Chapter Summaries

Qin Huaian confronted two Foundation Establishment cultivators who tried to seize his points jade token with a powerful fire talisman. He killed the white-robed cultivator, while the green-robed cultivator escaped, and Qin Huaian collected both tokens as the fire phoenix pursued him.

• Qin Huaian spotted two cultivators approaching and overheard them plan to attack him with a third-grade Flamefire Talisman.
• The white-robed cultivator attacked Qin Huaian, but Qin Huaian quickly gained the upper hand and dodged toward the green-robed cultivator as he activated the talisman.
• The green-robed cultivator released a fire phoenix, then teleported away after the white-robed cultivator ordered him to escape.
• The white-robed cultivator fought Qin Huaian while the fire phoenix pursued them, but Qin Huaian used the might of the Exotic Flame in the Heaven Burning Form to kill him.
• Qin Huaian took both cultivators’ points jade tokens and the white-robed cultivator’s storage pouch, then fled from the pursuing fire phoenix.

Qin Huaian collected another points tablet and faced the first-ranked cultivator, a young Buddhist monk, as other cultivators gathered around them. They agreed to join forces against the crowd, but a Holy Son and his allies arrived to seize their tablets, forcing Qin Huaian and the monk to fight.

• Qin Huaian collected a jade tablet, raising his score to 12,730 and confirming that points transferred automatically when someone took a tablet.
• Qin Huaian defeated a pursuing cultivator, took his points tablet, and dispersed the weakened fire phoenix, bringing his score to 13,290.
• Qin Huaian met the first-ranked cultivator, a young Buddhist monk, who proposed that they join forces against the cultivators gathering nearby before settling their own contest.
• A Holy Son and several allies arrived and tried to seize Qin Huaian's and the monk's points tablets, while their companions blocked the pair's escape.
• Qin Huaian and the young monk agreed to begin fighting and charged toward the gathered cultivators.

Qin Huaian and the young monk hunted down cultivators who had gathered to watch them, and Qin Huaian's overwhelming strength turned the crowd against him into a retreating mob. After Qin Huaian briefly reached first place, a special mission offered an extra reward if his final points exceeded the combined points of everyone else remaining in the Mustard Seed Space.

• Qin Huaian swiftly defeated a female cultivator while the young monk collected another cultivator's score jade token, prompting the gathered crowd to realize they were being hunted.
• A cultivator urged the crowd to surround Qin Huaian, arguing that taking his token would multiply their points by four.
• Qin Huaian killed one attacker with a single sword strike and forced the instigator to teleport out after breaking his shield and defensive spirit talisman.
• The remaining cultivators lost their nerve and began backing away as Qin Huaian collected the defeated cultivator's jade token.
• Qin Huaian heard that he had temporarily ranked first and received a special mission to finish with more points than all other remaining cultivators combined.

Qin Huaian fought a battle formation led by the young man called the Holy Son, while the young monk stopped attacking others and watched for a chance to profit from Qin Huaian's efforts. Qin Huaian and the monk joined forces to break the formation, and the Holy Son ordered Plan Number One as his group came under pressure.

• Qin Huaian chose to keep fighting after reaching first place, but the Holy Son arrived with more than ten cultivators and confronted him.
• The young monk noticed he had fallen to second place and decided to let Qin Huaian work for him while preventing his own opponents from fleeing.
• Qin Huaian used a lightning-attracting talisman to kill a weak point in the Holy Son's formation, then found another flaw and killed a second cultivator.
• The young monk offered to help Qin Huaian, who directed his attacks against the formation; together they killed more cultivators and took their points jade tokens.
• The Holy Son realized the formation was about to fail and ordered his followers to execute Plan Number One.

Qin Huaian and the young monk survived the Holy Son’s group’s explosive attack, but the Holy Son gathered points from his followers and rose to first place. Seeing the three leaders appear weakened, cultivators rushed toward them to seize their points and opportunities.

• The Holy Son’s battle formation detonated several magic treasures, injuring the young monk while Qin Huaian escaped with only the blast’s impact.
• The Holy Son’s followers transferred their point jade tablets through two cultivators, multiplying the points until the Holy Son reached first place with more than 280,000 points.
• Qin Huaian saw that only the Holy Son remained from the formation and realized the Holy Son had gained an overwhelming lead.
• Cultivators watching from afar charged toward Qin Huaian, the young monk, and the other young cultivator, hoping to take advantage of their apparent weakness.

Qin Huaian escaped the Holy Son and the young monk, then considered how the inheritance trial’s scoring rules might be exploited. After restoring his strength and collecting points from other cultivators, he prepared an array to help him deal with the Holy Son and set off for the current first-ranked cultivator.

