Chapter Summaries

After a month guarding the West Sha Eye, Wang Chen returned to Yongle Dungeon and was immediately ordered to guard the North Sha Eye again. He refused to accept the assignment without explanation, and the Duty Hall supervisor offered extra rewards and compensation to persuade him.

• Wang Chen reported his patrol findings, then cultivated in Anranju by drawing spiritual power from the Heavenly Dragon Evil-Exorcising Net.
• Wang Chen spent a month patrolling around the West Sha Eye and clearing many resentful-level Evil Spirits while working toward the eighth layer of Purple Mansion.
• After returning to Yongle Dungeon, Wang Chen was summoned by the Duty Hall and told to guard the North Sha Eye.
• Wang Chen challenged the reassignment, suspecting the Duty Hall was taking advantage of him, and threatened to seek arbitration.
• The supervisor cited a manpower shortage and offered Wang Chen extra rewards and compensation, prompting him to ask what they were.

After being forced to guard the North Sha Eye indefinitely, Wang Chen explored the dangerous region, found a source of mirage qi, and sheltered through a three-day Killing Intent storm. He emerged to find the area crowded with spectral shadows that all turned toward him.

• The Duty Hall assigned Wang Chen to guard the North Sha Eye until a replacement arrived, and he suspected someone was targeting him.
• Wang Chen settled into the ruined Anranju and decided to seek opportunities in his new post rather than dwell on the unfair assignment.
• Wang Chen surveyed the area, discovered an underground stream rich in mirage qi, and found that he could not safely approach within five li of the North Sha Eye.
• Wang Chen found unusually few Evil Spirits and began checking the places where Yin Sha energy gathered for anything abnormal.
• A Killing Intent storm struck on Wang Chen's fifth day, forcing him to shelter in Anranju for three days and nights.
• When Wang Chen emerged, spectral shadows surrounded Anranju and turned toward him in unison.

Wang Chen cleared Anranju of wraiths with the Evil-Exorcising Net, then encountered an intelligent demon spirit giant while searching for Purest Yin Qi Beads. After questioning the giant about the wandering souls and the cultivator once stationed there, he left the chapter awaiting its answer about the cultivator’s death.

• Wang Chen used the Evil-Exorcising Net to destroy the wraiths around Anranju and collected several Yin Qi Beads.
• Wang Chen explored farther afield in search of high-level Evil Spirits and spotted a giant demon spirit eating wraiths.
• The demon spirit giant spoke to Wang Chen through their minds and threatened him, but it backed down when Wang Chen refused to leave.
• Wang Chen asked the giant where the wandering souls came from, and it explained that the little ghosts hid in cracks between rocks and emerged after the baleful wind passed.
• Wang Chen asked how the cultivator once stationed there had died, threatened to send the giant into reincarnation, and made it give him an answer.

Wang Chen drove off the giant spirit demon, hunted Evil Spirits around the North Sha Eye, and gathered Yin Qi Beads. After cultivating while Little Cauldron refined them, he received a Second-Turn Pure Yang Bead.

• Wang Chen accepted the giant spirit demon's explanation about his predecessor's death and agreed to keep to their separate territories; the demon promptly fled.
• Wang Chen patrolled the area, killed waves of Evil Spirits with the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil, and found that the net's power and stored spiritual energy increased.
• Wang Chen gave the Yin Qi Beads to Little Cauldron to refine while he cultivated the Innate Five Elements Technique.
• Little Cauldron awakened Wang Chen and presented him with a Second-Turn Pure Yang Bead, which Wang Chen praised it for refining.

Wang Chen cultivated his Heavenly Dragon Vajra Righteous Dharma with a Second-Turn Pure Yang Bead, then went to the underground dark river to gather mirage qi for his Grand Mystic Mirage Dragon True Form Diagram. He left with a black fish he had killed after it attacked the treasure.

• Wang Chen used the Second-Turn Pure Yang Bead to cultivate his Heavenly Dragon Vajra Righteous Dharma and gained experience.
• Wang Chen stored the bead, cooked dinner, and decided not to hunt Evil Spirits so their numbers could recover.
• Wang Chen went to the underground dark river and used the Grand Mystic Mirage Dragon True Form Diagram to absorb mirage qi while cultivating the Mystic Mirage Dragon Art.
• A black fish leaped from the river and spat mist at Wang Chen's treasure, so Wang Chen killed it with the Dragon Abyss Sword.
• Wang Chen stored the fish's head and planned to cook the head with chopped peppers and the body as pickled cabbage fish.

Wang Chen settled into his routine guarding the North Sha Eye, cultivating and hunting while the Duty Hall ignored his messages. Steward Sima unexpectedly visited Anranju and hinted that Wang Chen could return if he cooperated, leaving Wang Chen wary after discovering his supplies had been cut.

