Chapter Summaries

Wang Yan recounted how he entered a vast Time-Control Formation in the Taiwu Mountains and remained trapped inside for over a thousand years. With the Card Fairy and the Purple Mountain Medicine Sage, he eventually broke free, grew to the major Nascent Soul Realm, and emerged to meet the Treasure-Seeking True Person.

• Wang Yan entered the Taiwu Mountains to find the medicinal ingredients needed to restore the Purple Mountain Medicine Sage’s dantian and continued exploring after he found them.
• Wang Yan entered a huge three-dimensional formation beneath a spiritual-energy vortex and became trapped in its central hall when it activated.
• The Card Fairy identified the formation as a rare Time-Control Formation, but Wang Yan and his companions could not find a way to escape.
• Wang Yan cultivated inside the formation, advanced to the major Golden Core Stage, and later reached the Nascent Soul Realm while restoring his dantian and Immortal Card Artifacts.
• After more than a thousand years inside the formation, the Card Fairy found a way to break it, and Wang Yan, the Card Fairy, and the Purple Mountain Medicine Sage escaped with the Moon-Embracing Purple Mountain.
• Wang Yan emerged from the formation and encountered the Treasure-Seeking True Person, reflecting that his misfortune might have become a blessing.

After spending over a thousand years in a time formation, Wang Yan emerged at great perfection of the Nascent Soul Realm and prepared to return to the Firecloud Sect. He instead flew into the Taiwu Mountains to search for materials and encountered a territorial demon beast.

• The Card Fairy explained that more than a thousand years had passed inside the formation while only a little over a hundred years passed outside, and Wang Yan reflected on his progress and the resources he had consumed.
• The Card Fairy promised to build Wang Yan a similar time formation once she understood it fully, though she warned that it would require many materials.
• Wang Yan said he would return to the Firecloud Sect to check on Thirteen and Linlang, then called for the Purple Mountain Medicine Sage to put away the Moon-Embracing Purple Mountain.
• Wang Yan decided to search deeper in the Taiwu Mountains for materials, donned his Black Lightning wings, and flew off at great speed.
• A huge purplish-red bird confronted Wang Yan and attacked with a storm of wind blades, and Wang Yan vanished with his wings and summoned a massive Fire Thunderbolt.

Wang Yan slaughtered the Purple Dove King with his Immortal Cards, convincing Treasure-Seeking True Person to abandon his schemes and propose exploring hidden Ancient Ruins together. Wang Yan agreed to the expedition after negotiating the terms for dividing the treasures.

• Wang Yan unleashed several Immortal Cards and killed the Purple Dove King, a nascent soul realm Demon Beast.
• Treasure-Seeking True Person watched the battle, realized Wang Yan's power was beyond his own, and gave up plotting against him.
• Treasure-Seeking True Person returned to Wang Yan and proposed joining forces to explore hidden Ancient Ruins using his Treasure Map.
• Wang Yan agreed to go but rejected Treasure-Seeking True Person's demand to choose a treasure first without conditions.
• Wang Yan offered Treasure-Seeking True Person an additional ten percent of the treasures if Wang Yan claimed the first choice, and Treasure-Seeking True Person accepted.

Wang Yan and the Treasure-Seeking True Person reached an ancient treasure chamber filled with chests, but found that every chest was protected by a restriction array. Wang Yan recognized the metal chest containing the Earth-Type Immortal Card Artifact and began opening it while negotiating how to divide the treasures.

• Wang Yan and the Treasure-Seeking True Person discovered the treasure chamber after Wang Yan killed the Mountain Ridge King and other Nascent Soul Realm Demon Beasts.
• Wang Yan sensed the Earth-Type Immortal Card Artifact in a chest, while the Treasure-Seeking True Person found a gray metal chest of his own.
• Wang Yan and the Treasure-Seeking True Person discovered that the chests were sealed by restriction arrays, which the Treasure-Seeking True Person could not unravel.
• The Treasure-Seeking True Person proposed choosing two chests first and dividing the rest twenty-eighty, but Wang Yan refused to let him claim the unusual metal chest.
• Wang Yan drew the metal chest toward himself and began forming seals to remove its restriction array, shocking the Treasure-Seeking True Person.

Wang Yan traded a True Immortal Spirit Treasure for more treasure chests, recovered a damaged Earth-Type Immortal Card Artifact, and discovered that his Fortune Card might be guiding him to hidden treasures. After thoroughly stripping the Taiwu Mountains of valuables, he left the Ding Kingdom aboard a Flying Boat.

• Wang Yan let the Treasure-Seeking True Person take a wood-attributed True Immortal Spirit Treasure in exchange for another ten percent of the treasure chests, including the chest containing an Earth-Type Immortal Card Artifact.
• The Card Fairy revealed that she had refined Wang Yan's Fortune Card using hide from an Auspicious True Dragon Divine Beast, and Wang Yan decided to keep the card active while searching the ruins.
• Wang Yan found a hidden passage and another treasure room while repairing the badly damaged Earth-Type Immortal Card Artifact, though he could not yet use the artifact.
• Wang Yan's Water-Type Immortal Card Artifact could activate six cards and his fire-type artifact could activate seven, while he could use five reserve cards.
• Wang Yan hunted more than a dozen Nascent Soul Realm Demon Beasts and gathered nearly all the Taiwu Mountains' valuable resources before departing the Ding Kingdom on the Card Fairy's Flying Boat.

Wang Yan defeated Wang Ziling in the Void Chaos Space with the Heaven-Creating Immortal Card Formation, then discussed his limited ability to resurrect the dead with Card Fairy. He planned to seek materials in another Immortal Domain while fleeing Fairy Purple Smoke and worrying about his promises to Linlang.

• Wang Ziling attacked Wang Yan with a massive Blacklight Cauldron, but Wang Yan crushed it with the Heaven-Creating Immortal Card Formation and destroyed Wang Ziling.
• Card Fairy emerged from Wang Yan and praised his growing strength, while Wang Yan lamented that he had refined only one Resurrection Card.
• Card Fairy urged Wang Yan to search another Immortal Domain for materials, and they discussed whether to resurrect Yun or Wang Yan's parents first.
• Wang Yan decided to ask Linlang for help, then panicked when he sensed Fairy Purple Smoke pursuing him.
• Wang Yan said he would hide at the Thirteenth Immortal Venerable's place and send his Immortal Card Clone to the Thirty-Second Immortal Domain.