Chapter Summaries

Wang Chen created skeletal servants to help Su Ziling clean the Cave Mansion, then risked taking control of its powerful formation. After spending most of his Spirit Stones, he claimed the Six Harmonies Great Seal and concealed and protected the dwelling.

• Wang Chen animated five skeletons as servants and gave them to Su Ziling to command while she cleaned the Cave Mansion.
• Wang Chen investigated the Cave Mansion's formation and discovered that its core lay in the cultivation chamber and that destroying it could collapse the dwelling.
• Wang Chen connected his Divine Sense and true essence to the formation, learning that it was the weakened Six Harmonies Xuan Yuan Great Formation.
• Wang Chen poured Spirit Stones into the altar's sacrificial basin until the formation's control art was complete and the Six Harmonies Great Seal appeared.
• Wang Chen used the seal to conceal the valley and activate the Cave Mansion's defenses, securing control of the formation.

Wang Chen cultivated in Nameless Valley, entrusted Su Ziling with greater responsibility for her safety, and investigated a mysterious Teleportation Array hidden beneath the pool. Low on Spirit Stones, he left to seek resources and test his strength, leaving Su Ziling behind to cultivate.

• Wang Chen completed his morning cultivation and told Su Ziling to focus on advancing her cultivation instead of serving him every day.
• Wang Chen gave Su Ziling a seal that let her enter the Cave Mansion and control part of the Six Harmonies Xuan Yuan Great Formation.
• Wang Chen placed more Spirit Stones into a Teleportation Array in a secret chamber but found that he still lacked enough to activate it.
• Wang Chen told Su Ziling to stay home, then flew into the mountains to search for wealth and test his combat strength.

While exploring the mountains around Thousand Stars Immortal City, Wang Chen discovered the hidden Lingyou City and entered under a disguised identity to rest and look for business opportunities. At a tavern, he noticed a hungry old cultivator staring at his wine and paid for a pot for him.

• Wang Chen searched the mountains for several days but found no valuable mineral deposits.
• On the fourth day, Wang Chen spotted a concealed Immortal City after seeing streaks of escaping light.
• Wang Chen disguised himself as a Purple Mansion peak cultivator and entered Lingyou City after paying the gate fee.
• Wang Chen ordered Hundred Flowers Drunk and two house specialties at a bustling tavern.
• Wang Chen saw a white-haired old cultivator eyeing his wine and paid the attendant to give him a pot.

Wang Chen bought several jars of Hundred Flowers Drunk, then led the cultivators tracking him to Lingyou City’s Marketplace and set up a stall. His fair-priced goods sold rapidly, leaving him with several hundred thousand Spirit Stones as he replenished his stock.

• Wang Chen bought all the tavern’s available Hundred Flowers Drunk and paid three hundred Medium Spirit Stones for three jars.
• Wang Chen noticed several cultivators following him and led them through the main streets to the Marketplace without confronting them.
• Wang Chen rented a protected stall and displayed pills, materials, Talismans, and spirit artifacts from his storage rings.
• Wang Chen refused to bargain, and customers bought nearly half his goods in less than an incense stick’s time.
• Wang Chen collected several hundred thousand Spirit Stones and replenished his stall as business continued to boom.

Wang Chen’s profitable Marketplace stall drew greedy pursuers, so he lured them into a mountain forest and revealed that he was a Golden Core True Person. He slaughtered the Purple Mansion cultivators who tried to rob him, earning Heavenly Merit as they fled.

• Wang Chen sold most of his goods in Lingyou City, attracting attention with nearly a million Lower Spirit Stones in turnover.
• Wang Chen left the city and fled south as dozens of cultivators pursued him, demanding his Storage Bag.
• Wang Chen used a Talisman to speed away, then dived into a forest as the pursuers attacked.
• More than a dozen Purple Mansion cultivators surrounded Wang Chen in a clearing, but he remained calm and asked if that was all of them.
• Wang Chen unleashed Golden Core pressure, immobilized the cultivators, and killed one with a single palm strike.
• The remaining cultivators tried to flee, but Wang Chen’s sword cut them down and earned him Heavenly Merit.

Wang Chen killed the Purple Mansion cultivators who had pursued him, then refused Lingyou Jingyun’s offer to become a retainer of Lingyou Immortal City. Back in Nameless Valley, he fed more than a million Spirit Stones into the Teleportation Array and received incomplete information that might explain how to control it.

