Chapter Summaries

After becoming intimate with Jiang Jixue, Wang learned that the Profound Venerable would meet him and advise him before his Nascent Soul attempt. He uncovered that Jiang Wang was the escaped Jiang Family head in disguise and considered killing him, then finally met the Profound Venerable, who stared at him in sudden silence.

• Jiang Jixue revealed that the Profound Venerable would meet Wang, approve his use of the spirit vein, and give him guidance.
• Jiang Jixue told Wang about the Profound Venerable’s hostility toward an Eagle King and other powerful enemies.
• Jiang Wang saw Jiang Jixue escort Wang out and suppressed his urge to attack him, then Wang divined that Jiang Wang was the escaped Jiang Family head hiding in another body.
• Wang became a third-tier high-grade pill master, and Jiang Jixue summoned him after the Profound Venerable awakened.
• The Profound Venerable examined Wang and fell into silence.

The Profound Venerable offered to help the narrator strengthen his physique in exchange for a promise to fulfill after reaching the Nascent Soul Realm, and delivered ten-thousand-year spirit milk. The narrator then secretly brought an antidote formula for a third-tier spirit poison to the Primordial Origin Palace to claim its bounty, awaiting the palace's verification.

• The Profound Venerable recognized the narrator's exceptional physique, golden core, and soul, then spoke with him privately after sending Jiang Jixue away.
• The Profound Venerable agreed to provide a fourth-tier spirit vein cultivation dojo and help the narrator reach a third-tier late-stage physique within a hundred years in return for a future promise.
• In the one hundred and thirty-fifth year, the Profound Venerable sent the narrator a jade basin of ten-thousand-year spirit milk to nourish his body.
• The narrator secretly entered the Primordial Origin Domain and used a puppet to present the spirit poison's Antidote Formula at the Primordial Origin Palace for its bounty.
• Wu Ming received the puppet, and the palace's deputy palace master and a white-haired elder examined the formula before the elder went to test it.
• Two hours later, the white-haired elder returned while the narrator waited for the palace to verify the formula.

You claimed Thunder Transformation Water from the Primordial Origin Palace and secretly eliminated Jiang Jixue’s husband before continuing to profit from the war between the Primordial Origin Domain and the Nine Nether Domain. By year 147, your body refinement had advanced to the third-tier middle stage, and you emerged from seclusion as the war neared its end.

• You exchanged the spirit poison formula for Thunder Transformation Water, then used a puppet to leave the Primordial Origin Palace while concealing your identity.
• You continued nourishing your physique with ten-thousand-year spirit milk, advanced your talisman-making skill, and openly spent time with Jiang Jixue while secretly tracking Jiang Wang.
• You sent Little Black and third-tier puppets to ambush Jiang Wang as he left Profound King Island to attempt core formation; Little Black killed him, and you found no loose ends.
• You learned that the Nine Nether Domain investigated how the antidote formula had reached the Primordial Origin Palace, while you continued trading goods and profiting from the war.
• You reached the third-tier early-stage peak in body refinement, survived the tribulation at Secluded Mountain, and advanced to the third-tier middle stage; Little Black also reached the third-tier middle stage.
• You ended your seclusion in year 147 and looked toward the two domains, knowing their war was nearing its end.

After mastering the Divine Origin Transcending Void Great Art, you failed to qualify for the Secluded Realm Trial Grounds’ second stage, reunited with Dachun, and studied his Ancient Saint Bloodline. Years later, as you delayed a nascent soul breakthrough and watched the regions’ changing fortunes, news arrived that demons had emerged from the Myriad Beast Mountains and gravely wounded True Lord Zixu.

• You demonstrated the Divine Origin Transcending Void Great Art to the Armored Guardian God, who rated your aptitude average and denied you access to the second-stage trial because you had taken 179 years to pass the first.
• You waited for Dachun to emerge from the trial, collected his blood, and found that its golden color and healing power faded within moments.
• You brought Dachun to Profound King Island to study his Ancient Saint Bloodline while promising not to harm him.
• After the two-region war ended, you secretly sold Azure Origin Trade Association holdings out of concern about the Great Origin Palace and a powerful Beast King in the Myriad Beast Mountains.
• You reached core formation perfection but postponed a nascent soul breakthrough until your body grew stronger and you felt more confident facing the heavenly tribulation.
• You learned that several third-rank greater demons had emerged from the Myriad Beast Mountains, and that True Lord Zixu had returned gravely wounded after confronting them.