• The Holy Son and the injured young monk fled as the crowd arrived, while Qin Huaian escaped in a different direction.
• Qin Huaian considered whether cultivators could team up to farm points, but concluded that the shrinking trial space would eventually force the strongest competitors to clash.
• After recovering inside a defensive array, Qin Huaian ambushed and defeated four approaching cultivators, gaining fewer than 5,000 points.
• Qin Huaian decided to refine array flags so he could trap the Holy Son and limit his ability to escape.
• Over the next two days, Qin Huaian defeated more than ten challengers, including the cultivator ranked sixth, and raised his score above 48,000 as his rank fell to third.
• With a little over two days left in the trial, Qin Huaian flew toward the cultivator ranked first.

Qin Huaian spotted He Zhiping, Min Yingzhu, and another First Belief Peak cultivator being overwhelmed by six opponents and rushed to their aid. He killed two attackers, while the rest escaped, and his points rose to 52,100.

• Qin Huaian saw He Zhiping, Min Yingzhu, and a First Belief Peak cultivator fighting six cultivators from other worlds.
• He Zhiping killed one opponent and took his points jade tablet, but Brother Liu blasted him back with an Explosive Flame Talisman.
• Qin Huaian arrived and wounded Brother Liu with a crimson sword strike.
• Qin Huaian beheaded Brother Liu and took his jade tablet and storage bag.
• One attacker teleported away, Qin Huaian killed another, and the remaining opponents escaped.
• Qin Huaian checked his score and saw that his points had reached 52,100.

Qin Huaian left Min Yingzhu, He Zhiping, and Wan Zixia after refusing their low-point jade tokens, then joined the monk and the second-ranked cultivator at the first-ranked Holy Son's location. Qin Huaian gained the upper hand against the Holy Son while setting up formation flags, and the monk defeated the second-ranked cultivator before rushing to help.

• Qin Huaian greeted Min Yingzhu, He Zhiping, and Wan Zixia, confirmed that he was ranked third, and refused the jade tokens they offered.
• Qin Huaian followed the radar toward the first-ranked Holy Son, while the second-ranked cultivator and the monk approached the same location.
• The Holy Son warned the second-ranked cultivator that Qin Huaian and the monk were allies, so the cultivator chose to fight them first.
• The monk attacked the second-ranked cultivator as Qin Huaian engaged the Holy Son, whose sword contained an Exotic Flame.
• Qin Huaian used his speed to suppress the Holy Son and secretly tossed out formation flags while preventing him from escaping.
• The monk smashed the second-ranked cultivator with his lotus platform, collected his jade tablet, and rushed to help Qin Huaian after seeing that the Holy Son still had more points.

Qin Huaian lured a young monk into helping defeat the Holy Son, then trapped and defeated the monk to claim his points. After reaching first place with more than six million points, Qin Huaian left the array to keep pursuing opportunities.

• The young monk rushed in to attack the Holy Son, who teleported away and left behind his points jade token for the monk to claim.
• Qin Huaian activated a trapping array around himself and the monk, then upgraded it to a Tier 4 Trapping-Killing Array.
• The monk hid inside his lotus platform, but the array's sword qi overwhelmed him and he vanished, leaving his points token behind.
• Qin Huaian took the monk's points and saw that his own jade token showed 6,013,560 points and rank 1.
• Qin Huaian withdrew the array, recovered his array flags, and chose to keep searching rather than wait safely for the inheritance period to end.

Qin Huaian fought his way through the remaining cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Inheritance Space and kept first place in the rankings. The trial ended with him identified as candidate 077001, and he was told he had completed the special mission.

• Qin Huaian killed the sixth-ranked cultivator, forced the second-ranked cultivator and several others to teleport out, and collected their points jade tokens.
• Qin Huaian followed the radar to successive high-ranking cultivators, defeating or driving them out while raising his points to 6,165,320.
• Qin Huaian encountered Huang Kai and called for him not to flee, but the trial ended and transported Qin Huaian to the snow-white room.
• Han Yunting and Shen Canglan saw that 077001 had remained first in the overall rankings, though they were unsure whether the candidate was Qin Huaian.
• A prompt congratulated Qin Huaian, identified him as selected candidate 077001, and confirmed that he had completed the special mission.

Min Yingzhu and He Zhiping received inheritance rewards after ranking in the Qi Refining Stage trial, and He Zhiping chose to join the Supreme Purity Sect. He was teleported away before receiving his promised sect treasure because the magical treasures were out of stock.

• Min Yingzhu ranked 363rd, swore an oath, and received the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture and access to the Supreme Purity Domain.
• He Zhiping ranked 98th and received the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture along with the Heaven-grade movement technique Shadow.
• He Zhiping learned that top-one-hundred cultivators could join the Supreme Purity Sect or receive a limited Supreme Purity Domain reward, and he asked about the sect’s terms.
• He Zhiping chose to become a registered disciple of the Supreme Purity Sect and wrote his name on the willow-leaf mark.
• The Inheritance Space announced that the sect’s magical treasures were out of stock, then teleported He Zhiping away.

