Chapter Summaries

Zhang Xuezhou rapidly formed Sequence Locks for overdue contract holders, while reflecting on Ren Anran’s role as his fellow Daoist and partner in advancing the Realm Technique. Pei Jing joined the group’s cutting-edge Gene Sequence testing after Pei Ying and the others experienced the benefits of their new locks.

• Zhang Xuezhou rapidly formed Sequence Locks for the waiting contract holders and shared Origin-Nurturing Paste and Spirit-Forging Pill Liquid with them.
• Changkong Yinghao tried the Spirit-Forging Pill Liquid, nearly vomiting up his Sequence Lock, while Zhang Xuezhou explained that Ren Anran could not yet form locks rapidly herself.
• Zhang Xuezhou considered Ren Anran’s coming attempt to enter the Divine Ability Realm and the pair’s shared path in cultivating the fused Yin-Yang School Realm Technique.
• Pei Ying noticed his Sequence Lock had strengthened his Gene Power and improved his prospects of catching up to his father, Pei Jing.
• Pei Jing joined the group after speaking with them, and they began testing the latest Gene Sequence technology in the Scarlet Alliance State.

Zhang Xuezhou finished guiding Sequence Holders in North Rehe and took Luo Burang to East Mountain, where Ren Yisheng and the others had prepared to unseal the Qinmeng Secret Stone. Their flight aboard Zhang Manqian’s aircraft left Luo Burang badly airsick.

• Zhang Xuezhou explained to Luo Burang that crediting the Technique and rapid Sequence Lock formation to the Tuer God helped shield him from scrutiny.
• Zhang Xuezhou invited Luo Burang to see something good after they finished their work, while Luo Burang worried about Zhang Xuezhou’s dangerous condition.
• Zhang Xuezhou completed his work guiding Sequence Locks in North Rehe and contacted Ren Yisheng, who said he was in East Mountain.
• Zhang Xuezhou took Luo Burang to East Mountain, explaining that Ren Yisheng and the others had found a secure place to unseal the Qinmeng Secret Stone.
• Zhang Manqian piloted the aircraft at extreme speed, and Zhang Xuezhou explained that her rough flying had produced data that could help adapt aircraft for Qinmeng.
• The aircraft landed in East Mountain, leaving Luo Burang struggling with severe airsickness.

Zhang Xuezhou and Li Yingbo brought Qinmeng Secret Stone to East Mountain, where Ren Anran was preparing to cultivate and attempt a breakthrough. In Luo Taizong’s tomb, Zhang discovered that its vast jade chamber had once been a cultivation site made of Soul Jade, though its Spiritual Qi had long since escaped.

• Zhang Manqian flew the group from North Rehe to East Mountain in less than fifteen minutes, where Li Yingbo caught the unsteady Luo Burang as he exited the aircraft.
• Zhang Xuezhou thanked Li Yingbo for helping transport the Qinmeng Secret Stone and said it could aid the group’s cultivation, especially Ren Anran’s effort to reach the Divine Ability Realm.
• Li Yingbo discussed the difficulty of cultivating Realm Techniques and hoped that better conditions would let him and the others advance further.
• Zhang Xuezhou toured the nearly completed East Mountain tomb attraction and noticed Luo Taizong’s resting chamber, which contained an immense jade wall and a jade outer coffin.
• Zhang Xuezhou identified the tomb’s jade as Soul Jade whose Spiritual Qi had escaped, and recognized the chamber as a former sacred cultivation site.

After the imperial mausoleum revealed Luo Taizong’s history and a hollowed-out Spirit Jade mine, Zhang Xuezhou planned to turn the site into a concealed cultivation ground. Ren Anran proposed a method for guiding which Technique Method would become her Minor Divine Ability, and Zhang Xuezhou considered how it might affect his own cultivation.

• Zhang Xuezhou proposed building a larger Spirit Gathering Formation in the Spirit Jade mine and using Qinmeng Secret Stones to supply Spiritual Qi while the jade shells kept it contained.
• Ren Anran worried that the Fire Meteor creatures from Qinmeng might come looking for what had been found, and Zhang Xuezhou said they would eventually pursue it if they were not foolish.
• Ren Anran compared Hu Yu and Quelling Chief with the emperor she had seen and said she longed to reach the emperor’s level of strength.
• Ren Anran told Zhang Xuezhou she planned to focus on the Yang Corporeal Soul Transformation Technique, setting aside her other methods to increase the chance it would become her Minor Divine Ability.
• Zhang Xuezhou read Ren Anran’s theory and realized her approach gave her a fifty percent chance of entering the Divine Ability Realm, with the chosen Technique Method effectively certain if she succeeded.

