Chapter Summaries

Tantai Xue and Tantai Xiaotian reasoned that the Sun-Moon Immortal Journey was trying to bring a special Abyss-type evil god into sect territory. At the Black Spirit Abyss, Jiang Man emerged to protect Tao He and the others, mastered Thousandfold Thunderclap in a day, and unleashed it on the demon beast horde.

• Tantai Xiaotian told Tantai Xue that the Sun-Moon Immortal Journey's activity might be meant to help a special Abyss-type evil god enter the Immortal Gate's territory.
• The demon beasts broke through the Mountain and River Labyrinth Formation after three days, but Jiang Man appeared and drove back their leader.
• Jiang Man fought off the demon beasts and asked Tao He for a group attack spell art when the faster Primordial Spirit beasts evaded him.
• Jiang Man learned Thousandfold Thunderclap by repeating its cultivation movements, reaching great accomplishment within a day.
• Jiang Man activated Thousandfold Thunderclap and engulfed the surrounding demon beasts in lightning.

Jiang Man defended the formation from demon beasts, then learned the area was caught in an Abyss-Type Evil God conflict. When a massive clash of power swept through, he escaped with Tao He and the others and prepared to approach a fallen Evil God as Drunken Floating Life.

• Jiang Man repeatedly struck the attacking demon beasts with lightning until they were wiped out, then ordered Tao He and the others to secure the area and investigate whether they were trapped.
• Jiang Man identified an Abyss-Type Evil God as the likely cause of the blockade and told the others to hold their position and cultivate while he continued strengthening himself.
• Tao He questioned the injured female demon beast, who explained that demons and evil gods had launched a counterattack for freedom and that three to five Evil Gods might be involved.
• A devastating surge of power swept toward them in mid-March, and Jiang Man fled with Tao He and the others, rescuing the female demon beast along the way.
• After the power passed, Jiang Man sensed that a fallen Evil God had landed nearby and activated the Evil God Method, disguising himself as Drunken Floating Life before approaching it.

Jiang Man coerced Mu Kong into helping him escape the seal and return, then used his Mountain-Suppressing Office Token to announce Drunken Floating Life’s arrival. The chapter ended as the announcement spread across the Black Spirit Abyss and the people fighting there looked toward the sky.

• Jiang Man subdued the injured Mu Kong and forced him to agree to help him leave the sealed area.
• Mu Kong explained how his coordinates could send Jiang Man outside and pull him back, then shared his Evil God power so Jiang Man could sense and activate the coordinates.
• Jiang Man discovered that his Token could broadcast an important arrival through the Mountain-Suppressing Office’s suppressed treasure, and he prepared safeguards before asking Mu Kong to send him out.
• Jiang Man emerged through the blockade as a surge of power spread across the Black Spirit Abyss, while the Mountain-Suppressing Office’s messages reached its members.
• The Mountain-Suppressing Office announced that Special Inspector Drunken Floating Life had arrived, startling the old woman, the middle-aged man, and others in the Abyss.

After Jiang Man’s arrival was announced as a “descent,” the hostile forces fled and the Sect’s reinforcements subdued the crisis. During a later investigation into possible Evil God followers, Yang Zhao separated Jiang Man from his companions and revealed that he was a Primordial Spirit Perfection cultivator with great spell arts.

• Drunken Floating Life’s arrival announcement frightened the Evil God’s allies into fleeing, while Mu Kong bowed to Jiang Man and learned that the announcement had marked him as an important figure.
• Jiang Man gave Mu Kong a stamped paper and instructions to await questioning, then returned to his companions and concealed what had happened.
• The Sect’s reinforcements arrived, restored order in Black Spirit Abyss, and later began investigating survivors for possible ties to the Evil God.
• Yang Zhao questioned Jiang Man’s companions separately, then led Jiang Man to the woods and asked what realm he could defeat using his trump cards.
• Jiang Man said he could probably kill a Primordial Spirit Late Stage cultivator without great spell arts, and Yang Zhao disclosed that he was at Primordial Spirit Perfection and possessed great spell arts.

Yang Zhao tried to kill Jiang Man on orders from an unnamed person, but Jiang Man defeated him with the Evil God Method and Yang Zhao died after activating his Primordial Spirit. Jiang Man then staged a Demon Beast attack to explain Yang Zhao’s disappearance, while investigators uncovered signs of a planned ambush and suspected a higher-up was involved.

