Chapter Summaries

Ying Huaixu entered Primordial Immortal Cultivation Record on Hongmeng difficulty, unaware that the game had become reality. He slaughtered a bandit gang in Peaceful Town and opened the mysterious box the bandit leader had been carrying.

• Ying Huaixu chose Hongmeng difficulty, agreed to the permanent-death warning, and entered the game after linking his identity.
• Ying Huaixu ignored Ye Ningshuang, chose a longsword, and hurried off to clear the beginner quest without accepting it.
• The bandit leader hid a mysterious box beneath a ruined temple statue and ordered his underlings to abduct Ye Ningshuang.
• Ying Huaixu stormed the temple and killed the bandit underlings, mistaking the real fight for easy gameplay.
• Ying Huaixu dodged the bandit leader's attacks and hacked him down, then entered the temple and opened the box.

Ying Huaixu rolled an extraordinarily valuable Dao Sword Spiritual Root in what he thought was a game, then discovered he was trapped in a world where NPCs were real people. The next morning, he confirmed that Peaceful Town had no other players or game support features and struggled to face being trapped on the highest difficulty.

• Ying Huaixu swallowed a Creation Pill and awakened a purple-quality Dao Sword Spiritual Root with a mutated ice attribute.
• After eliminating bandits who threatened Ye Ningshuang, Ying Huaixu received experience and Spirit Leaves as a special reward.
• Ying Huaixu searched for an exit button, felt Ye Ningshuang's body heat, and cut his own arm to confirm that he was in a real world.
• Seeing authorities approach to collect the bodies, Ying Huaixu realized he was not in a game and collapsed asleep from exhaustion.
• The next morning, Ying Huaixu found no other players, world chat, party interface, or customer support options, and despaired over being trapped on Primordial difficulty.

Ye Ningshuang had a physician examine Ying Huaixu, who reassured her that his strange behavior was temporary and not serious. After she left him the bounty money and went to gather herbs, Ying Huaixu assessed his remaining game abilities and resources as he planned how to survive in the Primordial World.

• Ye Ningshuang brought a physician to examine Ying Huaixu, and the physician said his dazed state and hopping were harmless effects of a shock and forgotten martial arts.
• Ye Ningshuang left Ying Huaixu five hundred taels of bounty money and went into the mountains to gather medicinal herbs.
• Ying Huaixu concluded that he had transmigrated into Primordial Immortal Cultivation Record and that his hidden Dao Sword Spiritual Root and surviving game system could help him survive.
• Ying Huaixu reviewed the system's remaining features, including his inventory, map, quests, potions, and experience points.
• Ying Huaixu decided not to spend experience points or test his revival pills and resolved to find something to eat.

Ying Huaixu explored Peaceful Town, testing whether the old game’s features worked in the living world. He found a working quest system and helped Doctor Li make pills, earning experience and a reward.

• Ying Huaixu ate twelve bowls of noodles, exchanged a hundred-tael banknote, and wondered about his plausible identity, depleted body, and low-grade spiritual root.
• Ying Huaixu searched Peaceful Town’s hidden quest locations, willow tree, and Townstone but found no game items or functions.
• Ying Huaixu unlocked the Peaceful Town map for 100 experience and spotted a quest from Doctor Li.
• Ying Huaixu accepted Doctor Li’s quest and found blazing light grass growing on the doctor’s roof.
• Doctor Li used the grass to refine pills, and Ying Huaixu received 300 experience and ten Bone-Strengthening Pills.

Ying Huaixu learned the Bone-Strengthening Pill formula from Doctor Li and gave him Blood-Recovery Pills and Spring-Return Pills to study, realizing he may have helped create the town’s future pill vendor. After spending the day exploring and buying food in Peaceful Town, he returned to Ye Ningshuang’s home and was left waiting alone until she came back at dusk.

• Ying Huaixu learned the Bone-Strengthening Pill formula from Doctor Li and warned him to keep his pills secret.
• Ying Huaixu gave Doctor Li Blood-Recovery Pills and Spring-Return Pills, and Doctor Li hurried off to study how to refine them.
• Ying Huaixu wandered around Peaceful Town, sampling its food and buying provisions.
• Ying Huaixu returned to Ye Ningshuang’s home, felt lonely while waiting for her, and sat alone on the threshold.
• Ye Ningshuang returned, questioned why Ying Huaixu had bought so much, then remembered Doctor Li’s advice and felt grateful for his consideration.

Ying Huaixu decided to treat Ye Ningshuang as an acquaintance and merely follow her future quests, but her warmth and distress at his plans to leave complicated that resolve. He stayed at her home, while Ye Ningshuang ended the night wondering whether he disliked her.

