Chapter Summaries

Qi Yun obtained the [Cinnabar Cicada Womb Treasury] after killing Ling Jiao'er, then descended to the twelfth floor, where he attacked the three sects’ forces besieging Holy Sect disciples. He left the cultivators who had accompanied him alive and offered them a future reward.

• Qi Yun discovered that [Essence Devouring] could extract traces of Innate Divine Rhyme and burned Ling Jiao'er's corpse.
• Qi Yun freed Shen Fan and Du Yunian, then spent most of his Spirit Points to obtain the [Cinnabar Cicada Womb Treasury], which could improve his aptitude once it matured.
• Qi Yun asked Shen Fan and Du Yunian to join him farther down, but they chose to go separately; he spared them and told them to visit him at the Seventh Outer Prefecture after the expedition.
• On the twelfth floor, nearly sixty disciples from the Hehuan Palace, the Zombie Alliance, and the Yellow Springs Netherworld cornered the remaining Holy Sect disciples and prepared to finish them off.
• Qi Yun's skeletal skulls swept into the three sects' ranks, draining several disciples before he appeared with the jade cicada and challenged the cultivator who had laughed about the attack.

Qi Yun fought off the three sects’ disciples, killed a Yellow Springs Netherworld cultivator who ambushed him, and recovered from a devastating sword wound by transforming into clear Qi. He realized he had mastered the true [Gather Form and Disperse Qi].

• Qi Yun’s white bone skulls and Sunken Abyss Iron Sand overwhelmed the weaker disciples, draining their essence and feeding it back to him.
• Six Qi Refining Fifth Layer cultivators surrounded Qi Yun and attacked together, while a seventh Yellow Springs Netherworld disciple struck him from concealment with Profound Yin Sword Qi.
• Qi Yun used the wound as bait, then impaled the revealed attacker with a storm of Sunken Abyss Iron Sand needles.
• The remaining cultivators tried to press their advantage, but Qi Yun vanished and transformed into clear Qi, healing his wound as the Three Yin Manifestation True Method tracked him.
• Qi Yun restored his body completely and understood that he had achieved the true [Gather Form and Disperse Qi].

Qi Yun used his newly updated Skull Incantation to annihilate the three sects’ forces on Peach Garden’s twelfth floor and gathered their resources to advance the Cinnabar Cicada Womb Treasury. As he left to finish transforming his aptitude before stronger enemies arrived, Fan Wushe entered Peach Garden on the first floor, revealing Qi Refining eighth-layer strength.

• Qi Yun broke free of the bronze mirrors and drained the three sects’ ordinary disciples to replenish his cultivation and gather resources.
• Yellow Springs Sacred Water completed the Skull Incantation’s update, adding the Corpse Explosion effect.
• Qi Yun detonated one white bone skull to kill a true cultivator, then launched all eighty skulls and blasted the remaining attackers across the twelfth floor.
• Qi Yun’s skulls reassembled, and he harvested the fallen cultivators and their Storage Bags before leaving to complete the Cinnabar Cicada Womb Treasury.
• Fan Wushe entered Peach Garden through a spatial fissure, used divine sense to survey the secret realm, and displayed the power of Qi Refining eighth layer.

Qi Yun consumed the matured Cinnabar Cicada Womb Treasury, transformed his aptitude, and hid in Peach Garden to cultivate while the sects’ forces fought over the realm. As the Holy Sect’s elites joined the battle, three mysterious beings prepared to act on a divination that an unseen hand had secretly altered, and a True Lord departed Wuji Hall.

• True Person Southern Dipper ordered the nine halls, five residences, and twenty-three Dao grounds to send two true cultivators each into Peach Garden.
• Qi Yun used his white-bone skull to kill three cultivators, swallowed the matured Cinnabar Cicada Womb Treasury, and greatly improved his aptitude.
• Qi Yun decided to hide in a tree hollow on the ninth level and attempt to break through to the Qi Refining Sixth Layer.
• Fan Wushe led the three sects’ true cultivators in a slaughter of Holy Sect outer residence disciples, until the Holy Sect’s inner residence elites entered the battle.
• Three imposing beings divined that the moment was favorable to act, but an unseen figure secretly altered the heavenly secrets before they finished.
• A True Lord stood before the Foundation Establishment True Persons in Wuji Hall as they respectfully bid the figure farewell.

