Recaps

Lu Ping began his sixth life simulation with [I'm the Client] equipped, drew the Grade A Trait [Freelancer], and synthesized new work-related Traits. After increasing his cultivation efficiency and combat power, he was prompted to rob the Azure Cloud Sect's storehouse for money.

• Lu Ping chose [I'm the Client] for the VIP Trait Slot and started his sixth life simulation.
• The system awarded Lu Ping the Grade A Trait [Freelancer], which he kept despite doubting he would ever be unemployed.
• Lu Ping synthesized twelve Grade C Traits from 120 Grade D Traits, then gained [Work Buddy] and [Friday Syndrome] from Grade B synthesis.
• Lu Ping replaced [Office Romance] and [Company Invisible Person] with his new Traits, raising his cultivation efficiency sevenfold and gaining a combat boost from [Friday Syndrome].
• After the system noted his empty Storage Ring, it directed Lu Ping to rob the Azure Cloud Sect's storehouse.

Lu Ping concealed his fate with the Heguang Tongchen Talisman and sent Crow-Crow to intercept a Dark Hall squad in the Yi Wood Domain. The squad reached a mortal village and prepared to slaughter everyone there when a crimson flame suddenly exploded above them.

• Lu Ping completed the Heguang Tongchen Talisman, severed his karmic link to the Military Breaker Star, and decided to target the Dark Hall squad.
• Lu Ping chose to send Crow-Crow instead of going personally, and the crow flew toward the Yi Wood Domain.
• A Dark Hall leader and five Golden Core subordinates arrived at a mortal village in the Savage Wilderness Expanse.
• The leader revealed that their secret mission was to slaughter the village, warned his subordinates to obey orders, and threatened them with punishment for leaving anyone alive.
• A ball of crimson flame suddenly exploded in midair as the squad prepared to move.

Lu used Crow-Crow to ambush and kill six Dark Hall members who were searching the Yi Wood Middle Domain, then collected their Storage Rings. A month later, Shen Yaoxin invited Lu to inspect the completed Little Smart Communication Formation, and Lu faced a choice about how to respond to Shen’s question about his cultivation.

• Crow-Crow used poison and Southern Bright Separation Fire to kill the six Dark Hall members after their teleportation Talismans failed.
• Lu recalled that the Dark Hall had launched a carpet slaughter because it sensed trouble with Heavenly Secrets, and Crow-Crow returned the six Storage Rings to Xiaolai Peak.
• Lu found over three million Spirit Stones and materials in the rings, then destroyed the Dark Hall leader’s soul fragment because it was no longer useful to him.
• A month later, Lu counted fifteen thousand Spirit Stones in Passive Income and received Shen Yaoxin’s invitation to inspect the Little Smart Communication Formation.
• Shen Yaoxin praised the Formation’s results and asked Lu about his progress on the Cultivation Method, prompting three possible responses.

Lu Ping spent a month in seclusion converting stolen resources into pills, formations, and equipment while his subordinates worked around Xiaolai Peak. He then arranged for a disciple to protect Wuming and sought Shen Yaoxin’s permission to travel, ending with a choice about how to interpret Shen’s polite refusal to send him after the Blood Demon Sect.

• Lu Ping used the Little Smart Communication Formation to pretend that its gathered thoughts had helped him approach a breakthrough, convincing Shen Yaoxin to let him enter seclusion.
• Lu Ping spent a month refining materials from the Dark Hall squad and Han Shishan into finished goods while Little Toad and Crow-Crow worked on Xiaolai Peak.
• Lu Ping posted a protection mission for a Golden Core inner disciple to secretly guard a monk at Red-Silk Mountain, and someone accepted it.
• Lu Ping messaged Shen Yaoxin that he wanted to travel and suggested visiting the Blood Demon Sect for a friendly discussion of the Dao.
• Shen Yaoxin discouraged Lu Ping from visiting the Blood Demon Sect, and Lu Ping faced options about how to respond.

