Chapter Summaries

After No. 01 completed its data collection, Yi Xuan finalized and built a rocket suited to the cultivation world alongside a quantum communication satellite. He launched the prototype rocket toward a desert in the western Xia Kingdom and watched it reach its target with Liang Shi.

• Yi Xuan learned that No. 01 had finished collecting data, and No. 01 reported that conditions would not prevent a rocket launch.
• No. 01 used the measurements to optimize the rocket design, and Yi Xuan began producing the rocket and quantum communication satellite at No. 1 Base.
• Yi Xuan moved two rockets and the completed satellite to No. 2 Base after testing and inspecting them.
• Yi Xuan ordered a test launch of the original two-stage prototype toward a desert in the western Xia Kingdom and flew with Liang Shi in the Firmament to follow it.
• The Long March prototype launched, climbed to its planned altitude, turned toward the target, and plunged into the desert.

Old Xu mistook Yi Xuan and Liang Shi’s Firmaments for Demon Beasts, sparking rumors that spread across the Xia Kingdom and drew cultivators to the desert. Meanwhile, Yi Xuan prepared the Long March and began its launch, which lifted off with a quantum communications satellite aboard.

• Old Xu saw the prototype explode and mistook Liang Shi’s Firmament for a Demon Beast, then spotted two Firmaments as he returned home.
• Old Xu told the town storyteller what he had seen, and rumors spread until people across the Xia Kingdom were said to have witnessed divine beasts in the desert.
• The rumors drew many immortal cultivators to the desert, while Zhuo Ning worried over their presence and nearby cities grew busy with trade.
• Liang Shi picked up Qian Lei and searched the Southern Frontier for Gazing Immortal Sect disciples as Yi Xuan returned to No. 2 Base to prepare the Long March.
• After the final checks, Yi Xuan ordered the launch, and the rocket carrying a quantum communications satellite ignited and lifted off.

Yi Xuan launched the Wukong quantum communications satellite and confirmed that the world beyond the Kármán line was a vast universe. With the satellite signal working, he began the Starlink Project to build a network that could watch the entire cultivation world.

• Yi Xuan watched the Long March rocket cross the Kármán line and discovered a vast universe beyond the so-called Heaven Beyond Heaven.
• The rocket deployed Wukong into its calculated orbit, and No. 01 confirmed the satellite was functioning and its signal was stable.
• Yi Xuan switched the bases to Wukong’s signal, briefly disrupting technology across the Azure Cloud Sect before normal operations resumed.
• The Azure Cloud Sect’s supreme elders noticed the signal change, and Xiao Anhe wondered how difficult his disciple had become to understand.
• Yi Xuan ordered the Starlink Project to begin, and No. 2 Base started work under No. 01’s control.

Yi Xuan planned to fund his Starlink Project by expanding his oil and grenade businesses. After arranging major expansions with Fatty Lin and the Li Household, he was confronted by an unknown speaker on the mountain path.

• Yi Xuan returned from No. 2 Base and decided to expand his two profitable businesses to finance the Starlink Project.
• Yi Xuan ordered Fatty Lin to spread the oil business throughout the Southern Frontier, and Fatty Lin promised to do so within six months.
• Yi Xuan asked Supreme Elder Li to increase the grenade business a hundredfold, and Li Qianren took over the business from Li Jingming.
• Yi Xuan left the mountain feeling relaxed, but a voice behind him accused him of getting full of himself and neglecting human decency.

Yi Xuan’s master, Xiao Anhe, brought him to Supreme Elder Li to identify two spheres left after Yi Xuan melted Qi Yun’s vicious Law Artifact. Supreme Elder Li revealed that they contained two rare, independent Artifact Spirit souls, leaving Yi Xuan with the spheres and a startling discovery.

• Xiao Anhe confronted Yi Xuan about the black and white spheres, and Yi Xuan explained that he had melted the vicious Law Artifact in the Artifact Ruins.
• Xiao Anhe took Yi Xuan to Supreme Elder Li so he could identify the spheres.
• Supreme Elder Li swiftly took the spheres from Yi Xuan and examined them.
• Yi Xuan recounted how he obtained the spheres, and Supreme Elder Li said they held the Artifact Spirit of the vicious weapon and the soul of a Gazing Immortal Sect disciple.
• Supreme Elder Li explained that the two Artifact Spirits existed independently of their Law Artifact, a condition he said was extremely rare.

Supreme Elder Li explained the rarity of the black and white artifact spirits, and Xiao Anhe revealed his plan for Yi Xuan to refine them. After a month of seclusion, Yi Xuan succeeded and gained control of two additional souls, leaving him joking that he was preparing to become a saint.

