Chapter Summaries

After awakening his past-life memories, Liu Yi faced a year to reach Foundation Establishment or be expelled from the Heavenly Revelation Sect. He left his overtime job to seek knowledge for creating a faster cultivation method, then Qian Duoduo summoned him to a grove.

• Lin Xiuyuan told Jiang Neng that Liu Yi had worked himself to exhaustion for years despite his poor aptitude and dwindling lifespan.
• Liu Yi recalled awakening his past-life memories after 127 years of overtime and realized the formation’s restriction could not affect his mind.
• Liu Yi considered using the Spacetime Realm’s enhanced memory and deduction to create a cultivation method that would help him reach Foundation Establishment within a year.
• Liu Yi found that the Five Elements Qi Refining Instruction cultivated too slowly, then stopped working after six hours and headed for the Scripture Pavilion.
• Qian Duoduo sat across from Liu Yi at the dining hall and told him to meet in the grove after eating.

Liu Yi borrowed five Spirit Stone fragments from Qian Duoduo and studied cultivation manuals at the Scripture Pavilion to create a faster Qi Refining technique. He completed Five Elements Qi Refining Instruction 2.0 and decided to risk cultivating it despite its unknown dangers.

• Qian Duoduo confronted Liu Yi over his 100-fragment debt, then gave him five fragments to help him pursue Foundation Establishment.
• Liu Yi went to the Scripture Pavilion and memorized its Qi Refinement Stage cultivation manuals over ten days.
• Liu Yi used his deduction ability and knowledge of his 129,600 open acupoints to create an improved Five Elements Qi Refining Instruction.
• Liu Yi realized his deduction ability strained his mind and that his new technique might be dangerous to cultivate.
• Liu Yi decided the risk was better than certain death and began circulating Five Elements Qi Refining Instruction 2.0.

Liu Yi perfected the Five Elements Qi Refining Instruction 2.0, greatly increasing his cultivation speed, then accepted Zhao Jiuxiao’s arena challenge over a debt. The chapter left Liu Yi set to face Zhao Jiuxiao after work despite his opponent’s higher cultivation and combat experience.

• After ten days of risky revisions, Liu Yi successfully cultivated through 129,600 acupoints and increased his control over the Spacetime Realm to 1.2%.
• Liu Yi encountered Zhao Jiuxiao, who demanded repayment of the 50 Spirit Stone fragments Liu Yi owed him and warned that he had eleven months to reach Foundation Establishment.
• Qian Duoduo interrupted their argument, and Zhao Jiuxiao challenged Liu Yi to an arena match, offering to erase the debt and give him another 50 Spirit Stone fragments if he won.
• Liu Yi accepted the match for after work, despite Zhao Jiuxiao having reached the Eighth Layer of Qi Refining and learned the Fire Dragon Technique.
• Qian Duoduo warned Liu Yi that Zhao Jiuxiao intended to beat him and reviewed Zhao Jiuxiao’s abilities, while Liu Yi remained confident.

Liu Yi stunned the outer sect by defeating Zhao Jiuxiao twice in the arena and winning fifty Spirit Stone fragments. As Zhao Jiuxiao demanded an explanation, thunder suddenly rumbled overhead, leaving Liu Yi afraid the heavens would strike him down.

• Liu Yi rejected Qian Duoduo’s offer to help him avoid the match and faced Zhao Jiuxiao in the arena under Wang Yu’s supervision.
• Liu Yi used Tai Chi Chuan to redirect Zhao Jiuxiao’s charge and kick him out of the arena, winning the first fight.
• Zhao Jiuxiao paid Liu Yi fifty Spirit Stone fragments and challenged him to fight again, offering another fifty if he lost.
• Liu Yi dodged Zhao Jiuxiao’s Fire Dragon Technique, struck him with a punch and a kick, and knocked him out of the arena again.
• Zhao Jiuxiao questioned how Liu Yi had defeated him, and thunder suddenly rumbled in the sky as Liu Yi feared the heavens would punish him.

