Chapter Summaries

Jiang Man and his companions went undercover at the Moonlit Sect to investigate an unexplained source of spiritual qi, while Jiang Man encountered the sect’s denunciations of the Immortal Gate. Elsewhere, Jiang Man gained support as a possible Immortal Spirit Envoy, and Huo Bingzhi received a warning to keep him away from the Jinglei Sixth Secret Realm’s core matters.

• Ji Meng received Jiang Man’s letter, wrote back with Qing Dai’s encouragement, and Jiang Man was pleased to receive her reply.
• Zhuo Qingcheng led Jiang Man and the others to the Hanging Moon Mountain Range and explained that they would infiltrate the Moonlit Sect to investigate its spiritual qi and contact the previous group.
• Jiang Man created formation stones for his companions, then traveled toward the Moonlit Sect under the identity of A Niu, a Qi Refining cultivator seeking the Immortal Dao.
• A Moonlit Sect cultivator called Jiang Man a heretic and condemned the Immortal Gate, while Jiang Man agreed outwardly so he could enter the sect.
• The Rounded Man told Chen Yu that Jiang Man had overwhelming support to become the new Immortal Spirit Envoy, and Chen Yu did not oppose the plan.
• A recovering girl warned others to keep Jiang Man away from the core matters, while Huo Bingzhi resolved to send a message from her prison cell and seek rescue.

Jiang Man joined the Moonlit Sect, passed its tests, and settled into the outer sect while hiding the full extent of his cultivation. After a roommate reported him for cultivating at night, Deacon Hu confronted him, leaving Jiang Man bewildered by the sect’s restrictions.

• Jiang Man failed the spiritual-root test but passed the mountain-climbing assessment and entered the Moonlit Sect as an outer sect disciple.
• Jiang Man gave a struggling nine-year-old boy three cultivation manuals and told him to learn to read before opening them at sixteen.
• Jiang Man confronted three suspicious courtyard roommates, defeated the delicate-looking man with the Dragon-Suppressing Method, and drove them away.
• Jiang Man ignored the outer sect’s work requirements and cultivated in his room for a month without interruption.
• On the first day of the second month, Deacon Hu came to Jiang Man’s door and questioned him about a report that he had cultivated at night.

Jiang Man was warned against cultivating at night, but Deacon Hu arranged a research mission that let him resume after two days. In the mist, Jiang Man learned he had been chosen as the Immortal Spirit’s new envoy and received a token that could connect him to her, then considered taking on the Moonlit Sect’s request for help with a cultivation method.

• Deacon Hu and a woman warned Jiang Man that night cultivation harmed the mind and spirit, and Jiang Man gave them spirit sources to ask for an exception.
• Deacon Hu let Jiang Man accept a cultivation-method research mission and told him to rest for two days before posting the research plaque.
• Jiang Man returned to the courtyard, sent Miss Ji Meng a letter about the sect’s rules, and left the undercover agents who reported him alone.
• In the mist, Jiang Man read a command on the stone stele to isolate and kill him, then met Chen Yu, who said the Immortal Spirit had chosen him as her new envoy.
• Chen Yu gave Jiang Man a token that could connect him to the Immortal Spirit and explained that the group recruited believers by meeting their requests and arranging collaborations.
• Jiang Man reviewed the group’s requests, including the Moonlit Sect’s need for annotations to the Seven Star Origin Condensation Method, and decided to consider helping for a suitable reward.

Jiang Man investigated the Moonlit Sect’s hidden divine object, discovered that the Immortal Dao Coordinates repelled the fog around the Immortal Spirit, and advanced to the Golden Core Middle Stage. As he prepared to deliver formation materials, Elder Luo and the Sect Master plotted to deceive a group of disciples into retrieving the object, while remaining unsure whether Jiang Man was one of their targets.

