Chapter Summaries

Su Bai bought three powerful Lightning Attribute Divine Ability secret arts from the Cat-faced Stall Owner at the Black Market, including Myriad Lightning Lure, which he planned to use to enhance his existing lightning techniques. He declined to leave his contact information and quietly departed the market.

• Su Bai bought the Immortal Palace secret art Instant Lightning Refraction for twenty thousand Spirit Stones and confirmed its contents.
• Su Bai recognized Myriad Lightning Lure as a Jade Mist Sect art and recalled receiving its weakened version, Thousand Lightning Lure, from Wan Haoran.
• Su Bai bought Myriad Lightning Lure for twenty thousand Spirit Stones, planning to use it to strengthen Thousand Sword Lightning Prison.
• Su Bai spent sixty thousand Spirit Stones on all three Lightning Attribute Divine Abilities the Cat-faced Stall Owner had for sale.
• Su Bai refused to leave his contact information, wandered through the Black Market, and quietly left.

Su Bai’s Number Nine Pill Shop thrived after switching to Primordial Chaos Pills, and Lu Ming asked him to seek True Man He’s help in buying a Profound Gold Pill. The chapter ended with Su Bai agreeing to ask his master when he was free.

• Zhang Ying opened Number Nine Pill Shop and sold its first batch of Primordial Chaos Pills to Foundation Establishment Cultivators who had gathered outside.
• After the Primordial Chaos Pills sold out, Zhang Ying invited customers to browse Su Bai’s other Spirit Pills, which the cultivators quickly recognized and bought.
• By November, Number Nine Pill Shop had settled into a steady routine, and Su Bai estimated his annual income could reach five hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• Lu Ming told Su Bai that Dragon Daoist and his son had met with misfortune, then asked him to request a market-price Profound Gold Pill from True Man He.
• Su Bai agreed to ask True Man He for Lu Ming once his master was free.

Su Bai obtained a Profound Gold Pill from True Man He for Lu Ming, then learned that a failed attempt to refine the Nine Revolutions Purple Mansion Pill had put Alchemy Street and the Feng Family Ancestor in a difficult position. True Man He assigned Su Bai to travel to Sea Star City for ingredients, and Su Bai accepted with protection and assistance promised.

• Su Bai asked True Man He for a Profound Gold Pill on Lu Ming's behalf, and True Man He gave him one to take back.
• The furnace holding the Nine Revolutions Purple Mansion Pill exploded after True Man He, Tong Liu, and Qian Lu spent half a month trying to refine it.
• True Man He explained that Alchemy Street depended on the Feng Family and ordered the failure kept secret while they sought another set of ingredients.
• True Man He sent Su Bai to Sea Star City to ask the mermen's Third Prince for help gathering ingredients, promising to send an avatar for protection.
• Qian Lu arranged for Lan Yan to accompany Su Bai, and Tong Liu gave him a pill to help him advance one minor realm.

Su Bai received a breakthrough pill and funds from True Man He to gather the three spirit medicines needed for the Nine Revolutions Purple Mansion Pill. After reaching Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, he set out with Lan Yan and used a teleportation array to travel toward Sea Star City.

• True Man He gave Su Bai a low-grade Foundation Establishment Breakthrough Pill and a Jade Puppet that could summon his Golden Core Stage avatar.
• True Man He and the three Golden Core Stage Elders found that Soul Nurturing Ginseng, Nine Orifices Translucent Jade Marrow, and Great Void Origin Returning Fruit were still missing for the Nine Revolutions Purple Mansion Pill.
• True Man He gave Su Bai three million Spirit Stones and instructions for gathering the medicines, while warning that Feng Family Ancestor might not hold on much longer.
• Su Bai suspended business at Number Nine Pill Shop, swallowed Tong Liu's pill, and broke through to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage after a day of cultivation.
• Su Bai met Lan Yan at Blue Heart Pavilion, and Lan Yan took him to the Star Sea Teleportation Area.
• Lan Yan paid fifty Mid-grade Spirit Stones for a direct teleport, and Su Bai and Lan Yan vanished from the array.

