Chapter Summaries

Wang Yu researched the Demonic Fetus Profound Origin Secret Incantation and learned that the Elephant Mountain Duan Clan might possess it. When Duan Ping finally arrived, Wang Yu warned him that True Inheritor Su’s return could put them both at risk and persuaded him that he was the likelier scapegoat.

• Wang Yu studied the Demonic Fetus Profound Origin Secret Incantation and chose Wang Wu as a potential target for its bloodline-based devouring.
• Wang Yu discovered that Nine Evil True Lord had obtained the secret art and passed it through his family, making the Elephant Mountain Duan Clan or True Inheritor Su possible sources.
• Wang Yu received word that Duan Ping had arrived at Ice Snow Tower nearly half a month after their planned meeting.
• Wang Yu took Duan Ping to a private room and told him that True Inheritor Su was expected to emerge from seclusion the following year.
• Wang Yu argued that Duan Ping’s kinship to True Inheritor Su and his claim to three thousand Contribution Points made him a more suitable scapegoat, leaving Duan Ping increasingly alarmed.

Wang Yu learned how Zhou Tao’s expansion of the Alchemist Society had turned into an illegal pill-selling operation and refused to rescue him from the Law Enforcement Hall. Zhou Tao threatened to expose Wang Yu’s old connection to the society, and the confrontation ended with both men facing off over their cultivation strength.

• Duan Ping agreed to arrange a meeting between Wang Yu and the Esteemed True Inheritor, then hurried away to handle it.
• After half a month without news, Zhou Tao visited Wang Yu with a costly gift and begged for help with the Alchemist Society’s troubles.
• Zhou Tao explained that his expansion of the society had led members to sell pills illegally, drawing the Law Enforcement Hall’s attention after Lan Ji withdrew.
• Wang Yu refused Zhou Tao’s offer and warned that the Law Enforcement Hall was likely waiting for the society to become a more worthwhile target.
• Zhou Tao threatened to expose Wang Yu’s connection to Zhao Shang, and Wang Yu rose to confront him with his Qi Refining Late Stage aura.
• Zhou Tao sensed that Wang Yu had reached Qi Refining Seventh Layer and was shocked by his progress.

Wang Yu accepted Zhou Tao’s offer to help with the captured Alchemist Society members, then went to Cold Blood Peak to meet True Inheritor Su and developed a plan to challenge Wei Zhong’s claim to the Nascent Soul Inheritance. He left with the idea of persuading Nine Evil True Lord to grant a Water Heavenly Spiritual Root True Inheritor a chance to compete.

• Zhou Tao offered Wang Yu fifty percent of the Society’s profits, and Wang Yu agreed to try to help free the captured members while warning Zhou Tao to disband the Society.
• Wang Yu noticed Zhou Tao’s informants watching him and changed his plans, heading to Cold Blood Peak before going to the Law Enforcement Hall.
• Fatty Duan met Wang Yu at the foot of Cold Blood Peak and said True Inheritor Su had agreed to hear his thoughts.
• Duan Ping told Wang Yu that Wei Zhong had obtained a Core Inheritance and reached Core Formation before turning two hundred.
• Wang Yu considered Cold Blood Peak’s succession rules and decided to seek a chance for a Water Heavenly Spiritual Root True Inheritor to compete for the Nascent Soul Inheritance.

Wang Yu proposed that Su delay Wei Zhong’s challenge by backing Yan Ling and arranging a fair contest for the Cold Blood Peak inheritance after she formed her core. After leaving Su’s residence, Wang Yu went to the Evil God Ward’s Law Enforcement Hall to report Alchemist Society members Zhou Tao and Luo Ping Hu.

• Wang Yu visited True Inheritor Su and urged him to support Yan Ling, whose Water Heavenly Spiritual Root made her a stronger inheritance candidate than Wei Zhong.
• Wang Yu proposed delaying the contest until Yan Ling formed her core, then having the true inheritors fight fairly for the inheritance, giving Su time to form his own core and enter the contest.
• True Inheritor Su said he would consider Wang Yu’s plan, and Duan Ping judged it likely to be adopted.
• Wang Yu went to the Evil God Ward’s Law Enforcement Hall in his Law Enforcement Disciple uniform to report Zhou Tao and Luo Ping Hu as an informant arranged by Zhuo Shouqing.
• Yu Xing, who was stationed at the hall instead of Zhuo Shouqing, told Wang Yu to return in ten days for such a small matter.

