Chapter Summaries

True Lord Azure Origin traveled from the Infinite Domain toward the Central Province, avoiding the Cosmic Immortal Dynasty’s divination and selling his spoils in Sunset Immortal City. He learned that Heavenly Monarch Water Moon might die within a century, creating an opportunity for a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator to reach Spirit Transformation.

• True Lord Azure Origin reasoned that the Dragon-Binding Grand Cultivator had left the Nine Li Valley intact as bait and chose the Central Province because its tangled heavenly secrets would obstruct the Heavenly Secrets Observatory.
• True Lord Azure Origin traveled with Li Yan, cultivated aboard his flying boat, and reflected on Dachun’s return to the Secluded Realm Trial Grounds.
• After several years, True Lord Azure Origin reached Sunset Immortal City, disguised himself as an early-stage Nascent Soul True Lord, and spent two months selling his spoils and gathering information.
• Nascent Soul True Lords in Sunset Immortal City discussed True Lord Azure Origin’s exploits, while he listened among them and learned about the Central Province’s major powers.
• True Lord Azure Origin bought information that Heavenly Monarch Water Moon was expected to die within a hundred years, potentially opening a path to Spirit Transformation for a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator.
• True Lord Azure Origin resolved to track Water Moon’s death and the identity of the cultivator who succeeded him, so he could use that knowledge in a future simulation.

Zhou Qing learned of Heavenly Monarch Water Moon’s impending death, giving him a possible chance to attempt Spirit Transformation, and explored the Central Province while weighing where to settle. After assessing its powerful factions and hidden rivals, he ruled out Pill King Mountain to avoid exposing his identity as True Lord Azure Origin, then settled on another of the eight remaining top-tier powers.

• Zhou Qing heard that Heavenly Monarch Water Moon was nearing death and saw the news as his first possible opening to attempt Spirit Transformation.
• Zhou Qing entered the Central Province, found its spiritual energy and opportunities far richer than those of the Eastern Wilderness, and learned that its heavenly secrets were difficult to divine.
• Zhou Qing met Wen of the Heavenly Talisman Gate at a True Lords’ trading gathering, and Wen invited him to consider joining the sect after sensing his Dharma Talismans.
• Wen told a hunchbacked old man that his spirit talisman had revealed Zhou Qing was no ordinary Early-Stage True Lord.
• Zhou Qing learned that the Central Province’s strongest factions monopolized its greatest opportunities while powerful Nascent Soul cultivators secretly competed as Rogue Cultivators.
• Zhou Qing rejected Pill King Mountain because joining would risk exposing him as True Lord Azure Origin and drawing the attention of the Dragon-Binding Grand Cultivator, then chose another top-tier power.

Zhou joined the Heavenly Talisman Gate as a First-Rank Guest Elder, securing a stable place to cultivate while concealing his identity as True Lord Azure Origin. Years later, he sensed that Water Moon Heavenly Lord had passed away, leaving the story poised for the consequences of the Heavenly Lord’s death.

• Zhou arrived at the Heavenly Talisman Gate and demonstrated fourth-tier middle-grade talisman mastery to gain entry.
• The deputy gate master tested Zhou with a Heart-Questioning Trial, then accepted him as a First-Rank Guest Elder after he disclosed his surname as Zhou.
• Zhou settled into a cave abode on a fourth-tier middle-grade spirit vein and adapted to life within the Heavenly Talisman Gate.
• Zhou learned that Water Moon Heavenly Lord was expected to die within fifty years, while True Lord Huan Ye later stole the Heart of the Water Source from the Water Source Blessed Land.
• Zhou advanced through the middle stage of Nascent Soul cultivation and, in seclusion, sensed that Water Moon Heavenly Lord had passed away.

After Heavenly Monarch Water Moon died, cultivators across the Human Realm began contending for the vacant Heavenly Monarch seat, while Zhou observed their attempts and gathered information for his future path to spirit transformation. By the chapter’s end, younger late-stage cultivators had begun attempting breakthroughs, and Zhou expected a fierce struggle to decide the next Heavenly Monarch.