Su Bai and Lan Yan traveled to Ninghai City to learn about Sea Star City and obtained Ning Clan identity tokens that would allow them to enter. They flew toward Sea Star City and arrived by dusk, leaving their search for the Merfolk Third Prince ahead.

• Su Bai and Lan Yan arrived in Ninghai City through the Heavenly Star Alliance’s Teleportation Outpost and met Ning Yuan of the Ning Clan.
• Ning Yuan warned them that Sea Star City’s Sea Tribe was hostile to Human Race cultivators, though their Foundation Establishment cultivation should help them avoid trouble.
• Lan Yan paid two thousand Spirit Stones for Ning Clan identity tokens, which Ning Yuan said would let them enter and leave Sea Star City freely.
• Su Bai and Lan Yan avoided asking the Ning Clan about the Merfolk Third Prince and learned Sea Star City’s direction.
• Su Bai and Lan Yan flew several thousand miles and descended as Sea Star City came into view at dusk.

Su Bai and Lan Yan arrived in Sea Star City to seek help from the Merfolk Third Prince, Cang Mingxiao, and spent the day gathering information. They learned that Cang Mingxiao was powerful and friendly toward humans, but conflict with the anti-human Merman Priest had stalled his succession, leaving their request uncertain.

• Su Bai persuaded Lan Yan to spend five days gathering information before approaching the Merfolk Third Prince, timing their stay to his Immortal Talent Reflection refreshing.
• Su Bai and Lan Yan rented a room in Sea Star City, where they saw humans being transported as food for the Sea Tribe.
• Su Bai and Lan Yan agreed to inquire about Cang Mingxiao and try to purchase spirit herbs as an alternative source of help for the Feng Family.
• Su Bai learned that Cang Mingxiao was the youngest son of the Merman Emperor, had reached the Demon General level, and was favored as a potential successor.
• Su Bai learned that Cang Mingxiao's friendly ties with Human Race cultivators conflicted with the Merman Priest's opposition to them, leaving his response to their request uncertain.

Su Bai and Lan Yan failed to find the spirit medicines they needed in Sea Star City, so they sought help from the Merfolk Third Prince, Cang Mingxiao. After presenting True Man He's token and gaining an audience, Su Bai secretly surveyed Cang Mingxiao with Immortal Talent Reflection.

• Su Bai and Lan Yan concluded that the three spirit medicines True Man He required could only be obtained from Sea Tribe bigwigs, and decided to ask Cang Mingxiao for help.
• Su Bai and Lan Yan reached the merfolk base, where guards recognized True Man He's token and escorted them inside.
• Cang Mingxiao appeared on his throne and confirmed that the token was one he had given out.
• Su Bai introduced himself as True Man He's disciple, Lu Jiu, and secretly used Immortal Talent Reflection to survey Cang Mingxiao.

Su Bai met Cang Mingxiao to ask for three rare spirit medicines on behalf of True Man He and discovered that the Merfolk Third Prince possessed a copyable Ancient Tier bloodline. Cang Mingxiao agreed to search for the medicines and lodged Su Bai and Lan Yan at the Merfolk residence, while he later discussed True Man He with his fiancée, Cang Mingyue.

• Su Bai discovered that Cang Mingxiao possessed the Ancient Tier Tidal Song Sacred Vein bloodline, which Immortal Talent Reflection could copy, but he could not find a chance to touch him.
• Su Bai asked Cang Mingxiao to help find Nine Orifices Translucent Jade Marrow, Soul Nurturing Ginseng, and Great Void Origin Returning Fruit for True Man He.
• Cang Mingxiao agreed to search Sea Star City for the spirit medicines and had a guard escort Su Bai and Lan Yan to a pavilion to stay.
• Lan Yan asked whether Cang Mingxiao could find the medicines, and Su Bai said they could only wait; he also considered traveling to Demon Star City to see Eight-Foot Madam and buy metal treasures.
• Cang Mingxiao entered his cultivation pool, where Cang Mingyue joined him and asked about True Man He, the Human Race alchemist who had refined pills for him.

