Chapter Summaries

Li Yunjing exposed flaws in the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion’s inheritance method and revealed that he came from the Tianyuan Dao Realm. After summoning Pavilion Master Gu Anchen, Li Yunjing demanded that the Chenwei Dao Realm submit to the Luozhen Sect and asked the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion to declare its position.

• Li Yunjing criticized the Heavenly Law Bell’s refining method as dangerously crude, prompting the old man to question his origins.
• The old man explained that the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion’s founding patriarch had traveled in spirit to the Tianyuan Dao Realm and died from damage to his Primordial Spirit.
• Li Yunjing followed the old man to the mobile palace A Thousand Li of Mortal Dust and revealed that he was the sect leader of the Luozhen Sect in Tianyuan.
• Li Yunjing released his Nascent Soul Cultivator pressure and ordered the old man to summon the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion’s master.
• Gu Anchen arrived, introduced himself as the Pavilion master, and asked Li Yunjing to prove his origins.
• Li Yunjing demanded that the Chenwei Dao Realm become the Luozhen Sect’s back garden and asked Gu Anchen to state the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion’s position.

Li Yunjing challenged Gu Anchen and overwhelmed the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion master with the Nine True Magnetic Light Sword and Seven Slaughters Sword Intent. The fight ended with Gu Anchen defeated and his Nascent Soul threatened by Li Yunjing’s sword.

• Gu Anchen rejected Li Yunjing’s demand and flew into the sky to fight him.
• Gu Anchen deployed the Profound Water Heavenly Net, the Crimson Flame Golden Flood Dragon Shears, and the Thick Earth Black-Yellow Shield.
• Li Yunjing used the Nine True Magnetic Light Sword to destroy the net and cripple or seize several of Gu Anchen’s other Law Treasures.
• Gu Anchen unleashed his Seven Baleful Intent Spirit-Extinguishing Beads and strengthened his shield, but Li Yunjing’s Seven Slaughters Sword Intent shattered both defenses.
• Li Yunjing pinned Gu Anchen with the sword’s killing intent, leaving him defeated and unable to move without risking his Nascent Soul.

Li Yunjing forced Gu Anchen to submit the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion to the Luozhen Sect and learned about its rivalry with the Tiger Jiao Kingdom. After hearing that the Tiger Jiao had taken an inherited treasure needed to train artifact refiners, Li Yunjing decided to go to the Tiger Jiao Kingdom with Gu Anchen.

• Li Yunjing nearly killed Gu Anchen with the Seven Slaughters Sword Intent, but Gu Anchen agreed to submit the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion to the Luozhen Sect.
• Gu Anchen explained that the Chenwei Dao Realm was dominated by the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion and the Tiger Jiao Kingdom, longtime rivals whose founders had fought repeatedly.
• Li Yunjing planned to secure the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion with a talisman contract and build a teleportation array to connect it to the Tianyuan Dao Realm.
• Gu Anchen revealed that the Tiger Jiao Kingdom had lured away most of the Pavilion's artifact refiners, leaving only eight, and had seized an inherited treasure.
• Li Yunjing decided to visit the Tiger Jiao Kingdom with Gu Anchen, who warned him that the Tiger Jiao was extremely vicious.

Li Yunjing postponed confronting the Tiger Jiao Kingdom after learning its strength was uncertain, then discussed forging the Extreme Crossing Boat with Gu Anchen. He returned to Tianyuan and discovered that time passed much faster in the Chenwei Dao Realm, leaving him wary of the resulting time sickness and considering whether his cheat could help.

