Chapter Summaries

Wang Changsheng successfully formed his core and spent a month stabilizing his realm while Wang Ruyan and their relatives prepared to help repay his debt. He chose to repay the 310,000 Spirit Stone debt within thirty years by hunting Demon Beasts.

• Xu Zihua congratulated Wang Changsheng on forming his core and arranged for Wang Ruyan to be notified.
• Wang Changsheng studied the seventh layer of the Kui Water True Scripture and began cultivating in the secret chamber.
• Wang Ruyan learned of her husband's success, and Wang Mingren and Su Bingbing gave her Spirit Stones to help repay the debt.
• Wang Changsheng emerged after a month and learned that he owed 310,000 Spirit Stones.
• Wang Changsheng chose to repay the debt within thirty years rather than undertake a dangerous mission or place it under a clan member's name.

Wang Changsheng learned that he had to repay 200,000 Spirit Stones within thirty years to leave the Taiyi Immortal Sect without burdening his guarantor. He and Wang Ruyan returned to the Wei Kingdom to raise the money as the Wang Family’s businesses prospered under Wang Qingkai’s leadership.

• The Azure Robe Daoist took Wang Changsheng to the Hall of Affairs, where its deputy hall masters required him to repay one-third of his debt before leaving and the rest within thirty years.
• Wang Changsheng sold the Mystic Yin Tree, puppet beasts, Dharma Artifacts, and a Demonic Flood Dragon scale for 110,000 Spirit Stones, leaving 200,000 outstanding.
• Wang Ruyan proposed gathering the remaining 200,000 Spirit Stones through family savings, a loan from her parents’ family, celebration gifts, and asset sales, and she and Wang Changsheng departed for home.
• Wang Qingqi refined twenty azure pills and looked forward to the income they would bring the family.
• Wang Changxing and Wang Qingyuan reported the Wang Family’s shops, harvest, and annual finances to Family Head Wang Qingkai, noting a profit of 32,879 Spirit Stones and the Pill Shop’s leading contribution.

After Wang Changsheng returned as a Core Formation Cultivator, he announced plans to celebrate, manage the Wang Family’s debts, and strengthen its future. He read the Inheritance Jade’s records and later received his master Guangdong Ren, whose final gift left him astonished.

• Wang Ruyan announced Wang Changsheng’s Core Formation to the Wang Family, and Wang Changsheng explained his debt and learned the clan’s finances were strained.
• Wang Changsheng ordered a Core Formation Ceremony for six months later and offered Wang Qingkai the Foundation Establishment Pill, with its cost to be deducted from his salary.
• Wang Changsheng gave Wang Qiuming the Ice Serpent Dragon Banner, then returned to cultivation and read the Inheritance Jade’s two Mystic Grade cultivation methods and Qing Mingzi’s experiences.
• Three months later, Wang Changsheng met Guangdong Ren, who congratulated him with a Foundation Establishment Pill and then presented a Cyan Jade Box.
• Wang Changsheng opened Guangdong Ren’s jade box and drew in a sharp breath.

Wang Changsheng learned that Guangdong Ren wanted him to enter the Skywolf Secret Realm and retrieve a Fu Jin Fruit, which could improve the chances of Core Formation. He agreed after negotiating for two Foundation Establishment Pills and accepted the Vajra Bracelet, while Wang Ruyan remained concerned about the danger.

• Guangdong Ren showed Wang Changsheng a first-grade middle-rank Magic Treasure, the Vajra Bracelet, and explained that he wanted help obtaining a Fu Jin Fruit from the Skywolf Secret Realm.
• Guangdong Ren described the secret realm, its three-hundred-year opening cycle, and the Tier 3 Demon Beast guarding the fruit tree.
• Wang Changsheng discussed the plan with Wang Ruyan, who advised him not to go because of the risks, but he cited the family's financial needs and Qing Mingzi's map as reasons to accept.
• Wang Changsheng agreed to enter the secret realm in exchange for two Foundation Establishment Pills after the task was completed.
• Guangdong Ren handed Wang Changsheng the Vajra Bracelet and promised to look after his relatives if he died.

Wang Changsheng refined the Vajra Bracelet after forming his core, then joined Wang Changhao to investigate a rumored Core Formation Cultivator's cave in Han Kingdom. They met the Sus, who planned to use the Wang brothers to break the cave’s restrictions while secretly intending to keep its treasures.