Cang Mingxiao recalled how True Man He had helped him advance to Demon General and weighed the risks of finding the last spirit medicine for Su Bai. At a banquet, he gave Su Bai two of the requested medicines, and Su Bai seized the chance to use his talent on Cang Mingxiao.

• Cang Mingxiao remembered entering Heavenly Star City decades earlier to receive a Third-tier Spirit Pill from True Man He and advance to Demon General.
• Cang Mingxiao decided to give Su Bai the two Fifth-tier Spirit Medicines he had found, while the Great Void Origin Returning Fruit remained unavailable.
• Cang Mingxiao invited Su Bai and Lan Yan to a banquet and toasted them with potent Spirit Wine; Lan Yan drank one basin and blacked out.
• Su Bai asked about the spirit medicines, accepted the two Jade Boxes from Cang Mingxiao, and praised him for gifting them to True Man He.
• Su Bai drank again, put an arm around Cang Mingxiao, and activated Immortal Talent Reflection to copy his Tidal Song Sacred Vein.

Su Bai woke after the Merfolk banquet and fused part of the Tidal Song Sacred Vein into his ears, gaining a major physical boost and glimpses of Merfolk detection abilities. He sent Lan Yan back with the two Fifth-tier Spirit Medicines while he stayed in Sea Star City to search for the Great Void Origin Returning Fruit.

• Su Bai chose to fuse the Merfolk bloodline into both ears while retaining his Human Race appearance.
• The fusion increased Su Bai's physical strength and revealed several potential detection abilities, including powers to perceive souls and hidden words.
• Su Bai fed a Primordial Chaos Pill's medicinal power to his newly fused bloodline to develop it.
• Su Bai gave Lan Yan the two Fifth-tier Spirit Medicines and told him to return to the Pill Pavilion Secret Realm.
• Su Bai stayed in Sea Star City to seek the Great Void Origin Returning Fruit, suspecting Cang Mingxiao could not openly help the Human Race because of the Merman Priest.

Su Bai and Lan Yan left the Merfolk residence and were ambushed by three bandit cultivators, whom Su Bai killed with a single lightning Divine Ability. Lan Yan departed through the Ning Clan’s Teleportation Array, while Su Bai returned to Sea Star City intending to travel to Demon Star City.

• Su Bai told Lan Yan to take the spiritual herbs back through the Ning Clan’s Teleportation Array while he continued searching for the Great Void Origin Returning Fruit.
• Cang Mingxiao and Cang Mingyue discussed their encounter with Su Bai after the two men left the Merfolk residence.
• Su Bai sensed an ambush outside Sea Star City and destroyed three bandit cultivators with Myriad Lightning Lure.
• Lan Yan praised Su Bai’s combat strength before the two reached the Ning Clan’s Teleportation Array.
• Lan Yan teleported away, and Su Bai returned to Sea Star City to use its array to travel to Demon Star City.

Su Bai traveled from Sea Star City to Demon Star City to ask Eight-Foot Madam Yu Zhao to find a Great Void Origin Returning Fruit for his master. Yu Zhao sent Hong Gu to search for the medicine, and Su Bai agreed to meet her in private.

• Su Bai paid a High-grade Spirit Stone and used the Sea Demon Tribe’s teleportation altar to reach Demon Star City.
• Yu Zhao recognized Su Bai, embraced him, and noticed that his physical strength had increased.
• Su Bai asked Yu Zhao to find a Great Void Origin Returning Fruit to save an elder relative on the Human Race side.
• Su Bai revealed that he was Lu Jiu, True Man He’s disciple, and told Yu Zhao where to find his Number Nine Pill Shop.
• Yu Zhao sent Hong Gu to search for the medicine and promised to purchase it if they found it.
• Yu Zhao invited Su Bai to her room, and he wondered who was stronger between them.