• Supreme Elder Li explained that artifact spirits were rare and that the black and white orbs should not have survived the destruction of their Law Artifact.
• Xiao Anhe suggested that Yi Xuan refine both artifact spirits, and Supreme Elder Li realized the plan could give Yi Xuan three souls.
• Supreme Elder Li explained that the two refined souls could serve as additional lives and allow Yi Xuan to transfer his consciousness after his body died.
• Yi Xuan and the two supreme elders entered seclusion in Supreme Elder Li's palace for a month.
• Yi Xuan successfully refined both artifact spirits and saw three versions of himself in his sea of consciousness.

After refining the black and white pearls, Yi Xuan explored the two souls bound within them and discovered their connection could transmit signals with remarkable secrecy. Half a month later, Shi Zhenghao recruited him for a dangerous mission investigating mass village killings in Youyun Kingdom, leaving Yi Xuan furious to find that his senior brother had already accepted it on his behalf.

• Yi Xuan absorbed the memories of the black-robed and white-robed souls, learned that they were projections of souls trapped in the pearls, and thanked Supreme Elder Li and Xiao Anhe for helping him refine them.
• Yi Xuan returned to his residence and spent half a month studying the two souls and their covert connection.
• Shi Zhenghao visited Yi Xuan and invited him on a reconnaissance mission intended for two Golden Core elders.
• Shi Zhenghao explained that more than twenty villages in western Youyun Kingdom had been massacred and the sect suspected an Evil Dao sect.
• Yi Xuan checked his sect token and discovered Shi Zhenghao had accepted the mission for him too, then sarcastically thanked his senior brother.

Yi Xuan and Shi Zhenghao traveled to the Youyun Kingdom to investigate massacres blamed on Evil Dao cultivators. After seeing the slaughtered villagers and learning their souls had been extracted, Yi Xuan swore revenge.

• Yi Xuan and Shi Zhenghao flew to the Youyun Kingdom, where a general reported that more than a dozen villages had been massacred.
• Shi Zhenghao suspected Evil Dao cultivators were responsible and took Yi Xuan to inspect a nearby village.
• The two found villagers’ bodies scattered through the village, and Shi Zhenghao identified soul extraction as the method used.
• Yi Xuan saw the gruesome remains, retched, and vowed to chop up the killers and their entire families.

Yi Xuan and Shi Zhenghao flew through villages massacred by Evil Dao cultivators, and Shi Zhenghao explained how they used both mortals’ souls and flesh and blood. In the last village, Yi Xuan found a grieving mother holding her dismembered infant and left asking where hell could be if this was the mortal world.

• Yi Xuan saw villages filled with slaughtered people and livestock, and Shi Zhenghao told him this was the real cultivation world.
• Shi Zhenghao explained that Evil Dao cultivators extracted mortals’ souls and refined their flesh and blood into pills.
• After passing more than a dozen massacred villages, Yi Xuan and Shi Zhenghao found a woman cradling her infant amid the corpses.
• When Shi Zhenghao tried to take the bundle, the woman attacked him, and it fell open to reveal the infant’s severed head and minced body.
• Yi Xuan gathered the infant’s remains and asked Shi Zhenghao where hell was if this was the mortal world.
• Shi Zhenghao knocked the woman unconscious and led Yi Xuan away from the village.

After finding thirty-two villages emptied, Yi Xuan returned to No. 2 Base and spent a month in seclusion. Shi Zhenghao later brought Junior Sister Ning to him and reported that the Blood Asura Gate was responsible, while the Azure Cloud Sect planned to seek allies before acting; Yi Xuan refused to wait for careful planning.

• Yi Xuan and Shi Zhenghao searched every village along the Youyun Kingdom's border, found no survivors besides the woman, and concluded the general's city was isolated.
• Yi Xuan returned to No. 2 Base while Shi Zhenghao took the unconscious woman to the Azure Cloud Sect, where Supreme Elder Li sealed some of her memories and accepted her as his disciple, Junior Sister Ning.
• A month later, Shi Zhenghao brought Junior Sister Ning to Yi Xuan, who was disheveled after his seclusion; Ning said she remembered him despite the memory seal.
• Shi Zhenghao told Yi Xuan that the Blood Asura Gate had carried out the attack and that the Azure Cloud Sect planned to contact other righteous sects to organize a campaign.
• Yi Xuan said he could not wait for the sect's careful planning.

After learning that the Blood Asura Gate was responsible for the Evil Dao’s atrocities, Yi Xuan took Shi Zhenghao and Junior Sister Ning to the sect’s hidden location. He blocked Shi Zhenghao from leaving and invited Junior Sister Ning to join him in attacking the sect.

