Chapter Summaries

Xiao Hua learned that Condensing Knowledge Treasures could restore a reincarnated cultivator’s former Dao-heart realm, and he wondered whether his own lack of cultivation bottlenecks meant he had been reincarnated. Xun Shu confirmed a sect senior had used one to rise to Spirit Transformation, while Qian Diheng and Kun Feiyan debated the Three Thousand Great Daos.

• Qian Diheng and Kun Feiyan explained how a Condensing Knowledge Treasure was made and how it could restore a reincarnated cultivator’s former insights.
• Xiao Hua connected the treasure’s effects to his own lack of cultivation bottlenecks and wondered whether he was a reincarnated cultivator.
• Xun Shu described a former Xun Lei Palace senior who refined a Condensing Knowledge Treasure, later found it again, and became a Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Xun Shu and Qian Diheng clarified that the treasure preserved cultivation insights but not memories of a former life.
• Qian Diheng described the Great Daos, and he and Kun Feiyan argued over whether their number was exactly three thousand.

Xiao Hua considered whether to attend a secret gathering and rejected Luan Qing’s inherited Lingmou Zhu Fire seed as unsuitable for his cultivation. He tended his spirit herbs and noticed signs that Little Silver and the Divine Strength Centipede were changing inside his space.

• Xiao Hua learned that Condensing Knowledge Treasures could not be made by cultivators beyond the Nascent Soul stage, and his companions speculated that one might have been left by a past life.
• The four disciples agreed to stay in Weeping Moon City for a few more days before traveling to the Gathering of Exchange, and they moved to another inn.
• Xiao Hua examined Chang Feiyan’s token talisman but decided not to attend the secret gathering because he feared senior cultivators and lacked the resources to trade.
• Xiao Hua studied Luan Qing’s Lingmou Zhu Fire technique and concluded that the inherited fire seed carried the Luan family’s mark and was too weak for his needs.
• Xiao Hua planted plans for the spirit herbs he had acquired, then noticed golden markings on Little Silver and the Divine Strength Centipede and considered raising the centipede in a spirit beast pouch.

Xiao Hua studied the Insect Scripture and used its methods to subdue the Divine Strength Centipede, discovering that binding a spirit insect could hurt his Primordial Spirit. He then examined the Scripture’s rankings and wondered about the powerful insects at the top, while the Fire Ape and Spirit Seeking Rat remained absent from its records.

• Xiao Hua reviewed the Insect Scripture and found its methods for controlling spirit insects, then checked Ling Zhengyi’s booklet and found only instructions for refining Shadow Moon.
• Xiao Hua used hand seals to immobilize the Divine Strength Centipede and pressed a thread of his Primordial Spirit onto its spirit essence.
• Xiao Hua felt intense soul pain during the binding, then stored the exhausted centipede back in the space and concluded that subduing the Fire Ape would be even harder.
• Xiao Hua found the Divine Strength Centipede ranked eighty-seventh and read that the Dream Mirage Butterfly and Spirit-Eroding Insect ranked first and second.
• Xiao Hua wondered why the Scripture did not list Fire Apes, Spirit Seeking Rats, or Zhen Tiancang.

Xiao Hua visited Clever Crafts Workshop with Qian Diheng’s command plaque to seek help reforging his Town Cloud Seal. After hearing about a secret bidding gathering, he entered the workshop and was escorted upstairs by assistant shopkeeper Xia Ming.

• Xiao Hua dismissed the Insect Scripture’s rankings and stored the book.
• Qian Diheng showed Xiao Hua his newly refined Minghao Halberd, explained that Clever Crafts Workshop had combined three artifacts into it, and gave him directions and a command plaque.
• Xiao Hua traveled to the busy area around Clever Crafts Workshop, disguised his appearance, and watched the workshop from a nearby teahouse.
• A cultivator wearing Mihuan asked Xiao Hua whether he had a token for a secret bidding gathering, but Xiao Hua said he knew nothing about it.
• Xiao Hua presented his command plaque at Clever Crafts Workshop, and assistant shopkeeper Xia Ming led him upstairs.

Xiao Hua visited Clever Crafts Workshop to have two magical artifacts reforged and learned that one could be turned into a powerful consumable artifact. He set aside the proposed work and revealed two magic treasures for the cultivator to inspect.

• Xia Ming verified Xiao Hua's token plaque and sent him to meet a cultivator surnamed Bai on the third floor.
• Xiao Hua gave Bai the Four Symbols Wheel and a spear-shaped artifact to examine.
• Bai judged the Four Symbols Wheel poorly made and said the spear artifact could be modified into a consumable magical artifact capable of killing an early Foundation Establishment cultivator if it struck true.
• Bai explained that Lizard Beast adhesive bones would raise the artifact's chance of killing its target to seventy percent.
• Xiao Hua set the two artifacts aside and brought out the Hundred Layer Cloud Barrier and the Moyun Armor, startling Bai.

