Chapter Summaries

Chen Lingxi discovered a new Dao-Seizing Fruit whose mysteries completed his Thorough Awakening Divine Ability and seemed tied to killing formations. Qi Chuan arrived with an Entwined-Dragon Palace summons, but Chen Lingxi rejected his authority and destroyed his Divine Will avatar in a clash.

• Chen Lingxi found a dark-gold Dao-Seizing Fruit that contained the mysteries of an unfamiliar Cauldron Vessel and completed his Essence Replenishment progress.
• Chen Lingxi sensed killing power within the fruit and suspected it held the mysteries of a Cauldron Vessel connected to killing formations.
• Qi Chuan's token and Divine Will avatar arrived at Water-Curtain Cave, ordering Chen Lingxi to report to the Commander of the Nine Palaces as an Entwined-Dragon Servant.
• Chen Lingxi explained that he had never agreed to become an Entwined-Dragon Servant, but Qi Chuan insisted that he had no right to refuse.
• Chen Lingxi confronted Qi Chuan with Thunder-Prison Heaven and the Palace-Knocking Finger, splitting his Sword Gang and destroying his avatar.

Chen Lingxi used Total Perception and the Great Luo Heaven-Observing Mirror to discover opportunities for cultivating the Heavenly-Law Edict and spent Great Luo Dark Qi to obtain a Divination Tortoise Shell. After locating Heaven-Grown Jade, he prepared to test whether he could withstand a Dao Foundation Middle Stage cultivator’s full-force strike.

• Chen Lingxi shattered Qi Chuan’s incarnation, while Qi Chuan realized his Anger-Devouring Bamboo Molt had identified Chen Lingxi as a valuable target and planned to seek more chances to provoke him.
• Chen Lingxi used Total Perception and spent eighteen hundred strands of Great Luo Dark Qi to find four opportunities related to the Heavenly-Law Edict.
• Chen Lingxi posted a mission offering twenty-four thousand strands of Great Luo Dark Qi for the Yi Turtle’s shell, then traveled to search for Heaven-Grown Jade.
• After spending another eight hundred strands to learn how to identify Heaven-Grown Jade, Chen Lingxi used a formation to locate it and received a Divination Tortoise Shell through the Great Luo Heaven-Observing Mirror.
• Chen Lingxi approached the Heaven-Grown Jade and formed a thunder prison, intending to test whether he could endure a full-force strike from a Dao Foundation Middle Stage cultivator.

Chen Lingxi refined his combat skills, studied the Yi Turtle’s carapace, and advanced toward mastering the Heavenly-Law Edict. When he visited Southern Luminary Peak to seek a pill formula, he found Daoist Qiaohe occupied with Shi Xi—and encountered Qi Chuan, who addressed him as his little martial uncle.

• Chen Lingxi tested himself against the Heaven-Grown Jade’s attendant Mystic Light, defeating it with his sword and Dragon Transformation while suffering a wound.
• He used the Great Luo Heaven-Observing Mirror to find two fortuitous opportunities for Yuan Lingyu’s cultivation of the Heavenly Calamity Law, then kept the Yi Turtle’s carapace as a treasure for study.
• After Total Perception Evolution ended, Chen Lingxi retrieved the Heaven-Grown Jade again and spent more than a month studying the carapace’s patterns, bringing him close to mastering the Heavenly-Law Edict.
• Chen Lingxi traveled to Southern Luminary Peak to seek Daoist Qiaohe’s Heaven-Sensing Spirit Medicine, but learned that Qiaohe was receiving Shi Xi and could not see him.
• Zhu Mi and Qi Chuan arrived above Southern Luminary Peak with their followers, and Qi Chuan recognized Chen Lingxi as his little martial uncle.

Qi Chuan challenged Chen Lingxi on Southern Luminary Peak, exposing his status as an Entwined-Dragon Servant and boasting of Sword-Illuminating Mystic Peak’s strength. Chen Lingxi shattered Qi Chuan’s sword curtain with his Thunder-Prison Heaven and sword abilities, then declared his sword Dao superior, while Shi Xi briefly remembered him before severing those feelings with a Great Divine Ability.

