Chapter Summaries

After Wu Ting and Old Tie’s destructive match, Lin Yinxuan and Brother Gou began the second semifinal. Their evenly matched fight left Lin Yinxuan facing Brother Gou’s powerful Laser Beam as the chapter ended.

• Lin Yinxuan and Brother Gou discussed Old Tie’s hidden move and Wu Ting’s unfamiliar techniques while examining the damaged arena.
• A staff member called Lin Yinxuan and Brother Gou to the replacement arena, where they exchanged jokes before taking their positions.
• Brother Gou attacked with rapid movement, while Lin Yinxuan blocked most of his strikes and used his unusual body to withstand the rest.
• Brother Gou created four convincing phantom forms and began charging Laser Beam, warning Lin Yinxuan to surrender.
• Lin Yinxuan rushed toward the four charging figures to find Brother Gou’s real body and interrupt the attack.

Lin Yinxuan defeated Brother Gou in a prolonged arena match by surviving his laser beam and pulling him out of the arena. The fight left Lin Yinxuan badly injured and spectators impressed by the spell’s power but concerned about its dangers.

• Lin Yinxuan stretched his arms and spun across the arena, popping many of Brother Gou’s clones before striking at a fake.
• Brother Gou fired a powerful laser beam that hit Lin Yinxuan, who had made his body thin enough to limit the damage to his thigh.
• Lin Yinxuan grabbed Brother Gou’s foot from the dust and pulled him out of the arena, winning the match.
• Staff members carried Lin Yinxuan and Brother Gou away on stretchers to treat them.
• Spectators praised the laser spell’s potential for combat but worried about the danger of even more powerful attacks.

After the dangerous matches, Li Xingkong arranged for the final between Lin Yinxuan and Wu Ting to be postponed so both could recover. He reflected on how cultivation in the Divine Land needed to expand beyond combat, leaving plans to develop protective formations, spiritual plants, pill refinement, and talisman arts.

• Li Xingkong recognized that the competition lacked protections and that he could not reliably shield spectators from fast, powerful attacks.
• The final between the injured Lin Yinxuan and exhausted Wu Ting was rescheduled until both could recover and return to peak condition.
• Li Xingkong concluded that the Divine Land needed to develop formations and assign people to study them as cultivation spread.
• Li Xingkong decided that agricultural experts should cultivate lower-grade spiritual plants, while pill refinement would need to be developed through Earth Star's own research.
• Li Xingkong distinguished Primitive Talisman Arts from traditional talisman arts and concluded that the latter would have to wait until he established the Heavenly Court.

After recovering from his injury, Lin Yinxuan faced Wu Ting in the tournament final. The match began with Lin’s unusual spell-enhanced punch, which gave Wu Ting new ideas about how cultivators could fight.

• Lin Yinxuan recovered enough to compete, and he and Wu Ting agreed to hold the final the next morning.
• The packed crowd welcomed both finalists, who exchanged a private conversation before the match began.
• Lin Yinxuan channeled magic power to lengthen his arms and formed a spinning drill of magic power over his fist.
• Wu Ting studied Lin Yinxuan’s strange attack and realized that cultivators could use unconventional fighting forms.

Wu Ting and Lin Yinxuan fought to a standstill with their spells and powerful bodies until a head-on clash devastated the arena. Wu Ting remained conscious while Lin Yinxuan was knocked out, deciding the match in Wu Ting’s favor.

• Wu Ting dodged Lin Yinxuan’s drill attack, adapted to his long-reaching punches, and countered with a tiger-shaped Magic Power strike that sent Lin Yinxuan flying.
• Lin Yinxuan used Swift to launch his drill, then enlarged his body with Magic Power and pressed Wu Ting with heavy blows.
• Wu Ting formed a Magic Power dragon and charged Lin Yinxuan, who leaped up to meet him head-on.
• Li Xingkong raised a barrier to protect the spectators as the fighters’ collision sent a shockwave through the venue, tore a hole in the ceiling, and wrecked the arena.
• Wu Ting sat up and signaled that he was conscious, while Lin Yinxuan remained unconscious, making Wu Ting the winner.