• Wang Chen used Control to immobilize a fleeing Purple Mansion cultivator, killed him with the Dragon Abyss Sword, and confirmed that no other pursuers remained nearby.
• Wang Chen confronted Lingyou Jingyun, who criticized his methods but decided against fighting after recognizing the promise of his Golden Core; she offered him a retainer position, which he declined.
• Wang Chen sent wooden figures to gather the dead cultivators’ belongings and brought the collected Storage Bags back to Nameless Valley for Su Ziling to sort.
• Wang Chen poured over a million Spirit Stones into the Teleportation Array, which brightened and returned fragmented information that he suspected described how to control it.

Su Ziling broke through her final aperture and opened her Purple Mansion under Wang Chen’s protection, then began stabilizing her new realm. Wang Chen traveled to Lingyou City to sell his accumulated goods, where True Person Jingyun bought them and questioned whether he feared the city’s formation.

• Wang Chen activated the Six Harmonies Xuan Yuan Great Formation and helped Su Ziling prepare to break through.
• Su Ziling swallowed an Acupoint Breaking Pill, opened her top Dantian acupoint, and formed her Purple Mansion.
• Su Ziling joyfully embraced Wang Chen, who told her to stabilize her realm before he left her to cultivate.
• Wang Chen checked the formation at Nameless Valley, flew to Lingyou City, and sold his goods to True Person Jingyun at a fifteen percent discount.
• True Person Jingyun asked whether Wang Chen feared she would trap him with the City Protection Array, and he smiled without answering.

Wang Chen negotiated with True Person Jingyun over custom artifact commissions and agreed to refine Magic Treasures in exchange for a spark of Southern Bright Li Fire. He left the bargain with the fire promised to him and valuable experience in Magic Treasure refining ahead.

• True Person Jingyun recognized Wang Chen’s skill from the high-grade spirit artifacts he had brought and asked him to accept custom commissions.
• Wang Chen explained that he lacked earth fire and was reluctant to refine custom spirit artifacts, while True Person Jingyun offered him access to Lingyou City’s earth-fire chambers.
• True Person Jingyun revealed a spark of Southern Bright Li Fire and offered it for five custom-made Magic Treasures, but Wang Chen initially refused.
• Wang Chen counteroffered three Magic Treasures in return for five sets of materials, and True Person Jingyun added thirty custom spirit artifacts to the deal.
• True Person Jingyun accepted the bargain, and Wang Chen secured the Southern Bright Li Fire in exchange for the refining work and materials.

After signing a Dao pact with True Person Jingyun, Wang Chen completed thirty spirit artifacts and received a spark of Southern Bright Li Fire along with Magic Treasure materials. He fused the fire into the Life-Giving Creation Cauldron and began refining Magic Treasures, while Little Cauldron eagerly offered to help.

• Wang Chen and True Person Jingyun signed a Dao pact to exchange thirty high-grade spirit artifacts for Southern Bright Li Fire and Magic Treasure materials.
• Wang Chen received the materials ten days later and delivered thirty custom spirit artifacts two months afterward, earning the fire spark and five sets of Magic Treasure materials.
• Wang Chen returned to Nameless Valley, where Little Cauldron urged him to let it absorb the Southern Bright Li Fire.
• Wang Chen and Little Cauldron spent three days and nights refining the fire into the Life-Giving Creation Cauldron, leaving Wang Chen exhausted.
• After recovering, Wang Chen began forging Magic Treasures himself and ignored Little Cauldron's offer to do the work.

Wang Chen failed in his first attempt to refine the Azure Sun Crown, then reviewed his work and tried again. After nine days and nights of artifact refinement, he successfully created his first Magic Treasure.

• Wang Chen refined the Azure Sun Crown's components and engraved its True Script Runes before beginning the final artifact refinement.
• After seven days and nights, the Azure Sun Crown self-destructed, and Wang Chen lost the materials he had invested.
• Wang Chen rejected Little Cauldron's offer to help, washed and changed, then drank and reviewed his first attempt.
• Wang Chen cleaned the Life-Giving Creation Cauldron, restored himself over three days, and began a second Azure Sun Crown.
• Wang Chen refined the second crown with more practiced techniques and spent nine days and nights completing the artifact refinement.
• The Life-Giving Creation Cauldron released a radiant Daoist Crown, and Wang Chen successfully claimed his first Magic Treasure.

Wang Chen advanced Nine Directions Artifact Refining to Grandmaster, endured the backlash, and spent two months crafting three medium-grade Magic Treasures for True Person Jingyun. She was astonished by his work and promised to repay his favor.

