Chapter Summaries

Wang Yu discovered a cache of thunder-path treasures in Thunderfall Pit, but disturbing a buried Thunder Spirit Corpse turned his scavenging into a desperate fight. The Third Tier Mid-Stage corpse overwhelmed his defenses, and the chapter left Wang Yu struggling to escape after his Yin Fiend Corpse was gravely injured.

• Wang Yu collected a Heavenly Thunder Crystal Cluster and other thunder-path spiritual items to prepare a Calamity-Avoiding Treasure.
• Wang Yu tried to lift a massive black stone, accidentally broke the Thunder Spirit Corpse’s Earth Roots, and awakened it.
• The Thunder Spirit Corpse attacked Wang Yu, resisted his strength, and chased him underground before blasting him with lightning.
• Wang Yu summoned his Yin Fiend Corpse and used the Ghost Wail Flute and Glass Soul Lantern to hinder the Thunder Spirit Corpse.
• The Thunder Spirit Corpse unleashed a thunderstorm that dispelled the Yin Corpse Descending Fiend Curse and gravely injured the Yin Fiend Corpse.
• Wang Yu summoned the Snow Jade Camel and began using the Soul Shattering Finger against the Thunder Spirit Corpse.

Wang Yu subdued a Thunder Spirit Corpse with a corpse-immobilizing art, but Old Man Xuanyan arrived and took it after hearing what it was. Xuanyan brought Wang Yu back to Guiling City, where the captured Yellow Springs Temple cultivators and the dispute over the stolen Saint Offering awaited.

• Wang Yu immobilized the Thunder Spirit Corpse with the Three Souls Seven Spirits Body Immobilization Art after exhausting himself in battle.
• Old Man Xuanyan arrived, and Wang Yu offered him the Thunder Spirit Corpse; Xuanyan accepted it and promised to secure merit for Wang Yu.
• Old Man Xuanyan told Wang Yu that the Yellow Springs Temple cultivators who robbed the Saint Offering had been captured and that he would demand compensation from the temple.
• Wang Yu returned to the surface with Xuanyan, reunited with Xu Ruozhou and the others, and exchanged thanks with True Person Qingyang.
• Old Man Xuanyan said Yellow Springs Temple was unlikely to start a war and took Wang Yu and the others back to Guiling City.

Wang Yu oversaw Guiling City's reconstruction while Old Man Xuanyan negotiated compensation with Yellow Springs Temple, and he advanced to Foundation Establishment Seventh Layer during the long dispute. The chapter ended with Xuanyan summoning Wang Yu to discuss how to ask for compensation.

• Wang Yu returned to Guiling City, found the City Lord's Mansion ruined and three captured cultivators bound, and directed Xu Ruozhou to document the damage and begin reconstruction.
• Old Man Xuanyan summoned Yellow Springs Temple reinforcements, including Thunder Howler Lord, who claimed the Thunder Spirit Corpse and gave Wang Yu a protective command token before returning to his sect.
• Old Man Xuanyan and Yellow Springs Temple's representatives argued over compensation and an apology for years without reaching a final agreement, while Wang Yu developed Guiling City's market and cave-abode businesses.
• Wang Yu used Two-Pattern Essence Condensation Pills and Ice Spirit Pills to reach Foundation Establishment Seventh Layer and raise his True Essence limit to 2,018 drops.
• Old Man Xuanyan summoned Wang Yu and asked whether he remembered being told to consider how to request compensation.

Wang Yu secured the [Nether Earth Finger] as compensation and raised a Spotless Jade Toad that could purify poisons. At the final negotiations, Yellow Springs Temple agreed to transmit the technique, while Wang Yu learned that the settlement brought Guiling City heavy losses and that his compensation would take years to arrive.

• Wang Yu requested the [Nether Earth Finger] from Old Man Xuanyan, who invited him to attend the final negotiations half a month later.
• Wang Yu hatched and raised a Spotless Jade Toad in his Poison Pool, where it rapidly grew and purified the toxins.
• Wang Yu brought the mature Spotless Jade Toad to the negotiation Assembly Hall and listened as Old Man Xuanyan and Curse Ghost Demon Lord argued over the settlement.
• Old Man Xuanyan proposed that Yellow Springs Temple transmit the [Nether Earth Finger] to Wang Yu, and Curse Ghost Demon Lord agreed while warning that mastering the [Yellow Springs Great Handprint] required the [Yellow Springs Azure Fall Scripture].
• After the negotiations, Wang Yu learned that Guiling City would receive only two million Spirit Stones and that Yellow Springs Temple would transmit the [Nether Earth Finger] within five to ten years under a contract forbidding him to teach it to anyone else.

