Chapter Summaries

Li Yuan advanced several demonic qi spells and improved his alchemy, then refined a new spatial cultivation pill whose affix offered powerful benefits if he could first master a spatial spell. He stored the pill and returned to cultivating.

• Li Yuan raised Dark Erosion Finger, Demonic Qi Condensed Wall Technique, and Demonic Qi Piercing Technique to Mastery, joining Demonic Fiend Entanglement Art and Demonic Shadow Step among his advanced demonic qi spells.
• Li Yuan reviewed the marketplace accounts with Ji Wenyuan, approved their management, and ordered spirit materials and medicinal pills prepared for sale in the Upper Realm.
• Li Yuan refined batches of Fourth-Order pills and reached Minor Accomplishment in Fourth-Order Alchemy Art after sensing subtle differences in a Nascent Infant Condensation Herb.
• Li Yuan exchanged Tianyue Sect contribution points for the Kongyuan Guoshen Pill recipe and refined two superior-grade pills.
• Li Yuan stored a Kongyuan Guoshen Pill after learning its affix required a spatial spell at Major Accomplishment, then resumed cultivating.

Li Yuan completed the fourth Azure Profound Realm transport run, delivered goods to nine customers, and bought spiritual materials for resale. During his stay, his Dragon Blood Soul-Condensing Art reached Minor Accomplishment and his bloodline reached forty percent, triggering the Reverse Scale Armor Plate’s permanent transformation; he then set out for the Spatial Passage to return.

• Li Yuan accepted Fang Zhi’s fourth transport commission, prepared the expanded orders, and carried the goods through the Spatial Passage to the Azure Profound Realm.
• Li Yuan delivered the goods to the Spirit Abyss Commerce Guild, then met Zhou Yuanlang and two new Golden Core customers at Mystic Stone Market and completed the transactions with all nine customers.
• Li Yuan bought large quantities of Spirit Herbs, ores, and Monster Materials in Cuiwei Market and Mystic Stone Market.
• Li Yuan’s Dragon Blood Soul-Condensing Art reached Minor Accomplishment as its purification cycle connected with the Dragon Transformation Art.
• Li Yuan’s Dragon Clan bloodline concentration reached forty percent, triggering the Reverse Scale Armor Plate’s permanent transformation and granting him a Blood Qi scale armor phantom.
• Li Yuan finished his purchases and cultivation, then flew toward the Azure Profound Realm Spatial Passage to return.

After returning from the Azure Profound Realm, Li Yuan advanced his Dragon Might Art and demonic qi spells, permanentized the Dark Magic Cultivation affix, and improved his talisman crafting. He sold his goods in Mingyuan Immortal City, activated the Kongyuan Guoshen Pill’s affix, and ended the chapter cultivating.

• Li Yuan expanded his Mental Suppression Field to thirty-five zhang, developed Directed Mental Impact, and reached Minor Accomplishment in the Dragon Might Art.
• Li Yuan sold batches of spirit materials in Mingyuan Immortal City and Profound Sun City, then advanced three demonic qi spells to Minor Accomplishment.
• The Bronze Mirror permanentized Dark Magic Cultivation, reducing demonic qi’s negative effects by thirty percent and increasing the speed and concealment of demonic qi evasion arts by thirty percent.
• Li Yuan used Mystic Talisman Insight to improve his Spatial Stabilization Talisman success rate, crafted a Blue Grade Spirit Shield Talisman, and reached Proficiency in Fourth-Order Talisman Crafting Art.
• Li Yuan sold high-quality medicinal pills and Spatial Stabilization Talismans in Mingyuan Immortal City, then equipped the Kongyuan Guoshen Pill to permanently boost space-art cultivation efficiency and consciousness sea capacity.
• Li Yuan sat on the stone platform and circulated the Nascent Infant Origin Return Method.

Li Yuan stabilized five unstable spatial sites around Shattered Star Valley, permanently affixed Talisman Domain Spatial Stabilization, and increased his spiritual power capacity. He then explored the valley to improve Spatial Investigation Technique before returning to the Rift Valley Independent Space.

• Li Yuan arrived at Shattered Star Valley and agreed to help Liu Qingyang stabilize spatially unstable sites around its entrance.
• Li Yuan stabilized five locations, bringing his Talisman Domain Spatial Stabilization progress to ten and permanently affixing the ability.
• Li Yuan gained spatial stabilization insights that reduced spiritual power consumption by twenty percent and increased his spiritual power capacity by roughly thirty to forty percent.
• Liu Qingyang paid Li Yuan with High-Grade Spirit Stones and spatial spirit materials for the work.
• Li Yuan entered Shattered Star Valley and increased Spatial Investigation Technique’s perception range to more than six hundred zhang.
• Li Yuan left the valley using Airspace Anchor and returned to the Rift Valley Independent Space.

