Chapter Summaries

Shi Xuan and the others entered the treasure tower’s fourth floor, where mirror attacks and Great Yin Corrosive Water threatened the group as they sought the formation core. After Xuan Yizhen broke the formation, Shi Xuan beat the others to three golden treasure boxes and broke their restrictions to inspect what was inside.

• Hu Shan asked Shi Xuan for Minor Teleportation Talismans in exchange for the Myriad People Prayer Power Umbrella, but refused to hand over the umbrella before they reached the treasure.
• Shi Xuan and the five others formed the Six Harmony Formation to withstand the golden beams fired by the fourth floor’s treasure mirrors.
• The mirrors intensified their attacks, and black Great Yin Corrosive Water began pouring down; Hu Shan absorbed it with her crimson cloud while the group searched for the formation core.
• Xuan Yizhen shattered a treasure mirror, which made the reflected golden beams stronger; Hui Ye and Ruan Xihao vanished amid the attack, while Hu Shan’s Jadeite Shield protected Shi Xuan.
• Xuan Yizhen destroyed the formation, and the surviving cultivators rushed toward the three golden boxes.
• Shi Xuan teleported ahead of the others, broke the boxes’ restrictions with the Heavenly Thunder Demon Subduing Sword, and prepared to see whether they held the Reincarnation Treasure.

Shi Xuan seized the Breath Soil and reached the fifth floor, where he broke through the platform’s restriction and took the Reincarnation Disk. As Xuan Yizhen killed Ghost Cry Venerable in a surprise attack, a black-armored Golden Core ghost creature appeared and vanished with Ghost Cry Venerable’s body.

• Shi Xuan took the Breath Soil while Hu Shan claimed the Heavenly Demon Yin Fire and Lin Shenhe obtained the Nine Tribulations Lightning-Struck Wood.
• Shi Xuan examined the strengthening pagoda restriction, then negotiated with Xuan Yizhen over a possible exchange of the Reincarnation Treasure for the Clear Heart Glazed Lamp.
• On the seventh floor, a figure watched seven people lying in bronze coffins and thought that one more would let the Old Ghost recover part of his remnant soul.
• Shi Xuan and the others found the Reincarnation Disk and Meng Po Talisman on the fifth floor, and Shi Xuan used a Minor Teleportation Talisman to reach the platform.
• Shi Xuan passed through the restriction and took the Reincarnation Disk, prompting Lin Shenhe and Ghost Cry Venerable to attack him.
• Xuan Yizhen struck Ghost Cry Venerable down with a surprise sword attack, but a black-armored Golden Core ghost creature appeared and vanished with him.

Lin Shenhe died after Hu Shan’s Seven Emotions Divine Light overwhelmed him, while Hui Ye claimed the Golden Seal and used the tower’s power to destroy the Golden Core ghost creature. Shi Xuan escaped with the Reincarnation Disk, leaving Xuan Yizhen betrayed and fighting Hu Shan as she tried to break through the tower’s restrictions.

• Hu Shan overwhelmed Lin Shenhe with the Seven Emotions Divine Light, and Lin Shenhe fell and died.
• Hui Ye summoned the Cave Abyss Divine Venerable’s worshippers’ prayers to seize the Golden Seal and take control of the treasure tower.
• Shi Xuan escaped with the Reincarnation Disk as the Magnetic Meridian and Five Ghosts Jade Yin Nail fell dim and damaged.
• Hu Shan used the Seven Emotions Divine Light to delay Xuan Yizhen, seized the Meng Po Talisman, and fled toward the tower wall.
• Old Ghost Xing Zhao escaped through the restrictions after admitting to Xuan Yizhen that he had lied.
• Hui Ye destroyed the Golden Core ghost creature with the tower’s accumulated power, while Hu Shan used a secret treasure to corrode the restrictions and fought off Xuan Yizhen.

Shi Xuan escaped the treasure tower’s attack, while Hu Shan used the Meng Po Talisman to save her soul after the tower killed her body. Xuan Yizhen fled badly wounded and hid in a cave, where Wu Qiang later arrived seeking his dead father’s belongings.