• Yi Xuan told Shi Zhenghao to wait with Junior Sister Ning, then changed out of his beggar’s disguise and summoned the Firmament.
• Yi Xuan piloted the Firmament to the mountains surrounding the Blood Asura Gate, while Shi Zhenghao questioned his intentions.
• Yi Xuan explained that he had located the Blood Asura Gate using a map in the Scripture Repository and identified the beautiful scenery as an illusion created by the sect formation.
• When Shi Zhenghao tried to take Junior Sister Ning away, Black Tortoise No. 2 appeared and blocked him with its cannon trained on him.
• Yi Xuan held out his hand to Junior Sister Ning and said he would take her to slay every evil ghost.

Yi Xuan led Ning Yun to the Blood Asura Gate and deployed a vast mechanical army against the sect. After its elders came out to confront him, his forces killed them one by one, leaving the sect's disciples to seal their formation and sound the alarm.

• Ning Yun took Yi Xuan's hand and went with him to face the Blood Asura Gate's stele.
• Yi Xuan summoned more than a hundred Pangus, which deployed a much larger mechanical army around the sect entrance.
• The Blood Asura Gate's elders arrived, and a Barrett shot killed the red-haired elder as he threatened Yi Xuan's army.
• A second elder was killed while trying to negotiate, and the remaining elders fled toward the sect.
• Yi Xuan's forces shot down the fleeing elders, while the Blood Asura Gate's disciples closed their grand formation and sounded the alarm bell.

Yi Xuan ordered his mechanical army to attack the Blood Asura Gate after killing Elder Yun and the Golden Core elders who came out to negotiate. Gou Wenshan saw the machines advance and tested their strength, but the chapter ended as their weapons prepared to fire against the sect's protective formation.

• A disciple reported to Gou Wenshan that Elder Yun and several Golden Core elders had been killed outside the Blood Asura Gate's formation.
• Yi Xuan prepared his mechanical army to attack while Shi Zhenghao watched in shock and Ning Yun described feeling pleasure at the deaths of the elders.
• Yi Xuan told Ning Yun the victims were evil spirits and ordered the entire army to attack the Blood Asura Gate.
• Gou Wenshan saw the advancing machines, opened a gap in the formation, and destroyed more than ten Nüwas with a True Essence attack.
• The mechanical army disengaged its weapons' safeties, and blue sparks spread across the Blood Asura Gate's protective formation.

Yi Xuan’s mechanical army battered the Blood Asura Gate’s grand formation until its defenses were nearly depleted, then stopped when he judged that neither side would benefit from an attrition battle. After Gou Wenshan and the sect’s elders came out to face them, Yi Xuan tried to demand their surrender, but Ning Yun pointed out that his promise to leave their corpses intact was unlikely to persuade anyone.

• The disciple controlling the Blood Asura Gate’s formation warned Gou Wenshan that it could hold for less than an incense stick’s time, so Gou Wenshan ordered the disciples to add Spirit Stones.
• Yi Xuan’s Nüwa units fired Gatlings at the grand formation while Shi Zhenghao questioned whether Yi Xuan was a reincarnated old monster.
• Yi Xuan stopped the attack after deciding that the formation could keep holding as long as the Blood Asura Gate supplied enough Spirit Stones.
• Gou Wenshan and the elders left the formation, and Shi Zhenghao warned Yi Xuan that a Nascent Soul expert had swept them with Divine Sense.
• Yi Xuan used a megaphone to tell the Blood Asura Gate to surrender, promising to leave their corpses intact.
• Ning Yun pointed out that Yi Xuan’s promise would not encourage surrender, and Yi Xuan decided to stop trying to persuade them.

Yi Xuan lured Blood Asura Gate’s cultivators into destroying his Nüwa units, then detonated the wreckage and used hidden Barretts to kill many Golden Core cultivators. Gou Wenshan and the Nascent Soul patriarchs launched a strike against Yi Xuan, whose fate was left unknown after a giant spiritual blade struck his position.

• Gou Wenshan ordered Blood Asura Gate’s elders to attack Yi Xuan and his companions after the puppets stopped firing.
• Yi Xuan let the Nüwa units be destroyed, then ordered them detonated and had radar-guided Barretts fire into the explosions.
• The blasts trapped Blood Asura Gate’s cultivators, and Barrett fire killed twenty-five Golden Core cultivators before the others retreated behind the formation.
• Gou Wenshan led the Nascent Soul patriarchs toward Yi Xuan to kill the Puppet Master and end the threat.
• Gou Wenshan brought down a hundred-meter spiritual blade on Yi Xuan and his companions, engulfing them in smoke.