After learning that Purple Void True Lord had been gravely wounded by a blood-red roc in the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range, Wang watched the Primordial Origin Domain’s factions prepare for a possible disaster while advancing his own skills and helping Dachun train. The Golden Sword Sect relocated young cultivators to Mystic King Island for safety, and Wang gained something he had long wanted from the sect.

• Wang learned that a blood-red roc with a Heavenly Roc lineage had badly injured Purple Void True Lord’s Nascent Soul, leaving the Primordial Origin Domain’s factions fearful and considering evacuation.
• Wang took Dachun to the Secluded Mountain for the second stage of the trial, then failed to divine the domain’s future clearly.
• Wang crafted his first third-tier upper-grade puppet, examined his fourth-tier Dharma Talismans, and considered the vast gulf between early- and middle-stage Nascent Soul True Lords.
• Jian Lan True Person asked Wang to shelter Golden Sword Sect cultivators on Xuan King Island, explaining that the sect feared the beast king’s threat and blamed past generations for letting it grow unchecked.
• Wang visited Jiang Jixue, who had become the Jiang Family’s Supreme Elder, and spent several days with her.
• With the Mystic Venerable’s tacit approval, Wang helped dozens of promising Golden Sword Sect cultivators settle on Mystic King Island and obtained something he had long coveted from the sect.

Wang gathered information about the Golden Sword Sect’s sword legacy and the Myriad Beasts Mountains invasion while preparing for a future Nascent Soul breakthrough. Jiang Jixue’s attempt failed but she survived, and Wang began seeking a nascent soul condensation treasure in exchange for Little Black, leaving the trade unresolved after rejecting the Hundred Flowers Valley’s offer.

• Wang studied the Golden Sword Sect’s Metal Element Sword Scripture and considered switching to sword cultivation in a future initial simulation.
• Wang learned that two fourth-tier beast kings and their forces had seized one-fifth of the Primordial Origin Domain, and judged that the domain would be crippled regardless of the outcome of the True Lords’ battle.
• Jiang Jixue attempted to form a Nascent Soul, failed before shattering her golden core, and survived with severely damaged vitality.
• Little Black reached the peak of the middle third tier after consuming the Jade Moon True Person’s golden core, and Wang began promoting him as a potential trade for a nascent soul condensation treasure.
• The Hundred Flowers Valley’s sect master offered a female True Person instead of a treasure for Little Black, and Wang refused the deal.

Azure Origin sent Blood-Sea True Person toward the Netherworld Domain, escorted a Zhou Family branch safely to the Purple Firmament Domain, and sold Little Black to the Wondrous Sound Pavilion for a Supreme Clarity Fruit. After advancing his body refinement to the third-tier late stage, he witnessed Purple Void True Lord, High Firmament True Lord, and Seven Baleful True Lord confronting the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range’s fourth-tier Beast King.

• Azure Origin gave Blood-Sea True Person a third-tier middle-grade puppet and urged him to seek opportunities in the Netherworld Domain.
• Azure Origin secretly protected the migrating Zhou Family caravan from bandits as it traveled from the Primordial Origin Domain to the Purple Firmament Domain.
• Azure Origin negotiated with the Wondrous Sound Pavilion and exchanged Little Black for a Supreme Clarity Fruit after the pavilion confirmed his strength and potential.
• Azure Origin survived the Body Refinement Heavenly Tribulation and advanced to the third-tier late stage.
• Azure Origin’s Possession Puppetry saw Purple Void True Lord, High Firmament True Lord, and Seven Baleful True Lord join forces against the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range’s fourth-tier Beast King.

The narrator watched Purple Void True Lord, Seven Baleful True Lord, and High Firmament True Lord battle two fourth-tier beast kings, then saw Heavenly Weight True Lord arrive and seize the blood-red roc. Heavenly Weight True Lord offered the True Lords generous compensation to serve the Great Zhou Immortal Dynasty as puppet craftsmen.

