Chapter Summaries

Gu Chen obtained a Marrow Cleansing Fruit, while Lu Changzhi received a supreme-grade one from the system and gave it to Luo Ling'er. After her aptitude rose, Lu Changzhi reached Saint-Rank Aptitude and suppressed the resulting heavenly phenomenon, but rumors of a Saint-Rank genius still spread the next day.

• Gu Chen swallowed a Marrow Cleansing Fruit after concealing his presence with a formation.
• Lu Changzhi received a supreme-grade Marrow Cleansing Fruit and chose to give it to Luo Ling'er.
• Luo Ling'er ate the fruit, and the system later announced that her aptitude had risen to High-Grade Spirit Rank.
• Lu Changzhi raised his aptitude to Saint Rank and chose to have the system intercept the heavenly phenomenon.
• The next day, rumors spread that a genius with Saint-Rank Aptitude had appeared in the world.

After a huge celestial phenomenon signaled the birth of a Saint-Rank genius, Lu Changzhi accepted the Five Symbols Sect master's order to search for the child and received a matching disciple-recruitment mission. As rival sects crowded the Eastern Region in search of the genius, Cloud Heaven Holy Land's Elder Xuan sensed that a great power had moved a calamity star to prepare the way for them.

• Cang Wenyu told Lu Changzhi that an unprecedented phenomenon had signaled the appearance of a Saint-Rank genius, and Lu accepted the assignment to find them.
• The system gave Lu a mission to recruit a Saint-Rank disciple within three months, with experience points and a gift pack as rewards.
• Lu persuaded Mu Fan to join the search, recruited Jin Fugui, and told Luo Ling'er to stay behind before leaving Hidden Origin Peak with his companions.
• Lu, Mu Fan, Cang Wenyu, and other Five Symbols Sect members traveled by flying boat to the reported area, where many rival factions had also gathered.
• Cang Wenyu assigned elders to protect Lu, handed him a mask, and sent the searchers to cover the vast region for children born in the past two days.
• At Cloud Heaven Holy Land, Elder Xuan told the holy lord that the genius was likely in the Eastern Region and that a great power had moved a calamity star; the holy lord vowed to bring the genius to the Holy Land.

Lu Changzhi searched for a Saint-level disciple while Cloud Heaven Holy Land blocked off the central area, then followed the system’s directions to a mountain and received Mu Fan’s distress signal. He rushed to Mu Fan and found him bound in a valley just as the system detected a matching target.

• Lu Changzhi turned his flying boat away from Cloud Heaven Holy Land’s barrier and later sent his External Avatar across it to search inside the sealed area.
• Lu Changzhi and Mu Fan searched separately, but neither found a Saint-level genius as the days passed.
• Lu Changzhi followed the system’s navigation to a mountain peak and waited there until Mu Fan’s jade talisman flashed with a distress call.
• Lu Changzhi rushed toward the signal in a Saint-tier flying boat and found Mu Fan bound in midair in a valley.
• Mu Fan warned Lu Changzhi that a woman was lying in wait, and the system detected a target matching the Saint-level filtering condition.

Lu Changzhi pursued Qin Li after she attacked him and Mu Fan, discovering that she possessed an incomplete White Tiger Sacred Body and memories of a previous life. As Qin Li tried to negotiate, a Late Void Transformation Realm cultivator suddenly attacked them both.

• Lu Changzhi used the Dao-Severing Sword to shatter the golden attack aimed at his vessel, then chased the fleeing attacker with help from the system.
• Lu Changzhi identified the woman as Qin Li and learned that she was a Sixth Level of the Life and Death Realm cultivator with an incomplete White Tiger Sacred Body and Soul Reincarnation.
• Qin Li recalled that she had attacked Mu Fan for Dao Comprehension Tea Leaves and fled after Lu Changzhi revealed his peak-grade Sacred Artifact.
• Qin Li stopped and offered compensation, explaining that she had spared Mu Fan and attacked Lu Changzhi out of caution.
• A Late Void Transformation Realm cultivator arrived, slashed at Lu Changzhi, and sent a gigantic palm toward Qin Li.