Zhang Xuezhou led the others in constructing a Spirit Gathering Formation in Luo Taizong's burial chamber, demonstrating how tokens could control access to its Spiritual Qi. The group learned how scarce resources would be for advanced cultivation, while Li Yingbo turned his attention to Ren Anran's upcoming attempt to enter the Divine Ability Realm.

• Zhang Xuezhou explained his thoughts on how cultivators' experiences and chosen techniques could shape their Divine Ability Techniques.
• Zhang Xuezhou directed Ren Yisheng and the others to carve formation lines into the burial chamber, then activated the Spirit Gathering Formation with Law Power.
• Zhang Xuezhou made tokens from discarded jade so the others could draw Spiritual Qi from the formation only while carrying them.
• Zhang Xuezhou warned that a two-ton Qinmeng Secret Stone held enough Spiritual Qi for only one Sole Self Realm cultivator to break through to the True Self.
• Song Bu'er complained about Luo Taizong's exploitation of Qinmeng's resources, and Zhu Liangping reminded him that every era had its limitations.
• Li Yingbo asked whether Ren Anran could attempt to break through to the Divine Ability Realm.

Ren Anran attempted to enter the Divine Ability Realm by advancing the Yang Corporeal Soul Incarnation Technique while fusing her Yin-Yang School Realm Techniques. Zhang Xuezhou realized she was using her own incarnation as the Human Pill to refine herself, creating a potentially endless cycle of cultivation.

• Zhang Xuezhou explained that Ren Anran could not use medicine during her breakthrough because it would trigger the Poison Avoidance Instruction in her body.
• Ren Yisheng chiseled away the shell around the Qinmeng Secret Stone, releasing a fragrance and dense Spiritual Qi that forced Luo Burang and Zhang Manqian to begin cultivating at the edge of the bedchamber.
• Ren Anran summoned her Yang Corporeal Soul Incarnation and worked to keep control of it as the technique advanced.
• Ren Anran stopped solidifying the incarnation and drew it back into herself, prompting Zhang Xuezhou to realize she was refining herself with the incarnation as a Human Pill.

Zhang Xuezhou watched Ren Anran experiment with combining the Yang Corporeal Soul Incarnation Technique and her Realm Technique, hoping to turn them into a Divine Ability. Her breakthrough remained unfinished, but she began using her Gene Sequence as a new catalyst, and a Sequence Lock appeared inside her Yang Corporeal Soul Incarnation.

• Zhang Xuezhou realized Ren Anran was trying to make the Yang Corporeal Soul Incarnation Technique and Realm Technique interdependent, and hoped she would succeed.
• Luo Burang struggled with the Spiritual Qi until Zhang Xuezhou advised him how to advance his Realm Technique in the Qinmeng Secret Stone's rich environment.
• Li Yingbo asked Zhang Xuezhou how to condense his Sequence Lock, and Zhang Xuezhou advised him to keep drawing in Spiritual Qi and stretching it despite the strain.
• Ren Anran began drawing on her Sequence Lock when her attempt to break through to the Divine Ability Realm stalled.
• Luo Burang compared Ren Anran's shadow consuming the Sequence Lock to making tofu, prompting Zhang Xuezhou to consider it as a catalyst.
• Ren Anran's Yang Corporeal Soul Incarnation emerged with a glowing Sequence Lock in its abdomen, beginning a process of devouring and refining it.

Ren Anran searched for the catalyst needed to fuse her Sequence Lock, Yang Corporeal Soul Incarnation, and Realm Technique and break through to the Divine Ability Realm. She concluded that fire crystals from the Void Furnace could provide the needed stimulus, while the Profound Qi Heavy Armor could protect her mind during the attempt.

