Chapter Summaries

Ji Yuan used the Star-Gazing Tower to discover that the Ultimate Dao Devil Lord planned to seize Du Wanyi’s Nascent Soul to reach Spirit Transformation, but that she was not in immediate danger. After accepting an invitation to a council about the Desolate Ancient Continent, Ji Yuan confronted the Four Demonic Dao sects at Jade Spirit Island, where a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator arrived as the conflict began.

• Ji Yuan upgraded the Star-Gazing Tower, used Unveiling Heaven's Secrets to locate Du Wanyi in the Demon-Spirit Archipelago, and later learned that the Ultimate Dao Devil Lord intended to use her Nascent Soul to pursue Spirit Transformation.
• Ji Yuan spent three months using the tower to find Early Fourth-Tier Demon Beasts, then learned from Dan Xuzi that High Person Lingzhu had called a council about traveling to the Desolate Ancient Continent.
• Zhou Cang revealed his Fourth-Order Earth Dragon Hui and assured Ji Yuan that he could protect the Cloud-Rain Sect while Ji Yuan was away.
• At Jade Spirit Island, the Blood Shadow Cult Master destroyed Ji Yuan’s chair, and Jian Wuchen defended Ji Yuan before Ji Yuan insulted the Blood Shadow Cult Master and flipped the council table at the Four Demonic Dao cultivators.
• As Ji Yuan and the others faced off against the Four Demonic Dao cultivators, a Nascent Soul Late Stage man in a flame-red robe descended and challenged them.

Ji Yuan learned that he and six other Nascent Soul cultivators would depart for Desolate Ancient Continent in seven days to defend the Third Pass of the Three Southern Passes under High Person Lingzhu. After preparing and setting new goals concerning Du Wanyi and his allies, Ji Yuan left Cloud-Rain Island for the continent.

• High Person Lingzhu stopped the confrontation on Jade Spirit Island and ordered the seven Nascent Soul cultivators to assemble in seven days for the journey to Desolate Ancient Continent.
• High Person Lingzhu explained that the group would join Abyssal Continent cultivators to defend the Third Pass, while Desolate Ancient Continent cultivators defended the more dangerous Second Pass.
• Dan Xuzi and Jian Wuchen told Ji Yuan that a Taiyi Immortal Sect cultivator had sparked a previous Nascent Soul War by attracting a female cultivator from Barbarian God Continent.
• High Person Lingzhu announced that Beihuang City Lord had advanced to Nascent Soul Late Stage, deepening Jian Wuchen's regret over their past falling-out.
• After the meeting, the cultivators agreed to cooperate on the journey, and Ji Yuan returned to Cloud-Rain Sect to update Zhou Cang and plan for his trip.
• Ji Yuan divined that the Ultimate Dao Devil Lord would wait eighty years before resorting to other methods with Du Wanyi, then departed south from Cloud-Rain Island.

Ji Yuan arrived on the Desolate Ancient Continent with High Person Lingzhu’s group and reached Beihuang City, where tensions with the Blood Shadow Cult Master and Jian Wuchen’s history with the city lord came to light. While preparing for the Nascent Soul Trade Fair, Ji Yuan met the formidable Bai Yunzi, who would join them at the Three Southern Passes; the trade fair was about to begin.

• Ji Yuan traded Wishful Wine with High Person Lingzhu, who gave him a Fish-Dragon Candle that could summon his help once.
• Ji Yuan traveled with the Nascent Soul Cultivators across the Silent Void Sea to the Desolate Ancient Continent, where the Blood Shadow Cult Master provoked him until High Person Lingzhu issued a warning.
• The group arrived at Beihuang City, where the Beihuang City Lord welcomed them and Jian Wuchen refused the compensation he offered.
• Ji Yuan toured Beihuang City with Dan Xuzi and planned which Immortal Resources to seek and trade at the upcoming fair.
• Bai Yunzi introduced himself to Ji Yuan and Dan Xuzi, saying he would join them at the Three Southern Passes.
• High Person Lingzhu sent word that the Beihuang City Nascent Soul Trade Fair was about to begin.