Lu Changzhi used the Dao-Severing Sword to kill Lin Chong, a Void Transformation Realm expert, then recruited Qin Li as his disciple. After leaving the area with Qin Li, he reunited with Mu Fan, who jokingly asked whether to call her Junior Sister or Master's wife.

• Lin Chong attacked Lu Changzhi, and the system spent 1,000 experience points to activate the Dao-Severing Sword for a counterattack.
• Lu Changzhi's sword strike erased Lin Chong and left Qin Li stunned by his strength.
• Lu Changzhi decided to recruit Qin Li, and she agreed to become his disciple, completing his mission and earning 4,000 experience points and a gift pack.
• Lu Changzhi and Qin Li left on the flying vessel, and Qin Li explained that her phenomenon had also triggered someone else's.
• Lu Changzhi collected Mu Fan, who praised him and teased him about whether Qin Li was his Junior Sister or Master's wife.

Lu Changzhi opened his saint-level disciple gift packs and received powerful treasures, arrays, and talents. After using his new talents, he discovered that he could draw a saint-tier physique.

• Lu Changzhi sent Mu Fan to tell the elders and sect master that he was safe and had returned to the sect.
• Lu Changzhi opened his saint-level disciple gift pack and obtained Life Spirit Spring Essence, the Heaven-Veiling Illusion Array, No Trace of Fate, Fortune Upon the Body, and a disciple evolution gift pack.
• Lu Changzhi used the disciple evolution gift pack and received adult White Tiger essence blood, the secret art Tiger Roars through Mountains and Forests, and Geng Metal Essence.
• Lu Changzhi reviewed his attributes and lamented that he still had a mortal body.
• Lu Changzhi triggered the hidden effect of Master Not Inferior to Disciple and gained a chance to draw a physique, with the maximum tier set at saint-tier.

Lu Changzhi drew the Five Elements Sacred Physique but postponed using it to avoid drawing attention, then healed Qin Li’s demonic Qi with Life Spirit Spring and gave her a storage ring of resources. Meanwhile, the Mystic One Sect learned that Lin Chong had died after offending a Transcendent Realm expert, and the Cloud Heaven Holy Land suspected someone in the Eastern Region had concealed the missing star’s fate.

• Lu Changzhi drew the Five Elements Sacred Physique and decided not to use it while people were nearby.
• Lu Changzhi gave Qin Li a drop of Life Spirit Spring, which erased the demonic Qi and healed her wounds, then handed her a storage ring as a gift.
• Qin Li examined the resources in the ring and wondered what heights Lu Changzhi had reached.
• Cang Wenyu heard that Lu Changzhi had returned to the sect alone and suspected he might be preparing a surprise.
• The Mystic One Sect learned that Lin Chong had died after encountering a powerful sword Dao presence, likely from a Transcendent Realm expert, and discussed finding another elder to teach Luo Zhen.
• Elder Xuan told the Cloud Heaven Holy Lord that the missing star and several Eastern Region stars had disappeared, likely because someone had concealed their fate.

Lu Changzhi brought Qin Li to the Five Symbols Sect, where she discovered the Dao Comprehension Tea Tree and chose to live beside it. After strengthening himself and protecting the sect with an illusion array, Lu Changzhi found a city full of drained corpses, and the system issued him a mission.

• Lu Changzhi introduced Qin Li to Luo Ling'er as her junior sister and showed her around Hidden Origin Peak.
• Qin Li sensed the Dao Comprehension Tea Tree and realized Master had planted the legendary tree there; she asked to live nearby, and Lu Changzhi agreed.
• Lu Changzhi used the system to raise his aptitude to the middle grade of the Saint tier and his cultivation to the Peak of the Life and Death Realm.
• Lu Changzhi deployed the Heaven-Veiling Illusion Array, shielding the Five Symbols Sect's major peaks and nearby inner disciple residences from outside probing.
• Lu Changzhi's External Avatar reached a small city and found its inhabitants dead, their bodies shriveled; the system then issued a trial mission.

