Chapter Summaries

Wang Yu received the benefits and obligations of becoming a Cold Blood Peak Inner Sect Elder, including a duty to search ancient ruins for demonic-script tablets. He then visited the Outer Sect treasury and used spirit stones to buy Ink Copper, leaving with a needed material and a renewed appreciation for his new privileges.

• Zhuo Yuanshen gave Wang Yu the Cold Blood Ring, a cave token with twelve sub-tokens, and an Ice Crown that could control part of Cold Blood Peak's great Formation.
• Zhuo Yuanshen explained that Wang Yu had to explore a ruin every hundred years and submit any demonic-script tablet he found; Wang Yu learned four complete demonic scripts.
• Wang Yu went to the treasury in the Central Halls District, where elders could exchange spirit stones for Contribution Points.
• Wang Yu browsed the treasury's catalog and found Ink Copper, which he needed to refine the Feng Shui Compass.
• Wang Yu paid 120,000 low grade spirit stones through the treasury Formation and received the Ink Copper.

Wang Yu chose a plot on Cold Blood Peak for his new residence, discovered that Xue Ying had a Heavenly Ice Spiritual Root, and found the sect’s treasure vaults nearly empty. He updated his cultivation placements and began training Vast Cold Twelve Aspects as the divine power he planned to carve into his Golden Core.

• Wang Yu found that Su Yulong’s former estate had become Zuoqiu Residence, so he searched Cold Blood Peak for another place to build his home.
• Wang Yu met Xue Ying while she was choosing a residence, learned she had a Heavenly Ice Spiritual Root, and agreed to settle nearby.
• Wang Yu claimed a plot, established a formation, opened chambers in the cliff, and settled the Spotless Jade Toad, Three-Tailed Snow Fox, and Snow Jade there.
• Wang Yu checked several sect treasure vaults but found their stock poor; the manager explained that the vaults would not be replenished for another five years.
• Wang Yu updated his cultivation placements, replacing Yellow Springs Great Handprint with Vast Cold Twelve Aspects and beginning its training as his planned Innate Divine Power.

Wang Yu went to apologize to the Black Heaven Talisman Lord after killing Luo Chen, bringing Zhuo Shouqing and Huang Jiu as support. The Black Heaven Talisman Lord silenced Zhuo Shouqing and trapped Wang Yu with an invisible force, leaving Wang Yu unable to speak or move.

• Wang Yu visited Azure Maiden Pavilion before dawn and pulled Zhuo Shouqing from a private room to ask him to arrange a meeting with the Black Heaven Talisman Lord.
• Wang Yu explained how he killed Luo Chen and showed Zhuo Shouqing the Thunder Monarch Decree; Zhuo Shouqing agreed to help him apologize.
• Wang Yu returned Luo Chen's Black Heaven Talisman to his Cosmos Ring, and Zhuo Shouqing summoned Huang Jiu, a False Nascent Soul expert, to accompany them.
• Zhuo Shouqing explained the False Nascent Soul Realm and warned Wang Yu that Zhuo Shouyun's standing could make the Black Heaven Talisman Lord dangerous to them.
• Wang Yu and Zhuo Shouqing climbed Evil Sword Peak and entered the Peak Hall to meet the Black Heaven Talisman Lord.
• The Black Heaven Talisman Lord ordered Zhuo Shouqing to be silent and used an invisible force to pin Wang Yu in place.

Wang Yu offered Black Heaven Talisman Lord an apology, Luo Chen’s belongings, and edited memories to settle the conflict over Luo Chen’s death. Black Heaven Talisman Lord let him go, though Wang Yu remained wary of Evil Sword Peak, and he parted from Zhuo Shouqing with a secure Sound Transmission Jade Talisman and a postponement of their trip to the Ancient Burial Pit.

• Wang Yu let Black Heaven Talisman Lord suppress him while explaining that he had come to apologize for Luo Chen’s death.
• Zhuo Shouqing returned Luo Chen’s Cosmos Ring, and Black Heaven Talisman Lord inspected the Black Heaven Talisman and damaged Black Heaven Banner inside.
• Wang Yu presented edited memories showing Luo Chen had ambushed him, then argued that killing Luo Chen had been necessary self-defense.
• Black Heaven Talisman Lord dismissed Wang Yu and Zhuo Shouqing, who warned Wang Yu that Evil Sword Peak disciples might still target him.
• Evil Sword Mountain Lord asked Black Heaven Talisman Lord about Wang Yu and learned that Wang Yu had swallowed Luo Chen’s Heavenly Yin Spiritual Root.
• Wang Yu and Zhuo Shouqing parted after Zhuo Shouqing gave him a secure Sound Transmission Jade Talisman and said their Ancient Burial Pit trip could wait.

