Chapter Summaries

Zhou Hao used repeated life simulations to improve his skills and obtain the Perfect Foundation Establishment cultivation method, the Blood Sea Scripture. After learning that his faint family bloodline required dozens of times the usual resources for Foundation Establishment, he spent half a year crafting talismans to build his wealth and prepared to simulate again.

• Zhou Hao ran numerous simulations, improving his cultivation skills and learning that Flame Lake held the ruins of the ancient Molding Spirit Sect.
• After many attempts, Zhou Hao seized the Perfect Foundation Establishment methods from the ruins, including the Foundation Establishment portion of the Blood Sea Scripture.
• Zhou Hao studied the Blood Sea Scripture and learned that his faint cultivation-family bloodline made Foundation Establishment require far more resources than usual.
• Zhou Hao devoted himself to crafting and selling High-grade Talismans, and after half a year he had accumulated more spirit stones.
• Zhou Hao began another life simulation.

Zhou Hao used the Life Simulator to cultivate the Blood Sea Scripture, eventually achieving Perfect Foundation Establishment and learning that the Yinmo Sect might target him for it. He mastered Blood Escape, traveled in disguise to Yuanshui City, and began crafting talismans and pills to fund further simulations.

• After repeated simulations and deaths while searching for ancient Desolate Beast essence blood, Zhou Hao simulated a life in which he reached Golden Core and gained the knowledge needed to find a suitable catalyst in the Western Desolation Kingdom's Ancient Ruin.
• Zhou Hao eventually obtained essence blood from a descendant of the Ancient Golden-Winged Great Peng, cultivated the Blood Sea Scripture to its fifth level, and died when the Great Peng and other demonic beasts broke through the array.
• Zhou Hao claimed the cultivation reward and became a Qi Refining Level Five cultivator with powerful blood and True Qi, but discovered that simulations now cost ten times more.
• After learning from a simulated battle with a Golden Core cultivator, Zhou Hao simulated achieving Perfect Foundation Establishment through the Blood Sea Scripture and being ambushed by a mysterious Nascent Soul expert inside the Yinmo Sect.
• Zhou Hao claimed Perfect Foundation Establishment and concluded that the sect's higher-ups might covet his cultivation method, so he learned Blood Escape and traveled secretly to Yuanshui City.
• Zhou Hao crafted talismans and refined pills in Yuanshui City until he had earned fifty High-grade Spirit Stones and regained Simulation Points.

Zhou Hao built up his wealth, simulated a dangerous future at Flame Lake, and advanced to Foundation Establishment Level Five before traveling to Skyfire City. After learning that a small Spirit Mine had been discovered nearby, he spent his last Simulation Point to investigate the opportunity.

• Zhou Hao bought materials at the Myriad Merchants Association, spent four months crafting goods, and sold them to build up his funds.
• In a Life Simulation, Zhou Hao became a notorious demonic cultivator at Flame Lake, fought Ning Yao and other Righteous Path disciples, and was killed by a mysterious Nascent Soul Stage expert at twenty-nine.
• Zhou Hao claimed the simulation's cultivation reward, reaching Foundation Establishment Level Five, then traveled with a Chen Family caravan to Skyfire City.
• Zhou Hao gathered rumors about conflicts near Flame Lake and learned that sects were competing over a small Spirit Mine on its outskirts.
• With Chen Lingyun nearby and a chance to seize the mine, Zhou Hao used his last Simulation Point, spending 200 High-grade Spirit Stones to begin another Life Simulation.

Zhou Hao’s simulation warned him that gathering resources for the Blood Sea Scripture could expose him to powerful enemies, so he concealed his strength and robbed the Spirit Stone mine as an independent cultivator. He returned with over ten thousand High-grade Spirit Stones, while Chen Lingyun reported that an unknown cultivator had seized half the mine’s remaining wealth.