Xiao Hua arranged for Clever Crafts Workshop to combine two damaged defensive magic treasures into a robe and modify the Four Symbols Wheel into a consumable artifact. He then entered Weeping Moon City's secret bidding gathering, where a triggered array transported him onto a rainbow bridge.

• Xiao Hua traded the Four Symbols Wheel, spirit stones, and five aged spirit herbs toward the work, and arranged to collect the consumable artifact in twenty days and the defensive robe in one year.
• Xiao Hua left Clever Crafts Workshop and decided to attend the secret bidding gathering to seek the Minghua Pill formula.
• Xiao Hua used the command phrase from his token to enter a restricted room at the gathering and waited for the appointed hour.
• Xiao Hua placed his command token into a recess in the wall, triggering a powerful array that made the room's walls and floor disappear.
• Xiao Hua raised the Town Cloud Seal for protection as a tri-colored light formed a rainbow bridge beneath his feet.

Xiao Hua passed through the fiery formation and used a black Taoist robe to conceal Mihuan before entering a secret bidding gathering. He watched the gathering’s host accept a jade bottle in exchange for a three-thousand-year Mysterious Yin Spirit Grass, learning that the owner chose the winning offer regardless of competing bids.

• Xiao Hua crossed the rainbow bridge through the flames and reached a hidden room containing a black Taoist robe.
• Xiao Hua put on the robe, which concealed Mihuan and blocked outside divine sense, then entered a hall with more than a dozen masked cultivators.
• The gathering’s host explained the bidding rules and presented a three-thousand-year Mysterious Yin Spirit Grass.
• Several cultivators offered spirit stones or other items, but the host rejected their alternatives.
• The host accepted a jade bottle from a hesitant cultivator and gave him the Mysterious Yin Spirit Grass, showing Xiao Hua that the owner chose the winning offer.

At the secret bidding gathering, Xiao Hua watched powerful cultivators compete for rare treasures and traded his Ling Yi Grass for Crushed Gold Stone to prepare to repair the Town Cloud Seal. He avoided offering anything else, but just as the gathering seemed to be ending quietly for him, an unexpected change occurred.

• A cultivator auctioned a Nascent Soul Pill, which a Golden Core cultivator acquired after competing with several others.
• The presiding cultivator displayed the Chaomeng Pearl, and three Nascent Soul cultivators competed until one won it.
• Xiao Hua traded his Ling Yi Grass for the Crushed Gold Stone he needed to repair the Town Cloud Seal.
• The gathering auctioned more treasures, while Xiao Hua worried about what he might have to offer when his turn came.
• When his turn arrived, Xiao Hua declined to present an item, but an unexpected change interrupted the gathering.

At a secret bidding gathering, Xiao Hua recognized a soul cultivator’s inscribed bone and learned of a damaged oil lamp said to have come from the Myriad Monster Realm. As another Nascent Soul cultivator offered to buy the lamp, Xiao Hua weighed whether to bid for it.

• A Nascent Soul cultivator offered a bone taken from a soul cultivator, and the cultivator at the head of the table identified it as a soul-cultivator technique and bought it.
• Xiao Hua recognized the bone as like the one in his space and learned that the gathering prohibited bidding on ordinary cultivation techniques, pill formulas, and artifact-refining methods.
• The Nascent Soul cultivator offered a damaged oil lamp that he said a soul monster had brought from the Myriad Monster Realm.
• The cultivator at the head of the table judged the lamp’s spiritual flame extinguished but noted that three drops of oil remained, then invited the attendees to bid on it.
• Xiao Hua considered bidding because the lamp had once held a spiritual flame, while another Nascent Soul cultivator tossed a storage pouch onto the table to name a price.

Xiao Hua traded spirit herbs to obtain a damaged oil lamp containing a fire seed from the Myriad Monster Realm, then left the secret Bidding Convention and returned to his inn. There, he examined the tiny flame in the lamp, hoping it might help him form a Five Elements Origin fire seed.

• Xiao Hua offered spirit herbs to the Nascent Soul cultivators and received the battered oil lamp after one of them explained that its fire seed could help a mid-stage Golden Core cultivator break through a bottleneck.
• Xiao Hua left the secret Bidding Convention through a concealed teleportation array and reappeared in a secluded corner of Weeping Moon City.
• Xiao Hua looked for puppets in an artifact-refining shop, but the clerk said they were difficult to find and that even the Seven Wonders Sect had none available.
• Xiao Hua returned to the inn, activated his room’s restrictions, and examined the lamp’s tiny flame and three drops of oil.