After the nationwide cultivation competition ended, the four finalists gathered for the award ceremony. Li Xingkong made a spectacular entrance on Swift Lightning and presented the medals, leaving the contestants and spectators stunned by his power.

• Staff used spells to build the award platform, and the finalists took their places: Wu Ting first, Lin Yinxuan second, Brother Gou third, and Tie Xingzhen fourth.
• Li Xingkong left the venue and began a dramatic entrance after receiving the staff's signal.
• Li Xingkong flew into the venue on Swift Lightning as the ceiling lifted away and spectators watched in shock.
• Li Xingkong congratulated the finalists and used a gesture to send their medals from a staff member's box into their hands.
• Wu Ting, Lin Yinxuan, Brother Gou, Tie Xingzhen, and the spectators reacted with awe to Li Xingkong's display.

After Li Xingkong demonstrated his overwhelming power at the cultivation competition, he declared that the Divine Land had entered a new era of cultivation. The contestants and spectators began to grasp how much the world could change, while Lin Yinxuan recounted Li Xingkong’s feats and Wu Ting reflected on the power now within reach.

• Li Xingkong presented the awards, quieted the spectators with Divine Sense, and urged them to pursue cultivation as the Divine Land entered a new era.
• Lin Yinxuan told Brother Gou and Tie Xingzhen that Li Xingkong had guided them into cultivation and could reach the moon with his physical body.
• Lin Yinxuan shared more stories about Li Xingkong, leaving Brother Gou and Tie Xingzhen astonished.
• Wu Ting admitted he had underestimated Li Xingkong when he challenged him, and Li Xingkong told him he could eventually reach the same level.
• Wu Ting watched Magic Power leap in his palm, while Li Xingkong reflected that the world’s transformation had only just begun.

After the competition, people gave the top cultivators nicknames, including Li Xingkong as the Sword Immortal. Li Xingkong returned home hoping to rest, but his fame brought villagers and their children to visit, while he kept watch on the progress of cultivation for all.

• People analyzed recordings of the competition and nicknamed Wu Ting the Martial Grandmaster, Lin Yinxuan the True Lord of Myriad Transformations, and Li Xingkong the Sword Immortal.
• Li Xingkong went home to rest after the nationwide competition and the launch of cultivation for all.
• Father Li and Mother Li told villagers that Li Xingkong was a cultivator and that they had begun cultivating with his help.
• Villagers recognized Li Xingkong from the competition and brought their families to seek his guidance, so he let them send their children to visit.
• Li Xingkong spent several days resting in his courtyard as the children played above his Gravity Domain, while he monitored the spread of cultivation.

Li Xingkong followed Divine Land’s rollout of cultivation techniques and the uneven progress ordinary people made learning to sense Spiritual Qi. The authorities’ statistics showed that fewer than a million people had succeeded, and some who received the next technique were barred by Li Xingkong’s character lock.

• Li Xingkong read online posts about cultivation and saw that many people struggled with basic terminology, meditation, and understanding their techniques.
• Some people successfully meditated and sensed Spiritual Qi, and Li Xingkong answered questions from those who showed genuine progress.
• Divine Land’s internal statistics reported that about 1.2 billion people had obtained the techniques, but fewer than a million had sensed Spiritual Qi.
• Many successful beginners were health-preservation experts, wealthy people with flexible schedules, martial arts families, and students, while working people and those in subhealthy condition had greater difficulty.
• After receiving the Rising Sun Guide, around one percent of those who sensed Spiritual Qi could not comprehend it because Li Xingkong’s character lock excluded them from cultivation.

Li Xingkong watched people who failed the character screening try to buy the Rising Sun Guide, while foreign powers began investigating Divine Land’s cultivation policy. He left the technique protected by Divine Sense, making it impossible for cultivators to copy or describe it.

