Chapter Summaries

The narrator strengthened his position through puppet crafting and talisman advancement while preparing to eliminate East Sand True Person, a rival for Profound King Island’s Trade Alliance vice-leadership. After gaining cultivation from Li Yan’s Primordial Yin Qi, he brought Little Black to the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range to attempt a breakthrough to the third tier.

• The narrator crafted four third-tier puppets and resolved to remove East Sand True Person rather than compete openly for the Trade Alliance vice-leadership, though divination advised waiting before making a move.
• The narrator advanced his Talisman Path attainments to the third-tier middle grade.
• Li Yan gave the narrator the Primordial Yin Qi she had nurtured for ten years, which saved him two and a half years of cultivation.
• Little Black reached the late second tier, and the narrator’s divination indicated that it should attempt its third-tier breakthrough immediately.
• The narrator took Little Black to the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range, gave it prepared breakthrough supplies, and stationed four third-tier puppets to guard it while he stayed hidden outside.

Little Black successfully broke through to the third tier, then rushed to its master in fear of a powerful presence deep within the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range. After learning that East Sand True Person was building support for the Vice Alliance Leader succession while overlooking the Azure Origin Trade Association, the narrator developed killing intent toward him.

• The narrator arranged for Little Black to attempt its breakthrough at a small third-tier spirit vein, where four third-tier puppets cleared away the resident demonic beasts.
• Blue True Person watched Little Black's breakthrough from afar and chose not to interfere, and Little Black successfully reached the third tier after two or three months.
• Little Black escaped the puppets' notice and hurried to the narrator, revealing that it feared something deep in the mountain range; the narrator suspected an avian true spirit and found that Little Black had formed a middle-grade demon core.
• The four puppets returned with demonic beast corpses, and the narrator let Little Black roam around the Purple Bamboo Grove while concealing its third-tier aura.
• The narrator read Blood-Sea True Person's message and learned that East Sand True Person was courting trade associations for the Vice Alliance Leader succession while disregarding the Azure Origin Trade Association.
• The narrator's killing intent toward East Sand True Person rose as he considered the association's prospects under East Sand True Person's leadership.

Azure Origin refined his first Crystal Condensation Pills for Black Tortoise True Person and then broke through to the middle stage of Golden Core. The chapter ended with his magical power nearly doubling after the breakthrough.

• Yellow Wolf True Person reported intelligence about Azure Moon True Person and the Primordial Origin Palace, then submitted to Azure Origin’s soul search.
• Azure Origin assessed Little Black’s third-tier abilities, including its concealed aura, extreme speed, and ambush strength.
• Black Tortoise True Person asked Azure Origin to refine Crystal Condensation Pills and offered third-tier black tortoise shell fragments in return.
• Azure Origin successfully refined three Crystal Condensation Pills, kept one, and gave the other two to Black Tortoise True Person.
• At eighty years old, Azure Origin reached peak early Golden Core and broke through to the middle stage.

After reaching the Golden Core middle stage, Zhou Qing refined a divination curiosity, learned of East Sand True Person’s future journey, and began his third-tier body cultivation breakthrough. He survived the body-tempering heavenly tribulation at Secluded Mountain and sensed his body changing.

• Zhou Qing examined his stronger divine sense and began nurturing twelve Talisman Arts in his dantian.
• Zhou Qing refined a third-tier black tortoise shell into a divination curiosity and used it to learn about Azure Moon True Person and East Sand True Person.
• Zhou Qing divined that East Sand True Person would escort supplies to the Nine Nether Domain in three years and considered how to blame his death on its demon cultivators.
• At Secluded Mountain, Zhou Qing began advancing the Mountain and Sea Body Refinement Art to its seventh level while Little Black patrolled and puppets guarded the area.
• Zhou Qing endured lightning and wind tribulations without using mana to protect himself, and the body-tempering heavenly tribulation ended.

You awakened the body refinement divine ability Burst and improved your strength before tracking down and ambushing East Sand True Person in the Wilderness. You captured his remnant soul and took his Storage Bag, leaving his fate and the purpose of his spoils unresolved.

