Chapter Summaries

Wang Ba sought the five-element cultivation methods needed for the Myriad Laws Unitary Intent Art, but Yao Wudi found that several peak masters were unwilling to provide them freely. Shen Ying gave Wang Ba the Cloudwater True Void Art, and Wang Ba began cultivating the Myriad Laws Unitary Intent Art after returning home.

• Wang Ba asked Yao Wudi how to obtain enough merit points for the five-element cultivation methods, and Yao Wudi took him to Greenwood Peak to request one.
• Su Cheng refused to provide the Azure Emperor Seed-God Mantra without Ling Weizi’s approval, while Ling Weizi later explained that he wanted to prevent another Yao Wudi from taking resources and overshadowing the sect.
• After other peaks also refused them, Yao Wudi visited Ren Water Peak, where Shen Ying gave Wang Ba the Cloudwater True Void Art and a Substitute Death Copper Coin.
• Wang Ba gave Bu Chan the Nine-Colored Gourd Seed to plant and the copper coin to keep, then returned to his room to cultivate.
• Wang Ba used seven and a half years of his lifespan to begin the Myriad Laws Unitary Intent Art, forming a small colorless vortex of Qi in his Dantian.

Wang Ba gained initial mastery of the Myriad Laws Unitary Intent Art, while Yao Wudi clashed with the Second Elder over the Myriad Laws lineage and its cultivation methods. After realizing Wang Ba had condensed Mother Qi of Ten Thousand Arts in less than a night, Yao Wudi returned with four Jade Slips for him.

• Wang Ba began converting his Law Power into Mother Qi of Ten Thousand Arts and found that using it weakened his attribute-based Law Techniques.
• Yao Wudi visited the Myriad Phenomena Scripture Repository and asked Senior Brother Pang to register four cultivation methods for Wang Ba.
• The Second Elder forbade Yao Wudi from bypassing the merit system and declared the Myriad Laws lineage a dead end, while Pang intervened to shield Yao Wudi from his pressure.
• Yao Wudi sensed that Wang Ba had condensed Mother Qi of Ten Thousand Arts in less than a night and realized his disciple might be exceptionally suited to the Myriad Laws lineage.
• Yao Wudi returned to Wang Ba’s home in the morning and left four Jade Slips on the table.

Wang Ba received four rare Five Elements cultivation methods from Yao Wudi, who concealed the Mother Qi of Ten Thousand Arts in Wang Ba’s Dantian. At the Spirit Cuisine Department, Wang Ba impressed its cultivators by preparing a huge batch of Fruit Pulp Rice Essence with high purity, and Cui Daqi revealed that Yao Wudi had bullied other peak masters to obtain the methods, likely faking his injuries.

• Wang Ba recognized four jade slips as cultivation methods compatible with the Myriad Laws Unitary Intent Art, and Yao Wudi used a law technique to hide Wang Ba’s progress from all but Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Yao Wudi admitted that other peak masters resented him and had refused to cooperate, then sent Wang Ba to work at the Spirit Cuisine Department.
• Wang Ba prepared nearly a hundred portions of Fruit Pulp Rice Essence in one batch, achieving ninety-seven percent purity and astonishing Deacon Kong, He the Drunkard, and Cui Daqi.
• Cui Daqi invited Wang Ba to borrow books on spirit cuisine and asked him to reason with Yao Wudi after learning that Yao Wudi had confronted several peak masters.
• Cui Daqi told Wang Ba that Yao Wudi had made Ling Weizi and the other peak masters compensate him with Merit Points and cultivation methods, and suspected that Yao Wudi had inflicted his own wounds.

Yao Wudi calculated the resources and lifespan Wang Ba would need to cultivate several methods, while Wang Ba learned about merit-point tasks and found a safe way to earn them through spirit cuisine. The chapter ended with a messenger announcing that Yao Wudi had been temporarily removed as guardian of the Chen Kingdom.

