Chapter Summaries

Ye Fei finished strengthening Die Wu’s paired blades, which now boosted all attributes and cultivation, while the group discussed their unusual properties. Blue Feather then returned with several mischievous little creatures after they nearly burned Old Ox’s tail, leaving Ye Fei and the others to deal with their troublemaking.

• Ye Fei inspected Die Wu’s Bloodlust Gale Blades and learned they had previously granted a smaller cultivation boost before being strengthened as a set.
• Die Wu explained that she had bought the blades cheaply at auction, and Lu Heng and Ye Fei discussed why most players prioritized combat attributes over cultivation boosts.
• Jun Mo admired Lingkong and reflected on how each player followed a different path and was cared for by others.
• Blue Feather brought Eclipse Moon and the other little creatures back after they nearly burned Old Ox’s tail, then scolded them for their mischief.
• Blue Feather told Ye Fei to control the little ones and said Jun Mo’s cat had run home, while Ye Fei and the others tried to learn what had happened.

Ye Fei learned that the little ones had chased Old Yellow Ox with Fire Dance’s flames after he boasted that fire could not burn his coat. Little Jiaoren drenched him in seawater, sending him home to wash, while Blue Feather reflected on her responsibility to teach and protect her thick-skinned companions.

• Feimeng told Ye Fei that Old Yellow Ox had challenged the little ones to burn his hair, and they had kept chasing him after Fire Dance’s flames proved effective.
• Blue Feather stopped Ye Fei from sending Fire Dance to comfort Old Yellow Ox, warning that the little Phoenix’s fire and lightning frightened him.
• Jun Mo brought Little Jiaoren outside, and Little Jiaoren drenched Old Yellow Ox with seawater, which he hated.
• Old Yellow Ox ran home to wash, where the others woke and massaged his hide while Black Lao Qi demonstrated bear-paw strikes.
• Blue Feather explained that she kept teaching and protecting her companions because they were obedient but dim-witted and too stubborn to learn.

Old Yellow Ox brought Black Lao Qi and Ye Fei’s little ones to play near the edge of the defensive formation, where Phoenix Perch’s branches caught them and Blue Feather ordered the ox to plow as punishment. Ye Fei warned the little ones not to risk going near the boundary again, then comforted them by picking them up one by one.

• Die Wu arrived at Ye Fei’s Home with Old Yellow Ox and Black Lao Qi, and Qingxue and the other little ones went out to play with them.
• Phoenix Perch used a signal to make branches seize the group near the Sphere of Influence’s edge and return them to Mountain Peak.
• Blue Feather scolded Old Yellow Ox and ordered him and Black Lao Qi to plow a field, while Ye Fei marked out a suitable area.
• Old Yellow Ox carried Black Lao Qi toward the field and eagerly taught him how to plow.
• Ye Fei warned Qingxue and the other little ones not to approach the dangerous boundary again, then picked them up to comfort them.

Ye Fei watched Old Yellow Ox plow the workers’ land, bought new workers, and arranged for a Medical Hall to be built. As the newcomers prepared to move into houses, Ye Fei told Jun Mo about his exhausting former life and reflected on how much he preferred his present home.

• Jun Mo and Ye Fei watched Old Yellow Ox plow the fields while Black Lao Qi guided the plow, inspiring the Planting Workers to consider making farm tools of their own.
• Ye Fei bought thirty-one workers, including a Medical Worker, and spent 1,000 points to unlock a Medical Hall construction project.
• The Construction Workers completed a basic wooden Medical Hall with medicine cabinets, a consultation area, and supplies for makeshift sickbeds.
• Jun Mo asked whether the new workers could move into houses that night, and Ye Fei explained that the Construction Workers could work after dark as long as they stayed within their eight-hour limit.
• Ye Fei described his former routine of long workdays and overtime, then told Jun Mo that he preferred the peace, home, and companionship he had found here.