Lu Ping left the Azure Cloud Sect for Qingyang City to sell goods and buy medicinal ingredients, while keeping his identity and strength concealed. After spending most of his earnings, he faced a choice about whether to join Shen Yuerong in preparing to profit from the coming Mystic Marrow Jade crisis.

• Lu Ping reasoned that Shen Yaoxin was keeping him from attacking the Blood Demon Sect so his presence would remain a deterrent and preserve his fifty-year promise to the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Lu Ping disguised his aura as a Nascent Soul cultivator and secretly traveled from Xiaolai Peak to meet Shen Yuerong at the Azure Dragon Merchant Association.
• Lu Ping sold formation plates, talismans, and pills to Shen Yuerong for 6.25 million Spirit Stones.
• Lu Ping used most of the money to purchase medicinal ingredients, but several rare Earth Grade materials were unavailable.
• Lu Ping was left with 2.8 million Spirit Stones and considered whether to partner with Shen Yuerong to profit from the coming Mystic Marrow Jade price collapse.

Lu Ping chose Shen Yuerong as his business partner, investing in Mystic Marrow Jade and leaving her advice for a future breakthrough. After leaving the merchant association short on funds, he considered whether to approach City Lord Sun Jingli for money.

• Lu Ping gave Shen Yuerong three and a half million Low-Grade Spirit Stones to invest in Mystic Marrow Jade when its price fell, agreeing to take seventy percent of the net profit.
• Shen Yuerong gave Lu Ping a Level Three VIP token of the Azure Dragon Merchant Association.
• Lu Ping left Shen Yuerong a pouch containing the question, “Do people command profit, or are people commanded by profit?”
• Lu Ping left the Azure Dragon Merchant Association and looked toward the City Lord's Manor, considering how to obtain money from Sun Jingli.

Lu Ping traveled from Qingyang City to Black Nether City and bought ingredients for his alchemy, but found himself short of Spirit Stones for his trip to the Domain of Chaos. He began refining Qi-Gathering Pills to sell for funds and faced a choice about how to raise capital.

• Lu Ping chose not to raid City Lord Sun’s household and teleported from Qingyang City to Black Nether City.
• Lu Ping bought medicinal ingredients at the Azure Dragon Merchant Association, but could not find the main ingredient for the Creation Spirit-Promoting Dew.
• Lu Ping chose to replenish his funds by alchemy and rented a high-grade cave abode from the association.
• Lu Ping used the Moon Palace Fire-Devouring Furnace and his alchemy traits to produce thousands of Qi-Gathering Pills in less than a day.
• Lu Ping regretted having to sell pills meant for his cultivation as options appeared for how he could raise startup capital.

Lu Ping overcame his temptation to rob a city, sold pills to fund his journey, and traveled to Doushu City. After checking into a lavish room and learning about an upcoming auction and the Desire Sea Pavilion’s master, he prepared to stir up trouble.

• Lu Ping strengthened his Dao Heart, sold freshly refined Qi-Gathering Pills, and gathered six million Spirit Stones.
• Lu Ping paid to teleport from the Azure Dragon Domain to Doushu City in the Domain of Chaos.
• Lu Ping disguised himself as an inexperienced Nascent Soul cultivator and rented the best Heaven-tier room at the Gathering Immortals Tower.
• Lu Ping learned that a grand Mystic Nether Pavilion auction would take place in a month and that Pavilion Master Hua of the Desire Sea Pavilion was attracting attention.
• Lu Ping dropped his innocent disguise and considered whether to observe quietly, begin his spendthrift plan, or demand that the inn renovate his room.

Lu Ping bought rare herbs in Doushu City and finished refining another batch of Spirit-Binding Gauze, while his attempt to lure attackers failed. He returned to the Gathering Immortals Tower with the supplies needed for his plans and prepared for what came next.

• Lu Ping used his intimidating presence to make a shopkeeper lower the price of rare herbs from six hundred thousand to four hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Over several days, Lu Ping bought nearly twenty million's worth of goods for six million Low-Grade Spirit Stones, but no one dared attack him.
• Lu Ping realized the city's cultivators saw him as too dangerous to rob, while stronger opponents were likely waiting until after the Auction.
• Lu Ping returned to the Gathering Immortals Tower and sealed his courtyard with its highest-level protective Restrictions.
• After three days of refining, Lu Ping produced twenty portions of Spirit-Binding Gauze, bringing his total to forty.

