Chapter Summaries

After reaching Qi Refining Stage Eighth Layer, Qin Wang learned that True Person Zi Xia had planted a Spiritual Sense Mark on him and asked Wu Su to help turn it against his enemy. Wu Su agreed to transfer the mark, leaving Qin Wang ready to set a trap for True Person Zi Xia.

• Qin Wang advanced to Qi Refining Stage Eighth Layer and prepared to earn spirit stones while planning to protect Zhao Hunyi from the Monster Slaying Alliance.
• Qin Wang bought pills and materials at the Spirit Pill Pavilion, where Foundation Establishment cultivator Mu Zhen scrutinized him.
• Qin Wang's daily intelligence revealed that Mu Zhen was True Person Zi Xia and had secretly placed a Spiritual Sense Mark on him to track him outside the city.
• Qin Wang asked Wu Su to locate the mark and transfer it to a small animal instead of removing it.
• Wu Su agreed and told Qin Wang to hold the Soul Locking Jade and a blank jade slip so she could begin.

Qin Wang set a trap to draw a third-rank Sabertooth Tiger toward Mu Zhen, while Mu Zhen pursued what he believed was Qin Wang's concealment technique. The chapter ended with Mu Zhen discovering that his Spiritual Sense Mark had been transferred to a jade slip buried in the beast territory.

• Qin Wang removed True Person Zi Xia's Spiritual Sense Mark from the Soul Locking Jade and promised Miss Wu he would search for Soul Nurturing Wood.
• Mu Zhen realized Jiang Ping had been siphoning his cultivation and decided to seize Qin Wang's concealment technique when Qin Wang left the city.
• Mu Qianxue invited Qin Xuemei to accompany her to the Upper Sect and reassured her that her younger brother might have survived Small Dan Mountain's beast tide.
• Qin Wang followed Zhao Hunyi into the Manyong Mountain Range while Mu Zhen set out in pursuit of the Spiritual Sense Mark.
• Qin Wang buried a jade slip bearing Mu Zhen's mark in third-rank Sabertooth Tiger territory and rigged it to ignite Monster Luring Illusion Incense and Reverse Blood Mad Demon Incense.
• Mu Zhen found the jade slip inside a split boulder and wondered how a Qi Refining cultivator had stripped away his Spiritual Sense Mark.

Qin Wang’s incense trap drew a beast tide that left Mu Zhen gravely wounded as he fled. Qin Wang sent Zhao Hunyi to finish him, and Zhao Hunyi killed Mu Zhen by tearing out his heart.

• Mu Zhen triggered Qin Wang’s trap, then fought through a beast tide of frenzied demon beasts and birds, including several third-tier beasts.
• Mu Zhen escaped the encirclement but lost his eyes, right arm, and left leg before crashing into a valley.
• Qin Wang recognized the wounded Mu Zhen and ordered Zhao Hunyi to investigate and take his Storage Bag if he was dead.
• Zhao Hunyi approached Mu Zhen and pretended to help bandage his wounds while secretly poisoning him.
• Mu Zhen realized Zhao Hunyi had poisoned him and attacked, but Zhao Hunyi tore out and crushed his heart.

Qin Wang killed True Person Zi Xia and opened his Storage Bag, gaining a spirit sword, cultivation resources, and a second Worn Iron Fragment. After learning that Foundation Establishment cultivators were investigating the death and that demon beast corpses awaited collection, he set out to lure beasts and gather them.

• Qin Wang took True Person Zi Xia's corpse and Storage Bag, then stayed in a cave with Zhao Hunyi instead of returning to Qingyun Immortal City.
• Qin Wang read the updated intel, learning that the Spirit Medicine Sect had sent three Foundation Establishment True Persons to investigate Mu Zhen's disappearance and that True Person Zi Xia's corpse could be refined into a puppet.
• Qin Wang wore away the Storage Bag's divine sense imprint and found 3,300 low-grade spirit stones, pills, manuals, the Purple Sun Art, the Purple Sun Sword, and spirit artifacts.
• Qin Wang found a Worn Iron Fragment in True Person Zi Xia's Storage Bag and joined it to the fragment he had obtained from Zhao Xuanzhen, causing mysterious symbols to appear.
• Qin Wang moved his belongings into True Person Zi Xia's larger Storage Bag, prepared seven empty bags for demon beast corpses, and headed northwest to collect them.

Qin Wang used Monster Luring Illusion Incense to draw the beast tide away, then searched the battlefield while Jiang Ping and Su Hua arrived to find Mu Zhen’s remains. Jiang Ping failed to recover Mu Zhen’s Storage Bag, but recognized Qin Wang and gave him a Jiang Family token, unaware of his disguise.