• The narrator retreated over a thousand miles from the battlefield and assessed the three Nascent Soul True Lords’ chances against the two beast kings.
• Purple Void True Lord, Seven Baleful True Lord, and High Firmament True Lord fought the fourth-tier eagle king and the blood-red roc, while Seven Baleful True Lord initially held back.
• Seven Baleful True Lord pierced the eagle king with corrosive black air, and the blood-red roc answered with a devastating soul attack that forced the True Lords to retreat.
• Heavenly Weight True Lord appeared behind the blood-red roc, captured its demonic core, and stored its corpse before the eagle king fled.
• High Firmament True Lord recognized Heavenly Weight True Lord, who invited the True Lords to serve the Great Zhou Immortal Dynasty in puppet crafting for generous compensation.

Zhou observed the aftermath of a beast tide, learned more about Heavenly Weight True Lord and the Great Cosmos Immortal Dynasty, then attempted to break through to the Nascent Soul stage. He passed the heavenly lightning tribulation but failed the Heart-Demon Tribulation, and the simulation ended with his death.

• Zhou watched Heavenly Weight True Lord kill the True Spirit Bloodline Beast King and learned that the beast tide had ended.
• Zhou investigated the Great Cosmos Immortal Dynasty and Heavenly Weight True Lord, then focused on preparing for a Nascent Soul breakthrough.
• Jiang Jixue died after her failed Nascent Soul breakthrough had shortened her lifespan.
• Zhou sacrificed twenty years of lifespan to raise his divination skill, then began his breakthrough in a fourth-tier cave abode.
• Zhou formed an embryonic Nascent Soul and passed the heavenly lightning tribulation, but the Heart-Demon Tribulation trapped him in an illusory future before he awoke and died.

After his fourth simulation, Zhou Qing inherited his perfected Core Formation cultivation and discovered that his failed Nascent Soul breakthrough had transformed his Golden Core, greatly increasing its magical power. He considered how to overcome the Heart-Demon Tribulation in a future simulation as the talent settlement began.

• Zhou Qing reviewed his fourth simulation, including the Primordial Origin Domain war, the True Spirit Bloodline Beast King’s death, and his failed Nascent Soul breakthrough.
• Zhou Qing concluded that the Heart-Demon Tribulation’s immersive illusions had defeated him and considered visiting the Infinite Purgatory Forest to prepare for his next attempt.
• Zhou Qing chose to inherit the first option, gaining Core Formation Perfection, a third-tier late-stage physique, and his memories from the simulation.
• Zhou Qing discovered that his Golden Core had been reborn after his failed breakthrough, increasing his magical power by fifty to eighty percent beyond its simulated level.
• Zhou Qing speculated that repeated failed breakthroughs might let his Golden Core power approach a True Lord’s, then watched the system begin calculating his talent settlement.

After completing his fourth simulation, Zhou Qing obtained the single-use golden talent Once-in-a-Lifetime Legend, which would grant him a random identity and the Human Realm’s top-ranked talent after three more simulations. He prepared to improve his cultivation site and support Li Yan’s future cultivation, then sent puppets to gather resources from rogue cultivators.

• Zhou Qing learned that Once-in-a-Lifetime Legend could only be used after three more simulations and would begin a simulation at a random time with a new identity and a randomly chosen top-ranked Human Realm talent.
• After reviewing his cultivation and skills, Zhou Qing chose a hidden third-tier upper-grade spirit vein cave abode in the Wilderness as his next cultivation site.
• Zhou Qing considered raising Li Yan without the Demon-Seeding Formula, while retaining other safeguards and using her Dao of Music insights to help her progress in a future simulation.
• Needing formation materials, Zhou Qing used divination and puppets to locate and kill rogue cultivators, then made additional puppets to gather more resources.
• Li Yan came to attend Zhou Qing, sensed that he had changed, and became weak and flustered under his gaze.

Zhou Qing left the Purple Bamboo Grove with Li Yan for a safer, higher-grade spirit-vein cave abode in the Wilderness, taking a small portion of the local spirit vein to sustain a miniature mobile vein aboard his flying ark. As the ark traveled, Zhou Qing spotted rogue cultivators below and sent puppets to attack them after confirming they had no powerful backing.

