Chapter Summaries

Li Yunjing recognized the giant bear’s antlers as the work of Body Casting cultivation and discovered a powerful Body Casting disciple had raised it. After exposing himself, he challenged the monster, leaving them poised to fight.

• Li Yunjing recalled the history of Body Casting disciples and suspected someone had used their methods to modify the giant bear.
• A tiger-headed, human-bodied, snake-tailed monster arrived, mourned the dead bear, and revealed it had been raising the bear to obtain its antlers for Nascent Soul Condensation.
• Li Yunjing realized the monster was a highly accomplished Golden Core Perfection Body Casting disciple and learned it belonged to a sect.
• Seeking Immortal Alliance merit, Li Yunjing revealed himself, resisted the monster’s tiger’s might, and identified its cultivation as a crooked path.
• The monster asked whether Li Yunjing was a Heavenly Dao guardian, and Li Yunjing said they would either kill him or be killed by him.

Li Yunjing stopped Dong Wu’s Void Escape, searched his soul, and learned about the hidden Ancient Hidden Sect and its grand elder, He Xun. After killing Dong Wu, Li Yunjing met He Xun, who claimed he had wanted Dong Wu dead and did not intend to oppose him.

• Dong Wu tried to escape by shedding his snake tail, but Li Yunjing’s Law Power trapped him and prevented his Void Escape.
• Li Yunjing searched Dong Wu’s soul and learned how Dong Wu’s Body-Forging abilities and rapid cultivation had led him to join the Ancient Hidden Sect.
• Li Yunjing discovered that the Ancient Hidden Sect manipulated unrest and public stories to conceal its presence in the Annan Kingdom, now Luozhen Sect territory.
• Li Yunjing crushed Dong Wu’s soul, then encountered He Xun, the Ancient Hidden Sect’s grand elder, who emerged through a crack in the void.
• He Xun claimed he had wanted Dong Wu gone and said he did not intend to oppose Li Yunjing.

Li Yunjing fought He Xun, an Ancient Hidden Sect cultivator whose body was augmented with spiritual iron, jade, and Demon Beast parts, and killed him with the Nine True Magnetic Light Sword. Afterward, Li Yunjing wondered about the power of the Body-Forging Dao but calmed himself before his doubts could summon a heart demon.

• He Xun tried to recruit Li Yunjing into the Ancient Hidden Sect, but Li Yunjing refused and prepared to fight.
• He Xun attacked Li Yunjing with his beastlike claw, Fire Crow flames, bone spikes, soul-stealing force, and a torrent of spiritual power.
• Li Yunjing used the Nine True Magnetic Light Sword to deflect He Xun’s attacks and disrupt the spiritual iron, jade, and Demon Beast parts stitched into his body.
• Li Yunjing pierced He Xun’s core Spirit-Gathering Jade Marrow, destroying his body and soul.
• Li Yunjing considered whether the Body-Forging Dao could rival righteous cultivation, then guarded his mind to avoid attracting a heart demon.

Li Yunjing decided to call on Immortal Alliance allies to help destroy the Ancient Hidden Sect, whose eight remaining Nascent Soul cultivators were too risky for him to face alone. Xiao Tianxing, Cao Lie, and Su Shuanghua arrived at the Luozhen Sect's lower courtyard, heard about the sect, and looked forward to confronting its Body-Forging disciples.

• Li Yunjing contacted Xiao Tianxing, Cao Lie, Su Shuanghua, and Chu Xin for help; Chu Xin declined because he was refining a newly acquired treasure.
• Li Yunjing returned to the Luozhen Sect's lower courtyard, asked Hu An to prepare for guests, and agreed to meet Hu An's family, the king of the Annan Kingdom, the day after tomorrow.
• Xiao Tianxing, Cao Lie, and Su Shuanghua arrived and learned that Li Yunjing had formed his Nascent Soul and that Zhang Jianchen had celebrated by performing the Azure Empyrean Stars Swordsmanship.
• Li Yunjing asked the three about the Immortal Alliance's Dao Discussion Conference, and they said it had been poorly attended and dull.
• Li Yunjing told them about the Ancient Hidden Sect and its Body-Forging disciples, and Xiao Tianxing, Cao Lie, and Su Shuanghua showed interest in fighting them.

