Chapter Summaries

Su Bai refined the Soaring Dragon Sword into his Natal Spirit sword, then prepared to leave for Azure Fish Hall in Demon Star Sea. After receiving instructions and a Jade Talisman from Fu Yunshen, he departed for the hall's Qingzhou headquarters.

• Su Bai refined the Soaring Dragon Sword into his Natal Spirit sword and thanked Xu Ping'an for forging it.
• Three days later, Su Bai asked Xu Shangran to recommend him to Azure Fish Hall, and they went to meet Fu Yunshen.
• Fu Yunshen explained that Azure Fish Hall operated independently of the Three Sects of Qingzhou and warned Su Bai about its dangers.
• Fu Yunshen gave Su Bai a Jade Talisman and a Jade Slip with directions to the Azure Fish Hall headquarters, where Su Bai would complete his registration and teleport to Demon Star Sea.
• Su Bai bid farewell to Fu Yunshen and Xu Shangran, then flew away as Fu Yunshen remarked on his resemblance to Xu Shangran.

Xu Shangran told Fu Yunshen that Su Bai's sword talent surpassed his own. Su Bai reached Azure Fish Hall's Qingzhou headquarters and passed its Combat Power test, though the guide feared the strength of his attacks.

• Xu Shangran assured Fu Yunshen that Su Bai's talent and future achievements would surpass his own.
• Su Bai flew to Azure Fish Hall's headquarters in a valley on the Qingshan Spirit Plain and met a black-robed guide.
• The guide brought Su Bai into a hidden testing chamber and ordered him to attack until told to stop.
• Su Bai unleashed sword qi and Lightning Sword Resonance, then combined the technique with Thousand Lightning Lure to attack the guide.
• The guide ended the test, declared that Su Bai had passed, and cautiously protected himself from Su Bai's sword.

Su Bai joined Azure Fish Hall and was sent from the Qingzhou Cultivation World to the Demon Star Sea to begin his work as an assassin. He left Azure Fish Island for Heavenly Star City, where his first target was a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage member of the Heavenly Star Alliance.

• The guide granted Su Bai the Great Fish rank, took his Jade Mist Sect belongings for safekeeping, and gave him an Azure Fish Hall mask and jade pendant identifying him as 9527.
• The guide sent Su Bai through an ultra-long-distance teleportation array to the Demon Star Sea Cultivation World.
• Azure Fish Hall staff confirmed Su Bai's rank, explained the mission rules, and assigned him his first mission at his request.
• Su Bai left Azure Fish Island by boat, traveled beyond the hundred-li boundary, and flew toward Heavenly Star City.
• Su Bai's mission target was a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage Cultivator and member of the Heavenly Star Alliance.

Su Bai entered Heavenly Star City under the invented identity Li Jiu and began looking for a way to learn alchemy while keeping a low profile. After surveying the city, he ruled out Starlight Academy as too risky and considered the Alchemy Pavilions in Star Luo Market.

• Su Bai arrived at Heavenly Star City, registered as the rogue cultivator Li Jiu, and received an entry token without paying a fee.
• Su Bai entered the inner city and decided to find a harmless cover identity before carrying out his mission.
• Su Bai chose alchemy as a useful skill and spent several hours learning about places in the city where he could study it.
• Su Bai considered Starlight Academy but rejected it because joining would require a spotless public identity and leave him marked as a Heavenly Star Alliance member.
• Su Bai turned his attention to the alchemists working in the major Alchemy Pavilions in Star Luo Market.

Su Bai went to Star Luo Market to find an alchemist whose talent he could copy, and settled on Alchemist Lan of Blue Heart Pavilion. After inspecting Lan Yan, Su Bai discovered his rare Yellow Tier Alchemy Talent, but still needed to make physical contact with him.

• Su Bai decided to trade rare Third-tier Spirit Medicines for cultivation pills and use the meeting to copy an alchemist’s talent.
• He learned that Alchemist Lan was a leading Foundation Establishment Realm alchemist and chose him as his target.
• Su Bai visited Blue Heart Pavilion and presented one of his spirit medicines to request a meeting with Alchemist Lan.
• Lan Yan invited Su Bai upstairs and asked to see the other four spirit medicines.
• Su Bai used Immortal Talent Reflection and discovered that Lan Yan possessed the Yellow Tier Candle Heart Reflecting Fire Alchemy Talent.

