Chapter Summaries

A white streak dragged Li Yunjing through the incomplete portal into a desolate space, where the weakened artifact spirit of the Five Aggregates Cauldron tried to seize his body. The Immortal Bone inside Li Yunjing protected him, and he threatened the phantom with submission or death.

• Li Yunjing warned Fang Hexuan and Xie Zheng that the portal was incomplete, but a white streak suddenly seized him and pulled him through it.
• Fang Hexuan and Xie Zheng attacked the streak to save Li Yunjing, but their efforts failed.
• Li Yunjing awoke in a desolate place and recognized the nearly transparent phantom as the artifact spirit of the Five Aggregates Cauldron.
• The phantom tried to take Li Yunjing's body, but protective divine light from the Immortal Bone repelled him.
• The phantom demanded to know why the Immortal Bone helped Li Yunjing, and Li Yunjing threatened him with five breaths to submit or die.

Li Yunjing forced Five Spirits Lord to submit and learned that the artifact spirit and the Feathered Immortal Bone had both fallen from the Immortal Realm. The Feathered Immortal Lord then appeared from Li Yunjing’s chest, revealing that he was alive and that he had chosen Li Yunjing for a purpose that would become clear after ascension.

• Li Yunjing refused to negotiate with the phantom and gave it one breath to accept submission.
• Five Spirits Lord handed over his true spirit, which Li Yunjing’s Immortal Bone drew in and refined before returning it to him.
• Five Spirits Lord explained that he was the spirit of the Five Aggregates Cauldron and had ruined Purple Forest Mountain by using its power to create his hidden space.
• Five Spirits Lord identified Li Yunjing’s bone as the Feathered Immortal Bone and described how it had allowed the Feathered Immortal Lord to survive the destruction of his body.
• The Feathered Immortal Lord emerged from Li Yunjing’s chest, said he meant no harm, and told Li Yunjing to keep exploring the bone’s mysteries before ascending.

Li Yunjing returned from the hidden space with the Five Spirits Lord, concealed the immortal artifact’s whereabouts from his companions, and helped Sikong Ying finish the sweep of Purple Forest Mountain. As the righteous cultivators prepared to return to Xunxian Town, a strange light rose from underground and transformed the sky into a silent prison.

• The Feathered Immortal Lord gave the Five Spirits Lord Immortal Spirit Qi, urged him to help Li Yunjing become an immortal, and returned to the immortal bone before falling asleep.
• The Five Spirits Lord hid himself from Fang Hexuan and Xie Zheng, and Li Yunjing told them he was safe without revealing what had happened.
• Li Yunjing persuaded Fang Hexuan to leave the Void Nether Stone portal alone and report its location to the Immortal Alliance instead.
• Li Yunjing helped Sikong Ying find the remaining Devil Cultivators, then told him where the portal was while keeping the immortal artifact’s whereabouts secret.
• Ninety-two righteous cultivators returned to the Extreme Crossing Boat after more than two hundred Devil Cultivators were killed, but the group mourned their losses.
• As Sikong Ying prepared to return to Xunxian Town, eerie light erupted from underground, stopped the flow of Spiritual Qi and wind, and covered the sky with dark purple devil clouds.

A Spirit Transformation great devil emerged from a rift and attacked the cultivators aboard the Extreme Crossing Boat. Fang Hexuan unleashed Divine Firmament Divine Lightning to destroy the devil, then demanded to know who else would challenge him.

• The Spirit Transformation great devil appeared and its overwhelming might battered the cultivators aboard the Extreme Crossing Boat.
• Fang Hexuan and Xie Zheng attacked the devil, and Fang Hexuan wounded it with lightning spears.
• Xie Zheng returned to protect the boat while Fang Hexuan faced the devil’s twelve-ring killing formation alone.
• Fang Hexuan summoned Divine Firmament Divine Lightning and erased the devil rings and the great devil.
• Fang Hexuan, drained by his attack, shouted, “Who else!?” and received only silence.

After Fang Hexuan and Xie Zheng killed the Nine Nether Devil Lord, Li Yunjing returned to the Luozhen Sect and recovered from the battle’s lingering effects. He collected the sect’s monthly resources and spent his Patriarch Incense Offering on treasure draws, while the Five Spirits Lord grew more confident in the sect’s potential.

