Chapter Summaries

Wang Mingren pursued a fleeing Tianfeng Sect cultivator but failed to catch her, then copied valuable manuals he had plundered from Great Shell Island. After the Taiyi Immortal Sect returned to Spirit Turtle Island and distributed rewards, the sect mourned the loss of seven Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

• Wang Mingren attacked the Azure Skirt Girl with Golden Flying Needles and Crimson Fireballs, but she escaped using a Wood Evasion Talisman.
• Liu Hu led disciples to pursue the Azure Skirt Girl, while Wang Mingren chased another fleeing enemy before searching a remote island.
• Wang Mingren copied the manuals he had taken from the Scripture Pavilion, including cultivation methods, pill recipes, formation tomes, and artifact-forging manuals.
• Li Xin and the other team leaders reported their spoils to Leng Rumei and the others, and Wang Mingren submitted most of the cultivation methods he had found.
• The Taiyi Immortal Sect burned Great Shell Island and returned to Spirit Turtle Island, where Xuan Yu Zhenren awarded Wang Mingren five thousand Contribution Points and one thousand Spirit Stones.

Wang Qingqing discovered that Wang Qiuxin had Triple Spirit Roots with the strongest affinity for Gold, giving Wang Qingze hope for his son’s cultivation. After learning of the Sky Weapon Sect’s upcoming Sky Weapon Assembly, she planned to attend and inform the Wang Family, then left Azure Moon Market for Wang Family Stronghold.

• Wang Qingqing examined Wang Qiuxin and found that he had Triple Spirit Roots, with a Gold Spirit Root affinity of seventy.
• Wang Qingze hoped Wang Qiuxin would cultivate diligently and become an artifact refiner, while Wang Qingqing advised him to choose a metal attribute technique.
• Wang Qingqing hosted five Foundation Establishment artifact refiners at the Four Seas Restaurant and discussed artifact-refining insights with them.
• Li Yan told Wang Qingqing that the Sky Weapon Sect would hold a Sky Weapon Assembly in White Dragon Valley six months later, and she agreed to participate.
• Wang Qingqing decided to prepare materials for the assembly and report the news to the Wang Family.
• Three days later, Wang Qingqing led a group of clansmen away from Azure Moon Market toward Wang Family Stronghold.

Wang Ping'an received wedding gifts and a message from his parents through Wang Qingyuan, while Wang Qingyang tried brewing Spirit Wine in hopes of earning the Lineage’s support. Wang Qingyang completed his first batch and had to wait three months for it to ferment.

• Wang Qingyuan visited Wang Ping'an at his wedding and gave him Dragon-Phoenix Bracelets and Essence Refining Pills from Wang Changsheng and his wife.
• Wang Ping'an wept and paid respects to his parents, and Wang Qingyuan urged him to live well and raise descendants who might have Spirit Roots.
• Wang Qingyuan told Wang Ping'an that Wang Changsheng hoped he would become a wealthy landowner and that his descendants might include someone with a Spirit Root.
• Wang Qingyang chose to learn brewing because the Wine Workshop needed Brewers and he hoped to earn priority for a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Wang Qingyang brewed his first batch of Spirit Wine under Lu Yang's supervision, and Lu Yang told him to let it ferment for three months.

Wang Qingshan reached the Foundation Establishment Fourth Layer and planned to hunt for resources before the Grand Auction, while Wang Lin struggled to control the Bloodfiend Ghost sealed inside him. After completing his ten-year rotation, Wang Mingren left Spirit Turtle Island and teleported back toward his sect.

• Wang Qingshan emerged from seclusion at the Foundation Establishment Fourth Layer and agreed with Wang Changhao to hunt Demon Beasts and save for the Grand Auction.
• Wang Qingshan said the group should return to their Lineage after the Auction and bring back the ashes of their deceased clansmen.
• Wang Lin subdued the Bloodfiend Ghost after it emerged from his chest and consumed his Essence Blood, then worried that it would eventually devour him.
• Wang Mingren reached the Foundation Establishment Fourth Layer, accepted Chen Yang's farewell banquet invitation, and celebrated the end of his ten-year stay on Spirit Turtle Island.
• Mo Yishan saw off Wang Mingren and the other disciples, who left Taiyi Palace and teleported away in batches.

