Chapter Summaries

Li Yuan inspected the Spatial Passage and tested an independent space nearby, finding it ideal for Nascent Soul Formation before recording its coordinates. He then visited Yaochan Palace, obtained the location of the Flood Dragon gathering place under a Spirit Contract, and set off to find it.

• Li Yuan inspected the arrays around the Spatial Passage with Zhou Heng and learned that the sect might reduce the passage's power transmission to extend its lifespan.
• Li Yuan opened an independent space near the passage and found that he could draw in and purify its abundant spiritual energy without detection.
• Li Yuan stabilized the space's walls, set up a Spirit Gathering Array, and confirmed the pure, concentrated environment was suitable for Nascent Soul Formation before recording its coordinates.
• Li Yuan visited the short, plump man at Yaochan Palace and learned that he had no new Dragon Script materials.
• Li Yuan agreed to a Spirit Contract promising not to initiate aggression against the Flood Dragons, and the short, plump man gave him a map to their gathering place.
• Li Yuan left Yaochan Palace and flew toward the depths of the sea region.

Li Yuan permanently strengthened his meridians, then traveled to the flood dragon gathering place and exchanged Dragon Script knowledge with a Third-Order flood dragon. With the complete skeletal Dragon Script sequence assembled, he returned to Wulin Marketplace ready to interpret the ancient flood dragon cultivation method.

• Li Yuan completed sixty days of high-load cultivation and permanentized Spirit-Warming Pulse Tempering, gaining permanent increases to meridian protection and recovery.
• Li Yuan reached the flood dragon gathering place and found four flood dragons, including a spiritually intelligent Third-Order High-Grade flood dragon.
• Li Yuan showed the flood dragon the Dragon Script he had deciphered and proposed exchanging his human-perspective method for the dragon's inherited knowledge.
• Li Yuan and the flood dragon exchanged information, completing the skeletal Dragon Script sequence, and Li Yuan gave the flood dragon his deciphering method on a Jade Slip.
• Li Yuan left for Liang Province and arrived at Wulin Marketplace, where he could begin fully interpreting the ancient flood dragon cultivation method.

Li Yuan perfected the Flood Dragon Blood Body-Tempering Art, advanced the Spirit Body Essence-Tempering Art, and completed preparations for forming his Nascent Soul. After permanently transforming the Spirit Convergence and Essence Storage trait, he headed toward Wulin Marketplace with most conditions for Nascent Soul Formation in place.

• Li Yuan used the complete Dragon Script to perfect the Flood Dragon Blood Body-Tempering Art, which accelerated his Spirit Body Essence-Tempering Art until it reached minor mastery.
• Li Yuan completed spirit material deliveries and Zhou Heng’s commissioned pill batches, then exchanged Contribution Points for an Essence-Consolidating Nascent Soul-Nurturing Herb and refined two more pills.
• Li Yuan gathered materials for a third-tier Spirit Gathering Array and advanced the Nascent Soul Condensation Method to major mastery.
• Li Yuan inspected the formations near the Spatial Passage and permanently transformed the Spirit Convergence and Essence Storage trait after its Array Eye had operated for more than 120 days.
• Li Yuan reviewed his Nascent Soul Formation preparations as he flew across Liang Province, then descended toward Wulin Marketplace.

After months of cultivation, Li Yuan stabilized the Dragon Fortune Art and prepared to form his Nascent Soul in a secluded space with powerful arrays, pills, and traits supporting him. He successfully broke through and formed a Supreme Grade Nascent Soul.

• Li Yuan advanced the Dragon Fortune Art to the proficient stage and equipped traits and a Nascent Soul-nurturing pill for his breakthrough.
• Li Yuan used Airspace Anchor to open a Spatial Passage to the Tianyue Mountain Range and established an Independent Space with abundant spiritual energy.
• Li Yuan rehearsed the Nascent Soul Condensation Method, permanently integrated the Nascent Soul Condensation and Essence Stabilization trait, and divined great fortune for forming a Nascent Soul.
• Li Yuan set up a third-order Spirit Gathering Array, raising the Independent Space's spiritual energy concentration to roughly eight times the outside level.
• Li Yuan tempered his Supreme Grade Golden Core through five rounds, reversed its spiritual power circulation, and formed a Supreme Grade Nascent Soul.

After forming his Nascent Soul, Li Yuan tested its abilities and permanently converted two traits, strengthening his cultivation and the fusion of essence, qi, and spirit. He disguised his new realm and flew back toward Wulin Marketplace, planning to stabilize his cultivation and continue his work.

