Chapter Summaries

Ye Ming and Xiao Yiyi went to the Hidden Slaughter Hall to hire assassins to control Song Li, but Song Li arrived before they could finalize the commission. The chapter ended with Song Li demanding that the hall return his junior brother and junior sister.

• Xiao Yiyi suggested hiring assassins to control Song Li, and Ye Ming agreed to find the Cloud City branch.
• A fortune-teller demanded two thousand spirit stones to guide Ye Ming and Xiao Yiyi, then led them to the Hidden Slaughter Hall and disappeared.
• Ye Ming and Xiao Yiyi entered the hall and asked to hire a powerful assassin to capture a Foundation Establishment senior brother who could defeat Golden Core cultivators.
• The supervisor recognized their description as referring to Song Li and began discussing the price of having a Nascent Soul cultivator subdue him.
• Song Li stormed the Hidden Slaughter Hall, demanded that it return his junior brother and junior sister, and threatened to raze the place.

Song Li rescued Ye Ming and Xiao Yiyi from the Hidden Slaughter Hall, whose Hall Master backed down after recognizing the powerful aura surrounding them. Meanwhile, Yang Jianghu returned to the Central Region’s Yang Family, where three bell chimes announced his arrival to the whole clan.

• Song Li arrived at the Hidden Slaughter Hall, and its Hall Master stopped threatening him and ordered Ye Ming and Xiao Yiyi escorted out.
• Song Li reunited with Ye Ming and Xiao Yiyi and led them away, while the Hall Master told a subordinate to report the three of them to headquarters and place them on the wanted list.
• Yang Jianghu reached the Yang Family’s ancestral land after several years away, feeling embarrassed about returning without accomplishments.
• The Yang Family learned that a direct descendant had returned, and three bell chimes drew family members to the gates to see Yang Jianghu.

Yang Jianghu returned to the Yang Family with Gu Yuan and reunited with his father and ancestors. His grandfather noticed his missing pinky finger and began asking about the trouble he had encountered in the Southern Region.

• Yang Jianghu arrived at the Yang Family estate, where the disciples recognized him as the Third Young Master and Chen Lin escorted him inside.
• Yang Jianghu greeted his father, Yang Fengyuan, and asked him to send several late Spirit Transformation cultivators to handle something.
• Yang Jianghu left after teasing Yang Fengyuan and went to meet his grandfather and the Yang Family's ancestors in their hidden paradise.
• Yang Guangcheng praised Yang Jianghu's Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivation, then noticed his missing pinky finger and questioned him about trouble in the Southern Region.
• Yang Guangcheng said changes had recently occurred in the Southern Region and examined Yang Jianghu's injured hand, leaving Yang Jianghu wondering how his grandfather knew where he had been.

Yang Guangcheng used a willow branch carrying Zhang Fan’s aura to destroy the Nameless Mountains, then investigated the strange powers at work in the Southern Region. His attempt to pursue the survivors was intercepted by the Heavenly Unity Sacred Sect, leaving Song Li and his companions unaware of the clash.

• Yang Jianghu gave Yang Guangcheng a willow branch from the Nameless Mountains, and Yang Guangcheng traced the array markings on it before sending his power through it.
• Yang Guangcheng’s attack crossed the regions and flattened the Nameless Mountains, while Song Li, Ye Ming, and Xiao Yiyi remained in Cloud City.
• Zhang Fan sensed the disturbance while cultivating at Jadefeather Sect and vowed to become stronger and bring Xiao Yiyi back, then returned to his assigned work.
• Yang Guangcheng told Xiaoxi that the mountain range had been destroyed but admitted he had not killed its sect master, and he discussed the Southern Region’s unusual energy and hidden barrier with the Supreme Elders.
• Yang Guangcheng sent a water droplet toward the Southern Region, but the Third Ancestor of the Heavenly Unity Sacred Sect intercepted it and accused the Yang Family of trespassing through the sect’s airspace.

