Chapter Summaries

Wang Yu slaughtered a band of robbers trapped in his Ice Coffin Cage and took their valuables, then reached Heart Erosion City before dawn. He arrived with a faster flying magical artifact and saw that the city’s cultivators lived apart from its mortal residents.

• Wang Yu used illusory bodies, ice needles, and flames to overwhelm the robbers inside the Ice Coffin Cage.
• Wang Yu defeated the Bearded Man and killed him after destroying the rest of the group.
• Wang Yu searched fourteen corpses and collected Spirit Stones, magical artifacts, and other spoils worth more than twenty thousand Spirit Stones.
• Wang Yu chose a flying-sword magical artifact from the loot and flew to Heart Erosion City before dawn.
• Wang Yu observed the city’s large population and saw cultivators gathered in elevated pavilion platforms atop tall pillars.

Wang Yu visited Heart Erosion City and learned that Lord Zhou profited from an auction of mortals trained as slave cultivators. He left the Immortal-Mortal Residence with a deeper understanding of the exploitation beneath the sect’s rules.

• Wang Yu arrived in Heart Erosion City, where Han Fei and Yang Shan greeted him and offered to show him around.
• Han Fei and Yang Shan explained that Lord Zhou organized auctions of mortals trained for pleasure and dual cultivation.
• Wang Yu learned that the garrison commanders profited from the slave trade because factional politics made it difficult to send the mortals to the Nine Peaks.
• Wang Yu entered the Immortal-Mortal Residence and saw the harsh training imposed on its male and female captives.
• Wang Yu reflected on how both righteous and demonic cultivators exploited mortals as the foundation of cultivation.

Wang Yu toured Heart Erosion City, bought alchemy supplies and sold his spoils before visiting Gold Abundance Pavilion to seek Dragon Lineage Blood Essence. He learned the available essence came from a Third Tier Azure Sea Dragon Turtle, but its price seemed beyond his means.

• Wang Yu refused to buy any of the female cultivators at Immortal-Mortal Residence and rejected Hong Xiu's plea for help after sensing her Foundation Establishment-level divine sense.
• Wang Yu paid Han Fei and Yang Shan for guiding him, then sold his spoils for twenty-three thousand Spirit Stones.
• Wang Yu bought a pill furnace, pill formulas, and materials, spending nearly ten thousand Spirit Stones on preparations for future cultivation.
• Wang Yu went to Gold Abundance Pavilion and asked for Dragon Lineage Demon Beast Blood Essence.
• A shop attendant showed Wang Yu blood from a Third Tier Azure Sea Dragon Turtle, explaining that each flask could yield one drop of blood essence.

Wang Yu bought Ice Chi Python Blood Essence and medicinal ingredients to advance his body refinement, then spotted a cultivator carrying a Flood Dragon Inner Core. After the cultivator fled Heart Erosion City and two Foundation Establishment cultivators pursued him, Wang Yu followed, hoping to seize an opportunity without taking unnecessary risks.

• Wang Yu rejected Gold Abundance Pavilion’s Spirit Stone Loan and bought a bottle of Ice Chi Python Blood Essence for three thousand spirit stones.
• Wang Yu purchased the other ingredients for his Body Refinement Secret Medicine and assigned Placement Slot 4 to the Invisibility Technique.
• Wang Yu noticed a middle-aged cultivator carrying a Flood Dragon Inner Core and followed him out of Heart Erosion City.
• The cultivator fled on a spirit boat, and two Foundation Establishment cultivators chased after him.
• Wang Yu flew after the pursuers, intending to adapt to the situation and steal the inner core if an opportunity arose.

Wang Yu secretly watched a battle over a Third Tier Flood Dragon Inner Core between a Foundation Establishment cultivator from Five Yin Peak and two Beast Taming Dao brothers. The brothers and their Unicorn Flame Leopards gained the upper hand, leaving the Five Yin Peak cultivator wounded as the fight continued.

• Wang Yu arrived at the gorge and learned that the pursued Five Yin Peak cultivator possessed a Third Tier Flood Dragon Inner Core.
• The Five Yin Peak cultivator attacked the two brothers with his Thousand Ghosts Banner and Five Ghosts Great Evil Art, whose sound waves struck at their divine sense.
• The brothers released two Early-stage second-tier Unicorn Flame Leopards, shifting the fight against the Five Yin Peak cultivator.
• The Five Yin Peak cultivator used a bronze mirror to absorb the leopards’ flames and redirect them at the elder brother, while the younger brother empowered his leopard with Demon Spirit Berserk Art.
• The younger brother used talismans to break the Five Yin Peak cultivator’s Body-Protecting True Aura, and the brothers and leopards wounded him as the battle continued.

Wang Yu saw through the Five Yin Peak cultivator’s illusion and seized the chance to ambush him, tearing out the Flood Dragon Inner Core. He fled toward Spider Mountain, but one of the brothers pursued him after realizing he had taken the core.

