Chapter Summaries

Chen Ming transmigrated into Mo Juren, expelled and destroyed Yu Zitong, and used the Lottery System to obtain a pseudo-spirit root. After deciding to change the fate that led to his death, he sensed spiritual qi for the first time and ran to find a quiet place to try drawing it into his body.

• Chen Ming woke in Mo Juren's body, recognized the danger posed by Yu Zitong and Han Li, and received a Lottery System beginner gift pack.
• Chen Ming used the Soul-Expelling Pill and Soul-Slaying Nail to expel and destroy Yu Zitong, then took the Purifying Pill to remove toxins from his body.
• Chen Ming encountered Zhang Tie training at Red Water Peak, recalled Doctor Mo's deadly possession scheme, and resolved to change the original outcome.
• Chen Ming spent three Low-Grade Spirit Stones to draw a Pseudo-Spirit Root Pill from the system and swallowed it.
• Chen Ming sensed spiritual qi for the first time and ran toward the waterfall to find a quiet place to try drawing qi into his body.

Chen Ming used a Pseudo-Spirit Root Pill and a Qi Gathering Pill to gain a fake spiritual root and reach the first layer of Qi Refining, then gave Zhang Tie a fist manual. He noticed Han Li had obtained the Heaven Palm Bottle and began considering how to get it.

• Chen Ming's Pseudo-Spirit Root Pill expelled black impurities from his body, and he used the Evergreen Technique to draw in a small amount of spiritual energy.
• Chen Ming used two system draws to obtain a Qi Refining Pill Formula and a Qi Gathering Pill, then cultivated with the pill in the waterfall pool and reached Qi Refining first layer.
• Chen Ming gave Zhang Tie the Through-the-Back Fist manual and considered how Zhang Tie might avoid the fate of being used in a possession experiment.
• Han Li asked Zhang Tie to open his emerald-green bottle, but Zhang Tie could not remove its stopper.
• Chen Ming watched Han Li with the Heaven Palm Bottle and considered taking the treasure, but decided not to act yet.

Chen Ming abandoned his plan to kill Han Li and cultivated until he reached the seventh Qi Refining layer before taking Zhang Tie to Jiayuan City. He returned to the Mo Mansion, where Yan welcomed him and described the declining business, but their conversation was interrupted as Chen Ming carried her toward a room.

• Chen Ming was struck by lightning when he considered killing Han Li, so he left and decided to focus on cultivating instead.
• Chen Ming used pills to advance to the second Qi Refining layer in a month, then reached the seventh layer over the next four years while Han Li and Zhang Tie also improved.
• Chen Ming told Han Li to keep cultivating and took Zhang Tie to Jiayuan City, where word of his return spread among the gangs.
• Chen Ming arrived at the Mo Mansion and reunited with Yan, who told him that rival factions had been suppressing their business.
• Chen Ming scooped Yan into his arms and started toward a room, but a figure hurried over and interrupted them.

Chen Ming killed Cao Yang and four Brothers Alliance members after Cao Yang mocked his weakened cultivation, then headed toward the alliance’s headquarters with a saber. He waited outside when Chief Constable Nie Yuan arrived, unaware that two watchers had identified him and sent one to alert their clan.

• Cao Yang visited the Mo Mansion and mocked Chen Ming for his apparent fall to the second innate stage.
• Chen Ming seized Cao Yang and punched through his chest, then ordered Zhang Tie to kill Cao Yang’s four companions.
• Yan brought Chen Ming a saber, and Chen Ming told Zhang Tie to stay at the mansion before setting out for the Brothers Alliance.
• Chen Ming saw Chief Constable Nie Yuan enter the alliance’s headquarters and waited at a nearby teahouse rather than confront the authorities.
• Two watchers recognized Chen Ming, and one sent Xiao Qing to keep watch while he went to inform the clan elders.

Lian Xingchen learned that Mo Juren had returned with a trace of cultivator aura and ordered him secretly watched. Chen Ming stormed the Brothers Alliance, killed its leaders and members, and set its estate ablaze, but three darts suddenly targeted him as he left.

