Chapter Summaries

Zhang Xuezhou’s improved Supreme Purity True Technique inspired the group to plan a Ferocious Beast hunt, while Wang Haoran regained confidence after recovering his hands and advancing in cultivation. Zhang Xuezhou agreed to observe the international dispute to assess potential teammates, but he remained unsure about the lingering effects of his brain-region injuries.

• Ren Anran warned that the Supreme Purity True Technique could drain or kill someone whose physical foundation was too weak, and Zhang Manqian and Ren Wuyang considered using it to capture Ferocious Beasts alive.
• Wang Haoran reflected on his healed hands and recent True Spirit Realm breakthrough, and he felt the Sixth Sequence was within reach.
• Ren Yisheng invited Zhang Xuezhou to watch the international dispute so he could assess the former committee members’ abilities for the planned hunt.
• Zhang Xuezhou agreed to go, seeing the hunt as a way to pursue higher Sequences and potentially turn Ferocious Beast extracts into Spirit-Forging Pills.
• Ren Yisheng asked whether Zhang Xuezhou’s brain-region injuries had healed, and Zhang Xuezhou admitted that he still did not fully understand his condition.

Ren Wuyang struggled with feeling inferior to the powerful people around him, but Zhang Manqian helped him find confidence in his own path. Zhang Xuezhou learned that his father, Zhang Weimeng, had written up new theoretical material on the Realm Technique, leaving him eager to read it.

• Ren Wuyang asked Zhang Manqian if she felt pressured by the others' rapid growth, and she explained how she had learned to focus on her own progress.
• Zhang Manqian encouraged Ren Wuyang to stop comparing himself with the extraordinary cultivators around him, helping him loosen the mental block holding back his Mental Strengthening Chapter.
• Ren Wuyang declared that he would forge his own path, while Zhang Manqian considered how Spirit-Forging Pills could help her pursue higher Sequences.
• Zhang Weimeng called Zhang Manqian with another lengthy piece of writing, and she passed the news along to Zhang Xuezhou.
• Zhang Xuezhou was pleased to hear that Zhang Weimeng had developed theoretical feedback on the Realm Technique materials he had sent him.

Zhang Xuezhou read Zhang Weimeng’s Nine Yin Nine Yang manuscript and found that it offered a sound theory for fusing cultivation methods and advancing through the Divine Ability Realm. The theory gave Zhang Xuezhou a direction for his own cultivation and left Ren Yisheng newly hopeful about higher Sequence levels.

• Zhang Xuezhou examined his complicated brain domain and decided to wait for Gao Tingsheng to assess his condition.
• Zhang Xuezhou read Zhang Weimeng’s Nine Yin Nine Yang manuscript, which proposed balancing fused martial arts with a third power.
• Zhang Xuezhou recognized that his Demon Power and Sequence power could satisfy the theory’s requirements and saw a path forward in cultivation.
• Ren Anran praised Zhang Weimeng’s theoretical work and asked whether he could develop theories for the Sole Self and True Self Realms.
• Ren Yisheng realized Zhang Weimeng’s writing could guide cultivators despite his low level, and felt new hope for advancing beyond the Eighth Sequence.

Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Anran worked through the Yin-Yang School's Realm Technique while preparing for Gao Tingsheng to examine their health. Gao Tingsheng arrived and began examining Zhang Xuezhou, but his reaction to Zhang Xuezhou's brain condition left the chapter on a tense note.

• Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Anran used Zhang Weimeng's Nine Yin Nine Yang to work out the first minor stage of the Divine Ability Realm.
• Ren Yisheng told the others that Gao Tingsheng had arrived to examine them.
• Gao Tingsheng greeted Zhang Xuezhou warmly, and they exchanged complaints about the dangers facing researchers.
• Zhang Xuezhou asked Gao Tingsheng to examine his head, and Gao Tingsheng hurriedly had him lie down.
• Gao Tingsheng noticed Zhang Xuezhou's brain region was in a high-risk condition, asked for life-extending medicines in case Zhang Xuezhou did not recover, then pressed his hands to Zhang Xuezhou's head.

Gao Tingsheng examined Zhang Xuezhou and diagnosed his many kinds of spirituality as a possible acquired condition that could make it difficult to excel in one pursuit. Zhang Xuezhou understood the risks came from his mental cultivation and resolved to focus on advancing his Sequence, disappointing Gao Tingsheng, who hoped he would pursue life-extension medicine.