Li Yunjing and three fellow True Disciples traveled to the Ancient Hidden Sect, where they discovered its leader had merged his body with a mountain. As the eight known body-forging disciples attacked, Li Yunjing exposed one opponent’s hidden weakness and shattered his arm, while another launched a desperate barrage of bone spurs.

• Cao Lie, Xiao Tianxing, Li Yunjing, and their companion agreed to face the eight body-forging disciples, then left the Luozhen Sect Lower Institute for the Ancient Hidden Sect.
• Li Yunjing led the group into the sect’s mountain, which revealed itself as the transformed body of a hidden man merged with the mountain.
• The mountain-man ordered the eight Nascent Soul Early Stage body-forging disciples to attack, and Li Yunjing assigned each of his companions opponents before engaging two himself.
• Li Yunjing dodged the two disciples’ pincer attack and struck a flaw in the golden-faced disciple’s forged shoulder, breaking his arm and sending him crashing into the mountainside.
• The bone-spurred disciple, horrified by Li Yunjing’s skill, unleashed all six spurs in a deadly barrage.

Li Yunjing killed two Body Casting practitioners with Supreme Unity Pure Subtlety Scripture techniques, then joined Xiao Tianxing, Cao Lie, and Su Shuanghua as they fought the cultivator fused with the mountain. Their attacks damaged and restrained the mountain, while Li Yunjing surveyed it with his Dao Qi.

• Li Yunjing countered the bone-spurred practitioner's attack with Pure Subtlety Orthodox Thunder, overwhelming him and leaving both opponents desperate.
• The gold-faced and bone-spurred practitioners burned their Nascent Soul power and launched a final assault, but Li Yunjing destroyed their Body Casting cores and Nascent Souls with Supreme Unity Shatter Illusions Divine Light.
• Li Yunjing collected the two men's storage rings and saw that Xiao Tianxing, Cao Lie, and Su Shuanghua had also defeated their opponents.
• The cultivator fused with the mountain summoned two enormous stone palms and attacked the four, enraged that the Ancient Hidden Sect's Nascent Soul Cultivators and his plans had been destroyed.
• Xiao Tianxing struck a rune node, Cao Lie halted a stone palm with Blazing Sun True Fire, and Su Shuanghua froze the mountain's connection to the earth veins.
• Li Yunjing swept the battlefield with Supreme Unity Pure Subtlety Dao Qi and perceived the mountain in its entirety.

Li Yunjing and the other three defeated the Body-Forging disciple by exposing and destroying the Nascent Soul hidden inside his mountain body. After refusing to spare him for the people of Annan Kingdom, Li Yunjing stopped Cao Lie from killing him, saying they could use the Nascent Soul for something else.

• The mountain monster attacked Xiao Tianxing, Cao Lie, Su Shuanghua, and Li Yunjing with stone spears and a falling mountain, while the three senior cultivators struggled to reach its core.
• Su Shuanghua sealed thirty percent of the earth vein flow, and Li Yunjing used the Supreme Unity Pure Subtlety Dao to locate and lock down the Body-Forging disciple’s Nascent Soul.
• Xiao Tianxing severed the runic meridians, Cao Lie burned the earth veins, Su Shuanghua froze the Nascent Soul, and Li Yunjing struck it with a Dao Seal, causing the mountain to collapse.
• Li Yunjing rejected the trapped Nascent Soul’s plea for mercy, citing the people of Annan Kingdom whom the Ancient Hidden Sect had killed.
• Cao Lie prepared to burn the Nascent Soul, but Li Yunjing stopped him and proposed using it for something else, prompting Cao Lie to warn him against devouring it to cultivate.

Li Yunjing chose to use the captured Evil Cultivator's Nascent Soul for sacrificial refinement rather than consume it, and selected his Nine True Magnetic Light Sword as the treasure to temper. After refining the Nascent Soul into the blade, he felt its power and foundation surge, with a faint Dao resonance appearing on the sword.

• Li Yunjing explained to Cao and the others that he planned to refine a treasure with the Nascent Soul, and Xiao Tianxing approved the idea.
• Xiao Tianxing and the others left Li Yunjing alone with the captured Nascent Soul.
• Li Yunjing chose the Nine True Magnetic Light Sword, then used the Ten Thousand Formations Celestial Pivot Banner to trap the Nascent Soul for the refinement.
• Li Yunjing drew the Nascent Soul's origin into the sword with its nine streams of magnetic light, destroying the captive's body and soul.
• The Nine True Magnetic Light Sword erupted with nine-colored light and gained a faint trace of Dao resonance, while Li Yunjing sensed its greatly increased power.

