Chapter Summaries

Li Ping weighed whether to support his former brothers’ plan to rebuild the Heavenly Profound Sect and traveled to Donghua Mountain, where competing factions sought his backing. He agreed to protect the Jiang Lineage’s interests but reserved judgment on the Academy’s offer of the Nine Chariots Kingdom, then received a visit from True Person Jiang and an unfamiliar Core Formation late-stage cultivator.

• Li Ping declined to promise Cheng Yao and Gu Musheng his support, telling them to wait in the Jiang Kingdom and accompany him to Donghua Mountain.
• True Person Jiang joined Li Ping’s party for the Heaven-Worship Ceremony, aligned herself with him, and asked his approval for marriages between juniors of her lineage and the Yan and Ji families.
• At Donghua Mountain, Qi Hanmo asked Li Ping to support the Academy’s effort to reclaim its former sect grounds.
• Qi Hanmo revealed that the Academy would hand the Nine Chariots Kingdom to Li Ping and his brothers if they backed the Academy, but Li Ping postponed his answer until after meeting Xu Guike and Lin.
• True Person Jiang arrived with an unfamiliar Core Formation late-stage cultivator who appeared to have a favor to ask of Li Ping.

Li Ping rejected Chixiaozi’s offer to ally against the Academy and later secured the Nine Chariots Kingdom for Gu Musheng and the others to establish a sect. Xu Guike refused to let them claim the Heavenly Profound Sect’s name, so Li Ping named their new sect the Seven Immortals Sect.

• Chixiaozi urged Li Ping to join the Central Region Alliance in contesting the Academy’s influence, but Li Ping declined.
• Li Ping visited Xu Guike, who said he would not rebuild the Heavenly Profound Sect and opposed Gu Musheng and the others using its name or Windmist True Person’s banner.
• Xu Guike agreed that Gu Musheng and the others could return to the Nine Chariots Kingdom if they established a different sect.
• Li Ping told Gu Musheng, Cheng Yao, Wang Xingwei, and Bai Qing that the Academy would let them establish a sect in the Nine Chariots Kingdom after the ceremony to honor Heaven.
• Li Ping named their new sect the Seven Immortals Sect and sent Bai Qing and True Person Jiang to inform Qi Hanmo and Chixiaozi of his choice.

After the Righteous Path reclaimed the five kingdoms, Li Ping secured the Nine Chariots Kingdom for his faction and renamed it Great Ning. As the families began relocating there, he considered exploring an ancient cave abode but postponed the risk while the missing Demonic Path cultivators remained unaccounted for.

• Li Ping and the Academy’s allies divided the reclaimed territories, with Li Ping receiving the Nine Chariots Kingdom to establish the Seven Immortals Sect.
• Gu Musheng and the other families prepared to move most of their people to the Nine Chariots Kingdom while retaining some members and businesses in Windmist Immortal City; Li Ping arranged materials for a sect-protecting formation.
• Cheng Yao suggested renaming the Nine Chariots Kingdom, and Li Ping chose the name Great Ning.
• After returning to Meishan City, Li Ping learned that the Four Demonic Sects’ high-level cultivators had vanished and decided not to investigate the ancient cave abode in the Vast Sea yet.
• Bai Qing led the first migration of Bai Family cultivators and mortals aboard the Giant Whale Wavebreaker Shuttle, leaving Bai Zhengheng to organize the next group.

Three years after settling in Great Ning, Li Ping reunited with the Shared Boat Association and helped establish the Seven Immortals Sect, while its leaders secured a supply of Foundation Establishment Pills. The feast ended with the group mourning Teng Feng, who was actually alive among the Sea Folk and had learned that the Flood Dragon Clan traded ice li frost.

• Li Ping and Qi Hanmo arrived at Seven Immortals Mountain, where Li Ping promised to install the sect’s protective formation before its founding ceremony.
• At the banquet, the Shared Boat Association members toasted Li Ping for helping them reach foundation establishment and secure Great Ning for their lineages.
• Gu Musheng asked Qi Hanmo to obtain Foundation Establishment Pills, and Qi Hanmo said the Academy had agreed to sell the Seven Immortals Sect ten every thirty years.
• Zhang Tie and the others mourned Teng Feng, believing he had died in the beast tide, while Teng Feng was living with Feng Lian in the Windchaser Tribe and raising their two children.
• Feng Lian told Teng Feng that the Sea Folk had traded ice li frost only with the Flood Dragon Clan, making him uneasy because he had recently helped capture a young Flood Dragon.