• Shi Xuan used an External Core technique to break the treasure tower’s spatial interference, then teleported away.
• The tower’s golden light struck Hu Shan, and a white-haired old woman carried off her Spirit Soul after Hu Shan activated the Meng Po Talisman.
• Xuan Yizhen used a ninth-tier secret treasure to delay the tower, but the golden light wounded him and damaged the Haoran Sword before he escaped.
• Xuan Yizhen hid in a concealed cave and used a pill, an array disk, and the Turtle Breath Spirit Nourishing Method to recover.
• Wu Qiang entered Black Wind Valley to retrieve his father’s belongings, concealing his father’s death from the cultivators he met.

Wu Qiang entered a cave to recover his father’s belongings and killed the wounded Golden Core Grandmaster Xuan Yizhen, taking his storage bag. Elsewhere, Shi Xuan emerged from a dangerous teleportation near the Moro Association, defeated its seven masked cultivators without his External Core, and realized he had been relying too heavily on its power.

• Wu Qiang overcame his fear of the Breath Concealing Array and entered the cave, where he found the wounded Golden Core Grandmaster Xuan Yizhen asleep.
• Wu Qiang used his father's Divine Mansion Green Lightning talisman to kill Xuan Yizhen, took his storage bag and his father's jade slip, then destroyed the corpse and cave.
• The Moro Association's president offered a reward for assassinating the leaders of Chuanliu City's two major merchant associations, and Tiger accepted the opportunity.
• Shi Xuan emerged from a spatial crack near the seven masked cultivators, whose attacks prompted him to swallow them and their weapons with the Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle.
• Shi Xuan reflected that he must cultivate his own power instead of depending on his damaged External Core, then flew toward the nearby city.

The Tianji Ranking announced the deaths of four Golden Core Grandmasters, including Xuan Yizhen, prompting the Rogue Cultivator Alliance to investigate. Shi Xuan arrived in Tianji City, learned how many had died, and decided to return to the Penglai Sect rather than risk staying.

• Ouyang and Young Master Xuan watched as the Tianji Ranking erased Zou Tai, Lin Shenhe, and Hu Shan, while Ouyang admitted he had met Hu Shan.
• The Tianji Ranking revealed Xuan Yizhen's death, and Young Master Xuan reacted in shock as Ouyang tried to console him.
• Ouyang Tuo used the Round Light Retrocognition Technique, but a golden seal shattered his Clear Light Water Mirror; Wei Cangnan concluded that a Yin Spirit expert had killed Xuan Yizhen and ordered an investigation.
• Shi Xuan entered Tianji City in disguise and learned from a shopkeeper that four Golden Core Grandmasters had died, including Xuan Yizhen.
• Shi Xuan dismissed the shopkeeper's rumor that a ten-thousand-year Corpse King was responsible and left to take the teleportation array back to the Penglai Sect.

Shi Xuan offered the Reincarnation Disk to Penglai Sect in exchange for help obtaining a Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul Heart, and Jiang Yehe secured one for him after discussing the mysteries of the cave abode. After receiving it, Shi Xuan mastered the Lesser Yin Kidney Yin Ice Soul Divine Light, assembling all five Great Divine Abilities.

• Shi Xuan gave Jiang Yehe the Reincarnation Disk and asked him to obtain a Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul Heart after explaining how Guanghan Sect had refused to exchange one fairly.
• Jiang Yehe examined Shi Xuan's account of the cave abode and speculated about Cave Abyss Divine Venerable's remnant souls and the person in the pagoda.
• Half a year later, Yu Ruoshui returned to Penglai Sect, and Shi Xuan learned that she planned to visit her aging parents before pursuing a breakthrough.
• Jiang Yehe sent Shi Xuan the Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul Heart, and Shi Xuan spent the following days practicing swordsmanship with Yu Ruoshui before she departed.
• Shi Xuan cultivated the Lesser Yin Kidney Yin Ice Soul Divine Light successfully and sensed connections forming among the five hidden places in his organs.

After reaching the threshold of Soul and Spirit Merging, Shi Xuan learned that the Lei Mansion Minor World offered a suitable place to temper his body with heavenly lightning. Mo Yuan sent him there to cultivate and familiarize himself with the world, which Shi Xuan would eventually oversee after his master left to pursue the Primordial Spirit.

