Chapter Summaries

Long Dan assembled a group of geniuses to seize the Heaven-Mending Tree, while Long Xuan remained wary of Old Daoist Li’s prediction that the mission was dangerous. The group gathered the next morning and prepared to teleport to the imperial palace, with Old Daoist Li joining Long Xuan.

• Shi Kun and the other geniuses questioned why Long Dan had summoned so many powerful cultivators for what seemed like an easy mission, but Long Dan insisted the information might be a trap and planned to have five ranked geniuses kill the national preceptor.
• Long Xuan wondered what danger Old Daoist Li had foreseen, and Long Dan urged him to use his true body because the mission could bring unexpected complications.
• The geniuses agreed to keep the Heaven-Mending Tree secret, shared a meal, and dispersed to prepare for the next morning.
• Old Daoist Li waited outside the Long Family Estate and explained to Long Xuan that he would postpone using the Longevity Gu until he could leave the region without raising suspicion.
• Long Xuan and Old Daoist Li joined the others in the private room, where Long Dan brought out the Thatch Gu House and led the group inside to teleport toward the Heaven-Mending Fruit.

Long Dan led eighteen cultivators toward the empress's bedchamber to attack the Imperial Preceptor while another group headed for the imperial garden. After the attackers slaughtered the guards and confronted the Imperial Preceptor, an unseen force struck them, leaving several cultivators dead and Shi Kun injured.

• Lei Shun reported that he had sealed the imperial palace with the Five Ghosts Moving Mountains Formation, and Long Dan revealed that the Imperial Preceptor's real body was in the empress's bedchamber.
• Long Dan split the thirty-six attackers into two groups, assigning one to the Imperial Preceptor and the other to the Four Heavenly Kings in the imperial garden, and promised each person a Heaven-Mending Fruit.
• Long Dan, Long Xuan, Lei Shun, Shi Kun, and Bai Youran led the assault on the empress's bedchamber, with thirteen other geniuses following them.
• Long Dan transformed with the Blood Dragon Battle Gu, and the attackers slaughtered the imperial guards and nearby Gu cultivators without suffering losses.
• The Imperial Preceptor charged out of the bedchamber, but an unknown attack killed five Gu cultivators and sent Shi Kun crashing through a pillar.
• Long Dan twisted aside to evade the attack, while Long Xuan kicked Old Daoist Li down and rolled away himself.

Long Xuan and the Western Land geniuses battled the Feng Clan Imperial Preceptor, whose invisible Void Gu had devastated their group. The geniuses killed him near the Heaven-Mending Tree, while the emperor collapsed after seeing the Empress’s body.

• The Imperial Preceptor’s Void Gu ambushed the group, killing five Gu cultivators and crippling Bai Youran before Long Dan ordered everyone to attack the Imperial Preceptor.
• Long Xuan learned that the Void Gu came from the Feng Clan and used five clones to hold them back while the others besieged the Imperial Preceptor.
• Outside the palace, Imperial Guards battered the Five Ghosts Moving Mountains Formation as several thousand cultivators gathered to watch.
• The emperor rushed to the Empress’s bedchamber, saw her body, and collapsed unconscious.
• The Imperial Preceptor fled toward the Heaven-Mending Tree, but eighteen Western Land geniuses joined the fight and Long Dan killed him by twisting his neck.
• All of the Imperial Preceptor’s Gu Insects, including the Void Gu held back by Long Xuan, died at once.

After defeating the Imperial Preceptor and reaching the imperial garden, the surviving Gu Masters divided the Heaven-Mending Fruits, the Heaven-Mending Tree, and its spirit soil. Bai Youran destroyed Long Dan’s Thatch Gu House before killing himself, leaving the group stranded and facing the Imperial Guards as the Five Ghosts Moving Mountain Formation weakened.

• Long Dan learned that the assault had cost the group twelve of its thirty-six members, while Long Xuan worried over Old Daoist Li’s premonition that everyone would die.
• Bai Youran, crippled after losing his dantian, covered himself in explosive talismans and charged into the Thatch Gu House.
• Long Dan, Shi Kun, Lei Shun, and Long Xuan agreed to divide the Heaven-Mending Fruits and the remains of the Heaven-Mending Tree and its spirit soil.
• The survivors distributed the fruits and divided the tree and soil among the four prodigies, then heard a massive explosion from the Thatch Gu House.
• The group found the Thatch Gu House destroyed and realized they could no longer teleport away as two hundred thousand Imperial Guards attacked their formation.
• Long Dan spat blood and cursed Bai Youran, recognizing that the stranded group faced a death trap.