• Wang Changsheng refined the Vajra Bracelet and learned that Wang Changhao had found a possible Seated Immortal Cave in Han Kingdom.
• Wang Changsheng postponed the Core Formation Ceremony and left Azure Lotus Mountain with Wang Changhao, despite Wang Ruyan’s concern.
• In Blackwater City, Su Longzhai and the other Sus discussed using the Wang cultivators to scout the cave’s restrictions and keeping their ancestor’s treasures for themselves.
• Wang Changsheng and Wang Changhao arrived at the Sus’ chamber, where Wang Changsheng concealed his core cultivation and appeared to be at the Foundation Establishment Sixth Layer.

Wang Changsheng accompanied Su Longzhai and his companions to an ancient cultivation site, where they found a Golden Flame Fruit Tree. After Su Longzhai betrayed them, Wang Changsheng revealed his Core Formation cultivation and killed the three accomplices.

• Su Longzhai led Wang Changsheng and Wang Changhao on a month-long journey to a hidden valley, where the group entered an underground chamber.
• The group broke through a self-repairing restriction and a stone gate, then discovered a Golden Flame Fruit Tree bearing eight fruits.
• Su Longzhai claimed the treasures belonged to his ancestor and ordered Long Suyang and Long Suyu to attack Wang Changsheng and Wang Changhao.
• Wang Changsheng revealed his Core Formation Spiritual Pressure and killed Su Longzhai, Long Suyang, and Long Suyu with his Vajra Bracelet.

Wang Changsheng secured a Third-Order Golden Flame Fruit Tree and sealed a distant Earth Fire Spirit Vein before returning to Azure Lotus Mountain for his Core Formation Ceremony. He began discussing a possible marriage alliance with Song Hefeng, while planning to address the spirit vein’s fate.

• Wang Changsheng and Wang Changhao collected the Golden Flame Fruits, took the tree, and sealed the Earth Fire Spirit Vein with a Tier 2 Formation.
• Wang Changsheng returned to Azure Lotus Mountain and learned that Song Hefeng had arrived for his Core Formation Ceremony.
• Wang Changsheng met Song Hefeng and his great-grandchildren, Song Yongsheng and Song Yongyue, and both elders raised the possibility of a marriage alliance.
• Wang Changsheng sent Song Yongsheng and Song Yongyue away so he could discuss an important matter with Song Hefeng, including the distant Earth Fire Spirit Vein.

Wang Changsheng sold a Tier 2 High Grade Earth Fire Spirit Vein to Song Hefeng and arranged a marriage between Wang Qingyang and a Song Family cultivator. At Azure Lotus Market, Wang Qingjun exchanged for unusual materials while Wang Qingqi hosted an alchemy gathering.

• Wang Changsheng negotiated with Song Hefeng and sold the Earth Fire Spirit Vein for 60,000 Spirit Stones, with part of the payment due after the Song Family occupied it.
• Wang Changsheng required Wang Qingyang to marry a female Song Family cultivator with a Triple Spirit Root, and Song Hefeng agreed.
• Wang Qingjun set up a stall at Azure Lotus Market, hoping to find rare items that could help him prepare for Foundation Establishment.
• Wang Qingjun traded pills and a Mid-grade Spirit Tool for a golden bead that resisted fire and a High-grade Spirit Tool, then collected other strange objects.
• Wang Qingqi held an alchemy exchange with five Foundation Establishment Cultivators and arranged to continue the discussion the next day.

Wang Qingqi and Wang Qingjun discovered that a golden bead from Qingjun’s bargain-hunting haul was a Tier 3 Crafting Material and presented it to Wang Changsheng as a congratulatory gift for forming his Core. Wang Changsheng rewarded them with Contribution Points and warned them not to harm the bead’s original owner for treasure.

• Wang Qingling bought a bottle of Spirit Feeding Pill from Wang Qingqi, who reminded her to prioritize her cultivation.
• Wang Qingjun asked Wang Qingqi to examine his gathered materials, and Qingqi identified a golden bead that resisted fire and weapon strikes.
• Wang Qingjun persuaded Wang Qingqi to accompany him to present the bead to Wang Changsheng, who confirmed it was a Tier 3 Crafting Material.
• Wang Changsheng awarded Qingjun eight thousand Contribution Points and Qingqi two thousand after they shared credit for identifying the bead.
• Wang Changsheng warned the two brothers not to mistreat or kill the bead’s owner to seize their treasure.

