Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi questioned a big monkey and learned that a person who could control flying swords had died in a cave, leaving an inheritance that taught the monkeys human language. He tested transformed food on thirty monkeys, recorded its varied effects, and went to sleep after ordering his flying swords to guard the RV.

• Ling Yi questioned the big monkey and learned that it had seen someone like him, while a dead person in a cave had left behind an inheritance that helped the monkeys understand human speech.
• Ling Yi gave the big monkey bread, and the monkey grew taller and stronger after eating it.
• Ling Yi gave thirty monkeys different foods and drinks, then recorded effects including healing, cultivation, impurity removal, and increased strength.
• Ling Yi concluded that the cave might contain an immortal's inheritance and noted that the altered foods appeared to have different beneficial effects.
• Ling Yi ordered the flying swords to patrol and protect the RV, then went to sleep.

Ling Yi discovered that his mutated sunglasses could reveal information about the world and its inhabitants. After the monkeys returned with three jade slips and a black stone, he rewarded them with bread and began testing his mutated food.

• Ling Yi considered whether he wanted to return to the Zombie Apocalypse world, then decided to focus on surviving where he was.
• Ling Yi put on his sunglasses and discovered that they displayed data about nearby plants and monkeys.
• More than a hundred monkeys returned, knelt before Ling Yi, and presented him with three jade slips and a black stone from the cave.
• Ling Yi learned that the jade slips stored data and rewarded the monkeys with bread, which they ate in disciplined lines.
• Ling Yi checked the information on his mutated food and ate a piece of bread, finding that it tasted good.

Ling Yi tested his mutated food and drinks, strengthening his body and gaining new abilities while the Short-Armed White Apes built shelters around his RV. As the monkeys’ Loyalty reached 100% and his RV and flying swords grew stronger, Ling Yi realized the apes were preparing for an approaching enemy.

• Ling Yi ate bread that more than doubled his physical attributes, then ate a braised egg that cleansed and refined his body and improved his appearance.
• Ling Yi catalogued his supplies, planned a daily eating schedule, and spent ten days consuming foods that permanently improved his abilities.
• The Short-Armed White Apes built shelters near Ling Yi’s RV, and their Loyalty reached 100% despite him giving them no food or attention.
• After achieving Perfect Body Tempering, Ling Yi replaced braised eggs with green beans and discovered he could circulate a dark cyan energy he called Wind Spiritual Power to increase his movement speed.
• Ling Yi found that his RV and flying swords had grown stronger and more intelligent, while the Short-Armed White Apes prepared stones and wooden spears for an enemy they seemed to expect.

Ling Yi learned how the cultivation realms and ranking system worked, while his spiritual pool expanded alongside his Personal Space pickup range. The chapter ended when a warning from his Flying Sword led him to surveillance footage of a wall slowly advancing.

• Ling Yi reviewed the monkeys' progress and the cultivation realms, noting that the leading monkey had nearly reached the next realm.
• Ling Yi's Primordial Spirit grew, extending his pickup range beyond two hundred meters and enlarging his first Spiritual Qi pool to match.
• Ling Yi chose not to practice the Yin-Yang Five Elements Art or Heavenly Sword Art until he understood whether they had pitfalls.
• Ling Yi explained the distinct Mortal, Earth, Heaven, Immortal, and Divine Pin rankings for cultivation arts, spells, Spiritual Roots, and other techniques.
• On his thirteenth night after transmigrating, Ling Yi received a warning from his Flying Sword and saw surveillance footage of a wall moving forward.

Ling Yi watched the Short-Armed White Apes fight a giant Blood-Patterned Python, and their coordinated attacks blinded it. When the python counterattacked the big monkey, Ling Yi intervened with his flying swords, leaving the python’s fate unresolved.

• Ling Yi identified the approaching creature as a 522-year-old Blood-Patterned Python at the Qi Condensation Realm First Layer, and the old monkey pleaded for his help.
• The big monkey organized the apes into a defense, and their Spirit Poplar Wood spears stopped the python and pierced one of its eyes.
• The big monkey dodged the python, struck its head, and hurled another spear into its other eye, blinding it.
• The python sensed the big monkey and swung its tail at him, but Ling Yi’s flying swords severed the tail and knocked it aside.
• As the big monkey prepared to strike again, the giant python vanished.

Ling Yi accepted the Short-Armed White Apes’ Divine Soul Essence Blood, named their leader Great Sage, and armed them with mutated watermelon knives. After recording his plans to grow stronger and scout the area, he woke to find the monkeys clearing trees, and Great Sage had reached the first layer of the Qi Condensation Realm and learned to speak.

