Chapter Summaries

Shi Xuan passed the spellcasting examinations and deceived the Imperial Great Formation into granting him a Green Spellcasting License. With his license secured and unsure where to find a path toward a Primordial Spirit opportunity, he accepted Xiao Cangtian’s offer to teach a young relative at General Lin Yuan’s Mansion.

• Shi Xuan passed the examinations, and Xiao Cangtian and Xu Zhang verified his identity before approving his license.
• Shi Xuan used the green emblem to connect to the Imperial Great Formation, secretly imprinted its purple band, and completed the green registration without triggering an alarm.
• Xiao Cangtian explained the license’s limits, and Shi Xuan confirmed he could use spells and magic tools within its permissions.
• Xiao Cangtian offered Shi Xuan a daily teaching position with his six-year-old relative at General Lin Yuan’s Mansion.
• Shi Xuan agreed to teach the child and arranged to visit in three days.

Shi Xuan fused the green Spellcasting License emblem with a purple mark to create a Purple Jade Emblem that let him draw on the Imperial Great Formation without detection. He began teaching Xiao Yingyu at the General's Mansion, where he heard that the Primordial Fetus Cult had resumed its crimes in the Imperial Capital.

• Golden Core Grandmasters detected a flash of purple light in the Imperial Palace tower but found no change in the formation restrictions.
• Shi Xuan combined the green emblem with purple restrictions inside the Yin Yang Divine Mirror and created a Purple Jade Emblem that connected him to the Imperial Great Formation.
• Shi Xuan narrowly escaped a dangerous delusion during visualization when the Taiji Diagram intervened.
• Shi Xuan went to the General's Mansion and began teaching Daoist magic theory to Xiao Yingyu, who praised his teaching.
• On the ride home, Shi Xuan heard that the Primordial Fetus Cult had abducted thirty-six pregnant women to refine a cruel secret treasure.

Shi Xuan learned that the Imperial Great Formation had weakened and that the Primordial Fetus Cult was abducting pregnant women in the Imperial Capital. After discovering infant ghosts marking pregnant women’s homes, he followed them out of Lin Yuan City and deep underground.

• Shi Xuan learned that Venerable Xu Qing’s lost Lesser Thousand World had left the Imperial Great Formation weaker and full of loopholes.
• Shi Xuan warned Li Wei and Huang Xiao about the missing pregnant women and the Primordial Fetus Cult.
• General Xiao Huarong returned after defeating a Golden Core ghostly creature, then discussed the cult and the search for Venerable Xu Qing’s Lesser Thousand World with Shi Xuan and Xiao Cangtian.
• Shi Xuan spotted an infant ghost marking Li Wei and Huang Xiao’s windowsill, erased the marks, and followed it as it searched Lin Yuan City alongside four other ghosts.
• Shi Xuan followed the five ghosts beyond the city and down a rift, where they entered a hidden horizontal fissure underground.

Shi Xuan discovered a hidden underground formation where five Black Robe Cultivators drained corpses to empower a strange object. After he attacked them, their Child Ghosts devoured them and became powerful, but Shi Xuan trapped the ghosts and summoned a black-and-white force that terrified them.

• Shi Xuan followed five infant ghosts into a hidden cave and saw them enter the mouths of five Black Robe Cultivators.
• Shi Xuan discovered a vast underground lake, 1,296 drained cultivator corpses, and a formation surrounding thirty-six coffins and a living black stone.
• When a corpse began to collapse, Shi Xuan seized the opening and used the Golden Bridge and black-and-white vortices to incapacitate the five Black Robe Cultivators.
• The five Child Ghosts devoured the unconscious cultivators and rose to the early Yin Spirit Stage, escaping Shi Xuan's sealing rings by passing through emptiness.
• Shi Xuan used the Taiji Diagram's Other Shore Golden Bridge to lock down space and force the Child Ghosts out of the void.
• Shi Xuan summoned a huge black-and-white force, and the five Child Ghosts wailed in terror at what they recognized as their nemesis.

Shi Xuan freed the cavern’s trapped souls, obtained a mysterious black pebble, and followed a group of Underground Remnant Tribe members to their settlement. After seeing their wounded, he offered to heal them, and the tribe’s head, Ding Shi, accepted his help.

