Chapter Summaries

Lu Li helped Golden Ape possess the body of a demon ancestor and watched him begin recovering in the Golden Ape Blessed Land. While exploring Golden Ape’s vast stores, Lu Li found ten-thousand-year monkey wine that loosened his cultivation bottleneck, leaving him eager to drink more.

• Golden Ape thanked Lu Li for securing him a body and promised to follow his commands and bring him home.
• Golden Ape possessed the demon body, then handed Lu Li his Storage Bag and began healing from his severe injuries.
• Lu Li discovered that Golden Ape’s Storage Bag held enormous wealth, including Spirit Stones, pills, rare materials, and Law Artifacts.
• Lu Li opened a vat of ten-thousand-year monkey wine and learned from Golden Ape that it could aid cultivation and heal the body.
• Lu Li drank a mouthful of the wine, felt his bottleneck loosen by thirty percent, and wondered whether drinking the whole vat could bring him to late Golden Core.

Lu Li drank ten-thousand-year-old monkey wine, then traveled with Golden Ape and Yuanhao to the Golden Ape Blessed Land to assess its population and resources. After reporting the findings to Great Xia, he examined rare materials and magical boats and began imagining a far grander vessel.

• Lu Li drank more than a tenth of the monkey wine vat, then sealed it and began refining its potent Spiritual Power while Golden Ape recovered.
• Lu Li and Golden Ape departed for the blessed land aboard Lu Li's flying boat, with Yuanhao joining them.
• Golden Ape told Lu Li that the blessed land held over a million demons, more than a hundred thousand humans, two surviving Golden Core True Lords, and extensive resources including an ancestral brewing spring.
• Lu Li sent the blessed land's details to Great Xia so its strategy team could plan how to develop the new territory.
• Lu Li examined Golden Ape's fourth-tier spiritual materials, a body cultivation method, and several magical boats, then said a vessel for cultivators should have the grandeur of a mothership.

Lu Li discovered that the Jade Slip contained a fifth-tier body cultivation method and returned with Golden Ape to the Golden Ape Blessed Land. After securing the clan’s remaining reserves, he began organizing its resources for Great Xia.

• Lu Li studied the Through-Arm Vajra Cultivation Method and learned its three realms: copper skin, iron bones, and golden body.
• Lu Li realized the fifth-tier method was an extraordinary prize, though cultivating its first realm required Geng Metal Sha Qi.
• Lu Li arrived at the Golden Ape Blessed Land with Golden Ape and let him handle the clan’s affairs while keeping his own identity concealed.
• Golden Ape rebuked an old ape who asked whether the villain had been executed, then directed him to arrange support for households whose True Lords had died.
• Golden Ape led Lu Li to Monkey Mountain’s spiritual spring and wine pool, then handed over the blessed land’s remaining reserves.
• Lu Li found roughly two to three hundred thousand Spirit Stones among the resources and began preparing a supply manifest for Great Xia.

Lu Li transferred the Golden Ape Blessed Land’s supplies to Great Xia while reading its plan for indirect governance and development. Impressed by the proposal, he considered who could carry it out and called Yuanhao over.

• Lu Li began transferring the Golden Ape Blessed Land’s supplies to Great Xia as Li Yuanchao confirmed they were ready to receive them.
• Lu Li read Great Xia’s plan to organize the blessed land’s populations, replace stipends with merit rewards, and centralize farming and animal raising.
• Lu Li reviewed proposals to expand Monkey Wine production and improve planned mining with the Dao Academy’s Spirit Machinery.
• Lu Li read the military plan to train and equip a regular demon force and drill lower-level demon soldiers for future campaigns.
• Lu Li wondered whether Golden Ape could implement the plan and spotted Yuanhao as a suitable candidate.
• Lu Li called Elder Yuanhao over.

Bureau 749 Director Li Yuanchao ordered Great Xia’s workshops to submit plans for allocating the new cultivation resources, prioritizing combat power. Zhou Zhenhua’s artifact-research team proposed combining nuclear weapons technology with Spirit Machinery to create a strategic Law Artifact, leaving them eager to develop the concept.

• Li Yuanchao told Bureau 749’s workshops to submit experimental plans and set combat power as the priority for resource allocation, with limited exceptions for alchemy and Spiritual Power crops.
• Zhou Zhenhua gathered his Dao of Artifact Refinement team to devise a proposal with the greatest deterrent effect in combat.
• The researchers discussed upgrading their space-based array, Spirit Gang Giant Puppet, and Spirit Machinery mech projects.
• A young researcher proposed developing spirit-nuclear power applications to maximize destructive power, prompting the team to consider guided, long-range bombardment.
• Zhou Zhenhua envisioned a nuclear-powered strategic Law Artifact that could launch devastating attacks from low orbit.

