firmament Dao Sect and sparked an even greater storm.

• Elder Liu reassured Li Yunjing and Xu Wuyi that the Ten Thousand Laws Society was not as powerful as they feared, then sent an unknown person a message.
• Li Yunjing informed Fu Chao, Yu Yunyi, Lu Ruoxi, and Feng Xueting about Elder Liu’s support, and the Yu Family and Lv Family agreed to offer limited assistance.
• News that Li Yunjing had killed over a hundred Qi Refining Realm cultivators and two Foundation Establishment Realm experts at Mulberry Ridge spread across the Great Ming Dynasty, prompting Cong Rujin to consider joining him.
• Fu Chao led Feng Xueting to accuse Wei Henian before the Law Enforcement Hall, which investigated the battle and moved to arrest him at the Ten Thousand Laws Palace.
• Li Yunjing recovered through half a month of secluded cultivation while reports of the Ten Thousand Laws Society’s oppression brought lower-level disciples and other members to condemn it.

The Ten Thousand Laws Society scrambled to contain the scandal surrounding Wei Henian as its leaders considered changing the group’s name and negotiating with their enemies. Meanwhile, Li Yunjing recovered, strengthened his thunder arts, and forged his first magical artifact, a low-grade Thunderbolt Emperor Seal.

• Ye Tingfeng proposed reforming the Ten Thousand Laws Society by changing its name and leadership, and the elders approved preparations while planning to negotiate with the Fu Family, the Yu Family, and the Seven Stars Palace.
• Li Yunjing explored his sea of consciousness but found no explanation for the power that had surged through him during battle.
• Li Yunjing trained his Five Thunders Method and practiced making more than a hundred top-grade Five Thunders Talismans.
• Li Yunjing inscribed thunder formations and runes into Heavenly Thunder Stone, using Mystic Turtle blood and other materials to forge the Thunderbolt Emperor Seal.
• Li Yunjing completed the low-grade magical artifact and began carrying and tempering it during cultivation.

Li Yunjing advanced to the ninth level of Qi Refining, then met Zhuang Yao to discuss the Ten Thousand Laws Society’s attacks and negotiations. Zhuang Yao offered a Red Gold Glazed Stone as compensation and agreed that Wei Henian would leave the sect for the front lines, but Li Yunjing’s response remained unstated.

• Li Yunjing nurtured the Heavenly Thunder Emperor Seal until it became a mid-grade dharma artifact, then continued cultivating and studying his techniques and crafts.
• Li Yunjing completed the eighth level of Qi Refining and broke through to the ninth, strengthening his body and extending his divine sense to thirteen li.
• Li Yunjing tested his new combat strength, repaired the ruined Martial Arts Arena with his identity Jade Slip, and received Xu Wuyi’s summons to meet a senior member of the Ten Thousand Laws Society.
• Li Yunjing learned that the Ten Thousand Laws Society was negotiating with the Yu Family and Fu Family, then went to Xu Wuyi’s office and met Zhuang Yao, a Top Ten True Disciple.
• Li Yunjing rejected Zhuang Yao’s demand to settle the matter by her terms, and Zhuang Yao offered him a Red Gold Glazed Stone as compensation.
• Li Yunjing asked what would happen to Wei Henian, and Zhuang Yao said Wei Henian would step down as president and leave the Divine Firmament Dao Sect to serve on the front lines.

Li Yunjing negotiated compensation from the Ten Thousand Laws Society, then received a Seven Stars Palace procurement task and went to Heavenly Craft Peak to have his damaged Azure Moon Dao Robe repaired. He reunited with Yang Wenzheng, who had recently reached Foundation Establishment, and left Wei Fan working on the robe while they prepared a banquet for their friends.

• Li Yunjing demanded compensation for his destroyed Azure Moon Dao Robe, and Zhuang Yao gave him one thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones to settle the dispute.
• Xu Wuyi assigned Li Yunjing a three-month Seven Stars Palace task to buy eighteen types of first-rank materials and handed him two million Low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Li Yunjing contacted Yu Yunyi, Lu Ruoxi, and Fu Chao, then learned from Yang Wenzheng that his Five Dragon Wheel, Mystic Jade Inner Armor, and Gale Boots were ready.
• Li Yunjing met Yang Wenzheng at Heavenly Craft Peak, congratulated him on reaching Foundation Establishment, and invited their friends to a banquet at Donghua Pavilion.
• Wei Fan agreed to repair Li Yunjing's Azure Moon Dao Robe without compensation and began working on it.