Chapter Summaries

At Spirit City High School’s Sect Awakening Day, Lin Daqiang awakened an A-grade sect and Lin Wan’er revealed a magnificent sect that appeared to be S-grade. Lin Feng, the school’s theory and simulation star, was the last student to test, leaving his awakening—and the truth of his potential—unrevealed.

• Lin Feng waited to awaken his sect while Lin Wan'er asked whether he was nervous, and he said he would accept whatever sect he received.
• Lin Daqiang awakened an A-grade sect, celebrated, and challenged the students from the honors and Grand Ambition classes, especially Lin Feng.
• The honors class and most of the Grand Ambition Class awakened B-grade sects, while no one surpassed Lin Daqiang’s A-grade rating.
• Lin Wan'er touched the testing device and manifested a grand, life-filled sect that displayed the signs of an S-grade Spirit Sect.
• Lin Daqiang turned his attention to Lin Feng, anxious to see what sect the final student would awaken.

Lin Feng awakened an E-rank sect, drawing ridicule despite his teacher confirming the test was accurate. After the students were told to recruit disciples in the Sect World for their first competition, Lin Daqiang offered Lin Feng protection if he joined him.

• Lin Wan'er awakened a legendary S-rank sword sect and attracted the attention of students who had considered joining Lin Daqiang.
• Lin Feng tested his sect and received an E-rank rating, prompting students to mock him and demand a retest.
• Lin Dong checked the testing platform and confirmed it was working, then comforted Lin Feng and told the students to stop sneering.
• Lin Dong explained that the first Sect World competition would reward sects for recruiting talented disciples and dismissed the students to begin searching for them.
• Lin Daqiang offered Lin Feng a place under his protection if Lin Feng agreed to join him.

After awakening a ruined E-grade sect, Lin Feng entered the Sect World, named it Evergreen Sect, and repaired its main hall. His Entry System then arrived, and he drew a golden sect entry that made time pass much faster inside the sect’s barrier.

• Lin Dong gave Lin Feng a book about powerful cultivators who had awakened E-grade sects and explained that E-grade meant a ruined sect that might hold great potential.
• Lin Feng entered the Sect World and inspected his ruined sect, which had no disciples and only 100 low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Lin Feng named the sect Evergreen Sect, chose Tiancan Tudou as his sect master name, and spent 20 low-grade Spirit Stones repairing the main hall.
• Lin Feng received the Entry System, which let him draw and replace entries and kept his strength one realm above his strongest disciple.
• Lin Feng used his guaranteed golden draw on a sect entry and obtained One Day Like a Year, making one outside day equal one year inside the sect’s barrier.

Lin Feng equipped the Evergreen Sect with the gold entry One Day Like a Year, accelerating time inside the sect, but discovered he could not use the acceleration to draw entries faster. When Sect World announced its first-week disciple aptitude competition, Lin Feng saw his sect ranked outside the top 80% and set out to recruit disciples.

• Lin Feng equipped One Day Like a Year, making time pass 365 times faster inside the Evergreen Sect.
• Lin Feng tested whether accelerated time let him draw entries more often, but the Entry System still allowed only one draw per day.
• Sect World announced a week-long competition awarding points for recruited disciples' spiritual roots and prizes to the top-ranking sects.
• Lin Feng saw Azure Luan Sect and Supreme Strength Sect among the strong contenders, while his own disciple-less Evergreen Sect ranked outside the top 80%.
• Lin Feng used his ability to see entry information and rode the wind toward nearby villages and towns to search for suitable disciples.

Lin Feng searched Iron Ox Village for disciples with cultivation talent, but found none among its children and youths. He discovered that Elder Tie was a rare genius with several valuable entries and invited him to join the sect; Elder Tie agreed after learning his wife had deceived him about their sons’ parentage.