• You survived the Third-Tier Body Cultivator Heavenly Tribulation, reached third-tier body cultivation, and awakened the divine ability Burst, which temporarily raised your strength to the perfected core formation level.
• You adapted to your new physique, gained renown in the Primordial Origin Domain as a refiner of core condensation crystals, and later left for the Wilderness with Little Black.
• You used Lower Divination to locate East Sand True Person, who was waiting in a valley to trade for a Ten Thousand Spirits Blood Pill.
• You, Little Black, and four third-tier puppets ambushed East Sand True Person, overwhelming him with a sneak attack and a powerful soul strike.
• You sealed East Sand True Person's remnant soul in a jade bottle, while Little Black ate his golden core and brought you his Storage Bag.
• You inspected the Storage Bag's many spoils and was visibly moved by what you found.

After killing East Sand True Person and Forgetful Worry True Person, you concealed the evidence and allowed suspicion to fall on Forgetful Worry True Person. Fearing Seven Baleful True Lord’s future threat, you moved to Profound King Island and settled in before receiving a visit from a beautiful female cultivator.

• You searched East Sand True Person’s remnant soul, learned about his trade with Forgetful Worry True Person, and ambushed and subdued Forgetful Worry True Person when he arrived.
• You took both cultivators’ treasures, including a Ten Thousand Spirits Blood Pill, then searched their remnant souls again and obscured the clues to East Sand True Person’s death.
• You sent Forgetful Worry True Person’s memoryless remnant soul away in an avian beast and destroyed East Sand True Person’s remnant soul, making the trade association suspect Forgetful Worry True Person had killed him.
• After learning that Seven Baleful True Lord would eventually threaten the Primordial Origin Domain, you chose to relocate to Profound King Island and left Little Black behind to monitor events.
• You arrived on Profound King Island with Li Yan, handed oversight of the Primordial Origin Domain to Blood-Sea True Person, and warned him to stay away from Azure Moon Immortal City.
• At age eighty-four, you adapted to life on Xuanwang Island, where a beautiful female cultivator came to visit you.

Wang secured the Jiang Family’s support to become Vice Alliance Leader of Profound King Island’s Trade Alliance and prepared for the coming Great Domain War while investigating Biyue True Person’s fate. By the end, he sensed that Seven Fiends True Lord had appeared in the Taiyuan Region and devoured an entire city.

• Jiang Rong'er consulted the Jiang Family Matriarch, who agreed to support Wang’s bid in exchange for a pill-refining session every twenty years, and Wang signed a Spirit Contract.
• With Jiang Family backing, Wang’s Azure Origin Trade Association gained support, and Wang became Vice Alliance Leader of Profound King Island’s Trade Alliance.
• Wang directed the Azure Origin Trade Association to buy properties in places expected to remain safe during the coming Great Domain War, and he acquired two third-tier divination inheritances.
• Wang’s divination of Biyue True Person produced only a hazy glimpse, and he suspected Biyue True Person had begun contacting Seven Fiends Demon Lord.
• Wang fulfilled his agreement by refining pills for the Jiang Family, while Blood-Sea True Person advanced to the middle stage of Golden Core cultivation.
• Wang sensed Seven Fiends True Lord had appeared in the Taiyuan Region and swallowed the cultivators of an entire city.

Zhou Qing assessed his preparations to seize the Heavenly Infant Fruit from the Azure Moon True Person and negotiated with Jiang Jixue over Profound King Island’s profits and a future breakthrough site. After more than two years of rising tensions between the Nine Nether Domain and the Primordial Origin Domain, he prepared to divine the Azure Moon True Person’s location.

• Zhou Qing reviewed his Nascent Soul tribulation prospects and the talismans, puppets, and allies he could use against the Azure Moon True Person.
• Jiang Rong'er summoned Zhou Qing to meet Jiang Jixue as the Seven Baleful True Lord’s attack brought the Great Domain War closer.
• Zhou Qing agreed to allocate Profound King Island’s trade profits among the Jiang Family, the Wan Family, and the Trade Alliance, and asked to use a fourth-tier spiritual-vein cave abode for a future Nascent Soul breakthrough.
• Jiang Jixue approved Zhou Qing’s proposal, and he encountered her husband on his way out without revealing the details of their agreement.
• More than two years later, with the Purple Void True Lord and the Seven Baleful True Lord at the front lines, Zhou Qing took out a third-tier tortoise shell to divine the Azure Moon True Person’s location.

