Chapter Summaries

Wang Ba prepared to leave the Heavenly Gate Sect for the forced mission to investigate Meng Xing Village, accepting Bu Chan’s old storage ring and examining the inheritance and keepsakes inside. He assembled his strongest defenses and bought the Golden Wind Swift Arrow Technique, then returned to the Chicken Farm and recognized Dong Qiyu.

• Bu Chan entrusted her great-grandmother’s storage ring to Wang Ba as she prepared to join the mission to investigate Meng Xing Village.
• Wang Ba discovered the ring held Bu Chan’s cultivation resources and the Origin Wood True Method, then resolved to honor her trust while following his own choice.
• Wang Ba took stock of his combat resources, bound a male Azurewater Spirit Turtle, and packed additional suitable turtles as backups.
• At the crowded Market, Wang Ba bought the Golden Wind Swift Arrow Technique, several support techniques, and golden sand iron needed to practice it.
• After returning to the Chicken Farm, Wang Ba recognized the unfamiliar visitor as Dong Qiyu.

Wang Ba sold Dong Qiyu a thousand Spirit Chickens, used the payment to stock up on supplies, and prepared for the mission to Meng Xing Village with Bu Chan. After Bu Chan confessed her feelings, Wang Ba began practicing spell techniques and discovered his lifespan panel could accelerate the refinement required by one of them.

• Dong Qiyu offered four Spirit Stones each for a thousand Spirit Chickens, and Wang Ba accepted the sale and received a Voice Transmission Talisman for future dealings.
• Wang Ba spent some of the proceeds on practical spell techniques and healing medicine before returning to the Chicken Farm.
• Bu Chan confronted Wang Ba about accepting the mission with her, confessed that she wanted to be his dao companion, and urged him to focus on the dangers ahead.
• Wang Ba gave Bu Chan a Storage Bag filled with protective gear and a Spirit Beast Bag containing Jia Twelve and a female Azurewater Spirit Turtle.
• Wang Ba tried to practice the Golden Wind Swift Arrow Technique, realized it suited Metal Spiritual Root cultivators rather than him, and found that his lifespan panel could refine its golden sand iron using 1.5 years of lifespan.

Wang Ba spent lifespan to master seven spells, gaining new combat abilities before setting out with Bu Chan on a mission to Meng Xing Village. He concealed his strength from their three companions and planned to use Bu Chan as a decoy while he stayed in the background.

• Wang Ba reviewed his spell manuals, used his lifespan to learn seven spells, and tested the Divine Fire Technique and his other new abilities.
• Senior Brother Huo waited at the garrison checkpoint with Junior Brother Pan and a middle-aged woman for the two remaining members of their mission party.
• Wang Ba and Bu Chan arrived late, and Junior Brother Pan challenged them to accept a smaller share of credit for the mission.
• Bu Chan calmly rejected Pan's demand, introduced herself and Wang Ba, and agreed with Senior Brother Huo to discuss their abilities on the way to Meng Xing Village.
• Wang Ba privately praised Bu Chan and explained that he planned to keep the companions focused on her while he concealed his own strength.

Wang Ba and Bu Chan investigated Meng Xing Village for Incense Dao followers, but discovered that the village’s mortals had all been infiltrated. As fanatical believers attacked them, Wang Ba prepared to fight with his Law Artifacts and Spirit Beasts.

• Huo proposed that the five cultivators pose as a merchant caravan and quietly investigate Meng Xing Village, and Pan procured mortal clothes after killing someone.
• The group entered the town at dawn and split up to search, while Huo rejected Pan’s plan to sacrifice the entire village.
• Wang Ba reunited with Bu Chan and realized the Incense Dao’s complete absence from the bustling town was suspicious, leading them to suspect the village head was concealing the believers.
• A battle erupted near the northeastern corner, and the townspeople abruptly turned hostile as uncanny figures emerged throughout Meng Xing Village.
• Fanatical Incense Dao believers rushed Wang Ba and Bu Chan, so Wang Ba activated his defenses and summoned Jia Seven, several Spirit Chickens, and Azurewater Spirit Turtles.

Wang Ba and Bu Chan joined Huo, Madam Xue, and Pan Long after the Incense Dao zealots withdrew from Meng Xing Village. Huo proposed sacrificing the village’s believers to make Blood Law Pills, but secretly planned to lure Wang Ba and Bu Chan into the formation and sacrifice them too.

