Chapter Summaries

Yi Xuan successfully tested a 3D printer powered by Golden Flame and used it to produce parts for robots. He and Liang Shi assembled five Nüwa robots, which No. 01 programmed to work in Yi Xuan's secret chamber.

• Yi Xuan paired the 3D printer with No. 01, loaded its control system, and used Golden Flame as its heat source.
• No. 01 reported that the first printed part was high quality, so Yi Xuan ordered it to print all the robot components.
• After the printer produced the parts overnight, Yi Xuan and Liang Shi assembled the first tracked robot.
• Yi Xuan made four more robots and named the five Nüwa No. 1 through No. 5.
• No. 01 connected and programmed the robots, and they began working around the secret chamber.

Yi Xuan used No. 01 to compress and store a model of the human brain, hoping to simulate cultivation of the Spirit Refining Instruction without harming his own mind. The brain model successfully began simulating an immortal cultivator’s sea of consciousness.

• Yi Xuan grew bored at his stall and struggled to make progress cultivating with the Spirit Refining Instruction because each attempt ended in a loud boom and a headache.
• Yi Xuan rushed to the secret chamber and asked No. 01 whether it could construct a model of the human brain, but its available storage was insufficient.
• No. 01 suggested compressing the brain model, and Yi Xuan installed six additional Jade Slip hard drives and wrote a real-time compression program.
• Yi Xuan transmitted the brain data from the Book of Technology to No. 01, which compressed and stored the complete model over a day and night.
• Yi Xuan backed up No. 01’s main system, started the brain model, and ordered it to simulate an immortal cultivator’s sea of consciousness; the screen turned hazy white.

Yi Xuan used No. 01 to simulate a cultivator’s sea of consciousness and discovered that the Spirit Refining Decision’s strike exceeded his current limit by 120,000 times. After a month of simulations, No. 01 produced a cultivation plan tailored to his needs, while Liang Shi slowly reached the Qi Refining First Layer.

• Yi Xuan had No. 01 simulate a sea of consciousness and successfully construct a small cube from Divine Sense.
• Yi Xuan ordered No. 01 to simulate the Spirit Refining Decision, and the results showed its strike exceeded his sea of consciousness’s strength by 120,000 times.
• Yi Xuan assigned No. 01 to run repeated simulations and paused Liang Shi’s studies so he could focus on cultivation.
• A month later, Liang Shi reached the Qi Refining First Layer, convincing Yi Xuan to optimize a cultivation method suited to him.
• After a month of simulation and optimization, No. 01 completed a Spirit Refining Decision cultivation plan, and Yi Xuan prepared to try it.

Yi Xuan used No. 01’s optimized Spirit Refining Instruction to strengthen his Divine Sense while keeping grenade production running. His senior brother Shi Zhenghao arrived badly injured and collapsed, leaving Yi Xuan to treat him and keep his presence secret.

• No. 01 devised a grinding method that Yi Xuan could withstand, and Yi Xuan completed his first fifteen-minute cultivation session before losing consciousness.
• Yi Xuan declined further optimization so No. 01 could resume controlling the secret chamber and grenade production, while Liang Shi continued studying technology with it.
• Over the next half month, Yi Xuan increased his cultivation sessions from fifteen minutes to an hour and recovered quickly between them.
• Yi Xuan smelled blood, recognized Shi Zhenghao in a black cloak, and carried his senior brother to the bedroom after he collapsed.
• Liang Shi found Yi Xuan tending to Shi Zhenghao, learned he was his senior martial uncle, and was told to keep his presence secret and fetch a bottle of Origin Returning Pills from Fatty Lin.

Yi Xuan’s senior brother Shi Zhenghao recovered in his courtyard after escaping a Golden Core Evil Cultivator who tracked him through a mark on a soul he had taken. Shi Zhenghao remained in hiding at Yi Xuan’s home, planning to wait until he could reach the Golden Core Realm before confronting his pursuer.

