Chapter Summaries

Tian Cuicui explained the three rewards for entering the Supreme Purity Domain, including the Teaching Hall, where cultivators could seek guidance on techniques from the Inheritance Space. The sect leaders discussed the difficulty of learning the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture, while Qin Huaian tried to avoid scrutiny and realized Shi Zhengyao had a hidden motive.

• Tian Cuicui said cultivators brought into the Supreme Purity Domain could stay for three months, and explained that the Teaching Hall offered one three-day visit each year for guidance on inherited techniques.
• Luo Lingsu asked whether the Teaching Hall contained teachers and revealed that her disciple An Qianchen had struggled to learn the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture despite its strong benefits.
• Qin Huaian privately considered the low-grade True Artifact and entry slots more valuable than Teaching Hall instruction, which he believed could be replaced by spirit stones.
• Luo Lingsu asked about Qin Huaian's progress, and Lin Tianyu credited his cultivation speed to resources from the Supreme Purity Domain while steering attention away from him.
• Shi Zhengyao suggested that disciples who obtained the same scripture exchange cultivation insights, and Qin Huaian suspected the sect master had an ulterior motive.

Shi Zhengyao tested whether disciples who had sworn not to teach a technique could still exchange insights with others who had obtained the same one. After the test showed no oath restriction, he prepared to leave with the newly promoted direct disciples, but Ji Chenghao asked to test Qi Ruiming’s spiritual power.

• Ji Chenghao urged caution about testing whether cultivators could exchange insights without violating their Great Dao oaths.
• Shi Zhengyao asked two Dragon Elephant Sect disciples who shared an earth-grade technique to study it and exchange insights, offering to promote them to direct disciples.
• The two disciples agreed, and after comprehending the technique separately, they discussed their insights inside a soundproof formation.
• One disciple reported that the exchange improved his understanding and that neither had sensed a restriction from the Great Dao oath; both swore their report was true, and Shi Zhengyao promoted them to direct disciples.
• As Shi Zhengyao prepared to leave, Ji Chenghao asked Lin Tianyu to test Qi Ruiming’s spiritual power, and Lin Tianyu said it was about three times that of an ordinary Qi Refining cultivator at great completion.

After returning from Supreme Purity Mountain, Qin Huaian puzzled over the Supreme Purity Domain’s motives while the Yellow Mountain Sword Sect rewarded disciples who had advanced in the inheritance trial. Lin Tianyu summoned Qin Huaian and Min Yingzhu to his cave dwelling, leaving the reason for their meeting unknown.

• Shi Zhengyao had Tian Cuicui punch him, demonstrating that her spiritual energy was roughly four times that of an ordinary Qi Refining Stage great completion cultivator, before the Dragon Elephant Sect departed.
• Qin Huaian warned the little fatty that the Supreme Purity Domain’s freely accessible teleportation points had many second-rank demonic beasts and advised him to reach Foundation Establishment first.
• After returning to the Yellow Mountain Sword Sect, Shen Canglan heard Lin Tianyu’s report about Supreme Purity Mountain and ordered a meeting with the sect’s peak masters, first elders, and senior disciples.
• The sect announced that two cultivators had reached the thousandth stair and nineteen had passed the eight-hundredth, while fourteen Yellow Mountain Sword Sect disciples who reached the six-hundredth stair gained masters; He Weiwei, Wang Baole, and Qi Ruiming became personal disciples.
• The Yellow Mountain Sword Sect improved spirit stone and resource exchanges, prompting Qin Huaian to regret converting his Sect Contribution Points into mid-grade spirit stones before the changes.
• Lin Tianyu summoned Qin Huaian to his cave dwelling, where Qin Huaian met Min Yingzhu at the entrance and entered with her.

