Chapter Summaries

Li Yunjing upgraded the mountain gate and completed the Luozhen Island Full-Territory Guardian Grand Formation, then prepared the Luozhen Sect for its attack on Black Wind Cliff. As preparations neared completion, someone arrived to ask when they would set out.

• Li Yunjing upgraded the mountain gate to lv8 and discovered that lv9 would unlock a formation protecting all of Luozhen Island.
• Li Yunjing laid the required defensive formation foundations across the island and upgraded the mountain gate to lv9, creating a barrier that could withstand Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivators.
• Li Yunjing considered protecting all of Azure Jiao Marsh, then returned to the Grand Profound Grotto-Heaven to prepare for the next day's attack on Black Wind Cliff.
• The Luozhen Sect readied both Extreme Crossing Boats, which Li Yunjing planned to rely on because the sect had too few powerful cultivators.
• A streak of rainbow light landed before Li Yunjing, and the arriving person asked when they would set out.

Li Yunjing led a force aboard two Extreme Crossing Boats to attack Black Wind Cliff, where they found mindless Demon Beasts and began a fierce assault. As countless beasts kept emerging, Fang Hexuan discovered his Divine Sense could not penetrate the cliffs, leaving the expedition facing an unknown threat.

• Li Yunjing discussed recruiting disciples from the Mysterious Female Dao Realm and Chenwei Dao Realm with Nangong Chengyu, then asked Xie Zheng and the others to help with recruitment.
• Li Yunjing ordered an immediate attack on Black Wind Cliff, and the two Extreme Crossing Boats blasted a gap in the cliffs with their Profound Thunder Cannons.
• Li Yunjing recognized that the charging Demon Beasts had lost their minds and ordered the boats to unleash full firepower while the cultivators protected their energy shields.
• The Extreme Crossing Boats killed many Demon Beasts, but more kept emerging, and Li Yunjing grew concerned about the boats' dwindling power sources and the absence of stronger foes.
• Fang Hexuan told Li Yunjing that his Divine Sense could not penetrate Black Wind Cliff and that he could not tell whether danger was present or his senses had been dulled.

Li Yunjing and Fang Hexuan attacked Black Wind Cliff, but a blood-colored barrier tied to the Northern Dark Earth Vein suppressed their abilities and empowered the Demon Beasts. Li Yunjing used the Northern Dark Vein-Suppressing Seal to briefly collapse the barrier, allowing them to retreat, but Mo Xuan reported that most of the Extreme Crossing Boat’s arrays had been disabled.

• A great bear emerged from beneath Black Wind Cliff, sacrificed its Essence Blood, and triggered a blood-colored barrier that disrupted the Extreme Crossing Boat and revived injured Demon Beasts.
• Fang Hexuan discovered that the barrier had severed his connection to the Principles of heaven and earth, and his attempt to break it injured him.
• The bear and eight Spirit Concentration Realm Demon Beasts attacked as the barrier’s fog weakened Fang Hexuan and damaged the two Extreme Crossing Boats.
• Li Yunjing brought out the Northern Dark Vein-Suppressing Seal, and the barrier collapsed temporarily, letting Fang Hexuan and the boats escape before it re-formed.
• Mo Xuan told Li Yunjing that almost all the arrays on the Extreme Crossing Boat had been blocked and could no longer be used.

After their assault on Black Wind Cliff failed, Li Yunjing returned to Luozhen Sect with both Extreme Crossing Boats destroyed and learned that the Northern Dark True Spirit needed his help reclaiming its earth-vein nodes. He left the seal to recover in the Grand Profound Grotto-Heaven and traveled to the Chenwei Dao Realm.

• Li Yunjing and the others escaped the failing Extreme Crossing Boats, which crashed and were later carried back to Luozhen Island, ruined beyond the sect's ability to repair.
• Li Yunjing told Nangong Chengyu that he would return to Black Wind Cliff after resting and rebuilding their strength.
• Li Yunjing infused the Northern Dark Vein-Suppressing Seal with Law Power, awakening the Northern Dark True Spirit within it.
• The Northern Dark True Spirit asked Li Yunjing to help reclaim its earth-vein nodes, and Li Yunjing agreed, though he postponed another attack on Black Wind Cliff.
• Li Yunjing placed the seal in a Spirit Gathering Formation in the Grand Profound Grotto-Heaven, then teleported to the Chenwei Dao Realm.

Li Yunjing returned to the Chenwei Dao Realm and ordered the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion to forge the Extreme Crossing Boat in one month. He planned to move the work to Tianyuan and sought a formation expert to build a teleportation formation, but the elders warned him against approaching Zeng Yishui.