• Yang Zhao admitted that he had orders to kill Jiang Man, then attacked him with a wind dragon that badly injured him.
• Jiang Man used Spell Arts and the Evil God Method to overpower Yang Zhao, who activated his Primordial Spirit and died in the resulting explosion.
• Jiang Man took control of the formation, woke the Earth Spirit Beasts, and sent Song Wushuang and the others fleeing while claiming Yang Zhao was holding them off.
• Senior Brother He questioned the group, gave Jiang Man healing pills, and noted that Jiang Man had been cultivating before Yang Zhao went missing.
• Junior Sister Mo found evidence that someone had arranged the formation and Earth Spirit Beasts in advance, and Senior Brother He concluded that Yang Zhao had likely tried to kill Jiang Man.

Jiang Man prepared for repeated covert attacks in Black Spirit Abyss, improved his cultivation, and captured a woman connected to the plot against him. In early July, Ting Fengyin finally arrived and criticized his cultivation for being a year behind.

• After learning that someone had manipulated the Earth Spirit Beasts to target him, Jiang Man warned Ji Meng by letter, and Ji Meng replied that she had waited for his letters but had forgotten that communication went both ways.
• Jiang Man strengthened his formations and escape plans, detected covert erosion, and gave his companions Formation Stones to guard against recurring disturbances.
• Jiang Man tracked down two agents discussing the plot to provoke war between the Immortal Gates, killed the man, and knocked out the woman before turning her over to the Mountain-Suppressing Office.
• After the threats subsided, Jiang Man continued cultivating until his first physical gourd filled in early July.
• Ting Fengyin arrived, and Jiang Man welcomed him until Ting Fengyin remarked that his cultivation was a year behind.

Jiang Man destroyed the ancient well-type evil god’s source, seized its fruit, and escaped the Woods while the Mountain-Suppressing Office confronted the emerging abyss-type evil god. As Jiang Man entered seclusion, Tao He, Song Wushuang, and Zheng Yan faced a growing demon beast assault until his prepared formation saved them, and he told them to hold on for three more days.

• Jiang Man broke his spiritual shackles, crushed the ink-black fruit’s resistance, and destroyed the ancient well-type evil god’s source.
• The Mountain-Suppressing Office detected the ancient well-type evil god’s defeat, then faced the abyss-type evil god as Jiang Man fled the Woods with the fruit.
• Jiang Man warned Tao He, Song Wushuang, and Zheng Yan that trouble was coming, then entered seclusion while they continued their mission.
• Demon beasts attacked the trio in steadily increasing numbers until powerful beasts arrived, shattered their formation, and nearly killed Zheng Yan.
• Jiang Man’s Formation Stones activated and rebuilt the formation, shielding the trio from the horde.
• Jiang Man spoke to the trio through the formation and told them to hold on for three more days until he emerged from seclusion.

Jiang Man learned techniques from Ting Fengyin, improved his cultivation, and completed the Black Spirit Abyss mission with great merit. As he returned to the sect, Ji Meng heard that the son-in-law might be coming back and went out to meet him.

• Jiang Man told Ting Fengyin about the Bai Family’s attempt to kill him, and Ting Fengyin gave him a stone that could help identify who was behind the attack.
• Ting Fengyin taught Jiang Man how to form an avatar for Mu Kong, modified the second volume for Abyss-type teleportation, and showed him how to fight using momentum.
• Jiang Man entered seclusion, advanced his physical cultivation to the second layer, and raised his spirit to the sixth level.
• Jiang Man learned that the Black Spirit Abyss had been transferred successfully, explained cultivation methods to Tao He and two others, and departed for the sect.
• Jiang Man and Xie Zhixu’s group received sealed envelopes instead of merit Tokens, leading the others to realize Jiang Man had earned great merit.
• Ji Meng went out after Qing Dai learned from World-Shocking Wisdom that the son-in-law might be returning.

After returning from his mission, Jiang Man met Ji Meng, learned that his annual assessment had already passed, and discovered that the Bai Family threat still lingered. Old Yellow Ox warned that factions seeking the Immortal Dao Coordinates were converging on Jiang Man, leaving him in greater danger unless attention shifted to Ji Hao.

