Chapter Summaries

Li Ping refined eleven batches of third-tier top-grade pills before visiting the Shadowkill Tower to learn whether Bai Yaoyue had succeeded in forming a Nascent Soul. After confirming she had, he decided to avoid Heavenly Dao City and focus on cultivating until the Desolate Fire Sparrow could transform and protect him.

• Madam Sun told Li Ping that the Spirit-Nurturing Pavilion had secured eleven commissions, and he spent nearly four months refining all eleven batches of pills.
• Li Ping visited the Shadowkill Tower and learned from the rabbit-masked cultivator that Bai Yaoyue had become a Nascent Soul True Lord.
• Li Ping refused to buy further information, left the Black Market, and decided not to return to Heavenly Dao City anytime soon.
• Li Ping considered using a Shape-Transformation Pill to help the Desolate Fire Sparrow transform, but obtaining a flood dragon's reverse scale would require killing one.
• Li Ping decided to keep a low profile until the Desolate Fire Sparrow could transform and guard him during his Nascent Soul breakthrough.

Teng Feng risked the Eastern Sea war to seek a soul-restoring treasure for Minggu, while Li Ping advanced to Core Formation Late Stage and returned to refining pills. At the Spirit-Nurturing Pavilion, Li Ping recognized a customer seeking a Soul-Restoring Pill as the apparent image of his long-dead sixth brother, Teng Feng, and wondered whether the encounter was a trap.

• Teng Feng crossed into the dangerous coastal battlefield, avoiding a clash as he continued toward Great Zhou to find a treasure for Minggu.
• After twenty years of secluded cultivation, Li Ping broke through to Core Formation Late Stage and assessed his strengthened magic power and divine sense.
• Li Ping visited the Spirit-Nurturing Pavilion and learned from Madam Sun that the Eastern Sea war remained locked in a stalemate.
• Li Ping refined seven batches of third-tier top-grade pills over two months, leaving one commission before he could return to cultivation.
• Madam Sun introduced Fellow Daoist Feng, who offered fifteen thousand spirit stones for a Soul-Restoring Pill, and Li Ping recognized his face as that of Teng Feng.
• Li Ping wondered whether Fellow Daoist Feng was truly Teng Feng or bait, while the man offered to raise his payment.

Teng Feng obtained a Soul-Restoring Pill from Li Ping, but Yinghai Trading Company pursuers tracked him out of Spirit Firmament City. After a mysterious powerful cultivator killed the pursuers and the Jiang Brothers, he found Teng Feng’s hidden seabed formation.

• Li Ping refined the Soul-Restoring Pill for Teng Feng, then suspected that the man was an impostor sent to lure him out.
• Sun Jiangyuan marked Teng Feng’s Fishskin Robe, while Yinghai Trading Company members and the Jiang Brothers followed him from Spirit Firmament City.
• Teng Feng discarded the marked robe and hid in a seabed Concealment Formation designed by Minggu.
• The Jiang Brothers and Elder Chen’s group met while searching for Teng Feng, and Elder Chen hired the brothers to help find him.
• A burly cultivator used a golden attack and a charred wooden stake to kill Elder Chen’s five men and the Jiang Brothers.
• The burly cultivator stood beside Teng Feng’s hidden formation and grinned at him, leaving Teng Feng terrified.

Li Ping reunited with Teng Feng in Great Zhou, revealed that the Teleportation Formation could take them back to the Western Wasteland, and brought him home. They arrived in the Western Wasteland with Minggu, whose reincarnation Li Ping planned to oversee.

• Li Ping rescued Teng Feng from his pursuers, searched his memories, and revealed his identity; Teng Feng recognized his eldest brother through his divine soul aura.
• Li Ping told Teng Feng that Zhang Tie, Gu Musheng, and Cheng Yao had died, while Qi Hanmo and Bai Qing were still alive in the Western Wasteland.
• Li Ping explained that he had repaired Teng Feng’s Teleportation Formation and could restore its Great Zhou end, allowing Teng Feng to visit home without a decades-long journey.
• Li Ping separated Minggu from Teng Feng, gave him the Soul-Restoring Pill’s medicinal power, and said he would help Minggu reincarnate once it was absorbed.
• Li Ping and Teng Feng traveled by Flying Boat to the Teleportation Formation and arrived in the Western Wasteland several months later.

