Chapter Summaries

Yang Jianghu recruited I'll Show a Move into the Yang Family as Yang Liu, assigning him to spread the family’s cultivation techniques and kill cultivators. As the ancestors considered the possibility of another world, the First Ancestor revealed that heaven’s will no longer favored the Yang Family and urged Yang Jianghu to pursue his opportunity.

• Yang Jianghu told I'll Show a Move that he would supply targets who had cultivated the Yang Family’s techniques, renamed him Yang Liu, and tasked him with spreading the formulas for rewards.
• Yang Jianghu warned Yang Liu that the benefits could be taken back, then sent him to the dungeon with two Spirit Transformation cultivators to raise his cultivation to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.
• After killing many people, Yang Liu questioned whether the world was real, and Elder Wu replied that it had always been real.
• The Yang Family ancestors discussed reports suggesting another world might exist, and Yang Jianghu suggested the changing heavens were involved.
• The First Ancestor revealed that heaven’s will had changed and no longer favored the Yang Family, but encouraged Yang Jianghu to pursue his opportunity while the ancestors supported him.

The First Ancestor told Yang Jianghu that the world might be a cage shaped by recurring changes in heaven and earth, and urged him to follow his own path. In the urban world, Qin Yuan reached the initial stage of Golden Core and planned to imitate cultivation novels by starting a spiritual energy revival.

• The First Ancestor told Yang Jianghu that many Void Shatterers had existed and that the world might undergo great cyclical changes.
• The First Ancestor said Yang Jianghu’s path was different and urged him to gamble on the Yang Family’s future, strengthening Yang Jianghu’s resolve.
• Gu Yuan considered Song Li’s importance to the Heavenly Dao and how Lin Feng, Ye Ming, and Xiao Yiyi served as systems around him.
• After Qin Yuan’s cultivation post disappeared, he organized cultivators through private messages and guided a chat group to suspect the game system was preparing to invade their world.
• Qin Yuan broke through to the initial stage of Golden Core, opened a map, and chose a mountain peak as the site for a planned spiritual energy revival.

Qin Yuan staged a spiritual energy revival at Feng Mountain, prompting people across the Great Wind Empire to seek cultivation and strengthening him through their gains. In the game world, “Newbie, Don't Hit Me” could not log out, while Yang Liu chose to keep cultivating there.

• Qin Yuan dropped a stone stele on Feng Mountain announcing that all living beings could cultivate, and the news spread throughout the Great Wind Empire.
• Players rushed toward Feng Mountain or logged into Cultivation World Chronicle to cultivate after hearing about the stele.
• “Newbie, Don't Hit Me” reached game Golden Core and killed twenty-one players, then found he could not exit without being killed himself.
• The Heavenly Unity Sacred Sect cultivators protecting “Newbie, Don't Hit Me” refused to kill him, and their presence also prevented anyone else from doing so.
• Yang Liu learned that spiritual energy had revived in reality but decided to remain in the game, where the Yang Spirit Qi Refining Formula cultivated faster.
• Qin Yuan welcomed the growing number of cultivators whose gains flowed back to him, while Gu Yuan approved of the arrangement.

Yang Liu reported the spiritual energy revival in his world to Yang Jianghu, then concealed his ambitions as he left the Yang Family. In Qingyang City, Song Li learned that saving Ye Ming required the Spirit Origin Sacred Plant, which he could win by taking first place in the Heavenly Prodigy Battle.

• Yang Liu told Yang Jianghu that spiritual energy had revived in his world, and Yang Jianghu ordered him to investigate the players who had begun cultivating.
• Yang Liu left the Yang Family Mountain Range determined to use the Yang Family's resources to surpass other players, and he set out to kill people.
• Song Li and Xiao Yiyi watched over Ye Ming, who had lain blackened and unconscious for a month after drinking wine mixed with ground-up pills.
• A Nascent Soul physician said Ye Ming needed the Spirit Origin Sacred Plant, which Song Li could obtain by winning the Heavenly Prodigy Battle.
• Song Li told the physician to keep Ye Ming alive and vowed to compete for the treasure.

Qin Yuan watched cultivation spread through the modern world as players and factions pursued their own schemes in the Cultivation World. Gu Yuan broke through to early-stage Void Shattering, awakened Descent, and considered using it to confront the Heavenly Dao.

• People who tried to share Feng Mountain's cultivation technique online found they could not remember or write it, while netizens debated its connection to Cultivation World Chronicle.
• Qin Yuan observed the growing number of cultivators in the modern world and noted that spiritual energy remained sparse.
• Newbie, Don't Hit Me had the Holy Master of the Heavenly Unity Sacred Sect kill him, while Yang Liu killed players and learned that their cultivation methods came from the forum.
• Gu Yuan watched Zhang Fan cultivate to great-perfection Foundation Establishment before sensing that he had enough energy to break through.
• Gu Yuan reached early-stage Void Shattering and awakened Descent, an ability that let him control an inheritor's body for a limited time by spending energy.
• Gu Yuan looked toward the Heavenly Dao and considered whose body to use for his descent.

