Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi supplied his followers with spirit water, and their strength rose rapidly over half a month while Number One investigated rumors of a gold mine. Number One confirmed that the mine lay near Little Ye Village and that several major factions already knew about it.

• Number One delivered supplies and livestock, then reported that the Northern Frontier King's army had begun moving south and Jianghu visitors were seeking a gold mine.
• Ling Yi assigned two strengthened sparrows to Number One for discreet communication through Divine Seals and sent his people away with spirit water.
• Over half a month, Number One reached the Master Ninth Stage Heaven, and his twenty-eight subordinates reached the Innate Realm.
• Qin Yue reached the Master Great Perfection Realm and thirty percent Sword Intent, while Ling Yun reached the Master Realm and ten percent Sword Intent.
• Number One confirmed that the gold mine lay less than twenty kilometers from Little Ye Village, on the mountain behind it.
• Number One identified three kings, the Poison Baleful Energy Sect, and the imperial court as interested factions, and suspected his sect leader had sold the mine's location to many others.

Ling Yi learned more about the mysterious Poison Baleful Energy Sect and prepared to secure the gold mine near Little Ye Village. At dinner, Qin Yuan tried to persuade Ling Yun to let Ling Yi help her reclaim the imperial throne, but Ling Yun had not yet made her choice.

• Number One told Ling Yi that the Poison Baleful Energy Sect's masked sect master was powerful, obsessed with money, and had sold many maps to the gold mine.
• Ling Yi ordered Number One to add ten sparrows to the surveillance and spread misleading information to buy time while he took the gold mine.
• Ling Yi considered leaving Little Ye Village but decided to let Ling Yun choose whether they stayed or went.
• Qin Yuan invited Ling Yun and Ling Yi to the imperial capital and offered to create a peaceful life for them if Ling Yi helped her reclaim the throne.
• Ling Yun rejected Qin Yuan's proposal, and Qin Yuan argued that Ling Yi should use his abilities to make a name for himself, leaving Ling Yun visibly hesitant.

Ling Yi encouraged Ling Yun to take her time choosing a new life and arranged for Qin Yuan to teach her, then prepared to investigate the gold mine. In Red Maple Town, the court, the King of the Northern Frontier, and the Jianghu remained locked in a standoff over the mine as the Poison Baleful Energy Sect leader warned that southern Jianghu forces were on their way.

• Ling Yi told Ling Yun that she and the others could live forever and experience many different lives, and urged her not to rush her choice.
• Ling Yi asked Qin Yuan to teach Ling Yun reading, writing, and other subjects, then planned to head into the mountains the next morning to investigate the gold mine.
• Red Maple Town filled with troops and martial artists seeking the gold mine, while the King of the Northern Frontier, the imperial court, and the Jianghu blocked one another from acting.
• Qin Shengtian, Wei Wuji, and Jiang Biehe met in Red Maple Town as representatives of the three competing forces.
• The iron-masked Poison Baleful Energy Sect leader warned that southern Jianghu forces would arrive within ten days, and Wei Wuji blamed him for spreading the mine's secret.

Iron Face Man negotiated a joint effort by the Prince of the Northern Frontier, Wei Wuji, and Jiang Biehe to mine the enormous gold deposit, demanding a share for himself. That night, Ling Yun began deciding whether to leave Little Ye Village, while Ling Yi prepared to share the knowledge he had brought from his previous life.

• Iron Face Man revealed that the gold mine could yield wealth equal to a hundred years of the Great Qian Kingdom’s peak tax revenue, and the three parties agreed to mine it together.
• Iron Face Man demanded ten percent from the Prince of the Northern Frontier and Jiang Biehe, and twenty percent from Wei Wuji, threatening to sell the mine’s location to another country.
• Iron Face Man vanished as black smoke, while a sparrow outside the window flew away.
• Ling Yun struggled to choose between staying in Little Ye Village and entering the chaotic world with Ling Yi, then gradually made her decision.
• Qin Yuan and Qin Yue discussed taking Ling Yi to the imperial capital, helping Qin Yuan reclaim the throne, and saving the Great Qian Empire, after learning he could grant longevity.
• Ling Yi used his computer to organize the knowledge from his previous life, while feeling that he had overlooked something important.

Ling Yi inspected the rapidly growing crops in his Spiritual Field and set off to investigate the rumored gold mine in the mountain behind the house. Meanwhile, Qin Yuan used movies on a laptop to learn about modern life and planned to test whether Ling Yi was a transmigrator.

• Ling Yi saw Qin Yuan wearing a daring outfit, while she wondered whether he was hiding a past as a transmigrator.
• Qin Yuan asked Qin Yue about watching movies, then took her to the kitchen to try making a dish she had seen in one.
• Ling Yi examined the crops in the Spiritual Field, noting their immense size and Spiritual Power, and kept them stored in the System Space.
• Ling Yi headed into the mountain behind the house to check whether the rumored gold mine was real and could earn him Upgrade Points.

