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Zhang Yunfeng and Lin Ying'er struggled to defeat a powerful Devil Clan clone until Ling Yi criticized their neglect of cultivation and tested his illusion instant-kill ability. When the Devil Emperor synchronized with the clone’s perceptions, Ling Yi’s attack killed him as well, leaving the Demon Realm’s leaders stunned.

• Zhang Yunfeng attacked the Devil Clan clone with the Six Meridian Divine Sword, the Immobilization Spell, and a Kamehameha, but could not overcome its defenses and self-healing.
• Ling Yi explained the clone’s weaknesses and reprimanded Zhang Yunfeng and Lin Ying'er for chasing experience and powers without strengthening their foundations.
• Ling Yi offered to handle the clone and give Zhang Yunfeng and Lin Ying'er 500 experience points each as he tested his illusion instant-kill ability.
• The Devil Emperor synchronized his perceptions with his clone while discussing the loosening seal and plans to send an army into the Human Realm.
• The Devil Emperor screamed and fell from his throne as the illusion instant kill struck through the clone, and the grand elder confirmed that he was dead.

Ling Yi killed the Devil Emperor, but the Demon Realm’s invasion began in force, so he prepared defenses before leaving the world. Back in the Ling Realm, he discussed Boundary Breaking with Yin Wanqing and configured a new transmigration world and aura.

• Ling Yi used a Wood Spirit Talisman to strengthen the Devil Emperor’s clone’s consciousness, drew the Devil Emperor’s main consciousness into an illusion, and killed him with a Lightning-Summoning Talisman.
• Ling Yi told Zhang Yunfeng and Lin Ying'er that the Demon Realm’s invasion had begun, gave them Nine-Transformation Golden Cores, and left them to hold off the invading army.
• Zhang Yunfeng and Lin Ying'er flew toward the central passage, while Peng Ye threatened them and was struck by lightning and killed.
• Ling Yi sent the old Celestial Master his memories and twenty Nine-Transformation Golden Cores, then created ten thousand real Golden Immortal Heavenly Soldiers to guard the secondary gate at Kunlun.
• Ling Yi used the Myriad Worlds Traversal Disk to return to the Ling Realm, where he spoke with Yin Wanqing about Boundary Breaking and configured a new world with an Infinite Passive Karma Rebate Aura.

Ling Yi struggled to make use of his gift-return system, which only rewarded gifts given to Zhang Yunya, a personal disciple he could not safely approach. After learning that his fellow menial disciple Ye Cheng had received a Qi Gathering Pill and a rare cultivation art, Ling Yi went to sound him out about them.

• Ling Yi reviewed his poor cultivation prospects and the system's requirement that he give a gift to Zhang Yunya, whom he had no practical way to meet.
• Ling Yi decided he might use Zhang Yunya's distant origins to send her a gift indirectly, but he had nothing valuable to offer.
• Guo Sihai, Lin Huai, and Liu Mo discussed the Qi Gathering Pill and low-tier Mystic Grade cultivation art sent to Ye Cheng by his family.
• Ling Yi realized Ye Cheng's resources could be an opportunity and went to Ye Cheng's courtyard after dark.
• Ye Cheng asked who was at the gate, and Ling Yi identified himself.

Ling Yi struck a deal with Ye Cheng to obtain a Qi Gathering Pill, a cultivation method, and spirit stones, then arranged for the items to be delivered to Zhang Yunya through the internal affairs office. The chapter ended with Zhang Yunya discovering the parcel’s unusual cultivation method.

• Ling Yi persuaded Ye Cheng to lend him a Qi Gathering Pill by promising to help him reach Qi Refining within three months or accompany him to Southern Wilderness City.
• Ye Cheng gave Ling Yi the pill, the Yuan Transformation Art, and a hundred low-grade spirit stones, while hidden observers noticed Ling Yi’s visit.
• Ling Yi left before dawn and returned that afternoon, ignoring Lin Huai’s questions about where he had been.
• An internal affairs disciple delivered a parcel addressed to Zhang Yunya, and she paid him ten low-grade spirit stones for bringing it.
• Zhang Yunya opened the parcel and found a Qi Gathering Pill, a hundred low-grade spirit stones, and the Yuan Transformation Art, which accelerated the drawing in of Spiritual Qi.