• Qin Wang’s Monster Luring Illusion Incense drew demon beasts and demon birds northwest, clearing the battlefield for him to search.
• Jiang Ping sensed that Mu Zhen had died and went with Su Hua to the battlefield to retrieve his belongings.
• Qin Wang collected valuable demon beast materials while Wu Su concealed the aura of his Storage Bag.
• Jiang Ping used her tracking method to search for Mu Zhen’s remains, but found only fragments and clothing before taking many demon beast corpses.
• Jiang Ping recognized Qin Wang from the Spirit Pill Pavilion, and Qin Wang introduced himself as Zhao Yulong.
• Jiang Ping gave Qin Wang a Jiang Family introduction token and invited him to seek her out.

Qin Wang sold demon beast corpses for spirit stones and pills while avoiding attention, unaware that Situ Chenggang was plotting against rogue cultivators who had profited from the beast tide. Back in his courtyard, Qin Wang prepared to use his pills to push his cultivation toward the peak of the Ninth Layer of the Qi Refining Stage.

• Qin Wang accepted Jiang Ping's black plaque, then secretly fed it to a Python Demon and sent the creature into the deep mountains.
• Qin Wang sold six second-tier demon beasts at the Spirit Pill Pavilion for 420 spirit stones and exchanged the stones for Solid Yuan Pills.
• Situ Chenggang learned that Qin Wang had exchanged his earnings for pills and told Situ Wenhao to leave him alone for now, while continuing their scheme to target rogue cultivators.
• Qin Wang returned to courtyard Number 168 and told Gao Yuan he had hidden from the beast tide overnight.
• Qin Wang counted his spirit stones and pills and planned to use them to raise his cultivation proficiency toward the Ninth Layer's peak.

Qin Wang learned that Jiang Ping and Situ Chenggang posed threats, then arranged for damaging intelligence about them to be spread around Qingyun Immortal City. The rumors exposed Jiang Ping’s killing of Ouyang Qing, and Jiang Rui ordered her to remain inside the Jiang Family residence as the Ouyang Family’s response loomed.

• Qin Wang read the daily intelligence and decided to deal with Jiang Ping and Situ Chenggang while seeking the Situ Family’s Soul Nurturing Wood for Wu Su.
• Qin Wang sent Zhao Hunyi instructions to secretly post accusations about Situ Chenggang and Jiang Ping on walls in the eastern part of the city.
• Jiang Ping discovered that her marked token was still outside the city and prepared to pursue Mu Zhen’s acquaintance, but Xiao Mei summoned her to see Jiang Rui.
• Jiang Rui confronted Jiang Ping with a stone slab accusing her of killing Ouyang Qing, and Jiang Ping admitted she had drained him after learning his identity.
• Jiang Rui ordered Jiang Ping to stay at the family residence while he sought to manage the approaching conflict with the Ouyang Family.

Qin Wang’s rumors forced the Situ Family to publicly execute Situ Chenggang, allowing Qin Wang to capture his soul and obtain the map fragment he sought. After cultivating to the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining Stage, Qin Wang entered the Soul Gathering Bowl and found the souls of True Person Zi Xia, Mu Zhen, and Situ Chenggang.

• Situ Yunfeng led the Elder Council in expelling Situ Chenggang and deciding to execute him, while Situ Chenggang admitted guilt to protect his children.
• Qin Wang learned the rumors about the Situ and Jiang families had spread throughout Qingyun Immortal City and discovered the Soul Gathering Bowl’s fourth restriction extended its soul-collecting range to two li.
• Situ Yunfeng publicly apologized, beheaded Situ Chenggang and his three accomplices, and announced a fifteen-percent discount on Spirit Pill Pavilion pills.
• Qin Wang secretly collected Situ Chenggang’s soul with the Soul Gathering Bowl, bought Solid Yuan Pills, and returned to Dengxian Garden No. 168.
• Qin Wang reached the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining Stage, saw his lifespan rise to 139 years, and found the souls of True Person Zi Xia, Mu Zhen, and Situ Chenggang in the bowl.

Qin Wang tortured Situ Chenggang and True Person Zi Xia for their souls, then learned that the fragmentary map he sought had passed to Situ Chengjian. After uncovering new intelligence about Qingyun Immortal City and the Situ Family, he told Wu Su about the thousand-year Soul Nurturing Wood and learned he should wait to establish the strongest possible foundation.