Su Bai sold rare spirit herbs to Alchemist Lan, secretly replicated Lan's Candle Heart Reflecting Fire talent, and used his earnings to prepare to learn alchemy. After settling into a rented courtyard and buying practice materials and an Alchemy Furnace, he set out to complete his assassination mission.

• Su Bai replicated Alchemist Lan's Yellow Tier Candle Heart Reflecting Fire talent when they touched hands while exchanging the Jade Box.
• Su Bai sold the spirit herbs to Lan Yan for six thousand Spirit Stones and received a Blue Heart Pavilion VIP card.
• Su Bai bought Blue Origin Pills, rented a cultivation courtyard, and decided to sell his future pills from a Stall Street stall.
• Su Bai purchased one hundred sets of Essence Replenishing Pill materials and a first-tier mid-grade Alchemy Furnace to begin practicing alchemy.
• Su Bai confirmed his assassination target's identity, changed his appearance, and quietly left the courtyard to complete the mission.

Shangguan Kang, a promising young Foundation Establishment Cultivator of the Shangguan Family, was competing with Nie Tianchi for a key position in the Heavenly Star Alliance. The chapter ended before explaining what the position involved.

• Shangguan Kang was introduced as a member of the Shangguan Family, a Mid-tier Force in the Heavenly Star Alliance with a Golden Core Ancestor and over twenty Foundation Establishment Cultivators.
• Shangguan Kang was described as one of the Shangguan Family's outstanding younger Disciples, having reached the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage before age fifty.
• Shangguan Kang was exhausted from competing with Nie Tianchi of the Nie Family for a key position in the alliance.

Su Bai successfully refined Essence Replenishing Pills on his second attempt, using the process to begin honing his alchemy skills. The Azure Fish Hall then paid him 35,000 Spirit Stones for a completed assassination mission, leaving him eager for another assignment.

• Su Bai used Candle Heart Reflecting Fire to refine his first batch of Essence Replenishing Pills, but overheated the ingredients and failed.
• Su Bai adjusted the Alchemy Fire on his second attempt and successfully formed ninety-two Essence Replenishing Pills.
• Su Bai calculated that refining pills could earn him Spirit Stones and planned to improve his skills by completing more batches.
• Su Bai received 35,000 Spirit Stones from Azure Fish Hall after it confirmed the target was dead.
• Su Bai compared alchemy with assassination and wondered when he would receive another assassin mission.

Su Bai refined five more furnaces of Essence Replenishing Pills, rapidly improving his skill. By the fifth furnace, he produced a hundred high-quality pills.

• Su Bai used Candle Heart Reflecting Fire's special effect to raise his success rate while refining Essence Replenishing Pills.
• Su Bai's skill improved with each furnace he refined.
• By the fifth furnace, Su Bai produced a hundred Essence Replenishing Pills.
• Su Bai's pills surpassed the quality of those made by Qi Refining Stage Cultivators with over a decade of experience.

A round-faced Female Cultivator sold Su Bai’s Essence Replenishing Pills at a stall, earning 189 Spirit Stones and waiting for him to return. Meanwhile, Su Bai bought ingredients and a recipe to practice making Yellow Dragon Pills, then learned that the investigation into Shangguan Kang’s death had been dropped.

• A stern-faced Cultivator bought ten bottles of Essence Replenishing Pills, helping persuade skeptical Cultivators to try them.
• A middle-aged Female Cultivator bought twenty bottles, and the round-faced Female Cultivator sold out all her pills before the stern-faced Cultivator returned with friends.
• The round-faced Female Cultivator calculated that she had earned 189 Spirit Stones and returned to the cultivation courtyard to wait for Su Bai.
• Su Bai bought twenty sets of Yellow Dragon Pill ingredients and the recipe, then drank Spirit Wine and sobered up at a teahouse.
• Su Bai learned that investigators blamed an Azure Fish Hall assassin, suspected possible Immortal Palace involvement, and dropped the case without determining whether the Nie Family had hired the assassin.

Su Bai returned to his cultivation courtyard after buying Blue Origin Pills and collected the proceeds from Zhang Ying’s sale of his Essence Replenishing Pills. He asked her to sell his upcoming Yellow Dragon Pills, then went back to study how to refine them.