A time-river battle appeared above the Heavenly Revelation Sect before Liu Yi collected his bet and spent months improving his cultivation and martial arts. With the sect’s deadline approaching and no Foundation Establishment Pill, he prepared to attempt Foundation Establishment from the Qi Refining Ninth Layer Peak.

• A figure defeated his opponents in the river of time, glanced toward the Heavenly Revelation Sect, and vanished as the sky phenomenon dissipated.
• Liu Yi collected 50 Spirit Stone fragments from Zhao Jiuxiao after winning their bet, then celebrated with Qian Duoduo.
• Liu Yi chose the Bronze Skin Iron Bones Art and mastered it in an hour, despite the manual claiming it took thirty years.
• Over nine months, Liu Yi read the Scripture Pavilion’s first-floor books, perfected the Five Elements Qi Refining Instruction 3.0 and Indestructible Golden Body, and reached the Qi Refining Ninth Layer Peak.
• With the sect’s Foundation Establishment deadline nearing and no money for a Foundation Establishment Pill, Liu Yi prepared to break through using his remaining 80 Spirit Stone fragments.

Liu Yi failed to establish his foundation and realized his unusually many acupoints might have disrupted his cultivation, so he began planning to develop solar-powered cultivation and energy storage. As he was expelled from the Heavenly Revelation Sect, Qian Duoduo gave him Spirit Stone fragments, and Liu Yi vowed to break through and challenge the cultivation world's barriers.

• Liu Yi broke through to the Tenth Layer of Qi Refining rather than Foundation Establishment and feared he would be expelled with only four years of life remaining.
• Liu Yi suspected his 129,600 acupoints had disrupted his cultivation and conceived of improving methods that absorb sunlight, moonlight, and starlight, potentially storing the energy like Spirit Stones.
• Liu Yi inspected his cultivation, noted his Spacetime Realm control had reached 3%, and went to the Scripture Pavilion to search for relevant manuals.
• More than a month later, Qian Duoduo found Liu Yi at Heavenly Revelation Square and gave him 20 Spirit Stone fragments despite Liu Yi's refusal.
• Ye Qingxue arrived with new disciples as Liu Yi reflected on the sect's treatment of outer disciples and vowed to break through and challenge the privilege of powerful cultivators.
• A sect voice ordered the expelled disciples to board the flying boat, and Liu Yi walked toward it.

Liu Yi witnessed the suffering and inequality in Yunping City, imagined a future system that might change the world, and rescued thirteen children from human traffickers. After taking the children home, he returned to the traffickers, who lay helpless in the courtyard.

• Liu Yi arrived in Yunping City, gave buns to beggars, and marked human traffickers so he could track them later.
• Liu Yi saw a Zhao estate steward order a weak servant beaten for briefly dozing on duty, then considered how entrenched elites controlled the world’s resources.
• Liu Yi imagined creating a system to challenge the powerful but decided he first needed to reach Foundation Establishment, then attacked a traffickers’ courtyard that night.
• Liu Yi interrogated three surviving traffickers and discovered thirteen children locked in cages, including three whose limbs had been broken.
• Liu Yi freed the children, reset the injured children’s bones, gave them money, and took them home before returning to the crippled traffickers.

Liu Yi refined his solar cultivation method using captured traffickers, then rescued Qian Zhen’s caravan from bandits and found Spirit Stones in their stronghold. He headed to the cave where the bandits had dug them up, hoping to find more and advance toward Foundation Establishment.

• Liu Yi tested and improved his Yang-Devouring Cultivation Method on three traffickers, developing Sun-Swallowing Art 4.0, then continued refining the method over three months.
• Liu Yi reached the Qi Refining Eleventh Layer with Qian Duoduo’s Spirit Stone fragments and left Yunping City after running short of suitable test subjects.
• Liu Yi defeated bandits attacking Qian Zhen’s caravan, poisoned the surviving fifteen, and took them to their stronghold as test subjects.
• Liu Yi subdued eighteen more bandits at the stronghold and found a chest containing a hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones and twenty Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Liu Yi questioned the bandits and learned they had dug the Spirit Stones from a cave at the back of the stronghold, then went to investigate.