Teng Feng learned that the Flood Dragon Clan had poisoned Minggu over a treasure sealed in the Western Wasteland, while Li Ping established the Seven Immortals Sect and prepared to remain in Great Ning. Three years later, Li Ping visited Zhang Tie, whose lifespan was nearly exhausted, and told his descendant that he had about a month left.

• Minggu identified the Flood Dragon Clan as the force behind his poisoning and revealed that he had gone to the Western Wasteland to obtain a sealed treasure before attempting nascent soul formation.
• Li Ping completed the Ninefold Cloud-Locking Formation around Seven Immortals Mountain and entrusted its Formation Disc and access-token method to five leaders.
• At the Seven Immortals Sect's founding ceremony, Li Ping rewarded Yan Jing, advised Ji Shuwen to focus on cultivation, and asked her and the others to protect Meishan City while he stayed in Great Ning.
• The Seven Immortals Sect began rebuilding Seven Immortals Mountain, and Li Ping spent three years cultivating there.
• Li Ping visited Zhang Tie as his lifespan neared its end, used the Longevity Art to ease his suffering, and told Zhang Shansong that Zhang Tie had about a month left.

Zhang Tie and Gu Musheng died after entrusting their family legacies to Li Ping, who arranged for their descendants to inherit sect offices under limits. Li Ping refined ten-thousand-year soul-nourishing wood, planted phoenix glazed grass on Second Gray Island, and the chapter ended with Cheng Yao's death.

• Zhang Tie died, and his family cremated him and scattered his ashes over Seven Immortals Mountain.
• Li Ping appointed Zhang Shansong to succeed Zhang Tie as internal affairs steward, with future appointments to be decided by the sect's elders after two generations.
• Gu Musheng asked Li Ping to look after Gu Xuan and the Gu Family, then died about half a month later.
• Li Ping tried refining the ten-thousand-year soul-nourishing wood with pill flame and found that he could draw it into his body to nourish his divine sense.
• Li Ping planted three stalks of phoenix glazed grass on Second Gray Island, reducing its time flow to two hundred and fifty times normal.
• Three years later, Cheng Yao passed away.

After Cheng Yao died, Wang Chengyu took over the Seven Immortals Sect as Li Ping and his surviving companions reflected on aging and heard of the deadly war in Great Zhou. The chapter ended with Old Devil Fang exposing the Yu Household’s role in killing a fourth-tier Scarlet Flood Dragon and giving Yu the captured nascent soul of Xu Zhan as a supposed congratulatory gift.

• Cheng Yao died, and Wang Chengyu arranged her funeral before succeeding her as master of the Seven Immortals Sect.
• Bai Qing told Li Ping and Qi Hanmo that the relocated lineages had settled on Seven Immortals Mountain and that Zhang Tie, Gu Musheng, and Cheng Yao had died.
• Qi Hanmo reported that the Great Zhou Immortal Alliance had fought the Eastern Sea Demon Race for decades, with three Nascent Soul cultivators suffering violent liberation.
• Li Ping learned that one of the Three Elders of the Spirit Firmament, Xu Zhan, had likely perished, while the Scarlet Flood Dragon advanced to the second-tier middle stage under Meng Wanjun’s care.
• Old Devil Fang confronted the man surnamed Yu about Suyue’s killing of a fourth-tier Scarlet Flood Dragon and revealed that he had captured and searched Xu Zhan’s nascent soul.
• The man surnamed Yu admitted arranging the dragon’s killing to obtain its inner core and blood essence for a breakthrough, and Old Devil Fang gave him Xu Zhan’s nascent soul before leaving.

The man surnamed Yu freed Xu Zhan’s nascent soul and explained why Old Devil Fang had let him go, while secretly pursuing ambitions far beyond the Immortal Alliance. After more than a decade overseeing the Seven Immortals Sect, Li Ping returned to Meishan City, where Yan Hengchuan asked him to join the Yan Household in celebrating Yan Jing’s core formation.

• The man surnamed Yu removed Old Devil Fang’s restrictions from Xu Zhan’s nascent soul and told him that Old Devil Fang knew of their plans to unite Great Zhou’s unaffiliated nascent soul cultivators.
• The man surnamed Yu said he would help Xu Zhan find a suitable dharma body, while privately resolving to eradicate the demonic scourge and subdue every race.
• After Yan Hengchuan reported that Yan Jing had formed a golden core, Li Ping decided to leave the Seven Immortals Sect and return to Meishan City.
• Li Ping departed with Meng Wanjun, stopped to visit Xu Guike at the Jade Sash River, and continued on to Meishan City.
• Yan Hengchuan welcomed Li Ping and asked to bring Yan Ruyan, Yu Jianhong, and Ji Zhe to meet him; Li Ping agreed that they could accompany the family to Yan Jing’s Golden Core Ceremony.