• After his simulated death in righteous territory, Zhou Hao suspected that buying Blood Sea Scripture materials had revealed his identity and resolved not to use its conspicuous techniques during the mine raid.
• Zhou Hao reached Foundation Establishment Level Seven and met Chen Lingyun, who declined to bring Chen Family members to the Spirit Stone mine.
• At the mine, Zhou Hao disguised himself among the independent cultivators, broke through a righteous True Disciple’s defenses, and rushed into the tunnels.
• Zhou Hao defeated groups of disciples, seized more than a hundred storage bags, and escaped with over ten thousand High-grade Spirit Stones.
• Chen Lingyun returned and told Chen Anxu that an exceptionally powerful independent cultivator had taken half the mine’s remaining Spirit Stones; Zhou Hao listened without revealing himself.

Zhou Hao repeatedly simulated different paths to gather the resources needed to advance the Blood Sea Scripture, evade a mysterious Nascent Soul pursuer, and survive the dangers of the Ancient Ruin. He finally formed a Golden Core at age twenty, but his simulation costs surged, leaving him with only two Simulation Points as he returned to Skyfire City in disguise.

• Zhou Hao's attempts to gather core-forming resources overseas and in the Western Desolation Kingdom ended in repeated deaths, often at the hands of Nascent Soul powerhouses or Ancient Ruin beasts.
• Zhou Hao simulated switching to the Blood Spirit Demonic Codex, where he formed a Nascent Soul, mastered formations, and obtained the Wind Thunder Escape Technique before dying with Chen Lingyun in the Ancient Ruin.
• Zhou Hao used the Wind Thunder Escape Technique and formations to escape the mysterious Nascent Soul pursuer, then formed a Golden Core in the Ancient Ruin and fled attacks by Golden Core demonic beasts.
• After more than twenty simulations, Zhou Hao claimed the reward that raised his cultivation to Golden Core Level Two at age twenty.
• Zhou Hao discovered that simulations now cost 4,000 High-grade Spirit Stones each, leaving him with two Simulation Points, then concealed his cultivation and returned to the Chen Family's Treasure Origin Pavilion in Skyfire City.

Zhou Hao completed his Blood Sword Array and agreed to lead a merchant caravan supporting Chen Lingyun’s development mission in the Zhao Kingdom. After establishing a thriving Treasure Origin Pavilion there, he secretly left for Spiritual Flood Dragon Island to raid a high-grade Spirit Stone mine controlled by the Sea Clan.

• Chen Lingyun confided her worries about the Chen Family, and Chen Anxu offered Zhou Hao a Foundation Establishment Pill and later asked him to support Chen Lingyun’s mission in the southwest.
• Zhou Hao spent half a year refining his high-grade flying swords into the Blood Sword Array, then agreed to lead a merchant caravan to the Zhao Kingdom.
• Zhou Hao’s caravan opened a Treasure Origin Pavilion in the Duan Yue Mountain Range, where Chen Lingyun gave him a half-finished magical treasure for protection.
• Zhou Hao left the Marketplace using a blood external incarnation as a decoy and traveled to a coastal dock in disguise.
• Zhou Hao boarded a ship bound for Spiritual Flood Dragon Island, intending to raid a nearby high-grade Spirit Stone mine occupied by the Sea Clan.

Zhou Hao used the Life Simulator to learn how to infiltrate a Sea Clan mining area on Spiritual Flood Dragon Island, then mined and plundered its Spirit Stones during an Orca Tribe attack. After escaping with a huge haul, he left the island before the Sea Clan sealed off the region, confident he could use his new Simulation Points to reach the Nascent Soul Stage.

• Zhou Hao simulated a life in which he plundered the reef mine during an Orca Tribe attack, escaped the Sea Clan, and eventually died to a God Transformation Stage demonic beast; he chose to retain his life wisdom.
• Zhou Hao used what he had learned to infiltrate the reef mining area and spent more than half a year mining Spirit Stones.
• Zhou Hao seized the chance created by the Orca Tribe's attack, slaughtered the Dragon Whale Clan guards at the treasury, and escaped with more than twenty storage bags of Spirit Stones.
• Zhou Hao counted a total of 83,150 High-grade Spirit Stones and 131 Top-grade Spirit Stones, raising his Simulation Points from one to twenty-four.
• Zhou Hao waited half a month, then left Spiritual Flood Dragon Island before the Sea Clan could seal off the region.