Li Yunjing discovered that refining a powerful Nascent Soul had given the Nine True Magnetic Light Sword the potential to become a Spirit Treasure. When Hu Yan revealed that people claiming to belong to the Luozhen Sect were threatening the Annan Kingdom over an inherited seal, Li Yunjing ordered Hu An to investigate.

• Li Yunjing showed Xiao Tianxing, Cao Lie, and Su Shuanghua the enhanced Nine True Magnetic Light Sword, and promised them a future surprise before they departed.
• Li Yunjing spent several days at the Luozhen Sect Lower Institute and was satisfied with how it operated.
• Hu Yan visited Li Yunjing and asked him to save the Annan Kingdom, explaining that a sect of Immortal Masters had targeted it over an inherited seal.
• Li Yunjing examined the seal and found that it absorbed his Law Power without reacting, then agreed to study it.
• Hu Yan identified the threatening sect as the Luozhen Sect, shocking Li Yunjing and Hu An.
• Hu An denied that the Luozhen Sect could be responsible, and Li Yunjing ordered him to find out what was happening.

Li Yunjing suspected that Hu Yan’s visitors were descendants of Grandmaster Yuheng’s Luozhen Sect branch and sent Hu An to investigate. While examining Hu Yan’s seal, Li Yunjing learned from the Five Spirits Lord that it was a Grotto-Heaven Divine Seal, but discovered that activating it required filling an entire Grotto-Heaven with Law Power.

• Li Yunjing heard Hu Yan’s account of the visitors and recognized their jade pendant as resembling the one Grandmaster Yuheng had worn.
• Li Yunjing considered welcoming Yuheng’s descendants back to the Luozhen Sect and recovering the treasure Yuheng had taken, then waited for Hu An to investigate.
• Li Yunjing poured much of his Law Power into Hu Yan’s seal, but it showed no reaction, so he replenished his power with the Transcendence and Ascension to Immortality Instruction.
• The Five Spirits Lord appeared after recovering a tenth of his former strength and identified the seal as a Grotto-Heaven Divine Seal.
• The Five Spirits Lord explained that the seal opened a Grotto-Heaven and that Li Yunjing could not activate it by himself because doing so required filling the entire Grotto-Heaven with Law Power.

Li Yunjing discovered the location of an unclaimed grotto-heaven in the Great Wilderness and considered using it as the foundation for Tianyuan’s sixth province. After Hu An confirmed the Yuheng Branch’s ties to the Luozhen Sect, Li Yunjing met its injured master, Mo Xun, and found a worm draining her vital essence.

• The Five Spirits Lord used the Grotto-Heaven Divine Seal to reveal a map and located the grotto-heaven more than a million li south of Flying Immortal Prefecture.
• Li Yunjing decided to plan for claiming the grotto-heaven and making it the center of an effort to establish Tianyuan’s sixth province.
• Hu An reported that the people he had investigated were genuine Luozhen Sect disciples who revered Yuheng as their patriarch.
• Li Yunjing followed Hu An to the Yuheng Branch and met its master, Mo Xun, who was suffering from serious internal injuries.
• Li Yunjing used his Divine Sense to discover a worm wriggling inside Mo Xun’s Dantian and draining her vital essence.

Li Yunjing exposed Mo Xun’s poisoned tea and confronted a Corpse King Valley cultivator who had disguised himself to ambush him. After revealing his fake Gold-Armored Corpse body, the Golden Core Perfection attacker withstood Li Yunjing’s sword and counterattacked, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Li Yunjing detected poison in Mo Xun’s tea, and Hu An demanded an explanation from her.
• Li Yunjing called out the hidden intruder, who appeared and admitted he had ordered Mo Xun to poison the tea so he could drain Li Yunjing’s Essence Blood.
• The Corpse King Valley cultivator lunged at Li Yunjing, but a sword strike sent him flying and tore away his disguise.
• Li Yunjing recognized that the attacker wore armor taken from a Gold-Armored Corpse rather than having refined himself into one.
• Li Yunjing’s Nine True Magnetic Light Sword pierced the armor but barely penetrated the attacker before the corpse demon struck back with a powerful palm.