• Li Yunjing arrived at the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion while Gu Anchen was meeting with its elders and supreme elders.
• Li Yunjing showed the Extreme Crossing Boat blueprints to the artifact refiners and demanded that they finish the ship within one month.
• Meng Chang promised to forge the ship in one month if Li Yunjing supplied thirty artifact refiners, including ten fourth-grade refiners.
• Li Yunjing agreed to recruit refiners from the Tiger Jiao Kingdom and take the team to Tianyuan to build the ship.
• Meng Chang recommended the formation cultivator Zeng Yishui, but the other elders objected and warned Li Yunjing that Zeng Yishui had a strange temper.

Li Yunjing traveled to Sword Valley to recruit Zeng Yishui to build a teleportation formation, but Zeng attacked him after he forced his way inside. The chapter ended as Zeng formed a powerful formation against Li Yunjing and Gu Anchen.

• Gu Anchen told Li Yunjing that Zeng Yishui was a reclusive Nascent Soul Late Stage formation master living in Sword Valley.
• Li Yunjing decided to seek Zeng Yishui's help and summoned Fire Dragon to carry him and Gu Anchen there.
• Gu Anchen explained that Sword Valley had once produced treasured swords, but its power had faded as sword cultivators dwindled.
• Li Yunjing called out to Zeng Yishui at the valley entrance, but after receiving no response, he told Fire Dragon to destroy the protective formation.
• Zeng Yishui appeared and attacked Li Yunjing and Gu Anchen, forming a powerful formation out of thin air.

Li Yunjing defeated Zeng Yishui by dismantling both of the formation master’s formations with the Nine True Magnetic Light Sword. After Zeng Yishui admitted defeat, Li Yunjing spared him and offered him a healing spirit pill, which Zeng Yishui swallowed despite his suspicions.

• Zeng Yishui trapped Li Yunjing in the Six Directions Heaven-Locking Formation, but Li Yunjing broke it with a single swing of his sword.
• Zeng Yishui summoned his treasures and burned his Essence Blood to unleash the Four Symbols Suppress Hell Sever Spirit Formation.
• Li Yunjing struck the formation’s nine core eyes, shattered its treasures, and collapsed the formation with the Nine True Magnetic Light Sword.
• The formation’s backlash injured Zeng Yishui, and Li Yunjing’s magnetic light locked him down until he could no longer resist.
• Zeng Yishui admitted defeat, but Li Yunjing said he had not come to kill him and gave him a healing spirit pill.
• Zeng Yishui doubted the pill was safe, then swallowed it anyway.

Li Yunjing persuaded Zeng Yishui to help build a large fourth-grade teleportation formation at the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion by proving he came from the Tianyuan Dao Realm and offering access to its advanced Formation Dao. Zeng Yishui agreed, provided Li Yunjing kept his promise and let him study it.

• Zeng Yishui refined Li Yunjing's spirit pill and recovered from their fight.
• Li Yunjing asked Zeng Yishui to build a large fourth-grade teleportation formation at the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion, but Zeng Yishui refused because he had unfinished business in Sword Valley.
• Li Yunjing offered to help Zeng Yishui reach higher realms and study the Tianyuan Dao Realm's Formation Dao.
• Li Yunjing demonstrated the unfamiliar second-grade Light-Concentrating Formation, convincing Zeng Yishui that he came from another Dao Realm.
• Zeng Yishui agreed to build the formation if Li Yunjing let him study the Tianyuan Dao Realm's advanced formations.

Li Yunjing discovered that the Sword Furnace had awakened a Sword Devil made from the resentment of broken swords, and he faced its assault with the Nine True Magnetic Light Sword. He offered the Sword Devil and its countless sword spirits a chance to enter his sword and be reborn, leaving their response unknown.

• Zeng Yishui explained that a damaged array had stopped the Sword Furnace from nurturing fine swords and led Li Yunjing and the others to it.
• The Nine True Magnetic Light Sword reacted violently to the Sword Furnace, and its appearance shattered the barrier and awakened the furnace.
• A Sword Devil emerged, made the others disappear, and attacked Li Yunjing with broken swords and resentful sword intent.
• Li Yunjing defended his sea of consciousness and used his sword intent to calm the Sword Devil's resentment rather than destroy it.
• Li Yunjing offered the sword spirits a home and a chance to be reborn inside the Nine True Magnetic Light Sword.

Li Yunjing cleansed the Sword Devil of its resentment and gained a rare sword spirit for the Nine True Magnetic Light Sword. After discovering a sword art in the ruined furnace, he also learned of a Sword Mother Crystal Embryo that could let swords and sword cultivators be reborn and advance without limit.

• Li Yunjing overcame the Sword Devil's resentment, and the purified sword spirit merged with the Nine True Magnetic Light Sword.
• Fire Dragon, Zeng Yishui, and Gu Anchen reappeared, and Zeng Yishui found that the sword furnace had lost all its spirituality.
• The sword spirit revealed a hidden Jade Slip containing the Purple Thunder Divine Firmament Sword Instruction, which Li Yunjing gave to Gu Anchen to copy for the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion.
• The sword spirit uncovered a Sword Mother Crystal Embryo, and Zeng Yishui identified it as a supreme treasure capable of letting swords and sword cultivators shed their old selves and advance without limit.