Lu Changzhi learned that Devil Cultists might be behind a city's slaughter and urged Cang Wenyu to investigate before sending disciples after them. As the Five Symbols Sect's inquiry continued, an urgent bell summoned its peak masters and core elders to a meeting.

• Lu Changzhi recalled how the Devil Race and human Devil Cultists operated and suspected Devil Cultists had slaughtered a city.
• The Cloud Heaven Holy Land experts departed with the junior who had Saint-Rank Aptitude, and Lu Changzhi told Cang Wenyu about the suspected slaughter.
• Cang Wenyu agreed to send elders to investigate the evil cultivators' actions.
• Gu Chen lamented that he could not defeat Qin Li, then learned she had been injured when Mu Fan encountered her and realized she had held back during their sparring.
• Five days later, a bell rang five times in succession three times, summoning all peak masters and core elders of the Five Symbols Sect to an urgent meeting.

After learning that demonic cultivators had slaughtered nearly ten million people across the Five Symbols Sect's territory, the sect organized a sweeping investigation led by its true disciples. Lu Changzhi prepared to send Gu Chen, Mu Fan, and Qin Li, while hidden evil cultivators underground dismissed the danger of being discovered.

• Cang Wenyu reported the mass killings and ordered a grid-based investigation, with true disciples searching ahead and elders following to protect them.
• Lu Changzhi told Gu Chen about the slaughter and invited him to join the investigation; Gu Chen agreed and planned to investigate the Thousand-Fathom Mountain Range.
• Mu Fan volunteered to join, claiming it was his duty before admitting he mainly wanted to go out and have fun.
• Qin Li also joined, saying Mu Fan's skills were too weak to keep him safe, and Mu Fan protested her insult.
• Underground in the Thousand-Fathom Mountain Range, one evil cultivator worried that the Five Symbols Sect's investigation would uncover them, but another insisted their hideout was secure.

Gu Chen, Mu Fan, and Qin Li investigated a city in the Thousand-Fathom Mountain Range, where Qin Li exposed a Devil Race lackey and explained that Devil Qi had corrupted him. The group prepared to capture another suspect so Qin Li could demonstrate how to identify such lackeys.

• Gu Chen chose the Thousand-Fathom Mountain Range as the investigation area, and Mu Fan declined the elder’s offer to recruit more disciples.
• The Five Symbols Sect deployed its disciples, and Gu Chen’s team searched the city for evil cultivators.
• Qin Li detected a scruffy man at a tavern and sent Mu Fan to fetch him, but Gu Chen brought him back instead.
• Qin Li identified the man as a Devil Race lackey and killed him, revealing Devil Qi in his heart.
• Qin Li explained that Devil Qi made its victim a servant of the Devil Race, then detected another suspect at a street corner and sent Gu Chen to get him.

Qin Li demonstrated how to expose people carrying Devil Qi, and the Five Symbols Sect rapidly deployed array disks to uncover demonic cultists. As the sect's search intensified, Wu Chong's forces lost contact with their investigators and ordered nearby members to retreat and hide.

• Qin Li triggered a boy's Devil Qi, causing him to turn feral and explode, and explained that the method could reveal hidden demonic cultists.
• Cang Wenyu and the five peak lords arrived, examined Qin Li's jade talisman, and watched Xu Kun create an array disk that triggered another cultist's Devil Qi.
• Cang Wenyu ordered Dharma Form Peak to produce array disks, which disciples used to expose and eliminate demonic cultists across the region.
• Wu Chong learned that the soul tablets of his investigators had shattered and ordered nearby forces to return, stop going out, and activate the concealment array.

Cang Wenyu asked Lu Changzhi about Qin Li’s past and the heavenly phenomenon she had caused, then wondered how Lu Changzhi had made her his disciple. Meanwhile, Gu Chen led Xu Kun, Mu Fan, and Qin Li to the Thousand-Fathom Mountain Range to search for an inheritance, where they approached a hidden demonic sect and Mu Fan saw something shocking.