Lu Ping refined offensive Talismans and Magic Talismans while cultivating in seclusion, then ventured into Doushu City as the grand Auction approached. In a secluded alley, five Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators ambushed him, and he faced a choice about how to respond.

• Lu Ping refined sixty Small Taiyi Origin-Returning Pills and cultivated while making offensive Talismans to conceal his strongest abilities.
• Lu Ping created Southern Bright Evil-Burning Talismans and Fire-Separation Magic Talismans, then considered but rejected sealing Crow-Crow’s self-destruction into a talisman.
• Ten days before the grand Auction, Doushu City grew crowded and violent as cultivators arrived and the Mystic Nether Pavilion held its monthly Spirit Stone Exchange Day.
• Lu Ping entered a secluded alley alone, where five Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators appeared and trapped him with their pressure.
• Lu Ping received three options for dealing with the ambush, including threatening the attackers, feigning fear, or proposing an investment partnership.

Lu Ping killed five Nascent Soul cultivators who tried to rob him, then waited in Doushu City as the Mystic Nether Pavilion established a protected zone before its Auction. At the Auction entrance, he faced the Pavilion’s asset-verification rules, and the chapter ended with his next choice still pending.

• Lu Ping lured five Nascent Soul Middle Stage robbers into an alley and killed them with a barrage of Talismans, but found less than a million Spirit Stones among their belongings.
• Over the next five days, the Mystic Nether Pavilion set up the Disarm Armor and Push Mountains Formation around several streets, creating a protected zone that excluded the Gathering Immortals Tower.
• The day before the Auction, Gu Wusuan arrived in Doushu City, and Lu Ping chose to wait rather than confront him that night.
• Lu Ping went to the Auction the next day and saw a Nascent Soul cultivator forced to exchange valuable black iron for Qi-Congealing Pills at a steep discount.
• When the Deacon demanded that Lu Ping exchange resources for entry, the simulation presented him with three options, leaving his response unresolved.

Lu Ping attended the Mystic Nether Pavilion auction, where he spotted the mysterious Pavilion Master Hua Yunzhen and bought the Essence of Breath Soil for his Little Toad. He discovered the Pavilion had immediately relisted the pills he used to pay, and the chapter ended as he considered how to respond.

• Lu Ping used high-quality pills to obtain VIP access, then examined the auction hall and noticed Hua Yunzhen, whose displayed cultivation seemed to conceal her true strength.
• Gu Wusuan opened the auction, and Lu Ping played the role of a wealthy, foolish bidder while winning several batches of rare medicinal herbs.
• Lu Ping bid ten million Qi-Congealing Pills for the Essence of Breath Soil, exchanging a thousand Qi-Consolidating Pills to pay for it.
• The Mystic Nether Pavilion immediately put Lu Ping’s ten bottles of Qi-Consolidating Pills up for auction at twice the price it had credited them.
• Lu Ping saw the relisting and faced choices about staying quiet, supplying more pills for a share of the proceeds, or publicly denouncing the Pavilion and offering private deals.

Lu Ping left the auction and used the Essence of Breath Soil to expand the world inside his furnace. Suspecting that hidden Void Refining cultivators were manipulating Doushu City, he secretly planted a formation in the Mystic Nether Pavilion and faced a choice about what to do next.

• Lu Ping watched the Creation Spirit-Promoting Dew go unsold, then saw a Spirit Transformation cultivator buy information about a regularly opening ancient cave abode.
• Lu Ping returned to Heaven Room 1, fed the Essence of Breath Soil into the Moon Palace Fire-Devouring Furnace, and heard Little Toad call it tasty.
• Lu Ping concealed himself and returned to the Mystic Nether Pavilion, where he suspected Hua Yunzhen and other city powers were hidden Void Refining cultivators.
• Lu Ping spread Spirit-Binding Gauze through a courtyard, planted Formation Flags for the Greater Five Elements Heaven-Trapping Formation, and erased the traces of his setup.
• Lu Ping considered whether to wait for a target, announce his return to Doushu City, or contact Hua Yunzhen about a proposed windfall.

