Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi attended the Mystic Moon Sect competition with Ji Luo Xue while Shadow copied valuable traits, memories, and cultivation from suspected fake Children of Karmic Luck. The challenge matches began when Heavenly Cloud Sect holy maiden Qin Wanyue challenged Ji Luo Xue and then called Ling Yi out to fight.

• Daodao left after Ling Yi returned his traits under unequal agreements that made him Ling Yi's hired hand.
• Ji Luo Xue explained the sect competition and offered to handle any challenges against Ling Yi, who agreed to take it easy.
• Shadow copied an innate supreme Pin thunder Spiritual Root and found Ye Shan, a suspected fake Child of Karmic Luck with an immortal remnant soul in a ring.
• Shadow copied Murong Yue's memories and divine soul cultivation, raising Ling Yi's divine soul cultivation to the Human Immortal Realm.
• After the outer and inner sect competitions ended, Qin Wanyue challenged Ji Luo Xue and called Ling Yi out to fight.

Ji Luo Xue defeated Qin Wanyue when she challenged Ling Yi, then defended her husband before the gathered sects. As the challenges continued, Shadow revealed that Old Devil Han had appeared with the Heavenly Sword Sect’s holy son, Feng Hannian, and was secretly seeking the Chaos God Stone.

• Ji Luo Xue used her Spiritual Pressure to defeat Qin Wanyue after Qin Wanyue challenged Ling Yi and insulted him.
• Qin Batian healed Qin Wanyue and left the arena, while Ji Luo Xue challenged anyone else to fight her husband.
• Ji Luo Xue returned to Ling Yi, and the crowd wondered at her cultivation and her marriage to a mortal with a Desolate Ancient Spiritual Root.
• Shadow showed Ling Yi that Old Devil Han was concealed in the Heavenly Sword Sect’s group beside its holy son, Feng Hannian.
• Shadow explained that Feng Hannian was Old Devil Han’s son and revealed that Old Devil Han had come to the Mystic Moon Sect for the Chaos God Stone.

Ling Yi explained the Chaos God Stone and Old Devil Han’s plans before Han Feng trapped the gathered sects with Spirit Devouring Sunflowers and demanded their submission. Ji Lingtian revealed his power by killing Yu Cangqiong, and Shadow began devouring the sunflowers.

• Shadow explained that the Chaos God Stone had been born with Ji Luo Xue and could only be touched safely by those with a Chaos Sequence Physique or related bloodline.
• As the tournament ended, Han Feng scattered Spirit Devouring Sunflower seeds and activated a sealing formation that trapped everyone and drained their Spiritual Power.
• Ling Yi reassured Ji Luo Xue while Daodao offered to help; Ling Yi declined, wanting Shadow to devour the sunflowers.
• Han Feng revealed his identity as Old Devil Han and ordered everyone to submit to the Soul Contract Technique or die.
• Yu Cangqiong, Bai Zifeng, and You Yun knelt, while many others waited to see Ji Lingtian’s response.
• Ji Lingtian killed Yu Cangqiong with a glance, then Shadow began devouring the Spirit Devouring Sunflowers.

Ji Lingtian killed Old Devil Han, Feng Hannian, and the traitors while Ling Yi and Shadow stripped their powers and exposed other False Children of Karmic Luck. Zhao Gao revealed that he had secretly stopped Old Devil Han’s escape, then prepared to leave the Mystic Moon Sect for the mortal world.

• The Spirit Devouring Sunflowers withered as Shadow absorbed their Spiritual Power and Demonic Qi, and Old Devil Han accused Ling Yi of causing it.
• Ji Lingtian used a Death Curse to erase Old Devil Han after Zhao Gao snapped and shattered his teleportation talisman.
• Feng Hannian charged Ji Lingtian, but his Chaos Immortal-Demon Qi vanished and he was killed; Ji Lingtian then cursed the traitors who had sided with Old Devil Han.
• Ling Yi and Shadow left another False Child of Karmic Luck crippled after his Spiritual Root, cultivation, and ring-bound old grandpa disappeared.
• Zhao Gao recognized that Ling Yi had noticed him, then packed his belongings to leave the Mystic Moon Sect for the mortal world.