• The Ten Thousand Spells Sect’s Supreme Elder volunteered to attempt spirit transformation first, despite the poor timing and his advanced age.
• True Lord Wen visited Zhou at the Heavenly Talisman Gate and discussed Water Moon’s death and the unknown plans of the sect’s late-stage cultivators.
• Over the next decade, Zhou learned that six late-stage cultivators had attempted spirit transformation and all had failed.
• Zhou studied records of grotto-heaven and blessed-land contests, noting True Lord Purple-Eyes’ repeated victories and escapes.
• Zhou learned that the Dragon-Binding Grand Cultivator had failed his spirit-transformation attempt, while Zhou advanced his Formation Path to fourth-tier mid-grade.
• By the five hundred and eighty-sixth year, younger late-stage cultivators were attempting spirit transformation, and Zhou concluded that the coming decades would bring a fierce contest for the Heavenly Monarch seat.

Zhou observed failed Spirit Transformation tribulations, learned that True Lord Purple-Eyes had become a Heavenly Monarch, and pursued breakthroughs in alchemy and cultivation. After exchanging insights with Pill King Mountain’s grandmasters while possessing a disciple, he refined his first fourth-tier upper-grade pills.

• Zhou watched a Heavenly Talisman Gate Grand Cultivator fail the Spirit Transformation tribulation and later witnessed Heavenly Sword Peak’s Grand Cultivator perish in another failed attempt.
• True Lord Wen told Zhou that the new Heavenly Monarch was True Lord Purple-Eyes, who had ascended at Great Snow Mountain in the Northern Plains.
• Zhou encouraged Li Yan to keep studying musical arts and asked her to record the difficulties she encountered for future simulations.
• Zhou possessed a Pill King Mountain disciple and debated alchemy with True Lord Fu, whose questions and insights impressed the pill-refining grandmaster.
• Pill King Mountain discovered Zhou’s possession visits but issued no warrant, and Zhou later refined his first fourth-tier upper-grade pills.

Zhou Qing became a fourth-tier upper-grade alchemist and continued preparing to refine the Five Sages Transcendence Pill before attempting to reach the nascent soul late stage. After reaching the peak of the middle stage, he weighed whether to use the Pill-Sacrifice Method for his pill refinement, knowing it could leave him with only one chance at breaking through.

• Zhou Qing obtained Pill King Mountain’s Pill-Sacrifice Art but decided not to visit the sect again because his karmic traces risked exposing his identity.
• Three-Talisman Senior Cultivator questioned Zhou Qing about his Southern Sea origins, accepted his prepared account, and exempted him from talisman-drawing duties for a hundred years.
• Zhou Qing continued studying alchemy as his cultivation approached its limit, while Liyan failed to break through to the nascent soul middle stage.
• At age seven hundred and forty, Zhou Qing reached the peak of the nascent soul middle stage and decided to refine the Five Sages Transcendence Pill before attempting his breakthrough.
• Zhou Qing planned to refine the pill in a volcanic crater using heaven-and-earth forces and considered sacrificing all but one pill to maximize the chance of success.

Zhou refined the Five Sages Transcendence Pill in the Red Scorch Mountain Range and returned to the Heavenly Talisman Gate before anyone could seize it. He swallowed the pill and successfully broke through to the nascent soul late stage, becoming a Grand Cultivator.

• Zhou chose the Pill-Sacrifice Method and traveled to the Red Scorch Mountain Range, where he established a grand array and began refining the Five Sages Transcendence Pill.
• Red Feather True Lord sensed the refining phenomena and approached the mountain range, but stopped outside the grand array after recognizing its strength.
• Zhou successfully refined the Five Sages Transcendence Pill, escaped the approaching Nascent Soul True Lords, and returned to the Heavenly Talisman Gate.
• Worried that news of the pill might bring trouble, Zhou immediately entered a fourth-tier upper grade cave abode and swallowed it to attempt a breakthrough.
• Zhou’s breakthrough succeeded, astonishing Grand Cultivator Three-Talisman and the other cultivators of the Heavenly Talisman Gate.

Zhou Qing’s simulated self broke through to the nascent soul late stage, becoming a Grand Cultivator, and revealed his alchemy skills and former identity as True Lord Azure Origin to the Heavenly Talisman Gate. News of his advancement reached the Great Cosmos Immortal Dynasty, where its leaders suspected he was the same True Lord Azure Origin who had vanished from the Eastern Wilderness.