• Yao Wudi assessed his merit points and supplies, then worried about securing enough cultivation resources and lifespan-extending treasures for Wang Ba.
• Wang Ba accepted Tian Fu as his assistant and learned that sect tasks and contributions could earn merit points, while exchanging spirit stones for them was forbidden.
• Wang Ba visited the Task Hall on Lesser Yin Mountain, accepted Gu Wen's task, and traded four portions of Spirit Chicken Essence for two merit points.
• Wang Ba read Cui Daqi's spirit-cuisine books and found that they described precious chickens but not spirit chickens bred from them.
• A young messenger arrived at Myriad Laws Peak and announced that Yao Wudi had been temporarily removed from his post as Chen Kingdom's guardian.

Wang Ba discovered that his Spirit Chicken Essence recipes were already in the sect’s repository, but recipes he developed for second-tier Spirit Chickens and Azurewater Spirit Turtles were new. He went to Beast Peak to study under Qi Yan, while a mysterious figure accepted a 150,000-merit mission.

• Patriarch Yuyang took Yao Wudi’s Guardian Token and Golden Chain, and Yao told Wang Ba to focus on cultivation, spirit cuisine, and beast taming.
• Wang Ba refined spirit cuisine, guided Tian Fu, and learned from the Scripture Repository Spirit that his second-tier Spirit Chicken Essence and two Azurewater Spirit Turtle recipes were absent from the repository.
• A bald repository administrator noticed that Wang Ba had three new recipes but dismissed him as an unremarkable Foundation Establishment cultivator.
• Wang Ba visited Beast Peak, where Qi Yan explained that without the Beast Taming Lineage’s cultivation method, Wang Ba would have to rely on painstaking study; Wang Ba agreed to learn anyway.
• An unseen long-haired man accepted a golden mission worth 150,000 merit points, and Qu Shentong recognized that he had taken it.

Wang Ba impressed Qi Yan with his unusual talent for devising spirit-beast breeding paths and received the second volume of the Beast Taming Scroll to study. After Yao Wudi left to prepare for a Spirit Transformation breakthrough, Wang Ba continued his training until Tian Fu told him he had been assigned to patrol near West Sea Kingdom.

• Patriarch Yuyang agreed to wait at Wind-Howling Strait and protect Yao Wudi as he pursued the mission to intercept Seng Wangxin.
• Wang Ba answered Qi Yan's questions about lower-tier beasts and devised a promising breeding path for a Black Qi Snake, surprising Qi Yan and Mo Qi.
• Qi Yan gave Wang Ba Volume Two of the Beast Taming Scroll, which covered third-tier spirit beasts, and told him to study it before returning.
• Yao Wudi told Wang Ba and Bu Chan that he planned to leave the sect and prepare his state of mind for a Spirit Transformation breakthrough.
• Wang Ba studied the Beast Taming Scroll and consulted Qi Yan while continuing his cultivation and spirit-beast work.
• Tian Fu told Wang Ba that Lesser Yin Mountain had selected him for patrol duty near West Sea Kingdom, beginning in three days.

Wang Ba visited Black Tortoise Market to assess the value of Spirit Chicken Essence and look for resources for his cultivation methods. He learned that sect-controlled resources were difficult to obtain outside the merit system, exchanged contacts with Liu Lan, and ended the chapter intrigued by a spirit beast in a shop.

• Wang Ba learned from Tian Fu that sect disciples faced increasingly dangerous patrols and approved Tian Fu's leave before receiving a message from Gu Wen.
• Wang Ba visited Kong Yao's Spirit Cuisine Shop, where Kong Yao appraised Spirit Chicken Essence at forty-five to fifty middle-grade spirit stones per portion and explained how the sect valued recipe submissions.
• Wang Ba asked the treasure vault's true spirit about spirit cuisine, learned that basic second-tier cuisine cost three bottles per merit point, and was thrown out after asking whether it accepted spirit cuisine.
• Wang Ba searched Black Tortoise Market for cultivation resources, learned that the sect controlled their distribution, and exchanged Voice Transmission Talismans with Liu Lan of Hehuan Peak.
• Wang Ba browsed spirit beast shops, found that a Darksky Bear cub was not for sale, and noticed an intriguing spirit beast in an iron cage as he was about to leave.

Wang Ba bought a Ghost-Patterned Stone Dragon Lizard and arranged to sell Spirit Chicken Essence to Gu Wen for merit points. Elsewhere, a white-robed boy waited in vain at the Wind-Howling Strait for Yao Wudi, who had become lost and arrived near Great Yan instead.