• Qin Wang threatened to reunite Situ Chenggang’s family in the Soul Gathering Bowl, learned that Situ Chenggang had given the fragmentary map to his son, and began refining True Person Zi Xia into a Soul Seed.
• Li Qiye and Tang Linghua discussed rumors linking Jiang Ping to Ouyang Qing’s death and wondered whether Tianji Pavilion was behind the revelations.
• Qin Wang’s daily intelligence revealed that Situ Chengjian held the map, Qingyun Immortal City was a recovering Mysterious Fragment, and the Situ Family guarded thousand-year Soul Nurturing Wood in its underground treasury.
• Qin Wang told Wu Su about the Soul Nurturing Wood and asked for a higher-level cultivation technique, but Wu Su said she would teach him one after he reached Foundation Establishment.
• Wu Su warned Qin Wang not to establish his foundation at the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining and urged him to pursue the strongest Foundation Establishment.

Qin Wang completed refining True Person Zi Xia’s soul into a Soul Seed and planned to test it with the incomplete body outside the city. With the Situ and Jiang Families hunting for him, he decided to seek the Foundation Establishment volume of the Spirit Sealing Breath Concealment Technique at Hundred Medicine Hall.

• Qin Wang learned from Wu Su that delaying Foundation Establishment could build a stronger foundation, then continued refining True Person Zi Xia’s soul and considered how to replace his missing limbs.
• Qin Wang visited the Myriad Law Tower but refused to buy its expensive, restricted puppet techniques, and decided he could use Zhao Hunyi as a leg for the puppet body.
• Situ Yunfeng ordered the Situ Family to keep searching for the mysterious person who exposed Situ Chenggang, while the elders discussed their losses and vowed revenge.
• After more than half a month, Qin Wang finished forging True Person Zi Xia’s soul into a Soul Seed, retaining its instincts and Foundation Establishment strength.
• Qin Wang reviewed intelligence that the Situ and Jiang Families were searching for him, then resolved to leave the city to join the Soul Seed to True Person Zi Xia’s body and visit Hundred Medicine Hall for the concealment technique’s Foundation Establishment volume.

Qin Wang used Zhao Hunyi as bait to lure the Monster Slaying Alliance into an ambush, while fusing True Person Zi Xia’s Soul Seed with his corpse to create Mu Hunyi. After killing the pursuers and collecting their souls and belongings, Qin Wang found a familiar object among Ren Tianchi’s spoils.

• Ren Tianchi learned that Zhao Haifeng had left Qingyun Immortal City and led four allies to hunt him down.
• Qin Wang split from Zhao Hunyi, fused True Person Zi Xia’s Soul Seed with his corpse, and named the resulting Foundation Establishment puppet Mu Hunyi.
• The five Monster Slaying Alliance cultivators surrounded Zhao Hunyi, but Qin Wang attacked and killed three of them before Mu Hunyi seized Ren Tianchi.
• Mu Hunyi crushed Ren Tianchi, while Zhao Hunyi killed the last pursuer; Qin Wang collected the souls, burned the bodies, and left after erasing the traces.
• Qin Wang examined the five Storage Bags in a cliffside cave and discovered a familiar object among Ren Tianchi’s demon beast materials.

Qin Wang learned that the Foundation Establishment Scroll he sought had gone to the Spirit Medicine Immortal Sect, while Situ Yunfei had taken the Soul Nurturing Wood and made a Golden Core Stage puppet. The chapter ended with Tang Jianzhong planning to pursue Qingyun Immortal City's treasure and Alliance Leader Shi hearing that Ren Tianchi had not returned from hunting Zhao Haifeng.

• Qin Wang found that two Old Parchment Scrolls briefly flashed when placed together, then continued cultivating and returned to Qingyun Immortal City.
• Qin Wang's new intelligence revealed that Tang Jianzhong had reached the Tenth Layer of Qi Refining Stage with help from a ring soul, and that Shi Santong's son had taken the copper fragment to the Spirit Medicine Immortal Sect.
• Qin Wang learned that Situ Yunfei had refined a Golden Core Stage puppet using the thousand-year Soul Nurturing Wood and resolved to expose his killing of Jin Xing to the Overlord Saber Immortal Sect.
• Qin Wang discovered the Blood Bathing Elixir of Demonic Blood formula and considered making it, while planning to cultivate to the Tenth Layer first.
• Tang Jianzhong learned from the ring soul that Qingyun Immortal City was a damaged peerless treasure that might be claimed by someone with Nascent Soul Realm cultivation.
• Alliance Leader Shi heard that Ren Tianchi had not returned from hunting Zhao Haifeng, who had come back safely.