• Qi Chuan revealed that Chen Lingxi had been chosen as an Entwined-Dragon Servant, drawing the attention of cultivators across Southern Luminary Peak.
• Chen Lingxi told Qi Chuan he would visit him after reaching the Second Profound realm, and Qi Chuan answered by boasting of Sword-Illuminating Mystic Peak’s strength and displaying his sword abilities.
• Qi Chuan challenged Chen Lingxi to enter his Mangchuan Sword Curtain, while Shi Xi sensed Chen Lingxi outside Weaving Medicine Valley and recalled their past on Sun-Watching Peak.
• Shi Xi used a Great Divine Ability to erase her attachments and memories of Sun-Watching Peak, then returned her attention to the pill in the furnace.
• Chen Lingxi unleashed Thunder-Prison Heaven, the Great Prison Furnace, and Jade Tiger Sea-Reversing Sword Light, destroying Qi Chuan’s sword curtain.
• Chen Lingxi sheathed his sword and told Qi Chuan that his sword Dao was not equal to his own.

Chen Lingxi received a Heaven-Sensing Spirit Medicine from Daoist Qiaohe and used it to master the Heavenly-Law Edict. A second Profound Root emerged on his Dao Platform, bringing him closer to advancing to the Dao Foundation Middle Stage.

• Qi Chuan confronted Chen Lingxi after his Jade Tiger Sword Light broke the Mangchuan Sword Curtain, but Zhu Mi urged Qi Chuan to avoid fighting on Southern Luminary Peak, and Qi Chuan withdrew.
• Daoist Qiaohe invited Chen Lingxi into Weaving Medicine Valley and gave him a Heaven-Sensing Spirit Medicine without discussing payment.
• Chen Lingxi returned to Deer-Sleeping Peak and refined the medicine in Water-Curtain Cave, gaining insight into the Heavenly-Law Edict.
• Chen Lingxi used the edict to halt the waterfall and cultivated a second Profound Root, the Heavenly Law-Rules Profound Root, on his Dao Platform.

Chen Lingxi left Deer-Sleeping Peak to collect two Heavenly Calamity Law opportunities for Yuan Lingyu, obtaining calamity-machinery stone marrow and a Mars Reflecting the Moon Zhi. As he flew away from the second site, he sensed someone in the distant sky.

• Chen Lingxi decided to seek two opportunities for Yuan Lingyu: calamity-machinery stone marrow in Calamity-Falling Valley and a Mars Reflecting the Moon Zhi east of the Dragon-Offering Territory.
• Qi Chuan used the Eye-Origin Beast Pupil to track Chen Lingxi after he left Deer-Sleeping Peak, then sent the fragment to Lord Xiuyun, who followed its indication east.
• Chen Lingxi entered Calamity-Falling Valley, killed the Demon Beast guarding the depths with Jade Tiger Sea-Reversing Sword Light, and collected the calamity-machinery stone marrow.
• Chen Lingxi traveled east to a desolate plain and climbed the solitary mountain beneath the baleful star, where he found and collected the Mars Reflecting the Moon Zhi.
• As Chen Lingxi flew away from the star's influence, his cloud faltered and he sensed someone in the distant sky.

Lord Xiuyun of Sandalwood-Cloud Peak attacked Chen Lingxi under orders from Qi Chuan, relying on her Dao Foundation Middle Stage cultivation, two great Divine Abilities, and several Spirit Artifacts to overwhelm him. Chen Lingxi invoked his Heavenly-Law Edict to block her Heaven-Illuminating Divine Ability, then destroyed her defenses and killed her with empowered sword light.

• Lord Xiuyun revealed that Qi Chuan had asked her to kill Chen Lingxi, repaying a debt she owed him.
• Lord Xiuyun suppressed Chen Lingxi with Sea Within Qi and Heaven-Illuminating, then used the Void-Stirring Sash, Essence-Repelling Great Banner, and Flowing-Light Shuttle to drive him back and wound his hand.
• Chen Lingxi invoked his Heavenly-Law Edict, summoning clouds and mist to prevent heavenly light from reaching the battlefield and weaken Lord Xiuyun's Heaven-Illuminating.
• Chen Lingxi empowered his Jade Tiger Sea-Reversing Sword Light with the Great Prison Furnace and Void-Return Sword Tower, cutting through Lord Xiuyun's two Law Treasures.
• Chen Lingxi issued a further decree that extinguished the remaining heavenly light, and his sword light overwhelmed Lord Xiuyun's Qi Sea and killed her.

Chen Lingxi killed Lord Xiuyun and searched her belongings, discovering an unusual beast bone that resonated with his Tide-Calling Horn and a silver thread he could not refine. Meanwhile, Qi Chuan's Cauldron Vessel briefly absorbed anger from the bamboo slip but went silent before helping him break through, leaving him to suspect Lord Xiuyun had failed.