Ji Yuan attended Beihuang City’s Nascent Soul Trade Fair in disguise, trading for materials needed to upgrade his workshop. The fair continued as he offered Zixiao Stone for Fourth-Order Monster Cores, while the Beihuang City Lord’s interest in him and another cultivator’s hostility left the gathering tense.

• Jian Wuchen gave Ji Yuan, Bai Yunzi, and Dan Xuzi Black-Rope Bracelets that disguised them as gray mist, and they entered the City Lord’s residence separately.
• The Beihuang City Lord opened the trade fair, and Ji Yuan exchanged Blood River sand for a Fire-Aspect Earth Dragon Demon Core before acquiring several more Demon Cores.
• Ji Yuan offered Zixiao Stone for Shen’s Lapis Lazuli, and the Beihuang City Lord arranged an exchange using Ten-Thousand-Year Soul-Nourishing Wood, leaving Ji Yuan with the Lapis Lazuli.
• Ji Yuan asked for Heart-Corroding Locust Tree, but a hostile cultivator threatened him, and the Beihuang City Lord intervened to prevent a fight.
• Ji Yuan traded three pieces of Zixiao Stone for an Earth Immortal Stone, then offered three more pieces for Fourth-Order Monster Cores.

Ji Yuan traded his Zixiao Stones for Fourth-Order Monster Cores and met the Beihuang City Lord at The Abode, where they negotiated for more cores and a Basic Teleportation Formation Diagram. After Ji Yuan left, Jian Wuchen and the Beihuang City Lord discussed recruiting him, while Ji Yuan revealed that a third person had been hidden in the Formation.

• Ji Yuan traded his remaining three Zixiao Stones to the Beihuang City Lord and two other cultivators for Fourth-Order Monster Cores.
• The Beihuang City Lord invited Ji Yuan to The Abode, where Ji Yuan agreed to trade for fifteen Monster Cores with specified elemental attributes.
• The Beihuang City Lord offered to obtain a Basic Teleportation Formation Diagram, and Ji Yuan gave him a flask of Ageless Spring as a deposit.
• Jian Wuchen appeared after Ji Yuan left, and he and the Beihuang City Lord discussed recruiting Xu Beimu into their organization.
• Tu Yue asked Ji Yuan why he had left without asking about other upgrade materials, and Ji Yuan said a third person had been inside the Beihuang City Lord's Formation.

Ji Yuan traded goods in Beihuang City and Black Tortoise City before reaching the Three Southern Passes, where he surveyed the fortified frontier and its ravaged battlefield. He learned that Elder Xuanji and the Wave-Listening Pavilion Master were alive but trapped in a Secret Realm with power beyond the [Star-Gazing Tower]'s reach, and the chapter ended as Bai Yunzi asked about the cultivator who had sparked the first Nascent Soul War.

• Ji Yuan uncovered the Beihuang City Lord's identity, sold goods in Beihuang City, and obtained fifteen Fourth-Order Monster Cores.
• Ji Yuan traveled with High Person Lingzhu's group through Black Tortoise City, where he struggled to sell Demonic Dao goods, then continued to the Three Southern Passes.
• High Person Lingzhu showed the group the Second Pass's One-Circuit Mountain Grand Formation, and Tian Xuzi described the recent attack and the devastated battlefield beyond it.
• Ji Yuan recalled that his divinations showed Elder Xuanji and the Wave-Listening Pavilion Master were alive, but that a power above the Fourth Tier affected their Secret Realm.
• Bai Yunzi asked Tian Xuzi where the cultivator from his sect who had sparked the first Nascent Soul War was now.

Ji Yuan met Hundred-Blossom Immortal after the Nascent Soul Cultivators were assigned territories to guard at the Three Southern Passes. He learned that the Barbarian God Continent was preparing another Nascent Soul war and left with a plan to protect his senior sister’s hidden identity.