Wang Yu met Direct Disciple Yan Ling, who offered him Glass Lapis Lazuli and sought his support amid Cold Blood Peak’s factional politics. After accepting the material and settling into his new cave abode, he broke through to Core Formation Third Layer.

• Wang Yu returned to Cold Blood Peak and found workers building him a grand cave abode that encroached on Xue Ying’s nearby dwelling.
• Yan Ling visited Wang Yu and Xue Ying, congratulated Wang Yu on becoming a Twelve Elders Candidate, and hinted that he should join her faction.
• Yan Ling offered Wang Yu Glass Lapis Lazuli and warned that other factions might obstruct his access to treasures; after hearing Xue Ying’s agreement, Wang Yu accepted the offer.
• Yan Ling left, and Wang Yu declined Xue Ying’s invitation to stay, added requirements for his cave abode, and began preparing to refine his treasures.
• On the thirty-first day of his career as an elder, Wang Yu increased his magic power limit to one thousand wisps and broke through to Core Formation Third Layer.

Wang Yu planned his advance to Mid-stage Core Formation and used Yu Tang Tang’s visit to propose an alchemy partnership, gaining access to her abundant spirit medicines. After she left, he questioned Tantai Chan about Yan Ling and Cold Blood Peak, preparing for his next steps.

• Wang Yu calculated that he could reach the Core Formation Third Layer peak within a year and planned to prepare a Breakthrough Pill and develop his alchemy connections.
• Yu Tang Tang arrived at Cold Blood Peak carried by Tantai Chan and happily reunited with Wang Yu.
• Wang Yu showed Yu Tang Tang his new Cave Abode, where she rode Snow Jade, the Three-Tailed Snow Fox, and learned about his recent achievements.
• Wang Yu proposed that Yu Tang Tang provide spirit medicines and Alchemy Recipes for him to refine pills, and she agreed to discuss the venture with her father.
• After Yu Tang Tang left, Wang Yu asked Tantai Chan to recount everything she knew about Yan Ling and the work she had done for her.

Wang Yu learned about Cold Blood Peak’s factions and considered how to handle the Blood-Eyed Demon Flood Dragon before agreeing to teach Tantai Chan alchemy. The next morning, he began refining the Gleaming Ice Heart Pagoda and a formation disc in Cold Blood Peak’s secure cultivation room.

• Tantai Chan explained Cold Blood Peak’s three factions, their leaders, and the balance of power among the Twelve Elders to Wang Yu.
• Tantai Chan warned Wang Yu that the Blood-Eyed Demon Flood Dragon would likely try to capture him for unpaid pill refining, and advised him to bring pills useful to Yu Tang Tang if he wanted to negotiate.
• Tantai Chan asked Wang Yu to teach her alchemy, and Wang Yu drew her close; they spent the night together.
• The next morning, Wang Yu woke beside Tantai Chan and went to the Cultivation Room to refine the Gleaming Ice Heart Pagoda.
• Wang Yu used Ice Dragon Pill Flame to refine the pagoda while shaping a formation disc with Samadhi True Fire and the Four Directions and Four Seas Qi.

Wang Yu completed the Gleaming Ice Heart Pagoda and Feng Shui Compass, then received the Seven Apertures Qi Root and the Flood Dragon Heart Ancestral Blood Pill recipe from Yu Tang Tang. He promised to study the recipe for three years before refining the pill.

• Wang Yu considered how Life-Bound Magic Treasures could grow with their cultivators and how the sect's Ancestor Artifacts chose inheritors.
• Wang Yu finished refining the Gleaming Ice Heart Pagoda and Feng Shui Compass, then stored both treasures in his Qi Sea.
• Tantai Chan left Wang Yu's cave after receiving his message that he would teach her alchemy when Yu Tang Tang visited.
• Yu Tang Tang arrived with the Seven Apertures Qi Root and the Flood Dragon Heart Ancestral Blood Pill recipe, hoping Wang Yu would refine the pill for her.
• Wang Yu accepted the recipe and materials, then told Yu Tang Tang he would study the recipe and refine the pill in three years.

