Chapter Summaries

Lu Changzhi explored the fee-free treasure exchange, spotted a clever trick for making a worthless tile seem valuable, and noticed Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty agents using an ocular technique to find hidden goods. The chapter ended when he checked the fortune of an unusual figure and found it was both purple and black.

• Lu Changzhi entered the crowded treasure exchange and found most of its wares unimpressive.
• He examined an argument over an ancient-looking roof tile and realized its seller had hidden something valuable inside it to make the worthless tile seem like a treasure.
• Lu Changzhi left the argument and watched Mu Fan buy various odds and ends around the market.
• He noticed fast-moving cultivators using an ocular technique to find valuable goods, and many sellers they stared at showed signs of imminent danger.
• Lu Changzhi checked the fortune of an unusual figure nearby and discovered it was both purple and black.

Lu Changzhi discovered Qin Han’s purple fortune and learned of several valuable opportunities awaiting him, including Water Xirang needed to help Hua Yunfan create a physical body. Lu Changzhi followed the marked opportunity and took the Water Xirang from a stall, just as Qin Han arrived to claim it.

• Lu Changzhi used Fortuitous Opportunity Peeking and discovered Qin Han had purple fortune and four upcoming opportunities.
• Lu Changzhi marked Qin Han’s first opportunity, which would lead to Water Xirang, and hurried toward it.
• Hua Yunfan recognized the Water Xirang at a stall and urged Qin Han to buy it quickly.
• Lu Changzhi reached the stall first and drew the Water Xirang into his hand.
• As the stallholder asked Lu Changzhi to name a price, Qin Han announced that he would take the lump of mud.

Lu Changzhi and Qin Han competed for a clump of Water Xirang at a black-market stall, while Lu Changzhi discovered that Qin Han carried the soul body Hua Yunfan. After Qin Han challenged him to raise his bid, Lu Changzhi received a set of choices for how to respond.

• The stall owner asked a thousand high-grade spirit crystals for the Water Xirang, and Lu Changzhi agreed to buy it.
• Qin Han bid fifteen hundred high-grade spirit crystals, prompting Lu Changzhi to examine his information and discover Hua Yunfan's soul body.
• Lu Changzhi considered whether Qin Han might be useful for a future disciple-taking mission, but held back because he could not remove Qin Han's talents.
• Qin Han asked Lu Changzhi whether he would raise his bid, and the system presented Lu Changzhi with three choices.

Lu Changzhi used Buddha’s light to pose as an intimidating Buddhist Order expert and make Qin Han abandon his bid for the Water Xirang. He left without paying after the stall owner offered to waive the price, while Qin Han departed vowing revenge.

• Lu Changzhi rejected the rewards for taking Qin Han’s life or accepting the spirit crystals and chose a plan that let him shift the blame.
• Lu Changzhi activated Buddha’s Light Shines Everywhere and claimed the Water Xirang had a karmic connection with the Buddhist Order.
• Hua Yunfan warned Qin Han that Lu Changzhi was too powerful to confront and urged him to leave.
• Qin Han withdrew, blaming the Buddhist Order for his humiliation and vowing to settle the score in the future.
• Lu Changzhi withdrew his payment and left with the Water Xirang, and the stall owner cursed him after realizing he would not return.

Lu Changzhi reviewed Qin Han’s newly revealed fortunes, returned from the black market, and discussed preparations for the approaching secret realm with his disciples. Cang Wenyu explained how the Five Symbols Sect trained its disciples studying away from the sect, while Ji Bochang ordered Qin Jiuxiao to be left alone until he finished with the women.

• Lu Changzhi read that Qin Han had gained a Saint Artifact, a Derivative Sword Heart, and a sword of Saint Artifact grade, and reflected on the value of the inheritance.
• After browsing the black market, Lu Changzhi returned to the residence with Jin Fugui and Xiao Ye, while Mu Fan and Gu Chen went elsewhere; he urged the two disciples to prepare for the secret realm.
• Cang Wenyu visited Lu Changzhi and arranged meetings with disciples studying away from the sect, explaining that they were kept apart to reduce risk and encourage competition for cultivation resources.
• In Heaven’s Chosen City, Ji Bochang watched a recording of Qin Jiuxiao with several women and ordered his subordinate to wait until Qin Jiuxiao had finished before speaking with him.
• Ji Bochang also ordered that more clear recordings of Qin Jiuxiao be collected.

Lu Changzhi met with nine Extreme Arms Holy Land disciples studying at the Five Symbols Sect and gave them valuable cultivation resources as welcome gifts. After leaving them eager to compete in the Struggle of the Heaven's Chosen, he reflected on how peacefully everyone treated him, while Qin Jiuxiao angrily sent away the people around him.

