Chapter Summaries

Qin Wang settled in Myriad Spirits Market, refined the Soul Gathering Bowl’s fifth restriction, and learned that it could trap enemies in a soul illusion. The latest intel revealed a Crimson Barbarian Shield fragment at auction and two Mysterious Fragments held by Ji Yan’er, while Qin Wang weighed which leads to pursue.

• Qin Wang arrived at Myriad Spirits Market, rented a shack, sold demonic beast materials, and used his spirit stones to buy Solid Yuan Pills.
• Qin Wang refined the Soul Gathering Bowl’s fifth restriction and gained the ability to cast a soul illusion using the souls stored inside it.
• Qin Wang’s daily intel revealed that Ji Yan’er possessed two fragments identical to his Mysterious Fragment and that a Worn Iron Fragment of the Crimson Barbarian Shield would be auctioned.
• Qin Wang considered seeking the fragments and bidding on the shield piece, while deciding to avoid confronting Chen Longjing and to postpone acting on the Pill Dao Pavilion affair.

Qin Wang attended Myriad Treasures Tower’s auction, where he recognized Li Qiye and later secured the Worn Iron Fragment he needed for the Myriad Spirits Blessed Land. The fragment was revealed to be part of the Crimson Barbarian Shield, and Qin Wang won it for 2,100 spirit stones.

• Qin Wang paid for an auction entry plaque and ran into Li Qiye, who was accompanying two Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators.
• Five days later, Qin Wang attended Myriad Treasures Tower’s auction, where Lin Luan opened the bidding with magic artifacts and cultivation techniques.
• Lin Luan presented a Worn Iron Fragment, and Qin Wang bid on it after recognizing it as a Crimson Barbarian Shield fragment.
• A masked Qi Refining cultivator repeatedly outbid Qin Wang, but Qin Wang won the fragment for 2,100 spirit stones after the rival yielded.

Qin Wang obtained a fourth Worn Iron Fragment at the Myriad Treasures Tower auction and strengthened his Crimson Barbarian Shield. His refreshed intel revealed that Murong Chenggao and his neighboring cultivator couple planned to kill him, while a mysterious white bone would appear at the market the next day.

• Qin Wang paid 2,100 spirit stones for the Worn Iron Fragment and left the auction with his entry token and thirty spirit stones.
• Ye Qian offered to help Qin Wang find an Array Guide, but he claimed he already had a friend who could provide one.
• Qin Wang joined the four Worn Iron Fragments, powered them with his blood and qi, and tested the strengthened Crimson Barbarian Shield.
• Qin Wang's daily intel revealed that Murong Chenggao suspected he had shield fragments and intended to track him down, while Ye Qian and Lin Shengbing planned to lure him away and kill him.
• Qin Wang's intel also revealed that the nine-region shield had shattered into eighteen pieces, and that a rogue cultivator would sell an extraordinary whitish bone the next day.

Qin Wang learned that Ye Qian and Lin Shengbing planned to lure him into an ambush, but he went to the rogue cultivator market first and bought a mysterious white bone and two iron fragments. He returned to Myriad Spirits Market and accepted Ye Qian’s broth while hiding his knowledge of her scheme.

• Qin Wang learned that Murong Chenggao possessed three Crimson Barbarian Shield fragments and that Ye Qian and Lin Shengbing were among ten robbery cultivators plotting against him.
• Qin Wang decided to hunt down the conspirators first and sent Mu Hunyi, Zhao Hunyi, and Shi Hunyi to rent separate shacks nearby.
• Ye Qian met Qin Wang outside his home and offered to help him find an Array Guide, then discussed with Lin Shengbing how to gain his trust.
• Qin Wang visited the rogue cultivator market and bought a heavy whitish bone and two iron sheets from Huang Sanqi for twenty spirit stones.
• Ye Qian brought Qin Wang spirit rabbit broth and asked whether he had obtained an Array Guide, while he concealed his disgust and intentions.

Qin Wang learned that Ye Qian and Lin Shengbing planned to ambush and kill him, then agreed to accompany them toward Sky Lake Mountain while preparing to strike first. The chapter ended as his attack pierced Ye Qian’s chest.