Wang Yu used Yu Tang Tang’s pill recipes to demonstrate his alchemy skill and strengthen his partnership with the Blood-Eyed Demon Flood Dragon. After observing the sect’s hostile attitude toward outside experts, he contacted Huang Kai and began considering a plan involving him.

• Tantai Chan explained which pills were in demand across the sect’s peaks and how the Alchemy Hall controlled breakthrough pill recipes and spirit-herb channels.
• Yu Tang Tang offered Wang Yu three pill recipes, and he took Tantai Chan into the alchemy room to teach her while refining the pills over twelve days.
• Wang Yu produced high-grade pills from the recipes, and Yu Tang Tang and Tantai Chan left with the Dragon Dragon Pill and a reminder to tell her father about their arrangement.
• Wang Yu visited the Alchemy Hall and saw its staff drive away a third-rank alchemist from Feng Province by demanding he retake lower-rank tests.
• Wang Yu contacted Huang Kai, discovered he was still alive, and considered whether he could replace him in a longer-term plan.

Wang Yu expanded his alchemy business with the Blood-Eyed Demon Flood Dragon and Yan Ling, gaining rare resources while teaching Tantai Chan. As his cultivation advanced rapidly, he reached the Core Formation Early Stage’s Magic Power limit and faced the Strengthening the Core bottleneck.

• Wang Yu accepted a large pill order from the Blood-Eyed Demon Flood Dragon through Yu Tang Tang and received rare treasures in exchange for his first batch of high-grade pills.
• Wang Yu refined pills while Tantai Chan observed and learned, then used the Dragon Horn Earth Python Blood Essence, Moon Laurel Leaf, and Hundred Ghost Soul Nourishing Liquid to advance his body refinement, cultivation, and Divine Sense.
• Yan Ling and Xue Ying visited Wang Yu, and Yan Ling arranged a pill-refining partnership that brought Wang Yu further rare resources, including the Fang Mountain Jade Tree Fruit and ingredients for the Soul Dream Essence Pill.
• Wang Yu devoted most of his time to pill refinement and cultivation, while his other studies progressed more slowly and Tantai Chan continued receiving his guidance.
• On the 316th day of his elder career, Wang Yu reached three thousand strands of Magic Power and faced the Strengthening the Core bottleneck before advancing further in Core Formation.

Wang Yu prepared to attend Heaven Treasure City's Earth Grade Auction, disguising himself as a cultivator from Yellow Springs Temple to avoid attention. He reached the city, gathered materials to break through a minor bottleneck, and headed toward the auction venue.

• Wang Yu considered his cultivation progress, filled all six Placement Slots with alchemy, and arranged to obtain bottleneck-breaking Alchemy Recipes through Yan Ling.
• Tantai Chan told Wang Yu that the Heaven Treasure City Auction was about to open, and he decided to attend in search of scarce resources.
• As rumors about Wang Yu’s past and connections spread, he disguised himself with the Earth Luo Ghost Mask and Yellow Springs Magic Power before leaving the sect.
• Wang Yu traveled for more than a dozen days and arrived at Heaven Treasure City, a vast city governed by strict laws and protected by numerous law enforcers.
• Wang Yu toured the city, collected materials for breaking through a minor bottleneck, and made his way toward the Earth Grade Auction venue.

Wang Yu registered for Heaven Treasure Pavilion’s Earth Grade Auction, brushed off Wen Hua’s attempt to take his invitation, and spent three days gathering materials in Heaven Treasure City. At the auction, he passed on the early items and won Ghost Cave Yin Jade to improve his Ghost Wail Flute.

• Wang Yu proved his identity and wealth to enter the auction, then sold his invitation to Wen Hua for one hundred thousand Low Grade Spirit Stones and received another invitation from the steward.
• Wang Yu spent the next three days searching Heaven Treasure City’s trading streets for spiritual materials and considered options for strengthening his magic treasures.
• Wang Yu entered a superior private room at the auction, where the Five Elements Spirit Orbs sold for one million seven hundred and fifty thousand spirit stones.
• Wang Yu ignored the auction’s earlier items because they were unsuitable or overpriced.
• Wang Yu bid two hundred and fifty thousand spirit stones for Ghost Cave Yin Jade and won the material for his Ghost Wail Flute.