• Shi Xuan used the Great Cycle of Yin-Yang Life and Death and the Life and Death Banner to pacify the cavern’s souls, while the five child ghosts destroyed themselves to prevent their master from being traced.
• Shi Xuan collected a black pebble that seemed to contain a protected life, stored it in the Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle, and erased his traces before leaving the cavern.
• Shi Xuan followed wounded Underground Remnant Tribe members through the abyss to their hidden settlement, where their leader explained that an expedition had lost more than half its members.
• Seeing the tribe’s gravely wounded cultivators near death and their limited healing resources, Shi Xuan offered to help.
• Ding Shi accepted Shi Xuan’s offer after sensing his simulated Golden Core pressure and realizing the tribe had little choice.

Shi Xuan healed Ding Shi’s tribe, received a Dark Token, and learned their account of the Empire’s attack on their ancestors. After returning to Lin Yuan City, he watched his Firework Formation explode over the abyss.

• Shi Xuan used the Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle’s Sweet Dew to heal the wounded clansmen, and Ding Shi’s tribe knelt to thank him.
• Ding Shi and the clansmen completed a ritual that made Shi Xuan the holder of their Dark Token and sent word of the transfer to the Holy Land.
• Ding Shi said the Empire’s noble clans and great houses had driven the Underground Remnant Tribes underground, and he reported that nearby Qi Induction Stage cultivators had gone missing.
• Shi Xuan asked about missing pregnant women, suspected the Primordial Fetus Cult, and left the cave after bidding farewell to Ding Shi.
• Shi Xuan returned to his room in Lin Yuan City before his formation activated, then watched colored lights burst over the abyss.

Shi Xuan kept his identity hidden during the investigation into the Primordial Fetus Cult, then spent two years strengthening his True Spirit as Lin Yuan City returned to calm. The chapter ended with Venerable Wei'er announcing that three dukes had conspired with the cult and would have their titles stripped and clans exterminated, as a battle appeared on the Mirror Water Screen.

• Shi Xuan taught Xiao Yingyu while the city searched for the Primordial Fetus Cult, and he persuaded Li Wei that the cult would likely leave Lin Yuan City.
• Two peace officers inspected Shi Xuan's Identity Document, recognized his position as a tutor at the General's Mansion, and moved on without searching his home.
• Lin Yuan City's investigation lasted half a month without finding further clues, while Shi Xuan forged and hid a spare insignia in the Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle.
• Over the next two years, Shi Xuan suppressed increasingly frequent delusions and strengthened his True Spirit as Li Wei and Huang Xiao's child grew and Xiao Yingyu advanced in age.
• Venerable Wei'er announced that Duke Cheng, Duke Qi, and Duke Ming had colluded with the Primordial Fetus Cult to rebel and massacre people, and that their titles would be stripped and their clans exterminated.
• The Mirror Water Screen showed a fierce battle on a mountain peak.

Shi Xuan watched Venerable Wei'er’s forces destroy three ducal mansions with a battle formation powerful enough to vaporize Yin Spirit Venerables, then learned that Venerable Wei'er and Duke Gan had arrived in Lin Yuan City. He wondered whether their sudden visit meant something unusual was happening there.

• Shi Xuan watched the battle formation annihilate Duke Cheng and the Yin Spirit Venerables defending him, then saw Duke Qi’s Mansion and Duke Ming’s Mansion suffer the same fate.
• Venerable Wei'er and Duke Gan announced that they would tour the Empire and eliminate the remaining Primordial Fetus Cult members, and Xiao Huarong received orders to purge the cult in Lin Yuan City.
• Shi Xuan discussed the battle formations with Xiao Huarong and Xiao Cangtian, then left the General's Mansion while considering whether to hide from Ao Tingtao’s inspection.
• Shi Xuan returned to his building, where Li Wei and Huang Xiao celebrated the apparent destruction of the Primordial Fetus Cult, and later went to his room to meditate.
• Li Wei told Shi Xuan that Venerable Wei'er and Duke Gan had arrived in Lin Yuan City with two Wei'er Legions, prompting Shi Xuan to suspect something unusual was happening.

Shi Xuan attended Venerable Wei'er’s speech in Lin Yuan City, where a sudden assassination attempt led the Wei'er Legion to kill thousands of people in the crowd. The speech was canceled, and Shi Xuan and several thousand others were singled out for investigation.