Lu Ping instantly killed Gu Wusuan and seized his immense fortune, but a Void Refining cultivator attacked the formation before he could leave. His attempt to use a Random Teleportation Talisman failed, leaving him trapped and facing a new choice.

• Lu Ping ambushed Gu Wusuan inside the Great Five Elements Heaven-Trapping Formation and killed him with Star River Myriad Blades.
• Lu Ping took Gu Wusuan’s Storage Ring, finding more than ten million Spirit Stones, abundant treasures, and a bottle of Creation Spirit-Promoting Dew.
• A Void Refining cultivator attacked the formation from outside, but the formation held against the first strike.
• Lu Ping erased his karmic traces and tried to escape with a Random Teleportation Talisman, but the teleportation failed.

After escaping Doushu City, Lu Ping used repeated teleportations and concealment to evade pursuit, then tracked Hua Yunzhen’s Cloud Boat with Crow-Crow. He learned how the Desire Sea Pavilion explored the Domain of Chaos’s secret realms and considered sending Crow-Crow to scout them before deciding where to go next.

• Lu Ping chose Early Leave, escaped his formation, and used several Random Teleportation Talismans and the Great Sun First-Emptiness Seal to cover his tracks.
• Lu Ping checked the cost of Early Leave and found it had deducted 12,999 Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Crow-Crow followed Hua Yunzhen’s Cloud Boat and showed Lu Ping how the Desire Sea Pavilion assessed secret realms, explored them for no more than three days, and lost four members when a ruin collapsed.
• Lu Ping considered using Crow-Crow to scout secret realms but set the idea aside, then used the maps Gu Wusuan had given him to determine that Xuling City was the nearest main city.
• Lu Ping considered using the Mystic Nether Pavilion’s Teleportation Array in Xuling City and received options that also included returning to Doushu City or confronting Hua Yunzhen’s Cloud Boat.

Lu Ping traveled to Nü Zhi City and discovered that Demonic Spirit Stones circulated openly there as currency. The chapter ended with him considering how to investigate this unexpected custom.

• Lu Ping flew to Xuling City and paid five hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones to teleport to Nü Zhi City.
• Lu Ping arrived in Nü Zhi City, resumed his original appearance and name, and openly displayed his Spirit Transformation cultivation.
• Lu Ping explored the prosperous city and learned that Spirit Stones had greater purchasing power there than in the Azure Dragon Domain.
• Lu Ping saw a Qi Refining cultivator use a Demonic Spirit Stone to buy medicine, and the shopkeeper accepted it without hesitation.
• Lu Ping faced options to observe quietly, follow the buyer and perform a Soul Search, or confront the shopkeeper and seize the Demonic Spirit Stones.

Lu Ping had Gathering Immortals Tower in Nü Zhi City auction three genuine Taiyi Origin-Returning Pills and spread his name as their maker. The pills drew the major powers’ attention, and as the auction began, Lu Ping considered how to make his entrance.

• Lu Ping entered Gathering Immortals Tower and rented Heaven Room Number One after the shopkeeper sensed his Spirit Transformation Stage pressure.
• Lu Ping showed shopkeeper Ni Laicai three genuine Earth Grade Taiyi Origin-Returning Pills and asked Gathering Immortals Tower to sell them on consignment.
• Lu Ping told Ni Laicai to advertise the pills under the name Alchemist Lu Ping, and Ni Laicai agreed to use that name exactly.
• News of the three pills spread through Nü Zhi City, drawing spies and crowds to Gathering Immortals Tower, whose defenses deterred anyone from forcing entry.
• Gathering Immortals Tower began an auction for the pills on the third evening, while Lu Ping considered waiting or entering the hall in disguise.