Li Yunjing learned the Sword Mother Crystal Embryo’s power and chose to keep it for a suitable person rather than use it himself. Back at the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion, he arranged for Zeng Yishui to build a large-scale teleportation array and heard Meng Chang’s claim that he had fully understood the Extreme Crossing Boat design.

• Zeng Yishui explained that the Sword Mother Crystal Embryo could make its user a supreme sword-path genius, but Li Yunjing stored it away rather than swallow it.
• Li Yunjing returned to the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion with Zeng Yishui and chose an abandoned site for a large-scale teleportation array.
• Zeng Yishui said the array would take ten days to build, then agreed that Li Yunjing’s help could reduce the work to three days or possibly one.
• Meng Chang arrived and claimed he had completely comprehended the Extreme Crossing Boat design and found redundant parts that could be removed to save resources.
• Li Yunjing told Meng Chang to list the problems and discuss them with the others, then stopped him because he had something to discuss.

Li Yunjing returned to Tianyuan and upgraded the Luozhen Sect's Alchemy Chamber after Ding Qifeng asked for help reaching another state of enlightenment. The upgrade revealed that the next level could grant alchemy enlightenment, but its demanding conditions left Li Yunjing with a problem to solve.

• Li Yunjing instructed Meng Chang to customize the Extreme Crossing Boat for the Luozhen Sect, then returned from the Chenwei Dao Realm to Tianyuan.
• Li Yunjing found the Luozhen Sect peaceful, though its members remained eager to recover their pride after the setback at Black Wind Cliff.
• Ding Qifeng told Li Yunjing that a previous state of enlightenment had nearly made him a fourth-grade Alchemist, and asked him to seek the patriarch's help.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Alchemy Chamber from lv8 to lv9 after confirming its requirements were met.
• Li Yunjing saw that lv10 would offer a chance to trigger Dao of Alchemy Enlightenment, but its upgrade conditions gave him a headache.

Li Yunjing upgraded the Alchemy Chamber to lv10 after discovering its requirements had already been met, then upgraded the Scripture Repository to lv10. Nine Spirits Holy Venerable sensed the Repository had changed, but Li Yunjing denied knowing anything and left him wondering why.

• Li Yunjing discovered that Alchemy Ancestor Possession had triggered thirty-nine times, satisfying the Alchemy Chamber's upgrade condition, and upgraded it to lv10.
• Li Yunjing told Ding Qifeng that the founding ancestor had agreed to help him pursue enlightenment, while warning him not to force a fortuitous encounter.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Scripture Repository to lv10 after confirming its prosperity requirement had long been met.
• Nine Spirits Holy Venerable sensed the Scripture Repository had changed and questioned Li Yunjing, who denied noticing anything and asked him about the books he had read.
• Li Yunjing assured Nine Spirits Holy Venerable that he would someday be able to see the world outside, then hurried away; Nine Spirits Holy Venerable realized Li Yunjing had lied.

Li Yunjing upgraded the medicine garden and training ground in the Grand Profound Grotto-Heaven, discovering powerful new spiritual effects available at their next levels. He then visited the artifact refinement room, where Gu Lin and the Luozhen Sect’s artifact refiners were working.

• Li Yunjing upgraded the medicine garden to lv8 and learned that lv9 could let mature spirit medicines carry Dao Rhyme Spiritual Light, but the garden still lacked the required Medicine Spirits and Spirit Medicine Embryo harvests.
• Li Yunjing looked for Nangong Ye in the medicine garden but found she was absent, so he left.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the training ground to lv8 and saw that lv9 could let sparring disciples share their Law Technique proficiency through Battle Technique Resonance.
• Li Yunjing encouraged the disciples training there and went to the artifact refinement room.
• Li Yunjing found Gu Lin managing the room, where artifact refiners and talented disciples from the Hundred Artifacts Pavilion were refining Law Artifacts in Azure Jiao Marsh.

Li Yunjing arranged for Gu Lin and talented disciples to observe the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion forging an Extreme Crossing Boat in the Chenwei Dao Realm, then upgraded several Luozhen Sect facilities. The talisman room could not be upgraded further without a third-grade talisman master, while the upgraded Oath Hall revealed new effects and requirements for its next level.

• Li Yunjing asked Gu Lin about the sect’s artifact refiners and invited him to bring talented disciples to observe the Extreme Crossing Boat forging in the Chenwei Dao Realm.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the artifact refinement room to level six and saw that level seven required ten successful exclusive-entry inscriptions and a third-grade artifact refiner.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the talisman room to level six, but found its next upgrade required a third-grade talisman master the sect did not have.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Oath Hall to level five after confirming the sect met its requirements.
• Li Yunjing read that the next Oath Hall level would add a chance for Oath Resonance and require five passed Heart-Testing Trials and a fourth-grade sect.