• Lin Feng proved he was an immortal by flying above Iron Ox Village, prompting villagers to bring their children for him to examine.
• Lin Feng found no spiritual roots or especially promising entries among the village’s children and youths, so he checked the middle-aged and elderly residents.
• Lin Feng spotted Elder Tie’s six entries, including a Five-Element Mixed Spiritual Root and the blue Spirit Tempering and Weapon Forging entry, and invited him to cultivate immortality.
• Elder Tie’s wife tried to stop him, but Lin Feng suggested his sons lacked cultivation talent because they were not his biological children.
• Elder Tie accused his wife of infidelity, promised to divide his family’s property among the villagers, and chose to leave with Lin Feng to cultivate immortality.

Lin Feng recruited Tie Dali as the Evergreen Sect’s first inner disciple, raising the sect’s ranking into the top 80%, then returned to Spirit City High School. There, Lin Daqiang and his lackeys mocked Lin Feng’s poor results, and Lin Feng admitted he had only just entered the top 80%.

• Lin Feng brought Tie Dali to the Evergreen Sect, accepted him as its first inner disciple, and taught him the Evergreen Art.
• Lin Feng recruited two more mortals as menial disciples while searching villages, but found no other cultivators.
• Lin Feng checked the leaderboard and saw the leading sects had earned over 100 points, while the Evergreen Sect had only one point.
• Lin Daqiang boasted that the Supreme Strength Sect had recruited five disciples and climbed to 116th place.
• Lin Daqiang’s lackeys mocked Lin Feng for his E-grade sect and low ranking, and Lin Feng retorted that he had entered the top 80%.

Lin Feng showed Tie Dali the Evergreen Sect’s time-dilating secret and reassured him that his poor spiritual root would not limit his future. He then recruited Liu Yurou, a girl with a Supreme-Grade Water Spiritual Root and a Flawless Golden Core trait, boosting the Evergreen Sect into the top thirty on the disciple recruitment rankings.

• Lin Feng checked Tie Dali’s progress and brought him back to Iron Ox Village to reveal that one day outside equaled one year inside the Evergreen Sect.
• Tie Dali swore loyalty to Lin Feng after hearing that his master believed his aptitude could be changed.
• Lin Feng drew the white Singing, Dancing and Rap trait, then traveled to East Forest City and arranged to stay at the city lord Liu Quan’s residence.
• Lin Feng spotted four positive traits above Liu Quan’s daughter, Liu Yurou, and offered to take her as his personal disciple.
• Liu Yurou accepted Lin Feng as her master, raising the Evergreen Sect’s recruitment points by 300 and moving its ranking into the top thirty.

Lin Feng recruited Liu Yurou, a disciple with a supreme-grade spirit root, and sent her back to the Evergreen Sect to begin cultivating. As the sect climbed the points leaderboard, Lin Feng dodged questions about its identity at school, though Lin Wan'er remained suspicious.

• Sect masters and Spirit City High School students noticed that the E-rank Evergreen Sect had reached the top thirty on the points leaderboard, and Lin Daqiang dismissed the possibility that it belonged to Lin Feng.
• After accepting Liu Yurou, Lin Feng learned from Liu Quan that her mother had died the year she was born and asked the city lord to help locate more people with cultivation aptitude.
• Lin Feng sent Liu Yurou to the Evergreen Sect, taught her the Evergreen Art, and asked Tie Dali to help her with cultivation questions.
• At school, Lin Feng ignored a crowd trying to discover the Evergreen Sect master's identity, and Lin Daqiang held back from provoking him until he could confirm the truth.
• Lin Wan'er asked whether the Evergreen Sect belonged to Lin Feng, and he claimed he had found only three low-grade or middle-grade disciples that day, leaving her suspicious.

Lin Feng received rewards after the Evergreen Sect became the first sect in Server 999 to advance to Qi Refining, drawing disbelief and envy from other sect masters. He upgraded the sect’s main hall and built an External Affairs Hall, then assigned his disciples to cultivation or administrative work as the sect expanded.