• Yi Xuan woke when Shi Zhenghao groaned and helped him recover, while the two joked about Elder Wang and his wife.
• Shi Zhenghao explained that an Evil Cultivator’s tracking mark led his Golden Core master to find him, and that a Greater Teleportation Talisman brought him to Yi Xuan’s courtyard after he was beaten.
• Liang Shi arrived with an Origin Returning Pill, and Shi Zhenghao praised him after Liang Shi defended Yi Xuan from criticism.
• Yi Xuan told Liang Shi to pause his lessons while Shi Zhenghao recovered, and Shi Zhenghao stayed in the courtyard for half a month.
• Shi Zhenghao said he would remain hidden until he reached the Golden Core Realm, and Yi Xuan teased him for being afraid to leave.

Yi Xuan planned to build an anti-materiel weapon to seriously injure the Golden Core Evil Dao cultivator pursuing Shi Zhenghao. He sent Shi Zhenghao to stay with Liang Shi and began printing a cultivation-world version of a Barrett rifle.

• Shi Zhenghao claimed he could kill the Evil Dao cultivator if the man were seriously injured, and Yi Xuan said he would try to create a way to do so.
• Yi Xuan called Liang Shi over and arranged for Shi Zhenghao to stay at Liang Shi's home while he went into seclusion.
• Yi Xuan entered his secret room and ordered No. 01 to generate a model of an anti-materiel sniper rifle, which turned out to be a Barrett.
• Yi Xuan chose red copper instead of mysterious iron for the weapon, then ordered No. 01 to send the model to the 3D printer.

Yi Xuan finished a spiritual-array-enhanced Barrett and showed Shi Zhenghao how it could threaten a Golden Core True Person. The chapter ended with Shi Zhenghao believing Yi Xuan’s test shot had killed the law enforcement elder.

• Yi Xuan and two Nüwa-type robots assembled the Barrett, then Yi Xuan spent two days inscribing spiritual arrays to strengthen it and reduce its recoil.
• Yi Xuan converted 12.7-millimeter rounds into Spirit Stone bullets and went to bring Shi Zhenghao and Liang Shi to his courtyard.
• Shi Zhenghao doubted the Barrett could threaten a Golden Core True Person until Yi Xuan showed him the law enforcement elder through its sight from thirty thousand meters away.
• Yi Xuan fired the Barrett at a distant mountain peak while Shi Zhenghao watched the spot with his Divine Sense.
• Shi Zhenghao turned to Yi Xuan and declared that the law enforcement elder was surely dead.

Yi Xuan and Shi Zhenghao tested the Barrett and discovered that its bullet could penetrate deep into a mountain before exploding inside it. Confident in the weapon, Shi Zhenghao set out to take revenge on the Golden Core cultivator who had injured him, leaving Yi Xuan worried about his safety.

• Shi Zhenghao flew Yi Xuan to the mountainside where the Barrett bullet had struck, carrying him by the collar at tremendous speed.
• Yi Xuan used his Divine Sense to inspect the bullet's path and the large cavity its explosion had created inside the mountain.
• Shi Zhenghao examined the Barrett and decided to attack the Evil Cultivator who had seriously injured him without waiting to reach the Golden Core Realm.
• Yi Xuan explained how to use the Barrett, gave Shi Zhenghao the ten remaining Spirit Stone bullets, and warned him to retreat if he missed.
• Shi Zhenghao flew toward the edge of Azure Cloud Sect territory, while Yi Xuan worried that his senior brother might be in danger.

Yi Xuan learned that Shi Zhenghao had used the Barrett to kill an Evil Cultivator from fifty li away. Shi Zhenghao gave Yi Xuan the Evil Cultivator’s Storage Bag, which contained five blank souls and a soul-refining manual Yi Xuan was not allowed to keep.