• Li Yuan examined how Nascent Soul spirit power circulated through his body and found that his Monster-to-Human Transformation Technique had begun responding more strongly.
• Li Yuan tested Nascent Soul casting and his skills in alchemy, talisman crafting, formations, and opening Independent Spaces, finding greater control and faster spellcasting.
• Li Yuan permanently converted Baby-Nurturing Essence-Cultivating and Tri-Essence Cohesion, increasing his early-stage cultivation speed and raising his essence, qi, and spirit by a combined thirty percent.
• Li Yuan recorded a second spatial coordinate, then used Ghostly Concealment and meridian circulation to disguise his Nascent Soul aura as that of a mid-to-late Golden Core cultivator.
• Li Yuan left the rift and flew toward Wulin Marketplace while planning to stabilize his cultivation, deepen his Dragon Clan Body-Tempering Art practice, and maintain marketplace and trade-route operations.

Li Yuan found that his cultivation had outgrown Wulin Marketplace’s spiritual energy and Third-Order pills, then inspected the Spatial Passage arrays for Zhou Heng. He learned that two Nascent Soul-level Array Masters would soon arrive to build a new system, while his Dragon Fortune Art’s intuitive sense of fortune continued to sharpen.

• Li Yuan tested Third-Order pills during cultivation and found their effects negligible at the Nascent Soul Realm, realizing he needed a suitable technique, Fourth-Order pills, or an Independent Space.
• Zhou Heng summoned Li Yuan to the Tianyue Mountain Range for a routine inspection of the Spatial Passage arrays.
• Li Yuan used his Array Dao Pivot trait to verify that the arrays were functioning normally and that the Space Stabilization Array was nearing peak effectiveness.
• Zhou Heng gave Li Yuan a Third-Order Breath-Detection Disk as payment, and Li Yuan stored it without equipping it.
• Zhou Heng told Li Yuan that two Nascent Soul-level Array Masters would arrive from the upper realm to build a new array system, which might require Li Yuan to adjust its connection to the existing arrays.
• As Li Yuan flew back to Wulin Marketplace, his Dragon Fortune Art and Karmic Insight improved his ability to sense whether short-term actions would lead to favorable or unfavorable outcomes.

Li Yuan cultivated in a Tianyue Mountain Range rift, advancing two body-tempering arts to Major Accomplishment and permanently acquiring Spirit Bone Reshaping. He returned to Wulin Marketplace, made plans to conceal his Nascent Soul identity, and permanently acquired Spirit-Gathering Marketplace Foundation as the marketplace continued to grow.

• Li Yuan used the Airspace Anchor to reach a rift in the Tianyue Mountain Range and cultivated there, raising the Black Iron Body-Tempering Art and Spirit Body Essence-Tempering Art to Major Accomplishment.
• Li Yuan renewed all five layers of his body's tissues, slightly improved his Nascent Soul, and permanently acquired the Spirit Bone Reshaping Affix.
• Li Yuan considered whether Airspace Anchor coordinates could guide him back from the Upper Realm and decided to conceal his rapid Nascent Soul breakthrough behind another identity.
• Li Yuan returned to Wulin Marketplace, where Ji Wenyuan reported that its resident population had surpassed one thousand and could reach two thousand before the year's end.
• Li Yuan replaced the formation's Array Eye Stone and permanently acquired the Spirit-Gathering Marketplace Foundation Affix, increasing cultivation efficiency within the formation's range.

Li Yuan delivered supplies to Yaochan Palace and received an incomplete Fourth-Order cultivation method from Yaochan. He learned about an ancient seabed cave abode and the rise and fall of Yaoguang Island before returning to Wulin Marketplace.

• Li Yuan approved Ji Wenyuan's detailed proposal for a joint auction between Wulin Marketplace and Yunyang Marketplace and arranged for array security.
• Li Yuan delivered ten Third-Order Spirit Herbs and thirty pieces of ore to Yaochan Palace, then asked Yaochan for a Fourth-Order cultivation method.
• Yaochan gave Li Yuan the incomplete Nascent Infant Origin Return Method as payment for the supplies.
• Yaochan told Li Yuan about seabed cave abode ruins southwest of the palace, where thunder-gang restrictions had driven off groups of Loose Cultivators.
• Yaochan recounted how the Spirit Transformation faction Yaoguang Island fell apart after its patriarch ascended, with its Nascent Soul Cultivators forming separate factions such as Dragon Abyss Pavilion.
• Li Yuan recorded the ruins' location and flew back toward Wulin Marketplace, considering how the Purple Trait of the Array Dao Pivot might help with the restrictions.