Yu Zhao visited Golden Toad to obtain the Great Void Origin Returning Fruit for Su Bai, but he refused to sell it despite her escalating offers. Su Bai arrived with a Hundred Pill Box to offer in exchange, leaving the trade unresolved.

• Yu Zhao learned that Golden Toad possessed a Great Void Origin Returning Fruit and went to his mansion to secure it for Su Bai.
• Golden Toad welcomed Yu Zhao and showed off his bizarre collection of treasures as they made their way through his estate.
• Yu Zhao offered Golden Toad one million, then one and a half million, then two million Spirit Stones for the fruit, but he refused.
• Hong Gu arrived with a veiled Cultivator, and Su Bai presented Yu Zhao with a Jade Box called the Hundred Pill Box as a fitting trade for the fruit.

Su Bai traded a Hundred Pill Box to Golden Toad for the Great Void Origin Returning Fruit, completing the set of spirit herbs needed for the Nine Revolutions Purple Mansion Pill. After saying goodbye to Yu Zhao, he teleported away and returned to Heavenly Star City.

• Su Bai persuaded Golden Toad to trade the Great Void Origin Returning Fruit for a Hundred Pill Box and a Jade Slip describing its pills.
• Golden Toad gave the fruit to Yu Zhao and sent Su Bai and the others away.
• Yu Zhao teased Su Bai into kissing her before giving him the fruit, and Su Bai confirmed it was genuine.
• Su Bai told Yu Zhao he had to leave that day to deal with his master's complicated situation, and entrusted her with pills for Yinyue.
• Su Bai teleported ten thousand li from Heavenly Star City and returned there the next day.

Su Bai returned the Great Void Origin Returning Fruit to True Man He and received a huge Spirit Stone reward. With conflict looming around the Star Luo Pill Pavilion, he agreed to focus on cultivation and combat training, then bought materials to improve his Sword Soul.

• Su Bai delivered the Great Void Origin Returning Fruit to True Man He, who inspected it and rewarded him with two hundred High-grade Spirit Stones while letting him keep the unused three million Spirit Stones.
• True Man He thanked Su Bai and Lan Yan for their help, warned of an impending struggle after the Feng Family Ancestor's death, and urged Su Bai to prioritize cultivating his Golden Core and improving his spells.
• True Man He learned from Lan Yan that Su Bai had killed three rogue cultivators with lightning arts and encouraged him to develop his combat abilities alongside cultivation.
• Su Bai returned to Number Nine Pill Shop, told Zhang Ying that his pill production might decrease, and bought Geng Metal items for one hundred and fifty thousand Spirit Stones to improve his Sword Soul.

True Man He successfully refined the Nine Revolutions Purple Mansion Pill and brought it to the Feng Family, only to learn that the Feng Family Ancestor had died three days earlier. Feng Lingchen planned to conceal the death by entering secluded cultivation, while True Man He agreed to help spread news of the pills and then paid his respects to the deceased Ancestor.

• True Man He refined ten Nine Revolutions Purple Mansion Pills and divided them between himself and the Feng Family Ancestor.
• True Man He arrived at Little Phoenix City, where Feng Lingchen led him toward the Ancestor’s residence.
• Feng Lingchen told True Man He that the Feng Family Ancestor had died three days earlier and that only they knew of his death.
• Feng Lingchen planned to conceal the news by entering closed-door cultivation, and True Man He agreed to publicize the pills’ successful refinement.
• Feng Lingchen let True Man He see the Ancestor’s body, and True Man He saluted him farewell.

After the Feng Family Ancestor’s apparent death, True Man He moved Su Bai and Lan Yan into the Pill Pavilion Secret Realm to protect them from a possible crisis. During three months of secluded cultivation, Su Bai mastered powerful lightning spells, began upgrading his sword abilities, and advanced his demon bloodline to the Body Tempering Realm.