• Jiang Man left Xie Zhixu, Xia Jian, and the others guessing about his Token and merit, then met Ji Meng, who treated him to shaobing from the Outer Sect shop.
• Ji Meng told Jiang Man that Xiao Qing had confronted the person who ambushed them but stopped after the sect increased its guard, while the shopkeepers revealed Jiang Man had called Ji Meng the wife he had mentioned.
• Jiang Man and Ji Meng discussed his training and an ancient Evil God skilled in formations, and Ji Meng later told Qing Dai to find a way to lure out the Bai Family man so they could kill him.
• Jiang Man showed Old Yellow Ox Ji Meng's letter and asked for advice about the threat from the Bai Family, while Heavenly Dog asked to visit the prison again.
• Old Yellow Ox warned Jiang Man that wounded and stalled cultivators, including people within the Immortal Gate's domain, were pursuing the Immortal Dao Coordinates and advised him to spread the word and direct attention toward Ji Hao.

Jieming broke through the black-robed wizard’s [Fiction] defense and discovered that his elementalized body retained the resistance of his evolved flesh. After replenishing and stabilizing his power, he prepared to take the offensive.

• Jieming shattered the black-robed wizard’s absolute defense and struck him hard enough to destroy half his face.
• Jieming restored his weakened arm with energy from the Seventh-Level Large Elemental Pool and repaired conflicts in his framework.
• The black-robed wizard regenerated his head and attacked Jieming, but Jieming’s disintegrating arm still cut him and his counterpunch smashed the wizard’s raised arm.
• The black-robed wizard analyzed Jieming’s body and realized that an information core inside its energy form preserved Jieming’s physical strength and resistance to [Fiction].
• Jieming told the black-robed wizard that it was now his turn to attack.

Jiang Man studied a formation and gathered materials to create an avatar for Mu Kong while the Ji and Bai families prepared for more conflict. He successfully summoned Mu Kong’s avatar from the Mountain-Suppressing Office prison and offered him a chance to walk outside if he worked for him.

• Jiang Man and Old Yellow Ox discussed who might have attacked him, and Jiang Man learned that creating Mu Kong’s avatar required a Divine Sense Reincarnation Formation and rare materials.
• Jiang Man obtained flesh and blood from Old Yellow Ox, used Drunken Floating Life’s token for the second material, and spent three days studying the formation.
• Jiang Man spoke with Ji Linglong, Ji Chenfeng, and Ji Shoumo, who warned him that actual combat would increase in September; the Bai Family trio prepared another attempt to suppress him.
• Miao Yulin decided to wear a new immortal skirt to test Jiang Man and Ji Meng’s reactions while investigating the Ji Family’s identities and marriage alliance.
• In prison, Mu Kong told an old man about his history of being denied an Immortal Register place, and the old man warned him not to trust the Immortal Gate.
• Jiang Man used the formation to draw Mu Kong’s wisp of an avatar out of prison and offered to let it walk the outside world in exchange for Mu Kong working for him; Mu Kong accepted.

Jiang Man recruited Mu Kong as a coordinate-inscribing agent, collected his rewards from the Black Spirit Abyss, and spent Spirit Sources on rent and discounted pills. Meanwhile, Tantai Xue learned that the Sun-Moon Immortal Journey was hunting Drunken Floating Life and considered approaching Jiang Man for information.

• Jiang Man sent Mu Kong outside the Sect with ten thousand Spirit Sources and ordered him to join the Cloudfront Office and reach Foundation Establishment within three years.
• Jiang Man inspected the Storage Law Treasure, then redeemed his merit for a hundred thousand Spirit Sources, Nine-Star Series spell arts, and a Qi Refining Secret Realm envelope.
• Chang Qiwen delivered two hundred thousand Spirit Sources from Song Qing and reminded Jiang Man to pay rent, which Jiang Man entrusted him to handle.
• Jiang Man visited Ji Meng to buy discounted pills and joked with her about food for Old Yellow Ox and Heavenly Dog.
• Tantai Xue told Tantai Xiaotian that the Sun-Moon Immortal Journey was tracking Drunken Floating Life through an Evil God token and discussed contacting Jiang Man for information.

Jiang Man returned to the Small Courtyard for his second year of classes, where Ji Hao began combat instruction and warned Miao Yulin to restrain her charm technique. Elsewhere, Chen Shi received a list of suspected undercovers, erased its final name, and was left silent when Tantai Xue's group suggested his Envoy might be an undercover.