Qin Yuan used his power and knowledge to persuade the Speaker to establish the Cultivator Administration Bureau, then took the director’s post to guide cultivation and preserve order. After the bureau began operating, he reviewed the player roster and left its daily management to his deputy before preparing to return to the game.

• Qin Yuan met the Speaker in his study, and the next day the Empire created the Cultivator Administration Bureau with Qin Yuan as its director.
• Qin Yuan selected bureau candidates using his knowledge of their cultivation talent and the energy they shared with him.
• The Speaker showed councilors and department heads a video of Qin Yuan demonstrating Golden Core cultivation and explained his warning about the Extraterritorial Heavenly Demons.
• The Cultivator Administration Bureau began basic operations with personnel seconded from several imperial departments.
• Qin Yuan reviewed the player roster, told his deputy to manage the bureau and keep players on the right path, then headed to the lounge to enter the game.

The Heavenly Unity Sacred Sect tried to recruit players after failing to find Newbie, Don't Hit Me, but its brutal screening drove the applicants away. Other major powers issued similar offers, leaving players wary and reluctant to reveal themselves.

• The Sacred Master ordered a search for Newbie, Don't Hit Me, found no trace of him, and concluded that players could not be fully trusted.
• What the Hell offered to join the Heavenly Unity Sacred Sect, but the Sacred Master invaded his soul and watched it vanish when he died.
• The Sacred Master ordered the sect to recruit players with generous treatment and a Spirit Transformation protector.
• Natives who pretended to be players were executed during screening, causing the queue to disappear.
• Yang Jianghu, the Yuan Family, and other top powers issued their own recruitment edicts, but players avoided the offers and chose to investigate further.

A new closed beta announcement intensified speculation about the Heavenly Dao’s plans, while factions recruiting players saw resentment grow between their upper and lower ranks. Yang Jianghu urged Yang Liu to deepen the conflict, and Song Li learned that a major faction had sent an elder to capture him.

• The forum announced that a second closed beta would begin in ten days, with one thousand slots, though some recruits might be unable to log in.
• The Imperial Capital Cultivator Management Bureau hurried to secure more players, while direct descendants in the Yuan Family and other factions resented players receiving privileged treatment.
• Yang Jianghu told Yang Liu to provoke the newly recruited players, and Yang Liu resolved to intensify the conflict.
• Gu Yuan continued cultivating his technique as Song Li registered for the Heavenly Prodigy Battle and reached the Nascent Soul realm.
• A young man warned Song Li that a major faction had sent an elder to capture him, urging him to leave and hide.

Song Li waited for the elder sent to challenge him and discovered that the opponent was the Heavenly Unity Sacred Sect’s Sacred Son, whom he defeated badly enough to force him to flee. The Sacred Son returned to the sect and sealed himself away again.

• Song Li returned to the clinic, drank Xiao Yiyi’s spirit medicine, and waited outside for the elder who was coming after him.
• The Heavenly Unity Sacred Sect’s Sacred Son emerged from seclusion, learned that outsiders had received special privileges, and challenged the Heavenly Unity Sacred Lord’s decision without changing it.
• The Sacred Son left the sect to clear his mind and confronted Song Li in Qingyang City, attacking without warning.
• Song Li fought back with his sword, recognized the Sacred Son’s strength, and forced him to escape with a Void-Breaking Jade Pendant.
• The injured Sacred Son returned to the Heavenly Unity Sacred Sect, sealed Sacred Son Peak, and went back into seclusion.

The second internal test for Cultivation World Chronicle opened after the game’s existence was exposed online, and Heaven selected a thousand new players while excluding officials and choosing fugitives and people resentful of the world. The new players gathered at beginner villages, where Spirit Transformation cultivators prepared to invite them into the already-conflicted cultivation world.

• The Cultivator Administration tried to contain widespread online reports about Cultivation World Chronicle, but its officials found they could not block or discredit the information.
• As the second-test countdown ended, the deputy director learned that no officials had received slots.
• Gu Yuan realized Heaven had excluded officials and selected fugitives and people who resented the world, seemingly to worsen the cultivation world’s conflicts.
• The new players collected their devices and logged in, appearing at beginner-village resurrection points and testing their realistic bodies.
• Spirit Transformation cultivators hesitated to recruit the volatile newcomers, then decided to follow the Holy Lord’s orders.

Song Li killed several players and their Spirit Transformation protectors after hearing about their crimes, while the Empire Cultivator Administration discovered a player dead in the real world. The chapter ended with officials learning that a similar death had occurred on Origin Continent.