Yi Xuan’s Black Tortoise No. 2 units blocked Gou Wenshan and surrounded the Blood Asura Gate elders, then fought them as Gou called for the sect’s supreme elders. Three Spirit Transformation experts appeared and rapidly destroyed Yi Xuan’s mechanical forces, but his missile barrage stopped them from reaching Gou’s group.

• Black Tortoise No. 2 blocked Gou Wenshan’s attack, and dozens of its units surrounded him and the Blood Asura Gate Nascent Soul experts.
• Yi Xuan’s surrender offer confused the enemy, and Gou Wenshan ordered his elders to attack the Black Tortoise units.
• Yi Xuan ordered the units to fire lasers, killing three Blood Asura Gate elders and prompting Gou Wenshan to call for the supreme elders.
• Three Spirit Transformation experts appeared and destroyed Yi Xuan’s Nüwa and Pangu units in swathes as they advanced toward Gou Wenshan.
• Yi Xuan launched missiles from his Firmament units, halting the three Spirit Transformation experts while the Black Tortoise units kept Gou Wenshan and his allies surrounded.

Yi Xuan kept the Blood Asura Gate’s Nascent Soul cultivators and Spirit Transformation experts at bay while No. 2 Base launched his newly developed DF Express missiles. The chapter ended with Yi Xuan sending robots and gunfire toward the three Spirit Transformation experts as the missiles flew toward them.

• The Blood Asura Gate’s Spirit Transformation experts halted after Yi Xuan’s missiles threatened their weaker Nascent Soul cultivators, and Gou Wenshan gathered the surrounded cultivators into a defensive formation.
• Yi Xuan judged that his Black Tortoise No. 2s could overwhelm the Nascent Soul cultivators but that the three Spirit Transformation experts remained the main danger, so he ordered the Firmaments to prepare another missile barrage.
• Yi Xuan studied a map of the Blood Asura Gate, marked three locations, and had Wukong scan the area while sending a command to No. 2 Base.
• Three vehicles at No. 2 Base launched DF Express missiles toward the Blood Asura Gate.
• Yi Xuan sent low-level robots toward the three Spirit Transformation experts and ordered Barretts and Gatlings to fire at them.

Yi Xuan used his mechanical army to delay three Spirit Transformation experts while waiting for the DF Express to arrive. The experts rescued the Nascent Soul cultivators and prepared to attack Yi Xuan, but the countdown reached zero as a faint pressure descended from the sky.

• Yi Xuan concentrated fire on the three Spirit Transformation experts to slow them down while the DF Express was still on its way.
• The experts raised True Essence shields and pushed through missile attacks from the Firmament aircraft and combined attacks from the Black Tortoise No. 2 units.
• Yi Xuan ordered the Black Tortoise units to abandon their encirclement of the Nascent Soul cultivators and form a defensive line before him.
• The three experts seized several Nascent Soul cultivators and retreated to the entrance of the Blood Asura Gate's grand formation.
• As the experts prepared to strike Yi Xuan, the DF Express countdown reached zero and they felt pressure from the sky.

Yi Xuan used repeated DF Express strikes against the Blood Asura Gate, killing Gou Wenshan and most of the attacking cultivators. As the last surviving Spirit Transformation expert tried to flee, another delivery streaked toward him.

• The first DF Express strike devastated the Blood Asura Gate formation, leaving its three Spirit Transformation experts badly burned and Gou Wenshan near death.
• A furious Spirit Transformation expert threatened Yi Xuan, but Yi Xuan warned the group that another attack was coming.
• The second DF Express strike killed Gou Wenshan and apparently the remaining Nascent Soul Cultivators, while two Spirit Transformation experts vanished in the blast.
• The sole surviving Spirit Transformation expert tried to escape, then stopped when he saw another DF Express approaching.
• Yi Xuan called out that the expert's delivery had arrived again.

Yi Xuan destroyed the Blood Asura Gate’s leaders and captured its remaining members after the sect’s protective formation collapsed. He learned that Elder Yun had led the massacre of villages to expand the Soul Star Blood Sea, but discovered that Elder Yun’s corpse was missing.

• The third DF express delivery killed the Blood Asura Gate’s Spirit Transformation expert and badly damaged its formation, which soon shattered as Yi Xuan’s mechanical army advanced.
• Yi Xuan ordered the Blood Asura Gate members to surrender, and after one man tried to flee and was shot down, the rest submitted to being restrained.
• Yi Xuan had Shi Zhenghao take Ning Yun to the Firmament, then questioned the gathered captives about the slaughter of villages in western Youyun Kingdom.
• A Golden Core expert identified Elder Yun as the culprit and said the sect master had tasked him with expanding the Soul Star Blood Sea.
• The Golden Core expert revealed that Elder Yun had supposedly died in the first attack, but Yi Xuan realized the corpse was missing because the mechanical army had trampled it.