Wang Yu led Zhuo Shouqing and Yu Xing to raid the Alchemist Society, helping the Law Enforcement Hall seize its leader and a trove of spirit stones. Zhuo Shouqing praised Wang Yu and promised him a place in the Law Enforcement Hall.

• Wang Yu told Yu Xing that the Alchemist Society’s leader had hundreds of thousands of spirit stones, and Yu Xing assembled elite Law Enforcement Hall disciples.
• Zhuo Shouqing arrived, agreed to join the operation, and insisted they also notify Zuoqiu so the three young masters would share the gains fairly.
• Wang Yu guided the group to Zhou Tao using his marked divine sense and secretly passed Zhuo Shouqing most of Zhou Tao’s one hundred thousand spirit stones.
• The Law Enforcement Hall arrested Zhou Tao, Luo Ping Hu, and several other Alchemist Society leaders, finding seven hundred thousand spirit stones among them.
• Zhuo Shouqing dismissed Zhou Tao’s accusations against Wang Yu, praised him as a lucky star, and told him to return in three days for a place in the Law Enforcement Hall.

Wang Yu met with Zhuo Shouqing and the Law Enforcement Hall stewards after helping destroy the Alchemist Society, and Zhuo offered him a reward instead of promoting him to Inner Disciple. Wang Yu asked for the Demonic Fetus Profound Origin Secret Incantation, hoping to improve his aptitude and change his fate.

• Wang Yu returned to Evil God Ward and waited for news from True Inheritor Su and the Law Enforcement Hall.
• Three days later, Wang Yu met Zhuo Shouqing, Yu Xing, and Law Enforcement Hall Third Steward Zuoqiu Ming at the Law Enforcement Hall.
• Zhuo Shouqing praised Wang Yu's contribution but said his poor aptitude meant he would not be promoted to Inner Disciple, offering him a reward instead.
• Wang Yu asked Zhuo Shouqing for the Demonic Fetus Profound Origin Secret Incantation so he could try to raise his aptitude.

Wang Yu secured the Law Enforcement Hall elders’ agreement to obtain the Demonic Fetus Profound Origin Secret Incantation and received access to the hall’s contraband warehouse. After choosing new techniques and reference texts, he placed the Twelve Flame Spirit Seal in his open Placement Slot.

• Wang Yu rejected Zhuo Shouqing’s offer of the Foundation Stealing Grand Art and a Foundation Establishment flesh cauldron, insisting he wanted to pursue immortality on his own terms.
• Zuoqiu Ming agreed to exchange for the Demonic Fetus Profound Origin Secret Incantation, while Zhuo Shouqing gave Wang Yu a Jade Slip containing the Foundation Stealing Grand Art as a fallback.
• Yu Xing gave Wang Yu a token to enter the Law Enforcement Hall’s warehouse and purchase confiscated items with spirit stones.
• Wang Yu bought the Flame Spitting Art, the Twelve Flame Spirit Seal Hand Technique, the Flood Dragon Strength cultivation method, and two Foundation Establishment reference texts.
• Wang Yu reviewed his new arts and placed the Twelve Flame Spirit Seal in Slot Four after removing the Profound Yin Hand.

Wang Yu obtained an incomplete translation of the Demonic Fetus Profound Origin Secret Incantation and used a placement slot to cultivate it, trusting the slot to repair its flaws. After completing two flame arts and starting Flood Dragon Strength, he decided to leave the sect again because he had lost access to information about the struggles on Cold Blood Peak.

• Zuoqiu Ming gave Wang Yu the translated Demonic Fetus Profound Origin Secret Incantation, which Wang Yu placed despite discovering it was incomplete.
• Wang Yu concluded that the placement slot could restore the secret art and felt its Demonic Evil Thought transforming his body.
• Wang Yu completed the Twelve Flame Spirit Seals and Flame Spitting Art over seven months.
• Wang Yu placed Flood Dragon Strength in the vacant fourth slot and noticed his comprehension had improved.
• Wang Yu considered the consequences of True Inheritor Su's distrust and planned to leave the sect again.

