Chapter Summaries

Chen Qiu ended the Snow Clan Invasion by slaughtering hundreds of thousands of Snow Clan members, earning the title Humanity's Guardian Deity and advancing to Golden Core Sixth Layer. He then searched the newly exposed Boundless Snow Mountains for treasures, where he confronted Golden Core cultivators who accused him of monopolizing them.

• Chen Qiu unleashed Thunder Dragons across the Boundless Snow Mountains until the Heavenly Dao declared the Snow Clan Invasion over.
• Chen Qiu's cultivation reached Golden Core Sixth Layer, and the Heavenly Dao granted him the title Humanity's Guardian Deity and two strands of Prodigy Fortune.
• Chen Qiu selected the Purple Trait Omniscience and learned that three strands of Prodigy Fortune could fuse into Peerless Fortune of Heaven's Chosen.
• Chen Qiu and Fat Dragon returned to the snow-covered mountains, where Chen Qiu used Snowfall Across the Heavens to slow rival treasure hunters while collecting Frostsky Grass, Ten-Thousand-Year Frost Ice, and Ten-Thousand-Year Heavenly Frost Tea.
• A Fourth-Layer Golden Core cultivator accused Chen Qiu of taking every treasure, and Chen Qiu challenged him to come fight and questioned whether the cultivators had any destiny with the treasures.

Chen Qiu harvested rare treasures in the Boundless Snow Mountains, brewed Ten-Thousand-Year Heavenly Frost Tea, and advanced to the Golden Core Seventh Layer. He rolled a Pink Trait called Merit Sage but was deciding whether to choose it or Merit Protection.

• Chen Qiu drove the Golden Core cultivators away from the Boundless Snow Mountains, while the Heavenward Sect Master reflected on Chen Qiu’s rapid rise and past encounters with him.
• Chen Qiu collected Ten-Thousand-Year Heavenly Frost Tea, Ten-Thousand-Year Frost Ice, and herbs, then bought a teapot spirit treasure and brewed tea for Fat Dragon and Scholar.
• Fat Dragon and Scholar found that the tea increased their cultivation, and Chen Qiu gave Fat Dragon five tea trees and Frost Ice to use.
• Chen Qiu identified the Eight-Petal Demonic Lotus and Eight-Petal Grudge Lotus as essential materials for forging a Twelfth-Grade Nascent Soul, then cultivated until he reached the Golden Core Seventh Layer.
• Chen Qiu rolled the Pink Trait Merit Sage, which granted one Merit Value per demonic beast killed, alongside Merit Protection and Merit Sanctuary, and weighed the choices.

Chen Qiu learned that the locked storage ring contained a note and fruit pit, then regained memories of his nine previous lives and the elaborate plan he had laid for this final life. He realized that many of his current opportunities came from that plan, though accidents had sent events far off course, and he ended the chapter reflecting on how the outcome had still worked in his favor.

• Chen Qiu chose the Merit Protection trait, then spent ten days cultivating in Xiangyang City and broke through to the Golden Core Eighth Layer.
• The middle-aged shopkeeper opened the difficult storage ring, and Chen Qiu found a note and a small fruit inside.
• Chen Qiu read the note and learned that his earlier selves had repeatedly reincarnated, preparing opportunities and allies to break the Great Xia prison in his tenth life.
• After eating the Ling Fruit, Chen Qiu recovered his past-life memories and understood how his ninth-life self had arranged much of his current path.
• Chen Qiu reviewed the plans that had gone awry, including his intended third Nascent Soul Body, and concluded that unexpected events had still brought him a favorable result.

Chen Qiu entered the Great Xia Imperial Palace and revealed himself as the long-hidden Imperial Preceptor, settling the Seventh Prince’s doubts about his swordsmanship. He then reviewed his plans and prepared to collect his remaining opportunities before leaving Great Xia.