Lin Tianyu explained the sect’s increased resource provisions, advised Min Yingzhu to focus on cultivation, and exchanged high-grade spirit stones for Qin Huaian’s mid-grade stones. After strengthening his cultivation, Qin Huaian entered the Supreme Purity Domain to explore deeper into the mountains and gather better herbs, where a third-rank Azure-Scaled Eagle suddenly attacked.

• Lin Tianyu told Qin Huaian and Min Yingzhu that the sect’s resource provisions were increasing and that Sect Master Shen had reached the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Lin Tianyu urged Min Yingzhu to cultivate diligently for the Supreme Purity Domain’s inheritance space, then exchanged 168 high-grade spirit stones for Qin Huaian’s 33,600 mid-grade spirit stones.
• Qin Huaian used the high-grade spirit stones to cultivate and reached Foundation Establishment Middle Stage 62/100 after two months.
• Qin Huaian entered the Supreme Purity Domain and ventured farther into the mountain range, gathering higher-grade spiritual herbs while avoiding stronger demon beasts.
• Qin Huaian sensed a first-stage third-rank Azure-Scaled Eagle diving toward him.

Qin Huaian fled from the Green-Scaled Eagle, which offered to trade the location of a human ruin for his movement technique. When the eagle grew suspicious and attacked, Qin Huaian wounded it with a powerful sword strike and escaped, but it continued pursuing him.

• Qin Huaian evaded the Green-Scaled Eagle's diving attack and fled, but the faster bird steadily closed the distance.
• The Green-Scaled Eagle offered to reveal a human ruin in exchange for Qin Huaian's Free and Easy Wanderer technique and explained that Nascent Soul Realm Demon Kings lived in the mountain range's center.
• Qin Huaian stalled the eagle with questions and invented a story about his sect and teleportation talismans.
• The Green-Scaled Eagle suspected Qin Huaian might lead his elders to it and charged at him.
• Qin Huaian landed and struck the diving eagle with Heaven Burning Form, burning a large patch of feathers from its wings.
• Qin Huaian fled again, and the wounded Green-Scaled Eagle pursued him.

Qin Huaian escaped the injured Green-Scaled Eagle and discovered an unusually arranged mountain range containing abandoned human ruins. After searching several peaks without finding valuable relics, he flew toward the central main peak.

• Qin Huaian evaded the pursuing Green-Scaled Eagle by hiding in a cave and recovering there for two days.
• Qin Huaian spent five days gathering spiritual herbs and grew suspicious when he found no demonic beasts or large animals in the forest.
• Qin Huaian saw a ten-thousand-zhang central peak surrounded by eight peaks arranged like stars around the moon.
• Qin Huaian discovered ruined buildings and an abandoned spiritual medicine garden, then collected its second-rank and third-rank herbs.
• Qin Huaian searched several peaks and found extensive rubble but no valuable relics, then flew toward the central main peak.

Qin Huaian discovered a hidden Spirit Spring beneath a mountain cave and used it to cultivate to the peak of Foundation Establishment Middle Stage. As he tried to leave the nine peaks, he found himself unable to escape and called on Gu Ran for help.

• Qin Huaian found a stone stele on the central peak bearing a moon engraving and the incomplete inscription, “The starry road stretches boundless...”
• Qin Huaian searched the mountain peaks for spirit herbs and discovered a cave with a hidden Spirit Spring beneath its dried pool.
• Qin Huaian collected around ten liters of Spirit Spring water and cultivated until he reached Foundation Establishment Middle Stage 100/100.
• Qin Huaian sealed the cave entrance, flew toward the outskirts of the nine peaks, and realized he could not leave the area.
• Qin Huaian suspected a formation was trapping him and woke Gu Ran to investigate.

Qin Huaian and Gu Ran examined the nine peaks and could not determine how to escape the apparent formation, while Gu Ran explained how he might restore his strength. Qin Huaian returned to his cultivation chamber and went to see Lin Tianyu, who noticed that Qin Huaian was already on the verge of another breakthrough.