• Tian Xuzi explained that Hua Zhongxian had brought back a Dao companion from the Barbarian God Continent and was now confined by his sect.
• High Person Lingzhu introduced One-Punch High Person, assigned the cultivators their territories, and explained their Merit Points and duties.
• Ji Yuan received the westernmost territory near Joyful Madam and secretly traveled west to meet Hundred-Blossom Immortal.
• Ji Yuan and Hundred-Blossom Immortal reunited, discussed his recent killings, and agreed she would claim that Hundred-Blossom Immortal and Hundred Flowers Maiden were twins if her identities were challenged.
• Hundred-Blossom Immortal warned Ji Yuan that the Barbarian God Continent was preparing a second Nascent Soul war and gave him an item he had previously requested.

Ji Yuan accepted valuable gifts from Hundred-Blossom Immortal, then returned to Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain and upgraded the [Chicken Coop] to Level Five. The upgrade produced a powerful Golden-Plume Thunder Roc and a Five-Color Spirit Egg, which Ji Yuan took to examine.

• Hundred-Blossom Immortal gave Ji Yuan the Heart-Corroding Locust Tree, and Ji Yuan gave her Blood Lady's Thousand-Phantom Blood Robe and a flask of Nine-Nether Lifeburn Brew for her protection.
• Hundred-Blossom Immortal told Ji Yuan that Bone-Nightmare Old Devil had been away for months and named the Abyssal Continent cultivators Ji Yuan considered enemies.
• Ji Yuan returned to Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain and used the Heart-Corroding Locust Tree and Heart-Devouring Willow to build a new [Chicken Coop].
• Ji Yuan spent one hundred thousand Middle-Grade Spirit Stones to upgrade the [Chicken Coop] to Level Five, and its strange heavenly signs subsided without breaking through the sky.
• The Rooster King evolved into a Fourth-Order Golden-Plume Thunder Roc, and Ji Yuan named it Golden Plume after testing its Nascent Soul Middle Stage speed.
• Tu Yue brought Ji Yuan a Five-Color Spirit Egg, and Ji Yuan carried it into the depths of the [Spirit Vein] to examine it.

Ji Yuan refined a Five-Color Spirit Egg and learned that his Nascent Soul could not absorb its earth energy, prompting him to consider completing his Spiritual Roots. After divining that the Blood Shadow Cult Master had joined the Barbarian God Continent, Ji Yuan faced the man’s unexpected return and declared that the Barbarian God Continent was certain to win.

• Ji Yuan refined the Five-Color Spirit Egg, and his Nascent Soul expelled its earth spiritual energy because he lacked an Earth Spiritual Root.
• Tu Yue showed Ji Yuan the upgraded Chicken Coop’s effects, including its future Six-Color Spirit Egg, before Ji Yuan returned to cultivation.
• The Blood Shadow Cult Master visited Ji Yuan and warned that the Demon God Continent backed the Barbarian God Continent, then left him a Communication Talisman.
• Ji Yuan used the Star-Gazing Tower to divine that the Blood Shadow Cult Master had already sided with the Barbarian God Continent and was trying to recruit him.
• The Blood Shadow Cult Master returned a few days later, and Ji Yuan unsettled him by declaring that the Barbarian God Continent was certain to win.

Ji Yuan uncovered Thousand Illusion Old Devil’s disguise and learned that the Desolate Ancient forces already knew Blood Shadow Cult Master was a spy and were preparing to draw in their enemies. After confirming the situation, Ji Yuan met with High Person Lingzhu and Thousand Illusion Old Devil, then claimed that he too had defected to the Barbarian God Continent.

• Blood Shadow Cult Master mistook Ji Yuan’s claim of defection for proof that they were both allies, exchanged a Communication Talisman with him, and left.
• Ji Yuan used the Truth-Piercing Divine Eye to reveal that the first supposed Blood Shadow Cult Master had been Thousand Illusion Old Devil in disguise.
• Thousand Illusion Old Devil told High Person Lingzhu that Xu Beimu seemed clean while Jian Wuchen appeared tempted by the Barbarian God Continent’s offer.
• Ji Yuan visited High Person Lingzhu and exposed Thousand Illusion Old Devil, who had been hiding nearby as a decorative vase.
• High Person Lingzhu and Thousand Illusion Old Devil revealed that they knew Blood Shadow Cult Master was a spy and were nearing the time to draw in the net.
• Ji Yuan offered to help make further arrangements and told High Person Lingzhu and Thousand Illusion Old Devil that he had also defected to the Barbarian God Continent.