• The Five Yin Peak cultivator unleashed his Long-Tongued Yin Woman, trapping the brothers and their spirit beasts in an illusion and killing the elder brother.
• Wang Yu used the Grand Yin Nether Eye to recognize the illusion and found the Five Yin Peak cultivator exposed while possessed by his spirit ghost.
• Wang Yu concealed his identity, struck the Five Yin Peak cultivator from behind, and ripped the Flood Dragon Inner Core from his body.
• Wang Yu fled toward Spider Mountain as the younger brother urged the awakened elder brother to attack the wounded Foundation Establishment cultivator and then follow him.
• The younger brother caught up with Wang Yu after a short flight, discovered he was a Qi Refining Cultivator, and demanded the Flood Dragon Inner Core.

Wang Yu escaped into the forest and killed the exhausted Foundation Establishment pursuer, then returned safely to Spider Mountain. He examined the man’s belongings and found cultivation techniques, spells, and secret arts among them.

• Wang Yu used the Black Scale Shield to fend off attacks while fleeing, then dropped into the forest and concealed himself.
• Wang Yu ambushed the pursuer with Cold Flame and broke through his Body-Protecting True Aura with a punch.
• Wang Yu trapped the pursuer with ice techniques and killed him with a flying kick.
• Wang Yu devoured the Foundation Establishment soul with the Black Fiend Armor and took the corpse and Storage Bag.
• Wang Yu reached Spider Mountain, hid in his Stone House, and found cultivation techniques, spells, and secret arts among the pursuer’s belongings.

Wang Yu examined the Beast Taming inheritance and spirit beasts he had seized, then helped Situ Hong eliminate a group of rivals. After the sect shortened the Spider Mountain mission from ten years to six, Wang Yu deduced that the Light Gauze Female Cultivator was Yan Ling, who had come to stay clear of the conflict between the other true disciples.

• Wang Yu found a Second Tier Spirit Beast Pouch containing a Shadow Wolf, an Iron Feather Eagle, and a Snow Jade Fox, and sealed away the Flood Dragon Inner Core.
• Situ Hong told Wang Yu that an old enemy’s followers were threatening his interests at Spider Mountain, and Wang Yu agreed to help repay a favor.
• Wang Yu and Situ Hong attacked the group on a dark night, killing most of them and leaving True Person Red Haze’s grand-disciple injured and stripped of his possessions.
• Five Yin Peak sent a new Foundation Establishment Steward to Spider Mountain, and the mission was later shortened from ten years to six.
• Wang Yu connected the Light Gauze Female Cultivator’s behavior and the shortened mission to Yan Ling, concluding that she had come to avoid the conflict between Su Yulong and Wei Zhong.

Wang Yu reviewed his gains during six peaceful years at Spider Mountain, including progress in cultivation, body refinement, and the Demonic Fetus Profound Origin Secret Incantation. As his mission neared its end, he planned to return to the sect, seek Inner Disciple status, and remain on the demonic path.

• Yan Ling waited until rival True Inheritors had fought over the legacy left after the Whale Fall, then arranged to return to the sect headquarters four years early.
• Wang Yu completed the Spirit Taming Seal, perfected his Second Tier Low Grade Invisibility Technique, sold two spirit beasts, and advanced his Flood Dragon Strength body refinement.
• Wang Yu continued developing the Demonic Fetus Profound Origin Secret Incantation, which caused black rootlets to grow beneath his mutated Five Spiritual Roots as they moved toward forming a demonic fetus.
• Wang Yu reached 404 strands of spiritual power at Qi Refining Eighth Layer and calculated that he would need about twelve more years to reach Qi Refining Ninth Layer.
• As his Spider Mountain mission neared its end, Wang Yu planned to return to the sect, seek an Inner Disciple recommendation, and continue cultivating in the demonic path.

Wang Yu returned to the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect and advanced his Cold Blood cultivation method to a Second Tier High-Grade art, dramatically improving his cultivation speed. He began preparing beast-feeding pills and planned to find candidates to recommend while settling matters with Ice Snow Tower and True Inheritor Su.

• Wang Yu declined Situ Hong's offer of help and kept his distance after noticing the disciple-grandson of True Person Red Haze nearby.
• Yan Ling arrived with a flying boat and led the surviving disciples back to the sect.
• Wang Yu submitted his mission, exchanged Contribution Points for the Beast Feeding Pill formula, and asked Huang Kai to purchase spirit herbs.
• Wang Yu's Cold Blood Art advanced into the Second Tier High-Grade Cold Blood Ascending Spirit Art, doubling the estimated cultivation efficiency of his Placement Slots.
• Wang Yu calculated that pills could shorten his breakthrough timeline to six or seven years, then began looking for suitable candidates and preparing to sever his ties with True Inheritor Su.

