Chapter Summaries

Li Xingtian hid in Sunset Valley while the Skyglow Sect searched for him, then discovered Li Zi was enduring beatings rather than reveal what she knew. As he prepared to escape, Chu Xingchen arrived nearby and sensed Li Xingtian just as a surge of bloody spiritual energy erupted from town.

• Li Xingtian disguised himself and returned to Sunset Valley, where he saw the Skyglow Sect questioning rogue cultivators and posting his face as a wanted man.
• Li Xingtian planned to forge a Divine Mechanism Sect token to bluff his way past the Skyglow Sect's exit checks.
• Li Xingtian overheard Li Zi's little brother plead with her to tell the Skyglow Sect what she knew, while Li Zi insisted she had already told them everything she could.
• Li Xingtian realized Li Zi had not betrayed him and silently left, wishing he could see his master.
• Chu Xingchen arrived in Central Province and sensed Li Xingtian nearby, then recognized a sudden surge of bloody spiritual energy as his disciple's.

Chu Xingchen arrived as Li Xingtian was being overwhelmed by a Skyglow Sect Elder and three Golden Core cultivators. He destroyed their sword formation, healed Li Xingtian, and killed the Elder and the three cultivators, leaving Li Xingtian to recover after the battle.

• Chu Xingchen sensed that Li Xingtian was fighting for his life and rushed to his disciple’s location.
• Chu Xingchen shattered the Skyglow Sect Elder’s sword formation and reached the wounded Li Xingtian.
• Chu Xingchen gave Li Xingtian a healing pill and told him to leave the matter to his Master.
• Chu Xingchen broke the Elder’s defensive shield, damaged his Life-Bound Sinan, and killed him.
• Chu Xingchen killed the three Golden Core cultivators who had surrounded Li Xingtian.
• Li Xingtian recovered on the ground as Chu Xingchen asked whether the pill he had made worked well.

Chu Xingchen rescued Li Xingtian from the Skyglow Sect and helped him treat the gravely injured Li Zi, an information broker who had tried to warn him. Li Xingtian chose to remain away from the sect for now, but learned he had gained a junior sister and junior brother.

• Chu Xingchen took Li Xingtian and the injured Li Zi to a deserted hut after defeating the Skyglow Sect pursuer.
• Chu Xingchen gave Li Xingtian his experimental healing pills, and Li Xingtian fed them to Li Zi despite their severe side effects.
• Li Xingtian explained that Li Zi had tried to warn him after a contingency in the secret realm exposed him to the Skyglow Sect, which ambushed her.
• Chu Xingchen asked whether Li Xingtian would return to the sect, but Li Xingtian said he still had things to do and would stay away for now.
• Chu Xingchen told Li Xingtian that he had taken two more disciples, and Li Xingtian smiled and said he would bring them gifts when he returned.

Chu Xingchen sent Li Xingtian east with a teleportation talisman, then returned alone to attack the Skyglow Sect over its treatment of his disciple. As his Nascent Soul manifestation battered the sect’s defenses, an elderly swordsman intervened and asked why Chu Xingchen had come.

• Li Zi remained unconscious despite Chu Xingchen’s pills, so Li Xingtian stored her in the Qiankun Bag while Chu Xingchen gathered the Skyglow Sect elder’s belongings.
• Chu Xingchen gave Li Xingtian pills and a Thousand-Mile Teleportation Talisman, escorted him east, and told him to return to the sect if he was ever wronged.
• Li Xingtian bowed farewell and walked toward his next destination as Chu Xingchen left for the Skyglow Sect.
• Chu Xingchen summoned his karmic Nascent Soul manifestation and attacked the Skyglow Sect’s mountain-protecting formation with a kick and a flowing-water sword strike.
• An elderly man intercepted Chu Xingchen’s manifestation with an ancient sword, then asked which supreme immortal sect he belonged to and offered an apology on behalf of the Skyglow Sect.

Chu Xingchen confronted the Skyglow Sect over its attempt to seize an antidote from his disciple, expecting a fight but finding its dying Spirit Transformation cultivator willing to concede almost anything. He left with compensation and the sect’s agreement to apologize, while Lin Wei and the Skyglow elders endured a humiliating settlement.

• Chu Xingchen assessed Lin Wei’s severe injuries and dying condition, then confronted the Skyglow Sect over its encirclement of Li Xingtian.
• The Skyglow Sect Leader explained that the sect had pursued Li Xingtian because they believed the Secret Realm contained a pill that could cure poison.
• Chu Xingchen demanded compensation and consequences for everyone involved, while Lin Wei repeatedly agreed to his terms.
• Lin Wei accepted Chu Xingchen’s demand that the Sect Leader and elders each take several sword strikes, then personally stabbed them to demonstrate the injuries.
• Chu Xingchen collected several Spatial Rings and left without fighting, while Lin Wei waved him off and the Skyglow elders faced public humiliation.