Ji Yuan convinced High Person Lingzhu and Thousand Illusion Old Devil that he had pretended to defect so he could infiltrate the Barbarian God Continent’s spies. At Sword-Wielding Peak, Ye Wuzhen recognized Ji Yuan’s cultivation method, offered him a chance to learn its later stages, and Ji Yuan later received word from High Person Lingzhu after months of cultivating and contacting the Blood Shadow Cult Master.

• Ji Yuan explained that he had feigned defection to infiltrate the Barbarian God Continent, and swore he would never truly defect.
• High Person Lingzhu revealed the Taiyi Immortal Sect’s plan to eliminate most of the Blood Shadow Cult Master’s spies and use Ji Yuan to gain the remaining traitors’ trust.
• Thousand Illusion Old Devil disguised himself as High Person Lingzhu while Ji Yuan traveled to Sword-Wielding Peak to meet Ye Wuzhen.
• Ye Wuzhen gave Ji Yuan a strand of Sword Qi, recognized his Azure Billows Nine Tribulations Sword Canon, and promised him a year’s leave to visit Yun Qianzai after the operation.
• Ye Wuzhen offered to teach Ji Yuan the Sword Canon’s later stages if Ji Yuan helped him after reaching the Nascent Soul Late Stage, and told him to wait for the Blood Shadow Cult Master’s mission.
• Ji Yuan cultivated and exchanged messages with the Blood Shadow Cult Master for nearly three months before High Person Lingzhu contacted him.

Ji Yuan learned that Taiyi Immortal Sect planned to use the Sky-Burning Heavy Cannon as bait for a trap against Barbarian God Continent moles, and he set out to infiltrate their ranks. At Locust Valley, he joined a gathering of defectors, where a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator named Qiqimu arrived to command the operation.

• Ji Yuan learned from High Person Lingzhu that he had to survive Taiyi Immortal Sect's ambush, then use the other moles' tokens to gain the Barbarian God Continent's trust.
• Ji Yuan told Hundred-Blossom Immortal to leave the Desolate Ancient Continent every three years, then met Blood Shadow Cult Master and discussed the dangerous mission.
• Ji Yuan traveled to Locust Valley and joined Blood Shadow Cult Master, Fellow Daoist Xiong, Fellow Daoist Niu, the woman surnamed Huang, and Fellow Daoist Tian.
• Fellow Daoist Xiong threatened Fellow Daoist Tian, and Fellow Daoist Niu tried to calm their quarrel.
• Qiqimu, a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator from the Barbarian God Continent, appeared and declared that everyone would follow his command.

Ji Yuan and the other cultivators traveled to Black Dragon Peak aboard Qiqimu’s Earth-Escaping Vessel and prepared to ambush Taiyi Immortal Sect’s party. The ambush began, but Ji Yuan’s opponent proved formidable, and Fellow Daoist Tian’s demonic methods were suppressed as the battle intensified.

• Qiqimu ordered the cultivators to ambush Taiyi Immortal Sect’s party at Black Dragon Peak, and he transported them underground aboard the Earth-Escaping Vessel.
• Qiqimu assigned the Sea-Moon Sect’s Fellow Daoist Huang to fight the enemy’s Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator, while Ji Yuan and Fellow Daoist Tian were told to hold back a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator.
• Ji Yuan sensed Taiyi Immortal Sect’s six Nascent Soul Cultivators and twenty-eight Core Formation Cultivators approaching with three Sky-Burning Heavy Cannons.
• Qiqimu led the ambush, killed several Core Formation Cultivators, and caused the formation carrying the cannons to collapse.
• Ji Yuan and Fellow Daoist Tian fought an elderly, white-robed cultivator whose whisk drove them back, while Fellow Daoist Tian revealed a blood-red banner and released a blood-mist formation.
• The elderly cultivator suppressed Fellow Daoist Tian’s blood mist and summoned a giant hand of white clouds to attack him.