• Chen Yu told Jiang Man that the Moonlit Sect’s ancestor had reportedly found an ancient divine object and that the sect’s unseen Primordial Spirit expert might no longer be alive.
• Jiang Man activated the Token, heard the Immortal Spirit warn against trusting him, and found that the Immortal Dao Coordinates caused the surrounding fog to retreat.
• Jiang Man read Ji Meng’s letter about cultivation methods and Qing Dai stealing tea leaves to feed an ox, then sent Ji Meng a reply and reported the Evil God’s envoy to her.
• Jiang Man cultivated for a month, filled his Physical Body Gourd, and broke through to the Golden Core Middle Stage before preparing new Formation Stones for Zhuo Qingcheng and the others.
• Three disciples considered recruiting Jiang Man to help them enter the mountain’s depths, and Elder Luo and the Sect Master discussed their plan to lure disciples toward the divine object and harvest their cultivation methods and resources.

Jiang Man accepted Spirit Sources from three disciples who had reported him and agreed to join their mission into the sect’s Back Mountain. After they sent him alone into a Sword Mound to fulfill a pest-clearing task, he realized the place was a prison for undercover agents and began seeking a sword whose intent he could record.

• A delicate-looking disciple apologized to Jiang Man with three hundred Spirit Sources, and the stout disciple added a thousand before recruiting him for a mission promising a Spirit Sword.
• Jiang Man told Zhuo Qingcheng about the mission, while Ji Meng later wrote that Yu Wanyi and Qing Dai had been arrested for setting fires and imprisoned in the Enforcement Hall.
• On May first, Jiang Man followed the three disciples into the Back Mountain; they took Route B, revealed their Golden Core strength, and broke through to a hidden passage.
• The delicate-looking disciple accepted fifteen hundred Spirit Sources to send Jiang Man toward the Sword Mound, while the other three headed the opposite way.
• Jiang Man found a cavern filled with Spirit Swords, received a beetle-clearing mission from a middle-aged man, and identified the place as a prison where undercover agents served sentences.

Jiang Man worked in the Moonlit Sect’s Sword Mound while secretly studying its formations and searching for a sword connected to Meng Qiewei. After he claimed the sword and exposed a Wuyun Sect undercover agent, the Young Sect Master began plotting a test to uncover Jiang Man’s allegiance.

• Jiang Man met Lin Fei, learned that captives were forced to draw swords, and spent his days exterminating beetles and inspecting Spirit Swords while reading at night.
• After a month of relentless work and study, Jiang Man found an ordinary Iron Sword that the Heavenly Mirror identified as one Meng Qiewei had treasured in childhood, and he began trying to pull it free.
• A Wuyun Sect Inner Sect disciple recognized Jiang Man’s Six Harmonies Palm and admitted she had called for help, but Jiang Man reported her to the Manager instead of assisting her.
• Jiang Man asked for the Iron Sword as his reward, and the Manager warned that claiming it meant he could not leave for ten years.
• The Young Sect Master told Manager Luo to test Jiang Man by arranging for others to fight him over the sword, so the Sect could assess his allegiance without acting openly.

Jiang Man finished studying formation runes, exposed his strength while defending the Iron Sword, and defeated two Wuyun Sect undercover agents and the Young Sect Master. The Sect Master and Elder Luo remained unable to understand Jiang Man’s motives as he continued drawing the sword.

• The Sect Master and Elder Luo discussed their suspicions about A Niu and ordered tighter surveillance around the Sword Mound.
• Jiang Man spent twenty days reading formation books and secretly placed runes that let him suppress cultivation stages.
• Two Wuyun Sect undercover agents confronted Jiang Man over the Iron Sword, and he defeated the woman with a palm strike and forced the thin man to his knees.
• Jiang Man revealed his power to Manager Luo, then struck down the Young Sect Master with a red sun spell before returning to draw the sword.
• Jiang Man agreed to try to free Lin Fei in exchange for thirty thousand Spirit Sources and made him write an IOU.
• At the Main Peak, the Sect Master and Elder Luo wondered why Jiang Man had exposed himself despite concealing his cultivation and acting unlike a Wuyun Sect agent.

