Chapter Summaries

Qianxue and Wei Xu easily reached Foundation Establishment, prompting Ling Yi to question why his own tribulation had been far more powerful. Bai Xiaolin explained that his five-attribute Spiritual Root made future tribulations dangerous and weakened his spells, while Ling Yi prepared to build a cultivation force called the Reincarnation Palace.

• Ling Yi took Qianxue and Wei Xu to the outskirts of South City, where Qianxue reached Foundation Establishment after a tiny cloud struck her with three weak lightning bolts.
• Wei Xu underwent the same mild tribulation and reached Foundation Establishment, leaving Ling Yi puzzled by the difference from his own trial.
• Bai Xiaolin appeared and explained that Ling Yi’s five-attribute Spiritual Root had made his tribulation much stronger, while each extra attribute reduced spell power; she warned him to reincarnate and cultivate anew.
• Ling Yi gave Bai Xiaolin Supreme Pin Qi Gathering Pills, and she accepted ten bottles before leaving to cultivate for their trip to the Asgard ruins.
• Ling Yi told Qianxue and Wei Xu to recruit beggars and orphans with Spiritual Roots, train them through Soul Seals, and name their growing force the Reincarnation Palace.

Ling Yi upgraded several abilities, including Power of Reincarnation, and strengthened the foundation of the Reincarnation Palace before learning that Wu Chengyun had been stripped of his title. When Wu Yunxiao asked to cultivate immortality, Ling Yi refused to make her a follower but had Lü Yuan give her magical armor and ordered three Reincarnation Marks for her.

• Ling Yi spent his remaining Spirit Stones to raise four innate Divine Abilities to Lv3 and gained Reincarnation Marks and Reincarnation Discs through Power of Reincarnation.
• After cultivating through the night, Ling Yi advanced to the Third Layer of Foundation Establishment.
• Qin Changming told Ling Yi that Emperor Wu had stripped Wu Chengyun of his crown prince status, princely title, and cultivation, leaving Qin Changming worried about his own prospects.
• Ling Yi drank with Qin Changming, then returned to his cabin and found Wu Yunxiao and Lü Yuan waiting there.
• Wu Yunxiao asked Ling Yi to help her cultivate immortality, but Ling Yi said he only trusted his own followers and subordinates.
• Lü Yuan gave Wu Yunxiao the Hongyun Battle Armor as repayment for past resources, and Ling Yi told Lü Yuan to give Wu Yunxiao three Reincarnation Marks.

Ling Yi traveled south with Wu Canglan’s procession while reflecting on his distrust of others, and Bai Xiaolin thanked him for helping her resume her female identity and advance her cultivation. In the imperial carriage, Wu Canglan revealed his plan to build an Immortal Martial Empire and gave Wu Yunxiao a dangerous cultivation art, but she secretly resolved to defy him and Si Ming.

• Ling Yi rode with Bai Xiaolin in disguise as a Dark Shadow Clone and said he trusted only himself.
• Bai Xiaolin and Lü Yuan reached Foundation Establishment, while Si Ming remained weakened after Ling Yi had devoured some of his cultivation.
• Wu Canglan asked Wu Yunxiao which prince could inherit the throne, and she dismissed the princes as unsuitable.
• Wu Canglan said he wanted to unite the seven kingdoms and the Central Province, and gave Wu Yunxiao the Blood-Burning Art for her deathsworn.
• Wu Yunxiao accepted the jade slip but privately decided to overturn Wu Canglan and Si Ming’s plans, then vanished in pink mist.

Ling Yi learned that Jianghu Martial Practitioners were targeting Wu Canglan and that another force planned to seize the imperial capital. He sent his clones and allies to capture talented practitioners while the party continued its journey.

• Ling Yi's followers reported that several thousand Jianghu experts, including a Grandmaster and three Masters, were approaching with Wu Canglan as their target.
• Ling Yi recalled Wu Canglan's rise to power and the massacre and suppression of Jianghu practitioners that followed.
• Ling Yi sent Dark Shadow Clones toward the approaching Jianghu group and told Lü Yuan to Soul Seal anyone marked by the clones and take them into her hidden space.
• Qianxue's Dark Shadow Clone reported that Martial Practitioners had appeared in the imperial capital, where Wu Canglan had left no strong defenses.
• Ling Yi ordered Qianxue and Wei Xu to capture talented Divine Ability Martial Practitioners in the capital and take them into the Hidden Asgard without attracting attention.