• A Daoist learned that Seng Wangxin had crossed the Wind-Howling Strait and ordered Xumi to withdraw and the Longevity Sect to be notified.
• Wang Ba bought a Ghost-Patterned Stone Dragon Lizard, hoping to use lifespan breakthroughs to improve its bloodline across generations.
• Wang Ba met Gu Wen and negotiated a deal to supply her with Spirit Chicken Essence for one merit point per portion.
• Gu Wen paid Wang Ba 200 merit points for 200 portions of Spirit Chicken Essence at the Task Hall.
• A white-robed boy waited at the Wind-Howling Strait for Yao Wudi, while Yao Wudi wandered near Great Yan, mistaking the distance and asking for directions.

The Primordial Demon Sect’s three Holy Sons arrived in Nanshao City to hunt Peng Dashou, while Shen Fu worried that the First Holy Son might be watching him as a potential external incarnation. Their plans were interrupted when a mysterious brawny man arrived and struck down the Ninth Holy Son with a single punch, declaring that he had found the place to condense his Dao Opportunity.

• Diao Taiping welcomed the three Holy Sons to Nanshao City and offered them blood sacrifices and storage Law Artifacts.
• Shen Fu accepted a storage Law Artifact from Diao Taiping, then discussed with Jiang Old Devil his fear that the First Holy Son was watching him and might refine him into an external incarnation.
• A brawny man flew in from the southwest, and the Ninth Holy Son attacked him with the Formless Demonic Shadow Art.
• The brawny man’s punch blasted through the demonic shadows and struck the Ninth Holy Son, leaving a hole through his chest.
• As the First and Seventh Holy Sons watched, the Ninth Holy Son charged the brawny man again, who ignored him and said he had found the place to condense his Dao Opportunity.

Yao Wudi overwhelmed the Primordial Demon Sect’s Holy Sons and Nascent Soul cultivators, while Shen Fu tried to escape the First Holy Son’s grasp. After emerging from a battle that left eight cultivators dead and brought him close to Spirit Transformation, Yao Wudi pursued the fleeing Ninth Holy Son and seized his storage Law Artifacts.

• The Ninth Holy Son summoned the Formless Holy Emperor, but Yao Wudi shattered his attack with a punch and left him half his body gone.
• Yao Wudi copied and countered the Seventh Holy Son’s techniques as he fought the Holy Sons and six Nascent Soul cultivators, while Shen Fu learned his identity from the Eerie Voice.
• Shen Fu tried to flee, but the First Holy Son used an incarnation to intercept him, suppressed his explosive attack, and immobilized him.
• Yao Wudi destroyed the Crimson Demon Fire Baleful Banners’ advantage, forcing the First Holy Son to form an array with the others before trapping them all in darkness.
• Half a day later, Yao Wudi emerged as eight blood showers fell, and the Eerie Voice said he stood just one step from Spirit Transformation.
• Yao Wudi caught the fleeing Ninth Holy Son, took his storage Law Artifacts, and left while wondering whether the mission required him to spare the First Holy Son.

Wang Ba sought spirit grain bran from the Spirit Plant Department to ease Bu Chan’s workload, but Minister Ma erupted in anger when he learned Wang Ba lived at Myriad Laws Peak. Wang Ba offered to make amends for his master Yao Wudi’s past injury to Ma, while an unknown bare-chested figure descended at the Task Hall on Lesser Yin Mountain.

• Wang Ba’s Ghost-Patterned Stone Dragon Lizard showed no signs of advancing after nineteen days, while Bu Chan worked hard tending their spirit fields and Wang Ba realized they needed more chicken feed.
• Wang Ba asked Cui Daqi for spirit grain bran, and Cui Daqi brought him to Minister Ma, who agreed to supply second- and third-tier bran for free.
• Steward Qiu recorded Wang Ba’s monthly feed requirements and learned that Wang Ba lived at Myriad Laws Peak, prompting Minister Ma to angrily confront him over Yao Wudi’s past actions.
• Minister Ma revealed that Yao Wudi had accidentally scorched his soul and body with the Great Sun Method, leaving him permanently disfigured.
• Wang Ba offered to accept responsibility or make amends for his master’s wrongdoing, while a bare-chested figure descended at the Task Hall on Lesser Yin Mountain.

