Chapter Summaries

Li Yuan attended the Tianyue Sect auction and won an upper-realm Spirit Gathering Array blueprint and a body-tempering cultivation method whose trait could help him prepare for Nascent Soul Formation. After the auction, he left Tianyue Marketplace and flew toward Wulin Marketplace.

• Li Yuan entered the auction pavilion and sensed two Nascent Soul cultivators in private rooms at the corridor's far end.
• Li Yuan won a high-purity upper-realm spirit stone for four hundred and eighty Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Li Yuan bought an upper-realm large-scale Third-Order Spirit Gathering Array blueprint for three thousand mid-grade spirit stones and analyzed its complex structure.
• Li Yuan won the Spirit Body Essence-Tempering Art for 2,500 spirit stones and discovered its Blue Trait could increase his body's spirit power capacity and breakthrough tolerance.
• Li Yuan left Tianyue Marketplace at dusk and flew toward Wulin Marketplace.

Li Yuan used the Spirit Pivot Dharma Disk to form an internal Spirit Gathering Array, advancing his Array Dao to Great Completion of the third tier. He began cultivating the Spirit Body Essence-Tempering Art, and the chapter ended with several cultivation processes underway as he awaited the Lu Family’s delivery.

• Li Yuan returned to Wulin Marketplace, entered closed-door cultivation, and examined the items he had acquired.
• Li Yuan used the Spirit Pivot Dharma Disk to set up and activate a Spirit Gathering Array inside his body, earning one step of permanent progress.
• Li Yuan’s understanding of internal arrays advanced his Array Dao to Great Completion of the third tier.
• Li Yuan initiated the Spirit Body Essence-Tempering Art, causing his old hair to shed and tougher, more spiritually permeable hair to grow.
• Ji Wenyuan told Li Yuan that the Lu Family could deliver the first batch of twenty Mine Tunnel Support Pillars.
• Li Yuan resumed cultivation as his internal Spirit Gathering Array, Jade Marrow Essence Condensation, and Spirit Body Essence-Tempering Art continued operating.

Li Yuan rebuilt Wulin Marketplace’s defense array into a Spirit Gathering Array, raising the marketplace’s spiritual energy concentration. He then installed twenty support pillars in the Lu Family’s fourth mineral vein, beginning a 120-day timer for the Pillar Solidifies Mineral Vein trait.

• Li Yuan improved his talisman-array linkage and discovered that Wulin Marketplace’s old defense array had become inefficient from years of additions and repairs.
• Li Yuan dismantled the old array and built a new formation centered on a third-order Spirit Gathering Array, which increased spiritual energy concentration within the marketplace.
• Li Yuan brought twenty Mine Tunnel Support Pillars to the Lu Family, and Lu Yang paid him with spirit stones and mining materials.
• Li Yuan accompanied Lu Family cultivators to the fourth mineral vein and helped install all twenty pillars, stabilizing the tunnel and starting the 120-day Pillar Solidifies Mineral Vein timer.

Li Yuan helped the Lu Family seek a direct sales channel to Tianyue Sect, investigated growing spatial disturbances, and prepared to support Tianyue’s marketplace expansion. He installed a Spirit Plant Growth-Inducing Array in the Portable Small Realm, where it awakened a Green Affix that could improve the quality of water-element spirit plants.

• Lu Yang asked Li Yuan to introduce the Lu Family to Tianyue Sect, offering lower ore prices and scarce mineral materials in return, and Li Yuan agreed to raise the matter.
• Li Yuan sensed increasingly frequent spatial fluctuations and found a drifting disturbance beneath the Mysterious Nether Sect Ruins that appeared to exist within a Spatial Rift.
• Xuanpu told Li Yuan that Tianyue Sect planned to begin merging Yunyang Marketplace and Wulin Marketplace and expected a Mingyuan Sect Nascent Soul martial uncle to descend within half a month; Li Yuan advised starting with material exchange channels.
• Li Yuan exchanged Contribution Points for the Spirit Plant Growth-Inducing Array and a terrestrial spirit herb cultivation manual, then bought seedlings and wood-element Spirit Stones.
• Li Yuan installed and activated the array in the Portable Small Realm’s water area, triggering the Green Affix Spirit Plant Nourishment and its condition to mature ten batches of spirit plants.

