Chapter Summaries

Blood-Sea True Person attacked Azure Moon Immortal City and accused Azure Moon True Person of being a demoness, but she defeated him and revealed her late-stage core formation cultivation. You suspected she was connected to the old feud involving the Mountain Sea Sect Master and decided to flee the city.

• Blood-Sea True Person appeared over Azure Moon Immortal City and called Azure Moon True Person a demoness, and you recognized him as the man you had released more than ten years earlier.
• Azure Moon True Person appeared and attacked Blood-Sea True Person as he burned his life force to fight her.
• Azure Moon True Person subdued Blood-Sea True Person and his blood sea, and the city’s cultivators celebrated her victory.
• You realized Azure Moon True Person had reached late-stage core formation and worried she might target you as the Mountain Sea Sect’s heir.
• You decided you could no longer remain in Azure Moon Immortal City and planned to flee.

Zhou Qing watched the simulation to uncover Azure Moon True Person’s intentions while planning a discreet escape from Azure Moon Immortal City. He left the city on his Dark Demon Eagle, intending never to return.

• Zhou Qing learned from Alchemist Zhao Kan that the Primordial Origin Palace invited late-stage Grand True Persons to meet its Nascent Soul True Lord, and considered whether Azure Moon True Person had concealed his cultivation to avoid the invitation.
• Zhou Qing planned a gradual departure, choosing a merchant association cultivation site with a spirit vein and preparing excuses to leave without arousing suspicion.
• Zhou Qing stored the spirit herbs and materials he had cultivated, instructed his maidservants to obey You Rou, and told them he was leaving to purchase supplies.
• Zhou Qing left Azure Moon Immortal City on the Dark Demon Eagle and looked back at the city, deciding he would never return.

After settling on Falling Maple Mountain, Wang established a cultivation base and Maplefall Market Ward while advancing to the eighth layer of Foundation Establishment. As Azure Moon Immortal City’s enormous auction approached, he suspected Azure Moon True Person was planning something dangerous and sent the Dark Demon Eagle to investigate.

• Wang installed a Spirit-Gathering Array Disk on Falling Maple Mountain, raising its spiritual energy to the second-tier upper grade.
• Wang refined his first batch of Foundation Establishment Pills with Alchemist Zhao Kan’s guidance, then established Maplefall Market Ward with the Azure Origin Trade Association.
• Shen Lingxiu helped improve the market ward’s defenses, and Wang grew more suspicious when he learned Azure Moon True Person had delayed visiting the Grand Origin Palace.
• Wang developed basic divination, failed to uncover Azure Moon True Person’s plans, and suspected the upcoming Super-Large Auction might be when the city lord acted.
• Wang reached the eighth layer of Foundation Establishment and asked Shen Lingxiu to build a new defensive grand formation on Falling Maple Mountain.
• As the auction began in Azure Moon Immortal City, Wang stayed away and sent the Dark Demon Eagle to investigate.

Wang sent Little Black to secretly observe Azure Moon Immortal City, hoping to learn what Azure Moon True Person was pursuing while avoiding the city himself. As the enormous auction approached, Shen Lingxiu worked on the market district’s defensive formation, and Little Black watched a growing flood of cultivators enter the city.

• Wang sent Little Black, whose aura and presence were concealed, to observe Azure Moon Immortal City from a distant hill.
• Wang kept his suspicions about Azure Moon True Person to himself and watched through Little Black’s shared vision.
• Wang returned to his cave abode and discussed the market district’s defensive formation with Shen Lingxiu.
• Shen Lingxiu asked whether Wang would attend the auction, but he declined because he believed he could not win a Crystal Condensation Pill and considered the city dangerous.
• Shen Lingxiu said the City Lord had promised her a core formation treasure after the auction, stirring Wang’s unease.
• More than ten days later, Little Black reached the hill and watched countless Foundation Establishment cultivators stream into Azure Moon Immortal City as the auction neared.