• Chen Lingxi recovered Lord Xiuyun's three fourth-grade Spirit Artifacts, her Hongdong Bag, and an Eye-Origin Beast Pupil Cauldron Artifact Fragment that had been used to track him.
• Chen Lingxi found a pale beast bone that resonated with his Tide-Calling Horn, but the two objects could not be brought together.
• Chen Lingxi sensed a hidden presence in Yinghuo Lone Mountain and discovered a silver thread, which entered his Dao Platform but resisted his attempts to refine it.
• Qi Chuan's Anger-Devouring Bamboo Molt glowed as it absorbed a wisp of anger associated with Primordial Spirit Bearer, and Qi Chuan expected Lord Xiuyun to kill his junior martial uncle.
• The bamboo slip fell silent before Qi Chuan could break through his bottleneck, so he wondered whether Lord Xiuyun had failed and sliced apart the clouds with his sword intent.

Chen Lingxi returned from his travels and gave Yuan Lingyu two rare materials to help her master Heavenly Calamity Law. Soon after, Chu Zhuo and Xu Sanchi arrived to challenge him to a sword discussion, and Xu Sanchi pressured him to stake a fortuitous opportunity that Chen Lingxi had nearly agreed to risk under the influence of Raging Tide Law.

• Chen Lingxi gave Yuan Lingyu a Mars Reflecting the Moon Zhi and Calamity-Machinery Stone Marrow to aid her cultivation of Heavenly Calamity Law.
• Yuan Lingyu entered seclusion with the two materials, while Chen Lingxi returned to Water-Curtain Cave to nourish his newly formed second Profound Root.
• Chu Zhuo and Xu Sanchi visited Chen Lingxi and proposed a sword discussion, offering a Sword Embryo Pearl and a Sword-Nurturing Cage as stakes.
• Xu Sanchi rejected Chen Lingxi's fourth-grade artifacts as inadequate stakes and demanded the fortuitous opportunity Shen Xiu'an was seeking for him.
• Chen Lingxi noticed his anger was being manipulated by Raging Tide Law, but then unexpectedly agreed to stake the fortuitous opportunity, thrilling Xu Sanchi.

Chen Lingxi defeated Xu Sanchi in their sword contest by using the Heavenly-Law Edict to weaken his Great Prayer Sword Light before destroying it with his own sword. After Xu Sanchi surrendered the wager, Shen Xiu'an confronted Chu Zhuo over trying to take Chen Lingxi’s fortuitous opportunity.

• Xu Sanchi challenged Chen Lingxi to a sword contest three days later, while Shen Xiu'an secretly overheard and resolved to guard his junior brother.
• Shen Xiu'an judged that Xu Sanchi’s two great Divine Abilities gave him the advantage and criticized Chu Zhuo for arranging the contest.
• Xu Sanchi attacked Chen Lingxi with the Great Prayer Sword Light, but Chen Lingxi’s Heavenly-Law Edict drained its power.
• Chen Lingxi combined the Jade Tiger Sea-Reversing Sword Light with Thunder-Prison Heaven and shattered Xu Sanchi’s weakened sword light.
• Xu Sanchi admitted defeat and handed Chen Lingxi the Sword-Nurturing Cage he had wagered.
• Shen Xiu'an appeared before Chu Zhuo and accused him of trying to swindle Chen Lingxi out of his fortuitous opportunity.

Shen Xiu'an made Chu Zhuo return the Sword-Seeking Secret Canon and gave Chen Lingxi the Suspended-Qi Fruit Projection before leaving to enter seclusion near the Golden Grotto realm. Chen Lingxi consumed the treasure and advanced to Dao Foundation Middle Stage, then used Sight-Roaming to witness Chan Zhaofu preparing to redeem a cauldron artifact fortune.

• Shen Xiu'an confronted Chu Zhuo over his scheme to take the Suspended-Qi Fruit Projection, and Chu Zhuo returned the Sword-Seeking Secret Canon to Chen Lingxi.
• Shen Xiu'an gave Chen Lingxi the Suspended-Qi Fruit Projection, warned him that Sword-Illuminating Mystic Peak might retaliate, and departed to enter seclusion.
• Chen Lingxi consumed the fruit and cultivated for three months, strengthening his Dao Platform and advancing to Dao Foundation Middle Stage.
• Chen Lingxi resumed cultivating and using Sight-Roaming on Chan Zhaofu, then saw Chan Zhaofu activate Beholding Heaven's Fortune.
• Chan Zhaofu entered the Great Luo Heaven and said he had gathered enough Great Luo Dark Qi to redeem a cauldron artifact fortune.