Li Yuan expanded the Portable Small Realm’s spirit field and planted five new spirit herbs, then replaced the ordinary Spirit Gathering Array inside his body with a Third-Order array. The new array operated without straining his meridians and improved the supply of spiritual energy as he continued cultivating.

• Li Yuan installed a Spirit Plant Growth-Inducing Array in the spirit field and adjusted the soil using the Spirit Field Intensive Cultivation Technique.
• Li Yuan planted two Third-Order and three Second-Order spirit herb seedlings, increasing the field’s varieties to eight.
• Li Yuan dismantled the ordinary Spirit Gathering Array inside his body and built a more complex Third-Order array with three nested circuits.
• Li Yuan activated the new array, which drew in and purified spiritual energy more than three times faster than the old array and increased the Supreme Grade Golden Core’s density.
• Li Yuan confirmed that his meridians were handling the array and continued cultivating in the Closed-Door Cultivation Chamber.

Li Yuan attended a banquet where Zhou Heng announced that the Mingyuan Sect would take control of the Spatial Passage, establish an outpost, and broaden disciple selection. After learning more about the upper realm and Mingyuan Sect from Lin Zhao, Li Yuan returned to Wulin Marketplace to cultivate and continued tracking spatial fluctuations near the Mysterious Nether Sect ruins.

• Li Yuan arrived at Tianyue Sect’s main peak for a welcoming banquet and met Zhou Heng, a Nascent Soul Elder from the Mingyuan Sect.
• Zhou Heng announced that Mingyuan Sect would manage the Spatial Passage, establish an outpost, and recruit suitable young cultivators from surrounding states.
• Lin Zhao told Li Yuan that Mingyuan Sect was a major upper-realm sect and explained its interest in the lower realm’s resources and talent.
• Li Yuan submitted the Lu Family’s information to a Tianyue Sect deacon for procurement evaluation.
• Li Yuan recorded another shift in the spatial fluctuations near the Mysterious Nether Sect ruins, then returned to Wulin Marketplace and resumed cultivating.

Li Yuan made his talisman-array linkage more effective, then investigated the sudden migration of Demonic Beasts around the Baihe Province mines. His divination pointed him toward the anomaly driving the beasts from the mountain range, slightly east of its center.

• Li Yuan completed ten temporary arrays in combat conditions and gained a permanent affix that improved talisman-array transmission efficiency and duration.
• After Lu Yang reported a growing swarm of Demonic Beasts near the mines, Li Yuan flew to Baihe Province and learned the beasts had been fleeing from the mountain range for a month.
• Li Yuan concealed himself and traveled into the range, where he ambushed a Spirit Leopard and a Rock Lizard.
• Li Yuan fulfilled the condition for Baleful Shadow Ambush to become a permanent affix, reducing his spirit power fluctuations while concealed and strengthening his first strike.
• Li Yuan used divination to locate the source of the spiritual energy disorder and beast migration slightly east of the mountain range's center.

Li Yuan discovered that ancient Fourth-Order flood dragon essence was driving the monster beasts’ southeastern migration and entered a hidden flood dragon cave abode. After recording its mysterious Dragon Script, he left for the Lu Family to seek reference materials to decipher it.

• Li Yuan traced the chaotic spiritual energy to powerful ancient flood dragon essence seeping through a weakened underground restriction.
• Li Yuan used the Earth Manipulation Art and his traits to break through a weak point in the restriction and enter an ancient flood dragon cave abode.
• Li Yuan examined the cave abode’s Dragon Script and found a vast Flood Dragon skeleton whose failed transformation had left a faint dragon aura.
• Li Yuan recorded the Dragon Script on the walls and bones, but his analysis could not decipher it.
• Li Yuan filled in the passage, left the site, and headed for the Lu Family to find reference materials.

Li Yuan studied Dragon Script from the Lu Family’s incomplete records and a preserved rubbing, while the Lu Family explored the Flood Dragon’s cave abode. Lu Yang repaid Li Yuan with a Nascent Soul Condensation Method, and Li Yuan set out for the Tianyue Mountain Range to meet its permanentization condition.