Lu Ping sold three Taiyi Origin-Returning Pills through the Gathering Immortals Tower and received twenty-seven million Low-Grade Spirit Stones from Ning Junqiu. Five days later, the Yin Sha Sect’s Sect Master requested that Lu Ping refine an Earth Grade pill, offering ingredients and a million Low-Grade Spirit Stones, and Lu Ping considered how to respond.

• Lu Ping chose to remain in his room until Ning Junqiu visited and paid him twenty-seven million Low-Grade Spirit Stones for the three pills.
• Ning Junqiu probed Lu Ping about his origins, but he presented himself as a modest, idle Alchemist and avoided revealing more.
• Lu Ping and Ning Junqiu exchanged pleasantries before she took her leave.
• On the fifth day, Ni Laicai delivered a request from the Yin Sha Sect’s Sect Master to refine an Earth Grade Profound Yin Sha-Transforming Pill using three sets of provided ingredients.
• Lu Ping read that the Sect Master would pay him a million Low-Grade Spirit Stones regardless of success and let him keep the remaining pills and ingredients, then weighed the options for responding.

Lu Ping established himself as Grandmaster Lu by charging high fees for alchemy commissions while Ni Laicai profited from auctioning limited furnace slots. After several commissions made Lu Ping famous in Nü Zhi City, Ning Junqiu told him that the City Lord’s Manor wanted to visit, and he faced a choice about meeting its Void Refining lord.

• Lu Ping refused the Yin Sha Sect Master’s initial million-Spirit-Stone offer and set a fee of two million, limiting his furnace to three commissions a month.
• Ni Laicai auctioned the other two queue slots for 1.3 million and 1.5 million Spirit Stones, then gave Lu Ping his share of the proceeds.
• Lu Ping kept the Yin Sha Sect Master waiting ten days before refining a Profound Yin Sha-Transforming Pill and accepting the remaining pills and ingredients.
• The Yin Sha Sect Master rewarded Lu Ping, whose alchemy commissions and fees soon made him famous as Grandmaster Lu throughout Nü Zhi City.
• After completing his fifth commission, Lu Ping heard from Ning Junqiu that the City Lord’s Manor wanted to visit him the next day, and options appeared about how to respond.

Lu Ping assessed Yin Wuqi’s request to refine the difficult Six Harmonies Void-Nurturing Pill and bargained for information about the Essence of the Five Elements. Yin Wuqi revealed that the Desire Sea Pavilion had once obtained water element essence, leaving Lu Ping to decide how to respond.

• Lu Ping met Yin Wuqi at the Gathering Immortals Tower, where she asked him to refine the Six Harmonies Void-Nurturing Pill.
• Lu Ping examined the formula and judged the pill to be at least mid-tier Earth Grade and harder to refine than the Taiyi Origin-Returning Pill.
• Lu Ping told Yin Wuqi that he needed the Essence of the Five Elements for a Spirit Root-enhancing pill formula and asked whether she knew where to find it.
• Yin Wuqi said the City Lord’s Manor had none but told Lu Ping that the Desire Sea Pavilion had once obtained water element essence.
• Lu Ping faced a choice about whether to accept the refining task, demand that Yin Wuqi seize the essence, or propose a raid on the Desire Sea Pavilion.

Lu Ping refined a flawless Six Harmonies Void-Nurturing Pill for Yin Wuqi, received the Nine-Revolution Heaven-Defying Pill formula, and heard her advice about relying on one’s own strength. When Hua Yunzhen arrived in Nü Zhi City with the Desire Sea Pavilion, Lu Ping kept up his reclusive grandmaster act, but someone soon requested an audience at his door.

• Lu Ping chose to refine pills for Yin Wuqi, who promised to send him an incomplete ancient formula for improving Spirit Roots.
• Five days later, Lu Ping successfully refined four Six Harmonies Void-Nurturing Pills, and Yin Wuqi paid him four million Spirit Stones and gave him the Nine-Revolution Heaven-Defying Pill formula.
• Yin Wuqi advised Lu Ping that Spirit Roots mattered less after Spirit Transformation and that cultivators had to seek great power within themselves.
• Hua Yunzhen arrived in Nü Zhi City with the Desire Sea Pavilion, while Lu Ping withdrew his Divine Sense and pretended not to notice her arrival.
• Lu Ping stayed secluded in Heaven No. 1 as a reclusive alchemy grandmaster, until someone outside requested an audience.