• Ling Yi accepted 108 drops of Divine Soul Essence Blood from the Short-Armed White Apes and gained a way to sense their thoughts and communicate with them.
• Ling Yi named the leader Great Sage, gave the monkeys mutated watermelon knives, and told them to process the Blood-Patterned Python for food and materials.
• Ling Yi recorded his intention to stay cautious, strengthen himself and the monkeys, set up cameras and signal base stations, and eventually explore the cave abode.
• The next morning, Ling Yi found the monkeys had worked through the night to clear the area and stack White Gold Wood beside the RV.
• Great Sage appeared before Ling Yi with increased cultivation at the first layer of the Qi Condensation Realm and spoke to him awkwardly.

Ling Yi learned that Blood-Patterned Pythons had driven Great Sage’s group from their territory in the Five-Colored Forest, a vast region of the Demon Land. He resolved to grow stronger and prepared food, robots, and modern weapons, leaving the story as he assessed his supplies.

• Ling Yi asked Great Sage about nearby Demonic Beasts and learned that at least ten Blood-Patterned Pythons had invaded, led by a giant python with a Bloodline Divine Ability.
• Great Sage explained that the Demon Clan lived in territories, that some members awakened Bloodline Divine Abilities, and that the Five-Colored Forest was named for its five kinds of trees.
• Great Sage described the forest as taking ten days to cross with his grandfather’s Bloodline Divine Ability active and named the Black Swamp, Endless Snowfield, Tongtian River, and Endless Mountain beyond it.
• Ling Yi concluded that he had arrived in the Demon Land and that reaching human territory would be difficult, so he decided to focus on getting stronger.
• Ling Yi gave Great Sage’s group cultivation-enhancing foods and told them to stop cutting trees, then brought out robots, drones, radar vehicles, firearms, and other modern weapons.

Ling Yi assessed his mutated drones, robots, radar vehicle, and firearms, then assembled a mechanized force to investigate the cultivator’s cave abode. The force set out toward the cave after Great Sage gave Ling Yi directions.

• Ling Yi considered using drones and robots to scout the cave abode, wary that its former owner’s soul might still be there.
• Ling Yi activated the radar vehicle and discovered it could detect nearby creatures and danger zones, communicate with the monkeys, and control his signal devices.
• Ling Yi took out three hundred robots and five hundred robot dogs, mounted firearms on them, and organized them alongside a hundred concealed drones into a mechanized force.
• Great Sage told Ling Yi to travel west, then north at the spirit poplar trees, to find the cave at the foot of a mountain.
• Ling Yi sent the mechanized force from camp on its first mission to investigate the cave abode.

Ling Yi settled into a mutated wooden house and used drone footage to investigate the lifeless white goldwood forest. Great Sage explained that ordinary beasts could not survive in the Demon Land’s central region, and described the dangers and food sources of its different regions.

• Ling Yi replaced his RV with a mutated wooden house whose expanded interior and self-repair made it exceptionally durable.
• Ling Yi watched footage from his drones and noticed the white goldwood forest had no animals or insects besides monkeys.
• Ling Yi summoned Great Sage, saw that he had advanced to Qi Condensation Realm Third Layer, and asked why ordinary creatures were absent.
• Great Sage explained that the central region’s Spiritual Qi and great Demons’ Pressure killed ordinary beasts, while stronger Demons dominated the inner and outer regions.
• Great Sage said his clan survived in the central region under the protection of its former great Demons and that his grandfather had warned him not to leave before taking human form.
• Great Sage told Ling Yi that his clan ate monthly-ripening ice pine cones and drew water from hollow spiritual poplar roots.

Ling Yi sent his mutated robots and mechanical dogs to fight the Blood-Patterned Python leader near the dwelling, only to discover that their firepower killed it with ease. He then sent robots into the cave to retrieve its contents, and they emerged with recordings after losing contact inside.

• Ling Yi’s drones found the Blood-Patterned Python leader guarding a smashed cave entrance near the dwelling.
• Ling Yi ordered the drones to withdraw, some mechanical dogs and robots to hide, and the rest to attack the python.
• The mechanical dogs’ concentrated fire blew the Blood-Patterned Python’s head apart, startling Ling Yi with the weapons’ power.
• Ling Yi sent a hundred robots into the cave to recover anything they could carry and ordered the other machines to watch for danger.
• The robots and their accompanying drones lost contact inside the cave, then the robots emerged less than half an hour later and sent back video recordings.

Ling Yi watched footage of his robots destroying an ancient divine soul with Spiritual Power bullets and recovering everything from its cave. Meanwhile, Elder Mu brought Shen Yue, a disciple with a Divine Pin Spiritual Root, before the Heavenly Dao Sect’s sect master, who sealed the hall with layers of formations.

