Chapter Summaries

Li Yuan found a Sky-Splitting Void Crystal and set up a spatial stabilization Array in the Mine Cave, then followed the Chi Dragon greater demon deeper into the cavern to break its restrictions. In a hidden chamber, Li Yuan discovered a Spatial Anchor Array and reached Entry Level Fifth-Order Array Dao by studying the self-sustaining Spirit Patterns on the walls.

• Li Yuan equipped the Sky-Splitting Void Crystal and installed a spatial stabilization Array using the cavern’s silver crystals as Anchor Points.
• Li Yuan replaced the Array Eye Spirit Stone with a Void-Meridian Array Eye Stone and equipped it, beginning progress toward its permanent activation.
• The Chi Dragon greater demon asked Li Yuan to explore the deeper Mine Cave, and Li Yuan agreed in exchange for payment for each restriction he broke.
• Li Yuan cleared natural Spatial Rifts and man-made seals until he and the Chi Dragon greater demon reached a hidden stone chamber.
• Li Yuan identified the chamber’s platform as a Spatial Anchor Array and recorded its structure.
• Li Yuan studied the chamber walls’ self-sustaining Spirit Patterns and advanced to Entry Level Fifth-Order Array Dao.

Li Yuan copied the Spatial Anchor Array from the Mine Cave and built one in a nearby Valley, gaining an enhancement to teleportation. After perfecting his body-tempering art, making a meridian Affix permanent, and restocking materials across the Azure Profound Realm and Upper Realm, he set out for Spirit Talisman Domain before Heavenly Dragon Hall's Trading Fair.

• Li Yuan recorded the Mine Cave's Spirit Patterns, left with the Chi Dragon demon's payment, and built a Spatial Anchor Array in a Valley north of the mine.
• Li Yuan equipped the Anchor Array Eye Stone and gained the Void-Transmitting Anchor Affix, with progress toward making it permanent at one of three arrays.
• Li Yuan advanced the Ancient Demon Dao Body-Tempering Secret Art to Perfection and made Green Flow Pulse Moistening permanent after maintaining his three-attribute spiritual power cycle for thirty days.
• Li Yuan traveled through the Ascension Passage to the Azure Profound Realm, traded ores and herbs for local goods, and sold the goods for a profit in Mingyuan Immortal City.
• Li Yuan restocked talisman paper and array materials, then chose to travel to Spirit Talisman Domain before Heavenly Dragon Hall's Trading Fair.

Li Yuan traveled to Spirit Talisman Immortal City, learned how to make talismans with arrays, and set up ten different Talisman-Making Arrays. Completing them permanentized Spirit Pivot Array Guidance, which let him set up one array inside his body; he left the city to consider which array to choose.

• Li Yuan used the Void Escape Method to cross the wasteland and reached Major Accomplishment before flying onward to the Spirit Talisman Domain.
• Li Yuan entered Spirit Talisman Immortal City and bought the method for making talismans with arrays from a shopkeeper who hired him to set up arrays.
• Li Yuan completed ten different Talisman-Making Arrays and checked their Array Eye affixes without equipping any.
• The Spirit Pivot Dharma Disk dissolved, and Spirit Pivot Array Guidance became permanent, allowing Li Yuan to set up one array inside his own body.
• Li Yuan collected his payment, considered what kind of array to place inside himself, and continued wandering through Spirit Talisman Immortal City.

Li Yuan cultivated in the Darkmist Mountains, advancing his demonic method, spirit veins, and cultivation before returning to the Demon Dragon Domain for the Heavenly Dragon Hall Trading Fair. At the fair, he acquired two new permanent affixes and continued cultivating in his Stone City chamber.

• Li Yuan heard about the Darkmist Mountains, entered their core region, and advanced the Yaoguang Soul Refining Art to Major Accomplishment while observing the Enlightenment Tree’s growth.
• Li Yuan bought a Fifth-Order demonic cultivation method, six Small Spirit Veins, and the Myriad Talisman Spirit Platform, then reached Entry Level in the Nether Abyss Demonic Condensation Art.
• Li Yuan planted the six spirit veins in his Portable Small Realm and fused two Small Spirit Veins within his body, forming a third Medium Spirit Vein before leaving the mountains.
• Li Yuan bought the Blackiron Essence Condensation Body, reached Entry Level in it, and returned to Stone City ahead of the Heavenly Dragon Hall Trading Fair.
• Li Yuan acquired the Dragon Scale Protective Talisman and Demonic Beast Essence Blood Pearl at the fair, gaining the Dragon Scale Minor Guard and Demonic Blood Minor Nurture affixes.
• Li Yuan returned to his stone chamber and cultivated with his spiritual, demonic, and body-tempering methods running together.

