Chapter Summaries

Li Yunjing drove off the Half-Spirit Valley cultivators and invited Chu Chenzhou to join the Luozhen Sect as its Spirit Vein Master. Chu Chenzhou revealed that Heavenly Ark Fort had destroyed his family to seize a fourth-grade Spirit Vein Crystal Marrow, and he agreed to join the sect after Li Yunjing promised it would protect him; they returned to the Luozhen Sect to celebrate.

• Li Yunjing and Mo Xuan arrived, and Li Yunjing gave the Half-Spirit Valley cultivators three breaths to leave.
• Li Yunjing asked Chu Chenzhou about the Chu Household's Spirit Vein Master inheritance and invited him to join the Luozhen Sect.
• Chu Chenzhou admitted he was the last Chu patriarch's son and revealed that Heavenly Ark Fort had destroyed his family to seize the Spirit Vein Crystal Marrow he carried.
• Chu Chenzhou agreed to join the Luozhen Sect after Li Yunjing pledged to protect him as long as he remained loyal.
• Li Yunjing, Mo Xuan, and Chu Chenzhou returned to the Luozhen Sect, where Li Yunjing took Chu Chenzhou to the Spirit Cuisine Pavilion.

Li Yunjing prepared for the Immortal-Seeking Assembly after reaching Core Formation, while considering how to strengthen himself and the Luozhen Sect. As the assembly was about to begin, he learned the Kui Tribe’s shaman could not keep up with the sect’s demand for spirit wine and proposed buying the recipe.

• Li Yunjing postponed his Golden Core Banquet until after the Immortal-Seeking Assembly and planned to hold it in three months.
• Li Yunjing assessed his newly cultivated Supreme Unity True Body and learned it could imitate a Sword Spirit Body, allowing him to meet the requirements of the Seven Slaughters Heaven-Slaying Dao Sword Book.
• Li Yunjing led Mo Xuan, Shui Yao, Gu Xuan, Lü Hong, Wang Shanming, and other disciples to Xunxian Town for the Immortal-Seeking Assembly.
• At the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion, Liu Yiyi told Li Yunjing that the Kui Tribe’s shaman wanted to discuss supplying more spirit wine, since the tribe had sold out its stock and further wine would take years to brew.
• Li Yunjing instructed Liu Yiyi to ask whether the Kui Tribe’s shaman would sell the Luozhen Sect his spirit wine recipe.

At the Immortal-Seeking Assembly, Li Yunjing learned that a disciple had been found drained of Essence Blood at the Fireglow Iron mine and agreed to investigate with an array. He then left the assembly to meet the ailing Bai Luo, who revealed that his urgent matter concerned an eight-hundred-year-old spirit medicine and a Medicine Essence.

• Li Yunjing met True Person Liu, who reported that an Early Qi Refining disciple had died in the Fireglow Iron mine with all his Essence Blood drained.
• Li Yunjing agreed to set up Passing Goose Leaves Traces to uncover what had happened at the mine.
• Li Yunjing met Lu Rongxing, a talented newcomer who had come to join the Luozhen Sect.
• Shen Chun brought Li Yunjing to meet the Medicine King Gang's leader, Bai Luo, at the Luozhen Treasure Pavilion.
• Bai Luo told Li Yunjing that his urgent matter concerned an eight-hundred-year-old spirit medicine and a Medicine Essence.

Li Yunjing accepted the Medicine King Gang’s inheritance and agreed to let the gang exist as an affiliate of the Luozhen Sect if it met the sect’s requirements. Bai Luo revealed that Hundred Miasma Mountain held both an eight-hundred-year-old spirit medicine and a Manggu Vermilion Toad Medicine Essence, leaving Li Yunjing with a map to the herb and plans to pursue it while avoiding the dangerous toad.

• Bai Luo asked Li Yunjing to preserve or rebuild the Medicine King Gang, and Li Yunjing agreed to make it an affiliate of the Luozhen Sect subject to its requirements.
• A mature woman presented Li Yunjing with the Medicine King Gang’s inheritance, which included a Jade Slip, a medicine cauldron, and a treasure box.
• Bai Luo revealed that Hundred Miasma Mountain contained an eight-hundred-year-old spirit medicine and gave Li Yunjing a map marking its location at Soul-Seizing Cliff.
• Bai Luo explained that a Manggu Vermilion Toad had created the mountain’s poisonous miasma and that the Medicine King Gang’s past attempt to capture it had ended in many deaths.
• Li Yunjing recognized the toad’s value and the poison-person abilities its Medicine Essence could grant, but decided not to refine it because its toxins would endanger people around him.
• Li Yunjing resolved to leave the Manggu Vermilion Toad on the mountain for now and pursue the spirit medicine instead.