• Zhou Qing told Li Yan they were moving, and she agreed to follow him without hesitation.
• Zhou Qing crafted a third-tier flying ark, took a tiny portion of the Purple Bamboo Grove's spirit-vein essence, and sealed the vein to prevent further loss.
• Zhou Qing installed the essence in the ark, left a second-tier puppet to guard the Purple Bamboo Grove, and departed with Li Yan for the Wilderness.
• During the flight, Zhou Qing explained that the ark's miniature spirit vein would preserve Li Yan's access to pure spiritual energy and help keep his simulation cooldown short.
• Zhou Qing sensed rogue cultivators who had slaughtered a merchant caravan and sent second-tier puppets to attack them after confirming they had no powerful backers.

Zhou Qing brought Li Yan to a hidden third-tier upper-grade spirit vein in the Wilderness, where he shortened the simulation cooldown by raising the vein’s spiritual energy concentration. After concealing the site and spending months preparing it, he reached the point where he could begin his fifth simulation.

• Zhou Qing used his puppets to verify that the hidden spirit vein was safe before bringing Li Yan inside.
• Zhou Qing set up a third-tier upper-grade Spirit-Gathering Formation, improving the spirit vein and reducing his simulation cooldown to three months and two days.
• Zhou Qing considered a fourth-tier spirit vein in the Moon Demon Domain as a future place to shorten the cooldown further.
• Li Yan absorbed the Wilderness’s turbulent spiritual energy and arranged the new cave abode with Zhou Qing’s puppets.
• Zhou Qing concealed the cave abode with a third-tier grand formation and spent a month trying to regulate the spirit vein’s energy.
• After several months at the site, Zhou Qing saw that his simulation count was one and prepared to begin the fifth simulation.

Zhou Qing began a new simulation with the goal of reaching the Nascent Soul realm, giving Li Yan cultivation and music arts to study before heading to the Secluded Realm Trial Grounds. After killing the demonic cultivator Black Luo True Person along the way, he entered the trial grounds and realized they were a sealed portion of the greater world rather than an ordinary independent secret realm.

• Zhou Qing began the simulation and gave Li Yan cultivation insights and a music dao inheritance, hoping she would develop her abilities without using the Demon Seed Art.
• Zhou Qing flew toward Secluded Mountain and used his divine sense and divination to identify Black Luo True Person, a wanted demonic cultivator.
• Zhou Qing killed Black Luo True Person with a divine sense attack, searched his soul, and took his valuables.
• Zhou Qing reached Secluded Mountain and entered the Secluded Realm Trial Grounds without sending scouts ahead.
• Zhou Qing observed that his spiritual sense was suppressed to a thousand-meter range and concluded the trial grounds were a sealed portion of the greater world.

At the Secluded Realm Trial Grounds, you passed the aptitude assessment with the highest ranking since Near Antiquity Era and earned the right to choose a reward. You selected the Lotus Heart Seed to help you face the heart-demon tribulation and advance through the nascent soul realm.

• You accepted the Armored Guardian God's aptitude assessment, which judged you an eighteen-year-old with core formation perfection to possess an innate dao embryo talent.
• The Armored Guardian God also found your body-cultivation talent exceptional and ranked you first among the trial participants of Near Antiquity Era.
• You examined the available rewards, including Heavenly Phoenix blood, a Fourth Tier Late Stage puppet, and the Sword Lord's Notes, but focused on finding help for your nascent soul breakthrough.
• You asked the Armored Guardian God for treasures that could aid you with the heart-demon tribulation and learned about the Lotus Heart Seed.
• You chose the quasi-fifth-tier Lotus Heart Seed, which could help with the heart-demon tribulation and ease later nascent soul bottlenecks.

You planted a Lotus Heart Seed in your dantian and claimed a Nine-Star Ancient Soul Fruit after mastering the first spell cultivator trial in ten breaths. After memorizing the second-stage secret art for six months, you left the trial grounds to study it outside.

• The Armored Guardian God gave you a Lotus Heart Seed, which you planted in your dantian and used to glimpse the lotus state of mind.
• You began the first spell cultivator trial and revealed that you had already mastered the Divine Origin Transcending Void Great Art.
• The Armored Guardian God verified your mastery, ranked you first in Near Antiquity Era, and awarded you a Nine-Star Ancient Soul Fruit.
• You asked whether you could leave the second-stage trial at any time, then agreed to begin it.
• You spent over six months memorizing the complex second-stage secret art on the mountainside.
• You asked the Armored Guardian God to take you out, and he returned you to the secluded mountain.

