Chapter Summaries

Qin Huaian refined the Flowing Cloud Sword, cultivated with his Mirror Bodies, and advanced to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage after exhausting the spirit vein. He emerged from seclusion and encountered three cultivators traveling toward Vast Peace Forest, leaving him poised to ask them about the region.

• Qin Huaian used his Mirror Bodies to deduce the Free and Easy Wanderer and Grand Void Dual Polarity Sword Canon while cultivating the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture.
• Qin Huaian reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage after the spirit vein in his Seed Space was depleted.
• Qin Huaian assigned his Mirror Bodies to cultivate, improve his divine sense, and deduce fifth-tier illusion formations before leaving his underground refuge.
• Qin Huaian flew away from Sword Mark Canyon and searched for someone who could tell him where he was.
• Qin Huaian overheard Zhang Yidao, Junior Sister Chen, and Junior Brother Wang discussing their search for Golden Creek Wood to heal their injured grand elder.
• Qin Huaian stopped concealing himself and prepared to approach the three cultivators.

Qin Huaian asked three Pill Sun Sect cultivators for directions to Vast Peace Forest, then witnessed them avoid a confrontation with two Cao Clan members. The Cao Clan cultivators recognized him as Wang Baole and demanded the Sword Immortal Legacy, leaving Qin Huaian to prepare for a fight.

• Qin Huaian caught up with Zhang Yidao and two fellow Pill Sun Sect cultivators, asked for directions, and received a map from Chen Ruolan.
• Two Cao Clan cultivators arrived and taunted Chen Ruolan, but she stopped Zhang Yidao from attacking and led the group away.
• Qin Huaian studied the map and learned that Vast Peace Forest and Vast Peace City lay east of the border between the two kingdoms.
• The Cao Clan cultivators blocked Qin Huaian and recognized him as Wang Baole.
• One Cao Clan cultivator demanded the Sword Immortal Legacy, and Qin Huaian denied knowing what he meant while drawing his flying sword.

Qin Huaian defeated two Martial Ascent True Kingdom cultivators who had recognized him as the bearer of the Sword Immortal Legacy, then learned that major powers were secretly searching for him. He trapped the surviving cultivator and summoned Xu Yunpeng to take over his body, leaving Xu Yunpeng startled by Qin Huaian’s Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivation.

• Qin Huaian used Yin-Yang First Manifestation to badly wound the saber-wielding cultivator and then killed him with a Heaven Burning Form infused with an Exotic Flame.
• Qin Huaian trapped the sword-wielding cultivator in a formation and questioned him about the search for the Sword Immortal Legacy bearer.
• The cultivator explained that major powers across Riverbank Continent were seeking Qin Huaian and that Fire Departing Hall and Mystic Moon Palace had offered to make him their sect masters’ personal disciple.
• Qin Huaian learned that the Martial Ascent True Kingdom cultivator had recognized him from a search party, then summoned Xu Yunpeng to assess the captive as a potential body.
• Xu Yunpeng accepted the cultivator as a suitable body and was shocked to discover that Qin Huaian had reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.

Qin Huaian used possession to bring Xu Yunpeng under his control after Xu tried to break through the formation. In the unfamiliar world Qin Huaian identified as the Immortal Realm, they discussed Xu’s new body and disguise spell, then prepared to find a place to recover and plan their next move.

• Xu Yunpeng tried to escape Qin Huaian’s formation, but Qin Huaian possessed him and made him swear allegiance.
• Qin Huaian promised Xu Yunpeng his freedom after Qin overcame the immortal ascension tribulation, and collected the defeated cultivator’s broadsword and storage pouch.
• Qin Huaian told Xu Yunpeng about the Cultivation World’s upheaval and explained that they were now in the Immortal Realm.
• Xu Yunpeng changed his appearance and gave Qin Huaian a jade slip containing the disguise spell, along with the storage pouch.
• Qin Huaian decided to find a place for Xu Yunpeng to merge with his new body and to learn the disguise spell before choosing where to go next.