• Gu Anchen warned Li Yunjing that the Tiger Jiao Kingdom had a powerful Tiger Jiao, an accompanying Law Treasure, and other Demon Beasts, and said the kingdom had thirteen known Nascent Soul-level combatants while the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion had nine.
• Li Yunjing agreed not to attack the Tiger Jiao Kingdom yet and showed Gu Anchen the Extreme Crossing Boat design, which required at least twenty fourth-grade artifact refiners.
• Gu Anchen said the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion could gain enough fourth-grade artifact refiners by recovering its inheritance treasure, but Li Yunjing decided to return to Tianyuan District and summon a Spirit Transformation-level cultivator.
• Li Yunjing disappeared before Gu Anchen and arrived at the Luozhen Island teleportation array, where a disciple told him one day had passed during his absence.
• Li Yunjing realized that less than half a shichen had passed in the Chenwei Dao Realm during that day and worried that frequent travel between realms could cause time sickness.
• Li Yunjing considered whether his cheat could help alleviate time sickness.

Li Yunjing learned that a Living Sacrifice Stele was causing deadly attacks on the Luozhen Sect and discovered that World-Cleansing Heavenly Water could remove its curse. He and Mo Xuan resolved to search for the rare treasure.

• Mo Xuan told Li Yunjing that vengeful spirits had attacked the Luozhen Sect and that a member of the Jin Household had died.
• Mo Xuan took Li Yunjing to a stele on an island that cursed anyone occupying Azure Jiao Marsh.
• The Five Spirits Lord identified it as a Living Sacrifice Stele whose curse was powered by the resentment of sacrificed beings.
• The Five Spirits Lord said World-Cleansing Heavenly Water could purge the stele's resentment, while killing the curse's creator was the other option.
• Li Yunjing explained the danger to Mo Xuan, who vowed to discuss finding World-Cleansing Heavenly Water with the others.

Li Yunjing learned that a Ritual of Refinement and Deliverance could weaken the Living Sacrifice Stele’s Curse, then traveled with Fire Dragon to the Chenwei Dao Realm. There, Gu Anchen told him about Si Wu’s defection and Tiger Jiao’s suspected ambitions, while Fire Dragon revealed himself as a living dragon.

• The Five Spirits Lord told Li Yunjing that a Ritual of Refinement and Deliverance could appease the stele’s resentful souls and weaken the Curse, though the World-Cleansing Heavenly Water was still needed to eradicate it.
• Li Yunjing tasked Nangong Chengyu and Fang Hexuan with arranging the ritual, then brought Fire Dragon with him to the Chenwei Dao Realm.
• Li Yunjing returned to the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion and learned from Gu Anchen that Si Wu had defected to the Tiger Jiao Kingdom after being promised better treatment.
• Gu Anchen told Li Yunjing that his informants suspected Tiger Jiao was planning to swallow the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion and rule the Chenwei Realm.
• Fire Dragon asked whether Tiger Jiao was the rare High Antiquity breed, shocking Gu Anchen and the disciple when they realized the dragon was alive.

Li Yunjing learned that the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion had lost its flying-ship forging technique to a traitor and hurried to the Tiger Jiao Kingdom with Gu Anchen and Fire Dragon. At the border, Little Tiger Jiao confronted them and announced that he would eat Fire Dragon.

• Gu Anchen identified the rare Tiger Jiao, and Fire Dragon vowed to kill it to avenge the dragons it had eaten.
• Gu Anchen explained that a traitor had destroyed the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion’s records for forging flying ships, warning Li Yunjing to guard against traitors in the Luozhen Sect.
• Li Yunjing abandoned the slow flying ship and had Fire Dragon carry him and Gu Anchen toward the Tiger Jiao Kingdom.
• At the kingdom’s border, Li Yunjing neutralized a gold-iron sand attack and learned that the Nascent Soul Late Stage Little Tiger Jiao was the Tiger Jiao’s son.
• Little Tiger Jiao challenged Fire Dragon, saying he wanted to taste a True Dragon.

Fire Dragon crushed Little Tiger Jiao and destroyed the eight Tiger Jiao Clan elders who came to rescue him. He left Little Tiger Jiao alive and challenged anyone else to come face him.