• Zhou Qing’s simulated self stabilized his late-stage cultivation and assessed his increased magical power, divine sense, and nascent soul strength.
• Three-Talisman Senior Cultivator and Heart Talisman Senior Cultivator congratulated Zhou Qing, who admitted he had refined the Five Sages Transcendence Pills and was the alchemy grandmaster True Lord Azure Origin.
• Zhou Qing explained that he had hidden his identity after killing True Lords of the Cosmic Immortal Dynasty, and Heart Talisman Senior Cultivator pledged the Heavenly Talisman Gate’s support.
• Three-Talisman Senior Cultivator planned to raise Zhou Qing’s status and treatment, while news of his breakthrough spread across the Human Realm.
• The Heavenly Secrets Observatory Master told the Cosmos Emperor and Dragon-Binding Grand Cultivator that there was a seventy-percent chance Zhou Qing was the missing True Lord Azure Origin.

After reaching the Nascent Soul late stage, True Lord Azure Origin learned that the Cosmic Immortal Dynasty had abandoned its plans against him and held a successful advancement ceremony. He continued cultivating and developing his arts until news arrived of a major upheaval in the Northern Plains that threatened the balance of power across the Human Realm.

• The Cosmos Emperor and Dragon-Binding Grand Cultivator agreed to abandon the Cosmic Immortal Dynasty's schemes against True Lord Azure Origin because he had become a late-stage Grand Cultivator.
• True Lord Azure Origin divined that the dynasty had withdrawn its pursuit and judged that his new strength made old grudges insignificant.
• True Lord Azure Origin held a ceremony attended by leading Central Province powers and admitted to Pill King Mountain's alchemy masters that he had possessed one of their disciples to exchange insights.
• True Lord Azure Origin learned that many old acquaintances had died, while the Zhou Family had grown into a powerful lineage with a Golden Core True Person.
• Li Yan reached the Nascent Soul middle stage with True Lord Azure Origin's help, and he advised her to pursue mastery of the musical arts instead of the Nascent Soul late stage.
• True Lord Azure Origin continued cultivating until he received news of a Northern Plains upheaval that could shake the Human Realm's balance of power.

Heavenly Monarch Delusion-Breaking secretly helped the Demon Abyss Realm expand the rift beneath the Great Snow Mountain, then concealed his betrayal behind a claim that the seals had been repaired. Years later, True Lord Yuan Qing met a Great Snow Mountain cultivator seeking a pill and discovered that his own supposedly middle-stage attack had shown late-stage power.

• Heavenly Monarch Delusion-Breaking allowed the Demon Abyss Realm's energy to expand the spatial rift and agreed to hide the breach in exchange for help and the prospect of reaching the Void Refinement Realm.
• True Lord Yuan Qing failed to divine the cause of the rift's expansion, then learned that Central Province formation grandmasters had inspected and reinforced its seals.
• True Lord Yuan Qing focused on improving his Puppetry while continuing his peaceful cultivation routine.
• A Great Snow Mountain True Lord visited True Lord Yuan Qing to request a Life-Renewing Creation Pill and offered a body-refinement secret art that negated sixty percent of incoming attacks.
• True Lord Yuan Qing tested the secret art with a supposedly middle-stage strike, but the Great Snow Mountain True Lord said it carried late-stage offensive power.

You exchanged a Life-Recreating Creation Pill for a Body-Refinement Secret Art, then suspected the True Lord of Great Snow Mountain was a Devil Lord and secretly accused Great Snow Mountain of colluding with the Demon Abyss Realm. The six great powers destroyed Great Snow Mountain, while Heavenly Monarch Delusion-Breaking survived; you continued cultivating and reached a thousand years of age.

