Chapter Summaries

The protagonist built up the Azure Origin Trade Association, prepared for the Great Domain War, and sent his cultivators to explore the Mountain Sea Lineage Ruins. He ambushed Azure Moon True Person, took her Heavenly Infant Fruit, and set out to make another attempt at the Nascent Soul stage.

• The protagonist returned to the Purple Bamboo Grove, recovered Little Black, and collected the Azure Origin Trade Association’s earnings from Blood-Sea True Person.
• The protagonist returned to the Wilderness and reunited with Li Yan, who later formed a high-grade golden core; he also developed his poison-path craft and arranged for Ye Feng to oversee the Primordial Origin Domain.
• The protagonist sent association cultivators into the Mountain Sea Lineage Ruins to search for more sections of the Shanhai Formula, then waited for Azure Moon True Person to hide in Eastern Arrival Town.
• The protagonist attacked Azure Moon True Person while she was disguised as Granny Flower, subdued her, and took the Heavenly Infant Fruit from her storage ring.
• The protagonist resolved to return to Nine Li Valley and attempt to reach the Nascent Soul stage again.

Wang Lin returned to the Infinite Domain carrying Li Yan’s primordial yin qi and learned that True Lord Yinxiao had plotted to seize his body. With True Lord Beiheng’s protection, Wang Lin reached Nine Li Valley and began his Nascent Soul breakthrough, while Corpse-Nurturing Mountain waited for him to fail.

• Wang Lin took the first strand of primordial yin qi Li Yan had nurtured and hurried to the Infinite Domain to attempt his Nascent Soul breakthrough.
• Wang Lin divined that Corpse-Nurturing Mountain planned to ambush him, but the danger did not concern him because the attackers had underestimated his strength.
• True Lord Beiheng escorted Wang Lin to Nine Li Valley and revealed that True Lord Yinxiao had demanded Wang Lin’s body decades earlier.
• Mo Lao divined that Wang Lin would soon attempt his Nascent Soul breakthrough, so Corpse-Nurturing Mountain’s deputy mountain lord waited outside Nine Li Valley for a chance to obtain his corpse.
• Wang Lin began his breakthrough inside a fourth-tier cave abode, his state of mind far steadier than during his previous attempt.
• Outside the simulation, Zhou Qing anticipated Wang Lin’s Nascent Soul breakthrough and believed his chances were much greater this time.

Wang Lin survived the core-shattering stage, the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation, and the heart-demon tribulation, forming a Nascent Soul and becoming a True Lord. Outside Nine Li Valley, the Corpse-Nurturing Mountain party fled when they realized he had succeeded.

• Wang Lin shattered his golden core and formed an embryonic Nascent Soul without injury, triggering the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation.
• Wang Lin endured all nine lightning bolts, awakened a Body Refinement Divine Ability, and entered the heart-demon tribulation.
• Wang Lin broke through layers of the Heart-Demon World by recognizing its illusions and holding to his unyielding will.
• Wang Lin overcame the heart-demon tribulation, formed a Nascent Soul, and became a True Lord.
• Old Mo and the deputy mountain lord of Corpse-Nurturing Mountain fled after seeing the auspicious clouds above Nine Li Valley.

After becoming a Nascent Soul True Lord in the simulation, Zhou Qing discovered that his unusually stable nascent soul spirit body gave him exceptional strength and a way to survive even against stronger foes. He also comprehended the body-refining divine ability Vital Blood, which could fully restore his vital blood during a day of combat.

• Zhou Qing celebrated reaching the nascent soul realm and considered how his new cultivation would let him survive longer and seek further breakthroughs in future simulations.
• Zhou Qing successfully condensed his nascent soul at Nine Li Valley, where Northern Constant True Lord welcomed the sect's new true lord and Dongfang Kun wondered whether he could reach the fourth tier.
• Zhou Qing examined his nascent soul and found that his divine sense covered twelve hundred li and that his spirit body could exist and cultivate independently of his physical body.
• Zhou Qing attributed his nascent soul's exceptional stability to the Nine-Star Ancient Soul Fruit and resolved to keep studying the Divine Origin Transcending Void Great Art.
• Zhou Qing comprehended the body-refining divine ability Vital Blood, which restored all his vital blood within a hundred breaths and lasted one day, with a one-year cooldown.

After reaching the Nascent Soul realm, Wang Lin hunted down the Corpse-Nurturing Mountain cultivators who had plotted against him and returned safely to Li Jiu. He chose Azure Origin as his Daoist name, though the cultivators hailed him as True Lord Yuan Qing.

