Chapter Summaries

Yue Qianchou convinced Yin Baikang that he was an Immortal Realm Reception Envoy from Misty Forest, securing Yin’s promise to keep his identity secret and investigate Yan Zhuixing’s cultivation art. He collected the remaining eight hundred million high-grade Spirit Stones and left Yin asking when the Restriction Breaking Pills would be ready.

• Yue Qianchou dressed in golden robes and displayed an ancient sword to persuade Yin Baikang that he was an envoy from the Immortal Realm.
• Yue Qianchou explained that Yue Qianchou had accidentally summoned him by sounding the Ascension Horn in Misty Forest, and Yin Baikang believed his story.
• Yue Qianchou made Yin Baikang promise to keep his identity secret, then discussed Yan Zhuixing’s unusual cultivation art and asked Yin to investigate it.
• Yin Baikang handed Yue Qianchou the remaining eight hundred million high-grade Spirit Stones brought by Sikong Jue.
• Yin Baikang asked Yue Qianchou when the Restriction Breaking Pills would be refined.

Yue Qianchou persuaded Yin Baikang that he could bring Restriction Breaking Pills and other goods from the Immortal Realm, and Yin arranged a test to verify the pills. After the pills successfully raised two disciples' cultivation, Yin asked Yue to buy him an Immortal Realm storage bracelet.

• Yue Qianchou told Yin Baikang he could obtain Restriction Breaking Pills from the Immortal Realm in exchange for Spirit Stones, and the two agreed to keep their arrangement secret.
• Yue gave Yin two Restriction Breaking Pills, and Yin asked Sikong Jue to bring two disciples to test them.
• The two disciples swallowed the pills and absorbed Spirit Stones, then each advanced one level in cultivation without any detected abnormalities.
• Yin Baikang inspected Yue Qianchou's storage bracelet and asked him to buy one from the Immortal Realm for three divine-grade Spirit Stones.

Yue Qianchou convinced Yin Baikang that he was from the Immortal Realm by showing him a divine-grade Spirit Stone, then pitched a major trade in Restriction Breaking Pills. Yin Baikang agreed to buy a thousand pills for the World Commerce Association, but Yue Qianchou refused to sell him the entire batch so he could preserve working capital and keep trading.

• Yue Qianchou showed Yin Baikang a divine-grade Spirit Stone and explained its value in the Immortal Realm.
• Yue Qianchou priced Restriction Breaking Pills at one million high-grade Spirit Stones each and asked Yin Baikang to lend him one billion for a thousand pills.
• Yin Baikang realized that Yue Qianchou’s plan to sell pills broadly could strengthen rival factions, so he offered to buy the full batch for the World Commerce Association.
• Yue Qianchou refused to sell Yin Baikang all one thousand pills, explaining that he needed sales to other buyers to recover cash and fund repeat shipments.

Yue Qianchou negotiated with Yin Baikang over a massive exclusive purchase of Restriction Breaking Pills and demonstrated that Seven Treasures Pills could overcome cultivation bottlenecks. The chapter ended with Yin Baikang convinced that he could build a lucrative, lasting partnership with Niu Youde, while tensions within the World Commerce Association surfaced below the mountain.

• Yue Qianchou offered to supply Restriction Breaking Pills in batches, and Yin Baikang agreed to buy them all in advance on the condition that Yue sell only to him.
• Yue Qianchou warned Yin Baikang about the enormous costs and limits of Restriction Breaking Pills, then explained that Seven Treasures Pills could help cultivators overcome bottlenecks.
• Yin Baikang summoned Sikong Jue and a disciple, and the disciple used a Seven Treasures Pill to break through from the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm to the early Tribulation stage.
• Yin Baikang ordered Sikong Jue to guard God of Wealth Peak and admit no one, leading Sikong Jue to turn Jing Yuankong away when he tried to go up the mountain.
• Yue Qianchou urged Yin Baikang to reconsider the deal, but Yin Baikang took his warnings as proof that Niu Youde wanted a trustworthy, long-term business relationship.