Chu Xingchen returned to the Sect, found Yuankong in a newly reforged body, and agreed to let him try Buddhist methods to treat the unconscious Li Zi. Yuankong accepted the task after Chu Xingchen bargained him down to testing one pill a day.

• Chu Xingchen returned to the Sect and reassured Chen Baiqing that Li Xingtian was safe and still in Central Province.
• Chu Xingchen entered the Main Hall, where Li Yingling revealed that the burly monk was Yuankong, and Chu Xingchen immobilized him when he tried to leave.
• Chu Xingchen examined Yuankong and found that his temporary reforged body did not meet the conditions for discipleship, though Chu Xingchen still intended to make him test pills.
• Chu Xingchen brought out the unconscious Li Zi, and Yuankong diagnosed her divine sense as tangled and offered to try Buddhist methods to treat her.
• Yuankong agreed to take Li Zi for treatment after Chu Xingchen reduced his pill-testing obligation from two pills a day to one.

Chu Xingchen searched for a suitable cultivation method for Cui Hao, rejecting the Demon-Suppression Bureau’s manuals as useless. He returned to the sect with a method ready, but Cui Hao tried to flee when Chu Xingchen announced it.

• Yuankong told Chu Xingchen that his altered appearance would supposedly return to normal once he reached Foundation Establishment, then left carrying Li Zi.
• Chu Xingchen decided to spend the Skyglow Sect’s compensation on further construction and assigned Ning Kun to oversee the work.
• Chu Xingchen searched the Demon-Suppression Bureau’s library for a cultivation method for Cui Hao, found its manuals worthless, and abandoned the search there.
• At a sect gathering, Lin Luoyu noticed that Cui Hao avoided Chu Xingchen despite the Qi-Nourishing Pills improving his cultivation.
• Chu Xingchen returned with a cultivation method for Cui Hao, who tried to run but was immobilized by a spell.

Chu Xingchen gave Cui Hao a dazzling cultivation manual and promised to teach him personally, while Cui Hao believed his master had prepared the supreme method to make up for his poor aptitude. The chapter left Cui Hao grateful and oblivious to why his senior sisters pitied him.

• Cui Hao begged Chu Xingchen to let him cultivate on his own, but changed his mind when he saw the golden manual Chu Xingchen held.
• Li Yingling and Chen Baiqing recognized the manual as a likely source of trouble and looked at Ning Qianqian with pity, while Lin Luoyu thought Cui Hao would finally catch up with the others.
• Cui Hao eagerly accepted the cultivation method and opened it, finding its characters profound and impossible to understand.
• Chu Xingchen said he would teach Cui Hao the method himself because it was too profound for him to ask Li Yingling for help.
• Cui Hao concluded that Chu Xingchen valued him and had chosen a supreme method to compensate for his poor aptitude, but Li Yingling responded with a pitying gaze.

Chu Xingchen brought Cui Hao to the Martial Training Hall and taught him the self-created Heaven-Burning Li-Jin Great Dao Heart Method, presenting it as a powerful secret technique. Cui Hao began cultivating it and found it blended smoothly with his existing practice.

• Chu Xingchen led Cui Hao into the Martial Training Hall to explain his new heart method.
• Chu Xingchen told Cui Hao to keep the method secret and promised to adjust it as Cui Hao progressed.
• Chu Xingchen explained the Heaven-Burning Li-Jin Great Dao Heart Method, whose passages Cui Hao recognized as resembling the Spirit-Nourishing Art.
• Cui Hao dismissed the resemblance and praised Chu Xingchen's teaching after quickly understanding the method.
• Cui Hao began cultivating the new method and found that the spiritual energy from his Qi Refining Divine Art circulated without resistance.

After Cui Hao was taken away to learn his heart method, Li Yingling welcomed Ning Qianqian into the Sect gathering and teased Chu Xingchen over dinner. Cui Hao finished cultivating and realized his new technique was powerful, then set out to ask his master to refine it further.

• Li Yingling stopped Ning Qianqian from working and insisted she sit down to eat with the others.
• Chu Xingchen joined the meal, told everyone not to disturb Cui Hao while he cultivated, and praised Ning Qianqian's grilled meat.
• Li Yingling accused Chu Xingchen of wronging her when he teased her about causing trouble.
• Cui Hao finished cultivating and found that his new heart method absorbed spiritual energy far faster than the Qi Refining and Spirit-Nourishing Art.
• Cui Hao decided to find Chu Xingchen and ask him to fine-tune the technique.