• Cang Wenyu brought Lu Changzhi to meet Jiang Xin and eight other Extreme Arms Holy Land disciples, and Lu Changzhi learned about their specialties.
• Lu Changzhi gave each disciple a storage ring of cultivation resources, which they accepted after Cang Wenyu clarified the gifts were personal.
• After Lu Changzhi left, the disciples discovered the rings held numerous supreme-quality Marrow Cleansing Fruits and what Jiang Xin identified as Dao Comprehension Tea Leaves.
• Jiang Xin urged the disciples to cultivate hard and keep other factions from taking the Struggle of the Heaven's Chosen rewards.
• Lu Changzhi concluded that the Five Symbols Sect's disciples were unusually respectful and easy to get along with.
• Qin Jiuxiao, troubled and impatient, ordered everyone around him to leave so he could have peace and quiet.

Qin Jiuxiao agreed to consider helping Ji Bochang kill Luo Zhen after Ji Bochang stoked his resentment and offered pills and support. Meanwhile, Luo Ling'er shared her shopping haul with Lu Changzhi, who woke to find the Dao Simplification Brush fully charged.

• Qin Jiuxiao brooded over losing attention to Tang Zining and identified Luo Zhen as the main obstacle to becoming holy child.
• Ji Bochang entered Qin Jiuxiao's room and offered to help him eliminate Luo Zhen, giving him pills and a communication talisman.
• Ji Bochang urged Qin Jiuxiao to relish tormenting Luo Zhen, and Qin Jiuxiao became eager to do it.
• Luo Ling'er gave Lu Changzhi spiritual fruit, showed him the seasonings she had bought, and asked for Dao Comprehension Tea Leaves to use in cooking.
• Lu Changzhi went to sleep and woke after half a day to discover that the Dao Simplification Brush's energy was full.

Lu Changzhi simplified Fortuitous Opportunity Peeking into an ability that revealed nearby opportunities, then tested it while strolling through Heaven’s Chosen City. Meanwhile, Zhou Mu reviewed items recovered from a secret realm and asked whether a Saint Rank Peak Grade spear could still be used.

• Lu Changzhi asked the system to simplify Fortuitous Opportunity Peeking and went out to explore Heaven’s Chosen City while it processed.
• Lu Changzhi heard that the Buddhist Order had arrived for the Heaven’s Chosen Grand Gathering and learned that Wujie was believed to have reached the Dao Comprehension Realm.
• Lu Changzhi spotted Liu Qingyan’s Beauty Misleads and Musical Rhythm Mastery talents near a female cultivators’ establishment, then remarked that Qin Jiuxiao seemed increasingly like an accomplice.
• The system finished simplifying the ability, making nearby fortuitous opportunities wave to Lu Changzhi and removing the purchase limit on Fortuitous Opportunity Peeking, though repeated daily purchases cost more.
• Zhou Mu examined information about items found in a secret realm and asked whether a Saint Rank Peak Grade spear remained usable.

Zhou Mu chose to rely on the Privilege Token rather than explore the secret-realm cities, while Luo Zhen gathered Cloud Heaven Holy Land disciples around him ahead of the expedition. On the morning the secret realm opened, the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty arrived in a floating palace, and Lu Changzhi used Accomplice Identification on its ten Heaven's Chosen, then froze at what he saw.

• Zhou Mu heard that the spear found in a storage ring had no known defects and decided there was no time to search the secret-realm cities.
• Luo Zhen accepted the Cloud Heaven Holy Land disciples' toasts and promised not to let them down on their secret-realm trip.
• Lu Changzhi collected several opportunities around the city, then headed home as the secret realm's opening approached.
• The Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty arrived in Heaven's Chosen City aboard an enormous floating palace, led by Emperor Zhou Mu and two other Saint Realm experts.
• Lu Changzhi recognized ten purple-marked youths as the dynasty's Heaven's Chosen and activated Accomplice Identification, then froze when green light appeared.

Lu Changzhi learned that the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty controlled its younger generation through breeding assignments and domestication, while the Five Symbols Sect quietly took resources from the dynasty through disguised elders. At Heaven's Chosen City, Zhou Mu greeted the gathered factions and asked about Xu Hao, whom he suspected was the Star Moon Holy Land's Holy Son.

• Lu Changzhi discovered that none of the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty's ten Heaven's Chosen were Five Symbols Sect disciples, and Cang Wenyu explained that the sect had chosen not to send students there.
• Cang Wenyu described the dynasty's forced breeding system, its discipline of young women, and the accidents that befell those who resisted.
• Cang Wenyu revealed that disguised Five Symbols Sect elders took small amounts of treasure and cultivation resources from the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty's stores, with the dynasty's own people turning a blind eye.
• The Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty's palace arrived beside Heaven's Chosen City, where Zhou Mu spoke with Nan Huaiyun about the Buddha Lord's health and learned that Saint King Jiang had not come.
• Zhou Mu examined Xu Hao and asked whether he was the Star Moon Holy Land's appointed Holy Son.