• Fang Hexuan returned to the Extreme Crossing Boat and treated his injuries as Li Yunjing and Sikong Ying discussed the threat of retaliation from the demonic path.
• Sikong Ying identified the slain great devil as the Nine Nether Devil Lord, a Spirit Transformation cultivator from the Devil Abyss whose seal had recently broken.
• Li Yunjing, Fang Hexuan, and Xie Zheng returned to the Luozhen Sect, where they rested and regulated their Qi for three days.
• The Five Spirits Lord praised the Luozhen Sect’s resources and said he hoped to become an Innate Spirit Treasure after returning to the Immortal Realm.
• Li Yunjing collected the sect’s monthly resources and spent 287 wisps of Patriarch Incense Offering on 28 treasure draws, receiving items he considered of little use.
• As Li Yunjing went to inspect the medical hall’s construction, the Five Spirits Lord questioned how the treasures had appeared and remained convinced the sect was extraordinary.

After receiving word that the decisive battle against the demons would begin in three days, Li Yunjing upgraded the Luozhen Sect’s medicine garden to level seven and learned that level eight could produce universal Spirit Medicine Embryos. He left Nangong Ye to cultivate more Medicine Spirits and went to inspect the artifact refining workshop.

• Li Yunjing received an Immortal Alliance Token message announcing that the demons would be exterminated in three days.
• Li Yunjing used third-grade Creation Soil and mature spirit medicines to upgrade the medicine garden to level seven, and discovered that level eight could produce Spirit Medicine Embryos.
• Li Yunjing told the Five Spirits Lord that the medicine garden’s transformation was a fortuitous opportunity for the Luozhen Sect.
• Li Yunjing found Nangong Ye with the Yellow Dragon Ginseng and asked about his health, then urged him to nurture more Medicine Spirits to help suppress his Geng Metal Qi.
• Li Yunjing left the garden to upgrade other buildings and approached the artifact refining workshop, where ten refiners were making Law Artifacts.

Li Yunjing checked the artifact refining room, talisman room, and Spirit Cuisine Pavilion, learning what each would gain at its next level and what conditions were needed for the upgrades. He left the pavilion planning to upgrade the remaining buildings in one go.

• Li Yunjing approved Guo Rong's request for a second-grade artifact refining furnace and urged him to make plenty of second-grade Law Artifacts.
• Li Yunjing inspected the artifact refining room's lv6 effects and found that Law Artifacts might gain complete artifact spirits once it was upgraded.
• Li Yunjing checked the talisman room and learned that its next level could give upgraded spirit talismans a chance to gain exclusive rune attributes.
• Li Yunjing visited the Spirit Cuisine Pavilion and saw that its next level could grant diners an additional buff.
• Li Yunjing left the pavilion and decided to upgrade the remaining buildings in one go.

Li Yunjing reviewed the benefits and upgrade conditions of six upgraded buildings and then went to check on Chu Chenzhou at Serene Valley. Chu Chenzhou reported that the Spirit Vein beneath the valley was growing, though he did not yet know why.

• Li Yunjing saw that the upgraded Welcoming Immortal Pavilion could attract cultivators to join the Luozhen Sect and that the Hall of Sages could provide inheritance fragments.
• Li Yunjing went north to find Chu Chenzhou studying the Spirit Vein at Serene Valley.
• Li Yunjing noticed an exclamation mark in the Spirit Vein's health information and asked Chu Chenzhou whether something was wrong.
• Chu Chenzhou said the Spirit Vein beneath Serene Valley appeared to be growing.

Chu Chenzhou revealed that the Spirit Vein beneath Serene Valley was growing after an unknown force replenished stolen earth Qi, and Li Yunjing discovered a strange creature that might be a Vein Spirit. Li Yunjing upgraded the Spirit Vein Pavilion to lv6 and learned that its next upgrade required a Vein Spirit, greater sect prosperity, and a fourth-grade Five Phases Origin Crystal.