Li Ping discovered that his Copper Corpse had advanced to a third-tier middle-grade Silver Corpse, named it Xuan Er, and planned to strengthen its cold, poisonous miasma into a pseudo-life-bound treasure. He then traveled to Yan Jing’s Golden Core Ceremony, where he gave Yan Jing thunderstrike wood and acknowledged three juniors as managers of Meishan City.

• Li Ping found that the Copper Corpse had advanced and gained a frigid, poisonous miasma ability, which he named Bone-Eroding Cold Marrow Miasma.
• Li Ping named the corpse Xuan Er and ordered Meng Wanjun to have the Seven Immortals Sect search for materials to refine the miasma into Bone-Eroding Cold Marrow Sand.
• Li Ping traveled with Yan Hengchuan, Yan Ruyan, Yu Jianhong, and Ji Zhe to attend Yan Jing’s Golden Core Ceremony at the Crimson Flame Sect.
• Li Ping gave Yan Ruyan, Yu Jianhong, and Ji Zhe cultivation pills and acknowledged their authority to manage Meishan City.
• Yan Jing thanked Li Ping for his help reaching Core Formation, and Li Ping gave him thunderstrike wood to refine into a life-bound treasure.

At Yan Jing’s Golden Core Ceremony, the Formless Young Master challenged Li Ping, who sent the Desolate Fire Sparrow to fight in his place. After the challenger used Soul-Sundering Sand in a lethal attack, the Desolate Fire Sparrow destroyed the treasure and killed him, leaving Chixiaozi furious.

• Li Ping noticed the unfamiliar Formless Young Master, and Yan Jing explained that the core formation middle stage cultivator from Great Zhou had joined the Crimson Flame Sect as a Guest Elder after defeating True Person Lei.
• After the ceremony, the Formless Young Master challenged Li Ping, but Li Ping accepted only after Chixiaozi refused to call off the spar.
• Li Ping summoned the Desolate Fire Sparrow to fight, and it swiftly evaded the Formless Young Master’s sword and broke through his spirit talisman barriers.
• The Formless Young Master unleashed his Soul-Sundering Divine Sand and trapped the Desolate Fire Sparrow, but its Evil-Slaying Flame burned away the sand and its ghostly souls.
• The Desolate Fire Sparrow struck with its Vermilion Bird Fan and burned the Formless Young Master to ashes before Chixiaozi could stop it, then returned to Li Ping with the challenger’s Storage Bag and black gourd.

Li Ping’s Desolate Fire Sparrow killed the Formless Young Master, and Chixiaozi accepted Li Ping’s standing as the Western Wasteland’s foremost cultivator while helping recast the duel as the slaying of a demonic infiltrator. On the journey home, Li Ping discovered that the black gourd’s ruined Soul-Sundering Sand could supply materials for Xuan Er’s weapon, while Xu Guike set out to avenge his Master and Grandmaster.

• Chixiaozi declined to challenge Li Ping and invited the cultivators to take their seats, while the gathered cultivators concluded that Li Ping was the Western Wasteland’s foremost cultivator.
• At the banquet, Chixiaozi and True Person Lei called the Formless Young Master a Demon Cultivator, and Li Ping agreed to let the Crimson Flame Sect present the duel as the slaying of a fiend.
• Xu Guike broke through to core formation middle stage, told Lin Yue he would avenge his Master and Grandmaster, and left the Jade Sash River alone.
• Li Ping returned home with Yan Ruyan, Yu Jianhong, and Ji Zhe as they celebrated his new reputation.
• Li Ping examined the Formless Young Master’s black gourd and Storage Bag, realizing the ruined Soul-Sundering Sand could provide material for Bone-Eroding Cold Marrow Sand and the gourd could collect cold baleful qi.
• Li Ping planned to refine Bone-Eroding Cold Marrow Sand for Xuan Er so the Copper Corpse could gain greater combat strength.

Xu Guike destroyed Purple Cloud Valley and revealed that he had also wiped out the Greenwood Sect and Sword-Washing Pool to avenge his master, sparing Ji Shuwen. After strengthening Xuan Er with Frost Marrow Bone-Eroding Sand, Li Ping learned Xu Guike planned to leave the Western Wasteland for Great Zhou.