• Gao Tingsheng examined Zhang Xuezhou's head and explained that his unusual spirituality could let him develop in many fields but make it harder to reach the peak in any one.
• Gao Tingsheng suggested Zhang Xuezhou's spirituality might have been acquired and could involve a split personality or mental illness.
• Zhang Xuezhou asked how to eliminate the acquired spirituality, and Gao Tingsheng advised him to focus on one pursuit.
• Zhang Xuezhou recognized that his condition stemmed from the mixed factors of the seventh chapter of the Mental Strengthening Chapter and recalled the mental problems affecting Ren Yisheng, Ren Wuyang, Ren Anran, and Zhang Manqian.
• Zhang Xuezhou promised to focus on advancing his Sequence, leaving Gao Tingsheng disheartened about the prospects for his life-extension medicine research.

Gao Tingsheng’s despair over the stalled life-extension drug research lifted when Zhang Xuezhou invited him to visit the B13 Research Institute and try the drug. At Jishi Medical Center, the group examined Zuo Quan, whose conflict with the purple sword orchid might offer clues about Zhang Xuezhou’s own brain-domain problem.

• Gao Tingsheng refused to examine patients until Zhang Xuezhou promised him a visit to the B13 Research Institute and access to its drug.
• Gao Tingsheng eagerly agreed to examine another patient, and Ren Yisheng revealed that the patient was Zuo Quan.
• Ren Yisheng told Zhang Xuezhou that Zuo Quan’s condition resembled his own conflict involving Hongku and might provide useful insight.
• Zhang Xuezhou disguised himself in a white coat, mask, and hood before joining the group at Zuo Quan’s operating room.
• Ren Yisheng introduced Dr. Low and his team, and the attending physician reported that they had removed fifty-four pieces of plastic and metal from Zuo Quan.
• Gao Tingsheng noticed that Zuo Quan described Professor Zhang as injured by embedded debris, although Zhang Xuezhou had no such injuries, and suspected something was wrong with Zuo Quan’s head.

Gao Tingsheng examined Zuo Quan and concluded that widespread lesions could leave him with less than two years to live without a blood transfusion, which Zuo Quan refused. Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng suspected the purple gladiolus was consuming Zuo Quan as its host and began considering how to investigate Huang Daoxian and deal with Zuo Quan.

• Ren Yisheng arranged for Gao Tingsheng, disguised as Doctor Di, to examine Zuo Quan, who rejected the recommended bloodletting and transfusion.
• After the examination, Gao Tingsheng told Zhang Xuezhou that Zuo Quan had widespread lesions, weakening limb responses, and might not live another two years without a transfusion.
• Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng suspected that the purple gladiolus was spreading through Zuo Quan and that his death might also kill the creature.
• Ren Yisheng suggested that the creature might switch hosts, while Zhang Xuezhou ruled out Zuo Teng and resolved to improve his Fortune Technique before acting.
• Ren Yisheng said Zuo Quan seemed unable to resist his own Fortune, and that the lucky ornaments he had given Zhang Xuezhou might have reversed their effect and harmed him too.

Gao Tingsheng visited the B13 Research Institute, examined Zhang Xuezhou’s longevity medicine, and planned to help upgrade the laboratory through cooperation with other institutes. Ren Anran hoped better equipment would help improve the Heavenly God General Medicine, while Zhang Xuezhou advised everyone to rest before deciding on their next trip.

• Ren Anran explained that regulations prevented the B13 Research Institute from obtaining approval for an intermediate laboratory, and Gao Tingsheng vowed to seek flexibility in the rules.
• Zhang Xuezhou showed Gao Tingsheng the pharmaceutical equipment and a bottle of longevity medicine, which Gao examined and praised before taking it away for analysis.
• Ren Anran said Gao Tingsheng could arrange to lend or provide instruments through laboratory cooperation, and Zhang Xuezhou expected him to enlist other professors’ help.
• Ren Anran proposed improving the Heavenly God General Medicine with better equipment, since she and Zhang Xuezhou had suffered after injecting it.
• Zhang Xuezhou suggested asking Zuo Quan about improving the medicine and postponed a trip to Qinmeng until the international dispute and fire meteor situation were clearer.