Liu Yi defeated the Black and White Twin Swords and obtained a rare Primordial Spirit cultivation method, then spent a year advancing his cultivation and refining his techniques. He returned to Liu Household Village with only two years left to live, planning to pay respects to his parents before attempting Foundation Establishment.

• Liu Yi abandoned the depleted cave after reaching the Qi Refinement Twelfth Layer and continued improving the Yang-Devouring Cultivation Method, his energy storage device, and his External Brain.
• Su Yaoguang and Ye Xuanxiao mistook Liu Yi for a bandit, but Liu Yi swiftly defeated them and demanded payment for their lives.
• Ye Xuanxiao offered Liu Yi an animal hide bearing the Soul-Shifting Spirit-Refining Great Method, and Liu Yi accepted it and let the pair leave.
• Liu Yi left the stronghold and returned to Liu Household Village a year later, having reached the Qi Refinement Thirteenth Layer Peak and 8% control over the Spacetime Realm.
• Liu Yi planned to pay respects to his parents, cultivate Five Elements Qi Refining Instruction 4.0, and attempt Foundation Establishment before his remaining two years ran out.

Liu Yi honored his predecessor’s family in Liu Household Village, then set out to destroy Black Wind Stronghold and test his cultivation methods, taking in a starving puppy he named Little Yellow. The chapter ended by revealing that a middle-aged man in the stronghold was cultivating the Blood Devil Cultivation Method in a chamber filled with victims’ blood.

• Liu Yi paid respects at the graves of his parents and eldest brother, Liu Qin, and his predecessor’s final obsession faded.
• Liu Yi gave Liu Hai, Liu Qin’s great-grandson, a pouch of money and praised Liu Jun and Liu Wei before leaving without revealing his identity.
• After learning that Black Wind Stronghold threatened Liu Household Village, Liu Yi decided to destroy the bandits and test his Yin-Devouring and Star-Devouring Cultivation Methods on them.
• Liu Yi fed a starving yellow puppy, named him Little Yellow, and carried him toward Black Wind Stronghold.
• Inside the stronghold, a middle-aged man cultivated the Blood Devil Cultivation Method by drawing blood from sixty corpses into a blood pool.

Liu Yi attacked Black Wind Stronghold and defeated its bandits, but the chief, Xie Shi, revealed he had reached the Foundation Establishment Realm. Their battle left Liu Yi wounded, and Xie Shi summoned a hundred-meter blood saber from the bandits’ blood and struck at him.

• Liu Yi left Little Yellow outside Black Wind Stronghold and charged in, knocking down bandits as he went.
• Liu Yi fought through the stronghold, defeating its bandits while searching for chief Xie Shi.
• Xie Shi emerged with Foundation Establishment Realm strength and attacked Liu Yi with a blood-infused strike.
• Liu Yi and Xie Shi exchanged hundreds of blows, wrecking the stronghold and killing the bandits caught in their fight.
• Liu Yi and Xie Shi agreed to stop fighting, then immediately attacked each other again.
• Xie Shi sacrificed his Essence Blood and drew blood from the bandits to form a hundred-meter blood saber, which he sent slashing toward Liu Yi.

Liu Yi defeated Xie Shi with repeated Fire Dragon Techniques, then found and buried the mind-beguiling Blood Devil Cultivation Method. After cleaning out Black Wind Stronghold, he left with Little Yellow for Green Mountain Town to recover and prepare for a breakthrough.

• Liu Yi escaped Xie Shi's blood saber with Earth Escape, immobilized him, and struck him with twenty Fire Dragon Techniques until a vast crater remained.
• Liu Yi found the Blood Devil Cultivation Method in the crater and recognized that its blood-based techniques had interfered with his Qi and Blood.
• Liu Yi resisted the method's mind-beguiling influence, saw potential in its Qi and Blood techniques, and resolved to use them in the cultivation system he hoped to create.
• Liu Yi buried the Blood Devil Cultivation Method in a remote wasteland so it could not harm anyone.
• Liu Yi returned to Black Wind Stronghold, dealt with the remaining bandits, and collected the surviving valuables.
• Liu Yi met Little Yellow outside the stronghold, aggravated his internal injuries while laughing, and headed toward Green Mountain Town to recuperate.