Wang Yu weighed his options for finding a Foundation Establishment recommender and chose Tantai Chan, hoping to join the inner sect and take Cold Blood Peak’s Slave Capture Mission. At Tantai Chan’s medicine garden, she refused his request, but Yu Tang Tang stopped him from leaving after recognizing him, giving Wang Yu a chance to pursue another bargain.

• Wang Yu ruled out seeking Zuoqiu Ming’s help for now and searched Cold Blood Peak for a suitable recommender.
• Wang Yu chose Tantai Chan and went to her medicine garden, where he found her with Yu Tang Tang.
• Wang Yu asked Tantai Chan to recommend him for promotion to Inner Disciple, but she refused even when he offered Ten Thousand Spirit Stones.
• Yu Tang Tang grabbed Wang Yu’s hand and told him not to leave, while he considered trading his Third Tier Flood Dragon Inner Core for spiritual items and Tantai Chan’s recommendation.

Wang Yu offered Yu Tang Tang a trade: a third-tier Flood Dragon Inner Core in exchange for two second-tier Foundation Establishment Spiritual Items and Tantai Chan’s help with two favors. Yu Tang Tang left to fetch the requested items, while Tantai Chan explained how she had become Yu Tang Tang’s human slave.

• Wang Yu asked Tantai Chan to step aside so he could speak privately with Yu Tang Tang.
• Wang Yu showed Yu Tang Tang a failed Youth Preservation Pill and proposed trading his Flood Dragon Inner Core for two Foundation Establishment Spiritual Items and Tantai Chan’s help.
• Yu Tang Tang agreed to the terms on Tantai Chan’s behalf, but Wang Yu refused to hand over the treasure before she returned with the payment.
• Yu Tang Tang summoned the Mid-stage Core Formation Tri-Colored Dragon Finch and left for her father’s cave abode, promising to return within half a day.
• Tantai Chan confronted Wang Yu, then recalled how she had deceived Yu Tang Tang, been captured by the Tri-Colored Dragon Finch, and forced into a Blood Contract as Yu Tang Tang’s human slave.

Yu Tang Tang traded a Flood Dragon Inner Core to Wang Yu for the Nether Spring Lotus and Adamantine Fluid, then arranged for Tantai Chan to hear his requests. Wang Yu asked Tantai Chan to recommend him as an Inner Disciple and help him join a Slave Capture Mission, and he explained how her influence could make the latter possible.

• Yu Tang Tang sneaked into the Blood-Eyed Demon Flood Dragon's treasure vault and took a Nether Spring Lotus and Adamantine Fluid.
• Yu Tang Tang returned to Wang Yu and exchanged the two Foundation Establishment Spiritual Items for his sealed Third Tier Flood Dragon Inner Core.
• Yu Tang Tang praised Wang Yu's Sealing Pill Method and called Tantai Chan back to hear his requests.
• Wang Yu asked Tantai Chan to recommend him as an Inner Disciple and arrange for him to join a Slave Capture Mission.
• Tantai Chan said she could help him enter the inner sect but could not interfere with Slave Capture Missions, so Wang Yu explained how her support as an alchemist could help him join the team.

Wang Yu arranged his promotion to the Inner Sect with Tantai Chan’s help, while continuing to cultivate and consider how to restore his severed arm. He received his Inner Disciple status and benefits at the Ancestor Hall, but still had to wait for the Slave Capture Mission.

• Wang Yu persuaded Tantai Chan to help secure his promotion, and she agreed after considering the benefits to herself and True Inheritor Yan Ling.
• Wang Yu returned to Heavenly Corpse Ward and focused on cultivating Flood Dragon Strength, hoping to build enough strength to regenerate his missing arm.
• A month later, Tantai Chan informed Wang Yu that his Inner Sect promotion had been handled, while his Slave Capture Mission remained pending.
• Wang Yu went to the Ancestor Hall, where a Core Formation Elder exchanged his Black Blood Token for a Purple Blood Token and confirmed his new status.
• Wang Yu received an Inner Disciple robe, a Blue Butterfly Sword, a mid-grade Storage Bag, and expanded access and discounts across the sect.

After becoming an Inner Disciple, Wang Yu refined Beast Feeding Pills for his Snow Jade Fox and joined a Slave Catching Team bound for the Great Lake Spirit Domain. He set out hoping to return to Stone Lake City, while his former associate Duan Ping feared what Wang Yu might do to him on the journey.

