Chapter Summaries

Zhang Tie swiftly defeated Thousand Ghosts Daoist, won his reward, and reclaimed his spirit stones from Si Chi. As Zhang Tie and Si Chi prepared to leave, a black-robed cultivator arrived and asked Zhang Tie to talk.

• Thousand Ghosts Daoist summoned his Yellow Springs Path and threatened to turn Zhang Tie into a puppet, but Zhang Tie used Shape Shift to seize the artifact.
• Zhang Tie froze Thousand Ghosts Daoist with his flying sword and used Soul Devour to subdue him, leaving him vacant.
• Gou Paili declared Zhang Tie the winner and awarded him one hundred and fifty thousand high-grade spirit stones.
• Zhang Tie declined to issue more challenges, then joked with Si Chi and reclaimed his eight hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones.
• A black-robed cultivator arrived as Zhang Tie and Si Chi were leaving and asked Zhang Tie to have a chat.

After defeating Thousand Ghost Daoist, Zhang Tie traded the Yellow Springs Dao for three million top-tier spiritual stones and discovered a powerful secret technique in the Sky-Treading Demonic Ape’s storage space. He learned that Nirvana Transformation could grant him three heads and six arms, but a visitor’s knock interrupted his plans.

• A black-robed Mahayana cultivator bought Zhang Tie’s Yellow Springs Dao for three million top-tier spiritual stones, and Zhang Tie left with Si Chi.
• At the inn, Zhang Tie recovered from the battle and reflected on his gains, injuries, and lingering worry that others might identify his unusual power.
• Zhang Tie opened the Sky-Treading Demonic Ape’s storage space and collected its spiritual stones, weapons, and four jade slips.
• Zhang Tie discovered that a jade slip describing the Nirvana Golden Body Art also contained the Nirvana Transformation secret technique, which could triple his battle prowess by granting him three heads and six arms.
• Knocking at the door interrupted Zhang Tie’s thoughts, and he recognized the visitor with displeasure.

After Chai Yuan’s elder pressured Zhang Tie into surrendering the body, Zhang Tie studied the Nirvana Transformation technique and began seeking the materials needed to condense a golden body. As he worried about the cost and considered earning money through pill refining, a message arrived that prompted him to leave the inn.

• Chai Yuan’s elder took Chai Yuan’s body from Zhang Tie and warned him that another clan elder might have killed him despite his master’s protection.
• Zhang Tie studied Nirvana Transformation and learned that he needed eight materials to condense a golden body, none of which he owned.
• Zhang Tie visited Carefree Pavilion, where Bai Xiangfang sold him two materials and discussed the others’ availability and likely auction prices.
• Zhang Tie returned to the inn, worried that buying the remaining materials would consume much of his spirit stones, and considered exploring the pill market.
• Zhang Tie received a message on his communication jade slip, brightened, and headed out.

Zhang Tie accompanied Si Chi to Blood Sky City's vast black market, where he studied the pill trade and chose the Forging Origin Pill as the pill he wanted to refine. The pair headed to Immortal Treasure Plaza, and Zhang Tie considered its history while carrying several immortal treasures of his own.

• Si Chi invited Zhang Tie to visit Blood Sky City's black market, and Zhang Tie agreed so he could search for rare items and learn about pills.
• Zhang Tie and Si Chi entered the sprawling market, where Si Chi spent more than two hours asking vendors about cultivation pills before buying the ones he needed.
• Zhang Tie decided to refine the highly sought-after Forging Origin Pill, whose spiritual-power-tempering effects and difficult refinement made it unusually expensive.
• Si Chi led Zhang Tie to Immortal Treasure Plaza, a marketplace known for dealing in resources with unclear origins.
• Si Chi explained how an independent cultivator's purchase of an immortal-treasure fragment had given the plaza its name, and Zhang Tie recalled the immortal treasures he possessed.

