Chapter Summaries

Wang Chen explored Welcome Immortal Town before applying to transfer his household registration to Thousand Stars Immortal City. After buying a scalped queue token, he learned that the city ranked residents by status and required applicants to pay fees.

• Wang Chen wandered Welcome Immortal Town's lively night market, bought grilled skewers, and returned to his lodging before curfew.
• Zi Ling brought Wang Chen breakfast, and Pei Yan escorted him to the registration office, where he received a queue token in the five hundreds.
• A ticket scalper offered Wang Chen an earlier token, and Pei Yan bargained the price down to eighty Lower Spirit, moving Wang Chen to number nineteen.
• Wang Chen submitted his application and learned that Thousand Stars Immortal City charged fees and divided residents into four grades with different rights.

Wang Chen applied for B-class citizenship in Thousand Stars Immortal City and explored the settlement while awaiting approval. When he returned to his rented home, he found Zi Ling’s father had gambled away their property and offered Zi Ling to Wang Chen for three thousand Spirit Stones; Wang Chen agreed.

• Wang Chen paid the application fee and began the process of obtaining B-class citizenship.
• Wang Chen explored the area beneath the Dragon Turtle and concluded Thousand Stars Immortal City was a suitable place to pursue Golden Core.
• Wang Chen returned to find Zi Ling’s father and several men confronting her over his gambling debts.
• Zi Ling’s father offered her to Wang Chen for three thousand Spirit Stones, and Wang Chen agreed.

Wang Chen bought Su Ziling’s freedom and took her in after she swore herself to him. He discovered she had a Superior grade bone structure and water affinity, then gave her a Revitalization Pill to remove her facial scar.

• Wang Chen paid three thousand Spirit Stones to free Su Ziling from her gambling-addict father and gave her the Dao pact, but she swore to serve him instead of leaving.
• Wang Chen took Su Ziling across the river, rented an inn suite, and let her serve him while they waited for word from the Household Registration Department.
• Wang Chen tested Su Ziling’s Spiritual Roots and found that she had a Superior grade bone structure and a primary water affinity.
• Wang Chen gave Su Ziling a second-tier Revitalization Pill that he had bought for five thousand Spirit Stones to remove her scar.

Wang Chen gave Su Ziling a Revitalization Pill that restored her appearance, then persuaded her to wait until her cultivation was stronger before offering herself to him. After becoming accustomed to her sleeping in his arms, he secured his Class B citizenship in Thousand Stars Immortal City and upgraded Su Ziling’s status so she could remain there.

• Su Ziling learned the Revitalization Pill could restore her appearance, wept in Wang Chen’s arms, and took the pill.
• Su Ziling returned with her scar gone, and Wang Chen praised her renewed beauty.
• Su Ziling climbed into Wang Chen’s bed and offered herself to him, but he said she should wait until after she Break Through Apertures and Open the Mansion.
• Su Ziling began sleeping in Wang Chen’s arms every night, and he gradually grew accustomed to it.
• Wang Chen received approval for his registration transfer, paid the remaining fees, and obtained a Class B Identity Token.
• Wang Chen paid to raise Su Ziling’s status from D-class to Class C so she could live in Thousand Stars Immortal City.

Wang Chen explored Thousand Stars Immortal City with Su Ziling and learned how merchant families controlled most of its property. After inspecting several storefront residences, he rented one and secured a foothold in the city.

• Wang Chen entered Thousand Stars Immortal City on foot with Su Ziling and comforted her as she remembered her childhood visit with her parents.
• Wang Chen stayed at an inn and was surprised by how much more expensive lodging was than in Welcome Immortal Town.
• Wang Chen asked a brokerage owner about property and learned that most citizens rented homes while merchant families controlled nearly all properties.
• Wang Chen inspected five storefront residences but found none suitable, so the brokerage owner sent him to view another listing.
• Wang Chen chose the final storefront residence and rented it for five hundred thousand Lower Spirit Stones a year.

Wang Chen rented a shop and residence in Thousand Stars Immortal City so he could earn Spirit Stones refining artifacts and buy a treasure for condensing his Golden Core. After studying Nine Directions Artifact Refining and practicing for a month, he advanced the skill to Minor Accomplishment but had not yet opened for business.