Ling Yi upgraded Mystifying Steps into Qingyun Steps, gained the ability to fly, and reached the mountain where the gold mine lay. After he subdued a gold-striped white tiger, a woman attacked it, leaving Ling Yi to intervene before her sword struck.

• Ling Yi spent Upgrade Points to advance Mystifying Steps into Qingyun Steps at Great Perfection, raising his physique to 99 and gaining the ability to fly.
• Ling Yi flew to the mountain containing the gold mine, and the system told him to enter a natural cave to find its main vein.
• Ling Yi sensed a gold-striped white tiger, branded it with his Divine Seal, and began drawing it toward him.
• A woman rushed in and swung her sword at the tiger, mistaking Ling Yi's warning for concern about her safety.
• The gold-striped white tiger turned toward the woman and roared as her sword neared its neck.

Ling Yi subdued the golden-striped White Tiger and learned that its ancient White Tiger bloodline could eventually grant it the ability to change size. After rescuing the injured woman and using Divine Sense to communicate with her, he asked her name and purpose, but she remained wary and wondered whether he was a mountain spirit.

• The golden-striped White Tiger's roar sent the woman in red flying, and Ling Yi stopped the tiger from biting her.
• Ling Yi ordered the White Tiger not to attack humans without permission and claimed him as a mount.
• The system revealed that the White Tiger carried an ancient divine beast's bloodline and explained how bloodline upgrades might awaken its transformation ability.
• Ling Yi decided to save his remaining Upgrade Points for emergencies instead of risking them on the White Tiger's bloodline.
• The woman woke up deafened by the roar and tried to attack Ling Yi and the tiger, so Ling Yi used Divine Sense to communicate and asked who she was and why she had come.
• The woman questioned Ling Yi's identity and wondered whether he was a mountain spirit in human form.

Ling Yi questioned Huo Yan'er about her search for the gold mine, then explored the cave and found its main vein. The system estimated that the entire deposit was worth 5,224,322 Upgrade Points, but warned that devouring it would collapse the cave.

• Ling Yi learned that Huo Yan'er had used the Cloud Transformation Art to evade the guards and investigate the rumored gold mine, then left her with Little White.
• Little White kept watch over the hungry Huo Yan'er, who fell asleep in the tiger’s warm fur.
• Ling Yi entered the cave and found old human remains, signs of past excavation, and increasingly large deposits of gold ore.
• Ling Yi reached the cave’s vast deepest chamber, lit it with desk lamps, and found a main vein stretching between the eastern and western walls.
• The system estimated the main vein was worth 5,224,322 Upgrade Points and warned Ling Yi that devouring the entire deposit would collapse the cave.

Ling Yi devoured the gold mine’s main vein, triggering a mountain collapse while his physique advanced to Immortal Physique and he gained new Divine Abilities. After teleporting himself, Huo Yan'er, and Little White to safety, he received a mission to establish the number one faction in Jianghu.

• Ling Yi began devouring the gold mine’s main vein and spent Upgrade Points to raise his physique.
• As the mountain collapsed around him, Ling Yi advanced through Transcendent Physique and Dao Physique, gaining Intimidation and Haki.
• Trapped by falling rock, Ling Yi reached Immortal Physique, gained Teleportation, and escaped the cavern.
• Ling Yi teleported Huo Yan'er and Little White to another mountain, where they watched the gold mine mountain sink into a deep pit.
• The system triggered Main Mission 1, ordering Ling Yi to establish his own number one faction in Jianghu for three rewards.

After gaining a vast number of Upgrade Points and a new system function, Ling Yi found a direction in Huo Yan'er’s knowledge of the Inscription Technique. Huo Yan'er drew a flame rune for him, and Ling Yi began copying it in the air with his Divine Ability.

• Ling Yi examined his new Upgrade Point Recycling Function, increased daily points, and the rewards from reaching a constitution of 10,000.
• Ling Yi asked Huo Yan'er to prove her worth, and she offered to teach him the Inscription Technique to avoid being eaten by Little White.
• Huo Yan'er explained that inscriptions were Dao characters used in crafting and that learning them required talent, then drew a flame rune on the ground.
• Ling Yi sensed Genki change as the rune was completed and committed its shape to memory.
• Ling Yi formed a brush from golden light and began drawing the rune in the air with his Divine Ability.

Ling Yi created a Genki fireball with Rune Technique and upgraded it into a powerful Fire Spirit, which he could control despite its lack of consciousness. He left Huo Yan'er with instructions to conceal the truth about the gold mine and descended the mountain on the gold-striped White Tiger.