• Wang Lin considered advancing his body cultivation to the fourth tier and planned to learn from future heavenly tribulations in Nine Li Valley.
• Wang Lin emerged from his cave abode, received congratulations from the cultivators of Nine Li Valley, and met True Lord Beiheng.
• Wang Lin tracked the Corpse-Nurturing Mountain cultivators hiding outside Li Jiu and pursued them using his Nascent Soul abilities.
• Mo Lao divined that Wang Lin had reached Nascent Soul, then died after exhausting his lifespan as Wang Lin appeared before the group.
• Wang Lin killed the deputy mountain master and the remaining Corpse-Nurturing Mountain cultivators, then returned to Li Jiu and told True Lord Beiheng what had happened.
• Wang Lin chose Azure Origin as his Daoist name, and the cultivators of Li Jiu addressed him as True Lord Yuan Qing.

Azure Origin accepted Nine Li Valley’s offer to serve as a Supreme Elder for a hundred years and received the Exquisite Tower as a congratulatory gift. After refining it and developing his Nascent Soul abilities, he awaited news about the Mountain Sea lineage’s missing legacy from the Purple Firmament Domain ruins.

• True Lord Beiheng confirmed Azure Origin’s cave abode, stipend, and hundred-year duty to protect Nine Li Valley, then gifted him the Exquisite Tower.
• Azure Origin agreed to hold his Nascent Soul ceremony in ten years, with eighty percent of its gifts going to him and the rest to Li Jiu.
• Azure Origin refined the Exquisite Tower in just over a month and tested its protective and suppressive powers.
• Azure Origin assessed how his Nascent Soul realm would let him nurture fifty dharma talismans to the fourth-tier mid-grade in ninety years.
• Six years after his breakthrough, Azure Origin mastered the Mountain Sea Escape Art, Sea-Covering Seal, and Mountain-Flipping Palm, then considered the Mountain Sea lineage ruins in the Purple Firmament Domain.

Yuan Qing held his Nascent Soul Ceremony, where powerful visitors offered gifts and sought to win his favor. True Lord Yinxiao arrived with a potentially hostile gift, but Yuan Qing caught and sealed it, leaving their conflict unresolved.

• At age one hundred and eleven, Yuan Qing emerged from seclusion to attend his Nascent Soul Ceremony in Nine Li Valley with True Lord Beiheng.
• The Silver Moon Trade Association's True Lord Jiang offered Yuan Qing a quasi-fourth-tier pill furnace, a female cultivator, and ancient alchemy formulas; Yuan Qing declined the woman and accepted the formulas.
• True Lord Jinyan of the Red Crow Sect and True Lord Qianhuan of the Infinite Hall attended and presented congratulations to Yuan Qing.
• True Lord Yinxiao of Corpse-Nurturing Mountain arrived despite Yuan Qing having killed several of his sect's cultivators, including a deputy mountain lord and a top third-tier Lower Divination Master.
• True Lord Yinxiao threw Yuan Qing a jar of Ten-Thousandfold Corpse Water with hidden spiritual pressure, but Yuan Qing caught and sealed it, startling Yinxiao.

At his Nascent Soul ceremony, Azure Origin calmly thwarted True Lord Yinxiao’s attempt to humiliate him, then learned why the Infinite Hall had intervened on his behalf. Twenty years later, he refined his first Fourth-Tier Spirit Pills, revealing that he had become a fourth-tier alchemist.

• True Lord Yinxiao tried to embarrass Azure Origin by tossing him a fragile jar of Ten-Thousandfold Corpse Water, but Azure Origin caught it effortlessly with his secret arts.
• True Lord Qianhuan refused to back True Lord Yinxiao, who apologized and let the ceremony proceed without further trouble.
• After the ceremony, True Lord Qianhuan told Azure Origin that True Lord Yinxiao coveted a second fourth-tier corpse puppet and explained that True Lord Qingtian had asked her to help him.
• Azure Origin returned to his cave abode, reviewed his gifts, and continued cultivating with the resources from his ceremony.
• In the one hundred and fourth year, Azure Origin refined several Fourth-Tier Spirit Pills, and True Lord Beiheng realized he had become a fourth-tier alchemist.

Azure Origin became a fourth-tier Alchemist, traded pill-refining services to True Lord Beiheng for a month in the Extreme Cold Abyss, and then returned to the Purple Firmament Domain to address threats against the Azure Origin Trade Association. After revealing he would speak directly with High Firmament True Lord, he left Blood-Sea True Person stunned.