Qin Huaian entered the top ten, gained cultivation techniques, and chose to become a core disciple of the Supreme Purity Sect after learning about its benefits and receiving a Body Integration Realm Puppet. The Supreme Purity Domain then came under attack.

• Qin Huaian selected the Sky Tyrant Body Art and the Mysterious Void Concealment Art, swore an oath, and received both techniques.
• Qin Huaian learned that top-ten cultivators could join the Supreme Purity Sect or receive access to the Supreme Purity Domain, and that a special mission let him become a core disciple and claim a Body Integration Realm Puppet.
• Qin Huaian accepted core disciple status, wrote his name on the purple-gold mark, and received a portrait of Supreme Purity True Person.
• Qin Huaian bound the Puppet with his blood and discovered it held three supreme-grade spirit stones, each allowing one attack.
• The prompt announced that no magical treasures were in stock, then warned Qin Huaian that the Supreme Purity Domain was under attack.

Qin Huaian and the other inheritance participants were expelled from the Supreme Purity Domain after a warning that it was under attack, while cultivators at Supreme Purity Mountain discussed the Foundation Establishment trial. The chapter ended with a Drifting Snow Palace disciple recounting Qin Huaian’s ruthless tactics, as Li Li defended him against Hua Jinxuan’s criticism.

• Qin Huaian heard that the Supreme Purity Domain was under attack and was teleported out along with the other inheritance participants.
• Cultivators gathered around the rankings and learned that five people had reached the thousandth step, including an Origin Return Sect cultivator.
• Survivors described the Foundation Establishment trial, including teams of cultivators from other worlds and powerful bald opponents who wore matching attire.
• A Drifting Snow Palace disciple said Qin Huaian had ranked second and confronted the trial’s first-ranked bald cultivator without fighting him, instead attacking the surrounding onlookers.
• Hua Jinxuan condemned Qin Huaian as ruthless, but Li Li defended his strategy for gaining points.

Qin Huaian’s companions emerged from the Mustard Seed Space and described their inheritances, revealing that the Supreme Purity Sect had once supplied registered disciples with mid-grade True Artifacts. While the sect leaders awaited Qin Huaian’s appearance, he entered a grand, empty hall and met a mysterious youth with twin topknots.

• A Drifting Snow Palace disciple told Han Yunting that Qin Huaian had fought a battle formation with help from a bald cultivator, whom Gongsun Yanbo identified as belonging to the Buddhist Sect.
• Min Yingzhu, Wan Zixia, and Xiao Yi emerged with the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture inheritance, which granted access to the Supreme Purity Domain and permission to bring others inside.
• Min Yingzhu assured Han Yunting that He Zhiping had ranked among the top hundred, and He Zhiping soon emerged alongside Huang Kai.
• He Zhiping and Huang Kai described their rewards, and Huang Kai revealed that the Supreme Purity Sect’s registered disciples were meant to receive mid-grade True Artifacts.
• Huang Kai privately asked his mysterious master why communication had failed inside the Inheritance Space, and his master explained that a powerful restriction had trapped him in the Black Ring.
• Qin Huaian surveyed a vast, empty hall before a light-and-shadow figure formed into a twin-topknotted youth and asked if he was Qin Huaian.

Qin Huaian met Qingxu, a being formed from a strand of Teacher Supreme Purity’s whisk, and learned that the Supreme Purity Sect had been destroyed in a great calamity. Qingxu revealed that a distant enemy had found the Supreme Purity Domain again and that he needed to take it into hiding, leaving Qin Huaian to hear the urgent explanation before the domain departed.

• Qin Huaian introduced himself to Qingxu, who explained that he had been transformed from a strand of Teacher Supreme Purity’s whisk.
• Qingxu told Qin Huaian that core disciples had once held great authority in the Supreme Purity Sect, but Qin Huaian was now its only core disciple because a great calamity had destroyed the sect.
• Qingxu revealed that an unknown enemy was attacking the Supreme Purity Domain from afar and had found it despite its long period in hiding.
• Qingxu explained that he needed to hide the domain again, warning that Qin Huaian could not advance in cultivation while inside and that the previous hiding period had lasted nearly thirty thousand years.
• Qingxu said he had to leave at once after explaining the situation, or Qin Huaian’s world might also suffer a disaster.

Qingxu explained how Golden Core quality shaped a cultivator’s future and gave Qin Huaian a Five Elements True Condensation Pill to help improve his core. As Qingxu dismissed Qin Huaian’s Golden Condensation Pill, the Supreme Purity Domain trembled again.