• Chu Chenzhou told Li Yunjing that the Spirit Vein was growing and had replenished more earth Qi than had been stolen.
• Li Yunjing investigated the Spirit Vein and sensed a trace of life essence before finding a horned, spiky creature resembling a pangolin.
• Li Yunjing captured the creature and brought it to Chu Chenzhou, who said it might be a Vein Spirit and explained its forms and powers.
• Li Yunjing entrusted the creature to Chu Chenzhou while it remained in Manifestation Form.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Spirit Vein Pavilion to lv6, and the displayed lv7 requirements included a Vein Spirit, sect prosperity of at least 45, and a fourth-grade Five Phases Origin Crystal.

Li Yunjing upgraded the Luozhen Sect’s mountain gate and used Earth Vein Spiritual Qi to begin forming a Blessed Land Spirit Foundation. He then found that the sect’s new medical hall had been completed, with a powerful healing effect tied to the Mystic Compassion Stele.

• Li Yunjing upgraded the mountain gate to lv6, strengthening its defenses and increasing the sect’s Spiritual Qi and Earth Vein Spiritual Qi production.
• Li Yunjing used Earth Vein Spiritual Qi on the Luozhen Sect grounds until the system reported that a Blessed Land Spirit Foundation was forming, with completion estimated to take one year.
• Li Yunjing invested the remaining Earth Vein Spiritual Qi and resolved to keep upgrading the mountain gate so he could supply more.
• Li Yunjing visited the newly completed medical hall and added it to the buildings eligible for upgrades.
• Li Yunjing saw that the medical hall could improve disciples’ healing and recovery, and that the Mystic Compassion Stele granted a daily effect increasing their physical recovery speed by 50%.

Li Yunjing welcomed five White Jade Palace grandmasters who had broken through to Spirit Transformation, then faced a sudden invasion by Devil Cultivators seeking revenge for the Nine Nether Devil Lord. As the attackers questioned their diviner’s results, their three Spirit Transformation leaders launched an assault on the Luozhen Sect.

• Five White Jade Palace grandmasters emerged from seclusion as Spirit Transformation cultivators and agreed to help Li Yunjing drive out the Devil Cultivators.
• A vast rift opened in the sky, releasing hundreds of Nascent Soul Devil Cultivators and three Spirit Transformation Early Stage leaders.
• Li Yunjing sent one grandmaster to tell his master to activate the Extreme Crossing Boats and held back the other four, confident they could handle the invaders.
• The three Devil Cultivators suspected Ming Daozi had misled them but agreed to destroy the Luozhen Sect and blame him if the divination was wrong.
• The three Spirit Transformation Devil Cultivators attacked with a devil fist, shadow techniques, and a massive lotus of World-Burning Devil Fire.

The Luozhen Sect faced a massive attack by Devil Cultivators, but five White Jade Palace Spirit Transformation cultivators and three Extreme Crossing Boats turned the battle in their favor. After the ships killed more than half the Nascent Soul attackers, Li Yunjing ordered them to resume firing and leave no survivors.

• The Devil Cultivators attacked the Luozhen Sect together, and a White Jade Palace cultivator shielded the sect with a Five Elements array.
• Five White Jade Palace Spirit Transformation cultivators joined forces against the three Spirit Transformation Devil Cultivators.
• Li Yunjing ordered the Extreme Crossing Boats to attack the Nascent Soul Devil Cultivators, and their combined arrays killed dozens and wounded many more.
• The three ships destroyed fewer than half of the hundreds of Devil Cultivators before replacing their energy cores.
• Li Yunjing ordered the Extreme Crossing Boats to attack again and kill the remaining Devil Cultivators.

Li Yunjing and the White Jade Palace cultivators wiped out the Devil Cultivators attacking the Luozhen Sect, using three Extreme Crossing Boats and killing the three Spirit Transformation leaders. Sikong Ying arrived from Xunxian Town after the battle and learned that the Luozhen Sect had already defeated them.