Zhou Mu stirred up rivalries among the gathered powers and selected the Azure Cloud Sect to represent the Eastern Region. The major factions unveiled Saint Artifact prizes for the Struggle of the Heaven’s Chosen, and the gathering was interrupted by an announcement of another artifact.

• Zhou Mu needled Min Qianlan about the Star Moon Holy Land’s Holy Son and praised Luo Zhen, provoking Qin Jiuxiao.
• Zhou Mu named the Five Symbols Sect as the Eastern Region’s representative, but Mo Lin argued that the Azure Cloud Sect was more qualified after taking over the Mystic One Sect’s territory.
• Zhou Mu summoned the Azure Cloud Sect and displayed a Saint Artifact longsword as a prize, drawing the attention of Dai Tianfeng, Qin Han, and the crowd.
• The Extreme Arms Holy Land offered a Saint Realm saber once used by Jiang Yuanyin, along with a session of guidance from Ancestor Jiang.
• The Buddhist Order presented the Azure Lamp, a Saint Artifact said to aid cultivation and sudden enlightenment, while Lu Changzhi doubted its claims.
• After the crowd discussed the three rewards, an unidentified speaker announced that another Saint Artifact would be added.

Min Qianlan presented the Star Moon Holy Land’s damaged Star Gauntlets as a Saint Artifact and challenged the Cloud Heaven Holy Land to add a prize. Huang Yunya refused and traded barbs with Min Qianlan, while Zhou Mu revealed that a recent purple lightning calamity had killed two Cloud Heaven Holy Land patriarchs.

• Min Qianlan brought out the Star Gauntlets and described their abilities as a Saint Artifact.
• Lu Changzhi and elders from the Extreme Arms Holy Land recognized that the gauntlets were damaged, though the crowd marveled at the prospect of four Saint Artifact prizes.
• Min Qianlan challenged Huang Yunya to produce a prize for the Cloud Heaven Holy Land, and Huang Yunya grew angry at the demand.
• Huang Yunya criticized the gauntlets’ grade and condition, but Min Qianlan repeatedly insisted that they were still a Saint Artifact.
• Zhou Mu told the crowd that the Cloud Heaven Holy Land had recently lost two patriarchs to a purple lightning calamity and urged everyone not to pressure it for another prize.

Lu Changzhi reflected on how the Star Moon Holy Land used a Saint Artifact to build its reputation, then assessed the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty’s talented younger generation as potential sources of copied abilities. He turned his attention to the Buddhist Order and found a high-quality talent in Wujie.

• Lu Changzhi and Mu Fan observed the gathering, while Lu Changzhi reasoned that the Star Moon Holy Land had offered a damaged Saint Artifact to promote its name and challenge the Cloud Heaven Holy Land’s standing.
• Lu Changzhi recalled a sect book called “How to Make Yourself Look Impressive” and considered the lightning tribulation’s unexpected impact on the gathering.
• Lu Changzhi examined the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty’s ten greatest Heaven’s Chosen and noted several valuable talents, including Dai Tianfeng’s [Innate Sword Seed].
• Lu Changzhi decided to check the Buddhist Order’s Buddha’s son, Wujie, and discovered that he possessed a high-quality talent.

Lu Changzhi copied Wujie’s Easy Enlightenment talent as the organizers explained the dangerous, month-long Struggle of the Heaven’s Chosen in a secret realm. The entrants learned that their rankings would depend on tower emblems that gained light through trials and could be transferred between people.

• Lu Changzhi recognized Wujie’s Easy Enlightenment talent and copied it through the system.
• An organizer announced that the Struggle of the Heaven’s Chosen would last one month in a secret realm where participants could perish.
• Qin Han resolved to enter, while Hua Yunfan warned him to be careful and worried he would cause trouble.
• The organizer explained that killing beasts, overcoming restrictions, and visiting special areas would light up a nine-story tower emblem and improve cultivation.
• Min Qianlan confirmed that emblem light could be transferred and gave Huang Yunya a meaningful look.

Lu Changzhi learned how the secret realm worked and watched the Heaven’s Chosen begin entering it, while Cang Wenyu gave him a token containing Ancestor Jiang’s divine sense for protection. As Lu Changzhi checked the Cloud Heaven Holy Land for signs of opportunity, he saw that Qin Jiuxiao faced a bloody disaster.