As Azure Moon Immortal City filled with cultivators and powerful sect True Persons ahead of its super-large auction, the narrator watched events through Little Black while delaying a body-refinement breakthrough because of heavenly tribulation. When the auction began, Azure Moon True Person sealed the city and declared that she would use its cultivators to seek the path of a True Lord, receiving a strange infant-like fruit from a powerful figure above.

• Foundation Establishment cultivators flocked to Azure Moon Immortal City, drawn by its safe auction and the chance to bid on Crystal Condensation Pills and core formation treasures.
• The narrator reached the peak of the fourth level of the Mountain-Sea Body Refinement Art but postponed advancing until attaining foundation establishment perfection, and worried about how Dachun had survived body-refinement tribulation.
• Through Little Black, the narrator saw Golden Sword Sect and other sect True Persons arrive, followed by a Primordial Origin Palace True Person welcomed by Azure Moon True Person.
• As the super-large auction began, Azure Moon True Person activated the city’s defensive formation and sealed the entire Immortal City.
• Azure Moon True Person declared that she would use the city full of cultivators to seek the path of a True Lord, and a towering figure with seven gray star-like points granted her an infant-like fruit before drawing a deep breath over the trapped city.

From Falling Maple Mountain, the narrator watched Seven Baleful Lord slaughter the cultivators of Azure Moon Immortal City with the Black Oblivion Wind until Purple Void True Lord arrived and fought him. Azure Moon True Person escaped with the Heavenly Infant Fruit, leaving the narrator to consider pursuing it in a future simulation.

• Through Little Black's eyes, the narrator recognized Seven Baleful Lord and realized Azure Moon True Person had traded Azure Moon Immortal City's cultivators for the Heavenly Infant Fruit.
• Seven Baleful Lord unleashed the Black Oblivion Wind, killing millions of cultivators and forming their essence into a blood-colored pill.
• Purple Void True Lord's nascent soul arrived, but Seven Baleful Lord swallowed the pill and fled as the two True Lords clashed.
• The narrator reflected that fleeing the city had saved their life and realized Azure Moon True Person had escaped with the Heavenly Infant Fruit.
• The narrator considered preparing in a future simulation to take the fruit from Azure Moon True Person.

After the Azure Moon Immortal City disaster, Wang avoided suspicion, watched the Primordial Origin Domain move toward war, and continued cultivating. By the chapter’s end, he had reached the ninth layer of Foundation Establishment and could attempt Core Formation.

• Wang waited to see whether Azure Moon True Person would safely test the Heavenly Infant Fruit while anticipating a Great Domain War.
• Shen Lingxiu learned of the massacre in Azure Moon Immortal City and realized Wang’s invitation had saved her life.
• Wu Ming of the Primordial Origin Palace questioned Wang about leaving the city, and Wang gave him pills to establish a connection.
• Wang learned that Purple Void True Lord had driven Seven Baleful True Lord back to the Nine Nether Domain as fighting began at the border.
• Wang’s eldest and second brothers died of old age, and his dark demon eagle returned before advancing to the late stage of the second order.
• Wang reached the peak of the eighth layer of Foundation Establishment and advanced to the ninth layer, qualifying to attempt Core Formation.

Zhou Qing advanced to the ninth layer of Foundation Establishment but chose to delay attempting Core Formation while he gathered intelligence about the Great Domain War. As the war worsened, he strengthened his body, sent cultivators from Falling Maple Mountain to the front, and learned that Nine Nether Region forces had breached the Primordial Origin Region’s defenses.

• Zhou Qing reached the ninth layer of Foundation Establishment and decided to wait before attempting Core Formation.
• Zhou Qing refused Shen Lingxiu’s request to have a child, and Wu Ming later warned him that the front lines were going badly and that Seven Baleful Lord had held his own against True Lord Purple Void.
• Zhou Qing traveled with Little Black to the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range and passed the Body Refinement Heavenly Tribulation, advancing the Mountain-Sea Body Refinement Art to the fifth level.
• After Wu Ming was conscripted and Falling Maple Mountain lost its protection from conscription, Zhou Qing’s elder brother’s grandson, Zhou Qing, volunteered for the front lines, and Zhou Qing gave him life-saving talismans.
• Zhou Qing received a letter from Wu Ming reporting that Nine Nether Region demonic cultivators had broken through part of the Primordial Origin Region’s defensive line.

