Chapter Summaries

Dongfang Yueming discovered a flaw in the ancient seal at the Demon Cavern Gate but postponed crossing into the Crimson Profound World until he could strengthen Hong Gui and Baihu and stabilize Great Xia. He reorganized Great Xia, and the chapter ended with Baihu offering herself to him in exchange for becoming stronger.

• Dongfang Yueming used the Heavenly Dao Dharma Eye to find a flaw in the Demon Cavern Gate’s seal and explained how he could briefly force it open.
• Dongfang Yueming decided not to cross into the Crimson Profound World yet, citing the danger to Hong Gui and Baihu and the need to prevent chaos in Great Xia.
• Three days later, Dongfang Yueming abolished the confinement and trafficking of civilians, reorganized the Night Watchers under Baihu, and put Hong Gui in charge of the black market and resource allocation.
• At the Cloud Hotel, Baihu told Dongfang Yueming she wanted to grow stronger and removed her bathrobe.
• Dongfang Yueming lifted Baihu’s chin and told her she had brought this on herself.

Dongfang Yueming used dual cultivation to rapidly advance Baihu and Hong Gui while securing Great Xia against a Wang Family rebellion. After creating a Heaven Grade divine soul cultivation method, he began using it with them, and Hong Gui opened her Sea of Consciousness.

• Dongfang Yueming’s dual cultivation with Baihu neutralized her murderous true qi and advanced her to the True Power Eighth Layer.
• Hong Gui interrupted them, teased Baihu, and joined Dongfang Yueming in bed.
• Dongfang Yueming obtained eight obscure divine soul dual cultivation methods and fused them into the Heaven Grade Three Thousand Divine Souls Intercourse True Scripture.
• Wang Family elders tried to incite the great families to rebel, but Dongfang Yueming destroyed the rebel forces and secured Great Xia’s rear.
• Dongfang Yueming used his two Heaven Grade dual cultivation methods with Hong Gui and Baihu, and Hong Gui opened her Sea of Consciousness.

Dongfang Yueming helped Baihu and Hong Gui advance to the Soul Condensation Realm through months of dual cultivation while Great Xia’s border crisis subsided. He then opened a passage through the Demon Cave gate and brought them to the Crimson Profound World, where a pack of powerful Ferocious Beasts surrounded them.

• Baihu opened her Sea of Consciousness, and Hong Gui reached the same realm a week later as the two competed to cultivate with Dongfang Yueming.
• Baihu and Hong Gui advanced to the Spirit Platform Realm, then to the Soul Condensation Realm; after half a year, Baihu reached Soul Condensation Realm Perfection and Hong Gui reached the Sixth Stage.
• Dongfang Yueming took Baihu and Hong Gui to the Demon Capital’s border and used his Heavenly Dao Dharma Eyes and combined powers to break open a weak point in the Demon Cave gate’s seal.
• The three passed through the fissure and arrived in the Crimson Profound World, where they found a primeval forest filled with dense spiritual qi.
• More than a dozen three-headed Ferocious Beasts surrounded them, and Hong Gui and Baihu prepared to fight after sensing that each beast rivaled a Peak True Power Realm cultivator.

Dongfang Yueming had Hong Gui and Baihu fight a pack of Ferocious Beasts so they could adapt to the Crimson Profound World's laws, then brought them to a frontier town to learn about the region. After hearing that Shangyin Academy housed the high-ranking Primordial Sea monster he sought, Dongfang Yueming decided he needed to reach Golden Core Realm and study Spells.

• Dongfang Yueming watched as Hong Gui and Baihu killed a dozen Three-Headed Azure-Scaled Beasts, testing their strength and adapting to the Crimson Profound World.
• Dongfang Yueming led Hong Gui and Baihu through the forest to a frontier town, where they disguised themselves as ordinary wandering cultivators.
• Dongfang Yueming paid a waiter at the Drunken Immortal Abode for information about the Crimson Profound World and learned that Golden Core Realm cultivators were considered true experts.
• The waiter told Dongfang Yueming that Shangyin Academy was one of the world's greatest forces and that a figure beyond Golden Core Realm was said to reside there.
• Dongfang Yueming realized the high-ranking Primordial Sea monster he sought was hiding within Shangyin Academy and concluded he needed to reach Golden Core Realm before confronting it.
• Dongfang Yueming learned that Golden Core Realm experts used Spells to draw on the laws of heaven and earth, then took Hong Gui and Baihu to the town's market district to seek them out.