Ling Yi received massive returns after Zhang Yunya accepted his gifts, then cultivated with the Five Elements Yuan Transformation Art and reached Qi Refining, seventh level. He realized Zhang Yunya’s breakthroughs could also raise his cultivation and suppressed his level to avoid drawing attention.

• Ling Yi received ten thousand Qi Gathering Pills and one hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones after Zhang Yunya accepted his gifts, while the return for the Yuan Transformation Art arrived later.
• Ling Yi entered the Cultivation Pavilion and rented a basic chamber as Lin Huai complained that Ye Cheng had wasted a Qi Gathering Pill on him.
• The system returned the perfected Heaven Grade Five Elements Yuan Transformation Art after Zhang Yunya mastered the Yuan Transformation Art.
• Ling Yi cultivated with nearly five hundred Qi Gathering Pills for ten hours, reaching Qi Refining, sixth level before Zhang Yunya’s breakthrough triggered a cultivation return that raised him to seventh level.
• Ling Yi checked his system interface, realized his sudden advancement could expose a secret, and suppressed his cultivation to Qi Refining’s first layer.

Ling Yi entered the Qi Refining Stage, spent fifty thousand low-grade spirit stones on pills, spells, and storage bags at the Myriad Treasures Tower, and then arranged another secret delivery for Zhang Yunya. He left the young man at the Internal Affairs Office with a package containing a storage bag and five hundred low-grade spirit stones for his young lady.

• Ling Yi left the cultivation chamber after reaching Qi Refining eighth layer and headed to the Myriad Treasures Tower for supplies.
• Guo Wu tried to drive Ling Yi out, but Elder Qian rebuked him and apologized to Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi spent fifty thousand low-grade spirit stones on cultivation pills, spells, and two storage bags, then left the tower.
• Ling Yi changed into a hooded robe and covered his face before approaching the Internal Affairs Office by a roundabout route.
• Ling Yi gave the young cultivator who had delivered his previous package five hundred low-grade spirit stones and asked him to deliver a storage bag to his young lady.

Ling Yi secretly arranged for Bai Jiang to deliver a storage pouch to Zhang Yunya, then confronted Lin Huai and moved into a private courtyard. After making a deal to help Ye Cheng advance into the outer sect, Ling Yi received enormous system returns for the gifts delivered to Zhang Yunya.

• Ling Yi bribed Bai Jiang with five hundred spirit stones and arranged a discreet handoff to Zhang Yunya outside the mountain gate.
• Ling Yi confronted Lin Huai, revealed his Qi Refining cultivation, slapped him, and learned that Lin Huai had spread the news about his rewards from Ye Cheng.
• Ling Yi gave Ye Cheng two bottles of Qi Gathering Pills and offered to help him reach Qi Refining, Third Level and enter the outer sect.
• Ling Yi paid two hundred low-grade spirit stones to Liu Shihai and moved into a private courtyard across the lake from Ye Cheng.
• The system rewarded Ling Yi for the gifts delivered to Zhang Yunya with pills, high-grade spirit stones, and a storage ring.

Ling Yi learned that reaching the twelfth layer of Qi Refining could allow perfect Foundation Establishment, then discovered that Guo Pengsheng, Shuiyue Peak’s foremost inner disciple, was asking about him. Ling Yi sent Ye Cheng to the safer Cultivation Pavilion and resumed cultivation, while Zhang Yunya puzzled over the resources in her storage pouch.

• Ling Yi reached the tenth layer of Qi Refining but sensed he had not attained great perfection, so he asked Liu Shihai about it.
• Liu Shihai explained that perfect Foundation Establishment required reaching the twelfth layer of Qi Refining and warned Ling Yi that an inner disciple was asking about him.
• Ye Cheng told Ling Yi that Guo Pengsheng, Shuiyue Peak’s eldest senior brother, was seeking him out.
• Ling Yi gave Ye Cheng spirit stones and pills to stay in the Cultivation Pavilion, then returned to cultivating toward the twelfth layer.
• Zhang Yunya wondered how her royal father had obtained the cultivation resources in her storage pouch and decided to cultivate.