Wang Yu turned Guiling into a thriving cultivator bazaar, raising funds and reorganizing the city while preparing for a period of peace. Years later, Jin Miaoshan visited him, and he showed her an Image Recording Stone depicting Tian Shui’s attack and the ruins.

• Wang Yu suspected True Person Dizang’s schemes were connected to the Primeval Ruins and used the lull after negotiations to prioritize opening Guiling Bazaar.
• Wang Yu reorganized Guiling’s districts, built cave abodes and workshops, and moved cultivator businesses into the Central District.
• Wang Yu’s census found over 120,000 cultivators in the city, prompting him to expand housing and manage transient residents through the bazaar.
• Wang Yu sold shops and collected five million spirit stones as Guiling Bazaar opened, with Heaven Treasure Building supporting the month of promotions.
• In the 31st year and 3rd month of his steward career, Wang Yu met Jin Miaoshan, who thanked him for what he had done for Master Tian Shui.
• Wang Yu gave Jin Miaoshan an Image Recording Stone showing Tian Shui using the Thunder Tribulation Pill to destroy the Central District and the ruins.

Wang Yu explained that Jin Miaoshan’s Asura Killing Saint Scripture had driven her toward losing control, and offered to teach her the Prajna Heart Sutra in exchange for valuable cultivation resources. Jin Miaoshan described Gold Abundance Pavilion’s options, but Wang Yu rejected them and the negotiation remained unresolved.

• Jin Miaoshan questioned Wang Yu’s hostility toward Gold Abundance Pavilion, and he blamed Ye Qing’s betrayal on her failure to protect him from Jin Lin.
• Wang Yu asked about the Asura Killing Saint Scripture and learned that Ding Ming had likely obtained the Rakshasa True Demon Scripture.
• Wang Yu explained that he had found a Buddhist Heart Scripture among Asura Venerable’s methods for controlling the mind, and Jin Miaoshan offered a high-grade Yin- and ice-attribute Core Formation spirit item for it.
• Wang Yu demanded both the spirit items and a treasure that could increase a Core Formation Cultivator’s cultivation speed until Peak Core Formation.
• Jin Miaoshan offered Spirit Refining Talismans, Top-Grade Cultivation Pills, or the Grand Spirit Refining Formation, but Wang Yu rejected the options she described.

Wang Yu tested the Prajna Heart Sutra on Jin Miaoshan, cleansing the Asura Killing Intent troubling her and securing the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Bed in exchange. After the trade, Jin Miaoshan fled without paying, while Wang Yu turned serious as he left the secret chamber.

• Jin Miaoshan offered Wang Yu the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Bed if the Prajna Heart Sutra proved strong enough to suppress her killing intent.
• Wang Yu recited the Prajna Heart Sutra for three days, uprooting the Asura Killing Intent invading Jin Miaoshan's mind.
• Jin Miaoshan agreed to trade the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Bed and a High-Grade Core Formation Spirit Item for the sutra, and Wang Yu discovered the bed greatly aided his cultivation and body refinement.
• Wang Yu transmitted the Prajna Heart Sutra to Jin Miaoshan, and she said she would help him once in the future; Wang Yu instead asked her to find him a Core Formation Spirit Item.
• Jin Miaoshan kissed Wang Yu on the face and fled, leaving without paying, while Wang Yu left the secret chamber with a grave expression.

Wang Yu used the time before Yellow Springs Temple’s envoy arrived to arrange expensive cultivation resources and prepare his techniques and treasures. After accepting the temple’s repayment and signing a contract restricting who could learn Nether Earth Finger, he studied the inheritance and found that it could combine with Profound Yin Hand as the Yellow Springs Great Handprint.

• Wang Yu rested, then visited Han Jia at Heaven Treasure Building and ordered several million spirit stones’ worth of cultivation materials.
• Wang Yu waited for his supplies and the Yellow Springs Temple envoy while cultivating and preparing a lightning-avoiding formation.
• Snow Jade advanced to Foundation Establishment Fourth Layer as the Profound Ice Bed gradually cleansed her bloodline.
• An envoy from Yellow Springs Temple gave Wang Yu two million spirit stones and a contract forbidding him from teaching Nether Earth Finger, which Wang Yu signed in exchange for an Inheritance Jade Slip.
• Wang Yu studied Nether Earth Finger and Profound Yin Hand, recognized their compatibility, and used the Placement Slot to train the Yellow Springs Great Handprint.