• Jia Thirteen and the Azurewater Spirit Turtles defeated the zealots attacking Wang Ba and Bu Chan, and the pair hurried to meet the others.
• Huo, Madam Xue, and Pan Long killed an Incense Dao cultivator while dozens of zealots surrounded them; the zealots withdrew before Wang Ba and Bu Chan arrived.
• Pan Long suggested sacrificing the village’s believers, and Huo agreed, claiming their deaths could produce powerful Blood Law Pills.
• Huo made the five cultivators sign a declaration identifying the villagers as Incense Dao believers, then gave Wang Ba and Bu Chan instructions to place formation flags in the south.
• After Wang Ba and Bu Chan left, Huo revealed that he intended to activate the formation and sacrifice them along with the villagers for a greater share of the rewards.

Huo and his companions activated a Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation over more than half of Meng Xing Village, killing its Incense Dao believers and creating two supreme-grade Blood Law Pills. The impostor posing as Pan Long murdered Huo and Madam Xue to seize the pills, but a hidden cultivator’s Spirit Beasts intercepted him and revealed that the cultivator was nearby.

• Huo, Madam Xue, and Pan Long set up a Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation, while Pan Long secretly buried a blood-red corpse.
• The three activated the formation over more than half of Meng Xing Village after discovering that Bu and her companion had left the southern area uncovered.
• The formation drained the village’s believers and produced two supreme-grade Blood Law Pills.
• The impostor posing as Pan Long stabbed Huo, killed Madam Xue, and stole their belongings before claiming the pills for himself.
• A group of Spirit Beasts stopped the impostor from taking the pills, and their hidden master ordered Thirteen to knock him unconscious.

Wang Ba and Bu Chan captured the impostor Pan Long and learned through soul-searching that he was Ji Lin, an Incense Dao cultivator pursuing the Yin Spirit Great Dream Scripture. Ji Lin revealed the Yin God lineage’s history and the location of a related technique, leaving Wang Ba with a new lead in Water-Controlling City.

• Wang Ba and Bu Chan emerged from hiding after Jia Thirteen froze and knocked out the impostor Pan Long.
• Wang Ba used silver needles and Law Power to search the captive’s soul, learning that his name was Ji Lin and that he came from the Myriad Gods Kingdom.
• Ji Lin explained that he had impersonated Pan Long to escape the dying Yin God lineage and had planned to kill his companions and conceal his identity with Meng Xing Village’s blood sacrifice.
• Wang Ba learned that the Yin God lineage sought Sun Yan’s copy of the Yin Spirit Great Dream Scripture, which was connected to the scripture Wang Ba had obtained from Old Sun.
• Ji Lin revealed that a Foundation Establishment cultivator in Water-Controlling City possessed the Divine Dream Technique, a powerful technique associated with the Yin Spirit Great Dream Scripture.

Wang Ba returned from completing his mission at Meng Xing Village, resisted detouring to Water-Controlling City for the Divine Dream Technique, and found the Heavenly Gate Sect barring Heterodox Dao cultivators from entering the garrison. Bai Yu secured Wang Ba and Bu Chan entry, then summoned Wang Ba to accompany him on a trip to find Spirit Chickens.

• Wang Ba decided not to pursue the Divine Dream Technique at Water-Controlling City and returned with Bu Chan after confirming their mission was complete.
• Wang Ba and Bu Chan found the Eastern Saint Garrison checkpoint closed to Heterodox Dao cultivators, and Foundation Establishment cultivator Chai Lu violently enforced the restriction.
• Bai Yu recognized Wang Ba, persuaded Chai Lu to let Wang Ba and Bu Chan enter the garrison, and learned that they had killed two Incense Dao cultivators.
• Bai Yu asked Wang Ba to accompany him and help identify Spirit Chickens, so Wang Ba gave Bu Chan the mission evidence and entrusted her with his Spirit Beast Bag.
• Wang Ba left the checkpoint with Bai Yu aboard a White Bone Skiff.

Wang Ba watched the battle for Water-Controlling City from Bai Yu’s White Bone Skiff as Heavenly Gate Sect cultivators fought the Incense Dao and the Eastern Saint Sect. The Heavenly Gate Sect trapped the combatants in a second-order Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation, but the arrival of the Heartless Baleful Woman left the danger unresolved.

