Chapter Summaries

Li Yuan studied the failure of his first Fourth-Order pill attempt by repeatedly refining Third-Order pills and training his ability to predict conflicts between medicinal properties. After permanently transforming Clear Origin Consciousness Condensation and reaching complete mastery of Third-Order Alchemy Art, he prepared to stabilize his new skill before trying the Fourth-Order pill again.

• Li Yuan mixed supplementary ingredients of different qualities and observed their conflicting medicinal properties across five furnaces of Third-Order pills.
• Li Yuan completed the third cycle of the Soul Condensing and Consciousness Controlling Art, permanently transforming Clear Origin Consciousness Condensation and improving his divine sense.
• Li Yuan refined more Third-Order pills, learning to predict medicinal-property changes before they occurred.
• Li Yuan produced three premium-grade Qingyuan Pills in the tenth furnace and advanced his Third-Order Alchemy Art to complete mastery.
• Li Yuan decided to solidify his new skill before attempting the second furnace of Fourth-Order pills.

Li Yuan refined a Nascent Soul Foundation-Stabilizing Pill after adjusting his method and equipped it to gain a powerful Purple Trait. The successful attempt advanced his Fourth-Order Alchemy Art to beginner proficiency, and he began cultivating with the pill’s benefits.

• Ji Wenyuan reported that the first section of the connecting road had opened, increasing traffic, transactions, Spirit Stone revenue, and the resident Loose Cultivator population at Wulin Marketplace.
• Li Yuan reviewed the Nascent Soul Foundation-Stabilizing Pill formula and prepared to use his final Nascent Soul Golden Pistil Grass.
• Li Yuan refined the pill successfully, suppressing the medicinal reaction with eight Divine Sense Threads and forming one above-average-quality Medicinal Pill.
• Li Yuan equipped the pill and gained the Purple Infant Origin Foundation Consolidation Trait, which strengthened his Nascent Soul foundation and increased spirit power condensation and cultivation efficiency.
• Li Yuan gained beginner proficiency in Fourth-Order Alchemy Art and circulated the Nascent Infant Origin Return Method with his new cultivation benefits.

Li Yuan maintained the Spatial Passage, improved his Spatial Investigation Technique, and learned a third-tier spatial cultivation technique. He permanently gained the Void-Vein Conduit Trait, greatly improving his spatial perception and spell efficiency.

• Li Yuan accepted Zhou Heng's request to inspect the arrays, reinforce the passage walls, and craft Passage Protection Talismans.
• Li Yuan found the arrays operating normally, then used Spatial Stabilization Domain-Confining Talismans to repair two worn spots on the passage walls.
• Li Yuan noticed the Array Eye's spirit stone showing signs of erosion and decided to wait until it needed replacement before offering to help.
• Li Yuan's repeated maintenance improved his Spatial Investigation Technique to the proficient stage, and he exchanged Contribution Points for the Void Condensation Meridian Guiding Formula.
• Li Yuan cultivated the formula to the beginner stage, meeting the condition to make the Void-Vein Conduit Trait permanent and gaining improved spatial perception and thirty percent greater spatial-spell efficiency.

Li Yuan completed his spatial trait fusion and gained Void Domain Profound Mastery, greatly improving his spatial perception and spell control. After advancing two spatial spells and his cultivation method to proficient, he reviewed data that might help him research a route to the upper realm.

• Li Yuan crafted fifteen Passage Protection Talismans and returned to the Tianyue Mountain Range to maintain the Spatial Passage walls.
• After completing the fifth wall repair, Li Yuan permanently activated Spatial Domain Stabilization, which fused with Space Locking Domain and Void-Vein Conduit into Void Domain Profound Mastery.
• Li Yuan tested the new trait and advanced Spatial Severing Technique and Spatial Imprisonment Technique from entry level to proficient.
• Li Yuan returned to Wulin Marketplace and cultivated until Nascent Infant Origin Return Method reached proficient.
• Li Yuan reviewed spatial data from the passage, stored it for future research into a route to the upper realm, and resumed cultivation.

Li Yuan permanently established three cultivation entries, improving bone tempering, spirit power transmission, and spirit energy purification. After delivering talismans at Tianyue Marketplace, he traveled to Baihe Province and followed traces of thunder-attributed spirit power toward a Four Symbols Thunder Sect outpost.