• Lin Feng received advancement rewards, including Spirit Stones, formation blueprints, spirit grain seeds, healing pills, a Spirit Root testing jade disc, and a spirit spring source, while the Entry System granted an additional sect entry slot.
• A server-wide announcement that the Evergreen Sect was the first to reach Qi Refining sparked accusations of cheating and speculation about the sect’s legacy in the chat channel.
• Lin Feng spent Spirit Stones to upgrade the sect main hall to D-grade and construct and upgrade the External Affairs Hall, increasing disciple attraction and administrative processing speed.
• The upgraded main hall and new External Affairs Hall appeared on neighboring peaks, connected by a sky stairway, and drew the disciples’ attention.
• Lin Feng told Liu Yurou and the other disciples with aptitude to keep cultivating, while assigning the five mortal disciples to manage daily affairs and plant spirit seeds in exchange for the prospect of later cultivation.

Lin Feng distributed the sect’s new rewards, recruited disciples across East Forest City and nearby villages, and strengthened the Evergreen Sect. On the seventh day, the aptitude competition’s settlement brought him a legendary golden personal entry.

• Lin Feng stored the sect’s spirit stones and supplies, taught the four disciples with cultivation aptitude the Tiger Roar Fist, and assigned spirit grain seeds to the menial disciples.
• Lin Feng returned to East Forest City with a disciple and recruited five disciples with aptitude and five mortals with four entries, raising the Evergreen Sect’s total to nineteen disciples.
• Lin Feng classified the sect’s disciples, while Tie Dali and another disciple with a middle-grade spirit root entered the Qi Refining stage and Liu Yurou reached the Qi Refining sixth layer.
• Lin Feng finished testing East Forest City and explored eight villages, finding only one disciple with a five-element mixed spiritual root.
• On the seventh day, Lin Feng used his daily draw and received a legendary golden personal entry.

Lin Feng gave Tie Dali a heavenly spiritual root in the final minutes of the first week's recruitment competition, lifting the Evergreen Sect to first place. After collecting the rewards and ignoring angry rival sects, Lin Feng turned to the newly opened trading house to prepare for the next competition.

• Lin Feng saw that the Evergreen Sect had fallen behind the leading sects, then chose Tie Dali as the recipient of his newly drawn heavenly spiritual root trait.
• Lin Feng found several more qualified disciples, raising the Evergreen Sect's score to 396 while monitoring the Daoxuan Sect's lead.
• With five minutes remaining, Lin Feng replaced Tie Dali's five-element mixed spiritual root with a heavenly spiritual root, raising the Evergreen Sect's score to 1,396 and securing first place.
• The first-week competition ended, and the trading system opened; rival sect masters protested the Evergreen Sect's sudden victory in the server chat.
• Lin Feng received a marrow-cleansing jade, an Ancient Spirit-Guiding Platform construction blueprint, and 100 high-grade spirit stones as first-place rewards.
• Lin Feng planned to use the trading house to buy materials for spirit-gathering and mountain-protection arrays and the Ancient Spirit-Guiding Platform.

Lin Feng used the trading house to build Evergreen Sect’s Spirit Gathering Formation and Mountain Protection Array, but found key materials for the Ancient Spirit-Guiding Platform unavailable. As the first sect trial approached, he assessed Evergreen Sect’s strength and expected the top-ranked sects to face a tougher demon beast assault because of his sect’s high power.

• Lin Feng saved his targeted advanced entry draw and bought materials to build the Low-Grade Yellow-Rank Spirit Gathering Array, raising the sect’s Spiritual Qi concentration.
• Lin Feng bought the materials for the Low-Grade Yellow-Rank Mountain Protection Array and activated it around Evergreen Sect.
• Lin Feng found that supreme-grade spirit jade blanks and void spiritwood cores for the Ancient Spirit-Guiding Platform were sold out, and suspected rival sects had bought them to hinder him.
• Players in the Sect World 999 chat channel discussed the upcoming demon beast assault and its expected difficulty for the top ten sects.
• Lin Feng reviewed Evergreen Sect’s disciples, arrays, and cultivation strength, then concluded that his sect was prepared and the other top-ranked sects would face stronger beasts because of it.

The first sect trial began, and the Demon Beasts attacking Sect World 999 were far stronger and more numerous than expected. As sects struggled to understand the increased difficulty, Evergreen Sect master Tiancan Tudou revealed that a Qi Refining Sixth Layer lord-class Demon Beast had appeared at his sect.