Li Yuan attended the Stone City auction and bought Kongyuan Spirit Iron, a Dragon Soul Concentrating Pearl, and a Heart Core with the Second Fleshly Body affix. He returned to his chamber with most of his resources spent and resumed cultivation, planning to visit the Azure Profound Realm for more supplies.

• Li Yuan cultivated both the Essence Condensation Void Transformation Formula and the Nether Abyss Demonic Condensation Art before attending the auction on the third day.
• Li Yuan won the Kongyuan Spirit Iron for thirty thousand Spirit Stones and learned that its Blue affix could improve cultivation and spatial artifact refining.
• Li Yuan bought the Dragon Soul Concentrating Pearl for sixty thousand Spirit Stones, though its affix required his Dragon Clan Bloodline concentration to reach sixty percent.
• Li Yuan outbid the black python and the fox demon for the Heart Core, paying five hundred thousand in Spirit Stones and ore.
• Li Yuan examined the Heart Core’s Second Fleshly Body affix, stored it without equipping it, and returned to his chamber to cultivate while planning to restock in the Azure Profound Realm.

Li Yuan agreed to help the Chi Dragon Demonic Beast explore an Elder Dragon Clan Teleportation Network node in the Shattered Isles Forbidden Zone, and prepared spatial materials before setting out with a Fifth Rank Dragon Clan member. The group reached the edge of the Forbidden Zone, where floating islands and dense Spatial Rifts came into view.

• Li Yuan reviewed his dwindling Spirit Stones, inspected the Heart Core, and decided to delay cultivating a Second Fleshly Body until his Spirit Transformation foundation stabilized.
• The Chi Dragon Demonic Beast told Li Yuan that the Mine Cave chamber was a Teleportation Network node and asked him to help explore another node in the Shattered Isles Forbidden Zone.
• Li Yuan used the Anchor Array Eye Stone to detect spatial fluctuations in the Forbidden Zone and agreed to leave with the Chi Dragon Demonic Beast in three days.
• At Stone City Market, Li Yuan bought Formation Materials and equipped a Void Sand Microcore, permanently reducing the spiritual energy cost of his spatial spells.
• Li Yuan and the Chi Dragon Demonic Beast met a Fifth Rank Spirit Transformation member of the Dragon Clan outside Stone City's East Gate and traveled north together.
• The group reached the Shattered Isles Forbidden Zone and saw its floating rocky islands and dense Spatial Rifts.

Li Yuan activated a Dragon Clan teleportation array in the Shattered Isles Forbidden Zone, then survived an ambush by the Chi Dragon great demon and the Spirit Transformation Dragon Clan member. After killing them and collecting their valuables, he stepped onto the active array platform.

• Li Yuan led the Chi Dragon great demon and the Spirit Transformation Dragon Clan member through shifting spatial fissures and fought off several Void Beasts.
• Li Yuan found a Dragon Clan tablet identifying the array platform as the seventh node of a network linking remnants that held dragon marrow and techniques.
• Li Yuan activated the platform by dripping Flood Dragon Bloodline essence blood into its core.
• The Chi Dragon great demon and the Spirit Transformation Dragon Clan member attacked Li Yuan, hoping to take his wealth and leave no witnesses.
• Li Yuan revealed his human form, wounded the Chi Dragon great demon, and killed both attackers with spatial techniques and talismans.
• Li Yuan looted their storage bags, found two cultivation-boosting items, and stepped onto the activated array platform.

Li Yuan cultivated in a Dragon Marrow Fluid cache, repaired a failing seal around a void rift, and received the True Dragon Ninefold Tempering Art and coordinates to a second cache. He resumed cultivation and expanded his Portable Small Realm’s spirit veins before returning to the pool.

