Chapter Summaries

Lin Changheng returned to Luminous Jade Immortal City, bought enough Blackwater White Kun essence blood to advance his water-origin art, and attended the Core Formation auction seeking Nascent Soul Formation ingredients. He secured the black jade dragonwhisker ginseng he needed, while the wealthy young master True Person Treasure Sea also showed interest in him and carried primordial Jianmu fragments.

• Lin Changheng learned that Core Formation cultivators could enter a dedicated auction hall without purchasing tickets and visited the Myriad Spirits Pavilion.
• Steward Qi sold Lin Changheng enough Blackwater White Kun essence blood to complete his planned refinements, but Lin Changheng declined to join a hunt for a late third-tier blazing-origin demon beast.
• Lin Changheng refined the fourth and fifth Blackwater White Kun treasure seeds, strengthened his Ablution Water Origin art, and gained two wisps of water spiritual resonance.
• Lin Changheng attended the auction, bought sea sandalwood golden saliva incense to help revive the Truefire Flood Dragon, and noticed that True Person Treasure Sea carried primordial Jianmu fragments.
• Lin Changheng outbid the other bidders for the black jade dragonwhisker ginseng, driving the price to 235 superior-grade spirit stones and securing the main ingredient he lacked for the Illusion-Breaking Pill.

Lin Changheng traded a Pearl-Weeping Fierce Shark demon core for demon beast essence blood, then used it to complete a transformation that purified his golden core. After filling its pores with mana, he formed a leakless and flawless upper-tier golden core.

• Lin Changheng decided to spend his lifespan accelerating the growth of the pill ingredients and bought a fourth-tier artifact refining inheritance at the auction.
• Lin Changheng approached Guan Sheng after the auction and negotiated a Heavenly Dao Contract exchanging a Pearl-Weeping Fierce Shark demon core for demon beast essence blood.
• Guan Sheng gave Lin Changheng five portions of water-attribute Blazing Origin Essence Blood, and Lin Changheng absorbed them to complete his Blackwater White Kun transformation.
• The transformation’s cleansing tide reached Lin Changheng’s golden core and purified it, leaving it clear and bright.
• Lin Changheng filled every pore in his golden core with mana, completing a leakless and flawless upper-tier golden core.

Lin Changheng perfected his golden core, reached peak late Core Formation, and used his abilities and resources to prepare for Nascent Soul formation. After successfully refining a premium and a standard Nascent Soul Transformation Pill, he flew to Luminous Jade Immortal City.

• Lin Changheng’s golden core reached the flawless limit of the upper tier, and his divine sense extended seventy-three li.
• Lin Changheng cleansed the Blue-Tide Jade Branch with the Ablution Water Origin Demonic Art and used its treasure aura and spirit materials to advance his cultivation.
• After eight cycles of cold and heat, Lin Changheng broke through to peak late Core Formation and achieved golden core perfection.
• Lin Changheng spent about thirty years of lifespan maturing three medicinal ingredients needed for the Nascent Soul Transformation Pill and Illusion-Breaking Pill.
• Lin Changheng refined the Nascent Soul Transformation Pill and produced one premium pill and one standard pill.
• Half a year later, Lin Changheng flew from Long Deer Mountain to Luminous Jade Immortal City to visit the cave abode rental office.

Lin Changheng tested his greatly improved escape speed and reached Luminous Jade Immortal City, where he discovered that True Person Treasure Sea also wanted to rent a site for Nascent Soul formation. Their dispute over priority led the old False Core cultivator to bring them before the Luminous Jade Palace for a ruling, where True Lord Qingwei appeared behind them.