Yang Jianghu returned to the Yang Family, received resources, and began cultivating a mysterious Qi Refining Formula using a severed finger as his guide. Meanwhile, Song Li, Ye Ming, and Xiao Yiyi left Cloud City for the Great Forest Empire’s imperial capital, where their journey continued.

• Yang Guangcheng and the Third Ancestor of the Heavenly Unity Sacred Sect left to fight in a deserted place, while the Fifth Ancestor welcomed Yang Jianghu back and arranged a protector and cultivation resources for him.
• Yang Jianghu collected his resources and returned to his courtyard, where Yang Jiangming mocked him and challenged his claim to the Divine Son position.
• Yang Jianghu examined the mysterious severed finger, decided to cultivate the Primordial Qi Refining Formula, and found his first attempt unusually smooth.
• Song Li, Ye Ming, and Xiao Yiyi left Cloud City because Song Li could no longer gain experience there.
• Ye Ming chose the Great Forest Empire’s imperial capital as their next destination, and Song Li eagerly asked about the city and their master.

Gu Yuan bestowed the Grand Qi Refining Formula on Yang Jianghu, who began spreading it throughout the Yang Family and its affiliated forces. As the technique gained popularity, rumors and disputes arose over who could cultivate it.

• After weighing his options, Gu Yuan chose Yang Jianghu as the recipient of the Grand Qi Refining Formula.
• A divine manifestation appeared before Yang Jianghu, and Gu Yuan transmitted the Grand Qi Refining Formula into his mind through the little finger.
• Yang Jianghu copied the formula onto a jade slip and ordered a guard to make it an introductory cultivation technique for the Yang Family and its affiliated forces.
• The Yang Family Patriarch allowed Yang Jianghu to promote the formula, while a rumor spread that it came from a Void Shattering secret realm.
• People across the Yang Family and its affiliated forces sought to learn the formula, and Divine Son Peak's guards protected outsiders from disciples trying to stop them.

Major powers failed to uncover the Yang Spirit Qi Refining Formula’s secrets while Yang Jianghu worried about the price of his opportunity. Meanwhile, Song Li and his companions reached the Great Lin Capital and entered the Imperial Capital Arena to register for a fight.

• The Heavenly Unity Sacred Sect and other major powers sent agents to obtain the Yang Spirit Qi Refining Formula, but none could learn or record it.
• Yang Jianghu felt his bottleneck loosen as he cultivated the formula, then resolved to stay cautious because he still had to defy the heavens and strike down the Heavenly Dao.
• Ye Ming, Song Li, and their companion arrived at the Great Lin Capital, where Ye Ming learned that a woman riding past them was Princess Pingyun.
• Ye Ming led the group to an inn for the night, then took them to the Imperial Capital Arena the next day.
• Song Li registered to fight at the Nascent Soul Early Stage and paid the required spirit stones.

Song Li challenged Nascent Soul cultivators in the Imperial Capital Arena and defeated Lin Peng, turning into a sensation. After he finally lost a later match, an old man from the Lin Family proposed that he marry Princess Pingyun.

• Song Li of the Nameless Sect entered the arena to challenge a Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator, and Lin Peng appeared to face him.
• Song Li unleashed sword intent and fought Lin Peng evenly before Lin Peng conceded after Song Li nearly struck him through the collar.
• Lin Peng declined to act against Song Li and arranged for others to test his strength as news of the fight spread through the capital.
• Over the next two days, Song Li's arena matches drew packed crowds, and he eventually lost without being injured.
• An old man invited Song Li to become the Lin Family's son-in-law and meet Princess Pingyun, leaving Ye Ming and Xiao Yiyi stunned.

Yang Jianghu spread the Qi Refining Formula through jade slips and Enlightenment Steles across the four regions, while Ye Ming and Song Li escaped the imperial capital amid the resulting chaos. As Gu Yuan reached the initial stage of Spirit Transformation, the Heavenly Unity Sacred Sect grew suspicious of the Yang Family’s techniques and ordered its forces not to cultivate them.