• Gu Ran told Qin Huaian that the nine peaks seemed deliberately arranged and that he could not identify the formation around them.
• Gu Ran explained that he could strengthen his soul by devouring weaker souls or using Soul-Nourishing Wood, and Qin Huaian refused to help him devour anyone but promised to assist if he found a suitable treasure.
• Qin Huaian considered the possibility that the mountain range barred demon beasts and worried that he might remain trapped there, then used his teleportation mark to return to his cultivation chamber.
• Lin Tianyu summoned Qin Huaian, and when Qin Huaian arrived, Lin Tianyu realized he was close to breaking through despite having advanced less than a year earlier.

Qin Huaian told Lin Tianyu about his rapid cultivation, asked for help with the ruins and formation in the Supreme Purity Domain, and exchanged his harvest for sect resources. He returned to his cave abode and began preparing to break through.

• Qin Huaian showed Lin Tianyu Spirit Spring water and learned that Qi Ruiming could take one cultivation question per person into the Teaching Hall during his next visit.
• Qin Huaian described the human cultivator ruins and formation among the nine mountain peaks, and Lin Tianyu promised to ask around while warning him to prioritize safety.
• Qin Huaian handed in his spirit herbs at the Sect Trading Hall and received 198,564 sect contribution points.
• Qin Huaian exchanged his yearly quota for twenty high-grade spirit stones and converted the remaining points into nineteen thousand mid-grade spirit stones.
• Qin Huaian returned to his cave abode, settled himself, and began preparing to break through.

Qin Huaian broke through to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage, tested his strengthened divine sense, and continued cultivating after exhausting his Spirit Spring water. Three months later, his progress remained steady, and he planned to improve his Sword Intent before entering the Foundation Establishment Inheritance Space.

• Qin Huaian used Spirit Spring water to break through to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage and stabilized his cultivation a day later.
• Qin Huaian expanded his divine sense to a little over three li and managed to open a door and float a cup with it.
• Qin Huaian continued cultivating because the Supreme Purity Domain's inheritance spaces had opened early, but he used up his remaining Spirit Spring water for only ten percentage points of progress.
• Qin Huaian decided to raise his cultivation further before optimizing his Sword Intent, which would strengthen his Heavenbreaking Sword Formula.
• Qin Huaian cultivated with his Mirror Body for three months, gaining six percentage points of progress, when someone knocked at his courtyard.

Qin Huaian learned that the sects would decide entry quotas for the Foundation Establishment Inheritance Space through a tournament, then sparred with Min Yingzhu to test his strength. Their clash left him confronting the precision and power of her swordsmanship.

• Min Yingzhu visited Qin Huaian, noticed he had reached Foundation Establishment Late Stage, and summoned him to Lin Tianyu.
• Lin Tianyu explained that a sect tournament on Supreme Purity Mountain would determine quotas for the Foundation Establishment Inheritance Space, and that Yellow Mountain Sword Sect would hold its own tournament in two and a half years.
• Lin Tianyu told Min Yingzhu and Qin Huaian to prepare for the internal tournament and asked them to spar.
• Qin Huaian attacked Min Yingzhu with his sword techniques, and she revealed perfect-level Sword Intent.
• Min Yingzhu met Qin Huaian's Heaven Burning Form head-on, then launched a sword strike that seemed to track every direction he might dodge.

Qin Huaian sparred with Min Yingzhu, learned about her Sword Momentum, and received Lin Tianyu’s insights to study. After Lin Tianyu announced he would enter seclusion to attempt a breakthrough to Spirit Transformation, Qin Huaian recorded the sword notes in his Seed Space.