The Queen donated Life Tree Branches to raise Free and Unrestrained Mountain’s faction core energy to its upgrade threshold, and Ye Fei prepared to upgrade Jianmu while hoping to steer its growth toward a rare time-related path. The Queen, Lingyan, and Feng An prepared for possible consequences as Ye Fei began the upgrade.

• The Queen showed Ye Fei a wild red-quality golden thread grass shoot, and Ye Fei said Old Yellow Ox could eat it if he wanted.
• The Queen warned Ye Fei to guide Jianmu’s growth toward a useful path, including the rare possibility of a time-related one.
• The Queen donated bundles of Life Tree Branches until Jianmu’s core energy reached one million, and Ye Fei flew back to Mountain Peak to begin the upgrade.
• Jun Mo took Lingxiao home to avoid a possible lightning strike, while Old Yellow Ox continued plowing and looked forward to finding grass.
• The Queen withdrew her canopy, and Ye Fei asked Lingyan to watch Qingxue and the others before starting Jianmu’s upgrade.
• Feng An caught Long Heng and warned him to behave, while the Queen considered calling Blue Feather in case Ye Fei needed healing.

Ye Fei obtained the Time Cage when Jianmu reached level 2, while a heavenly tribulation countdown began. Lingyan and Feng An discussed using the Spirit Sword and Life Tree to profit from invading gods, as Ye Fei examined the new item.

• Ye Fei selected a time-related reward as Jianmu leveled up, triggering a heavenly tribulation countdown.
• The Elf Queen tried to shrink the Life Tree to protect it from the coming tribulation.
• Ye Fei opened the reward pack and obtained the Time Cage, which let him adjust time within the Sphere of Influence by spending core energy.
• Lingyan and Feng An discussed how the Spirit Sword could consume divine souls while the Life Tree absorbed divine bodies from invading players.
• Lingyan denied setting traps for gods and insisted he was simply protecting his home and its inhabitants.

Ye Fei upgraded Free and Unrestrained Mountain before the heavenly tribulation began, expanding its territory and strengthening Jianmu. Random tribulation lightning then struck across the mountain, catching Old Yellow Ox trying to eat a seedling and leaving the others to protect the workers.

• Feng An reminded Ye Fei to upgrade the faction, and Ye Fei raised Free and Unrestrained Mountain to level 4 and expanded its sphere of influence to 60,000 meters.
• Ye Fei returned home to settle the little ones, and the sky changed as random tribulation lightning began striking across Free and Unrestrained Mountain.
• Old Yellow Ox tried twice to eat a Golden Thread Grass seedling, was struck by lightning, and fled home with Hei Mo.
• Old Yellow Ox complained in the Alliance Channel, and Li Yue explained that the lightning was part of the faction's heavenly tribulation and was striking anyone who went outside.
• Li Yue said she and Die Wu were protecting the workers in the Worker Area while the other Free and Unrestrained Mountain members stayed home.

Ye Fei drew the tribulation lightning to himself to strengthen his spiritual root while Feng An and the Queen prepared to face the astral wind and earth fire. The earth fire began attacking the Life Tree, and Feng An went to meet the still-approaching astral wind.

• Ye Fei stood outside his gate and used his Lightning Domain to draw the tribulation lightning closer, strengthening his body and spiritual root as each bolt struck.
• The Queen realized she was responsible for facing the earth fire, accepted the arrangement, and went home to prepare.
• Lingyan watched over the children while he and Feng An bickered, and Long Heng urged them to behave while Ye Fei continued his tribulation.
• After the thirty-third lightning bolt, the earth fire appeared and began devastating the Life Tree at its roots.
• Feng An explained that the fire and wind would be no weaker for arriving more slowly, then went into the air to await the astral wind.

Ye Fei and Feng An endured a day-long heavenly tribulation while the Queen protected the Life Tree from earth fire. After the tribulation ended, the group gathered at Ye Fei’s Home, where Feng An returned safely and found the Queen and Lingyan irritated with him.