• Ren Anran explained that her preparations had stalled because she lacked the enlightenment needed to unite her Sequence Lock, Yang Corporeal Soul Incarnation, and Realm Technique.
• Luo Burang suggested transforming the Sequence Lock so it could gather and disperse while retaining its function, and Zhang Xuezhou compared cultivation to refining pills and making medicine.
• Ren Yisheng asked whether they should bring in the Void Furnace, but Zhang Xuezhou said the needed catalyst was not ordinary fire or the Tomb Scripture's mysteries.
• Zhang Xuezhou and Luo Burang recited the Tomb Scripture, prompting Ren Anran to recall how the Profound Qi Heavy Armor had protected her during her battle with Huang Daoxian.
• Ren Anran identified the Void Furnace's fire crystals as the likely catalyst and reasoned that the Profound Qi Heavy Armor could keep her mind clear while she attempted the breakthrough.

Ren Anran pushed through a dangerous attempt to enter the Divine Ability Realm while Zhang Xuezhou and the others tried to support her. As the chapter ended, Ren Anran’s Law Power began turning purple, signaling that she had awakened the Yang Corporeal Soul Incarnation.

• Ren Yisheng worried over Ren Anran’s painful breakthrough attempt, and Zhang Xuezhou explained that finding a new cultivation path was the real challenge.
• At Zhang Xuezhou’s suggestion, Wang Haoran tried to break through to the Body Transformation Realm, while other cultivators also attempted to advance and aid Ren Anran.
• Ren Anran silently insisted she would succeed, and Zhang Xuezhou increased the fire crystals around her to the limit of seventy-two.
• Zhang Xuezhou exposed the fire crystals’ scorching cores, raising the bedchamber’s temperature as Ren Anran and Wang Haoran struggled through their breakthroughs.
• Ren Anran’s Law Power began shifting from deep blue toward purple, indicating that her Yang Corporeal Soul Incarnation had awakened.

Ren Anran broke through into the Divine Ability Realm and created an Infant that fused her Sequence Lock, Yang Corporeal Soul Incarnation, and body into a new cultivation path. Zhang Xuezhou saw that her method might help open a route through the Yin-Yang School’s final three realms, though it still had limitations and could not yet be copied.

• Ren Anran revealed that the force in her abdomen was an Infant and formed it into a purple sphere surrounded by Divine Ability Law Power.
• Ren Anran explained that the Infant fused her Sequence Lock, Yang Corporeal Soul Incarnation, and body, allowing it to draw on her Law Power and Gene Power.
• Wang Haoran wondered whether other cultivators would need a womb implanted to advance, and Zhang Xuezhou suggested the method could be modified.
• Ren Anran showed that the Infant could use her Technique Methods and Gene Fighting Techniques, while Spiritual Qi made its manifested form more solid.
• Zhang Xuezhou recognized that Ren Anran’s approach had drawbacks, including its reliance on Spiritual Qi, but believed it could help clear the way for further cultivation.

Zhang Xuezhou considered how Ren Anran’s successful correction of her Sequence Lock could guide others, while recognizing that her cultivation method could not simply be copied. Ren Anran’s breakthrough also helped Ren Yisheng advance into the Consciousness Creation Realm, leaving the group focused on developing their own paths toward future challenges.

• Zhang Xuezhou explained that Ren Anran had eliminated her Sequence Lock’s hidden danger, but that other Sequence Holders would need further revisions to follow her example.
• Zhang Xuezhou said he would test a Sequence Lock after reaching the Sixth Sequence and considered asking Divine Lord Zhenyuan or Master Dong for advice on awakening a Divine Ability.
• Ren Anran said her forgotten Technique Methods were absent from her memory but recoverable through bodily instinct, though she preferred to focus on using the Qinmeng Secret Stone to seek a path to the Sole Self Realm.
• Ren Yisheng awakened in the Consciousness Creation Realm after being carried along by the flow of Qi from Ren Anran’s breakthrough.
• Ren Yisheng reflected that the group could learn from others but would eventually need to cultivate their own strengths to keep advancing against future competition and the Qinmeng Fire Meteor creatures.

Zuo Lianguang’s strength surged after he entered the Seventh Sequence, and he flaunted his new abilities inside Twilight Years Mansion while Zhu Bufan worried that he had fallen behind. After Zuo Lianguang set off to challenge Qimeng Haige, the Void Furnace melted through the mansion’s glass and escaped.