Xiao Hua discovered that the Myriad Monster Realm spirit fire was an empty shell that could absorb Samadhi True Fire but could not be cultivated by his seals. After delaying his departure to experiment, he left Weeping Moon City with Qian Diheng and the others, while a spy reported their departure to Senior Brother Chang.

• Xiao Hua tested the spirit fire with a spirit stone and spirit grass, then realized it had lost its fire marrow and could not burn them.
• Xiao Hua found that the spirit fire could absorb Samadhi True Fire, but he chose not to risk his Lingmou Zhu Fire and brought both flames into his body for cultivation.
• Qian Diheng, Kun Feiyan, and Xun Shu visited Xiao Hua, who asked them to delay their departure while he dealt with cultivation problems.
• More than ten days later, Xiao Hua and the others departed from Weeping Moon City through the Teleportation Array.
• A cultivator reported to Senior Brother Chang that the Thunder Control Sect disciples had left, though he could not confirm whether they were headed to Jiangcheng Town.

Senior Brother Chang plotted to send Thunder Control Sect disciples toward a rumored Condensing Knowledge Treasure while ensuring no one else could claim it. Meanwhile, Xiao Hua and his companions reached the Li Qian Mountain Range and agreed that he would lure Green Pythons so the group could hunt them and divide the spoils.

• Senior Brother Chang warned Mo Feng that cultivators from other sects might pursue the Condensing Knowledge Treasure, then left the Secret Chamber to make plans.
• Xiao Hua and Qian Diheng traveled with Xun Shu and Kun Feiyan toward the Li Qian Mountain Range, while Qian Diheng wondered about Xiao Hua’s year-long magic tool commission.
• Xiao Hua examined the single-use azure-and-crimson magic tool and considered its power to kill stronger Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• The four discussed crossing the mountain range, where Green Pythons lived in groups and posed a serious threat to travelers.
• Xun Shu, Qian Diheng, and Kun Feiyan persuaded Xiao Hua to lure the Green Pythons, and Xiao Hua negotiated an extra twenty percent of the loot.

Xiao Hua reached the Green Python territory and found a group of martial artists being killed by a venomous snake. He saved Zhang Xuyang and led him away, while larger Green Pythons arrived at the scene afterward.

• Xiao Hua approached the Green Python territory and discovered a fog-covered forest marked by signs of giant snakes.
• Xiao Hua watched a Green Python poison and kill several martial artists, leaving Zhang Xuyang as the only survivor.
• Xiao Hua killed the Green Python with a sword strike that pinned its tail beneath a falling tree.
• Zhang Xuyang mistook Xiao Hua for a martial world hero, and Xiao Hua took him away from the forest.
• Several larger Green Pythons arrived, ate the dead martial artists, and dragged away the slain snake.

Xiao Hua learned about the Jianghu and the upcoming Luofeng Mountain Sword Debate while trying to understand his unexplained martial abilities. He suspected that he had once belonged to the Martial World and decided the Sword Debate might reveal his past, while keeping the possibility from Qian Diheng and the others.

• Zhang Xuyang told Xiao Hua about the Martial World Five Immortals and the Luofeng Mountain Sword Debate, where their titles would be challenged in two months.
• Xiao Hua watched Zhang Xuyang demonstrate his sect’s martial arts, then showed him his own scattered moves, which Zhang Xuyang thought resembled Lei Hu Ming’s Thunderous Body Technique.
• Xiao Hua declined Zhang Xuyang’s offer to travel together to Luofeng Mountain and left to seek the Green Python after confirming Zhang Xuyang had departed.
• Xiao Hua wondered whether he had lost his memories after an incident in the Jianghu and considered attending the Sword Debate so someone might recognize him.

Xiao Hua ventured into the Green Python-infested fog and used Earth Evasion to gather a pursuing group of snakes. He brought nearly twenty Green Pythons to the agreed location, where Xun Shu and the others prepared to attack.

• Xiao Hua discovered that the mountain range was filled with Green Pythons, including powerful ones that detected his divine sense and Buddhist consciousness.
• Xiao Hua evaded the pursuing snakes underground and chose six weaker Green Pythons to lure away with his Profound Iron needle.
• Xiao Hua led the snakes through the fog, drawing in more Green Pythons until the procession grew to nearly twenty.
• Xiao Hua lured the group to the agreed location and called for the others to strike, while Qian Diheng warned that the plan could fail if any Green Python escaped.

Xiao Hua and the Thunder Control Sect disciples fought a pack of Green Pythons to collect their valuable venom, blood, and hides. After Xiao Hua immobilized and killed nine pythons, Xun Shu gave him a liquid-collecting magic tool, and the group prepared to divide the spoils.