Wang Mingren returned to the Wang Family Stronghold with manuals and South Sea goods, then left after helping Wang Qingqing with Artifact Refining. At Taiyuan Market, Wang Changfeng reached the Foundation Establishment Fifth Layer and lent Wang Mingjiang Spirit Stones for the upcoming auction.

• Wang Changyue and Wang Qingqing went to the Council Hall after Wang Qingkai summoned them, where Wang Mingren delivered manuals and South Sea specialties to the family.
• Wang Changyue approved rewarding Wang Mingren with 60,000 Spirit Stones, and Wang Mingren agreed to help Wang Qingqing improve her Artifact Refining.
• Wang Mingren recorded his Artifact Refining insights for Wang Qingqing, then left the next morning after asking the family to care for his mother.
• Wang Changfeng reached the Foundation Establishment Fifth Layer at Taiyuan Market and met Wang Mingjiang, who asked to borrow Spirit Stones for the upcoming auction.
• Wang Changfeng gave Wang Mingjiang 2,000 Spirit Stones, and Wang Mingjiang promised to repay him after earning more.

Wang Qingshan and the Wang Family killed two weakened Crimson Giant Tigers and gathered spirit herbs before returning to Tianquan Mountain. In White Dragon Valley, Wang Qingqing and Wang Changyue demonstrated South Sea specialty Dharma Artifacts at the Wang Family’s shop, drawing eager buyers ahead of the Sky Weapon Sect’s Grand Auction.

• Wang Qingshan ordered Wang Qingjun and the others to set up a defensive Formation as the Formation trapping the two Crimson Giant Tigers collapsed.
• Wang Qingshan and Wang Changhao used their artifacts and techniques to kill both tigers, then the Wang Family harvested the spirit herbs and headed back to Tianquan Mountain.
• Wang Qingqing demonstrated the Fire Cloud Conch, Azure Moon Conch, and Storage Pearl to customers at Azure Lotus Hall in White Dragon Valley.
• Customers placed orders for Storage Pearls, Fire Cloud Conches, and Azure Moon Conches.

Wang Qingqing organized an Exchange Gathering at the Azure Cloud Pavilion, where Wang Changyue hoped to find materials for array formation. The Tang siblings from the powerful Tang Family of Heavenstream Mountain arrived, drawing the cultivators’ interest as Wang Qingqing began the exchange.

• Wang Mingren’s South Sea specialties sold quickly, earning the Wang Family several thousand Spirit Stones and helping promote its own goods.
• Wang Qingqing suggested trading with the South Sea, but Wang Changyue explained that the business required a Core Formation Cultivator and that she lacked the knowledge and materials to build a Teleportation Array.
• Wang Qingqing invited Wang Changyue to an Exchange Gathering she had organized for cultivators attending the Sky Weapon Assembly.
• Wang Qingqing welcomed the attendees at the Azure Cloud Pavilion and waited for Li Yan before starting the gathering.
• Li Yan arrived with Tang Jingtian and Tang Jingyan, whom Wang Changyue recognized as members of Yu Country’s influential Tang Family of Heavenstream Mountain.
• Wang Qingqing welcomed the Tang siblings and announced that she would display her exchange items first.

Wang Qingqing hosted an exchange gathering, where she and the Tang siblings discussed artifact refining and puppet making. She entered the Sky Weapon Assembly’s Artifact Refining Competition, advanced through the first round, and began crafting a set of Flying Needles for the second round.

• Wang Qingqing exchanged materials with Tang Jingtian and other cultivators, then discussed artifact refining and puppet making with Tang Jingtian and Tang Jingyan.
• Wang Qingqing and Wang Changyue suspected the Sky Weapon Sect’s Grand Auction might be connected to the Tang Family, and Wang Changyue urged her to do well in the competition.
• Li Hang announced the Artifact Refining Competition, and more than one hundred and thirty Tier 2 Artifact Refiners registered.
• Wang Qingqing refined High-grade Spirit Tools in the first round and advanced with her High-grade Defensive Spirit Tool.
• Wang Qingqing began refining a set of Flying Needles in the second round, recovering her magical power before tempering golden ore with her azure Innate True Fire.

Wang Changhao and his companions attended the Tianquan Palace Auction, where he bought a Foundation Establishment Pill and Wang Lin acquired a rare spirit medicine. After the auction, Wang Qingshan urged the group to stay in the Market before leaving, and Wang Changhao agreed.