• Wang Xiaoyu told Lian Xingchen that Mo Juren had killed Cao Yang and that he had sensed a faint Qi Refining aura from him.
• Lian Xingchen ordered Wang Xiaoyu to have Liu Yang secretly watch Mo Juren and check whether he had joined a sect.
• Chen Ming left the teahouse, killed the Brothers Alliance guards and men moving chests, and entered the alliance estate.
• Chen Ming fought Li Biao and Geng Fang, then used spiritual energy and fireballs to kill them and the remaining gang members.
• Chen Ming set the Brothers Alliance estate on fire and left, but three darts flew toward his glabella, chest, and dantian.

Chen Ming survived an ambush, returned to the Mo Mansion, and announced plans to move the Amazing Flood Dragon Society to Qu Ling City while naming Zhang Tie as his adopted heir. News of his strength unsettled Jiayuan City's factions as invitations went out for the adoption ceremony, while crises also gathered around the Seven Mysteries Sect and Elder Yu.

• Chen Ming pursued and killed a masked attacker outside Jiayuan City, then returned to the Mo Mansion and met his family.
• Chen Ming announced that the Amazing Flood Dragon Society would move its headquarters to Qu Ling City and asked Zhang Tie to become his adopted son and inherit the society.
• The Vajra Sect's ambush party learned that Chen Ming had returned, while the city lord's residence kept the three million taels recovered from the Brothers Alliance.
• News of the Brothers Alliance's destruction spread, and the Mo Mansion sent invitations for Zhang Tie's adoption ceremony.
• The Wild Wolf Gang confronted the Seven Mysteries Sect as Han Li prepared to face Venerable Golden Light, while a young man told Elder Yu that they had found the person he sought.

Yu Changhai came to Mo Mansion with Yu Xiaoqing and Yu Xiaodong to avenge Yu Zitong, but Chen Ming defeated all three through a sudden attack, magic, and poison. The three lay gravely wounded as Chen Ming ordered them tied up.

• Yu Changhai’s family history revealed that Yu Zitong’s death had left him seeking the killer for four years.
• Hundreds of martial-world guests and Jiayuan City officials attended Mo Juren’s banquet at Mo Mansion.
• After the guests departed, Yu Changhai, Yu Xiaoqing, and Yu Xiaodong attacked the mansion and confronted Chen Ming over Yu Zitong.
• Chen Ming struck Yu Xiaoqing by surprise, then fought Yu Changhai while using poisoned powder.
• Chen Ming wounded Yu Xiaodong with a Fireball spell, and the poison made Yu Changhai collapse after Chen Ming punched him in the neck.
• Chen Ming ordered his people to tie up the three injured Yu Family cultivators.

Chen Ming killed Yu Changhai and his companions, then refined Yu Changhai's corpse into a puppet he named You Tanzhi. After the system upgrade consumed nearly all his spirit stones, Chen Ming went to the seaside to reflect, while Lian Xingchen sent news of the fight to Spirit Beast Mountain.

• Chen Ming killed Yu Xiaoqing and Yu Xiaodong, burned their bodies, and ordered Yu Changhai's corpse taken to the woodshed.
• Chen Ming refined Yu Changhai's corpse into a puppet, named him You Tanzhi, and brought him to the main hall.
• The system upgraded to level two and consumed 100 energy points, leaving Chen Ming with only one.
• Chen Ming ordered Mo Caihuan to practice Silver Demon Hand ten times and told Zhang Tie to supervise her.
• Lian Xingchen instructed Wang Xiaoyu to report that Chen Ming had killed a ninth-level Qi Refining cultivator to Spirit Beast Mountain.
• Chen Ming went alone to the seaside, where he noticed something unexpected.

After two quiet years of cultivation, Chen Ming was recruited by Spirit Beast Mountain and assigned to work as a pill-refining attendant. He left his family behind and began his new life at the sect, convinced that his thoughts about taking Han Li’s opportunity had somehow caused his sudden recruitment.