Jianghu fighters ambushed Wu Canglan’s party, but four hidden eunuch masters and the young royal Wu Qilin turned the battle around. Ling Yi watched from the carriage, copied their talents, and wondered whether to interfere as the fighting continued.

• A thousand Jianghu fighters killed the unprepared Guard Army before the four Cao brothers appeared to protect Wu Canglan’s group and killed the attackers with flying needles.
• Ling Yi copied and upgraded the four Cao brothers’ Telepathic Connection talent while he, Bai Xiaolin, Lü Yuan, and Qianxue watched from the carriage.
• A second wave of a thousand Jianghu fighters attacked, forcing the four Cao brothers to defend Wu Canglan’s party against Hidden Weapons and arrows from two Master Realm fighters.
• Wu Qilin emerged from Wu Canglan’s carriage, and Ling Yi copied his Healing and Enhancement talents.
• Wu Qilin enhanced the four Cao brothers, who sped up and killed large numbers of the attackers with flying needles.
• Ling Yi wondered whether to stir things up while the battle continued.

Ling Yi watched Wu Canglan’s forces battle the Jianghu fighters, curious about Wu’s hidden trump card. After Ling Yi and his companions refused to help, Wu unleashed the Soul Devourer Banner and slaughtered the fighters, while Ling Yi discovered he could summon a soul from the banner.

• The four strengthened eunuchs killed more than 1,600 Jianghu fighters before their strength ran out and hidden darts killed them.
• Wu Canglan and Wu Qilin joined the battle, while Ling Yi recognized that Wu was holding back and refused to let his group take the attacks meant for Wu.
• Ling Yi, Qianxue, Lü Yuan, and Bai Xiaolin escaped into the shadows, angering Wu Canglan.
• Wu Canglan sent Wu Qilin to rest in the carriage and unleashed the Soul Devourer Banner, which killed the Jianghu fighters and absorbed their souls.
• Ling Yi used his Spirit Mediumship talent and successfully summoned a translucent black phantom from the banner.

Ling Yi freed more than ten thousand souls from the Soul Devourer Banner, weakening Wu Canglan enough for Tian Feng to overpower him, but Wu Canglan escaped. Ling Yi noticed Tian Feng’s dormant talent could be activated with spirit stones just before Tian Feng vanished into a twisting shadow.

• Ling Yi discovered that souls from the Soul Devourer Banner perished under Soul Seals unless he copied his talents onto them, which let one soul escape the banner’s control.
• Ling Yi summoned, sealed, empowered, and stored all the banner’s souls in the Hidden Asgard, leaving the Soul Devourer Banner nearly powerless.
• Tian Feng attacked Wu Canglan with repeated True Yuan strikes and revealed his old grievance against Wu Canglan for abandoning the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Ling Yi saw that Tian Feng’s dormant talent could be activated with 10,000 Low-Grade Spirit Stones, while Wu Canglan used a talisman to escape Tian Feng’s next attack.
• Tian Feng collapsed as his True Yuan drained away, but before his followers could help him, a twisting shadow made him disappear.

Ling Yi, Bai Xiaolin, and Lü Yuan reached Shangyuan City and discussed the Immortal Gate ruins, the Wu Kingdom’s turmoil, and the cultivation world. After Bai Xiaolin explained that the Central Province had far more Spiritual Qi and Divine Ability talents, Ling Yi decided he would have to visit it, then found promising entries above the soul bodies in his Hidden Asgard.

• Ling Yi, Bai Xiaolin, and Lü Yuan entered Shangyuan City, while Qianxue dispersed after straying too far from Ling Yi.
• Bai Xiaolin and Ling Yi discussed the missing Wu Yunxiao and the deadly attacks that had left the Wu Kingdom and its imperial court in turmoil.
• Ling Yi told Bai Xiaolin he had no long-term plans, and Bai Xiaolin invited him to visit the Central Province.
• Bai Xiaolin explained the Five Provinces, the cultivation realms, and how Divine Ability talents were far more common in the Central Province.
• The three booked rooms at an inn, then entered their Hidden Asgards, where Ling Yi spotted promising entries above his soul-body followers.

Ling Yi examined the Soul Bodies’ talents and questioned Bai Jiang about the Spirit Realm and his past. Bai Jiang revealed that he was a parasitic offshoot whose Soul Attachment ability could spread and potentially threaten even its true body, and Ling Yi ordered him to record all his techniques and Divine Abilities.