Long Xuan and the other geniuses fought their way through the Imperial Guards after the imperial capital’s defenses fell, but Jun Zaitian challenged Long Xuan before he could escape. Long Xuan resisted Jun Zaitian’s Gravity Eye with two summoned dharma manifestations, and Jun Zaitian charged at him.

• Long Dan said the old emperor was dead and urged the trapped geniuses to split up and fight through the encircling forces.
• The Five Ghosts Moving Mountains Formation shattered, and Shi Kun, Lei Shun, Long Dan, and the other geniuses charged the Imperial Guards.
• Long Xuan unleashed his Soul-Splitting fragments to destroy the Gu Masters and body cultivators surrounding him, then prepared to break through the City-Protecting Formation.
• Jun Zaitian introduced himself as a Central Region genius who had defeated the top geniuses of thirty-five lands and challenged Long Xuan to fight.
• Long Dan warned Long Xuan that Jun Zaitian crippled his opponents, but Jun Zaitian used his Gravity Eye to try to force Long Xuan to kneel.
• Long Xuan summoned the Divine Dragon and Golden Crow dharma manifestations, overcame the gravity, and faced Jun Zaitian’s charge.

A veiled woman watched as Long Xuan fought Jun Zaitian in the Black Wind Kingdom’s imperial city, where Jun Zaitian’s gravity powers devastated the city. Long Xuan overwhelmed him with his strength, Gu worms, and clones, leaving Jun Zaitian battered while the mysterious woman watched with growing interest.

• A golden-robed woman arrived in the imperial city and watched Long Xuan and Jun Zaitian fight from a tavern.
• Long Xuan struck Jun Zaitian with overwhelming force, bypassing the Transposition Gu’s ability to transfer attacks and sending him crashing into ruins.
• Jun Zaitian used gravity and antigravity to tear apart nearly half the city and kill half of the two-hundred-thousand-strong army, but Long Xuan escaped the worst of the attacks.
• Long Xuan’s four supreme-grade Gu worms battled Jun Zaitian’s four External Gu, and Jun Zaitian’s Gu fell behind.
• Long Xuan released five clones, each with strength equal to his own, and they joined him in beating Jun Zaitian back through the city.
• Jun Mochen watched in alarm as the six Long Xuans overwhelmed Jun Zaitian, while the golden-robed woman smiled at the six Golden Crows above.

Long Xuan killed Jun Zaitian in their duel, then faced Jun Mochen, who attacked him to seize the treasures. Long Xuan opened all eight gates and infused his Divine Dragon Manifestation with Ghost-God Power, leaving Jun Mochen and the woman in golden robes horrified as the dragon came alive.

• Jun Zaitian refused to admit defeat and was killed by Long Xuan in their fight.
• Jun Mochen spotted a Heaven-Mending Fruit among the scattered treasures and rushed to collect it.
• Jun Mochen declared that he would not avenge Jun Zaitian but attacked Long Xuan for taking treasures, using his third eye to weigh him down with gravity.
• Long Xuan opened six gates, broke free of Jun Mochen's gravity, and fought him without falling behind.
• Long Xuan opened the Dragon and Ghost Gates, formed Ghost-God Power, and infused it into his Divine Dragon Manifestation.
• The Divine Dragon Manifestation came alive, and Jun Mochen and the woman in golden robes reacted in shock.

Long Xuan killed Jun Mochen with the Divine Dragon Manifestation, but the backlash from opening all Eight Gates left his aptitude and soul origin severely damaged. He devised pill recipes to repair both and fled the Black Wind Kingdom while researching the Heaven-Mending Pill, still unable to teleport home.

