Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi and Lin Xue'er made a magical contract, and Lin Xue'er gave him cultivation techniques and supplies. After choosing several dangerous arts, Ling Yi learned that the Heavenly Yuan Sect was coming to compete for Spirit Bathing Day places, which Lin Xue'er hoped to use to break through to the Golden Core Stage.

• Ling Yi and Lin Xue'er recited contract terms promising not to harm or abandon each other, to act as Dao companions, and to travel together once Ling Yi reached the Mahayana Realm.
• Lin Xue'er offered Ling Yi cultivation methods, and he chose the Ten Thousand Swords Art, Five Elements Body Tempering Art, and Life-Burning Art before she warned him about their dangers.
• Ling Yi also chose the Spirit Sword Art, which he thought would complement the Ten Thousand Swords Art, and refused Lin Xue'er's suggestion to pick safer techniques.
• Lin Xue'er gave Ling Yi a storage ring with cultivation pills, a jade slip of basic Five Elements arts, and a communication token.
• Lin Xue'er explained that the Heavenly Yuan Sect's annual visit was a contest over Spirit Bathing Day places, and she planned to attempt a Golden Core breakthrough despite lacking a Foundation Establishment Pill.

Ling Yi discovered Xu Qingshan and Xu Tianyun as new targets on his system panel and began cultivating with the Life-Burning Art. Meanwhile, Xu Tianyun planned to use Lin Xue'er to gain access to the Eastern Continent and ordered Xu Qingshan to kill Ling Yi, but his own life force began draining after he developed killing intent toward Ling Yi.

• Ling Yi checked his system panel, found Xu Qingshan and Xu Tianyun listed as new targets, and prepared to cultivate using the Life-Burning Art.
• Xu Tianyun told Xu Baishan that he had been secretly dosing Lin Xue'er with Spirit Absorption Pills so the Five Elements Poison would make her his tool.
• Xu Baishan abandoned his former reluctance to harm Lin Xue'er and decided he wanted to see her ruined after she rejected him.
• Xu Tianyun ordered Xu Baishan to deliver Lin Xue'er the final batch of pills and Xu Qingshan to kill Ling Yi at the herb garden.
• Xu Tianyun suddenly felt his meridians swell and his Life Origin drain away, then suspected he had been poisoned despite finding no toxins in his body.

Xu Tianyun restored his appearance by devouring disciples’ lifespans, but Xu Qingshan and Xu Baishan were struck by mysterious pain as Ling Yi cultivated the Spirit Sword Art using the system. By dawn, Ling Yi had condensed 160 spiritual swords and sent them after a large bird he spotted in the sky.

• Xu Tianyun tried to seize Xu Baishan and Xu Qingshan to replenish his lifespan, but both sons fled.
• After his meridians recovered, Xu Tianyun killed several disciples to regain his middle-aged appearance, then found Xu Qingshan screaming in pain and Xu Baishan was struck by the same pain.
• Ling Yi used the system’s Substitution Value to cultivate, reaching Foundation Establishment Fourth Level and condensing over a hundred sword spirits.
• Ling Yi switched his cultivation target to Xu Tianyun and condensed 160 sword spirits before stopping at dawn.
• Ling Yi spotted a large white bird and sent his 160 spiritual swords after it.

Ling Yi and Lin Xue'er cooked and ate a Foundation Establishment spirit crane, then discussed the Ten Thousand Demons Sect’s forbidden techniques and the weakened seal on the Demonic Sect. The chapter left Ling Yi intrigued by the forbidden arts and asking Lin Xue'er about strange events in the Tyrant Heaven Sect.

• Ling Yi shot down a Foundation Establishment spirit crane, found a warning jade slip tied to its leg, and learned it concerned the Ten Thousand Demons Sect’s plans around an upcoming sect visit.
• Lin Xue'er discovered Ling Yi had reached Foundation Establishment fourth level, then helped him stew the crane in her large cauldron.
• Ling Yi and Lin Xue'er feasted on the crane, and Ling Yi kept the remaining meat while Lin Xue'er warned him about dangers in the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• Lin Xue'er explained that the Ten Thousand Demons Sect used forbidden techniques that damaged their practitioners’ foundations, but Ling Yi saw their benefits as ideal for his cheat.
• Lin Xue'er said the Demonic Sect’s weakened seal was being reinforced, and Ling Yi asked about recent events in the Tyrant Heaven Sect.