Li Yuan exchanged human Spirit Pattern principles for Dragon Script knowledge and a Dragon Script Talisman from the Flood Dragon, advancing the Dragon Fortune Art to mastery. He followed its guidance to Yaochan’s Seabed Cave Abode ruins, cleared away the Golden Core cultivators, and began studying the defensive array.

• Li Yuan returned to the Flood Dragon and exchanged Spirit Pattern structural principles for Dragon Script direction, distance, and map symbols.
• The Flood Dragon gave Li Yuan a Dragon Breath Slow Surge Talisman and explained that Dragon Script was both the clan’s inheritance and the key to understanding it.
• The combined effects of his Flood Dragon blood aura and improved Dragon Script mastery advanced Li Yuan’s Dragon Fortune Art to mastery, allowing him to actively assess the favorable tilt of short-term choices.
• Li Yuan used the Dragon Fortune Art to choose a detour to the Seabed Cave Abode ruins and disguised himself before diving to the site.
• Li Yuan found Golden Core cultivators unable to break the Thunder Gang Pulse barrier, revealed his Nascent Soul pressure, and drove them away.
• Li Yuan suppressed his aura and continued observing the barrier while the Array Dao Pivot gathered data for a future attempt to break it.

Li Yuan disabled a Thunder Gang restriction beneath the seabed and searched an ancient Four Symbols Thunder Sect cave abode before improving his Nascent Soul circulation and advancing his Dragon Script research with Lu Yang. He created a Third-Order Dragon Breath Slow Surge Talisman and stored it without equipping it.

• Li Yuan analyzed the Thunder Gang Pulses, disabled the cave abode’s restriction, and found a dead Four Symbols Thunder Sect disciple’s cultivation methods, spirit materials, and identity token.
• Li Yuan returned to Wulin Marketplace and reached Entry Level in the Nascent Infant Origin Return Method, improving his Nascent Soul spiritual power circulation.
• Li Yuan shared new Dragon Script deciphering results with Lu Yang, who confirmed that the map pointed far east by south into dangerous deep-sea territory.
• Li Yuan combined Dragon Script aura resonance with human Spirit Patterns to create a Third-Order Dragon Breath Slow Surge Talisman and stored it without equipping it.

Li Yuan reached Minor Accomplishment in Third-Order Talisman Making and permanently completed the Space Locking Domain Affix. After the joint Auction, he secured three items with useful Affixes, then learned that Zhou Mingyuan had formed a Nascent Soul and that his whereabouts were unknown.

• Li Yuan advanced his Third-Order Talisman attainment to Minor Accomplishment, gaining control over Talisman quality.
• Li Yuan fulfilled the Space Stabilization Talisman’s condition and permanently gained increased spatial stability and reduced spatial-spell costs.
• Li Yuan oversaw Wulin Marketplace’s joint Auction and arranged bids for the Star Magnetic Spirit Iron, Moonlight Spirit Dew, and Red-Patterned Array Disk.
• Li Yuan inspected the three auction items and learned the effects and permanentization conditions of their Affixes.
• Ji Wenyuan told Li Yuan that Zhou Mingyuan had formed a Nascent Soul, though his current whereabouts were unknown.

Li Yuan discovered a sealed spatial storage space in the Mysterious Nether Ruins and recovered a Mysterious Nether Seal and a key spirit tool. He then assisted Shen Jun and Qin Ruo in completing an array to stabilize the spatial passage before returning to the Wulin Marketplace.

• Li Yuan detected and opened an ancient spatial fold beneath a ridge near the Mysterious Nether Ruins.
• Li Yuan retrieved the Mysterious Nether Seal and a key spirit tool, noting that the key could enable exploration of the Mo Province ruins.
• Li Yuan arrived at the Tianyue Mountain Range and met Shen Jun and Qin Ruo, the upper realm array masters.
• Li Yuan connected the existing arrays to Shen Jun and Qin Ruo's new array by designing a frequency-conversion circuit.
• The new array reduced spiritual Qi overflow and improved the spatial passage's stability, and Li Yuan flew back to the Wulin Marketplace.

Li Yuan cultivated the Nascent Infant Origin Return Method, uncovered outpost coordinates on a Four Symbols Thunder Sect token, and began refining his bones with thunder power. He also established a Spirit Gathering Array to restore spiritual energy to Wulin Marketplace’s outer district.