Jiang Man negotiated permission to explore the Moonlit Sect’s Sword Mound, pulled out the Iron Sword, and found a broken sword tied to Meng Qiewei’s father and Ting Fengyin. When the Magpie Bridge opened, he met Ting Fengyin, showed him several unusual items, and asked for spell arts to protect his concealed identity as Drunken Floating Life.

• Jiang Man ignored the other prisoners’ doubts, continued drawing the Iron Sword, and negotiated with Manager Luo to explore deeper inside and take Lin Fei with him.
• Jiang Man pulled the Iron Sword free, then found a broken sword that the Heavenly Mirror of a Hundred Books identified as a keepsake of Meng Qiewei’s father, snapped by Ting Fengyin.
• Jiang Man stayed in the Sword Mound reading until the Magpie Bridge opened on August 1, then entered and met Ting Fengyin beneath the Blood-Red Fruit Tree.
• Jiang Man picked most of the tree’s fruits, updated Ting Fengyin on his mission involving the Demon Lord and Meng Qiewei, and showed him the Broken Sword, Iron Sword, Fishing Compass, Immortal Dao Coordinates, and Evil God Token.
• Ting Fengyin took the Fishing Compass and told Jiang Man to give the two swords to Ji Meng as gifts before finding a chance to kill her; Jiang Man instead asked for spell arts that would conceal Drunken Floating Life’s identity.

Jiang Man learned the Evil God Method from Ting Fengyin, then left the Sword Mound after finding out where its source of sword intent lay. Meanwhile, Zhuo Qingcheng and the others were released by the Wuyun Sect’s Sect Master, who said Jiang Man had already settled matters inside.

• Jiang Man asked Ting Fengyin to teach him a difficult technique, and Ting Fengyin chose the Evil God Method, which concealed his appearance and aura and let him draw on Evil God traits.
• Ting Fengyin warned Jiang Man about two escaped Evil Gods, including one with a descendant surnamed Tantai, and told him he could summon Ting Fengyin if their auras appeared.
• Jiang Man learned the Evil God Method over five days, then returned to the Sword Mound, where Lin Fei and Manager Luo found him; Ting Fengyin had left him a note about Fire Spirit Lake and Hundred Flowers Pavilion.
• Jiang Man learned the route to the source of the sword intent, accepted Spirit Stones from Manager Luo, and left with Lin Fei, promising to help Manager Luo if the Wuyun Sect caused trouble.
• Zhuo Qingcheng, Long Yangxia, Jiang Wen, and Han Meixue were summoned to the Wuyun Sect’s gate, where the Sect Master returned four undercover agents and said Jiang Man would leave after looking around.
• The Sect Master told Zhuo Qingcheng that Jiang Man had beaten two agents and reported another, leaving her group baffled by how he had turned the situation around.

Jiang Man found the First Sword Intent in the Sword Mound, recorded it, and fought off three cultivators who accused him of taking it. After leaving with Lin Fei, he sensed that Ji Meng had sent him a letter.

• Jiang Man used the broken sword and Formation Runes to uncover a hidden passage leading to the First Sword Intent and a skeleton’s belongings.
• The Heavenly Mirror of a Hundred Books identified the Sword Intent and offered Cultivation Method purple qi for recording it, but Jiang Man could not take it because he was a Spell Cultivator.
• The three disheveled cultivators arrived and demanded that Jiang Man hand over the Sword Intent, so he defeated two and accepted forty thousand Spirit Sources from the third.
• Elder Luo’s group entered the cavern and found two of the three cultivators down, while Manager Luo guessed that they had crossed Jiang Man.
• Jiang Man and Lin Fei left the Sword Mound, and Jiang Man sensed that Ji Meng had sent a letter.