Ling Yi left the Mystic Moon Sect with Ji Luo Xue to accompany Zhao Gao to the Great State of Chu, after granting Ji Lingtian’s shadow new abilities and copying Ji Luo Xue’s Chaos Spirit Body. As the trio traveled toward Chu, Ji Lingtian argued with his newly enlightened shadow about how to lead the sect.

• Ling Yi gave Ji Lingtian blueprints for an automated mobile phone production line, enlightened his shadow into a minion, and copied Ji Luo Xue’s Chaos Spirit Body before leaving the Mystic Moon Sect.
• Zhao Gao told Ling Yi and Ji Luo Xue that the Great State of Chu and the Da Wu Nation were powerful immortal kingdoms ruled by Spirit Transformation Realm empresses, with cultivator armies.
• Ling Yi, Ji Luo Xue, and Zhao Gao traveled toward Chu at an unhurried pace, stopping to hunt and cook meals along the way.
• Ji Lingtian argued with his shadow, which criticized his cautious plans for the Mystic Moon Sect and warned that rival sects would still threaten it.

Ji Lingtian launched the Mystic Moon Mobile Phone business while Ling Yi, Ji Luo Xue, and Zhao Gao traveled through the Mystic Moon Mountain Range. Their meal was interrupted when a woman fell from the sky into Ling Yi’s arms.

• Ji Lingtian decided to develop the mobile phone business and wait for a chance to exploit the Heavenly Sword Sect’s troubles.
• Within two months, Mystic Moon Mobile Phones gained widespread use in the Great State of Chu and the Da Wu Nation.
• Ling Yi, Ji Luo Xue, and Zhao Gao prepared and ate a beggar’s deer near the edge of the Mystic Moon Mountain Range.
• A woman in red fell from the sky, and Ling Yi caught her in his arms.
• Ji Luo Xue reacted jealously, while Zhao Gao grinned at Ling Yi’s predicament.

Ling Yi learned that the woman he had rescued, Chu Feiyan, was the crown prince and future empress of Great Chu, with a sealed God Realm Boundary Stele inside her. Though she threatened that her death would bring the royal family’s retaliation, Ling Yi asked her to explain her situation.

• Ling Yi told Chu Feiyan she could stay one night but had to leave, and she warned that she was poisoned, powerless, and would not survive alone in the forest.
• Shadow revealed that Chu Feiyan was Great Chu’s eldest princess and crown prince, and that a sealed God Realm Boundary Stele was inside her.
• Shadow explained that only Chu Feiyan could activate the Stele, after reaching the Golden Immortal Realm and condensing a Dao Rhyme Golden Soul.
• Chu Feiyan identified herself as Great Chu’s future empress and warned that her death would bring the royal family’s retaliation, while Zhao Gao dismissed her threat.
• Ling Yi stopped the argument and asked Chu Feiyan to explain her situation.

Ling Yi and Zhao Gao considered killing Chu Feiyan, but Ling Yi questioned her and learned she had accidentally transported herself by using her mother’s jade pendant, which sealed her Spiritual Power and poisoned her. Ling Yi and Ji Luo Xue went to bed, leaving Zhao Gao to watch Chu Feiyan, while he privately considered leaving before the trouble reached the imperial capital.

• Chu Feiyan angrily demanded respect for her status, and Zhao Gao and Ling Yi agreed they could kill her without the Great Chu Imperial Clan discovering it.
• Ling Yi questioned Chu Feiyan and learned she had stolen her mother’s teleportation jade pendant, triggering its Restriction and Soft Bone Powder.
• Chu Feiyan admitted she knew the jade pendant was dangerous but expected her mother to stop her, and Zhao Gao mocked her judgment.
• Ling Yi told Zhao Gao to settle Chu Feiyan in a guest room and keep watch while he went upstairs with Ji Luo Xue.
• Zhao Gao warned Chu Feiyan not to trigger the room’s killing formation, then privately resolved to find a chance to leave Ling Yi and the others.
• Chu Feiyan was left alone, grabbed a plate of roast meat, and hurried into the bedroom.