• Li Yunjing commanded three Extreme Crossing Boats as their formations killed the hundreds of Nascent Soul Devil Cultivators.
• Nangong Chengyu praised the boats and joked that ten of them would let him attack the Ten Thousand Devils' Cavern.
• The five White Jade Palace Spirit Transformation cultivators trapped and killed the three Spirit Transformation Devil Cultivators after they tried to flee.
• Li Yunjing thanked the White Jade Palace cultivators and ordered the three boats back to the Luozhen Sect.
• Sikong Ying arrived from Xunxian Town and asked Li Yunjing what had happened.
• Li Yunjing told Sikong Ying that the Devil Cultivators had been wiped out by the White Jade Palace cultivators and the Luozhen Sect's three Extreme Crossing Boats.

After the Luozhen Sect destroyed the Devil Cultivators in the Five Aggregates Plain, Li Yunjing met with Zhang Jianchen to receive rewards and request greater support for developing wilderness. Zhang Jianchen granted him the Extreme Crossing Boat refining method and unrestricted Merit Point exchange authorization, and Li Yunjing asked to raise the sect's rating to upper-upper.

• Sikong Ying told Li Yunjing that the Luozhen Sect had wiped out nearly all the Devil Cultivators in the Five Aggregates Plain before the Immortal Alliance could attack.
• Li Yunjing considered how a higher Immortal Alliance rating could help the Luozhen Sect develop wilderness and receive more support.
• Sikong Ying recorded Li Yunjing's account of the battle and returned to Xunxian Town while Li Yunjing sent the sect members to rest.
• Zhang Jianchen praised the Luozhen Sect and offered the method for refining the Extreme Crossing Boat, including permission to customize and sell the boats.
• Li Yunjing requested authorization to exchange Merit Points for any treasure at any time, and Zhang Jianchen granted it.
• Li Yunjing asked Zhang Jianchen to raise the Luozhen Sect's rating to upper-upper so it could receive the greatest support for developing wilderness.

Li Yunjing secured the Immortal Alliance’s support for the Luozhen Sect’s plans to explore the Great Wilderness’s outskirts, while Five Spirits Lord revealed an old grudge against Patriarch Juechen. After the Five Aggregates Cauldron began tempering Li Yunjing, three months passed as the Luozhen Sect expanded its commerce and established a branch in the Annan Kingdom.

• Li Yunjing told Zhang Jianchen that the Luozhen Sect would explore only the Great Wilderness’s outskirts, and Zhang Jianchen promised the Immortal Alliance’s support.
• Five Spirits Lord showed Zhang Jianchen the Five Aggregates Cauldron and asked him to tell Patriarch Juechen to wait in the immortal world so they could settle an old grudge.
• Five Spirits Lord told Li Yunjing that the restored cauldron could temper him and help him advance to the Nascent Soul realm, then brought him inside to begin.
• Over the next three months, the Luozhen Chamber of Commerce opened treasure pavilions across the Five Aggregates Plain and formed partnerships with major sects.
• Nangong Chengyu recruited thirty disciples in the Annan Kingdom, brought Hu An, Hu Ruizhu, Hu Ruiyang, and others back to the Luozhen Sect, and established a branch there.

Li Yunjing successfully condensed his Nascent Soul, becoming a Nascent Soul Cultivator and bringing great joy to the Luozhen Sect. He left his cave abode to celebrate with the sect, ordering rewards for disciples and elders.

• Zhang Hanpeng instructed newcomers recruited by the Luozhen Sect's Annan Kingdom branch when the Spirit Vein trembled and spiritual energy surged toward Li Yunjing's cave abode.
• A mighty Dao sound and extraordinary phenomena accompanied Li Yunjing's Golden Core transformation as he condensed a Nascent Soul.
• Five Spirits Lord congratulated Li Yunjing and explained that reaching the Nascent Soul Realm marked the true beginning of the path to immortality.
• Li Yunjing emerged from his cave abode, and Fang Hexuan, Nangong Chengyu, Mo Xuan, and the others celebrated his breakthrough.
• Li Yunjing announced that the sect would celebrate with him and ordered Spirit Stones and pills for disciples and stipends for elders.

News of Li Yunjing’s Nascent Soul Condensation spread among the Immortal Alliance and other sects, while Li Yunjing discussed the Luozhen Sect’s plans with Mo Xuan. Jin Ruoxu visited the sect and asked Li Yunjing how his grandson Jin Xiaofeng had been behaving.