Liu Yi completed the Five Elements Qi Refining Instruction 5.0, a cultivation method that refined sunlight, moonlight, and starlight into spiritual power, and recognized its potential to challenge the world’s limits on cultivation. After setting his sights on reaching Foundation Establishment to address his lifespan, he took Little Yellow to the Drunken Spring Pavilion for a meal and entertainment.

• Liu Yi perfected a cultivation method that absorbed the power of moonlight and another that absorbed starlight, using Green Mountain Town evildoers as test subjects and earning the townspeople’s praise for punishing evil.
• Liu Yi began secluded cultivation to test the Five Elements Qi Refining Instruction 5.0, which combined the five-element method with the absorption of sunlight, moonlight, and starlight.
• Liu Yi cultivated from noon until night, refining the three celestial energies into Five Elements Spiritual Power and discovering that the method worked more efficiently than relying on the Heavenly Revelation Sect’s Spiritual Qi.
• Liu Yi realized the new method could provide inexhaustible cultivation energy and help ordinary people resist oppression, but he prioritized reaching Foundation Establishment to solve his lifespan problem.
• Liu Yi took Little Yellow to the Drunken Spring Pavilion, where they enjoyed lavish food and entertainment before leaving impressed by the extravagance.

Liu Yi created energy storage devices and used them with his remaining Spirit Stones to successfully reach the Foundation Establishment Realm, gaining renewed vitality and greater control over the Spacetime Realm. He began stabilizing his cultivation and planned to create his own cultivation system while improving his energy devices and External Brain.

• Liu Yi completed an Energy Conversion Formation and refined it into a device that stored mild energy gathered from sunlight, moonlight, and starlight.
• Liu Yi prepared 20 Mid-Grade Spirit Stones and 100 charged energy storage devices, then began his Foundation Establishment breakthrough as Little Yellow guarded him.
• Liu Yi exhausted the Spirit Stones and stored energy, then successfully broke through to the Foundation Establishment Realm and regained his vitality.
• Liu Yi found that his cultivation method failed to draw out the potential of his 129,600 acupoints, while his control over the Spacetime Realm rose to 10%.
• Liu Yi considered combining the system with an energy storage device and an External Brain, but decided to first create his own cultivation system and produce improved devices in batches.

Liu Yi used the External Brains to develop the Dao Seed Martial Dao Cultivation System and chose to pursue the Great Dao of the World. Two years later, he had advanced his cultivation and grasped several Principles, but Little Yellow’s fondness for the brothel left him vexed.

• Liu Yi linked 100 External Brains together and used them to rapidly deduce his cultivation system, limiting their daily use because they drained his spiritual power.
• Liu Yi devised the Dao Seed Martial Dao Cultivation System, outlining its first four realms and naming its cultivation method the Martial Scripture.
• Liu Yi chose to cultivate the Great Dao of the World, form a World Seed, and split heaven and earth to create a world, then decided he needed a system to help gather the wisdom of all living beings.
• Over the next two years, Liu Yi perfected the system, reached the Peak of the Divine Sea Realm, comprehended traces of the Time, Space, Five Elements, and Yin-Yang Principles, and refined a rudimentary Great Dao of the World.
• Liu Yi became vexed when Little Yellow, whom he had raised and strengthened, developed a liking for the brothel.

Liu Yi killed a cultivator who tried to take Little Yellow, then discovered the man had been using Spirit-Seizing Great Art to steal Spirit Roots. Studying the manual gave Liu Yi an idea that could lessen the threat of cultivation sects and transform the cultivation world.