• Chen Ming reached the tenth qi refining layer while Zhang Tie and the Mo family improved their martial cultivation under his guidance.
• Chen Ming considered whether to seize Han Li’s opportunity when a servant announced that a visitor from Spirit Beast Mountain had arrived.
• Yuan Wulang revealed that he knew Mo Juren’s history and invited Chen Ming to join Spirit Beast Mountain, and Chen Ming agreed.
• Chen Ming told Mo Caihuan he was leaving for an unknown length of time, then defended his ties to the mortal world as his Dao.
• Yuan Wulang brought Chen Ming to Spirit Beast Mountain, registered him as an outer sect member, and assigned him to serve as a pill-refining attendant.
• Chen Ming watched a figure hurry down the mountain through the rain and wondered who it was.

Chen Ming set aside his anger over missing an opportunity and began working as an outer disciple at Spirit Beast Mountain, where he was assigned to cultivate spirit rice. During a visit to Jiayuan City, he reunited with Han Li, learned that Han Li had been poisoned by Ouyang Lingyun, and left the story considering whether to attend the Tai Nan Gathering.

• Chen Ming decided that pursuing Han Li and the stolen items was pointless and resolved to focus on farming monsters and leveling up.
• Yuan Wulang reported Chen Ming's ordinary talent to Li You, who assigned Chen Ming to plant spirit medicine at the Spirit Medicine Garden.
• Gao Yuan took Chen Ming to two mu of spirit fields and explained that outer disciples had to complete assigned work; Chen Ming cleared the weeds and planted spirit rice.
• Chen Ming returned to Jiayuan City and found Han Li talking with Sun Ergou, then brought Han Li back to the Mo Mansion.
• Han Li told Chen Ming and Zhang Tie about recent events, including being poisoned by Ouyang Lingyun; Chen Ming gave him the Warm Sun Jade and invited him to recuperate.
• Chen Ming went to his study and wondered whether he should attend the Tai Nan Gathering.

Chen Ming followed Han Li to the Tai Nan Gathering and watched him join Yellow Maple Valley at the Ascension Assembly. After robbing several cultivators to gather energy, Chen Ming accidentally triggered another system upgrade and headed back toward Jiayuan City, while a Yellow Maple Valley disciple watched him leave.

• After hearing news of the Tai Nan Gathering, Chen Ming followed Han Li to Guanggui City and then up Tai Nan Mountain.
• Chen Ming browsed the Tai Nan Gathering and saw Han Li use an Ascension Token to join Yellow Maple Valley.
• After the Assembly ended, Chen Ming masked himself and robbed four groups of low-level cultivators, taking their spirit stones, herbs, and talismans.
• Chen Ming recharged the system with his loot, triggering an automatic upgrade to the Level Three Lottery System and leaving him with only 201 energy.
• Chen Ming changed clothes, destroyed his mask and old clothes, and headed toward Jiayuan City as a young-looking Yellow Maple Valley disciple watched him from the shadows.

Chen Ming rescued Li Feiyu’s convoy, cured Li Feiyu’s Marrow-Extracting Pill affliction, and visited Liu Feng in Qu Ling City before pursuing Jia Tianlong and returning to Jiayuan City. After following an outer disciple into an abandoned courtyard, Chen Ming was spotted by a powerful cultivator and fled toward Spirit Beast Mountain as his pursuer closed in.

• Chen Ming killed the bandits attacking Li Feiyu’s convoy and agreed to accompany him to Qu Ling City.
• Chen Ming gave Li Feiyu an Origin-Restoring Pill, which restored his vitality and cultivation but caused him to soil himself.
• In Qu Ling City, Chen Ming watched Liu Feng receive an appointment as assistant general and then spoke with him privately.
• On the road the next morning, Chen Ming saw Jia Tianlong flee with a child and jump from a cliff, but chose not to follow him down.
• After returning to Spirit Beast Mountain, Chen Ming followed an outer disciple to an abandoned courtyard in Jiayuan City, where a burly man in blue robes discovered him and chased him on a flying sword.

