Chapter Summaries

Li Yuan completed a five-day watch at a Fourth-Order array node, advancing his Array Dao attainments and earning more contribution points. Unable to find the complete Nascent Infant Origin Return Method through the sect, he sought a way to earn the Spirit Stones needed to buy it and began refining pills.

• Li Yuan studied the Main Peak Grand Array during his rotation and corrected two deviations at the Seventh Node Station, reaching Fourth-Order entry level in the Array Dao.
• Xue Lang arrived to take over the watch and noted that Li Yuan had repaired the operating Fourth-Order Array.
• Li Yuan checked the Mingyuan Sect exchange hall for the Nascent Infant Origin Return Method, but the deacon said the sect did not offer it.
• Li Yuan found a complete copy of the method at a Mingyuan Immortal City shop priced at four hundred high-grade Spirit Stones, far beyond his means.
• Li Yuan exchanged contribution points for the Yuan Condensing Powder and Heavenly Origin Meridian-Penetrating Pill formulas, then returned home and began alchemy.

Li Yuan refined and sold pills in Mingyuan Immortal City while perfecting his Third-Order Talisman Crafting Art in the upper realm’s rich spiritual energy. After two miniature spirit veins advanced to small spirit veins, he permanently acquired Vein Source Nurturing, and his savings continued to approach the price of the complete Nascent Infant Origin Return Method.

• Li Yuan refined batches of Yuan Condensing Powder and Heavenly Origin Meridian-Penetrating Pills, then sold them below market price to build his Spirit Stone reserves.
• Li Yuan found that talisman shops were struggling to attract customers, then crafted thousands of Talismans and perfected his Third-Order Talisman Crafting Art.
• Li Yuan’s perfected talisman mastery strengthened his array mastery through Array-Talisman Mystical Communion.
• Two miniature spirit veins in Li Yuan’s Portable Small Realm advanced into small spirit veins, fulfilling the permanent condition for Vein Source Nurturing.
• Li Yuan permanently acquired Vein Source Nurturing, expanding his spirit vein sensing range and improving resource absorption; its resonance also sped up the grade growth of his thirteen Portable Spirit Veins.
• Li Yuan harvested mature spirit herbs and aquatic plants from the Portable Small Realm, then returned to cultivation as his Spirit Stone reserves grew.

Li Yuan advised Xue Lang on adapting a fourth-order defense array for low-spiritual-energy environments and learned how to earn spirit stones through supply missions between realms. He accepted a mission to the Heavenly Origin Realm, delivered supplies to the Mingyuan Sect Lower-Realm Branch, and began cultivating there.

• Li Yuan explained to Xue Lang that closed-loop spirit power circulation would make a fourth-order defense array more reliable in low-energy environments, and Xue Lang rewarded him with an Array-Origin Spirit Marrow Pearl.
• Xue Lang told Li Yuan he could profit by transporting supplies between realms and buying cheaper materials in the Lower Realm.
• Li Yuan accepted a mission to deliver supplies to the Mingyuan Sect Lower-Realm Branch in the Heavenly Origin Realm and collected passage-protection pills and talismans.
• Li Yuan passed through the spatial passage without suffering damage and arrived at the Heavenly Origin Realm, where he observed the branch's defenses and Spirit Transformation presence.
• Li Yuan delivered the supplies to the branch, settled into a guest cave residence, and began cultivating.

Li Yuan traveled to the Heavenly Origin Realm, bought spirit materials and trait-bearing items, and returned to Mingyuan Sect with valuable supplies. Back in his residence, he increased his pill production and advanced his cultivation, thunder techniques, and dragon-clan techniques.

• Li Yuan accepted the branch's return supplies, then traveled to a marketplace and learned that a second Spatial Passage had once connected the realm to a distant part of Mingyuan Domain before its sect was destroyed.
• Li Yuan bought spirit materials and discovered that a Pulse-Breath Stone granted a Green spirit-vein trait, while Spirit Ore Powder permanently activated a White artifact-refining trait.
• Li Yuan returned through the Spatial Passage, reported to the Mission Hall, and used the newly acquired materials to increase his pill-refining output and Spirit Stone reserves.
• Li Yuan equipped the Thunder-Origin Spirit-Gathering Pearl and advanced the Thunder Gang Bone-Refining Art to minor accomplishment and the Thunder Tempering Essence Formula to proficient.
• Li Yuan advanced the Dragon Transformation Art and Dragon Scale Golden Body Formula to mastery, gaining purer Flood Dragon blood energy and a scale network embedded through his muscles and fascia.