• Qin Wang examined the heavy pale bone, failed to discover its secret, and resumed cultivating.
• The Intelligence Panel revealed that the bone was part of a ten-thousand-year-old great power’s skull and that Ye Qian and Lin Shengbing had arranged an ambush with other bandit cultivators.
• Qin Wang learned more about the Barbarian God Shield and Murong Chenggao, then resolved to deal with Ye Qian and Lin Shengbing during their journey.
• Ye Qian invited Qin Wang to retrieve the Array Guide at Sky Lake Mountain, and he agreed while arranging for his soul puppets to follow.
• As they passed through a forest, Qin Wang suddenly sent a blazing white streak through Ye Qian’s chest.

Qin Wang killed Ye Qian and Lin Shengbing, collected their souls and bodies, and discovered a fortune of loot that included a second Azure Nether Small Sword. As he began refining their souls into Soul Seeds, three of their accomplices investigated the ambush site and headed back to Myriad Spirits Market, while Qin Wang learned from the captured souls that they had planned to lure him to Sky Lake Mountain.

• Qin Wang had Mu Hunyi kill Lin Shengbing after Mu Hunyi revealed himself as a Foundation Establishment True Person, then collected Lin Shengbing’s soul and Storage Bag.
• Qin Wang hid in a mountain cave with Mu Hunyi and Shi Hunyi and found 5,230 spirit stones, numerous pills and magical artifacts, and a second Azure Nether Small Sword in the two Storage Bags.
• Three Qi Refining cultivators, including Zhang Fujiang, found signs of a brief battle and headed to Myriad Spirits Market to investigate.
• Qin Wang entered the Soul Gathering Bowl and confronted Ye Qian and Lin Shengbing’s souls, telling them he knew they had plotted with Li Shentong to ambush him at Sky Lake Mountain.

Qin Wang learned that Ye Qian and Lin Shengbing’s bandit crew was backed by the Tianyyao Chamber of Commerce and planned to lure its members into traps. He also discovered that Situ Yunfei had possessed Sun Jieyun and that the Azure Nether Small Sword belonged to a scattered sword array, leaving Qin Wang preparing for the Myriad Spirits Blessed Land and a coming confrontation with the bandits.

• Qin Wang burned Ye Qian and Lin Shengbing’s souls, then learned through his daily intel that their crew had eight other accomplices led by Li Shentong and was tied to the Tianyyao Chamber of Commerce.
• Qin Wang learned that the Azure Nether Sword Array had thirty-six scattered swords, that Chen Hao held the Heavenly Gang Sword’s tip, and that Situ Yunfei had possessed Sun Jieyun and reached the eleventh Qi Refining level.
• Qin Wang decided to buy Golden Spirit Fruits for Little White and prepare traps to eliminate the bandit crew, while a watcher from the crew observed his shack and tried to contact Lin Shengbing.
• Qin Wang controlled Lin Shengbing to ignore the visitor, then planned to use the couple as bait and kill anyone sent after them.
• Li Shentong ordered the blue-clad cultivator to keep watching Mei Changxin and to summon Lin Shengbing and Ye Qian again, unaware that Qin Wang had already killed and controlled them.

Qin Wang bought Golden Spirit Fruits for Little White, began studying formations, and prepared to ambush the rogue cultivators pursuing Lin Shengbing and Ye Qian. He lured four of them beyond Myriad Spirits Market, where his puppets and the couple launched a surprise attack.

• Qin Wang visited Myriad Treasures Tower, then spent one thousand spirit stones on five Golden Spirit Fruits for Little White.
• Qin Wang assessed his combat methods and began studying a first-tier formation manual while the rogue cultivators continued watching his shack.
• Li Shentong told Zhang Fujiang’s group to keep monitoring Mei Changxin and seek other targets to lure out of the market.
• Qin Wang reached beginner proficiency in formations, gave Little White the remaining Golden Spirit Fruits, and controlled Lin Shengbing and Ye Qian to leave the market as bait.
• Zhang Fujiang and three rogue cultivators pursued Lin Shengbing and Ye Qian, who stopped outside the market and pretended they were quitting the squad.
• Lin Shengbing and Ye Qian stabbed at the four rogue cultivators as a Foundation Establishment aura and a crimson sword aura struck toward them.

Qin Wang and his Soul Seed puppets defeated Zhang Fujiang’s rogue cultivator squad, then forced Zhang Fujiang to surrender his Soul Blood and join him. After collecting the spoils, Qin Wang discovered a Yin Yang Illusory Array disk among Zhang Fujiang’s belongings.