• Shi Xuan received the Azure Jade Lightning Robe as the sect's reward for his contribution and returned the Reincarnation Disk to him after True Person Jiang's research stalled.
• Shi Xuan told Mo Yuan he was preparing to break through, and Mo Yuan recommended cultivating in the lightning-filled Lei Mansion Minor World.
• Mo Yuan explained that the world held humans and lightning element monsters, produced valuable lightning materials, and was one of four Lesser Thousand Worlds controlled by the sect.
• Mo Yuan told Shi Xuan that he expected to reach the Yin Spirit Stage within twenty or thirty years and would then travel to other Great Thousand Worlds to seek a path to Primordial Spirit.
• Mo Yuan revealed that Shi Xuan would become Tian Ji Peak's chief and control the Lei Mansion World after he left, and showed him its Gate, which Shi Xuan would need to refine.
• Mo Yuan hinted that the Lei Mansion World held another benefit for Shi Xuan's future cultivation but refused to reveal what it was.

Shi Xuan tempered his body with heavenly thunder in the clouds above his secluded temple, where Chi Zhengde and Chi Caibo fled from Dai Shaowu. After the siblings called for help, Shi Xuan revealed himself and confronted Dai Shaowu on Yunxiao Sect’s behalf.

• Shi Xuan flew into a thunderstorm and used its lightning to temper his body.
• Chi Caibo took Yunxiao Sect’s Thunder Light Cone to gather Essence of Lightning, and Chi Zhengde followed to watch over her.
• Dai Shaowu attacked the siblings and pursued them after they escaped with Chi Zhengde’s treasure.
• Chi Zhengde and Chi Caibo fled into the storm and spotted Shi Xuan, who was receiving lightning in the clouds.
• Shi Xuan recognized the siblings as members of a sect supported by his own and asked Dai Shaowu whether he would leave or be sent away.

Shi Xuan killed Dai Shaowu after the latter attacked him, then questioned Chi Zhengde and Chi Caibo about unusual events in the world. The siblings returned to the Yunxiao Sect, where Chi Hou learned that Shi Xuan had killed Dai Shaowu and demanded to hear their full account.

• Dai Shaowu attacked Shi Xuan, who captured his Biling Sword and killed him with the Thunder God Stab.
• Shi Xuan protected Chi Zhengde and Chi Caibo, then asked them about recent strange events, but they knew of nothing relevant.
• Shi Xuan let the siblings return to the Yunxiao Sect and resumed his Heavenly Thunder Body Tempering.
• Chi Caibo and Chi Zhengde tried to return the stolen Thunder Light Cone, but Chi Hou caught them in his meditation chamber.
• Chi Zhengde told Chi Hou that Shi Xuan had killed Dai Shaowu, and Chi Hou demanded that the siblings recount everything that had happened.

After hearing how Chi Caibo and Chi Zhengde had been saved by a mysterious powerhouse, Chi Hou explained the True Immortal Temple and brought them there with Yunxiao Sect’s elders. The five great sects gathered before the temple, whose doors opened after a voice asked whether everyone had arrived.

• Chi Hou learned that a mysterious senior had killed Dai Shaowu and guessed that the senior came from the True Immortal Temple.
• Chi Hou told Chi Caibo and Chi Zhengde about the temple’s exchanges, its varied visitors, and the punishment of the Night God Gate’s Sect Master.
• Chi Hou and Yi Fulang took the siblings north across the ice plains, and they reached the mountain where the True Immortal Temple stood.
• Chi Caibo and Chi Zhengde met elders from the other great sects, who accepted their presence after hearing they had ties to a temple senior.
• A voice from inside the temple asked whether everyone had arrived, and its wooden doors opened.

Shi Xuan destroyed Thunder God Palace’s invading forces to protect True Immortal Temple, then learned from Chi Hou about unusual changes in the world’s laws. He refused to accept Chi Hou’s children as disciples but agreed to guide their cultivation for fifteen years.

• The five sects exchanged their collected materials with Shi Xuan, and Lin Hanrong warned him that Thunder God Palace had captured the Night God Gate elder who knew True Immortal Temple’s location.
• Thunder God Palace arrived with a united army of monsters, intending to destroy True Immortal Temple and prevent humans from cultivating experts.
• Shi Xuan used the Heavenly Thunder Demon Subduing Sword to split the thundercloud and devastate Thunder God Palace, forcing the surviving monsters to flee.
• Shi Xuan asked the sect leaders about strange phenomena, and Chi Hou described changes in the stars and the Endless Void that revealed the world’s laws were still forming.
• Chi Hou asked Shi Xuan to accept Chi Zhengde and Chi Caibo as disciples, but Shi Xuan instead offered to answer their cultivation questions on the first day of the first and seventh months for fifteen years.