Qin Huaian perfected the Illusory Face Art while Xu Yunpeng recovered to the Spirit Transformation stage, and the two left their secluded mountain retreat. They reached Vast Peace City, where Qin Huaian learned that the city enforced order within its walls but ignored violence outside.

• Qin Huaian spent spirit stones to deduce the Illusory Face Art and perfected it after two months of cultivation.
• Xu Yunpeng broke through to the Spirit Transformation stage, and Qin Huaian decided they should leave the mountains and explore the world.
• Qin Huaian and Xu Yunpeng flew east and reached Vast Peace Forest and the enormous city at its edge.
• A Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator killed his fleeing pursuer just outside the city gate, while the guards ignored the death.
• Qin Huaian asked a Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator about the city’s rules and learned that fighting was forbidden inside Vast Peace City but ignored beyond its walls.

Qin Huaian and Xu Yunpeng entered Vast Peace City, learned its rules, and searched for lodging while exploring the city. Qin Huaian rented a cave dwelling, giving them a place to settle as they began their stay.

• Qin Huaian read Vast Peace City's rules and learned that the city was independent of any faction and strictly regulated fighting, flight, and nighttime travel.
• Qin Huaian and Xu Yunpeng entered the city and headed toward its center to find lodging and familiarize themselves with the area.
• Xu Yunpeng flirted with a woman at Pleasure Court, but followed Qin Huaian onward after saying he had important matters to attend to.
• Qin Huaian teased Xu Yunpeng about Mo Qiyuan, and Xu Yunpeng insisted his past relationships had been mutual.
• Qin Huaian asked the local administrators about cave dwellings and rented one for 1,300 mid-grade spirit stones per year.

Qin Huaian settled into a rented cave dwelling in Vast Peace City, where Xu Yunpeng gave him the Sun-Moon Radiance Codex, a powerful dual cultivation technique. After spending the night cultivating, Qin Huaian prepared to explore the city and learned that its strict laws and influential city lords made it unusually safe.

• Qin Huaian and Xu Yunpeng arrived at their rented courtyard, and Xu Yunpeng chose the western side room.
• Xu Yunpeng gave Qin Huaian the Sun-Moon Radiance Codex, hoping it would help him ascend, and Qin Huaian had the Seed Space record it.
• Qin Huaian discovered that the Codex was a dual cultivation technique and chose to cultivate his Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture instead.
• Qin Huaian spent the night cultivating with his Mirror Bodies, then met Xu Yunpeng as he returned to the cave dwelling.
• Xu Yunpeng told Qin Huaian that Vast Peace City was jointly governed by a ninth-tier alchemist and a ninth-tier formation master, gave him a Communication Bead, and Qin Huaian headed toward the city center.

Qin Huaian explored Vast Peace City’s pill shops and learned about pills that could boost a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator’s cultivation. After rejecting an expensive seventh-grade Heavenly Ganoderma Pill, he headed for the city’s largest marketplace to browse its stalls.

• Qin Huaian entered a pill shop and asked about pills that could quickly improve a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator’s cultivation.
• The assistant described Nascent Soul Nurturing Pills and Dust-Cleansing Pills, explaining their effects, risks, and prices.
• The assistant showed Qin Huaian a seventh-grade Heavenly Ganoderma Pill that could raise a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator by one minor realm, but it cost ten thousand high-grade spirit stones.
• Qin Huaian left without buying the pill, and the assistant called him a poor bastard after he had exited.
• Qin Huaian continued toward Vast Peace City’s largest marketplace to inspect the individual stalls.

Qin Huaian explored Vast Peace City’s market and Vast Peace Myriad Treasures Pavilion, learning about the city’s alchemy culture and its public collection of pill formulas. He bought a jade slip of formulas and learned that an auction would take place in three days.