• Su Bai bought three bottles of Blue Origin Pills, leaving himself with just over three hundred Spirit Stones.
• Zhao Ying waited for Su Bai while Lin Wan and Shen Shuangshuang urged her to find steady work; Zhao Ying reassured them without explaining her pill-selling earnings.
• Su Bai learned that Zhang Ying had sold all the Essence Replenishing Pills and had brought him 1,100 Spirit Stones after selling them at a higher price.
• Su Bai let Zhang Ying keep her fair earnings and asked her to sell his Yellow Dragon Pills once he began refining them.
• Zhang Ying introduced herself as Round-faced Ying, and Su Bai returned to his room to study the more complicated Yellow Dragon Pills.

Su Bai practiced refining Yellow Dragon Pills, eventually producing hundreds of pills and sending Zhang Ying to sell them. Afterward, he received a new Azure Fish Hall assassination mission targeting the Crown Prince of the Demon Star City Moon Wolf Tribe.

• Lin Wan warned Zhang Ying to be cautious around unfamiliar cultivators, and Zhang Ying kept Su Bai's identity and request private.
• Su Bai failed his first attempts at refining Yellow Dragon Pills, then studied the process and cultivated with a Blue Origin Pill each day.
• After ten days and twenty portions of ingredients, Su Bai had begun reliably refining Yellow Dragon Pills, though most were low quality and his overall costs exceeded his returns.
• Su Bai gave Zhang Ying the pills to sell, asking her to discount the low-quality bottles.
• Su Bai read an Azure Fish Hall mission to kill the late Core Formation Stage Crown Prince of the Demon Star City Moon Wolf Tribe within half a year for forty thousand Spirit Stones.

Su Bai set out from Heavenly Star City to assassinate a Demon Race Crown Prince in Demon Star City, carrying out preparations while concealing his identity. He reached the city and entered a tavern, where he began approaching Demon Cultivators for information.

• Su Bai received 750 Spirit Stones from Zhang Ying, asked her to watch his cultivation courtyard, and told her he was leaving to seek spirit herbs.
• Su Bai left Heavenly Star City wearing his Azure Fish mask and rode the Soaring Dragon Sword north toward Demon Star City.
• After ten days, Su Bai concealed his face beneath a Veiled Hat and Robe and entered Demon Star City by paying one Spirit Stone.
• Su Bai used his Spiritual Sense to find an underground tavern, bought a cup of Spirit Wine, and approached several wolf-headed Demon Cultivators.
• Su Bai asked the wolf-headed Demon Cultivators whether they belonged to the Moon Wolf Tribe's direct lineage.

Su Bai learned that Howling Moon was a leading candidate to become the wolf Demon Cultivators’ Young Wolf Lord, then sought a way to get close to him. He entered the Moon Wolf Tribe’s residence by claiming to be an Alchemist, while the shop attendant who had helped him lost his pills, wages, and job.

• Su Bai drank with Moonlight Wolf Tribe Demon Cultivators and learned about Howling Moon, the upcoming Young Wolf Lord gathering, and the Blood Wolf and Frost Wolf Tribe rivals.
• Su Bai watched the Moon Wolf Tribe’s residence but did not see Howling Moon, so he asked a tea stall attendant about work for Human Race Cultivators.
• The attendant told Su Bai that the Moon Wolf Tribe recruited Human Race Alchemists and that applicants had to prove their skills by refining pills.
• Su Bai gave the attendant leftover Yellow Dragon Pills, then approached the Moon Wolf Tribe’s guards and was invited inside after claiming to be an Alchemist.
• The Bear Tribe shopkeeper took the attendant’s Spirit Stones and pills, fired him without wages, and drove him away.

Su Bai infiltrated the Moon Wolf Tribe residence as an alchemist and impressed the Eight-Foot Madam by refining high-quality Essence Replenishing Pills. He agreed to spend six hours each day refining pills for the tribe in exchange for supplied ingredients, leaving him positioned to practice and pursue his plan against Howling Moon.

• A Moon Wolf Tribe guard brought Su Bai to a room filled with withered spirit medicine ingredients while he planned to find and kill Howling Moon.
• The Eight-Foot Madam tested Su Bai’s alchemy, and he refined one hundred high-quality Essence Replenishing Pills for her.
• The Eight-Foot Madam tasted a pill, approved Su Bai’s work, and asked which other pills he could refine.
• Su Bai asked for ingredients to practice making Yellow Dragon Pills and Golden Marrow Pills, and the Eight-Foot Madam set a daily six-hour refining arrangement with no extra spirit stones.
• The Eight-Foot Madam assigned Hong Gu to handle Su Bai’s needs and left with the Essence Replenishing Pills.