• Ling Yi noticed that every Soul Body possessed Soul Weapon and some also had Soul Armor or rarer talents, then summoned Bai Jiang and asked him about his former life.
• Bai Jiang explained that Spirit Bodies could enter the Spirit Realm, cultivate through distinct realms, and preserve ancient knowledge passed among its inhabitants.
• Bai Jiang told Ling Yi that the Hidden Asgard was the Azure Emperor’s bonded artifact and that the Azure Emperor’s daughter had stolen it and might have used it to be reborn.
• Bai Jiang revealed that Soul Attachment let him hide a portion of his divine soul within another’s, survive Reincarnation, and parasitize the reborn target as an offshoot.
• Ling Yi learned that Bai Jiang’s offshoots could multiply and devour weaker split souls, and that his borrowed power might let one devour the true body.
• Ling Yi ordered Bai Jiang to record copies of every cultivation technique and Divine Ability he had practiced.

Bai Jiang revealed the history of the Soul Devourer Banner, Si Ming, and the Azure Emperor’s daughter to Ling Yi. Ling Yi assigned his Spirit Body followers to preserve their memories and denied their request to rebuild physical bodies for now.

• Bai Jiang explained that the Soul Devourer Banner was a replica of an Immortal Realm divine artifact and recounted how he became trapped in it after the Yin Devil Sect was destroyed.
• Bai Jiang said Si Ming used the banner to wipe out the Southern Province’s sects, was killed in the Central Province, then returned to Mount Cangwu and formed a soul contract with Wu Canglan after failing to possess him.
• Bai Jiang identified the Azure Emperor’s daughter as Qing Yuan and said she had reincarnated in the Mortal World Realm using the Azure Emperor’s Hidden Asgard; Ling Yi confirmed Bai Xiaolin had obtained it.
• Ling Yi ordered his Spirit Body followers to keep one-fifth of the Hidden Asgard’s resources, store the rest, and have Bai Jiang organize their memories, especially cultivation techniques and secrets.
• Bai Jiang asked whether the followers could use the Power of Reincarnation to rebuild their bodies, but Ling Yi refused for the time being.

Ling Yi considered how to strengthen himself while preparing for the danger of his Golden Core Tribulation, then agreed to take Wu Yunxiao and the others to the Central Province. The group spotted an old beggar thrown out of a restaurant, and Ling Yi recognized him as Wu Ming, whose status now showed a new Power of Curses talent.

• Ling Yi weighed using Devour Heaven and Earth to advance his cultivation but worried his unusually powerful Golden Core Tribulation could kill him, and he considered whether Power of Sealing could restrain it.
• Wu Yunxiao, Wu Kong, and Qin Ru joined Ling Yi for breakfast, and he discovered Wu Kong had become his follower after she explained she wanted freedom from the futures she had foreseen.
• Wu Yunxiao asked to travel with Ling Yi to the Central Province once the Southern Province’s affairs were settled, and he agreed to take her and the others.
• Ling Yi and the others saw several Martial Practitioners throw an old beggar out of a wooden building across from the inn.
• Ling Yi recognized the beggar as Wu Ming and saw that his status included a new Power of Curses talent.

Ling Yi rescued Wu Ming, a cursed Nascent Soul expert, and offered to lift his curse in exchange for Spirit Stones. Wu Ming gave him a storage ring containing five million Low-Grade Spirit Stones, and Ling Yi asked how to use it.

• Ling Yi recalled stealing twenty taels of silver to copy Wu Ming’s Channel-Opening Divine Body, only to find that he lacked any cultivation method to benefit from it.
• Ling Yi rescued the beaten Wu Ming from restaurant thugs and brought him to his inn room.
• Wu Ming woke and questioned Ling Yi’s claim that he could save him from the Power of Curses; Ling Yi showed his five-colored Spiritual Power and offered to lift the curse.
• Ling Yi told Wu Ming that ten thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones might lift the curse and that a hundred thousand would guarantee it.
• Wu Ming handed Ling Yi a storage ring containing five million Low-Grade Spirit Stones in exchange for lifting the curse.
• After cleaning the ring, Ling Yi admitted he did not know how to use it, and Wu Ming told him to look inside with his Spiritual Sense.

Ling Yi spent the Spirit Stones he took from Wu Ming to upgrade several talents and unseal more of the Hidden Asgard, then used his new Soul Seal ability to make Wu Ming sign a work contract. The chapter left Wu Ming bound to serve Ling Yi for a hundred years as Ling Yi prepared to test his abilities.