• Yi Xuan checked that Shi Zhenghao was unharmed and asked whether his mission had succeeded.
• Shi Zhenghao explained that he had shot the Evil Cultivator from fifty li away, killing him before he could react.
• Yi Xuan gave Shi Zhenghao the Barrett and a box of fifty bullets.
• Shi Zhenghao gave Yi Xuan the Spirit Stones and five blank souls from the Evil Cultivator’s Storage Bag, while keeping the other items for himself.
• Yi Xuan examined the soul-refining manual but could not persuade Shi Zhenghao to let him keep it, so he stored the five blank souls for later.

Over half a year, Yi Xuan’s grenade business expanded while his cultivation reached the Qi Refining Realm Ninety-Ninth Layer, leaving him wary of advancing further. The chapter ended with Liang Shi entering the vast underground base Yi Xuan had built beneath his secret chamber.

• Yi Xuan reflected that he had not seen Shi Zhenghao since his senior brother left, while the Azure Cloud Sect continued running smoothly under the law enforcement elder and Cui Yan.
• Yi Xuan raised grenade production to a thousand a day, bringing Li Jingming’s earnings to ten thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones a day while keeping his own profits secret.
• Liang Shi reached only the Qi Refining Realm Second Layer, while Yi Xuan advanced to the Ninety-Ninth Layer and discovered that his True Qi reserves had grown enormously and his lifespan had increased.
• Liang Shi entered Yi Xuan’s secret chamber, where automated production lines had replaced much of the work previously done by robots.
• Liang Shi passed security checks and rode an elevator down to a huge base five hundred meters beneath the secret chamber, where machines and robots filled the main hall.

After Liang Shi accidentally damaged No. 06’s program, Yi Xuan restored it and tested its enhanced computing power. Yi Xuan then began using No. 06 to simulate and optimize Liang Shi’s cultivation method, while No. 01 teased him with the name “Disciple No. 1.”

• Liang Shi apologized after Yi Xuan scolded him for secretly modifying No. 06 and turning it into an artificial idiot.
• Yi Xuan confirmed that No. 06 was restored, and it reported computing power forty-eight percent above expectations.
• Yi Xuan explained that No. 06 could simulate Liang Shi’s cultivation method and potentially help him advance faster.
• Yi Xuan had No. 01 retrieve Liang Shi’s physical data from No. 05 and display a model of his body, including the Qihai acupoint that served as his Dantian.
• No. 01 began simulating Liang Shi’s cultivation and called him “Disciple No. 1,” but Liang Shi chose not to ask Yi Xuan to alter its underlying code.

Yi Xuan used No. 01 to simulate Liang Shi’s cultivation and found that his method consumed True Qi instead of efficiently increasing it. After testing route adjustments, No. 01 began optimizing Liang Shi’s Cultivation Method under strict safeguards for his health.

• Yi Xuan had No. 01 visualize Liang Shi’s Dantian and simulate his cultivation.
• Yi Xuan discovered that Liang Shi gained only one-thousandth more True Qi per hour-long cycle, with red areas in his body consuming Qi.
• Yi Xuan tested the Azure Cloud Sect’s introductory Cultivation Method and found it yielded a slightly better result.
• Yi Xuan had No. 01 test ten small route adjustments, and three improved Liang Shi’s results.
• Yi Xuan approved iterative optimization and ordered No. 01 to reject any changes that could harm Liang Shi’s health.

Yi Xuan had No. 01 optimize Liang Shi’s Cultivation Method, dramatically increasing his cultivation speed, while construction of the Second Base uncovered a Spirit Stone mine. Yi Xuan dismissed Liang Shi’s fears of other sects claiming it and declared the mine his own.

• No. 01 completed and verified an optimized Cultivation Method that let Liang Shi circulate True Qi faster and gain far more with each cycle.
• Liang Shi cultivated with the new method, then traveled to the Second Base to find Yi Xuan overseeing construction.
• Yi Xuan had a six-legged robot drill into the ground, where it uncovered a Spirit Stone.
• Liang Shi warned that the mine could bring trouble from other sects, but Yi Xuan insisted no one would dare challenge him over his Household’s mine.