• Little Tiger Jiao attacked Fire Dragon, but Fire Dragon's Spirit Transformation pressure overwhelmed him and smashed him into the ground.
• Little Tiger Jiao used his natal Weak Water Jiao Lightning, but Fire Dragon burned it away and crushed his breastbone with Innate Li Fire.
• Eight Nascent Soul elders of the Tiger Jiao Clan arrived and attacked Fire Dragon to save Little Tiger Jiao.
• Fire Dragon killed the first three elders with a sweep of his tail, then destroyed the remaining five and their grand formation with a fireball.
• Fire Dragon pinned Little Tiger Jiao beneath his pressure and told anyone else who wanted to die to come all at once.

Fire Dragon killed Little Tiger Jiao, then effortlessly defeated and killed Old Tiger Jiao when he arrived seeking revenge. Father and son were both reduced to ashes, leaving Fire Dragon unchallenged.

• Fire Dragon killed Little Tiger Jiao as Old Tiger Jiao rushed toward him, burning his origin to tear through space.
• Old Tiger Jiao found his son's corpse and unleashed four lethal attacks against Fire Dragon, burning his bloodline origin and using the Tiger Jiao Clan's forbidden arts.
• Fire Dragon swept away Old Tiger Jiao's attacks with Innate Li Fire, destroying the weak water, Myriad Waters Mysterious Origin Pearl, lightning, and soul-killing incantation.
• Old Tiger Jiao realized Fire Dragon was not native to the Chenwei Dao Realm and had power beyond its limits.
• Fire Dragon crushed Old Tiger Jiao's Primordial Spirit and Demon Core, then burned both father and son to ash.

Li Yunjing and Gu Anchen arrived in the Tiger Jiao Kingdom’s capital after Fire Dragon defeated Tiger Jiao and his forces. Li Yunjing announced that Tiger Jiao was dead and that the Luozhen Sect would take over, leaving the capital’s humans and demons fearful and uncertain.

• Fire Dragon carried Li Yunjing and Gu Anchen safely to the capital, where its dragon might terrified the humans and demons.
• Gu Anchen confronted Fang Qiu, accusing him of stealing the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion’s supreme treasure and defecting to the Tiger Jiao Kingdom.
• Li Yunjing bound Fang Qiu with the Nine True Magnetic Light Sword and announced that Tiger Jiao was dead and the Luozhen Sect would take over the kingdom.
• When Fang Qiu called Li Yunjing a liar, Li Yunjing killed him with the sword.
• The capital’s residents panicked when Tiger Jiao did not appear, and Li Yunjing repeated his demand for the kingdom’s surrender.

Li Yunjing entered the Tiger Jiao Kingdom’s palace, where he found Si Wu looting the treasury and learned that Tiger Jiao was dead. After Gu Anchen killed the traitor, Li Yunjing explored the inner vault and discovered a purple pearl that transported him to a library and seemed to make written knowledge easy to understand.

• Li Yunjing entered the palace with Gu Anchen and found no demons related to Tiger Jiao there.
• Li Yunjing and Gu Anchen discovered Si Wu looting the treasury, and Gu Anchen revealed that Tiger Jiao was dead.
• Si Wu explained how he had taken Little Tiger Jiao’s treasures and opened the treasury, then begged Gu Anchen for forgiveness.
• Gu Anchen killed Si Wu and mourned him briefly before Li Yunjing gave the outer-vault treasures to the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion.
• Li Yunjing entered the inner vault and picked up a purple pearl, which transported him to a library where a passage’s meaning quickly became clear to him.

Li Yunjing discovered that the bead in the Chenwei Dao Realm treasury let him instantly understand artifact-refining texts, then found World-Cleansing Heavenly Water that could destroy the Curse stone stele. He returned the bead to Gu Anchen, left Fire Dragon to help secure the Tiger Jiao Kingdom, and departed for Tianyuan.

• Li Yunjing used the bead to master two artifact-refining books instantly and recognized it as the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion's supreme treasure.
• Li Yunjing searched the inner treasury and found World-Cleansing Heavenly Water, which could deal with the Curse stone stele in the Azure Jiao Marsh.
• Li Yunjing took the bead to Gu Anchen, who promised to train high-level artifact refiners for the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion.
• Gu Anchen admitted he could not guarantee control of the Tiger Jiao Kingdom, so Li Yunjing left Fire Dragon behind to help.
• Fire Dragon told Gu Anchen to call if danger arose, then departed to go for a stroll.