• Li Yuan completed thirty days of cultivating the Thunder Gang Bone-Refining Art, permanently establishing [Thunder Gang Bone Tempering] and strengthening his bones’ conductivity to thunder-attributed spirit power.
• Li Yuan replaced the Remote Communication Node Array’s Communication Spirit-Stabilizing Stone after thirty days of operation, permanently establishing [Spirit Communication Across Domains].
• Li Yuan permanently established [Spirit Breath Clearflow] by replacing the Spirit Energy Circulation Purification Array’s Pure Spirit Circulation Pearl, then resumed cultivating with improved spirit energy absorption and circulation.
• Li Yuan told Ji Wenyuan he was leaving for Baihe Province and departed Wulin Marketplace.
• Li Yuan exchanged fifteen Passage Protection Talismans and thirty Spatial Stabilization Domain-Confining Talismans for Contribution Points at Tianyue Marketplace.
• Li Yuan flew into the mountains of Baihe Province and followed residual thunder-attributed spirit power toward the location marked by his token.

Li Yuan explored an Old Thunder Sect outpost and recovered lightning-refining materials before completing the Dragon Script deciphering with Lu Yang. He obtained the Bloodline Inscription Technique and a Spirit Vein Nurturing Formula, then headed to Wulin Marketplace to acquire a spirit vein for his Portable Small Realm.

• Li Yuan used demonic qi and a spatial forbidden art to breach the damaged restriction and enter the underground outpost.
• Li Yuan recovered lightning ores, broken Jade Slip fragments, and part of a lightning-element body-refining pill formula.
• Li Yuan and Lu Yang combined their research to fully decipher the Dragon Script Jade Slip, revealing the Bloodline Inscription Technique.
• Lu Yang gave Li Yuan the Spirit Vein Nurturing Formula as an additional reward for their collaboration.
• Li Yuan planned to cultivate a spirit vein inside his Portable Small Realm and flew toward Wulin Marketplace to seek one.

Li Yuan completed the Thunder Gang Marrow-Washing Pill formula, traded supplies for a deep-sea map, and installed two Small Spirit Veins in his Portable Small Realm. He headed into the deep sea to investigate a Four Symbols Thunder Sect outpost before continuing toward the Ancient Flood Dragon Nest Ruins.

• Li Yuan combined the remnant page and two jade slip fragments to reconstruct the Thunder Gang Marrow-Washing Pill formula, then refined three high-grade pills and stored one after inspecting its Blue affix.
• Li Yuan delivered his fifth batch of pills and three premium-grade spatial talismans to the short, fat man at Yaochan Palace, who drew him a map of the deep sea.
• Li Yuan exchanged at the General Altar of the Loose Cultivator Alliance for two Small Spirit Veins and embedded them in his Portable Small Realm.
• Li Yuan overheard Foundation Establishment cultivators discussing a Nascent Soul rogue cultivator in the central sea and suspected they meant him.
• Li Yuan flew southeast by east into the deep sea, cultivating the Dragon Transformation Art as he traveled.
• Li Yuan decided to investigate the Four Symbols Thunder Sect sea outpost before proceeding toward the Ancient Flood Dragon Nest Ruins.

Li Yuan explored a submerged Four Symbols Thunder Sect outpost, recovered its records and cultivation art, and permanently gained a thunder-element affix. He continued toward his next destination, gathering Spirit Veins and slaying two Demonic Beasts as his Dragon Transformation Art neared Proficiency.

• Li Yuan searched the underwater outpost and found a Thunder Tempering Essence Formula, array blueprints, sect history, and a pill formula preserved in the main hall.
• Li Yuan mastered the Thunder Tempering Essence Formula and permanently gained the Thunder Essence Body Penetration affix, increasing thunder-element Spirit Qi condensation and spell response speed.
• Li Yuan traveled east by south while cultivating the Spirit Vein Nurturing Formula and found two wild Miniature Spirit Veins, bringing the total in his Portable Small Realm to four.
• Li Yuan passed between two Third-Order Demonic Beasts fighting over an undersea mineral vein, killed the Iron-Armored Shark Ray and Deep Sea Flood Lizard, and stored their Inner Cores and useful materials.
• Li Yuan continued toward his target as the Dragon Transformation Art strengthened his Flood Dragon Blood Qi and brought him closer to Proficiency.