• Wang Ba saw twelve Heavenly Gate Sect cultivators battling eight Incense Dao cultivators in Water-Controlling City, while Bai Yu watched without intervening.
• An Incense Dao cultivator’s death unleashed Yin Ghosts that damaged the Heavenly Gate Sect cultivators’ Divine Souls, but the sect’s fighters killed three more Incense Dao cultivators and forced the red-haired cultivator to use a Yin Ghost to escape.
• Eight Eastern Saint Sect cultivators arrived and killed four Heavenly Gate Sect cultivators, joining the Incense Dao side against the remaining seven.
• Bai Yu continued waiting while Heavenly Gate Sect Qi Refining cultivators secretly set formation flags around the city, then activated a second-order Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation that trapped everyone inside.
• The red-haired cultivator and the Eastern Saint Sect disciples failed to break through the blood curtain, while Wang Ba saw Bai Yu focus on a distant figure who was identified as the Heartless Baleful Woman.

Ye Lingyu broke the siege of Water-Controlling City, defeated Bai Yu, and was wounded by a Gold Core True Person before five Gold Core beings ambushed and killed him. Wang Ba fled the battle but, after exhausting his Law Power, landed on a hillside and came face-to-face with three Foundation Establishment cultivators.

• Wang Ba recognized Ye Lingyu as she arrived at Water-Controlling City, and Bai Yu vanished from the White Bone Skiff to confront her.
• Ye Lingyu destroyed the Formation Flags with sword-rays, removed the blood-colored barrier, and killed a Heavenly Gate Sect Foundation Establishment cultivator.
• Bai Yu trapped Ye Lingyu in a gigantic skeletal hand, but she shattered it with Question Evil and struck Bai Yu down as he fled.
• A Gold Core True Person attacked Ye Lingyu and wounded her, but five Gold Core beings emerged from ripples and killed him before he could seize her sword.
• Wang Ba fled on a flying Law Artifact, exhausted his Law Power, and landed on a hillside where he found the red-haired cultivator and two other Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Wang Ba reunited with the badly injured Ye Lingyu as the Eastern Saint Sect and Heavenly Gate Sect clashed, while a Nascent Soul True Lord’s arrival heightened the danger. When Zhang Can attacked Wang Ba to seize the Yin Spirit Great Dream Scripture, Wang Ba’s spirit creatures fought back, and he survived a strike through the heart before fleeing.

• Wang Ba identified himself as an Eastern Saint Sect disciple as Ji Lan and the sect’s elders attacked the Heavenly Gate Sect near Water-Controlling City.
• Ye Lingyu crash-landed near Wang Ba and the Incense Dao cultivators, and she recognized him as her uncle.
• Ning Daohuan’s overwhelming Nascent Soul presence emerged, prompting the red-haired cultivator to attack Ye Lingyu and order Zhang Can to kill Wang Ba.
• Zhang Can’s Yin Ghost broke free and rushed toward Wang Ba, but Wang Ba’s black Spirit Chicken attacked it and his azure turtle blocked Zhang Can’s Darkgold Awl.
• Zhang Can’s Darkgold Awl pierced Wang Ba’s heart, but Wang Ba pulled it out unharmed, swallowed two blood-red pills, and fled.

Zhao Feng returned as a powerful remnant soul and killed the Red-Haired Cultivator and Gao Yong, then explained to Wang Ba how the Soul-Nourishing Pearl had restored him. After learning about the changes since his death, Zhao Feng prepared to leave, but Ye Lingyu accused him of taking a veiled jab at the Third-Tier Ritual Sword.

• Zhang Can used his Divine Soul power to immobilize Wang Ba, but Zhao Feng appeared and killed him with a sword strike.
• Zhao Feng killed the fleeing Red-Haired Cultivator and Gao Yong, then gave their Storage Bags to Wang Ba.
• Zhao Feng told Wang Ba that the Soul-Nourishing Pearl and Wang Ba’s stored Law Power had helped restore his remnant soul and strengthen him.
• Zhao Feng explained how Master had placed his Clear-Sight Sword Heart and part of his Divine Soul in the Soul-Nourishing Pearl, and how he had relied on Wang Ba after the Heavenly Gate Sect attacked.
• After Wang Ba described events since Zhao Feng’s death, Zhao Feng said he would leave to focus on cultivation and promised to seek a way to resolve Wang Ba’s Divine Soul signature problem.
• Ye Lingyu opened her eyes and angrily asked Zhao Feng whether he was taking a veiled jab at the Third-Tier Ritual Sword.

Zhao Feng confronted his master, Qin Heng, who was possessing Ye Lingyu, while the Eastern Saint Sect's conflict with the Heavenly Gate Sect nearly erupted into a wider battle. After the threat passed, Zhao Feng encouraged Wang Ba to endure his hidden life in the Heavenly Gate Sect and gave him a Jade Pendant containing a powerful sword strike.