You studied the Great Domain War and sold the Dark Demon Eagle to Hundred Flowers Valley in exchange for Heaven-Cleansing Water and two craft inheritances, arranging to learn how it was trained if it reached the third tier. The story left you considering Zhou Hai’s letter that he had survived the front lines and earned enough merit to obtain a Foundation Establishment Pill.

• You examined the map and considered Profound King Island’s wartime trade and the mystery of why the Seven Baleful Lord tolerated it.
• You devoted yourself to studying various crafts and decided against risking the Dark Demon Eagle’s life and potential on a third-tier breakthrough.
• You put the Dark Demon Eagle up for sale, and Tian Xin offered Heaven-Cleansing Water and two craft inheritances on behalf of Junior Sister Lan of Hundred Flowers Valley.
• You agreed to sell the eagle to Junior Sister Lan on the condition that Hundred Flowers Valley provide its complete training account and procedures if it reached the third tier.
• Junior Sister Lan established a spirit contract with you, paid the agreed price, and left riding the Dark Demon Eagle.
• The Primordial Origin Palace sent cultivators to patrol for infiltrating demonic cultivators, and Zhou Hai wrote that he had earned enough merit at the front lines to exchange for a Foundation Establishment Pill.

Wang Lang supported Zhou Hai and Shen Lingxiu amid the war between the Primordial Origin Domain and the Nine Nether Domain, while advancing his many cultivation arts. After Shen Lingxiu died following a failed Core Formation attempt, he gathered war intelligence and learned that Azure Moon True Person might have established the Devil Moon Domain.

• Wang Lang arranged for Zhou Hai to return to Falling Maple Mountain, where Zhou Hai successfully established his foundation before returning to the front lines.
• Wang Lang advanced several cultivation arts, learned that the Primordial Origin Domain had invaded the Nine Nether Domain, and acquired the Ghost-Servitude Art and Corpse-Raising Art inheritances.
• Shen Lingxiu went to the front lines, returned with enough merit to attempt Core Formation, and failed despite Wang Lang giving her a fire essence jujube.
• Shen Lingxiu died from the backlash of her failed breakthrough, and Wang Lang scattered her ashes over Falling Maple Mountain as she had requested.
• Wang Lang mastered six second-tier arts and gathered information about the war as the Nine Nether Domain gained territory and Zhou Hai rose to the peak of the middle Foundation Establishment stage.
• Wang Lang learned that a female Nascent Soul True Lord had founded the Devil Moon Domain and suspected she was Azure Moon True Person.

After learning that Azure Moon True Person had become a Nascent Soul True Lord, Wang prepared to attempt Core Formation as the domain war ended. He traded Falling Maple Mountain and its market district to Zhou Hai for a Core Transformation Secret Art, obtained a Crystal Condensation Pill, and began his breakthrough in a third-order cave abode.

• Wang confirmed through Wu Ming that Azure Moon True Person had become a Nascent Soul True Lord and established the Moon Demon Domain.
• As the war between the two domains neared its end, Wang prepared for Core Formation and offered Falling Maple Mountain and its market district to Zhou Hai in exchange for a Core Transformation Secret Art.
• Zhou Hai exchanged his accumulated battlefield merits for the secret art, and Wang transferred Falling Maple Mountain and its market district to the Zhou Family.
• Wang exchanged the nine-curved cold spirit ginseng and his accumulated merit for a Crystal Condensation Pill, then borrowed more than a million spirit stones to buy craft legacies and secret arts.
• Wu Ming escorted Wang to Primordial Origin Immortal City, where Wang rented a third-order cave abode and began his Core Formation breakthrough using the Crystal Condensation Pill.

Zhou Qing’s simulated Core Formation Breakthrough failed, but he identified his weaknesses and later advanced his divination art to the second tier. After divining an omen of minor misfortune, he was confronted by a merchant association over a debt he had not repaid.