• A man explained that entrants would gather light to illuminate the nine-story tower and warned that everyone entering the secret realm was responsible for their own life and death.
• Zhou Mu used a token to reveal the enormous secret-realm entrance, and elders activated the formations stabilizing it.
• Cang Wenyu gave Lu Changzhi a token containing Ancestor Jiang’s divine sense, which would summon help if Lu Changzhi broke it in danger.
• The Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty’s top ten Heaven’s Chosen entered first, followed by other juniors and disciples from the Extreme Arms Holy Land.
• Lu Changzhi used the Eye of Observing Momentum on the Cloud Heaven Holy Land and saw that Qin Jiuxiao bore the signs of a bloody disaster.

Lu Changzhi entered the secret realm with Gu Chen and the others, discovered its unusual gravity and restrictions, and saw older entrants lose their spiritual power and crash into a pile. He left the fallen people behind as other entrants began looting them, while Qin Jiuxiao’s unexplained omen of bloodshed remained a concern.

• Lu Changzhi noticed that Qin Jiuxiao had gained an omen of bloodshed, though he could not determine its cause.
• Cang Wenyu led the Five Symbols Sect disciples toward the rift, and Lu Changzhi boarded a flying boat with Gu Chen and the others to enter the secret realm.
• Lu Changzhi arrived high above a vast mountain range, halted his fall with spiritual power, and received a pale-gray nine-story pagoda mark on his wrist.
• Lu Changzhi sensed the realm’s stronger gravity and concluded that its restrictions imposed an age limit and restricted the power of older entrants.
• Lu Changzhi spotted members of the Dongfang Clan among the injured people piled beneath the teleportation formation.
• Entrants gathered around the helpless fallen people, stole their belongings, and chased a false claim that a woman was among them.

Lu Changzhi split his attention between guiding his disciples and collecting opportunities, while the system reorganized the opportunity markers to make them easier to pursue. Meanwhile, Gu Chen killed a demonic black eagle and spotted a ruined city ahead.

• Lu Changzhi's group left the chaotic entrance aboard a flying boat, and his External Avatar checked the locations of the opportunities.
• Lu Changzhi prompted the system to sort the opportunity guide lines, and it returned them in green, yellow, and red according to distance, timing, and importance.
• Gu Chen killed a black eagle that attacked the disciples' flying boat, and a light emerged from its body and began following him.
• Gu Chen noticed that the light could not be hidden, then saw a ruined city ahead where the spiritual power was denser.

Gu Chen and the Five Symbols Sect disciples approached a ruined city filled with powerful spirit beasts, while Lu Changzhi found hidden supplies in a hollow tree. When the beasts attacked their flying boat, Gu Chen led the disciples into a coordinated battle, and they began fighting back.

• Gu Chen and Qin Li identified the ruined city as an old training ground and sensed that it held many powerful beasts.
• Lu Changzhi discovered a hidden shelter in a hollow tree, recovered Origin Spirit Crystals and other items, and returned the trunk to its original state.
• The beasts spotted the flying boat, and a bear-like spirit beast hurled rubble at it.
• Gu Chen shattered the rubble and ordered the disciples to attack as Jin Fugui activated their coordinated formation.
• Mu Fan raised stone walls with talismans while Gu Chen and Qin Li struck spirit beasts, and Luo Ling'er prepared to join the fight.

Luo Ling'er, Xiao Ye, Gu Chen, and Qin Li attacked the spirit beasts and demonic beasts in the city while Mu Fan controlled their advance with walls and formations. After about two quarters of an hour, the city's overlord, the Two-Horned Giant Rhino, awakened and rose.

• Luo Ling'er smashed a barbarian bull with one punch, then drew her heavy sword and joined the hunt.
• Xiao Ye descended to battle fast beasts with lightning spells, while Gu Chen and Qin Li targeted the strongest beasts.
• Mu Fan formed city walls with runes and the formation to control the beast tide and keep its numbers manageable.
• The four disciples fought through the beasts for about two quarters of an hour, drawing more creatures to the clash.
• A deep roar quieted the beasts as the Two-Horned Giant Rhino rose in the heart of the city.

The Two-Horned Giant Rhino charged at the group, broke through Mu Fan’s barrier, and withstood Gu Chen’s spear thrust. Qin Li drew its attention so Gu Chen could keep attacking while Mu Fan and Jin Fugui sealed the city.

• Qin Li warned the group that the Two-Horned Giant Rhino, the city’s overlord, was about to attack, and Gu Chen identified it as a Dao Comprehension Realm beast.
• Mu Fan and Jin Fugui went to seal the city before the beasts could scatter if the rhino died.
• The Two-Horned Giant Rhino charged through Mu Fan’s barrier and leapt toward Xiao Ye, while Gu Chen intercepted it with his spear.
• Gu Chen’s thrust pierced the rhino’s thick hide but met dense flesh beneath it, leaving the beast apparently unfazed.
• Qin Li used a talisman to draw the rhino’s attention, and Gu Chen searched for another place to strike.