• Wang Chen cooked chopped pepper fish head with fresh ingredients and ate five bowls of Spirit Rice.
• Wang Chen continued patrolling the Sha Eye, clearing demon spirits and Evil Spirits, collecting Yin Qi Beads, and cultivating three techniques.
• Wang Chen sensed someone inside Anranju and found Steward Sima reading a Daoist book.
• Steward Sima asked whether Wang Chen wanted to return and hinted that his release depended on something, but Wang Chen pretended not to understand.
• Steward Sima left a Storage Bag and departed, after which Wang Chen checked the rooms and suspected that Sima had searched them.
• Wang Chen found that the Storage Bag held about one-third fewer supplies than before and questioned why Steward Sima had visited him.

After Steward Sima revealed his hostile intentions, Wang Chen grew more vigilant and pushed deeper into the Sha Eye’s outer ring to hunt stronger evil spirits. He lured Three-Eyed Monsters from their caves and captured several, but their counterattack and a sudden attack from thorned vines interrupted his hunt.

• Wang Chen decided to hunt closer to the Sha Eye, where the evil spirits and their Yin Qi Beads were stronger.
• Wang Chen lured Three-Eyed Monsters from their caves with thrown stones and captured them one at a time using the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil.
• After Wang Chen captured the fourth Three-Eyed Monster, more than a dozen Three-Eyed Monsters attacked him with Black Sha Arrows, which he smashed with his fists.
• Wang Chen cast the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil again, but a fissure opened beneath him and thorn-covered vines sprang out and bound him.
• Wang Chen summoned the Heavenly Dragon Dharma Image to break free, then used the Dragon Abyss Sword to slice through the emerging vines.

Wang Chen fought the demon spirit giant after it broke their agreement and attacked him. Using the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil, he trapped the newly advanced Fierce-level demon and began draining its power, ignoring its plea for mercy.

• Wang Chen cut through the underground vines with the Dragon Abyss flying sword and crushed them with his Vajra Palm.
• Wang Chen confronted the demon spirit giant, which denied their agreement and revealed its desire to kill him.
• The Fierce-level demon spirit giant attacked Wang Chen, but he deployed the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil.
• Wang Chen held the net’s cord as it bound the giant and siphoned away its evil power.
• The weakened demon spirit giant begged Wang Chen to spare it and offered to become his slave, but Wang Chen ignored its plea.

Wang Chen killed the Fierce-level Demonic Spirit Giant with the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil and learned that its Demonic Spirit Bead was a valuable treasure. After focusing on cultivation for half a month, he advanced to the eighth layer of Purple Mansion and recognized that preparing for Core Condensation would be difficult.

• Wang Chen suppressed the Demonic Spirit Giant with the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil until its escape attempts failed and its body and soul were destroyed.
• Wang Chen collected the Demonic Spirit Bead and returned to Anranju to recover from the battle.
• Little Cauldron explained that the third-grade Demonic Spirit Bead could be refined into a powerful Soul Puppet or used to enhance a Magic Treasure, but not refined into a Pure Yang Bead.
• Wang Chen kept the Demonic Spirit Bead and spent the following days cultivating instead of hunting demonic spirits and evil spirits.
• Wang Chen advanced to the eighth layer of Purple Mansion and began considering the resources he would need for Core Condensation.

Wang Chen upgraded the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil, then used it to advance deeper into the North Sha Eye and earn a rapidly growing number of Human Virtue points. He returned to Anranju and found Sima Changming demanding his treasures in exchange for a place in the Yongle Immortal Registry and a residence in Yongle Immortal City.

• Wang Chen blood-sacrificed the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil, which transformed into a robe and passed new refinement methods and functions into his consciousness.
• The upgraded net let Wang Chen choose whether to bind evil spirits or extract their Evil Power, and protected him from Yin Sha Evil Power when worn as a robe.
• Wang Chen advanced toward the middle-ring region of the North Sha Eye, killing powerful evil spirits and raising his Human Virtue points past one hundred thousand.
• Sima Changming confronted Wang Chen at Anranju and demanded the treasures that he believed were protecting Wang Chen from Yin Sha energy.
• Sima Changming offered Wang Chen a place in the Yongle Immortal Registry and a residence in Yongle Immortal City if he handed over his treasures.