Li Yuan partnered with the Spirit Abyss Commerce Guild to transport goods between realms and used the advance payment to buy the complete Nascent Infant Origin Return Method. After cultivating with the restored pathways, he broke through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.

• Song He delivered the Spirit Abyss Commerce Guild's visiting card, and Li Yuan agreed to meet its representatives.
• Fang Zhi offered Li Yuan a goods-transport partnership and agreed to provide a large advance against future payments.
• Li Yuan signed the agreement, received the advance Spirit Stones, and bought the complete Nascent Infant Origin Return Method.
• Li Yuan compared the complete method with his incomplete version and found that three transition-node sets opened the path to middle-stage cultivation.
• After cultivating for several days, Li Yuan completed his first middle-stage circulation cycle and broke through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.

After stabilizing his Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivation, Li Yuan made three traits permanent, strengthening his spiritual power, spatially enhanced techniques, and soul. He tested the new spatial penetration of his Gold Blade Technique, then began refining pills to earn Spirit Stones for the Mingyuan Immortal City Auction while planning to pursue a Fourth-Order demonic qi cultivation method.

• Li Yuan tested spirit-demon conversion and found he could convert up to ninety-nine percent of his spiritual power into demonic qi while maintaining the middle-stage cycle.
• Li Yuan made Meridian-Bearing Infant Stabilization permanent, reducing spiritual power consumption by twenty percent and improving recovery when his reserves were low.
• Li Yuan made Nether Void Spirit Essence and Void Spirit Soul Condensation permanent, increasing spiritual power quality, enabling spatial attributes in techniques, and improving soul resilience and soul cultivation efficiency.
• Li Yuan infused spatial-attribute spiritual power into the Gold Blade Technique and pierced an abandoned Spirit Stone with almost no resistance.
• Li Yuan planned to earn Spirit Stones through alchemy and the Spirit Abyss Commerce Guild transport partnership, while seeking a Fourth-Order demonic qi cultivation method.
• Li Yuan resumed alchemy and produced high-grade pills with a premium-pill rate ten percent higher than before his breakthrough.

Li Yuan traveled through the Spirit Abyss Commerce Guild’s Spatial Passage to the Azure Profound Realm, where he completed the guild’s mineral procurement and bought materials for an alchemy formula. He returned to the Shattered Void Wasteland Outpost with several ores bearing Affixes.

• Li Yuan received the guild’s route map and Procurement List, then exchanged Contribution Points for the Origin-Returning Infant-Nourishing Pill formula.
• Li Yuan met Fang Zhi at the Shattered Void Wasteland Outpost and traveled through the guild’s Spatial Passage to the Azure Profound Realm.
• Li Yuan delivered the guild’s requested goods to its branch and used the steward’s map to locate the marketplace’s Ore Shops and Spirit Material Shops.
• Li Yuan bought the listed minerals, pill ingredients, and additional supplies, discovering Affixes on Profound Gang Iron and a Profound Rock Armor Stone.
• Li Yuan returned through the Spatial Passage and emerged at the Shattered Void Wasteland Outpost.

Li Yuan completed his first supply-transport mission, bought a Fourth-Order alchemy furnace, and refined Mid-Grade Origin-Returning Infant-Nourishing Pills. He then advanced his lightning arts through several days of cultivation while his other cultivation methods continued operating in the background.

• Li Yuan received payment for his supplies and returned to Mingyuan Immortal City after completing his first transport mission.
• Li Yuan bought a Fourth-Order alchemy furnace for eight hundred Mid-Grade Spirit Stones and returned to the Mingyuan Sect.
• Li Yuan refined two Mid-Grade Origin-Returning Infant-Nourishing Pills and previewed the Blue-grade Nascent Infant Essence Nourishment entry.
• Li Yuan equipped the Thunder-Origin Spirit-Gathering Pearl and cultivated his three lightning arts for several days.
• Li Yuan advanced the Thunder Tempering Essence Formula to Proficient and the Thunder-Splitting Art to Skilled while the Thunder Gang Bone-Refining Art continued progressing.