• Li Yuan told Lu Yang that a Fourth-Order Flood Dragon’s cave abode had caused the demonic beast migration and asked for books on dragon-race patterns.
• Li Yuan studied the Lu Family’s incomplete Comprehensive Record of Dragon Vein Patterns and compared its categories with Dragon Script from the cave abode.
• Lu Yang lent Li Yuan a rubbing of Dragon Script, then led three Golden Core cultivators to explore the cave abode while Li Yuan stayed behind to continue his research.
• After the exploration team returned, Lu Yang thanked Li Yuan and gave him a Nascent Soul Condensation Method that Li Yuan identified as carrying a Blue trait.
• Li Yuan studied the method’s risky path to higher-quality Nascent Soul formation and flew toward the Tianyue Mountain Range to practice in its concentrated spiritual energy.

Li Yuan returned to Wulin Marketplace, studied the Nascent Soul Condensation Method, and learned of Mingyuan Sect’s new upper-realm channel and changes in the sea region. He found new clues for deciphering Dragon Script, perfected the Soul Condensing and Consciousness Controlling Art, and flew back toward Liang Province.

• Li Yuan returned to Wulin Marketplace, where Ji Wenyuan reported that the first exchange of spiritual materials with Yunyang Marketplace had been completed.
• Li Yuan studied the Nascent Soul Condensation Method, learned how qi dynamics affected its success, and considered where he might eventually attempt Nascent Soul Formation.
• Li Yuan received news that Mingyuan Sect had opened its upper-realm channel to Nascent Soul Cultivators and set separate conditions for Golden Core Cultivators.
• Li Yuan visited the Loose Cultivator Alliance stronghold and learned that the Kunpeng Alliance had relocated while the Golden Toad founded Yaochan Palace on its former island.
• Li Yuan obtained records on monster patterns and writing, then cross-referenced them with his Dragon Script materials to uncover a connection between Dragon Script and monster beast writing.
• Li Yuan condensed his seventeenth and eighteenth Divine Sense Threads, perfected the Soul Condensing and Consciousness Controlling Art, and flew toward Liang Province.

Li Yuan advanced his Spirit Body Essence-Tempering Art and discovered that actively applying deciphered Dragon Script enhanced two Flood Dragon-related cultivation techniques. He traveled to Yaochan Palace, traded for a valuable Dragon Script deciphering method, and headed back to Liang Province.

• Li Yuan shed his old skin as the Spirit Body Essence-Tempering Art reached proficiency, gaining improved sensitivity to spiritual energy.
• Li Yuan matched more Dragon Script symbols and found that actively using its patterns improved the Flood Dragon Blood Body-Tempering Art and the Monster-to-Human Transformation Technique.
• Li Yuan used divination to confirm that traveling to Yaochan Palace was auspicious, then flew to the former Kunpeng Alliance island.
• A transformed Fourth-Order demon toad welcomed Li Yuan and explained Dragon Script's origins, uses, and connection to Flood Dragon bloodlines.
• Li Yuan agreed to supply Yaochan Palace with Third-Order spirit herbs and ores every two months and received the toad's Dragon Script deciphering methods in a Jade Slip.
• Li Yuan left Yaochan Palace and flew back toward Liang Province.

Li Yuan accepted Zhou Heng’s request to deploy two Third-Order arrays around the Spatial Passage and began work with three assisting Array Masters. While studying Nascent Soul spirit power circulation and cultivating in the passage’s rich spiritual energy, he advanced his Golden Core tempering and Nascent Soul Condensation Method practice.

• Li Yuan arranged delivery of Yaochan Palace’s materials, then advanced his Skeleton Dragon Script deciphering from thirty percent to sixty percent.
• Zhou Heng invited Li Yuan to serve as a guest elder and deploy a Space Stabilization Array and an Auxiliary Teleportation Array near the Spatial Passage in exchange for Upper Realm Array Classics and access to Mingyuan Sect’s resource channels.
• Li Yuan studied the array diagrams, then joined Zhou Heng and three Array Masters at the passage to survey the site and mark the Space Stabilization Array’s twelve core nodes.
• Zhou Heng demonstrated Nascent Soul spirit power circulation, helping Li Yuan understand the mode switch involved in Nascent Soul Formation.
• Li Yuan carved the array’s core patterns while cultivating near the passage, increasing his Golden Core’s density and improving his Nascent Soul Condensation Method to Proficiency.

Li Yuan completed the Space Stabilization Array and the Auxiliary Teleportation Array beneath the Spatial Passage, improving its stability and teleportation accuracy. He acquired two Blue Traits from the arrays, while his cultivation advanced amid the passage’s high-quality spiritual energy.