Qi Yun broke through to the Qi Refining Sixth Layer, awakened divine sense, and uncovered the peach branch hidden inside Tang Shun's silver bracelet. A sudden fall carried him into what might be the real Peach Garden, while Song Kun sensed the bracelet had been opened and realized Qi Yun had advanced.

• Qi Yun endured repeated attacks on his ancestral aperture until he shattered its barrier and entered the Qi Refining Sixth Layer, awakening divine sense.
• Qi Yun used his new divine sense to identify the silver bracelet from Tang Shun's Storage Bag and revealed an ancient peach branch inside it.
• The ground beneath Qi Yun split open, and he fell through a dark passage before landing in a vast peach grove that he suspected was the real Peach Garden.
• In confinement, Song Kun sensed that something connected to him had disappeared and used karmic divination to discover that Qi Yun had opened the bracelet.
• Song Kun realized the bracelet could only be opened at the Qi Refining Sixth Layer and was shocked that Qi Yun had reached it in less than three years.

Qi Yun entered the Peach Garden with the peach branch from his silver bracelet protecting him from its life-draining force, then discovered that its peaches extended lifespan. After learning he could take only one, he ventured deeper and plucked a large, powerful Longevity Peach before the branch’s protection failed.

• Qi Yun’s attempt to enter the Peach Garden triggered a force that began draining his life essence, so he retreated and divined that remaining there would bring great fortune.
• Qi Yun used the peach branch to shield himself from the grove’s suction and entered, where he found a green peach inscribed as extending lifespan by ten years.
• Qi Yun learned he could pick only one peach when a second fruit resisted his strength and the first peach he set down returned to its branch.
• Qi Yun walked deeper into the grove as the peaches grew more potent and the protective branch began to wither.
• Qi Yun picked a bowl-sized pink Longevity Peach just as the branch’s tip snapped, then hurried back toward safety.

On the ninth day, the three sects forced open passages into the Peach Garden secret realm and sent dozens of Foundation Establishment True Persons inside, where they found the hidden grove of longevity peaches. True Person Southern Dipper and the Holy Sect True Persons confronted them, evacuated their disciples, and revealed that the invaders had walked into a trap.

• The three sects widened their passages into Peach Garden and sent their Foundation Establishment True Persons into the secret realm.
• The Yellow Springs Netherworld True Person and the other True Persons searched the realm and discovered the hidden peach grove.
• The three sects' True Persons rushed to seize the longevity peaches and discussed the legendary Peach of Immortality.
• True Person Southern Dipper and the Holy Sect True Persons emerged from the void and mocked the invaders for falling into their trap.
• True Person Southern Dipper ordered Xuantan to evacuate the Holy Sect disciples, and Xuantan transported them out of the secret realm.

After the Peach Garden trial, Qi Yun returned to the Holy Sect and revealed a Longevity Peach to Blood Demon True Person Deng Yin, asking to trade it for an innate-category Dao-seeking item. Deng Yin agreed to negotiate for the item, and the chapter left Qi Yun’s foundation-building plans within reach.

• The True Persons’ battle erupted around the Peach Garden, and Qi Yun returned to the Holy Sect outer estate with the other disciples.
• Qi Yun encountered the badly injured Yue Rong, who recognized that Qi Yun had reached the Qi Refining Sixth Layer and welcomed the prospect of fighting him again.
• Qi Yun returned to his courtyard, where Blood Demon True Person Deng Yin praised his gains from the Peach Garden.
• Qi Yun showed Deng Yin a Longevity Peach and said he would exchange its two hundred years of lifespan for the foundation for seeking the Dao.
• Deng Yin identified an innate-category Dao-seeking item in the Holy Sect that could suit Qi Yun’s Innate One Nothingness Heart Method and promised to negotiate an exchange.
• Deng Yin praised Qi Yun’s bold gamble and resolved to help him.