Li Yuan advanced his Fourth-Order Array Dao proficiency while guarding a node station, then accepted a mission to inspect spirit veins in Nether Abyss Mine Valley. He found and equipped a Spirit Vein Convergence Crystal, beginning the cultivation needed to permanently transform its trait.

• Li Yuan adjusted the Fifth Node Station’s array pivot during a spiritual power tide, preventing the grand array from entering low-power operation and reaching Fourth-Order Array Dao proficiency.
• Xue Lang told Li Yuan that his closed-cycle approach revision had passed review, earned him a Contribution Point reward, and invited him to an internal array discussion.
• Li Yuan completed his five-day duty, refined several batches of pills at his residence, and accepted a mission to inspect the third layer of Nether Abyss Mine Valley.
• At the convergence of three spirit veins, Li Yuan discovered a Third-Order High-Grade Spirit Vein Convergence Crystal and equipped it, starting the sixty-day permanent transformation timer.

While cultivating at Nether Abyss Mine Valley, Li Yuan learned that the Mingyuan Sect might conscript lower-realm cultivators for an impending war. He permanently converted two thunder-related traits, advanced his thunder arts and alchemy, and continued his mine-duty routine.

• Li Yuan heard from a Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator that the Mingyuan Sect was preparing for a lower-realm war and might conscript him.
• Li Yuan reached major mastery in the Thunder Gang Bone-Refining Art and permanently converted Thunder-Origin Meridian Condensation and Thunder Gang Vein-Continuing.
• Li Yuan’s Thunder-Splitting Art reached mastery the next day, bringing his thunder arts cultivation to a temporary stopping point.
• Li Yuan refined pills at the spirit vein convergence, and his eighth batch reached high grade for the first time.
• Li Yuan continued traveling between his residence and the mine valley, alternating among alchemy, cultivation, and guard duty.

Li Yuan advanced both dragon cultivation arts, completed the permanence of Meridian Warming and Vein Nourishment, and reached proficient Fourth-Order Alchemy. He traveled to Profound Sun City to sell goods and acquire two Green Trait items, where a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator secretly placed a tracking mark on him.

• Li Yuan's Dragon Transformation Art and Dragon Scale Golden Body Formula both advanced to minor accomplishment, strengthening his dragon aura and skeletal scale armor.
• After refining his tenth furnace of Fourth-Order pills, Li Yuan permanently increased his spirit power operating speed and flow speed by fifty percent each, and his Fourth-Order Alchemy Art reached proficient.
• Li Yuan disguised himself as a rogue cultivator and traveled from Mingyuan Immortal City to Profound Sun City to sell pills, ores, and Spirit Herbs.
• Li Yuan bought a Spirit-Infused Essence Jade and a Spirit-Pattern Iron Core, discovering their Green Trait effects and permanence conditions.
• A hidden Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator probed Li Yuan and attached a covert tracking mark to his clothes; Li Yuan detected it but showed no reaction as he headed for the city gate.

Li Yuan left Profound Sun City after the gate guards weakened a tracking mark on his clothes, then lured his Nascent Soul Late Stage pursuer into the open and killed him. Back at his residence in Mingyuan Immortal City, Li Yuan examined the pursuer’s belongings, acquired a concealment bead, removed the last trace of the mark, and resumed cultivation.

• Li Yuan let the Profound Sun City guards purify the tracking mark before leaving, then detected a faint remnant and flew southeast to draw out his pursuer.
• A Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator attacked Li Yuan with a spiritual energy chain, but Li Yuan used spatial-enhanced Gold Blade Techniques and Spatial Restriction Art to kill him.
• Li Yuan collected the pursuer’s corpse and storage bags, escaped before approaching guards arrived, and returned to his residence in Mingyuan Immortal City a day later.
• Li Yuan found the Hidden Origin Concealment Bead in the storage bags and identified its blue word-entry, Origin Concealment and Trace Erasure.
• Li Yuan destroyed the Communication Token, removed the remaining aura thread from his clothes, and resumed cultivating with the Nascent Infant Origin Return Method.