• Ling Yi saw the robots shoot Old Liu’s divine soul apart after it emerged from the corpse, then carry away the bones and every other item in the cave.
• Ling Yi reflected that firearms could be far more powerful than he had expected and decided to wait for the robots’ spoils rather than risk entering the cave himself.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect’s elders reported that their recruits mostly had Mortal Pin Spiritual Roots, while Elder Mu’s Southern Wilderness recruits all had Mortal Pin roots.
• The sect master ended the elders’ mockery of Elder Mu and announced that the forty-six peaks’ resources would be distributed according to rankings in the disciple competition.
• Elder Mu revealed that she had taken in a disciple with a Divine Pin Spiritual Root and brought Shen Yue into the hall.
• The sect master activated numerous formations to secure the hall, then asked Shen Yue’s name, and she introduced herself.

Fifteen days after arriving in the Immortal Cultivation Realm, Shen Yue escaped the brothel where Hua Niang had kept her, but the madam tracked her down with help from a Hehuan Sect disciple. Shen Yue killed Fellow Daoist Zhu with her mutated daggers and revealed that her growing space could mutate stored items.

• Shen Yue arrived in a brothel, persuaded Hua Niang that she could transform the establishment, and secretly planned her escape.
• Shen Yue fled during a brothel relocation, but Hua Niang tracked her using a mark placed on the women by Fellow Daoist Zhu.
• Hua Niang ordered Fellow Daoist Zhu to capture Shen Yue and offered him half a month with her as a cultivation cauldron.
• Shen Yue mocked Fellow Daoist Zhu, then rushed him and killed him with two mutated daggers.
• Shen Yue explained that her space grew and mutated stored items, and that mutated food had helped strengthen her.

Shen Yue killed Hua Niang and another enemy, then met Mu Hanyue, a peak master of the Heavenly Dao Sect, who discovered that Shen Yue had a Divine Pin Spiritual Root. Mu Hanyue invited Shen Yue to become her disciple, and Shen Yue accepted.

• Shen Yue killed Hua Niang after refusing to spare her, then searched the bodies for valuables.
• Mu Hanyue appeared and offered to bring Shen Yue directly into the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Mu Hanyue tested Shen Yue's Spiritual Root, crushed the stone after it flashed with multicolored light, and declared Shen Yue had a Divine Pin Spiritual Root.
• Mu Hanyue explained the Spiritual Root tiers and their cultivation potential while carrying Shen Yue toward the sect.
• Mu Hanyue asked Shen Yue to become her disciple and admitted she hoped Shen Yue would help her pursue the Great Dao; Shen Yue called her Master.

Shen Yue learned Mu Hanyue’s Ice-attribute cultivation technique, revealed that her food could improve Spiritual Roots, and returned with her master to the Heavenly Dao Sect. The sect concealed Shen Yue as a top secret, while Ling Yi encountered a mutated spy satellite in the Demon Land.

• Mu Hanyue explained that Spiritual Roots had no attributes, taught Shen Yue her cultivation technique, and warned her to stay inside the sect until reaching Dao Integration because her Divine-Grade Spiritual Root could not be hidden.
• During nine days of secluded training, Shen Yue reached Qi Refining, found that her single Spirit Pool kept growing, and gathered large amounts of food before returning to the sect.
• Mu Hanyue ate Shen Yue’s little cake and sensed her Spiritual Root improve, so Shen Yue revealed that her food could turn into priceless treasures.
• Shen Yue and Mu Hanyue agreed that Shen Yue would provide cultivation resources in exchange for Mu Hanyue keeping her secret, and Mu Hanyue took her back to the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• The sect master classified Shen Yue’s existence as the sect’s highest secret, while Ling Yi stared at a mutated spy satellite in the Demon Land.

Ling Yi launched a mutated spy satellite with Little Jin’s help, gaining a detailed three-dimensional view of the Demon Land and its surroundings. The satellite revealed a misty border and human city walls to the northwest, leaving Ling Yi considering that direction as the fastest route to the human world.

• Ling Yi discovered that mutated Huazi was advancing his cultivation into the Spirit Tempering Realm, though his expanding spiritual pool made Foundation Establishment seem distant.
• Ling Yi apologized to the conscious RV, named it Little Jin, and learned that it could connect to and control the spy satellite through the radar vehicle.
• Little Jin and the radar vehicle coordinated with the spy satellite, which transformed, rose into the sky, and disappeared from view.
• Ling Yi received an expanded, spherical Dragon Radar Map showing a detailed view of the Demon Land from the satellite’s position thirty thousand li above it.
• Ling Yi zoomed in on the mist surrounding the Demon Land and spotted fortified city walls to the northwest, prompting him to consider traveling that way to reach the human world.

Ling Yi used the spy Satellite to survey the Demon Land, discovering a vast Demon Clan city and watching silver-white lizard dragons fly to a valley. After the robot legion returned with a skeleton and a python corpse, he examined the remains and learned they could be used to craft artifacts.