Blood Demon True Person Deng Yin traded a Longevity Peach for True Person Qingli’s [Great Yin Mother Qi], giving Qingli a way to extend his daughter’s life. Deng Yin then gave the qi to Qi Yun and explained the three possible Dao foundations for his cultivation method, leaving Qi Yun to weigh the dangerous Higher Vehicle path.

• True Person Qingli refused to trade his [Great Yin Mother Qi] for Deng Yin’s cultivation notes.
• Deng Yin offered Qingli a Longevity Peach, and Qingli accepted it in exchange for the [Great Yin Mother Qi] to buy his daughter more time.
• Qingli asked Deng Yin why he needed the qi, but Deng Yin silenced him with a single look and vanished.
• Deng Yin gave the [Great Yin Mother Qi] to Qi Yun, who struggled to hold its weight and chill.
• Deng Yin explained that Qi Yun’s method could form two Lower Vehicle Dao foundations or a dangerous Higher Vehicle primordial heaven ultimate law Dao foundation.

Deng Yin advised Qi Yun to seek another master if he hoped to reach higher realms, then offered him a dangerous assignment to join the Holy Sect’s campaign against rival sects. As the battle in Peach Garden continued, Qi Yun began cultivating toward the Qi Refining Seventh Layer and discovered how slowly True Essence formed.

• Deng Yin explained that his own Dao Path had been severed and advised Qi Yun to find an accomplished master, while offering to help arrange an assignment suited to Qi Yun’s Essence Devouring ability.
• Deng Yin revealed the Holy Sect’s plan to use Peach Garden as bait against three rival sects and then send disciples to sweep their outposts and marketplaces.
• Qi Yun weighed the assignment’s cultivation benefits against the danger of encountering the rival sects’ counterattack, and Deng Yin told him he had time to decide.
• Over the following days, the Peach Garden phantom tree shook violently as the True Person battle inside produced powerful, world-shaking phenomena.
• Qi Yun studied how to condense Qi into essence and spent a day circulating his cultivation method more than a hundred times, producing only one tiny strand of True Essence.

Qi Yun learned that only inner residence cultivators could join the coming campaign against the three sects, so he needed to win first place in the third assessment to secure admission. The assessment sent outer disciples to Fuluo Prefecture to collect ten Blood Fuluo, where Qi Yun began searching and Zhu Ping found a flower just before a monster attacked him.

• Blood Demon True Person told Qi Yun that the sect’s purge mission would be limited to inner residence cultivators, making another first-place finish necessary for Qi Yun to qualify.
• Qi Yun inspected his month of cultivation and found that he had refined only three tiny strands of True Essence.
• The third assessment sent the outer residence disciples to Fuluo Prefecture to collect ten Blood Fuluo.
• Qi Yun used white-bone skulls to carry him through the rainforest while he searched the area with his Divine Sense.
• Zhu Ping found a Blood Fuluo beside a muddy stream, plucked it, and was met by a huge blood-red maw snapping down from above.

Zhu Ping trapped and killed a pack of demonic pythons, discovering their softened transverse bones and suspecting [Blood Fuluo] awakened their intelligence. In the depths of [Fuluo Prefecture], Qi Yun forced a swamp full of intelligent pythons to surrender more than four hundred [Blood Fuluo], then attacked them anyway, claiming their deaths would let them become snakes anew.

• Zhu Ping sprung his formation trap and sliced the attacking pythons into pieces.
• Zhu Ping examined a snake’s softened transverse bone and wondered whether [Blood Fuluo] had awakened the pythons’ intelligence.
• Qi Yun confronted the swamp pythons and demanded a hundred [Blood Fuluo], but their leader ordered an attack.
• Qi Yun detonated his bone skulls among the snake swarm, devastating the attackers until the survivors surrendered more than four hundred flowers.
• Qi Yun collected the flowers, promised to spare the pythons, and then sent thirty skulls to attack them again.
• Qi Yun explained that the pythons had to die to become snakes anew as explosions engulfed the swamp.