Li Yuan permanently activated Pattern-Vein Sensing and Pulse-Stone Spirit Guidance, then mastered the middle-stage circulation route of the Nascent Infant Origin Return Method. He bought and began cultivating the Fourth-Order Dark Abyss Demonic Origin Art, setting a path toward permanently activating the Mysterious Nether Demon-Banishing Ring's Purple Trait.

• Li Yuan fulfilled the conditions to permanently activate Pattern-Vein Sensing, improving his Spirit Pattern perception and spiritual power circulation.
• Li Yuan fulfilled the conditions to permanently activate Pulse-Stone Spirit Guidance, further optimizing his spirit vein system's spiritual energy absorption.
• Li Yuan refined the middle-stage circulation route of the Nascent Infant Origin Return Method until he reached mastery.
• Li Yuan checked Mingyuan Immortal City's auction announcement and noted the auction was fifteen days away and listed items including Fourth-Order techniques.
• Li Yuan bought the Dark Abyss Demonic Origin Art and learned its entry path without hindrance.
• Li Yuan cultivated the Fourth-Order demonic energy technique, beginning a potential route to permanently activate the Mysterious Nether Demon-Banishing Ring's Purple Trait.

Li Yuan completed his Nether Abyss Mine Valley inspection and acquired the Ore-Armor Body Condensation trait before returning to Mingyuan Sect. While preparing for a second Azure Profound Realm transport mission, he advanced the Dragon Fortune Art and perfected the Monster-to-Human Transformation Technique.

• Li Yuan cultivated at the mine valley’s spirit vein convergence until he permanently acquired Ore-Armor Body Condensation, increasing his physical defense and resistance to negative effects.
• Li Yuan completed the mine valley inspection mission at Mingyuan Sect and received his Contribution Points.
• Fang Zhi told Li Yuan that the second transport mission to the Azure Profound Realm would depart in five days, and Li Yuan agreed to join.
• Li Yuan advanced the Dragon Fortune Art to major achievement, gaining clearer and more stable guidance from his perception of fortune.
• Li Yuan cultivated the Monster-to-Human Transformation Technique to complete mastery and tested a highly realistic Flood Dragon transformation.

Li Yuan traveled to the Azure Profound Realm, purchased supplies, and accepted several lucrative commissions to bring upper-realm spirit materials to local cultivators. He then exchanged knowledge with the Flood Dragon clan at Azure Abyss Lake, improving his Bloodline Inscription Technique before beginning experiments.

• Li Yuan delivered supplies to the Spirit Abyss Commerce Guild and received an updated map before traveling to Mystic Stone Market.
• Li Yuan bought spirit materials and learned that humans and Demon Cultivators openly coexisted in the Azure Profound Realm.
• Zhou Yuanlang asked Li Yuan to bring upper-realm spirit materials on his next visit, and five more cultivators offered similar commissions.
• Li Yuan traveled to Azure Abyss Lake and agreed to exchange spirit materials for the Flood Dragon clan’s knowledge of Dragon Script and bloodlines.
• Li Yuan learned to adjust Dragon Script’s resonance frequency to stabilize bloodline inscriptions, then returned to his residence and began planning experiments.

Li Yuan successfully inscribed a Spirit Gathering Pattern into his blood vessel, proving that ordinary Spirit Patterns could be used with the Bloodline Inscription Technique. He exchanged the method with the Flood Dragon clan for two Dragon Clan arts, then sold goods from the Azure Profound Realm to prepare for the upcoming auction.