• The Queen told the Faction Channel that earth fire had roasted several layers of the Life Tree’s roots, while Feng An said he was waiting for the astral wind.
• Lingyan urged Ye Fei to prolong the tribulation so arriving spectators could witness their ordeal and spread the news.
• Ye Fei continued tempering his mutation thunder spiritual root with tribulation lightning as it rose to 258, and Feng An drew the astral wind into a vortex around himself.
• After the heavenly tribulation ended, the Queen checked on Feng An and Ye Fei, while Lingyan noted that Feng An was unharmed and asked the Queen how much nourishment she needed.
• Feng An criticized the Life Tree’s colors, then took grilled meat meant for the little ones, prompting the Queen and Lingyan to tell him to go away.
• Feng An complained that everyone was being unreasonable and said the astral wind had nearly blown him to pieces.

After absorbing the tribulation lightning, Ye Fei returned home with stronger attributes and a more powerful mutation thunder spiritual root, then prepared a feast for his companions. As the Free and Unrestrained Mountain players and the Wood Demon Pavilion members gathered, Lin Mu displayed his wings partly to keep Lin Xian from standing out.

• Ye Fei absorbed the tribulation lightning, improved his mutation thunder spiritual root and Lightning Domain Spirit Transformation Art, and returned home.
• Ye Fei greeted the little foxes and other companions, then prepared food while Blue Feather, Die Wu, and Li Yue joined the gathering.
• The Free and Unrestrained Mountain players and the Wood Demon Pavilion members awkwardly compared their human forms, and Ye Fei pointed out their unusual features.
• Blue Feather remarked that the Lin Family Brothers looked more like demons because of their wings, and the Queen explained their races were not human.
• Ye Fei led everyone into the Courtyard for the feast and asked Lin Mu why he had kept his wings visible; Lin Mu said he wanted Lin Xian's wings to seem less unusual.

Feng An ordered Ye Fei and the others to focus on cultivation, so Lingyan created a time-and-illusion formation with trial realms to train them. After preparing supplies and assigning tasks, the group entered the trials, while Lingyan stayed behind to control the formation and received a message from Phoenix Perch.

• Feng An ordered everyone to cultivate until their combat power reached four digits and told Lingyan to trap Lin Mu in an illusion realm.
• Ye Fei and Lingyan planned to combine a Time Cage with a time-and-illusion formation, and Feng An set the training period at three thousand six hundred days.
• The Queen turned Die Wu into Little Butterfly and left with Blue Feather and the others to prepare the formation at Ye Fei's Home.
• Lingyan created ten Teleportation Arrays, and Ye Fei assigned cultivation tasks while preparing weapons, pills, and enhancement food for the group.
• Six players and eight pets entered the trial realm, and Lingyan stayed behind to control the formation as Phoenix Perch sent him a message saying Spirit was with him.

Lingyan reassured Phoenix Perch that Ye Fei’s group did not need hardship to grow, then watched them easily overwhelm the Illusion Realm’s monsters. He decided they would spend a hundred days in Seclusion after clearing the trials, while Phoenix Perch proposed making their next challenge harder.

• Lingyan explained why he had Ye Fei refine Spirit’s food and said Spirit was too fragile for a direct fight with the God-level Players.
• Phoenix Perch worried that Ye Fei might give up after learning about other Players’ advantages, and Lingyan argued that Ye Fei would not abandon his family.
• Lingyan showed Phoenix Perch Ye Fei’s group and their animals defeating the Illusion Realm’s powerful monsters with ease.
• Phoenix Perch suggested separating the group in their next trial because they had left it behind, and Lingyan said they should cultivate in Seclusion for a hundred days after clearing the current trials.

Ye Fei halted the group’s progress through the Trial Spaces and arranged for them to spend three hundred and sixty days cultivating in each one. As everyone settled into their own routines, Lu Heng’s clashing five-element energies threatened to cause another explosion.