Dongfang Yueming bought six basic spell jade slips and used his system to perfect and fuse them into powerful new spells. After hearing that the eighth-rank Falling Rosy Clouds Sect was recruiting disciples, he decided to go there to seek a Golden Core cultivation method and more spells.

• Dongfang Yueming traded an S-grade alloy longsword for six yellow-grade spell jade slips at a market stall.
• Dongfang Yueming used Point Allocation to perfect all six spells, then fused them into an earth-grade attack spell and a profound-grade defensive spell.
• Hong Gui and Baihu entered Dongfang Yueming's room after he removed his mental barrier, and he said he wanted to find a Golden Core method and more spell jade slips.
• Dongfang Yueming overheard rogue cultivators discussing the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect's recruitment and learned that its eighth-rank status meant it had a Dharma Manifestation Realm patriarch.
• Dongfang Yueming decided to head to the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect.

Senior Brother Zhao arrived at the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect to inspect Gate of the Demon Cave No. 73, unaware that Dongfang Yueming had already broken out. Nearby, Dongfang Yueming purchased and fused Spells to strengthen his abilities while Hong Gui and Baihu awaited further dual cultivation.

• Senior Brother Zhao told the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect master that he would inspect Gate of the Demon Cave No. 73 after resting, dismissing any possibility that its seal could be broken.
• The Falling Rosy Clouds Sect master offered to send outstanding female disciples to Senior Brother Zhao's room after he expressed interest in taking attractive recruits as maids.
• Dongfang Yueming visited a nearby cultivation market with Hong Gui and Baihu and exchanged Green Scale Beast cores for twelve Yellow Grade Spell jade slips.
• Dongfang Yueming secured an inn room with [Supreme Chaos Ninefold Divine Tower] and spent 4,560,000 points to raise all twelve Spells to Perfection.
• Dongfang Yueming fused the Spells to obtain Heaven Grade attack Spell "Taixu Annihilation Light," Earth Grade defensive and movement Spells, and Profound Grade dual-cultivation Spell "Joyous Union Immortal-Locking Art."
• Hong Gui asked whether Dongfang Yueming had finished, while she and Baihu eagerly awaited more dual cultivation.

After Hong Gui and Baihu advanced through dual cultivation with Dongfang Yueming, they set out for the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect, where Dongfang Yueming killed Senior Brother Zhao of Shangyin Academy and found the Golden Core method he needed. He abandoned his plan to visit the sect and prepared to enter seclusion to form his Golden Core.

• Dongfang Yueming used the Joyous Union Immortal-Locking Art to help Hong Gui break through to Soul Condensation Realm Seventh Layer, and Baihu joined their dual cultivation.
• After a night of cultivation, Dongfang Yueming and the two women left the cultivators' city for the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect.
• Senior Brother Zhao left the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect to inspect Demon Cave No. 73, while an elder in a distant Sword Sect sensed the Taibai Slaughter Sword's sword intent and ordered an investigation.
• Senior Brother Zhao spotted Hong Gui and Baihu, demanded they become his dual-cultivation cauldrons, and attacked Dongfang Yueming when he refused.
• Dongfang Yueming erased Senior Brother Zhao's fire wyrm with Return of All Things and killed him with a single strike, then took his storage bag.
• Dongfang Yueming found a Profound Grade Golden Core method and other techniques in the storage bag, then decided to find a place to enter seclusion and form his Golden Core.

Dongfang Yueming used the system to form a middle-tier leakless Golden Core, then perfected and fused movement and dual cultivation techniques. He emerged with heaven-grade movement arts and a stronger dual cultivation method, while higher Golden Core tiers remained out of reach without more methods.

