Chapter Summaries

Li Yunjing and the others took only a few low-grade treasures from the hidden cache to avoid attracting the Thieves' Sect, then left the Three Sun Wheels behind to keep the cache secure. Outside, eight Spirit Transformation cultivators confronted them, and Fang Hexuan struck one with Divine Firmament Divine Lightning before a barrier blocked his next attack.

• Li Yunjing warned Fang Tong that taking too many treasures could attract the Thieves' Sect, and Fang Hexuan and Wang Qianxue agreed.
• Li Yunjing, Fang Hexuan, and Fang Tong selected a few relatively low-end treasures and left the rest, including the Three Sun Wheels, in the hidden cache.
• Wang Qianxue said the Thieves' Sect likely could not enter the cache because its three great suns protected it.
• Fang Tong used the key to take the four of them out of the cache, where eight figures demanded their treasures.
• Fang Hexuan hit one attacker with Divine Firmament Divine Lightning, and the white-bearded old man tried to call it a misunderstanding.
• Fang Hexuan struck at the white-bearded old man with another bolt, but a circular barrier appeared and blocked it.

Fang Hexuan drove away eight Spirit Transformation cultivators and explained to Li Yunjing how the Daozhen Sect and other Middle Wu Mountain sects had brought about the Luozhen Sect’s decline. After Wang Qianxue marked the treasure trove as protected by the Immortal Alliance, three opportunists tried to break in and were incinerated by its defenses.

• Fang Hexuan threatened the eight intruders, identified himself as a Luozhen Sect cultivator, and forced them to leave.
• Wang Qianxue planted an Immortal Alliance banner to place the hidden treasure trove under its protection.
• Fang Hexuan told Li Yunjing that Middle Wu Mountain’s sects had aided the Daozhen Sect, and recounted how the Luozhen Sect’s chosen died fighting the Floating Moon Pavilion.
• Wang Qianxue took Fang Hexuan, Li Yunjing, and the others back to the Luozhen Sect by fish boat.
• Three figures emerged after the boat departed, opened a cut into the treasure trove, and were burned to ashes by crimson-gold flames.

Fang Hexuan returned to the Luozhen Sect, where his identity as its vanished founding master astonished Nangong Chengyu and promised the sect new strength. Li Yunjing and the elders set a grand celebration for May fifteenth, and Li Yunjing agreed to visit the Great Dream Pool on May twenty-third to discuss the Great Dream Market.

• Fang Hexuan returned to Serene Valley with Li Yunjing and praised the Luozhen Sect’s growth.
• Nangong Chengyu and the other elders welcomed the group, and Li Yunjing revealed that Fang Hexuan was the sect’s founding master who had vanished long ago.
• Nangong Chengyu celebrated Fang Hexuan’s return and Ding Qifeng’s Core Formation, and the elders chose May fifteenth for a grand celebration honoring several recent achievements.
• Li Yunjing remembered that Zhang Jianchen would attend the Five Towns Grand Competition and resolved to make a good showing.
• Chang Xu visited Li Yunjing to discuss the Great Dream Market and invited him to a meeting at the Great Dream Pool on May twenty-third.
• Li Yunjing accepted Chang Xu’s invitation and headed toward the Scripture Pavilion, hoping the Great Dream Market would help the Luozhen Sect grow.

Li Yunjing obtained the sect-exclusive [Cloud Casket Fallen True Book] and prepared to use it as the foundation for Luozhen Sect’s cultivation system. He then hurried to Xunxian Town, where Wang Qianxue announced that the Five Towns Grand Competition’s format had changed.

• Li Yunjing completed the Scripture Repository’s deduction and received the powerful, further-upgradable [Cloud Casket Fallen True Book], which only Luozhen Sect disciples with a Life Jade could cultivate.
• Li Yunjing recorded the Dao method and placed it among the Luozhen Sect’s core methods, then found the Scripture Repository could be upgraded once he obtained five third-grade Dao methods.
• Li Yunjing saw that Luozhen Sect had already met the repository’s prosperity requirement and planned to visit Xunxian Town to obtain the remaining methods.
• Wang Qianxue summoned Li Yunjing to the Immortal Alliance compound, where he found the town’s senior members and Xiao Tianxing gathered.
• Wang Qianxue announced that an order from Immortal Alliance headquarters had changed the Five Towns Grand Competition’s format, then said her senior brother would explain how the rankings would be decided.