Wang Yu considered leaving the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect and returning to the Great Lake Spirit Domain, but he lacked a safe route and began drawing a map while continuing his cultivation. His aptitude-changing secret method offered a path toward Foundation Establishment, though his progress remained limited by the Placement Slot.

• Wang Yu concluded that True Inheritor Su had abandoned him and considered fleeing the sect, but postponed the decision until he could investigate his past and use the Slave Capture Mission.
• Wang Yu spent three months secluded, studying the borderlands and making a map to find a route from the Red Kite Demon Domain to the Great Lake Spirit Domain.
• Wang Yu determined that crossing the mountain ranges was dangerous and that high-level maps were restricted, leaving the Slave Capture Mission as his most viable route home.
• Wang Yu improved his Cold Blood Pills, raising their spiritual-power gains, but failed to improve a common First Tier pill formula and shelved the attempt.
• Wang Yu calculated that he had accumulated 197 shares of spiritual power at the Qi Refining Seventh Layer and still needed about a hundred more to break through.
• Wang Yu kept his four Placement Slots assigned to cultivation, the Demonic Fetus Secret Incantation, and Flood Dragon Strength, leaving the Corpse Demon Secret Art unplaced.

Wang Yu tried to arrange a mission that would let him leave the sect as Cold Blood Ward grew more dangerous. Situ Hong found him a joint Five Yin Peak and Cold Blood Peak assignment at Spider Mountain, where Wang Yu would tend Spider Heart Grass fields for ten years.

• Wang Yu moved to Heavenly Corpse Ward and contacted Gu Zheng Shun and Situ Hong to seek a way out of the sect, but Gu Zheng Shun did not respond.
• Situ Hong explained that Slave Capture Missions were controlled by the peaks’ true inheritors and said Wang Yu would need to transfer to Five Yin Peak for an easy placement.
• Wang Yu asked Situ Hong to look for a joint mission that would allow a Cold Blood Peak disciple to leave the sect, and gave him spirit stones for his help.
• Wang Yu waited while watching for signs that True Inheritor Su’s people were monitoring him, and used the growing chaos to gather contraband maps.
• Situ Hong showed Wang Yu a detailed map and proposed a ten-year assignment at Spider Mountain tending Spider Heart Grass fields for Five hundred Contribution Points, ten stalks of the herb, and three hundred spirit stones.

Wang Yu accepted a ten-year garrison mission at Spider Mountain as rumors spread that True Inheritor Su had engineered the death of a Cold Blood Peak Core Formation cultivator to provoke Wei Zhong and his clan. As Wang Yu departed with a large expedition, Cold Blood Peak's leader had been replaced by a veiled woman whose identity and reasons for joining remained unclear.

• Wang Yu accepted the Spider Mountain mission after Situ Hong offered it to him, and he promised to repay the favor.
• While waiting to depart, Wang Yu heard rumors that a Cold Blood Peak Core Formation cultivator had been killed at the Waterfall Mountain Wei Clan, and he suspected True Inheritor Su was framing Wei Zhong's family to provoke rebellion.
• The Enforcement Headquarters announced an investigation of the Wei Clan, while Wei Zhong remained in seclusion and Wang Yu worried the conflict might escalate.
• Eight hundred disciples from Five Yin Peak and Cold Blood Peak assembled for the Spider Mountain mission, with Situ Hong among them.
• Wang Yu noticed that a veiled young woman had replaced the expected Cold Blood Peak leader, then boarded a Third Tier Low Grade spirit boat as the expedition prepared to leave.

Wang Yu and Situ Hong arrived at Spider Mountain, where Wang Yu was assigned to care for Spider Heart Grass rather than enter the dangerous Ghost Eye Caves. He settled into the comparatively easy posting, leaving him time to cultivate and prepare for future duties.

• During the journey, Situ Hong explained that Ghost Eye Spider eyes could aid yin-cold cultivators and might help Wang Yu accelerate his cultivation.
• The Giant Spirit Boat arrived at Spider Mountain, and the incoming disciples took over the farm from the departing group.
• Wang Yu received two mu of Spider Heart Grass fields and a nearby stone house, while cave-collection duties were assigned to rotating teams.
• Wang Yu used the quiet posting to plan his cultivation and practice his techniques, including the Twelve Flame Spirit Seals, Flame Spitting Art, and Cold Flame.
• Wang Yu's passive cultivation of Flood Dragon Strength advanced him to Body Refinement Third Layer and condensed three Dragon Tendons.