• Dongfang Yueming spent points to advance to Early Golden Core, fusing his essence, qi, and spirit into a purple Golden Core.
• Dongfang Yueming advanced through Mid and Late Golden Core and reached Middle-Tier Golden Core Perfection, forming a Leakless Golden Core.
• Dongfang Yueming perfected the earth-grade Immortal Wandering Steps and fused it with Treading the Void Spirit Steps to obtain the heaven-grade Great Thousand Distance-Free Immortal Trace Steps.
• Dongfang Yueming perfected the Dragon and Phoenix Harmony Scripture and fused it with the Joyous Union Immortal-Locking Art to create the earth-grade Yin-Yang Creation Immortal Canon.

After forming a Golden Core, Dongfang Yueming planned to seek new cultivation techniques in a nearby major city. Learning that his victim Zhao Wuji was a Shangyin Academy outer disciple and realizing a powerful demon might be hidden within the academy, he disguised himself as Zhao Wuji and set out with Hong Gui and Baihu.

• Dongfang Yueming emerged from the cave after breaking through to the Golden Core Realm, and he chose to travel to a major city rather than visit the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect.
• Dongfang Yueming searched Zhao Wuji's belongings and found two hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones, a powerful flying sword, and a communication jade token.
• Dongfang Yueming read a message assigning Zhao Wuji to inspect Gate of the Demon Cave No. 73 and recalled that a powerful demon had infiltrated Shangyin Academy.
• Dongfang Yueming prepared to destroy Zhao Wuji's corpse, but Hong Gui proposed that he use the disciple's identity to gain access to resources and cultivation techniques.
• Dongfang Yueming burned the corpse, put on Zhao Wuji's robe, altered his appearance, and left with Hong Gui and Baihu for a major city.

Dongfang Yueming entered Southern Abyss City disguised as a Shangyin Academy disciple and used his borrowed status to secure lavish hospitality at the Heavenly Fragrance Pavilion. After the proprietor sent erotic outfits and potions to cater to rumors about him, Dongfang Yueming urged Hong Gui and Baihu to dress up so they could keep up his disguise.

• Dongfang Yueming, Hong Gui, and Baihu entered Southern Abyss City, where the guards and cultivators deferred to Dongfang Yueming's Shangyin Academy identity.
• The proprietor of the Heavenly Fragrance Pavilion gave them the best suite for free and sent an attendant to learn Lord Zhao's supposed preferences.
• After hearing that Lord Zhao was lustful and seeing his two beautiful companions, the proprietor sent erotic outfits and Joyous Union Water to their suite.
• Hong Gui and Baihu blushed and protested when they uncovered the gift, but Dongfang Yueming told them to wear the outfits to maintain their cover.
• Baihu took the white gauze outfit and went into the inner room to change.

Dongfang Yueming and Hong Gui began another dual cultivation session while Baihu listened from the inner chamber. Meanwhile, the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect's master learned that Lord Zhao was in Southern Abyss City and hurried to prepare gifts and travel there to appease him.

• Hong Gui dressed in a fox outfit and seduced Dongfang Yueming, promising to keep going until she reached soul condensation perfection.
• Dongfang Yueming pulled Hong Gui into his arms as another dual cultivation session began, while Baihu listened behind the closed door.
• A scout told the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect's master that Lord Zhao had gone to Southern Abyss City with two peerlessly beautiful female cultivators.
• The sect master feared Lord Zhao would resent the sect's earlier hospitality and ordered thousand-year youth-preserving grass and a top-grade defensive magic artifact prepared as gifts.
• The sect master ordered a flying boat ready and decided to visit Lord Zhao in person.

Dongfang Yueming helped Hong Gui advance to the eighth level of Soul Condensation and promised Baihu a superior Golden Core method before drawing her into further cultivation. Meanwhile, Blood Sword Sect’s young master arrived in Southern Abyss City and headed to Heaven Room No. 1 to confront the Shangyin Academy guest staying there.

• Hong Gui broke through to the eighth level of Soul Condensation after cultivating with Dongfang Yueming.
• Baihu asked Dongfang Yueming for a Golden Core method, but he told her he would create a superior technique and help her form a Nine Revolutions Divine Core.
• Blood Sword Sect’s young master arrived at the Heavenly Fragrance Pavilion and demanded Heaven Room No. 1 for himself.
• The fat shopkeeper warned the young master that a guest from Shangyin Academy occupied the room, but the young master dismissed the guest as an outer-sect disciple.
• A Golden Core guard sent the fat shopkeeper crashing into the stairs, and the young master led his guards toward Heaven Room No. 1.