• Ye Ming searched the system for a way to escape the imperial capital, while Song Li refused to remain there as an imperial son-in-law.
• Yang Jianghu created four Enlightenment Steles and multiple jade slips containing the Qi Refining Formula, then sent them across the regions and to other factions.
• Enlightenment Steles fell in the Eastern, Western, and Northern Regions, provoking upheaval, worship, and a halt to a sect tournament.
• A stele crashed into the imperial palace, distracting the soldiers and allowing Ye Ming to lead Song Li and Xiao Yiyi out of the capital toward the Central Region.
• Gu Yuan reached the initial stage of Spirit Transformation but found that his new ability had not appeared, while the Qi Refining Formula spread across the world.
• The Heavenly Unity Sacred Sect's sect master connected the distributed jade slips to the falling steles and ordered his sect and its affiliated forces not to cultivate the techniques.

The Yang Family’s ancestors sensed that a change in the heavens was coming, while Yang Jianghu ordered his people to watch for abnormalities and keep cultivating. At the same time, Song Li and Ye Ming felt the heavens shifting, and people in the modern world began receiving closed beta access and helmets for Cultivation World Chronicle.

• Yang Guangcheng bragged about his recent battle before the ancestors warned that the Five Great Regions felt strange and the First Ancestor predicted a change in the heavens.
• Gu Yuan considered how the Heavenly Dao might act and broke through to the middle stage of Spirit Transformation, while the First Ancestor privately worried that heaven no longer favored the Yang Family.
• Yang Jianghu connected the warning to the Heavenly Dao abnormality tied to the Qi Refining Formula and ordered his subordinates to watch every region and keep cultivating.
• Song Li sensed that the heavens were changing as he traveled with Ye Ming toward the Central Region, and Ye Ming vowed to protect his family.
• A man in a modern city received closed beta access to Cultivation World Chronicle, was delivered a holographic game helmet, and prepared to launch the game.
• Qin Yuan obtained closed beta access after helping an old man cross the street, then received a knock at his door.

A player named What Should I Name Myself? entered the Cultivation World Chronicle, received a basic cultivation method and a quest to slay people demonized by the Outer Realm, and headed toward a nearby city. Yang Jianghu’s intelligence network detected strange new Qi Refinement cultivators, while Gu Yuan recognized one as a player and suspected the Heavenly Dao had brought players from a technological world to oppose him.

• What Should I Name Myself? appeared in the Central Region, chose his nickname by accident, and used the Heavenly Dao Method to reach the initial stage of Qi Refinement.
• What Should I Name Myself? learned that he had to kill people demonized by the Outer Realm to gain cultivation points and set off toward the nearest city.
• A guard told Yang Jianghu that unfamiliar initial-stage Qi Refinement cultivators were behaving strangely, and Gu Yuan suspected they were transmigrators.
• Gu Yuan spotted a player called So That's How You Name Yourself? in the Eastern Region and identified him through his player status.
• Gu Yuan concluded that the Heavenly Dao had brought players from a technological world, possibly to fight against him.

New players entered the cultivation world and quickly learned that reckless actions could get them killed, while local powers investigated the mysterious arrivals. What Should I Name Myself? tried to stay unnoticed in Border South City but was caught in a shakedown before a group of strangers intervened.

• So That's How You Name Yourself? tried to kill an untrained man in the street, but a soldier killed him under the City Lord's martial law order.
• A player held captive in the Heavenly Unity Sacred Sect's dungeon died during an interrogation, leaving his torturer stunned.
• Players discussed the game's realism and their deaths on the Cultivation World Chronicles Forum.
• What Should I Name Myself? quietly gathered information by drinking tea in Border South City and resolved to become the top player.
• A middle-aged man accused What Should I Name Myself? of bumping his chair and demanded spirit stones, but a sword-browed young man stood up to defend him.