• Qin Huaian tested his strength against Min Yingzhu, who overwhelmed him with her sixfold Azure Sea Thousandfold Waves sword technique until he escaped with the Free and Easy Wanderer.
• Lin Tianyu explained that Min Yingzhu’s perfected Sword Intent and grasp of Sword Momentum let her sword seal off an opponent’s avenues of escape.
• Lin Tianyu gave Qin Huaian a jade slip of his Sword Momentum insights and advised both disciples to refine their sword techniques and eventually create their own.
• Lin Tianyu told Qin Huaian and Min Yingzhu that he would enter seclusion to attempt a breakthrough to Spirit Transformation, and they wished him success.
• Qin Huaian returned to his cave dwelling and recorded Lin Tianyu’s Sword Momentum Notes in his Seed Space.

Qin Huaian used Lin Tianyu’s sword insights to begin optimizing his Sword Intent, then went to the Yellow Mountain Sword Sect’s Library Pavilion to search for information about formations that might help him escape the Supreme Purity Domain. After finding nothing useful on the first floor, he asked to enter the second.

• Qin Huaian had Mirror Body Number One spend 1.6 million spirit stones to optimize his Sword Intent to perfection over 160 days.
• Qin Huaian left his cave abode and flew to Accomplished Harmony Peak to look for books about formations.
• Qin Huaian showed his Identity Token to a disciple on duty and entered the first floor of the Library Pavilion for a day of reading.
• Qin Huaian searched the first floor’s sections but found almost no books related to cultivation.
• Qin Huaian returned to the main hall and asked the disciple on duty to process his entry to the second floor.

Qin Huaian studied first-tier formations, used his Mirror Body to master several and test the Flame Formation, then gained a broader understanding of the entire first-tier formation discipline. The chapter left him wondering whether his new formation-master rank would raise the level of formations he had only deduced to beginner level.

• Qin Huaian read books on first-tier formations in the Library Pavilion and recorded dozens of formation manuals in his Seed Space.
• Qin Huaian returned to his cave abode and used the Mirror Body to deduce the first-tier Flame Formation, then refined and tested its formation flags.
• Qin Huaian raised the Flame Formation to proficient level and continued deducing other first-tier formations.
• After deducing nine first-tier formations, Qin Huaian absorbed a comprehensive understanding that let him grasp and analyze other first-tier formations.
• Qin Huaian saw First-Tier Formation Master listed at Mastery 1/100 on his Data Panel and wondered whether that rank would improve his beginner-level formations.

Qin Huaian used the Mirror Body to master increasingly advanced arrays, spending nearly all his spirit stones on deductions. As he prepared to claim an uncollected sect reward to fund further work, the Sect Master summoned him to Heavenly Capital Peak.

• Qin Huaian tested a first-tier defensive array, then deduced the first-tier Flame Array and discovered that improving one array skill also strengthened his other arrays.
• After reaching Perfected mastery as a first-tier array master, Qin Huaian recorded array texts in the Library Pavilion, including higher-tier arrays and a fifth-tier defensive array.
• Qin Huaian spent about 210,000 spirit stones to reach Perfected mastery as a second-tier array master, then deduced the third-tier Spirit Gathering Array to mastery but lacked materials to set it up.
• Nearly broke, Qin Huaian remembered his unclaimed sect contribution reward for breaking through a realm and decided to collect it.
• An early Foundation Establishment cultivator arrived to tell Qin Huaian that the Sect Master had summoned him, and Qin Huaian followed him toward Heavenly Capital Peak.

Shen Canglan gathered Qin Huaian, He Weiwei, Wang Baole, and Qi Ruiming to discuss the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture before Qi Ruiming entered the Teaching Hall. Qin Huaian agreed to continue helping the others under the pretense of mutual exchanges, leaving them set to meet every six months.

• Shen Canglan summoned Qin Huaian, He Weiwei, Wang Baole, and Qi Ruiming so they could exchange insights on the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture.
• Shen Canglan led the four disciples to a side hall and sealed it with a soundproof formation.
• Qin Huaian answered the others' questions and found that Qi Ruiming had progressed further than He Weiwei and Wang Baole.
• Qi Ruiming explained that the Teaching Hall imparted cultivation insights and gave preset answers to voiced questions.
• Qin Huaian agreed to meet with the others every six months, asking them to describe their progress as mutual discussion rather than his instruction.