• Jiang Man used thirty Spirit-Refining Pills to fill his sixth Mental Gourd and prepared to advance before Ji Meng arrived to take him to the first day of classes.
• At the Small Courtyard, the students discussed Miao Yulin's powerful charm technique, while Jiang Man wondered whether her exposed lower body would be more vulnerable in combat.
• Yan Yiqiu explained the students' second-year goals and introduced Ji Hao as their combat teacher; Ji Hao told Miao Yulin to rein in her charm technique and began assessing the students' fighting abilities.
• Overseas, Chen Shi met with a mysterious Evil God's subordinate and agreed to receive two hundred thousand Spirit Sources and a list of undercovers in exchange for cooperation.
• Chen Shi erased the last name on the list and asked to meet the Envoy, then fell silent when the subordinate questioned whether the Envoy might be an undercover.
• Tantai Xue wondered why the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit's subordinates showed no alarm after being told their Envoy might be an undercover, and Tantai Xiaotian agreed that the situation was abnormal.

Jiang Man met the new spell arts teacher, Tantai Xue, who discovered that he had reached Great Accomplishment in the Nine-Star Series. The chapter ended with the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit telling Jiang Man that Chen Shi was looking for him about another transaction involving the mysterious Evil God.

• Tantai Xue decided to investigate Evil God infiltrators in the sect and planned to get close to Ji Hao and meet the Envoy.
• Jiang Man advanced his mental strength to the seventh level, then walked to the Small Courtyard with Ji Meng and traded barbs with Miao Yulin.
• Tantai Xue arrived as the Small Courtyard's new spell arts teacher and introduced herself as a member of the Northern Nine Luminaries Sect.
• Tantai Xue assessed the students' auras and was astonished when Jiang Man revealed that he had reached Great Accomplishment in the Nine-Star Series.
• Lin Qingshan said the echoes of fate surrounding Jiang Man would become clear in time, and Ji Meng quietly said that she had heard them.
• The Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit told Jiang Man that Chen Shi was looking for him about a transaction involving the mysterious Evil God.

Jiang Man met Tantai Xue, traded information for a list of undercover agents connected to Sun-Moon Immortal Journey, and passed their names to the Enforcement Hall. Tantai Xue realized he had reported nearly all of them for immediate arrests, turning undercover agents into what his side called “hard currency” and risking a response from Sun-Moon Immortal Journey.

• Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit told Jiang Man she had not been contacted about the Immortal Dao Coordinates, and he ordered her to release her aura and follow his instructions if anyone reached out.
• Chen Shi warned Jiang Man that Sun-Moon Immortal Journey planned to kill him and relayed an offer from a mysterious Evil God's representative to exchange a list of undercover agents for a meeting.
• Jiang Man met Tantai Xue in the Dream Realm and told her Sun-Moon Immortal Journey had tried to provoke unrest in the Immortal Gate at Black Spirit Abyss, but said more information would cost extra.
• Chen Shi gave Jiang Man a list of sixteen undercover agents and a separate entry for Song Qing; Jiang Man wrote down Song Qing's name and taught Chen Shi cultivation techniques.
• Jiang Man gave Teacher Yan the sixteen names, and the Enforcement Hall arrested nearly all of them after she delivered the list.
• Tantai Xue learned the arrests had followed Jiang Man's report and received a message declaring undercover agents hard currency for future transactions.

Jiang Man learned about the Immortal Gate’s expanded recruitment while enemies targeted him for exposing undercover agents, and Mr. Bai sensed that someone intended to kill him. As Jiang Man filled his seventh Gourd and prepared to advance, the Small Courtyard’s cultivators began training harder to compete for future opportunities.

• Ren Qian told Jiang Man that the Immortal Gate planned to incorporate independent sects and expand recruitment, and warned him that Yu was pursuing a related mission while his enemies made going out dangerous.
• A group outside the Wuyun Sect learned Jiang Man had exposed their contacts, then accepted an offer from another group to kill him using formations that obstructed his power.
• Mr. Bai told Song Qing that Miss Luo had gained a more stable future, warned him about rising dangers, and advised him to buy the middle Spirit Pet Egg; Song Qing later asked Jiang Man about hatching it.
• Jiang Man learned Little Fatty had drawn the envelope that cost its recipient spirit sources, then considered how expanded recruitment might affect the Moonlit Sect and Luo Xuan’s future.
• On October first, Jiang Man filled his seventh Gourd and discussed the formations hindering his cultivation with Old Yellow Ox before heading to teach at the Small Courtyard.
• Qi Xi learned from Miao Yulin that the Small Courtyard’s cultivators had begun training harder because expanded recruitment could change resource priorities and future Return to the Void slots.