After securing treasures and allies in the Primordial Origin Domain, you prepared to investigate the Infinite Domain and its Infinite Hell Forest before attempting the Nascent Soul Realm. You left Blood-Sea True Person to manage the Azure Origin Trade Association, built up your strength in the Wilderness, and finally entered the cross-domain teleportation array bound for the Infinite Domain.

• You returned to Secluded Mountain, sent Dachun into the trial grounds, and collected the fire essence jujube tree and Blood-Sea True Person’s resources.
• You opened the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm early, pulled Blood-Sea True Person out of the Seamount Ring, and made him a ghost cultivator bound to your service.
• You tasked Blood-Sea True Person with overseeing the Azure Origin Trade Association and gathered available treasures before leaving the Primordial Origin Domain.
• You returned to the Wilderness, strengthened your cave abode’s formation, and spent years purging nearby rogue cultivators, evil cultivators, and demon cultivators for their treasures.
• You stopped the purge before attracting greater danger and decided to travel to the Infinite Domain.
• You paid one million Low-Grade Spirit Stones and stepped into the Cross-Domain Teleportation Array in Purple Firmament Immortal City.

You arrived safely in the Infinite Domain and headed for the Purgatory Forest, drawing the attention of cultivators hoping to rob you. After luring four middle-stage True Persons into a valley and defeating them in silence, you trapped a late-stage Grand True Person who had planned to steal the spoils.

• You reached Red Crow Immortal City and sensed that a fourth-tier Divination Grandmaster at the Infinite Hall influenced the domain’s heavenly secrets web.
• You spent a month buying treasures and information, then set out for the Purgatory Forest while concealed divine senses tracked you.
• You maintained the appearance of a middle-stage Core Formation cultivator to bait attackers, and four middle-stage True Persons pursued you into the wilderness.
• You entered a gray valley to rest, and the four pursuers rushed in intending to use a joint secret technique against you.
• A black-robed late-stage Grand True Person waited outside to ambush the victors, but, sensing no sounds from the valley, hesitated before a huge hand of magical power seized him and dragged him inside.

You subdued True Person Wanfeng, took his three nascent soul condensation treasures, and spent decades searching Purgatory Forest for an illusion resembling the heart-demon world. After investigating possible breakthrough sites, you rejected the Silver Moon Trade Association’s costly offer and left Corpse-Nurturing Mountain wary that its lord wanted your body.

• You captured True Person Wanfeng, searched his soul, and learned that he had collected three nascent soul condensation treasures and extensive knowledge of the Infinite Domain’s factions.
• You searched the purple-haired man and three other mid-stage True Persons, then waited a month for Burst’s cooldown to end before leaving the gray valley.
• At age twenty-eight, you entered Purgatory Forest and spent years testing its white fruits until you found an illusion similar to the heart-demon world.
• After ten years studying the illusion, you left Purgatory Forest and asked the Silver Moon Trade Association about borrowing its fourth-tier spirit vein, but rejected its fifty-year pill-refining requirement.
• You visited Corpse-Nurturing Mountain, where its lord offered a breakthrough site in exchange for one future request, and you left suspecting that he coveted your powerful body.

Wang investigated the Infinite Domain’s fourth-tier spirit veins and chose to join the Nine Li Valley, where he could use the Extreme Cold Abyss and its spirit vein to prepare for a Nascent Soul breakthrough. After ten years refining pills, he decided to return to the Primordial Origin Domain, and True Lord Beiheng gave him a token bearing his aura as proof of protection.

• Wang met the Nine Li Valley’s deputy valley master, who offered him guest elder status in exchange for protecting the valley for a century after reaching the Nascent Soul Realm.
• True Lord Beiheng uncovered a Corpse Qi Mark left on Wang by the Corpse-Nurturing Mountain, questioned him about his origins and intentions, and accepted him into the Nine Li Valley’s Alchemy Hall.
• Wang spent ten years refining pills and developing his skills while concealing the quality of his golden core.
• Wang told Dongfang Kun he would be away for several decades and said he planned to return to the Primordial Origin Domain to pursue the Heavenly Infant Fruit and the Mountain Sea Lineage Ruins.
• Wang told True Lord Beiheng he was leaving, and Beiheng gave him a token bearing his aura to identify him and deter other Nascent Soul True Lords from attacking.