• The first-week sect trial began at the hour of the dragon, and Demon Beasts appeared outside every sect.
• Lin Daqiang saw eleven Demon Beasts attacking Supreme Strength Sect, including two at the peak Houtian realm, and realized the threat exceeded past trials.
• Daoxuan Sect faced more than twenty Demon Beasts, including one at the Qi Refining Third Layer, while other top ten sects also faced multiple Qi Refining Realm beasts.
• Small and medium-sized sects blamed the top ten for hiding their strength, while top ten sect masters complained that their own attackers were unexpectedly powerful.
• Tiancan Tudou said a Qi Refining Sixth Layer lord-class Demon Beast had spawned at Evergreen Sect and promised to kill it to reduce the others' difficulty.

Lin Feng’s Evergreen Sect defeated the lord-level Blood Shadow Wolf King, halving the trial difficulty for all sects in World 999. Tie Dali killed the wolf king and recruited the surviving pack to protect the sect.

• Lin Feng learned that defeating the Qi Refining Sixth Layer lord-level wolf king would halve the trial difficulty across the server.
• Liu Yurou suppressed the ordinary wolves with her Qi Refining Ninth Layer presence while Tie Dali challenged the wolf king.
• Tie Dali used Tiger Roar Fist to kill the Blood Shadow Wolf King despite their matching cultivation levels.
• Lin Feng subdued the remaining wolves, and Tie Dali made the Qi Refining Fourth Layer wolf their new king and ordered it to guard the sect.
• The Sect World announced that Evergreen Sect had slain the lord-level Demon Beast, halving trial difficulty and granting double rewards for successful trials.

Lin Feng received generous rewards for the Evergreen Sect’s first-place trial clear, including materials needed for the Ancient Spirit-Guiding Platform and 11 entry draws. After the Azure Luan Sect beat the Daoxuan Sect to second place, Fairy Qingluan and Perfected Daoxuan offered Lin Feng spirit jade blanks at very different prices.

• Sects across Sect World 999 discovered that the Demon Beasts had fallen to half their previous quality and quantity, while trial rewards remained doubled.
• Lin Feng’s Evergreen Sect earned the highest SSS rating and first place, receiving Spirit Stones, a low-grade Spirit Vein, cultivation resources, platform materials, and 11 entry draws.
• Lin Feng decided to save his 12 total entry draws for the second week’s competition.
• The Azure Luan Sect cleared the trial before the Daoxuan Sect, earning an S rating and leaving Perfected Daoxuan furious at being beaten to second place.
• Fairy Qingluan offered Lin Feng six supreme-grade spirit jade blanks for 100 mid-grade Spirit Stones each, while Perfected Daoxuan offered five for 1,000 each.
• Lin Feng rebuked Perfected Daoxuan over the price and warned him not to let them meet offline.

Lin Feng purchased supreme-grade spirit jade blanks while Perfected Daoxuan suspected the Evergreen Sect had found its predecessor’s ruins. During a patrol, Zhao Qingyan uncovered a concealed ancient ruin on the Evergreen Sect’s rear mountain and hurried to report it to Lin Feng.

• Lin Dong learned that two of Spirit City High School’s top three competitors were among its seniors, and an Education Bureau official arrived to protect the school’s geniuses.
• Lin Feng bought six supreme-grade spirit jade blanks from Fairy Qingluan of the Azure Luan Sect for 600 mid-grade spirit stones.
• Perfected Daoxuan wondered why Tiancan Tudou had stopped responding to his offer and suspected the Evergreen Sect was exploring its predecessor’s ruins.
• The Evergreen Sect equipped its disciples with wolf demon mounts and assigned the new wolf king and its pack to guard the front mountain.
• Zhao Qingyan discovered an ancient formation concealing a ruin on the rear mountain and rode back to report it to the sect master.

Lin Feng investigated a concealed ancient formation discovered by Zhao Qingyan on the Evergreen Sect’s rear mountain, but could not break through its powerful restriction. He kept the ruins’ existence secret and resolved to return when the sect was stronger.