Li Yuan acquired the Flood Lizard Essence Soul Affix and advanced the Dragon Transformation Art while traveling through the deep sea. He reached the Ancient Flood Dragon Nest Ruins, entered its first outer hall, and found a Dragon Breath Condensed Scale whose affix required further cultivation to acquire permanently.

• Li Yuan killed three Second-Order Demonic Beasts in the deep sea and permanently acquired the Flood Lizard Essence Soul Affix.
• As he traveled through the dragon aura, Li Yuan's Dragon Transformation Art advanced to Proficiency.
• Li Yuan discovered a half-collapsed undersea mountain concealed by a Spatial Folding layer and disabled its aging defensive array.
• Li Yuan cut through the spatial barrier and entered the ruins' first outer hall.
• Li Yuan found a Dragon Breath Condensed Scale, learned that its affix required the Dragon Transformation Art to reach Major Accomplishment, and stored it in his Portable Small Realm.

Li Yuan explored the Flood Dragon Nest’s cavern, found an Ancient Flood Dragon Tooth and a damaged teleportation base, and used the corridor’s unstable spatial environment to master two spatial spells. He recorded a third coordinate point and found an entrance leading deeper into the mountain.

• Li Yuan searched the cavern’s three stone chambers and found an Ancient Flood Dragon Tooth with a Dragon-type spell power affix.
• Li Yuan discovered a damaged teleportation base and an unstable spatial crack built from Flood Dragon Clan and Canglan Sect patterns.
• Li Yuan trained with the Spatial Restriction Technique and Spatial Severing Technique in the corridor’s turbulent spatial environment until both reached Mastery.
• Li Yuan left the base untouched and used the Airspace Anchor to record a third coordinate point in the stone chamber.
• Li Yuan returned to the main cavern and spotted an entrance leading toward the mountain’s core.

Li Yuan explored the Ancient Flood Dragon Nest Ruins and acquired a reverse scale armor plate, Ancient Flood Dragon Essence Blood, and the Dragon Scale Golden Body Formula. After leaving the ruins, he collected Thunder Pattern Ore and expanded the spirit plant varieties in his Portable Small Realm.

• Li Yuan opened the sealed Stone Gate and found three treasures in the Stone Hall: a reverse scale armor plate, a Dragon Blood Crystal containing Ancient Flood Dragon Essence Blood, and a Flood Dragon bone slip with the Dragon Scale Golden Body Formula.
• Li Yuan stored the three items and left the Ancient Flood Dragon Nest Ruins.
• Li Yuan found and collected Thunder Pattern Ore from a mineral vein outcrop in an undersea canyon.
• Li Yuan returned to the Loose Cultivator Alliance's main island and exchanged Contribution Points for aquatic and terrestrial spirit plants and seeds.
• Li Yuan planted the new spirit plants in his Portable Small Realm, including Water Spirit Ganoderma and Azure Wave Algae, and placed the Deep Sea Moon Coral seedling near a spirit vein.

Li Yuan cultivated the Dragon Scale Golden Body Formula and coordinated it with the Dragon Transformation Art, then established a third-order lightning Defense Array in Wulin Marketplace. Activating the array completed Kunpeng's Guarding Breath permanentization, and Li Yuan continued cultivating toward the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.

• Li Yuan learned the Dragon Scale Golden Body Formula, reached Beginner in the Scale Birth Realm, and linked its cultivation path with the Dragon Transformation Art.
• Ji Wenyuan reported that the road to Yunyang Marketplace and its three supply stations were operating, trade had grown, and the Remnants had settled into their assigned work.
• Li Yuan used lightning ores and Thunder Pattern Ore to establish a third-order lightning-attributed Defense Array at the center of Wulin Marketplace.
• The completed array fulfilled Kunpeng Array Pearl's condition, permanently increasing Li Yuan's spirit power recovery speed by fifty percent and personal defense by thirty percent.
• Li Yuan circulated the Nascent Infant Origin Return Method while the Dragon Transformation Art and Dragon Scale Golden Body Formula operated in coordination.