• Chen Qiu unleashed his Golden Core Eighth Layer cultivation at the Imperial Palace and entered despite the gathered guards and elders, who feared his power too much to stop him.
• The Seventh Prince challenged Chen Qiu with his Qi Tian sword strike, but Chen Qiu blocked it with the Heavenly Secrets Umbrella and told him the Imperial Preceptor had lied about Sword One’s lack of protective spiritual energy.
• Xiao Liu recognized Chen Qiu as the Imperial Preceptor, and the Great Xia Emperor, princes, guards, attendants, and Chen Qiu’s companions knelt before him.
• Chen Qiu reassured Xia Jiqiu that he could become Mystic Heaven’s greatest sword cultivator, and Xia Jiqiu accepted him as his master.
• In the palace study, Xiao Liu reported that the Eight-Petaled Fire Lotus had been taken, and Chen Qiu dismissed the setback while gathering his prepared sachets and planning to collect more opportunities before leaving Great Xia.

After revealing that he was the National Preceptor and had spent a thousand years trying to escape Great Xia, Chen Qiu prepared to leave for the Mystic Heaven Continent. As he departed, grateful Imperial Guards bid him farewell, while cultivators across the kingdoms rushed to join the Mocking Heaven Sect for a chance to pursue the Nascent Soul Realm.

• Xiao Liu declined to answer Fat Dragon and the others' questions about Chen Qiu, and Scholar worried that Chen Qiu might arrange his marriage to Ji Renjian.
• Chen Qiu told Emperor Xia Xundao he would leave Great Xia soon and instructed the Seventh Prince to defeat a puppet if he wanted to follow; Imperial Guards then shouted blessings as Chen Qiu left the capital.
• Chen Qiu and his companions reached the Mocking Heaven Sect, where he began recounting his life as the National Preceptor.
• News spread that Chen Qiu was Great Xia's National Preceptor and would open a path to the Mystic Heaven Continent, prompting Golden Core cultivators to travel to Fat Prefecture and seek entry into the Mocking Heaven Sect.
• Zhao Dezhu and the Heavenward Sect's Supreme Elder abandoned their sect to pursue the Nascent Soul Realm, while the Qu Family's Supreme Elder and the Star-Dipper Sect Master also hurried toward Fat Prefecture.

Chen Qiu recruited dozens of powerful cultivators into Mocking Heaven Sect and began organizing the sect before its departure for Mystic Heaven Continent. The new disciples celebrated their chance at renewed hope, though they understood the journey ahead could be deadly.

• Chen Qiu reached Golden Core Eighth Layer, then arrived in Fat City, where dozens of Golden Core Peak Great Perfection cultivators rushed to pay respects and seek entry into Mocking Heaven Sect.
• Chen Qiu assessed the applicants, accepted fifty-seven people including Zhao Dezhu and his martial uncle, and arranged for them to stay in Fat City while the sect was repaired.
• Chen Qiu, Fat Dragon, and Scholar planned disciple tokens, uniforms, rules, contribution systems, and sect duties, assigning Fat Dragon to manage resources and Scholar to oversee the Punishment Hall.
• The newly accepted disciples shared food and drinks at an inn, reflected on the dangers of leaving Great Xia, and encouraged one another that Chen Qiu could lead them to Nascent Soul cultivation.

Chen Qiu arranged new recruits and supplies for Mocking Heaven Sect while preparing to leave Great Xia for the Mystic Heaven Continent. After welcoming several allies and the Brown Bear Clan toward the sect, he settled in to cultivate and prepare for a breakthrough to the Ninth Level of the Golden Core Realm.

• Chen Qiu reunited with Old Cao, promised to find an heir for his Formation Cultivator Inheritance, and heard Old Cao warn him never to hand his back to a living person.
• Chen Qiu brought Xiao Qing and the alchemy cultivator Yuan to Mocking Heaven Sect, revealed their mutual love, and arranged their wedding and the alchemy inheritance trial.
• Liu Zide delivered Fierce Baleful Wood, Eight Desolations Fruits, and a treasure guide, then accepted Chen Qiu's invitation to leave Great Xia with him while the Wang Family master chose to stay behind.
• The Brown Bear Clan traveled toward Fat Prefecture under flags declaring them Chen Qiu's pets, and Zhao Yishi joined them on his way to seek refuge with Mocking Heaven Sect.
• Chen Qiu collected disciple and elder tokens from Li Jia, returned to Mocking Heaven Sect, and began preparing for ten days of secluded cultivation and a breakthrough.