Ling Yi learned why Lin Xue'er needed Spirit Bathing Day to form her yin-yang dual golden cores and agreed to pose as her Dao companion, promising to handle the threats against the event. As they flew around the Tyrant Heaven Sect holding hands, disciples saw them together and spread the news, drawing the goddess’s admirers’ hostility toward Ling Yi.

• Lin Xue'er told Ling Yi that Xu Tianyun, Xu Qingshan, and Xu Baishan were related, and that the Ten Thousand Demons Sect might disrupt Spirit Bathing Day.
• Lin Xue'er revealed that her yin-yang dual dantians required mysterious extreme spiritual power from the Tyrant Heaven Sect's spiritual spring, and that threats and interference could endanger her core formation.
• Ling Yi agreed to act as Lin Xue'er's Dao companion and suggested they practice by holding hands, then fly around the sect together.
• Hou Xiaobao saw Ling Yi and Lin Xue'er flying hand in hand and explained that Ling Yi was a servant disciple to the other disciples.
• The disciples learned that Ling Yi was holding hands with their goddess, Lin Xue'er, and the news spread throughout the Tyrant Heaven Sect.

After the system upgraded, Ling Yi configured a limit on how much substitution value he could consume and saw powerful sect figures join his killing-intent list. He cultivated through multiple realms to the second layer of the Golden Core, then began combining sword arts while Lin Xue'er watched in shock.

• The system upgraded after Ling Yi stored more than 100,000 substitution value, permanently fixed entries for targets who developed killing intent, and added adjustable consumption limits; Ling Yi set the limit to fifty percent.
• Ling Yi discovered that Bai Jiangshan and Zheng Nanjian were hidden Golden Core cultivators, and Lin Xue'er explained that both men came from the Eastern Continent and knew her identity.
• Ling Yi began cultivating with the Life-Burning Art and Five Elements Body Tempering Art, rapidly advancing from Foundation Establishment Fourth Level to the Golden Core Stage and then the second layer of Golden Core.
• Ling Yi condensed hundreds of miniature spiritual swords as he practiced the Spirit Sword Art and Ten Thousand Swords Art together, while Lin Xue'er wondered how he endured cutting apart his Spiritual Sense.
• Agonized screams rose across the Tyrant Heaven Sect, though a formation kept Lin Xue'er from hearing them.

Ling Yi cultivated two thousand sword spirits and joined Lin Xue'er as she confronted Xu Baishan, whose Spirit Absorption Pills concealed a danger to her. After Lin Xue'er uncovered the pills’ hidden effect, Ling Yi set out with her to visit the Tyrant Heaven Sect’s five halls and gather more cultivation resources.

• Ling Yi split his spiritual sense until he had two thousand sword spirits, then stopped to avoid permanently reducing the substitution value of the people in his system.
• Lin Xue'er told Ling Yi about the Heavenly Yuan Sect’s sect visit, and Xu Baishan arrived to deliver her Spirit Absorption Pills and threaten Ling Yi.
• Lin Xue'er struck Xu Baishan with an ice sword after he reacted angrily to Ling Yi calling her “Xue'er,” and he left the pills behind.
• Ling Yi tasted a Spirit Absorption Pill and discovered that Xu Baishan’s substitution value dropped; Lin Xue'er identified a hidden danger in the pills and resolved to target the Tyrant Heaven Sect’s conspirators.
• Ling Yi asked Lin Xue'er to take him around the five halls, and she flew with him toward the mountain.