Ling Yi and his companions reached Blue Stone City, the first city on Great Chu’s border, where they learned about its defenses and role as an immortal cultivation marketplace. At the city gate, Zhao Gao said he would not continue to Great Chu’s imperial city, preparing to leave the group.

• After traveling together for another half month, Ling Yi’s group emerged from the Mystic Moon Mountain Range, and Chu Feiyan had grown close to Ling Yi while Ji Luo Xue became increasingly hostile toward her.
• Zhao Gao pointed out Blue Stone City ahead, and Chu Feiyan looked forward to bathing and changing after traveling with her Spiritual Power sealed.
• As they approached the city, Chu Feiyan explained that its walls defended against beast tides, while Ji Luo Xue described how Demonic Beasts and wild animals caused them.
• At the gate, Chu Feiyan explained that Blue Stone City was a major immortal cultivation marketplace and a destination for cultivators seeking experience, materials, and sect contribution points.
• Zhao Gao told Ling Yi that he did not plan to go to Great Chu’s imperial city, and Ling Yi understood that he intended to leave the group.

Ling Yi, Ji Luo Xue, and Chu Feiyan entered Blue Stone City and bought a vacant mortal courtyard house after discovering that visitors stayed in cultivation chambers rather than inns. As the three settled in, Ji Luo Xue tried to send Chu Feiyan back to the imperial palace, but Chu Feiyan explained that her future as empress meant she could not freely choose a husband.

• Ling Yi parted from Zhao Gao, then registered with Ji Luo Xue and Chu Feiyan as Mystic Moon Sect disciples to enter Blue Stone City.
• The three searched for inns and restaurants before Chu Feiyan explained that cultivators used rental chambers and rarely needed food or sleep.
• Ling Yi rejected the cultivation chambers, and Ji Luo Xue suggested finding a mortal home instead.
• The group bought a spacious courtyard house in the mortal district, where Ji Luo Xue explained that beast tides had driven many mortals away and cultivators mostly stayed in rental halls.
• Ji Luo Xue made dinner, and afterward she asked Chu Feiyan why she had not returned to the imperial palace.
• Chu Feiyan said she and Ling Yi were destined not to be together because, as the future empress of the Great State of Chu, she would not choose her own husband.

Ling Yi bought two incomplete sword arts from a blind young man and learned that the Heavenly Sword Sect had been destroyed while he was out of touch. After paying by phone, Ling Yi and Shadow discussed whether to copy or deprive the stall owner, who Shadow identified as a False Child of Karmic Luck.

• Ling Yi left Ji Luo Xue and Chu Feiyan to their private conversation and told Shadow he had no interest in Chu Feiyan.
• Ling Yi found a blind sword-art seller in Blue Stone City's market and discovered the man's body held a powerful strand of Sword Intent.
• The blind man told Ling Yi the Heavenly Sword Sect had fallen and showed him Mystic Moon Forum posts reporting that the Mystic Moon Sect's master had defeated its Mahayana patriarch.
• Ling Yi paid for two green jade slips with his phone and learned from Shadow that the blind stall owner was a False Child of Karmic Luck.
• Ling Yi rejected Shadow's suggestion to use Deprivation automatically and said they should proceed with their usual process.

Ling Yi copied Li Ergou’s Chaos Sword Body and Chen Hai’s Diligence Can Make Up for Lack of Talent entry, learning about their rankings and powers. After buying three talismans from a disguised Golden Core cultivator, he headed toward the third target marked by Shadow.

• Ling Yi copied Li Ergou’s Chaos Sword Body and learned that it ranked fifth among all physiques, while the Chaos Spirit Body ranked twenty-sixth.
• Shadow explained that the Chaos Sword Body’s power could cut down the Heavenly Dao, but using it consumed energy and lifespan.
• Ling Yi examined an old man’s three talismans, recognized the improved Golden Lightning Talisman, and bought all three.
• Ling Yi copied Chen Hai’s Diligence Can Make Up for Lack of Talent entry, which ranked second in the physique sequence and guaranteed progress through effort.
• Ling Yi decided the entry was of no use to him and walked toward the Daoist priest’s stall, the third target Shadow had marked.