Zhou Hao used repeated life simulations and his formation expertise to overcome the ambushes surrounding the materials needed for the Blood Sea Scripture, finally forming a Nascent Soul. Back in the Duan Yue Mountain Range, he resumed his low-profile role at Treasure Origin Pavilion and learned that the Cheng Family had attacked the Chen Family’s caravan.

• Manager Chen told Zhou Hao that the Cheng Family had invited the marketplace families to discuss prices, and Zhou Hao decided the Chen Family would keep its low prices.
• After repeated simulations showed that he was ambushed whenever he sought Nascent Soul breakthrough materials, Zhou Hao used simulations to learn the Myriad Formations Scripture and study the Ancient Ruin’s massive Killing Formation.
• Zhou Hao joined the Myriad Merchants Association, obtained materials for a replica of the Killing Formation, and persuaded his teacher to give him two months to break through to Nascent Soul.
• Zhou Hao successfully formed a Nascent Soul, drove away approaching cultivators, reforged his flying swords, and returned to the Duan Yue Mountain Range disguised as a ninth-layer Qi Refinement cultivator.
• Chen Lingyun discussed the strain of the pioneering mission with Zhou Hao and supported his plan to expand Treasure Origin Pavilion and open a shop near the coastal docks.
• Manager Chen reported that the Cheng Family had sent people to attack the Chen Family’s caravan, and Zhou Hao said he had forgotten about the invitation while cultivating and crafting talismans.

Zhou Hao destroyed the Cheng Family’s marketplace forces, extorted spirit stones from the Zhao Kingdom’s three sects, and used a simulation to advance his formations and other arts. He then secretly mined a Dragon Whale Clan spirit mine, escaping with its Mid-grade Spirit Stones after the clan discovered him.

• Zhou Hao activated a concealed Seven Kill Blood Refining Formation and killed Fourth Elder Cheng and more than ten Cheng Family members in the mansion.
• Zhou Hao used the Cheng Family caravan attack as an excuse to demand one hundred thousand High-grade Spirit Stones from the Zhao Kingdom’s three sects, heavily injuring the Moon Spring Sect’s Supreme Elder and forcing them to pay.
• Zhou Hao simulated a life in which he reached the formation Great Grandmaster realm, survived attacks by God Transformation Stage experts, and died at age eight hundred and sixty-one; he selected the reward and absorbed more than eight hundred years of insights.
• Zhou Hao traveled to a High-grade Spirit Stone vein near Spiritual Flood Dragon Island and secretly mined beneath the Dragon Whale Clan’s guards.
• After the Dragon Whale Clan detected the mine’s declining Spiritual Energy, Zhou Hao trapped its three Nascent Soul cultivators, took the vault’s Mid-grade Spirit Stones, and escaped with Blood Escape.
• The Dragon Whale Clan’s cultivators took half a month to break Zhou Hao’s formation and then increased their mining efforts.

After a simulation revealed that the Myriad Merchants Association had lured him into a deadly trap, Zhou Hao took the reward and advanced to the sixth level of the Nascent Soul Stage. He expanded Treasure Origin Pavilion with the Chen Family’s help, and the chapter ended with Chen Lingyun accepting his proposal to support the merchant business.

• Zhou Hao simulated a life in which he infiltrated the Myriad Merchants Association, rose to become a core Guest Official, and was killed during a ruin expedition by three God Transformation Stage cultivators and dozens of Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Zhou Hao realized that a powerful Blood Sea Scripture cultivator in the association had used cultivation materials as bait, then chose the first reward and advanced to the sixth level of the Nascent Soul Stage.
• Zhou Hao urged Manager Chen to recruit Chen Family relatives and expand Treasure Origin Pavilion, promising generous salaries and Foundation Establishment Pills while claiming a Nascent Soul expert supported him.
• Zhou Hao spent months making goods and sourcing materials, then traveled to the Ancient Ruin’s outskirts to collect ingredients for higher-level pills and formations.
• Zhou Hao told Chen Lingyun that his Nascent Soul backer wanted the Chen Family’s support for the merchant business and offered it ten percent of the profits.
• Zhou Hao gave Chen Lingyun a bottle of Spirit Origin Pills, and she agreed that the Chen Family would fully support the business.