• Azure Origin refined six fourth-tier spirit pills, and True Lord Beiheng congratulated him before offering a month in the Extreme Cold Abyss for refining a Myriad Thunder Pill.
• Azure Origin accepted the month of access but postponed refining the Myriad Thunder Pill until he gained more experience, and True Lord Beiheng agreed.
• News of Azure Origin’s advancement spread through the Infinite Domain, and True Lord Jiang and other True Lords visited to seek pills and build ties.
• Azure Origin soaked in the Extreme Cold Abyss for a month, bringing his physique close to third-tier perfection, then divined that many Azure Origin Trade Association cultivators faced misfortune after leaving the Mountain Sea Lineage Ruins.
• Azure Origin traveled to the Purple Firmament Domain and told Blood-Sea True Person to ignore local Core Formation forces while he spoke personally with High Firmament True Lord.

Yuan Qing revealed that he had reached the Nascent Soul Realm and stopped Cai Chen from extorting the Azure Origin Trade Association. After High Firmament True Lord arrived, Yuan Qing identified himself as a True Lord from Nine Li Valley, and the news of his presence spread through the surrounding domains.

• Yuan Qing told the Blood-Sea True Person that he had entered the Nascent Soul Realm, giving the association's vice president confidence to face the local True Persons.
• Cai Chen demanded seventy percent of the association's gains from the Mountain Sea Lineage Ruins, but Yuan Qing's gaze shattered Cai Chen's Golden Core and forced him to flee with a warning for the Purple Firmament Palace's True Lord.
• Yuan Qing examined the association's recovered items and jade slips, finding no further Mountain Sea Art legacy, while the Blood-Sea True Person reported that ninety-eight association cultivators remained inside the ruins.
• High Firmament True Lord arrived, and Yuan Qing introduced himself as Yuan Qing of Nine Li Valley in the Boundless Domain and explained that he would remain near the ruins.
• High Firmament True Lord agreed that the Purple Firmament Palace would not interfere with the association's gains, then departed after speaking and sparring with Yuan Qing.
• News that Yuan Qing was a Nascent Soul True Lord supporting the Azure Origin Trade Association spread across the surrounding great domains.

After returning to the Primordial Origin Domain, you reunited with Li Yan, collected Yuan Qing Trade Association’s earnings, and investigated a powerful beast king in the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range. Unable to find the later Mountain Sea Art inheritance in the Mountain Sea Lineage Ruins, you asked the Armored Guardian God, who revealed that he possessed it.

• You reunited with Li Yan and planned to help her reach the Nascent Soul Realm before taking her to the Infinite Domain.
• You met Ye Feng at Profound King Island, collected Yuan Qing Trade Association’s profits, and learned that Jiang Jixue had died after being ambushed by Scarlet Snake True Person.
• You investigated the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range and found a fourth-tier beast king with a true spirit bloodline, then contacted True Lord Beiheng to help subdue it.
• You searched the cultivators who emerged from the Mountain Sea Lineage Ruins, but none had found the later Mountain Sea Art inheritance, so you issued a public bounty.
• High Firmament True Lord told you that the later Mountain Sea Art chapters might not be in the Mountain Sea Lineage Ruins.
• You asked the Armored Guardian God about the inheritance, and he produced a sky-blue jade slip containing it.

You obtained the complete Mountain Sea Art from the Armored Guardian God and joined True Lord Beiheng to attack the Blood Roc with a true spirit bloodline. The Blood Roc tried to escape after stunning Beiheng, and you struck it with a space-warping Divine Soul attack.

• You received and memorized the Mountain Sea Art, including its Void Refinement Chapter, after the Armored Guardian God explained that the legacy had come from the Upper Realm.
• You met True Lord Beiheng in the Purple Firmament Domain and agreed to hold off the fourth tier Eagle King while he fought the Blood Roc.
• You and True Lord Beiheng launched a surprise attack in the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range, with the Exquisite Tower and your Sea-Overturning Seal suppressing the Eagle King.
• True Lord Beiheng gained the advantage over the Blood Roc, but its Divine Soul attack briefly froze him and it attempted to flee.
• You resisted the Blood Roc’s Divine Soul attack and unleashed a space-warping Divine Soul strike as it tried to escape.