Yue Qianchou, posing as Niu Youde, negotiated with Yin Baikang over Restriction Breaking Pills and Seven Treasures Pills, concealing his plan to sell counterfeit pills. The chapter ended with Yin Baikang agreeing to pay fifty billion high-grade Spirit Stones in advance for five thousand pills.

• Yue Qianchou refused to sell Seven Treasures Pills directly to Yin Baikang, claiming he had promised them exclusively to Yue Qianchou.
• Yue Qianchou persuaded Yin Baikang that Yue Qianchou would supply the World Commerce Association with Seven Treasures Pills at the original price.
• Yue Qianchou planned to delay the Seven Treasures Pills so he could sell more counterfeit red Restriction Breaking Pills before the fraud was exposed.
• Yin Baikang said the World Commerce Association would resell the Restriction Breaking Pills for a profit and offered to pay ten billion high-grade Spirit Stones upfront for ten thousand pills.
• Yue Qianchou proposed obtaining five thousand pills first, and Yin Baikang agreed to pay fifty billion high-grade Spirit Stones in advance.

Yue Qianchou secured fifty billion high-grade Spirit Stones from Yin Baikang in exchange for five thousand Restriction Breaking Pills, then returned to Utopia and used the money to fund its members. He left with a disguise revealed and a plan to sell False Restriction Breaking Pills, while preparing to refine Seven Treasures Pills himself.

• Yue Qianchou lowered the price by another billion, and Yin Baikang provided fifty billion high-grade Spirit Stones to purchase Restriction Breaking Pills.
• Yue Qianchou promised five thousand pills within three days, and Tian Ye and three others advanced to the early Tribulation stage after spending a day with him.
• Yue Qianchou used his sinister aura to vanish from God of Wealth Peak, leaving Yin Baikang injured after he tried to investigate with his divine sense.
• Yue Qianchou appeared at Misty Palace in Niu Youde's disguise and caused Utopia's forces to surround him until Bai Suzhen recognized him.
• Yue Qianchou distributed fifty billion Spirit Stones among Utopia's leaders and ordered Guan Yu and Zhang Peng to use the funds to raise members' cultivation.
• Yue Qianchou collected Chen Feng's nearly thirty thousand False Restriction Breaking Pills to sell and told Qu Ping'er to prepare herbs for his Seven Treasures Pill refining.

Yue Qianchou refined nearly five thousand Spirit Pills at Misty Palace while Xiao Wanqing’s admiration for him sharpened into hatred. After leaving Qu Ping'er and Bai Suzhen, he visited Tian Ye and Li Qiuxiang, promising to restore her appearance when the opportunity arose.

• Yue Qianchou refined twenty furnaces of pills at once while Qu Ping'er and Bai Suzhen collected the pills and replenished the herbs.
• Xiao Wanqing brought Chen Feng to Misty Palace, watched Yue Qianchou refine, and privately scolded Chen Feng for falling short of him.
• After two days, Yue Qianchou finished refining nearly five hundred furnaces, producing almost five thousand pills.
• Yue Qianchou left Misty Palace after teasing Qu Ping'er and traveled to a residence on God of Wealth Peak.
• Yue Qianchou praised Li Qiuxiang for accepting her disfigured face and promised to help restore her appearance when the opportunity came.

Yue Qianchou delivered five thousand Restriction Breaking Pills to Yin Baikang and arranged for Yue Qianchou to supply Seven Treasures Pills to the World Commerce Association. After shopping through the Treasure Gathering Basin, he encountered Yan Yu outside Spring Sleep Tower.

• Yue Qianchou gave Yin Baikang five thousand Restriction Breaking Pills, and Sikong Jue's disciples tested them successfully.
• Yue Qianchou told Yin Baikang that Yue Qianchou would sell Seven Treasures Pills to the World Commerce Association at the original price and promised another batch of Restriction Breaking Pills during the convention.
• Yin Baikang ordered Sikong Jue to advertise a large sale of Restriction Breaking Pills at the Treasure Gathering Basin Convention, despite Sikong Jue's warning.
• Yue Qianchou wandered through the Treasure Gathering Basin and bought several hundred million worth of supplies for Utopia.
• Yue Qianchou returned to the busy street outside Spring Sleep Tower, where Yan Yu greeted him.