Wang Chen tried to deflect Sima Changming’s suspicions by claiming his resistance to Yin Sha energy came from a Buddhist body-tempering art, but Sima later returned with True Person Ye. When Ye tried to capture him, Wang Chen escaped his restraints with the Dragon Abyss Sword, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Wang Chen claimed his Heavenly Dragon Vajra Righteous Dharma let him withstand the Demon Cave’s Yin Sha energy, and Sima Changming left in fury.
• Wang Chen realized his unusual resilience had drawn the attention of people seeking to uncover his secret, so he stayed inside Anranju and focused on cultivation.
• Sima Changming returned with True Person Ye and demanded that Wang Chen kneel, but Wang Chen saluted Ye and fled beyond Anranju’s defensive formation.
• True Person Ye attacked Wang Chen with a giant palm and then sealed the space around him with a word.
• Wang Chen used the Dragon Abyss Sword to break through Ye’s restraint and escape, enraging the Golden Core cultivator.

Wang Chen fled toward the center of the North Sha Eye while True Person Ye pursued him, driven by the secrets he suspected Wang Chen possessed. Wang Chen broke Ye’s Golden Core domain and used the Grand Mystic Mirage Dragon True Form Diagram to counter Ye’s natal Magic Treasure as the chase continued.

• True Person Ye trapped Wang Chen with his Golden Core domain, but Wang Chen awakened the Primordial Dao Stele and used the Heavenly Dragon Vajra Righteous Dharma to shatter it.
• Wang Chen resumed his escape toward the center of the North Sha Eye, relying on Shrink Ground into Inch and his protections against Yin Sha Evil Power.
• True Person Ye pursued Wang Chen with Horizon Step, but the hostile environment slowed him and prevented him from catching up quickly.
• True Person Ye used his bronze bell natal Magic Treasure to capture Wang Chen, who countered by flinging out the Grand Mystic Mirage Dragon True Form Diagram.

Wang Chen used the Grand Mystic Mirage Dragon True Form Diagram to withstand True Person Ye's bronze bell as they pursued each other into the core of the Sha Eye. When Wang Chen stopped and struck True Person Ye with physical strength equal to a Golden Core, True Person Ye realized he was facing a Golden Core Body Cultivator in terrain that favored close combat.

• Wang Chen used mirage energy he had gathered from an underground river to activate the Grand Mystic Mirage Dragon True Form Diagram and block True Person Ye's bronze bell.
• True Person Ye pursued Wang Chen through the Sha Eye's core, where the bronze bell scattered the evil spirits and the dense Yin Sha energy burdened both cultivators.
• True Person Ye pressed the treasured diagram down with his bronze bell, and Wang Chen suddenly stopped and attacked him with his palm.
• True Person Ye met Wang Chen's strike and was shocked to discover that Wang Chen's purely physical strength matched his own Golden Core power.
• True Person Ye realized Wang Chen was a Golden Core Body Cultivator and that the Sha Eye's core gave Wang Chen the advantage in close combat.

Wang Chen used the Sha Eye’s suppression of Dharma to trap True Person Ye in close combat and badly injure him. As True Person Ye unleashed his Golden Core, Wang Chen brought out two more Magic Treasure-grade treasures to restrain it, leaving the fight poised for another decisive attack.

• True Person Ye realized Wang Chen had lured him into the Sha Eye’s Dharma-suppressing core and tried to retreat while summoning his bronze bell.
• Wang Chen’s Grand Mystic Mirage Dragon True Form Diagram entangled the bronze bell, allowing him to press True Person Ye with repeated Heavenly Dragon Vajra Palms.
• True Person Ye fought back with a hidden Sword Pellet, but Wang Chen countered with the Dragon Abyss flying sword and broke True Person Ye’s right palm with a powerful strike.
• True Person Ye spat out his Golden Core to drive back the Yin Sha Evil Power and create room to cast spells.
• Wang Chen used the Life-Giving Creation Cauldron and Upper Clarity Qiankun Mirror to pin True Person Ye’s Golden Core, then struck his chest with a fist.

Wang Chen defeated and killed True Person Ye with a hidden Sword Pellet after trapping his Golden Core and forcing him into a desperate fight. He took possession of the Golden Core and True Person Ye's treasures, destroyed the corpse to prevent it from becoming a Golden Core zombie, and gained 20,000 Heavenly Merit.

• Wang Chen broke through True Person Ye's weakened defenses and attacked relentlessly as Yin Sha Evil Power further eroded his strength.
• True Person Ye tried to detonate his bonded Magic Treasure, but Wang Chen withdrew his palm and pierced his brow with a hidden Sword Pellet.
• After True Person Ye died, Wang Chen let Little Cauldron pull the master's Golden Core into the Life-Giving Creation Cauldron.
• Wang Chen collected True Person Ye's Magic Treasures, Sword Pellet, and Sumeru Ring, then burned his corpse to ashes and destroyed his belongings.
• Wang Chen checked the Cultivation Panel and saw that his Heavenly Merit had risen by 20,000 points.