• Li Yuan tested Spirit Patterns against Flood Dragon blood essence and successfully inscribed a Spirit Gathering Pattern that increased nearby spiritual-energy absorption by ten percent.
• Li Yuan showed the inscription to Liu Yuan, who offered the Dragon Blood Soul-Condensing Art and Dragon Might Art in exchange for the complete method.
• Li Yuan accepted the trade and gave the Flood Dragon clan the Bloodline Inscription Technique.
• Li Yuan obtained the Dragon Might Art’s Condensed Pressure trait preview and replenished his supplies before leaving the Azure Profound Realm.
• Li Yuan sold spirit materials, ores, and third-order Medicinal Pills under different identities in Profound Sun City and Mingyuan Immortal City, raising his Spirit Stone reserves enough to participate in the auction.

Li Yuan advanced his Dark Abyss Demonic Origin Art and developed a bloodline Spirit-Pattern Network that increased his spiritual qi absorption. After noticing a distant Heavenly Tribulation near Mingyuan Immortal City, he returned to cultivation without investigating.

• Li Yuan advanced the Dark Abyss Demonic Origin Art to Proficiency and bought all the Cultivation-Boosting Spirit Talismans in a shop.
• Li Yuan analyzed the Talismans, crafted one himself, and acquired the permanent Spirit Pattern Cultivation Boost trait.
• Li Yuan engraved cultivation-accelerating Spirit Patterns across his blood vessels, raising his spiritual qi absorption efficiency by nearly sixty percent.
• Li Yuan heard a distant thunderous tremor and learned from nearby cultivators that a Spirit Transformation-level or greater Heavenly Tribulation was unfolding to the northwest.
• Li Yuan watched the phenomenon subside, returned to his residence, and continued cultivating.

Li Yuan attended Mingyuan Immortal City's auction, studying its unusual bidding conditions and acquiring a damaged Fourth-Order Array Disk whose affix promised faster cultivation. He also bought a pass to a collapsing small realm, hoping its core might help him fulfill a Red Entry permanentization condition.

• Li Yuan used Phantom Mask Disguise to enter the auction's outer venue and watched the early bids without participating.
• Li Yuan observed that many items required bidders to offer services, supplies, or promises in addition to Spirit Stones.
• Li Yuan bid 150 high-grade Spirit Stones for a damaged Mystic Mechanism Sect Array Disk and discovered its Array Core Cultivation affix preview.
• Li Yuan recognized that the collapsing small realm could offer a chance to fulfill his Red Entry permanentization condition.
• Li Yuan outbid other bidders at 200 high-grade Spirit Stones for the small-realm pass and stored it in his Portable Small Realm.

At an auction, Li Yuan accepted a mission to retrieve a Jade Slip from the Nether Demon Realm, then traveled through a restricted passage into the lower realm. He disguised himself as a Demonic Cultivator and flew northeast toward his divination-guided destination.

• Li Yuan detected the Yuan Sect Master's concealed demonic aura at the auction but stayed calm and took no action.
• Li Yuan accepted a mission to enter the Nether Demon Realm and retrieve a Jade Slip in exchange for a Profound Demon Boundary Stone.
• The mission client explained that the realm was inhabited by the Devil Race and gave Li Yuan a scouting Dharma Artifact and the passage's location.
• Li Yuan traveled to the spatial fissure and passed through it, deforming the passage as he entered the Nether Demon Realm.
• Li Yuan found that the lower realm's demonic aura resonated with his Dark Abyss Demonic Origin Art and used divination to choose a northeast route.
• Li Yuan concealed his spiritual energy, disguised himself as a Demonic Cultivator, and flew northeast at Late Golden Core speed.

Li Yuan entered a demonic marketplace and bought the crafting methods for three demonic qi talismans before raiding a nearby stronghold for the target jade slip. After taking several Affix-bearing items and other loot, he flew toward the Spatial Passage.

• Li Yuan disguised his aura as demonic qi, exchanged spirit stones for magic stones, and bought methods for the Soul-Devouring Magic Talisman, Magic Erosion Void Talisman, and Shadow Evasion Talisman.
• Li Yuan found the stronghold where the target jade slip was being studied and assessed its defenses and demonic cultivators.
• Li Yuan severed the stronghold’s formation, killed its two Late Golden Core Stage cultivators, and took the target jade slip and several storage bags.
• Li Yuan found a Demonic Fiend Condensation Core and a Netherworld Remnant Seal among the loot, then continued toward the Spatial Passage.