The protagonist sacrificed a hundred years of lifespan to divine Azure Moon True Person’s location in the Purple Firmament Domain, then led Blood-Sea True Person and their forces to capture her. Azure Moon escaped her disguise and attempted to flee, but a powerful hand seized her ankle.

• The protagonist used Azure Moon True Person’s aura as a divination medium and spent a hundred years of lifespan to pinpoint her location, improving his divination skill in the process.
• The protagonist and Blood-Sea True Person traveled to Eastern Arrival Town, where Azure Moon True Person was hiding as Granny Flower and using Heavenly Secret Incense to conceal herself.
• Azure Moon True Person planned to hide for ten more years before traveling to the Seamless Domain to undergo the Nascent Soul heavenly tribulation.
• The protagonist’s forces ambushed Azure Moon True Person, and she revealed herself after blasting away three third-tier upper-grade puppets.
• Blood-Sea True Person and the others attacked Azure Moon True Person, while a powerful divine soul strike cracked her Jade Plaque and damaged her sea of consciousness.
• Azure Moon True Person activated a blood-burning escape technique, but a powerful hand seized her ankle and yanked her back.

Azure Origin ambushed Azure Moon True Person and overwhelmed her with his strength, divine-soul attacks, and demonic-cultivator countering talent. He killed her as she tried to flee, sealed her Golden Core, and began searching her storage ring.

• Azure Origin ambushed Azure Moon True Person with Little Black, Blood-Sea True Person, and a third-tier puppet, but she escaped his initial grab using a spatial art or treasure.
• Azure Moon True Person recognized Azure Origin and fought back with her Moon Wheel and treasure ruler, but he damaged her life-bound treasure and withstood her attacks.
• Azure Moon True Person used a forbidden art to flee, while Blood-Sea True Person prepared to burn his essence to stop her.
• Azure Origin activated his body-cultivation divine ability, shattered Azure Moon True Person's soul-protecting Jade Plaque with a divine-soul attack, and caught up to her.
• Azure Origin killed Azure Moon True Person, sealed her fleeing Golden Core, and searched her corpse and storage ring.

After obtaining the Heavenly Infant Fruit, you kept Azure Moon True Person’s soul alive and returned safely to Profound King Island, where you profited from the war between the Primordial Origin Domain and the Nine Nether Domain. You advanced your Lower Divination art to third-tier middle grade.

• You found the Heavenly Infant Fruit in Azure Moon True Person’s storage ring and took it, then kept her soul sealed in her golden core to conceal her disappearance.
• You and Blood-Sea True Person cleaned the battlefield, recovered the Heavenly Secret Incense and spirit tablet, and returned to Profound King Island with Little Black.
• You arranged for Blood-Sea True Person to oversee the Azure Origin Trade Association and waited to erase Azure Moon True Person’s soul after the Heavenly Secret Incense lost its effect.
• War broke out between the Primordial Origin Domain and the Nine Nether Domain, and you used Profound King Island’s trade hub to accumulate wealth and discuss profits with Jiang Jixue and the Jiang Family head.
• You practiced Lower Divination and, after sacrificing several years of lifespan, raised it to third-tier middle grade.

Wang Yuan rebuffed Yun Wei’s attempt to win his favor and later accepted Jiang Jixue’s hospitality as the Jiang Family sought to strengthen ties with him. When Jiang Jixue’s husband volunteered to defend a threatened ore vein, Wang divined that the trip carried an omen of moderate calamity.

• Yun Wei visited Wang Yuan on behalf of the Wan Family and offered him dual cultivation, but he rejected her advances and resumed studying formations.
• Wang heard rumors that he had no interest in female cultivators and welcomed the reputation, expecting the Wan Family to court him with resources instead.
• Jiang Jixue invited Wang to a gathering, personally served him rare spirit tea, and offered to brew it for him again.
• After learning rogue cultivators had attacked the Jiang Family’s ore vein, Jiang Jixue’s husband volunteered to guard it and set out for the Wilderness.
• Wang secretly divined the outcome of the husband’s mission and discovered an omen of moderate calamity.

Wang advanced his formation skills, learned that Jiang Jixue's Husband had been badly injured by Red Snake True Person, and discussed distant opportunities with Swordheart True Person. He then recalled that the Nine Heavens Clear Wind would soon appear at White Mo Mountain and resolved to pursue the Nascent Soul condensation treasure.