Ling Yi discovered that the handsome Daoist Qi Xuan was a murderous Heavenly Immortal with the Seven Zhai Heavenly Mystery Physique, and decided to deprive him of his abilities. Qi Xuan failed to divine Ling Yi and demanded a greater fee before telling his fortune.

• Shadow revealed that Qi Xuan was an over-sixty-thousand-year-old Heavenly Immortal whose physique let him descend to the lower realm without losing his cultivation.
• Ling Yi viewed Qi Xuan’s memories and learned that he had murdered family, disciples, and millions of others to steal their resources and opportunities.
• Qi Xuan considered investigating the Mystic Moon Sect’s master, Ji Lingtian, before Ling Yi approached his stall and asked for a fortune.
• Qi Xuan’s Heavenly Mystery Technique failed to see through Ling Yi, startling him.
• Ling Yi challenged Qi Xuan to predict when he would die and offered a Spirit Stone, but Qi Xuan said the fee was insufficient.

Ling Yi confronted Qi Xuan, the diviner known as Three Things Not Divined, and stripped him of his cultivation, abilities, and treasured ring after exposing his past crimes. The chapter ended with Ling Yi summoning a crimson banner containing the souls of Qi Xuan’s victims, while Qi Xuan begged him not to use it.

• Ling Yi slapped Qi Xuan and challenged him to divine his fate accurately, threatening to kill him if he failed.
• Qi Xuan predicted that lightning would strike Ling Yi in thirty breaths and leave him unable to move or speak.
• Ling Yi ordered a Foundation Establishment cultivator to count down and had Shadow deprive Qi Xuan of his Heavenly Immortal cultivation, Seven Zhai Heavenly Mystery Physique, techniques, and Heavenly Secrets Ring.
• Qi Xuan realized he had lost his power and ring, then pleaded with Ling Yi to spare him as the countdown ended without lightning striking Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi reminded Qi Xuan of the people he had slaughtered and summoned a crimson banner containing the souls of ten million victims.

Ling Yi tested how much influence Qi Xuan, a False Child of Karmic Luck, could wield by giving Jiang Wanshan three hundred breaths to gather help before taking Qi Xuan into the Soul Devourer Banner. After Ling Yi killed Qi Xuan, Jiang Wanshan and thirteen allies surrounded him while Empress Chu Wanyue watched.

• Jiang Wanshan arrived to protect Qi Xuan, and Ling Yi gave him three hundred breaths to find help before he would use the Soul Devourer Banner.
• Jiang Wanshan attacked Ling Yi with more than a hundred flying swords, but Ling Yi made them vanish with a word.
• Jiang Wanshan sent a crisis alert through Bubble Chat, and fourteen armored cultivators arrived, including Empress Chu Wanyue.
• Jiang Wanshan accused Ling Yi of provoking the Great State of Chu, and Ling Yi called out his false account as the countdown ended.
• Ling Yi used the Soul Devourer Banner to kill Qi Xuan and devour his soul, prompting Jiang Wanshan to order the fourteen cultivators to form an array while Chu Wanyue watched.

Ling Yi broke the Myriad Tribulations Formation repeatedly, then challenged Empress Chu Wanyue to escape a ring of light within sixty breaths, knowing her Unyielding Delusion Physique forced her to accept bets. He recruited Chen Xiaodao as his servant and began elevating him to Mahayana Realm Perfection as Chu Wanyue prepared to take the challenge.

• Ling Yi learned the General Principles of the Myriad Tribulations Formation and repeatedly broke Jiang Wanshan and the others' formation by striking its nodes.
• Chu Wanyue revealed herself and demanded that Ling Yi kneel, but Ling Yi wagered that he would kneel if she could leave his ring of light within sixty breaths.
• Chu Wanyue asked what she would receive if she won, and Ling Yi promised to help her become an Immortal within a month and serve Great State of Chu for a hundred years.
• Ling Yi offered Chen Xiaodao Mahayana Realm Perfection in exchange for a hundred years of service and a Soul Contract Technique; Chen Xiaodao accepted and became his servant.
• Ling Yi used his power to raise Chen Xiaodao's cultivation through multiple realms to Mahayana Realm, overwhelming everyone present with Spiritual Pressure.

