Chapter Summaries

Azure Origin joined the Heavenly Talisman Gate as a late-stage Grand Cultivator, passed its Heart-Questioning Trial, and settled into a fourth-tier upper grade cave abode. After years of slow cultivation, he turned his attention to the Heavenly Pillar Grotto-Heaven, which would open in sixteen years and hold resources needed for his breakthrough.

• Azure Origin chose to join the Heavenly Talisman Gate, using his claimed Southern Sea origins and fourth-tier upper grade talisman skills to explain his arrival.
• The Cold Talisman Senior Cultivator questioned Azure Origin about the Demon Abyss Realm, accepted his answers, and admitted him as an elder.
• Azure Origin met the Heavenly Talisman Gate's other Grand Cultivators, while the Red Talisman Grand Cultivator mistook his second nascent soul's magical power for his full strength.
• Azure Origin settled into a fourth-tier upper grade cave abode and spent five years cultivating and nurturing seventy fourth-tier upper grade Dharma Talismans.
• After years of slow late-stage cultivation, Azure Origin identified the Heavenly Pillar Grotto-Heaven's opening in sixteen years as his next chance to obtain breakthrough resources.

Zhou Qing used his preparation and disguise to reach Heavenly Pillar Grotto-Heaven as it opened, where several concealed Grand Cultivators attacked the Void Unity Sect’s defenses. He revealed power on the level of a top-tier Grand Cultivator and reached the entrance ahead of everyone, leaving the others stunned.

• Zhou Qing continued nurturing the Blood Roc and planned to gather rare materials from Heavenly Pillar Grotto-Heaven.
• Zhou Qing disguised himself as a Heavenly Talisman Gate disciple and secretly traveled to the grotto-heaven’s entrance, where concealed experts had gathered.
• True Lord Gray Robe and two other Grand Cultivators attacked the Void Unity Sect’s formation, and Gray Robe used a quasi-fifth-tier Barrier-Breaking Talisman to dissolve it.
• Zhou Qing revealed himself in a black robe and mask, prompting the Void Unity Sect’s Grand Cultivators to enter the grotto-heaven rather than face four opponents outside.
• Zhou Qing’s speed and aura surged with each step until he surpassed the other Grand Cultivators and reached the entrance first.

A masked supreme Grand Cultivator entered the Heavenly Pillar Grotto-Heaven while using his nascent soul spirit body to bar five Grand Cultivators from following. Inside, he discovered an astonishing wealth of ancient medicinal treasures.

• The black-and-gold-masked cultivator demanded all the grotto-heaven's harvest and promised not to compete at its next opening, while several middle-stage True Lords withdrew and True Lord Purple-Eyes stayed hidden.
• When the entrance opened, the masked cultivator sent his physical body inside and left his nascent soul spirit body outside to block the five Grand Cultivators.
• Mist Figure, Burly Figure, Grand Cultivator Autumn Wind, and the gray-robed figure attacked or tried to slip past, but the masked cultivator repelled them and held all five back.
• Inside the grotto-heaven, the masked cultivator sensed an environment like the Primordial Era and found numerous fourth-tier medicinal treasures and several fifth-tier ancient herbs.

Yuan Qing, disguised as the Black-Gold Masked Expert, harvested every ripe treasure in the Heavenly Pillar Grotto-Heaven and escaped the Void Unity Sect’s Grand Cultivators. He returned to the Heavenly Talisman Gate unnoticed, while the realm debated his identity, and began preparing to refine his spoils himself.