Qi Yun discovered a dead cultivator’s Storage Bag filled with high-grade talismans and used them to advance Talisman Art. The update granted him the Thousand Cranes Talisman, a scouting tool with a hundred-li range and three-day duration, and he wondered whether the Law Technique Panel had created a new kind of talisman.

• After destroying the demon snakes, Qi Yun sensed movement underground and used Sunken Abyss Iron Sand to uncover a badly crushed human skeleton wearing an intact Storage Bag.
• Qi Yun opened the bag and found more than a thousand high-grade talismans, then buried the skeleton and took the talismans as payment for the burial.
• Qi Yun fed the talismans to the Law Technique Panel, which updated Talisman Art to version 4.0 and added the Thousand Cranes Talisman.
• Qi Yun made a Thousand Cranes Talisman and summoned a paper crane that shared its sight and hearing with him.
• Qi Yun learned the crane could travel freely within a hundred li, conceal itself, and last three days, then considered its value for gathering intelligence and wondered if the panel had created it.

Zhu Ping and Qi Yun discovered ancient altars that refined Blood Fuluo into potent medicinal essence, and both used the essence to increase their cultivation. Qi Yun then suspected the Holy Sect had designed the easy assessment to strengthen its outer manor disciples for future use.

• Zhu Ping found an altar in a cavern and realized demonic snakes had used it to refine Blood Fuluo and awaken their intelligence.
• Zhu Ping transformed six Blood Fuluo into medicinal essence, swallowed it, and nearly reached the Qi Refining Sixth Layer.
• Qi Yun watched Zhu Ping through a paper crane, then found another altar and refined more than a dozen Blood Fuluo into a large mass of essence.
• Qi Yun divined that consuming the essence was safe, swallowed it, and rapidly condensed a wisp of True Essence in his Dantian.
• Qi Yun judged the assessment unusually easy and suspected the Holy Sect wanted to strengthen its outer manor disciples for future use.

Qi Yun refined Blood Fuluo flowers, then used Thousand Cranes Talismans to scout deeper into Fuluo Prefecture. In an ancient herb garden, he found a Jade Slip containing the ancient Wood Phase Command Method and planned to ask Blood Demon True Person Deng Yin to help decipher it.

• Qi Yun refined nearly three hundred Blood Fuluo flowers, increasing the amount of True Essence in his Purple Mansion.
• Qi Yun sent more than a hundred Thousand Cranes Talismans to scout the area and traveled deeper into Fuluo Prefecture.
• Qi Yun encountered poisonous rain and protected himself with Sunken Abyss Iron Sand as he approached the ruins of an ancient herb garden.
• Qi Yun used the cranes and iron sand to search a buried hall, where he found a cracked Jade Slip bearing the title Wood Phase Command Method in Siming Seal Script.
• Qi Yun put away the Jade Slip and decided to ask Blood Demon True Person Deng Yin to help him read it after leaving Fuluo Prefecture.

Qi Yun discovered a dangerous remnant of the Return to Dust Sect in an abandoned medicine garden and wisely escaped without confronting its monster. After collecting more Blood Fuluo, he uprooted an ancient altar, triggering violent changes across the Fuluo Prefecture secret realm.

• Qi Yun found ink-black human footprints in the medicine garden and recalled his Thousand Cranes after several were destroyed.
• A skinless creature covered in flowering branches emerged, and Qi Yun identified it as a Human Body Medicine Gestation left by the Return to Dust Sect.
• Qi Yun stayed concealed, avoided fighting the creature, and left the ruins.
• Later, Holy Sect outer residence disciples followed traces to the medicine garden and rushed inside, hoping to find greater treasures.
• After harvesting over three hundred Blood Fuluo from a demonic snake nest, Qi Yun returned to the ancient altar and dug up its deep foundation.
• Qi Yun uprooted the altar with the Sunken Abyss Iron Sand, breaking a restriction and causing the secret realm to tremble violently.

After Sun Degui and his companions broke the seal in Fuluo Prefecture, a horde of Skinless Flower Corpses overran the secret realm, prompting the Wuji Sacred Sect to end the assessment and teleport the outer court disciples to safety. Qi Yun was recognized as a Triple First-Place Champion and promoted to an inner court true cultivator.