Wang Yu bought several treasures at Heaven Treasure City’s auction, then targeted Wen Hua after he won the finale item, Nine Twists Spirit Ginseng. Wang Yu gathered allies to intercept him, while Wen Hua and his guards realized their teleport had landed inside Inverse Spirit Blood Sect territory and debated returning to the city.

• Wang Yu bought Blood Dragon Essence and an Essence Soul Stone, then passed on expensive Top-Grade Spirit Pills.
• Wen Hua bid ten Top Grade Spirit Stones for the Nine Twists Spirit Ginseng and won the auction’s finale item.
• Wang Yu used a mark he had placed on Wen Hua to identify his teleport direction and recruited three Core Formation Inner Sect Elders to help intercept him.
• Wen Hua and his two Late-stage Core Formation guards landed in Inverse Spirit Blood Sect territory and considered returning to Heaven Treasure City.
• One guard warned Wen Hua that his undisguised auction voice had likely revealed his identity, leaving Wen Hua awkward.

Wen Hua fled with the Nine Twists Spirit Ginseng while Wang Yu’s allies pursued him, and a Qiao Sword Cultivator intercepted the group. Wang Yu caught up with Wen Hua and attacked, then unleashed Soul Destroying Death Light against the Nascent Soul Divine Sense Imprint protecting him.

• Wen Hua insisted on keeping the Nine Twists Spirit Ginseng and led his two elders east toward the Yin Yang Sect.
• The Golden Sword City Lord sent a Qiao Sword Cultivator to tail Wen Hua’s group after receiving Wang Yu’s transmission.
• Wen Hua detected the Qiao Sword Cultivator, and his two elders fought him with black-water clay jars while he used the Glacier Undercurrent Sword to resist.
• Wen Hua realized the Saint Sect City Lord had likely been sent to intercept him and fled ahead of the others.
• Wang Yu caught Wen Hua, struck him with the Minor Asura Killing Fist, and forced a protective imprint from Wen Hua’s father to appear.
• Wang Yu rejected the Nascent Soul cultivator’s offer and attacked his Divine Sense Imprint with Soul Destroying Death Light.

Wang Yu and his allies killed the Yin Yang Sect reinforcements at Golden Sword City, then divided the spoils and discussed the danger of having offended the sect. The chapter left Wang Yu with two prospective followers as Qiao Yu recovered from his injuries.

• Wang Yu destroyed the Yin Yang Sect Master's Divine Sense phantom, misdirected its tracking mark, and killed Wen Hua with the Yellow Springs Great Handprint.
• Wang Yu and Qiao Yu worked together to kill one Late-stage Core Formation elder, while Chu Jun and Yang Xiong froze and killed the other.
• Qiao Yu, Chu Jun, and Yang Xiong greeted Wang Yu as Candidate Elder, and the four went to Golden Sword City to discuss the Yin Yang Sect and their spoils.
• Wang Yu gave the three allies the agreed nine hundred thousand spirit stones and let them divide the two elders' Storage Rings, warning them to keep the Young Sect Master's death secret.
• Chu Jun asked to follow Wang Yu after his city-lord term ended, and Wang Yu agreed to provide Yang Xiong a cultivation post in Guiling City.

Wang Yu turned Qiao Yu’s offer of loyalty into a pill-refining partnership, then returned to Cold Blood Peak and broke through to the fourth level of Core Formation with an Orchid Grace Pill. He continued refining pills while advancing Cold Dragon Alchemy, which he perfected in early January of his fourth year as an elder.

• Yang Xiong and Chu Jun accepted Wang Yu’s offer of future support in Gui Ling, then left Golden Sword City.
• After his injuries stabilized, Qiao Yu offered to serve Wang Yu, but Wang Yu refused to take him as a subordinate and proposed a pill-refining partnership instead.
• Wang Yu returned to Cold Blood Peak with spirit herbs that included nearly all the main ingredients for a Nascent Soul Pill, and arranged cooperation with the Blood-Eyed Demon Flood Dragon and the Qiao Clan.
• Wang Yu refined and swallowed an Orchid Grace Pill, advancing to the fourth level of Core Formation and raising the Gleaming Ice Heart Pagoda to Mid-Grade Magic Treasure.
• Wang Yu resumed alchemy and used the Placement Slot’s feedback to advance Cold Dragon Alchemy, perfecting it in early January of his fourth year as an elder.