Ling Yi and Lin Xue'er discovered that the Ten Thousand Demons Sect had besieged the Tyrant Heaven Sect with a vast force of powerful Demonic Beasts, seeking Lin Xue'er’s Yin-Yang Golden Core. After Jiang Hongchan was badly wounded, Ling Yi shattered the sect’s protective formation and attacked Wan Wudi, leaving him captured and battered.

• Lin Xue'er questioned Ling Yi about his cheat, and he revealed that people who harbored killing intent toward him became substitutes, making him eager for more enemies.
• Nine bells warned that the Tyrant Heaven Sect faced a crisis, so Ling Yi and Lin Xue'er left her cave abode to see what was happening.
• A thousand Demonic Beasts carrying members of the Ten Thousand Demons Sect surrounded the sect, and Wan Wudi demanded its surrender and Jiang Hongchan’s death.
• Wan Wudi revealed that he wanted Lin Xue'er’s Yin-Yang Golden Core, and Jiang Hongchan charged him but was struck down by a Golden Core Ninth Level Demonic Beast.
• Ling Yi learned that Lin Xue'er was the Xue Clan’s holy maiden, then broke through the protective formation and used two thousand spirit swords to destroy Wan Wudi’s mount and pierce his limbs.
• Ling Yi flew up to the injured Wan Wudi and slapped him across the face.

Ling Yi survived Wan Wudi’s self-destruction unharmed, then discovered that powerful Tyrant Heaven Sect Master Jiang Hongchan had developed killing intent toward him. Lin Xue’er explained her family’s betrayal and the secret of her yin-yang dual dantians, and Ling Yi agreed to join her search for a supreme treasure after Spirit Bathing Day.

• Wan Wudi learned that Ling Yi was Lin Xue’er’s Dao companion, despaired over losing his chance to change his fate, and self-destructed while ordering the Ten Thousand Demons Sect to kill Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi emerged unharmed from the blast, while system notifications showed substitution values falling for Zhao Hao, Xu Baishan, Xu Qingshan, Xu Tianyun, and others.
• Jiang Hongchan ordered the Tyrant Heaven Sect’s hall masters to meet her and warned Lin Xue’er to leave after Spirit Bathing Day; Ling Yi discovered Jiang Hongchan’s entry showed nascent soul third-layer strength.
• Lin Xue’er told Ling Yi that her cousin Lin Shuang’er had forced her to destroy her dantian and that her yin-yang dual golden cores made her a target for those seeking a supreme treasure.
• Ling Yi agreed to accompany Lin Xue’er to search for the treasure after Spirit Bathing Day.

Ling Yi cultivated to Nascent Soul, Ninth Level, Great Perfection, then escorted Lin Xue'er to the Tyrant Heaven Sect’s Spirit Bathing Day and intimidated the sect members who suspected him of possessing a supreme treasure. As Lin Xue'er began using the spirit spring to form her core, Ling Yi discovered that the appearance of Long Taoyi’s entry had upgraded his system and added a Sharing Target feature.

• Ling Yi reflected on the danger of damage overflowing Substitution Value and cultivated intensely for ten days, reaching Nascent Soul, Ninth Level, Great Perfection, while perfecting his Five Elements Body Tempering Art.
• Ling Yi used the Blood-Burning Art to drain the gathered sect members’ blood and vitality, warned them to conceal their greed, and admitted that his supreme treasure was called Cheat.
• Jiang Hongchan led Ling Yi, Lin Xue'er, and the others through the stone gate to the spirit spring, where she and the hall masters began cultivating while the disciples crowded around the pool.
• Ling Yi drove Zhao Hao and the others away from the spring so Lin Xue'er could cultivate, and Lin Xue'er drew mysterious extreme spiritual power into herself to begin forming her core.
• Ling Yi saw Long Taoyi appear on his system interface with two million Substitution Value, triggering an upgrade to version 1.2 and adding the Sharing Target feature.

After Lin Xue'er formed her Yin-Yang Golden Core, Ling Yi used his system to protect her and tested sharing its protection with others. He recruited Jiang Hongchan as an underling, rejected Xu Tianyun, and prepared to face the powerful enemies targeting Lin Xue'er.