Tang Jianzhong revealed that he wanted Zhao Haifeng’s Little White Rat because it could find spirit herbs, and he sent Shi Tianqing to pursue him. Qin Wang lured the Monster Slaying Alliance into the Manyong Mountain Range, where Zhao Hunyi began cutting down their pursuers.

• Shi Tianqing learned that Ren Tianchi and five others had failed to kill Zhao Haifeng, and Tang Jianzhong disclosed the Little White Rat’s value before sending Shi after him.
• Qin Wang decided against joining one of the three immortal sects recruiting in Qingyun Immortal City and continued planning to target the Situ Family and eliminate the Monster Slaying Alliance.
• Qin Wang took wooden prosthetic limbs to Mu Hunyi in a hidden cave, while Zhao Hunyi drew eight pursuers into the Manyong Mountain Range.
• Shi Tianqing ordered four Monster Slaying Alliance members to attack Zhao Hunyi, and a crimson streak pierced their chests, killing them.

Qin Wang captured the Monster Slaying Alliance members and used their Soul Seeds to set up a conflict between the Overlord Saber Immortal Sect and the Situ Family. A planted message led Lu Yunhai to believe Situ Yunfei had killed Jin Xing, and Lu Yunhai began preparing to act against the Situ Family.

• Qin Wang and his controlled servants defeated eight Monster Slaying Alliance cultivators, collected their Storage Bags, and turned five of them into Soul Seed-controlled pawns.
• Qin Wang sent four controlled cultivators toward Qingyun Immortal City to spread discord and kept Shi Tianqing as a helper.
• At the Overlord Saber Immortal Sect's recruitment site, Lu Yunhai received a scroll claiming Situ Yunfei had killed Jin Xing and placed her Primordial Spirit in a puppet.
• Lu Yunhai recognized the messenger's corpse as a puppet, sent Zhao Jingyu to alert two sect elders, and ordered Xin Yu to investigate its origins.
• Convinced the accusation was likely true, Lu Yunhai vowed to destroy the Situ Family if Situ Yunfei had harmed Jin Xing.

Qin Wang exposed the Situ Family’s infant-harming demonic cultivation, provoking panic in the family and drawing the attention of a powerful sect elder. As his Five Elements Gathering Yuan Skill reached perfection, his updated intel revealed an upcoming blessed land that could aid his Foundation Establishment.

• Qin Wang used Soul Seed puppets to spread evidence of the Situ brothers’ cultivation of the Primordial Spirit Seizing Demonic Art throughout Qingyun Immortal City.
• Situ Yunfeng warned Situ Yunzhan that the exposure threatened the family, and the brothers decided to consult Situ Yunfei.
• Qin Wang discovered that his Five Elements Gathering Yuan Skill had reached perfection, with an upgrade still possible once he met unknown conditions.
• Qin Wang’s refreshed intel revealed that Lu Yunhai was gathering Overlord Saber Immortal Sect elders to destroy the Situ Family, while Situ Yunfei vowed to hunt down the person who exposed them.
• Qin Wang learned that the Myriad Spirits Blessed Land would open in half a year and contained something that could greatly aid his Foundation Establishment.

Qin Wang reached the Qi Refining Stage Tenth Layer and demonstrated his rapid progress in the Otherworldly Sword Art to Wu Su, who passed him the Lower Scroll and the Foundation Establishment method, the Starfall Sword Canon. New intel revealed that Situ Yunzhan had fallen and Situ Yunfei had escaped as a Primordial Spirit, leaving Qin Wang determined to find the thousand-year Soul Nurturing Wood.

• Qin Wang heard that the Situ Family was offering rewards over the rumors about its ancestor, while Lu Yunhai recruited Tang Jianzhong into the Overlord Saber Immortal Sect.
• Three Golden Core experts from the Overlord Saber Immortal Sect fought Situ Yunfei and Situ Yunzhan, forcing them to flee as the Situ Family grounds burned.
• Qin Wang reached the Qi Refining Stage Tenth Layer and advanced the Otherworldly Sword Art: Upper Scroll to Greater Mastery.
• Wu Su was discouraged that the Soul Nurturing Wood remained unfound, but Qin Wang showed her his sword progress, and she gave him the Otherworldly Sword Art: Lower Scroll and the Starfall Sword Canon.
• Qin Wang's updated intel said Situ Yunzhan had fallen and Situ Yunfei had escaped as a Primordial Spirit after his body and Golden Core Stage puppet were destroyed.