Chen Ming used a system loan to obtain a Divine Stand-In Scroll and kill the cultivators pursuing him, then looted their belongings and returned to his life at Spirit Beast Mountain. He planned to sell his newly invented Beauty Pills after harvesting his fast-growing Spirit Rice, while the Ghost Spirit Sect discovered Youyang’s death.

• Chen Ming borrowed energy from the system, drew a Divine Stand-In Scroll, and killed his pursuer and the five cultivators following him.
• Chen Ming looted the bodies, returned to the Mo Mansion, and dragged Mo Caihuan inside before scolding her and Zhang Tie.
• A disciple discovered that Youyang’s soul tablet had shattered and reported his death to Enforcement Elder Li.
• Chen Ming returned to Spirit Beast Mountain, checked on the ripening Spirit Rice, and refined Beauty Pills to sell after completing his mission.

Chen Ming discovered that his Beauty Pills and Slim Figure Pills had no market, then suffered a lightning strike and retaliated by secretly contaminating the kitchen food. In the Southern Region, rival leaders split over whether to return to Zhao State, and the Ghost Spirit Sect’s group agreed to invade in three years.

• Chen Ming took his Beauty Pills and Slim Figure Pills to Yuan Wulang, who dismissed them as useless to cultivators and gave him examples of similar pills he had refined before.
• Chen Ming left dejected, was struck by lightning in the rain, and heard outer sect disciples speculate that he was undergoing a tribulation or practicing lightning arts.
• Chen Ming changed clothes, sneaked into the kitchen, and mixed croton powder into the food and medicinal soups.
• In the Southern Region, Qing Yunzi, Li Zimo, Yuanzhen, Chen Yan, Peng Shan, and Zhao Chen left a meeting after the leaders debated returning to the Northern Region.
• The group led by the Ghost Spirit Sect agreed to invade Zhao State in three years and use it as a base for further expansion.

After days of laboring in the spirit-rice fields, Chen Ming joined Xu Yun on a mission to investigate disappearances around Qu Ling City. He told her he had seen Jia Tianlong near Yaozhai Village, and Xu Yun flew them toward the nearby cliff to investigate.

• Chen Ming finished harvesting spirit rice, rested, and began soaking his field for the next round of work.
• Xu Yun invited Chen Ming to join her mission investigating people who had vanished around Qu Ling City.
• Chen Ming and Xu Yun arrived at the City Lord's Residence, where Liang Yu recognized Chen Ming as Society Leader Mo and described the disappearances.
• Chen Ming and Xu Yun visited deserted Yaozhai Village, where Chen Ming revealed he had seen Jia Tianlong nearby over a month earlier.
• Xu Yun called Chen Ming her lucky star and guided her flying sword toward the cliff he had indicated.

Chen Ming left the Zhao State ahead of the Evil Cult Demon Sect’s invasion, seeking new cultivation opportunities while his family stayed behind. In Wu'an City, Shen Gongbao’s family suspected Chen Ming was a refugee or spy, and after Chen Ming left town, an attacker ambushed him near a battle between cultivators.

• Xu Yun reported the formation she found with Chen Ming, and two Golden Core elders took her to investigate.
• Chen Ming accepted a mission for a Level Two Monster Core, collected basic cultivation supplies, and decided to leave the Zhao State rather than travel to the Ten Thousand Monster Mountain Range.
• Chen Ming told the Mo family he was leaving, gave them body-strengthening pills, and set out for You Province; after more than a year, he reached Mobei City and advanced to the twelfth layer of Qi Refining.
• After the Evil Cult Demon Sect invaded the Zhao State, Chen Ming fled when Shen Gongbao called to him, then learned Shen Gongbao belonged to a cultivation family in Wu'an City.
• Shen Cheng'an ordered an investigation into Chen Ming, suspecting he had fled the invasion or might be an enemy spy, while Chen Ming left Wu'an City for the Falling Moon Sect.
• As Chen Ming watched two groups of cultivators fight in a bamboo grove, an attacker struck from behind, and Chen Ming killed him with a palm strike.