Wang Changsheng celebrated his Core Formation with the Wei Kingdom’s cultivation families and discussed upgrading the Wang Family’s Spirit Vein. Unable to afford the work, he learned that Guangdong Ren would let him cultivate at the Hundred Spirits Sect until the Skywolf Secret Realm opened.

• Wang Changsheng gave Wang Qingqi the first three layers of the Mystic Grade Sky Flame Treasure Canon and encouraged him to find a partner, but Wang Qingqi declined.
• Wang Changsheng rewarded Wang Changhao for his contributions to the Han Kingdom expedition with 10,000 Contribution Points and 10,000 Spirit Stones.
• The Wang Family held a one-day Core Formation Celebration, where visiting families presented gifts and Song Hefeng announced a marriage alliance between the Song and Wang Families.
• Song Hefeng advised Wang Changsheng to upgrade the Wang Family’s Spirit Vein and told him about the Guangyuan Assembly in three years.
• Wang Changsheng asked Guangdong Ren to help upgrade Azure Lotus Mountain’s Spirit Vein, but balked at the 400,000-Spirit-Stone cost.
• Guangdong Ren refused to let the Wang Family buy the work on credit but offered Wang Changsheng a place to cultivate at the Hundred Spirits Sect until the Skywolf Secret Realm opened.

After Guangdong Ren warned Wang Changsheng that the Wang Family had nearly been punished for destroying the Qin Family, Wang Changsheng resolved to repay the favor and manage his clan more carefully. He arranged Wang Qingyang’s marriage and overhauled the family’s rewards, obligations, and rules.

• Guangdong Ren told Wang Changsheng that Li Haifeng knew the Wang and Wang Families were responsible for the Qin Family’s destruction, but had spared them because of Guangdong Ren’s favor and Wang Changsheng’s clan uncle; he warned Wang Changsheng never to repeat the crime.
• Wang Changsheng told Wang Ruyan what Guangdong Ren had revealed, and they agreed to gather Spirit Stones to repay their debt to the Taiyi Immortal Sect before upgrading the Spirit Vein.
• Wang Changsheng told Wang Qingyang that his arranged marriage to a woman from the Song Family of Han Kingdom would come with a Foundation Establishment Pill whose cost would be deducted from his Merit Points.
• Wang Changsheng revised the clan’s stipends, childbearing rewards, Merit Point inheritance and exchange rates, and required members to earn resources through their contributions.
• Wang Changsheng prohibited clansmen from killing others to seize treasures and set new robe allowances and Azure Lotus insignia for the clan’s members.

Wang Changsheng renamed the clan’s stronghold Azure Lotus Estate, established a formal clan history, and led the family in honoring their ancestors after his Core Formation. He considered his mortal son Wang Ping'an’s future and helped arrange Wang Qingyang’s marriage, leaving Azure Lotus Estate preparing for wedding guests.

• Wang Changsheng renamed Wang Family Stronghold Azure Lotus Estate and ordered the clan to record its history, including members’ contributions and misdeeds.
• Wang Changsheng led Wang Qingzhi and the other clan members in worshiping their ancestors and announcing that the Wang Family had become a Golden Core Family.
• Wang Qingyuan reported that the congratulatory gifts were worth more than 117,000 Spirit Stones and told Wang Changsheng that Wang Ping'an had a wife, four concubines, and two children on the way; Wang Changsheng decided to leave him living among mortals.
• Wang Qingyuan said he would save his Merit Points for his son Qiuzheng, and Wang Changsheng offered to have Wang Qingqing teach Qiuzheng Artifact Refining if he had a Spirit Root.
• Wang Changsheng refined a Second Order Puppet Beast, and three months later the Song Family delivered the remaining payment and portraits of potential brides for Wang Qingyang.
• Wang Changsheng suggested Song Yongyan as Wang Qingyang’s bride, and the Wang Family invited its in-laws and friends to their wedding at Azure Lotus Estate.

Wang Mingjiang hunted a high-grade Tier 2 Demon Insect with Rogue Cultivators in the Wu Kingdom, while Wang Qingqing refined a Second Grade Middle Rank Puppet Beast and prepared gifts for Wang Qingyang’s wedding. After the wedding, Wang Changsheng planned to leave to repay the Spirit Stones owed to the Taiyi Immortal Sect and asked Wang Ruyan to watch over the family.