• Wang warned Jiang Jixue's Husband about a moderate misfortune omen, then used the spirit tea he received to break through to Third-Tier Middle Grade Formation Path skills.
• Jiang Rong'er summoned Wang to the Jiang Family, where he refined Perpetual Vitality Pills for the badly injured Jiang Jixue's Husband and accepted spirit tea as payment.
• Wang learned that Red Snake True Person had ambushed Jiang Jixue's Husband and that their conflict with the Jiang Family was escalating over a mine.
• Swordheart True Person visited Wang to arrange war-supply purchases and said the Primordial Origin Palace would leave the distant True Spirit Bloodline Beast King problem to future generations.
• Wang recalled that Demon Cultivators would soon discover the Nine Heavens Clear Wind at White Mo Mountain and recognized it as a Nascent Soul condensation opportunity.

You ambushed and eliminated the demon cultivator squad that raided White Mo Mountain, then claimed the Nine Heavens Clear Wind and the mountain’s treasures. White Mo Mountain’s young lord survived the raid but was killed before he could seek revenge.

• You planned to wait for the demon cultivators to steal White Mo Mountain’s nascent soul condensation treasure, then attack them, and divination showed minor good fortune.
• After True Person Bai He died, the demon cultivator squad breached White Mo Mountain’s formation and plundered its legacy, including the Nine Heavens Clear Wind.
• True Person Yang’s Precognition Gu detected overwhelming danger, but your Divine Sense Attack incapacitated the squad before he could escape.
• You killed the Foundation Establishment demon cultivators, sealed the two Golden Core True Persons’ cores, and learned through Soul Search that True Person Yang had carried a Precognition Gu.
• You recovered the Nine Heavens Clear Wind and other spoils while White Mo Mountain’s young lord emerged from hiding and was killed by a shadowy streak.

After returning to Profound King Island, you continued cultivating and making plans while the war between the domains raged. You watched the Jiang Family’s supreme elder attempt to break through to the Nascent Soul realm, but his tribulation clouds vanished after seven bolts, leaving his fate uncertain.

• You searched the Young Master of White Mo Mountain’s remnant soul, confirmed no one else knew about the Nine Heavens Clear Wind, erased traces of the battle, and returned safely to Profound King Island.
• You fed two demonic golden cores to Little Black, advancing him to the third-tier middle stage, and planned to use Azure Moon True Person’s golden core to strengthen him further.
• You learned that Jiang Jixue’s Husband had recovered and renewed his fight against Red Snake True Person, while you advanced your puppet-crafting skills and Li Yan improved her music dao.
• You realized that spiritual energy across Profound King Island was being drawn toward the Jiang Family, suggesting the supreme elder was preparing to attempt a Nascent Soul breakthrough.
• The Jiang Family’s supreme elder formed his Nascent Soul and faced the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation as the awakened Profound Venerable watched over Profound King Island.
• After seven thunderbolts, the tribulation clouds dispersed, and you suspected the supreme elder had failed the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation before returning to your cave abode to cultivate.

Zhou Qing reflected on the Jiang Family supreme elder’s failed attempt to reach the Nascent Soul Realm and resolved to pursue Core Formation Perfection at his own pace. After the elder’s death weakened Jiang Jixue’s position, her husband entered the golden core late stage and pledged to support her, while Zhou Qing later divined a great calamity for him and acquired a Nascent Soul-aiding pill formula at an auction.

• Zhou Qing considered the risks of breaking his core and facing the Nascent Soul tribulations, then decided that failed attempts could teach him valuable lessons in future simulations.
• Zhou Qing attended the Jiang Family supreme elder’s low-key funeral and offered condolences to Jiang Jixue, whose authority as matriarch was threatened by the loss of her grandfather’s support.
• Jiang Jixue’s husband returned from guarding the Wilderness mineral vein, entered the golden core late stage, and promised to strengthen her position by dealing with Red Snake True Person.
• Jiang Jixue’s husband warned Zhou Qing to keep his distance from Jiang Jixue, and Zhou Qing later divined that her husband faced a great calamity but declined to spend his lifespan investigating it.
• Zhou Qing organized a large-scale auction on Profound King Island, secretly sold stolen goods, and obtained the True Spirit Ultimate Transformation Pill formula.