• Qin Huaian bought a spirit herb guide, pill formulas, and a guide to Vast Peace Forest from a stall owner for 500 mid-grade spirit stones.
• Qin Huaian entered Vast Peace Myriad Treasures Pavilion and discovered Mystic Pill Hall’s screen displaying thousands of pill formulas.
• A Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator explained that the City Lord had gathered and publicly displayed formulas, helping Vast Peace City become Riverbank Continent’s Pill City.
• Qin Huaian bought a jade slip containing the pavilion’s pill formulas for 500 mid-grade spirit stones.
• Qin Huaian saw a notice announcing a public auction on the pavilion’s fourth floor in three days, with a 10,000 mid-grade spirit stone registration fee for most cultivators.

Qin Huaian advanced his array mastery to the sixth order and refined several array disks while cultivating in Vast Peace City. After Xu Yunpeng returned with his cultivation restored to the late Spirit Transformation Realm, he explained that talisman-making had helped him gather resources and offered Qin Huaian top-grade spirit stones.

• Qin Huaian bought nearly a million Mid-Grade Spirit Stones’ worth of array materials and spent three and a half years cultivating and advancing his array mastery.
• Qin Huaian refined eight sixth-order array disks and seven fifth-order array disks, keeping one sixth-order Spirit Gathering Array for himself.
• Xu Yunpeng returned to the cave dwelling with his cultivation restored to the late Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Xu Yunpeng told Qin Huaian that he had earned cultivation resources by drawing spirit talismans in Vast Peace City.
• Xu Yunpeng offered Qin Huaian more than a dozen top-grade spirit stones, and Qin Huaian asked how easily they could be obtained.

Qin Huaian learned about the scarcity and value of top-grade spirit stones, accepted some from Xu Yunpeng, and went to Vast Peace City's center to sell a fifth-rank Spirit Gathering Array Disk. After testing it, a magic treasure shop offered him a favorable price and invited him to sell more array disks in the future.

• Xu Yunpeng explained that top-grade spirit stones were scarce and costly, then gave Qin Huaian some to help him break through bottlenecks.
• Qin Huaian told Xu Yunpeng to focus on restoring his cultivation and left, discovering that Xu Yunpeng had rented the neighboring courtyard.
• Qin Huaian visited magic treasure shops in the city center to learn market prices, then entered a large shop to sell an item.
• A mid-stage Spirit Transformation Realm appraiser tested Qin Huaian's fifth-rank Spirit Gathering Array Disk and confirmed that Qin Huaian had refined it himself.
• The appraiser offered Qin Huaian two thousand high-grade spirit stones for the disk, and Qin Huaian accepted the price.

Qin Huaian sold array plates at several shops in Vast Peace City, earning over 43,000 high-grade spirit stones before spending much of his wealth on more artifact-refining materials. He then returned to a pill shop to buy a seventh-rank Heavenly Ganoderma Pill.

• Qin Huaian sold a fifth-tier Spirit Gathering Array plate and a sixth-tier defensive array plate to Chu Jingfeng's shop for 8,000 high-grade spirit stones.
• Qin Huaian learned that the shop offered supreme-grade spirit stone exchange quotas only to long-term partners, while direct purchases cost 3,000 high-grade spirit stones each.
• Qin Huaian sold more array plates around Vast Peace City, keeping one sixth-tier Spirit Gathering Array plate and one sixth-tier defensive array plate for himself and earning over 43,000 high-grade spirit stones in total.
• Qin Huaian spent one million mid-grade spirit stones and 20,000 high-grade spirit stones on more artifact-refining materials at the central marketplace.
• Qin Huaian returned to the pill shop and asked the Golden Core Realm clerk to sell him a seventh-rank Heavenly Ganoderma Pill.

Qin Huaian tested cultivation with supreme-grade spirit stones, then used his Spirit Gathering Array to burn high-grade spirit stones for faster progress while refining array disks. After a year, he reached Nascent Soul Mid Stage 50/100, and Xu Yunpeng arrived with news of a major event in Vast Peace Forest.