Ling Yi bought five-element spirit fruits and third-grade formation flags from the Myriad Treasures Tower, while learning that Guo Wu was connected to the plot against him. After gifting the items to Zhang Yunya, Ling Yi received powerful returned treasures and the Heaven Grade Illusory Spirit Art, as Guo Wu’s secret attempt to have him killed set danger in motion.

• Ling Yi reached Qi Refining twelfth-layer great perfection and decided he needed five-element spirit fruits to establish his foundation.
• At the Myriad Treasures Tower, Guo Wu’s reaction led Ling Yi to suspect a connection between him and Guo Pengsheng, while Qian Youcai sold Ling Yi three sets of five-element spirit fruits and all three available third-grade formations.
• Qian Youcai warned Guo Wu to treat Ling Yi respectfully, but Guo Wu resented the order and had secretly contacted his cousin in the Heaven and Earth Sect to arrange Ling Yi’s murder.
• Ling Yi gave Bai Jiang three sets of formation flags and a box of five-element spirit fruits to deliver to Zhang Yunya, intending for this to be his last time using Bai Jiang as a courier.
• The system returned sixth-grade spirit fruits, fourth-grade illusion and Earth Circle formation flags, seventh-grade Wind Killing formation flags, and the Heaven Grade Illusory Spirit Art after Zhang Yunya learned the Breath Concealment Art.

Ling Yi gained the Spirit Concealment Art, discovered that it worked with the Illusory Spirit Art to let him move through walls and formations, and prepared gifts for Zhang Yunya. While secretly heading to Shuiyue Peak to meet her, he overheard two cultivators mention her.

• Ling Yi used the Illusory Spirit Art to hide his true cultivation and set up three powerful formations around his courtyard, but no enemies came to challenge him.
• Zhang Yunya reached the introductory level in the Invisibility Spell and broke through to the fifth level of Qi Refining, triggering returns that gave Ling Yi the perfected Spirit Concealment Art and advanced him to the third layer of Foundation Establishment.
• Ling Yi combined the Spirit Concealment Art with the Illusory Spirit Art and found that he could move silently through walls, trees, and earth, travel rapidly, and pass through his courtyard's formations without setting them off.
• Ling Yi bought storage bags and technique jade slips, prepared gifts and cultivation materials for Zhang Yunya, and went to Shuiyue Peak under cover of darkness.
• Ling Yi encountered a man and a woman in a grove on Shuiyue Peak and stopped to listen when they mentioned Zhang Yunya.

Ling Yi overheard Senior Brother Zheng and Junior Sister Yun plotting to kill Zhang Yunya during the upcoming disciple tournament, then secretly entered her cave abode and left her a storage pouch. Zhang Yunya sensed the intruder and discovered the valuable gifts and cultivation techniques, while the final jade slip remained unopened.

• Ling Yi overheard Senior Brother Zheng and Junior Sister Yun discuss removing Zhang Yunya as a true disciple by killing her at the Heaven and Earth Sect's disciple tournament.
• Ling Yi entered Zhang Yunya's cave abode and saw her cultivating the Yuan Transformation Art, then wondered what made her special to the system.
• Zhang Yunya sensed someone watching her, and Ling Yi left a storage pouch beside her before slipping away.
• Zhang Yunya found the pouch and discovered spirit stones, supreme-grade Qi Gathering Pills, the Five Elements Yuan Transformation Art, the Illusory Spirit Art, the Spirit Concealment Art, and a booklet.
• Zhang Yunya picked up the final jade slip to inspect its contents.

Zhang Yunya trusted the mysterious ancestor’s inheritance and rapidly advanced through Qi Refining, while Ling Yi used the system’s returns to strengthen himself and learned that he needed Five Elements spirit treasures to form a perfection-grade Golden Core. Unable to find spirit treasures easily in the resource-poor Nine Rings Domain, Ling Yi sought Five Elements magic artifacts at the Myriad Treasures Tower, where Guo Wu’s brother appeared.