• Wang Chen equipped the Azure Sun Crown and used 3,999 Human Virtue to raise Nine Directions Artifact Refining to Grandmaster, suffering a severe Divine Soul backlash.
• Wang Chen spent three days digesting his new knowledge, then refined several top-grade Spirit Artifacts and planned True Person Jingyun's three Magic Treasures.
• Wang Chen spent two months refining a Flying Sword, a Tortoise Shield, and Flowing Rainbow, while Nameless Valley's formation contained the tribulations each treasure triggered.
• Wang Chen traveled to Lingyuan City and presented the three medium-grade Magic Treasures to True Person Jingyun.
• True Person Jingyun expressed her satisfaction, accepted the treasures, and promised to repay Wang Chen's favor.

After a year of secluded cultivation, Wang Chen advanced his Golden Core technique and emerged from the meditation chamber. He rewarded Little Cauldron for finishing a batch of Spirit Artifacts, then took Su Ziling with him to Lingyou City.

• True Person Jingyun sincerely thanked Wang Chen for the three mid-grade Magic Treasures, and Wang Chen asked her to buy materials and sell the Spirit Artifacts he made for a share of the profits.
• Wang Chen gave the materials to Little Cauldron and devoted himself to cultivation, telling Su Ziling to keep practicing while he secluded himself for a year.
• Wang Chen completed a year of steady cultivation, bringing his Innate Five Elements Technique · Golden Core to the first layer with 125 experience points.
• Su Ziling greeted Wang Chen after his seclusion and told him she had reached the Purple Mansion second layer and wanted to visit Lingyou Immortal City.
• Little Cauldron presented Wang Chen with several dozen finished Spirit Artifacts, and Wang Chen rewarded it with five high-grade Spirit Stones.
• Wang Chen brought Su Ziling out of the Cave Mansion at the bottom of the pool and flew with her toward Lingyou City.

Wang Chen sold a batch of spirit artifacts to True Person Jingyun in Lingyou City while Su Ziling went shopping. A brocade-robed cultivator tried to harass Su Ziling, but just as he threatened to seize her, a powerful pressure enveloped him.

• Wang Chen entered Lingyou City with Su Ziling, gave her Spirit Stones to shop, and went to meet True Person Jingyun.
• Wang Chen sold True Person Jingyun his spirit artifacts at seventy percent of market price, and she asked him to sell her future works as well.
• Su Ziling visited a tailor shop and chose dresses and Daoist robes for herself and Wang Chen.
• A brocade-robed cultivator approached Su Ziling, blocked her way, and used a Golden Core talisman plaque to intimidate the shop's customers.
• The brocade-robed cultivator reached for Su Ziling's veil and threatened to keep her from escaping, but a powerful pressure suddenly enveloped him.

Wang Chen rescued Su Ziling from True Person Jingyun’s unruly nephew, and Jingyun apologized and gave Su Ziling a hairpin. After Wang Chen left Lingxi City, Jingyun brought her nephew home, where his grandmother blamed her for taking the outsiders’ side.

• Su Ziling used her bracelet bead to summon Wang Chen after True Person Jingyun’s nephew threatened her in a tailor shop.
• Wang Chen prepared to strike the brocade-robed cultivator, but True Person Jingyun arrived and slapped her nephew unconscious when he reached for a talisman plaque.
• True Person Jingyun apologized to Wang Chen and gave Su Ziling a phoenix-headed hairpin, while warning that people might covet her Profound Yin Physique.
• Wang Chen accepted the apology and left Lingxi City with Su Ziling.
• True Person Jingyun carried her nephew to the family estate, where he woke and complained to his grandmother, who accused Jingyun of siding with outsiders.

True Person Jingyun tried to stop Lu Yanqing and his ancestral grandmother from provoking Wang Chen over Su Ziling, warning that Wang Chen’s artifact-refining ability could earn him a Nascent Soul patron. Though the ancestral grandmother backed down, Lu Yanqing was confined, and Jingyun suspected the matter would continue.

• Lu Yanqing begged his ancestral grandmother to make Wang Chen give up Su Ziling, promising to cultivate diligently if he could take her as his Dao companion.
• The ancestral grandmother ordered True Person Jingyun to negotiate with Wang Chen, who replied, “Wishful thinking.”
• The ancestral grandmother grew angry, but True Person Jingyun displayed the Magic Treasures Wang Chen had made for her and warned that he could seek protection from a Nascent Soul True Immortal.
• Lu Yanqing revealed that Su Ziling had the Profound Yin Physique and could help him repair his Dao foundation and condense a Golden Core.
• The ancestral grandmother agreed the Lu family could not risk provoking Wang Chen, but Lu Yanqing threatened to leave the family.
• True Person Jingyun slapped Lu Yanqing, sealed his cultivation, and ordered the guards to lock him in the Hall of Repentance for three years.