Yi Xuan discovered that the Gazing Immortal Sect was mining the Spirit Stone deposit above his underground base, so he informed the Azure Cloud Sect. The sect’s elders confirmed the mine and decided to attack the Gazing Immortal Sect’s operation.

• Yi Xuan showed Liang Shi a robot’s recording of the Gazing Immortal Sect mining the Spirit Stone deposit above them and planned to make the ore seem to run out before the miners reached his tunnels.
• Yi Xuan returned to the Azure Cloud Sect and told the grand elder about the mine, prompting the grand elder to rush him to the sect’s main hall.
• The enforcement elder, Cui Yan, and the grand elder listened as Yi Xuan confirmed he had seen the Gazing Immortal Sect mining the deposit.
• Yi Xuan led the elders to the mine, where the grand elder and enforcement elder confirmed the deposit was real and recently discovered.
• The enforcement elder urged the Azure Cloud Sect to attack and seize the mine from the Gazing Immortal Sect.

Yi Xuan witnessed the Azure Cloud Sect seize and strip a Spirit Stone vein from the Gazing Immortal Sect, then saw the conflict escalate when the Gazing Immortal Sect attacked with three Nascent Soul ancestors. With the mountain gate under siege and the cameras destroyed, Yi Xuan sent robots to investigate the battle.

• The enforcement elder sent three Golden Core elders and over two hundred disciples to seize the mine, and the Azure Cloud Sect extracted half the Spirit Stones before the Gazing Immortal Sect intervened.
• After a prolonged standoff, the enforcement elder sent five Golden Core True Persons led by Cui Yan, and eight Azure Cloud Sect Golden Core cultivators routed the Gazing Immortal Sect's camp.
• The Azure Cloud Sect mined the remaining Spirit Stones, but the Gazing Immortal Sect later attacked its mountain gate with three Nascent Soul ancestors.
• Yi Xuan learned from Liang Shi that the mountain-guarding formation was active and ordered No. 01 to check the outside cameras, finding that only eight damaged cameras still worked.
• Yi Xuan ordered No. 01 to send squads of robots toward the mountain gate to learn what was happening.

Yi Xuan deployed Nüwa No. 5 robots to secretly watch the Gazing Immortal Sect confront the Azure Cloud Sect. As the sects began fighting, the enforcement elder revealed he was a Nascent Soul cultivator and struck at the Gazing Immortal Sect's grand elder.

• Yi Xuan reviewed the Nüwa robot models and sent squads of camouflaged Nüwa No. 5 robots into the town through his underground tunnels.
• Yi Xuan and Liang Shi used the robots to survey the town and watch the Azure Cloud Sect face the Gazing Immortal Sect outside its protective formation.
• Yi Xuan relayed the robots' signals toward the sect and heard the Gazing Immortal Sect accuse the Azure Cloud Sect of stealing a Spirit Stone mine.
• The enforcement elder ignored the accusations and ordered the Azure Cloud Sect to strengthen its defenses.
• Three Nascent Soul cultivators of the Gazing Immortal Sect attacked the mountain-protecting formation, prompting the enforcement elder and grand elder to fight back.
• The enforcement elder revealed his Nascent Soul presence and struck at the Gazing Immortal Sect's grand elder.

The Gazing Immortal Sect attacked the Azure Cloud Sect, whose elders were outnumbered despite Li Yuntai's recent breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm. Yi Xuan deployed fifty Nüwa No. 6 robots to fire on the attackers, but the robots were destroyed and the video feed went down.