The Five Towns Grand Competition was announced as a points-based hunt on Mount Taixuan, but Zhang Jianchen revealed that the Immortal Alliance planned to use it as cover to retrieve the skeletal remains there. After tasting Hundred Lifetimes Tea and experiencing a hundred lives, Li Yunjing learned he would join the mission instead of competing, and Zhang Jianchen began working on his Immortal Alliance Token.

• Xiao Tianxing announced that the Five Towns Grand Competition would award points for hunting Demon Beasts, gathering materials, and finding treasures in Mount Taixuan.
• Xiao Tianxing brought Li Yunjing to meet Immortal Alliance leader Zhang Jianchen, who served them Hundred Lifetimes Tea.
• Li Yunjing experienced a hundred cycles of reincarnation through the tea and emerged with a stronger State of Mind, while Xiao Tianxing became deeply immersed in the illusion.
• Zhang Jianchen told Li Yunjing that the Immortal Alliance had located the skeletal remains on Mount Taixuan using the clue Li Yunjing had provided.
• Zhang Jianchen revealed that the competition was a cover and told Li Yunjing he would join Xiao Tianxing and other young people in retrieving the remains.
• After explaining that several Tribulation Transcendence Realm grand elders would support the mission, Zhang Jianchen took Li Yunjing's Immortal Alliance Token and began working on it.

Li Yunjing became an Immortal Alliance True Disciple and learned that the Luozhen Sect’s rating had risen. He upgraded the Poultry Coop to level 8 and saw that obtaining a Grade 3 True Scripture of Ten Thousand Birds would be the main obstacle to its next upgrade.

• Zhang Jianchen made Li Yunjing a True Disciple and raised the Luozhen Sect’s rating to upper-lower.
• Xiao Tianxing advised Li Yunjing to review the new benefits available to him and his sect.
• Li Yunjing traveled back with Wang Qianxue, then watched her hurry off to see Nangong Chengyu and worried that his master had not fully recovered.
• Li Yunjing gave a Wisdom-Awakening Pill to the white-headed crow and upgraded the Poultry Coop to level 8.
• Li Yunjing reviewed the level 9 effects and upgrade requirements, noting that the Grade 3 True Scripture of Ten Thousand Birds would be difficult to obtain.

Li Yunjing reassured Fang Hexuan that he had not made a deal with an evil god, then entered the Lesser Origin Realm through his Immortal Alliance Token. After learning about the realm from Feiyao, he went to the Sect Quarter to claim benefits for the Luozhen Sect and was approached by a young man.

• Fang Hexuan confronted Li Yunjing after seeing spiritual items disappear during the Poultry Coop’s upgrade, but accepted his claim that it was a fortuitous opportunity.
• Li Yunjing used his Immortal Alliance Token and arrived in the Lesser Origin Realm, where he met Feiyao.
• Feiyao explained that the Lesser Origin Realm was an Immortal Alliance domain for distinguished members and opened for five days at the beginning of each month.
• A tea stall owner told Li Yunjing that True Disciples could eat without paying, with the Immortal Alliance reimbursing the stall.
• Li Yunjing went to the upper-lower section of the Sect Quarter to claim the Luozhen Sect’s benefits, where a young man recognized him.

Li Yunjing learned that the Luozhen Sect’s improved rating entitled it to substantial resources and privileges, and requested a monthly resource delivery and a large-scale teleportation array. Days later, he led the sect’s competitors to Mount Taixuan, where Xiao Tianxing announced the start of the Five Towns Grand Competition.

• Zhou Hao showed Li Yunjing the benefits available to the Luozhen Sect through the Immortal Alliance, including monthly resources, a teleportation array, and limited access to the Demon-Dispelling Bell.
• Li Yunjing requested the Luozhen Sect’s resource allotment and a large-scale teleportation array, and Zhou Hao agreed to arrange both.
• Li Yunjing left the Lesser Origin Realm and considered how the teleportation array would make long-distance travel easier for the Luozhen Sect.
• On May third, Li Yunjing gathered the Luozhen Sect’s competitors and led them from Xunxian Town to Mount Taixuan to join the other four towns.
• Xiao Tianxing arrived at Mount Taixuan and declared the Five Towns Grand Competition officially begun.