Li Yunjing upgraded several Luozhen Sect buildings, then spent nearly half a year cultivating and developing the Azure Jiao Marsh while waiting for news from the Chenwei Dao Realm. The Extreme Crossing Boats were nearly finished, and the marsh’s new market had become popular.

• Li Yunjing reviewed the upgrades for the Spirit Cuisine Pavilion, Beast Taming Grounds, Welcoming Immortal Pavilion, Treasure Storage Pavilion, and Main Hall of Discipline.
• Li Yunjing returned to his cave abode and cultivated while awaiting news from the Chenwei Dao Realm.
• Nearly half a year passed in the Tianyuan Dao Realm as the Extreme Crossing Boats were forged steadily in the Chenwei Dao Realm.
• Li Yunjing opened the resource-rich Azure Jiao Marsh to outside merchants because transporting goods elsewhere was costly and slow.
• The Immortal Alliance and the Luozhen Sect established a popular market in the marsh, aided by Shen Chun's successful management of the Luozhen Chamber of Commerce.

Li Yunjing finally comprehended the Void-Hiding Spirit Divine Ability after an auspicious bell broke through his cultivation impasse. He integrated the ability into his Dao foundation and demonstrated his mastery by parting space and moving through the chamber without a trace.

• Li Yunjing exhausted his divine-soul power while repeatedly failing to comprehend the Void-Hiding Spirit runes, and his Dao heart began to waver.
• An auspicious light descended into Li Yunjing's sea of consciousness, and a clear bell joined the scattered runes and revealed that he needed to unite with the void rather than control it.
• Li Yunjing's divine soul and meridians recovered and strengthened as he comprehended the spatial laws and formed the complete Void-Hiding Spirit Law Seal.
• Li Yunjing absorbed the Law Seal into his fingertip, engraving the Void-Hiding Spirit into his Dao foundation, body, and divine soul.
• Li Yunjing silently parted the void and moved throughout the chamber as a streak of silver light before returning to his meditation cushion.

Li Yunjing inspected the two newly completed Black Crane Airships at the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion and examined their weapons, arrays, and cabins. He praised Gu Anchen, Meng Chang, and the artifact refiners for their work.

• Li Yunjing learned that nearly a month had passed in seclusion and traveled to the Chenwei Dao Realm to check on the airship’s progress.
• Li Yunjing arrived at the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion as two colossal airships were completed in a surge of spiritual light.
• Li Yunjing used Void-Hiding Spirit to enter one airship and inspected its arrays, Spirit-Breaking Cannon, energy-core slots, and other features.
• The elderly artifact refiner celebrated completing the fourth-grade flying boat, and Gu Anchen, Meng Chang, and the other refiners joined him on the deck.
• Li Yunjing finished inspecting the airship and told the artifact refiners, “You’ve done well.”

Li Yunjing inspected the newly forged ships, named them the Mystic Crane Flying Cloud Boats, and considered how to transport them back to the Luozhen Sect. At the celebration, Meng Chang revealed that building the ships had helped him become an artifact-refining master.

• Li Yunjing praised Gu Anchen and the artifact refiners for completing the two ships, while deciding privately to reward them with opportunities to study Tianyuan's techniques or settle there.
• Gu Anchen explained that the ships were designed for extreme speed and killing power, and Li Yunjing named them the Mystic Crane Flying Cloud Boats.
• At the celebratory banquet, Li Yunjing considered using a large storage Law Treasure from the Taixuan Sect's legacy to transport the ships back to the Luozhen Sect.
• Meng Chang toasted Li Yunjing and revealed that forging the two ships had helped him comprehend a profound mystery and become an artifact-refining master.

Li Yunjing secured a storage gourd to transport two Mystic Crane Flying Cloud Boats and ordered Meng Chang and Gu Anchen to forge a fleet. After returning from Chenwei to Tianyuan, he suffered the Strange Time Illness, but his withered right arm recovered and seemed stronger than before.

• Li Yunjing chose the storage gourd from the Taixuan Sect's Law Treasures and used it to store two Mystic Crane Flying Cloud Boats.
• Li Yunjing told Meng Chang to lead the forging of more Mystic Crane Flying Cloud Boats and assigned Gu Anchen to oversee the process.
• Li Yunjing explained that a fleet of flying cloud boats would help the Luozhen Sect expand its territory and retake Black Wind Cliff.
• After returning from Chenwei to Tianyuan, Li Yunjing became dizzy as his right arm rapidly withered and lost its strength.
• Li Yunjing considered cutting off his arm, but it suddenly recovered and seemed stronger than his left arm.