Li Yuan honed Spatial Restriction Technique in Shattered Star Valley, defeated a Fourth-Order Spatial Rift Beast, and cultivated on the Time Rift Platform. He reached Major Accomplishment in Spatial Investigation Technique and permanently improved his spatial cultivation efficiency and sea of consciousness.

• Li Yuan practiced Spatial Restriction Technique against unstable fissures and space-aspected beasts until he achieved Minor Accomplishment.
• Li Yuan killed a Fourth-Order Spatial Rift Beast and collected its Blue Grade Inner Core and valuable materials.
• Li Yuan reached the Time Rift Platform and cultivated there, expanding his Spatial Investigation Technique perception range to eight hundred zhang.
• Li Yuan advanced Spatial Investigation Technique to Major Accomplishment, meeting the permanent effect condition of the Kongyuan Guoshen Pill.
• The Kongyuan Guoshen Pill permanently increased Li Yuan’s spatial-method cultivation efficiency by thirty percent and his sea-of-consciousness capacity by twenty percent.
• Li Yuan continued cultivating and practicing Spatial Severing Technique and Spatial Restriction Technique on the platform.

Li Yuan ended his cultivation on the Time Rift Platform after his defenses held off the divine soul erosion, then hunted Rift Lizards and refined his spatial techniques in a rift-dense region of Shattered Star Valley. He gained a permanent trait that slightly improved spatial spiritual power circulation and continued practicing, moving closer to the next stage of the Spatial Severing Technique.

• Li Yuan used his Major Accomplishment Spatial Investigation Technique to guide his Spatial Severing and Spatial Restriction Techniques along spatial walls’ weak points, reducing spiritual power expenditure and improving precision.
• After divine soul erosion appeared, Li Yuan relied on his permanent traits to contain it, ended his platform cultivation, recorded the three spatial spirit veins’ fluctuation signatures, and left the Rock Terrace.
• Li Yuan followed a Third-Order Rift Lizard through a rift-dense region, restrained and killed it, then used layered techniques to defeat an early Fourth-Order Rift Lizard.
• Li Yuan harvested both Rift Lizards and found a silver-gray crystal shard in the Fourth-Order Rift Lizard’s nest, gaining the permanent void origin slight flow trait.
• Li Yuan practiced cutting and imprisoning nearby rifts, improving his spatial techniques before stopping to recover his spiritual power.

Li Yuan met Liu Qingyang in Shattered Star Valley and received directions to the Abandoned Observation Platform, where he practiced restoring vanished spatial coordinates. He permanently acquired Boundary Marker Positioning, recorded the platform’s formation designs, and then flew toward the valley’s outskirts.

• Li Yuan encountered Liu Qingyang and a Heavenly Balance Sect gathering team, and Liu Qingyang gave him a detailed route to the Abandoned Observation Platform.
• Li Yuan reached the platform and examined its Fourth-Order spatial monitoring formation and centuries of recorded rift coordinates.
• Li Yuan practiced Spatial Seeking Technique on the vanished coordinates until it reached Minor Accomplishment.
• Li Yuan equipped the Spatial Coordinate Stele and restored two more vanished coordinates, fulfilling the conditions to permanently acquire Boundary Marker Positioning.
• Li Yuan recorded the platform’s arced Spirit Pattern designs, then flew toward the outskirts of Shattered Star Valley.

Li Yuan returned from Shattered Star Valley, sold some of his space-attributed beast materials, and activated Myriad Image Retrospection after its records of three powerful battles met the condition. He used its new analysis abilities to improve his cultivation and alchemy, equipped the Qi-Absorbing Stone, and ended the chapter cultivating with his enhanced speed.

• Li Yuan sorted the Monster Materials and space ore he had collected, then sold some of his Fourth-Order and Third-Order beast materials in Mingyuan Immortal City and Profound Sun City.
• Li Yuan analyzed the Myriad Image Mirror’s recordings of two Fourth-Order space beasts and a Nascent Soul Cultivator, meeting the requirement to permanently activate Myriad Image Retrospection.
• Myriad Image Retrospection increased Li Yuan’s soul strength and expanded his consciousness sea, Divine Sense Threads, and ability to analyze spiritual power fluctuations.
• Li Yuan used Myriad Image Retrospection to refine multiple batches of pills and improve his Fourth-Order alchemy through real-time feedback and replay.
• Li Yuan equipped the Qi-Absorbing Stone and absorbed High-Grade Spirit Stones, raising Array Core Cultivation’s additional speed bonus to roughly ninety-six percent.
• Li Yuan circulated the Nascent Infant Origin Return Method with his new cultivation bonuses while Myriad Image Retrospection monitored his spiritual power flow.