• Li Yuan found two Four Symbols Thunder Sect outposts by deciphering the hidden markings on a disciple token, including one in Baihe Province.
• Li Yuan reached the Independent Space and began cultivating the Thunder Gang Bone-Refining Art with the aid of a Thunder Marrow Stone.
• Li Yuan set up a large Third-Order Spirit Gathering Array in Wulin Marketplace’s outer district, raising its spiritual energy concentration.
• Li Yuan returned to closed-door cultivation and continued circulating the Nascent Infant Origin Return Method.

Li Yuan opened the Abyssal Secret Cave using the three keys and entered its outer hall, where he found two Purple Trait inheritance items and a collection of Mysterious Nether Sect spells. After storing the discoveries, he headed toward the inner hall.

• Li Yuan began cultivating with the Dragon Breath Slow Surge Talisman, while Ji Wenyuan reported that the joint auction had increased Marketplace activity and discussed plans to expand the Outer Market District and connect Wulin Marketplace with Yunyang Marketplace.
• Li Yuan gathered the Mysterious Nether Jade Bead, Spirit Vein pattern rubbing, and dark cyan key artifact, then used them to open the seal beneath Stone Wasteland.
• Li Yuan entered the Abyssal Secret Cave and lifted the restriction on the Stone Gate to the Mysterious Nether Outer Hall.
• Li Yuan found the Mysterious Nether Spirit Talisman Jade and Mysterious Nether Demon-Banishing Ring, both with Purple Traits, and stored them for later.
• Li Yuan collected fourteen Mysterious Nether Sect spell Jade Slips and proceeded toward the inner hall.

Li Yuan uncovered the Mysterious Nether Sect’s final inheritance and obtained the Profound Nether Unification Pearl, then arranged to relocate the Mo Province Remnants to Wulin Marketplace. Back in seclusion, he studied the three inheritance items and initiated four Third-Order spells and two other spatial spells.

• Li Yuan opened the inner hall with his fused spirit power and Demonic Qi, then learned from the Jade Slip that the last Sect Master had pursued spatial rifts after failing to achieve Spirit-Demon Unification.
• Li Yuan took the Profound Nether Unification Pearl, whose Purple Trait strengthened Spirit-Demon Fusion and spatial spells, and left the sealed inheritance site with all three inheritance items.
• Li Yuan told Steward Zhou that the Mysterious Nether Sect had collapsed after deadly spatial rift experiments, then offered to relocate the Remnants to Wulin Marketplace; they agreed.
• Li Yuan contacted Ji Wenyuan to arrange the Remnants’ relocation and returned to Wulin Marketplace to study the three inheritance items.
• Li Yuan studied the pearl’s spatial-compression method for Spirit-Demon Fusion and learned how the two outer hall inheritances added spatial attributes to spirit and demonic spells.
• Li Yuan initiated Spatial Severing Technique, Spatial Imprisonment Technique, Demonic Shadow Through-Space Technique, Demonic Domain Erosion Technique, Spatial Investigation Technique, and Demonic Qi Condensed Wall Technique.

Li Yuan accepted alchemy tasks from Tianyue Sect, refined the new Spatial Vein Unblocking Origin-Passing Pill, and gained Contribution Points for completing his orders. He also arranged work for eleven Mo Province Remnants at Wulin Marketplace before returning to cultivation.

• Li Yuan accepted several Third-Order alchemy tasks, including Mingyuan Sect’s task to refine Spatial Vein Unblocking Origin-Passing Pills.
• Li Yuan refined standard pills at High-Grade quality and successfully produced Mid-High Grade Spatial Vein Unblocking Origin-Passing Pills, earning progress toward the Void-Vein Conduit entry.
• Li Yuan completed the alchemy tasks and received a large increase in Contribution Points after the deacon checked his pills.
• Ji Wenyuan reported that the eleven Mo Province Remnants had been assigned work at Wulin Marketplace, and Li Yuan approved the arrangements.
• Li Yuan returned to his cultivation chamber and circulated the Nascent Infant Origin Return Method.

Li Yuan perfected the Black Iron Body-Tempering Art, brought the Monster-to-Human Transformation Technique to major completion, and began cultivating the Dragon Transformation Art. He learned more about Yaoguang Island’s fall, obtained the final Dragon Script symbols, and identified the location of the Ancient Flood Dragon Nest Ruins before continuing his research.