Xie Lingyu reflected on how Central Province’s sects seized control of the world’s main spirit veins, then stood on Pearl-Gem Peak as her master teased her about having a sweetheart. The chapter left Xie Lingyu facing her amused master without answering the accusation.

• The narration described how the Heavenly Derivation Sect intercepted two-thirds of the spiritual energy flowing through its main spirit vein.
• The Profound Clarity Heavenly Sect’s seizure of a main vein triggered the first Reverse Punitive Campaign, in which it devastated Dongsheng Shenzhou and retained control at great cost.
• Other sects followed the Profound Clarity Heavenly Sect’s example until the eighteen main spirit veins were divided among powerful sects.
• Xie Lingyu, nearing the peak of the Golden Core stage, cultivated on the Cloud-Ascending Terrace at Pearl-Gem Peak.
• Xie Lingyu’s master teased her for thinking about her sweetheart and said she had seemed different since returning.
• Xie Lingyu turned to look at her master but did not respond to the teasing.

Bai Xuanling defended Xie Lingyu’s past actions and explained the Heavenly Derivation Sect’s brutal history as the Central Province Eighteen Demonic Sect. She teased Xie Lingyu about Chu Xingchen, then revealed he had stirred up trouble in Sunset Valley and asked Xie Lingyu to bring him to meet her.

• Bai Xuanling told Xie Lingyu she had done nothing wrong and blamed the Sect Leader for exiling her.
• Xie Lingyu recalled that Bai Xuanling had once slaughtered seven sects and later forced the Sect Leader to promise an early end to Xie Lingyu’s punishment.
• Xie Lingyu reflected that the Heavenly Derivation Sect’s reputation for order concealed its origins as the merciless Central Province Eighteen Demonic Sect.
• Bai Xuanling teased Xie Lingyu about having a sweetheart and named Chu Xingchen as the person she suspected.
• Xie Lingyu stopped when Bai Xuanling hinted at news of Chu Xingchen, and Bai Xuanling said he had stirred up trouble in Sunset Valley and invited Xie Lingyu to bring him over.

Chu Xingchen and his disciples celebrated Lin Luoyu’s birthday with gifts, longevity noodles, decorations, and a song. Their gathering was interrupted by an unfamiliar woman in a pale blue dress, who looked over the group and remarked that Chu Xingchen was good-looking.

• Chu Xingchen sensed that Li Xingtian’s cultivation had advanced and felt reassured about his disciple’s safety.
• Chu Xingchen found Lin Luoyu waiting at the sect and learned that Li Yingling had sent her to stay behind.
• Li Yingling returned with the others and surprised Lin Luoyu with a birthday gift and a celebration.
• Ning Qianqian brought Lin Luoyu longevity noodles, and Chu Xingchen led everyone in singing a birthday song.
• An unfamiliar woman arrived at the sect entrance, surveyed the group, and told Chu Xingchen he was quite good-looking.

Bai Xuanling, Xie Lingyu’s older sister and a Tribulation Transcendence powerhouse, visited Chu Xingchen’s sect and invited him and his disciples to join the Heavenly Derivation Sect. Chu Xingchen declined for now, but Bai Xuanling decided to stay at the sect and have his room prepared for her.

• Bai Xuanling arrived at Chu Xingchen’s sect, introduced herself as Xie Lingyu’s older sister, and told him to call her big sister.
• Chu Xingchen tried to send Li Yingling and the other disciples away, but Bai Xuanling saw through his excuse and teased him about resembling Xie Lingyu.
• Bai Xuanling asked Chu Xingchen about his future plans and invited him and his disciples to join the Heavenly Derivation Sect, but he said he was not considering it for now.
• Bai Xuanling gave Lin Luoyu a bottle of pills for her birthday, and Lin Luoyu thanked her and ate her longevity noodles.
• Bai Xuanling said she planned to stay at the sect for a while, so Chu Xingchen ordered Li Yingling to clear out his room for her.

Bai Xuanling met Chen Baiqing and questioned her about Chu Xingchen and his Sect before offering Chu Xingchen guidance. When he mentioned his strange alchemy problem, Bai Xuanling asked to watch him refine pills.

• Bai Xuanling found Chen Baiqing reading, introduced herself, and traded a bottle of pills for one of the girl's candied fruits.
• Bai Xuanling asked Chen Baiqing what Chu Xingchen did at the Sect, and Chen Baiqing said he cultivated, taught them, and knew alchemy.
• Chu Xingchen joined them and asked Bai Xuanling how Xie Lingyu had been; Bai Xuanling called his Sect lax and offered to help manage its disciples.
• Chu Xingchen declined Bai Xuanling's offer to discipline his disciples but accepted her offer to answer his questions.
• Chu Xingchen told Bai Xuanling that his pills were difficult to swallow and caused a strange sensation, so she asked him to show her how he refined them.