Chen Qiu reached Golden Core Peak Great Perfection, recruited disciples and more than two hundred Brown Bears into the Mocking Heaven Sect, and left his Minor World for Capital Province with Scholar. The City Lord of Fat City, furious that Chen Qiu had departed without him, resolved to find the State Preceptor himself.

• Chen Qiu broke through to the Golden Core Ninth Layer, chose the Movement Technique Supreme trait, and used his retrospection opportunity to select Merit Sage.
• After thirteen more days of cultivation, Chen Qiu reached Golden Core Peak Great Perfection and learned that the sect's daily formations consumed one hundred Lower-Grade Spirit Stones per day.
• Chen Qiu appointed sect disciples and established rules, uniforms, and duties, while more than two hundred Brown Bears joined as disciples and tended the back mountain.
• Chen Qiu left the Minor World with Scholar and the others for Capital Province after Scholar reached the Golden Core Realm.
• The City Lord of Fat City learned Chen Qiu had left without him, struck his steward in anger, and decided to seek Chen Qiu out personally.

Scholar fought Ji Taiping on Green Peak and killed him after using the battle to reach Human-Sword Unity. Chen Qiu buried Ji Renjian, recruited Little Fatty into the Mocking Heaven Sect, and prepared to continue the journey once Scholar recovered.

• Ji Taiping raged over the changes in Great Xia and threatened Ji Renjian when Chen Qiu and Scholar arrived at Green Peak.
• Zhao Dezhu and more than thirty Golden Core Peak Great Perfection experts blocked the Ji Family Supreme Elder while Scholar faced Ji Taiping.
• Ji Taiping stripped Ji Renjian and threatened to kill her, but she slashed her own throat and asked Scholar not to hold back.
• Scholar endured Ji Taiping’s attacks, comprehended his sword intent, entered Human-Sword Unity, and beheaded him.
• Chen Qiu ordered the Ji Family Supreme Elder and the Ji Family eliminated, buried Ji Renjian on Azure Edge Mountain, and recruited Little Fatty into the Mocking Heaven Sect.
• Chen Qiu received another hundred Golden Core Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pills and planned to distribute them through the sect and save some for Scholar.

Chen Qiu defeated the Nascent Soul Puppet guarding the Boundless Snow Mountains and escaped through the portal to the Mystic Heaven Continent, where a hunter found him. After waking, he used the hunter to begin learning about his new surroundings.

• Chen Qiu and Scholar reached the Boundless Snow Mountains, where Chen Qiu fought the Nascent Soul Puppet through repeated attacks and retreats into the Minor World.
• Chen Qiu exhausted the puppet, and Scholar used his sword intent to destroy its core hub, briefly lowering the pressure on the mountain.
• Chen Qiu carried Scholar into the Minor World, rushed to the summit, and escaped through the white vortex portal before the pressure returned.
• Chen Qiu awoke in a stone house in Deathknell Town, where a bearded hunter mistook him for a mortal and claimed his name was Little Dragon.
• Chen Qiu took the hunter to the snow mountains and demanded information, prompting the frightened man to identify himself as a hunter from Deathknell Town.

Chen Qiu learned about the lawless Mystic Heaven Continent and arrived in Great Fate City, where a Heavenly Dao event called Long Night Approaches was about to begin. After hearing that a Spirit Transformation Body might appear outside the city, he reconsidered seeking a high-grade Nascent Soul and discovered a genuine Heavenly Dao Spirit Treasure at a street stall.