Yuan Qing helped True Lord Beiheng defeat the Blood Roc and drive off the Eagle King, then claimed the Blood Roc’s Essence-Soul Core for his cultivation plans. After returning to the Infinite Domain, Yuan Qing left the Azure Origin Trade Association in trusted hands as his victory spread through the surrounding domains and made him a legend.

• Yuan Qing’s divine soul attack dazed the Blood Roc, allowing True Lord Beiheng to grievously wound and subdue its Essence-Soul Core, while the Eagle King burned its origin essence and escaped.
• True Lord Beiheng offered Yuan Qing a choice of the Blood Roc’s body or Essence-Soul Core, and Yuan Qing took the core for use in the Five Sages Transcendence Pill while Beiheng kept the body.
• True Lord Beiheng departed for Nine Li Valley to guard the loosening Demon Cave seal, and Yuan Qing left the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range with him as its third-tier demons fled.
• Purple Void True Lord, Seven Baleful True Lord, and High Firmament True Lord met Yuan Qing and Beiheng, and Yuan Qing told them the mutant beast king had been dealt with and the Eagle King had fled.
• Half a year later, Yuan Qing returned to the Infinite Domain with Li Yan and entrusted the Azure Origin Trade Association to Blood-Sea True Person and Ye Feng.
• News of Yuan Qing’s victory spread across the Primordial Origin Domain and neighboring domains, and stories of his deeds were passed down to later generations.

Azure Origin returned to Nine Li Valley, advanced his cultivation and talisman skills, and considered cultivating a Second Nascent Soul. He agreed to guard the Demon Cave, intending to test whether his Demonic Cultivators' Natural Enemy talent suppressed the Abyssal Demon Realm's monsters.

• Azure Origin gave Li Yan musical arts legacies from the Wondrous Sound Pavilion, checked True Lord Beiheng's recovery, and used divination to confirm Heavenly Weight True Lord would not return.
• Azure Origin progressed his Nascent Soul cultivation and reached third-tier perfection in body cultivation after years of training in the Extreme Cold Abyss.
• Azure Origin studied the Second Nascent Soul secret art but set it aside because he lacked a suitable Soul Path spirit item.
• Azure Origin became a Talisman Path Grandmaster by independently drawing a fourth-tier talisman.
• True Lord Beiheng told Azure Origin that Nine Li Valley could send a True Lord to guard the Demon Cave, and Azure Origin agreed to go in his place.

True Lord Azure Origin and True Lord Jiang guarded the Demon Cave, where a blood-eyed figure in the Demon Abyss Realm repeatedly shook the seal and sent demonic beasts into the Human Realm. As Azure Origin suppressed the latest and largest wave, he sensed a soul-path treasure hidden within one escaping creature.

• True Lord Azure Origin and True Lord Jiang took over Demon Cave duty from True Lord Jinyan and True Lord Yinxiao, whose intelligent fourth-tier corpse puppet Xing'er stayed behind to watch for Azure Origin after Yinxiao plotted an ambush.
• The sealed spatial rift trembled, revealing a towering figure in the Demon Abyss Realm, and demonic beasts poured through; Azure Origin used Heavenly Net to slaughter them while discovering that his Demon Cultivator's Nemesis talent restrained them.
• Over the years, Azure Origin and True Lord Jiang repelled repeated waves, and Azure Origin learned that Dachun had completed the first stage of the trial.
• Near the end of their thirty-year assignment, the towering figure shook the seal more forcefully than before, unleashing a huge tide that began to overwhelm True Lord Jiang's defenses.
• Azure Origin increased his strength and suppressed the wave, then sensed an obscure soul-path treasure aura inside one demonic creature escaping Jiang's guarded area.

After discovering that a marked demonic beast carried a great fortune omen, Azure Origin followed it and found Xing'er fighting a high-ranking demon. As True Lord Yinxiao rushed toward them, Azure Origin unleashed a new attack on Xing'er.

• Azure Origin marked the escaping beast with his divine sense, then learned through divination that following it would bring a great fortune omen.
• After the seal was restored, Azure Origin left True Lord Jiang and followed the mark to a battle near Li Jiu Valley.
• Azure Origin found Xing'er, True Lord Yinxiao's fourth-tier corpse puppet, overpowering a high-ranking demon woman.
• Azure Origin ambushed Xing'er with the Exquisite Tower and repeated Sea-Overturning Seals, gravely wounding her.
• True Lord Yinxiao approached, so Azure Origin withdrew the Exquisite Tower and revealed a chubby infant covered in silver seal-script characters.