Zhou Hao used life simulations to investigate the Myriad Merchants Association and the Blood God Hall, gaining supreme formation knowledge and discovering that the hall concealed a trap that could lead to possession. He left the chapter with a warning about the cultivation world's dangers and chose to claim the complete Blood Sea Scripture rather than the simulated God Transformation cultivation.

• Treasure Origin Pavilion expanded across the southwest and overseas, while Zhou Hao supported its growth by supplying precious pills and formations.
• Zhou Hao's first simulation showed that he would die exploring the Blood God Hall with the Myriad Merchants Association, so he claimed the life wisdom and learned about its dangers and ancient materials.
• After three years, Treasure Origin Pavilion profited from overseas trade, and Chen Lingyun thanked Zhou Hao for the pills that helped her reach the peak of Foundation Establishment before returning to the sect.
• Zhou Hao simulated joining the Myriad Merchants Association and claimed formation knowledge that made him the cultivation world's foremost formation master.
• A further simulation showed Zhou Hao escaping the Myriad Merchants Association, taking the complete Blood Sea Scripture and ancient materials, reaching God Transformation, and then dying when a mysterious Primordial Spirit possessed him.
• Zhou Hao recognized the Blood Sea Hall as a trap and chose the complete Blood Sea Scripture as his reward.

Zhou Hao used the Blood Sea Scripture’s Innate Divine Ability to remove hidden dangers from his essence blood, then expanded Treasure Origin Pavilion and advanced his plans through life simulations. He broke through to God Transformation, prepared to attend the Myriad Merchants Association’s auction, and arrived at the Yinmo Sect, where a Myriad Merchants Association powerhouse’s avatar was waiting.

• Zhou Hao activated Devour on a remote island, cleansing his essence blood of lingering souls and hidden dangers at the cost of falling to the third layer of the Nascent Soul Stage.
• Zhou Hao ordered Manager Chen to recruit twelve Golden Core families and expand Treasure Origin Pavilion overseas, then killed raiders and forced the Sea Clan and local sects to compensate the pavilion.
• Five years later, Zhou Hao’s pavilion had entered the top ten of Xuanlan Continent, and he agreed to attend the Myriad Merchants Association’s high-level auction after receiving an invitation.
• Zhou Hao’s simulations showed him reaching God Transformation before dying to a mysterious Primordial Spirit, so he claimed the first reward and broke through to God Transformation in the real world.
• Zhou Hao developed the Zhou Tian Blood Sea Sword Formation and agreed to travel with Elder Bone to the auction.
• Zhou Hao arrived at the Yinmo Sect, where Jade Bone Venerable greeted him and the avatar of a God Transformation powerhouse from the Myriad Merchants Association watched him closely.

Zhou Hao attended a gathering and high-end auction hosted by the Myriad Merchants Association, where he traded pills and formations, attracted commissions, and secured a lucrative deal with the Suxin Sect. After seeing the auction’s enormous profits, he realized he still had much less wealth than the Association.

• Zhou Hao met the Yinmo Sect’s Nascent Soul cultivators and traveled with them to the Myriad Merchants Association headquarters in Myriad Commerce City.
• Zhou Hao saw the Suxin Sect’s True Disciple Ning Yao, whose perfected Foundation Establishment cultivation and Immortal Scripture made her difficult to assess.
• At a trading gathering, Zhou Hao sold three Nascent Soul Condensing Pills, Cloud Weaving Pills, and formations for nearly twenty thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones, and agreed to take future pill-refining commissions.
• A Suxin Sect Nascent Soul elder offered Zhou Hao twenty thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones to construct an ancient teleportation array and separately requested Nascent Soul Condensing Pills.
• Zhou Hao met with more Nascent Soul cultivators about teleportation arrays and pills, then watched the three-day auction generate hundreds of thousands of Top-grade Spirit Stones in transactions.

Zhou Hao used the simulator to uncover ways to leave the Xuanlan Cultivation Realm and learned that Suxin Sect planned to repair a one-way passage to the Spirit Realm. He agreed to work on the formation for a huge reward, while intending to prevent the Spirit Realm sect from sending experts through it.