Zhang Xuezhou inspected the Eastern Mountain Imperial Mausoleums and learned about Emperor Luo Wu’s tomb and its legendary Immeasurable Jade Wall. After discovering a promising feng shui site, he proposed using excavators to bypass the tomb’s ancient stone-pillar mechanism and enter it.

• Zhang Xuezhou traveled to the Eastern Mountain Imperial Mausoleums after spending two days at the B13 Research Institute.
• Feng Ziqiang guided Zhang Xuezhou around the mausoleums and described Emperor Luo Wu’s strength, the Immeasurable Jade Wall, and the Ten Thousand Dragons Gate.
• Zhang Xuezhou used his Treasure-Seeking Technique and Feng Shui Site Surveying Technique near Emperor Luo Wu’s tomb, and the latter produced a response.
• Zhang Xuezhou stopped the car to inspect Emperor Luo Wu’s tomb and heard that its thousand-jin stone pillars formed a dangerous locking mechanism.
• Zhang Xuezhou suggested using excavators to hold up the pillars so they could enter the tomb and search for the Immeasurable Jade Wall.

Zhang Xuezhou opened Emperor Luo Wu's Mausoleum and explored it with his Yang Corporeal Soul, discovering that his growing mental strength had let the soul manifest and cast spells. After breaking into the imperial outer coffin, he found a jade mirror that reflected traces of the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon on him.

• Zhang Xuezhou arranged for cranes and excavators to move the bluestone pillars and open Emperor Luo Wu's Mausoleum while Feng Ziqiang summoned help.
• While waiting for Feng Ziqiang's father and the others to arrive, Zhang Xuezhou released his Yang Corporeal Soul and discovered it had taken on a shadowy form and could draw on Law Power to cast spells.
• Zhang Xuezhou's Yang Corporeal Soul entered the tomb and followed the mark from his Feng Shui Site Surveying Technique to Emperor Luo Wu's imperial outer coffin.
• Zhang Xuezhou used the Stone Transformation Technique repeatedly to break open the coffin, spending nearly a tenth of his Law Power.
• Ghostly flames appeared inside the coffin, revealing Emperor Luo Wu's skeletal remains and a jade mirror that reflected traces of the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon on Zhang Xuezhou.

Zhang Xuezhou emerged from Emperor Luo Wu's Mausoleum and met Feng Xiangyu and Zhu Youjia, who accepted his decision to open it. Zhang Xuezhou asked to keep the Immeasurable Jade Wall for examination, and Feng Xiangyu agreed before leading a cautious expedition into the tomb.

• Zhang Xuezhou returned to his body after exploring the mausoleum and greeted Feng Xiangyu and Zhu Youjia outside the entrance.
• Feng Xiangyu accepted Zhang Xuezhou's choice to open Emperor Luo Wu's Mausoleum and praised the emperor as Luofu's finest fighter.
• Zhang Xuezhou said he wanted the Immeasurable Jade Wall, and Feng Xiangyu agreed he could take it temporarily if they made a note of it.
• Feng Ziqiang suggested inviting the Qin Household to help, but Feng Xiangyu chose Jin Shixue to scout the tomb instead.
• Jin Shixue crawled beneath the bluestone pillars, and Feng Xiangyu followed him into the mausoleum.

Zhang Xuezhou led the group safely through the traps and maze of Emperor Luo Wu's Mausoleum to its burial chamber, where he found the Immeasurable Jade Wall. When Jin Shixue looked into it, he saw himself aging into a corpse and collapsed in terror, while Zhang Xuezhou sensed the jade wall had taken something from him.

• Zhang Xuezhou warned Jin Shixue about traps and took over the lead, guiding the group through the mechanisms without incident.
• Zhang Xuezhou led the seven-person group through the mausoleum's winding passages to the burial chamber in about half an hour.
• Zhang Xuezhou told Feng Xiangyu to document and study the ancient martial arts reliefs in the chamber.
• Zhang Xuezhou reached into the imperial outer coffin and took out the Immeasurable Jade Wall.
• Jin Shixue saw his reflection age and become corpse-like, then screamed and collapsed, drenched in cold sweat.
• Zhang Xuezhou covered the jade wall and sensed that it had taken something from Jin Shixue, while warmth spread through his hand.