• Ye Fei stopped the group after another wave of monsters and decided they would spend three hundred and sixty days in each Trial Space fighting and cultivating.
• Jun Mo set up a Formation Disk for the group, while Ye Fei took Fire Dance aside because his lightning cultivation was too powerful for the formation.
• Jun Mo kept Lu Heng close to help control his unruly Cultivation Technique, while Long Heng, Feimeng, and the other beasts settled down to sleep.
• Lingxu chose to cultivate alone in the Fish Tank, and Lin Xian separated from Lin Mu because their energies could collide.
• Ye Fei began cultivating with Little Phoenix, aiming to reach Foundation Establishment Ninth Stage within three hundred and sixty days.
• Lu Heng cultivated with five-element spiritual energy that chased and battled itself, prompting Phoenix Perch and Lingyan to wonder when it would explode.

After nearly a year of cultivation in the Illusion Realm, Ye Fei and the others prepared to leave after clearing out its wild monsters. Ye Fei reached Foundation Establishment Ninth Stage and led the group home to rest before their next destination.

• The group spent nearly a year cultivating, celebrating, and fighting wild monsters whenever they appeared.
• Ye Fei called everyone to pack up, while Jun Mo suggested sparring with Lin Mu and Lin Mu refused because he feared Ye Fei's lightning.
• Lin Xian checked the surroundings with Lin Mu and confirmed that no wild monsters remained.
• Ye Fei told Qingxue to wake the sleeping creatures, caught them as they rushed to him, and announced that they were going home.

After leaving the Illusion Realm, Ye Fei reunited with Spirit and returned to life at home while Lingyan went out to watch events unfold. With only three days having passed outside, Ye Fei and his companions planned to rest, gather food, and prepare for the remaining Illusion Realms.

• Ye Fei returned to Phoenix Perch, greeted the Phoenix Tree and Artifact Refining Furnace, and happily welcomed Spirit back from an outing with Lingyan.
• Lingyan said that only three days had passed outside and left to observe the gathering God-level Players, while Ye Fei and the others were free to make their own plans.
• Lu Heng asked whether Huang Yu had left because the fighting was worsening, and Ye Fei warned that powerful visitors might treat them as entertainment.
• Lin Mu took Lin Xian to Ye Fei's Orchard to pick the Spirit Fruit, while Ye Fei sorted the Ingredients and sent Qingxue and the others to play.
• Jun Mo wondered whether Long Heng was becoming too much like the young creatures, and Ye Fei said he could not afford to raise a Divine Dragon.

Lin Mu complained about Ye Fei’s abundant Spirit Fruit, then learned that Ye Fei kept it to feed his household instead of selling it. As the group discussed how often they beat Lin Mu for body refinement, Lu Heng volunteered to spar with him, leaving everyone wary of the danger.

• Lin Mu stacked the Spirit Fruit he had picked and wondered how Ye Fei could still be poor despite his abundant resources.
• Ye Fei explained that the fruit was reserved for Phantom Spirit, the other little ones, and their household, while Jun Mo brought snacks to Lingxiao and Lingxu.
• Lin Mu teased Ye Fei for relying on his dependents to earn money, and Ye Fei said they often went hunting while he cultivated at home.
• Lu Heng asked whether Ye Fei wanted to beat Lin Mu, and Ye Fei said they had already done it so often that it had become boring.
• Long Heng said Lin Mu’s body-refinement training involved repeated beatings and elemental dangers, and Lu Heng volunteered to spar with him.
• The group fell silent at Lu Heng’s offer, recalling that Long Heng had barely survived the destructive force of Lu Heng’s Five Elements Reversal.

Ye Fei and the others finished preparing a year's worth of food and discussed different approaches to cultivation and the persecution of players who did not fit others' rules. The chapter left Lu Heng and Jun Mo planning to provoke Cultivation Channel factions, while Lin Xian and Long Heng recalled groups hunting Half-Demons.