Lu Ping accepted Ning Junqiu’s request to give Hua Yunzhen an earlier pill-refining appointment, while pretending to resent the disruption and deciding to leave Nü Zhi City afterward. The next day, he entered a private room at the Gathering Immortals Tower, where one person was waiting.

• Lu Ping chose to hear Ning Junqiu’s request and learned that Hua Yunzhen had arranged to take another cultivator’s pill-refining slot.
• Lu Ping recognized Hua Yunzhen as the guest and agreed to accept her commission, while telling Ning Junqiu he would leave Nü Zhi City after completing it.
• Ning Junqiu thanked Lu Ping, promised to bring Hua Yunzhen to meet him at noon, and left a Storage Ring containing four million Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• The next day, Lu Ping entered the private room on the top floor of the Gathering Immortals Tower and found someone waiting inside.

Lu Ping confronted Hua Yunzhen over her demand that he refine a dangerous Earth Grade pill with only one set of ingredients. After he refused and challenged her, Hua suggested he might have secret methods that could force the refinement to succeed, leaving Lu Ping to decide how to respond.

• Hua Yunzhen praised Lu Ping and asked him to refine a dangerous batch of pills, explaining that she had gathered only one set of ingredients.
• Lu Ping chose to slap the Jade Slip onto the table and protest that no Alchemist could guarantee success with a single set of ingredients.
• Hua Yunzhen cited Lu Ping’s recent record of successful Earth Grade refinements and compared his skill to Sage Lord Zhongyuan of the Si Clan.
• Hua Yunzhen suggested Lu Ping might know secret methods that increased pill-refinement success, prompting him to suspect she intended to use a sacrificial technique.
• Lu Ping considered whether to sit down and hear her out, leave immediately, or make a provocative claim about using Hua Yunzhen as a catalyst.

Lu Ping negotiated with Hua Yunzhen for the Water Element Essence in exchange for refining her pills, then agreed to visit the Desire Sea Pavilion after secretly preparing to leave himself a way out. He emerged from an isolated room to find Hua Yunzhen waiting, with their departure still undecided.

• Lu Ping demanded Essence of the Five Elements as payment, and Hua Yunzhen offered the Water Element Essence held by the Desire Sea Pavilion.
• Lu Ping insisted on verifying the treasure, but Hua Yunzhen asked him to come to her pavilion to see it and refine the pills.
• Lu Ping agreed to Hua Yunzhen’s invitation, intending to use his Early Leave ability if danger arose.
• Lu Ping asked Hua Yunzhen to wait outside while he set up isolation Formations and spent time inside the room.
• Lu Ping removed the Formations and came out to face Hua Yunzhen, who asked whether he was ready to leave.

Lu Ping left the Gathering Immortals Tower with Hua Yunzhen and traveled to the Desire Sea Pavilion, where she gave him an alchemy chamber, a pill formula, and ingredients to refine Severed-Fate Hehuan Powder. Hua Yunzhen offered to provide attendants, and the chapter ended with Lu Ping facing a choice about how to respond.

• Lu Ping chose to leave the Gathering Immortals Tower with Hua Yunzhen and boarded the Desire Sea Pavilion's Cloud Boat.
• On the boat, Hua Yunzhen treated Lu Ping to unusually potent Spirit Tea while a jealous elder glared at him but held back.
• The Cloud Boat reached the Desire Sea Pavilion's island, where Lu Ping observed the sect's strict organization and praised Hua Yunzhen's leadership.
• Hua Yunzhen brought Lu Ping to the pavilion's finest Alchemy Chamber and gave him the Severed-Fate Hehuan Powder formula and its ingredients.
• Hua Yunzhen offered Lu Ping attendants, and he had to choose whether to refuse, accept four attendants, or demand her personal service.