• You traded a Life-Recreating Creation Pill to the True Lord of Great Snow Mountain for a Body-Refinement Secret Art and suspected he was a Devil Lord after your attack proved unexpectedly powerful.
• You secretly sent accusations to the six great powers, claiming Great Snow Mountain was expanding a spatial rift to welcome beings from the Demon Abyss Realm.
• The six great powers announced that Great Snow Mountain had been eradicated after Heavenly Monarch of Heavenly Sword Peak fought Heavenly Monarch Delusion-Breaking, who survived.
• You stayed hidden from the investigation, continued cultivating, and advanced your puppetry and talisman skills while monitoring news of Heavenly Monarch Delusion-Breaking.
• Li Yan reached fourth-tier upper-grade musical arts, and you realized your remaining lifespan was around eleven hundred years.
• You emerged from seclusion at one thousand years old, the first time you had reached that age in five simulations.

Near the end of his thousand-year lifespan, the narrator used fifty years to advance his divination to fourth-tier mid-grade and planned his remaining time. He intended to sell his treasures for transferable inheritances, attempt Spirit Transformation, and return to the Nether Realm Trial Grounds before the simulation ended.

• The narrator reflected on the deaths of older Nascent Soul Grand Cultivators, including Dachun, while younger cultivators rose to prominence.
• The narrator spent fifty years of lifespan on a deeper divination and advanced from fourth-tier lower-grade to fourth-tier mid-grade.
• The narrator decided to sell his treasures for inheritances, attempt a Spirit Transformation breakthrough, and visit the Nether Realm Trial Grounds to ask about the third-stage trial.
• Half a month later, the narrator secretly left the Heavenly Talisman Gate and returned to the Primordial Origin Domain.

After learning how rare legendary senior cultivators were, you judged that even at the Nascent Soul Late Stage you would likely only reach the level of a supreme Grand Cultivator. You returned to Central Province, settled your affairs in Taiyuan Region, and began liquidating assets and collecting Beast King Essence Blood as your remaining lifespan dwindled.

• You recalled the three tiers of Nascent Soul Late Stage Grand Cultivators and concluded that your strength would likely only qualify you as a supreme Grand Cultivator.
• You left Secluded Mountain, collected Yuan Qing Trading Association’s accumulated profits, and sold the association to Taiyuan Palace’s current True Lord.
• You visited your parents’ graves, secretly improved the Zhou Household’s future fate, and realized you would never return to Taiyuan Region in this simulation.
• In year 995, you returned to the Heavenly Talisman Gate and began selling your treasures and assets, prioritizing the sect when prices were equal.
• You sought Fourth-Tier Beast King Essence Blood to refine through your Transformation Divine Ability, having already collected nearly twenty varieties.
• In year 1,011, Li Yan nestled against you in your cave abode.

Zhou Qing reviewed his thousand-year fifth simulation and considered the Demon Abyss Realm’s plans to invade the Human Realm. He resolved to inherit the simulation’s gains while keeping a low profile in reality.

• Zhou Qing reflected that divination had helped him uncover Heavenly Weight True Lord’s ingredients and avoid the Cosmic Immortal Dynasty’s retaliation.
• Zhou Qing wondered where Heavenly Monarch Delusion-Breaking had gone and concluded that the Demon Abyss Realm still intended to invade the Human Realm.
• Zhou Qing recalled that Heavenly Sword Peak’s sword-cultivating Heavenly Monarch had attacked Great Snow Mountain, confirming his suspicions about it.
• Zhou Qing decided that the possible invasion was distant enough to leave him unworried for now.
• Zhou Qing resolved to avoid drawing attention in reality despite gaining the strength of a late-stage Nascent Soul senior cultivator.

Zhou Qing received the golden talent “Half a move above oneself,” which raised his combat strength by one minor stage and made him a top Grand Cultivator. After reviewing his fifth simulation’s achievements, he found that his next simulation would be available in three months and two days.

• Zhou Qing obtained the golden talent “Half a move above oneself,” which passively raised his combat strength by one minor stage and stacked with strength-enhancing techniques.
• Zhou Qing realized the talent could eventually make him as strong as a legendary Grand Cultivator and improve his chances of breaking through to Spirit Transformation.
• Zhou Qing checked his personal panel and saw that he had reached the Nascent Soul late stage, advanced many crafts, and had no simulations remaining.
• Zhou Qing noted that he had achieved extraordinary cultivation and crafting accomplishments by age seventeen, then saw that his next simulation cooldown was three months and two days.