• Zhang Yunya accepted the jade slip’s claims about her ancestor and resumed cultivating the Five Elements Yuan Transformation Art.
• Ling Yi received system returns for his gifts to Zhang Yunya and realized that her rapid cultivation could soon lead to Foundation Establishment.
• Ling Yi supplied Zhang Yunya with more pills and sixth-grade Five Elements Spirit Fruit, then tested and confirmed that the system limited returns for gifts.
• Zhang Yunya reached the seventh layer of Foundation Establishment, while Ling Yi advanced to the twelfth layer’s Great Perfection and learned that he needed Five Elements spirit treasures to form a perfection-grade Golden Core.
• Ling Yi concluded that spirit treasures were scarce in the Nine Rings Domain and went to the Myriad Treasures Tower to ask Qian Youcai for Five Elements magic artifacts and Object Control spells.
• Guo Wu greeted his brother as three figures entered the Myriad Treasures Tower.

Ling Yi encountered Guo Pengsheng and Guo Wu at the Myriad Treasures Tower, then secretly overheard their schemes involving the tower’s profits, Zhang Yunya, and Demonic Insects. After learning the Myriad Insects Sect used Gu insects to control cultivators, Ling Yi considered Guo Pengsheng and Guo Wu threats who needed to be eliminated.

• Guo Pengsheng apologized for Guo Wu’s earlier behavior, but Guo Wu refused to apologize to Ling Yi, who left the Myriad Treasures Tower.
• Guo Pengsheng revealed that Qian Youcai’s reported three million low-grade spirit stones in profit could affect Second Uncle’s bid to become president of the Myriad Treasures Chamber of Commerce, and he warned Guo Wu not to target Ling Yi before learning his identity.
• Guo Pengsheng said he planned to use his remaining Demonic Insect on Zhang Yunya or Ling Yi, and would seek more Demonic Insects from the Myriad Insects Sect.
• Ling Yi, hidden nearby, overheard the brothers and learned that Guo Pengsheng had already controlled the true disciples of eight peaks; he decided the brothers were dangerous.
• Ling Yi researched Demonic Insects and discovered that the Myriad Insects Sect used Spirit-Devouring Gu and Demonic Insects to cripple or control cultivators across the Nine Rings Domain.

Ling Yi received the Great Perfection Clone Art through Zhang Yunya’s cultivation progress, condensing a powerful Primordial Spirit and spending half a month exploring its uses. Ye Cheng then visited to ask about the sect tournament, revealing that he planned to challenge for inner disciple status to protect his father, the South-Guarding Prince.

• Zhang Yunya’s mastery of the Shadow Body Technique triggered a ten-thousandfold return, granting Ling Yi the Great Perfection Clone Art and a Primordial Spirit far ahead of his cultivation stage.
• Ling Yi learned that his Primordial Spirit could divide into countless clones, comprehend laws simultaneously, and greatly expand his mental abilities.
• Ling Yi spent half a month studying the Clone Art and stored Zhang Yunya’s cultivation returns in a Cultivation Orb while he remained unable to advance to the Golden Core Stage.
• Ye Cheng visited Ling Yi’s courtyard, and Ling Yi deactivated its Defense Array to let him enter.
• Ye Cheng asked whether Ling Yi would enter the approaching sect tournament, then explained that he needed to become an inner disciple to shield his father, the South-Guarding Prince, from the Muli Nation emperor’s suspicion.

Ling Yi gave Ye Cheng Advancement Pills to help him reach the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining, then learned that two shipments of five-element magical artifacts had vanished. Qian Youcai asked to borrow spirit stones in exchange for influence in the Myriad Treasures Chamber of Commerce, and Ling Yi offered fifty thousand high-grade spirit stones in exchange for a real elder position; after Qian Youcai left to seek approval, Guo Pengsheng arrived to pursue his own deal.