Wang Chen killed Sima Changming, gained enough Heavenly Merit to improve his Spiritual Root and comprehension, and considered how to use True Person Ye’s Golden Core. He asked Little Cauldron to refine the Golden Core into a disguised External Core and handed over Ye’s bronze bell as well.

• Sima Changming waited anxiously for True Person Ye, but Wang Chen appeared and struck him with lightning and Sword Light.
• Wang Chen checked his Heavenly Merit, found that he had gained twenty thousand points, and spent ten thousand each to raise his Spiritual Root and comprehension.
• Wang Chen asked Little Cauldron how to use True Person Ye’s suppressed Golden Core, and Little Cauldron suggested refining it into an External Core.
• Little Cauldron proposed fusing Wang Chen’s Demonic Spirit Bead into the Golden Core to conceal its origin, and Wang Chen entrusted the materials to it.
• Wang Chen gave Little Cauldron True Person Ye’s bronze bell, whose deep imprint he could not remove himself.

Wang Chen had Little Cauldron prepare True Person Ye’s bronze bell for him and used Yin Sha energy to break the restrictions on Ye’s Sumeru Ring and Sima Changming’s Storage Bag. After collecting a fortune in treasures and a jade slip containing nine spells, he returned to Anranju and continued his patrols, waiting for the authorities to react to the Golden Core True Person’s death.

• Wang Chen gave True Person Ye’s bronze bell to Little Cauldron, which planned to refine Ye’s Golden Core into an Outer Core so he could control the treasure.
• Wang Chen exposed True Person Ye’s Sumeru Ring and Sima Changming’s Storage Bag to Yin Sha energy to erode their restrictions.
• Wang Chen opened Sima Changming’s Storage Bag, transferred its contents into his own Sumeru Ring, and watched the damaged bag crumble.
• Wang Chen waited until Yin Sha energy broke the seal on True Person Ye’s Sumeru Ring, then collected everything inside.
• Wang Chen discovered that his haul included millions of Spirit Stones, Magic Treasures, valuable talismans, and a jade slip containing nine spells.
• Wang Chen returned to Anranju and continued patrolling his jurisdiction while waiting for news of True Person Ye’s death to spread.

Wang Chen used the Thousand Transformations Mask and Spirit Concealment Technique to hide his true condition and avoid attracting powerful cultivators’ attention. After Changsun Yong questioned him about Sima Changming’s disappearance, Wang Chen received his supplies and continued hunting evil spirits in the Sha Eye.

• Wang Chen changed his appearance with the Thousand Transformations Mask and resolved to conceal his strength.
• Changsun Yong visited Wang Chen and asked whether he had seen Sima Changming.
• Wang Chen claimed he had last seen Sima Changming three months earlier and mentioned that he had run out of pills.
• Changsun Yong promised to send supplies and suggested Wang Chen might return from the Sha Eye after some time.
• Wang Chen received his full salary and supplies, then ventured into the Sha Eye’s core region to hunt stronger evil spirits for Human Virtue points.

Wang Chen surpassed one million Human Virtue points and upgraded the Cultivation Panel, unlocking three new technique functions. After exploring the changes, he learned that the Little Cauldron had finally finished refining his external pill.

• Wang Chen used the Upper Clarity Qiankun Mirror to find and kill a demonic spirit, pushing his Human Virtue total past one million and triggering an upgrade prompt.
• Wang Chen returned to Anranju, secured the safe house, and confirmed the Cultivation Panel upgrade.
• Wang Chen discovered the new Fusion, Derivation, and Recycling functions, but could not test Fusion because he lacked enough Human Virtue points.
• Wang Chen found that the Little Cauldron had completed the external pill after nearly ninety days of refining True Person Ye's Golden Core and the Demonic Spirit Bead.

Wang Chen received an external elixir refined from True Person Ye’s Golden Core and the restored Yueyang Bell, but he lacked the method to use either. He continued cultivating in the North Sha Eye until a Sha Tide erupted and swept through the Cave Dwelling.

• Little Cauldron explained that it had spent nearly ninety days and more than five million Lower Spirit refining True Person Ye’s eighth-grade Golden Core into an external elixir comparable to a high-grade demon pill.
• Little Cauldron gave Wang Chen the external elixir and the restored Yueyang Bell, which he could control through the elixir to unleash at least eighty percent of its power.
• Wang Chen rewarded Little Cauldron with High Spirit Stones, stored the treasures, and recalled the Life-Giving Creation Cauldron.
• Wang Chen continued cultivating and hunting evil spirits in the North Sha Eye, but the core-region creatures fled or proved too dangerous to pursue.
• Half a month later, violent Yin Sha energy erupted from the Sha Eye and swept through the Cave Dwelling as the Sha Tide arrived.