Ji Yuan and his allies drove off the Taiyi Immortal Sect’s first assault, but Qiqimu ordered the Sky-Burning Heavy Cannons destroyed, triggering an explosion that exposed the group to a second ambush. Ji Yuan escaped on the Golden-Plume Thunder Roc and grabbed a valuable fragment as the Taiyi Immortal Sect’s hidden attack began.

• Ji Yuan pretended to be gravely injured while helping Daoist Tian withstand the long-bearded old man, and the two survived until the battle shifted.
• The white-skirted Taiyi Immortal Sect cultivator killed Huang and crushed her Nascent Soul, while Daoist Xiong killed another Taiyi cultivator and Qiqimu began preparing his witchcraft.
• The Taiyi Immortal Sect leader ordered a retreat, and Qiqimu stopped his allies from pursuing, suspecting the withdrawal concealed a trap.
• Qiqimu decided to destroy the three Sky-Burning Heavy Cannons, and Ji Yuan quietly moved away before everyone struck them together.
• The cannons exploded, Ji Yuan fled on the Golden-Plume Thunder Roc, and Taiyi Immortal Sect cultivators launched a second ambush as he seized a fragment and Blood Shadow Cult Master took another.

Ji Yuan killed the wounded Blood Shadow Cult Master, claimed his Blood-Devouring Cloak, and recovered valuable treasures, including two Immortal-Ascending Stones and the Barbarian God Statue. After months of flight, he reached an isolated overseas island and began cultivating in Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain, where he noticed another building could be upgraded.

• Ji Yuan escaped Taiyi Immortal Sect’s ambush with the Blood Shadow Cult Master, while Qiqimu used Witchcraft and Fellow Daoist Tian was revealed as a paper-person avatar.
• Ji Yuan lured the wounded Blood Shadow Cult Master onto the Golden-Plume Thunder Roc, struck his Divine Soul with the God-Slaying Spear, and killed him with the Soul-Seeking Art.
• Ji Yuan claimed and refined the Blood-Devouring Cloak, then found two Immortal-Ascending Stones and the Barbarian God Statue in the Blood Shadow Cult Master’s possessions.
• Ji Yuan flew overseas for several months, found an isolated island, and entered Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain to cultivate.
• Ji Yuan checked his Panel and discovered that another building could be upgraded.

Ji Yuan upgraded the Scripture Pavilion, gained a major boost to cultivation and the four arts, and discovered a witchcraft scroll whose limits he chose not to test yet. After years of seclusion, he learned a second Nascent Soul War was approaching and decided to head to South Pass One.

• Ji Yuan upgraded the Scripture Pavilion to Level Three and used its effects to advance his Sword Canon proficiency before studying the Level Four upgrade requirements.
• Tu Yue found a witchcraft scroll in the Blood Shadow Cult Master's Storage Bag, and Ji Yuan learned it contained the Black Azure Sword, a technique that consumed spiritual power and vital blood.
• Ji Yuan decided to postpone cultivating the witchcraft until he could investigate whether the Barbarian God Continent offered a higher-grade option, and he failed to divine why the Desolate Ancient Continent lacked witchcraft.
• Ji Yuan settled into years of cultivation on the island, raising his Artifact Refinement Technique to the Fourth Tier while putting off his formation studies.
• Tu Yue told Ji Yuan that Nascent Soul Cultivators were moving more frequently and that a second Nascent Soul War might begin soon.
• Worried about his acquaintances and interested in gathering resources, Ji Yuan decided to go to South Pass One while maintaining his identity as a Barbarian God Continent spy.

Hundred-Blossom Immortal hid her concern for Ji Yuan as Jian Wuchen and Dan Xuzi investigated her connection to the suspected traitor Xu Beimu. Meanwhile, Ji Yuan traveled into Barbarian God Continent territory, reached the City of the Celestial God, and was welcomed and rewarded by its elders, where he discovered something startling in his gift.