Shi Xuan taught Chi Caibo and Chi Zhengde, two talented Yunxiao Sect juniors, and considered whether they might one day join the Penglai Sect. He then witnessed the creation of the Lesser Thousand World’s land and returned toward the temple to meet the siblings again six months later.

• Shi Xuan invited Chi Caibo and Chi Zhengde into True Immortal Temple, answered their cultivation and sword-art questions, and promised to teach them again in half a year if they made progress.
• Yi Fulang rejoiced at the Yunxiao Sect’s promising juniors, while Chi Hou worried that his children might compete with their gifted eldest brother.
• After the Yunxiao Sect party left, Shi Xuan sent gathered materials to the Penglai Sect and flew to the edge of the land.
• Shi Xuan used the Taiji Diagram to witness how laws, elements, lightning, and life formed as the Lesser Thousand World expanded into the void.
• After five months of observing creation, Shi Xuan reflected on what he had learned and headed back toward the small Taoist temple.

Shi Xuan returned to True Immortal Temple after experiencing the mysteries of Creation, astonishing the waiting cultivators with the aura he revealed. Half a year later, he began merging the Seven Po Souls with his Spirit Soul and completed the initial merger of the Central Soul.

• The sect leaders waited anxiously for True Immortal Temple to open until Shi Xuan returned and greeted them.
• The cultivators felt a natural reverence before Shi Xuan, who explained their reaction as an effect of his immersion in the mysteries of Creation.
• Shi Xuan exchanged materials with the sect leaders and gave guidance to Chi Caibo and Chi Zhengde before sending them away.
• Chi Hou asked Yi Fulang whether Shi Xuan had reached Unity of Heaven and Man, and Yi Fulang agreed that he likely had.
• Half a year later, Shi Xuan extracted the Central Soul amid thunderclouds and began merging it with his Spirit Soul.
• After half a month, the Central Soul initially merged with Shi Xuan's Spirit Soul, and he headed toward the small temple.

Shi Xuan returned to True Immortal Temple after twenty days away and found Chi Caibo and Chi Zhengde hungry after they had misjudged their food supply. Fifteen years later, he completed the final fusion of his Po Soul and brought his Spirit Soul to the threshold of perfection.

• Duan Fei exchanged goods with the five sects’ cultivators, who asked him to thank Shi Xuan for revealing the aura of Unity of Heaven and Man.
• Chi Caibo and Chi Zhengde stayed at True Immortal Temple, realized their food would not last a month, and rationed it rather than risk missing Shi Xuan’s return.
• Shi Xuan returned after twenty days, advised the starving siblings to prepare better, and sent them back to cultivate with the food they had left.
• Yi Fulang and Chi Hou arrived ten days later and learned why the siblings looked so unwell.
• Fifteen years later, Shi Xuan fused the last trace of his Po Soul into his Spirit Soul, reaching the critical point of Spirit Soul perfected.

After reaching Spirit Soul perfection, Shi Xuan returned to the True Immortal Temple and demonstrated the Creation-like state of mind that cultivators had hoped to see again. He then summoned Chi Caibo and Chi Zhengde to a quiet chamber and began asking them a serious question.

• Shi Xuan spent fifteen years cultivating and refining his magic tools, and he reached Spirit Soul perfection a few days before the temple gathering.
• The gathered sect elders asked Shi Xuan to display Unity of Heaven and Man again, explaining that his earlier display had helped several cultivators make progress.
• Shi Xuan entered the state of mind, and the cultivators were moved by the visions of the ordinary workings of Heaven and Earth before he ended the display.
• The cultivators bowed in thanks and left materials; Shi Xuan exchanged items of equal value for Spirit Stones and obtained eight Upper-grade Spirit Stones.
• Shi Xuan led Chi Caibo and Chi Zhengde into a quiet chamber, answered their questions, and told them to consider their hearts carefully before responding to something he wished to ask.

Shi Xuan invited Chi Caibo and Chi Zhengde to leave the Lei Mansion World and seek entry into his sect, and they chose the dangerous path of cultivation despite the long separation from their family. After bringing them to the sect, Shi Xuan learned that Xie Fangwei had formed a high-grade Golden Core and would become chief of the Discipline Hall.