• Qin Huaian learned the shop had sold its last seventh-tier Heavenly Ganoderma Pill and returned to his cave abode to test supreme-grade spirit stones.
• Qin Huaian and his four Mirror Bodies spent five days cultivating with supreme-grade spirit stones, using ten and raising his cultivation by one percentage point.
• Qin Huaian decomposed thirty thousand high-grade spirit stones in his Spirit Gathering Array, raising his cultivation by ten percentage points to Nascent Soul Mid Stage 39/100.
• Qin Huaian continued cultivating in the array while his Mirror Bodies worked and he refined array disks, reaching Nascent Soul Mid Stage 50/100 over the next year.
• Qin Huaian opened the courtyard gate for Xu Yunpeng, who hurried in and reported a major event in Vast Peace Forest.

Qin Huaian heard why Xu Yunpeng was going to seek Earthcore Flame Marrow at a newly formed volcano, then sold his formation disks and bought more refining materials in Vast Peace City. As he prepared to leave the marketplace, the Crimson Ash Quicksand Flame reacted to a transparent crystal at a nearby stall.

• Xu Yunpeng told Qin Huaian that cultivators had found Earthcore Flame Marrow in a volcanic eruption and said he planned to seek it to hasten his recovery to the Late Body Integration Realm.
• Qin Huaian declined to join Xu Yunpeng, who gave him several dozen spirit talismans before leaving.
• Qin Huaian sold his formation disks at shops in Vast Peace City's eastern district and spent twenty thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones replenishing his artifact-refining materials.
• Qin Huaian spent 4.8 million Spirit Stones to accelerate a Mirror Body's deduction of a sixth-grade trapping formation.
• The Crimson Ash Quicksand Flame stirred in Qin Huaian's dantian and drew his attention to a transparent crystal displayed at a nearby cultivators' stall.

Qin Huaian bought an unknown crystal-like material that his Crimson Ash Quicksand Flame began consuming, then cultivated for over a year and advanced his Nascent Soul cultivation. A white-bearded old man and his disciples watched Qin Huaian’s cave abode, while Qin Huaian was astonished by the Exotic Flame in his Seed Space.

• Qin Huaian haggled with a stall owner and bought Starfall Mystic Iron, Dragonblood Black Gold, and the unknown material for twenty-five hundred high-grade spirit stones.
• After Qin Huaian left, the stall owner sent his Junior Sister to tell their Master that the Starlight Fire Glaze had been sold and told Eldest Senior Brother to track Qin Huaian.
• Qin Huaian returned to his cave abode, placed the unknown material and Crimson Ash Quicksand Flame in the Seed Space, and watched the flame envelop the material.
• Qin Huaian cultivated for more than a year until his high-grade spirit stones ran out, reaching Nascent Soul Mid Stage 82/100 and Sixth-Grade Array Master Minor Achievement 1/100.
• The white-bearded old man questioned his disciples about Qin Huaian and ordered them to keep watching his cave abode.
• Qin Huaian entered the Seed Space and stared in astonishment at the Crimson Ash Quicksand Flame as he prepared to refine an array plate.

After the Crimson Ash Quicksand Flame devoured a mysterious crystal-like material, it transformed and helped Qin Huaian refine array discs faster. In Vast Peace City, a treasure appraiser invited Qin Huaian to compete in the city’s renowned formation contest, leaving Qin Huaian to consider competing under his own name.

• The Crimson Ash Quicksand Flame changed from red to brilliant yellow after consuming the crystal-like material, and Qin Huaian sensed that its rank had risen.
• Qin Huaian used the improved flame to refine array discs, producing more than before in less than a year and nearly exhausting his materials.
• At the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, a middle-aged treasure appraiser explained Vast Peace City’s formation competition and invited Qin Huaian’s supposed master to join the shop’s team.
• Qin Huaian declined on his master’s behalf, saying the master was in the Void Refinement Realm and could not participate.
• The appraiser praised Qin Huaian’s array discs and invited him to compete himself, offering rewards from both the City Lord’s Manor and the Myriad Treasures Pavilion.