Song Li rescued What Name Should I Choose? from a bully in a teahouse, and the group agreed to travel together after he claimed to come from the South Region. Gu Yuan gave him a cultivation technique and discovered that the player’s system was small, while What Name Should I Choose? received a warning that an extraterrestrial heavenly demon was attacking him.

• Song Li severed the burly middle-aged man’s arm with a flying cup fragment after learning he was harassing others, revealing that Song Li had reached the early Golden Core stage.
• What Name Should I Choose? followed Song Li outside and fabricated a South Region identity, claiming he came from Cloudrise City.
• Ye Ming recognized that Cloudrise City did not exist on his map and concluded that What Name Should I Choose? had ulterior motives, then welcomed him along as a potential tool.
• Gu Yuan appeared and placed the Great Dao Qi Refining Formula in What Name Should I Choose?’s mind, triggering a game-system warning about an extraterrestrial heavenly demon attack.
• Gu Yuan inspected What Name Should I Choose?’s system and wondered whether he could access the player’s perspective after the player returned to his main body.

After logging out, Qin Yuan discovered that he had brought the Great Dao Qi Refining Formula into reality and concluded that the game system might be an outer-realm heavenly demon. He decided to cultivate, then checked the forums, where players were already speculating that a system-holder was using them as leeks.

• What Should I Name Myself? logged out, and Gu Yuan observed Qin Yuan awaken in his urban-world room.
• Qin Yuan discovered the Great Dao Qi Refining Formula in his mind and feared the game world had exposed his world to outer-realm heavenly demons.
• Gu Yuan found no trace of the Heavenly Dao's influence on Qin Yuan and wondered whether the cultivation world's Heavenly Dao had suppressed the urban world's Heavenly Dao.
• Qin Yuan reasoned that the Heavenly Dao might be righteous while the game system was the heavenly demon, then decided to cultivate.
• Qin Yuan opened the game forums and saw players discussing whether a system-holder was using them to grow stronger before posting, “Heh, you're all wrong.”

Gu Yuan discovered that his new Grace ability could accelerate the cultivation of Qi Refining Formula inheritors, while Qin Yuan reached early Qi Refining and traveled with Song Li and the others. Players formed a guild and rankings appeared, as the Heavenly Unity Sacred Sect investigated a player whose cultivation rose after killing someone.

• Gu Yuan used Grace to accelerate Qin Yuan's cultivation, helping him reach early Qi Refining overnight.
• Qin Yuan met Song Li and the others, while players in a South Region beginner village formed the Demon-Slaying Hall under Does Data Look Cool.
• A system notification unlocked the rankings, with Newbie, Don't Hit Me in first place and Qin Yuan ranked twenty-first.
• Gu Yuan noticed that the rankings reflected assigned cultivation realms and considered how Qin Yuan could use the discrepancy to his advantage.
• At the Heavenly Unity Sacred Sect, a player demonstrated to the Sacred Master that killing someone raised his cultivation, prompting the sect to investigate his claim that Qi Refining Formula cultivators were evil demons.

Newbie, Don't Hit Me impressed the Sacred Lord by killing Yang Family cultivators and was appointed head of a new enforcement hall, while the Sacred Lord secretly planned to use him against the Yang Family. Meanwhile, Yang Jianghu considered letting the strange outsiders cultivate, and Qin Yuan parted ways with Song Li and Ye Ming to travel independently.

• The Sacred Lord summoned five more people cultivating Yang Family techniques and ordered Newbie, Don't Hit Me to kill them.
• Newbie, Don't Hit Me killed all five, advanced to the late Qi Refining stage, and received a server-wide announcement for being the first to reach it.
• The Sacred Lord appointed Newbie, Don't Hit Me Hall Master of the Demon-Slaying Enforcement Hall and assigned him powerful cultivators, intending to use him to trouble the Yang Family.
• Yang Jianghu reviewed reports about cultivation bans and the strange outsiders, then arranged to have them try cultivating.
• Qin Yuan told Ye Ming and Song Li that he was leaving, and Song Li gave him travel expenses and invited him to seek help in the future.