• While Ye Ningshuang cooked, Ying Huaixu considered whether the game's main storyline would unfold and resolved to follow her quests without becoming close to her.
• Ye Ningshuang prepared food, and Ying Huaixu persuaded her to eat with him; the meal reminded her of the home she had lost with her parents.
• When Ying Huaixu said he would find an inn, Ye Ningshuang cried and insisted that his staying would let her repay her benefactor, so he agreed to remain.
• Ye Ningshuang washed the dishes, prepared Ying Huaixu's bedding, and served him tea in the courtyard.
• After Ying Huaixu went to bed, Ye Ningshuang quietly returned to her room and wondered whether he disliked her.

Ying Huaixu confirmed that daily quests still refreshed and discovered that he could learn and improve skills with experience just as he had in the game. After a skill upgrade consumed a health-restoring pill and left him ravenous, he went to a restaurant and ate an enormous meal.

• Ying Huaixu paid Ye Ningshuang a hundred taels for breakfast and left to check the town’s daily quests.
• Ying Huaixu completed the blacksmith’s fetch quest and received 300 experience.
• Ying Huaixu bought the Flying Snow Sword manual, learned the technique instantly, and found that equipping it let him use it smoothly without a cooldown.
• Ying Huaixu spent experience to raise Flying Snow Sword to minor mastery, which made one strike produce two attacks and consumed a health-restoring pill.
• Ying Huaixu hurried to a restaurant and ordered one of everything, impressing the townspeople and Hall Master Zhao with his appetite.

Hall Master Zhao asked Ying Huaixu to help Peaceful Town deal with a wanted criminal, triggering the Hongmeng Mission earlier than expected. Ying Huaixu tracked the criminal to Ye Ningshuang’s home and arrived as the man threatened her.

• Hall Master Zhao told Ying Huaixu about the wanted criminal and asked for his help, and Ying Huaixu accepted and received a Temporary Constable Token.
• Ying Huaixu activated the mission tracker and discovered that the criminal was already in Peaceful Town, near Ye Ningshuang’s home.
• The criminal cornered Ye Ningshuang in her house after drugging her neighbors, and she cried for help.
• Ying Huaixu kicked open the door and confronted the criminal, while Ye Ningshuang hurried behind him.

Ying Huaixu used his combat-system displays to kill the wanted criminal, completing the first prologue quest. Lü Qingyi arrived and questioned how he had fought so well, while Ying Huaixu accidentally revealed that he knew she had a deer.

• Ye Ningshuang left to find Hall Master Zhao and Doctor Li while Ying Huaixu faced the wanted criminal alone.
• Ying Huaixu dodged the criminal’s attack by following its trajectory display, then parried his charged strike and disarmed him.
• Ying Huaixu killed the wanted criminal with Flying Snow Sword and received the first quest’s rewards.
• The quest system unlocked the next act: test Ying Huaixu’s spiritual root and join the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.
• Lü Qingyi arrived and asked how Ying Huaixu had defeated the criminal; he blurted out a question about her deer, making her suspicious.

After Ying Huaixu killed the rapist, Lü Qingyi tested his spiritual root and recruited Ye Ningshuang into the Divine Firmament Sword Sect. Ying Huaixu was also given an outer disciple token, and he and Ye Ningshuang had three days to prepare before Lü Qingyi returned to collect them.

• Lü Qingyi tested Ying Huaixu’s spiritual root, but the stone showed a low-grade root despite his extraordinary victory over the rapist.
• Ye Ningshuang and the town’s residents arrived, and Hall Master Zhao confirmed that the rapist was dead.
• Lü Qingyi tested Ye Ningshuang, confirmed her Dark Mystery Spiritual Root, and offered her a place in the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.
• After Ying Huaixu silently expected a token, Lü Qingyi handed him one and declared that he was willing to join.
• Lü Qingyi warned Ying Huaixu that he seemed unlike someone from this world, then told him and Ye Ningshuang to prepare for their departure in three days.

In Peaceful Town, Lü Qingyi investigated Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang after recruiting them for the Divine Firmament Sword Sect, and their baffling divination results deepened her doubts about the ancestor’s prophecy. She defended the pair’s right to choose their own relationship, then froze after seeing something ridiculous outside the tavern.

