Chapter Summaries

Jiang Chen refined spiritual treasures into Origin Qi, then focused on comprehending the six mandatory spells of the Primordial Unity True Explanation. As he cultivated, he formed his first jade tower, while people waiting to connect with him grew impatient.

• Jiang Chen gathered six wisps of Origin Qi and decided to prioritize comprehending spells and advancing his realm over producing more.
• Jiang Chen studied the Clear-Sight Eye, Obscuring Immortal Robe, Rising Dragon Intent, Dustfall Curse, Pure Spirit Radiance, and Turbid Balefire.
• Jiang Chen first comprehended Turbid Balefire, then formed Pure Spirit Radiance and learned how the six spells governed the transformations of qi.
• Jiang Chen's Dao foundation trembled as his comprehension deepened, and he condensed one level of jade tower.
• Several figures in a cave abode lamented that Jiang Chen had entered deep seclusion and ignored their attempts to establish a connection.

After a year in seclusion, Jiang Chen emerged having reached the Fourfold Jade Tower and forged a flawless Dao Foundation. He planned to visit Daoist Yuangang and update his status with Seeking Dao Peak to claim the treasure granted to disciples who forged a Dao Foundation.

• Jiang Chen ended his year-long seclusion at Pinewave Cliff after reaching the Fourfold Jade Tower.
• Red Jade congratulated Jiang Chen and reported that nothing major had happened, though he had received invitations from several disciple factions.
• Jiang Chen reassured Red Jade that his flawless Dao Foundation left him unthreatened by conflicts at the Dao Foundation level.
• Jiang Chen set out for Qi-Severing Island to visit Daoist Yuangang and for Seeking Dao Peak to update his information and claim his Dao Foundation reward.

Jiang Chen visited Qi-Severing Island after forging a flawless Dao Foundation, and Daoist Yuangang welcomed him and praised his achievement. Daoist Yuangang advised him on becoming a true disciple, offered access to his library pavilion, and pointed him toward a Primordial Unity Banner as a possible sect reward.

• Jiang Chen entered Qi-Severing Island and observed its rich spiritual energy, harsh terrain, and hidden treasures.
• Cang Shui received Jiang Chen and led him through the island to an underground lake and water manor.
• Daoist Yuangang examined Jiang Chen and praised him for forming a flawless Dao Foundation.
• Jiang Chen thanked Daoist Yuangang, then said he planned to cultivate, forge the Twelve-Storied Tower, seek the Purple Mansion, and pursue true disciple status.
• Daoist Yuangang advised Jiang Chen to accumulate merit and invited him to study Daoist texts in the library pavilion on Jade-Green Mountain.
• Daoist Yuangang sent Jiang Chen away and told him he could choose a Primordial Unity Banner from the sect treasury as a protective treasure.

Jiang Chen achieved a flawless Dao foundation, causing a pillar of light to rise over Seeking Dao Peak and drawing attention across the Impermanence Sect. He received his sect rewards and left Truth-Keeping Hall equipped with several treasures.

• Jiang Chen’s spiritual radiance shattered the nine-zhang boundary and formed a pillar of light, revealing his flawless Dao foundation to the sect.
• The Impermanence Sect’s upper echelon noted the new prodigy and connected the emergence of several geniuses to changes in the world’s fortune.
• An illusory jade tome granted Jiang Chen a protective treasure artifact, a third-grade spiritual item, a strand of Life-Suspending Thread, and a Second-Transformation Three-Treasure Golden Elixir.
• Jiang Chen chose the Primordial Unity Banner and the Baleful Soul Pearl, then received all four rewards from the sect’s treasure vault.
• The old man congratulated Jiang Chen and gave him sect robes, an identity token, and the Grand Void Mirror; Jiang Chen thanked him and left Truth-Keeping Hall.

After Jiang Chen forged a flawless Dao Foundation, his reputation spread throughout the Impermanence Sect, drawing the attention of rivals and potential followers. He returned to Jade-Green Mountain, organized his companions, and explored the Grand Void Mirror’s mysterious virtual realm.