Li Ping returned to the Western Wasteland after Minggu entered reincarnation, while Teng Feng went to revisit his birthplace. In Windmist Immortal City, Ji Shuwen updated Li Ping on the region’s shifting leadership and declining cultivation prospects.

• Minggu thanked Teng Feng for their years together, entered reincarnation, and vanished in golden light.
• Li Ping and Teng Feng returned to the Western Wasteland, and Teng Feng asked to visit the village where he had grown up before joining Li Ping in Windmist Immortal City.
• Li Ping arrived at Windmist Immortal City and reunited with Ji Shuwen, who described how the city had expanded under her rule.
• Ji Shuwen told Li Ping that the Western Wasteland’s three prominent Core Formation Late Stage cultivators had died, leaving none to oversee the region.
• Ji Shuwen explained that the Academy and Crimson Flame Sect had new leaders, the Jiang Lineage had become subordinate to Meishan City, and her plan for a second Immortal City had failed after Yun Kingdom withdrew support.
• Ji Shuwen reported that the Seven Immortals Sect had three Core Formation Cultivators: Wang Xingwei, Bai Qing, and Meng Wanjun.

Li Ping founded the Cloudtreading Sect with Ji Shuwen and Yan Jing, then traveled with Teng Feng to reunite with Qi Hanmo and return to the Seven Immortals Sect. He learned that Lin Yue had died and Xu Guike had entered the Taimao Secret Realm, and the chapter ended with Bai Qing and Meng Wanjun welcoming him back.

• Li Ping proposed that Ji Shuwen unite the Three Kingdoms and One City under the new Cloudtreading Sect, and she eagerly accepted.
• Yan Jing agreed to leave the Crimson Flame Sect and prepare the Cloudtreading Sect with Ji Shuwen under Li Ping's authority.
• Li Ping and Teng Feng visited Swordforging Manor and Little Plum Mountain before meeting Qi Hanmo at Donghua Mountain.
• Qi Hanmo told Li Ping that Lin Yue had died and Xu Guike had entered the Taimao Secret Realm.
• Li Ping, Teng Feng, and Qi Hanmo arrived at the Seven Immortals Sect, where Bai Qing and Meng Wanjun welcomed Li Ping back.

Li Ping reunited with his old companions in the Western Wasteland and revealed the Teleportation Formation linking it to Great Zhou, leaving its use to the Seven Immortals Sect, the Cloudtreading Sect, and the Academy to arrange. He settled in Purple Cloud Valley to cultivate and prepared to remove Meng Wanjun’s restriction, but she mistakenly feared he was sending her away.

• Bai Qing recognized Teng Feng, and the brothers joyfully reunited at the Seven Immortals Sect.
• Li Ping learned about the sect’s growth and Wang Xingwei’s continued seclusion, then revealed the Teleportation Formation and left its use to Qi Hanmo, Bai Qing, and the Cloudtreading Sect to discuss.
• The group spent several months exchanging insights on the Dao, and Li Ping gave Teng Feng the Black Cloud Veil before Teng Feng returned toward the Eastern Sea.
• At Purple Cloud Valley, Ji Shuwen and Bai Qing agreed to keep the formation’s secret restricted to their three groups and organize trade through trusted core formation cultivators.
• Li Ping told Meng Wanjun he would remove the restriction in her sea of consciousness, and she panicked that he planned to send her away before realizing she had misunderstood.

Li Ping freed Meng Wanjun from her restriction, gave her a fourth-tier beast-taming inheritance, and later helped establish the Cloudtreading Sect. At the sect’s founding ceremony, he reflected on how time had changed the people he once knew.

• Li Ping tested Meng Wanjun’s beast-taming knowledge, caught her bluffing, and gave her a fourth-tier inheritance so she could develop her skills.
• After three years of cultivation, Li Ping heard how Ji Shuwen and Yan Jing had organized the Cloudtreading Sect, then gave them and Meng Wanjun Azure Spirit Wind-Riding Banners.
• Li Ping guided Meng Wanjun’s beast-taming studies and thought about Feng Xishuang, Wei Yiling, and the overdue Fourth-Tier Puppet Art Daoist Gaoji had promised him.
• One year later, Li Ping presided over the Cloudtreading Sect’s founding ceremony, where cultivators including Song Yushu and You Zichong paid their respects.
• Li Ping compared his rise with Song Yushu’s decline and reflected on the passing of time as old acquaintances and their generation’s figures faded away.