• Li Yuan entered the first cache, verified his bloodline and Body Tempering foundation, and cultivated in the Dragon Marrow Fluid until his Blackiron Essence Condensation Body reached Proficiency.
• Li Yuan found a Dragon Marrow Ore Crystal, equipped it, and accelerated his cultivation as his flood dragon bloodline concentration rose to roughly fifty-five percent.
• The Responding Dragon Remnant appeared and asked Li Yuan to repair a nearby void-rift seal in exchange for a Dragon Clan secret art and the second cache’s coordinates.
• Li Yuan restored all twelve layers of the seal and received the True Dragon Ninefold Tempering Art and the second cache’s coordinates from the remnant.
• Li Yuan cultivated the art until his bones completed their first tempering, then fused three small spirit veins in his Portable Small Realm into a third medium spirit vein.
• Li Yuan recorded the changes to the Enlightenment Tree and its seed, closed the Small Realm, and returned to cultivating in the dragon marrow pool.

Li Yuan explored the Withered Dragon Secret Vault, completed the permanentization of Void-Transmitting Anchor, and learned fifth-order talisman crafting. After creating his first fifth-order talisman, he permanently activated Talisman Platform Creation, which let him convert array circuits into talisman patterns.

• Li Yuan visited the Withered Dragon Secret Vault and recorded its Dragon Clan arts, including the Dragon Clan Talisman Crafting Art.
• Li Yuan established a second Spatial Anchor Array in the Shattered Isles Forbidden Zone and a third in the Dragonspine Mountain Range, completing Void-Transmitting Anchor permanentization.
• Li Yuan bought the Fifth-Order Talisman Crafting Art in Stone City and practiced until he crafted a fifth-order low-grade talisman.
• Li Yuan permanently activated Talisman Platform Creation after meeting its requirements with fifth-order talisman crafting and Array Dao.
• Li Yuan tested the new affix by using an array circuit to draw talisman spirit patterns without interruption.

Li Yuan equipped a heart core that began developing a second fleshly body while diverting some of his spiritual energy and vital blood. He advanced several cultivation methods and placed the growing heart-core seed near the Enlightenment Tree, whose seed and buds began showing signs of change.

• Li Yuan bonded the heart core with his vital blood and spiritual energy, then embedded it beside his Spirit Transformation Core to begin cultivating a second fleshly body.
• Li Yuan advanced the Nether Abyss Demonic Condensation Art to Mastery as demonic qi flowed into his body and synchronized with the outside world.
• Li Yuan advanced the True Dragon Ninefold Tempering Art to Proficiency, triggering the permanent Dragon Marrow Body Nourishment trait.
• Li Yuan advanced the Blackiron Essence Condensation Body to Mastery and the Radiant Light Body-Tempering Technique to Perfection, strengthening his bones and fleshly body.
• Li Yuan moved the heart-core seed into his Portable Small Realm near the Enlightenment Tree, whose central seed developed more cracks and whose second-node buds began to glow through cracked membranes.

Li Yuan returned to the Mingyuan Sect and advanced the Yaoguang Soul Refining Art to perfection and the Essence Condensation Void Transformation Formula to mastery. After traveling to the Azure Profound Realm to trade for materials and spirit stones, he returned to Mingyuan Immortal City with his reserves replenished and some spatial ores still unsold.

• Li Yuan cultivated at the Solitary Peak Cave Dwelling until his Yaoguang Soul Refining Art reached perfection and his Essence Condensation Void Transformation Formula reached mastery.
• Li Yuan received Fang Zhi's transaction request and descended through the ascension passage to the Azure Profound Realm.
• Li Yuan bought spirit materials and spatial ores in Cuiwei Market and Mystic Stone Market, then delivered Fang Zhi's requested goods and collected spirit stones.
• Li Yuan bought the Blood-Coagulating Bone-Sculpting Pill formula, refined three pills, and equipped one to permanently increase his vital blood recovery speed by fifty percent.
• Li Yuan returned to Mingyuan Immortal City and sold spirit materials and non-spatial ores, holding onto his spatial ores because their market price had fallen.

Li Yuan completed a second fleshly body and used it to cultivate and make fifth-order talismans while his main body advanced its techniques. The Enlightenment Tree seed then hatched into a seedling, which Li Yuan left undisturbed to grow.