Li Yunjing joined Zhang Jianchen and three other Immortal Alliance True Disciples to find the White Bone Daoist’s remains. They located a hidden entrance in Mount Taixuan’s cliff and reached a small island, where a skeleton lay in a hollow at its center.

• Xiao Tianxing raised the Ninefold Mystic True Light Barrier around Mount Taixuan as the people of the five towns began the competition, while Li Yunjing stayed behind to join Zhang Jianchen.
• Xiao Tianxing introduced Li Yunjing to the True Disciples Cao Lie, Chu Xin, and Su Shuanghua, and Zhang Jianchen led the group away from the flying ship.
• Zhang Jianchen explained that Li Yunjing’s clue had helped him find the cliff hidden by the White Bone Daoist’s remains.
• Zhang Jianchen found an entrance by feeling along the cliff, and the group followed him through it onto a small, scorched island.
• Zhang Jianchen led the group to a hollow at the island’s center, where they found a skeleton.

Li Yunjing learned that an upper-realm immortal sect marked cultivators with a Corpse Liberation Immortal Method and turned those who ascended into human pills. Zhang Jianchen revealed that the White Bone Daoist had split his soul to avoid that fate and told Li Yunjing to retrieve the remains as his fortuitous opportunity.

• Li Yunjing and the others were shaken by the white bones until Zhang Jianchen woke them, and Li Yunjing heard a broken murmur about ascension being a scam.
• Li Yunjing told Zhang Jianchen about the voice, and Zhang Jianchen explained that some ascended cultivators were selectively captured and refined into human pills by an immortal sect.
• Zhang Jianchen said the White Bone Daoist had practiced the sect's Corpse Liberation Immortal Method, sensed the danger, and split his soul between the upper realm and his remains.
• Zhang Jianchen told Li Yunjing to bring over the white bone remains, calling it his fortuitous opportunity.

Li Yunjing retrieved the White Bone Daoist’s remains and met his soul in a pure land, where he learned why the Immortal Alliance sought the remains and received the Daoist’s Immortal Bone. After returning to Zhang Jianchen with the bones, Li Yunjing learned that the devil sects would soon make a major move, leaving him to face an approaching tribulation with the Immortal Bone’s mysteries still unknown.

• Li Yunjing touched the skeletal remains and was transported to a pure land, where he met the White Bone Daoist.
• The White Bone Daoist explained that the upper realm’s Immortal Alliance wanted to restore his soul so he could testify against an immortal sect refining people into pills, while the Daozhen Sect searched for his remains.
• The White Bone Daoist gave Li Yunjing his Immortal Bone, which fused into Li Yunjing’s chest, and told him to discover its mysteries himself.
• The White Bone Daoist warned Li Yunjing that the devil sects would soon make a major move and that the Immortal Bone might help him through the coming tribulation.
• Li Yunjing returned to the hollow, picked up the skeletal remains, and brought them to Zhang Jianchen.

Li Yunjing retrieved the White Bone Daoist’s skeletal remains and learned he was the person born with fortune, then warned Zhang Jianchen about the Demonic Sect’s plans. Afterward, Xiao Tianxing and the others told him to attend the upcoming Dao Discussion Conference to answer doubts about his appointment as a True Disciple.

• Zhang Jianchen explained that Li Yunjing was born with fortune because he had personally retrieved the skeletal remains, then led him and the others away from Mount Taixuan.
• Zhang Jianchen explained that the towering cliff was formed from the White Bone Daoist’s cultivated Dao and would fade now that the remains were gone.
• Li Yunjing warned Zhang Jianchen that the Demonic Sect was planning a major move, and Zhang Jianchen said the Immortal Alliance would record his merit.
• Cao Lie brought Li Yunjing to Xiao Tianxing, Chu Xin, and Su Shuanghua on the flying ship’s deck.
• Xiao Tianxing told Li Yunjing to attend the True Disciples’ Dao Discussion Conference in three months, and Chu Xin and Cao Lie said he needed to dispel suspicions that he had gained his position through connections.