• Cang Wenyu learned from Lu Changzhi that Qin Li had raised her talent enough to cause the heavenly phenomenon, and he questioned how she had become Lu Changzhi’s disciple.
• Xu Kun, Gu Chen, Mu Fan, and Qin Li headed toward the Thousand-Fathom Mountain Range after Gu Chen said he wanted to search for a senior’s inheritance there.
• Wu Chong’s people discovered the Five Symbols Sect party searching above their hidden underground hall, and Wu Chong prepared to confront them if they found the formation.
• Xu Kun’s flying boat descended toward the range’s highest peak, and Mu Fan stepped off before abruptly stopping in shock.

Mu Fan discovered that the mountain was filled with demonic cultists, while Qin Li exposed the hidden caves by breaking an illusion array. As the group was surrounded and attacked, Gu Chen sent a distress signal, and Xu Kun revealed his true strength just as sixteen flying boats arrived.

• Mu Fan sensed hundreds of demonic cultists on the mountain but concealed his discovery from Gu Chen, Qin Li, and Xu Kun.
• Gu Chen checked in and obtained low-grade saint-tier battle armor, then Qin Li detected and broke an illusion array beneath the peaks.
• Demonic cultists emerged from hidden caves and attacked; Mu Fan swiftly carried Gu Chen back to the flying boat and urged Qin Li and Xu Kun to flee.
• Wu Chong surrounded the group and launched a powerful attack at Qin Li, while Gu Chen sent the sect a distress signal reporting the ambush.
• Xu Kun shattered Wu Chong's flaming palm with a spell-breaking spirit array, revealing his cultivation at Creation Realm Sixth Level, and sixteen flying boats approached.

Wu Chong and the devil cultivators attacked the Five Symbols Sect reinforcements, while Xu Kun, Qin Li, and Gu Chen fought to hold them off. Mu Fan slipped away toward the Thousand-Fathom Mountain Range, and the sect master and four peak masters gathered to decide how many reinforcements to send.

• Wu Chong used a blood-red bead to empower himself and the devil cultivators, then attacked the Five Symbols Sect's flying boats.
• Xu Kun confronted Wu Chong with a formation scroll, using defensive formations and a giant sword to withstand his blows.
• Qin Li explained that the nearby Devil Race strengthened the devil cultivators, then charged into battle with Gu Chen following her.
• Mu Fan saw injured devil cultivators returning underground, used talismans to slip away, and headed toward the Thousand-Fathom Mountain Range.
• The Five Symbols Sect's sect master and four peak masters gathered after receiving the reinforcement request, and someone asked how many people to send.

Mu Fan infiltrated the Thousand-Fathom Mountain Range and planted his most powerful explosive, Little Boy, beside the Blood Ancestor’s altar. As Wu Chong called on the Blood Ancestor to turn the battle against the Five Symbols Sect, Qin Li sensed a Devil Race presence awakening underground and Xu Kun ordered everyone to retreat.

• Cang Wenyu ordered the four great peaks to send ancestors and elders to help Gu Chen confront more than a thousand possible enemies.
• Mu Fan entered the blood-soaked mountain range, spotted an unknown Devil Race member, and slipped through the buildings to the Blood Ancestor’s altar.
• Mu Fan placed Little Boy, packed with a thousand Supreme-Grade Spirit Rank Explosive Flame Talismans, beside the altar and left.
• Xu Kun blocked Wu Chong’s Blood Blade Severance with a powerful formation-based fist and restored his strength with Supreme-grade Spirit Rank pills.
• Wu Chong saw the Five Symbols Sect nearing the edge of the formation and summoned the Blood Ancestor by destroying a blood-red token.
• Qin Li sensed the Devil Race presence awakening beneath the mountain, and Xu Kun ordered a retreat as Wu Chong declared it was too late.

Mu Fan detonated the Little Boy, destroying the Blood Ancestor and wiping out most of the devil cultists at the Thousand-Fathom Mountain Range. Lu Changzhi learned through the system that Mu Fan had killed devil cultists and used a newly acquired random saint-tier gift pack.