• Chen Qiu repaid the hunter with fifty Lower-Grade Spirit Stones, then returned to the Minor World and told the Mocking Heaven Sect disciples to avoid forming Nascent Souls without knowing the method.
• Chen Qiu, Fat Dragon, and Scholar traveled to Great Fate City to seek Nascent Soul information, where Fat Dragon warned that Long Night Approaches would make the area outside the city extremely dangerous after dark.
• Chen Qiu learned the Nascent Soul requirements and initially decided to abandon the Ten-Rank Nascent Soul because it required three Spirit Transformation Bodies.
• While searching street stalls, Chen Qiu overheard Rogue Cultivators say a Spirit Transformation Body might appear during Long Night Approaches and reconsidered pursuing a high-grade Nascent Soul.
• Chen Qiu ignored a vendor’s supposed sword-tip treasure, then used Omniscience to identify a genuine Demon-Exorcising Bracelet at another stall and bought it.

July Cat recognized Chen Qiu at a stall and feared her repeated reincarnations would lead to another death, while Chen Qiu entered the Long Night Approaches event and used his Minor World and powerful lightning spells to collect its treasures. After surviving the night with a Spirit Transformation Body among his gains, he offered a Nascent Soul breakthrough to the Mocking Heaven Sect disciple with the least lifespan.

• July Cat, reincarnated as a stray cat in Great Fate City, recognized Chen Qiu and worried that their repeated encounters would cost her another life.
• Chen Qiu entered his Minor World outside the city as Long Night Approaches began, observing hidden cultivators and their traps before the darkness fell.
• A Fate Sect disciple became the first casualty when his hurried breathing gave away his position, and spells and array traps plunged the area into chaos.
• Chen Qiu blasted the area around each treasure pillar with Thunder Dragons, then seized the spirit treasures and the Spirit Transformation Body while avoiding retaliation from the hidden cultivators.
• At dawn, Chen Qiu counted his gains and revealed the Spirit Transformation Body, then offered a Nascent Soul breakthrough to the Mocking Heaven Sect disciple with only one month of lifespan remaining.

Li Shiyi searched for Chen Qiu and learned that a mysterious Dharma cultivator had dominated Long Night Approaches, while Chen Qiu’s enormous merit ranking made him the target of the Fate Sect. Chen Qiu accepted an invitation to the Su Family’s inheritance secret realm in search of a Spirit Transformation Body and set out for Su City with a Fate Sect disciple, concealing his identity.

• Li Shiyi discovered ancient records of the Mocking Heaven Sect and wondered whether Chen Qiu was its current master, then agreed to help find a powerful Dharma cultivator for an upcoming gathering of Quzhou Sky Prodigies.
• Chen Qiu read a Quzhou Daily report about the mysterious person who took the pillars of light during Long Night Approaches and saw that he ranked third on the Mystic Heaven Continent Merit Rankings and first in Quzhou.
• The Fate Sect posted a bounty for the mysterious person, prompting July Cat to leave after the bald merchant declared that he wanted to join the Fate Sect.
• Li Shiyi saw Chen Qiu atop the Quzhou Merit Rankings, dismissed him as someone with the same name, and resumed cultivating for Prodigy Road.
• Chen Qiu accepted the Su Family’s invitation to attempt its inheritance secret realm for a Spirit Transformation Body, then agreed to travel with a Fate Sect true disciple to Su City.
• The Fate Sect disciple showed off his flying boat, and a woman in magnificent robes arrived with a bald young monk as Chen Qiu checked that his cloak concealed his appearance.

Chen Qiu rejected Qi Mei’s attempt to recruit him into the Fate Sect, then survived Qi Mei’s ambush and killed him, Liu Mei, and the monk with his Twelfth-Grade Golden Core. He also defeated a Fate Sect elder who arrived to avenge them, and wondered whether the Sword Cultivator Puppet he had fought before was actually far stronger than an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator.