Wang Chen mastered nine Golden Core spells and raised Myriad Mile Leisurely Court to Minor Accomplishment while continuing to feed Spirit Stones to the Teleportation Array. When a powerful threat approached Nameless Valley, he hid Su Ziling and activated the Six Harmonies Xuan Yuan Great Formation, just as dark clouds covered the valley.

• Wang Chen sacrificed all the Spirit Stones he had earned, gaining more information about the Teleportation Array but learning that it still needed further investment to activate.
• Wang Chen crossed the threshold of Myriad Mile Leisurely Court and discovered that his Golden Core cultivation technique supported his mastery of Golden Core spells.
• Over the next six months, Wang Chen mastered nine Golden Core spells and raised Myriad Mile Leisurely Court to Minor Accomplishment by combining practice with Human Virtue points.
• Wang Chen visited Lingyou City twice to trade with Jingyun True Person and continued feeding his earnings to the Teleportation Array.
• Wang Chen sensed an approaching threat, ordered Su Ziling to stay inside, and raised the Six Harmonies Xuan Yuan Great Formation to conceal Nameless Valley.
• A vast expanse of dark clouds swept over the valley.

Wang Chen saw an Evil Beast army heading toward Lingyou City, warned True Person Jingyun, and learned that the city was preparing for battle. He left Su Ziling safe in the Pool-Bottom Cave Mansion and approached the city to scout with a wooden sparrow.

• Wang Chen used the formation to watch a corrupted Golden Plume Lightning Roc lead an army of Evil Beasts toward Lingyou City, then waited until it passed Nameless Valley.
• Wang Chen sent True Person Jingyun a talisman warning, and she replied that Lingyou City was on full alert and told him to hide far away.
• Wang Chen told Su Ziling to stay inside the cave mansion, then left Nameless Valley intending to hunt Evil Spirits with his Evil-Exorcising Net.
• Wang Chen stealthily traveled toward Lingyou City and stopped on a mountain peak several dozen li away when the Yin Evil Aura made him sense danger.
• Wang Chen animated a wooden sparrow and sent it toward Lingyou City to scout without drawing the Evil Spirits' attention.

Wang Chen used five wooden sparrows to search for evil creatures and found a town destroyed by Evil Beasts. He killed dozens of them with Golden Core spells, but a powerful Rock Armor-covered evil insect emerged and attacked him with its innate ability.

• Wang Chen sent out five wooden sparrows and used their guidance to teleport to a ruined town filled with Evil Beasts.
• Wang Chen suppressed and burned more than a dozen Evil Beasts with Crimson Heaven Art, then killed many more with Nine Heavens Divine Thunder.
• A powerful Rock Armor-covered evil insect burst from beneath the ruins after Wang Chen's thunder drew it out.
• Wang Chen struck the evil insect with a divine thunderbolt, shattering its Rock Armor, but it dodged the blow aimed at its head and repaired its armor.
• The evil insect sprayed corrosive venom at Wang Chen and then used an invisible force to make his movements unbearably difficult.

Wang Chen fought a powerful third-tier evil insect, using his flying sword and spells to wear down its armor before trapping it in the Evil-Exorcising Net. He drained the insect’s evil power and killed it, while cutting down the ghosts that emerged nearby.

• Wang Chen dodged the evil insect’s lunge and attacked it with the Dragon Abyss Sword and Thunderclap Sword Technique.
• Wang Chen steadily shattered the insect’s Rock Armor and wounded it until it tried to flee underground.
• Wang Chen collapsed and hardened the earth over the escape hole, then captured the insect in the Evil-Exorcising Net.
• Wang Chen killed the shadowy ghosts that emerged and gained Human Virtue points while the net drained the insect’s evil power.
• Wang Chen suppressed the insect’s attempt to self-destruct and finished it with a sword strike.

Wang Chen hunted Evil Beasts around Lingyou City while the city’s defenders struggled with a damaged teleportation array and no word from Luodu Immortal City. The Evil Beast army launched an all-out assault as True Person Jingyun watched from the Guard Pavilion.

• Wang Chen killed a Fierce-level evil insect, obtained a Golden Core-level Yin Qi Bead, and warned the people hiding underground to seek safer shelter.
• Wang Chen spent the next several days hunting smaller groups of Evil Beasts and Evil Spirits, rescuing people and avoiding Vicious-level enemies.
• True Person Jingyun surveyed Lingyou City’s defenses and worried that the city’s damaged Teleportation Array had prevented reinforcements from Luodu Immortal City from arriving.
• The Evil Beast army began its assault as enormous evil insects struck the city walls and corrupted Golden Plume Lightning Rocs dived from the clouds.