Li Yunjing learned that the Yi Wood Green Vine could enable him to use the Dragon-Binding Cord, then went to Soul-Seizing Cliff to retrieve it. When he found the vine missing, he discovered a poisoned Golden Core cultivator who identified himself as Jin Xiaofeng of the Wangtian Jin Household and begged for help.

• Li Yunjing learned that the Yi Wood Green Vine was a required spiritual object for refining the Dragon-Binding Cord, which could strengthen his combat abilities.
• Li Yunjing examined the Medicine King Gang’s inheritance, including its pill cauldron and half of a map to the destroyed Medicine King Valley.
• Li Yunjing traveled through Hundred Miasma Mountain’s poisonous miasma to Soul-Seizing Cliff, but could not find the Yi Wood Green Vine despite searching carefully.
• A poisoned man called to Li Yunjing from the bottom of the cliff and asked him to find an antidote pill.
• The man told Li Yunjing that his name was Jin Xiaofeng and that he belonged to the Wangtian Jin Household.

Li Yunjing rescued Jin Xiaofeng from Soul-Seizing Cliff with the Supreme Unity Incantation and received the Yi Wood Green Vine in return. Jin Xiaofeng told him about the Supreme Unity Dao Transmission Assembly, leaving Li Yunjing intent on attending in three years as he examined a sealed box Jin had given him.

• Li Yunjing used the Supreme Unity Incantation to dispel the poisonous miasma and help Jin Xiaofeng recover from Soul-Seizing Cliff.
• Jin Xiaofeng revealed that the Supreme Unity Incantation came from the Supreme Unity Pure Subtlety Scripture and gave Li Yunjing the Yi Wood Green Vine.
• Jin Xiaofeng told Li Yunjing about the Supreme Unity Dao Transmission Assembly, where cultivators could earn powerful techniques or the complete Supreme Unity Pure Subtlety Scripture.
• Li Yunjing connected the Mist-Hidden Sect to some of his Dao arts and decided to try his luck at the assembly in three years.
• Jin Xiaofeng invited Li Yunjing to visit the Jin Household, gave him a sealed box, and left using Golden Light Escape.
• Li Yunjing recognized Golden Light Escape as the Jin Household's Secret Method and reached for the box's sealing talisman.

Li Yunjing discovered a top-grade third-rank Dao Rhyme Pill and decided Ding Qifeng should use it to attempt Core Formation. After the Luozhen Sect recruited three gifted disciples, Li Yunjing was summoned to a meeting where Wang Qianxue announced that the Fortuitous Fate Secret Realm would open next month.

• Li Yunjing identified the sealed pill as a top-grade Dao Rhyme Pill and chose Ding Qifeng as its likely recipient.
• Mo Xuan told Li Yunjing that the Luozhen Sect had recruited three geniuses, including one with a sixth-rank root bone and another with exceptional comprehension.
• Li Yunjing sent Mo Xuan and the other sect members back to Serene Valley with the twenty-five new disciples aboard flying cranes.
• Wang Qianxue summoned Li Yunjing to the Immortal Alliance meeting hall, where Xiao Tianxing invited him to sit among the elders.
• Wang Qianxue announced that the Fortuitous Fate Secret Realm would open at the beginning of next month, exciting the gathered cultivators.

Li Yunjing learned that the Fortuitous Fate Secret Realm would open near Xunxian Town and received access to Carefree Heaven, where the Immortal Alliance kept treasures. He returned to the Luozhen Sect to arrange for disciples to enter the secret realm and gave Ding Qifeng a Dao Rhyme Pill that could help him reach Core Formation.