Li Mingyuan and Su Qing searched for more powerful weapons as their workshops found existing research too limited to threaten the strongest cultivators. Li Mingyuan proposed an anti-gravity spiritual domain, while Su Qing began considering a talisman made from nanoscale cultivation materials.

• Li Mingyuan reviewed the Dao of Formations workshop’s projects and judged them too focused on support and defense to secure substantial resources.
• Li Mingyuan proposed developing an Anti-Gravity Spiritual Energy Domain to manipulate gravity and create specialized tactical environments, prompting the researchers to discuss the idea eagerly.
• Su Qing and the Talisman Dao workshop reviewed their advanced talismans and recognized that their research still lacked enough power to threaten the strongest cultivators.
• A young researcher suggested making a Dual-Vector Foil, but Su Qing dismissed the idea as beyond their current technology.
• Su Qing recalled a science-fiction material made from aligned carbon nanotubes and proposed weaving cultivation materials at the nanoscale, rearranging their atomic structure, and storing the result in a talisman.

The Dao of Alchemy Workshop and the Spiritual Power Crops Workshop joined forces to turn their biological research toward weapons against Demon Beasts. Li Yuanchao reviewed four ambitious proposals aimed at Spirit Transformation-level threats, and the workshops’ plans left him imagining Lu Li’s reaction.

• Chen Fang and Yuan Yi reviewed their workshops’ achievements and agreed to redirect their research toward harming enemies.
• Yuan Yi proposed biological toxins and genetic spores that could disrupt Demon Beasts’ nervous systems, Demon Power, and spiritual defenses.
• The two workshops began developing joint projects using cultivation-world poisons, Demon Beast samples, and modern genetic methods.
• The artifact, formation, talisman, and alchemy-and-crops workshops submitted four strategic proposals to Li Yuanchao.
• Li Yuanchao read the proposals for Demon-Quelling, Pagoda, Ruin's End, and Demon Extinction and was deeply shocked by their scale.

After Great Xia distributed Lu Li’s enormous haul of cultivation resources among Bureau 749’s research projects, Lu Dahai found himself booked to assist nearly every workshop throughout the week. On his rare day off, he visited his old friend Xuanwu and invited him to play a game with Maozi.

• Bureau 749 allocated the resources among joint and independent research projects, including artifact refinement, formations, talismans, alchemy, Soul Dao, and cultivation methods.
• Researchers from five major workshops reminded Lu Dahai that they had scheduled him to help with their experiments and exchanges.
• Lu Dahai reviewed a packed week of assignments, from research and cultivator training to a television interview and Dragon Abyss Academy’s opening ceremony.
• With the day off before his busy schedule began, Lu Dahai visited Xuanwu, the Qi Refinement Seventh Layer giant tortoise who had become his close friend.
• After watching anime together, Lu Dahai grew bored and asked Xuanwu to call Maozi so the three of them could play a few rounds.

Lu Dahai joined Old Five and Brocade Fur for a dice game, then spent Monday testing dark ink metal stone for a space-based spirit cannon and antigravity fields. The chapter ended with researchers preparing to test how much gravitational pressure a Foundation Establishment cultivator could withstand.

• Lu Dahai refused to play mahjong with Old Five and invited Brocade Fur to join them for dice instead.
• Lu Dahai and the two demons gambled spirit rice and broken Spirit Stones until midnight, leaving Brocade Fur broke and Old Five offering it another loan for more rounds.
• Zhou Zhenhua and the artifact-refining team welcomed Lu Dahai to help measure dark ink metal stone and refine the design of the Demon-Expelling Space-Based Orbital Spirit Core Cannon.
• Lu Dahai joined the formations workshop's antigravity test, where Li Mingyuan ordered the researchers to increase the power and test the limits of Foundation Establishment resistance to gravitational pressure.

Lu Dahai tested a gravity-based spiritual energy domain and learned that the pressure increased with the strength of a cultivator’s spiritual barrier. Later, he led the cultivator group’s weekly meeting on improving spiritual power circulation and spellcasting efficiency.

• Li Mingyuan’s team tested Lu Dahai in the gravity chamber at 8G, which left his protective barrier unaffected.
• Lu Dahai requested a hundredfold increase, but 100G forced him to one knee and made his barrier tremble until Li Mingyuan ordered the chamber shut down.
• Li Mingyuan concluded that the domain’s pressure reflected a cultivator’s strength, with greater power drawing greater pressure.
• Lu Dahai spent the week attending experiments and meetings at the Talisman Dao, Soul Dao, and Dao of Alchemy workshops, where Old Five and Maozi sat apart after apparently quarreling.
• Lu Dahai addressed over a thousand cultivator group members about spiritual power circulation and energy use in spellcasting.