• Wang Changhao entered the Tianquan Palace Auction with four clansmen and watched the early items sell for high prices.
• Wang Changhao bought one Foundation Establishment Pill for 53,000 Spirit Stones.
• Chen Yang presided over the finale, and the Plum Blossom Ridge Lu Family bought the Azure Rainbow Blade and Cold Moon Ring.
• Wang Lin bid 70,000 Spirit Stones for the Seven-Hundred-Year Nine-Leaf Blood Lotus, then hurriedly left the venue with his granddaughter.
• Wang Qingshan advised Wang Changhao and the remaining clansmen to rest in the Market before departing, and Wang Changhao agreed.

At the Taiyi Market auction, Wang Mingjiang failed to buy Spirit Strengthening Liquid and decided to kill its buyer to seize it, despite Wang Changfeng's warning. Wang Changfeng agreed to help and secretly put pale-white powder on the Azure Skirt Woman, leaving their planned attack unresolved as the women walked outside.

• Wang Mingjiang bid against other cultivators for the Spirit Strengthening Liquid but lost when the Azure Skirt Woman bought it for six thousand Spirit Stones.
• Wang Mingjiang resolved to kill the Azure Skirt Woman rather than abandon his hope of advancing his cultivation, and Wang Changfeng reluctantly agreed to help him.
• Wang Mingjiang followed the Azure Skirt Woman to a teahouse, where two Taiyi Immortal Sect female cultivators joined her.
• Wang Mingjiang decided to proceed even if the sect disciples accompanied the Azure Skirt Woman, and Wang Changfeng followed the three women downstairs.
• Wang Changfeng brushed past the Azure Skirt Woman and secretly scattered pale-white powder onto her trouser cuffs before heading outside.

Wang Mingjiang and Wang Changfeng ambushed three female cultivators to seize their belongings, but the fight left Wang Changfeng poisoned and badly wounded. Wang Mingjiang fled with him into the ground as a Foundation Establishment cultivator discovered the dead Azure Skirt Woman and vowed that the Taiyi Immortal Sect would pursue them.

• Wang Changfeng used his Red-Eared Spirit Rat to track the Azure Skirt Woman and her two companions while he and Wang Mingjiang followed on an Azure Giant Crane.
• The Azure Skirt Woman recognized Wang Changfeng and warned her companions, but Wang Mingjiang and Wang Changfeng attacked, destroyed their Azure Flying Boat, and killed the two other women.
• The Azure Skirt Woman escaped on a Golden Talisman, but Wang Changfeng shot her down; she wounded him with an Azure Iron Tube before Wang Mingjiang arrived and helped kill her.
• Wang Mingjiang searched the Azure Skirt Woman's corpse and burned it, then gave Wang Changfeng Cyan Medicinal Pills after realizing he had been poisoned and had lost consciousness.
• When a Foundation Establishment Middle-Aged Confucian arrived and identified the Azure Skirt Woman as Junior Sister Li, Wang Mingjiang escaped underground with Wang Changfeng using an Earth Evasion Talisman.

Wang Qingqing placed tenth in the Artifact Refining Competition, but Wang Changyue failed to buy a Foundation Establishment Pill at the auction. The Sky Weapon Sect announced a marriage alliance with the Tang Family, and Wang Changhao and Wang Qingshan left Tianquan Mountain without meeting Wang Lin.

• Wang Qingqing completed a set of six Cyan Flying Needles and ranked tenth in the Artifact Refining Competition, while Tang Jingtian won first place.
• Wang Changyue declined Tang Jingtian's banquet invitation and told Wang Qingqing that the Sky Weapon Sect's reward suggested a marriage alliance with the Tang Family.
• Wang Changyue bid unsuccessfully for the Foundation Establishment Pills at the auction, while the Mystic Treasure Embryo sold for two hundred and seventy thousand Spirit Stones.
• Sun Junyan announced that his great-granddaughter was marrying Tang Jingtian, forming a marriage alliance between the Sky Weapon Sect and the Tang Family.
• Wang Changyue returned to Wang Family Stronghold and Wang Qingqing returned to Azure Moon Market after leaving White Dragon Valley.
• Wang Changhao and Wang Qingshan failed to meet Wang Lin at Tianquan Mountain and departed by Azure Flying Boat.