• Wang Qianxue announced that the Fortuitous Fate Secret Realm would open near Xunxian Town and urged the cultivators to prepare Qi Refining disciples to enter.
• Xiao Tianxing raised Li Yunjing's Immortal Alliance access level and told him to choose Dao arts and other useful resources.
• Li Yunjing entered Carefree Heaven through his Immortal Alliance Token, learned he could return freely, and received three days to choose treasures in the Immortal Alliance's territory there.
• Li Yunjing returned to the Luozhen Sect and told Mo Xuan to select suitable disciples for the Fortuitous Fate Secret Realm.
• Li Yunjing gave Ding Qifeng a Dao Rhyme Pill and encouraged him to use it to pursue Core Formation and become the sect's third-grade Alchemist.

Li Yunjing returned to Carefree Heaven, found the Immortal Alliance, and learned that its leaders already knew of his exceptional potential. Ye Yun escorted him to the treasure vault, where Li Yunjing began choosing Daoist methods for the Luozhen Sect.

• Li Yunjing entered Carefree Heaven with his Netherworld Serpents standing guard and declined Rogue Person Baixiao's paid information service because he had no Origin Essence.
• Rogue Person Baixiao gave Li Yunjing directions to the Immortal Alliance and explained that Carefree Heaven residents used titles rather than personal names.
• Li Yunjing presented his Immortal Alliance Token and met deacon Ye Yun, who said the alliance knew of his exceptional Root Bone, Foundation Establishment, and Golden Core.
• Ye Yun explained that the Immortal Alliance used Carefree Heaven as a transfer station and took Li Yunjing to its treasure vault, where he could select rewards for delivery to the Luozhen Sect.
• Li Yunjing decided to choose water-, wood-, and earth-attribute Daoist methods to complete the sect's five-element core methods, along with a chaos-attribute method.

Li Yunjing chose four seventh-grade Dao arts and numerous Pill Formulas from the Immortal Alliance treasury, then received three hundred pieces of low-grade Origin Essence. As he prepared to leave Carefree Heaven, he learned that bandit cultivators had issued a Hero Token targeting him.

• Li Yunjing selected four seventh-grade Dao arts and chose five third-grade Pill Formulas along with several lower-grade formulas for the Luozhen Sect.
• After spending two hours in the treasury, Li Yunjing gave Ye Yun his selections, which Ye Yun promised to deliver to the Luozhen Sect within three days.
• Ye Yun gave Li Yunjing three hundred pieces of low-grade Origin Essence, and Li Yunjing later rewarded Rogue Person Baixiao with two pieces for showing him around.
• Rogue Person Baixiao explained that a Hero Token marked someone for a coordinated attack by bandit cultivators operating secretly in Carefree Heaven.
• As Li Yunjing was about to leave, he heard the Hero Token holder name him as the target.

Li Yunjing learned that Mountain-Subduing True Person had hired bandit cultivators to target him, then discovered that the name belonged to Wu Lingwei of the Clear Wind Sect. He suspected Wu Lingwei wanted revenge over his son.

• Li Yunjing heard that eleven Golden Core bandit cultivators, including one at Golden Core Perfection, planned to act next month against the target of a Hero Token.
• Rogue Person Baixiao identified Mountain-Subduing True Person as the person who issued the Hero Token, and Li Yunjing paid him for the information.
• Li Yunjing returned to his body and went to Xunxian Town to ask Sikong Ying about Mountain-Subduing True Person.
• Sikong Ying and another Immortal Alliance Golden Core True Person identified Mountain-Subduing True Person as Wu Lingwei of the Clear Wind Sect.
• Li Yunjing concluded that Wu Lingwei had likely hired the bandit cultivators to eliminate him because of his son.

Li Yunjing dealt with the threat of a Hero Token, welcomed new disciples, and used Patriarch Incense Offerings to obtain a sect-wide comprehension trait. He then discovered a bird king in the Poultry Coop and upgraded the building to level six.

• Li Yunjing told Sikong Ying and another Golden Core True Person that the Mountain-Subduing True Person had issued a Hero Token to eliminate him, and they agreed to verify whether Wu Lingwei was involved.
• Li Yunjing led twenty-five new disciples through their initiation, and the patriarchs blessed eight of them while three advanced from mortals to Early Qi Refining.
• Li Yunjing collected fifteen wisps of Patriarch Incense Offering and sacrificed them, obtaining the Successors to Carry On trait, which increased sect members’ comprehension by three percent when the sect had more than fifty disciples.
• Li Yunjing equipped the trait to the Patriarch Hall and felt his own comprehension improve.
• Li Yunjing found the spirit birds living peacefully together and discovered that a scrawny Golden-Feathered Eagle was their bird king.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Poultry Coop to level six, increasing its spiritual effects.