• Ling Yi gave Ye Cheng enough Advancement Pills to reach the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining and accepted his thanks as repayment for an old favor.
• Qian Youcai told Ling Yi that two groups transporting five-element magical artifacts had disappeared, and Ling Yi suspected the losses were tied to the Chamber’s presidential election.
• Qian Youcai offered interest and honorary guest elder status in exchange for a loan, but Ling Yi demanded the authority of a real elder instead.
• Ling Yi offered fifty thousand high-grade spirit stones if Qian Youcai could secure his appointment, and Qian Youcai left to consult someone with the power to decide.
• Guo Pengsheng emerged after Qian Youcai left and knocked on Ling Yi’s gate, intending to win him over with a separate deal.

Guo Pengsheng visited Ling Yi to gather information and disrupt Qian Youcai’s deal, but Ling Yi deceived him and accepted a set of Five Elements Magic Beads. Meanwhile, Ling Yi’s clone killed Guo Wu, and Ling Yi sent the clone away with the beads and cultivation techniques for Zhang Yunya.

• Guo Pengsheng apologized to Ling Yi and offered him Five Elements Magic Beads, which Ling Yi accepted while pretending to be grateful.
• Guo Pengsheng questioned Ling Yi about his origins, and Ling Yi fed him an elaborate false story about the Great Tang and its sects.
• A black-robed figure dragged Guo Wu from the Myriad Treasures Tower, severed his legs, and killed him before he could call for help.
• Qian Youcai recognized the attacker as a likely Nascent Soul Stage cultivator and considered using Guo Wu’s death to damage the ninth elder’s standing.
• After receiving Guo Wu’s unfinished plea for help, Guo Pengsheng rushed to the marketplace, while Ling Yi revealed the black-robed figure was his clone and gave it the Five Elements Magic Beads and techniques for Zhang Yunya.

Ling Yi refined five spiritual treasure Golden Cores and advanced to the middle Golden Core Realm, then disguised his cultivation as Qi Refining. With the sect tournament less than a week away, Yan Yun urged Zhang Yunya to establish her foundation so she could enter the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm.

• Ling Yi refined the five elements spiritual treasures, formed five spiritual treasure Golden Cores, and advanced to the Golden Core Stage.
• Ling Yi consumed the stored cultivation in the Cultivation Orb and quickly reached the fourth layer of the Golden Core Stage before disguising himself as a first-layer Qi Refining cultivator.
• Ling Yi considered the approaching sect tournament and worried that Zhang Yunya's rapid cultivation could attract dangerous attention.
• Yan Yun praised Zhang Yunya's apparent ninth-layer Qi Refining cultivation but insisted she establish her foundation before the tournament to enter the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm.
• Yan Yun gave Zhang Yunya pills and spirit stones to aid her cultivation, while Zhang Yunya wondered why her master was so intent on her establishing her foundation.

Ling Yi learned that the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm held the key to Yan Yun’s path to Nascent Soul and was tied to the Heaven and Earth Sect’s founding. After gaining powerful sword and aerial combat techniques, he was confronted by Qian Youcai with news that Guo Wu’s father was coming to the Heaven and Earth Sect.

• Ling Yi read that the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm opened rarely, required entrants to have reached Foundation Establishment, and was connected to the Heaven and Earth Sect’s founding patriarch.
• Yan Yun revealed that the sect’s Yin-Yang Heaven and Earth Art was incomplete and that she needed the secret realm to obtain the complete art and advance to Nascent Soul.
• Ling Yi gifted Zhang Yunya the Secret Accounts of the Immortal Cultivation Realm and received a detailed Ten-Thousand-Year Chronicle of the Immortal Cultivation Realm in return.
• Zhang Yunya gained proficiency in Sword Control and Air Control, granting Ling Yi perfect mastery of the upper Heaven Grade Spirit Sword Art and Aerial Combat Art.
• Qian Youcai told Ling Yi that Guo Wu was dead and warned that Guo Wu’s father, the Myriad Treasures Chamber of Commerce’s ninth elder, would likely arrive at the Heaven and Earth Sect soon.