Wang Ba secured spirit grain bran for his chickens by promising to take responsibility for healing Martial Uncle Ma, while Yao Wudi discovered that he had killed the Primordial Demon Sect’s First Holy Son. At Pure Yang Palace, Sect Master Shao Yangzi revealed the sect’s response to a coming flood and the Demon Sect conflict, then rewarded Yao Wudi by sending him to fight the Ashina Tribe in the West Sea Kingdom.

• Wang Ba promised Martial Uncle Ma that he would seek a Spirit Transformation cultivator’s help to treat his injuries, and swore to take responsibility if he reached Spirit Transformation.
• Martial Uncle Ma agreed to keep supplying Wang Ba with spirit grain bran, while Cui Daqi voiced doubt that Wang Ba could reach Spirit Transformation.
• Yao Wudi learned that the Primordial Demon Sect’s First Holy Son was among those he had killed, just as the sect summoned its Nascent Soul cultivators to Pure Yang Palace.
• Shao Yangzi told the assembly that a great flood would drive cultivators from three submerged regions toward Wind-Approaching Continent, and that the Myriad Phenomena Sect would handle the Ashina Tribe.
• Shao Yangzi identified Yao Wudi as the killer of the Demon Sect’s Holy Sons and protectors, praised his role in bringing the Demon Sect into an alliance, and assigned him to fight the Ashina Tribe in the West Sea Kingdom.

Yao Wudi prepared Wang Ba to continue the Myriad Laws Unitary Intent Art before leaving for the escalating conflict in West Sea Kingdom, spending all his merit points on cultivation resources and a sixth essence. The chapter ended with Wang Ba asking whether Yao Wudi planned to return.

• Shao Yangzi assigned Yao Wudi to accompany Guan Ao to West Sea Kingdom, while the Second Elder questioned the decision and Shao Yangzi said he wanted Seng Wangxin to temper Yao Wudi.
• Yao Wudi collected merit points and exchanged his savings and spoils for resources to restore his Ten Thousand Laws Divine Patterns, then spent everything on materials and a cultivation method for Wang Ba.
• Wang Ba learned to prepare large batches of plant-based Spirit Cuisine as the sect increased supplies for the fighting in West Sea Kingdom.
• Yao Wudi returned to Myriad Laws Peak, shared a meal with Wang Ba and Bu Chan, and gave Wang Ba resources for cultivating the Five Elements Dao to Gold Core.
• Yao Wudi told Wang Ba that his sixth essence would be wind and provided the Sixfold Wind-Riding Art and its cultivation resources.
• Wang Ba asked Yao Wudi whether he was planning not to return from West Sea Kingdom.

Wang Ba learned that Yao Wudi had little time left and was injured, then tried to find a way to help him recover and reach Spirit Transformation. Yao Wudi arranged for Ling Weizi to teach Wang Ba the Azure Emperor Seed-God Mantra, and the chapter ended with Wang Ba planning new spirit-beast recipes and considering the coming hatch of three eggs.

• Yao Wudi told Wang Ba he would leave for the West Sea Kingdom within two months and might not return if he failed to reach Spirit Transformation.
• Wang Ba visited the Myriad Phenomena Treasure Vault seeking lifespan-extending treasures for Yao Wudi, but the Qingyi Daoist explained that Yao Wudi had already exhausted those options and was injured.
• The Qingyi Daoist showed Wang Ba the Illusory-Aspect Tortoise-Head Inkstone, which could heal Yao Wudi but cost twenty thousand merit points, prompting Wang Ba to seek help from Gu Wen.
• Yao Wudi took Wang Ba to Greenwood Peak, where he offered to teach Ling Weizi the Divine Ability Life of All Things in exchange for Ling Weizi teaching Wang Ba the Azure Emperor Seed-God Mantra and supporting his cultivation for ten years.
• Yao Wudi told Wang Ba they would visit Thick Earth Peak the next day, and Wang Ba wrote spirit-turtle and spirit-chicken essence recipes before wondering whether Jia Ten Five and Jia Ten Six's three eggs would soon hatch.