• Shi Xuan decided he could not safely escape Lin Yuan City after its formation surveillance intensified, and Li Wei told him that people suspected of ties to the Primordial Fetus Cult were being taken away.
• A security officer ordered Shi Xuan and the other residents to attend Venerable Wei'er’s speech, and Shi Xuan went to the square with Li Wei, Huang Xiao, and their neighbors.
• As Venerable Wei'er and Duke Gan passed through the crowd, Yin Spirit Venerable assassins attacked them and shouted accusations against the rulers.
• The Wei'er Legion struck the attackers’ area with a giant sword of sunlight, killing more than ten thousand citizens along with the assassins.
• The speech was canceled, and a Yin Spirit Venerable ordered the crowd to remain for investigation; Shi Xuan’s group was among those marked as suspicious.

Shi Xuan tried to conceal his treasures while the Wei'er Legions interrogated Lin Yuan City and exposed his suspicious identity. Inside the municipal building, he discovered Xiao Yingyu had arranged the search to find him and wanted his help overcoming obstacles in Venerable Xu Qing's Lesser Thousand World.

• Shi Xuan hid his treasures in his dantian as the Wei'er Venerable announced that Duke Gan had resisted arrest and been killed, and that the Wei'er Legions had destroyed his residence.
• A Yin Spirit Venerable searched Shi Xuan and the other civilians for special cultivation methods or natal Spirit Tools, then ordered Shi Xuan, Li Wei, Huang Xiao, and nine others into the municipal building for further examination.
• Shi Xuan entered the building under the watch of both Wei'er Legions and found Xiao Huarong, Xiao Cangtian, Xu Zhang, Ba Zhiyuan, and others dead, while Xiao Yang and two officials remained alive.
• Xiao Yingyu contacted Shi Xuan through Spiritual Consciousness and revealed that he had wagered with Ao Tingtao over whether the search could find Shi Xuan without checking cultivation levels.
• Xiao Yingyu praised Shi Xuan's Golden Bridge natal Spirit Tool and said its power could help cut through obstacles in Venerable Xu Qing's Lesser Thousand World.

Shi Xuan entered the Lesser Thousand World with Xiao Yingyu and Ao Tingtao, while weighing his chances of escaping their guarded escort. The two leaders revealed their preparations and continued their schemes against one another, leaving Shi Xuan to wait for an opening as they proceeded into the restrictions.

• Shi Xuan realized Xiao Yingyu had long targeted his Other Shore Golden Bridge and had investigated his identity before recruiting him for the plan.
• Xiao Yingyu forced Shi Xuan and eleven other cultivators toward the entrance, killing one who protested, while Shi Xuan decided to delay his escape attempt.
• Shi Xuan entered the restricted space between two Wei'er Legions, where Ao Tingtao examined the newcomers but failed to detect Shi Xuan's hidden treasures.
• Ao Tingtao warned Shi Xuan indirectly that he was prepared to counter the Golden Bridge, and Shi Xuan stayed calm while looking for a chance during the restrictions' disruption.
• Xiao Yingyu summoned ten Heavenly Ghosts to devour Xiao Yang and the black robe man, then approached a legion that obeyed him alone.

After witnessing Li Wei’s desperate sacrifice, Shi Xuan understood that his habitual caution had become a weakness and chose to attack despite the overwhelming odds. He launched his strike at Xiao Yingyu, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Ao Tingtao explained Venerable Xu Qing’s sealed Lesser Thousand World and watched the group for signs of interest.
• Xiao Yingyu killed Huang Xiao and her crying child, and Li Wei silently continued flying with them.
• At the void restrictions, Li Wei attacked the grand formation with a life-burning sword strike, but Xiao Yingyu destroyed it.
• Shi Xuan reflected on Li Wei’s resolve, recognized how caution had trapped him, and decided to risk an attack.
• Shi Xuan summoned a Golden Bridge over Xiao Yingyu’s Wei'er Legion and sent a radiant violet sword strike toward Xiao Yingyu.

Shi Xuan unleashed the full force of his Big Dipper Master of Death sword, breaking through the shackles of his Yin Spirit and opening the Life-and-Death Profound Pass. Within the pass, he recognized his True Spirit among countless contradictory past lives and realized that letting them merge unchecked could make him die or go mad, while enemies prepared to strike his unconscious body.