Li Yuan met with Zhou Mingyuan, who probed him about the Mysterious Nether Sect and tested him with Nascent Soul pressure, then accepted Xuanpu’s invitation to travel to the Upper Realm. After improving his Thunder Gang Bone-Refining Art and expanding his Portable Small Realm, Li Yuan departed for the Tianyue Sect to prepare for the journey.

• Zhou Mingyuan visited Li Yuan, asked about the Mo Province Remnants and rumors linking Li Yuan’s inheritance to the Mysterious Nether Sect, then tested Li Yuan’s resistance with his Nascent Soul aura before leaving.
• Xuanpu invited Li Yuan to stay in the Upper Realm with the Mingyuan Sect, and Li Yuan agreed to travel there through the Spatial Passage after visiting the Tianyue Sect.
• Li Yuan equipped the Thunder Gang Marrow-Washing Pill, whose effects combined with his entries to advance his Thunder Gang Bone-Refining Art to proficient.
• Li Yuan bought spirit plants and herbs, then planted them in his Portable Small Realm as its spirit veins and crops continued to develop.
• After Xuanpu announced that preparations were complete, Li Yuan restored the Ancient Flood Dragon Tooth to his Equipment Slot and departed Wulin Marketplace for the Tianyue Mountain Range.

Li Yuan received Void Spirit Liquid from Xuanpu and maintained Tianyue Sect’s Spatial Passage, discovering that its Array Eye was close to wearing out. After replacing it and gaining a new insight into spatial structures, he returned to the inner sect.

• Xuanpu gave Li Yuan Void Spirit Liquid and told him to use it when entering the passage to lessen the effects of the medicinal pill spirit veins.
• Li Yuan noticed that Xuanpu’s former prosthetic right arm was regenerating, but he did not ask about it.
• Li Yuan inspected the Spatial Passage and repaired its damaged walls with Spatial Stabilization Domain-Confining Talismans.
• Li Yuan found that the Array Eye was deteriorating and warned Zhou Heng it would need replacement within two or three months.
• Li Yuan replaced the Array Eye, stored the worn Worldflow Pressure-Bearing Stone, and gained a new multidimensional understanding of spatial structures.
• Li Yuan returned to Tianyue Sect’s inner sect.

Li Yuan safely crossed the Spatial Passage into the Upper Realm, where a permanent transformation strengthened his spatial abilities and the dense spiritual energy accelerated his cultivation. At the Mingyuan Sect, he realized the other lower-realm cultivators were being examined as part of a transmission experiment, then gave Song He information about the Tianyue Sect and surrounding forces.

• Li Yuan entered the Spatial Passage with seven Golden Core cultivators and safely endured the journey using his Small Realm Collapse Core.
• After reaching the Upper Realm, Li Yuan completed the Worldflow Pressure-Bearing transformation, reducing spatial damage and increasing spatial spell power.
• A Mingyuan Sect disciple brought the group to cave dwellings, where Li Yuan cultivated with the Upper Realm's dense spiritual energy.
• Li Yuan learned that Nascent Soul cultivators were examining the seven Golden Core cultivators to verify the pills and talismans used for cross-realm transmission.
• Song He visited Li Yuan to ask about the lower realm, and Li Yuan described the Tianyue Sect's expansion and the Nascent Soul cultivators among nearby forces.
• After Song He left, Li Yuan resumed cultivating in his cave dwelling.

Li Yuan received permission to travel throughout the Mingyuan Domain and explored the sect exchange office and Mingyuan Immortal City. After acquiring two Blue Trait items, he settled into a residence and began cultivating.

• Song He gave Li Yuan a token granting access to the Mingyuan Domain and explained that his lower-realm Contribution Points could be used at the Mingyuan Sect.
• Li Yuan inspected the sect exchange office but saved his Contribution Points for a cultivation technique.
• Li Yuan left the Mingyuan Sect and traveled to Mingyuan Immortal City, observing the upper realm’s abundant spirit veins and shops.
• Li Yuan bought a Spirit-Origin Amber Crystal with the Blue Trait Spirit Marrow Condenses the Nascent Infant.
• Li Yuan bought a Thunder-Origin Spirit-Gathering Pearl with the Blue Trait Thunder-Origin Meridian Condensation.
• Li Yuan chose a residence in the city and began cultivating the Nascent Infant Origin Return Method.