Chen Lingxi discovered the Furnace Within the Divine and secretly drew some of its spiritual essence into his Dao-Seizing Ancient Tree, though he could not move the cauldron itself. On his way home, he found a Great Luo Heaven-Observing Mirror task offering ten thousand strands of Great Luo Dark Qi for killing Lin Suri and wondered who wanted his friend dead.

• Chen Lingxi watched Chan Zhaofu use the Great Luo Heaven-Observing Mirror to locate the Furnace Within the Divine and learned what it required to wield it.
• Chen Lingxi tended his Fengluo Bamboo with the Sword-Nurturing Cage, then waited several days and observed that Chan Zhaofu had not left his hall.
• Chen Lingxi traveled to a desolate mountain and found the Furnace Within the Divine, but discovered it was too heavy for him to carry.
• Chen Lingxi used the Dao-Seizing Ancient Tree to absorb the furnace's spiritual essence, completing his Total Perception Essence Replenishment progress.
• Chen Lingxi checked the Great Luo Heaven-Observing Mirror on his return journey and found a task offering ten thousand strands of Great Luo Dark Qi for killing Lin Suri.
• Chen Lingxi recalled his shared ordeals with Lin Suri and wondered who wanted the Dao-Below Academy disciple dead.

Chen Lingxi accepted a mission to kill Lin Suri but instead traveled west to find him and learn why he was being targeted. He located Lin Suri in a secret realm, where a mysterious sun was transforming him as powerful cultivators watched from outside.

• Chen Lingxi accepted the mission concerning Lin Suri and paid 100 Great Luo Dark Qi for information about Dao-Below Academy's location.
• Chen Lingxi traveled west for months, but his Sight-Roaming ability could not locate Lin Suri until he reached the area around Dao-Below Academy.
• Chen Lingxi found Lin Suri meditating inside a secret realm while a small golden sun remade his body with its radiance.
• Chen Lingxi detected more than twenty cultivators watching the secret realm, including a Dao Foundation Late Stage cultivator, and concluded they sought Lin Suri's fortuitous opportunity.

Chen Lingxi discovered that the Yutai Bai Family planned to seize Lin Suri’s Sun-Slaying Fortuitous Opportunity and that a Dao Foundation Late Stage cultivator named Bai Hong would soon threaten him. After entering the secret realm unseen, Chen Lingxi inscribed Bai Hong’s presence into the Enemy-Slaying Spirit Jade, preparing to intervene.

• Chen Lingxi watched Bai Qieyun confront Lin Suri and demand the Sun-Slaying Fortuitous Opportunity, while Lin Suri refused and discovered that the secret realm blocked messages to the outside.
• Chen Lingxi entered the secret realm through a hidden passage and spent seven days observing its inhabitants from concealment.
• Bai Qieyun returned and warned Lin Suri that Bai Hong would emerge from seclusion within three to six months and come for him, but Lin Suri again refused to surrender the opportunity.
• Chen Lingxi located Bai Hong’s secluded mountain and used his presence-gathering method to inscribe Bai Hong’s presence into the Enemy-Slaying Spirit Jade.
• After the inscription solidified, Chen Lingxi prepared to help save Lin Suri again.

Chen Lingxi used Great Luo Dark Qi to obtain the Seventy-Two Qi Origin-Holding Formation, hoping to direct the Killing Power stored in his Dao-Seizing Fruit. He planned to practice the formation, meet Fellow Daoist Lin, and investigate the Dao Foundation Late Stage figure again.

• Chen Lingxi assessed the limits of his Enemy-Slaying Spirit Jade and Killing Power talisman against a Dao Foundation Late Stage cultivator.
• Chen Lingxi examined his Dao-Seizing Fruit and realized he needed a Killing Power formation to release the Slaying-Force Cauldron's power.
• Chen Lingxi entered Total Perception and petitioned Great Luo Heaven-Observing for a formation that required no spiritual objects.
• Chen Lingxi chose the Seventy-Two Qi Origin-Holding Formation and exchanged nineteen thousand eight hundred strands of Great Luo Dark Qi for its formation diagram.
• Chen Lingxi sensed the Dao-Seizing Fruit resonate with the formation diagram and decided to practice the formation before meeting Fellow Daoist Lin and probing the Dao Foundation Late Stage figure.

Chen Lingxi mastered the Seventy-Two Qi Origin-Holding Formation and discovered that the Great Luo Heaven-Observing Mirror no longer accepted his Dragon-Offering Sect talisman. He reunited with Lin Suri, who offered him the Sun-Slaying opportunity and a chance to escape, but Chen Lingxi proposed that they fight their way out together.