Ling Yi rejected Zhang Yunyang’s scheme to secure an elder’s position and threatened him with the Blood Baleful Energy Alliance, while arranging for clones to seek rare cultivation arts. In the Heaven and Earth Sect, Zhang Yunya revealed her Foundation Establishment cultivation and learned that Yan Yun would tell her about the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm.

• Ling Yi warned Qian Youcai that Zhang Yunyang had to arrange an elder’s position for ten thousand high-grade spirit stones or face death, and Qian Youcai left fearing the second elder’s response.
• Ling Yi secretly had a shadow follow Qian Youcai, then sent several clones to gather supplies and inherited cultivation arts from other sects and families.
• Ling Yi’s plans to find the Spirits of the Five Elements advanced after he learned where to search, and he considered the Myriad Treasures Chamber of Commerce dispensable.
• Zhang Yunya received a jade slip reassuring her that her ancestor would protect her, and she decided to reveal her Foundation Establishment cultivation.
• Yan Yun arrived, celebrated Zhang Yunya’s breakthrough, and began telling her about the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm under strict secrecy.

The Heaven and Earth Sect’s annual tournament began, and Ling Yi learned how its combat rules and rankings worked as the disciples gathered at the main peak. Zhang Yunya worried about her father and the dangerous secret realm, while Guo Pengsheng suspected Ling Yi was connected to Guo Wu’s death.

• The grand elder announced the tournament, and Liu Shihai explained the sect’s hierarchy, the danger of tournament fights, and why the sect could not prevent disciples from killing one another outside its grounds.
• The disciples reached the martial arena, where Ling Yi read the tournament rules and learned that outer and inner sect contestants would compete for rankings and rewards.
• Ling Yi recalled that Zhang Yunya had reached Foundation Establishment Stage, ninth level, and possessed powerful Heaven Grade spells, though she remained unsure of her strength and feared the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm.
• Zhang Yunya worried that she had received no news from her father in Jin Yun Nation after a year and wondered whether her mysterious ancestor could protect her in the secret realm.
• Guo Pengsheng watched the menial disciples with suspicion and concluded that Ling Yi’s unseen associates were the likeliest culprits behind Guo Wu’s death.

Guo Pengsheng secretly used Demonic Insects to control eight of the Heaven and Earth Sect’s nine true disciples, while Ling Yi watched the sect tournament and prepared Ye Cheng to challenge an inner disciple. The outer matches produced a surprising victor: Lin Fan, a low-level cultivator whose Saber Intent let him defeat spellcasters at close range.

• Guo Pengsheng’s second uncle arrived at the Myriad Treasures Tower gravely injured after an ambush, and Guo Pengsheng blamed Ling Yi while planning to control him with a Demonic Insect.
• Ling Yi revealed that Guo Pengsheng had implanted Demonic Insects in eight true disciples, but Zhang Yunya had escaped control after her cultivation art removed both the soul brand and the insect.
• Ling Yi grew bored watching the outer disciples’ matches and told Ye Cheng to rely on his ninth-layer Qi Refining Spiritual Power when challenging an opponent.
• Liu Shihai accidentally revealed Ye Cheng’s cultivation, and Ye Cheng explained that his royal father had supplied him with resources.
• Lin Fan won three matches against higher-level opponents by using worldly saber techniques and Saber Intent to interrupt their spellcasting.

Ling Yi predicted Lin Fan’s third-place finish and watched the sect’s inner and core disciple matches, while his comments drew attention and earned Lin Fan’s resentment. That night, Guo Pengsheng recruited Lin Huai to open a box containing a Demonic Insect beside Ling Yi, then reported to Guo Yunhu, who revealed an image-recording jade slip tied to Zhang Yunyang’s fate.