Zhang Xuezhou led the group out of Emperor Luo Wu's Mausoleum after Jin Shixue was incapacitated by the Immeasurable Jade Wall, then arranged medical care and examinations. He brought the jade wall to Ren Yisheng, who noticed that Zhang Xuezhou's body and divine soul were misaligned.

• After Jin Shixue collapsed from looking at the Immeasurable Jade Wall, Zhang Xuezhou agreed to leave the mausoleum and guided the group safely outside.
• Zhang Xuezhou arranged for Jin Shixue to be flown to Jishi Medical Center in Western Capital City for treatment.
• Feng Xiangyu urged Feng Ziqiang and the others to stop causing trouble and adapt to the Alliance States.
• At the hospital, Zhang Xuezhou arranged physical examinations for everyone before quietly leaving with the jade wall.
• Ren Yisheng examined Zhang Xuezhou in a secret room and recognized a disharmony between his body and divine soul.

Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng tested the Immeasurable Jade Wall on Zuo Quan, who recognized it as a Jing Remains connected to fire meteorites. Zuo Quan explained that Jing could fulfill wishes in exchange for something of equal value, then realized an uninvited threat had arrived in their territory.

• Ren Yisheng and Zhang Xuezhou discussed the Immeasurable Jade Wall's different reflections and decided not to expose Ren Anran to it.
• Ren Yisheng and Zhang Xuezhou brought the Immeasurable Jade Wall to Zuo Quan's recovery room and showed it to him under the pretense of medical treatment.
• Zuo Quan recognized the object as a Jing Remains and confirmed that the mirror showed his true self to him.
• Zuo Quan linked the relic to fire meteorites and Sinkhole No. 2, while Zhang Xuezhou concealed where it had been unearthed.
• Zuo Quan explained that Jing could fulfill wishes by taking something of equal value, called them demons, and decided to contact Zuo Luo about the uninvited guest.

Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng discovered that the Immeasurable Jade Wall was likely the remains of Jing, a dead fire meteor creature, and explored how it could help them. Looking into it let Zhang Xuezhou observe the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon, who claimed to be undying, but Zhang Xuezhou recognized a black core like the one associated with Buddha Son Shigong and concluded the demon could be killed.

• Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng determined that the Immeasurable Jade Wall was likely Jing's remains and took confidence from the possibility that Emperor Luo Wu had defeated the creature.
• Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng compared how different people reacted to the wall and concluded that sufficiently strong minds could look into it safely.
• Ren Yisheng suggested using the Immeasurable Jade Wall as protection, and Zhang Xuezhou agreed it could guard him against Zuo Quan and Zuo Luo's spells.
• Ren Yisheng said the wall helped him see the separation between his body and soul, while Zhang Xuezhou revealed that he saw Hongku, the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon.
• Zhang Xuezhou saw the demon's flames form a black core and recalled similar cores connected to Buddha Son Shigong's Divine Ability, leading him to believe the demon could die.

Zhang Xuezhou, Ren Anran, and Ren Yisheng investigated how the Immeasurable Jade Wall reflected their thoughts and simulated possible outcomes, while considering whether it drained spiritual power. They decided to seek answers from Zuo Quan, only to learn that he had returned to the Eastern Mountain Imperial Mausoleums.

• Ren Anran withstood the Immeasurable Jade Wall and said it formed lifelike images from the thoughts and desires of those facing it.
• Zhang Xuezhou saw the mirror simulate his advancement in cultivation and then show him being destroyed after forcing his Realm Technique without a Human Pill.
• Ren Yisheng and Zhang Xuezhou concluded that the wall imitated their bodies and extrapolated outcomes, perhaps by drawing on their spiritual power.
• Zhang Xuezhou and the others decided to question Zuo Quan about the wall and its possible connection to Jing.
• Ren Yisheng contacted Zuo Quan and learned that he had been discharged and returned to the Eastern Mountain Imperial Mausoleums to inspect construction progress.

Zuo Quan discussed the Jing Clan threat with Zuo Luo in Emperor Li of Luo's Mausoleum, then used his friendship with Ren Yisheng to reassure him that the Alliance States might help. Zuo Quan agreed to seek a chance to bring Ba'er Bo and the other Gladiolus Grass bodies to Zuo Luo, while a human-faced flower bearing Zuo Teng's face revealed its resentment toward Zhang Xuezhou.