Zhou Qing brought Li Yan to a fourth-tier spirit vein he had prepared as their new cave abode and cleared out the demons occupying it. He reassured Li Yan that the site was safe as they settled in.

• Li Yan asked whether Zhou Qing was a Golden Core True Person, and he said he was a little stronger than one.
• Zhou Qing used his magical power to speed their flying boat through the Wilderness while scanning the surroundings with his immense divine sense.
• Zhou Qing reached the fourth-tier spirit vein and sensed twenty-two middle-stage and eleven late-stage third-tier great demons within it.
• Zhou Qing annihilated the demons’ souls while preserving their bodies, blood essence, and demon cores.
• Li Yan marveled at the fourth-tier spirit vein and asked where its demons had gone, and Zhou Qing assured her that there was no danger.

Eighteen-year-old Zhou Qing began a new simulation as a nascent soul late-stage cultivator and set out for the Secluded Realm Trial Grounds to claim its rewards. On the way, he sent his second nascent soul to attack the Nine Nether Church, leaving the raid underway.

• Zhou Qing began a simulation with nascent soul late-stage cultivation and planned to visit the Secluded Realm Trial Grounds.
• He gave Li Yan cultivation and Musical Arts Heart insights from the previous simulation and told her to study them.
• Zhou Qing flew toward the Secluded Realm Trial Grounds, passing through the Nine Nether Region.
• He decided to plunder the Nine Nether Church, citing its threat and its future war against the Grand Origin Region.
• Zhou Qing continued toward the trial grounds while his second nascent soul descended on Nine Nether Mountain.

After passing the Secluded Realm Trial Grounds’ aptitude tests, you ranked first among all participants from both Near Antiquity Era and Ancient Era. The Armored Guardian God presented a vast list of rare rewards, and you weighed which one would best help you in reality and future simulations.

• The Armored Guardian God completed your spell cultivation test, identifying you as an eighteen-year-old fourth-tier late-stage cultivator with extraordinary divine soul strength and speculating that you might be a Great Child of Fortune, a Reincarnated Immortal, or an Otherworldly Visitor.
• The Armored Guardian God tested your body cultivation aptitude and confirmed that you had passed the trial’s tests.
• You asked how your aptitude compared with participants from Ancient Era, and the Armored Guardian God said you still ranked first.
• The Armored Guardian God displayed a list of rewards that included the Sword Lord's Notes, a damaged World-Crossing Immortal Ark, a miniature independent world, true dragon and heavenly phoenix blood, a longevity fruit, and a quasi-fifth-tier puppet.
• You considered the rewards and ruled out powerful treasures that you could not safely use or carry into reality, then focused on the Sword Lord's Notes as a reward that could help in future simulations.

A Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator chose True Dragon Blood as his reward, then rapidly cleared the first two Secluded Realm trials and earned two treasures. He entered the third-stage combat trial and landed before a Core Formation participant, who was stunned by the vast difference in their cultivation.

• He rejected the Sword Lord's Notes and chose True Dragon Blood, which the Armored Guardian God gave him in a jade box.
• He completed the first-stage trial in one breath and received a Nine-Star Ancient Soul Fruit.
• He immediately passed the second-stage spell trial and received the Myriad Souls Heart.
• He began the third-stage trial, where he had to defeat the participants atop the mountains and withstand challengers for a year.
• He landed before a bald Maitreya Hall cultivator at the limit of Core Formation, who realized a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator was challenging him.

You swept through the Spell Cultivator trials’ third stage, killing the peak guardians before they could respond, while Fa Wuming fled by abandoning the trial. The Armored Guardian God declared that you had passed in twenty breaths and began announcing your completion rating.

• You killed Tuoshan Arhat, the first peak’s guardian, and then killed the emaciated second-peak guardian with the aura of a Grand Cultivator.
• You killed the Black-Robed Female Cultivator on the third peak and collected her spoils.
• You teleported from peak to peak and killed each guardian before they could react.
• Fa Wuming sensed imminent danger and abandoned the trial just before you arrived at the twenty-first peak.
• You asked the Armored Guardian God whether the trial was over, and he confirmed your passage in twenty breaths before announcing your rating.