• Zhou Hao arrived at Suxin Sect and received twenty thousand High-grade Spirit Stones from Elder Su Yun for helping with an ancient teleportation formation.
• Zhou Hao ran four simulations, learning that Suxin Sect's formation led one way to the Spirit Realm and that a Dao treasure in the Ancient Blood Phoenix Ruin could provide a route out of the Xuanlan Cultivation Realm.
• After staying in Yingge Hall for half a month, Zhou Hao followed True Person Cang Yun into Suxin Sect's forbidden grounds and saw Ning Yao cultivating there.
• Zhou Hao identified the damaged formation as an ancient one-way interrealm passage, and True Person Cang Yun confirmed that Suxin Sect wanted to reconnect with its superior sect in the Spirit Realm.
• Zhou Hao accepted fifty thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones as a deposit and agreed to work on the formation for ten days each month, while planning not to let the Spirit Realm sect send experts down.

Zhou Hao absorbed vast cultivation and skill insights through the Life Simulator, becoming overwhelmingly powerful while learning that rapid advancement drew dangerous attention. After a simulation ended with his death in the Spirit Realm, the Suxin Sect reported that it had found half the materials needed to repair the teleportation formation, and Zhou Hao began another simulation before going there.

• Zhou Hao used two simulations to develop his alchemy, formations, and artifact refinement, then sold four Nascent Soul Condensing Pills to Jade Bone Venerable for six thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones.
• Zhou Hao simulated a life lasting nearly one hundred thousand years, found the latter volume of the Myriad Formations Scripture, and absorbed the accumulated experience, greatly increasing his strength.
• Zhou Hao simulated another life, left the Xuanlan Cultivation Realm, and reached the Body Integration Mid Stage in the Spirit Realm before the Silver Snake Clan and dozens of Body Integration cultivators killed him.
• The Suxin Sect told Zhou Hao it had found half the materials needed to repair the ancient teleportation formation, and he replied that he would come soon.
• Zhou Hao began another Life Simulation before heading to the Suxin Sect.

Zhou Hao chose a reward that raised him to the Mahayana Stage, then returned to settle old scores and pursue a route into the Spirit Realm. After defeating the Suxin Sect’s upper-realm envoys, he discovered a powerful secret within Ning Yao and made her the sect master under his control.

• Zhou Hao chose the first reward and absorbed Spiritual Energy for months in the northernmost region, breaking through to the Mahayana Stage.
• Zhou Hao went to the Myriad Merchants Association, killed Blood Crow Daoist, and refined his corpse into essence blood for his avatar.
• Zhou Hao repaired the Suxin Sect’s ancient cross-realm formation, then killed two Void Refinement Stage cultivators sent from the Spirit Realm and refined their Primordial Spirits.
• Zhou Hao forced Elder Cangyun to lead him to Ning Yao, whose Immortal Scripture drew his interest, but he sensed a powerful soul hidden in her sea of consciousness and withdrew.
• Zhou Hao made Ning Yao the Suxin Sect’s sect master and placed a soul-power restriction on Elder Cangyun, ordering him to serve her.

After ascending to the Spirit Realm, Zhou Hao settled in Myriad Demon City and built a fortune by crafting and selling treasures, eventually earning Simulation Points. A simulation strengthened his soul arts and revealed the dangers of the Blood Sea Dao Scripture ruins, and he ended the chapter opening his own shop, Treasure Origin Pavilion.

• Zhou Hao ascended to the Spirit Realm, entered Myriad Demon City, and sold the Blood Lotus for thirteen thousand Spirit Crystals.
• Zhou Hao spent half a year crafting pills, Spirit Treasures, Lightning Talismans, and defensive formations, then earned more than seventy thousand Spirit Crystals and his first Simulation Point.
• Zhou Hao continued trading until he had two Simulation Points, then used one to simulate his future and preserve one as a reserve.
• In the simulation, Zhou Hao obtained the Starfall soul cultivation method, became a sect patriarch, helped repel the Demon Realm's invasion, and later suffered grievous injuries in the Blood Sea Dao Scripture ruins before dying.
• Zhou Hao chose the simulation's Starfall insights, gained extensive experience with Mahayana cultivators, and decided to establish a merchant association for protection and connections.
• Zhou Hao opened a new shop named Treasure Origin Pavilion three streets from Myriad Demon City's main street.