• Xu Zhihui continued issuing challenges across the country and grew strong enough to fight some Fifth Sequence Holders.
• Zuo Lianguang used his claws to tear through explosion-proof glass and showed off his enhanced strength, Resistance Layer, and metal-disarming ability.
• Zuo Lianguang invited Zhu Bufan to fight, but Zhu Bufan declined and suggested he challenge Qimeng Haige instead.
• Zuo Lianguang flew around Twilight Years Mansion and headed off to test himself against Qimeng Haige’s Eighth Sequence Control.
• The Void Furnace melted through the explosion-proof glass with a concentrated line of flame and jumped out of Twilight Years Mansion.

After a rare breakthrough resonance helped the group advance, Ren Yisheng learned that Zuo Lianguang and the Void Furnace were fighting at Twilight Years Mansion. Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng chose to wait for the outcome, hoping the clash would humble both men and preserve the Void Furnace’s cooperation with the Scarlet Alliance State.

• Ren Anran’s breakthrough filled the bedchamber with Spiritual Qi, helping Zhang Xuezhou, Ren Yisheng, Luo Burang, and the others advance their cultivation.
• Ren Yisheng received news that Zuo Lianguang and the Void Furnace had started fighting at Twilight Years Mansion.
• Zhang Xuezhou reasoned that the Void Furnace had likely recovered much of his former strength and might defeat Zuo Lianguang despite the Sequence Lock.
• Ren Yisheng suggested going to intervene, but Zhang Xuezhou preferred to wait and let both sides pay a price.
• Ren Yisheng and Zhang Xuezhou agreed that Zuo Lianguang needed to be humbled and the Void Furnace needed to respect the Scarlet Alliance State’s rules.

After Ren Yisheng and Zhang Xuezhou split up, Zhang flew back to the North Rehe Research Institute with Luo Burang to pursue pharmaceutical research. They discussed the unresolved challenges of combining Realm Technique with Sequence Locks, then agreed to collaborate on developing medicine from the Snake Cave ingredients.

• Ren Yisheng led one group toward Western Capital City, while Zhang Xuezhou and Luo Burang returned to North Rehe so Zhang could work on the Snake Cave medicines.
• Luo Burang asked whether their method of combining Realm Technique and Sequence Locks could endure, and Zhang Xuezhou explained that key problems still prevented others from using it.
• Luo Burang said he could try forming a Sequence Lock with Gene Power but did not know how to merge it into the body while preserving its effects.
• Luo Burang asked to join Zhang Xuezhou's pharmaceutical research, and Zhang welcomed him.
• Zhang Xuezhou explained his Yin-Yang School approach to medicine, and Luo Burang recognized it as a potentially effective way to formulate medicines with fewer side effects.

Zhang Xuezhou refined a version of the Snake Cave medicine with reduced side effects, and Luo Burang tested it despite its intense sourness and resulting hallucinations. While lucid inside the hallucination, Luo Burang conceived a way for Sequence Holders to destroy their Sequence Locks themselves, leaving him with a possible solution to the dangers they faced.

• Zhang Xuezhou prepared and tested more than a dozen medicine batches before recommending a tolerable version to Luo Burang.
• Luo Burang drank some of the medicine and experienced vivid hallucinations while remaining aware of his surroundings.
• Luo Burang's hallucinated balls argued about how to avoid being used by the Alchemist, prompting him to consider how value made people targets.
• Luo Burang concluded that a Gene Fighting Technique could let a practitioner destroy their own Sequence Lock when captured or facing death.

Zhang Xuezhou tested the Snake Cave's great medicine on Luo Burang, whose mind became confused despite his strong mental strength. As Luo Burang muttered about making Sequence Locks self-destruct, Zhang Xuezhou realized he had devised a suicidal safeguard against people coveting them and praised the idea.

• Zhang Xuezhou stopped Luo Burang from repeatedly drinking the medicine when he noticed that Luo Burang had fallen into mental disorder.
• Zhang Xuezhou used the Highest Clarity True Technique to bring Luo Burang briefly back to himself, and Luo Burang asked him to increase the dose.
• Zhang Xuezhou drank the medicine and explained how its sour ingredients helped limit overdoses and contain the great medicine's side effects.
• Luo Burang muttered about making Sequence Locks collapse and explode as a final safeguard against people trying to steal them.
• Zhang Xuezhou understood that the technique could deter hunters and praised Luo Burang's solution.