• Qi Mei tried to recruit Ren Zhi into the Fate Sect, then launched three surprise attacks when Ren Zhi ignored his offer; Ren Zhi blocked them and nearly shattered Qi Mei’s Golden Core.
• Qi Mei called for help while Liu Mei and the bald monk stood between him and Ren Zhi, but Ren Zhi struck them all down with his Twelfth-Grade Golden Core.
• The Fate Sect elder sent his Second-Grade Nascent Soul to attack Ren Zhi, who pierced it with his Golden Core and took the resulting Nascent Soul Pill.
• The elder attacked Ren Zhi with tens of thousands of ice spikes, but Ren Zhi emerged unharmed and blasted him with a Thunderball.
• Ren Zhi crushed the elder’s token at the dying man’s request, then concluded that the Sword Cultivator Puppet he had fought was probably as strong as a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator.

Chen Qiu ambushed and destroyed the Fate Sect’s Nascent Soul elders and sect master, then led the Mocking Heaven Sect in taking over the sect and plundering its resources. After learning that a Twelfth-Grade Nascent Soul might be within reach, he discovered the Fate Sect treasury was full of wealth.

• Chen Qiu hid near the Fate Sect’s mountain gate and struck the returning Nascent Souls with five lightning attacks, killing four elders and mortally wounding the sect master.
• Chen Qiu used another heavenly lightning strike to kill the sect master, then joined Fat Dragon, Scholar, and the Mocking Heaven Sect disciples as they broke through the weakened formation and slaughtered the Fate Sect’s resistance.
• Fat Dragon recovered five Nascent Soul Pills, while Chen Qiu reviewed the requirements for a Twelfth-Grade Nascent Soul and realized he already possessed nearly all the required materials.
• Chen Qiu studied the Fate Sect’s records and sent Scholar to break the treasury’s restrictions while the Mocking Heaven Sect disciples and two hundred bears looted the grounds.
• Scholar announced that the treasury restriction had been broken, and Chen Qiu entered to find it filled with spirit stones, treasures, and medicinal herbs.

After annihilating Fate Sect, Chen Qiu and the Mocking Heaven Sect plundered its wealth, buildings, and natural resources, then prepared to sell its territory to the neighboring Grand Dao Sect. Chen Qiu planned to deal with the Grand Dao Sect by force if it refused to pay.

• Zhao Dezhu inventoried Fate Sect’s treasure vault, revealing a fortune of Spirit Stones, treasures, talismans, Nascent Soul Bodies, and Trait Jade Slips, and Chen Qiu stored the haul in his Minor World.
• Chen Qiu secretly celebrated his nearly ten thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones before returning to search Fate Sect, while the Brown Bears and Mocking Heaven Sect disciples carried off the sect’s resources and structures.
• Zhao Dezhu’s martial uncle and Qu Gui considered setting a trap to catch fellow disciples stealing, but the group abandoned the scheme and returned to plundering Fate Sect.
• Chen Qiu and the Mocking Heaven Sect departed after stripping Fate Sect bare, and the first people to inspect the site discovered that the regional overlord had been destroyed.
• Chen Qiu chose to visit the neighboring Grand Dao Sect and offer it Fate Sect’s territory, warning Fat Dragon that he would treat refusal to pay as evil conduct.

Chen Qiu sold the Fate Sect’s territory to the Grand Dao Sect for 3,000 Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, then arrived in Su City to enter the Su Family’s Inheritance Secret Realm. After learning that Fierce Baleful Wood could mend a hole in the sky, he prepared for the secret realm, which opened the next day.

• Chen Qiu visited the Grand Dao Sect and offered the Fate Sect’s territory, but the sect master explained that taking it would provoke a regional war.
• The Grand Dao Sect’s sect master agreed to pay Chen Qiu 3,000 Mid-Grade Spirit Stones and use the mysterious destroyer’s reputation to deter rival factions.
• Chen Qiu reached Su City, introduced himself as Ren Zhi, and killed a woman who resented him for killing Qi Mei.
• The Su Family’s young master invited Chen Qiu to a Dao discussion gathering and told him that the Inheritance Secret Realm would open the next day.
• Fat Dragon told Chen Qiu that Fierce Baleful Wood was valuable for the Prodigy Road, forging, and mending the sky, while Eight Desolations Fruit could be used to lure heavenly treasures.