• Kun Feiyan used the Thunder-Trapping Pearls to collect poisonous mist while the Green Pythons battered her magic tool with their tails.
• Xun Shu collected venom with the Thunder Lock and killed several Green Pythons with lightning, but the remaining snakes began to flee.
• Xiao Hua dodged six pursuing pythons, then used the Town Cloud Seal to immobilize all nine nearby Green Pythons and killed them through their seven-inch vital points with the Prajna Heavy Sword.
• Xun Shu collected the snake blood and gave Xiao Hua Jade Condensation, which could collect and store liquids; Xiao Hua offered her Puchen in return, but she refused it.
• Qian Diheng and Kun Feiyan praised Xiao Hua after finishing their own fights, and the group agreed to divide the Green Pythons for processing elsewhere.

Xiao Hua lured Green Pythons to his companions for them to harvest, but his fourth trip brought him face-to-face with three Foundation Establishment Green Pythons. He escaped underground as an even more powerful, crowned serpent arrived, and Qian Diheng wondered what Xiao Hua had provoked.

• Xiao Hua lured out another forty or fifty Green Pythons, but the increasingly strong serpents began to overwhelm Qian Diheng and the others.
• Xiao Hua encountered three Foundation Establishment Green Pythons, which trapped him and attacked with powerful wind blades.
• Xiao Hua used the Dust Shield, Town Cloud Seal, and Prajna Heavy Sword to fight back, but the three Green Pythons resisted his attacks.
• An icy divine sense swept over Xiao Hua, so he fled underground as more Green Pythons gathered around him.
• A small, crowned, eight-winged snake arrived, and the Green Pythons bowed to it before retreating into the fog.
• Qian Diheng, injured by the powerful divine sense, shouted to Xiao Hua and asked what spirit beast he had provoked.

Xiao Hua and his companions escaped a powerful divine sense attack in the Li Qian Mountain Range, rested, and continued toward Jiangcheng Town. After enduring more Spirit Beast encounters, they reached the town and prepared to descend.

• Xiao Hua and the others fled after a divine sense attack injured them, then discussed the Green Pythons and the rare techniques that could attack divine sense.
• Xun Shu and Qian Diheng offered Xiao Hua a greater share of their gains, and the group agreed to look out for him if they found anything valuable.
• The four rested for ten days, then carefully traveled through the Li Qian Mountain Range and barely escaped a Three-Winged Frost Ladybug using many Fireball Talismans.
• Near Mingcui Mountain, Xiao Hua remembered that Xi Wuming had called himself a cultivator from there and had promised to help him with one matter.
• Xiao Hua and his companions flew across the grasslands and reached Jiangcheng Town on the evening of the tenth day, where Xun Shu led them down.

Kun Feiyan and Xun Shu investigated why their contact had not appeared, then returned with news that a small Gathering of Exchange would take place in three days. The group learned they needed personalized tokens to enter, and Kun Feiyan planned to invoke the Thunder Control Sect’s name to gain admission.

• Kun Feiyan tried two Sound Transmission Talismans, but neither reached the cultivator who had contacted her.
• Xiao Hua warned Kun Feiyan that the missing contact might be a trick, but she dismissed the possibility of danger.
• Qian Diheng asked Xiao Hua whether he had spare magic treasures to sell, and Xiao Hua promised to think of him if he found any.
• After waiting more than two hours, Kun Feiyan and Xun Shu returned and announced that the Gathering of Exchange would be held in three days.
• Xun Shu explained that entry required personalized tokens from Lingpei Mountain Villa, and Kun Feiyan said they would use the Thunder Control Sect’s name to get in.

Xiao Hua and his companions reached Lingpei Mountain Villa for the Spirit Gathering Convention, but Qu Ming initially refused them entry because they lacked tokens. Xiao Hua invoked a favor from Xi Wuming and gained admission, where the gathering was about to begin and Meng Yang questioned their sect affiliation.

• Kun Feiyan led Xiao Hua, Xun Shu, and Qian Diheng to Lingpei Mountain Villa and presented the Thunder Control Sect plaque when its attendants demanded tokens.
• Qu Ming explained that the private convention concerned a Condensing Knowledge Treasure and refused to admit them without tokens.
• Xiao Hua cited Xi Wuming’s promise of a favor and showed Qu Ming the demonic spear tip as proof of their connection.
• Qu Ming accepted the favor and escorted the four into the hall after they removed their Mihuan.
• Qu Ming seated them near the center of the hall, and Meng Yang approached to ask which branch of the Lanli Sect they belonged to.