• Yuan Qing harvested every available medicinal treasure in the Heavenly Pillar Grotto-Heaven while his nascent soul spirit body held off five Grand Cultivators.
• Yuan Qing emerged from the grotto-heaven, causing three attackers to withdraw; the Mist Figure offered a contact for future trades, and Yuan Qing chose not to pursue True Lord Purple-Eyes.
• Yuan Qing secretly watched Zhan Shui and Autumn Wind inspect the grotto-heaven, then vanished after confirming he had collected every ripe treasure.
• News of the Black-Gold Masked Expert spread, and divination of his identity reportedly backlashed against the Void Unity Sect’s Divination Grandmaster.
• Yuan Qing returned to the Heavenly Talisman Gate and discussed the mysterious expert with its four Grand Cultivators without revealing his identity.
• Yuan Qing brought out his fourth- and fifth-tier medicinal spoils and prepared to refine them as a fourth-tier upper-grade master alchemist.

After robbing the Heavenly Pillar Grotto-Heaven, the protagonist hid his identity while refining its ancient medicines and evading divination. Years later, he sent resources to Li Yan and emerged to find that the major powers had begun calling his masked persona the Golden-Mask True Lord.

• The protagonist assessed the Heavenly Pillar Grotto-Heaven’s herbs and planned to refine ancient pills while suppressing the signs of high-grade alchemy with a formation.
• The protagonist reviewed the robbery, considered how the Void Unity Sect would strengthen its defenses, and concluded that his spell-cultivator methods had helped conceal his identity.
• A Void Unity Sect divination grandmaster told Zhan Shui, Autumn Wind, and others that the Black-Gold Masked Expert had a powerful divination treasure and was likely a divination grandmaster himself.
• In the fortieth year, the protagonist gave the Blood Roc ancient pills and sent it with resources for Li Yan at the Azure Mystic Cave Abode.
• The protagonist disguised the Blood Roc’s feathers and sent it toward the Eastern Wasteland; after returning to the Heavenly Talisman Gate, he learned that people had begun calling his masked persona the Golden-Mask True Lord.

Zhou Qing continued his simulation as the Golden-Mask True Lord, advancing his cultivation and arranging for Azure Moon True Person to become a Nascent Soul True Lord under his control. The chapter left him at the pinnacle of the Nascent Soul late stage, while he prepared to pursue body-refinement resources and continued refining True Dragon Blood.

• Zhou Qing learned that Golden-Mask True Lord ranked second among the Central Province's Ten Great Rogue Cultivators, behind the formidable Instant True Lord, and resumed secluded cultivation.
• Blood Roc delivered a Nascent Soul Transformation Pill to Azure Moon True Person, who broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm and became a new True Lord.
• Zhou Qing used his divination expertise and the karmic bond created by Azure Moon True Person's breakthrough to keep her under his control and manage the Nine Nether Domain.
• Zhou Qing cultivated the third level of the Divine Origin Transcending Void Great Art and consumed precious ancient pills to advance his spell cultivation.
• Zhou Qing avoided the Supreme White Grotto-Heaven and planned to seize body-refinement resources from the Void Spirit Blessed Land when it opened.
• Zhou Qing refined True Dragon Blood and, by the ninetieth year of the simulation, reached the pinnacle of the Nascent Soul late stage.

After reaching the peak of the nascent soul late stage, the protagonist turned to improving his puppetry and traveled to Heavenly Craft Island through a puppet to exchange insights. He arrived at the island and drew the attention of an old man who noticed the quality of his puppet.

• At age 107, the protagonist reached the peak of the nascent soul late stage and assessed his strength and prospects for attempting spirit transformation.
• The protagonist recognized that his puppetry had stalled, while his Pill Path and talisman-making had reached fourth-tier upper grade, and planned to seek advice from Heavenly Craft Island.
• At age 120, the protagonist learned that Qing Fu had died and attended the Heavenly Talisman Gate Grand Cultivator's small funeral.
• The protagonist noted Li Yan's rapid cultivation and flawless golden core, and expected her to reach the nascent soul middle stage before his spirit transformation attempt.
• At age 123, the protagonist sent a fourth-tier lower-grade puppet to Heavenly Craft Island while keeping his true body hidden.
• A puppetry grandmaster welcomed the protagonist's puppet onto Heavenly Craft Island, where a long-bearded old man noticed its intricate patterns and reacted with surprise.