Zhang Tie searched Immortal Treasure Plaza and found a damaged purple flying sword whose Spiritual Patterns responded faintly to his spiritual power. After buying it, he inspected more items from ancient secret realms and was startled by what he found in the stall owner's storage pouch.

• Zhang Tie recalled that he could not use his Immortal Treasures without immortal power and wondered how ancient sects had obtained Immortal Jade.
• Zhang Tie spotted a damaged purple flying sword at a stall and examined its blade as the rabbit-masked stall owner described its history.
• Zhang Tie poured spiritual power into the sword, briefly revealing its purple glow and damaged auspicious cloud Spiritual Patterns.
• Si Chi dismissed the sword as scrap, but Zhang Tie bought it for eight high-grade spirit stones.
• The stall owner offered Zhang Tie more items from ancient secret realms, and he was shocked when he examined her storage pouch.

Zhang Tie bought a pouch of damaged spirit treasures after recognizing several materials he needed, and learned the location of the secret realm they came from. Back at the inn, he reviewed the materials he still needed and devised a new plan, while the sellers decided to follow him to the secret realm.

• Zhang Tie recognized needed materials among six damaged spirit treasures and paid twenty high-grade spirit stones for them and the secret realm’s location.
• Xue Ling told Sister Fu that Zhang Tie had bought the treasures and asked for the secret realm’s location, prompting Sister Fu to suspect they had sold valuable items too cheaply.
• Sister Fu persuaded Xue Ling to follow Zhang Tie to the secret realm in hopes of gaining something from it.
• Zhang Tie returned to the inn with five of the nine materials he needed and planned to buy a pill formula and ingredients before refining pills.
• Zhang Tie suddenly thought of a new idea and became excited about what he was about to do.

Zhang Tie bought the Forging Origin Pill recipe and spirit herbs, then refined pills in a rented alchemy room. He left with nine supreme-grade pills intended for auction and discovered that his alchemy had improved greatly.

• Zhang Tie tested whether the Five-Colored Heaven-Forging Gourd could repair treasures by placing a curved saber inside it.
• Zhang Tie bought the Forging Origin Pill recipe and twenty sets of spirit herbs from Xian Weidan at Thousand Flavors Workshop.
• Zhang Tie rented an alchemy room and successfully refined three low-grade Forging Origin Pills on his first attempt.
• Zhang Tie spent a month refining all twenty sets of herbs, improving his speed, formation rate, and pill quality.
• Zhang Tie used Words Manifestation and Undying Zhu energy to produce nine supreme-grade Forging Origin Pills for the super auction.

Zhang Tie discovered that the Five-Colored Heaven-Forging Gourd had repaired the Sever Desire treasure and used it to restore more damaged spirit treasures. He sold Carefree Pavilion large quantities of Body Tempering Pills, then asked Bai Xiangfang to auction nine supreme-grade pills.

• Zhang Tie learned that the repaired curved blade was Sever Desire, a growth-type spirit treasure that required the Root of Absolute Heartbreak Art to unleash its full power.
• Zhang Tie placed five more damaged spirit treasures into the Five-Colored Heaven-Forging Gourd and went to sell his pills.
• Bai Xiangfang agreed to buy Zhang Tie's eighty-seven low-grade, thirty-five mid-grade, and eleven high-grade Body Tempering Pills for ninety-three thousand high-grade spirit stones.
• Zhang Tie used the sale proceeds toward the Crimson Sun Sky-Burning Lotus and paid Bai Xiangfang the remaining one hundred and ninety-seven thousand high-grade spirit stones.
• Zhang Tie offered another bottle of pills for Carefree Pavilion's upcoming auction, and Bai Xiangfang was shocked to find nine supreme-grade Body Tempering Pills inside.

Zhang Tie sold a bottle of supreme-grade Forging Origin Pills to Carefree Pavilion after Tao Cibei appraised them and Bai Xiangfang intervened to uphold the pavilion’s rules. Learning that the pills could improve the soul, Zhang Tie bought herbs to refine more and planned to use them to cultivate the Soul Devouring Sword Formation.

