Chapter Summaries

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.

Guo Pengsheng’s attempt to plant a Demonic Insect in Ling Yi instead infected Lin Huai, while Lu Yun and Yan Yun uncovered evidence of the Myriad Insects Sect’s scheme and the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm. As the sect’s factions pursued their own plans, Ling Yi considered leaving with Zhang Yunya after the secret realm and met Lin Fan, who challenged him to a fight.

• Guo Pengsheng lost control of the Demonic Insect, which attached itself to Lin Huai’s soul instead of Ling Yi’s.
• Lu Yun told Yan Yun to secretly capture Guo Pengsheng, and they resolved to investigate Ling Yi, Lin Huai, and Ye Cheng after sensing the Myriad Gu Art.
• Guo Pengsheng discovered that Zhang Yunya’s Demonic Insect had disappeared and ordered the other eight true disciples to keep her out of the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm.
• Lin Huai bragged to Liu Mo and Guo Sihai that he would enter the inner sect, unaware that Guo Pengsheng had planted a Demonic Insect in him.
• Ling Yi decided he might leave the Heaven and Earth Sect with Zhang Yunya after the secret realm and considered claiming to be the Zhang Family ancestor’s disciple.
• Lin Fan approached Ling Yi and asked for a fight, but Ling Yi told him that the third layer of Foundation Establishment was not enough.

Ling Yi suspected Lin Fan was a transmigrator while the true disciple tournament began with Lu Ping attacking Zhang Yunya. After Zhang Yunya survived his killing move and revealed her Golden Core cultivation and five-element golden cores, she killed Lu Ping when First Elder Lu Ming tried to intervene.

• Ling Yi tested Lin Fan’s knowledge with a phrase and learned that Lin Fan had had an engagement broken off, then postponed their conversation until after the tournament.
• Zhang Yunya entered the tournament concealing her Golden Core strength, but she sensed Lu Ping’s killing intent and evaded his fireballs using the Spirit Concealment Art.
• Lu Ping made his fireballs circle back and explode around Zhang Yunya, but she emerged unharmed, angered by the sect’s acceptance of lethal matches.
• Zhang Yunya revealed her Golden Core cultivation and five-element spiritual treasure golden cores, shocking the sect leaders and spectators.
• Zhang Yunya’s metal golden core pierced First Elder Lu Ming’s flaming hand and killed Lu Ping, and Ling Yi remarked that the tool was a little hotheaded.

Guo Pengsheng fled the Heaven and Earth Sect after realizing Zhang Yunya was a Golden Core cultivator, but Ling Yi's skylark killed him at the gate. At the tournament, Zhang Yunya fought off Lu Ming and the elders' accusations, until Lu Ming openly called for an attack and sent his Fire Cloud Sword at her Golden Cores.

• Guo Pengsheng slipped away from the sect with Jin Wuyang and Li Chen, who confronted him about his Demonic Insects and their Myriad Insects Sect ties.
• Guo Pengsheng attacked Bai Jiang at the gate, but Ling Yi's skylark destroyed his water ball and pierced his brain; Jin Wuyang and Li Chen fled.
• Zhang Yunya battered Lu Ming with her Spiritual Treasure Golden Cores until Yan Yun urged her to stop.
• Lu Ming accused Zhang Yunya of being a spy and urged the elders to capture her, while Zhang Yunya rejected their pretense and challenged them to fight.
• Lu Ming revealed his supreme-grade spiritual treasure, the Fire Cloud Sword, promised the others a share of Zhang Yunya's cultivation technique, and sent the sword toward her Golden Cores.

Ling Yi intervened after Zhang Yunya was betrayed by the Heaven and Earth Sect’s leaders, then forced them to make her sect master. He left with Zhang Yunya, while the weakened leaders faced the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm and the threat of the Myriad Insects Sect.

• Zhang Yunya’s Fire Cloud Sword damaged her Spirit Treasure Golden Core of Metal, and the Heaven and Earth Sect’s leaders attacked her while she was distracted.
• Ling Yi appeared beside Zhang Yunya, revealed his spiritual treasure golden core, and restrained the sect’s leaders when they attacked her.
• Ling Yi reduced the leaders’ cultivation and declared that Zhang Yunya would become sect master, but she objected and suggested he take the role instead.
• Ling Yi asked Lu Yun about the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm, then vanished with Zhang Yunya after weakening Lu Ming and reducing Lu Yun, Yan Yun, and the elders to the First Layer of Foundation Establishment.
• Lu Yun and the others discussed the secret realm as a possible way out, while Yan Yun warned that the Myriad Insects Sect’s implanted demonic insects also needed urgent attention.