• Hundred-Blossom Immortal learned that Xu Beimu was being hunted and concealed her worry, while Jian Wuchen and Dan Xuzi suspected she was Hundred Flowers Maiden and discussed using the Cloud-Rain Sect purge as an opportunity.
• Ji Yuan crossed toward Second Southern Pass with the Blood-Devouring Cloak and met Ge Feng, who recognized his Barbarian God token and accepted him as Xu Beimu.
• Ge Feng escorted Ji Yuan to the City of the Celestial God, where Mu Tu and the three elders welcomed him as a celebrated ally.
• First Elder Zhong Xuantian gave Ji Yuan a Storage Bag filled with cultivation resources, and Ji Yuan noticed an unexpected object inside.

Ji Yuan used Zhong Xuantian’s Sacred Beast Fruit to advance the Dream Butterfly to the Fourth Tier, then learned from Tian Wenjing that the Second Nascent Soul War might soon begin. The chapter left Ji Yuan and Tian Wenjing summoned to the central tent, where the Barbarian God Continent leaders dismissed their Nascent Soul cultivators before addressing the two outsiders.

• Zhong Xuantian gave Ji Yuan a Sacred Beast Fruit as a settling-in gift, and Ji Yuan chose to give it to the Dream Butterfly.
• Ji Yuan fed the Sacred Beast Fruit to the Dream Butterfly, which broke through to the Fourth Tier and gained stronger illusion abilities.
• Ji Yuan secretly gathered information about the City of the Celestial God while keeping his distance from its other cultivators.
• Ge Feng told Ji Yuan that Tian Wenjing had arrived, and Ji Yuan met Tian Wenjing and learned his true body remained elsewhere.
• Tian Wenjing warned Ji Yuan that the Taiyi Immortal Sect might attack the City of the Celestial God as the Second Nascent Soul War approached.
• The Great Elder summoned Ji Yuan, Tian Wenjing, and Song Jing to the central tent, where the tribal leaders left after their private discussion.

Ji Yuan and Tian Wenjing learned that the Barbarian God elders planned to sacrifice them while refining the Five-Element Godslayer Cannon, so they pretended to cooperate and considered how to seize its rare materials. After Tian Wenjing proposed a theft, Ji Yuan saw through his hidden motives and prepared his own counterplan, with divination predicting minor good fortune.

• Zhong Xuantian and Du Yu recruited Ji Yuan and Tian Wenjing to help refine the Five-Element Godslayer Cannon, offering a Heavenly Origin Barrier-Breaking Pill and exemption from the front lines.
• Du Yu explained that the cannon required Five-Element Jade and a Fifth-Order Demon Core, and assigned the two cultivators to its dangerous Spirit Pivot Position.
• Ji Yuan used the Scripture Pavilion to deduce that the Spirit Pivot Position was a blood-sacrifice trap designed to consume their Nascent Soul Origins and souls.
• Tian Wenjing secretly visited Ji Yuan, identified the sacrifice plot, and proposed sabotaging the formation and stealing the cannon's core materials.
• Ji Yuan pretended to accept Tian Wenjing's plan, then recognized that Tian Wenjing likely intended to use him as a decoy and devised a counterplan.
• Ji Yuan spent a day and night preparing and used the Star-Gazing Tower to divine the venture's outcome as minor good fortune.

Ji Yuan and Tian Wenjing helped power the forging of the Five-Element Godslayer Cannon, but Du Yu revealed that they were meant to be sacrificed as its catalysts. The chapter ended as Fire Rock, Mu Tu, and You Ji attacked the trapped pair.

• Ji Yuan and Tian Wenjing joined Du Yu, Fire Rock, Mu Tu, and You Ji at the Suppression Soldier Platform and were assigned to serve as the cannon’s Spirit Pivot.
• The group teleported to the underground Earthfire Furnace, took their stations, and began forging the Five-Element Godslayer Cannon.
• Over several months, Ji Yuan and Tian Wenjing harmonized the furnace’s energies as the cannon’s barrel took shape.
• Du Yu activated a sacrificial Formation that drained Ji Yuan and Tian Wenjing’s Nascent Soul Origins, while Fire Rock, Mu Tu, and You Ji revealed they had known the plan.
• Du Yu ordered the three elders to destroy Ji Yuan and Tian Wenjing’s Nascent Souls, and they attacked as the pair remained trapped.