• Zhou Qing failed to form a golden core, recognized that depleted potential and middle-grade spiritual roots had hindered him, and planned to strengthen his physique and aptitude before trying again.
• Zhou Qing recovered, traveled across the Primordial Origin Domain, and saw that True Person Linglong had established Linglong Immortal City on the former site of Azure Moon Immortal City.
• Zhou Qing experienced an epiphany and advanced his divination art to the second tier.
• Zhou Qing divined an omen of minor misfortune, then a merchant association’s cultivators arrived and accused him of owing two hundred thousand spirit stones.

After borrowing more than a million spirit stones and refusing to repay them, the protagonist fled a united pursuit by lenders and their False Core enforcer, True Person Tong Hai. Just as Tong Hai cornered him near the Zhou family's former home, Dachun returned, killed Tong Hai with one punch, healed the protagonist with his blood, and was asked what lay inside the secluded mountain.

• The protagonist escaped the lenders' first pursuit, then used a divine sense attack to repel their specialist and learned they planned to bring in a False Core True Person.
• After divining that survival lay to the west, the protagonist fled there while True Person Tong Hai pursued him with magic tools and a magic treasure.
• The protagonist used Void Talisman Drawing and Talisman Formation Art to fend off Tong Hai, but grew exhausted and unknowingly entered the mortal nation of Lie.
• As Tong Hai's attack threatened to finish him, Dachun arrived from the dark mountains and killed Tong Hai with a single punch.
• Dachun healed the protagonist with his blood, and the protagonist asked what was inside the secluded mountain.

You reunited with Dachun, learned that Secluded Mountain held an ancient trial world, and entered it with him. The guardian deity tested your aptitude, judged it mediocre with your potential exhausted, and declared that you had failed.

• Dachun killed True Person Tong Hai, and you looted the dead cultivator’s possessions.
• Dachun explained that Secluded Mountain was a trial ground and brought you inside its hidden world.
• You met the armored guardian deity, who said entrants had to pass an aptitude test to receive rewards and begin the trial.
• The guardian deity tested you and declared your aptitude mediocre, your potential exhausted, and your result a failure.

The aptitude tests at Secluded Mountain revealed that the aging cultivator had failed every trial, though he realized his extraordinary progress in a fresh simulation could earn him rewards. He spent his final years gathering resources and information with Dachun, then died after asking Dachun to scatter his ashes over Falling Maple Mountain.

• The cultivator learned that Secluded Mountain judged spell-cultivation aptitude by cultivation speed, and he realized his next simulation’s rapid progress could bring him high rewards.
• The Armored Guardian God tested the cultivator’s body, soul, ghost, and corpse cultivation aptitude; he failed, while Dachun explained his own trial and the rule that its techniques could not be shared before the fourth tier.
• The cultivator took Dachun into the Wilderness to raid rogue and evil cultivators, then moved to a new area after Core Formation cultivators ambushed them and fled.
• The cultivator and Dachun visited Profound King Island, where the cultivator spent two years secretly gathering information about the war between the Primordial Origin Domain and the Nine Nether Domain.
• The cultivator returned to Falling Maple Mountain and ordered Dachun to burn his body and scatter his ashes there after his death.
• The cultivator closed his eyes and died, ending the simulation.

After ending his third simulation, Zhou Qing inherited his simulated cultivation and skills at Maplefall Mountain and awakened the purple talent Demon Cultivator's Nemesis. He chose the secluded Purple Bamboo Grove as his next cultivation site so he could prepare for future simulations.

• Zhou Qing decided not to inherit his simulated strength in Azure Moon Immortal City and left for Maplefall Mountain to avoid detection by Azure Moon True Person.
• Zhou Qing inherited two hundred years of cultivation, memories, and skills, reaching Foundation Establishment perfection and the second-tier middle stage in body cultivation.
• Zhou Qing demonstrated the Talisman Formation Art and awakened the purple talent Demon Cultivator's Nemesis, which strengthened his attacks against demonic cultivators and weakened theirs against him.
• Zhou Qing reviewed his expanded skills and saw that his simulation cooldown was two years and five months.
• Zhou Qing chose to rent a site at Purple Bamboo Grove, where his formation skills could let him cultivate near a hidden third-tier spirit vein.