• A Divine Firmament Sword Sect disciple questioned why Lü Qingyi recruited Ying Huaixu instead of only Ye Ningshuang, and warned that Ye Ningshuang seemed unusually interested in him.
• Lü Qingyi read both disciples’ backgrounds and wondered whether Ying Huaixu, rather than Ye Ningshuang, was the true bearer of destiny.
• Lü Qingyi repeatedly divined Ying Huaixu’s future and received strange variations of “utterly ordinary,” while Ye Ningshuang’s future appeared dazzling.
• Lü Qingyi refused to let the sect interfere in Ye Ningshuang and Ying Huaixu’s relationship, saying their choices belonged to them.
• Lü Qingyi told the disciples to wait three days before departing, then froze as she watched a ridiculous scene outside the window.

Ying Huaixu stayed in Peaceful Town to farm experience before reporting to the Divine Firmament Sword Sect, since the wolf-pack quest and its rewards had disappeared. His frantic questing drew attention from Lü Qingyi and the other disciples, who were impressed by his speed and precise handling of goods.

• Ying Huaixu realized the prologue quest had not completed and decided to gather at least 10,000 experience before entering the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.
• Ying Huaixu accepted Peaceful Town's side quests and rushed through them while ignoring the quest givers' lengthy explanations.
• Ying Huaixu resorted to running, jumping, and climbing shortcuts to finish tasks faster, bewildering the townspeople and Ye Ningshuang.
• Ying Huaixu carried supplies for Lü Qingyi's restaurant at the ferry landing, moving quickly and stacking the goods neatly.
• Lü Qingyi explained Ying Huaixu's unusual behavior to the Divine Firmament Sword Sect disciples, who tried imitating his movements and left her with a headache.

Lü Qingyi gave Ying Huaixu a quest to retrieve yin soul grass, intending to help him while testing his abilities. Ying Huaixu headed for a neglected burial ground, where he recognized the dungeon from the game and began activating its mechanisms.

• The group abandoned their attempt to imitate Ying Huaixu’s movements, and Lü Qingyi reconsidered her impression of him.
• Lü Qingyi’s little deer returned with a high-quality demon soul, and she decided to give it to Ying Huaixu as a favor.
• Lü Qingyi activated Ying Huaixu’s adventure quest, and he hurried upstairs to meet her.
• Lü Qingyi sent Ying Huaixu to retrieve yin soul grass, then ordered a disciple to protect him from the shadows.
• Ying Huaixu reached a neglected burial ground and placed strangely marked stones into position, astonishing the disciple watching him.

Ying Huaixu entered the Yin Soul Secret Realm and fought his way through its ghosts, then confronted the veiled female boss. He found that familiar game techniques worked in reality and watched the boss begin her second phase.

• Ying Huaixu activated the formation and entered the secret realm before the Divine Firmament Sword Sect disciple could follow; the disciple reported the mishap to Lü Qingyi.
• Ying Huaixu recognized the courtyard from the game and slaughtered its sluggish vengeful souls to gain experience.
• Ying Huaixu entered the main courtyard, where a towering woman in a red bridal veil emerged from the hall and froze him with a cutscene-like effect.
• Ying Huaixu attacked the female ghost, parried her sword, and used a dodge counter and repeated Flying Snow Sword strikes to wound and stagger her.
• The female ghost unleashed a sonic attack, but Ying Huaixu evaded it; she then swallowed the severed head and began her second phase.

Ying Huaixu defeated the transformed female boss, collected the yin soul grass and her sword, and cleared the dungeon for experience. The boss survived by using the Great Disintegration Art and fled underground while Ying Huaixu left with his rewards.

• The female boss transformed into her second phase and attacked Ying Huaixu with rapid sword-energy strikes.
• Ying Huaixu adapted to her attacks, triggered a dodge counter, and broke her defenses with a series of sword techniques.
• Ying Huaixu stopped attacking after being overwhelmed by the blood and watched the wounded boss flee.
• Ying Huaixu chased the boss into the main hall, where she abandoned her sword and disintegrated to escape.
• Ying Huaixu collected the yin soul grass and sword before the collapsing dungeon transported him out.
• The boss reappeared among the ruins, revealed she had survived with the Great Disintegration Art, and fled underground; Ying Huaixu counted his 2,500 experience toward his 10,000-point goal.

Ying Huaixu completed Lü Qingyi’s quest and received valuable rewards, while his extraordinary performance left her convinced he had remarkable potential. Unsure how to reconcile her instincts with the sect’s prophecy and orders to take Ye Ningshuang as her disciple, Lü Qingyi asked her eighth senior sister whether she wanted a disciple.