• Long Xuan smashed Jun Mochen through the City-Protecting Formation and killed him, allowing Old Daoist Li and the surviving Western Land geniuses to escape.
• In a distant cave, Long Xuan discovered that his injuries included damage to his aptitude potential and soul origin, which the Water Bear Gu could not repair.
• Long Xuan used the Heaven-Mending Fruit and Soul-Nourishing Wood leaves as main ingredients to devise recipes for pills that could repair his aptitude and soul.
• Long Xuan realized his Water Bear Gu had transformed into a Spirit Gu through its Rebirth Through Destruction condition, while the Thatch Gu still could not teleport in the area.
• Long Xuan fled east for three months, carried by his clones through forested areas, as he used the Soul Library to research the Heaven-Mending Pill before addressing his damaged soul.

Long Xuan completed a second-grade Heaven-Mending Pill formula, discovered that the two seeds he bought from Old Daoist Li were World Tree Seeds, and worried that he lacked the resources to plant them before they reappeared elsewhere. He reached Heavenly Moon City to gather pill ingredients and found a Treasure-Seeking Convention underway.

• Long Xuan finished researching the Heaven-Mending Pill formula and realized that gathering its thousands of ingredients, including hundreds of rare herbs, would be difficult while he was stranded away from home.
• Long Xuan discovered that the two seeds he had bought from Old Daoist Li contained vast inner worlds and were likely World Tree Seeds, then grew anxious because he lacked enough High-Grade Spirit Soil to plant them alongside the Heaven-Mending Tree.
• Long Xuan arrived at Heavenly Moon City in the Xuan Yue Empire, paid the costly entrance fee, and decided to gather ingredients for the Heaven-Mending Pill before leaving.
• Long Xuan searched for the Qian Clan Merchant Association and saw a wealthy man presiding over a crowded platform beneath a Treasure-Seeking Convention banner.

Long Xuan learned how the Qian Clan Merchant Association’s Treasure-Seeking Conventions worked and heard about the wealth-powered Three-Legged Golden Toad. Inspired by its abilities, he devised a plan to combine its Gu Recipe with a World Tree Seed and create a living world inside a new Gu worm, leaving him determined to obtain the recipe.

• Long Xuan paid a little girl three Spirit Stones to explain the Treasure-Seeking Convention and learned that Qian Jinjin’s Level Two convention offered every treasure below Grade Two.
• The girl explained that Qian Clan treasure merchants used Three-Legged Golden Toads, whose strength and storage capacity grew with their masters’ wealth.
• Long Xuan imagined altering the Three-Legged Golden Toad Gu Recipe with a World Tree Seed so its storage space could hold living creatures and grow into a real world.
• Long Xuan named his planned Gu worm the Heaven-Swallowing World Toad and decided to set his sights on obtaining the Three-Legged Golden Toad Gu Recipe.

Long Xuan used the Third Young Master’s Treasure-Seeking Convention to obtain every material he needed for the Heaven-Mending Pill, along with Fire Spirit Stone and High-Grade Spirit Soil. After leaving Heavenly Moon City, he hid in a remote cave and began refining the pill, wary that its celestial phenomenon would draw attention.

• The Third Young Master announced that he had nearly anything people could want, and traders rushed to exchange higher-value treasures for his goods.
• Long Xuan sent his Flame Clone to trade his list of rare materials, a Supreme-grade Fire Spirit Stone, and enough High-Grade Spirit Soil for two spirit trees.
• Long Xuan offered a storage pouch of treasures from Old Daoist Li, Jun Zaitian, and a Spiritual Sea Stage Gu cultivator, and the Third Young Master accepted the trade.
• The Three-Legged Golden Toad produced the requested goods, and the Third Young Master announced that at least four hundred types of treasures were now out of stock, sending the crowd scrambling.
• Long Xuan had his Flame Clone leave Heavenly Moon City first, then departed himself after confirming no one followed him.
• Long Xuan dug a remote cave and began refining the Heaven-Mending Pill, expecting it to cause a celestial phenomenon but not Tribulation Lightning.

Long Xuan planted the Heaven-Mending Tree and the World Tree in his World Tree Seed space, then began refining the rare Heaven-Mending Pill. After a month, the pill’s heavenly omen attracted Gu Spirit Sect cultivators, and Long Xuan’s Flame Clone confronted them as they approached his cave.