Li Yunjing returned to the Luozhen Sect and learned that the cursed stele had caused more deaths despite the Ritual of Refinement and Deliverance. He used the World-Cleansing Heavenly Water to destroy the stele’s resentment, but the discovery of a buried coffin left a new mystery.

• Li Yunjing returned from the Chenwei Dao Realm and learned that several Luozhen Sect members, including Wang Shanming, Gu Lin, and Shui Yao, had died and been revived through the Pool of Rebirth.
• Nangong Chengyu told Li Yunjing that the Ritual of Refinement and Deliverance had failed to stop the deaths and seemed to anger the cursed stele.
• Li Yunjing revealed that he had found the World-Cleansing Heavenly Water, then joined Nangong Chengyu to meet Fang Hexuan and the other Spirit Transformation cultivators at the stele.
• Li Yunjing released the World-Cleansing Heavenly Water, which shattered the stele and erased its resentment, then allowed the water to leave.
• Li Yunjing ordered the remaining piece of the stele removed, and the cultivators uncovered a coffin buried beneath it.

After the Living Sacrifice Stele was destroyed, Li Yunjing and the others discovered an Immortal Burial Coffin beneath it. Five Spirits Lord warned that moving or opening the coffin would expose a powerful Corpse Liberation Immortal and bring his curse upon Li Yunjing, so everyone agreed to leave it untouched.

• The group debated whether to open the strange, undecayed coffin buried beneath the Living Sacrifice Stele and looked to Li Yunjing for a decision.
• Five Spirits Lord identified the coffin as an Immortal Burial Coffin containing the false body of a Corpse Liberation Immortal.
• Five Spirits Lord explained that opening the coffin would ruin the immortal’s Corpse Liberation and could cause his resentment to torment Li Yunjing.
• Li Yunjing asked whether the coffin could be moved, and Five Spirits Lord warned that moving it would expose the immortal to the Heavenly Dao and invite a curse.
• Li Yunjing explained the coffin’s origins to the others, and they agreed not to move it.

Li Yunjing met Xiong Xiu, the Corpse Liberation Immortal whose Immortal Burial Coffin he had uncovered, and secured a promise of future help in exchange for protecting it. Xiong Xiu departed after asking Li Yunjing to guard the coffin, and the Five Spirits Lord revealed that Xiong Xiu had been probing Li Yunjing and might have killed them if he had discovered their presence.

• Li Yunjing had Jin Ruoxu's household guard the Immortal Burial Coffin, then returned to the Luozhen Sect to rest before heading to Black Wind Cliff.
• Xiong Xiu appeared in Li Yunjing's cave abode, restrained him, and explained that he had returned to Tianyuan after Li Yunjing exposed the coffin protecting his false death.
• Xiong Xiu offered Li Yunjing a reward for leaving the coffin intact, and Li Yunjing asked him to promise help three times.
• Xiong Xiu gave Li Yunjing a golden spirit talisman and asked him to keep the Immortal Burial Coffin safe in Azure Jiao Marsh.
• Xiong Xiu left through a rift in the void, and the Five Spirits Lord revealed that Xiong Xiu had been probing Li Yunjing and nearly discovered them.

Li Yunjing learned that Xiong Xiu’s talisman was safe and then upgraded the Luozhen Sect’s Spirit Field to lv8. He left the planted Origin Essence waiting for the field’s newly unlocked harvest effect to take hold.

• The Five Spirits Lord told Li Yunjing that Xiong Xiu’s talisman was harmless and that their agreement was bound by the force of an immortal’s words.
• Li Yunjing remembered Xiong Xiu drinking from his teapot, threw out the tea set, and decided to upgrade the sect’s buildings.
• Li Yunjing found that his cave abode could not be upgraded because he had not killed enough enemies using an obtained Divine Ability.
• Jin Xiaofeng asked Li Yunjing when the planted Origin Essence would grow, reminding him that the Spirit Field’s harvest effect had not been active at lv7.
• Li Yunjing used five taels of five-colored soil of creation to upgrade the Spirit Field to lv8, unlocking its expanded crop planting range and additional harvest effects.