• Li Yuan activated the Space Stabilization Array, reducing the Spatial Passage entrance’s fluctuations, then replaced its array eye and obtained the Airspace Anchor Trait preview.
• Zhou Heng inspected the first array and confirmed that it had increased the passage’s stability by at least thirty percent.
• Li Yuan measured the passage’s changing spatial characteristics and spent several days deducing and building the Auxiliary Teleportation Array, with Zhou Heng helping stabilize strained nodes.
• Li Yuan cultivated during the array work, improving his Golden Core density and advancing his Nascent Soul Condensation Method.
• Zhou Heng gave Li Yuan the Pulse-Protecting Spirit-Warming Pill formula to help protect his meridians while practicing the Spirit Body Essence-Tempering Art.
• Li Yuan activated the Auxiliary Teleportation Array, and Zhou Heng’s Spirit Stone test landed within an inch of the preset point; Li Yuan then replaced its array eye and obtained the Void Telepathy Trait preview.

After comprehending upper-realm array theory, Li Yuan reached complete mastery of Third-Order Array Dao and refined his Golden Core to its theoretical limit. He then began preparing for body tempering, while the Dragon Script’s growing influence advanced his cultivation methods and drew more cultivators to Wulin Marketplace.

• Li Yuan studied Zhou Heng’s Fourth-Order array theory and attained complete mastery of Third-Order Array Dao, gaining a framework-level understanding of Fourth-Order Arrays.
• After one final day of cultivation near the Spatial Passage, Li Yuan brought his Golden Core to the theoretical limit of the Golden Core Realm and returned to Wulin Marketplace.
• Li Yuan refined four Pulse-Protecting Spirit-Warming Pills, detected their Green Trait, took one, and began cultivating the Spirit Body Essence-Tempering Art with its protection for his meridians.
• As upper-realm spiritual energy spread through the region, more cultivators arrived at Wulin Marketplace, and the Dragon Script deciphering advanced from sixty to eighty percent.
• With the Dragon Script’s enhancement, Li Yuan advanced the Flood Dragon Blood Body-Tempering Art to major mastery and the Monster-to-Human Transformation Technique to minor mastery.

Li Yuan planned and completed the Main Array of a Spirit-Guiding Array near the spatial passage, then continued cultivating and advanced his Nascent Soul Condensation Method to Mastery. He devised a plan to form his Nascent Soul inside an Independent Space supplied with the passage’s high-quality spiritual energy, but recognized that he needed to test the space’s stability first.

• Zhou Heng told Li Yuan that the Auxiliary Teleportation Array and Space Stabilization Array were working well, then assigned him to plan and build the Main Array for several Spirit-Guiding Arrays.
• Li Yuan surveyed the six main spirit vein entrances, planned the array layout, and completed the Main Array atop a boulder south of the passage entrance.
• The Main Array activated, and Li Yuan left its array eye in place to accumulate the Blue affix’s permanentization time.
• Li Yuan continued cultivating near the passage and advanced the Nascent Soul Condensation Method to Mastery.
• Li Yuan realized he could combine an Independent Space with his space-related abilities and the Spirit-Guiding affix to create an isolated environment supplied with high-quality spiritual energy for Nascent Soul Formation.
• Li Yuan recorded the plan and decided to conduct small-scale tests before attempting to create an Independent Space near the spatial passage.

Li Yuan refined the array within his body and helped set up the Main Array of the Spirit-Guiding Grand Array before returning to cultivation. He advanced the Spirit Body Essence-Tempering Art to Mastery by renewing his bones, leaving him to cultivate the coordination of his renewed bones, muscles, and skin.

• Li Yuan corrected two flaws in the Third-Order Spirit Gathering Array within his body, increasing its efficiency by roughly ten percent.
• Zhou Heng told Li Yuan that the Branch Spirit-Guiding Array was progressing and gave him Mingyuan Sect's third mission to plan and set up a Large Spirit-Guiding Array.
• Li Yuan completed the Main Array north of the Tianyue Mountain Range, extending the array's coverage more than ten li beyond the range.
• Li Yuan returned to his stone chamber and continued cultivating the Spirit Body Essence-Tempering Art as it advanced into his skeletal layer.
• Li Yuan renewed all the bones in his body, reaching Mastery in the Spirit Body Essence-Tempering Art and greatly improving his bones' strength and spirit power transmission.
• Li Yuan resumed cultivation, focusing on naturally coordinating his renewed bones, muscles, and skin.