Wang Yu cultivated the Yellow Springs Great Handprint and expanded his secret chamber to refine corpses and strengthen his body. After enduring the Ten Thousand Spirits Poison Marrow, he recovered with greatly increased essence blood, while the Spotless Jade Toad entered a cocoon to metamorphose.

• Wang Yu received feedback from the Placement Slot while cultivating the Yellow Springs Great Handprint and learned that its power could purify his true essence and break spells and suppress magical treasures.
• Wang Yu continued studying the Killing Intent Slate as Han Jia's deliveries enabled him to build a corpse-refinement chamber with yin and yang Blood Pools.
• Wang Yu spent nearly half a year settling his refined corpses, then received a Third-Tier Spiritual Item, the Ten Thousand Spirits Poison Marrow, from Han Jia.
• Wang Yu exposed himself to the Ten Thousand Spirits Poison Marrow for half a month while the Spotless Jade Toad consumed his poisonous blood.
• The Spotless Jade Toad swallowed the remaining poison and entered a cocoon, while Wang Yu recovered and his Dragon Spine's essence blood rose to more than two thousand five hundred drops.

Wang Yu reviewed Guiling City's growth and his plan to undermine Little Talisman Lord Luo Chen by planting Demon Seeds and stirring unrest in Sanmao City. He ordered Guiling to attract Sanmao's fleeing cultivators, and the city's population began to surge.

• Wang Yu assessed his cultivation progress and maintained Guiling Bazaar's growth through cooperation with three sects while building his strength.
• Wang Yu learned from Blood Sabre Warrior and Chao Yun Niang's letters that their Black Gloves operation was succeeding and True Person He Gu had planted a Demon Seed in Luo Chen.
• Wang Yu decided to redirect future Demon Seeds toward Luo Chen's talented associates and postpone confronting him until Wang Yu reached Core Formation.
• Wang Yu ordered True Person Qingyang to spread rumors blaming Luo Chen for the destruction of Sanmao City's Foundation Establishment talisman master clan and to draw Sanmao's residents to Guiling.
• True Person Qingyang and Xu Ruozhou arranged the campaign, and three small Qi Refining clans settled in Guiling within a month as more cultivators began leaving Sanmao City.

Wang Yu met Wei Hao, a Heavenly Corpse Peak True Inheritor assigned to Wanglong City among the nine cities ceded by Yellow Springs Temple, and warned him that the nearby Deep Sea Sinking Silver deposit had been bought by Gold Abundance Pavilion. Wei Hao hurried to secure his city, while Gu Zheng Shun shared news of changes within the sect before leaving with him.

• Wang Yu welcomed Wei Hao and Gu Zheng Shun to Guiling City and learned that Wei Hao had been assigned to Wanglong City.
• Wang Yu examined a map showing the nine ceded cities surrounding Eastern Peak Capital and learned that the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect had ceded a Deep Sea Sinking Silver deposit to Yellow Springs Temple.
• Wang Yu told Wei Hao that the valuable deposit likely contained a Fourth Tier Spirit Item and had already been purchased by Gold Abundance Pavilion.
• Wei Hao realized that Jiang had sent him to a dangerous post and asked Wang Yu for more intelligence, and Wang Yu offered to cooperate with him after he reached Wanglong City.
• Wei Hao left to purge Yellow Springs Temple's agents in Wanglong City, while Gu Zheng Shun later told Wang Yu that Yan Ling and Su Yulong had formed their cores and Wei Zhong had gone missing in the Blood Abyss.

Wang Yu learned that Gold Abundance Pavilion and Yellow Springs Temple had agreed to a twenty-year struggle over the nine cities, which were renamed Moon Chase Province, and prepared Guiling City for the coming conflict. The chapter ended with Wang Yu welcoming Jin Miaoshan as she arrived to reopen Gold Abundance Pavilion, while a Jin Lin Beast carriage approached the city gate.

• Wang Yu considered the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect’s power and the likely conflict with Yellow Springs Temple, then watched new city lords and their forces gather around Guiling.
• Jin Miaoshan informed Wang Yu that Gold Abundance Pavilion and Yellow Springs Temple had clashed, agreed to let the younger generation fight over the nine cities for twenty years, and would reopen her pavilion in Guiling.
• Wang Yu strengthened Guiling’s defenses and declined to help Han Jia’s Heaven Treasure Pavilion compete for policy support, though he accepted Jin Miaoshan’s payment to welcome her.
• Wang Yu, True Person Qingyang, Golden Flower Granny, and the city guards gathered at Capital Gazing Gate as cultivators discussed the Moon Chase Province conflict.
• Wang Yu ordered everyone to raise their vigilance as Jin Miaoshan’s gold-and-jade carriage, drawn by four Jin Lin Beasts, approached.