Qin Wang learned that Situ Yunfei’s Primordial Spirit had escaped with the thousand-year Soul Nurturing Wood and decided to target Jiang Qing for Situ Chengjian’s Storage Bag. Meanwhile, rumors that the Situ Family’s Golden Core ancestors had fallen spread through Qingyun Immortal City, leaving Situ Yunfeng facing the family’s possible collapse.

• Qin Wang learned about the escaped Situ Yunfei, the Soul Nurturing Spirit Tree in Kunlun Sacred Land of the Boundless Sea, and Jiang Qing’s affair with Situ Nan, then decided to use a puppet to gain leverage over her.
• Jiang Qing received a blackmail letter demanding Situ Chengjian’s Storage Bag and 3,000 spirit stones in exchange for keeping her affair secret, and she decided to pay.
• Situ Yunfeng urged the Situ Family elders to avoid disputes while they waited for the two Golden Core ancestors to return from fighting three Overlord Saber Immortal Sect cultivators.
• A clansman told Situ Yunfeng that rumors of the ancestors’ deaths were spreading across three districts, and Situ Yunfeng sent people to investigate.

Qin Wang collected the spirit stones Jiang Qing paid to protect her secret, then upgraded the Five Elements Gathering Yuan Skill into the Five Elements Condensing Yuan Skill. Midnight intel revealed the Situ Family’s collapse and that the missing map fragment was with Situ Chengjian, who had left for the Myriad Spirits Blessed Land.

• Jiang Qing left a Storage Bag containing over 3,000 spirit stones for her black-clad extortionist and departed after reading his warning.
• Qin Wang opened the Storage Bag through his puppet, found no map fragment, and kept it there while he continued cultivating and monitoring the situation.
• Qin Wang heard that the Myriad Spirits Blessed Land would open in half a year and decided to settle matters with the Situ Family before heading there.
• Qin Wang’s Starfall Sword Canon reached the beginner level, and he upgraded the Five Elements Gathering Yuan Skill into the beginner-level Five Elements Condensing Yuan Skill.
• Midnight intel revealed that the Situ Family had lost most of its eastern-city interests, Lu Yunhai had killed Situ Yunfeng, and the remaining family members were fleeing Qingyun Immortal City.
• Qin Wang learned that Situ Chengjian had taken the map fragment and left for the Myriad Spirits Blessed Land, while Situ Zhen had vanished and harbored a remnant demonic beast soul.

Qin Wang gathered intelligence about Myriad Spirits Blessed Land and a third Worn Iron Fragment, then searched the ruined Situ estate and set out for Demon Ape Mountain to retrieve it. Meanwhile, Qin Xuemei was accepted into the Upper Sect and assigned to gain experience at Myriad Spirits Blessed Land.

• Qin Wang learned that Myriad Spirits Blessed Land was an ancient spirit herb garden, that Ouyang Canghai had taken a related fragment to Myriad Spirits Market, and that a third Worn Iron Fragment lay in a Demon Ape nest near Demon Ape Mountain.
• Qin Wang decided to search Situ Yunfei's secluded cultivation site before traveling to Demon Ape Mountain, while continuing to cultivate until dawn.
• Gao Yuan left Qingyun Immortal City with Ouyang Long and others for Myriad Spirits Market, and Qin Wang went to the abandoned Situ estate to collect items from Situ Yunfei's cultivation chamber.
• Plum Blossom Fairy approved Mu Qianxue and Qin Xuemei's transfer to the Upper Sect and instructed them to send Qin Xuemei to Myriad Spirits Blessed Land after she emerged from the Sacred Pool.
• Qin Wang watched cultivators depart for Myriad Spirits Blessed Land, then headed southeast with Zhao Hunyi, Mu Hunyi, and Shi Hunyi toward Demon Ape Mountain to find the third fragment.

Qin Wang found the third Worn Iron Fragment at Demon Ape Mountain and joined it with his other two fragments to form the Crimson Barbarian Shield. As he prepared to enter Myriad Spirits Blessed Land, he learned that another entrant would carry a shield fragment and that Qin Xuemei would also come there.

• Qin Wang used incense to lure the demon apes away from Demon Ape Mountain, then searched a cliffside nest and found the third Worn Iron Fragment.
• Qin Wang combined the three fragments, formed the Crimson Barbarian Shield, and learned an incantation that let him activate its powerful defense by spending qi and blood.
• Qin Wang traveled toward Myriad Spirits Blessed Land and spent three months cultivating until he used up his pills.
• Qin Wang learned that Myriad Spirits Blessed Land would open in 68 days, that one entrant would carry a Crimson Barbarian Shield fragment, and that Qin Xuemei would come after establishing her foundation.