• Lin Changheng combined his purple lightning and green wind escape techniques, then used the Sun-Chasing Cloak to reach a speed that nearby cultivators mistook for a Nascent Soul True Lord.
• Lin Changheng returned to Luminous Jade Immortal City and found True Person Treasure Sea seeking to rent a site for Nascent Soul formation as well.
• Lin Changheng argued that True Person Treasure Sea had no priority because he had not yet passed the Luminous Jade Palace's eligibility assessment, and True Person Treasure Sea threatened him.
• Lin Changheng dispelled True Person Treasure Sea's aura, and the old False Core cultivator persuaded both men to let the palace settle their dispute.
• The old False Core cultivator escorted Lin Changheng and True Person Treasure Sea through the Nine Heavens to the Fifth Heaven and summoned Elder Qingwei.
• True Lord Qingwei entered the jade hall behind Lin Changheng and True Person Treasure Sea without the latter sensing him.

Lin Changheng secured the fourth-tier spirit land from True Lord Qingwei, declined the Luminous Jade Palace’s offer of support, and spent months preparing for Nascent Soul Formation. At age 239, he began the Core-Filling trial, drawing spiritual energy into his flawless golden core as strange phenomena stirred across the valley.

• True Lord Qingwei recognized True Person Treasure Sea’s connection to the late True Lord Baohuan, then warmly greeted Lin Changheng as someone he had met before.
• True Person Treasure Sea withdrew from the contest for the fourth-tier spirit land, and True Lord Qingwei gave Lin Changheng the valley’s exclusive key token.
• True Lord Qingwei offered Lin Changheng a position and support from the Luminous Jade Palace, but Lin Changheng refused because he wanted to rely only on himself.
• Lin Changheng entered the sealed valley, inspected it for hidden measures, and spent five months preparing his body, pills, spirit item, and breakthrough plans.
• At age 239, Lin Changheng began Core-Filling, using the Five-Qi Turtle Scripture of Returning to the Origin to draw spiritual energy and five-element essence into his flawless golden core.
• Lin Changheng’s golden core grew denser as it absorbed power without leaking, while violent spiritual-energy changes in the valley began to attract outside attention.

Lin Changheng completed his Nascent Soul formation after shattering his flawless golden core and overcoming the Heart Demon Tribulation in less than an incense stick’s burn. His breakthrough culminated in a dramatic change in the celestial phenomena as he opened his eyes as a Nascent Soul True Lord.

• Lin Changheng’s Nascent Soul formation phenomena drew dozens of Core Formation cultivators and the attention of True Lord Feili, True Lord Lingxiu, and True Lord Qingwei.
• Lin Changheng used successive methods to weaken his golden core, then swallowed the Nascent Soul Transformation Pill and shattered the core.
• The celestial phenomena spread across nearly two hundred li as Lin Changheng entered the Heart Demon Tribulation and faced visions of past failures and possible tragedies.
• Lin Changheng rejected the illusions by affirming his path and overcame the Heart Demon Tribulation in less than an incense stick’s burn.
• Lin Changheng absorbed the Nascent Soul Formation Spirit Item and joined his soul with the golden core fragments to form a three-inch Nascent Soul.
• Lin Changheng opened his eyes as a Nascent Soul True Lord, and the winds and clouds outside abruptly changed.

Lin Changheng completed his Nascent Soul formation, revealed the overwhelming power of True Lord Ten Thousand Longevity, and examined the new abilities and advantages his breakthrough had granted him. After discovering his extended lifespan, instant spellcasting, stronger flames, and expanded divine sense, he planned to improve his flying swords once he stabilized his cultivation.

• Lin Changheng’s Nascent Soul pressure forced the watching cultivators to kneel, then his radiant figure lifted them and urged them not to kneel lightly.
• True Lord Qingwei, True Lord Feili, and True Lord Lingxiu congratulated Lin Changheng before the gathering dispersed.
• Lin Changheng tested his Nascent Soul and discovered it could emerge from his body, traverse space instinctively, and cast his mastered spells without hand seals or incantations.
• Lin Changheng found that his remaining lifespan had increased by seven hundred years, giving him 1,507 years, and fused his three flames into a powerful new flame approaching fourth-tier mid-grade.
• Lin Changheng measured his divine sense at 143 li, strengthened his five Life-Bound Flying Swords, and decided to seek True Person Treasure Sea for more primordial Jianmu fragments.