After exchanging puppetry insights on Heavenly Craft Island, you pursued a fourth-tier upper-grade puppet while preparing for the opening of the Void Spirit Blessed Land. When three top Grand Cultivators tried to drive you away from the entrance, you revealed power beyond their expectations and grievously injured them, leaving the Ancient Barbarian Grand Cultivator stunned.

• You revealed a fourth-tier mid-grade puppet to the Puppetry Grandmasters on Heavenly Craft Island, who praised its formation work and advised you to study human mimicry for crafting upper-grade puppets.
• You agreed to return to Heavenly Craft Island for exchanges every ten years, then resumed crafting puppets at the Heavenly Talisman Gate.
• At age 133, you set aside your attempt to craft a fourth-tier upper-grade puppet and traveled to the Void Spirit Blessed Land, whose opening promised valuable body-cultivation resources.
• True Lord Purple-Eyes, True Lord Phantom Leaf, and True Lord Wu Qian allied to breach the blessed land’s formation and later attacked you when you arrived.
• You shattered True Lord Wu Qian’s domain, injured him with a palm strike, forced True Lord Purple-Eyes to escape using a substitution technique, and grievously injured True Lord Phantom Leaf with a Divine Soul attack.
• The Ancient Barbarian Grand Cultivator witnessed the fight and was stunned by your strength.

The Golden-Mask True Lord defeated three top Grand Cultivators and revealed power beyond the Nascent Soul Realm’s limits. At the Void Spirit Blessed Land, he drove off its defenders and stood poised to claim the entire opening’s rewards.

• The Golden-Mask True Lord chose not to pursue True Lord Phantom Leaf or True Lord Wu Qian, and sealed True Lord Purple-Eyes’s Substitute Spirit Wood as a divination medium.
• True Lord Wu Qian, True Lord Phantom Leaf, and True Lord Purple-Eyes separately recognized the Golden-Mask True Lord as a Legendary Senior Cultivator, though they understood different aspects of his power.
• Grand Cultivator Man Gu offered to share the Void Spirit Blessed Land, but the Golden-Mask True Lord refused and attacked the entrance’s protective formation.
• Grand Cultivator Man Gu and a top body-cultivating Grand Cultivator from the Ultimate Dao Pavilion used their Undying Golden Bodies to resist the Sea-Covering Seal, but its power overwhelmed their attacks.
• Grand Cultivator Man Gu, the Ultimate Dao Pavilion cultivator, and the Sacred Body Gate’s other True Lords retreated, leaving the Golden-Mask True Lord at the blessed land’s entrance.

The protagonist entered the Void Spirit Blessed Land as Golden-Mask True Lord, harvested its body-refinement treasures and memorized a Body Refinement inheritance before escaping back to the Heavenly Talisman Gate. News that he was a Legendary Senior Cultivator spread through the Human Realm, while Red Talisman Senior Cultivator wondered who he really was.

• The protagonist sent his second Nascent Soul into the Void Spirit Blessed Land while his main Nascent Soul guarded the entrance, then collected its rare body-tempering resources and memorized the golden-seal-script inheritance.
• The protagonist returned to the Heavenly Talisman Gate in disguise and began refining the treasures to cultivate toward Fourth-Tier Late-Stage Peak and an indestructible golden body.
• Grand Cultivators from the Ultimate Dao Pavilion and Sacred Body Gate arrived after his departure and found the blessed land's resources harvested; Grand Cultivator Man Gu identified the intruder as a Legendary Senior Cultivator.
• News of Golden-Mask True Lord's strength spread throughout the Human Realm, alarming Grand Cultivators Zhanshui and Qiufeng of the Harmonious Void Sect.
• Grand Cultivator Cold Talisman and Red Talisman Senior Cultivator discussed the threat, and Red Talisman Senior Cultivator considered whether Golden-Mask True Lord might be connected to True Lord Azure Origin before dismissing the idea.