• Xu Guike attacked Purple Cloud Valley, broke its protective formation, and killed its three Core Formation elders, including Huang Yan.
• Xu Guike carved a message declaring his revenge for his master, then left for the Ji Kingdom without harming the sect’s low-level disciples.
• Li Ping refined Frost Marrow Bone-Eroding Sand by combining Xuan Er’s miasma, poisonous substances, and Soul-Sundering Sand, then had Xuan Er swallow it.
• After several months of secluded cultivation, Li Ping received Xu Guike, who said he intended to travel to Great Zhou.
• Xu Guike told Li Ping that he had killed seven Core Formation cultivators and destroyed Purple Cloud Valley, the Greenwood Sect, and the Sword-Washing Pool, while sparing Ji Shuwen.

After Xu Guike left for Great Zhou, Li Ping reflected on their differences and learned that Xu had destroyed three sects to avenge his master. Ji Shuwen found safety with Li Ping, while Chixiaozi arrived to discuss taking control of the Three Sects’ abandoned territories.

• Xu Guike thanked Li Ping for his warning about the war in Great Zhou, then left for the Vast Sea with his senior sister.
• Li Ping considered how Xu Guike’s upbringing had shaped him and accepted that Xu would follow his own judgment.
• News spread that Xu Guike had killed seven Core Formation Cultivators and destroyed the Purple Cloud Valley, the Sword-Washing Pool, and the Greenwood Sect.
• Ji Shuwen visited Li Ping, who told her Xu Guike had promised not to harm her and had already left the Western Wasteland.
• Ji Shuwen stayed near Li Ping to cultivate, and Yan Hengchuan returned with his family and Chixiaozi.
• Chixiaozi asked Li Ping about the chaos in the Three Sects’ kingdoms, revealing his interest in taking their territories.

Li Ping allowed Chixiaozi to settle the Three Sects’ territories and supported Ji Shuwen’s appointment as their temporary administrator, while Chixiaozi positioned the Crimson Flame Sect to gain influence over the kingdoms. Meanwhile, Granny Suyue brought Xiao Yunzhi across a deadly silent region to Sea-Pole Mountain, where Xiao Yunzhi was to cultivate until nascent soul formation.

• Li Ping told Chixiaozi that he had no interest in the Three Sects’ territories, but asked him to consider Ji Shuwen’s interests in Purple Cloud Valley and the Yue Kingdom.
• Chixiaozi summoned Ji Shuwen and proposed that she restore order in Purple Cloud Valley and administer the Yue, Chi, and Ji Kingdoms, with True Person Lei and Yan Jing helping stabilize them.
• Chixiaozi arranged for Windmist Immortal City to come under Purple Cloud Valley, then left with Ji Shuwen to discuss the work of stabilizing the three kingdoms.
• Li Ping concluded that Chixiaozi’s arrangement gave the Crimson Flame Sect a path to control the Three Sects while making Ji Shuwen a powerful figure.
• Granny Suyue told Xiao Yunzhi that the deadly silent region they had crossed was too dangerous even for spirit transformation cultivators to enter its heart.
• Granny Suyue brought Xiao Yunzhi to Sea-Pole Mountain and ordered her to cultivate there until she achieved nascent soul formation.

After the Three Kingdoms settled under Ji Shuwen’s rule, Li Ping continued cultivating while the people around him aged and died. Five years after Yan Hengchuan’s funeral, Li Ping emerged from seclusion to find Meng Wanjun and his spirit beasts waiting for him.

• Chixiaozi and Ji Shuwen restored the Three Kingdoms’ sects, and Ji Shuwen gradually secured control by appointing loyal officials and managing cultivation resources.
• Yu Peiling died, and Yan Hengchuan returned the Blood Spirit Myriad Transformations Scripture to Li Ping before dying four years later.
• At Yan Hengchuan’s funeral, Ji Shuwen described how she had consolidated power across the three sects and one city, while Bai Qing delivered the Seven Immortals Sect’s offerings to Li Ping.
• Li Ping reflected on the rise of Ji Shuwen, Yan Jing, and the Three Families of Meishan City, then returned to secluded cultivation.
• Five years later, Li Ping emerged from seclusion, and Meng Wanjun greeted him as the Desolate Fire Sparrow, Earth Spirit Mouse, and Scarlet Flood Dragon gathered nearby.

Li Ping inspected his companions’ cultivation and admired the phoenix blood fruits growing on his Spirit Island. In Great Zhou, Xu Guike recovered after a caravan rescued him, then revealed that Lin Yue had sacrificed herself to help him escape mysterious cultivators and resolved to avenge her alone.