• Long Xuan planted the Heaven-Mending Tree and World Tree at opposite ends of the World Tree Seed space.
• Long Xuan began refining the Heaven-Mending Pill with his Divine Ice Flame and Soul-Splittings while the Alchemy Rabbit watched.
• After a month of refinement, dark clouds and fierce winds gathered above Long Xuan’s cave, signaling a heavenly omen.
• A group of Gu Spirit Sect cultivators aboard an Azure Boat decided to seize the treasure and its formula, while a veiled woman left them to avoid disrupting their mission.
• The Flame Clone warned the arriving cultivators to leave because his master was in secluded cultivation, and they stared in surprise at his balance atop a tree leaf.

Long Xuan secured three Heaven-Mending Pills and left his cave after his Flame Clones killed five Gu Spirit Sect disciples who tried to break in. Later, he watched a mysterious group defeat and kill Third Young Master's enormous Three-Legged Golden Toad, leaving him shocked by their strength.

• The Flame Clone and four other clones, aided by their Gu, killed five Gu Spirit Sect disciples after they attacked the cave, and Long Xuan burned their corpses and left with the clones.
• A veiled young woman arrived at the cave, saw signs of the battle, realized the mission item was gone, and hurried away on her butterfly.
• Long Xuan used the Eye of Heavenly Secrets to spot Third Young Master's Three-Legged Golden Toad rampaging against attackers who were ambushing the Qian Clan Merchant Association's caravan.
• Long Xuan stopped to watch as the attackers' insects burrowed into the Three-Legged Golden Toad and killed it, while the battle also slaughtered the Qian Clan Gu cultivators.
• The mysterious attackers took the caravan's wealth and the Three-Legged Golden Toad's corpse, and Long Xuan suspected they came from an extraordinary background.

Long Xuan found the wounded Third Young Master alive after the Qian Clan assassination and learned that his brothers had crippled him to remove him from the succession struggle. Long Xuan offered to trade a Heaven-Mending Pill for the Three-Legged Golden Toad Gu Recipe, leaving the Third Young Master torn between disbelief and hope.

• Long Xuan searched the battlefield for loot and discovered that the Third Young Master was still alive.
• The Third Young Master explained that his brothers had destroyed his dantian but spared his life to avoid the consequences of killing kin.
• Long Xuan considered taking the Three-Legged Golden Toad Gu Recipe by force, then rejected the plan because he feared the Qian Clan Merchant Association's retaliation.
• Long Xuan offered a Heaven-Mending Pill in exchange for the Three-Legged Golden Toad Gu Recipe and promised not to refine the Three-Legged Golden Toad.
• The Third Young Master doubted that a pill could repair his dantian but looked at Long Xuan with desperate hope.

Long Xuan traded the Heaven-Mending Pill for the Three-Legged Golden Toad Gu Recipe and an Integrity Gu Recipe, then secretly altered the latter while refining it. He emerged with an abnormal golden Integrity Gu, ready to meet the Third Young Master and complete their deal.

• The Third Young Master used Golden Eye to confirm that the Heaven-Mending Pill could repair his dantian and offered Long Xuan the Three-Legged Golden Toad Gu Recipe in exchange for a guarantee that he would never refine or spread it.
• The Third Young Master required Long Xuan to refine an Integrity Gu and promised to provide the recipe and materials, so Long Xuan agreed to use the Gu to secure his promise.
• The Third Young Master supplied Long Xuan with the Integrity Gu Recipe and materials, then stayed behind to tend to his injuries and refine a replacement Integrity Gu.
• Long Xuan entered a cave, used the Soul Library to alter the Integrity Gu Recipe, and spent half a month refining a version with two switchable souls that let him lie or detect lies without restraining himself.
• Long Xuan emerged carrying the golden Integrity Gu, and the Third Young Master eagerly welcomed him and asked to see it.

Long Xuan traded the Heaven-Mending Pill to Qian Gao for the Three-Legged Golden Toad Gu Recipe and swore before the Integrity Gu never to refine or reveal it. After finding a letter that revealed a Golden Toad’s location on Sky Island, he decided to risk pursuing it and began planning a ship and crew for the journey.

• Qian Gao accepted Long Xuan’s oath and gave him the Three-Legged Golden Toad Gu Recipe in exchange for the Heaven-Mending Pill.
• Long Xuan and Qian Gao parted ways so they could refine the pill’s medicinal power and handle their own affairs.
• Long Xuan examined a letter and jade stone dropped by the Gu Spirit Sect juniors and suspected they had intended to trade information about a Golden Toad with Qian Gao.
• Long Xuan learned from the letter that the Golden Toad was hidden in the Sky Island Ruins, which would surface in the Endless Sea in a little over two years.
• Long Xuan decided to seek the Golden Toad and planned to build a medium-sized ship, recruit experienced sailors, and gather a team.