• Yang Jianghu believed the new batch of players was worsening chaos and anticipated the Battle of the Prodigies.
• Song Li told Xiao Yiyi they would return home after the Battle of the Prodigies and their Second Junior Brother woke up.
• Physician Zhang told Song Li that players were committing crimes, and Song Li killed a player and his Spirit Transformation Dao Protector at the clinic.
• Song Li went into the street and killed two more players, while the Soaring Firmament Sacred Sect discovered that two players' soul plaques had shattered.
• The deputy director of the Empire Cultivator Administration investigated a player found dead in a rented room and learned that Origin Continent had reported a similar case.

As Song Li helped Ye Ming survive, Gu Yuan observed that Song Li’s killings had caused two players to die permanently, while the Empire Cultivator Administration investigated. Song Li set out alone for the Heavenly Prodigy Battle in Five Directions City, where Yang Jianghu and the Heavenly Unity Holy Son clashed before the gathered crowd.

• The deputy director and his colleagues investigated the deaths of two players and found that both victims had been wanted criminals.
• Gu Yuan watched Song Li continue feeding Ye Ming pills and wondered whether Song Li could permanently kill players.
• Song Li left for Five Directions City alone after deciding he could not safely look after his little junior sister during the battle.
• Yang Jianghu arrived in Five Directions City, and the Heavenly Unity Holy Son coughed blood when their gazes met.
• Yang Jianghu dismissed the Heavenly Unity Holy Son’s concern, and the Holy Son responded by forcing nearby players to their knees with his pressure.

Song Li challenged Five Directions City's registration and killed a late-stage Spirit Transformation enforcer with one punch, then fought the Heavenly Unity Holy Son's guardians. The battle left the Heavenly Unity Sacred Sect in trouble while Yang Jianghu and other factions watched.

• Song Li objected to the registration queue, and a Nascent Soul Great Perfection registrar lost a hand when he tried to seize him.
• Song Li apologized to the injured man, then destroyed a hall with one punch and killed the late-stage Spirit Transformation cultivator who had threatened him.
• The Heavenly Unity Holy Son recognized Song Li and ordered his Spirit Transformation Great Perfection guardian to attack.
• Song Li drew his sword and gradually gained the advantage against the guardian, while Yang Jianghu chose to watch instead of helping.
• The Heavenly Unity Holy Son sent another guardian into the fight, and the clash devastated the surrounding buildings as other factions watched.

Song Li defeated two Spirit Transformation cultivators and met Yang Jianghu, who offered to give him a Spirit Origin Sacred Plant to save his junior brother. Song Li left believing Yang Jianghu was a good friend, while Yang Jianghu returned to the flying vessel to plan how to make the gift seem hard-won.

• Yang Jianghu investigated Song Li and learned that he was the Nameless Sect’s chief disciple, while Song Li defeated two Spirit Transformation cultivators in combat practice.
• Yang Jianghu ended the dispute, introduced himself to Song Li, and led him away from the crowd as others complained about the Yang Family.
• Song Li told Yang Jianghu that he had entered the Heavenly Prodigy Battle to win a Spirit Origin Sacred Plant for his second junior brother.
• Yang Jianghu claimed the plant was rare and unavailable through the battle, then offered to fetch one from the Yang Family’s flying vessel as a gesture of friendship.
• Song Li accepted Yang Jianghu as a friend, and Yang Jianghu returned to the flying vessel, planning to make the gift seem difficult to obtain.

After Ye Ming recovered, Song Li prepared to return to the South Region with his companions. The Heavenly Unity Sacred Sect mistakenly blamed the Nameless Sect and devastated part of the South Region, giving Yang Jianghu an opportunity to use Song Li and the players as the power struggle in Central Province intensified.

• Song Li left the Heavenly Prodigy Battle to tend to Ye Ming, while Yang Jianghu claimed the battle’s spotlight and emerged as its leading prodigy.
• Ye Ming awakened in the clinic, used his system to repair his body at the cost of all his points, and learned that Yang Jianghu had helped him.
• Song Li told Ye Ming they would rest before returning to the South Region with Xiao Yiyi.
• The Heavenly Unity Sacred Sect’s patriarchs failed to trace an aura, concluded its owner was dead, and ordered an attack on the Nameless Sect.
• The Third Patriarch’s strike devastated a basin and surrounding areas in the South Region, killing cultivators and frightening Song Li and his companions as they traveled.
• Yang Jianghu realized the Heavenly Unity Sacred Sect’s attack could cover up his own actions, then ordered Yang Liu to suppress the players and planned to use Song Li and them in the coming power struggle.

Song Li brought Ye Ming and Xiao Yiyi back to her hometown before the three continued toward the Nameless Sect. Xiao Yiyi revisited the Xiao Mansion and shared her tragic past, while Zhang Fan’s unexpected appearance left Song Li wondering about the feelings between them.