• Shi Xuan's sword shattered the restraints around his Yin Spirit and struck Xiao Yingyu's legion, destroying it while Xiao Yingyu survived behind his Heavenly Ghosts.
• Shi Xuan's Yin Spirit fragments drifted through a mysterious river and became figures representing countless lives and conflicting choices.
• Ao Tingtao and Xiao Yingyu each sent a Boundless Sunlight Sword toward Shi Xuan, who appeared unconscious and was supported by the Purple Flying Sword.
• Shi Xuan's True Spirit emerged among the figures and used Black and White sword energy to destroy the delusions, drawing the remaining fragments back toward himself.
• Shi Xuan realized that merging the fragments without resolving their contradictions could make him fall or go mad at the Life-and-Death Profound Pass.

Shi Xuan resolved the conflict among the final True Spirits by returning them to primordial chaos, then broke through the Life-and-Death Profound Pass and achieved Primordial Spirit. He left Ao Tingtao and Xiao Yingyu’s forces defeated after severing their control over their attacks and battle formations.

• Shi Xuan returned his True Spirit to primordial chaos, contained the conflicting points of light, and shattered the ancient gate with his black-and-white Sword Qi.
• As Shi Xuan broke through the gate, Ao Tingtao and Xiao Yingyu’s Boundless Sunlight Swords dispersed, and the signs of Severing Falsehood, Ghosts and Gods Weep announced his breakthrough to Primordial Spirit.
• Shi Xuan’s four incomplete talismans combined into the Four Symbols World Destroying Sword as he manifested his Primordial Spirit and gained Primordial Awareness.
• Shi Xuan severed Ao Tingtao’s control over Star Sand Thunder Light Burst and Xiao Yingyu’s control over the Child-Mother Heavenly Ghost, then turned the ghost against Xiao Yingyu.
• Ao Tingtao and Xiao Yingyu rallied their troops and formed three Boundless Sunlight Swords, but Shi Xuan cut the troops’ connections to them and caused the swords to explode over their formations.

Shi Xuan destroyed the Primordial Fetus Cult’s forces, killed Xiao Yingyu after learning how to locate Venerable Xu Qing’s Lesser Thousand World, and freed the captives. He used the Primordial Fetuses to open the world’s Bronze Gate and began inspecting what lay beyond.

• Ao Tingtao was vaporized by the Boundless Sunlight Sword, while Xiao Yingyu used a Death-Substitution Secret Art to escape its destruction.
• Shi Xuan found Xiao Yingyu, prevented his escape, searched his soul for the location and opening method of Venerable Xu Qing’s Lesser Thousand World, then destroyed his Yin Spirit.
• Shi Xuan killed the fleeing members of the three legions, collected the nine Primordial Fetuses and Ao Tingtao’s Plain Colored Cloud Light Robe, and freed the surviving captives.
• Shi Xuan used the nine Primordial Fetuses to reveal a hidden speck of dust and open a terrifying Bronze Gate to the Lesser Thousand World.
• Shi Xuan examined the area around the gate with his Spiritual Sense before entering.

Shi Xuan found a finger bone in Venerable Xu Qing’s ruined Lesser Thousand World and returned to Yuyu Heaven, where Granny Yu explained that it came from a trap devised by Daoist Songli. The chapter ended with Shi Xuan learning that Songli’s blood-sacrifice methods had caused even Heavenly Immortal Mighty Ones to sacrifice themselves and empower his Death Dao Seed.

• Shi Xuan searched Venerable Xu Qing’s lifeless Lesser Thousand World and discovered a hidden finger bone that caused the world and its gate to collapse when he removed it.
• The finger bone shattered Shi Xuan’s storage bag, so he activated the Spacetime Gate and returned to Yuyu Heaven.
• Granny Yu intercepted Shi Xuan and expressed surprise that he had achieved the Primordial Spirit after cultivating in the Seven Immortals Great World.
• Shi Xuan showed Granny Yu the finger bone and asked about its origin.
• Granny Yu explained that Daoist Songli had planted traps in Ghost Path and demonic cultivation methods, making blood sacrificers sacrifice themselves to empower his Death Dao Seed.

After Granny Yu explained the resentful finger bone and sent Shi Xuan back to the Penglai Sect, he told True Lord Xu how he achieved Primordial Spirit and learned how to resolve the mismatch between his spirit and flesh. True Lord Xu advised him to consolidate his cultivation before reincarnating into a new body and using his current one to strengthen it.