Li Yuan expanded his cross-realm purchasing business, exchanged for and successfully refined the Spirit Essence Bone-Tempering Pill formula, then gained a small permanent improvement to his alchemy flame control. After repairing a Mingyuan Sect grand-array node and accepting an invitation to an array meeting, he returned to his residence to cultivate.

• Fang Zhi gave Li Yuan the fifth purchasing list, and Li Yuan bought the requested materials before completing profitable transactions with twelve clients in the Azure Profound Realm.
• Li Yuan exchanged for the Spirit Essence Bone-Tempering Pill formula, refined two superior-quality pills, and gained the Fine Flame Control permanence from a remnant of Bone-Refining Lingzhi.
• Li Yuan accepted a Mingyuan Sect task, found and corrected a slight deviation in the third node of the main peak grand array, and studied the node's stored operational projections.
• Xue Lang invited Li Yuan to a small array meeting on the east side of the main peak the day after tomorrow, and Li Yuan agreed to attend.
• Li Yuan returned to his residence and cultivated with the Spirit Array Origin Return affix.

Li Yuan advanced his array dao to Minor Accomplishment through a sect discussion, then reached Major Accomplishment in fourth-order alchemy while refining pills. Two permanent traits activated, strengthening his Nascent Infant and accelerating his cultivation.

• Li Yuan shared an arc-based spiritual pattern connection at the Mingyuan Sect array discussion and gained insights from the other conscripts’ methods.
• Li Yuan’s Array Dao Pivot combined his array experience and the discussion, bringing his fourth-order array dao to Minor Accomplishment.
• Li Yuan trained his demonic qi, practiced spells, and refined pills until the premium yield approached seventy percent.
• Li Yuan’s thirty-seventh furnace of Infant-Nurturing Origin-Condensing Pills produced three premium pills, advancing his fourth-order alchemy art to Major Accomplishment.
• Infant-Nurturing Spirit-Nourishing and Nascent Infant Essence Nourishment became permanent traits, improving pill efficacy, Nascent Infant spiritual qi quality, nourishment, and cultivation.
• Li Yuan circulated the Nascent Infant Origin Return Method and found that his spiritual qi condensed faster as his Nascent Infant grew stronger.

Li Yuan re-inspected the spatial rifts in southern Ling Province, found evidence of a third tracking mark, and reported the danger to Tianyue Sect. He received records of the loosening seal at the old Demonic Abyss site and returned to cultivate before setting out to help repair it.

• Li Yuan traveled to southern Ling Province and found that the rift clusters had grown from seven or eight rifts to twelve, with several expanding toward the same area.
• He deployed two additional spatial sensing formations, stabilized the fastest-growing rifts, and discovered and cleared a tracking mark concealed with ice-attribute spiritual power.
• Li Yuan recorded the mark’s structure, collected spatial ore fragments, and permanently acquired Rift Minor Warning.
• He reported the rift expansion and the third tracking mark to Tianyue Sect, recommending a stronger investigation in Ling Province.
• A sect disciple gave Li Yuan the survey record for the old Demonic Abyss seal, whose cracks were leaking demonic energy, and requested his help with repairs.
• Li Yuan returned to his residence and cultivated using the Nascent Infant Origin Return Method.

Li Yuan repaired the Old Demonic Abyss Site’s seal, uncovered signs that Yuan Sect’s demonic qi formation had recently been activated, and removed tracking marks tied to the investigation. After removing a fifth mark at Yun Province’s Abandoned Mining Valley, he permanently gained Origin Concealment and Trace Erasure; he returned to Wulin Marketplace and resumed cultivating.

• Li Yuan repaired three cracks and a hidden injury in the Old Demonic Abyss Site’s seal, then discovered a secret chamber containing a recently activated Yuan Sect formation and a fourth tracking mark, which he removed.
• Li Yuan reported that the abyss’s demonic qi matched the Nether Demon Realm Devil Race, and Tianyue Sect informed him that someone had examined the monitoring point at Abandoned Mining Valley.
• Li Yuan investigated the valley, found and removed a fifth tracking mark, and completed permanentization of Origin Concealment and Trace Erasure.
• Li Yuan returned to Wulin Marketplace, reviewed the quarter’s accounts with Ji Wenyuan, and resumed cultivation.