Eight years after returning to the Western Wasteland, Li Ping left for Great Zhou and resumed refining pills for Madam Sun, who was being harassed by the Jiang Family over the deaths of the Jiang Brothers. He realized Madam Sun had helped set the brothers against Teng Feng, and her decision to reveal that connection left the Jiang Family Matriarch with a new lead.

• Meng Wanjun advanced to the Core Formation middle stage, and Bai Qing returned from Great Zhou with resources he had traded for cultivation supplies.
• Li Ping decided to leave for Great Zhou, instructed Ji Shuwen and Bai Qing to govern prudently, and refused Meng Wanjun's request to accompany him.
• Two years later, Li Ping arrived at the Spirit-Nurturing Pavilion and heard Madam Sun explain that the Jiang Family blamed her for the Jiang Brothers' disappearance.
• Li Ping recognized that Madam Sun had tipped off the Jiang Brothers about Teng Feng's Soul-Restoring Pill, which had led them and five Yinghai Trading Company cultivators to their deaths.
• After refining pills for three months amid the Jiang Family's protests, Li Ping left, and Madam Sun told the Jiang Family Matriarch that the Jiang Brothers may have pursued a Soul-Restoring Pill.

Li Ping learned that Red-Robed Granny’s armor-making treasure could help him acquire fourth-tier armor-making skills, and he began negotiating to obtain it. Meanwhile, Wei Yiling and Feng Xishuang returned to Great Zhou seeking a path toward nascent soul formation.

• Madam Sun’s revelation led the old woman of the Jiang family to blame her for the failed attempt to steal Li Ping’s Soul-Restoring Pill.
• Li Ping sorted through the belongings of eight slain Core Formation Cultivators and stored their treasures and spirit stones.
• Wei Yiling and Feng Xishuang returned to Great Zhou after founding the Heavenly Craft Sect and avenging Feng Xishuang’s sect.
• Madam Sun told Li Ping that Red-Robed Granny’s armor-making treasure was in the possession of her friend, Fellow Daoist Zhu.
• After completing his alchemy commissions, Li Ping inspected Zhu’s Armor-Piercing Needle and offered to negotiate its price.

Sun Jiangyuan and Zhu Wanshou staged a refusal to sell Granny Red Robe’s treasure, hoping to bait Li Ping into a trap and enslave him as a pill refiner. Li Ping decided to investigate Zhu Wanshou before pursuing the treasure, while Xu Guike discovered that a death zone strengthened his sword essence and could help him form a sword nascent soul.

• Zhu Wanshou refused to sell the treasure, and Li Ping left after Madam Sun apologized for the misunderstanding.
• Sun Jiangyuan revealed to Zhu Wanshou that she intended to lure Li Ping into seizing the treasure so their families could capture him and force him to refine pills.
• Li Ping decided to seek information about Zhu Wanshou from the Shadowkill Tower before approaching him.
• Xu Guike reached a deathly still region and found that its gray gleams rapidly strengthened his heaven-cutting sword essence.
• Xu Guike entered the death zone, sensing that it could bring him to the peak of the core formation late stage and let him form a sword nascent soul.

Li Ping reconsidered his plan to force Zhu Wanshou to sell him a treasure and reaffirmed that pursuing eternal life mattered more than gaining strength. He avoided the trap waiting at Green Cliff Gate, continued cultivating, and left the chapter with the Scarlet Flood Dragon newly advanced to third-tier late stage.

• After reading Shadowkill Tower’s report on Zhu Wanshou, Li Ping recognized that his plan to seize the man’s treasures violated his principles and resolved to wait rather than use force.
• At Green Cliff Gate, Zhu Wanshou and seven other core formation cultivators waited years for Li Ping to fall into their trap, but Madam Sun later learned that he had no grievance over the failed treasure deal.
• Ten years later, Li Ping visited the Spirit-Nurturing Pavilion to refine pills, while Madam Sun concealed her disappointment that her faction’s trap had failed.
• Another ten years later, the Scarlet Flood Dragon broke through to third-tier late stage, and Li Ping welcomed the growth of another powerful subordinate while continuing to postpone choosing a life-bound treasure for the Mountain-Suppressing Softshell Turtle.

Li Ping sought materials to refine a life-bound cauldron treasure for the Mountain-Suppressing Softshell Turtle, then emerged from ten years of seclusion at age four hundred. When the Yinghai Trading Company tried to recruit him in exchange for the materials, an unexplained intervention allowed him to obtain them, and Guo reported the sale to a mysterious female cultivator.