• Ling Yi added Lin Xue'er as a sharing target, configuring his system to substitute her physical and Spiritual Sense damage.
• Lin Xue'er completed Core Formation, and Zheng Nanjian and Jiang Hongchan explained that her Yin-Yang Golden Core had drawn the attention of cultivators across the Immortal Cultivation Realm.
• Lin Xue'er urged Ling Yi to leave her for his safety, but Ling Yi proved his system could redirect an attack against her to Zheng Nanjian and promised to protect her.
• Jiang Hongchan asked Ling Yi to remove the system's curse, so he moved her to the sharing targets and tested the protection by stabbing her; the first attack hurt Zheng Nanjian, while a later one injured Jiang Hongchan.
• Ling Yi demanded that Jiang Hongchan become his underling in exchange for protection, and she agreed; he then rejected Xu Tianyun because he considered him a bad person.

Ling Yi recruited Lin Lan and prepared to travel with Lin Xue'er to the Chaos Forbidden Land in search of the Chaos Pearl, while Xu Tianyun plotted to exploit Ling Yi's weakness. After Ling Yi and Lin Xue'er flew toward a mortal city, he stopped and called for Long Taoyi to appear.

• Ling Yi refused Zheng Nanjian a place among his followers, blocked the cursed cultivators from following, and left with Lin Xue'er, Jiang Hongchan, and Lin Lan.
• Xu Tianyun proposed publicizing Lin Xue'er’s Yin-Yang Golden Cores to lure powerful enemies after Ling Yi and testing his ring by sending him more beauties.
• Lin Lan explained that the Chaos Forbidden Land lay within the Ten Thousand Demons Kingdom and was said to be where the Chaos Immortal fell; Lin Xue'er revealed she needed the Chaos Pearl to advance her cultivation.
• Ling Yi agreed to wait three days for Jiang Hongchan and Lin Lan to retrieve the treasure beneath the spirit spring, then flew north with Lin Xue'er toward a mortal city.
• Jiang Hongchan and Lin Lan speculated that Ling Yi’s cheat might be the Chaos Pearl, and Ling Yi stopped in midair and called out to Long Taoyi.

Ling Yi fought Long Taoyi, an elder of the Yin-Yang Sect who sought Lin Xue'er’s Yin-Yang Golden Core, and used their battle to temper his sword spirits. As Long Taoyi’s strength and endurance failed, Ling Yi declared that he would wipe out the Yin-Yang Sect and sent his swords rushing in for a final attack.

• Ling Yi recognized Long Taoyi’s appearance and secretly set his Substitution Value consumption limit to zero before Long Taoyi attacked Lin Xue'er.
• Ling Yi’s ten thousand flying swords surrounded Long Taoyi, who used fire dragons to shatter them as Ling Yi released his sword spirits to temper them through repeated destruction and renewal.
• The tempering caused severe pain to people Ling Yi had marked as entries, including members of the Tyrant Heaven Sect and the Ten Thousand Demons Sect, and more than a hundred Tyrant Heaven Sect disciples fled.
• After half a day, Ling Yi’s sword spirits had grown stronger and gained fire-attribute Spiritual Power, while Long Taoyi’s Spiritual Sense and Substitution Value were being drained.
• Long Taoyi identified himself as an elder of the Yin-Yang Sect and demanded that Ling Yi release him, but Lin Xue'er described the sect as notorious and Ling Yi vowed to destroy it.
• As Long Taoyi neared exhaustion, Ling Yi sent the ten thousand flying swords accelerating toward him like raindrops.

Ling Yi explored Stone City and challenged Lin Xue'er’s contempt for mortals, while Jiang Hongchan and Lin Lan explained how cultivators’ original concern about karmic ties had turned into a widespread rejection of the mortal world. The chapter ended with Xu Tianyun, Bai Jiangshan, Zheng Nanjian, Gao Song, Zhao Hao, and others asking Ling Yi to lift their curses.