• Qin Wang and his puppets attacked the four rogue cultivators, killing one and leaving the others gravely wounded while Mu Hunyi broke Zhang Fujiang’s Golden Bell Talisman.
• Zhang Fujiang begged Qin Wang for mercy and offered his possessions, then surrendered his Soul Blood when Qin Wang agreed to take him as a subordinate.
• Qin Wang ordered Mu Hunyi to collect the talisman and Storage Bags while Shi Hunyi, Lin Shengbing, and Ye Qian erased the traces of the fight.
• Qin Wang brought Zhang Fujiang and the others to the mountain cave, where Zhang Fujiang revealed the Golden Bell Talisman could withstand several Foundation Establishment attacks.
• Zhang Fujiang emptied his two Storage Bags, revealing thousands of spirit stones, pills, materials, and manuals; Qin Wang also found an array disk labeled Yin Yang Illusory Array.

Qin Wang collected spirit stones and a third Old Parchment Scroll after defeating rogue cultivators, then learned from his daily intel that the scrolls mapped the ancient Dan King Sect’s treasure vault, which might hold an opportunity to reach Nascent Soul. He stayed in seclusion with Zhang Fujiang while preparing cautiously for the Myriad Spirits Blessed Land.

• Qin Wang rejected Zhang Fujiang’s suggestion to become rogue cultivators and threatened to refine his soul with Netherfire if he raised it again.
• Qin Wang found nearly 12,000 spirit stones and a third Old Parchment Scroll, which briefly revealed part of a vast image when joined with his other two scrolls.
• Zhang Fujiang told Qin Wang that Li Shentong had formidable divine sense, skill with arrays, and a Purple Lightning Divine Bullet.
• Qin Wang ordered Zhang Fujiang to stay and cultivate with him, then sealed the cave door and entered seclusion.
• Qin Wang’s daily intel revealed that the three scrolls mapped the Dan King Sect’s treasure vault and might lead to an opportunity to break through to Nascent Soul.
• Qin Wang learned that information about the Azure Nether Small Sword might appear in the Myriad Spirits Blessed Land and that Little White would awaken stronger in a month.

Qin Wang advanced to Qi Refining Stage Level Eleven while preparing for the Myriad Spirits Blessed Land, and Li Shentong grew wary of the missing cultivators. When the blessed land began opening, Qin Wang prepared to enter with Zhang Fujiang.

• Qin Wang learned that the Tianyyao Chamber of Commerce possessed a Mysterious Fragment and decided to strengthen himself before the blessed land opened.
• Li Shentong discovered that Zhang Fujiang, Lin Shengbing and his wife, Mei Changxin, and several others were missing, leaving only four members of his bandit squad.
• Qin Wang cultivated in a hidden cave and broke through to Qi Refining Stage Level Eleven, then planned to perfect the Otherworldly Sword Art.
• Li Shentong suspected Mei Changxin was far stronger than he appeared and told his remaining men to conserve their strength for the blessed land.
• Murong Chenggao also advanced to Qi Refining Stage Level Eleven and ordered Murong De to prepare his sister for a possible encounter with the cultivator who had bid for the Mysterious Fragment.
• As the Myriad Spirits Blessed Land began opening, Qin Wang sensed the disturbance through the Trace-Seeking Spirit Rat and told Zhang Fujiang to prepare to leave.

Qin Wang entered Myriad Spirits Blessed Land, gathered spirit herbs, and encountered Yan Honghao. The two avoided an Earth Dragon Beast and learned that a valley’s Sky Green Fruit tree was guarded by three of the beasts, leaving Qin Wang wondering whether the fruit was the opportunity that could help him establish his foundation.

• Cultivators from across the Southern Region gathered at the blessed land, and Qin Wang ordered Zhang Fujiang to meet him after they entered.
• Qin Wang passed through a light gate, arrived alone in the blessed land, sensed Zhang Fujiang’s location, and collected five spirit herbs with the Trace-Seeking Spirit Rat’s help.
• Qin Wang encountered Yan Honghao, introduced himself as Qin Tiedan, and received an invitation to travel together.
• An Earth Dragon Beast attacked nearby cultivators and swallowed one of them, so Qin Wang and Yan Honghao fled from it.
• Cultivators revealed that three Earth Dragon Beasts guarded a valley’s Sky Green Fruit tree, and Qin Wang wondered whether the fruit could help his Foundation Establishment.