• Jiang Chen emerged from Truth-Keeping Hall with a flawless Dao Foundation, and the cultivators of the Impermanence Sect praised and envied him.
• Profound Flood Dragon learned of Jiang Chen’s achievement but resolved to pursue Daoist Yuangang’s inheritance and meet his junior brother.
• Disciples competing for core disciple positions began to regard Jiang Chen as a future threat.
• Jiang Chen ordered Red Jade, Ruthless Nun, Azure Flower Empress, Wang Yuan, and the others to gather information and screen people who might seek them out.
• Jiang Chen entered the Grand Void Mirror, discovered its vast gray-mist realm and sect functions, and wondered if it had been created through the Grand Void Formless Reversal Scripture.

Jiang Chen explored the Grand Void Illusory Realm’s trading district, learned how its replicated treasures and private exchanges worked, and bought pills for Dao Foundation cultivators. Back at Jade-Green Mountain, he studied the Taihua Heaven-Supporting Secret Register as a new round of weightier calling cards arrived.

• Jiang Chen visited the Grand Void Illusory Realm’s free trading district, where a stall owner explained that the Grand Void Mirror replicated items through the sect’s Myriad Forms Imitation divine ability.
• Jiang Chen browsed the district, bought several bottles of pills, and learned that spirit stones were used for private trades while merit was required for exchanges with the sect.
• Jiang Chen returned to reality and found the pills in his Grand Void Mirror’s storage space, then considered the mirror’s uses and the limits of its trading privacy.
• Jiang Chen reflected on his cultivation priorities and began comprehending the Taihua Heaven-Supporting Secret Register, sinking into its body-forging mysteries.
• A new round of calling cards arrived at Jade-Green Mountain, including requests from Impermanence Sect disciples and smaller families seeking ties with Jiang Chen.

Ge Ziling learned that Jiang Chen had entered seclusion again, killed Chunlan for dismissing his flawless Dao Foundation, and decided to visit him herself. Jiang Chen used the Spirit Lord to comprehend the Taihua Heaven-Supporting Secret Register and realized that its cultivation depended on harnessing the secret realm’s power.

• Ge Ziling asked Chunlan about Jade-Green Mountain’s response and learned that Jiang Chen had entered seclusion again.
• Chunlan disparaged Jiang Chen’s flawless Dao Foundation, so Ge Ziling scolded her and burned her to ashes with Unquenchable Spirit Butterflies.
• Ge Ziling decided to visit Jiang Chen and win him over for the Ge Clan.
• Jiang Chen struggled to comprehend the Taihua Heaven-Supporting Secret Register, then tried studying it through the Spirit Lord.
• Jiang Chen realized that the secret art required the power of heaven and earth, and considered relying on the secret realm to cultivate it.

Jiang Chen used the Five Mountains Boulder Pestle to establish the Green Mountain in the Hundred Fruit Garden Secret Realm, then joined it with the spirit palace to create a faint Xuanhuang qi. He left with plans to strengthen himself and the secret realm, while Taoyao began to affect the bound spirit veins.

• Jiang Chen suppressed the secret realm’s earth-energy flood serpent with the Five Mountains Boulder Pestle, forming the Green Mountain as a root for the heavenly pillar.
• Jiang Chen moved the spirit palace into the central heavens, where the Green Mountain’s support allowed it to settle and the two began resonating.
• Jiang Chen discovered that the union of the Green Mountain and spirit palace produced a small amount of Xuanhuang qi and considered how to develop the secret realm into a Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.
• Jiang Chen resolved to pursue true disciple status, temper his divine soul with the Baleful Soul Pearl, and investigate whether the Spirit Lord could follow the divine path.
• After Jiang Chen left, the Spirit Lord’s cultivation nourished the secret realm, and Taoyao’s three bound spirit veins showed signs of merging.