Ling Yi fabricated a story about Zhang Yuchu surviving as a Seven-Tribulation Loose Immortal who needed Zhang Yunya’s Karmic Luck to reincarnate, and persuaded her to help build a power base as Heaven and Earth Sect’s sect master. Zhang Yunya agreed to try trusting Ling Yi, then explained that she had fled her father’s political ambitions and met Yan Yun on Dragon Ring Mountain, where Yan Yun may have been searching for the Ten Thousand Demons Secret Realm.

• Ye Cheng, Liu Shihai, and Lin Fan discussed Ling Yi’s power and the turmoil facing the Heaven and Earth Sect as they returned to their quarters.
• Ling Yi told Zhang Yunya that her ancestor was Zhang Yuchu, who had survived his supposed death and become a Seven-Tribulation Loose Immortal seeking reincarnation through a descendant with great Karmic Luck.
• Ling Yi urged Zhang Yunya to become sect master and build a force, promising to find the Spirits of the Five Elements and stand by her; Zhang Yunya agreed to try trusting him.
• Zhang Yunya explained that she had fled after arguing with her father, the Ninth Prince, over his ambition to become emperor and had been placed under house arrest.
• Zhang Yunya said Yan Yun found her on Dragon Ring Mountain and kept her there for two months, prompting Ling Yi to suspect Yan Yun had been searching for the Ten Thousand Demons Secret Realm.

Ling Yi helped Zhang Yunya take control of the Heaven and Earth Sect and learned more about her dream of becoming a chivalrous hero. As he prepared to search for a newly bound recipient named Li Ruyan, the system fused three of his techniques into a new Immortal Grade art, and he sent butterfly clones out to search.

• Ling Yi told Zhang Yunya about the Ten Thousand Demons Secret Realm, gave her the method to control the spirit Gu inside Lu Yun and the elders, and promised to help her master her techniques.
• Zhang Yunya shared her childhood love of Jianghu novels and stayed overnight in Ling Yi's courtyard instead of returning to Shuiyue Peak.
• A skylark sent by Ling Yi killed Guo Yunhu in front of Qian Youcai, who worried that Zhang Yunyang would challenge Ling Yi and began considering how he might claim a position for himself.
• Lu Yun and the elders remained stuck at the fourth trial of the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm, unable to defeat its Golden Core Stage Great Perfection illusion beast.
• Ling Yi noticed that Li Ruyan had appeared as a new bound gift recipient, then fused the Gu God Art, Spirit Sword Art, and Clone Art into the mid-grade Immortal Grade Myriad Transformation Formula.
• Ling Yi created hundreds of butterfly clones and sent them out to search for Li Ruyan.

Ling Yi fused several cultivation arts into lower-tier Immortal Grade divine abilities and went with Zhang Yunya to Fanlin City for breakfast. At Li the Lame’s bun shop, they encountered Li Ruyan and her father being threatened by Young Master Zhao, an affiliate disciple of the Heaven and Earth Sect, and Zhang Yunya prepared to intervene as sect master.

• Ling Yi fused the five elemental arts into the Five Elements Divinity Art and the Spirit Concealment Art and Illusory Spirit Art into the Divine Illusion Art, both reaching lower-tier Immortal Grade.
• Ling Yi concluded that he needed to visit the Five Elements Secret Realm to see genuine Spirits of the Five Elements before advancing to Nascent Soul.
• Ling Yi invited Zhang Yunya to eat buns in Fanlin City, and the two concealed their identities as they visited Lady Li’s Bun Shop.
• Young Master Zhao and his men drove away the shop’s customers and demanded that Li the Lame hand over his daughter, Li Ruyan.
• Young Master Zhao revealed that he was an affiliate disciple of the Heaven and Earth Sect and threatened Li the Lame and Li Ruyan with his cultivation status.
• Ling Yi told Zhang Yunya that, as sect master, she was suited to handle Young Master Zhao, and Zhang Yunya said the affiliate disciple system should be abolished.

Ling Yi rescued Li Ruyan from Young Master Zhao, discovered her five mutated Spiritual Roots, and took her and her father Li Wuji to the Heaven and Earth Sect. After giving them cultivation methods, Ling Yi agreed to help Qian Youcai rise through the Myriad Treasures Chamber of Commerce and gave him a jade slip of items to collect.