Alchemist Wang studied a rare pill formula and learned that Jiang Jixue’s husband had died—or so she believed—after Red Snake True Person’s attack. He backed Jiang Jixue in exchange for a promise to let him study the Jiang Family’s Nascent Soul Condensation insights, and later received access to them.

• Alchemist Wang examined the True Spirit Transcendence Pill formula and learned about the rare beast cores required for powerful Nascent Soul pills.
• Li Yan reached the third tier in her Music Dao Art, and Alchemist Wang found that her music soothed his mind and slightly improved his cultivation.
• Red Snake True Person and several Grand True Persons attacked the Jiang Family’s mineral deposit, and Jiang Jixue’s husband went missing.
• Alchemist Wang divined that Jiang Jixue’s husband might still be alive, but Jiang Jixue told him she had replaced his extinguished soul lamp to conceal his apparent death.
• Jiang Jixue asked for Alchemist Wang’s support, and he agreed in exchange for access to the Jiang Family’s Nascent Soul Condensation insights.
• Alchemist Wang’s support helped stabilize the Jiang Family, and Jiang Jixue later invited him to study the insights.

Alchemist Wang earned Jiang Jixue’s trust by refusing True Person Pei Ge’s attempt to win his support, and Jiang Jixue secretly let him read the Jiang Family’s insights on nascent soul condensation. Nearby, Jiang Jixue’s supposedly dead Husband watched in disguise after possessing Jiang Wang, becoming alarmed when the hall was sealed but choosing to trust her.

• Jiang Rong'er brought Alchemist Wang to the Jiang Family estate, where True Person Pei Ge tried to persuade him to abandon his support for Jiang Jixue, but he refused.
• Jiang Wang, secretly possessed by Jiang Jixue's Husband, watched Alchemist Wang refuse Pei Ge and reflected on how he had returned to the Jiang Family in a weakened body while keeping his identity hidden.
• Jiang Jixue welcomed Alchemist Wang and offered him a chance to read the clan’s insights on nascent soul condensation in exchange for his continued support.
• Jiang Jixue sealed the reception hall against outside observation, alarming her hidden Husband, who restrained himself and trusted her intentions.
• Jiang Jixue handed Alchemist Wang the temporarily unlocked jade slip, and he extended his spiritual sense into it to read the insights.

After gaining insights into Nascent Soul formation from Jiang Jixue, you supported her rule, followed events across the domains, and helped Li Yan advance her cultivation and prepare musical arts insights for future simulations. The chapter ended with you breaking through to the late stage of Golden Core and assessing your newfound strength.

• You left Jiang Jixue alone in the reception hall after spending half a day reading her Nascent Soul Condensation insights, while Jiang Jixue's Husband and Jiang Rong'er speculated about what had happened.
• You studied the insights and learned that forming a nascent soul required destroying the golden core and transforming magical power to a higher level.
• With your support, Jiang Jixue retained her position as matriarch, while you tracked the escalating war between the Primordial Origin Domain and the Nine Nether Domain and learned about the powerful Infinite Domain.
• You helped Li Yan advance from early-stage to middle-stage Core Formation, then asked her to compile detailed musical arts insights for Li Yan in future simulations.
• After reaching the peak of middle-stage Golden Core, you cultivated for half a month and broke through to the late stage of Golden Core.

Zhou Qing reached the Golden Core late stage in the simulation and prepared to claim another Nascent Soul condensation treasure by using an antidote formula for a deadly spirit poison. He secretly killed Azure Moon True Person, then grew closer to Jiang Jixue, whose advances brought their relationship to the brink of a new step.

• Zhou Qing assessed his late-stage Golden Core strength and resolved to pursue Nascent Soul.
• Zhou Qing planned to wait before presenting the spirit poison antidote formula to the Primordial Origin Palace for its bounty.
• Zhou Qing annihilated Azure Moon True Person's sleeping soul before the Heavenly Secret Incense burned out.
• Zhou Qing continued his mutually beneficial relationship with Jiang Jixue at the Jiang Family estate.
• Jiang Jixue sat on Zhou Qing's lap and advanced their intimacy, and Zhou Qing lifted her onto the desk.