• Xu Kun protected Gu Chen and Qin Li and urged them to escape as Wu Chong and the devil cultists attacked.
• A Blood Ancestor appeared, and Mu Fan detonated the Little Boy beside the altar, producing a blast that destroyed several mountaintops.
• Mu Fan found that the Devil Race target had vanished; Wu Chong and the surviving cultists soon died when their controller was killed.
• Qin Li explained that the devil cultists had died because the Devil Race member controlling their lives was gone, leaving the Five Symbols Sect elders baffled about why they had summoned the Blood Ancestor.
• Lu Changzhi noticed system notifications about Mu Fan killing devil cultists and discovered a random saint-tier gift pack in his inventory.
• Lu Changzhi told the system to use the random saint-tier gift pack.

Lu Changzhi learned that his Heavenly Azure Saint Token could unlock the Heavenly Azure Saint’s inheritance, while Cang Wenyu explained the trial and the plans for the younger generation to attempt it. The Cloud Heaven Holy Land arrived at the Five Symbols Sect, leaving Cang Wenyu facing its call for the sect master.

• Lu Changzhi received a Heavenly Azure Saint Token and spent three thousand experience points upgrading the Cracked Version of the Sign-In System by two levels.
• Cang Wenyu and the peak patriarchs arrived at the Thousand-Fathom Mountain Range, where Xu Kun explained that the Blood Ancestor had destroyed the area himself and the demonic cultists had died.
• Lu Changzhi learned from the returning disciples that Mu Fan had concealed his role in what happened at the mountain range.
• Cang Wenyu told Lu Changzhi that the Heavenly Azure Saint Token was the sole key to claiming the inheritance after passing a difficult trial in the Heavenly Azure Ruins.
• A Cloud Heaven Holy Land flying boat descended over the Five Symbols Sect, and a voice called for the sect master.

The Cloud Heaven Holy Land visited the Five Symbols Sect, claiming to seek a Saint-Rank genius and offering rewards if the sect handed the junior over. After probing the sect and asking to visit Hidden Origin Peak, Cao Yu pressed Cang Wenyu to lead them there, and Lu Changzhi told Cang Wenyu not to worry.

• Cang Wenyu gave Lu Changzhi a cloak to conceal Qin Li's Qi, then Lu Changzhi activated the Heaven-Veiling Illusion Array over the five peaks.
• Cao Yu, Elder Zhu, and Xiao Qing entered the Five Symbols Sect, where Elder Zhu swept the sect with his divine sense and claimed he only wanted to see the scenery.
• Cao Yu told Cang Wenyu that the Cloud Heaven Holy Land wanted any Saint-Rank junior found by the Five Symbols Sect to cultivate with them, offering compensation and help making the sect foremost among the six top powers.
• Cao Yu asked about Hidden Origin Peak and insisted that Xiao Qing be allowed to spar with its geniuses, while Cang Wenyu struggled to refuse.
• Lu Changzhi spoke to Cang Wenyu by voice and told him to let the visitors come.

Cao Yu visited Hidden Origin Peak and dismissed it as unimpressive, unaware that Lu Changzhi had trapped him and his companions in the Heaven-Veiling Illusion Array. After they departed, Cao Yu met envoys from other powers and received an urgent order from the Cloud Heaven Holy Land to return because upheaval was coming to the Eastern Region.

• Cao Yu inspected Hidden Origin Peak, saw through Lu Changzhi’s disguised cultivation, and judged the peak and Gu Chen unremarkable.
• Cang Wenyu admitted he wanted the Cloud Heaven Holy Land to help conceal Hidden Origin Peak’s weakness, while Cao Yu agreed to keep the secret and urged the Five Symbols Sect to find a saint-level junior.
• Lu Changzhi revealed that Cao Yu, Xiao Qing, and Elder Zhu were trapped in his Heaven-Veiling Illusion Array, which Xu Kun identified as at least saint-grade.
• Cao Yu and his companions left Hidden Origin Peak, and Cao Yu criticized the Five Symbols Sect as he discussed how its ambitions could make it easier for the Holy Land to control.
• Envoys from the Mystic One Sect and three other powers met Cao Yu and offered storage rings for information about Hidden Origin Peak.
• Cao Yu received a jade talisman ordering him to return to the Cloud Heaven Holy Land immediately because the celestial signs over the Eastern Region had changed and upheaval was coming.