Qin Huaian considered invitations to join an array formation competition but worried that participating could reveal his identity and the Sword Immortal Legacy. After noticing a cultivator following him in Vast Peace City, he bought more spirit talismans and asked the Vast Peace Myriad Treasures Pavilion about seventh-tier Heavenly Ganoderma Pills.

• Qin Huaian declined to immediately accept the Myriad Treasures Pavilion's offer of twenty supreme-grade spirit stones to represent it in the array formation competition.
• Qin Huaian sold his array discs at several shops for nearly 140,000 high-grade spirit stones, but refused to commit to any competition team.
• Qin Huaian noticed a mid-stage Spirit Transformation cultivator following him in the market; the cultivator disappeared after Qin Huaian confronted him with a look.
• Qin Huaian entered the Vast Peace Myriad Treasures Pavilion and bought fifth- and sixth-tier spirit talismans in preparation for attempting a breakthrough.
• Qin Huaian asked the pavilion's pill attendant about seventh-tier Heavenly Ganoderma Pills and learned they cost 11,000 high-grade spirit stones each.

Qin Huaian bought a Spirit-Condensing Pill and returned to his cave dwelling to cultivate toward Nascent Soul Late Stage. Meanwhile, a white-bearded elder learned that Qin Huaian had been selling items and suspected he possessed an Exotic Flame, so he ordered his disciple to keep watching him.

• Qin Huaian bought a Spirit-Condensing Pill for 30,000 high-grade spirit stones at the Vast Peace Myriad Treasures Pavilion.
• Qin Huaian returned safely to his cave dwelling and used spirit stones with the Spirit Gathering Array to cultivate toward Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• A mid-stage Spirit Transformation cultivator told his white-bearded master that Qin Huaian had visited artifact shops to sell items, possibly forged artifacts.
• The white-bearded elder told his disciple to keep monitoring Qin Huaian and notify him if Qin Huaian left the city.
• The elder revealed that he had used Starlight Fire Glaze as bait to find a cultivator with an Exotic Flame, and suspected Qin Huaian might have one.

After reaching Nascent Soul Great Perfection with the Heavenly Ganoderma Pill, Qin Huaian prepared to break through to the Spirit Transformation Realm. He began merging his Nascent Soul with his soul, confident in their strength as the dangerous process started.

• Qin Huaian completed the sixth-tier grandmaster-level formation deduction and directed his Mirror Bodies to focus on cultivation.
• Qin Huaian reached Nascent Soul Late Stage, then swallowed the seventh-tier Heavenly Ganoderma Pill and absorbed its medicinal power over a month to reach Nascent Soul Great Perfection.
• Qin Huaian reflected on his rapid progress and wondered how Old Lin and the others were doing; he also sensed that Xu Yunpeng was probably still alive.
• Qin Huaian prepared the Spirit-Condensing Pill as a precaution and began breaking through to the Spirit Transformation Realm without taking it.
• Qin Huaian's Nascent Soul began rupturing and releasing energy to merge with his soul.

Qin Huaian broke through to the Spirit Transformation Realm after the four Mirror Bodies helped his Primordial Spirit absorb all the energy from his Nascent Soul. He stayed in seclusion to consolidate his cultivation, then learned that the formation competition had been postponed because a new secret realm had appeared near the volcano in Great Peace Forest.

• Qin Huaian overcame inner demons during the fusion of his soul and Nascent Soul, but worried that his soul could not absorb all the Nascent Soul's energy.
• Four streaks of white light from the Mirror Bodies entered Qin Huaian's forming Primordial Spirit, allowing it to absorb the remaining energy and stabilize.
• Qin Huaian reached Early Stage Spirit Transformation, and Number Seven Seed Space began upgrading for one month.
• Qin Huaian chose not to enter the upcoming formation competition and continued cultivating in his cave abode.
• A female cultivator told her Second Senior Brother that a new secret realm had appeared beneath the volcano in Great Peace Forest, prompting the City Lord's Manor to postpone the formation competition.