• Sun Degui and his two companions broke a mechanism's seal while taking spiritual treasures, releasing a vast horde of Skinless Flower Corpses that killed them and rampaged through Fuluo Prefecture.
• Qi Yun stored the altar, received notice that the assessment had ended early, and was teleported out with the other outer court disciples before the corpse tide arrived.
• True Person Xuancheng and True Person Qingli watched the destruction in bronze mirrors and discussed Qi Yun's performance and potential as a disciple.
• The sect's guiding force brought Qi Yun to a lakeside meeting with a white-haired True Person, who praised his Triple First-Place Champion achievement.
• The old True Person promoted Qi Yun to an inner court true cultivator, and Qi Yun's Great Void Jade Tally changed to reflect his new status.

After earning inner-court admission, Qi Yun received an offer to become a Secret Transmission True Cultivator and pursue the Primordial Heaven Ultimate Law Dao Foundation with the sect’s support. He entered the inner court and discovered that his ordinary-looking courtyard concealed a luxurious, spacious residence.

• The old fisherman confirmed Qi Yun’s inner-court admission and offered him a reward, so Qi Yun asked for guidance on choosing a cultivation path.
• The old fisherman warned that taking a conventional master would require Qi Yun to abandon the Primordial Heaven Ultimate Law Dao Foundation.
• The old fisherman offered Qi Yun Secret Transmission True Cultivator status, with generous support in exchange for pursuing that Dao Foundation, and gave him ten days to decide.
• The old fisherman gifted Qi Yun a spiritual pomegranate and sent him back to his outer-court courtyard.
• Qi Yun packed his belongings, activated the Great Void Jade Tally, and traveled to the inner court.
• Qi Yun entered his assigned courtyard and found a vast, luxurious palace-like space hidden beyond its plain gate.

Qi Yun visited Blood Demon True Person Deng Yin to discuss becoming a Secret Transmission True Cultivator and ask him to decipher an ancient Jade Slip. Deng Yin supported the path, translated the slip, and gave Qi Yun a blood-jade hairpin for an upcoming expedition, promising a Foundation Establishment item if Qi Yun found and safely returned the person who made it glow.

• Qi Yun traveled through the inner estate's mirror heaven to Deng Yin's cultivation ground and told him about the offer to become a Secret Transmission True Cultivator.
• Deng Yin said the path suited Qi Yun's unusual Dao Foundation and offered to guide him if he encountered difficulties.
• Qi Yun showed Deng Yin an ancient Jade Slip written in Siming Seal Script, and Deng Yin translated it while warning him against recklessly cultivating the spell.
• Deng Yin gave Qi Yun a blood-jade hairpin and instructed him to bring back anyone who made it react during the coming expedition against remnants of the three sects.
• Deng Yin promised Qi Yun a Foundation Establishment item as a reward, and Qi Yun left to prepare for the dangerous expedition.

Qi Yun learned the Wood Phase Command Method and used a wood-phase spiritual treasure to update it, removing its life-force cost. After consolidating the rapid cultivation gained from Blood Fuluo blossoms, he accepted an order to join a sweep mission against the peripheral forces of three rival groups and prepared to descend the mountain.

• Qi Yun practiced the Wood Phase Command Method and summoned a powerful phantom wooden stake, but the technique drained the vitality from his arm.
• Qi Yun used the half-pomegranate wood-phase spiritual treasure to update the Wood Phase Command Method, removing its casting cost.
• Qi Yun refined and consumed more than four hundred Blood Fuluo blossoms, rapidly advancing his cultivation until he recognized that his foundation had become unstable.
• Qi Yun spent half a month meditating with the Innate One Nothingness Heart Method and stabilized his cultivation at the Half-Step Qi Refining Seventh Layer.
• Qi Yun received an order to join a sweep of the peripheral forces of the Yellow Springs Netherworld, Hehuan Palace, and Zombie Alliance, accepted it, and prepared to descend the mountain.