• Ling Yi tried to buy roasted forest rat in Stone City, but Lin Xue'er froze the food and threatened the old man for staring at her.
• Ling Yi took Lin Xue'er through crowded places and humble mortal businesses, and she left for the Hundred Thousand Mountains after telling him she would wait at the Tyrant Heaven Sect.
• Ling Yi spent another day in Stone City, enjoyed the forest rat, bought over a hundred, and returned to the Tyrant Heaven Sect that evening.
• Jiang Hongchan told Ling Yi that cultivators commonly shunned mortals, and Lin Lan explained how fear of unresolved karma had been distorted into that attitude.
• Xu Tianyun, Bai Jiangshan, Zheng Nanjian, Gao Song, Zhao Hao, and the others arrived and asked Ling Yi to lift their curses.

Ling Yi learned that the spirit spring concealed the Holy Spirit Pearl, obtained and refined it, and prepared to travel with Jiang Hongchan and Lin Lan to the Ten Thousand Demons Kingdom. The group departed aboard Jiang Hongchan’s ninth-pin flying boat.

• Ling Yi confronted Xu Tianyun, Zhao Hao, and Xu Baishan over their past attempts to kill him, then sent them away.
• Jiang Hongchan revealed that the spring held the Holy Spirit Pearl, a half-immortal artifact that absorbed and purified Spiritual Qi, and Ling Yi removed Lin Xue'er from his sharing targets.
• Ling Yi practiced the Five Elements Escape Techniques overnight, and Jiang Hongchan retrieved the Holy Spirit Pearl after its restriction vanished.
• Lin Lan gave Ling Yi a jade slip about refining magical treasures, and he easily refined the Holy Spirit Pearl and placed it in his dantian.
• Jiang Hongchan produced a flying boat that grew into a vessel over a hundred meters long, and Lin Lan recognized it as a ninth-pin flying boat.

Aboard the flying boat to the Hundred Thousand Mountains, Lin Lan explained the Wuji Continent, the Divine Domain, and Jiang Hongchan’s Western Continent origins, then revealed that she had reincarnated 9,998 times. Ling Yi used the Karmic Luck Observation Technique and became Lin Lan’s opportunity; as the group continued toward the mountains, Lin Lan gave him Immortal Realm methods to try.

• Lin Lan explained that the Northern and Southern Poles guarded the way beyond the Wuji Chaos Realm to the Divine Domain, and that the Yin-Yang Golden Core was its key.
• Lin Lan identified Jiang Hongchan’s cultivation and flying boat as signs of the Western Continent, then revealed she was on her 9,999th reincarnation.
• Lin Lan said she sought to leave the Wuji Chaos Realm rather than claim the Yin-Yang Golden Core, and gave Ling Yi a jade slip with the Karmic Luck Observation Technique.
• Ling Yi used lifespan from his tools to see Lin Lan’s and Jiang Hongchan’s karmic luck, and Lin Lan realized Ling Yi had become her opportunity.
• Jiang Hongchan explained that she had crossed the Hundred Thousand Mountains using a one-use Teleport Array and would have to return through the demonic-beast territory.
• Lin Lan gave Ling Yi a jade slip of Immortal Realm cultivation methods and divine abilities, suggesting he try them with his cheat.

Ling Yi learned that cultivating immortal spiritual power required a dangerous method of copying spiritual sense, but his new system upgrade gave him confidence to proceed. When greater demons attacked the flying boat in the Ten Thousand Demons Kingdom, Lin Lan and Jiang Hongchan fought back, and the system redirected the demons’ attacks onto themselves.