Jiang Man returned from the Moonlit Sect after reporting that its sword intent was unrelated to the Evil God, then wrote to Ji Meng and completed his study of the Thirty-Six Books of Mastery. As he reached sect territory, the Enforcement Hall met him and escorted him away for an examination related to his role as the Evil God's spokesman.

• Jiang Man told Zhuo Qingcheng and the others that the Moonlit Sect's divine object was an untouchable strand of sword intent and that he had found no connection to the Evil God; the scrawny undercover agent was left behind after questioning him.
• Han Meixue learned that the missing undercover agent was named Luo Jian, while Jiang Man read Ji Meng's letter and sent her a reply describing his journey and promising to bring her a gift.
• Qing Dai agreed to consult World-Shaking Wisdom about a return gift for Jiang Man, while the Rounded Man asked Chen Yu to raise the Immortal Spirit's worsening dormancy and a mysterious group's offer with the Envoy.
• Jiang Man ignored the Evil God Token's tremors, finished and absorbed the Thirty-Six Books of Mastery, and reached the sect's territory with Zhuo Qingcheng's party.
• Ren Qian met Jiang Man and escorted him to the Enforcement Hall for an examination, while Zhuo Qingcheng and the others were told to report there with the people they had rescued.

Jiang Man completed his examination at the Enforcement Hall and was assigned to investigate the Sun-Moon Immortal Journey, then returned to Ji Meng and Old Huang with gifts and news from his undercover mission. In the ruined temple, he learned that the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit’s followers faced problems and a mysterious faction wanted to meet him, while its backer planned to uncover his secrets.

• Ren Qian cleared Jiang Man’s examination, gave him ten thousand Spirit Sources, and tasked him with investigating the Sun-Moon Immortal Journey through the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit’s followers.
• Jiang Man visited Ji Meng, returned the Thirty-Six Hall-Entry Books of Formation Runes, and gave her two swords connected to her father; Ji Meng and Qing Dai reacted with shock to the broken sword.
• Jiang Man read Chang Qiwen’s letter, discussed his mission and discoveries with Old Huang, and learned that Ji Hao might be able to open the Storage Law Treasure.
• Jiang Man entered the ruined temple, where Chen Yu asked him to address the followers’ worsening mental restraints and a mysterious Immortal Spirit’s offer to help awaken the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit.
• Jiang Man told Chen Yu to provide a Visualization Method later and make the mysterious faction wait; the faction’s woman agreed to wait, confident she could expose Jiang Man when they met.

Jiang Man cultivated, received Spirit Sources from reports arranged by the Spirit Blossom faction, and used a Visualization Method to strengthen its members’ faith in him. Meanwhile, Wei Ran tasked Fang Yong with forming his core in the Second Institute and entering the Inner Sect.

• A woman in a black Immortal Skirt and Tantai Xiaotian discussed winning the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit’s cooperation and locating the Immortal Dao Coordinates, while planning reports to pressure Jiang Man.
• Jiang Man examined Ji Meng’s formation furnace, used the Heavenly Mirror of a Hundred Books to appraise it, and sent Ji Meng a grateful letter.
• Jiang Man advanced to the middle mental stage, then learned that the first reported people were undercover agents in the Evergreen Sect rather than members of the Wuyun Sect.
• After two Wuyun Sect Student Cultivators were reported and arrested, Jiang Man received thirty thousand Spirit Sources and gave them a Visualization Method that eased their heart demons and inspired devotion to him.
• Jiang Man continued cultivating toward the Golden Core late stage while calculating his Spirit Sources and pill expenses.
• Wei Ran told Fang Yong to work with Wang Yan to compete for a top-fifty place, form his core in the Second Institute, and enter the Inner Sect.

Wei Ran arranged for Fang Yong to join Jiang Man’s future courtyard and gave him an entry qualification for the Qi Refining Secret Realm. Fang Yong gave Cheng Yu an envelope related to the Advancement Method, then left her with a warning; meanwhile, a rival sect’s students prepared to challenge the Wuyun Sect’s Third Courtyard.