• Ling Yi had Little Jin display the spy Satellite’s feed and discovered that its coverage extended across the Demon Land.
• Ling Yi zoomed in on a city along the inner ring and saw its humanlike inner-city residents and varied demons in the outskirts.
• Ling Yi followed thirty silver-white lizard dragons from the city to a valley, where they argued with demons who had been waiting there.
• Ling Yi surveyed the inner ring and found no cities in the Demon Land’s center or outer region, while the floating mountains remained hidden by a force field.
• Ling Yi welcomed the returning robot legion, sent the Blood-Patterned Python’s corpse to Great Sage and the others, and examined the returned skeleton.
• Ling Yi identified the skeleton as the remains of a Divine Platform Realm powerhouse whose bones could serve as artifact-crafting material.

Ling Yi examined Old Liu’s belongings, gave the Dustless Dharma Robe to Great Sage, and discovered that ordinary steel needles in his space had mutated into conscious, incredibly fast weapons. He left the needles hovering above the camp to grow stronger and prepared to bind the storage ring.

• Ling Yi gave Great Sage the Dustless Dharma Robe, which transformed into silver-white dragon-scale armor after Great Sage bound it with blood.
• Ling Yi examined Old Liu’s storage ring and found a Moon Spirit Herb seed, then put the valuable items and Old Liu’s bones into his space.
• Ling Yi found a mutated steel needle with its own consciousness and tested its sharpness, speed, and precise control.
• Ling Yi released all two hundred thousand steel needles to hover above the camp and absorb Spiritual Qi.
• Ling Yi took out the storage ring and prepared to bind it with blood.

Ling Yi found several treasures and an Immortal’s diary in the storage ring, learning that its owner, Yun Song, had used an evil cultivation method to rise in power through slaughter. The diary revealed that Yun Song had prepared a Soul Assimilation Formation in the Demon Land to possess an unsuspecting victim, explaining how Great Sage and the others learned human speech.

• Ling Yi claimed the storage ring and found a shield, a Soul Refining Banner, and two jade slips, including Yun Song’s diary and a forbidden-realm map.
• Ling Yi read that Yun Song had begun cultivating with the Longevity Formula, which secretly devoured others’ Qi and Blood and Spiritual Power.
• Yun Song slaughtered people across nations for centuries, reaching the Divine Platform Realm before discovering his poor Spiritual Root aptitude prevented further progress.
• Yun Song devised a method to assimilate souls and eliminate the rejection caused by Body Possession, but the Heavenly Dao Sect’s twelve Unification Realm elders drove him into the Demon Land.
• Gravely injured, Yun Song sealed his soul in a cave abode and established a Soul Assimilation Formation to possess whoever entered it, and Ling Yi learned that the formation had taught Great Sage and the others human speech.

Ling Yi avoided cultivating the Longevity Formula himself because he feared it would unleash his suppressed nature, but let Great Sage and the others learn it alongside the Heavenly Sword Art. Over the next few months, his companions and conscious supplies grew stronger while Ling Yi remained unsure what cultivation realm he had reached.

• Ling Yi reviewed Yun Song's descent into the Longevity Formula and decided not to cultivate it, fearing he would lose control of his own suppressed nature.
• Ling Yi spent the next few months watching the Demon Land's inner ring, where the Frost Silver Dragons, Nine-Tailed Demon Foxes, and rapidly expanding rat demons competed for territory and power.
• Great Sage and the other monkeys cultivated the Longevity Formula and Heavenly Sword Art, with Great Sage reaching the peak of the Crystal Condensation Realm and the weakest monkeys reaching the peak of Foundation Establishment.
• Ling Yi's conscious flying swords, robots, and mechanical dogs grew more intelligent and powerful; the robots and dogs learned to transform into human forms and combine into a giant super robot.
• Ling Yi's Spiritual Pool contained gaseous, liquid, and crystalline Spiritual Power, leaving his realm difficult to define even as he wielded Crystal Condensation Realm power.

Ling Yi learned that rat demons had launched coordinated attacks on Frost City and Fox Demon City, forcing many demons to flee toward the central region. Little Jin’s radar showed some fleeing groups approaching Ling Yi’s camp, leaving Ling Yi determined to keep them away.

• Ling Yi inspected his expanded camp and found that his mutated water condenser could produce a continuous supply of spiritual liquid.
• Little Jin alerted Ling Yi to attacks in the inner region of the Demon Land and showed him footage of rat demons assaulting Frost City.
• Rat demons used self-destruction to kill an isolated Frost Silver Dragon before swarming over its body and leaving only bones.
• Little Jin showed Ling Yi rat demons bombarding Fox Demon City with Spiritual Power cannons to exhaust its Defense Array.
• Little Jin reported that fleeing demons were crossing into the central region, and his radar showed the nearest group less than ten thousand li from Ling Yi’s camp.
• Ling Yi decided that he could not let the fleeing demons approach his camp.