• Bai Xiangfang summoned Tao Cibei to appraise Zhang Tie’s Forging Origin Pills.
• Tao Cibei questioned Zhang Tie about the pills’ origins and held onto the bottle, but Bai Xiangfang reminded her not to interrogate a guest.
• Tao Cibei confirmed the pills were genuine and recently refined, and Zhang Tie completed a contract with Carefree Pavilion to sell them at its super auction.
• Bai Xiangfang explained that using all nine pills could increase one person’s soul quality by at least ten percent and improve Tao Cibei’s chance of reaching the Mahayana stage.
• Zhang Tie visited spirit medicine shops, bought one hundred sets of herbs, and planned to refine more pills to strengthen his soul for the Soul Devouring Sword Formation.

Zhang Tie refined nine hundred top-grade Forging Origin Pills and consumed them all, transforming his divine soul and mastering powerful sword formations. He arrived at Chu Tian Tower with Si Mo for the grand auction, where they waited in a private room as the auction had yet to begin.

• Zhang Tie completed refining nine hundred top-grade Forging Origin Pills and collapsed from exhaustion.
• Zhang Tie swallowed nine pills, found that his divine sense had grown more resilient, and resolved to consume the rest.
• Zhang Tie refined all nine hundred pills over several months, transforming his sea of consciousness and gaining the ability to make his divine sense tangible.
• Zhang Tie mastered the Soul Devouring Sword Formation, created the Divine Thunder Soul Annihilation Formation and Ice Trapping Soul Formation, and became a seventh-rank formation grandmaster.
• Zhang Tie and Si Mo traveled by beast carriage to Chu Tian Tower and entered a private room overlooking the auction platform.

Zhang Tie attended the Blood Sky City Super Auction and recognized the first item as the Time Wheel Golden Cicada Molt he had sought. He won it for four hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones, and Si Chi then exclaimed that something was an immortal treasure.

• Zhang Tie dismissed the two maidservants and continued pondering his sudden improvement in comprehension.
• Lü Yin opened the auction by presenting the Time Wheel Golden Cicada Molt and explaining its rarity and connection to the Time Law.
• Zhang Tie bid four hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones, outbidding the other bidders and winning the molt.
• Zhang Tie received the molt through a short-range directional teleportation array and paid for it with a storage bag of spirit stones.
• Si Chi suddenly cried out, “An immortal treasure!”

Zhang Tie learned that a Three-Revolutions Immortal Gathering Formation could convert spirit stones into Immortal power, giving him a way to use Immortal Artifacts with his Five-Colored Heaven-Forging Gourd. After a damaged Immortal treasure sold for a fortune, Lü Yin presented a Demon-Devouring Three-Eyed Beast, and Nine Yang Daoist made a forceful bid for it.

• Zhang Tie asked Si Mo how Lü Yin had activated the damaged Immortal Artifact, and Si Mo explained the Three-Revolutions Immortal Gathering Formation.
• Zhang Tie realized his Five-Colored Heaven-Forging Gourd might let him set up the formation and use Immortal Artifacts.
• A pair of ruined Immortal boots sold for one million one hundred and thirty thousand high-grade spirit stones, astonishing Zhang Tie.
• Lü Yin introduced a golden-furred, three-eyed beast in a black cage and announced its starting price of one million high-grade spirit stones.
• Lü Yin revealed that the beast could detect Outer Realm Demons and, if raised, devour them and heart demons.
• Nine Yang Daoist bid five million high-grade spirit stones and demanded that the other bidders give him face.

At the auction, Zhang Tie secured the Heavenly Dragon Marrow for a rival bidder while his nine Extreme Grade Forging Pills sold for a fortune. He left the auction house and waited at a restaurant in Blood Sky City for someone connected to the letter Teleportation Disk, who finally arrived.