Qin Wang watched cultivators fall to the Earth Dragon Beasts guarding a spirit-rich hollow and learned that a formation disk and Thousand-Year Spirit Marrow lay beneath it. The intel revealed a powerful Beast King and Shi Zhongyu’s plan to leave at dawn, giving Qin Wang an opportunity to pursue the Spirit Medicine Immortal Sect disciple.

• Qin Wang sensed spiritual objects beneath the hollow and watched three Qi Refining Stage Eleventh Layer cultivators get ambushed and badly injured by Earth Dragon Beasts.
• Hundreds of cultivators gathered around the hollow while Yan Honghao watched the beasts, intent on absorbing their blood and vitality.
• Qin Wang’s daily intel revealed that the hollow held 1,487 Earth Dragon Beasts, including a Foundation Establishment Early Stage Beast King, and that the beasts had mutated by absorbing underground spirit marrow.
• Qin Wang learned that the hollow was an ancient Sky Green Fruit Orchard with a damaged Spirit Gathering Formation Disk and a small amount of Thousand-Year Spirit Marrow deep underground.
• Qin Wang learned that Shi Zhongyu planned to leave at dawn and realized capturing the Spirit Medicine Immortal Sect disciple could help him obtain the Foundation Establishment volume of his Spirit Sealing Breath Concealment Technique.

Qin Wang learned that Spirit Salt Garlic Smoke Powder could repel the Earth Dragon Beasts, obtained Spirit Garlic from Yan Honghao, and made a batch to test near the hollow. He arrived to find an Earth Dragon Beast King guarding the Sky Green Fruits and sent Zhao Hunyi toward the beasts’ burrows.

• Qin Wang learned that the Earth Dragon Beasts feared Spirit Salt Garlic Smoke Powder, but he lacked Spirit Garlic.
• Qin Wang searched the gathered cultivators for Spirit Garlic while more cultivators arrived and Earth Dragon Beasts dragged several people underground.
• Yan Honghao gave Qin Wang a large supply of Spirit Garlic from the Storage Bags he had collected.
• Qin Wang prepared the foul-smelling powder, coated Zhao Hunyi’s robes and himself with it, and headed for the hollow.
• Qin Wang saw an Earth Dragon Beast King drag a Qi Refining Stage twelfth-layer cultivator underground and sent Zhao Hunyi toward the burrow entrances.

Qin Wang used Spirit Salt Garlic Smoke Powder to make the Earth Dragon Beasts flee, allowing Zhao Hunyi to collect all sixteen Sky Green Fruits and enter their underground cave. He found the Thousand-Year Spirit Marrow and drove the Earth Dragon Beast King away, then began securing the treasure.

• Qin Wang controlled Zhao Hunyi to approach the mountain hollow, where the Earth Dragon Beasts retreated from the scent of Spirit Salt Garlic Smoke Powder.
• Chu Ping watched Zhao Hunyi and ordered Chu Zhang to keep a close eye on him.
• Qin Wang controlled Zhao Hunyi to pick all sixteen Sky Green Fruits, then burrow into an Earth Dragon cave to avoid the cultivators outside.
• Qin Wang climbed the nearby mountain to maintain his connection with Zhao Hunyi and spotted the Earth Dragon Beast King guarding a pool of Thousand-Year Spirit Marrow.
• Qin Wang had Zhao Hunyi scatter Spirit Salt Garlic Smoke Powder through the cave, driving away the Beast King and other Earth Dragon Beasts.
• Qin Wang controlled Zhao Hunyi to dig out the stone depression containing the Thousand-Year Spirit Marrow and store it in the Storage Bag.

Qin Wang secured the Thousand-Year Spirit Marrow and Sky Green Fruits by directing Zhao Hunyi to tunnel out of the Earth Dragon Cave. He also secretly marked Shi Zhongyu with Thousand Mile Soul Chasing Incense and left the basin with the treasures, ready to seek opportunities elsewhere.

• Qin Wang ordered Zhao Hunyi to store the Thousand-Year Spirit Marrow and dig a passage toward him while cultivators guarded the basin.
• Qin Wang approached Liu Cheng, Shi Zhongyu, and Jin Lan by claiming he knew Zhang Panpan, then gave Liu Cheng a letter for her and planted Thousand Mile Soul Chasing Incense on Shi Zhongyu.
• Qin Wang watched as Zhao Hunyi dug through the mountain and sent the Storage Bag through an opening in the wall.
• Qin Wang collected the Storage Bag, confirmed it held sixteen Sky Green Fruits and the Thousand-Year Spirit Marrow, and stored Zhao Hunyi inside it.
• Qin Wang left the mountain, deciding to search for opportunities elsewhere while cultivators continued guarding the basin.