After a year of cultivation on Spider Mountain, Wang Yu entered Ghost Eye Cave for the first time with Situ Hong, hoping to gather Ghost Eyes and learn more about events beyond the mountain. They agreed on how to divide their spoils and entered Cave Five, where Wang Yu’s ability to see in darkness gave him an advantage.

• Wang Yu spent another year cultivating on Spider Mountain, raising his spiritual power to 220 strands and advancing more than halfway through Qi Refining Seventh Layer.
• The Spirit Field teams rotated, assigning Wang Yu to Ghost Eye Cave, where he hoped to collect High-Grade Ghost Eyes and increase his cultivation.
• Wang Yu considered why Wei Zhong had not sent anyone after him and sought information from Situ Hong about the Waterfall Mountain Wei Clan.
• Wang Yu and Situ Hong agreed to meet the cave mission requirements first, then divide additional Ghost Eyes according to who killed them or each person’s contribution.
• After registering, Wang Yu and Situ Hong received the token for Cave Five and entered the dark, spider-infested cavern.

Wang Yu and Situ Hong entered Ghost Eye Cave to hunt Ghost Eye Spiders, where Wang Yu revealed his Cold Flame and alchemy skill. They pressed on after discovering an unusually powerful invisible spider, and Situ Hong summoned his Hundred Ghost Banner to lead the way.

• Situ Hong led Wang Yu through the cavern and warned him to avoid spider webs and overhead blind spots.
• A Ghost Eye Spider that could turn invisible and obscure divine sense attacked, and Wang Yu killed it with his Flame Spitting Art and Cold Flame.
• Situ Hong identified the spider as a First Tier Middle Stage specimen with abnormal abilities, but neither he nor previous sect members had reports of such spiders in Cave Five.
• Wang Yu and Situ Hong decided to continue the mission, and Situ Hong brought out his Hundred Ghost Banner and summoned dozens of yin souls and ghost heads.

Wang Yu and Situ Hong completed their spider-hunting quota in Ghost Eye Cave No. 5, then split up to search for the source of the Ghost Eye Spiders’ mutation. Wang Yu found a hidden passage full of invisible spiders and discovered a Treasure Bone marked with mysterious symbols beside an ancient skeleton.

• Wang Yu and Situ Hong collected twenty ghost eyes and five spider corpses, then agreed to split up and search the cave separately.
• Situ Hong took the left passage with his ghost skulls, while Wang Yu entered the right passage and secretly marked the route.
• Wang Yu mapped the cavern, found a vertical passage filled with invisible spiders, and killed them with his Cold Flame and ice swords.
• Wang Yu descended into an area with old scales and bones, where he found a skeleton wrapped in spider silk and uncovered a Treasure Bone near its skull.
• Wang Yu recognized the bone fragment as a possible Hidden Dragon’s Treasure Bone.

Wang Yu discovered that the Hidden Dragon’s Treasure Bone held a valuable Invisibility Technique, then began refining the Ghost Eyes he had collected from Ghost Eye Cave. The Cold Flame greatly accelerated their effects, and he secluded himself to improve his cultivation while continuing the spider-hunting mission with Situ Hong.

• Wang Yu identified the Hidden Dragon as a chameleon-like demon beast and took its Treasure Bone, which contained a rare Second Tier Low Grade Invisibility Technique.
• Wang Yu left Ghost Eye Cave with Ghost Eyes and told Situ Hong that he would test their effects, asking him to cover for him if he missed their next outing.
• After they submitted the mission, Wang Yu returned to his Stone House, swallowed a high-grade Ghost Eye, and used Cold Flame to accelerate its refinement.
• Wang Yu realized he could refine a Ghost Eye in about a month, potentially gaining fifty strands of spiritual-energy cultivation and reaching the Qi Refining Eighth Layer sooner.
• Wang Yu began living in seclusion, continued hunting Ghost Spiders with Situ Hong every seven days, and occasionally sold Ghost Eyes to fellow disciples.