Yue Qianchou learned that the World Commerce Association planned to sell Restriction Breaking Pills and went with Yan Yu to her residence, where they slept together and he discovered she was a virgin. After warning Yan Yu to leave Treasure Gathering Basin, he returned to fix a flaw in his disguise, while she decided she would not leave.

• Yue Qianchou heard that the World Commerce Association would sell Restriction Breaking Pills at the Treasure Gathering Basin Convention and wondered why Yin Baikang had agreed to it.
• Yan Yu brought Yue Qianchou to her residence at Spring Sleep Tower, where they slept together and he realized it was her first time.
• Yue Qianchou accused Yan Yu of pursuing him for his cultivation, then left when she admitted it.
• Yue Qianchou returned and warned Yan Yu to leave Treasure Gathering Basin and live somewhere secluded.
• Yan Yu pointed out that she had scratched a flaw into Yue Qianchou's disguise, and he repaired it before leaving again.
• Yan Yu laughed and decided to stay in Treasure Gathering Basin rather than abandon Yue Qianchou.

Yue Qianchou brooded over his encounter with Yan Yu while Pei Fang’s coalition against the World Commerce Association fell apart after Yin Baikang announced the sale of Restriction Breaking Pills. On Shuntian Island, Bi Changchun tested a newly made flying sword and judged it barely satisfactory.

• Yue Qianchou regretted sparing Yan Yu, then tried to put her out of his mind and sleep.
• Pei Fang urged leaders from sixty-six factions to attack the World Commerce Association, claiming that he, Qi Jiujun, and Ouyang Da could handle Yin Baikang and Niu Youde.
• Yu Nantian announced that the World Commerce Association would sell Restriction Breaking Pills in large quantities, and the gathered leaders left to prepare spirit stones.
• News of the pill sale spread through the Cultivation World, prompting factions to gather spirit stones while questioning how many pills would be available.
• A flying sword streaked across Thousand Mile Lake toward Shuntian Island, and Nong Zhu shouted at Bi Changchun to stop.
• Bi Changchun dispersed the waves raised by the sword, retrieved it, and told Nong Zhu that it would barely do.

As the Treasure Gathering Basin Convention approached, Furong prepared to travel there under Bi Changchun’s protection, while Lou Yanqing set out to examine the Restriction Breaking Pill. The chapter also described the convention’s crowds, trading stalls, and the World Commerce Association’s profitable control over commerce.

• Nong Zhu asked Bi Changchun to lend Furong his jade pendant so she could safely visit Yue Qianchou at the Treasure Gathering Basin, and Bi Changchun gave it to her.
• At Lingfang Valley, Lou Yanqing said she would attend the convention to investigate possible side effects of the Restriction Breaking Pill and chose Xin Lao San to accompany her.
• Xin Lao San praised Yue Qianchou to Xin Lao Jiu before departing with Lou Yanqing.
• The Treasure Gathering Basin filled with visitors hoping to trade or get rich at the once-in-ten-years convention.
• The World Commerce Association profited from rented stalls and monopolized businesses, while its patrols confiscated goods from vendors selling without permission.

Yin Baikang prepared to sell the Restriction Breaking Pills and Seven Treasures Pills as the Treasure Gathering Basin Convention drew nearly three hundred lords. Meanwhile, Yue Qianchou urged Yan Yu to leave Spring Sleep Tower, but she insisted on earning enough money first.

• The World Commerce Association opened all eight passages into the Treasure Gathering Basin as visitors and merchants arrived in greater numbers.
• Sikong Jue told Yin Baikang that Wen Lanfeng and Lu Yanqing were coming, and Yin ordered polite notices sent to the visiting lords.
• Yin Baikang set the Restriction Breaking Pills at two million high-grade Spirit Stones each, requiring half payment in advance, and announced that Seven Treasures Pills would later sell for the same price.
• Sikong Jue reported that Yue Qianchou's stay had made Spring Sleep Tower crowded and expensive, so Yin Baikang sent him to invite Yue Qianchou for a meeting.
• Yue Qianchou urged Yan Yu to leave Spring Sleep Tower and offered her one hundred million high-grade Spirit Stones, but she refused the money and said she needed to earn her own living.
• Yue Qianchou told Yan Yu to raise Spring Sleep Tower's minimum spending another hundredfold and leave once she had earned enough.