• Lü Qingyi arrived and saw Ying Huaixu defeat the ghost bride unharmed, leaving her amazed by his skill and potential.
• Ying Huaixu gave Lü Qingyi the yin soul grass and received 100 spirit stones, a storage bag, and the Wolf King Demon Soul.
• Lü Qingyi refined Ying Huaixu’s spirit weapon into an ice-blue top-grade weapon and assured him the sect would protect his treasures.
• A Divine Firmament Sword Sect disciple gave Ying Huaixu a Communication Jade Token before the group departed and Ying Huaixu headed back.
• Lü Qingyi wondered whether to take Ying Huaixu as her disciple despite being instructed to accept Ye Ningshuang, then asked her eighth senior sister if she wanted a disciple.

Lü Qingyi tried to find Ying Huaixu a master at the Divine Firmament Sword Sect, but the sect’s core members agreed to let him join first and consider taking him as a disciple later. Meanwhile, Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang prepared to leave for the sect, with Ying Huaixu confident his accumulated experience would help him thrive there.

• Lü Qingyi asked Tong Xinran to take Ying Huaixu as her disciple, but Tong Xinran refused despite Lü Qingyi warning she might regret it.
• Lü Qingyi offered to give Ye Ningshuang to Tong Xinran, but Tong Xinran insisted the patriarch’s appointment could not be changed.
• The Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s core members said Lü Qingyi must focus on Ye Ningshuang, while Ying Huaixu could join the sect and be considered for discipleship after proving himself.
• Ying Huaixu returned to the inn, where Ye Ningshuang had saved him food, and resolved to keep his distance and follow the story’s course.
• Ye Ningshuang spent the night unable to sleep before their journey, while Ying Huaixu slept soundly, confident that his 12,700 experience points would carry him through the sect’s quests.
• The next morning, Ying Huaixu saw Ye Ningshuang’s dark circles and waited to leave, planning to save his daily quests for the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.

Lü Qingyi brought Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang to the Divine Firmament Sword Sect, where Ying Huaixu’s uncanny knowledge and familiarity with the sect’s game-like systems continued to raise questions. After registering, he unlocked a new mission, and Lü Qingyi covered for him when he automatically used his token’s guidance function.

• Ying Huaixu ran straight to the Flying Boat without being told where it was, prompting Lü Qingyi to suspect he could find things simply by being given a task and to order the disciples to keep it secret.
• Ye Ningshuang explored the luxurious Flying Boat in wonder, while Ying Huaixu felt disappointed that it lacked the treasure chest he remembered from the game.
• Lü Qingyi questioned Ying Huaixu about his disappointment, and he claimed he wished the Flying Boat belonged to him; she told him he might earn one by contributing to the sect.
• The Flying Boat arrived at the Divine Firmament Sword Sect, where Ye Ningshuang and Ying Huaixu registered with the red-nosed gatekeeper.
• Registration completed Ying Huaixu’s mission prologue and unlocked a new mission about Ye Ningshuang’s distress; when he used his token’s guidance function by habit, Lü Qingyi claimed she had taught him.

Lü Qingyi learned that Ye Ningshuang had to reach Meridian Opening within three years to enter the collapsing Cold Pool Secret Realm, but resisted the sect master’s plan to force her cultivation. The sect’s senior disciples also left the matter unresolved because none dared persuade Lü Qingyi.

• Lü Qingyi told Ying Huaixu how to choose techniques from the Scripture Pavilion, while Ye Ningshuang listened to her explanation of sect rules and procedures.
• The sect master summoned Lü Qingyi and explained that Ye Ningshuang had to enter the Cold Pool Secret Realm in less than three years, despite signs that it was collapsing.
• The sect master said Ye Ningshuang needed to reach Meridian Opening and argued that her cultivation might have to be forced with rare natural treasures.
• Lü Qingyi objected to the danger and unfairness of the plan, then left the Sect Master's Hall without agreeing to it.
• The sect’s senior disciples discussed the problem and concluded that they still needed to persuade Lü Qingyi, but none of them dared approach her.

Ying Huaixu completed sect tasks, chose inexpensive beginner cultivation arts, and returned to his cave abode to spend experience on training. He raised the Heavenly Dipper Body Tempering Art to major mastery and began advancing his cultivation realm.

• Ying Huaixu revealed the Divine Firmament Sword Sect map and earned 300 experience.
• Ying Huaixu gave a distressed disciple three spiritual herbs, completing the daily quest for 1,000 experience.
• Ying Huaixu registered at the scripture pavilion and chose Frost Step and Heavenly Frost Sword, avoiding more expensive arts he considered poor investments.
• An inner disciple questioned the steward about Ying Huaixu's ordinary choices, leaving the steward puzzled about whether Ying Huaixu had connections.
• Ying Huaixu activated his cave abode's defensive formation, raised Heavenly Dipper Body Tempering Art to major mastery, and began advancing through the body-tempering realm.