Li Yunjing reviewed the effects and upgrade requirements for several Luozhen Sect buildings, then headed to the Spirit Vein Pavilion after Chu Chenzhou’s arrival made its first upgrade possible. The chapter ended with Li Yunjing finding Chu Chenzhou practicing alone in the pavilion’s secluded foothills.

• Li Yunjing learned that the upgraded Poultry Coop let guinea fowl grant sect members protection from Qi Deviation, and he petted the Golden-Feathered Eagle before leaving.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the training grounds and reviewed the requirements and effects for the Disciple Quarters, artifact refining room, talisman room, Spirit Cuisine Pavilion, Beast Taming Grounds, and Welcoming Immortal Pavilion.
• Li Yunjing concluded that the growing number of buildings meant he would need to plan upgrades rather than do them all at once.
• Li Yunjing went to the Spirit Vein Pavilion, which could now be upgraded because Chu Chenzhou had joined the Luozhen Sect.
• Li Yunjing found Chu Chenzhou standing in a horse stance with both hands raised and breathing deeply.

Li Yunjing checked the Spirit Vein beneath Serene Valley and upgraded the Spirit Vein Pavilion, revealing the vein’s status as data. He then began studying formation work by inscribing and refining a first-grade formation plate.

• Li Yunjing examined the Spirit Vein pool and found its Spiritual Qi concentration had not changed after Chu Chenzhou used the Spirit Vein Crystal Marrow.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Spirit Vein Pavilion to lv1, allowing it to convert the Spirit Vein’s condition into data.
• Chu Chenzhou showed Li Yunjing the strange status display and suspected demonic Sha had corrupted the Spirit Vein.
• Li Yunjing told Chu Chenzhou the display was Patriarch Luozhen’s doing, and Chu Chenzhou took this as evidence of the patriarch’s power.
• Li Yunjing returned to the Luozhen Grand Hall and inscribed formation patterns onto a blank plate, then fused them into it with spiritual flame.

Li Yunjing received the treasures he had selected in Carefree Heaven, along with news that the Immortal Alliance had named him a candidate for True Disciple and warned him of bandit cultivators targeting him. After Feiyao delivered a personal letter from Zhang Jianchen, Li Yunjing went to the Xunxian Town Immortal Alliance to ask about the Mountain-Subduing True Person, where Xiao Tianxing questioned his view of the Alliance’s refusal to protect him.

• Li Yunjing tested a formation disk that could quickly deploy fifteen formations, then encountered Feiyao and a spirit horse emerging from underground in a carriage.
• Feiyao verified Li Yunjing’s identity, explained his elevated standing as a candidate for Immortal Alliance True Disciple, and delivered the treasures Li Yunjing had selected in Carefree Heaven.
• Li Yunjing tipped Feiyao one hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones, and Feiyao shared half with the spirit horse before giving Li Yunjing a jade whistle for future deliveries.
• Feiyao returned with a letter from alliance leader Zhang Jianchen warning that bandit cultivators were targeting Li Yunjing and explaining that the Alliance would not send protection because the threat was limited and would test him.
• Li Yunjing asked Mo Xuan to handle the treasures and went to the Xunxian Town Immortal Alliance to seek news about the Mountain-Subduing True Person.
• Xiao Tianxing met Li Yunjing and asked what he thought of the Immortal Alliance’s decision not to help or protect him.

Li Yunjing learned that Wu Lingwei and eight other bandit cultivators were targeting him, then arranged with Sikong Ying to lure them into an ambush. After visiting the Hundred Artifacts Pavilion, he left Xunxian Town to train before the confrontation.

• Xiao Tianxing gave Li Yunjing intelligence identifying Mountain-Subduing True Person as Wu Lingwei and detailing eight other bandit cultivators, including a badly injured Golden Core Perfection cultivator.
• Li Yunjing decided to lure Wu Lingwei and the others out by spreading false news that he would be traveling, and Sikong Ying agreed to help arrange the trap.
• Sikong Ying learned from Xiao Tianxing's Jade Slip that Wu Lingwei was Mountain-Subduing True Person and promised Li Yunjing his full cooperation.
• Li Yunjing visited the Hundred Artifacts Pavilion, learned it had recruited someone with the Hundred Crafts Hammer Physique, and heard that Jiang Chuan was attempting Foundation Establishment.
• Li Yunjing flew out of Xunxian Town to train the Dragon-Binding Cord and the Seven Slaughters Heaven-Slaying Dao Sword Book before facing the bandit cultivators.