Li Yunjing considered the rare Nine Heavens Living Soil needed to upgrade the Spirit Field, then upgraded the Poultry Coop to Lv10 using treasures found in the Grand Profound Grotto-Heaven. He saw that the next upgrade required even rarer materials and live fowl with Five Sacred Birds bloodlines.

• Li Yunjing read the Spirit Field’s Lv9 effects and learned that its next upgrade required Nine Heavens Living Soil and more experienced spirit farmers.
• Li Yunjing told Jin Xiaofeng to wait for the Origin Essence to grow, then left the Spirit Field.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Poultry Coop to Lv10 with treasures he had found in the Grand Profound Grotto-Heaven.
• Li Yunjing read the Poultry Coop’s new effects, including the Human-Faced Owl’s ability to detect nearby threats.
• Li Yunjing concluded that the next upgrade would be difficult because Blazing Sun Jade Marrow was rare and live fowl with Five Sacred Birds bloodlines were hard to obtain.

Li Yunjing collected the Patriarch Hall’s incense offerings and considered how to meet its upgrade conditions, including finding a third-grade literary cultivator. He upgraded the cultivation room to lv9, then returned to the Patriarch Hall to spend his remaining incense offerings on a draw.

• Li Yunjing paid respects at the Patriarch Hall, collected 6,758 wisps of incense offerings, and saw that upgrading the hall required five Patriarch’s Divine Manifestations and a third-grade literary cultivator.
• Li Yunjing decided to issue a task to find a sect disciple willing to become a literary cultivator.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the cultivation room from lv8 to lv9 after confirming its conditions were met.
• Li Yunjing noted that the lv10 cultivation room could sometimes raise a cultivator’s cultivation by one minor realm, a benefit especially valuable to high-realm cultivators such as Fang Hexuan.
• Li Yunjing saw that more than six thousand incense offerings remained and returned to the Patriarch Hall to draw prizes.

Li Yunjing drew a Flat Peach Tree Spirit Seed, a sect output attribute, and the spirit tablet of Nine Spirits Holy Venerable, then upgraded the Hall of Sages and summoned the venerable’s departed soul. The summoned man appeared alive and asked whether he had entered reincarnation.

• Li Yunjing spent a thousand wisps of incense offerings and drew a Flat Peach Tree Spirit Seed that could become an Acquired Spirit Root with Chaos Spirit Breath.
• Li Yunjing drew the Foundation for the Ages attribute, which doubled the Luozhen Sect’s output.
• Li Yunjing drew the Spirit Tablet of Nine Spirits Holy Venerable and learned that it could be placed in the Hall of Sages.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Hall of Sages to Lv3 and placed Nine Spirits Holy Venerable’s tablet on the Sages’ Altar.
• Li Yunjing summoned Nine Spirits Holy Venerable without spending reputation, and the man appeared as a departed soul who could remain for a long time.

Li Yunjing welcomed the summoned soul of the Nine Spirits Holy Venerable and learned that he could help the Luozhen Sect by teaching and studying cultivation methods. After showing him the modern sect and its Scripture Repository, Li Yunjing left to upgrade the mountain gate.

• Li Yunjing explained to the bewildered Nine Spirits Holy Venerable that he had died and been summoned to help the Luozhen Sect.
• Li Yunjing checked the panel and found that the Holy Venerable could teach Dao, provide cultivation methods, and double sect members’ cultivation-method proficiency gains.
• Li Yunjing showed the Holy Venerable the Grand Profound Grotto-Heaven, and the two discussed how much cultivation and society had advanced since his era.
• The Holy Venerable read the first-grade Evergreen Instruction and reflected that better methods could have saved many lives in his time.
• Li Yunjing suggested that the Holy Venerable remain in the Scripture Repository to study history and improve the sect’s cultivation methods, and then left to upgrade the mountain gate.