Wang Ba tended his newly hatched spirit beasts, sought instruction from Thick Earth Peak’s Hu Zaixi, and negotiated to sell Spirit Chicken Essence while preparing to submit his Azurewater Spirit Turtles to the sect. As Yao Wudi departed for the West Sea Kingdom with the sect’s expedition, Wang Ba and Bu Chan gave him a storage bag whose contents surprised him.

• Wang Ba found that the Ghost-Patterned Stone Dragon Lizard had laid nine viable eggs and set up an array to maintain their hatching conditions.
• Yao Wudi persuaded Hu Zaixi to guide Wang Ba in the True Yang Wu Earth Scripture, while Wang Ba arranged a possible sale of over four thousand portions of Spirit Chicken Essence with Gu Wen.
• Wang Ba discovered that Jia Ten Five and Jia Ten Six’s three chicks had hatched as third-tier Phantom Chickens, cared for his spirit turtles, and asked Qi Yan how to prevent their intelligence from developing.
• Qi Yan recognized the Azurewater Spirit Turtle’s potential, offered to arrange its submission to the sect, and promised Wang Ba a breeding method for producing ferocious turtles; Qi Yan then consulted Du Wei about taking Wang Ba as his disciple.
• After two months, Yao Wudi departed for the West Sea Kingdom with the Myriad Phenomena Sect expedition, leaving Wang Ba and Bu Chan behind with instructions and farewells.
• Aboard the tower ship, Yao Wudi opened the storage bag from Wang Ba and Bu Chan and found an inkstone and a white porcelain bottle.

Yao Wudi received the healing inkstone and another treasure from Wang Ba, while Wang Ba earned additional merit points for his spirit-beast and spirit-cuisine contributions and repaid Patriarch Wuhe. After studying the Ghost-Patterned Stone Dragon Lizards and refining Spirit Turtle Essence for the Spirit Cuisine Department, Wang Ba watched the first egg hatch at dawn.

• Yao Wudi marveled at the Illusory-Aspect Tortoise-Head Inkstone Wang Ba had sent him and was astonished by the contents of a porcelain bottle.
• Song Dongyang approved Wang Ba's Azurewater Spirit Turtle as a restricted sect breed for nine thousand merit points and forwarded Wang Ba's Spirit Turtle Essence recipe for review.
• Qi Yan gave Wang Ba the additional merit points and a book on ferocious beasts, and Wang Ba repaid Patriarch Wuhe the eight thousand points he had borrowed.
• Shao Yangzi told Patriarch Wuhe that he had arranged Wang Ba's loan and repayment to help temper Yao Wudi's state of mind.
• Wang Ba studied the Ghost-Patterned Stone Dragon Lizards, completed his Spirit Cuisine Department quota, and demonstrated his Spirit Turtle Essence recipe to Cui Daqi.
• Two months later, Wang Ba watched a Stone Dragon Lizard egg hatch, and two identical heads emerged from its shell.

Wang Ba discovered that lifespan breakthroughs had caused the Ghost-Patterned Stone Dragon Lizard’s eggs to produce wildly different mutations, most of which died young. As he learned breeding techniques from the Beast Taming Department and accepted Qi Yan’s challenge, he studied the two surviving hatchlings, including a male Hundred-Colored Stone Dragon Lizard, while continuing his research over the next six years.

• Wang Ba hatched nine different Stone Dragon Lizard mutations, found that their lifespans varied greatly, and concluded that lifespan breakthroughs had destabilized their bloodline.
• Wang Ba delivered Azurewater Spirit Turtles to Deacon Yang, learned about breeding environments and selective breeding, and was summoned by Qi Yan.
• Qi Yan challenged Wang Ba and Mo Qi to raise a third-tier high-grade spirit beast within ten years, with the winner receiving Beast Peak’s Bloodline Identification Technique.
• Wang Ba found that most of the mutated hatchlings had died, while the Two-Headed Stone Dragon Lizard and Hundred-Colored Stone Dragon Lizard survived; he later discovered that the Hundred-Colored Stone Dragon Lizard was male.
• Wang Ba tried to mate the Hundred-Colored Stone Dragon Lizard with its mother and the Two-Headed Stone Dragon Lizard, but it showed no interest, and six years passed as he continued cultivating and researching spirit beasts.