• Ling Yi stored Wu Ming's Spirit Stones in the Hidden Asgard and had his Dark Shadow Clone inspect Qin Ru, Bai Xiaolin, Wu Yunxiao, and Wu Kong.
• Ling Yi upgraded Qin Ru's Soul Seal and Wu Kong's Precognition to lv5, unsealed the fourth layers of Wu Yunxiao's Devour Heaven and Earth and Bai Xiaolin's Hidden Asgard, and raised Wu Ming's Power of Curses to lv3.
• Ling Yi learned that lv5 Soul Seal could impose different contracts, Precognition could show twelve hours of visions, Devour Heaven and Earth could target someone in the Nascent Soul Realm, and the Hidden Asgard had expanded and gained Spiritual Qi.
• Ling Yi offered to remove Wu Ming's curse if Wu Ming signed a Hire Soul Seal Contract, and they negotiated its duration from Wu Ming's proposed ten years to one hundred.
• Ling Yi sent the Soul Seal Contract into Wu Ming's mind, binding him to work for Ling Yi for a hundred years.

Ling Yi lifted Wu Ming’s curse and suspected that his talent system could extract abilities from people who had been cursed, not just copy their own talents. After sending Wu Ming to capture wicked people and preparing for the Immortal Gate ruins, Ling Yi copied Bai Jiang’s talents and discovered the sinister Parasitism ability.

• Wu Ming told Ling Yi that Weng Niu had cursed him in revenge for Wu Ming accidentally destroying Grass Temple Village, and Ling Yi removed the curse.
• Ling Yi noticed that the Power of Curses entry vanished from Wu Ming and reasoned that he might extract talents from cursed intermediaries without targeting their original owners.
• Wu Ming accepted Ling Yi’s order to capture wicked people, while Lü Yuan left to acquire residences, resources, and plants for their Hidden Space.
• Ling Yi planned to reach the Immortal Gate ruins early, and Bai Xiaolin hinted that she knew the formation’s origins before agreeing to go.
• Bai Jiang reported that Martial Emperor Wu Canglan had been located, and Ling Yi copied Bai Jiang’s talents, including Parasitism lv2, which he found disturbing.

Ling Yi learned that Bai Jiang’s Parasitism talent could be used to counter the original’s parasitic soul bodies, and ordered his followers to begin doing so. The next morning, Qianxue, Lü Yuan, and Wei Xu waited outside his room, with Qianxue and Wei Xu already at Foundation Establishment Great Perfection.

• Ling Yi learned that Bai Jiang could detect the original’s parasitic soul bodies and that stronger, synchronized parasites could overtake them before they replaced their hosts.
• Ling Yi told Bai Jiang to send out the Spirit Body followers to parasitize as many of the original’s parasites as possible, while leaving Wu Canglan to Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi reviewed his system interface and wondered whether Soul Seal could eventually let him control immortals.
• The next morning, Ling Yi found Qianxue, Lü Yuan, and Wei Xu waiting outside his room.
• Ling Yi saw that Qianxue and Wei Xu had both reached the Twelfth Layer of Foundation Establishment, Great Perfection, ahead of his own Seventh Layer.

Ling Yi upgraded Qianxue and Wei Xu’s talents and gained several powerful abilities from nineteen Martial Practitioners with innate Divine Abilities. He flew with his companions toward the Cangwu Ruins, while Wu Canglan learned their destination from a message in his shadow.

• Ling Yi raised Qianxue’s Power of Shadow and Wei Xu’s Power of Sealing to lv6, then copied useful talents from nineteen Martial Practitioners, including Wei Hong’s Multitasking and the Power of the Divine Spring.
• Ling Yi gained Dark Domain and Shadow Soldiers through Power of Shadow lv6, and Time Seal, Space Seal, and Rule Seal through Power of Sealing lv6, though the strongest sealing abilities consumed more Spiritual Power than he could sustain.
• Wei Xu piloted a massive flying boat from Shangyuan City toward Mount Cangwu, where Bai Xiaolin said the Cangwu Ruins appeared at fixed times behind a great formation.
• Wu Ming revealed that a treasure map had led him to search for the Cangwu Ruins, and he explained that the ruins were difficult for a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator to find.
• Wu Canglan and Wu Qilin watched the flying boat disappear, then saw Si Ming’s shadow reveal the words “Mount Cangwu.”