After advancing his alchemy, Wang Yu refined a top-grade Exquisite Inner Core and Vast Cold Pills, using them to improve his comprehension and cultivation. As several clans and partners gathered to renegotiate pill cooperation, competing claims left the talks in dispute.

• Wang Yu refined a top-grade Exquisite Inner Core and three top-grade Vast Cold Pills.
• Wang Yu swallowed the pills, advanced three Vast Cold Twelve Aspects divine powers to the threshold, and shortened the progress of many techniques through improved comprehension.
• Xue Ying congratulated Wang Yu and asked whether the Xue Clan could join his pill cooperation.
• Wang Yu gathered Xue Ying, Yan Ling, the Qiao Clan representative, and Tantai Chan to discuss changing their cooperation because alchemy consumed too much of his time.
• Yan Ling argued for continued cooperation with her, the Qiao Clan representative insisted his clan must participate, and Xue Ying offered to withdraw, sparking a larger dispute.

Wang Yu negotiated a new, smaller-scale pill-refining arrangement with the clans, offering one furnace of Third Tier Top-Grade Spirit Pills per family each year in exchange for valuable materials. After managing his alliances and dealings with Xue Ying and Tantai Chan, he refined the Vast Cold Twelve Aspects into an Innate Divine Power and began integrating it and the Aurora Escape Technique into his Gleaming Ice Heart Pagoda.

• Wang Yu proposed reducing bulk pill production and refining one furnace of Third Tier Top-Grade Spirit Pills for each family annually, and the representatives accepted the new arrangement with valuable materials as payment.
• Xue Ying spoke with Wang Yu after Tantai Chan left, and Wang Yu suspected she knew about his plot against True Person Flying Snow and resolved to act against her when he found an opportunity.
• Wang Yu drew Tantai Chan close and gave her a top-grade Flood Dragon Heart Ancestral Blood Pill for Tang Tang, while promising to refine her Breakthrough Pill if she supplied the materials.
• Wang Yu refined the Vast Cold Twelve Aspects into an Innate Divine Power, manifesting its twelve aspects and binding its power to the Gleaming Ice Heart Pagoda.
• Wang Yu began inscribing the Aurora Escape Technique into the pagoda so it could carry him in flight and strengthen the technique when used alongside it.

Wang Yu prepared for the Ancient Burial Pit after Zhuo Shouqing warned that Zhuo Shouyun’s faction had learned of it and urged him to act before their strength grew. Wang Yu reached the secret realm, where Zhuo Wenshi’s group was still struggling to break its entrance restriction.

• Wang Yu completed the Ice Soul Divine Light refinement and spent nearly a year advancing his cultivation and secret arts before Zhuo Shouqing summoned him.
• Zhuo Shouqing told Wang Yu that his subordinates had revealed the Ancient Burial Pit to Zhuo Shouyun’s faction, and Wang Yu agreed to eliminate those now targeting it.
• Wang Yu studied the Ancient Burial Pit’s intelligence, prepared his Ghost Wail Flute and formation flags, and secretly left the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect.
• Wang Yu traveled toward the Ancient Burial Pit in the Northern Severing Realm Mountain Range, concealing his swift escape technique to avoid attracting attention.
• Zhuo Wenshi pressed an array master to open the secret realm’s entrance, but the array master said breaking its spatial restriction without a key would take time.

Wang Yu entered the Ancient Burial Pit secret realm and ambushed the Zhuo family cultivators guarding its entrance, severely wounding Zhuo Cang before tracking him deeper inside. Zhuo Cang teleported to his companions, who had already entered a sealed hall and were unaware he had arrived.

• Zhuo Wenshi’s group opened the secret realm entrance and went inside, while Wang Yu waited outside and followed them in afterward.
• Wang Yu emerged among Zhuo Cang and five Foundation Establishment cultivators, then used his twin corpses to kill the five and wound Zhuo Cang as he fled with a Fleeing Void Talisman.
• Wang Yu seized Zhuo Cang’s Golden Core, used it to track him, and hurried after him through the secret realm.
• Zhuo Wenshi and five companions explored a sealed great hall, identified ancient markings, and opened its entrance with an Infiltration Seal.
• Zhuo Cang teleported beside the hall after the six had entered, but an internal restriction prevented him from teleporting inside.