After refining a ten-thousand-year blood apricot, the narrator advanced his body cultivation and studied a Heavenly Monarch’s secret art for an indestructible golden body. Years later, he oversaw Li Yan’s successful breakthrough into the Nascent Soul Realm, leaving her on the path he hoped would eventually aid his own spirit transformation.

• The narrator refined a ten-thousand-year blood apricot, accelerated his body cultivation, and studied the indestructible golden body secret art found in the Void Spirit Blessed Land.
• The narrator divined that True Lord Purple-Eyes remained in Great Snow Mountain and planned to deal with him after the Abyssal Demon had invested more in him.
• The Central Province Ten Great Rogue Cultivators Ranking named Golden-Mask True Lord first and described his exceptional strength, while leaving his identity a mystery.
• The narrator ended his seclusion after another Heavenly Talisman Gate Grand Cultivator died, then traveled to the Azure Profound Cave Abode to assess Li Yan.
• The narrator confirmed that Li Yan was ready, and she overcame the tribulations to enter the Nascent Soul Realm as a new True Lord.
• The narrator reflected that he had been unable to find another primordial yin treasure body to support his future spirit transformation attempt.

Yuan Qing completed a fourth-tier late-stage puppet, housed his second nascent soul in it, and guided Blood Roc through a breakthrough. He then endured the body refinement tribulation in the Eastern Wilderness and reached the fourth-tier late stage.

• Yuan Qing nurtured Li Yan after she entered the nascent soul realm and returned to the Central Province after checking that regional True Lords were following his orders.
• Yuan Qing refined his body with a Dragon Scale Fruit, continued refining true dragon blood, and advanced his puppet-making toward the fourth-tier upper-grade level.
• Yuan Qing allowed Blood Roc to break through to the fourth-tier middle stage, where Blood Roc gained extraordinary speed by drawing on his Heavenly Roc bloodline.
• Yuan Qing completed a fourth-tier late-stage puppet and placed his second nascent soul inside it, giving it the combat strength of a top Grand Cultivator.
• Yuan Qing reached the peak of the fourth-tier middle stage and chose a remote Eastern Wilderness location for his body refinement tribulation.
• Yuan Qing survived the tribulation and formed a mysterious golden seal within his physique as an undying quality spread through his flesh.

Azure Origin awakened indestructible golden nature, developed it into an indestructible golden body, and continued cultivating while Central Province’s grotto-heaven opportunities and the Heavenly Talisman Gate’s decline shaped his plans. After refining true dragon blood for 240 years, he tested True Dragon Transformation and discovered its complete form could briefly exceed the Human Realm’s limits, while its incomplete form lasted a day.

• Azure Origin survived the fourth-tier late-stage body refinement tribulation, awakened indestructible golden nature, and rode Blood Roc back to Central Province.
• By Year 210, Azure Origin had developed his indestructible golden nature into an indestructible golden body using supreme resources and a secret art.
• Azure Origin chose to pursue the Profound Virtue Grotto-Heaven when it opened, believing its opportunities could help him break through to Spirit Transformation.
• After Cold Talisman Senior Cultivator died, Azure Origin taught at the Doctrine-Passing Hall, resolved True Lord Three-Talisman’s question, and returned to cultivating.
• In Year 240, Azure Origin completed refining the true dragon blood and gained True Dragon Transformation.
• Azure Origin tested the complete transformation in the Eastern Wilderness, found that it could last only ten breaths, then discovered its incomplete form lasted a day while still greatly enhancing his strength.

The Golden-Mask True Lord arrived at the Profound Virtue Grotto-Heaven as many top Grand Cultivators gathered to contest its spirit transformation opportunity. After they joined forces against him, his Nascent Soul Spirit Body appeared to flee, but his true body arrived in person and reclaimed his second Nascent Soul.