Li Yuan explored Mingyuan Immortal City, learned it was not fully under Mingyuan Sect’s jurisdiction, and acquired several trait-bearing cultivation resources. He returned to his residence to continue cultivating, with the city’s auction scheduled in three months.

• Li Yuan learned that Mingyuan Immortal City was managed separately from Mingyuan Sect and that he could remain in the upper realm for three to four months before returning to the lower realm.
• Li Yuan found that Fourth-Order cultivation arts were costly and bought the Third-Order Thunder-Splitting Art after detecting its Green trait.
• Li Yuan saw a notice for an auction to be held in three months, featuring Fourth-Order resources priced in high-grade Spirit Stones.
• Li Yuan bought Thunder Vein Lingzhi, Violet Lightning Pollen, spatial-attribute Spirit Sand, and a bottle of Dragon Demon Scale with a Green trait.
• Li Yuan bought a Meridian-Bearing Sand Crystal with a Blue trait and returned to his residence to cultivate.

Li Yuan mastered the Thunder Gang Bone-Refining Art through several nights of joint cultivation with the Thunder Tempering Essence Formula, while his Portable Small Realm and its spirit veins continued to develop. He accepted missions to gather Spirit Herbs in Spirit Pattern Ravine and repair a Spatial Passage to another lower realm, then flew toward the ravine.

• Li Yuan learned the Thunder-Splitting Art and observed the growing spirit veins, Spirit Herbs, and aquatic plants in his Portable Small Realm.
• Li Yuan cultivated the Thunder Gang Bone-Refining Art alongside the Thunder Tempering Essence Formula until his lightning conduction network reached the deep layers of his bones and the art reached mastery.
• Li Yuan left his residence in Mingyuan Immortal City and traveled to Mingyuan Sect's Mission Hall.
• Li Yuan found a mission to assess and repair a Spatial Passage leading to the Heavenly Origin Realm, learning that Mingyuan Sect maintained passages to multiple lower realms.
• Li Yuan accepted the Spatial Passage mission and a gathering mission in Spirit Pattern Ravine, then set out for the ravine first.

Li Yuan gathered the required Spirit Herbs in Spirit Pattern Ravine, killed a Ravine-Pattern Python, and obtained its Moisture-Pattern Inner Core. He then traveled to a Spatial Passage outpost, repaired the passage, and rested there after completing his mission.

• Li Yuan entered Spirit Pattern Ravine and harvested ten Void-Pattern Condensing Leaves and ten Azure Vein Grass.
• Li Yuan killed a Ravine-Pattern Python with the Spatial Severing Technique and collected its Inner Core and corpse.
• Li Yuan left the ravine and traveled to a Spatial Passage outpost on the northeastern edge of Mingyuan Domain.
• Li Yuan repaired three damaged zones and a deep crack in the passage walls using spatial arts and repair materials.
• The outpost disciple inspected Li Yuan's work, confirmed the mission was complete, and gave him a mission receipt.
• Li Yuan rested in a Stone Chamber and circulated the Nascent Infant Origin Return Method.

Li Yuan completed his outpost missions, permanently transformed two dragon-related traits, and advanced his Dragon Scale Golden Body Formula. He continued balancing sect duties with cultivation in Mingyuan Immortal City.

• Li Yuan met two Late Golden Core cultivators from the Heavenly Origin Realm at the outpost, then returned to Mingyuan Sect and claimed the Contribution Points for his completed missions.
• Li Yuan permanently transformed Scale-Borne Subtle Breath, gaining a lasting fifty percent increase in blood qi activity when cultivating dragon clan techniques.
• Li Yuan took daily shifts maintaining Mingyuan Sect’s outer Fourth-Order array nodes, deepening his understanding of array principles while cultivating at his residence.
• Li Yuan’s Dragon Scale Golden Body Formula reached proficient stage, forming a denser, semi-materialized scale armor across more than half of both arms.
• Li Yuan infused the Ancient Flood Dragon Tooth in about twenty-two days and permanently transformed it, gaining blood qi that produced an intimidating pressure on low-level demon beasts.