• Li Ping asked Daoist Gaoji for advice on a life-bound treasure for the Mountain-Suppressing Softshell Turtle, and Daoist Gaoji recommended a cauldron.
• Li Ping chose the Qianyuan Myriad-Jun Cauldron and asked the Yinghai Trading Company and Spirit Firmament Palace to find dragon marrow jade and sinking breath sand.
• Li Ping cultivated in seclusion for ten years, emerged at age four hundred, and reflected on the many friends and relatives who had died while he pursued the Immortal Dao.
• At the Spirit-Nurturing Pavilion, Li Ping learned that few alchemy commissions were available and asked Madam Sun to inquire about Zhu Wanshou's treasures.
• Guo told Li Ping that the Yinghai Trading Company had both materials but would exchange them only for his service as a Guest Elder; after an unexplained turn, Li Ping left with both spirit materials.
• Guo reported to a jade-green-robed female cultivator that he had sold the materials to Bai Sheng, and she dismissed him.

Yu Menghan recognized that Bai Sheng was her old friend Li Ping and wondered why five Yinghai Trading Company cultivators had pursued a cultivator surnamed Feng. Li Ping acquired two fourth-tier spirit materials and refined a Life-Bound Treasure for his turtle, while the Sun Family prepared a trap to seize the Treasure he wanted from Zhu Wanshou.

• Yu Menghan recalled how Li Ping had saved her Seven-Colored Illusion Butterfly and decided not to meet him, then continued investigating the five Core Formation cultivators’ deaths.
• Li Ping wondered why Guo had reversed his decision, then began refining a Life-Bound Treasure after obtaining Dragon Marrow Jade and breath-sinking sand.
• Ten years later, Li Ping gave the Mountain-Suppressing Softshell Turtle the Origin Heaven Cauldron to refine as its Life-Bound Treasure.
• Madam Sun told Li Ping that Zhu Wanshou would not sell his Treasure and planned to leave it to his disciples, so Li Ping asked her to watch for it after Zhu’s death.
• Madam Sun reported to Jiang Yuan that Bai Sheng wanted Zhu Wanshou’s Treasure, and they planned to use it to lure him into a trap with more than ten Core Formation cultivators, including four at the late stage.

After completing his alchemy commissions, Li Ping prepared to pursue Zhu Wanshou’s treasure at Green Cliff Gate’s auction while the Sun and Zhao families plotted against him. He entered Green Cliff Gate, where eight pillars of light suddenly trapped him.

• Li Ping found that the Desolate Fire Sparrow was nearing its transformation attempt and decided to seek an uninhabited place for its breakthrough.
• Madam Sun told Li Ping that Zhu Wanshou had died and that Green Cliff Gate would auction off the treasure he wanted.
• Li Ping finished nine batches of pills, saturated his Longevity Art magic power with innate spirit vigor, and told Madam Sun he would suspend alchemy work.
• Sun Jiangyuan suspected Li Ping might have discovered the families’ plot against Bai Sheng, but the Sun Family Ancestor advised her to wait and see whether Li Ping attended the auction.
• Li Ping judged that attending Green Cliff Gate’s auction posed no danger, traveled there, and entered the sect with a Foundation Establishment disciple.
• Eight enormous pillars of light rose around Li Ping and enclosed him within them.

Wei Yiling and Feng Xishuang helped the Sun Family ambush Master Bai, unaware that he was Li Ping, but recognized him and turned against the conspirators once he contacted them. Li Ping destroyed the ambushers, recovered Zhu Wanshou’s treasure, and reunited with the two women, then proposed they leave to talk.

• Wei Yiling agreed to help the Sun Family capture Master Bai in exchange for a guarantee allowing her to use Spirit Firmament City’s fourth-tier spirit vein.
• The Sun Family’s eight Core Formation cultivators trapped Li Ping at the Green Cliff Gate, and Wei Yiling and Feng Xishuang joined the gray-robed and black-robed elders in confronting him.
• Li Ping revealed his identity to Wei Yiling and Feng Xishuang by voice transmission, and the two women attacked the black-robed elder while Li Ping summoned his beasts and refined corpse.
• Li Ping and his allies killed the ambushers, and Li Ping captured Sun Jiangyuan, searched her soul, and recovered Zhu Wanshou’s needle-shaped treasure.
• Wei Yiling and Feng Xishuang reunited with Li Ping, who returned to his original appearance and suggested they leave the battlefield to talk.