Qin Huaian secured his fellow disciples’ vows to keep their exchange private, then asked Shen Canglan for help with the suspected illusion formation in the Supreme Purity Domain. Shen Canglan offered formation inheritances but no immediate solution, and Qin Huaian went to claim the rewards for his cultivation breakthroughs.

• The chubby youth, He Weiwei, and Qi Ruiming swore not to reveal their exchange with Qin Huaian, and Qin Huaian scheduled their next meeting for half a year later.
• Shen Canglan asked Qin Huaian to describe the suspected illusion formation in the Supreme Purity Domain and explained that he would need to find its flaw or formation core, or grow strong enough to break it by force.
• Shen Canglan gave Qin Huaian formation-path inheritances and warned him to prioritize cultivation and leave the domain if he encountered danger.
• Qin Huaian visited the sect affairs hall to collect his breakthrough rewards, and Elder Feng verified that he had reached Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• The disciple on duty calculated that Qin Huaian was owed 25,000 sect contribution points for his breakthroughs and noted that one year of resource allotments remained unclaimed.

Qin Huaian advanced his sword skills and formation knowledge, then returned to the Supreme Purity Domain to gather herbs and investigate its mysterious formation. He left with a plentiful harvest but no way out, worried that he would eventually run short of cultivation resources.

• Qin Huaian exchanged sect contribution points for spirit stones and his remaining yearly allocation, then completed nine third-tier formations and perfected his Sword Intent.
• Qin Huaian bought second- and third-tier formation materials before entering the Supreme Purity Domain again.
• Qin Huaian tested the area around the nine peaks and confirmed that the formation still trapped him, then completed his beginner-level Sword Force derivation.
• Qin Huaian searched three peaks for two months, gathering many spirit herbs but finding no rare treasures or escape route.
• Qin Huaian hid his cave with formation flags and left the domain, then worried that his resource supply would run out and headed to the trading hall.

Qin Huaian arranged for his Mirror Bodies to deduce sword momentum and fourth-rank formations, then met with his juniors to discuss the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture. After they gave him spirit stones to support his progress, he used them all in ten days of cultivation.

• Qin Huaian exchanged most of his sect contribution points for 20,000 mid-grade spirit stones and assigned his Mirror Bodies to deduce sword momentum and a fourth-rank trapping and killing formation.
• Wang Baole, He Weiwei, Qi Ruiming, and the others visited Qin Huaian after their agreed half-year period, and He Weiwei gave him a third-rank soundproof formation disk.
• The group discussed Tian Cuicui's progress in the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture, then Qin Huaian answered their cultivation questions and gave them further guidance.
• The little fatty, He Weiwei, and Qi Ruiming each gave Qin Huaian twenty high-grade spirit stones to help him prepare for the Foundation Establishment Inheritance Space.
• Qin Huaian accepted the eighty high-grade spirit stones, cultivated with the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture, and exhausted them all ten days later.

Qin Huaian advanced his cultivation, array mastery, and Sword Momentum while preparing for the sect's grand competition. After searching the remaining peaks in the Supreme Purity Domain and returning to the sect, he asked Zhang Heng whether the competition rules had been decided.

• Qin Huaian deduced Tier 4 arrays, raised his Sword Momentum to minor achievement, and began cultivating the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture with both Mirror Bodies.
• Qin Huaian advised Little Fatty and He Weiwei on the scripture while Qi Ruiming and Tian Cuicui gained prominence as instructors.
• Qin Huaian entered the Supreme Purity Domain, sensed faint array fluctuations around its mountains, and searched the remaining peaks for resources.
• Qin Huaian spent two months in the domain harvesting spirit herbs and cultivating before returning to the sect.
• Qin Huaian met Zhang Heng at the Trading Hall and asked whether the Foundation Establishment grand competition rules had been decided.