• People who could not unlock the cultivation technique complained and offered large sums to buy copies from those who had received it.
• Li Xingkong noticed foreign IP addresses privately contacting forum users for the technique as news of Divine Land’s policy spread worldwide.
• Officials in Great Sun Country debated whether Spiritual Qi was real and decided to contact Eagle Country to obtain the technology.
• Li Xingkong’s Divine Sense made anyone attempting to record or explain the Rising Sun Guide produce incomprehensible symbols, preventing the technique from leaking.

As nationwide cultivation advanced, Li Xingkong began researching formations and successfully refined a pebble into a soundproofing formation flag. He tested its complete silence and found that its structure could absorb ambient energy to keep it running.

• Li Xingkong observed that nationwide cultivation was progressing largely as he had expected.
• Li Xingkong chose to study formations because they could be made with available materials and Spiritual Qi.
• Li Xingkong refined an ordinary pebble into a formation flag by inscribing a complex pattern on it.
• Li Xingkong activated the pebble and tested its formation, which completely blocked sound from entering or leaving its range.
• Li Xingkong saw that the formation absorbed energy from its surroundings and could operate automatically as long as its material remained intact.

Li Xingkong decided to build an array-powered space elevator to address the Divine Land’s shortage of aerospace transport capacity. After he told Old Tang it would cover about 500 square kilometers, Old Tang said he would convene a meeting to choose a suitable site.

• Li Xingkong considered building a grand defensive array around the Divine Land but abandoned the idea because it would take too much work.
• After reviewing developments in aerospace, Li Xingkong decided to create a floating platform that could travel between the ground and Earth orbit.
• Li Xingkong contacted Old Tang and asked the Divine Land to select a site and clear space for the project.
• Old Tang proposed using an existing rocket launch base, and Li Xingkong estimated the elevator would cover about 500 square kilometers.
• Old Tang realized the elevator would be too large for him to site alone and said he would consult the relevant people and send Li Xingkong a plan.

Old Tang and Earthly Capital’s laboratory leaders discussed Li Xingkong’s proposed 500-square-kilometer space elevator and the cultivation insights he had provided. Old Tang urged them to prepare approvals and keep researching, even as the researchers struggled with how far cultivation technology had surpassed their work.

• Li Xingkong told Old Tang that he could build a 500-square-kilometer space elevator capable of carrying a century’s worth of launch materials in one trip.
• Old Tang gathered Earthly Capital laboratory leaders to review compiled cultivation insights and ordered them to develop a plan and begin preparations for approvals.
• A young aerospace fuel researcher said the space elevator made their research feel meaningless, while a genetic researcher compared the shock to discovering the Gene Dictionary.
• Old Tang argued that advanced cultivation technology did not make research obsolete and said researchers needed to understand its principles and eventually develop cultivation techniques of their own.
• The young researcher admitted that prolonged research without results was discouraging, and the old genetic researcher compared the problem to traditional Chinese medicine’s long-used practices whose principles remained unclear.

Old Tang sent Li Xingkong three proposed sites for his space elevator, and Li Xingkong chose Longzhou because the elevator did not depend on latitude and would cause fewer disruptions there. Li Xingkong prepared to leave for Longzhou while Old Tang arranged access to the space base.

• Old Tang sent Li Xingkong documents describing proposed elevator sites in Qiongzhou, Longzhou, and near the Imperial Capital.
• Li Xingkong rejected Qiongzhou because the array-powered elevator did not need to be near the equator.
• Li Xingkong rejected the Imperial Capital site because the elevator's size and visitor traffic could disrupt residents and its cargo operations.
• Li Xingkong chose Longzhou, and Old Tang agreed to arrange for him to go directly to the space base.
• Li Xingkong decided to leave for Longzhou immediately after seeing the children making noise in his courtyard.

Li Xingkong received an assignment and flew to Longzhou, where the space center welcomed him and gave him time to rest. After Old Tang completed the paperwork, Li Xingkong set out to survey the approved site and inspect the project’s progress.

• Li Xingkong told his mother he had an assignment and left home on Arrested Lightning.
• Li Xingkong flew to Longzhou on his sword, taking in the region’s desert landscape and drawing attention from locals.
• Li Xingkong landed at the Longzhou space center, where its person in charge welcomed him and showed him around.
• Li Xingkong asked to be left alone for a few days and stayed in prepared quarters until Old Tang finished the paperwork.
• Li Xingkong came out of his room to survey the approved site and check the project’s progress.