Zhou Qing bought the Purple Bamboo Grove and discovered that Li Yan’s illness came from her awakening Primordial Yin Treasure Body, which drew pure energy from the Third Tier Spirit Vein beneath the grove. He kept Li Yan as his maid, increased her access to the vein’s energy, and rejected her attempt to offer herself to him.

• Zhou Qing disguised himself, negotiated with the Li Family Head, and bought the Purple Bamboo Grove and its defensive formation.
• After learning Li Yan could not leave the grove without falling unconscious, Zhou Qing secretly searched the Li Family Head’s soul and examined Li Yan.
• Zhou Qing sensed Li Yan’s Primordial Yin Treasure Body absorbing energy from the underground Third Tier Spirit Vein and decided to keep her as his maid.
• Zhou Qing began drawing on the Third Tier Spirit Vein, and Li Yan felt more comfortable as the energy she absorbed increased.
• Li Yan approached Zhou Qing that night to offer herself in exchange for protection, but Zhou Qing refused.

Zhou Qing considered how to secure Li Yan’s cooperation so he could eventually harvest the first strand of primordial yin qi from her awakened treasure body. After building a third-tier cave abode beneath the Purple Bamboo Grove and shortening his simulation cooldown, he began cultivating Li Yan’s trust and used Divine Communion to prepare for demon-seeding.

• Zhou Qing rejected Li Yan’s advance, then decided that he would keep her nearby and use the Demon-Seeding Formula on her in simulations to ensure she would willingly offer her primordial yin qi.
• Zhou Qing channeled spiritual qi from the third-tier spirit vein beneath the Purple Bamboo Grove into his cave abode, reducing his simulation cooldown to a little over four months.
• Zhou Qing set up concealed defensive formations using materials taken from rogue cultivators he had tracked through information gathered during his third simulation.
• Li Yan sensed that the purer spiritual qi greatly accelerated her primordial yin treasure body’s awakening.
• Zhou Qing summoned Li Yan to his cave abode, checked her condition, and pressed his hand to her forehead to merge their divine senses through Divine Communion.

During two months in the Purple Bamboo Grove, Zhou Qing deepened Li Yan’s trust and prepared defenses for her while planning to seek a Core Formation Pill in Nether Mountain during his fourth simulation. The simulation cooldown ended, leaving him ready to begin.

• Li Yan woke after mistaking her master’s care for intimacy, then spent two happy months living safely beside Zhou Qing and came to regard him as her family.
• Zhou Qing considered Li Yan’s primordial yin treasure body and learned through Divination that her parents had died after hiding her near the Purple Bamboo Grove.
• Li Yan and Zhou Qing heard cultivators fighting nearby, and Zhou Qing dismissed the conflict as criminals turning on one another.
• Zhou Qing completed six puppets and prepared a concealed refuge and formations to protect Li Yan while he went to Nether Mountain in the simulation.
• Zhou Qing and Li Yan shared an intimate evening, and more than ten days later his simulation countdown reached zero and the simulation count reset to one.

Zhou Qing planted a Demon Seed in Li Yan and prepared her cultivation before entering Secluded Mountain to investigate its inner world. After using an elderly rogue cultivator to confirm the entry process, he entered the inner world himself and accepted the aptitude test.

• Zhou Qing used the Demon-Seeding Formula on Li Yan, told her about her Primordial Yin Treasure Body, and gave her cultivation methods and instructions for staying in the Purple Bamboo Grove.
• Zhou Qing captured an elderly rogue cultivator with no remaining potential and sent him into Secluded Mountain to investigate the inner world.
• The elderly rogue cultivator failed the aptitude test and was expelled, and Zhou Qing searched his soul to learn what had happened inside.
• Zhou Qing killed the elderly rogue cultivator, entered Secluded Mountain using Dachun's secret technique, and reached the Armored Guardian God.
• Zhou Qing accepted the aptitude test, and a red glow in the Armored Guardian God's eyes enveloped him.