Lin Changheng stabilized his Nascent Soul cultivation, revived spirit medicine roots, and prepared to thank the Luminous Jade Palace for helping him form his Nascent Soul. He arrived at the Eighth Heaven, where True Lord Qingwei welcomed him and was startled by Lin Changheng’s astonishing movement technique.

• Lin Changheng considered ways to awaken a sword spirit in his natal treasure artifact, favoring the difficult method of using an outside soul, then resumed cultivation.
• After a year in seclusion, Lin Changheng fully stabilized his Nascent Soul Realm cultivation and learned that stories of True Lord Ten Thousand Longevity had spread throughout the Azure Abyss Sea.
• Lin Changheng tested the intelligence of a wild leopard, revived the spirit medicine roots in his blessed land with his strengthened Glorious Life Divine Ability, and began wearing away the imprint on Tianzhu Daoist’s storage bag.
• Lin Changheng traveled toward the Luminous Jade Immortal Palace on Xiao Hei with Little Qing, and the palace guards recognized him and escorted him to the Eighth Heaven.
• True Lord Qingwei arrived to welcome Lin Changheng, then was astonished when Lin Changheng suddenly appeared before him with an escape technique he could not perceive.

Lin Changheng joined the Luminous Jade Palace as an Offering Elder after negotiating a role that let him keep his freedom, and the palace planned a Nascent Soul Formation Ceremony for him. As he prepared to return to his former cave abode, an urgent matter made him ask for a teleportation formation to the Outer Sea.

• Lin Changheng considered True Lord Qingwei’s recruitment offer and agreed to meet the palace masters before deciding whether to join.
• Palace Master Feili met Lin Changheng, and Qingwei explained that Offering Elders chose one palace task every ten years without fixed duties; Lin Changheng accepted the position.
• Lin Changheng realized Youth-Preserving Pills and Lifespan-Extending Pills could be rare and valuable in the Azure Abyss Sea, then revealed that he had cultivated for fewer than three hundred years, astonishing Feili and Qingwei.
• Lin Changheng agreed to hold a Nascent Soul Formation Ceremony three years later, signed the palace’s contract, and chose a cave abode in the Eighth Heaven.
• As Lin Changheng prepared to return to the Ascend-to-Heaven Mountains, his expression changed and he urgently asked True Lord Qingxu whether the palace had a teleportation formation to the Outer Sea.

Lin Changheng reached the Azure Abyss Sea after sensing that Mo Zhaoli’s Soul Lamp had weakened, then found her trapped with Sea-Ruins Merchant Guild cultivators by demon cultivators seeking a secret realm. He arrived at the besieged island and reunited with Mo Zhaoli, who recognized him but immediately urged him to flee before the demons summoned a Nascent Soul cultivator.

• Lin Changheng used Luminous Jade Palace’s elder token and a Grand Teleportation Token to travel from Luminous Jade Immortal City to the outer sea.
• Lin Changheng followed Mo Zhaoli’s Soul Lamp and captured a fleeing Sea-Ruins Merchant Guild steward, who revealed that Mo Zhaoli and other Deep Abyss Altar cultivators were besieged while guarding a small secret realm.
• The steward led Lin Changheng to the White Bone Abyss, where demon cultivators from Extreme Demon Island surrounded the island formation protecting Mo Zhaoli and her companions.
• Lin Changheng arrived, saw Mo Zhaoli through the formation, and embraced her after she mistook him for an illusion.
• Mo Zhaoli confirmed that Lin Changheng was real, then shielded him and urged him to escape before the demon cultivators could summon a Nascent Soul expert.

Lin Changheng revealed his Nascent Soul power to save Mo Zhaoli, killing the demon cultivators who had attacked her and confronting the ink-crowned Nascent Soul cultivator Ji. His enhanced Mist-Scattering Divine Ability trapped Ji as Lin Changheng seized his Bronze Disc, but Ji summoned a Demon God Phantom to attack him.