• Granny Yu explained that Shi Xuan could refine the finger bone into his Dao technique, and Shi Xuan imprinted his consciousness on its Creation aura despite the boundless resentment within it.
• Granny Yu recalled that Shi Xuan could trigger his third Heavenly Tribulation early by drawing out the finger bone's resentment, then sent him to the Penglai Sect.
• True Lord Xu discovered that Shi Xuan had achieved Primordial Spirit in less than a century and praised his cultivation and sword attainments.
• Shi Xuan told True Lord Xu about his breakthrough, the finger bone, and Granny Yu's account of Venerable Xu Qing's fall; True Lord Xu joked that Shi Xuan should be named Duobao for his many treasures.
• True Lord Xu told Shi Xuan to reincarnate and unravel the Mystery of the Womb to resolve the incompatibility between spirit and flesh, then advised him to fuse his current body into his new one to strengthen it against Heavenly Tribulations.
• Shi Xuan chose True Lord Xu's method and agreed to consolidate his cultivation before seeking the secret art on the third floor of the End of the World Pavilion.

Shi Xuan returned to the Penglai Sect after achieving Primordial Spirit and learned he could take charge of a Pure Yang Magic Treasure. When he appeared before the gathered sect leaders and disciples, they recognized his attainment and congratulated him.

• True Lord Xu gave Shi Xuan spacetime gates to known Great Thousand Worlds and said he could take charge of a Pure Yang Magic Treasure; Shi Xuan decided to request the Ruyi Immortal Binding Rope.
• Shi Xuan emerged from the Cold Light Heaven-Splitting Earth-Cracking Immortal Array and saw Sect Master Zhang discussing sect affairs with the chief seats, Elders, and core disciples.
• Shi Xuan observed how the sect's leadership and Lineages had changed, noting the decline of the great Lineages and the absence of several old acquaintances.
• Sect Master Zhang sensed Shi Xuan nearby and called him into the main hall, assuming he had returned early because something had gone wrong in the other world.
• Shi Xuan appeared before the gathering, and Sect Master Zhang realized he had achieved Primordial Spirit.
• Zhang Zhengyan and the assembled cultivators saluted Shi Xuan and congratulated him on attaining longevity.

Shi Xuan returned to the Penglai Sect as a Primordial Spirit True Person, leaving its cultivators astonished, envious, and uneasy. He greeted old acquaintances, reassured Ren Shuiyao, and warned the Chi siblings to reconsider their pursuit of formations as a path to longevity.

• Ling Xing, Yong Xing, Hong Zhishan, and others reacted to Shi Xuan's achievement with envy, regret, or fear, while Ren Shuiyao and the Chi siblings discussed how impossibly fast he had advanced.
• Sect Master Zhang introduced Shi Xuan to Tang Mo, Qiu Xuan, and the sect's other leaders and disciples; Shi Xuan learned that Ming Qingyue had left with Yu to seek an opportunity to form a Golden Core.
• Hong Zhishan nervously greeted Shi Xuan, who treated him calmly and dismissed him without raising their past enmity.
• Shi Xuan remembered Ren Shuiyao's progress and encouraged her to keep to her path toward a high-grade Golden Core, surprising the disciples who had not known of their connection.
• Shi Xuan sternly questioned Chi Caibo and Chi Zhengde about spending their time on formations, and the siblings promised to heed his warning.

Shi Xuan returned to the sect as a Primordial Spirit True Person, claimed the Ruyi Immortal Binding Rope, and presented Sect Master Zhang Zhengyan with a vast trove of treasures. At the End of the World Pavilion, he studied immortal techniques and arrays, discovering that his Daoist Magic foundation left him far from cultivating Divine Firmament True Thunder.

• Sect Master Zhang Zhengyan dismissed the others, and Shi Xuan chose the Ruyi Immortal Binding Rope as his Pure Yang Magic Treasure.
• Shi Xuan poured out Spirit Artifacts, herbs, pills, secret treasures, and jade slips for the sect, then briefly explained his journey to Sect Master Zhang Zhengyan.
• Shi Xuan went to the End of the World Pavilion, where Lin Luo recognized him as a Primordial Spirit True Person and allowed him to inspect seven jade slips.
• Shi Xuan studied Divine Firmament True Thunder and learned that he first needed to raise all thirty-six Divine Firmament Lightning Laws to the ninth tier of Daoist Magic.
• Shi Xuan realized that advancing his Lightning Laws would take at least a hundred years, then examined the Nine Heavens All-Seal Myriad Thunder Immortal Array and the Cold Light Heaven-Splitting Earth-Cracking Immortal Array.