Qin Yuan used his new wealth to begin cultivating, while player groups hunted people they identified as Heavenly Demons. After the Demon-Slaying Hall killed Old Wang’s son, Old Wang vowed revenge, and Newbie, Don't Hit Me continued expanding his power and climbing the rankings.

• Qin Yuan found more than ten thousand spirit stones in his storage ring, entered a cultivation chamber, and received Gu Yuan’s blessing.
• The Demon-Slaying Hall attacked a mountain village and killed Old Wang’s son, whom they mistook for a Heavenly Demon Bewitcher.
• Old Wang confronted Does Data Look Cool, was hurled away by spiritual energy, and resolved to avenge his son.
• Does Data Look Cool checked the rankings and saw that Newbie, Don't Hit Me had reached the great completion of Qi Refining.
• Newbie, Don't Hit Me used his authority at the Heavenly Unity Sacred Sect to arrest people marked as cultivators of Heavenly Demon techniques and planned to hunt for more experience in affiliated factions or other regions.

Qin Yuan learned the Grand Qi Refining Formula and posted it on the forum, sparking a divide between players who favored traditional cultivation and those who followed the game’s rules. As players arranged a duel at New Basin, Newbie, Don't Hit Me led powerful cultivators there.

• Newbie, Don't Hit Me used the Heavenly Unity Sacred Sect’s forces to attack suspected Heavenly Demon Bewitchers at an affiliated sect and advanced to Foundation Establishment Early Stage.
• Qin Yuan received the Grand Qi Refining Formula in the urban world and realized it could help people cultivate outside the game.
• Qin Yuan posted the formula on the forum, and players began testing it and reporting that it worked.
• The forum split into factions arguing over traditional cultivation versus gaining cultivation by killing monsters, while Gu Yuan reached Spirit Transformation Great Perfection.
• Two players challenged each other to a duel at New Basin in the South Region, and Newbie, Don't Hit Me led a group of powerful cultivators there.

Yang Jianghu learned that the players revived and grew stronger by killing cultivators of the Yang Family’s techniques, while the Central Region’s powers considered how to handle them. Song Li and Ye Ming encountered a player being sought by the Yang Family, then headed to a pill pavilion as Ye Ming continued plotting against his senior brother.

• An elder told Yang Jianghu that captured players could revive and gain cultivation by killing people who practiced the Yang Family’s techniques, and Yang Jianghu decided to invite one to speak with him.
• The Heavenly Unity Sacred Lord ordered his elder to let Zhang Mengxin grow stronger and recruit for the sect, while considering the limits of the players’ revival.
• Song Li and Ye Ming discussed how strange the Central Region had become as soldiers searched for people and the Hidden Slaughter Hall remained absent.
• A Spirit Transformation cultivator invited a player to come with him, but the player ran and was killed with a single slap.
• Song Li judged that the Yang Family was no good, while Ye Ming diverted him by suggesting they visit a renowned pill shop, and the three went to the pill pavilion.

I'll Show a Move visited the Yang Family, where Yang Jianghu tried to recruit him and the system identified the Divine Son as a Heavenly Demon. After repeated deaths and lost cultivation, I'll Show a Move abandoned the quest and agreed to join the Yang Family.

• I'll Show a Move followed a Spirit Transformation cultivator to the Yang Family's ancestral grounds and found that its members all had red markers.
• Yang Jianghu offered I'll Show a Move a place in the Yang Family, triggering a system warning and a quest to kill the Divine Son.
• I'll Show a Move insulted Yang Jianghu, then died and resurrected in a newbie village in the Eastern Region.
• Yang Jianghu targeted the newbie village with a devastating strike, killing I'll Show a Move and destroying the village; repeated deaths reduced his cultivation to initial-stage Qi Refinement.
• I'll Show a Move blocked the quest and shouted that he agreed to join the Yang Family.