Dongfang Yueming faced down the Blood Sword Sect’s young master after he demanded the room and tried to seize Hong Gui and Baihu. Dongfang Yueming killed the young master’s Golden Core guards with one spell, leaving the young master terrified.

• The Blood Sword Sect’s young master had his guards break into Dongfang Yueming’s room and ordered him to leave.
• After seeing Hong Gui and Baihu, the young master demanded that the women stay and serve him.
• Dongfang Yueming warned the intruders that they would die, and the young master ordered his guards to attack.
• Dongfang Yueming used Taixu Annihilation Light to erase the guards and their Golden Cores in an instant.
• The young master trembled in horror after witnessing Dongfang Yueming’s power.

Dongfang Yueming killed the Blood Sword Sect's young master, looted his valuables, and used a stolen Golden Core art to advance his own cultivation. He left Southern Abyss City with Hong Gui and Baihu, then hid in a cave to continue fusing the stolen arts.

• Dongfang Yueming killed the purple-robed young master with a blast of Golden Core power despite the fat shopkeeper's warning about the Blood Sword Sect.
• Dongfang Yueming took the young master's and guards' storage bags, finding several mystic-grade and yellow-grade arts.
• Dongfang Yueming claimed he would go to the Blood Sword Sect to demand an explanation, then left the Heavenly Fragrance Pavilion with Hong Gui and Baihu.
• Dongfang Yueming told Hong Gui and Baihu that storming the sect was only an excuse and settled in a hidden cave outside Southern Abyss City.
• Dongfang Yueming perfected the Blood Sea Frenzied Baleful Golden Core Art and fused it with the Shangyin Purple Rosy Cloud Core Formation Record, creating the earth-grade Purple Ultimate Blood Baleful Origin Core Art.
• Dongfang Yueming's Golden Core grew stronger and reached Upper-Tier Golden Core Perfection as he prepared to study the remaining stolen arts.

Dongfang Yueming fused his perfected techniques into a Nine-Transformation Golden Core and a Heaven Grade defensive Spell, strengthening his ability to fight and survive. Meanwhile, the Blood Sword Sect learned he had killed its young master and dispatched three Dharma Manifestation elders to hunt him down.

• Dongfang Yueming fused his cultivation techniques into the Heaven Grade Nine Revolutions Chaos Heavenly Pill Scripture and formed a Nine-Transformation Golden Core.
• Dongfang Yueming fused his defensive techniques into the Heaven Grade Taixu Chaos Indestructible Bell, gaining immunity to attacks below his realm when it was passive.
• The Blood Sword Sect master learned that his son and more than a dozen Golden Core guards had been killed at the Heavenly Fragrance Pavilion in Southern Abyss City.
• The Blood Sword Sect master ordered the Three Elders of Blood Fiend, all middle-stage Dharma Manifestation experts, to hunt down Dongfang Yueming and bring back his head.

Dongfang Yueming set out for the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect to obtain Dharma Manifestation cultivation techniques, but the sect’s flying boat encountered three Blood Sword Sect elders seeking revenge. He killed all three with his newly fused spell and took their cultivation methods, leaving the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect witnesses stunned.

• Dongfang Yueming reached the peak of the Golden Core Realm and decided to visit the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect for Dharma Manifestation techniques.
• After hearing that Lord Zhao had killed the Blood Sword Sect’s young master, the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect master turned his flying boat around to avoid trouble.
• Dongfang Yueming intercepted the boat and insisted on traveling with the sect to its destination.
• The three Middle Dharma Manifestation Realm Elders of Blood Fiend caught up and attacked the boat, demanding that Dongfang Yueming answer for killing the Blood Sword Sect’s young master.
• Dongfang Yueming used Taixu Annihilation Light to kill all three elders and collected their storage rings, finding one Profound Grade and two Yellow Grade Dharma Manifestation cultivation methods.

Dongfang Yueming used his point system to advance his Dharma Manifestation and fuse several techniques into an Upper-Class Perfected Three Heads and Six Arms Dharma Manifestation. As he prepared to seek out more sects, Lu Qingxue of the Taibai Sword Sect arrived and claimed Baihu’s sword inheritance belonged to her sect.