• Ling Yi used Haki to write a fire-character rune in the air and created a Genki fireball, then stabilized and controlled it with a Divine Seal.
• Ling Yi upgraded the Genki fireball repeatedly, turning it into a Fire Spirit with the power to command flames and disperse into Genki.
• Ling Yi tested the Fire Spirit by making it land in his palm and then disperse above his head.
• Ling Yi told Huo Yan'er to spread word that the gold mine was false and the mountain had collapsed, then said she was free to go.
• Ling Yi clarified that he was not a spirit creature and did not eat people, then rode Little White down from the peak.

Ling Yi upgraded Little White and 500 sparrows, granting them new abilities and strengthening their bond with him. After spending the day with Little White, he told Ling Yun he wanted to establish a faction.

• Qin Yue, Ling Yun, and Qin Yuan welcomed Little White and eagerly took turns riding and cuddling her.
• Ling Yi purified Little White’s bloodline, giving her the Size Manipulation Divine Ability, and she shrank to house-cat size.
• Ling Yi upgraded 500 sparrows into Spirit Sparrows, awakening their intelligence and granting them Perception, Size Manipulation, Qi and Blood Shield, and Feathers of Steel.
• Ling Yi discovered he could communicate mentally with the sparrows over several li through the Divine Seal.
• After the women spent the day playing with Little White, Ling Yi told Ling Yun he wanted to establish a faction.

Ling Yi told Ling Yun, Qin Yue, and Qin Yuan that a coming calamity had prompted him to create a faction, and spun Qin Yuan an elaborate account of his supposed life on Blue Star and in the Immortal Realm. He dismissed their concerns about the Great Qian Kingdom and ended by insisting that the first priority was naming a faction destined to rule the world and beyond.

• Ling Yun supported Ling Yi's plan, while Qin Yue and Qin Yuan worried about what his faction might mean.
• Ling Yi claimed an immortal had warned him that the world would soon face calamity, and said he wanted to create a faction to prepare for it.
• Qin Yuan described the kingdoms around Great Qian, but Ling Yi challenged her limited view of the world and asked how much lay beyond those borders.
• Qin Yuan revealed she knew about Blue Star from novels and movies, then asked whether Ling Yi was a transmigrator.
• Ling Yi denied being a transmigrator and invented a story about spending decades on Blue Star and in the Immortal Realm before returning with special abilities.
• Ling Yi said no one could stop him from taking the throne if he wanted it, then declared that naming his faction was the most important first step.

Ling Yi named his new faction the Lookout and decided to establish its territory by upgrading Little Ye Village. After hearing about the Blood Demon Sect’s mysterious female leader and her modern inventions, he suspected she might be a transmigrator like himself.

• Qin Yue described the Blood Demon Sect as an ancient, powerful faction led by a mysterious woman who was suspected to be a Grandmaster or stronger.
• Ling Yi learned that soap, perfume, fireworks, stockings, and lampshades had appeared in Great Qian over the past year, and suspected the Blood Demon Sect leader was a transmigrator and possibly the protagonist.
• Ling Yi named his faction the Lookout, and the three women approved of the name.
• Ling Yi said the Lookout needed territory and announced that he would upgrade Little Ye Village rather than seize the Northern Frontier King’s lands.
• Ling Yun asked whether Ling Yi meant he would upgrade all of Little Ye Village as he had upgraded their home.

Qin Yuan decided she no longer wanted to become empress, but planned to save Great Qian by helping Ling Yi build the Lookout. Meanwhile, Ling Yi chose to develop Little Ye Village into a structure he called the Lookout’s Divine Palace, though its full upgrade remained far beyond his budget.

• Qin Yuan told Qin Yue to soak every computer except the one in Ling Yi’s room in water, claiming she would wash them, and warned her to keep Ling Yun from finding out.
• Ling Yi overheard Qin Yuan’s plan and decided to arrange a Lookout elder position for her.
• Ling Yi considered the power and hidden presence within max-level Rune Technique, but judged that fully reconstructing the strange presence would cost at least a hundred million Upgrade Points.
• Ling Yi chose Little Ye Village’s Demon Hall upgrade, renamed it the Lookout’s Divine Palace, and found that upgrading the building without Divine Runes cost ten thousand Upgrade Points.
• The system offered to inscribe a Demon Hall rune formation for a hundred thousand Upgrade Points, and Ling Yi insisted that it was the Divine Palace.

Ling Yi upgraded Little Ye Village into the Demon Hall and activated a Spirit Gathering Array that converted Heaven and Earth Genki into Spiritual Qi. Ling Yun, Qin Yue, and Qin Yuan arrived after breaking through into the Grand Master Realm, while Ling Yi anticipated that the powerful effects might not last.