• Wang Chen rented a storefront residence with an artifact-forging workshop and earthfire, while Su Ziling eagerly cleaned their new home.
• Wang Chen tested the earthfire with Little Cauldron and explained that he planned to sell Spirit Tools to earn enough for a Golden Core treasure.
• Wang Chen chose artifact refining over talisman-making because the talisman market was too competitive and offered little profit.
• Wang Chen bought materials and a revised copy of Nine Directions Artifact Refining from the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, then studied and practiced the craft himself.
• Wang Chen raised Nine Directions Artifact Refining to Minor Accomplishment after a month of practice, though he had spent heavily without selling anything.

After three months of artifact refinement, Wang Chen forged a mid-grade Tier 2 flying sword named Frost Condensing and prepared to give it to Su Ziling. He left the Earthfire Chamber with the sword and asked whether she liked it.

• Wang Chen forged a flying sword in the Life-Giving Creation Cauldron and named it Frost Condensing.
• He fitted the sword with a hilt and scabbard, then checked that his Nine Directions Artifact Refining Technique had reached Great Accomplishment.
• Little Cauldron complained that Wang Chen had not used its power, and Wang Chen said he would need its help in the future.
• Wang Chen put away the cauldron and went to the second-floor bedroom, where Su Ziling was making the bed.
• Wang Chen gave Frost Condensing to Su Ziling, whose water affinity and sword cultivation made the flying sword suitable for her.

Wang Chen gave Su Ziling a Frost Condensing Sword, and their relationship grew more intimate after she acted on advice from neighbors. He continued advancing his artifact-refining skills and prepared to open his shop, first seeking certification and guild membership.

• Wang Chen gave Su Ziling the Frost Condensing Sword, which she found perfectly suited to her and promised to train with.
• Su Ziling explained that neighboring female cultivators had advised her on how to win Wang Chen's favor, and the two became intimate that night.
• Two months later, Wang Chen advanced the Nine Directions Artifact Refining Technique to the Grandmaster realm and refined a top-grade spirit artifact.
• As the five-month storefront rental neared its opening day, Wang Chen planned to apply for Artifact Refiner certification and join the Artifact Refiners' Guild.

Wang Chen took the Artifact Refiners' Guild assessment to earn three-star certification, carefully adapting to an unexpectedly high-grade refining furnace while concealing his full capabilities. With the assessment underway, he began crafting Three Profound Flying Daggers as his main test piece.

• Wang Chen applied for three-star Artifact Refiner certification at the Guild headquarters and paid the assessment fee.
• Wang Chen entered the earthfire chamber and discovered that the Guild had provided a third-grade refining furnace.
• Wang Chen spent a shichen partially refining the furnace and familiarizing himself with its workings and the earthfire.
• Wang Chen used low-grade materials to make three ordinary Magic Tools while continuing to learn the furnace's characteristics.
• Wang Chen began refining Three Profound Flying Daggers from profound iron, profound copper, and profound gold.

Wang Chen passed the Artifact Refiner assessment, joined the Artifact Refiners' Guild, and prepared to open his shop with Su Ziling. When the shop opened, the neighbors who had doubted it were stunned by its array of goods and their marked prices.

• Wang Chen forged an upper-grade, first-rate Three Profound Flying Dagger and passed the Artifact Refiner assessment.
• Wang Chen received his Artifact Refiner badge and joined the Artifact Refiners' Guild.
• Wang Chen returned home, celebrated with Su Ziling, and announced that they would open the shop in three days.
• Su Ziling arranged the opening ceremony, invited the neighbors, and helped prepare the shop.
• The neighbors attended the opening, and their doubts shifted when Wang Chen revealed shelves full of Magic Tools and Spirit Tools at eye-catching prices.

Wang Chen opened his shop by selling standardized Magic Tools and Spirit Tools at a steep discount, winning over skeptical customers. His free vanilla ice pops drew in neighbors and passersby, and by afternoon he had sold nearly one-third of his displayed stock.