Li Yuan advanced the Dragon Might Art to Major Accomplishment, investigated demonic activity with Yaochan Palace, and accepted an invitation to the Yaoguang Secret Realm. During cultivation, both of his Fourth-Order cultivation arts reached Major Accomplishment, permanently unlocking two powerful cultivation enhancements.

• Li Yuan divided his Mental Suppression Field into regions of different intensities and developed a layered Directed Mental Impact, reaching Major Accomplishment in the Dragon Might Art.
• Li Yuan warned the short, fat man at Yaochan Palace that demonic qi linked to the Nether Demon Realm had appeared at the Old Demonic Abyss Site, and asked him to monitor the sea region.
• A Dragon Abyss Pavilion cultivator invited Li Yuan to enter the Yaoguang Secret Realm in roughly four months, and Li Yuan accepted the reserved slot.
• Li Yuan cultivated at the Loose Cultivator Alliance until the Nascent Infant Origin Return Method reached Major Accomplishment, which also pushed the Dark Abyss Demonic Origin Art to Major Accomplishment.
• The Qi-Absorbing Stone vanished from Li Yuan's Equipment Slot, permanently unlocking Spirit Array Origin Return and its cultivation-speed enhancements.
• The Spirit-Infused Essence Jade vanished from the Portable Small Realm, permanently unlocking Jade Essence Origin Condensation and improving his spirit power's purity and adaptive circulation.

Li Yuan strengthened his Dragon Might Art and demonic qi cultivation with new Permanent Affixes, then completed Array Core Cultivation and trained his spells. A Tianyue Sect mission sent him to reinspect a growing rift cluster, where he found and erased a sixth concealed Tracking Mark.

• The Dragon Might Art Jade Slip shattered, granting Li Yuan the Condensed Pressure Affix, which increased his mental suppression strength and Dragon Clan aura coverage.
• Li Yuan equipped the Dark Demon Crystal to gain Dark Demon Origin Accumulation, then absorbed forty-one High-Grade Spirit Stones to max out Array Core Cultivation.
• Li Yuan practiced his four demonic qi spells in rotation while cultivating both spiritual and demonic qi in the stone chamber.
• On the ninth day, Li Yuan received a Tianyue Sect mission to reinspect abnormal spatial fluctuations in southern Ling Province and flew to the rift cluster.
• Li Yuan found that the rifts had grown from twelve to sixteen and converged underground, expanded the monitoring formations, and reinforced the fastest-growing rifts with Spatial Stabilization Talismans.
• Li Yuan discovered and erased a sixth concealed Tracking Mark on a new rift, then stored his reinspection data.

Li Yuan discovered Nether Abyss Valley beneath the rift cluster in Ling Province, removed the seventh Tracking Mark, repaired a weakened seal, and learned a spatial demonic qi spell. After returning to secluded cultivation, he gained a new Green Trait that fused with two others into the Blue Trait Demon Origin Profound Accumulation, bringing all four of his demonic qi spells to Major Accomplishment.

• Li Yuan descended into Nether Abyss Valley, found three ancient seals and the seventh Tracking Mark, then removed the mark and repaired the most urgent node in the second seal.
• Li Yuan found a Jade Slip containing the Demon Shadow Space-Eroding Art and learned the Third-Order spatial demonic qi spell at Entry Level.
• Li Yuan reported the valley and its seals through his Attendant Token, scanned the surrounding area for further threats, and returned to the Loose Cultivator Alliance's Main Island.
• On the thirtieth night of secluded cultivation, Li Yuan gained the Green Trait Dark Demon Origin Accumulation.
• Demonic Fiend Bone Soaking, Dark Magic Cultivation, and Dark Demon Origin Accumulation fused into the Blue Trait Demon Origin Profound Accumulation.
• Li Yuan tested the Blue Trait’s effects, and Dark Erosion Finger, Demon Fiend Entanglement Art, Demonic Qi Condensed Wall Technique, and Demonic Qi Piercing Technique all reached Major Accomplishment.

After refining pills for three days, Li Yuan discovered and killed a late golden core stage devil race near the cultivation stone chamber. The Tianyue Sect warned that the seals were likely leaking more severely than expected, and Li Yuan set off for the upper realm carrying reports and samples to alert the Mingyuan Sect.

• Li Yuan refined four types of medicinal pills for three days, raising his fine product rate to nearly eighty percent.
• Li Yuan detected a devil race near the main island, subdued it, and survived its self-destruction, recovering a Nether Demon Residual Horn and some ash.
• Li Yuan reported the encounter to the Tianyue Sect, which ordered the evidence sent back and warned nearby strongholds to raise their vigilance.
• Zhou Heng and Xuanpu connected the devil race's infiltration to the underground passages and worsening seals, and Zhou Heng called for help from the upper realm.
• Li Yuan agreed to carry the devil race materials and a batch of intelligence to the Mingyuan Sect headquarters and set off for the upper realm.