• Nine Yang Daoist and Mo Yi clashed until Blood Lotus ordered them to behave, and Zhang Tie used his divine sense to free Si Mo from Nine Yang Daoist's pressure.
• Zhang Tie outbid others for the Heavenly Dragon Marrow, then stopped at two million one hundred thousand spirit stones and let the woman win for two million one hundred thousand.
• Zhang Tie's nine Extreme Grade Forging Pills sold for eighteen million high-grade spirit stones, earning him fourteen million four hundred thousand after commission.
• Zhang Tie left the auction house, waited in a restaurant while watching the street with his divine sense, and saw the person he had been waiting for arrive.

Zhang Tie followed the veiled woman who had bought the Heavenly Dragon Marrow and discovered she was working with Tao Cibei, who planned to capture him and search his soul for the source of his pills. Tao Cibei trapped him inside a barrier and attacked with her disciple, but Zhang Tie fought back and prepared to test his new divine ability against her borrowed cauldron.

• Zhang Tie tracked the woman in white from Blood Sky City to a valley, where she met Tao Cibei.
• Tao Cibei revealed that she intended to capture Zhang Tie and search his soul for the source of the top-grade Forging Origin Pills.
• Zhang Tie appeared before Tao Cibei and the woman in white, and Tao Cibei activated a jade talisman that sealed a hundred-li area inside a barrier.
• Tao Cibei and the woman in white attacked Zhang Tie, but he dodged their strikes, wounded the woman, and forced Tao Cibei to take him seriously.
• Tao Cibei summoned a small cauldron borrowed from the Blood Sky Sect's Third Elder, and Zhang Tie sensed that it was hindering his divine power.
• Zhang Tie struck at the cauldron and decided to test his Divine Thunder Soul Annihilation Formation on Tao Cibei.

Zhang Tie killed Tao Cibei, froze the woman in white, and searched their possessions, then followed the parent Teleportation Disk after growing suspicious of his clone. He found the disk hidden beneath a river boulder beside a jade slip bearing a desperate message.

• Zhang Tie used his blue flying sword to freeze the woman in white and his black flying sword to kill Tao Cibei, then took their belongings.
• Zhang Tie searched the woman in white's soul and found the Heavenly Dragon Marrow in her jade pendant.
• Powder Bone announced that she was about to advance, and Zhang Tie struck her before putting her away in a blood cocoon.
• Zhang Tie found that the parent Teleportation Disk had remained still for two days and suspected his clone, so he flew away from Blood Sky City to investigate.
• Zhang Tie retrieved the parent disk from beneath a river boulder and found a jade slip beside it that said, "Save me!"

Zhang Tie rescued his Nascent Soul clone and Zhao Daosheng from a Sea King Clan pursuer, then agreed to let the clone live independently and gave him resources. As Zhang Tie urged them to flee toward Fengyuan Continent, a Mahayana cultivator arrived and trapped them.

• Zhang Tie tracked down and killed the tall, thin man pursuing his Nascent Soul clone and Zhao Daosheng, then collected his treasures.
• Zhang Tie met his clone and Zhao Daosheng in a cave and learned that the Sea King Clan had accused him of being a wanted criminal.
• Zhao Daosheng speculated that Zhang Tie was his master's father, so Zhang Tie sealed his mouth and knocked him unconscious.
• Zhang Tie accepted that his clone had developed independent consciousness and gave him resources, the Mountain River Cave Heaven Diagram, and Little Turtle.
• Zhang Tie told his clone to take Zhao Daosheng and flee toward Fengyuan Continent, but a Mahayana cultivator arrived and forced the clone to the ground.
• Zhang Tie placed his hands on his clone and Zhao Daosheng and cast Shift.

Zhang Tie escaped a Sea Clan powerhouse’s attack after his clone was trapped and nearly crushed, then hid inside the Profound Spirit Pill Tower to recover. Half a month later, the pursuer failed to find him and was attacked by a massive black finger from an unknown assailant.