• Zhang Yunya crushed Young Master Zhao with Spiritual Power and burned him to nothing after he stared at her.
• Ling Yi tested Li Ruyan and found five low-grade mutated Spiritual Roots, then asked her to become his disciple; she agreed after he promised she could stay with her father.
• Ling Yi brought Li Ruyan and Li Wuji to the Heaven and Earth Sect, where he discovered Li Wuji had a high-grade earth Spiritual Root and gave each of them a cultivation method.
• Qian Youcai told Ling Yi he wanted to become chairman of the Myriad Treasures Chamber of Commerce and explained the sales thresholds for promotion.
• Ling Yi agreed to support Qian Youcai and gave him a porcelain bottle and jade slip, ordering him to collect the listed items.

Ling Yi helped Zhang Yunya prepare to take over the Heaven and Earth Sect while learning about Li Ruyan and Li Wuji’s flight from Feng-Yun Nation. After Zhang Yunya became sect master, she ordered the sect’s Foundation Establishment disciples to gather so they could attempt the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm trials.

• Qian Youcai discovered ten Supreme-Grade True Spirit Pills from Ling Yi and arranged an auction, hoping to strengthen his position against the Myriad Treasures Chamber of Commerce’s second elder.
• Ling Yi gave Zhang Yunya an operational plan, and she led Lu Yun and the elders to the main peak to assume the sect master position.
• Li Wuji began Qi Refining and offered to cook for Ling Yi, while Ruyan worried that she could not sense Spiritual Qi despite practicing her difficult technique.
• Ruyan told Ling Yi that her father, Li Wuji, had led the Crane Fist Sect in Feng-Yun Nation before a rogue cultivator’s allies forced them to flee to Muli Nation.
• Ling Yi realized the rogue cultivator’s connection to the Myriad Treasures Tower’s second elder might conceal a deeper motive and remembered that he still needed to find the person who had secretly attacked the original Ling Yi.
• After the succession ceremony, Zhang Yunya ordered all Foundation Establishment disciples not on field duty to gather at the main peak and attempt the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm trials.

Zhang Yunya confronted the Heaven and Earth Sect’s elders about demonic insect eggs planted by the Myriad Insects Sect and announced that Ling Yi had removed them. She then introduced sweeping reforms backed by Ling Yi’s abundant resources, leaving the elders ready to carry them out.

• Zhang Yunya told Lu Yun and the elders that the Myriad Insects Sect had secretly implanted demonic insect eggs in members of sects across the Nine Rings Domain, and that Ling Yi had removed the eggs from them.
• Zhang Yunya ordered Yan Yun to send all eligible Foundation Establishment disciples into the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm that afternoon.
• Zhang Yunya abolished legacy, core, and nominal disciple designations and reorganized ranks, contribution points, departments, and pavilions while increasing disciple benefits.
• Lu Yun and the second elder worried that the reforms would drain the sect’s resources, but Zhang Yunya said Ling Yi could easily support the sect and would provide Heaven Grade techniques and spells for the Cultivation Technique Pavilion.
• The elders accepted Zhang Yunya’s orders and went to work with renewed enthusiasm.

Ling Yi gained mastery of the Heaven and Earth Five Elements World Transformation Art and several immortal cultivation Daos after Li Ruyan and Zhang Yunya learned what he had taught them. After a period of seclusion, he emerged to find the Heaven and Earth Sect thriving, and learned that Qian Youcai had arrived.

• Ling Yi gave Zhang Yunya resources and a jade slip, and warned her to keep herself and Li Ruyan safe while he searched for the Spirits of the Five Elements.
• Li Ruyan and Zhang Yunya mastered their lessons, triggering returns that gave Ling Yi the Heaven and Earth Five Elements World Transformation Art and perfection in several ninth-grade Daos.
• Ling Yi examined his transformed cultivation and decided to master his new gains before pursuing the Spirits of the Five Elements.
• Zhang Yunya organized sect missions and recruitment, relocated the market, and established ninth-grade formations around the sect and market.
• Ling Yi ended his seclusion, praised Li Ruyan for reaching Qi Refining, Fourth Level, and heard from Li Wuji that Qian Youcai had arrived.

Ling Yi gave Qian Youcai powerful arrays and rare treasures for the Myriad Treasures Tower auction, strengthening Qian’s confidence ahead of a contest for the Myriad Treasures Chamber of Commerce presidency. When Zhang Yunyang arrived to assess the situation, he discovered the marketplace’s Ninth Pin arrays and realized that Ling Yi was not someone he could safely provoke.