• Lin Changheng reunited with Mo Zhaoli, healed her injuries, and promised to set off fireworks for her again.
• Lin Changheng crushed the goateed demon cultivator with a radiant palm and slaughtered the fleeing demon cultivators with his divine ability and flying swords.
• Lin Changheng pursued the dark-faced demon cultivator and exposed Ji, who had concealed himself nearby; Lin Changheng killed the dark-faced cultivator despite Ji's intervention.
• Lin Changheng expanded his Mist-Scattering Divine Ability across twenty li, then trapped Ji in the mist and sent his swords and treasures after him.
• Lin Changheng used the Spirit-Binding Mirror and Seven-Star Bracelet to immobilize Ji's Bronze Disc and sever its link to the ghost creatures.
• Ji summoned a thirty-foot Demon God Phantom and ordered it to attack Lin Changheng.

Lin Changheng defeated the black-crowned Nascent Soul demon cultivator, seized his Bronze Disc, and destroyed his body, but the enemy escaped as a Nascent Soul. After the battle, Lin Changheng collected the demon cultivator’s corpse and Storage Bag as spoils.

• Mo Zhaoli told Daoist Golden Light to lead the Sea-Ruins Merchant Guild cultivators away while she stayed to watch Lin Changheng’s battle.
• Lin Changheng disrupted the Ferocious Demon God Phantom with the River-Calming Pearl, shattered it, and wounded the black-crowned demon cultivator with a three-colored flame blade.
• The demon cultivator used a blood talisman to dispel Lin Changheng’s fog, but Lin Changheng subdued his Bronze Disc with the Seven-Star Bracelet and took it into the Heaven-in-a-Pot Blessed Land.
• Lin Changheng attacked with the Golden Dipper, Submerging Water Mountain, and Shura's Yellow Springs Corpse Puppet, gravely injuring the demon cultivator and severing his lower leg.
• Lin Changheng’s Double Cloudsea Sun-Piercing Sword Formation destroyed the demon cultivator’s body, but his Nascent Soul escaped by Instantaneous Teleportation.
• Lin Changheng collected his treasures and corpse, set aside the Nascent Soul Storage Bag as spoils, and let the escaped Nascent Soul flee.

Lin Changheng defeated the Nascent Soul demon cultivator’s attack, then entered an underwater small secret realm with Mo Zhaoli and broke through its sealed stone gate. Inside, the realm suppressed their mana and divine sense to the Qi Refining level, but Lin Changheng discovered his body tempering remained intact as they headed toward the realm’s center.

• Lin Changheng reflected on the difficulty of killing Nascent Soul cultivators and resolved to investigate the small secret realm before the fugitive demon cultivator could summon reinforcements.
• Lin Changheng reunited with Mo Zhaoli, dismantled the Sea-Ruins Merchant Guild’s fourth-tier formation, and learned that the defeated cultivator was Ji Shan Devil Lord, who had slaughtered his family to join Extreme Demon Island.
• Lin Changheng and Mo Zhaoli descended to the underwater cavern, where Lin Changheng examined the sealed stone gate and coordinated several attacks to break through its defensive formation.
• Lin Changheng carried Mo Zhaoli through the gate and activated the Grand Teleportation Token as the spatial passage pulled them into the secret realm.
• Lin Changheng discovered that the realm restricted their mana and divine sense to Qi Refining levels, while his body-tempering strength remained usable and Mo Zhaoli’s body tempering could protect her.
• Lin Changheng surveyed the small, wooded realm with his Seven-Colored Divine Light, learned that it held mostly second-tier treasures, and traveled with Mo Zhaoli toward its central region.

Lin Changheng defeated the Ji Shan Devil Lord, then entered an underwater small secret realm with Mo Zhaoli by breaking its sealed stone gate. Inside, their mana and divine sense were suppressed to the Qi Refining realm, but Lin Changheng retained his body-tempering strength and surveyed the realm.