Li Yunjing agreed to attend the Dao Discussion Conference and received advice and support from Chu Xin, Cao Lie, and Su Shuanghua. A sudden attack by Great Devil Cui Yi nearly killed him, but Zhang Jianchen intervened, and the chapter left Zhang Jianchen and Cui Yi fighting after Li Yunjing suspected a Demonic Sect had freed the devil.

• Li Yunjing accepted that he would attend the Dao Discussion Conference, and Chu Xin, Cao Lie, and Su Shuanghua promised to help him.
• Xiao Tianxing explained that people in the Immortal Alliance sought to win Li Yunjing’s goodwill and advised him to make allies.
• Great Devil Cui Yi appeared in the sky, targeted Li Yunjing, and tried to draw him upward.
• Zhang Jianchen confronted Cui Yi and shattered his enormous face with the Heaven-Splitting Sword before the two vanished to fight.
• Cao Lie explained Cui Yi’s history as a soul-devouring Devil Cultivator whom the Immortal Alliance had sealed nine thousand years earlier.
• Li Yunjing suspected a Demonic Sect had freed Cui Yi, and Cui Yi’s voice rang out again, shocked by Zhang Jianchen’s strength.

Zhang Jianchen killed Cui Yi and revealed that numerous sealed Devil Cultivators had been freed, threatening chaos across the Tianyuan Five Provinces. Li Yunjing’s fully grown immortal bone absorbed a mysterious object, while Zhang Jianchen warned the others to prepare for a dangerous conflict with the devil path.

• Zhang Jianchen defeated Cui Yi, killed him with an azure light, and returned to the flying ship.
• Li Yunjing’s immortal bone fully grew, then absorbed a mysterious blur that entered his body and made its glow and heat disappear.
• Zhang Jianchen noticed the light from Li Yunjing’s chest and Cui Yi’s dissolving corpse, but kept his suspicions to himself.
• Zhang Jianchen told Li Yunjing, Xiao Tianxing, and the others that he had learned from Cui Yi’s soul that several other sealed Devil Cultivators had been freed.
• Zhang Jianchen explained that the devils came from ancient sects and warned that their simultaneous release pointed to a deliberate plan and coming chaos.
• Zhang Jianchen urged everyone to fight Devil Cultivators only when they could win, flee and call for backup otherwise, and avoid capture at all costs.

Li Yunjing learned that the Immortal Alliance planned to appoint him leader of its Xunxian Town branch as it tightened control over its branches. The chapter ended with Wang Qianxue asking why he called Xiao Tianxing “Senior Brother” too.

• The Five Towns Grand Competition ended, and Li Yunjing learned that Giant Elephant Town placed first while Xunxian Town placed second.
• Li Yunjing confirmed that all Luozhen Sect cultivators had returned safely, then told Mo Xuan that the alliance leader had killed a Devil Cultivator.
• Xiao Tianxing told Li Yunjing that the Immortal Alliance would help turn Xunxian Town into an immortal city and appoint him leader of its local branch.
• Xiao Tianxing explained that the Alliance was strengthening its control after a branch had deceived its superiors and subordinates, and Li Yunjing agreed to prepare.
• Wang Qianxue asked Li Yunjing why he called Xiao Tianxing “Senior Brother” too.

After returning to the Luozhen Sect, Li Yunjing agreed with Nangong Chengyu to expand the sect by establishing branches, then received the powerful healing art Transcendence and Ascension to Immortality Instruction from the Immortal Bone. He learned that the Immortal Bone came from an immortal and could grant further treasures and rapid cultivation gains by devouring devils.

• Li Yunjing returned to the Luozhen Sect and invited his fellow travelers to its upcoming Golden Core ceremony.
• Nangong Chengyu proposed recruiting more disciples and establishing Luozhen Sect branches in places such as the Annan Kingdom, and Li Yunjing agreed.
• Li Yunjing felt heat from his chest and received the Transcendence and Ascension to Immortality Instruction, a healing art that could eventually resurrect its practitioner.
• Li Yunjing learned that the Immortal Bone came from an immortal rather than the White Bone Daoist’s Essence Blood.
• Li Yunjing discovered that the Immortal Bone needed to devour devils to increase his cultivation and grant him more treasures.