• Li Yuan perfected the Black Iron Body-Tempering Art, which improved his recovery and bone strength and pushed the Monster-to-Human Transformation Technique to major completion.
• Li Yuan began cultivating the Dragon Clan Body-Tempering Art, named it the Dragon Transformation Art, and reached entry level.
• Li Yuan traded pills with the short, stout man and learned how Yaoguang Island’s factions split after its Spirit Transformation Patriarch ascended, as well as its reported contact with the upper realm.
• Li Yuan traded spatial-positioning Spirit Pattern information with a Flood Dragon for the final Dragon Script symbols and deciphered the map’s destination as the Ancient Flood Dragon Nest Ruins, southeast of the sea region and about fifteen hundred li away.
• Li Yuan used the new symbols to decipher over eighty percent of the Lu Family’s Dragon Script Jade Slip, revealing a technique for encoding information in bloodlines, then returned to cultivation.

Li Yuan accepted Mingyuan Sect’s commission to craft third-order Spatial Stabilization Talismans and learned that the sect was recruiting lower-realm Golden Core Loose Cultivators for dangerous trips through the Spatial Passage. While crafting the talismans, he reached major accomplishment in third-order talisman crafting and discovered a blue equipment entry.

• Li Yuan delivered high-grade third-order pills to the Contribution Exchange Office and received his Contribution Points.
• Zhou Heng commissioned Li Yuan to make fifty third-order Spatial Stabilization Talismans and explained that Mingyuan Sect was recruiting Golden Core Loose Cultivators to travel between realms using pills and talismans despite lasting meridian damage.
• Li Yuan returned to Wulin Marketplace and began crafting the talismans with materials supplied by Mingyuan Sect, incorporating Dragon-Script Resonance Bridges into their Spirit Patterns.
• After completing fifteen talismans, Li Yuan’s third-order talisman-crafting attainment reached major accomplishment.
• Li Yuan discovered that a self-crafted Spatial Stabilization Domain-Confining Talisman granted a blue Spatial Domain Stabilization entry, then continued crafting and cultivating.

Li Yuan advanced the Red-Patterned Array Disk’s permanent transformation by setting up two Third-Order Arrays and cultivating with Moonlight Spirit Dew. Completing the conditions fused his array and talisman entries into Array-Talisman Mystical Communion, and he left with their mastery now mutually reinforcing.

• Li Yuan exchanged fifty top-grade Spatial Stabilization Talismans for the Remote Communication Node Array and Spirit Energy Circulation Purification Array diagrams.
• Li Yuan set up the Remote Communication Node Array at Wulin Marketplace’s northern entrance, improving Communication Token quality and bringing Array Pattern Evolution’s progress to 2/3.
• Li Yuan used Moonlight Spirit Dew while cultivating the Soul Condensing and Consciousness Controlling Art, completing one full cycle and reaching 1/3 progress for Clear Origin Consciousness Condensation.
• Li Yuan set up the Spirit Energy Circulation Purification Array in the eastern outer district, completing the Red-Patterned Array Disk’s three-array condition.
• The Red-Patterned Array Disk permanently increased Li Yuan’s array adjustment ability and transferred array mastery into talisman mastery.
• Array-Talisman Mutual Reflection appeared and fused with Array Pattern Evolution, creating Array-Talisman Mystical Communion, which let array and talisman mastery enhance each other.

Li Yuan exchanged Contribution Points for the Nascent Soul Foundation-Stabilizing Pill Recipe and two sets of ingredients, then advanced his Third-Order Alchemy Art and attempted his first Fourth-Order pill refinement. The attempt failed, and he decided to hone his Alchemy Art further before using his remaining ingredients for a second try.

• Li Yuan exchanged for the Nascent Soul Foundation-Stabilizing Pill Recipe and two sets of Nascent Soul Golden Pistil Grass at Tianyue Marketplace.
• Li Yuan harvested mature spirit materials from his Portable Small Realm and studied the Fourth-Order recipe, analyzing its seven-layer nested circuit.
• Li Yuan practiced fifteen furnaces of Third-Order pills and advanced his Alchemy Art to major mastery, improving the quality of his pills.
• Li Yuan completed another soul cultivation cycle, further refining his control over twenty-four Divine Sense Threads.
• Li Yuan began refining the Nascent Soul Foundation-Stabilizing Pill, but a violent reaction caused the pill embryo to collapse and left gray-black slag in the furnace.
• Li Yuan resolved to continue practicing Third-Order recipes until his Alchemy Art approached perfection before attempting a second Fourth-Order refinement.