Li Yunjing and Sikong Ying confirmed that their false information had lured Wu Lingwei and the bandit cultivators into position, then Li Yunjing left the Luozhen Sect to draw them out. A powerful Heaven-Imprisoning Array trapped him as he flew toward Half-Spirit Valley.

• Li Yunjing mastered the basics of the Seven Slaughters Heaven-Slaying Dao Sword Book and the Dragon-Binding Cord, but realized he needed a stronger flying sword.
• Hu An told Li Yunjing that he had reached Qi Refining Completion and could set up first-grade, middle-tier arrays.
• Sikong Ying told Li Yunjing that the bandit cultivators had gathered at Little Mist Mountain Market and that Wu Lingwei had announced a suspicious seclusion.
• Li Yunjing and Sikong Ying agreed to proceed with their plan, and Sikong Ying left to gather the Immortal Alliance's Golden Core cultivators.
• Li Yunjing rode his sword toward Half-Spirit Valley to lure Wu Lingwei and the bandit cultivators into pursuing him.
• A second-grade, peak-tier Heaven-Imprisoning Array suddenly formed around Li Yunjing and trapped him.

Li Yunjing was ambushed by eight bandit cultivators led by Mo Qianshan and fought them inside a Heaven-Imprisoning Array. After faking his death and escaping into the void, he discovered that Wu Lingwei had joined the group and urged Sikong Ying to break the array before they could escape.

• Mo Qianshan revealed himself as a corpse cultivator and unleashed his bronze-armored corpse against Li Yunjing, whose Supreme Unity Incantation damaged it.
• The other seven bandit cultivators attacked, but Li Yunjing stalled them while contacting Sikong Ying and explaining where the Heaven-Imprisoning Array trapped him.
• A massive seal struck at Li Yunjing, who countered with his Sword Qi Long Dragon before using Supreme Unity Escape to vanish into the void.
• The eight bandit cultivators and the masked Mountain-Subduing celebrated, believing Li Yunjing was dead, while Li Yunjing watched them unseen.
• Sikong Ying told Li Yunjing that they had found the array, and Li Yunjing urged him to break it and stop Wu Lingwei from escaping.

Li Yunjing survived Wu Lingwei’s ambush, and the Immortal Alliance arrived to expose and disrupt the bandit cultivators’ attack. As the bandits fled, Li Yunjing pursued Wu Lingwei and confronted him alone.

• Li Yunjing reappeared alive, shocking Wu Lingwei and the eight bandit cultivators who had believed him dead.
• Mo Qianshan and the others demanded more payment before agreeing to attack again, and Wu Lingwei offered each another ten thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• A crack opened in the Heaven-Imprisoning Array, and Sikong Ying arrived with the Xunxian Town Immortal Alliance, accusing Wu Lingwei of organizing the ambush.
• Mo Qianshan and the other bandits fled, while Wu Lingwei struck a nearby bandit to hinder his escape and Sikong Ying’s group captured him.
• Li Yunjing used Supreme Unity Escape to get ahead of Wu Lingwei, attacked with golden light, and emerged from the void riding a Sword Qi Long Dragon to confront him.

Li Yunjing defeated Wu Lingwei, captured him and the bandit cultivators, and brought them back to Xunxian Town. Sikong Ying and Li Yunjing then went to investigate the Clear Wind Sect, where sect master Wu Yunzhi confronted them.

• Li Yunjing used the Dragon-Binding Cord to bind and poison Wu Lingwei, then subdued him and seized his great seal Law Treasure.
• Li Yunjing stripped Wu Lingwei of his treasures and brought him to Sikong Ying, who regrouped with the others after they captured all eight bandit cultivators.
• Sikong Ying led the captives openly into Xunxian Town, drawing curious attention from local cultivators.
• Sikong Ying ordered a thorough investigation of the Clear Wind Sect and went there with Li Yunjing.
• Sikong Ying called on the Clear Wind Sect to surrender its Law Artifacts and submit to an Immortal Alliance inspection, and Wu Yunzhi appeared in the sky.