Lu Dahai taught cultivation techniques and combat practice to Great Xia’s cultivators, then traveled to the Cultivation Administration to teach its nationwide elite members. The chapter ended as he greeted the assembled guards and prepared to begin.

• Lu Dahai demonstrated how to conserve Spiritual Power while maintaining the Fireball Technique’s strength.
• Lu Dahai sparred with Old Five and Maozi, showing how to redirect their attacks and defeat their coordinated assault.
• Lu Dahai showed the cultivators teaching footage from the Dao Academy and held two days of lessons and discussion.
• Xu Mu waited for Lu Dahai at the Cultivation Administration and welcomed him to its cultivation hall.
• Thousands of Cultivation Administration members greeted Lu Dahai, who returned their greeting as a fellow Daoist.

Lu Dahai completed a day of cultivation lectures for the Cultivation Administration, then prepared for a television interview and the opening ceremony of Dragon Abyss Academy. During the live broadcast, he explained Foundation Establishment and demonstrated spiritual power to viewers in Great Xia and around the world.

• Lu Dahai finished explaining cultivation and Lu Li’s lecture videos to the Cultivation Administration, and Xu Mu thanked him as he departed.
• Lu Dahai learned that he would appear on Great Xia Central Broadcasting Station’s morning program and attend Dragon Abyss Academy’s ribbon-cutting ceremony.
• Lu Dahai reflected on the hundreds of thousands of Qi sensitives Great Xia expected to guide and the establishment of Dragon Abyss Academy.
• Lu Dahai appeared live on Morning Outlook, where Lan An asked him to explain Foundation Establishment.
• Lu Dahai described Foundation Establishment as the beginning of shedding mortality and formed pale blue-green spiritual Qi at his fingertip, drawing gasps from viewers and studio guests.

As Lu Dahai’s cultivation achievements stunned world leaders, officials abroad grew desperate for access to Great Xia’s cultivation methods. Meanwhile, Qi-senser Li Qingshan left his village for Dragon Abyss Academy, where a flying-sword arrival showed him that his university was far from ordinary.

• The president of Beautiful Country watched Lu Dahai demonstrate Foundation Establishment and decided he would do anything to cultivate, even become a citizen of Great Xia.
• Officials and intelligence agencies around the world sought Great Xia citizenship or cultivation methods after learning that immortality and supernatural power were real.
• Li Qingshan left his village for Dragon Abyss Academy after being admitted as a Qi-senser.
• Li Qingshan arrived at the academy, completed his dormitory registration, and heard that True Person Lu would attend its ribbon-cutting.
• A middle-aged cultivator descended into the academy on a flying sword, and Li Qingshan realized his university was unusual.

Lu Dahai learned how Dragon Abyss Academy would train cultivators, while Liu Yingjun chose to remain at Goose Factory and prepare for a Spirit Realm Project meeting. In Shen City, Zhao Dezhu taught three young Qi sensers his dangerous, improvised cultivation method, and one boy began to suffer from it.

• Zhang Xuanqing explained Dragon Abyss Academy’s cultivation and hundred arts curriculum, faculty, admissions, and plans to send graduates into national research work.
• Liu Yingjun reflected on his rise at Goose Factory and decided against joining the authorities, then went to a meeting about the Spirit Realm Project.
• Zhao Dezhu told three young Qi sensers that his self-taught method could help them reach the First Layer of Qi Refinement.
• One boy followed Zhao Dezhu’s breathing instructions, turned red, and said his stomach felt as if it would explode.

Qi Hao’s patrol stopped Zhao Dezhu from privately teaching children a cultivation method and saved a boy whose Qi was about to run wild. After reporting the arrests and missed Qi-sensitive residents, Qi Hao returned to an unsolved spirit-rice theft case that might involve a demon beast.

• Zhao Dezhu panicked when a boy began to suffer from unstable Qi and considered killing him and the other children.
• Qi Hao and other Cultivation Administration guards arrived by helicopter, pinned Zhao Dezhu down, and Qi Hao stabilized the boy’s Qi.
• Qi Hao arrested Zhao Dezhu for illegally transmitting cultivation methods and ordered the children’s identities checked and the area searched for other people with a sense of Qi.
• Qi Hao reported the incident to Hundred Guard Liu Junqi, who ordered a thorough investigation and reminded him to inspect private Spirit Machinery laboratories.
• Qi Hao reviewed the unresolved theft of nearly a hundred jin of spirit rice and wondered whether a demon beast had stolen it.

Qi Hao returned home and resolved to pursue greater cultivation so he could remain with his non-cultivating wife, while Lu Li secluded himself to refine the monkey wine. In Lu Li’s absence, Yuanhao imposed ideological lessons and sweeping reforms on the Golden Ape Blessed Land, determined to serve his headmaster faithfully.