• Wei Ran told Fang Yong to join Jiang Man’s planned Inner Sect courtyard and handed him an entry qualification for the Qi Refining Secret Realm.
• Fang Yong met Chang Qiwen, who explained that he delivered food part-time to earn extra Spirit Sources despite having reached Foundation Establishment.
• Cheng Yu told Fang Yong she felt uneasy about returning home, and Fang Yong asked about her practice of the Advancement Method.
• Cheng Yu tried to give Fang Yong back the envelope he had brought, but he kept it and told her to find him after mastering the method because carrying it was dangerous.
• A middle-aged man led three Sixth Courtyard students toward the Wuyun Sect and urged them to challenge the Third Courtyard’s students.

Jiang Man received his mission rewards and learned that the Sixth Courtyard planned to challenge him during a sect exchange in December. He visited Ji Hao to examine ancient objects, discovered the extraordinary history behind Ji Hao’s brush, and entered the Treasure Pavilion before the chapter ended with a list of the Third Courtyard’s top three Outer Sect rankings.

• Chang Qiwen delivered Jiang Man a mission reward containing an Upper Grade Method, thirty thousand spirit sources, and a recommendation letter.
• Yan Yiqiu told Jiang Man that the Sixth Courtyard’s exchange would begin the following month and warned that its cultivators might challenge him.
• Jiang Man visited Ji Hao, described the special sword intent, and urged him to investigate it after arranging the Immortal Dao Coordinates.
• Jiang Man used the Heavenly Mirror of a Hundred Books on Ji Hao’s brush and learned it had been made to write cultivation methods and blaze a path into the future.
• Ji Hao took Jiang Man into the Treasure Pavilion, where Jiang Man touched an Immortal-Suppressing Statue and found it unremarkable.
• A middle-aged man presented three Student Cultivators with rankings naming Meng Xiaoxiao, Ji He, and Zhuo Bufan as the Outer Sect’s top three.

Jiang Man explored ancient treasures in the Wuyun Sect, gaining cultivation and spell arts purple qi while advancing his cultivation, and Ji Hao gave him the real Immortal Dao Coordinates and the Storage Law Treasure. As the Outer Sect exchange approached, Jiang Man returned to the Third Courtyard, while Ji Hao went to the Moonlit Sect to investigate its hidden sword intent.

• Ji Hao showed Jiang Man the Heavenly Monitoring Compass, the Last Throne, and the Ninefold Origin Spirit Formation, which helped Jiang Man gain purple qi and unlock more of his talent.
• Jiang Man spent weeks examining treasures and cultivating, raising his cultivation Gourd to seventy percent before leaving the treasure pavilion.
• Ji Hao gave Jiang Man the genuine Immortal Dao Coordinates and the Storage Law Treasure, then Jiang Man headed back to the Third Courtyard ahead of the exchange.
• Jiang Man found Yan Yiqiu, Cao Cheng, and An Rong preparing to meet the Heavenly Water Sect's contestants, including a Sixth Courtyard disciple at Foundation Establishment Perfection.
• Ji Hao entered the Moonlit Sect and asked the Young Sect Master to bring him the Sect Master after hearing about A Niu.

Ji Hao visited the Moonlit Sect, freed its captives, and took the Sword Mound’s ancient sword intent, prompting the sect to spread news of his claim. Meanwhile, Jiang Man’s Cloud Glow Peak group met the Heavenly Water Sect for an exchange, and the chapter ended as Li Changcheng prepared to challenge Jiang Man after learning he had previously won a Third Courtyard challenge while in the Sixth Courtyard.