• After months of practice, the Golden-Mask True Lord refined his understanding of the True Dragon Transformation and prepared his second Nascent Soul in a fourth tier late stage puppet.
• Man Gu, the Dueling Sword Grand Cultivator, True Lord Purple-Eyes, and other experts gathered at the Profound Virtue Grotto-Heaven, where the Golden-Mask True Lord's arrival drew their attention.
• The Golden-Mask True Lord attacked True Lord Purple-Eyes, but the other Grand Cultivators intervened and struck him with powerful quasi-fifth tier treasures.
• The Golden-Mask True Lord endured attacks from seven or eight top Grand Cultivators until his Nascent Soul Spirit Body flew toward the Human Realm, making the others believe he had retreated.
• The Dueling Sword Grand Cultivator sensed the Golden-Mask True Lord's physical body was unusual, then watched an immense figure smash through stars on its way to the grotto-heaven.
• The Golden-Mask True Lord arrived in person, merged with his second Nascent Soul, and confronted the stunned Grand Cultivators.

The Golden-Mask True Lord arrived in person after his second nascent soul was driven from its puppet, then overwhelmed the supreme Grand Cultivators who had attacked it. He pursued and killed True Lord Purple-Eyes, leaving the witnesses stunned by the death of a supreme Grand Cultivator.

• The Golden-Mask True Lord collected his second nascent soul and puppet, revealing that the earlier fighter had been a second nascent soul controlling a vessel.
• The seven supreme Grand Cultivators fled when the Golden-Mask True Lord revealed his vastly greater strength, and he grievously injured six of them with divine soul and magical power strikes.
• The Golden-Mask True Lord singled out True Lord Purple-Eyes and pursued him, believing he might otherwise reach the Spirit Transformation Period.
• True Lord Purple-Eyes activated a purple power and a quasi-fifth tier defensive barrier, but the Golden-Mask True Lord broke through it and destroyed his body and nascent soul.
• The Golden-Mask True Lord confirmed through divination that True Lord Purple-Eyes's karma had vanished, while the Dueling Sword Grand Cultivator and others watched in shock.

You claimed the Sky-End Fruit from the Profound Virtue Grotto-Heaven and learned that it let a Nascent Soul cultivator experience the elevation toward Spirit Transformation. After the Instant True Lord died warning his sect against opposing you, you ate the fruit and your consciousness began to rise without limit.

• You drove the Dueling Sword Grand Cultivator and the other witnesses away from the Profound Virtue Grotto-Heaven, then entered using your second Nascent Soul in a puppet.
• You endured the grotto-heaven’s soul pressure, reached the Sky-End Tree, took its fruit, and left before the grotto-heaven closed.
• The Instant True Lord returned to the Heavenly Profound Sect, warned its Grand Cultivators never to seek revenge against the Golden-Mask True Lord, and died from his injuries.
• News of your battle at the grotto-heaven spread across the Human Realm, confirming your overwhelming strength to the Heavenly Profound Sect and other powers.
• You examined True Lord Purple-Eyes’s spoils, including a mysterious purple-eyed jade, then ate the Sky-End Fruit and began experiencing an immense rise in consciousness.

After the Sky-End Fruit briefly let him merge with heaven and earth, he advanced his divination skill and learned that Heavenly Monarchs might interfere with attempts at Spirit Transformation. He resolved to seek their tacit approval, while the Human Realm’s revised ranking declared the Golden-Mask True Lord not to be provoked.

• The narrator used the Sky-End Fruit to sense Heavenly Monarchs in the Central Province, Western Desert, and Endless Deep Sea before its power expired.
• He invested a hundred years of lifespan to advance his divination skill to fourth-tier upper grade and learned that Heavenly Monarch Water Moon had noticed his scrutiny.
• He concluded that Heavenly Monarchs might suppress his attempt at Spirit Transformation and decided to seek their approval after completing his preparations.
• News of the Profound Virtue Grotto-Heaven battle spread, establishing the Golden-Mask True Lord as a terrifying force among Grand Cultivators.
• The Heavenly Talisman Gate gained Grand Cultivator Chaotic Talisman, while the narrator suspected Grand Cultivator Crimson Talisman was near death.
• The Four Great Trade Associations ranked the Golden-Mask True Lord first and warned that he was not to be provoked.