Chen Qiu attended the Su Family’s discussion gathering, where he exposed and subdued Meiya after she tried to seduce him. He then entered the Su Family Inheritance Secret Realm with the other Sky Prodigies, while the Su Family head learned that no powerful cultivators had intervened when the Fate Sect was destroyed.

• The Su Family’s young master told Chen Qiu that Quzhou’s Lineages had identified him as the holder of 9.8 billion Merit Value, and Chen Qiu accepted being called by his real name.
• At the discussion gathering, Meiya tried to ensnare Chen Qiu with a beauty trap, but he took her Golden Core and restrained her to inspect its entries.
• The next morning, Chen Qiu left Meiya behind and joined the other Sky Prodigies as the Su Family head opened the Inheritance Secret Realm.
• Chen Qiu entered the secret realm through the white vortex, and the Su Family displayed images of the entrants’ progress.
• A Su Family subordinate reported that no Nascent Soul or Spirit Transformation cultivator had entered Fate Sect territory on the day the sect fell, while nearby forces fought over its lands.

Chen Qiu passed the Su Family Inheritance Secret Realm by destroying its supposedly unbeatable puppet through repeated attacks, then returned to the Minor World to refine his recent gains. He transformed the Heavenly Secrets Umbrella into a bow that could launch his Golden Core or spells at extreme speed, and ended by aiming a Lightning-Channeling Art arrow toward the Mocking Heaven Sect.

• Chen Qiu passed the first four trials, then shattered the fifth trial’s puppet with repeated Lightning-Channeling Art attacks.
• The old man's spirit body revealed that the puppet had been assembled from earlier trial puppets and that contestants could have passed by waiting out the earlier trials without killing them.
• Chen Qiu accepted the Spirit Transformation Body, returned the Su Family ancestor’s spell inheritance to the Su Family's young master, and left Su City.
• Chen Qiu gave Scholar the Sword Flies Like Time trait, inscribed thirteen other traits onto his Golden Core, and learned the Invisibility Technique and Golden Light Body-Protecting Technique.
• Chen Qiu used a Heavenly Illusion Stone to give the Heavenly Secrets Umbrella a longbow form that could fire attacks using Heaven-and-Earth Power.
• Chen Qiu tested the bow by launching his Twelfth-Grade Golden Core, then formed a Lightning-Channeling Art arrow and aimed it toward the Mocking Heaven Sect.

Chen Qiu tested compressed lightning and snow spells, killed a Nascent Soul cultivator by accidentally combining the two, and later led the Mocking Heaven Sect’s new Nascent Soul disciples toward the Heavenly Evolution Forty-Nine secret realm. In Deathknell Town, he repaid the hunter who had once saved him, then secretly killed the bandits the hunter had spared.

• Chen Qiu compressed Lightning-Channeling Art into an arrow that blasted a huge crater, then froze an attacking Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator with an arrow formed from Snowfall Across the Heavens.
• Chen Qiu’s attempt to fuse the snow and lightning arrows caused them to explode, killing the frozen cultivator; he recovered a Second-Grade Nascent Soul Pill and returned to the Minor World.
• Over the next ten days, Chen Qiu cultivated while eight former Golden Core cultivators joined the Mocking Heaven Sect as Nascent Soul Outer Disciples, and he spotted the Heavenly Evolution Forty-Nine secret realm on a bronze mirror.
• Chen Qiu and Fat Dragon arrived in Deathknell Town, where the bearded hunter who had once saved Chen Qiu begged for help after bandits attacked his family and hunting companions.
• Chen Qiu subdued the bandits, healed the injured, and gave the hunter two hundred Spirit Stones; the hunter chose to spare the bandits, but Chen Qiu secretly killed them after they left town.