• The Moonlit Sect’s Sect Master and Elder Luo met Ji Hao, who released the sect’s captives and took the Sword Mound’s sword intent, telling them to announce that Ji Hao of the Wuyun Sect had claimed it.
• The Sect Master followed Elder Luo’s advice and ordered the news spread so the Moonlit Sect would not be blamed for hiding the sword intent.
• Yan Yiqiu led Jiang Man and Cloud Glow Peak’s other top students to meet the Heavenly Water Sect’s group, where Jiang Man recognized Wei Ran as a Golden Core cultivator.
• Li Changcheng challenged Jiang Man before the exchange and agreed to pay four thousand Spirit Sources; Jiang Man accepted after receiving the payment.
• A fellow Heavenly Water Sect student told Li Changcheng that Jiang Man was the one who had previously challenged and defeated a Third Courtyard opponent from the Sixth Courtyard, but Li Changcheng remained confident and asked to attack first.

Jiang Man defeated Li Changcheng and revealed that he had been the Outer Sect’s top-ranked cultivator before reaching Golden Core, prompting the Heavenly Water Sect to invite him to its Golden Core Division. After advancing to the Golden Core late stage, he received the invitation and an Enforcement Hall summons, then learned that his wife had repeatedly sent for him.

• Jiang Man defeated Li Changcheng, evaluated his cultivation, and told Teacher Ye to look beyond the latest rankings; Ye Xiaoshuang’s group discovered Jiang Man had ranked first three years earlier and formed his core that December.
• A man traveling above the Endless Mountain Range ordered a targeted invitation for Jiang Man to join the Heavenly Water Sect’s Golden Core Division, offering him twenty thousand Spirit Sources.
• Jiang Man cultivated through January and successfully broke through to the Golden Core late stage, then learned from Old Yellow Ox that two letters had arrived.
• Jiang Man read the Heavenly Water Sect’s invitation and an Enforcement Hall letter asking him to rein in his Divine Ability and visit the hall after cultivating.
• Old Yellow Ox told Jiang Man that his wife’s maid had invited him three times while he was cultivating.

Jiang Man advanced his Formation Arts understanding while visiting Ji Meng, who asked him to find an Evil God skilled in formations in exchange for a touch. Meanwhile, a woman in a black Immortal Skirt discovered that the Envoy agreed to her proposal when she offered twenty thousand Spirit Sources, leaving her shocked by his priorities.

• Ji Meng welcomed Jiang Man, gave him pastries, explained Formation Arts, and learned that he had advanced to the Golden Core Late Stage.
• Jiang Man refined his understanding of formations and used it to open a box in six breaths, then recovered his exhausted mind and spirit by eating a qi-rich pastry.
• Ji Meng told Jiang Man that she planned to join his Inner Sect courtyard and asked him to find an Evil God skilled in Formation Arts; he requested a touch of her arm or shoulder as payment.
• Qing Dai told Jiang Man that she had been visiting Yu Wanyi and setting fires at Xiang Tianlin's residence, while Ji Meng mentioned that Ji Meng's brother had obtained a strand of Sword Intent.
• The woman in the black Immortal Skirt offered the Envoy twenty thousand Spirit Sources, and he agreed to her proposal, surprising her.

Jiang Man agreed to join a major Inner Sect tournament after learning about its stakes, while Luo Xuan learned that her missing Second Uncle, Luo Jian, had defected to the Moonlit Sect. The chapter left Luo Xuan fearing the consequences if the news spread, as Little Fatty urged Jiang Man to keep it quiet.

• The Woman in the Black Immortal Skirt paid more Spirit Source to bring forward her meeting with Jiang Man, and Jiang Man agreed to meet before March 5.
• Yu Wanyi explained that the Inner Sect invitation offered Jiang Man a chance to compete for a place in a major tournament, and Jiang Man accepted it.
• Luo Lu told Luo Xuan that her Second Uncle had not returned and was officially missing, while Luo Xuan reassured her about her own circumstances.
• Jiang Man learned that Luo Xuan's Second Uncle was Luo Jian and revealed that he was at the Moonlit Sect, where he had likely defected.
• Luo Xuan feared the news could destroy the Luo Lineage, while Little Fatty asked Jiang Man not to spread it because his father could be implicated.