• Lin Changheng reflected on how difficult it was to kill a Nascent Soul cultivator after the black-crowned Nascent Soul Demon Cultivator fled.
• Lin Changheng reunited with Mo Zhaoli, dismantled the Sea-Ruins Merchant Guild’s formation, and learned about the secret realm and the Ji Shan Devil Lord.
• Lin Changheng and Mo Zhaoli followed a positioning tool to an underwater cavern, where Lin Changheng broke through the stone gate’s defenses and entered the secret realm with her.
• The secret realm suppressed Lin Changheng and Mo Zhaoli’s mana and divine sense to the Qi Refining level, but Lin Changheng found he could still use his body-tempering strength.
• Lin Changheng surveyed the twenty-to-thirty-li secret realm, found it was mostly mountain forest with second-tier treasures, and headed with Mo Zhaoli toward its center.

Lin Changheng fully devoured the secret realm, vastly expanding the Heaven-in-a-Pot Blessed Land, then escaped a confrontation with an Outer Sea Nascent Soul devil lord by bluffing about the realm’s fate. After reuniting with Mo Zhaoli and planning his work before the Nascent Soul Formation Ceremony, he surveyed the transformed blessed land and its awestruck spirit beasts.

• The Secret Realm Core triggered a ten-day transformation that expanded the Heaven-in-a-Pot Blessed Land and enriched its terrain, spiritual energy, and resources.
• Lin Changheng and Mo Zhaoli escaped the collapsing secret realm, and he killed a Foundation Establishment demon cultivator while leaving the cavern.
• A Blond-Haired Demonic Nascent Soul attacked Lin Changheng, but Lin’s display of treasures and warning about Extreme Radiance made the devil lord let him go.
• The Blond-Haired Demonic Nascent Soul later learned the secret realm was collapsing and realized Lin Changheng had deceived him, then swore revenge.
• Ten days later, Lin Changheng kissed Mo Zhaoli as she departed and learned she might help him find a fourth-tier earth-attribute body-tempering method.
• Lin Changheng planned to inspect two Nascent Soul Storage Bags, investigate Long Deer Peak, strengthen his flying swords, revive the Truefire Flood Dragon, and seek Wind-Piercing Beast blood as his spirit beasts surveyed the expanded blessed land.

Lin Changheng explored the Heaven-in-a-Pot Blessed Land’s new powers, then opened two Nascent Soul cultivators’ storage bags and gained valuable materials, wealth, and a powerful demonic art. After a year refining Ji Shan’s Bronze Disc and cultivating the art, he searched Long Deer Peak with Seven-Colored Divine Light and detected a strange gray-white ripple hidden from divine sense.

• Lin Changheng discovered that the Heaven-in-a-Pot Blessed Land could broadcast his thoughts as a heavenly voice, shape a giant image of his face, and plant more than a hundred spirit plants in moments.
• Lin Changheng opened Tianzhu Daoist’s second nascent soul’s storage bag, found two secret arts and three fourth-tier spirit materials, and decided against using either soul art.
• Lin Changheng searched Ji Shan’s storage bag, found more than a million spirit stones, fourth-tier materials, and the Yin Tide Demon-Subduing Spirit-Invoking Mantra, then used demon beast materials as its source of demonic power.
• Lin Changheng refined Ji Shan’s Bronze Disc with the Threefold Treasure Flame over a year and became proficient in the Yin Tide Demon-Subduing Spirit-Invoking Mantra.
• Lin Changheng scanned Long Deer Peak with Seven-Colored Divine Light and found a faint gray-white ripple at the mountain’s foot that his divine sense could not detect.

Lin Changheng discovered a mysterious root buried beneath Long Deer Peak, severed its heavenly-secret link, and took it to his Heaven-in-a-Pot Blessed Land after learning that reviving it consumed his lifespan. He traveled toward Green Jade Gate and arrived at its main island, where he waited for Guan Sheng while concealing that he was a Nascent Soul True Lord.