• Qingxu told Qin Huaian that he had chosen Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators as inheritors because Golden Core quality determined their cultivation potential.
• Qingxu explained that spiritual root aptitude, comprehension, cultivation techniques, spiritual energy, and soul strength affected Golden Core quality, and said the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture could help compensate for Qin Huaian’s middle-grade spiritual roots.
• Qingxu explained that the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture was only a primer and that each cultivator had to comprehend its complete version for themselves.
• Qingxu checked the inventory and gave Qin Huaian a jade bottle containing two Five Elements True Condensation Pills, warning him to take no more than one when forming his core.
• Qingxu called Qin Huaian’s Golden Condensation Pill trash, and the Supreme Purity Domain trembled again.

Qingxu explained that the Supreme Purity Domain was a deteriorating space evolved from the True Spirit Pearl and prepared to leave under attack. Before sending Qin Huaian back, he granted Qin Huaian authority to teach the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture and gave him a storage ring, but Qin Huaian stopped him with one more question.

• Qingxu told Qin Huaian that the Supreme Purity Domain was not a true world but a space created by Master Taiqing's True Spirit Pearl, which needed a special energy to recover.
• Qin Huaian wondered whether his Seed Space also lacked that energy, but Qingxu said he could not identify or sense it himself.
• Qingxu told Qin Huaian that, as the Supreme Purity Sect's only core disciple, he could teach the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture to suitable people who swore the required Heavenly Dao oath.
• Qingxu said Qin Huaian could also pass on the other techniques from the Inheritance Space and gave him a storage ring containing jade slips.
• Qingxu urged Qin Huaian to return because the True Spirit Pearl risked being discovered, but Qin Huaian stopped him and said, "Wait!"

Qin Huaian left the inheritance space after meeting Qingxu, who explained how they could find each other and urged him to spread the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture. Back on Supreme Purity Mountain, Qin Huaian described his rewards to the gathered sect leaders and revealed that first place had earned him a special prize.

• Qingxu told Qin Huaian that the mark on his wrist could help them find each other, and Qin Huaian promised to help him if he could.
• A black dragon learned that the Supreme Purity Sect remnant had escaped again and ordered an investigation.
• Qin Huaian returned to Supreme Purity Mountain and decided he would not establish a sect.
• Shen Canglan and other sect leaders asked Qin Huaian to share his inheritance-space experience and rewards.
• Qin Huaian described his Heaven-grade cultivation techniques, True Artifact reward, and Supreme Purity Sect disciple status, then revealed that first place had earned him a special reward.

After the Supreme Purity Domain became impossible to sense, Qin Huaian returned to the sect and sorted the spoils he had collected in the inheritance trial. He planned to enter seclusion and break through to the Golden Core Realm before resuming his cultivation deductions.

• Qin Huaian revealed a Storage Ring, then Shen Canglan prepared to lead him and the others back to their sect’s encampment.
• Cultivators from every sect discovered they could no longer sense or enter the Supreme Purity Domain, and Ji Chenghao urged them not to panic before departing with the Origin Return Sect.
• Qin Huaian suspected Qingxu had left with the True Spirit Pearl and considered that the Cultivation World might benefit from losing one less bloodsucker.
• On the returning Flying Boat, Qin Huaian sorted twenty or thirty storage pouches and counted more than 265,000 middle-grade spirit stones and over 2,100 high-grade spirit stones.
• Qin Huaian decided to wait until after breaking through to the Golden Core Realm before deducing the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture, and the Flying Boat descended onto the Trial Plaza of Pagoda Peak.

Qin Huaian and Min Yingzhu returned to the sect, where Lin Tianyu advised them on forming their Golden Cores and asked Qin Huaian to help Min Yingzhu learn the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture. Meanwhile, Shen Canglan revealed that Nangong Yunzhao had reached the Void Refinement Realm after the Supreme Purity Domain vanished, but a powerful aura had also arisen deep in the Million Mountains.

• Qin Huaian and Min Yingzhu returned to the cave abode district and met Lin Tianyu, who gave each of them a Golden Condensation Pill and explained the factors affecting Golden Core quality.
• Lin Tianyu advised Min Yingzhu to cultivate the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture before forming her core and asked Qin Huaian to help her get started.
• Qin Huaian agreed to teach Min Yingzhu and entered Lin Tianyu's cultivation room with her.
• Shen Canglan told the sect leaders that disciples could no longer sense the Supreme Purity Domain and that Nangong Yunzhao had advanced to the Void Refinement Realm after its disappearance.
• Shen Canglan said Nangong Yunzhao had sensed a powerful, unrestrained aura rising deep in the Million Mountains, though he could not tell whether it belonged to a human.