Li Xingkong visited the space elevator construction site and learned from Ma Buxiu how workers planned to prepare the enormous plot of land. He used Swift Lightning to level the ground in minutes, then flew toward the hill to clear it with his sword.

• Li Xingkong arrived at the chosen space elevator site and met the construction foreman, Ma Buxiu.
• Ma Buxiu explained that crews would level the land and build a road around the five-to-six-hundred-square-kilometer plot, with the hill expected to slow the work.
• Li Xingkong flew Ma Buxiu around the site to mark its four corners.
• Li Xingkong sent Swift Lightning across the plot, turning over and leveling the hard-packed ground in less than a minute.
• Li Xingkong flew toward the hill, preparing to cut it down with his sword.

Li Xingkong tested his spells on a small mountain, first blasting it with the Shotgun Spell and then slicing it apart with Swift Lightning. Ma Buxiu and the construction workers inspected the shattered mountain and discovered that the sword-cut stone had been burned smooth and hot.

• Li Xingkong used the Shotgun Spell to blast dozens of deep craters into the mountain, impressing Ma Buxiu.
• Li Xingkong sent Swift Lightning through the mountain repeatedly, cutting it into blocks that collapsed when he swept them with a gust of wind.
• Ma Buxiu and nearby construction workers rushed toward the mountain to see the damage.
• Ma Buxiu reached the mountain’s remains and touched a smooth, hot stone block, then realized how dangerous it would have been to arrive sooner.

Li Xingkong used his sword control to cut up a mountain and level the construction site, finishing the most time-consuming part of the road project. Ma Buxiu’s team prepared to continue the work and collect the sword-cut rocks as souvenirs, while Li Xingkong left and asked them to call him back when the next phase was done.

• Ma Buxiu and his crew inspected the glazed rocks and decided they needed to return to cultivation after the project.
• Li Xingkong used his flying sword to cut the mountain into chunks and level the entire plot.
• Ma Buxiu checked the flattened land, praised Li Xingkong’s work, and ordered his crew to begin the next project phase.
• Li Xingkong kicked a rock far into the distance, then agreed that Ma Buxiu’s crew could keep the rocks as souvenirs.
• Li Xingkong left the site and told Ma Buxiu to call him back after the next phase was finished.

Li Xingkong finished designing a formation to protect the space elevator site and asked Old Tang to arrange its materials. He then met two members of Earthly Capital’s Longzhou Branch and learned about their strange human-powered flying machine.

• Li Xingkong spent three days and nights refining a formation design for the space elevator site, settling on 360 formation flags made with Bone-Tempering Grass.
• Li Xingkong asked Old Tang to arrange for 360 formation bases, and Old Tang offered to take him to Earthly Capital’s Longzhou Branch.
• Old Tang contacted the Longzhou Branch, whose members arrived at the construction site in a wobbling, winged contraption.
• Ji Qiu introduced the contraption as a human-powered leaping machine that used Magic Power, while Ge Baoqi dismissed it as a useless toy.

Li Xingkong followed Ge Baoqi and Ji Qiu to the hidden Longzhou branch, where a human-minded bull fled an attempt to make him sire a calf. The bull escaped into the woods after arguing with Ji Nanzhi and Ge Baoqi, while Li Xingkong learned how the experiment had changed him.

• Li Xingkong followed Ge Baoqi and Ji Qiu through a concealed valley to the Longzhou branch.
• A bull burst through the base door, knocked Ge Baoqi aside, and ran into the woods, insisting he was human.
• Ji Nanzhi explained that he had modified the bull’s brain and that the bull now thought of himself as a human.
• Ji Nanzhi admitted he had tried to make the bull sire a calf to test whether his brain development could be inherited.
• The bull returned to curse Ji Nanzhi and Ge Baoqi, then threatened to gore them if they tried to make him breed again.