Li Yunjing used the Seven Slaughters Heaven-Slaying Dao Sword Book and the Nine True Magnetic Light Sword to defeat a Golden Core Perfection golden-armored corpse. He returned to the Yuheng Branch, where Hu An congratulated him on the victory.

• Li Yunjing unleashed the Seven Slaughters sword forms against the golden-armored corpse, using magnetic light and Sword Intent to break through its armor and defenses.
• The corpse broke free from Li Yunjing's restraints and attacked, but he struck it with the fourth, fifth, and sixth forms until its armor split and its corpse core source was exposed.
• Li Yunjing used the final form, Slay Heaven, to destroy the corpse's Golden Core corpse core and reduce its body to a lifeless ruin.
• Li Yunjing reflected on his recent dangerous encounters and returned to the Yuheng Branch.
• Hu An greeted Li Yunjing and congratulated him on slaying another powerful foe for the Luozhen Sect.

Li Yunjing spared Mo Xun and invited the Yuheng Branch to cultivate at the Luozhen Lower Court, though Mo Xun declined to reunite the branch with the Luozhen Sect. Mo Xun returned the Luozhen Mystic Pagoda and revealed why Patriarch Yuheng had left; Li Yunjing then asked her to explain Corpse King Valley’s attack.

• Mo Xun asked Li Yunjing to spare the innocent Yuheng Branch disciples, and he said he would not punish her for being forced to act.
• Li Yunjing invited the Yuheng Branch to return to the Luozhen Sect, but Mo Xun refused and accepted his offer for the disciples to cultivate at the Luozhen Lower Court.
• Mo Xun showed Li Yunjing the Luozhen Mystic Pagoda and explained that Patriarch Yuheng had been forced to leave with it to preserve the sect’s traditions.
• Li Yunjing activated and refined the pagoda, discovering rare Nascent Soul-level treasures inside, and promised rewards to the Yuheng Branch for protecting it.
• Li Yunjing asked Mo Xun how Corpse King Valley had targeted the branch and what its cultivator had wanted.

Li Yunjing learned that Corpse King Valley and the Ancient Hidden Sect had planned to devour the Annan Kingdom, then returned to the Luozhen Sect with the Yuheng Branch’s treasures. He began removing the Supreme Cloud Geng Metal Qi from Nangong Ye, but a sudden force erupted within it and showed him a vision.

• Mo Xun told Li Yunjing that Corpse King Valley had held the Yuheng Branch captive and planned to drain its members’ Essence Blood, while the two Demonic Sects intended to devour the Annan Kingdom.
• Li Yunjing told Mo Xun that he had already wiped out the Ancient Hidden Sect, then asked Hu An to arrange care for the Yuheng Branch before returning to the Luozhen Sect.
• Li Yunjing gave Nangong Chengyu the pagoda containing the Luozhen Sect’s exclusive treasures and explained what had happened in the Annan Kingdom.
• Nangong Chengyu told Li Yunjing that the weakened Supreme Cloud Geng Metal Qi in Nangong Ye could now be removed, so Li Yunjing began the procedure.
• Li Yunjing’s Law Power tore apart the Supreme Cloud Geng Metal Qi, but a force erupted from within it and a scene appeared before him.

Li Yunjing removed the Supreme Cloud Geng Metal Qi from Nangong Ye despite a powerful cultivator’s warning, then planned Luozhen Sect’s land reclamation and asked Xiao Tianxing to monitor Corpse King Valley. The chapter ended with Mo Xuan, Shui Yao, Fang Tong, and Gu Lin all forming Golden Cores, strengthening Luozhen Sect.

• Li Yunjing recognized the man in the vision as the source of Nangong Ye’s Supreme Cloud Geng Metal Qi and decided he would not back down from saving his family.
• Nangong Chengyu confirmed that Nangong Ye’s Qi had stabilized, and Li Yunjing left without sharing the warning he had seen.
• Li Yunjing contacted Xiao Tianxing to obtain a land reclamation map and asked him to watch developments in Corpse King Valley.
• Mo Xuan and Shui Yao formed their Golden Cores, followed by Fang Tong and Gu Lin, giving Luozhen Sect four new Golden Core cultivators.
• Mo Xuan told Li Yunjing he had formed a Fifth-Grade Golden Core, and Shui Yao revealed that hers was Fourth-Grade.