After killing Spirit Firmament City's Core Formation cultivators, Li Ping fled east with Wei Yiling and Feng Xishuang and learned of their plans and abilities. He decided to extend their lives and help them form Nascent Souls in exchange for Feng Xishuang's future service, leaving the three of them traveling toward a new spirit land.

• Li Ping took Wei Yiling and Feng Xishuang aboard his Flying Boat and fled toward the Eastern Sea to avoid Spirit Firmament City's retaliation.
• Li Ping learned that Wei Yiling had a Nascent Soul Transformation Pill and that the two women had rebuilt the Heavenly Craft Sect on the Island of Life.
• Feng Xishuang showed Li Ping a Third-Tier Puppet she had refined, and he praised her talent while explaining improvements to both women's puppet work.
• Li Ping considered helping Feng Xishuang form a Nascent Soul so she could pursue Fourth-Tier Puppet research, then decided to support both women.
• Li Ping promised Returning Yang Pills to Wei Yiling and Feng Xishuang and offered Feng Xishuang Nascent Soul Formation Treasures in exchange for her future help.

Li Ping chose a secluded third-tier spirit island in the Eastern Sea, cleared its Sea-Gazing Apes, and concealed it with three formations so he and his companions could cultivate there. After entering seclusion, he was visited by Wei Yiling and Feng Xishuang, whose revelation and resolve left him facing their shared proposal.

• Li Ping inventoried the spoils from the Core Formation cultivators, finding a spirit planter inheritance and an Armor-Piercing Needle whose crafting art required fourth-tier spirit hide.
• Li Ping searched the Eastern Sea for a secluded third-tier top-grade spirit island and learned the foreign races' travel routes by using Soul Search on four Sea Folk cultivators.
• Li Ping selected an island inhabited by Sea-Gazing Apes and sent Wei Yiling and Feng Xishuang to kill them while he established three Third-Tier Top-Grade Formations.
• Wei Yiling and Feng Xishuang slaughtered the apes and carved a cave abode at the island's spirit eye, while Li Ping concealed the island beneath layered formations.
• Li Ping ordered his spirit beasts to cultivate on the island and entered his training room, unaware that Wei Yiling expected him to approach her.
• Wei Yiling entered Li Ping's room with Feng Xishuang and explained that the sworn sisters had vowed to marry the same man, while Feng Xishuang asked Li Ping to be gentle with her.

Li Ping arranged for Feng Xishuang to study advanced Puppet Arts, planted returning yang grass, and refined Returning Yang Pills for her and Wei Yiling. After the Mountain-Suppressing Softshell Turtle advanced and ten years passed, he took the Desolate Fire Sparrow to an uninhabited island to attempt its transformation, where its appearance stirred the spiritual qi across thousands of li.

• Li Ping gave Daoist Gaoji’s third-tier top-grade puppet inheritance and Fourth-Tier Puppet research to Feng Xishuang, asking her to complete the refinement method after achieving Nascent Soul formation.
• Li Ping planted returning yang grass, and eight years later the Mountain-Suppressing Softshell Turtle advanced to the third-tier middle stage.
• Li Ping refined ten Returning Yang Pills and gave Wei Yiling two, one for her and one for Feng Xishuang, to extend their lives by a hundred years.
• After another ten years, Li Ping traveled for over half a month to an uninhabited island with the Desolate Fire Sparrow, whose appearance caused spiritual qi to surge across thousands of li.

Li Ping guarded the Desolate Fire Sparrow as it neared its fourth-tier transformation, but two Core Formation cultivators entered the area, drawn by the vast spiritual qi phenomenon. Li Ping killed the pursuing Sea Folk cultivator and recognized the fleeing human as Chen Hai just as the Desolate Fire Sparrow’s breakthrough reached its final stage.

• The Desolate Fire Sparrow unleashed its accumulated flame energy and gathered spiritual qi across tens of thousands of miles to temper its bloodline and demon core.
• After several months, Li Ping sensed that the Desolate Fire Sparrow was about to advance and detected Chen Hai fleeing from a pursuing Sea Folk cultivator.
• Li Ping intercepted Chen Hai, but the Sea Folk cultivator refused to leave, believing a rare treasure was emerging.
• Li Ping killed the Sea Folk cultivator with the Dragon-Slaying Guillotine and recognized Chen Hai, who thanked him for helping him form his golden core.
• A heavy pressure spread over Li Ping and Chen Hai as the spiritual qi phenomenon began to disperse.