Bai Xiaolin described the hidden Cangwu Immortal Sect, while Qianxue reported that Wu Chengyun had taken the throne in the imperial capital. Ling Yi raised Wu Ming’s Channel-Opening Divine Body to Lv7 and gained Automatic Cultivation and Infinite Dantian; as Qianxue and Wei Xu prepared to break through, Bai Xiaolin recognized the flying boat as one she had forged.

• Bai Xiaolin explained that the Cangwu Immortal Sect had been teleported to Southern Province and hidden inside the Cangwu Ruins, while Ling Yi privately recognized her as Qing Yuan, the Immortal Realm empress.
• Qianxue reported that Wu Chengyun had defeated the rebels, seized power from Chancellor Qin Lang and declared himself emperor despite Wu Canglan still being alive.
• Wu Yunxiao said she had lost interest in the throne and wanted to pursue the Immortal Dao with Ling Yi, while Qianxue doubted her loyalty.
• Ling Yi spent his remaining Spirit Stones to raise Wu Ming’s Channel-Opening Divine Body to Lv7, unlocking Automatic Cultivation and Infinite Dantian.
• Qianxue and Wei Xu prepared to break through, so Bai Xiaolin took control of the flying boat and recognized it as the black jade flying boat she had forged.

Bai Xiaolin recognized the Black Jade Flying Boat he had stored in the Hidden Asgard and was baffled by its appearance with Ling Yi's group. After Qianxue and Wei Xu passed their Golden Core Tribulations, the group reached Cangwu City, where Ling Yi prepared to advance his cultivation and test a new system function.

• Bai Xiaolin confirmed the invisible flying boat was his Black Jade Flying Boat and demonstrated its abilities to Lü Yuan.
• Qianxue used Shadow Puppets to withstand her Golden Core Tribulation, while Wei Xu sealed his tribulation with his upgraded Power of Sealing.
• Wei Xu explained that he could use his sealing power repeatedly, astonishing Bai Xiaolin, Wu Ming, Wu Yunxiao, and Qin Ru.
• Wu Yunxiao reflected on how far Ling Yi's followers had advanced and began considering following Ling Yi herself.
• Ling Yi chose to enter Cangwu City before visiting the Immortal Gate ruins so he could face his coming Golden Core Tribulation with greater strength.
• After the group disembarked outside Cangwu City, Bai Xiaolin put the Black Jade Flying Boat into his Hidden Asgard, and Wei Xu challenged him for taking someone else's property.

Ling Yi activated the [Field of Vision] module and discovered that he could see talents through his followers’ distant viewpoints and copy them, though the messages refreshed too quickly to save. He ordered his companions to focus on cultivation and gathering money before their planned trip to the Central Province, where they hoped to establish their own Immortal Gate.

• Ling Yi and his companions settled into a large residence in Cangwu City, keeping Bai Xiaolin and the others in the front courtyard while his own group gathered in the rear courtyard.
• Ling Yi activated [Field of Vision], revealing descriptions of people’s talents, and learned that Qianxue, Lü Yuan, Wei Xu, and Wu Kong could see the entries too.
• Ling Yi received a rapid stream of talent-copying prompts from Bai Jiang and the more than ten thousand Spirit Body followers he had sent across the Southern Province, and copied Body of Might and Divine Sense.
• Ling Yi realized the talent prompts could not be saved and refreshed too quickly, but welcomed the new way to copy talents from afar.
• Ling Yi told his companions to improve their strength, gather silver by visiting corrupt officials and wealthy landlords, and prepare to go to the Central Province after the Cangwu Ruins.
• Ling Yi said they would create their own Immortal Gate in the Central Province and wondered whether talents had a level limit.

Ling Yi reflected on his role in the world before discovering a parasitic soul and a valuable talent inside Luo Xue, whom he rescued from three Martial Practitioners. After healing her, he was shocked to see that she looked exactly like his dead younger sister, Ling Shuang.

• Ling Yi wondered whether Wu Chengyun was the protagonist and considered how the Dream System might confront Bai Jiang.
• Ling Yi noticed a woman jump from a window of the Hundred Flowers House and saw three ranked Martial Practitioners block her escape.
• Ling Yi sensed a parasitic soul body within the woman and discovered that she possessed the Source Spirit Pearl talent.
• Ling Yi used Devour Heaven and Earth to drain most of the young man's attributes, then healed the woman's injuries with Healing lv2.
• Ling Yi recognized the woman's resemblance to his deceased younger sister Ling Shuang and called her by that name.