• Wang Mingjiang and four Rogue Cultivators killed a high-grade Tier 2 Crimson Centipede, with his Puppet Beasts helping to keep it from escaping.
• Wang Qingqing successfully refined a Second Grade Middle Rank Spider Puppet and decided to give it and two thousand Spirit Stones to Wang Qingyang as wedding gifts.
• Wang Changsheng promised Wang Qingyang a Foundation Establishment Pill, to be deducted from his Merit Points, and additional Spirit Stones.
• Wang Qingyang married Song Yongyan, and the next morning they served tea to Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan.
• Wang Changsheng told Song Yongyan that he would keep her Violet Jade Spirit Water for her future Foundation Establishment attempt.
• Wang Changsheng asked Wang Ruyan to watch over the family while he left to repay the Spirit Stones owed to the Taiyi Immortal Sect.

Wang Ruyan organized the Wang Clan to save for a Third-Order Spirit Vein after selling off much of its resources to repay the Taiyi Immortal Sect. Wang Changsheng sold his Golden Flame Fruit Tree at the sect and used the proceeds to clear the family’s debt, then met with Wang Mingren.

• Wang Ruyan sold valuables and clan resources to help repay the Taiyi Immortal Sect, but the Wang Clan still needed 400,000 Spirit Stones to upgrade its Spirit Vein.
• Wang Ruyan assigned clan members ways to earn Spirit Stones and urged them to work together, while Wang Qingzhi focused on raising Spirit Fish and Wang Changhao held off on hunting Demon Beasts.
• Wang Changsheng arrived at the Taiyi Immortal Sect and asked to meet the deputy hall master of its Hall of Affairs.
• Wang Changsheng sold his Golden Flame Fruit Tree to Li Jiong and Madam Chen for 150,000 Spirit Stones, added another 50,000, and fully repaid the debt.
• Wang Mingren arrived at the Hall of Affairs and asked Wang Changsheng whether he had gathered the Spirit Stones.

Wang Changsheng thanked Wang Mingren for helping him form his core, offered to refine a Natal Mystic Tool for him, and went to Guangyuan City for the Guangyuan Assembly. There, he visited a Thousand Machines Sect shop that sold Third-Order Puppet Beasts and met its Core Formation shopkeeper.

• Wang Changsheng gave Wang Mingren three Golden Flame Fruits but failed to persuade him to accept spirit stones, then asked about finding Third-Order Heaven and Earth Spiritual Water.
• Wang Mingren explained that he would enter the Taiyi Secret Realm in over twenty years and promised to look for Spirit Water there; Wang Changsheng offered to refine his Natal Mystic Tool.
• Wang Mingren gave Wang Changsheng the Dragon-Phoenix Rings, which Wang Changsheng spent a month refining into a Natal Mystic Tool before handing them back.
• Wang Changsheng traveled to Guangyuan City six months before the Guangyuan Assembly and visited the Hundred Puppets Pavilion to ask about Third-Order Puppet Beasts.
• A shop assistant explained that the pavilion belonged to the Thousand Machines Sect and led Wang Changsheng upstairs to meet its Core Formation shopkeeper.

Wang Changsheng visited Guangyuan City's shops and learned about an exchange gathering after rejecting an expensive Third-Order Puppet Beast. While browsing a plaza, he witnessed Huang Fugui quarrel over a supposed treasure map, then heard a familiar voice call to him from a wine house.

• Wang Changsheng declined Zi Yang Daoist's offer of a Third-Order Puppet Beast and accepted an invitation to an exchange gathering at Guangyuan Residence the next evening.
• Wang Changsheng browsed the city's shops and plaza but found no bargains.
• Huang Fugui bought a scrap of cloth from a stall after overruling a blue-robed maiden who had wanted it.
• Madam Jin intervened, forced Huang Fugui to show her the cloth, and dismissed it as an ordinary Dharma Artifact-grade scrap.
• As Wang Changsheng passed a wine house on his way back, a familiar man called to him from the second floor.

Wang Changsheng reunited with Guangdong Ren in Guangyuan City and attended the Exchange Gathering at Guangyuan Residence, hoping to find Third-Order Heaven and Earth Spiritual Water. The gathering began with exchanges among Core Formation Cultivators, but Wang Changsheng had not yet found what he sought.