• Lin Lan explained the Great Spirit Refining Array and warned Ling Yi that copying spiritual sense could create uncontrolled consciousnesses, then gave him a jade slip with the method.
• Jiang Hongchan learned that only Haotian had cultivated immortal spiritual power successfully in the past hundred thousand years.
• Dozens of powerful partially transformed demons surrounded the flying boat, and Ling Yi saw that they had upgraded his system to version 1.3 and added new cultivation arts.
• Ling Yi insulted the demons and ordered Lin Lan and Jiang Hongchan to attack; Lin Lan’s blue flames killed the snake demon, while Jiang Hongchan’s red sword killed the fox demon.
• The remaining demons attacked the women, but Lin Lan trusted the Chaos Pearl and stayed unharmed while Jiang Hongchan defended with her battle armor until Ling Yi told her to put it away.
• The demons’ next attacks struck the women without injuring them, as the damage was transferred back to the attacking demons.

Ling Yi and his companions reached the Ten Thousand Demons Kingdom, where he used the attacking Demon Clan to temper his sword spirits and Spiritual Sense while crippling them through the Chaos Pearl. As the demons charged in greater numbers, Lin Lan realized Ling Yi was using their attacks to strengthen his Spiritual Sense, which might eventually form a Spirit Nascent Infant.

• The thirty-seven great demons fled after their attacks left them severely injured, and Ling Yi considered how his Substitution Value settings had made them suffer.
• Lin Lan and Jiang Hongchan explained that the Ten Thousand Demons Kingdom was sealed within its borders by the Chaos Immortal’s Heaven-Locking Grand Formation, and Lin Lan suspected the Chaos Immortal had reincarnated.
• Ling Yi ordered the group to approach the kingdom’s border wall, where Demonic Beasts gathered to attack them, and he summoned ten thousand sword spirits.
• Ling Yi let the Demonic Beasts’ attacks destroy and reform his sword spirits, using Spirit Tempering to strengthen them while the attackers fell severely crippled.
• Ling Yi taunted the demons into continuing their assault, and Lin Lan explained to Jiang Hongchan that he was tempering his Spiritual Sense rather than expending much Spiritual Power.

Ling Yi entered the Ten Thousand Demons Kingdom with Lin Lan and Jiang Hongchan, declaring that he intended to rule it. After learning the kingdom spanned the central Hundred Thousand Mountains and was divided into 3,600 territories, he decided to visit Ram's Horn Town before confronting its rulers.

• Ling Yi's sword spirits overwhelmed the remaining Demonic Beasts and carried him, Lin Lan, and Jiang Hongchan to the kingdom's border, where they met Run Tian.
• Ling Yi told Run Tian he wanted to rule the Ten Thousand Demons Kingdom, and Run Tian let him pass after saying he would need to defeat the ten great Demon Kings.
• Run Tian admitted he could neither kill nor defeat Ling Yi and ordered a subordinate to report that Ling Yi possessed a supreme treasure.
• Ling Yi studied Run Tian's map and learned that the Ten Thousand Demons Kingdom covered most of the central Hundred Thousand Mountains, divided into 3,600 territories.
• Lin Lan explained that the Heaven-Locking Grand Formation prevented even Demon Immortals from ascending, while Ling Yi dismissed the kingdom's powerful rulers as potential tools.
• Ling Yi decided to rest for the night and travel to Ram's Horn Town the next morning.

Ling Yi, Jiang Hongchan, and Lin Lan toured Ram's Horn Town, where Lin Lan explained the Demon Clan's hierarchy, laws, and brutal struggle for food. After Ling Yi spared the town's leader, they settled in a wooden house and heard Lin Xue'er calling for help from a cage, her Yin-Yang Golden Core already removed.

• Lin Lan explained that red-eyed curved-horn sheep demons had eaten their own kind and were raising gold-eyed sheep demons as livestock.
• Lin Lan described the Demon Clan's ranks, wars over food, and laws against fiends and unchecked populations of prolific races.
• Lin Lan burned the red-eyed sheep demons, and the town's leader recognized the trio as humans but pretended to mistake them for demon venerables.
• Ling Yi spared the leader, added him to his data panel, and decided the trio would stay in Ram's Horn Town before traveling to the ice plains.
• Ling Yi and his companions heard Lin Xue'er calling for help and discovered she was locked in a cage after her Yin-Yang Golden Core had been removed.
• Ling Yi sent three spiritual swords to bring Lin Xue'er to them.