• Tie Dali reported that Zhao Qingyan had found a concealed formation during his patrol of the rear mountain.
• Lin Feng took Liu Yurou and Tie Dali to follow Zhao Qingyan to a secluded hollow, where they found an ancient formation hiding a sealed ruin.
• Lin Feng tried to examine and penetrate the formation, but its recoil and ancient patterns defeated every attempt.
• Lin Feng judged that his cultivation and knowledge of formations were insufficient to break the restriction.
• Lin Feng ordered Zhao Qingyan, Liu Yurou, and Tie Dali to keep the discovery secret, and resolved to open the ruins in the future.

The second week's sect cultivation environment competition and Spirit Realm Trial were announced, prompting sect masters to compare their spiritual energy concentrations. Lin Feng's Evergreen Sect had only 20% spiritual energy, but he secured five supreme-grade spirit jade blanks from Perfected Daoxuan for 500 mid-grade spirit stones.

• Sect World 999 announced the cultivation environment competition and the seven-day Spirit Realm Trial in the Myriad Spirits Secret Realm, where sects could hunt demons, occupy strongholds, gather materials, and exchange points for upgrades.
• Perfected Daoxuan and the Supreme Purity Sect Master revealed their sects each had 160% base spiritual energy, while Fairy Qingluan said Azure Luan Sect had 200%.
• Perfected Daoxuan asked Lin Feng about Evergreen Sect's spiritual energy, and Lin Feng found its current concentration was only 20%.
• Perfected Daoxuan offered to sell Lin Feng five supreme-grade spirit jade blanks at his proposed price if Lin Feng gathered materials for the Ancient Spirit-Guiding Platform.
• Lin Feng sent Perfected Daoxuan an embarrassing compliment and a trade request for the five blanks at 500 mid-grade spirit stones, and Perfected Daoxuan reluctantly accepted.

Lin Feng used his advanced entry draw to obtain a pink entry that greatly increased the Evergreen Sect’s spiritual energy concentration, pushing it into the top hundred. He prepared to lead his disciples into the Myriad Spirits Secret Realm to continue raising the sect’s ranking.

• Lin Feng bought five top-grade spirit jade blanks from Perfected Daoxuan, bringing his total to twenty-one.
• Perfected Daoxuan told other sect masters he had sold the blanks to Lin Feng for fifty mid-grade spirit stones each and claimed he had accepted a loss for the sake of Sect World 999.
• The second week's competition began, with rankings based on sect spiritual energy concentration, and the Myriad Spirits Secret Realm opened.
• Lin Feng used his targeted advanced entry draw and received the pink sect entry Myriad Convergences of the Spirit Ruins.
• Lin Feng equipped the entry, raising the Evergreen Sect's spiritual energy concentration to 100% and its ranking from the top 30% to the top hundred.
• Lin Feng began deploying the Evergreen Sect's disciples to enter the Myriad Spirits Secret Realm.

Lin Feng assessed Evergreen Sect’s strength and led its prepared expedition into the Myriad Spirits Secret Realm, while small sects struggled against stronger rivals for basic strongholds. Pressed in the world chat to promise not to seize occupied territory, Lin Feng declared that Evergreen Sect would claim all spirit demons at the third level of Qi Refining or above and their strongholds.

• Lin Feng assigned the sect’s menial disciples and weaker cultivators to maintain the sect, patrol, and spread its name, then led thirteen Qi Refining disciples and nearly twenty wolf demon mounts into the secret realm.
• The Mystic Bamboo Sect and Ancient Dust Gate sect masters argued over who should lure away the spirit demons guarding a basic stronghold, and their attack stalled.
• The Shadow Demon Sect claimed the territory around the stronghold and drove the two small sects away; other top-ten sects were also claiming territory for themselves.
• Small sect masters complained in the world chat, and the Daoxuan Sect and Azure Luan Sect promised not to seize strongholds already occupied by others.
• Lin Feng told the chat that basic strongholds were beneath Evergreen Sect’s notice and announced that his sect claimed all spirit demons at the third level of Qi Refining or above and their strongholds.