• Wang Changsheng joined Guangdong Ren for Blaze Python Wine, and Guangdong Ren invited him to the Exchange Gathering at Guangyuan Residence.
• Wang Changsheng met the Zi Yang Daoist at the gathering and discussed his interest in the Puppet Technique.
• Wang Huashan arrived, recognized Wang Changsheng, and sat beside him without revealing their relationship to the others.
• The Zi Yang Daoist opened the gathering by offering three materials, and Wang Huashan exchanged for the Demon Core.
• Guangdong Ren offered four materials in exchange for edible Third-Order items, and other cultivators took the blue horn and Icewind Python hide.

At the Guangyuan Assembly, Wang Changsheng offered a Golden Flame Fruit in exchange for Third-Order Heaven and Earth Spiritual Water but found no immediate trade. He accepted Zi Yang Daoist’s promise to seek the water, received Guangdong Ren’s offer to travel together, and left with Wang Huashan, who learned that Wang Changsheng’s cultivation technique required spiritual water.

• Wang Huashan failed to exchange his materials for Tier 3 water-attribute crafting materials, while Huang Fugui traded his damaged Puppet Beast and other items to Zi Yang Daoist for a Yellow Flying Dagger and Spirit Stones.
• Wang Changsheng offered a seven-hundred-year Golden Flame Fruit for Third-Order Heaven and Earth Spiritual Water, but no one at the gathering could provide it; Zi Yang Daoist promised to find someone who could.
• Guangdong Ren warned Wang Changsheng not to travel alone and invited him to return to the Wei Kingdom with him, while Wang Changsheng agreed to consider selling him the fruit if he could not obtain the spiritual water.
• After the gathering, Wang Changsheng and Wang Huashan went to a teahouse, where Wang Changsheng praised Wang Ruyan for supporting him and Wang Huashan urged him to travel with protection.
• Wang Changsheng admitted to Wang Huashan that his cultivation technique required Heaven and Earth Spiritual Water, and Wang Huashan gave him a Foundation Establishment Pill for Qingyang.

Wang Changsheng arranged to borrow Spirit Stones from Wang Huashan and traded Golden Flame Fruits for Dark Moon Cold Water and Ink Cloud Silk, gaining guidance on refining Third-Order Puppet Beasts. Meanwhile, Wang Ruyan continued exhausting herself making Tier 2 Talismans to raise funds for advancing the family’s Spirit Vein.

• Wang Changsheng asked Wang Huashan for help funding the Spirit Vein’s advancement, and Wang Huashan promised to try to send some Spirit Stones.
• Wang Changsheng bought medicinal pills for his family and later received sixty pounds of diluted Dark Moon Cold Water from Zi Yang Daoist.
• Wang Changsheng traded two Golden Flame Fruits for ninety pounds of diluted Dark Moon Cold Water and Ink Cloud Silk, then asked Zi Yang Daoist about refining Third-Order Puppet Beasts.
• Zi Yang Daoist explained parts of the puppet-refining process, and Wang Changsheng began cultivating with the Dark Moon Cold Water.
• Wang Ruyan continued tirelessly refining Tier 2 Talismans to gather Spirit Stones for advancing the Spirit Vein.

Wang Qingkai reviewed the Wang Clan’s earnings and urged the clan to save enough Spirit Stones to upgrade its Spirit Vein. After five months of cultivation, Wang Changsheng attended an auction, where he failed to obtain Mystic Jade Cold Liquid and watched a wealthy Elder buy the Li Fire Blade.

• Wang Changyang and Wang Qingyuan reported the clan’s income, expenses, and business performance to Wang Qingkai.
• Wang Qingkai told the Elders to work harder to gather Spirit Stones and upgrade the Spirit Vein for Ninth Uncle’s benefit.
• After cultivating with Dark Moon Cold Water for more than five months, Wang Changsheng received reminders about the Auction and hurried to the Multi-Treasure Palace.
• Wang Changsheng bid on Mystic Jade Cold Liquid but stopped when its price reached 60,000 Spirit Stones, and a scarlet Python Robe Elder won it.
• The scarlet Python Robe Elder bought the Li Fire Blade for 250,000 Spirit Stones after Wang Changsheng decided it was unsuitable for his cultivation technique.