Ji Hao gave the Small Courtyard cultivators personalized cultivation plans and offered Spirit Sources for their assessment results, while Tantai Xue learned that Jiang Man carried the aura of the Immortal Dao Coordinates. Elsewhere, Immortal Maiden Mu prepared to have Jiang Man killed, and Yu Wanyi told Xia Jin that she had stolen a huge bag of Spirit Sources and wanted help securing another mission slot.

• Qi Xi saw the Golden Core Division cultivating and felt pressured when Wang Yan explained that Jiang Man’s work ethic was making everyone else uncomfortable.
• Ji Hao distributed personalized cultivation plans and announced Spirit Source rewards for assessment scores, while Tantai Xue promised additional rewards for spell arts progress.
• Tantai Xiaotian sensed the aura of the Immortal Dao Coordinates on Jiang Man and warned Tantai Xue that the information could attract outsiders seeking the Spirit Blossom Immortal Spirit.
• Immortal Maiden Mu learned that Jiang Man was being watched and ordered two people to attack him together under an isolation Law Treasure, then flee the Sect.
• Yu Wanyi showed Xia Jin the Spirit Sources she had stolen from her master and asked for help luring her master to her martial uncle so they could divide the loot and obtain another mission slot.

Jiang Man traced Zhao Tiankuo to a Demon Race group that had abducted him, then intervened as Immortal Maiden Mu and her allies prepared to leave. He killed their attackers, but the spatial formation carried the survivors and corpses to the Demon Race rendezvous, where Immortal Maiden Mu identified him as Drunken Floating Life before dying.

• Jiang Man continued cultivating with Guiding the Void Summer-Origin Pills while the Ji Family believed he was practicing power application, and he sensed the hostile formation around his courtyard intensifying.
• Old Yellow Ox told Jiang Man that Zhao Tiankuo had been taken by Demon Race members who intercepted his messages, and taught him a tracing spell that used the Evil God Method.
• Jiang Man followed the trace to a forest outside the sect, where Immortal Maiden Mu and her companions held Zhao Tiankuo within a formation and planned to transport him away.
• Jiang Man appeared inside the formation, fought the group, and used Three Mountains Suppressing Peaks to defeat Immortal Maiden Mu and her allies.
• The formation transported the bodies and surviving Immortal Maiden Mu to a Demon Race rendezvous, where she named Drunken Floating Life as her killer before her Primordial Spirit shattered.

Jiang Man thwarted another assassination attempt, gathered Spirit Sources, and advanced his cultivation while preparing for the Peerless Heaven's Chosen Destiny. With his ninth mental gourd filled and only four days left, he asked Old Yellow Ox how to solidify it.

• Jiang Man learned that the attackers serving the Demon Race's Heavenly Demons had been hired, then returned to his courtyard and captured two more would-be killers with Ren Qian's help.
• Jiang Man discussed the threats with Old Yellow Ox and resumed cultivating, while the Heavenly Dog hid in fear and begged to return to prison.
• Jiang Man gathered Spirit Sources from Teacher Ji, Tantai Xue, Ren Qian, and his friends, then opened his eighth and ninth mental gourds as the sect prepared to expand enrollment.
• Xia Jin delivered an enrollment assignment from Yu Wanyi and explained that Ji Meng could not use her slot, so Jiang Man arranged for it to go to the last-place person in his Small Courtyard.
• On January first, Jiang Man filled his ninth gourd and asked Old Yellow Ox how to solidify it before the Peerless Heaven's Chosen Destiny arrived in four days.

Jiang Man condensed his primordial spirit despite his frail body, then struggled through the courtyard’s assessment and placed last. As he prepared to learn what his next challenge would be, the Peerless Heaven’s Chosen Destiny finally reacted.

• Ji Hao repeatedly corrected Yan Yiqiu and the other cultivators, while Qing Dai wondered whether Jiang Man was nearing the end of his allotted time; Ji Meng arranged to call him for the assessment.
• Jiang Man followed Old Yellow Ox’s guidance and spent three days condensing his primordial spirit, gaining immense power but injuring his already-weak body.
• Ji Meng told Jiang Man he had to attend Ji Hao’s assessment the next day, and Jiang Man admitted he had not learned the power-circulation method.
• Jiang Man managed to write only one page in the power assessment and left the Spell Arts portion blank; the rankings placed him last, while Ji An, Miao Yulin, and Ji Shoumo took the top three spots.
• After Jiang Man spoke with Ji Meng, the Peerless Heaven’s Chosen Destiny stirred, and he waited to discover its reward and new conditions.