• Li Ping assessed his companions’ progress and considered his own slow cultivation, long lifespan, and chances of reaching Nascent Soul.
• Li Ping found that each of his three phoenix glazed grass stalks had grown three phoenix blood fruits and planned to cultivate more for a chance at the Heavenly Phoenix’s spatial divine ability.
• A caravan crossing the Vast Sea rescued the gravely wounded Xu Guike, while Xiao Zhu and her father cared for him.
• Sand bandits attacked the caravan, and Xu Guike woke and beheaded hundreds of them with his flying sword.
• Xu Guike recalled that mysterious cultivators had attacked him and Lin Yue in a ruin, and that Lin Yue sacrificed her life so he could escape.
• Xu Guike rejected the idea of asking Li Ping for help and vowed to avenge Lin Yue himself.

Old Devil Wu and a black-robed Nine Nether Sect cultivator returned to the Western Wasteland to investigate the missing Formless Young Master and learned that Li Ping's spirit bird had killed him. Meanwhile, Li Ping planned to leave for Great Zhou after the Desolate Fire Sparrow advanced, and the chapter ended with Old Devil Wu expressing disbelief at Li Ping's rise.

• Old Devil Wu and a black-robed Nine Nether Sect Core Formation cultivator entered the Featherflame Kingdom and headed toward the Yun Kingdom to contact the Formless Young Master.
• Li Ping reviewed reports of peaceful growth in the Western Wasteland, checked his spirit beasts and rare plants, and decided he would eventually travel alone to Great Zhou.
• Li Ping judged that the Desolate Fire Sparrow could reach the third-tier late stage within five years and planned to wait for its advancement before leaving.
• Old Devil Wu and the black-robed cultivator learned that Li Ping's spirit bird had killed the Formless Young Master, earning Li Ping recognition as the Western Wasteland's Foremost Cultivator.
• Old Devil Wu struggled to believe Li Ping had advanced from Core Formation early stage to middle stage and become the region's foremost cultivator in little over a century.

Old Devil Wu concluded that Li Ping had obtained Li Jingyu’s possessions and a route to Great Zhou, then planned to use the theory to win more blood spring. Three years later, Li Ping watched the Desolate Fire Sparrow break through to the third-tier late stage.

• Old Devil Wu speculated that Li Ping’s rise and trip to Great Zhou were connected to Li Jingyu, and he decided to report the theory to the Four Demonic Sects.
• Old Devil Wu gathered information confirming Li Ping had visited Great Zhou and falsely treated Li Ping’s spirit bird as the same one Li Jingyu had used.
• Li Ping reviewed three years of peaceful developments and learned that the Desolate Fire Sparrow was nearing a breakthrough.
• The Desolate Fire Sparrow began advancing, and Li Ping shielded Meng Wanjun from the intense heat and spiritual pressure.
• After several days, the Desolate Fire Sparrow emerged from the flames as a nearly three-thousand-zhang spirit bird and reached the third-tier late stage.

Li Ping prepared to leave the Western Wasteland, gave Meng Wanjun an Essence Condensation Pill, and discovered that her magic power had begun crystallizing toward core formation. Before he could depart, Bai Qing arrived with a map to an Ancient Cultivator Cave Abode, but Li Ping judged it likely to be a trap.

• Li Ping told Meng Wanjun he would travel to Great Zhou without her and gave her an Essence Condensation Pill before examining the crystals in her magic power.
• Li Ping recognized Meng Wanjun's crystals as crystallized magic power and explained that they greatly improved her chances of forming a core.
• Li Ping stayed in Meishan City while the Desolate Fire Sparrow stabilized its realm and waited for the phoenix glazed grass to mature.
• Bai Qing visited Li Ping and invited him to explore a cave abode in Great Ning using a map he had obtained.
• Li Ping examined the map, noticed that it led to a cave abode in the Northern Wasteland despite the lack of spirit veins, and warned Bai Qing that it was probably fake.

Bai Qing ignored Li Ping’s warning, found True Person Autumn Leaf’s cave abode, and brought back three treasures to persuade his eldest brother to explore its inner chambers. The cave was a trap laid by the Four Demonic Sects to lure Li Ping into the wasteland, and Bai Qing invited him to go there together.

• After Li Ping rejected his invitation, Bai Qing decided to travel alone to the cave abode marked on the map.
• The Four Demonic Sects’ elders watched Bai Qing through a Phantom Insect and modified their fake cave abode, planning to use it to lure Li Ping away from the Western Wasteland and capture him.
• Bai Qing found the cave abode, took three treasures from its outer chamber, and turned back when he could not break the inner chamber’s restrictions.
• The elders of the Four Demonic Sects saw Bai Qing leave and waited for him to bring Li Ping to the trap.
• Less than half a year later, Bai Qing visited Li Ping, showed him the three treasures, and invited him to explore the inner abode together.