• A blue-robed Sea Clan powerhouse attacked Zhang Tie, blaming him for killing the Sea Clan’s Kirin Son and an Integration-stage elder, and restrained him with water rings.
• The pursuer’s blue trident halted when an illusion of Hong’er distracted him, but he trapped Zhang Tie in a shrinking body of water.
• Zhang Tie broke free in Kunpeng form and escaped after a black sword struck the pursuer’s soul with Chaos Divine Thunder.
• Zhang Tie fled for nearly an hour, concealed himself inside the Profound Spirit Pill Tower, and began recovering from the Kunpeng Transformation’s side effects.
• After searching unsuccessfully for half a month, the blue-robed man realized Zhang Tie had misled him about his destination and attacked a mountain in anger.
• A giant black finger descended on the wounded pursuer, who blocked it with a blue water curtain.

A late Mahayana stage Jiatun Clan elder forced Ao Rong of the Sea King Clan to surrender both arms before letting him go. A year later, Zhang Tie was still recovering in the Profound Spirit Pill Tower when the Tower Spirit reported a rare ten-thousand-year spirit fruit outside.

• A white-haired Jiatun Clan elder appeared and overwhelmed Ao Rong after his ghostly attack trapped the Sea King Clan cultivator.
• The elder demanded Ao Rong leave both arms, and Ao Rong agreed, lost both arms, and fled.
• The elder searched the surrounding area for several breaths but found nothing and vanished.
• Inside the Profound Spirit Pill Tower, Zhang Tie continued recovering from his injuries and considered restoring his armor, finding Chaos Origin Spirit Liquid, and raising his cultivation.
• A year later, the Tower Spirit told Zhang Tie that an extremely rare ten-thousand-year spirit fruit had been discovered outside and asked whether he wanted to inspect it.

Zhang Tie collected spirit fruits, recovered his divine sense, and refined two treasures before finding a group of fox demons pursued by a powerful magical beast. As Zhang Tie prepared to save Qing Ji, a streak of white light intercepted the beast’s attack.

• Zhang Tie collected three Purple Spirit Lightning Transformation Fruits and escaped a black-feathered attack before returning to the Profound Spirit Pill Tower.
• Zhang Tie instructed Powder Bone to gather spirit herbs while he recovered his divine sense, then spent three years refining the Mountain Sea Bead and Dragon Trapping Cauldron.
• The Tower Spirit alerted Zhang Tie to demon race cultivators, and he discovered a six-winged magical beast pursuing four humanoid fox demons.
• Qing Ji transformed into a gigantic Green Fox and charged at the beast so the red-clothed woman and the others could escape.
• The magical beast launched a black pillar of light at Qing Ji, but a streak of white light arrived to block it before Zhang Tie could intervene.

Li Sheng, Wang Yang, and Zhao Shan killed the demonic beast attacking Qing Jie and Green Fox, then joined them on the Profound Sky Eight Trigrams Mirror to travel to Tian Yuan City with Zhang Tie. After three months of travel, a huge stone mountain suddenly appeared overhead and fell toward them.

• Zhao Shan's Profound Sky Eight Trigrams Mirror reflected the demonic beast's attack, and Li Sheng and Wang Yang struck while Zhao Shan restrained it, killing the beast in fewer than three breaths.
• Qing Jie and Green Fox thanked Li Sheng, Wang Yang, and Zhao Shan, and the group agreed to travel together to Tian Yuan City and report the demonic beast's appearance.
• Zhang Tie appeared, revealed his Integration-stage cultivation, and joined the group on the Profound Sky Eight Trigrams Mirror to learn about the Fengyuan Continent and the human race.
• After three months, Li Sheng warned Zhao Shan of an incoming attack as a massive stone mountain appeared in the sky and crashed toward them, pinning everyone but Zhang Tie down with its pressure.