Wang Ba worried about his injured master while tending to his Spirit Beasts and completing the first stage of the Myriad Laws Unitary Intent Art. After refining Phoenix Feather Chicken Essence, he brought Cui Daqi to Minister Ma to test its effects, and Minister Ma protested that he was already handsome.

• At Black Tortoise Market, Wang Ba heard Senior Brother Baixiao recount how his master, the peak lord of Myriad Laws Peak, had driven off the Spirit Transformation cultivator Seng Wangxin, and worried about his injuries.
• Wang Ba returned to Myriad Laws Peak, checked his expanding chicken farm, and considered how Phoenix Feather Chickens might supply essence that improved a person's appearance.
• Wang Ba inspected his other Spirit Beasts, then used Yin Spirit Power to teach the Wu Ape King the Ape God Nine Transformations.
• Wang Ba finished converting all the Law Power in his Dantian into Mother Qi of Ten Thousand Arts, completing the first step of the Myriad Laws Unitary Intent Art.
• Wang Ba refined several male Phoenix Feather Chickens and took Cui Daqi to the Spirit Plant Department to test the essence on Minister Ma, who protested that he was already handsome.

Wang Ba gave Ma Shengxu Phoenix Feather Chicken Essence that restored much of his complexion, then sought help understanding why he could not cultivate the True Yang Wu Earth Scripture. As Ma Shengxu went to find Wang Ba for more, he encountered Hu Zaixi and Cui Daqi, whose astonishment at his recovery drew an angry reaction from another cultivator who insulted Yao Wudi.

• Wang Ba persuaded Ma Shengxu to accept Phoenix Feather Chicken Essence and recorded his face as a before-treatment comparison.
• Wang Ba failed to refine Law Power with the True Yang Wu Earth Scripture, decided to seek Hu Zaixi's instruction, and learned Hu Zaixi was away preparing for the Dao-Seeking Assembly.
• Wang Ba found that the Ghost-Patterned Stone Dragon Lizard had laid eight eggs, including one unusually large egg, and moved them for care.
• Wang Ba discovered Yi Three was incubating eggs while Jia Ten Five brooded over her, then inspected the Phoenix Feather Chickens for breeding stock.
• Ma Shengxu saw that the Phoenix Feather Chicken Essence had improved his complexion and flew to Myriad Laws Peak to find Wang Ba.
• Hu Zaixi and Cui Daqi noticed Ma Shengxu's recovery, and Ma Shengxu glared at a cultivator who disparaged Yao Wudi's disciple.

Wang Ba gave Ma Shengxu Phoenix Feather Chicken Essence, refused payment, and received Hu Zaixi’s offer to guide him in the True Yang Wu Earth Scripture. After Ma Shengxu spread word of the essence’s effects, Wang Ba sold his remaining supply and took reservations from many female cultivators, then headed to Thick Earth Peak to meet Hu Zaixi.

• Ma Shengxu defended Wang Ba from Ruan Wei’s insults, then praised the effects of Wang Ba’s Phoenix Feather Chicken Essence and asked whether he could make a third-tier version.
• Wang Ba explained that his Phoenix Feather Chickens had not reached the third tier, gave Ma Shengxu five doses, and refused the five thousand merit points Ma Shengxu offered.
• Hu Zaixi agreed to guide Wang Ba in the True Yang Wu Earth Scripture, and the three Nascent Soul cultivators left for a meeting at Lesser Yin Mountain.
• At Lesser Yin Mountain, Ma Shengxu told Luo Yanshuang and other female cultivators that Wang Ba’s essence restored his appearance, prompting them to seek it out.
• A Cloud Sea Peak cultivator bought Wang Ba’s remaining Phoenix Feather Chicken Essence for 9,800 merit points, and other female cultivators made reservations stretching more than three years into the future.
• After arranging future sales and dining with Bu Chan, Wang Ba went to Thick Earth Peak to meet Hu Zaixi.