• True Man He sold three Nine Revolutions Purple Mansion Pills on the Black Market, convincing the Heavenly Star Alliance that the Feng Family Ancestor had survived, while secretly fearing the truth would emerge.
• Su Bai cultivated at Number Nine Pill Shop for more than a month, raising his Spiritual Power, tempering his Sword Soul, nourishing his Tidal Song Sacred Vein, and practicing lightning spells.
• True Man He summoned Su Bai to the Pill Pavilion Secret Realm for secluded cultivation because the Feng Family Ancestor’s death might be exposed and Feng Lingchen had not yet advanced to Golden Core.
• Lan Yan joined Su Bai in the Secret Realm, where he refined pills and sought Su Bai’s guidance on spells.
• After three months, Su Bai mastered Nine Tribulation Thunder Spear and Instant Lightning Refraction, began developing Myriad Lightning Sword Prison, and activated one percent of his Tidal Song Sacred Vein bloodline to enter the Body Tempering Realm.

After learning that Feng Lingchen had deceived the Xiao Family and that Alchemy Street was ownerless, Old Ancestor Xiao ordered the Xiao Family to take over its alchemists and businesses. The relocation began violently, while Zhang Ying was told Number Nine Pill Shop could move to Profound Pill Market with its fees waived.

• Xiao Ding learned that the Feng Family Ancestor had fallen and decided to seize Alchemy Street by moving its alchemists to the Xiao Family's Longevity Market, renamed Profound Pill Market.
• Xiao Ding ordered Xiao Mingyan to relocate at least half the alchemists within a day, threatening to remove her as Family Head if she failed.
• Xiao Ding left to persuade the three Alchemy Grandmasters in the Pill Pavilion Secret Realm, while Xiao Mingyan led the takeover on Alchemy Street.
• A Golden Core Xiao Family Cultivator told Zhang Ying to move Number Nine Pill Shop to Profound Pill Market, where the shop fees would be waived for three years.
• Xiao Family Cultivators slapped the Green Vine Medicine Crone, killed Lei Zhuhai when he refused to relocate, and prompted Han Yanzi to submit.

Su Bai learned that the Xiao Family was forcibly relocating people from Alchemy Street, then witnessed Xiao Ding break into the Pill Pavilion Secret Realm and pressure its alchemists to join the Xiao Family. True Man He agreed, and Xiao Ding offered to reinforce the Secret Realm’s entrance.

• Su Bai received Zhang Ying’s message that Xiao Family cultivators were forcibly relocating people from Alchemy Street and suspected the Feng Family Ancestor had fallen.
• Xiao Ding shattered the Pill Pavilion Secret Realm’s entrance barrier and confronted True Man He and the other Golden Core Stage alchemists.
• Xiao Ding urged the alchemists to move to the Profound Pill Market and join the Xiao Family, using his Nascent Soul aura to pressure True Man He.
• True Man He agreed to rely on the Xiao Family’s protection, while the Xun Family Ancestor and Zhang Family Ancestor arrived too late and departed.
• Xiao Ding offered to repair the Secret Realm entrance, and True Man He called Lu Jiu over to pay his respects to Old Ancestor Xiao.

Su Bai left the Secret Realm as the Xiao Family took control of Alchemy Street and moved the alchemists into Profound Pill Market. He relocated Number Nine Pill Shop to a prime shop provided by the Xiao Family and met the market master, Xiao Shixi.

• Su Bai departed the Secret Realm after the Star Luo Pill Pavilion submitted to the Xiao Family and went to Alchemy Street.
• The Xiao Family’s expulsion of the alchemists ended, and the Star Luo Pill Pavilion members began relocating to Profound Pill Market.
• Zhang Ying told Su Bai that Alchemist Lei had been killed, then gave him a Jade Slip granting his shop three years of free rent in Profound Pill Market.
• Su Bai packed up Number Nine Pill Shop and led the Zhang siblings to Profound Pill Market as Alchemy Street emptied.
• Su Bai met Xiao Shixi, the new market master, and exchanged communication methods with him.