• Lin Changheng used the true essence of Candle Gaze Divine Ability to reveal a heavenly-secret thread leading deep beneath Long Deer Peak to a guarded underground chamber.
• Lin Changheng found a withered root with a green shoot, discovered that reviving it with Glorious Life Divine Ability cost him ten years of lifespan, and decided to take it.
• Lin Changheng severed the root's heavenly-secret connection, froze and removed the root and its supporting pillar, erased his traces, and left Long Deer Peak.
• Lin Changheng erased the records of his Long Deer Peak rental, obtained sea charts through his Luminous Jade Palace Elder Token, and sailed toward Green Jade Gate.
• Lin Changheng inspected the root in his Heaven-in-a-Pot Blessed Land, then flew to Green Jade Gate's main island and activated his Sensing Jade Talisman to wait for Guan Sheng.

Lin Changheng visited the Green Jade Gate, learned of its internal feud, and agreed to help recover its stolen Jade-Clear Sacred Tea mother plants in exchange for Wind-Piercing Beast essence blood. Yu Susu secured the beast’s agreement to meet him, and the chapter ended as Lin Changheng came face-to-face with the sect’s ancient Wind-Piercer.

• Guan Sheng welcomed Lin Changheng to the Green Jade Gate and explained how the Inner Sea’s largest islands had been turned into hidden defensive strongholds.
• Yu Susu recognized Lin Changheng as a Nascent Soul True Lord, and Guan Sheng learned his old companion’s true identity.
• Yu Susu and Guan Sheng described the Green Jade Gate’s succession feud and asked Lin Changheng to help recover two stolen Jade-Clear Sacred Tea mother plants.
• Lin Changheng agreed to intervene in exchange for a long-term supply of Wind-Piercing Beast essence blood, and Yu Susu arranged for the beast to meet him.
• Yu Susu led Lin Changheng to a windy cliffside cave, where he met the enormous Wind-Piercing Beast known as Martial Uncle Wind-Piercer.

Lin Changheng met the aged Wind-Piercing Beast, which asked him to help Yu Susu form a Nascent Soul in exchange for a drop of true spirit essence blood. The beast revealed how it had found the blood and lost its Dao path, leaving Lin Changheng to weigh the extraordinary treasure and the bargain ahead.

• Lin Changheng confronted the Wind-Piercing Beast over Yu Susu's attempt to involve him in her plans, and the beast apologized for her.
• The Wind-Piercing Beast asked Lin Changheng to help Yu Susu gather the materials and insights needed to form a Nascent Soul, offering a rare demon beast essence blood in exchange.
• The Wind-Piercing Beast told Lin Changheng that it had found a mysterious space containing a feather and two drops of true spirit essence blood, but a pureblood Golden Flood Dragon had taken most of the spoils and later ruined its Dao path.
• Lin Changheng promised to seek revenge on the Golden Flood Dragon if the chance arose, explaining that his friend needed a Flood Dragon body.
• The Wind-Piercing Beast revealed its remaining drop of true spirit essence blood, and Lin Changheng's Origin Cauldron trembled at its aura.

Lin Changheng traded the Wind-Piercing Beast’s True Spirit essence blood for Yu Susu’s Nascent Soul formation resources and absorbed it with the Origin Cauldron. He refined the Sky-Soaring Kunpeng’s Sky-Hanging Void Crossing talent, gaining short-range teleportation and beginning to test its limits.

• Lin Changheng reasoned that the Golden Flood Dragon might still possess the other drop of True Spirit essence blood, then encouraged the Wind-Piercing Beast to stop regretting its past.
• The Wind-Piercing Beast revealed that even fourth-tier mid-grade Heart-of-the-Sea Flame had failed to affect the essence blood, and Lin Changheng agreed to help Yu Susu obtain her Nascent Soul formation necessities.
• After Yu Susu listed what she lacked, Lin Changheng and the Wind-Piercing Beast signed a Heavenly Dao Contract exchanging her pill ingredients and Nascent Soul Formation Insights for the essence blood.
• Lin Changheng took the essence blood back to his courtyard, absorbed it with the Origin Cauldron, and gained a Sky-Soaring Kunpeng treasure seed with three innate talents to choose from.
• Lin Changheng chose Sky-Hanging Void Crossing, refined it into the Sky-Hanging Void Crossing Otherworldly Art, and discovered that it let him teleport short distances at a high mana cost.