Su Bai explored the Moon Wolf Tribe's residence while searching for a chance to learn about Crown Prince Howling Moon, then began refining Golden Marrow Pills. His first attempt ended when the alchemy furnace exploded.

• Eight-Foot Madam gave her son Yinyue Essence Replenishing Pills and hoped they would help him awaken the Moon Wolf Tribe bloodline.
• Su Bai gave Hong Gu a Jade Slip listing the ingredients he needed and received permission to explore the residence with a demon talisman.
• Su Bai toured the Moon Wolf Tribe's residence, located the guarded hall where Howling Moon lived, and planned to learn more about the Crown Prince's daily activities.
• Hong Gu guarded the alchemy room under the moonlight while Su Bai used a Blue Origin Pill to cultivate.
• A Moon Wolf Tribe Cultivator delivered spirit medicines, and Su Bai began refining Golden Marrow Pills under Hong Gu's watch.
• After two hours of refining, Su Bai's alchemy furnace exploded.

Su Bai refined pills for the Moon Wolf Tribe while secretly investigating Howling Moon, and learned that Howling Moon was secluded beneath the settlement hall as he prepared to compete for Young Wolf Lord. After befriending a warrior who asked him to refine pills for his son, Su Bai gained another opportunity to strengthen his ties within the tribe.

• Su Bai exploded a furnace while refining Golden Marrow Pills, then failed another batch under Hong Gu’s watch.
• Su Bai tricked Hong Gu into revealing that the pills were for Young Master Yinyue, the Wolf Emperor’s son, whose vitality had been damaged at birth.
• Su Bai successfully refined one hundred Yellow Dragon Pills, and Hong Gu accepted them as the day’s completed alchemy task.
• Over half a month, Su Bai learned that Howling Moon had spent months cultivating in the underground room beneath the settlement hall to prepare for the sixth-month contest for Young Wolf Lord.
• A Moon Wolf Tribe warrior secretly gave Su Bai ingredients and asked him to refine Yellow Dragon Pills to help awaken his son’s bloodline.

Su Bai attended a banquet celebrating Yinyue’s awakening of the Moon Wolf Tribe bloodline, whose concentration surpassed Crown Prince Xiao Yue’s. Eight-Foot Madam then surprised Su Bai by asking him to become Yinyue’s adoptive father.

• Hong Gu told Su Bai that Yinyue had awakened his bloodline after taking the pills Su Bai refined, and that his Bloodline Concentration surpassed Crown Prince Xiao Yue’s.
• Su Bai refined one fewer batch of pills and followed Hong Gu into the Moon Wolf Tribe Hall, where he saw the statues of past Wolf Emperors.
• Eight-Foot Madam introduced Su Bai to her young son Yinyue at the banquet and called him the future Wolf Emperor.
• Eight-Foot Madam asked Su Bai to become Yinyue’s adoptive father, leaving Su Bai nearly spitting out his Spirit Wine.

Su Bai weighed Eight-Foot Madam’s offer to become Yinyue’s adoptive father while probing the Moon Wolf Tribe’s succession conflict. Howling Moon arrived and openly clashed with Eight-Foot Madam, revealing the hostility between them.

• Eight-Foot Madam explained that Yinyue needed Su Bai’s spirit pills and asked him to become Yinyue’s adoptive father, but Su Bai asked for time to consider.
• Su Bai questioned why Howling Moon would not inherit the Wolf Emperor’s throne, and Eight-Foot Madam suggested they would become allies if he accepted her offer.
• Eight-Foot Madam said the Wolf Emperor was old and distracted by efforts to prolong his life, while Su Bai worried about being caught in their conflict.
• Howling Moon entered the hall, pressured Su Bai with his aura, and asked why he had not been told about Yinyue awakening his bloodline.
• Eight-Foot Madam blocked Howling Moon’s aura and struck him when he reached for her chin, while Yinyue stepped forward to defend her.
• Howling Moon called Yinyue unfit to rule and told Eight-Foot Madam to marry him after the Wolf Emperor died.

Howling Moon tried to persuade Eight-Foot Madam to reconsider supporting him, warning that she would have no way back once he claimed the position of Young Wolf Lord in Sixth Month. He began to reveal insider information but did not finish.

• Eight-Foot Madam threatened Howling Moon for spouting nonsense.
• Howling Moon urged Eight-Foot Madam to think carefully and warned that he might not be able to help her later.
• Howling Moon declared that he would definitely become Young Wolf Lord in Sixth Month.
• Howling Moon began to share insider news about what would happen if he took the position.