• Wang Qianxue, Sikong Ying, Huo Junrui, and Li Jie reacted with envy, irritation, or disbelief to the news that Li Yunjing had become a Nascent Soul True Person.
• Li Yunjing learned from Mo Xuan that his seclusion had lasted three months and that he had missed the Dao Discussion Conference at Immortal Alliance headquarters.
• Li Yunjing decided the Luozhen Sect would begin reclaiming land after his Nascent Soul Condensation Grand Ceremony and urged Mo Xuan to prepare to form his core.
• Jin Xiaofeng told Li Yunjing that his grandfather, Jin Ruoxu, intended to visit the Luozhen Sect, and Li Yunjing arranged preparations to welcome him.
• Li Yunjing received Jin Ruoxu at the Welcoming Immortal Pavilion, where Jin Ruoxu asked whether Jin Xiaofeng had caused trouble at the sect.

Jin Ruoxu congratulated Li Yunjing on his Nascent Soul Condensation and offered him a wine vessel recovered from an ancient cultivator’s cave abode, then invited the Luozhen Sect to help excavate it. Li Yunjing hesitated over the dangerous venture until Jin Ruoxu revealed that the cave abode might hold the Earth Vein Return to Origin Scripture, a powerful inheritance useful to the Luozhen Sect.

• Li Yunjing told Jin Ruoxu that Xiaofeng had behaved well and helped the Luozhen Sect research spirit rice.
• Jin Ruoxu congratulated Li Yunjing on behalf of the Jin Household and gave him a fifth-grade wine vessel recovered from a senior’s cave abode.
• Jin Ruoxu explained that the vessel turned any liquid into wine and described the failed attempt by an Earth Vein Dao cultivator to achieve immortality.
• Jin Ruoxu invited Li Yunjing and the Luozhen Sect to join the Jin Household in excavating the senior’s cave abode, while Li Yunjing worried about the danger.
• Jin Ruoxu revealed that the cave abode might contain the Earth Vein Return to Origin Scripture and argued that the inheritance would benefit the Luozhen Sect.

Li Yunjing accepted Jin Ruoxu’s proposal to explore Dao Lord Xuanchen’s cave abode after learning it contained the Earth Vein Return to Origin Scripture and the Northern Dark Vein-Suppressing Seal. Jin Ruoxu departed after sharing cultivation advice and leaving Jin Xiaofeng at the Luozhen Sect, where Xiaofeng wondered whether his grandfather had sold him off.

• Li Yunjing weighed the advantages of the Earth Vein Dao and declined Jin Ruoxu’s proposal, citing the Luozhen Sect’s weakness.
• Jin Ruoxu revealed that Dao Lord Xuanchen’s cave abode held the Northern Dark Vein-Suppressing Seal, which could command the Northern Dark Earth Vein, and explained the Jin Household’s reasons for offering the treasures.
• Li Yunjing accepted the proposal, saying that only he and a few others from the Luozhen Sect would explore the cave abode and asking Jin Ruoxu to inform the Immortal Alliance.
• Jin Ruoxu shared his Nascent Soul cultivation experience with Li Yunjing before preparing to leave.
• Jin Ruoxu told Jin Xiaofeng to remain at the Luozhen Sect and put it first, then vanished; Xiaofeng asked Li Yunjing if his grandfather had sold him off.

Li Yunjing traveled to the Annan Kingdom to deal with a Demon Core Perfection beast and discovered it was a giant bear with artificial-looking antlers. He killed the bear and found that its antlers fit into a socket in its head, leaving their origin unexplained.

• Nangong Chengyu told Li Yunjing that Hu An had requested help with a man-eating great demon in the Annan Kingdom, and Li Yunjing decided to go himself.
• At the teleportation array, Li Yunjing examined two newly discovered Dao Realms, ruling out the powerful Primordial Beginning Dao Realm and considering the weaker Chenwei Dao Realm for a future visit.
• Li Yunjing arrived in the Annan Kingdom, met Hu An, and learned that the Demon Beast was at Bear Soul Ridge.
• Li Yunjing found a sleeping giant bear with antlers, pulled out its soul, and killed it.
• Li Yunjing removed the antlers and discovered they fit into a socket in the bear's head, though they could be pulled free easily.