Chen Ming killed two groups of cultivators who pursued him, then encountered two Tier 2 monsters in the forest at night. After the Night-Rain Golden Eagle carried off the Blackwater Python, Chen Ming fled onward, realizing the forest was too dangerous for him.

• Chen Ming ambushed and killed a group of pursuers, then killed five more cultivators who surrounded him.
• Chen Ming rested and cultivated in the moonlit forest, but the insects fell silent and a strange cry drew his attention.
• Chen Ming watched a tiger flee from a huge, venomous monster, which he identified in the Monster Annotations as a Tier 2 Blackwater Python.
• A Tier 2 Night-Rain Golden Eagle appeared, drove off the Blackwater Python, and seized it in its talons.
• Chen Ming hurried away through the forest, fearing the golden eagle might return and recognizing that he could not fight the monsters.

Chen Ming escaped an Iron-Armored Boar and traveled with Shen Gongbao to join the Falling Moon Sect. After the sect’s test revealed Chen Ming had seven spirit-root attributes and the twelfth Qi Refining layer, Deacon Li registered both men as outer disciples.

• Chen Ming escaped the Iron-Armored Boar by diving into a lake, then learned he was in the Ten Thousand Demons Mountain range.
• Chen Ming crossed the lake, reached a nearby town, and met Shen Gongbao, who invited him to travel to the Falling Moon Sect together.
• Shen Gongbao told Chen Ming about the Wangshui Kingdom’s sects and the Falling Moon Sect’s peaks as they traveled for three days.
• Chen Ming and Shen Gongbao arrived at Iron Bamboo Peak and asked to join the Falling Moon Sect.
• Deacon Li tested the two men, found Shen Gongbao had a lower-middle-grade spirit root, and discovered Chen Ming had seven attributes and the twelfth Qi Refining layer.
• Deacon Li registered Chen Ming and Shen Gongbao as outer disciples, gave them robes and supplies, and sent an outer disciple to guide them to their quarters.

Chen Ming joined the Falling Moon Sect, accepted missions, and clashed with Wild Blade Peak disciple Ye Zhenying while hunting a Fire Lizard. After completing another mission, he discovered a strange carved mountain at the end of a passage.

• Chen Ming dreamed of light and darkness forming a spinning Eight Trigrams diagram, then woke and began cultivating.
• Chen Ming accepted a mission to obtain a first-tier fire monster’s inner core and fought Ye Zhenying over a Fire Lizard.
• Chen Ming used seven fireballs to break Ye Zhenying’s barrier, escaped to Iron Bamboo Peak, and learned his pursuer’s name from a gate guard.
• Chen Ming turned in the Fire Lizard and accepted an investigation mission after finding no more suitable monster-hunting jobs.
• Chen Ming followed a crevice into the mountain and found strange carvings and a bare peak covered in ancient-looking totems and inscriptions.

Chen Ming reached Foundation Establishment after receiving the Heaven and Earth Art from the rock wall, joined the Inner Sect, and learned the Sword Control Technique. Li Fengling led him to a lake near Fengling City, where she passed through a hidden barrier, but Chen Ming could not activate his talisman.

• Chen Ming absorbed the Heaven and Earth Art from the rock wall, broke through to Foundation Establishment, and retreated from the lightning creatures blocking the passage.
• Chen Ming told Deacon Li he had reached Foundation Establishment, completed his Inner Sect registration, and exchanged ten contribution points for the Sword Control Technique.
• Chen Ming settled into an empty house on Iron Bamboo Peak and learned to fly on his sword after three days of practice.
• Li Fengling invited Chen Ming down the mountain and led him to a lake near Fengling City.
• Li Fengling used a paper talisman to pass through a hidden barrier, but Chen Ming's attempts to use his talisman failed.