Wang Yu and Jin Miaoshan were trapped in a darkness domain by Lou Gao, who had been hired by Jin Lin to capture her and prevent her from interfering in the contest over Moon Chase Province. Wang Yu exposed Lou Gao’s identity and forced him to abandon the mission, and the chapter ended with the two returning safely to Gui Ling.

• Jin Miaoshan arrived in Gui Ling aboard four Jin Lin Beasts, and she and Wang Yu discussed her feud with Jin Lin and the danger of retaliation.
• Shadowless Mysterious Monarch’s darkness domain trapped Wang Yu and Jin Miaoshan, and she identified the attacker as a Nascent Soul senior from the Shadow Prison lineage.
• Wang Yu seized Jin Miaoshan and threatened the hidden attacker, who appeared as a Peak Core Formation cultivator and claimed to be a deathsworn sent by Jin Lin.
• Wang Yu displayed his Minor Asura Killing Fist, and he and Jin Miaoshan saw through the old man’s disguise and identified him as Lou Gao, Shadowless Mysterious Monarch’s Great Disciple.
• Lou Gao admitted that Jin Lin had hired him to imprison Jin Miaoshan and had offered him a clue to a Nascent Soul Opportunity in the Great Lake Spirit Domain.
• Lou Gao left for the Great Lake, the darkness domain dissolved, and Qingyang and Jin Miaoshan’s five protectors gathered around Wang Yu and Jin Miaoshan.

Wang Yu sought the Rebellious Spirit Three Young Masters’ help to guard Guiling City while he withdrew from its dangerous power struggles. Zhuo Shouqing revealed his bloodline feud with Zhuo Shouyun and named Fu Xiao as one of his enemies, leaving Wang Yu facing a new crisis and a need to grow stronger quickly.

• Wang Yu decided to ask the Rebellious Spirit Three Young Masters to hold Guiling City for twenty years and sent an envoy to seek Zhuo Shouqing’s help.
• Jin Miaoshan heard that Zhuo Shouqing and Zuoqiu Ming had arrived, and she told her protector to wait until Wang Yu returned before passing along news of an Ice Attribute Core Formation Spirit Item.
• Wang Yu met Zhuo Shouqing and Zuoqiu Ming at a private banquet, where Zhuo Shouqing explained how a clansman had harmed his Blood Spiritual Root and how he planned to restore it by devouring that rival.
• Zhuo Shouqing said he could not help guard Guiling City because he needed to confront Zhuo Shouyun, a Mid-stage Core Formation cultivator who had powerful followers.
• Zhuo Shouqing identified Fu Xiao as one of Zhuo Shouyun’s followers, prompting Wang Yu to realize that his own conflict with Fu Xiao was approaching and that he needed to grow stronger faster.

Wang Yu finished preparing to leave Guiling, completed the sacrificial refinement of two zombies, and traveled to Ten Thousand Poisons Town to gather intelligence before entering the Heavenly Demon Bone Forest. While reviewing the town’s dangerous cultivators, he recognized something about One-Blade Liu.

• Wang Yu arranged matters in Guiling, secured spirit items and treasures, and waited for his two Aberrant Species Zombies to finish their refinement.
• Wang Yu sealed the Thunder Corpse and demon corpse in the Nourishing Fiend Coffin, collected his Killing Intent Slates, and prepared his Spotless Jade Toad for the journey.
• Wang Yu left Guiling and traveled for more than a month to Ten Thousand Poisons Town, where he saw how freely cultivators attacked one another.
• Wang Yu bought a map and intelligence from Listening Wind Pavilion and examined reports on powerful cultivators in the Heavenly Demon Bone Forest.
• Wang Yu studied One-Blade Liu’s Spiritual Power Illusory Form and recognized something, his mouth splitting into an exaggerated grin.

Wang Yu recognized One-Blade Liu, his former tormentor, in Ten Thousand Poisons Town and used a soul-searching technique on Butcher Wang to find him. Liu and his companions ambushed the Ruan Family party outside the Heavenly Demon Bone Forest, but a ghostly voice interrupted them after they killed everyone except the wounded Second Elder.