Li Yunjing celebrated the sect’s new Golden Core cultivators, learned that Jiang Chuan had destroyed his Dantian, and arranged to seek a healing treasure. He then proposed using the Grotto-Heaven Divine Seal to establish a base for opening up the Great Wilderness, and the discussion continued with questions about the site’s dangers.

• Mo Xuan learned that Shui Yao had formed a fourth-grade Golden Core, while Fang Tong and Gu Lin thanked Li Yunjing for helping them reach the Golden Core Realm.
• Gu Lin told Li Yunjing that Jiang Chuan’s failed attempt at Foundation Establishment had destroyed his Dantian and left him unable to cultivate beyond the Qi Refining Fifth Layer.
• Li Yunjing decided to keep his knowledge from Jiang Chuan for the time being and asked Feiyao to find a treasure that could heal the damage.
• Li Yunjing met with the Spirit Transformation cultivators in Luozhen Hall and revealed that the Grotto-Heaven Divine Seal could open a grotto-heaven in the Great Wilderness.
• Li Yunjing proposed making the grotto-heaven the center of their efforts to open up the wilderness, and the gathered cultivators questioned the site’s location and dangers.

Li Yunjing arranged to explore a grotto-heaven in Azure Dragon Marsh and asked Xie Zheng to bring rare resources and the subdued crimson dragon from the Mysterious Female Dao Realm to Tianyuan. After Feiyao delivered the Immortal Alliance’s exploration materials, Li Yunjing examined the map and located Azure Dragon Marsh.

• Xie Zheng asked to bring the Seven Treasures Sect to Tianyuan, and Li Yunjing agreed after hearing that the Mysterious Female Dao Realm was largely peaceful and its teleportation arrays were being built.
• Li Yunjing asked Xie Zheng to bring unique resources from the Mysterious Female Dao Realm for the Luozhen Chamber of Commerce’s planned auction.
• Li Yunjing also ordered Xie Zheng to bring the crimson dragon to Tianyuan, and Xie Zheng reluctantly agreed despite fearing it.
• Feiyao delivered the exploration map, permit, report, and building-upgrade materials to Li Yunjing, who gave him Spirit Stones.
• Li Yunjing activated the map and found the grotto-heaven in Azure Dragon Marsh, where a powerful flood dragon with Azure Dragon bloodline lived.

Li Yunjing found that the Immortal Alliance’s intelligence on Corpse King Valley was unreliable, then inspected the Discipline Main Hall and learned why its members were reluctant to enforce the rules. The chapter left him facing the problem of disciples refusing to handle Zhang Hanpeng’s theft of spirit rice.

• Li Yunjing reviewed the intelligence on Corpse King Valley, noticed it omitted the plot against the Annan Kingdom and wrongly listed the dead Huang Jue as alive, and decided to seek information himself in Carefree Heaven.
• Li Yunjing inspected the Discipline Main Hall, approved of its imposing design, and discovered that upgrading it required at least ten law-enforcement disciples.
• Fang Tong told Li Yunjing that few disciples wanted to join the Discipline Hall because its work made enemies.
• Fang Tong explained that Zhang Hanpeng had secretly kept spirit rice and that other disciples had refused to expose him or handle the case.

Li Yunjing and Fang Tong investigated Zhang Hanpeng for secretly stashing spirit rice, but Zhang explained that he had grown it in unused Spirit Fields and shared half with three old friends. Fang Tong began an investigation and promised punishment if Zhang had violated sect rules, while Li Yunjing left to upgrade the Alchemy Chamber.

• Fang Tong told Li Yunjing that Zhang Hanpeng had secretly stashed spirit rice, and they went to question him in the Spirit Fields.
• Zhang Hanpeng admitted growing three hundred jin of green jade corn, eating half and giving the rest to three friends who were Rogue Cultivators.
• Zhang Hanpeng explained that he had planted the corn in unused Spirit Fields and had not taken the sect's rice.
• Fang Tong said he would investigate Zhang Hanpeng's account and punish him for using the Spirit Fields without permission if warranted.
• Li Yunjing explained that Fang Tong should handle Discipline Hall matters, then went to the Alchemy Chamber and upgraded it.