Li Yunjing discovered that the Transcendence and Ascension to Immortality Instruction could restore him to peak condition, then used all seven of his Patriarch Incense Offerings on a lottery draw and received an Incense Offering Burner. After testing it, he met Su Zhen, who arrived with a request for the Luozhen Sect’s help.

• Li Yunjing cultivated the Transcendence and Ascension to Immortality Instruction and discovered it could restore his depleted Law Power and exhausted body.
• Li Yunjing collected seven Patriarch Incense Offerings and spent them on a lottery draw, which produced an Incense Offering Burner.
• Li Yunjing tested the burner, collected a wisp of Incense Offerings, and used it to draw ten Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Mo Xuan told Li Yunjing that Su Zhen of the Departing Maple Sect had arrived to see him.
• Su Zhen congratulated Li Yunjing on attaining the Golden Core and asked the Luozhen Sect for help.

Li Yunjing agreed to help Su Zhen rescue five Departing Maple Sect disciples abducted by the Heavenly Star Bandits, though he suspected there was more to the attack. During the Luozhen Sect’s celebration, the Wangtian Jin Household arrived with a remarkable gift, leaving Li Yunjing to examine three treasures of great value.

• Su Zhen told Li Yunjing that the Heavenly Star Bandits had taken five Departing Maple Sect disciples and demanded half the sect’s resources as ransom.
• Li Yunjing suspected the bandits’ attack was unusual but promised to help find the disciples and warned Su Zhen that they might not be recovered alive.
• The Wangtian Jin Household arrived at the Luozhen Sect, and Jin Qiwu gave Li Yunjing a storage ring before asking to see Jin Xiaofeng.
• Li Yunjing examined the ring and found Pure Yang Jade, a Dao Turtle shell capable of limited divination, and a large piece of All Things Gold used to forge Law Treasures.

Li Yunjing hosted Ding Qifeng’s Golden Core ceremony, then discussed suppressing the Heavenly Star Bandits with the Immortal Alliance cultivators. Afterward, Shen Chun asked for advice about opposition to the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion’s planned auction, leaving Li Yunjing to decide how to respond.

• Li Yunjing and Ding Qifeng welcomed guests to the Golden Core ceremony, and Li Yunjing decided to repay them with a lecture on the Dao while Ding Qifeng planned to refine pills.
• Xiao Tianxing arrived and relayed that Cao Lie and the others could not attend.
• Li Yunjing told Sikong Ying and the other Immortal Alliance cultivators about the Heavenly Star Bandits, and Sikong Ying explained that the Alliance was offering merit points for suppressing bandits.
• Li Yunjing and Sikong Ying agreed to plan a campaign against the bandits on Heavenly Star Mountain and seek help from the Immortal Alliance headquarters.
• Shen Chun told Li Yunjing that other treasure pavilions in Xunxian Town opposed the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion’s planned auction, and Li Yunjing stopped to consider the problem.

Li Yunjing proposed creating the Luozhen Chamber of Commerce to bring Xunxian Town’s struggling treasure pavilions under the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion’s name and support. After the Golden Core ceremony ended, Nangong Chengyu celebrated the Luozhen Sect’s renewed prosperity and asked Li Yunjing to come with him for a gift.

• Li Yunjing proposed that other treasure pavilions join a Luozhen Chamber of Commerce, receiving support in exchange for adding its name to their own.
• Shen Chun understood that Li Yunjing aimed to build the chamber’s reputation and agreed to carry out his plan.
• Shen Chun delivered fifteen first-rank, Profound Grade robes from Black Mountain and reported that production could reach around thirty robes per month.
• Li Yunjing told Shen Chun to have Guan Xingzhou request whatever Black Mountain needed as its techniques and output improved.
• Li Yunjing completed his discourse on the Dao, ending the Golden Core ceremony, and the guests departed.
• Nangong Chengyu recalled the Luozhen Sect’s earlier Foundation Establishment banquet, praised its grand ceremony, and asked Li Yunjing to come with him for a gift.