• Qi Hao came home to Li Wei, worried that she would age and die before him because she could not cultivate.
• A news report about uploading consciousness gave Qi Hao hope that advanced technology might let him remain with Li Wei, and he vowed to raise his cultivation.
• Lu Li entered seclusion after returning from the Golden Ape Blessed Land, aiming to refine three vats of ten-thousand-year-old monkey wine and reach Golden Core Great Perfection.
• Jin Jue questioned Yuanhao about requiring the tribes to attend lessons, but Yuanhao said the patriarch had ordered them and insisted everyone comply.
• Yuanhao wrote story-based ideological lessons portraying Lu Li as a virtuous headmaster and planned to spread hundreds of versions throughout the blessed land.

Lu Li continued refining ten-thousand-year monkey wine while worrying about his missing disciples, and Xu Xiong established a Commerce Hall to recruit talented inner academy disciples. Qian Dabao eagerly declared his intention to join, claiming his family had been merchants for generations.

• Nether Toad returned from the Heavenly Wolf Blessed Land with two fourth-tier spirit medicines, and Lu Li told him to keep them for his injuries before he flew back to guard the outer academy.
• Lu Li drank ten-thousand-year monkey wine in seclusion and worried that Lu Changming had ventured out and might not return safely.
• Xu Xiong bought nearly seventy percent of the Golden Ape Blessed Land's golden thread grass with Golden Ape and Yuanhao, then decided to recruit a team skilled in commerce.
• After receiving Lu Li's approval, Xu Xiong announced the establishment of a Commerce Hall to oversee trade, resources, market analysis, and investments.
• Dong Qing dismissed the Dao of Commerce and remained committed to her Battle Hall training and sword cultivation.
• Qian Dabao wept with excitement over the announcement and rushed into the General Affairs Hall, demanding to see Xu Xiong because his family had been merchants for generations.

Xu Xiong began the Commerce Hall’s duty disciple assessment with three business problems, and Qian Dabao swiftly solved all of them with practical strategies. Impressed by Qian Dabao’s merchant background, Xu Xiong found a promising recruit ready to help the Commerce Hall prosper.

• Xu Xiong introduced the Commerce Hall assessment and presented problems about raising the value of a poultry shop, repurposing unsold flying swords, and selling Water-Repelling Talismans.
• The disciples struggled to understand the questions, while Xu Xiong waited for someone to answer.
• Qian Dabao volunteered and proposed selling eggs to buy more chickens, then circulating the resulting sales to grow the poultry shop’s assets.
• Qian Dabao suggested dismantling the flying swords and selling their components, and bundling the talismans with useful supplies and a survival booklet to create demand.
• Xu Xiong praised Qian Dabao, who explained that his ancestors had been merchants and vowed to carry the Commerce Hall to greater glory.

Lu Li broke through to late Golden Core and entrusted Xu Xiong with expanding the Commerce Hall, giving him a book on oversight. Far away, Lu Changming sneezed and then found a strange black-and-red mark burning between his brows.

• Xu Xiong reported the Commerce Hall’s progress and plans to make stockpiling Yellow Sprout Pills its year-end assessment.
• Lu Li broke through to late Golden Core, gaining an enormous increase in his Spiritual Power and Divine Sense.
• Lu Li gave Xu Xiong the Wealth-Mirroring and Heart-Illuminating Book and advised him to consult Changye while speculating on Yellow Sprout Pills.
• After Xu Xiong left, Lu Li thought of Changming and wondered where he was.
• Lu Changming sneezed while traveling in the Heaven-Pacifying Yao Prefecture, then felt the space between his brows burn and saw it turn black and red.

After Hanging Blade Pass fell, Ye Chenfeng decided to infiltrate the Demon Manor’s heartland to rescue Lu Changming. Meanwhile, Lu Changming fled a disastrous omen and discovered a ruin, where he entered wearing Lord-grade magical armor and ordered its assistant to search ahead.

• Ye Chenfeng saw Hanging Blade Pass in ruins and concluded that the Prefecture-Breaking War had reached the stage where the pass had been breached.
• Ye Chenfeng resolved to return to the Demon Manor’s heartland to rescue Junior Brother Lu, while Elder Jian gave up trying to dissuade him.
• Lu Changming saw a terrible black-and-red omen, judged that danger lay to the east, and fled west to avoid it.
• After several dozen days of retreating, Lu Changming found a ruined cave abode in Market Tower Valley and decided to explore it.
• Lu Changming equipped Lord-grade individual combat magical armor and instructed the Heart of Primordial Beginning to search the cave abode ruins.