Bai Xuanling watched Chu Xingchen refine a Qi-Nourishing Pill and found his technique flawless, but tasting one revealed the powerful, strange rejection effect he had warned her about. Suspecting his furnace might be responsible, she offered him her personal Refining Pill Furnace and told him to make another batch.

• Bai Xuanling asked Chu Xingchen to refine a basic Qi-Nourishing Pill and judged his alchemy technique to be excellent.
• Bai Xuanling praised the finished pills, then tasted one at Chu Xingchen's urging.
• The pill's fierce rejection effect alarmed Bai Xuanling, who destroyed its medicinal potency and questioned Chu Xingchen about his alchemy.
• Bai Xuanling examined another pill and suspected the Refining Pill Furnace might be causing the side effect.
• Bai Xuanling took out her personal Refining Pill Furnace, let Chu Xingchen borrow it, and ordered him to refine another batch.

Bai Xuanling took Chu Xingchen’s unusually potent but harsh Qi-Nourishing Pills to study, while Chu Xingchen eagerly planned to ask the Tribulation Transcendence powerhouse for help with his sect and disciples. Two days later, she realized he had been piling more requests on her and angrily called him shameless.

• Bai Xuanling examined Chu Xingchen’s pills, found their medicinal effects concentrated but their side effects unusually severe, and agreed to investigate them.
• Chu Xingchen gave Bai Xuanling all the pills he had refined, and she promised to report her findings in a couple of days.
• Chu Xingchen reflected that Bai Xuanling was genuinely helpful and began thinking of more matters for her to advise him on, including his disciples’ cultivation and the sect’s formations and feng shui.
• Two days later, Bai Xuanling confronted Chu Xingchen beside a pool and accused him of going too far with his requests.

Bai Xuanling upgraded Chu Xingchen’s mountain-guarding formation and revised Cui Hao’s cultivation method while helping the sect with its needs. After she joined the sect’s barbecue gathering, Chu Xingchen asked her to provide one more thing: a Spirit Field.

• Bai Xuanling rebuilt the sect’s mountain-guarding formation with valuable foundations and gave Chu Xingchen a jade token to control it.
• Chu Xingchen brought Bai Xuanling his revised cultivation method, and she refined it into the Heaven-Burning Li-Jin Great Dao Heart Method, extending its progression to the Nascent Soul realm.
• Bai Xuanling examined the sect’s Spirit Gathering Formation and told Chu Xingchen it was already too good to improve safely.
• Bai Xuanling joined the sect’s barbecue gathering, then Chu Xingchen approached her again and asked what the sect was missing.
• Chu Xingchen told Bai Xuanling that the sect needed a Spirit Field.

Chu Xingchen and Bai Xuanling established a Medicine Field at the Sect’s Back Mountain, then joined the disciples’ thirty-seventh Whole-Sect Gathering. Bai Xuanling reflected on the Sect and its members before Chu Xingchen invited her to take part in the bonfire celebration.

• Bai Xuanling agreed to help Chu Xingchen prepare a plot for spirit plants, and he set up the cultivation ritual under her direction.
• With Bai Xuanling’s support and donated seeds, the Medicine Field was established, and Ning Qianqian was put in charge of tending it.
• Bai Xuanling examined the Sect and considered its loose organization, Chu Xingchen’s influence, and the qualities of its disciples.
• At the bonfire gathering, Chu Xingchen offered Bai Xuanling mortal wine and invited her to join the celebration so no one would be left out.
• Bai Xuanling stood to join the gathering and warned Chu Xingchen not to blame her if she spoiled the mood; he said he would blame his eldest disciple.

After the Whole-Sect Gathering, Bai Xuanling finished her visit to Chu Xingchen’s sect and gave him a Heavenly Derivation Token as an investment in its potential. She left with her murderous intent eased, while wondering whether the sect’s hidden talents were connected to the ordained cycles of the world.

• Bai Xuanling joined the Whole-Sect Gathering, shared food with Chen Baiqing, and drank two cups as a penalty after Li Yingling reproached her.
• During her stay, Bai Xuanling watched Chu Xingchen and the disciples improve the sect and found its disciples unusually talented.
• Chu Xingchen gave Bai Xuanling six bottles of pills he had refined, and she accepted them as payment for her help.
• Bai Xuanling gave Chu Xingchen a Heavenly Derivation Token that could make people who feared the Heavenly Derivation Sect give way to him in Central Province.
• Bai Xuanling could offer no solution to Chu Xingchen’s alchemy problem, then said goodbye and considered visiting the sect again to unwind.