• Liu Yi encountered a blue-robed cultivator recruiting mortals in Green Mountain Town, who demanded that Liu Yi hand over Little Yellow.
• Liu Yi pretended to comply, then seized the cultivator and killed him with a single punch while throwing Little Yellow to safety.
• Liu Yi searched the corpse and took Thick Earth Art, Spirit-Seizing Great Art, money, and the cultivator’s Golden Core.
• Liu Yi returned to the clinic and found that Thick Earth Art could help him improve his Martial Scripture and cultivate in the Dao Seed Realm.
• Liu Yi learned from Spirit-Seizing Great Art that the cultivator had been secretly seeking people with strong Spirit Roots to steal their talent, and the manual inspired Liu Yi with a plan that could change the cultivation world.

Liu Yi devised a way to refine artificial Heavenly Spirit Roots but set the research aside to focus on advancing to the Dao Seed Realm. After condensing 129,600 World Seeds and undergoing a transformation in seclusion, he successfully broke through.

• Liu Yi reasoned that Heavenly Spirit Roots could be refined from spiritual materials and implanted as organs, potentially drawing cultivators into the system and dividing their factions.
• Liu Yi sensed the Five Elements Spirit Root within himself and decided to postpone further research until after breaking through to the Dao Seed Realm.
• Three days later, Liu Yi entered the mountain valley with Little Yellow, activated the Five Elements Defense Formation, and began his breakthrough.
• Liu Yi condensed his first World Seed, then absorbed energy from his storage devices as he formed World Seeds throughout his body.
• Once all 129,600 World Seeds had formed, Liu Yi's Heaven and Earth Furnace refined surrounding energy as his body transformed within a cocoon of chaos light.
• Liu Yi emerged from the cocoon, reached the Dao Seed Realm, and released a cry that shook the wilderness before drawing in his power.

Liu Yi stabilized his Dao Seed Realm cultivation and considered how to develop a system to accelerate his comprehension of Great Dao Principles. He left Little Yellow with new books to study as he prepared to build the system and gather knowledge from across the world.

• Liu Yi inspected his World Seed, planned to strengthen it by integrating more Great Dao Principles, and discovered that his control over the Spacetime Realm had reached 15%.
• After seven months of seclusion, Liu Yi reunited with Little Yellow, forgave him for neglecting his studies, and returned with him to the clinic.
• Three months later, Liu Yi had integrated his previously comprehended Principles into his World Seeds but had gained only a trace of the Principle of Wind.
• Liu Yi decided to develop a system to gather the wisdom and records of living beings, teach literacy and cultivation, and help people comprehend more Principles.
• Liu Yi gave Little Yellow three study books and threatened to withhold meat for a month if he failed a test.

Liu Yi tested Fairness System 1.0, a system he had created to help people cultivate and communicate, and decided it needed further testing. He then scolded Little Yellow for neglecting his studies and cultivation before taking him to the inn, where Liu Yi feasted while Little Yellow received only plain rice.

• Liu Yi bound Fairness System 1.0 and explored its Personal Center, Store, and Forum.
• Liu Yi reviewed the system's free cultivation manuals and paid books, then decided that the unfinished system needed testing.
• Liu Yi found Little Yellow neglecting his books and scolded him for failing assessments, visiting brothels, and cultivating poorly.
• Liu Yi took Little Yellow to the Welcoming Inn for a feast and gave the dog only plain white rice.
• Liu Yi teased Little Yellow by claiming that watching him eat counted as joining the feast.

Liu Yi selected Xu Cheng'an as the first host of the Fairness System and distributed systems to 100 people in nearby villages. After three months of monitoring and improving the system, he released version 2.0, and Xu Cheng'an used his new nickname to post on the forum for the first time.

• Liu Yi chose Xu Cheng'an, a talented and cautious villager who had lost his family farmland to Xu Zhen, as the first system host.
• Xu Cheng'an accepted the Fairness System, learned to read through its tutorial, and acquired two cultivation methods as he planned to reclaim his farmland and take revenge on Xu Zhen.
• Liu Yi distributed systems to 100 hosts in nearby villages, then monitored their progress while the Eye of the Heavenly Dao concealed the systems from perception.
• After three months without forum posts, Liu Yi identified flaws in version 1.0 and pushed an optimized version 2.0 to all 100 hosts.
• Xu Cheng'an upgraded his system, chose the nickname Peace to protect his identity, and posted a greeting on the forum.