• Wang Chen invited Battle Cultivators and Hunter Cultivators to inspect his discounted Magic Tools and Spirit Tools.
• The cultivators found Wang Chen's equipment flawless and bought it, even borrowing Spirit Stones to secure the bargains.
• Wang Chen had Su Ziling hand out homemade vanilla ice pops to the neighbors and their children.
• Wang Chen gave ice pops to curious passersby, several of whom browsed his shelves and bought equipment.
• Wang Chen sold nearly one-third of his displayed Magic Tools and Spirit Tools by afternoon, replenishing some of the Spirit Stones he had spent on materials.

After the old district chief warned Wang Chen against extending his opening-day discounts, Wang Chen restored his prices and shifted to selling ice cream, which became popular across half the city. His success ended when imitators produced more ice cream at lower prices and crushed his business.

• Su Ziling tallied 574,000 Spirit Stones in sales, and Wang Chen clarified that the figure was turnover, not profit.
• The former district chief warned Wang Chen not to continue selling goods at discounted prices, and Wang Chen agreed to restore the original prices.
• Wang Chen and Su Ziling faced crowds seeking free ice cream, while sales of Magic Tools and spirit artifacts fell sharply.
• Wang Chen made more iceboxes and began selling packaged ice cream for one Lower Spirit per box, handing production to Su Ziling.
• Su Ziling expanded ice cream production, and Wang Chen's product became famous across half the city.
• Imitators copied Wang Chen's ice cream, produced more of it at lower prices, and drove his business down.

After a competitor’s low-priced ice cream shop ruined Wang Chen’s business, he turned his stock of iceboxes into refrigerators and launched them for sale. The chapter ended with Wang Chen and Su Ziling presenting the new product to a curious customer in Thousand Stars Immortal City.

• A rival shop undercut Wang Chen’s ice cream prices, and Su Ziling complained while Wang Chen accepted that he lacked the power to stop them.
• Su Ziling worried about the iceboxes they had made, so Wang Chen decided to repurpose them into refrigerators.
• Wang Chen commissioned refrigerator parts, refined Frost Magic Tool components, and assembled models in several styles and colors.
• Su Ziling displayed the refrigerators and offered buyers dessert recipes and ingredients with each purchase.
• Wang Chen promised a customer a full refund if the refrigerator used more than one Spirit Stone per day.

Wang Chen sold refrigerators in Thousand Stars Immortal City, earning over a million Lower Spirit Stones before imitators entered the market. After closing his shop, he met an old cultivator who asked which branch of the Wang Clan he came from.

• Su Ziling offered group-purchase discounts and ice pop ingredients, prompting customers to buy refrigerators in large numbers.
• Shopkeeper Zhang bought a refrigerator, saw how easily it could replace his ice pop shop, and set out to have craftsmen copy it.
• Wang Chen ramped up promotions and sold seventy percent of his refrigerators before imitations appeared on the market.
• Wang Chen and Su Ziling counted profits of over one million Lower Spirit Stones from five thousand refrigerators.
• An old cultivator arrived with two guards and asked Wang Chen which branch of the Wang Clan he came from.

Wang Xinchen, steward of the San Qun Wang Family, visited Wang Chen and revealed that the clan’s ancestor had ascended from the Mountain Sea Realm, suggesting Wang Chen might share the family bloodline. He offered the clan’s protection after Wang Chen’s inventions were copied, but Wang Chen remained wary and declined to presume a connection.

• Wang Xinchen introduced himself as a steward of the San Qun Wang Family and asked which Wang family branch Wang Chen belonged to.
• Wang Chen explained that he had relocated from Yongle Immortal City and denied any connection to the San Qun Wang Family.
• Wang Xinchen said the Wang clan’s founding ancestor had come from the Mountain Sea Realm and that the clan could test Wang Chen’s bloodline.
• Wang Xinchen implied that the San Qun Wang Family could have protected Wang Chen’s ice pops and refrigerators from being copied.
• Wang Chen declined to claim a place in the clan, suspecting that its protection would come with obligations.

Wang Chen accepted a large refrigerator order from the Wang Clan and completed it ahead of schedule, then learned that Hu Jiaojiao had found Seven-Leaf Black Ginseng. He left Thousand Stars Immortal City for Green Hill to obtain it and advance his plans to condense a high-grade Golden Core.