Azure Origin captured Xing'er by sending his Nascent Soul into the fourth-tier corpse puppet and suppressing her spiritual awareness. True Lord Yinxiao arrived too late to save her, and the confrontation turned against him when True Lord Beiheng joined Azure Origin.

• Azure Origin sent his Nascent Soul into Xing'er and suppressed her spiritual awareness before she could self-destruct.
• Azure Origin sealed Xing'er with a fourth-tier talisman and stored her in a Life-Containing Spatial Treasure, discovering a sleeping female devil cultivator inside it.
• True Lord Yinxiao arrived and attacked Azure Origin, but their exchange left him unable to gain an advantage or recover Xing'er.
• True Lord Jiang and True Lord Chixin arrived as True Lord Yinxiao offered to negotiate, but Azure Origin refused to surrender Xing'er.
• True Lord Beiheng arrived from Nine Li Valley and accused True Lord Yinxiao of ordering a Corpse Puppet to attack a True Lord of his valley.

After returning to Nine Li Valley, Azure Origin hid the true cost of suppressing True Lord Yinxiao’s corpse puppet and examined the spoils from the Demon Cave. Three years later, he ended his seclusion and went to meet True Lord Beiheng.

• Azure Origin told True Lord Beiheng that a forbidden secret art had weakened him, and Beiheng gave him a fourth-tier spirit fruit before he entered seclusion.
• Azure Origin counted his many captured devils, tested whether he could refine True Lord Yinxiao’s fourth-tier corpse puppet, and considered controlling her with his divine sense.
• Azure Origin found fourth-tier upper-grade Soul-Nourishing Jade inside Demoness Sen and discovered that it contained dormant fourth-tier divine soul power.
• Azure Origin suspected Demoness Sen had once been a fourth-tier devil and that the Demon Abyss Realm still sought entry into the Human Realm, then sealed the divine soul power and tried to search her soul.
• Three years later, Azure Origin received a message from True Lord Beiheng and went to Nine Li Valley’s reception hall.

Azure Origin refused to return True Lord Yinxiao’s fourth-tier corpse puppet and gave True Lord Qianhuan evidence of a dangerous devil-race soul. Over the following years, he took control of the puppet, advanced his preparations for a second nascent soul, and survived the fourth-tier body-refinement tribulation, becoming a Body Cultivator True Lord.

• True Lord Qianhuan offered one fourth-tier yin corpse flower in exchange for the corpse puppet, but Azure Origin refused and handed her a sealed jade box containing a wisp of fourth-tier divine soul power from an unusual devil-race member.
• Azure Origin learned that Dachun had begun the second stage of his trial and wondered whether he would become a Fourth-Tier Body Cultivator True Lord.
• Azure Origin sealed the corpse puppet’s sentience and controlled its body with his divine sense, then continued nurturing a second nascent soul within the Soul-Nourishing Jade.
• Azure Origin discovered that the Great Cosmos Immortal Dynasty was recruiting puppetry experts to help build the World-Crossing Immortal Ark.
• Azure Origin watched a Nine Li Valley body cultivator die during the fourth-tier refinement tribulation, then judged that he could withstand the ordeal himself.
• Azure Origin endured all eighteen thunderbolts, using Vital Blood and Burst before drawing on magical power to survive the final strike and enter the fourth tier of body cultivation.

After surviving the fourth-tier body-refinement tribulation, Azure Origin awakened the Transformation divine ability and held a successful Body Cultivator True Lord ceremony. He later learned that an envoy from the Great Cosmos Yellow Dynasty had visited the Infinite Hall, then continued cultivating until a second Nascent Soul spirit body emerged in his dantian.

• Azure Origin endured seventeen lightning bolts with his body, completed his fourth-tier breakthrough, and awakened the Transformation divine ability, which let him imitate creatures and potentially gain their divine abilities from their blood essence.
• After stabilizing his injuries, Azure Origin accepted True Lord Beiheng's congratulations and agreed to hold a Body Cultivator True Lord ceremony.
• Azure Origin's ceremony drew factions from the Infinite Domain and nearby domains, while True Lord Yinxiao of Corpse-Nurturing Mountain stayed away.
• Azure Origin learned that an envoy from the Great Cosmos Yellow Dynasty had visited the Infinite Hall, attempted a divination about the dynasty, and stopped when the signs proved obscure.
• Ten years later, as Azure Origin cultivated in seclusion, his soul-nourishing jade crumbled and a smaller Nascent Soul spirit body emerged beside his primary Nascent Soul.