• Ling Yi spent 10,000 Upgrade Points to upgrade Little Ye Village into the Demon Hall and another 100,000 to inscribe a perfection-level Rune Array.
• A petite woman in black watched the palace, walls, and golden formations appear around Little Ye Village, then began cultivating after feeling stronger from breathing the changed air.
• The system gave Ling Yi the God-Demon Token and control over the Demon Hall's formations, including the Spirit Gathering Array, which converted Genki into Spiritual Qi.
• Ling Yun, Qin Yue, and Qin Yuan broke through from the Master Realm Late Stage into the Grand Master Realm after the Spiritual Qi spread through the Demon Hall.
• Ling Yun asked Ling Yi what he had done, and he told the three women he had only upgraded Little Ye Village and that they should get used to future surprises.

Ling Yi renamed the Lookout the God-Demon Hall and appointed Qin Yuan and Qin Yue as its left and right deputy hall masters. Huo Yan'er explained that armies had surrounded the area and asked to join the hall, while Ling Yi left her acceptance to Qin Yuan.

• Ling Yi used the God-Demon Token to give Qin Yuan, Qin Yue, and Ling Yun Demon Hall brands, then renamed the Lookout the God-Demon Hall.
• Qin Yuan used the hall's formation to bring Huo Yan'er out of hiding, and Huo Yan'er explained that thirty thousand soldiers had surrounded the area near Red Maple Town.
• Ling Yi reasoned that Number One and his men were holding the army at bay, and he told Qin Yuan and Qin Yue to develop the God-Demon Hall as its left and right deputy hall masters.
• Huo Yan'er asked to stay and join the God-Demon Hall, and Ling Yi told her to ask Qin Yuan for permission.
• Ling Yun asked what her role would be, and Ling Yi told her she was the hall master.

The Poison Baleful Energy Sect leader described how three ordinary-looking sparrows wounded her while she investigated Butterfly Valley, revealing that she possessed Foundation Establishment Realm cultivation and defenses like a magic treasure. The army remained stalled outside the valley as Wei Wuji interrupted her and was struck down for it.

• The Poison Baleful Energy Sect leader restored her pierced hand and told Qin Shengtian, Jiang Biehe, and Wei Wuji that she had been injured by a sparrow.
• She explained that three sparrows attacked her high in the air, moving swiftly without flapping their wings and carrying bodies hard enough to pierce her defenses.
• The Poison Baleful Energy Sect leader revealed that she cultivated in the Foundation Establishment Realm and that her path had been cut off in this world.
• Wei Wuji interrupted her with a mocking remark, and the Poison Baleful Energy Sect leader made him spit blood for disobeying her warning.

Jiang Yanran discovered that two sparrows near the command tent possessed powerful Spiritual Power and learned they belonged to a master at the God-Demon Hall beyond Butterfly Valley. As the armies debated how to reach the gold mine, Jiang Biehe chose to take the longer route rather than risk confronting the experts guarding the valley.

• The sect leader crippled Wei Wuji’s ability to use True Yuan and warned him that knowingly provoking the Poison Baleful Energy Sect would bring its full retaliation.
• Jiang Yanran noticed two sparrows near the command tent, and Wei Wuji’s silver needles stopped before reaching them.
• Jiang Yanran realized the sparrows were rich in Spiritual Power, introduced herself, and asked to meet their master.
• The sparrows told Jiang Yanran to visit the God-Demon Hall beyond Butterfly Valley and warned the armies that the route through the valley was closed.
• The sparrows grew to the size of calves and flew away, while Jiang Yanran followed them toward Butterfly Valley.
• Wei Wuji argued against a detour to the gold mine, but Jiang Biehe decided the armies should go around the valley to avoid its powerful defenders.

Jiang Biehe persuaded Qin Shengtian and Wei Wuji to let him scout Butterfly Valley, while Jiang Yanran discovered the God-Demon Hall’s Spiritual Qi-converting array and requested an audience with the person inside. Ling Yi heard her call and worried that another woman’s arrival meant he was being treated as the protagonist.

• Jiang Biehe rejected retreat as an option and offered to negotiate with the people at Butterfly Valley the next morning.
• Qin Shengtian and Wei Wuji agreed to let Jiang Biehe scout the valley and then returned to their camps.
• Jiang Yanran followed two giant sparrows through Butterfly Valley and found the God-Demon Hall, where Heaven and Earth Genki surged toward it.
• Jiang Yanran recognized that the hall’s array converted Genki into Spiritual Qi, but she could not pass the rune formation protecting it.
• Jiang Yanran called out to request an audience, and Ling Yi heard her from inside the Demon Hall and worried about being treated as the protagonist.