Ling Yi brought Chen Xiaodao under his command and gave him control of the Heavenly Secrets Ring’s living space to improve. Chu Wanyue admitted defeat, heard Ling Yi’s terms, and agreed to a Soul Contract to place her immortal nation under his control.

• Chen Xiaodao reached the Mahayana Realm, pledged his life to Ling Yi, and received the Heavenly Secrets Ring to redesign as he saw fit.
• Chu Wanyue admitted defeat and asked to speak privately with Ling Yi, who revealed that he wanted a force of his own.
• Chu Wanyue dismissed Jiang Wanshan and the others, then left with Ling Yi to discuss his terms.
• Jiang Wanshan used Soul Search on the crippled Qi Xuan and discovered that he was a sixty-thousand-year-old former Heavenly Immortal who had plundered the Mortal World Realm for ten thousand years.
• Ling Yi told Chu Wanyue he wanted an immortal nation under his control, and she accepted a Soul Contract, asking him to keep his word.

Ling Yi empowered Chu Wanyue as a Heavenly Immortal and brought her to Blue Stone City to retrieve Chu Feiyan. After Chu Wanyue left with her daughter, Ling Yi told Ji Luo Xue that the Great State of Chu was now under his control and proposed building a city.

• Chu Wanyue gained a Longevity Physique, endless lifespan, and Heavenly Immortal Realm power through Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi told Chu Wanyue to work with Ji Lingtian to spread the Mystic Moon Mobile Phone, and revealed that Ji Luo Xue was his wife.
• Ling Yi took Chu Wanyue to Blue Stone City, where Chu Feiyan admitted she had done wrong and was ordered to return home.
• Chu Wanyue greeted Ji Luo Xue, said she would rely on the Mystic Moon Sect, and left with Chu Feiyan using a teleportation jade pendant.
• Ling Yi told Ji Luo Xue that the Great State of Chu belonged to him and suggested they build a city for fun.

Ling Yi and Ji Luo Xue traveled north at Daodao’s request to deal with a Heavenly Mandate Demon, but encountered thousands of refugees from Wasteland City. The refugees blamed the city’s immortal cultivators for the worsening drought, and an old man began explaining how a Spirit Gathering Array had drained the region.

• Daodao told Ling Yi that a false child of Karmic Luck deprived of outside Karmic Luck could become a Heavenly Mandate Demon, and asked him to kill one near the Great State of Chu’s imperial capital.
• Ling Yi and Ji Luo Xue discussed the unknown mastermind behind the outside Karmic Luck as Chen Xiaodao drove them north from Blue Stone City.
• Chen Xiaodao stopped the carriage after spotting a vast crowd of refugees blocking the road.
• The refugees reacted to Chen Xiaodao with hatred, and an old man explained that they had fled Wasteland City after Spiritual Qi dwindled, rivers dried up, and crops failed.
• The old man said Wasteland City’s high-level Spirit Gathering Array was responsible for draining Spiritual Qi from the city and surrounding land.

Ling Yi learned that Wasteland City's illegal Spirit Gathering Array had left the surrounding region nearly barren, so he offered the refugees shelter in the Heavenly Secrets Ring. After taking in more than ten thousand people, he discovered that someone in Wasteland City possessed the Shared Dao Physique and had bound the city lord's son.

• Chen Xiaodao explained that Wasteland City's lord had drained the region's Spiritual Qi for three years while trying to help his son break through, leaving mortals without crops or food.
• Ji Luo Xue suggested placing the refugees in the Heavenly Secrets Ring, and Ling Yi opened a gateway and offered them land, Spiritual Qi, and freedom to cultivate in exchange for staying inside.
• The respected old man persuaded the refugees to accept, then organized them as they entered the small world and began building homes and preparing fields.
• Chen Xiaodao brought Wasteland City's lord and his son to Ling Yi, while Shadow revealed that someone in the city had the Shared Dao Physique and had bound the son as a Shared Dao target.
• Shadow confirmed the physique's owner was a False Child of Karmic Luck, and Ling Yi ordered her to proceed with their usual procedure.