After seven years in seclusion, Wang Changsheng emerged at the Ninth Layer of Foundation Establishment and reunited with his family. He was summoned to the Council Hall, where Wang Mingjiang confessed that he had helped kill a disciple of Taiyi Immortal Sect, leaving Wang Changfeng dead and the Wang Family in danger.

• Wang Qiuxin brought food from his grandfather to Wang Qingzhi's family and filled his oversized bowl with rice.
• Wang Changsheng emerged from seven years of seclusion after advancing to the Ninth Layer of Foundation Establishment and met Wang Qiuxin and his grandchildren.
• Wang Changtai told Wang Changsheng that Wang Mingjiang had returned and that something major had happened.
• Wang Changsheng found Wang Changfeng dead from poison in the Council Hall and asked Wang Mingjiang what had happened.
• Wang Mingjiang confessed that he and Wang Changfeng had ambushed and killed a disciple of Taiyi Immortal Sect, and Wang Changsheng angrily warned that the act could destroy the Wang Family.

Wang Changsheng learned that Wang Mingjiang had robbed and killed disciples of the Taiyi Immortal Sect, putting the Wang Family at risk, and told him to lie low in secret. After handling family matters and speaking with Wang Ruyan, Wang Changsheng finally told her what Wang Mingjiang had done.

• Wang Changsheng ordered Wang Mingjiang to hide away and keep his return secret, while Wang Mingjiang gave him an Inheritance Jade and the remaining Spirit Strengthening Liquid.
• Wang Changsheng examined the jade but could not break its restriction, then learned Wang Mingjiang had destroyed the other belongings of the dead Taiyi Immortal Sect disciples.
• Wang Changsheng asked Wang Qingkai about the family, learned Wang Qingshan and Wang Changhao had brought back a Foundation Establishment Pill, and warned him not to reveal Wang Mingjiang's return.
• Wang Ruyan learned that none of Wang Ping'an's three children had a Spirit Root and offered to arrange a marriage for Wang Qingyuan.
• Wang Changsheng joined Wang Ruyan and Wang Qingyuan, then privately told Wang Ruyan that Wang Mingjiang had robbed and killed Taiyi Immortal Sect disciples.

Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan arranged for Wang Mingjiang to hide in the Wu Kingdom and secured a marriage alliance for Wang Qingyuan before visiting Wang Mingren at the Taiyi Immortal Sect. They met Wang Mingren and his granddaughter Su Bingbing, leaving Wang Changsheng poised to tell his uncle about the danger facing the family.

• Wang Ruyan urged Wang Changsheng to form his core quickly and seek Wang Mingren's help, while Wang Changsheng agreed that Wang Mingjiang should hide at Tianquan Mountain in the Wu Kingdom.
• Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan brought Wang Qingyuan to the Fang Family, where Fang Zixu agreed to marry his niece Fang Siqing to him.
• After Wang Qingyuan's wedding, Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan traveled to the Taiyi Immortal Sect, while Wang Mingjiang went to the Wu Kingdom to lie low.
• Wang Mingren gave Su Bingbing a set of Qian Ice Swords to celebrate her Foundation Establishment and then learned that Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan had arrived.
• Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan greeted Su Bingbing, and Wang Mingren welcomed them after noticing that Wang Changsheng had reached the Ninth Layer of Foundation Establishment.

Wang Changsheng asked Wang Mingren and Su Bingbing to help him borrow the Taiyi Immortal Sect’s Haotian Mirror so he could attempt Core Formation with Heavenly Star Energy. Wang Mingren learned that the loan required a Core Formation Cultivator as guarantor and carried a dangerous debt, then refused; Wang Changsheng asked to speak with him privately about a serious matter.

• Wang Changsheng asked Wang Mingren and Su Bingbing to find a way for him to use the Haotian Mirror or obtain another Core Formation Spiritual Object.
• Wang Mingren went to his master Xu Zihua, who explained the high fees and debt risks and refused to act as guarantor.
• Wang Mingren returned to Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan and told them he could not help because a Core Formation Cultivator had to guarantee the loan.
• Wang Changsheng, pressed by the danger facing his clan, asked Wang Mingren to come with him so he could reveal something important.

Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan told Wang Mingren that Wang Mingjiang had killed Taiyi Immortal Sect disciples and asked him to help secure Spirit Stones for Wang Changsheng's Core Formation. Wang Mingren chose to help, and Xu Zihua agreed to arrange a loan in exchange for Wang Changsheng's future assistance if he succeeded.

• Wang Changsheng secretly told Wang Mingren about Wang Mingjiang's killings and explained that the family needed Spirit Stones to avoid ruin.
• Wang Ruyan and Wang Changsheng promised to repay any debt, and Wang Mingren agreed to plead with Xu Zihua after accepting the Third-tier Demonic Flood Dragon's Essence Soul.
• Wang Ruyan worried that Wang Mingren might report them, but Wang Mingren resolved to help because of his debts to his family and his ties to Wang Changsheng.
• Wang Mingren knelt before Xu Zihua and asked him to help the Wang Family borrow Spirit Stones for Wang Changsheng's Core Formation.
• Xu Zihua accepted the Essence Soul and agreed to help, requiring Wang Changsheng to assist him in the future if he formed his Core and to repay overdue Spirit Stones if he failed.

Wang Changsheng learned the risks and requirements of using the Haotian Mirror to form his Core, then left with Xu Zihua and Wang Mingren for the Taiyi Immortal Sect. Wang Ruyan stayed behind to make talismans and wait for his return.

• Wang Mingren brought Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan to the Welcoming Guest Hall, and Xu Zihua later explained the terms of his help.
• Xu Zihua explained that the Haotian Mirror was one of five mirrors and recommended the Metal-Attribute Haotian Mirror for Wang Changsheng.
• Xu Zihua warned Wang Changsheng that borrowing the mirror cost at least 300,000 Spirit Stones and that failure while using Heavenly Star Energy could be fatal.
• Wang Mingren showed Wang Changsheng two Echo Discs depicting past Core Formation attempts, and Wang Changsheng watched them for more than four hours.
• Wang Changsheng said goodbye to Wang Ruyan, who promised to repay the debt by making talismans and urged him to return safely.
• Xu Zihua took Wang Changsheng and Wang Mingren toward the Taiyi Immortal Sect, where two Foundation Establishment Cultivators emerged from a hidden light gate.

Wang Changsheng entered a Haotian Sect chamber to prepare for Core Formation with the aid of the Haotian Mirror, while Wang Qingjun helped Wang Qingling avoid a scam at the Azure Lotus Gathering. Wang Changsheng began adjusting himself for his attempt, and Wang Qingling continued browsing stalls with a box of insect eggs she hoped were valuable.

• Xu Zihua brought Wang Changsheng to Haotian Hall, where he was registered and taken to a sealed cultivation chamber.
• Senior Chen gave Wang Changsheng a Qianyuan Spirit Protection Talisman and explained the costs and conditions for using the chamber and Haotian Mirror.
• Xu Zihua and Wang Mingren left Wang Changsheng alone, and he began meditating to prepare for Core Formation while worrying about the debt his family would face if he died.
• At the Azure Lotus Gathering, Wang Qingjun recognized that a stall owner and a Blue-dressed Woman were teaming up to mislead Wang Qingling about an egg, and he led her away.
• Wang Qingling showed Wang Qingjun five insect eggs she had bought for 100 Spirit Stones, then went to inspect another stall.

Wang Changsheng attempted Core Formation in the Ding Number Secret Chamber of Haotian Hall, enduring the Haotian Mirror’s energy and a deadly Thunder Tribulation. He survived and formed his Core, but left with a large debt and no Magic Treasure.

• After a year of preparation, Wang Changsheng began Core Formation using the Haotian Mirror’s golden light and the Qianyuan Spirit Protection Talisman.
• Wang Changsheng combined the blue and golden spiritual energies in his Dantian into a pale-blue Core.
• A Thunder Tribulation struck Wang Changsheng, while Wang Mingren asked Xu Zihua and the Azure Robe Daoist to help; Xu Zihua refused and said Wang Changsheng had to rely on himself.
• Wang Changsheng endured the lightning strikes and survived the final attack from the Silver Lightning Python.
• Wang Changsheng confirmed that he had formed his Core and considered the Wang Family’s new standing, his three-hundred-thousand-Spirit-Stone debt, and his need for a Magic Treasure.