• Zhao Feng challenged Qin Heng's intentions and explained that his own Dao differed from his master's, while Qin Heng asked him to return to the Eastern Saint Sect.
• A clash at Water-Controlling City drew Ning Daohuan into confrontation with Ji Lan, but Pang Xiao and more than twenty Gold Core cultivators forced Ning to withdraw his forces.
• Qin Heng threatened to kill Wang Ba for knowing his secret, but Zhao Feng stood between them, and Qin Heng left after demanding that Wang Ba keep silent.
• Zhao Feng taught Wang Ba to lie low until he could seize his chance, helping Wang Ba regain his resolve and sense his Divine Soul's location.
• Zhao Feng infused a Jade Pendant with a one-use Sword Qi strike, exchanged contact details with Wang Ba, and departed with the Soul-Nourishing Pearl.
• Wang Ba gathered the Incense Dao cultivators' Storage Bags and corpses and headed back to the Heavenly Gate Sect, while Ye Lingyu's possessed body wondered why she was there.

Wang Ba returned to the Chicken Farm, reunited with Bu Chan, and spent the next morning examining the Storage Bags taken from the Incense Dao cultivators Zhao Feng had slain. His haul included Spirit Stones, Divine Essence Dew, and a Golden Paper rubbing of the Divine Dream Technique.

• Bu Chan worried over Wang Ba's absence and turned away Dong Qiyu when he came seeking more Spirit Chickens.
• Wang Ba returned and told Dong Qiyu he could not sell any more Spirit Chickens for the foreseeable future.
• Bu Chan embraced Wang Ba, and the two spent the night together.
• The next morning, Wang Ba inspected the cultivators' Storage Bags and found Yin God techniques, Divine Essence Dew, a soul-affecting drum, Law Artifacts, and a large quantity of Spirit Stones.
• Wang Ba found the Divine Dream Technique among the Golden Paper rubbings in the Red-Haired Cultivator's Storage Bag.

Wang Ba mastered the Divine Dream Technique’s first realm and confirmed that Bu Chan’s mission had been completed. At the Eastern Saint Garrison, Ning Daohuan learned the history behind Ji Lan’s Spirit Chicken, ordered a search for suitable chickens, and put plans against the Mountain-Sea Sect on hold after hearing that the West Sea Kingdom had been destroyed.

• Wang Ba studied the Divine Dream Technique, spent 17.8 years of lifespan to master Mortal Perception, and saw that Bu Chan had earned five hundred merit points for her mission.
• Wang Ba watched Bu Chan pick fruit in the Spirit Fields.
• Ning Daohuan questioned Lu Yuansheng about the Spirit Chicken that had provoked Fanming into a rampage.
• Lu Yuansheng explained that Daoist Jiao Hu had bred Spirit Chickens in an attempt to borrow Fanming’s power, and Ning Daohuan ordered him to seek high-class chickens and make a captive cultivator breed them.
• Ning Daohuan halted preparations against the Mountain-Sea Sect after learning that cultivators from another continent had destroyed the West Sea Kingdom, then looked west and murmured, “Spirit Transformation...”

Wang Ba received a summons from Lu Yuansheng to join a selection of spirit-beast breeders, but Lu Yuansheng dismissed him after hearing he raised only Middle-Grade spirit chickens. When Lu Yuansheng learned Wang Ba had once helped his late brother Lu Yuanfeng, he unexpectedly told Wang Ba to go back.

• Wang Ba refined Divine Essence Dew and continued cultivating until two Voice Transmission Talismans arrived, one announcing Shen Fu's return and the other summoning him to meet Lu Yuansheng.
• Wang Ba went to Blood Bone Hall, where he saw Bai Yu badly injured but alive, then followed him and other spirit-beast breeders to meet Lu Yuansheng.
• Lu Yuansheng questioned the breeders about their specialties and selected several, while Wang Ba said he raised spirit chickens and had bred only Middle-Grade ones.
• Bai Yu reminded Lu Yuansheng that Wang Ba bred chickens quickly, prompting Lu Yuansheng to recognize him as the former chicken keeper at Dingbaqi Manor.
• Lu Yuansheng told Wang Ba that his late seventh brother, Lu Yuanfeng, had asked him to look after Wang Ba, then ordered Wang Ba to go back.

Lu Yuansheng rejected Wang Ba as a Spirit Beast candidate and imposed an impossible breeding deadline, while Wang Ba returned to the Chicken Farm and reunited with Shen Fu. Shen Fu left to improve his strength, carrying Wang Ba’s gifts and a Foundation Establishment Pill; an uncanny voice identified the hidden power of the treasures Wang Ba had given him.