• Li Yuntai revealed that he had reached the Nascent Soul Realm and clashed with Liu Xun as three Nascent Soul cultivators pressed the Azure Cloud Sect's elders.
• The Gazing Immortal Sect's Golden Core cultivators attacked the mountain-guarding grand array while the Azure Cloud Sect's elders struggled to defend it.
• Yi Xuan deployed all fifty Nüwa No. 6 robots and ordered No. 01 to identify and target likely Golden Core cultivators.
• Yi Xuan ordered the robots to fire, killing eleven attackers, seriously wounding seventeen, and lightly wounding five.
• The Gazing Immortal Sect destroyed all fifty Nüwa No. 6 robots and seventeen Nüwa No. 5 robots, interrupting the video transmission.

Yi Xuan used his robots to kill five Golden Core cultivators and nearly wipe out the Gazing Immortal Sect disciples in the city, giving the Azure Cloud Sect time to recover. The enemy’s three Nascent Soul cultivators then pressed the two Azure Cloud Sect Nascent Soul cultivators, leaving them struggling to hold on.

• No. 01 reported that Yi Xuan’s attack had killed five Golden Core cultivators and six Grain Avoidance cultivators, including five Golden Core True Persons from the Gazing Immortal Sect.
• Yi Xuan used No. 5 robots to observe Gazing Immortal Sect disciples gathering in the city, then activated self-destruct mode on all No. 6 robots and wiped out nearly all of them with explosions.
• The surviving Gazing Immortal Sect elder flew back toward the main force, while Yi Xuan scolded Liang Shi for calling him wicked.
• Cui Yan organized the Azure Cloud Sect’s Golden Core cultivators into a counterattack after Yi Xuan’s attacks gave them room to recover.
• The two Gazing Immortal Sect Nascent Soul cultivators and their invited ally attacked the Azure Cloud Sect’s two Nascent Soul cultivators with all their strength, forcing them to hold on under mounting pressure.

Yi Xuan tried to save the Grand Elder from three Nascent Soul cultivators by arming two No. 1 Robots, but the attack revealed the location of the secret chamber. After the enemy destroyed it, Yi Xuan and Liang Shi fled underground, where a voice challenged the invaders in the Azure Cloud Sect’s name.

• The Grand Elder and the enforcement elder struggled to hold off three Gazing Immortal Sect Nascent Soul cultivators, and Yi Xuan worried that the Grand Elder would fall.
• Liang Shi reminded Yi Xuan that two No. 1 Robots remained, so Yi Xuan had No. 01 build weapon systems for them.
• Liang Shi mounted the weapons, and Yi Xuan ordered the robots to fire Barrett bullets at a Nascent Soul Cultivator attacking the Grand Elder.
• The Barretts knocked the robots over, and the Nascent Soul Cultivator sensed the transmitter beneath Yi Xuan’s courtyard and called Yi Xuan a little bug.
• Yi Xuan cut the signal, but No. 01 reported that the equipment in the secret chamber had disappeared, so Yi Xuan and Liang Shi fled toward the subway.
• As Yi Xuan and Liang Shi boarded the subway, a voice called out, “Do you think the Azure Cloud Sect has no one left?”

Xiao Anhe emerged from seclusion and confronted Liu Xun and the Gazing Immortal Sect after they attacked the Azure Cloud Sect. He destroyed Liu Xun’s Spirit Artifact and forced the invaders to retreat, then vowed the Azure Cloud Sect would visit them another day.

• Yi Xuan recognized the white-robed man above the ruined courtyard as his master, Xiao Anhe, and told Liang Shi that Xiao Anhe had emerged from seclusion.
• Xiao Anhe confronted Liu Xun, who proposed that the Azure Cloud Sect hand over the Spirit Stones from the mine in exchange for the Gazing Immortal Sect’s withdrawal.
• Xiao Anhe attacked Liu Xun with two spirit swords, and the strikes destroyed Liu Xun’s fifth-grade Spirit Artifact.
• Liu Xun and the other Nascent Soul cultivators withdrew with their disciples after Xiao Anhe stopped the enforcement elder from pursuing them.
• Xiao Anhe called after Liu Xun and promised that the Azure Cloud Sect would visit him another day, prompting Liu Xun to flee faster.