• Li Yuan awakened his second fleshly body, confirmed that both bodies could cultivate different methods at once, and measured their sensory connection at about ten thousand li.
• Li Yuan sent the disguised second fleshly body to Mingyuan Immortal City, where it established eight fifth-order talisman-making arrays and reached fifth-order array dao proficiency.
• Li Yuan perfected his spatial imprisonment technique and expanded his perception to eight thousand zhang while the two bodies continued cultivating.
• The second fleshly body grew stronger as it guarded the talisman arrays and stored their output.
• The Enlightenment Tree seed cracked open and produced a golden-green seedling, which Li Yuan recorded and left to grow on its own.

Li Yuan reinforced the spatial wall in a gorge near the ascension passage, perfected his Void Escape Method, and permanently unlocked several cultivation-related traits. He returned to his cave dwelling and continued cultivating as his Spirit Transformation Core advanced further.

• Li Yuan equipped the Meridian-Tempering Origin-Returning Stone and the Essence Condensation Void Transformation Formula, then cultivated three methods while his second fleshly body sold talismans in Mingyuan Immortal City.
• Li Yuan received a task to reinforce the spatial wall near the ascension passage and traveled to a gorge dense with spatial spiritual qi.
• Li Yuan deployed five Spatial Wall Reinforcement Arrays, completed the Void-Meridian Array Eye Stone's condition, and permanently gained Vein Consolidation.
• Li Yuan stepped across a fleeting spatial wave crest and perfected the Void Escape Method before cultivating in the gorge until the Essence Condensation Void Transformation Formula reached minor accomplishment.
• Li Yuan cultivated three fifth-rank methods for fifteen days and permanently gained Meridian Refining and Origin Returning and Void-Domain Meridian Condensation.
• Li Yuan returned to the Solitary Peak Cave Dwelling and resumed cultivation as the dark gold purple light of his Spirit Transformation Core sank further.

Li Yuan cultivated in Dragon Breath Valley, strengthened his dragon bloodline, and learned that the Demon Realm planned to use the Lower Realm as a route to invade the Profound Realm. After attacking a Nether Demon Realm outpost and returning through a sealed rift, he flew toward the Ascension Passage with the new information.

• Li Yuan entered Dragon Breath Valley, equipped the Dragon Essence Cultivation-Boosting Bead, and cultivated the True Dragon Ninefold Tempering Art to mastery while acquiring a Dragon Blood Body-Tempering Pill affix.
• Li Yuan’s second fleshly body traded spatial ore between Mingyuan Immortal City and Spirit Talisman Immortal City, earning spirit stones as Li Yuan’s flood dragon bloodline rose past sixty percent.
• Li Yuan equipped the Dragon Soul Concentrating Pearl, gained its permanent effects, and advanced the Blackiron Essence Condensation Body to minor accomplishment before receiving news of unusual demonic activity.
• Li Yuan and his second fleshly body crossed the Ascension Passage, entered the Nether Demon Realm through a hidden rift in Nether Abyss Valley, and disguised themselves as demonic cultivators.
• Li Yuan overheard that the Demon Realm had sent supplies and personnel to prepare an invasion of the Lower Realm as a route to the Profound Realm, where it sought spirit-demon unification.
• Li Yuan attacked the outpost, killed several demonic cultivators, escaped through the rift with his second fleshly body, resealed it, and flew toward the Ascension Passage.

Li Yuan’s original body entered the Ancient Demon Battlefield, gained permanent traits from ancient relics, and hunted Nascent Soul enemies while his second fleshly body was destroyed by Spirit Transformation enemies. He continued deeper into the battlefield, where five Spirit Transformation enemies remained in the Nether Demon Realm.

• Li Yuan’s original body found the Ancient Demon Seal in a ruined array and permanently increased his demonic qi quality and understanding of demonic arrays.
• Li Yuan killed two Nascent Soul Late Stage demonic cultivators and learned from their Jade Slip that six Spirit Transformation enemies remained in the Nether Demon Realm.
• Li Yuan’s second fleshly body killed an early-stage Spirit Transformation demonic cultivator but was destroyed by a late-stage Spirit Transformation devil.
• Li Yuan’s original body swept through the Ancient Demon Battlefield, killing Nascent Soul devils and permanently gaining the Ancient Battle Remnant Blade’s combat traits.
• Li Yuan found a Battlefield Array Stone and permanently increased his demonic qi array setup speed and effectiveness.
• Li Yuan concealed his aura and continued deeper into the battlefield with five Spirit Transformation enemies still in the Nether Demon Realm.