• Wang Yu identified One-Blade Liu as Steward Liu, the man who had severed his arm when he was a Spirit Slave, and bought more information about him from Listening Wind Pavilion.
• One-Blade Liu and three Qi Refining companions planned to rob the Ruan Family’s young lady as her party left the forest with a possible Dark Hemp White Fruit.
• Wang Yu questioned Butcher Wang about One-Blade Liu, then used Soul Gouging Evil Boat Curse to crush the butcher’s Divine Sense and seize his memories.
• The Ruan Family party emerged from the forest badly poisoned and wounded while hummingbirds relayed their location to One-Blade Liu’s group.
• One-Blade Liu and his companions ambushed and killed the Ruan Family party, then fed the unconscious Second Elder a Detoxification Pill and sealed his meridians.
• An ethereal voice from the woods told the robbers they had fine tastes.

Wang Yu slaughtered One-Blade Liu and his companions in revenge, then questioned the surviving Ruan Family Elder about the Heavenly Demon Bone Forest. After accepting a jade token that could connect him with Formation Master Long, Wang Yu continued deeper into the forest, where its poisonous hazards made every step dangerous.

• Wang Yu killed the three Qi Refining cultivators and tortured One-Blade Liu to death after revealing his identity.
• Wang Yu revived the Ruan Family Elder and learned that he had not seen the strange inverted-mountain landmark Wang Yu sought.
• The Ruan Family Elder warned Wang Yu about the bone forest’s inner region and gave him a jade token to present to Formation Master Long.
• Wang Yu accepted the token, reflected that he had failed to save the Ruan Family’s young lady, and left as the elder gathered the dead.
• Days later, Wang Yu advanced toward the forest’s inner perimeter, using the Spotless Jade Toad to detect poison and avoiding the forest’s many hazards.

Wang Yu explored the Heavenly Demon Bone Forest, found a valuable piece of Crimson Flame Redstone guarded by a powerful Poison Fire Toad, and fought to take it. He escaped with the treasure, but the enraged toad tracked him with an area attack and its tongue caught up to him.

• Wang Yu killed a poisonous millipede, collected its Poison Pill, and captured its remnant demon soul while continuing to search the forest for clues.
• Wang Yu spotted a Poison Fire Toad guarding a large piece of Crimson Flame Redstone and sent Snow Jade to lure it away.
• The Poison Fire Toad swallowed the redstone and leapt toward Snow Jade, so Wang Yu attacked it with the Yin Fiend Corpse and icy techniques.
• Wang Yu and the Yin Fiend Corpse wounded the Poison Fire Toad until it vomited up the redstone, which Wang Yu grabbed before vanishing.
• The Poison Fire Toad unleashed a wide ring of poisonous flame that exposed Wang Yu, then struck at him with its fast, resilient tongue as he countered with the Ghost Wail Flute.

Wang Yu escaped the Poison Fire Toad and met a Great Lake noble daughter searching for Sister Mu, who had worn a Demon Luo Sect mask in Cloud Ridge Province. He traded information about the Demon Luo Sect for her Heavenly Thunder Talisman Treasure, then watched her leave to verify what he had told her before continuing toward his destination.

• Wang Yu used his Frost Moon Wings to flee the Poison Fire Toad, hid behind a boulder, and waited for it to pass.
• A young girl appeared and asked Wang Yu about his Earth Luo Ghost Mask after he recognized her Ground Shrinking Technique.
• Wang Yu agreed to share what he knew about the mask in exchange for a powerful one-use treasure, and the girl gave him her Heavenly Thunder Talisman Treasure.
• Wang Yu told the girl that the Demon Luo Sect's thirty-six assassins had been killed after assassinating the Joyful Union Sect's young master, and said the masks had entered circulation in Red Kite.
• The girl doubted that Sister Mu had been involved in the assassination and left to verify Wang Yu's information, while he continued toward his destination.

Wang Yu gained a breakthrough in mind power while traveling through the Poisonous Fog Jungle and reached the White Snake Depression, where he met Formation Master Long Yiran. She agreed to help him find an Ancient Sect’s ruins after she finished exploring the genuine Ancient Times Snake Abode, though that could take several years.

• Wang Yu’s Asura Killing Heart grew purer, and he crossed the threshold into mind power, strengthening his control over killing intent.
• Wang Yu reached the White Snake Depression and found its surface and shallow earth packed with white snakes.
• Formation Master Long Yiran appeared through a swamp, recognized the Ruan Family token, and led Wang Yu into her underground abode.
• Wang Yu told Long Yiran he needed a Formation Master to help locate the Ancient Sect’s ruins, and she agreed to assist him.
• Long Yiran explained that she had spent five or six years trying to break the defensive formation of the genuine Ancient Times Snake Abode and asked Wang Yu to wait several more years.