Li Yuan permanently activated Airspace Anchor, delivered the Lu Family’s remaining order, and shared new Dragon Script research material. While refining Third-Order tools for the family, he permanently activated Refined Artifact Dao, then returned after Lu Yang reported progress deciphering Dragon Script.

• Li Yuan permanently activated Airspace Anchor, gaining precise spatial perception and the ability to record and trace a limited number of coordinates.
• Li Yuan delivered the remaining artifacts to Lu Yang, who reported steady mineral production and slower Demonic Beast overflow.
• Li Yuan gave Lu Yang a Dragon Script comparison table, and Lu Yang said it would advance the Lu Family’s research.
• Li Yuan accepted materials for four or five Third-Order refining Dharma Artifacts and began crafting them in the Lu Family’s artifact-refining room.
• Li Yuan permanently activated Refined Artifact Dao after completing the first refining hammer and found that the Affix improved his precision and perception of artifact circuits.
• Li Yuan crafted a second refining Dharma Artifact, then returned to the Lu Family residence after Lu Yang transmitted that Dragon Script deciphering had made partial progress.

Li Yuan received the Lu Family’s Dragon Script research and learned the Dragon Fortune Art, then accessed the newly opened Upper Realm material exchange list. He cultivated the art to Entry Level and returned to his regular cultivation and marketplace work.

• Lu Yang showed Li Yuan the Lu Family’s findings that the cave dwelling inscriptions formed a map and the rubbing jade slip recorded a spell, then gave him the Dragon Fortune Art.
• Li Yuan obtained a dedicated Token for Mingyuan Sect’s resource channels and reviewed the Upper Realm Material Exchange List at Tianyue Marketplace.
• Li Yuan used Ten Thousand Arts Mastery to analyze the Dragon Fortune Art and activated all twelve Dragon Script nodes, reaching Entry Level.
• Li Yuan sensed a faint intuition that future events might tilt toward favorable outcomes and added autonomous Dragon Fortune Art cultivation to his routine.
• Li Yuan continued practicing his cultivation arts while Ji Wenyuan’s report showed rising spirit material trade and more resident Rogue Cultivators at the marketplaces.

Li Yuan exchanged for the Essence-Consolidating Nascent Soul-Nurturing Pill formula and its rare ingredients, then trained his alchemy until both the Blazing Sun Bright Fire Art and Third-Order Alchemy Art reached Minor Mastery. He studied the complex formula but postponed attempting it while his cultivation and preparation continued to improve.

• Li Yuan used his Contribution Points to obtain the pill formula, one main ingredient, and two upper-realm supplementary ingredients.
• Li Yuan refined repeated batches of familiar pills at increasing speed until the Blazing Sun Bright Fire Art reached Minor Mastery.
• Li Yuan experimented with ingredient order, timing, proportions, and other strategies until Third-Order Alchemy Art reached Minor Mastery.
• Li Yuan studied the Essence-Consolidating Nascent Soul-Nurturing Pill formula and used an array-circuit analogy to better understand its complex ingredient interactions.
• Li Yuan decided to wait before refining the pill while his Nascent Soul Condensation Method and Spirit Body Essence-Tempering Art continued to advance.

Li Yuan advanced his Dragon Script deciphering and talisman mastery, then successfully refined two Essence-Consolidating Nascent Soul-Nurturing Pills. A pill rehearsal improved his understanding of Nascent Soul Formation, but he lacked the Contribution Points to obtain the herb needed for another batch.

• Li Yuan’s Dragon Script deciphering reached nearly ninety percent, and his talisman attainment advanced to Third-Order Mastery.
• Li Yuan refined two above-average Essence-Consolidating Nascent Soul-Nurturing Pills and discovered one could grant the Baby-Nurturing Essence-Cultivating affix after a Nascent Soul breakthrough.
• Li Yuan consumed one pill to rehearse Nascent Soul Formation, experienced the spiritual power circulation switch, and advanced his Nascent Soul Condensation Method to Minor Accomplishment.
• Li Yuan determined he needed another pill for formal Nascent Soul Formation but lacked enough Mingyuan Sect Contribution Points to exchange for the required herb.
• Li Yuan stored his remaining pill and continued cultivating while optimizing his Nascent Soul tempering plans.