Over the decades, Azure Origin strengthened his cultivation and skills, supported Li Yan’s musical arts and Dachun’s body cultivation, and watched the Heavenly Talisman Gate recover. After Red Talisman Senior Cultivator died, Azure Origin became the Gate’s most senior Grand Cultivator and mastered the third level of the Divine Origin Transcending Void Great Art.

• Azure Origin concluded that the Four Great Trade Associations could infer his divination skill but could not discover his identity.
• Azure Origin listened to Li Yan’s fourth-tier upper-grade zither music, asked about her path to becoming a Fifth-Tier Musical Arts Celestial Master, and told her to prioritize cultivation.
• Azure Origin advanced to fourth-tier upper-grade formation mastery and realized his formation insights could strengthen his foundations in talismans and puppetry.
• Three-Talisman Senior Cultivator reached the nascent soul late stage, and Dachun passed the second body cultivation trial before Azure Origin supplied him with resources and secret arts.
• Red Talisman Senior Cultivator questioned Azure Origin about his origins, then died six months later after warning the Heavenly Talisman Gate not to provoke the Golden-Mask True Lord.
• Azure Origin became the Heavenly Talisman Gate’s most senior Grand Cultivator and mastered the third level of the Divine Origin Transcending Void Great Art.

Azure Origin became a fourth-tier upper-grade Pill Path Grandmaster and held a celebration that drew cultivators from across the Human Realm. He sent Blood Roc to stop the Great Cosmos Immortal Dynasty’s invasion and retrieve the Reincarnation Stone and rare demon cores, and Blood Roc confronted the Prince of the South in Golden Mask’s name.

• Azure Origin failed to refine a fifth-tier pill but confirmed that his alchemy skills had reached the fourth-tier upper grade.
• The Three-Talisman Senior Cultivator proposed a grandmaster celebration, and Azure Origin agreed to hold it.
• Heavenly Talisman Gate hosted the celebration, where representatives from major powers gathered and praised Azure Origin’s accomplishments.
• Azure Origin decided to send Blood Roc to Sky-Rending Grand Canyon to halt the invasion and obtain the Reincarnation Stone and four True Spirit Bloodline Beast King demon cores.
• Blood Roc confronted the Prince of the South and ordered the Great Cosmos Immortal Dynasty to withdraw by its master’s command.
• When the Prince of the South asked who Blood Roc’s master was, Blood Roc identified him as Golden Mask.

You used Blood Roc to force the Cosmic Immortal Dynasty to retreat from the Infinite Domain and obtained the Reincarnation Stone, which reacted with True Lord Purple-Eyes’s purple-eyed jade. After your cultivation and Dharma Talismans reached new heights, you prepared to seek a Heavenly Monarch’s approval for Spirit Transformation and revealed your identity as the Golden-Mask True Lord to the Three-Talisman Senior Cultivator.

• The Prince of the South withdrew the Cosmic Immortal Dynasty’s forces and surrendered four Beast King demon cores bearing true spirit bloodlines after Blood Roc invoked Golden-Mask True Lord’s command.
• The Hall Master of Infinite Hall handed Blood Roc the Reincarnation Stone as payment for Golden-Mask True Lord’s intervention.
• You found that the Reincarnation Stone caused True Lord Purple-Eyes’s purple-eyed jade to glow, then used the stone to further improve your state of mind.
• You nurtured your seventy Dharma Talismans into the fifth tier and later reached the fourth-tier late-stage peak in body cultivation.
• You decided to visit the Ultimate Dao Pavilion’s Heavenly Monarch to secure approval for Spirit Transformation and told the Three-Talisman Senior Cultivator that you were the Golden-Mask True Lord.