• Lu Yuansheng admitted he was deliberately cold to Wang Ba and told Bai Yu to warn him that he had five years to breed a supreme-grade Spirit Chicken or be sent to his death.
• Wang Ba felt relieved to be excluded from Lu Yuansheng’s candidates, then returned to the Chicken Farm with food and wine for Shen Fu and Bu Chan.
• Wang Ba and Bu Chan told Shen Fu they planned to become dao companions, and the three shared a meal and drinks.
• Shen Fu gave Wang Ba a Foundation Establishment Pill, but Wang Ba returned it after learning Shen Fu had advanced to the Qi Refining seventh layer through a Demonic Dao method; Shen Fu then said he would leave for several years.
• Wang Ba gave Shen Fu Spirit Chicken Essence, Divine Essence Dew, a concealed second-tier supreme-grade Law Artifact, and a flying Law Artifact before Shen Fu departed.
• As Shen Fu headed toward Emerald Foothill Mountain, the uncanny voice examined Wang Ba’s gifts and marveled at the hidden sword’s power and Wang Ba’s generosity.

Wang Ba and Bu Chan reorganized the Chicken Farm and planned spirit fields to secure food for their chickens. Bai Yu then delivered Steward Lu’s demand that Wang Ba breed a first-tier supreme-grade Spirit Chicken within five years, leaving Wang Ba with books and contacts to help fulfill the task.

• Bu Chan proposed opening spirit fields to grow spirit rice and other crops for cultivation and chicken feed, and Wang Ba agreed to wait until he could use the Teleportation Array to seek high-grade seeds.
• Bu Chan directed the Human Puppet to prepare a spirit field and reorganized the Chicken Farm, giving the grounds and cabin a fresh look.
• Bai Yu told Wang Ba that Steward Lu required him to breed a first-tier supreme-grade Spirit Chicken within five years and warned that failure could endanger his life.
• Wang Ba suggested raising a high-grade Spirit Chicken to supreme grade, and Bai Yu agreed to vouch for him if he succeeded.
• Bai Yu took Wang Ba to the sect’s book collection, where Wang Ba borrowed texts on spirit beast breeding and received Voice Transmission Talismans for spirit-field cultivators who might supply chicken feed.
• Wang Ba began studying the breeding texts, and the day he could use the Teleportation Array arrived.

Wang Ba and Bu Chan searched Tao Sound Market for supplies, where Wang Ba bought a Mountain-Moving Ape and arranged a steady trade for second-tier spirit bran. After returning to the Chicken Farm and acquiring a Spirit Gourd Vine, Wang Ba received an invitation to the Foundation Establishment banquet of a cultivator surnamed Yan.

• Wang Ba and Bu Chan visited Tao Sound Market, where Bu Chan bought first-tier supreme-grade spirit rice seeds and Wang Ba purchased several Shield-Armored Giant-Headed Turtles.
• Wang Ba bought the unsold Mountain-Moving Ape for sixty middle-grade Spirit Stones after learning that it risked dying in a Minor Heavenly Thunder Tribulation.
• Wang Ba negotiated a monthly barter with Zhang Qingniu, exchanging spirit chickens for second-tier spirit grain bran and spirit wheat bran.
• Wang Ba bought Zhang Qingniu's second-tier Spirit Gourd Vine and learned that second-tier spirit rice seeds required specialized cultivation methods.
• Bu Chan planted the Spirit Gourd Vine and rice seeds at the Chicken Farm while Wang Ba let the Mountain-Moving Ape roam and continued cultivating.
• Wang Ba received a Voice Transmission Talisman inviting him to the Foundation Establishment banquet of a cultivator surnamed Yan.

Wang Ba attended a banquet celebrating the cultivator surnamed Yan’s Foundation Establishment and learned how the man had gained his breakthrough. After seeing the status gap between Foundation Establishment cultivators and others, Wang Ba left more determined to reach Foundation Establishment himself.

• Wang Ba accepted the cultivator surnamed Yan’s invitation and brought him a pair of First Tier Middle Grade Yellow-Throated Spirit Turtles as a congratulatory gift.
• The cultivator surnamed Yan told Wang Ba that he had earned a Foundation Establishment Pill after placing third in the Legacy Spirit Talisman Competition, and warned him that the competition’s Legacy Spirit Talisman concealed a Gold Core Elder’s Divine Soul.
• Wang Ba watched Meng Randao struggle to fit in among Foundation Establishment guests, while Jing Kuang was rebuffed and Dong Qiyu was welcomed to their table.
• A Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivator from the Profound Talisman Dao arrived, and Wang Ba later left the banquet resolved to reach Foundation Establishment.