Zhou Hao expanded Treasure Origin Pavilion by hiring cultivators, supporting Liu Zhen’s caravan, and arranging an immortal formation for the Sky Fox Clan. The clan’s backing boosted the shop’s business, and Zhou Hao prepared to spend his accumulated Simulation Points studying divine abilities and immortal arts.

• Zhou Hao hired Mu Qing and Yue Lingchan to manage Treasure Origin Pavilion after selecting them from Liu Zhen’s recommendations.
• Over five years, Treasure Origin Pavilion grew, and Zhou Hao gave Liu Zhen a powerful defensive formation to protect his caravan from attacks targeting the shop’s trade partners.
• The Sky Fox Saintess hired Zhou Hao to arrange the Demon Subduing Six Harmonies Hundred Extremes Formation, and he completed it in a little over a month for four hundred thousand Spirit Crystals.
• The Sky Fox Clan’s elders praised Zhou Hao’s formation skills and encouraged the Saintess to maintain ties with him, strengthening Treasure Origin Pavilion’s reputation and business.
• After accumulating ten Simulation Points, Zhou Hao decided his next simulations should focus on researching divine abilities and immortal arts.

After eight simulations, Zhou Hao gained the fragmentary Blood Sea Dao Scripture and many cultivation insights, but learned that its tribulation would be deadly. He strengthened Treasure Origin Pavilion, accepted three nominal disciples, and left an auction after the Silver Snake Clan bid against him for a Golden Thunder Bamboo Sword Formation.

• Zhou Hao chose the second simulation reward, absorbed the Blood Sea Dao Scripture and cultivation insights, and reached the early Mahayana Stage with six immortal arts and three divine abilities.
• Zhou Hao learned that the Sky Fox Clan had helped Treasure Origin Pavilion and instructed Yue Lingchan to recruit talented Human Race alchemists and formation masters as nominal disciples.
• Zhou Hao accepted one Sky Fox Clan member, one Human Race rogue cultivator, and one Dragon Clan formation master as nominal disciples.
• After two more simulations ended in death beneath the heavenly tribulation, Zhou Hao chose life wisdom and gained knowledge of Spirit Realm ruins.
• Zhou Hao attended a Phoenix Clan auction with the Sky Fox Saintess and bid five hundred thousand Spirit Crystals on a Golden Thunder Bamboo Sword Formation.
• When the Silver Snake Clan raised the bid to one million Spirit Crystals, Zhou Hao declined to compete and resolved to obtain a tribulation-helping formation himself if necessary.

Zhou Hao simulated cultivating the Golden Thunder Bamboo Sword Formation and learned that it could help him survive battles but not the Heart Demon Tribulation, then ambushed and killed three Silver Snake Clan Body Integration experts to seize the swords. The attack convinced the Spirit Realm’s factions that Treasure Origin Pavilion was backed by a powerful Mahayana expert, and Zhou Hao admitted his true cultivation to the Sky Fox Saintess.

• Zhou Hao gained spirit-plant cultivation knowledge from his simulation and learned that the Heart Demon Tribulation had caused his failed attempt to overcome the tribulation.
• Zhou Hao decided to seize the Golden Thunder Bamboo Sword Formation and ambushed three Silver Snake Clan Body Integration experts on their route home, killing them with a devastating attack.
• A Mahayana cultivator in Myriad Demon City investigated the attack and traced its likely motive to the auction and the Golden Thunder Bamboo Sword Formation.
• The Sky Fox Ancestor concluded that Treasure Origin Pavilion possessed Mahayana-level methods and sent Xuan'er to build ties with Zhou Hao.
• Mahayana experts and Body Integration Peak cultivators from several clans visited Treasure Origin Pavilion and bought out its stock to curry favor with its mysterious backer.
• Zhou Hao told the Sky Fox Saintess that he was a Mahayana expert, stunning her.