• Shi Xuan warned Chi Caibo and Chi Zhengde about the dangers of the sect, the disciple recruitment ceremony, and their likely separation from family, then asked whether they would follow him.
• Chi Caibo and Chi Zhengde chose to follow Shi Xuan to the Immortal Realm and briefly said farewell to their father, Chi Hou, and Yi Fulang.
• Shi Xuan opened a lightning doorway, led the siblings through it, and instructed them not to reveal that he had displayed the realm of Unity of Heaven and Man.
• At Mo Yuan's cave dwelling, Mo Yuan assigned a daoist child to take the siblings to Kaiyang Peak and explain the upcoming recruitment ceremony and the worlds of the sect.
• Mo Yuan told Shi Xuan that Xie Fangwei had achieved a high-grade Golden Core, emerged from seclusion, and would become chief of the Discipline Hall as Martial Uncle Yong prepared to leave for the Big Dipper Great World.

Shi Xuan demonstrated the aura of Creation he had sensed to Mo Yuan, giving his master new confidence in achieving Primordial Spirit. Mo Yuan advised Shi Xuan on the difficult path to high-grade Golden Core, and Shi Xuan returned to his cave abode with a rare opportunity to contemplate Creation.

• Shi Xuan and Mo Yuan discussed the departures and changing roles of cultivators in the Penglai Sect, and Mo Yuan revealed that he had risen to first place on the Tianji Ranking.
• Shi Xuan told Mo Yuan that he had sensed an aura of Creation at the edge of the Endless Void and demonstrated the state of mind to him.
• Mo Yuan comprehended the mysteries of Creation through Shi Xuan's demonstration, then thanked him and said the experience had increased his confidence in achieving Primordial Spirit.
• Mo Yuan warned Shi Xuan not to panic if advancing to Golden Core took decades, and explained that other cultivators' realizations could hinder Shi Xuan unless his own accumulation was deep.
• Mo Yuan said Shi Xuan's aura was almost on the level of a Celestial Immortal opening a Lesser Thousand World and urged him to contemplate it often.
• Shi Xuan asked Mo Yuan further questions and then returned to his cave abode.

Chi Caibo and Chi Zhengde settled into Penglai Sect and misunderstood Shi Xuan’s cultivation, believing he was a hidden Heavenly Being. After returning from seclusion, Shi Xuan reviewed messages from fellow disciples and reunited with Xie Fangwei, who had achieved a high-grade Golden Core.

• Cangwu explained the Great Thousand World’s cultivation realms and said Shi Xuan was at the Spirit Soul Stage, leaving Chi Caibo and Chi Zhengde convinced that Shi Xuan had concealed his true cultivation.
• Chi Caibo and Chi Zhengde decided that Shi Xuan was secretly a Heavenly Being or was cultivating from the beginning again, then settled into a cave dwelling on Kaiyang Peak.
• Shi Xuan returned to his cave dwelling and read years of messages, including cultivation exchanges from Zhou Dielan and Yu Ruoshui and expired challenges and invitations.
• Shi Xuan flew to Tian Shu Peak to ask the External Affairs Hall to seek heavenly-treasure-level materials at underground auctions in the Western Wilderness.
• Xie Fangwei greeted Shi Xuan on Tian Shu Peak, and Shi Xuan congratulated him on achieving a high-grade Golden Core.

Shi Xuan heard Xie Fangwei’s hard-won advice about persevering toward a high-grade Golden Core and learned that he might soon lead Tian Ji Peak despite pressure from more experienced peers. Two years later, he received news that rare Phoenix Blood could appear at an underground auction in the Western Wilderness, giving him a chance to pursue a crucial treasure.

• Xie Fangwei told Shi Xuan about the decades of frustration he endured before achieving a high-grade Golden Core and urged him to persevere and remain steadfast.
• Xie Fangwei explained that Shi Xuan might have to relinquish leadership of Tian Ji Peak if a more experienced cultivator achieved Golden Core first, and advised him to keep an ordinary heart.
• Shi Xuan left Xie Fangwei and went to the External Affairs Hall after arranging to seek his guidance again.
• Two years later, Zhao Feng'an told Shi Xuan that Phoenix Blood, Intangible Divine Iron, and other rare items might appear at an underground auction in the Western Wilderness.
• Shi Xuan learned that Penglai Sect had received three Special Tokens for the auction and dismissed Zhao Feng'an with a reward.