Jiang Chen studied ancient qi refining texts in Yuan Gang’s library before meeting Ge Ziling, who offered him a spatial stone and discussed cultivation with him. Their meeting established a friendly connection and revealed how the Ge Clan had learned of his origins in the Nanjing Kingdom.

• Jiang Chen found nine ancient qi refining texts in Yuan Gang’s collection and considered why the methods had become difficult to practice in the present age.
• Jiang Chen received Red Jade’s message that Ge Ziling had come to visit and learned she was a prominent inner disciple of the Impermanence Sect.
• Ge Ziling presented Jiang Chen with a spatial stone, which she had specifically acquired after hearing he was collecting spatial treasures.
• Jiang Chen and Ge Ziling discussed Daoist arts, and Jiang Chen shared insights about divine soul cultivation that benefited her.
• Ge Ziling left after offering her friendship, and Jiang Chen realized the Ge Clan knew his Nanjing Kingdom origins because its sphere of influence covered the kingdom.

Jiang Chen stirred a hidden mystery on Jade-Green Mountain while drawing on ancient cultivation principles, prompting Daoist Yuangang to reconsider making him his heir. Meanwhile, Wu Jun'an formed a high-grade Dao Foundation, but comparisons with Jiang Chen left him displeased.

• Jiang Chen tried using ancient qi-refining principles to nourish his spirit, and a vast emerald mist sea engulfed Jade-Green Mountain as he sensed a whale's cry.
• Daoist Yuangang realized Jiang Chen had glimpsed a hidden secret behind his methods and considered whether the young cultivator might inherit his legacy.
• Wu Jun'an broke through to the Dao Foundation in a spectacular display, forming a high-grade foundation and earning praise from the disciples who gathered.
• Disciples compared Wu Jun'an with Jiang Chen and remarked that Jiang Chen's flawless Dao Foundation overshadowed him, causing Wu Jun'an's expression to darken.

Jiang Chen used the Baleful Soul Pearl to break through to the third stage of the divine soul path, forming a Yin Spirit that could leave his body. As he began healing his injured soul, Wu Jun'an continued pressuring him to accept a duel by spreading rumors that Jiang Chen feared defeat.

• Jiang Chen refined the Baleful Soul Pearl and endured its backlash, using Soul-Shocking Profound Sound Lightning and the power of water and fire to temper his divine soul.
• Jiang Chen broke through to the third stage, forming a Yin Spirit, and discovered that it could overpower Dao Foundation cultivators.
• The Demon Ape reacted to Jiang Chen's breakthrough, but Jiang Chen used his Yin Spirit to seize the Heart Mirror and subdue the agitated Heart Ape.
• Jiang Chen reflected that his strengthened divine soul had intensified his desires, then took pills and practiced the Kan-Li Soul Tempering Art to heal his injuries.
• Wu Jun'an learned that Jade-Green Mountain had refused his third battle invitation because Jiang Chen was in seclusion.
• Wu Jun'an ordered his followers to keep issuing challenges and spread rumors that Jiang Chen feared fighting him.

After recovering from his divine soul injuries, Jiang Chen accepted Wu Jun'an's challenge, intending to demonstrate his strength as he pursued the position of true disciple. Wu Jun'an prepared to fight with backing from Profound Flood Dragon, whose real aim was to ruin Jiang Chen's cultivation.

• Jiang Chen healed his divine soul, advanced his mind mirror, and fully mastered Turbid Balefire.
• Red Jade told Jiang Chen about Wu Jun'an's challenge, treasure physique, spirit eyes, and suspected mind-disrupting abilities.
• Jiang Chen accepted Wu Jun'an's duel, drawing the attention of disciples and elders across the Impermanence Sect.
• Ge Ziling learned that Jiang Chen had accepted and warned herself that others might be supporting Wu Jun'an.
• Wu Jun'an assured Profound Flood Dragon that his spirit eyes would help him defeat Jiang Chen, while Profound Flood Dragon revealed that he wanted Wu Jun'an to ruin Jiang Chen's cultivation.