• Zuo Quan warned Zuo Luo that the Jing Clan hiding in Sinkhole No. 2 threatened their plans and that they needed help to deal with it.
• Zuo Quan called Ren Yisheng and spoke warmly about his work at the Eastern Mountain Imperial Mausoleums, reassuring Zuo Luo that he had built close ties with Ren Yisheng and the others.
• Zuo Luo demanded that Zuo Quan either help him become a Seven-Star Plant or let him absorb Ba'er Bo and the other Gladiolus Grass bodies at the High-Tech Agricultural Products Center.
• Zuo Quan agreed to wait for an opportunity to take the bodies from the guarded center, and Zuo Luo returned to the imperial outer coffin to recover.
• A flower bearing Zuo Teng's face blamed Zhang Xuezhou for the loss of Star Plant power and warned that Zuo Quan would suffer if he failed to deal with Jing.

Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng realized Zuo Quan’s work at Emperor Li of Luo’s Mausoleum was tied to his plans and decided to learn about Jing through him. As Zuo Quan arrived, they also wondered why fire meteor beings were so determined to control dynasties.

• After Ren Yisheng confirmed Zuo Quan’s whereabouts, Zhang Xuezhou and the others inferred that Emperor Li of Luo’s Mausoleum was important to Zuo Quan’s plans.
• Zhang Xuezhou proposed learning about Jing from Zuo Quan and using stronger opponents to draw out information; Ren Anran agreed they should not focus only on surveilling him.
• Zhang Xuezhou said he would inspect Emperor Li of Luo’s Mausoleum when an opportunity arose, and Ren Yisheng warned him not to go alone.
• Ren Anran left before Zuo Quan arrived because resisting the Immeasurable Jade Wall had visibly affected her.
• Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng discussed the dangers of the Immeasurable Jade Wall and why powerful outliers sought control of dynasties.
• When the surveillance feed showed Zuo Quan hurrying over, Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng went out together to welcome him.

At the B13 Research Institute, Zuo Quan examined the Jing Remains and told Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng about the Jing Clan and Sinkhole No. 2, while seeking clues to the beings’ whereabouts. He warned them that using the remains could be dangerous, unaware that Zhang Xuezhou was relieved he had mistaken their origin.

• Zuo Quan inspected the Jing Remains and explained that the Jing Clan could create convincing illusions and was hunted for materials used to make Law Treasures.
• Zhang Xuezhou claimed the remains had been found in a rock near North Rehe and that the rock had been used to build a chicken-farm fence.
• Zuo Quan said classified records described Sinkhole No. 2’s fiery red fragments, which quickly became inert rocks, and the committee’s failed search for aliens.
• Zuo Quan said a living Jing might help researchers advance their Sequence, but warned that using Jing Remains could drain the user’s essence, Qi, and spirit.
• Zuo Quan realized his account blended inherited memories with a television drama, while Zhang Xuezhou remained relieved that Zuo Quan had not traced the remains to Emperor Luo Wu’s Mausoleum.

Zhang Xuezhou used unusual stone specimens to draw Zuo Quan’s investigation toward Sinkhole No. 2 and the Jing Clan, while keeping the truth about the Immeasurable Jade Wall out of reach. After Zuo Quan left with a specimen, Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng discussed the specimens’ living contents and the different paths to power.

• Zhang Xuezhou showed Zuo Quan stone specimens and suggested they might contain traces of extraterrestrial life, while Ren Yisheng questioned why advanced beings would come to their world.
• Zuo Quan took a specimen to investigate, and Zhang Xuezhou asked him to share any discoveries and offered to provide more.
• Zuo Quan left North Rehe quickly, leaving Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng without the answers they wanted, but with Zuo Quan drawn into investigating Sinkhole No. 2 and the Jing Clan.
• Zhang Xuezhou touched a specimen and drew gray liquid from it, which gathered into a small piece of flesh-like tissue; he explained that the specimens might be remnants that survived the Sinkhole No. 2 flames.
• Ren Yisheng asked whether Zhang Xuezhou counted among unusually developed beings, and Zhang Xuezhou replied that Hongku might, but he did not.