Wang Yu sold surplus Ghost Eyes on Spider Mountain and broke through to Qi Refining Eighth Layer, while weighing the long road to Foundation Establishment. A junior brother then offered him news related to Foundation Establishment in exchange for Ghost Eyes.

• Wang Yu sold Ghost Eyes at discounted prices to fellow cultivators on Spider Mountain, and his second year there passed before his turn to tend the land arrived.
• In September of his eleventh year as an Outer Sect disciple, Wang Yu refined medicinal power and broke through to Qi Refining Eighth Layer.
• Wang Yu assessed how long it would take to reach Foundation Establishment and planned to improve his aptitude after his Spider Mountain mission ended.
• Ten days later, a Qi Refining Fifth Layer junior brother asked Wang Yu to trade three High-Grade Ghost Eyes for five hundred Spirit Stones and news about Foundation Establishment.
• The junior brother said he had heard Wang Yu had advanced from being a Spirit Slave and consumed much of his lifespan, leaving his aptitude lacking.

Wang Yu learned about Foundation Establishment Spiritual Items as an alternative to pills and received a suspicious map claiming to lead to a Cold Ice Spirit Spring. Meanwhile, a group of Outer Sect disciples planned to ambush him for his Spirit Stones, and Situ Hong arrived with news of a major event.

• Wang Yu traded six High-Grade Ghost Eyes for information about Foundation Establishment Spiritual Items and learned they could serve as a path to Foundation Establishment.
• A junior brother gave Wang Yu a remnant map supposedly marking an Ancient Cultivator Cave, but Wang Yu suspected a trap and discarded it.
• Mu Xiao revealed that he had marked Wang Yu with Blood Leech Worm powder, and a group led by a burly Qi Refining Ninth Layer cultivator planned to kill him and take his wealth.
• Wang Yu recognized that his success hunting Ghost Eyes had attracted dangerous attention, but decided to avoid his enemies until he could deal with several groups at once.
• Situ Hong arrived at Wang Yu's Stone House excitedly, saying that something major had happened.

Wang Yu learned that Wei Zhong and Su Yulong had lost their True Inheritor status after the Waterfall Mountain Wei Clan was destroyed, freeing him from Su Yulong’s influence. He celebrated his release, then returned to farming and cultivation while struggling to master two demanding spells.

• Situ Hong told Wang Yu that Wei Zhong had lost a battle with the Earth Talisman Three Demons, the Waterfall Mountain Wei Clan had been exterminated, and Wei Zhong had been confined for a hundred years.
• Situ Hong revealed that Su Yulong had also been stripped of his True Inheritor status and sent back to the Cangjiang Su Clan for fifty years.
• Wang Yu realized that Su Yulong’s loss of status freed him from the unlawful operations of the Ice Snow Tower and left him independent on Cold Blood Peak.
• Wang Yu celebrated by drinking himself into Great Dream Three Days, then returned to tending his Spirit Fields and quietly kept defective Spider Heart Grass.
• Wang Yu resumed cultivation but grew anxious because the Invisibility Technique and Profound Yin Hand demanded more mental energy than he could readily supply.

After months of seclusion, Wang Yu went to Heart Erosion City after hearing of an auction selling a Foundation Establishment Spiritual Item. On the way, a group of robbers ambushed him, and he trapped them inside an ice cage with the perfected Ice Coffin Spell.

• Wang Yu studied Foundation Establishment Spiritual Items and learned that reaching Foundation Establishment with Useless Spiritual Roots was theoretically possible, though suitable items for him remained extraordinarily rare.
• A group of disciples who had been watching Wang Yu planned to lure him out, and Wang Yu decided to visit Heart Erosion City to shop and settle the trouble around him.
• Wang Yu heard that an auction in Heart Erosion City would offer a Foundation Establishment Spiritual Item and set out alone, hoping to buy a pill furnace and other supplies.
• More than a dozen black-robed robbers surrounded Wang Yu in a canyon and demanded his Storage Bags.
• Wang Yu stalled the robbers, then used the Ice Coffin Spell to form an ice cage around them and swallowed a Top Grade Spirit Recovery Pill.