Long Xuan completed the Divine Dragon Ship’s blueprints while repairing his aptitude and gathering materials for a Soul-Restoring Pill. He learned that his pill business had made him Starsea City’s most famous alchemist, and his clone pointed him toward a high-level trading fair where they could seek the rare ingredients still missing.

• Long Xuan studied the Soul-Restoring Pill Recipe for two months and sent clones to collect its ingredients while researching large ships.
• Long Xuan designed the Divine Dragon Ship with propellers, a Giant Cannon, and the possibility of transforming it into a submarine, then completed its blueprints after four months of work.
• Long Xuan repaired his aptitude, but learned that the Flame Clone’s pill shop had made him Starsea City’s number one alchemist.
• The Flame Clone reported that the shop had collected most of the Soul-Restoring Pill ingredients through trades, but the rarest hundred materials were still missing.
• The Flame Clone told Long Xuan about a Marrow Cleansing Stage trading fair in Starsea City half a month away, where they could seek rare pill ingredients and shipbuilding materials.

Long Xuan used the Big-Pot Pill Refinement Technique to mass-produce Sea-Gathering Pills and prepared to trade them at Starsea City’s Marrow Cleansing trade fair. There, he was welcomed as the city’s foremost alchemist and considered how the Pill God Hall shaped alchemists’ careers.

• Long Xuan gave the Flame Clone the Big-Pot Pill Refinement Technique, and the Flame Clone and rabbit began testing it.
• Long Xuan and his clones refined 350 Sea-Gathering Pills in half a month, while the rabbit ruined both of its furnaces.
• Long Xuan hid the Integrity Gu in his clothes and went to the Marrow Cleansing trade fair with the pills.
• Long Xuan presented his invitation at Mo Bufan’s estate and entered as Ye Xuan, where Marrow Cleansing Gu Masters gathered around him.
• Long Xuan reflected that the Pill God Hall assessed alchemists and attracted ambitious Third-Grade Alchemists, while he had forged a Third-Grade badge for his mysterious alchemist persona.

At Mo Bufan’s trade fair, Long Xuan tried to acquire ten Nine-Hundred-Year Ironwoods so he could ripen them into Millennium Ironwoods with Heavenly Creation Elixir. His bidding war with Old Sun ended with Long Xuan suspecting Old Sun had made a false bid, after the Integrity Gu reacted to his claim.

• Mo Bufan’s butler watched the trade fair to stop him from pursuing an overseas voyage and pushed him to trade for Realm-Breaking Pills.
• Mo Bufan revealed ten Nine-Hundred-Year Ironwoods and offered them in exchange for Realm-Breaking Pills.
• Long Xuan recognized that his Heavenly Creation Elixir could ripen the Ironwoods into Millennium Ironwoods and began bidding Sea-Gathering Pills against Old Sun.
• Old Sun raised his bid to thirty-four Sea-Gathering Pills, and Long Xuan’s Integrity Gu reacted as if Old Sun had lied.
• Long Xuan held back the Integrity Gu and realized Old Sun might not actually possess the pills he had bid.

Long Xuan outmaneuvered Old Sun at Young Master Mo’s trade meet, acquiring ten Ironwood trees while exposing Old Sun’s false bidding. He then offered a hundred Sea-Gathering Pills in exchange for rare spiritual herbs, hoping to gather the ingredients for the Soul-Restoring Pill.

• Old Sun tried to drive up the price of ten Ironwood trees, but Long Xuan stopped bidding and left him responsible for his own inflated offer.
• Old Sun claimed he had only thirty-two Sea-Gathering Pills, so the Mo steward fined him all thirty-two for breaking the trade-meet rules.
• Long Xuan added another thirty-two pills, and Young Master Mo gave him the ten Nine-Hundred-Year Ironwood trees.
• Long Xuan displayed a list of more than a hundred spiritual herbs and offered a hundred Sea-Gathering Pills for them.
• Old Sun realized Long Xuan had a powerful alchemist master and regretted competing with him.