Qin Wang learned that the Thousand-Year Spirit Marrow could help him break through to Foundation Establishment and that the Mutated Earth Dragon Beast King would be vulnerable to a Soul Seed at noon. As cultivators bombarded the beast’s lair, he covered himself in Spirit Salt Garlic Smoke Powder and entered a hidden passage to try to seize control of the weakened king.

• Qin Wang received intel about the spirit marrow, a formation disk, nearby Mysterious Fragment bearers, and the beast king’s monthly soul-weakness period.
• Qin Wang decided to refine Soul Seeds and return to the beast’s mountain hollow to control the king.
• At the hollow, Yan Wushuang’s cultivators killed several Earth Dragon Beasts, but the beast king did not emerge.
• Qin Wang coated himself in Spirit Salt Garlic Smoke Powder, crawled into Zhao Hunyi’s hidden passage, and concealed its entrance behind him.

Qin Wang subdued the weakened Earth Dragon Beast King by refining its Soul Blood and secured the ancient Spirit Gathering Formation Disk and its flags. After he escaped the collapsing cavern, Chu Ping and his companions discovered the theft and sent Chu Zhang after him.

• Qin Wang used Spirit Salt Garlic Smoke Powder and a Soul Seed to weaken the Earth Dragon Beast King, then had Little White persuade it to surrender its Soul Blood.
• Qin Wang refined the Earth Dragon Beast King's Soul Blood, established control over it, and stored the beast away.
• Qin Wang's puppets dug out the Spirit Gathering Formation Disk and its eighteen formation flags from a chamber beneath the stone hollow.
• As the cavern began collapsing, Qin Wang escaped through the stone passage while three cultivators arrived and found the formation disk and Earth Dragon Beast King missing.
• Chu Ping ordered Chu Zhang to track Qin Wang with a fiery-red bird, then pursued him with the young woman in yellow.

Qin Wang escaped the ruined mountain hollow with sixteen Sky Green Fruits while Eighteenth Prince Chu Ping and other cultivators pursued him for the treasures. Qin Wang met up with Zhang Fujiang and revealed his recovered Earth Dragon Beast King, while Qin Xuemei unknowingly passed close by; the chapter left Chu Ping rushing to catch Qin Wang before Yan Wushuang did.

• Qin Wang fled the mountain hollow, noticed a fiery-red bird tracking him, and headed toward Zhang Fujiang while preparing to fight his pursuers.
• Chu Ping ordered Chu Zhang to keep watch on Qin Wang and gather their cultivators so they could seize the Spirit Gathering Formation Disk and other treasures.
• Qin Wang avoided a group of Myriad Flowers Immortal Sect cultivators, unaware that Qin Xuemei was among them, and the siblings passed each other near a cliff where the group found Dragon Saliva Grass.
• Qin Wang reunited with Zhang Fujiang and summoned the Earth Dragon Beast King, which had recovered overnight but still needed another day to regain its full strength.
• Chu Ping learned that Yan Wushuang was also pursuing Qin Wang and ordered his people to hurry so he could capture Qin Wang first.

Qin Wang learned that Chu Ping carried a divine-sense incarnation of Chu Yunxiao, so he chose to avoid him and hunt down Situ Yunfei first. With Zhang Fujiang, Qin Wang ambushed and captured Situ Yunfei at Baishi Lake, obtaining the thousand-year Soul Nurturing Wood before erasing the evidence and leaving.

• Qin Wang read the refreshed intel, learned Situ Yunfei was disguised as Sun Jieyun near Baishi Lake, and discovered Chu Ping carried Chu Yunxiao’s divine-sense incarnation.
• Qin Wang consulted Wu Su, who said she could destroy Chu Yunxiao’s divine sense at the cost of fifty years of her Soul Power; Qin Wang decided to avoid Chu Ping and seek Situ Yunfei.
• Qin Wang ordered Zhang Fujiang to travel southeast to Baishi Lake, where Situ Yunfei was sorting through the spoils of his latest killings.
• Situ Yunfei sensed danger and tried to flee, but Qin Wang and a blood-red python-like demon beast struck him down and suppressed his Primordial Spirit.
• Qin Wang trapped Situ Yunfei’s Primordial Spirit in a black bowl, claimed the thousand-year Soul Nurturing Wood, burned the body, and left with Zhang Fujiang.