Luo Burang used the medicine’s side effects to devise a Gene Fighting Technique that could destroy a Sequence Lock and potentially let a lower-level Sequence Holder kill a stronger one. After Zhang Xuezhou left the laboratory to rest, the Void Furnace arrived in North Rehe to investigate Fire Meteor’s traces.

• Luo Burang proposed that Sequence Holders could turn themselves into bombs by destroying their Sequence Locks, and Zhang Xuezhou argued that such weapons would not plunge society into darkness.
• Luo Burang estimated that a Fifth Sequence Holder might kill a Seventh Sequence Holder with the technique, and Zhang Xuezhou decided he wanted to learn it.
• Luo Burang went to rest while Zhang Xuezhou left the laboratory, reflecting that three days had passed and his remaining stay was short.
• Zhang Xuezhou encountered the Void Furnace, who said Ren Yisheng had told it that North Rehe was the core region Zhang Xuezhou’s kingdom had been targeting.
• Zhang Xuezhou realized Ren Yisheng had likely summoned the Void Furnace to investigate traces left by Fire Meteor and hoped to find the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon’s lair.

Zhang Xuezhou invented a hidden ruler, Huangdao Tuer, to make the Void Furnace wary of opposing the Scarlet Alliance State. The Void Furnace’s account of an underground lord linked to Puresainuoru left Zhang Xuezhou wondering whether the danger in the Thousand Islands Alliance had truly passed.

• Zhang Xuezhou told the Void Furnace that Huangdao Tuer secretly ruled the Scarlet Alliance State and promised that helping them would earn the king’s friendship.
• The Void Furnace asked to meet Huangdao Tuer, and Zhang Xuezhou claimed the king had last appeared four years earlier to address a disaster in the Thousand Islands Alliance.
• Zhang Xuezhou described Puresainuoru, and the Void Furnace identified him as a Shadow creature who had served a powerful underground lord.
• The Void Furnace explained that such underground lords could resurrect the dead, possess Immortality, and return after death, making the Void Furnace wary of provoking Huangdao Tuer.
• Zhang Xuezhou grew concerned that Puresainuoru’s death might not have ended the threat in the Thousand Islands Alliance.

Zhang Xuezhou explained the strange effects of the Snake Cave’s jingluo vine to Void Furnace while concealing the Scarlet Alliance State’s weaknesses and reassuring him about the missing fire crystals. He planned to cultivate the vine in a better environment, while Void Furnace left with renewed trust in Zhang Xuezhou despite his suspicions.

• Zhang Xuezhou worried that the Scarlet Alliance State’s fabricated strength could be exposed and that its people would remain dependent on Void Furnace for Gene Sequence advances.
• Void Furnace explained that jingluo vine adapted to the environment where it grew, and that the vine beneath Huang Snake had taken on the beast’s chaotic influence.
• Zhang Xuezhou learned that jingluo vine could adapt to better conditions over time and planned to grow it in Luo Taizong’s bedchamber using Spiritual Qi.
• Zhang Xuezhou gave Void Furnace a dose of acidic medicinal liquid made from the foul-grown vine, and Void Furnace spat it out and breathed fire to clear his mouth.
• Void Furnace lamented that Ren Anran had taken his fire crystals, and Zhang Xuezhou claimed he would retrieve the remainder from the king after inspections and testing were finished.

Zhang Xuezhou brought the Void Furnace through North Rehe, presenting himself as a favored figure whose Sequence Locks could help others grow stronger. He led the Furnace into Heavenly Pit No. 2 to investigate the North Rehe Fire Meteor and the possible hidden base of the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons.

• Ren Yisheng and the task force greeted Zhang Xuezhou ceremonially as he left the B13 Research Institute with the Void Furnace.
• Zhang Xuezhou explained that Sequence Locks resembled the Furnace’s Fire Seeds and offered to help it develop a Sequence if it gained approval.
• The Void Furnace asked about learning Sequence methods and heard Zhang Xuezhou boast that the king’s six guards could defeat Zhou Xin in one exchange.
• Ren Yisheng kept onlookers away while Zhang Xuezhou guided the Void Furnace into Heavenly Pit No. 2 to search for the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons’ hidden base.