Li Yuan hunted Space Demonic Beasts and cultivated his spatial techniques in Shattered Star Valley. After killing a Rift Lizard and a Rift Python, he made Rift Battle Edge permanent and continued deeper into the valley.

• Li Yuan entered Shattered Star Valley and activated the Rift Beast's Inner Core, gaining Rift Battle Edge while its permanence progress stood at one of three.
• Li Yuan killed a Rift Lizard with the Spatial Restriction Technique, Demonic Fiend Entanglement Art, and Spatial Severing Technique, advancing the trait's progress to two of three.
• Li Yuan trained his Spatial Severing Technique and Spatial Restriction Technique in the dense rift zone over several days.
• Li Yuan killed a Rift Python in the deep layer, completing Rift Battle Edge's permanence and gaining its spatial-combat bonuses permanently.
• Li Yuan salvaged the Rift Python and Rift Lizard materials, made the white Void Cleaving Micro-Sharpness trait permanent from a piece of spatial ore, and continued deeper into the valley.

Li Yuan advanced the Spatial Severing Technique to Minor Accomplishment, improving his ability to follow spatial stress and strip away protective spiritual power. While cultivating at the Time Rift Platform, he detected and recorded a recurring resonance among three Spatial Spirit Veins and made a related White Trait permanent.

• Li Yuan broke through to Minor Accomplishment in the Spatial Severing Technique after honing it in Shattered Star Valley, then demonstrated how it could bypass strong sections and strip spiritual-power film from spatial ore.
• Li Yuan used his improved precision to examine the remnant array at the Abandoned Observation Platform, clarifying how its Spirit Patterns connected through curves and strengthening his Fourth-Order Array Dao accumulation.
• Li Yuan cultivated at the Time Rift Platform, where his four spatial arts began working together as a more complete system.
• On his fifth day of cultivation, Li Yuan detected periodic resonance where three Spatial Spirit Veins converged and recorded its waveform and measurements.
• Li Yuan found a resonant rock fragment, made its Spirit Vein Minor Resonance White Trait permanent, and returned to cultivation.

Li Yuan permanently activated the Void Abyss Array Heart by stabilizing a collapsing spatial structure for an entire day, strengthening his spatial spells. After gathering materials in Shattered Star Valley, he learned from Liu Qingyang about ruins of naturally collapsed Secret Realms and flew toward the outskirts of Tianheng Domain.

• Li Yuan used talismans, spatial techniques, and a temporary array to stabilize a collapsing spatial structure for twelve double-hours.
• The Void Abyss Array Heart permanently increased Li Yuan's spatial spell power and casting stability, and its insight improved his spatial techniques.
• Li Yuan spent two more days in Shattered Star Valley collecting spatial ores and hunting two Third-Order Space Demonic Beasts.
• Liu Qingyang warned Li Yuan that expanding rifts had driven demonic beasts from the Deep Layer and mentioned uncleared ruins of naturally collapsed Secret Realms.
• Li Yuan thanked Liu Qingyang and flew toward the outskirts of Tianheng Domain.

Li Yuan found and absorbed the third naturally collapsed Secret Realm Core, permanently converting the Small Realm Collapse Core and gaining spatial traits in his body and soul. After testing his immunity to Spatial Rifts and gathering supplies, he returned to his Independent Space to cultivate, bringing the Nascent Soul Late Stage within reach.

• Li Yuan bought spatial materials and cultivation supplies in Tianheng Immortal City, then returned to Shattered Star Valley to train his spatial spells in its depths.
• Li Yuan sensed a fading Secret Realm Core inside a massive fragment and used the Small Realm Collapse Core to absorb it, completing its permanent conversion.
• The conversion made Li Yuan’s body and soul spatial in nature, caused his spells and cultivation arts to carry a spatial attribute, and unlocked Remote Affix Preview; the System also announced a future function tied to a Gold Entry.
• Li Yuan tested his ability to pass unharmed through Spatial Rifts, then traded Rift Lizard scales and Rift Python bones for Talisman Paper, Spatial-Attribute Mineral Powder, and Realm-Stabilizing Formation Materials.
• Li Yuan returned to the Anchor Point of the Rift Valley Independent Space and cultivated, steadily improving his spirit qi as the Nascent Soul Late Stage drew nearer.