• Ling Yi explained that Lin Fan had concealed his Foundation Establishment cultivation and possessed sixty percent Saber Intent, then predicted Lin Fan would finish third; Lin Fan did so after winning four matches and losing one.
• The inner sect matches ended without surprises, while the core disciple matches left over twenty seriously injured and two dead; Lu Xue’er took first place, a Nine Yang Peak disciple took second, and Guo Pengsheng took third.
• Ling Yi’s prediction and the phrase “sneaky schemer” spread among the menial disciples, attracting attention and frustrating Lin Fan, who began holding a grudge against Ling Yi.
• Guo Pengsheng met Lin Huai and promised to help him become an inner sect disciple if he opened a box beside Ling Yi the next day; the box contained a refined Demonic Insect meant to burrow into Ling Yi’s soul.
• Guo Pengsheng told Guo Yunhu about Lin Fan and Ling Yi’s insight, then Guo Yunhu dismissed concerns about Qian Youcai and showed Guo Pengsheng an image-recording jade slip that he said could seal Zhang Yunyang’s fate.

Guo Pengsheng learned that the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm would open in two days, while Ling Yi uncovered the Myriad Insects Sect’s infiltration and considered raiding its base. After Guo Pengsheng left to meet a controlled disciple, an unseen figure knocked him unconscious.

• Guo Yunhu identified elder tokens in the assassination footage, while Guo Pengsheng concealed his connection to the Myriad Insects Sect and agreed to wait before targeting Ling Yi.
• Qian Youcai told Ling Yi the assassination attempt had failed, and Ling Yi demanded ten Earth Grade cultivation arts or spells in exchange for dealing with Guo Yunhu and helping Zhang Yunyang become president.
• Ling Yi revealed that Demonic Insects had infiltrated the Heaven and Earth Sect and other sects across the Nine Rings Domain, then considered raiding the Myriad Insects Sect to obtain its insect-control methods.
• Guo Pengsheng met a controlled disciple, who told him the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm would open in two days and contained ancient inheritances, including the complete Yin-Yang Heaven and Earth Art.
• As Guo Pengsheng laughed over the chance to profit from the secret realm, an unseen figure struck him in the head and knocked him unconscious.

Ling Yi stole the Myriad Gu Art from Guo Pengsheng’s storage ring and passed it to Zhang Yunya, who learned how to detect and remove demonic insects. Zhang Yunya discovered an insect egg in her master Yan Yun’s soul and removed it, after which Yan Yun asked to learn the method.

• Ling Yi’s clone knocked out Guo Pengsheng, copied the Myriad Gu Art from his storage ring, and left his demonic insects untouched.
• Guo Pengsheng woke with damaged Spiritual Sense and an exposed storage ring, then suspected a late Foundation Establishment cultivator had attacked him.
• Zhang Yunya received the Myriad Gu Art and a warning that the Myriad Insects Sect had infiltrated cultivators across the Nine Rings Domain, then learned the art’s basics.
• Zhang Yunya went to Yan Yun and explained the threat without revealing her cultivation technique or the ancestor who had helped her.
• Yan Yun let Zhang Yunya examine her soul, and Zhang Yunya found and removed a demonic insect egg.
• Yan Yun recognized the Myriad Insects Sect’s involvement and asked Zhang Yunya to teach her how to draw out demonic insect eggs.

Zhang Yunya gave Yan Yun the Myriad Gu Art, prompting Yan Yun to secretly plan how to remove the demonic insects and uncover the Myriad Insects Sect's infiltrators. Ling Yi perfected the Immortal Grade Gu God Art, used it to create a five-beast protective talisman for Zhang Yunya, and arrived at the true disciple tournament, where Lin Huai approached him and opened a box.

• Zhang Yunya gave Yan Yun a jade slip containing the Myriad Gu Art, and Yan Yun warned her to keep its secrets while preparing for the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm.
• Yan Yun resolved to investigate how many Heaven and Earth Sect members had been implanted with demonic insects and set out for the main peak.
• Ling Yi studied the perfected Immortal Grade Gu God Art and explored combining it with the Clone Art and Spirit Sword Art to create five elemental sacred-beast imitations.
• Ling Yi made a protective talisman for Zhang Yunya that would transform into the five sacred beasts if she faced danger.
• Ye Cheng and Liu Shihai met Ling Yi, and the three headed to the true disciple tournament, where Guo Pengsheng and Lin Huai noticed Ling Yi.
• Lin Huai approached Ling Yi and secretly opened a box when he was about three meters away.