Jiang Chen and Wu Jun'an faced off in a demonstration match, where Wu Jun'an tried to defeat Jiang Chen by invading his mind with Soul Disruption. Jiang Chen's Demon Ape crushed Wu Jun'an's secret art, leaving Wu Jun'an collapsed and the spectators stunned.

• Jiang Chen and Wu Jun'an arrived at A-Class Demonstration Island for their duel, which True Person Nian He presided over.
• Wu Jun'an activated Illusion Sea and used Soul Disruption to invade Jiang Chen's mind.
• Wu Jun'an's bright-moon secret art encountered a Demon Ape in Jiang Chen's sea of consciousness, and Jiang Chen controlled it to crush the moon.
• Wu Jun'an screamed as Illusion Sea shattered, then collapsed bleeding from all seven orifices while Jiang Chen remained unharmed.
• The spectators fell silent and looked at Jiang Chen with disbelief and awe.

Jiang Chen defeated Wu Jun'an in a spell duel, revealing the strength of his inborn aberrant soul and raising his standing within the Impermanence Sect. After learning how Jiang Chen won, Profound Flood Dragon grew concerned about facing him.

• Jiang Chen defeated Wu Jun'an in a spell duel, and True Person Nian He carried the unconscious Wu Jun'an away for treatment.
• The observing disciples realized how far Jiang Chen surpassed them, and news of his victory spread through the Impermanence Sect.
• Sect Master Yun Wuya recognized Jiang Chen's powerful divine soul and sent a message to prepare for his future cultivation.
• Profound Flood Dragon worried that Jiang Chen could threaten him and went to question the recovering Wu Jun'an.
• Wu Jun'an told Profound Flood Dragon that Jiang Chen had an inborn aberrant soul and a method for tempering his mind.

After defeating Wu Jun'an, Jiang Chen used the soul seed he had preserved to probe Wu Jun'an's memories, uncovering the Mind-Ravaging Art and clues linking him to the Divine Dao. He suspected Profound Flood Dragon was also acting against him and resolved to study the secret art.

• Profound Flood Dragon gave the injured Wu Jun'an a Heart-Nourishing Pill and assigned him further work, while Wu Jun'an privately recognized Jiang Chen's rare inborn anomalous soul and began keeping a low profile.
• Jiang Chen examined the waning-moon soul seed sealed in his Heart Mirror and used Heaven-Mirroring Soul Capture to draw Wu Jun'an into a dreamlike state.
• Jiang Chen awakened memories associated with the soul seed and glimpsed Wu Jun'an's Mind-Ravaging Art before returning Wu Jun'an's consciousness without alerting him.
• Jiang Chen concluded that Wu Jun'an's art was closer to the Divine Dao and that Wu Jun'an had attacked him over fame and cultivation prospects.
• Jiang Chen considered Profound Flood Dragon's role in Wu Jun'an's breakthrough, suspected their interests conflicted, and decided to study the Mind-Ravaging Art.

Jiang Chen mastered the Mind-Ravaging Art and used Wu Jun'an’s own soul seed to secretly plant a hidden seed in his mind. As the seed began influencing Wu Jun'an, Jiang Chen sensed something in the Hundred Fruit Garden Secret Realm.

• Jiang Chen mastered the Mind-Ravaging Art and planned to use Wu Jun'an as a test subject.
• Jiang Chen altered Wu Jun'an’s incomplete soul seed and planned to conceal his control with the Soul Bewitchment Art.
• Wu Jun'an dreamed of gaining a great opportunity, then woke feeling that his mental injuries had mostly healed.
• Wu Jun'an began contemplating seizing Profound Flood Dragon’s opportunity, while Jiang Chen’s hidden soul seed quietly shifted his attention away from Jiang Chen.
• Jiang Chen observed that the seed had taken root and believed his own soul seed would be difficult to detect, then sensed something in the Hundred Fruit Garden Secret Realm.