Yan Yu managed Spring Sleep Tower’s higher price as powerful guests gathered, while Yue Qianchou learned that Yin Baikang had devised a way to profit from selling Restriction Breaking Pills and control their buyers. The chapter left Yue Qianchou impressed by Yin Baikang’s strategy and chuckling over its implications.

• Yan Yu posted Spring Sleep Tower’s minimum charge of one hundred thousand high-grade Spirit Stones, and customers continued arriving despite the uproar.
• Hu Tianyun challenged a Junlin Palace disciple at the entrance, then apologized to Yan Yu after learning of her connection to Niu Youde.
• Yan Yu heard that the World Commerce Association would sell Restriction Breaking Pills for two million high-grade Spirit Stones each and require a one-million deposit per pill.
• Yue Qianchou realized Yin Baikang could use buyers’ deposits to fund further purchases while effectively recovering his original investment.
• Yue Qianchou concluded that Yin Baikang’s control of Seven Treasures Pills let him pressure rival powers into buying Restriction Breaking Pills.

Yue Qianchou warned Yan Yu to avoid the dangerous struggle over Restriction Breaking Pills, then watched Yan Yu accept thirteen new women into Spring Sleep Tower. The disheveled woman among them revealed a seductive voice that seemed familiar to Yue Qianchou, leaving her identity uncertain.

• Yue Qianchou explained how Yin Baikang could use Restriction Breaking Pills and Seven Treasures Pills to strengthen the World Commerce Association, while secretly planning to ruin him with an influx of pills.
• Yan Yu asked Yue Qianchou to help the sisters at Spring Sleep Tower buy Restriction Breaking Pills, and he told her to stay out of the upper-level power struggle and leave once she had earned enough.
• An attendant reported that thirteen female Rogue Cultivators had come to stay at Spring Sleep Tower, and Yan Yu explained the tower's rules, fees, and assessment period to them.
• Yue Qianchou and Yan Yu noticed they could not discern the cultivation of one filthy, disheveled woman among the newcomers.
• The woman asked to speak privately with Yan Yu, and Yue Qianchou recognized something familiar in her voice as Yan Yu sent the other women away.

Yue Qianchou discovered that the disguised visitor seeking shelter at Spring Sleep Tower was the Hundred Charm Demoness, who had come to ask for his help protecting the Illusion Demon Palace. After Sikong Jue summoned Yue Qianchou to God of Wealth Peak, the Hundred Charm Demoness stayed behind at Spring Sleep Tower.

• Yue Qianchou recognized the visitor’s familiar eyes and laughter, and Yan Yu persuaded her to reveal her face.
• The woman emerged as the Hundred Charm Demoness and asked Yan Yu for a place to stay, explaining that Yue Qianchou’s presence would make her feel safe.
• Yan Yu initially refused, but Yue Qianchou privately assured her that the Hundred Charm Demoness would cause no trouble and told her to take the woman in.
• Sikong Jue arrived and invited Yue Qianchou to God of Wealth Peak to meet his master, so Yue Qianchou flew away with him.
• The Hundred Charm Demoness had secretly sought Yue Qianchou because she believed he could help save the declining Illusion Demon Palace, and she had chosen Spring Sleep Tower to draw his attention.

The Treasure Gathering Basin Convention drew powerful cultivators from across the Cultivation World, while Hundred Charm Demoness planned to use a song to find Yue Qianchou. The chapter ended as Lou Yanqing and Xin Lao San arrived to meet Sikong Jue, and Nong Zhu arrived with Ziyi and another woman.

• The convention drew huge crowds and many Spirit Transformation stage experts, and Mu Lianqiu ordered the Law Enforcement Guard to kill three cultivators who flew without permission.
• Wen Lanfeng arrived to a frenzy of admiration, then vanished from the crowd.
• Hundred Charm Demoness told Yan Yu she was seeking Yue Qianchou and planned to sing a song he had composed for her to draw him to Spring Sleep Tower.
• Sikong Jue waited at the special passage and welcomed Lou Yanqing and Xin Lao San on behalf of his master.
• Nong Zhu arrived with two women, and Lou Yanqing recognized Ziyi among them.