• Dongfang Yueming took two Yellow Grade Dharma Manifestation methods from the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect and left with Hong Gui and Baihu.
• Dongfang Yueming advanced through the Dharma Manifestation Realm, fused techniques, and achieved an Upper-Class Perfected Three Heads and Six Arms Dharma Manifestation.
• Dongfang Yueming decided to visit nearby eighth-rank sects to obtain more cultivation methods.
• Lu Qingxue appeared before Baihu, recognized her Taibai Sword Scripture sword intent, and introduced herself as a true disciple of the Taibai Sword Sect.
• Lu Qingxue told Baihu that her inheritance belonged to the Taibai Sword Sect and ordered her to return with her.

Dongfang Yueming refused to let Lu Qingxue take Baihu and defeated her attempt to seize the girl, then outran her to the Mysterious Light Sect. He forced the sect to hand over its Yellow Grade Dharma Manifestation technique and left for another target, while Lu Qingxue arrived too late to stop him.

• Baihu refused Lu Qingxue's demand to return to the Taibai Sword Sect, and Dongfang Yueming stepped in to protect her.
• Dongfang Yueming fought Lu Qingxue with his Three Heads and Six Arms Dharma Manifestation and forced her to retreat, though she threatened Baihu and secretly summoned reinforcements.
• Dongfang Yueming used the Great Thousand Distance-Free Immortal Trace Steps to flee with Hong Gui and Baihu, leaving Lu Qingxue unable to catch up.
• Dongfang Yueming reached the Mysterious Light Sect and threatened to destroy it unless its leaders handed over all Yellow Grade or higher Dharma Manifestation techniques.
• The Mysterious Light Sect's master gave Dongfang Yueming the Mysterious Light Treasured Manifestation Record, and Dongfang Yueming departed for another sect.
• Lu Qingxue reached the Mysterious Light Sect after Dongfang Yueming had left and despaired at how much faster he was.

Dongfang Yueming fused four perfected Yellow-Grade Dharma Manifestation arts into the Heaven-Grade Heaven and Earth Embodiment Divine Art, shocking Lu Qingxue with his breakthrough. He left with Hong Gui and Baihu to seek dual cultivation spells, while Lu Qingxue followed him in awe.

• Dongfang Yueming gathered the fourth Yellow-Grade Dharma Manifestation art and entered seclusion in a cliffside cave while Hong Gui and Baihu stood guard.
• Lu Qingxue caught up and warned Baihu that the Taibai Slaughter Sword Scripture could corrupt her, while mocking Dongfang Yueming's attempt to deduce a superior art.
• Dongfang Yueming perfected and fused the four Yellow-Grade arts, producing the Heaven-Grade Heaven and Earth Embodiment Divine Art at Perfection.
• Dongfang Yueming emerged with the power of a top-tier Dharma Manifestation, and Lu Qingxue was stunned to recognize the legendary Heaven and Earth Embodiment.
• Dongfang Yueming set out with Hong Gui and Baihu to find higher-grade dual cultivation spells, and Lu Qingxue followed with newfound humility.

Lu Qingxue agreed to give Baihu the Taibai Slaughter Sword Scripture’s later cultivation methods after witnessing Dongfang Yueming’s power. Baihu formed a pure Golden Core through dual cultivation, and Dongfang Yueming ended the chapter by asking Lu Qingxue for an ordinary Heaven-Reaching Realm cultivation method.

• Baihu told Lu Qingxue that Dongfang Yueming’s power suppressed the backlash from the Taibai Slaughter Sword Scripture.
• Dongfang Yueming asked Lu Qingxue to provide the Scripture’s later methods and accompany them to the Taibai Sword Sect, and she agreed so she could witness Baihu’s progress.
• Lu Qingxue gave Baihu a jade slip containing the cultivation methods from the Golden Core, Dharma Manifestation, and Heaven-Reaching volumes.
• Dongfang Yueming used dual cultivation to help Baihu suppress the Scripture’s killing intent and form a pure Early Golden Core.
• Lu Qingxue demanded that Dongfang Yueming take Baihu to the Taibai Sword Sect, and he asked her for an ordinary Heaven-Reaching Realm cultivation method before they left.