• Wang Xinchen ordered three hundred refrigerators from Wang Chen and paid a deposit, explaining that the Wang Clan would not mistreat a talented member of the same surname.
• Wang Chen completed the Wang Clan's refrigerator order more than ten days early and began considering how to earn enough Spirit Stones to obtain the treasures he needed for his Golden Core.
• Wang Chen learned that he still lacked Seven-Leaf Black Ginseng and Ten-Thousand-Year Star Sand, while suitable Black Ginseng substitutes did not meet his standards.
• Hu Jiaojiao contacted Wang Chen after emerging from seclusion and told him that he had to travel to Green Hill to collect the Seven-Leaf Black Ginseng.
• Wang Chen entrusted the shop to Su Ziling and quietly departed Thousand Stars Immortal City for Green Hill.

Wang Chen traveled toward Green Hill to find Hu Jiaojiao and obtain the Seven-Leaf Black Ginseng, surviving a terrifying encounter in the wilderness before reaching Changsheng Immortal City. After a young thief tried to steal his Storage Bag, Wang Chen ignored him and stopped at a busy wine house to eat.

• Wang Chen camped in a sealed cave, but ominous footsteps approached during the night and passed by while he concealed himself with the Mystic Mirage Dragon Art.
• The next morning, Wang Chen found a huge clawed footprint near his cave and hurried toward Changsheng Immortal City.
• Wang Chen entered Changsheng Immortal City, a crowded waystation outside the Nine Provinces Immortal Alliance system, and paid ten Spirit Stones to get in.
• A Qi Refining boy tried to steal Wang Chen's Storage Bag, but Wang Chen dodged him and scared him off with a glimpse of his aura.
• Wang Chen chose not to pursue the organized thieves and entered Gao Ji Wine House to eat.

Wang Chen killed a boy and Old Biao after they confronted him in a tavern, then used his external core to pass himself off as a Golden Core True Person. He left the city to avoid scrutiny, but an unfathomable old man emerged from the woods after following him.

• Old Biao entered the tavern with Tiger Cub and accused Wang Chen of bullying the boy.
• Wang Chen killed Tiger Cub with a golden beam and punched Old Biao to death when he attacked.
• Wang Chen revealed Golden Core pressure, and the tavern owner agreed that Old Biao and the boy deserved their deaths.
• Wang Chen paid two Medium Spirit Stones for his meal and the bodies, then left the tavern and headed out of the city.
• Wang Chen sensed someone following him in the woods and challenged them, prompting a white-haired old man of unfathomable cultivation to appear.

Wang Chen met Hu Fei, who agreed to take him to Green Hill in three days, and warned him that the man he had killed had powerful connections. Wang Chen returned to Changsheng Immortal City in disguise and came across a Jade Unsealing stall.

• Wang Chen learned that the mysterious old man was Hu Fei and asked him to take him to Green Hill.
• Hu Fei took the bead from Hu Jiaojiao’s message talisman, revealed that she had pleaded on Wang Chen’s behalf, and told him to return in three days.
• Hu Fei warned Wang Chen that Old Biao had connections and told him to stop flaunting his external pellet.
• Wang Chen changed his appearance and cultivation level, then reentered Changsheng Immortal City without trouble.
• Wang Chen explored the lively night market, bought food, and went to watch a vendor offer Ancient Sealed Jade to the highest bidder.

Wang Chen won a damaged piece of Ancient Sealed Jade and found an unreadable old book inside. The next morning, he saw that he was wanted for killing Black Old Biao and learned that a Golden Core True Person had tried to divine his location; the search was actually connected to the first person Wang Chen had killed, a half-grown boy who looked like a beggar.

• Wang Chen bid one thousand Spirit Stones on five pieces of Ancient Sealed Jade and won Number Twenty-Seven.
• Wang Chen took the cracked jade to his inn, opened it, and found an ancient book whose script he could not read.
• Wang Chen saw a wanted notice offering five thousand Spirit Stones for information and fifty thousand for his capture or death.
• Wang Chen listened to tea-house patrons discuss Black Old Biao’s death and sensed that someone had tried to locate him with the Heavenly Secret Art.
• Wang Chen learned that the divination was connected not to Black Old Biao, but to the half-grown boy who had been the first person Wang Chen killed.