• Chen Lingxi formed seventy-two Qi presences and turned them into Sword Qi with the Seventy-Two Qi Origin-Holding Formation.
• Chen Lingxi failed to enter the Great Luo Heaven-Observing Mirror with his Beholding Heaven's Fortune and suspected it recognized only his Rogue Cultivator identity.
• Chen Lingxi traveled through the secret realm and reunited with Lin Suri, who had believed he died in the Weiji Grotto-Heaven.
• Lin Suri explained the Sun-Slaying opportunity could transform a cultivator into a Treasure Body and offered it to Chen Lingxi, promising to hold back the other cultivators.
• Chen Lingxi questioned how Lin Suri could face the encircling cultivators at his early Dao Foundation cultivation, and Lin Suri said he had something to rely on.
• Chen Lingxi proposed that he and Lin Suri join forces and fight their way out together.

Chen Lingxi learned that a Dao Foundation Late Stage cultivator from the Yutai Bai Family guarded the secret realm’s greatest obstacle, then flew west to test him. He cut through Bai Qieyun’s defenses with one sword strike, leaving the other cultivators stunned as he advanced toward Mountain Amid Rosy Clouds.

• Lin Suri warned Chen Lingxi that five Dao Foundation Middle Stage cultivators and a Dao Foundation Late Stage cultivator controlled the secret realm, and said he could not protect Chen Lingxi while claiming the opportunity.
• Chen Lingxi refused to leave Lin Suri behind and flew toward Mountain Amid Rosy Clouds to gauge the Late Stage cultivator’s strength.
• The other four Dao Foundation Middle Stage cultivators sensed Chen Lingxi’s approach and recognized that he was heading toward Bai Huan’s secluded cultivation site.
• Bai Qieyun summoned a vast cloud wall to block Chen Lingxi, but Chen Lingxi used a Heavenly-Law Edict to prevent Cloud Qi from entering the area and surged over the barrier.
• Chen Lingxi pierced Bai Qieyun’s cloud defenses with the Jade Tiger Sea-Reversing Sword Light, split his jade boat, and sent him crashing into the forest with one sword strike.

Chen Lingxi defeated Bai Qieyun with one sword strike, then battled Bai Huan, a Dao Foundation late-stage cultivator, using his full strength and several powerful abilities. He retreated without settling the fight, but concluded that perfecting the Seventy-Two Qi Origin-Holding Formation and using the Dao-Seizing Fruit would let him kill Bai Huan.

• Chen Lingxi struck down Bai Qieyun with one sword strike, astonishing Lin Suri and the watching cultivators.
• Chen Lingxi confronted Bai Huan on Mountain Amid Rosy Clouds and unleashed the Enemy-Slaying Spirit Jade, his dragon-transforming power, and his Thunder-Prison abilities.
• Bai Huan attacked Chen Lingxi with Spirit Thunder Ray Mountain, Great Radiant Eye, the Radiant Qi Needle, and Heaven of Refining All.
• Bai Huan used the Five-Light Great Banner, Amber Seal, and several Bai Family abilities to suppress Chen Lingxi, who cut through the attacks and escaped.
• Bai Huan let Chen Lingxi flee, while Chen Lingxi decided that mastering the Seventy-Two Qi Origin-Holding Formation and using the Dao-Seizing Fruit would be enough to kill him.

Chen Lingxi borrowed Lin Suri’s Sun-Slaying Fortuitous Opportunity and carried it out of Total Perception, then studied ways to counter Bai Huan’s abilities. He used a Dao-Seizing Fruit to complete his sword formation and planned to forge seventy-two swords from his Green Bamboo after leaving the secret realm.

• Chen Lingxi borrowed the Sun-Slaying Fortuitous Opportunity from Lin Suri and sensed how it could transform his body into a Sun-Slaying Spirit Body.
• When Total Perception ended, Chen Lingxi returned to the present world with the black sun preserved in his Divine Chamber and resolved to strengthen himself before the secret realm opened.
• Chen Lingxi reviewed Bai Huan’s Divine Abilities and treasures, considering how his existing techniques could counter them.
• Chen Lingxi activated the Dao-Seizing Fruit, which formed the Heaven-Expelling Disc and seventy-two treasured swords to complete and strengthen his Seventy-Two Qi Origin-Holding Formation.
• Chen Lingxi remembered the Green Bamboo he had been cultivating and decided to forge it into seventy-two treasured swords after leaving the secret realm.