• Ye Fei explained that he had previously prepared meals one at a time, while the group had spent two days and nights making a year's supply of food.
• Long Heng, Jun Mo, Lu Heng, and Ye Fei discussed why some Human Race Cultivation Practitioners abandoned food and embraced ascetic cultivation.
• Lu Heng proposed that he and Jun Mo publicize their comfortable cultivation in the Cultivation Channel and provoke former recruiters.
• Ye Fei agreed that Lu Heng and Jun Mo could stir up trouble after their improvements were complete, noting that some Sects had condemned players who ignored their rules.
• Lin Xian described Human Race Players who hunted Half-Demons, and Long Heng said their faction claimed to defend the purity of Human Race bloodlines while seizing resources.

After nearly ten years inside the Illusion Realm, Ye Fei and his companions emerged to find Phoenix Perch grown into a vast Divine Wood Phoenix Tree. They thanked Huang Yu, Lingyan, and Feng An for providing for them, while God-level Players continued gathering outside Free and Unrestrained Mountain.

• God-level Players learned that Free and Unrestrained Mountain held the Water God's lost Divine Artifact and was nurturing a God-Slaying Evil Artifact, and those who tried to approach were repeatedly killed.
• Feng An asked Huang Yu when Ye Fei and the others would leave the Illusion Realm before the Disaster Phase began again.
• Huang Yu ended the Time Cage and the formations, stopping the Sphere of Influence Core's Energy Points from falling further.
• Ye Fei and his companions emerged after nearly ten years had passed for them, and Phoenix Perch was revealed as a 2,000-meter-tall tree spanning a radius of 10,000 meters.
• Feng An reunited with Long Heng, who had grown from a one-year-old Baby to a two-year-old.
• Ye Fei and his companions bowed to Huang Yu, Lingyan, and Feng An and thanked them for their care.

After spending 3,600 days training in accelerated time, Ye Fei and his companions returned home and prepared to undergo tribulations the next morning. As everyone went off to rest, Ye Fei stayed behind to inspect the faction core building, with the next disaster only two days away.

• Feng An warned Ye Fei and the others that the next disaster would begin in two days, and the Elf Queen told them to rest while powerful beings prepared for the Disaster Phase.
• Lingyan proposed that Ye Fei and the others undergo their tribulations together, while Lin Xian would practice body refinement instead.
• Ye Fei announced that they would rest that day and undergo their tribulations on the Mountain Peak the next morning, then left to inspect the faction core building.
• Jun Mo, Lu Heng, Lin Mu, and Lin Xian each headed home after their long period of training.
• Ye Fei stayed behind with Little Phoenix, Golden Kitten, and Spirit, expecting the others to have a harder time the next day.

Ye Fei enabled free breeding mode for his workers, then went home to rest before his tribulation while Lingyan watched their tangled relationships. Overnight, an argument in the Cultivation Channel led several major sects to accuse Free and Unrestrained Mountain of provoking cultivation rules, and Blue Feather admitted the group hoped hostile players would come within reach of the Queen’s tree.

• Ye Fei increased his workforce to five hundred and enabled Worker Free Breeding Mode, then quickly lost interest in the workers’ complicated romantic information.
• Lingyan told Ye Fei to leave the workers alone and watch their relationships, while Ye Fei went home to bathe, sleep, and prepare for his tribulation.
• Two cultivation geniuses argued in the Cultivation Channel about food, drawing others into a debate over cultivation taboos.
• Several major cultivation sects attacked the Free and Unrestrained Mountain Little Daoist and accused the faction of encouraging people to break cultivation rules.
• Ye Fei saw the accusations in the Alliance Channel and asked whether they would draw players to attack the faction.
• Blue Feather said players would come and revealed that the Wood Demon Pavilion was waiting to catch them as nourishment for the Queen’s tree.