• Qin Yuan reviewed reports of players dying and decided that he needed to investigate.
• Song Li, Ye Ming, and Xiao Yiyi entered Xiao Yiyi’s hometown, where she led them to the Xiao Mansion.
• Zhang Fan appeared and Xiao Yiyi introduced him as a distant cousin, prompting Song Li to suspect he was her love rival.
• Xiao Yiyi told Song Li and Ye Ming how her parents and younger sister had died, then finished visiting the Xiao Mansion.
• Zhang Fan tried to catch up with Xiao Yiyi as the trio departed, but he could not match their speed, and Gu Yuan wondered whether the encounter would draw the Jadefeather Sect into events.
• Song Li, Ye Ming, and Xiao Yiyi set off for the Nameless Mountains, expecting to reach the Nameless Sect in a few days.

Song Li discovered that the Nameless Mountains had become a crater and believed his Master and the Heavenly Unity Sacred Sect were responsible for the destruction. He left Ye Ming and Xiao Yiyi behind and attacked the Heavenly Unity Sacred Sect, where the sect sounded its alarm.

• Song Li questioned a blind old man in a nearby city and learned that a roar about slaughter and the Heavenly Unity Sacred Sect had preceded a shockwave and the region’s devastation.
• Song Li reached the crater and recognized it as the site of the Nameless Mountains, while Ye Ming and Xiao Yiyi pretended to mourn his Master.
• Song Li vowed to avenge his Master, ignored Ye Ming and Xiao Yiyi’s pleas to wait, and flew toward the Central Region.
• Song Li struck the Heavenly Unity Sacred Sect’s formation, killed a Spirit Transformation cultivator, and declared that blood debts must be repaid in blood.
• The Heavenly Unity Sacred Sect rang its bell nine times to announce an enemy invasion.

Song Li stormed the Heavenly Unity Sacred Sect to avenge his master, breaking through repeatedly as he fought its strongest cultivators. When the Void Shattering Third Patriarch nearly killed him, Song Li escaped using a life-saving jade tablet from the Yang Family's Divine Son.

• Song Li attacked the Heavenly Unity Sacred Sect, killing ordinary disciples, and the Sacred Master trapped him and the sect's cultivators in an independent space.
• Song Li broke through to early Spirit Transformation and repeatedly comprehended new abilities while fighting the Sacred Master and the other Spirit Transformation Great Perfection cultivators.
• Song Li killed three cultivators with a single sword strike, but the Sacred Master summoned the Third Patriarch from the back mountain.
• The Third Patriarch revealed his true form and suppressed Song Li, who realized he had little chance of winning.
• Song Li's survival instinct awakened a secret technique, but he escaped the sealed space by crushing a life-saving jade tablet from the Yang Family's Divine Son.

The Heavenly Unity Sacred Sect’s Third Ancestor put Song Li on the wanted list, while the Yang Family thwarted his attack and sheltered Song Li until he recovered. Six months later, players’ conflicts with sect disciples had intensified, and Qin Yuan redirected death-row cultivators to human experiments.

• The Third Ancestor failed to trace Song Li and issued a wanted order against him; Ye Ming and Xiao Yiyi were crushed to death by a distant attack, and a blind old man also died.
• A Yang Family ancestor destroyed the Third Ancestor’s attack, and Yang Jianghu persuaded the badly injured Song Li to stay and recover before leaving.
• Over the next six months, players grouped together, advanced their cultivation, and increasingly clashed with disciples across the top forces; Song Li recovered and departed from the Yang Family.
• Qin Yuan reviewed cultivators in the Urban World and visited the Empire Cultivator Administration’s prison, where players demanded release and threatened their captors.
• After learning that several prisoners had received the death penalty, Qin Yuan ordered that they be used as Foundation Establishment human test subjects instead.

Song Li explored a forbidden ground while Gu Yuan watched him uncover ancient ruins, and the third closed beta round began in the Urban World. The Great Wind Empire learned that modern weapons were failing as the Heavenly Dao’s invasion accelerated, leaving its leaders to face a growing threat they could not yet stop.

• Song Li killed a great completion stage Spirit Transformation beast in a forbidden ground, while Gu Yuan explored nearby ancient ruins filled with remnants, manuals, and elixirs.
• The Cultivation World Chronicle opened another five thousand closed beta slots, and the third round began without selecting anyone connected to the authorities.
• Gu Yuan sensed that spiritual energy in the Urban World had increased and that the Heavenly Dao’s invasion was accelerating as Song Li progressed.
• The Speaker summoned Qin Yuan and officials from the military, security department, and Cultivator Administration Bureau to an emergency supreme meeting.
• The Speaker announced that modern weapons had begun to fail, and the meeting concluded that heavenly demons were strengthening their connection to the cultivation world while spiritual energy revived.