• Qian Youcai invited Ling Yi to the auction, and Ling Yi revealed that the Heaven and Earth Sect and marketplace were protected by Ninth Pin arrays.
• Ling Yi gave Qian Youcai a Teleport Array flag, a Lightning-Summoning Talisman, and the Nine Dragons Palanquin to auction in support of Qian’s bid to become branch president.
• Zhang Yunyang flew toward the marketplace with his disciples while worrying that Qian Youcai’s successful auction could cost him the presidency.
• The triangular-eyed youth ignored the no-flying rule, hit the marketplace’s array, and fell to the ground injured.
• Zhang Yunyang entered the marketplace and recognized that its Ninth Pin arrays could suppress even powerful cultivators, so he restrained himself and followed the rules.

Lin Fan enforced order at the Heaven and Earth Sect’s market while Ling Yi prepared for the auction and secretly placed Spirit Gu Clones in every arriving cultivator. After the auction, Ling Yi captured Wan Wudi and his allies, taking control of the Myriad Insects Sect’s long-running plans and assigning them new roles.

• Lin Fan stopped an arrogant young man from cutting the queue, and the man’s elder recognized the danger of the ninth-grade formation and dragged him back.
• Wan Wudi and the black-robed Myriad Insects Sect members discussed the secret realm, the formation, and their need to learn how the Heaven and Earth Sect countered Demonic Insects.
• Qian Youcai reported the powerful cultivators arriving at the market, while Ling Yi reassured him and secretly kept the visitors under control with Spirit Gu Clones.
• The auction proceeded smoothly, earning nearly fifteen billion low-grade spirit stones, which Ling Yi passed through Zhang Yunya and little Ruyan to obtain one hundred million immortal crystals.
• A week later, Ling Yi confronted Wan Wudi and his black-robed followers, revealed that he had taken Wan Wudi’s immortal insect and control of him, and learned how far the Myriad Insects Sect’s infiltration had spread.
• Ling Yi ordered Wan Wudi to serve as an elder in the Heaven and Earth Sect and told Second Elder Zhang Yunyang to help Qian Youcai become chairman, promising him a chance to lead the Song Family.

Ling Yi settled the karma of the Heaven and Earth Sect’s original owner by killing Jin Wuyang and Li Chen, then prepared to leave the sect and seek the Spirits of the Five Elements. After departing, he was confronted by three cultivators from the inner domain.

• Zhang Yunyang hoped Ling Yi would eventually help him see the Song Family humbled, and learned that Ling Yi controlled the Myriad Insects Sect.
• Ling Yi killed Jin Wuyang and Li Chen for murdering his predecessor, then ordered Wan Wudi to breed Immortal Insects instead of Demonic Insects.
• Ling Yi gave Zhang Yunya twenty million low-grade immortal crystals and assigned Wan Wudi to assist her in securing control of the Five Elements Domain.
• Ling Yi reflected on reaching the Immortal Venerable realm and finding a way back to his former home, then left the Heaven and Earth Sect to seek the Spirits of the Five Elements.
• Three cultivators blocked Ling Yi’s path, and he recognized two as Spirit Severing Stage cultivators and one as a Spirit Transformation Stage cultivator from the inner domain.

Ling Yi confronted members of the Song Family outside the Heaven and Earth Sect and killed three of them with his Spirit Gu when they tried to use Soul Search and threatened him. After questioning Elder Qin about the Five Elements Domain and its powers, Ling Yi learned that travel to the BeiDou Domain had ceased more than seven thousand years ago.

• Elder Qin and the Song Family group questioned Ling Yi about the Heaven and Earth Sect, but triangular-eyed Song Family youth pushed Elder Lin to use Soul Search on him.
• Ling Yi killed Elder Lin by activating the Spirit Gu planted in his dantian and Primordial Spirit.
• The silent Spirit Transformation Stage elder identified Ling Yi and threatened him, so Ling Yi killed him and the triangular-eyed youth with a word.
• Ling Yi spared Elder Qin and the feminine-looking youth, then asked Elder Qin about the inner domain's powers and regions.
• Elder Qin explained that the Five Elements Sacred Mountain's teleportation formation required the Five Elements Five Sects' approval and vast resources, and that no one from the BeiDou Domain had arrived in over seven thousand years.