Nong Zhu brought Furong and Ziyi to the Treasure Gathering Basin Convention, where Furong’s jade pendant revealed her connection to Bi Changchun. Yin Baikang realized the danger of offending Furong’s master, while Xin Lao San began to suspect that master was Yue Qianchou.

• Lou Yanqing and Sikong Jue recognized the black jade pendant at Furong’s waist and treated her with unusual respect.
• Nong Zhu brought the group to God of Wealth Peak, where Yin Baikang welcomed Lou Yanqing but refused to give Nong Zhu and the girls a courtyard.
• Sikong Jue tried to stop Nong Zhu from leaving and privately warned Yin Baikang to examine Furong’s pendant.
• Yin Baikang recognized Bi Changchun’s jade pendant, learned Furong’s master had given it to her, and accused Nong Zhu of setting him up.
• Nong Zhu denied trying to drive a wedge between Yin Baikang and Bi Changchun, while Xin Lao San connected Furong’s identity to Yue Qianchou.

Yin Baikang arranged lodging for Nong Zhu and Furong, then ordered Yan Zhuixing watched after learning he had entered the Treasure Gathering Basin with Bing Chengzi. Hu Yuntian brought Yan Zhuixing and Man Hu to Spring Sleep Tower, where a stirring zither song drew a crowd and renewed interest in the establishment.

• Nong Zhu agreed to stay on the mountain, and Yin Baikang had Sikong Jue arrange lodging for him and Furong.
• Sikong Jue reported that Bing Chengzi had brought Yan Zhuixing into the Treasure Gathering Basin, and Yin Baikang ordered him secretly watched.
• Hu Yuntian invited Yan Zhuixing and Man Hu to Spring Sleep Tower to test them, and Yan Zhuixing accepted despite Man Hu's reservations.
• A sorrowful zither melody sounded from Spring Sleep Tower, stopping passersby and drawing a crowd eager to hear the new song.

Nong Zhu and Lou Yanqing visited Niu Youde’s residence but found him absent, then discussed their suspicions that Yue Qianchou was connected to Bi Changchun and was actually Niu Youde. They left for the Wen Family Shop to see Wen Lanfeng.

• Nong Zhu settled Ziyi and another woman at his residence, then went to Niu Youde’s estate.
• Lou Yanqing explained that she had come to test whether Niu Youde recognized her disciple Xin Lao San, but Tian Ye said Niu Youde was away.
• Lou Yanqing questioned Nong Zhu about Furong, Yue Qianchou, and Bi Changchun, then revealed that she knew Yue Qianchou was Niu Youde.
• Nong Zhu and Lou Yanqing observed the crowds seeking Niu Youde’s pills and poetry, then decided to visit Wen Lanfeng.
• Nong Zhu and Lou Yanqing arrived at the Wen Family Shop, where Wen Lanfeng called Nong Zhu upstairs.

Yue Qianchou collected six billion from Yin Baikang for another batch of Restriction Breaking Pills and vanished to retrieve his orders. While he was away, Lou Yanqing, Wen Lanfeng, and Nong Zhu arrived at Spring Sleep Tower to see him, as Yan Zhuixing, Man Hu, and Hu Yuntian entered a hall crowded with guests to watch Ye Qun perform.

• Yue Qianchou reviewed the Treasure Pavilion listings and went with Sikong Jue to meet Yin Baikang.
• Yin Baikang handed Yue Qianchou six billion to purchase another five thousand Restriction Breaking Pills and asked when he would return.
• Yue Qianchou promised to be back within half a day, discussed Yue Qianchou's expected arrival with Yin Baikang, and suddenly disappeared.
• Yan Yu found Lou Yanqing, Wen Lanfeng, and Nong Zhu waiting in the courtyard and told them Niu Youde was absent.
• Yan Zhuixing, Man Hu, and Hu Yuntian entered Spring Sleep Tower, where Ye Qun was performing for a packed hall.
• Hu Yuntian demanded that the servant arrange seats near the front so he could watch Ye Qun.