Taoyao broke through to the Dao Foundation Realm and gained the domain-type innate ability All Things Flourish, which transformed the Hundred Fruit Garden Secret Realm. Jiang Chen realized Taoyao had formed a spiritual embryo that could develop into a third-rank spiritual vein and decided to seek Rootless Wood to refine a Money Tree.

• Jiang Chen sealed the Hundred Fruit Garden Secret Realm while Taoyao drew on its accumulated power to break through to the Dao Foundation Realm.
• Taoyao forged a flawless Dao Foundation and released emerald radiance that accelerated growth and stirred the Mist Flood Dragon’s bloodline.
• Taoyao’s All Things Flourish ability merged three spiritual veins into a cloud-white spiritual embryo and caused spiritual stones to form.
• Jiang Chen concluded that the spiritual embryo could develop into a third-rank spiritual vein and planned to use a Money Tree to nurture it.
• Jiang Chen considered offering a reward through the Grand Void Mirror to find Rootless Wood, and Taoyao offered him one of its branches.

Jiang Chen studied the history of the Divine Dao in Unknowing Study and learned how its conflict with the Immortal Dao led to the God-Slaying War. He decided to begin cultivating the Divine Dao through the Spirit Lord, using the Peaceful Dao Alliance and the Hundred Fruit Garden Secret Realm to gather incense offerings.

• Jiang Chen visited Unknowing Study to search for information about the Divine Dao and paid a thousand spirit stones for imprints of several books.
• Jiang Chen learned that the Divine Dao's practice of herding living beings altered their spirituality and reduced the spiritual treasures needed for Immortal Dao cultivation, sparking the God-Slaying War.
• Jiang Chen concluded that the Immortal and Divine paths could not coexist, and surmised that the Mountain Yue People's Spring God had fallen in that conflict.
• Jiang Chen decided the Spirit Lord should begin cultivating the Divine Dao, since the Spirit Lord's essence and existing resources suited that path.
• Jiang Chen planned to use the Peaceful Dao Alliance as an initial source of incense offerings and the Hundred Fruit Garden Secret Realm as a more concealed supplement.

Jiang Chen comprehended the Azure Sun Nurturing Talisman and formed a divine talisman within the Spirit Lord, setting him on the divine path. He discovered that beasts could produce incense vapor and used his new divine authority to begin nurturing the spirit monkey and Clearwind Crane clans.

• Jiang Chen entered the Spirit Lord's body and comprehended the Azure Sun Nurturing Talisman through the Spring God statue.
• Jiang Chen condensed a divine talisman, transforming the Spirit Lord's soul and body and earning the submission of beasts in the Hundred Fruit Garden Secret Realm.
• Jiang Chen observed the incense vapor produced by the Clearwind Cranes and spirit monkeys and considered making beasts his believers.
• Jiang Chen used the Beast-Gathering Art, Bird-Tuning Art, and his divine authority to shine the azure sun on the spirit monkeys and Clearwind Cranes, stirring their bloodlines.
• Jiang Chen withdrew his divine power as strange sounds echoed through the mountains and wilderness of the Hundred-Fruit Garden.

Hermit Fuling received Jiang Chen’s guidance and began establishing an incense altar for the Peaceful Dao Alliance, strengthening Jiang Chen’s Divine Path cultivation from afar. While examining the Spring God statue, Jiang Chen discovered it had begun to revive and contained the Spring Thunder Divine Talisman.

• Hermit Fuling woke from a vision of Jiang Chen and sensed a new force within his body.
• Hermit Fuling recognized that Jiang Chen had left him in the Nanjing Kingdom to build the Divine Path and set out to establish an incense altar.
• The Peaceful Dao Alliance’s faith in Peaceful Daoist grew, and Jiang Chen sensed the rising incense offerings from the Impermanence Sect.
• Jiang Chen drew on Divine Path power to speed up his refinement of the Hundred Fruit Garden Secret Realm and examined his divine register.
• Jiang Chen found that the incense-nurtured Spring God statue was reviving and discovered its Spring Thunder Divine Talisman.