• Wang Yu adapted to Inner Sect life by refining three Top-Grade Beast Feeding Pills for the Snow Jade Fox and preparing enough pills for it to form a Pill Barrier.
• Tantai Chan informed Wang Yu that he had to report to Cold Blood Peak’s Stone House Area within seven days for a new Slave Catching Team mission.
• Wang Yu left the Inverse Blood Ten Wards, hoping to retrace his route through the Black Mountain Pass and return to Stone Lake City.
• At the Stone House Area, Wang Yu recognized Steward Liu and Duan Ping, who had been demoted and whose cultivation had fallen after a failed Foundation Establishment attempt.
• Old Man Ning warned Wang Yu that he could deal with Duan Ping once they left the sect, then ordered the team to depart; Duan Ping reluctantly followed at a distance from Wang Yu.

Wang Yu pursued and killed Duan Ping while traveling with Old Man Ning’s team, then learned that the Stone Lake City Lord had sold him as a child. After taking Duan Ping’s rare magical artifact, Wang Yu rejoined the group and continued toward Black Mountain Pass.

• Old Man Ning apologized to Wang Yu for abducting him and revealed that the Stone Lake City Lord had sold young cultivators with four or Five Spiritual Roots to him.
• Old Man Ning offered to lead Wang Yu to the Stone Lake City Lord, and Wang Yu agreed to settle the matter later.
• A month after leaving Blood Abyss Province, Wang Yu pursued Duan Ping while Old Man Ning’s team stayed back rather than interfere.
• Duan Ping used a Top Grade Magical Artifact to block Wang Yu’s Ice Swords, but Wang Yu broke through its defense, killed him, and took the Copper Bowl.
• Wang Yu searched Duan Ping’s Storage Bag and rejoined Old Man Ning’s team, which continued toward Black Mountain Pass.

Wang Yu returned to Stone Lake City after sixteen and a half years and secretly approached his family home, where he recalled his childhood and the Wang clan’s old disputes. He left the gatekeeper asleep and wondered how the clan had changed, especially under Wang Wu’s influence.

• Old Man Ning paid the Azure Cloud Sect cultivators at Black Mountain Pass to let the group enter the Great Lake Spirit Domain.
• After reaching Stone Lake City, Wang Yu declined Old Man Ning’s offer to visit the Old City Lord and went to see his family first.
• Wang Yu planned to remain hidden in the Great Lake Spirit Domain until Foundation Establishment and intended to wait for the Demonic Fetus Profound Origin Secret Incantation to reach perfection before targeting Wang Wu.
• Wang Yu arrived at the Wang Clan courtyard after sixteen and a half years away and recalled his family’s past rivalries and Wang Wu’s spiritual roots.
• Wang Yu recognized the gatekeeper dozing at the side door as Uncle Qin and remarked on how old he had become.

Wang Yu returned to the Wang Clan and learned that Wang Wu had seized control, caused his father's death, and eliminated clan members who opposed him. After paying respects at his father's grave, Wang Yu left determined to investigate and settle accounts with Wang Wu and those connected to him.

• Wang Yu appeared before Uncle Qin, confirmed he was a cultivator, and heard how the City Lord's Mansion had helped Wang Wu after Wang Yu disappeared.
• Uncle Qin recounted that Wang Yu's father died after Wang Wu's allies broke his limbs, and that Wang Wu later killed clan elders and demanded young women be sent to the Vulture Peak Sect.
• Wang Yu learned that only around thirty Wang clansmen remained and that two young relatives had been given strange, weak cultivation; he secretly marked them with a Divine Sense Imprint.
• Wang Yu put Uncle Qin to sleep with divine sense so he would remember their meeting as a dream, then resolved to investigate Wang Wu, the Vulture Peak Sect, and the City Lord's Mansion.
• Wang Yu went to Grave Mountain, found his father's tombstone, and paid his respects.

After mourning his father, Wang Yu confronted Stone Lake City's former Old City Lord about the Spirit Slave trade and the Vulture Peak Sect's demand for mortal girls. The Old City Lord died before revealing the secret, leaving Wang Yu with an unfinished clue and a warning that the matter ran deep.

• Wang Yu visited his father's grave, kowtowed three times, and set out to seek revenge.
• Wang Yu found the retired Old City Lord and asked who had arranged the Spirit Slave trade with the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect.
• The Old City Lord explained that powerful Nascent Soul forces had long run the trade, and that Old Man Ning had recruited Stone Lake City sixteen years earlier.
• When Wang Yu pressed him about why Vulture Peak Sect wanted mortal maidens, the Old City Lord refused, citing a deadly restriction.
• The Old City Lord tried to escape after setting the bamboo hut ablaze, but Wang Yu captured him and used Soul Devouring.
• The Old City Lord began to say "Yu" before his head exploded; Wang Yu absorbed his remnant soul and confiscated his possessions.

Wang Yu attacked and killed Old Man Ning in Stone Lake City to avenge his enslavement, then escaped with the man’s valuables. He reached Stone Lake, where he still had matters to settle and Wang Wu to deal with.

• Wang Yu rushed to Old Man Ning’s hideout after learning Ning had arranged his sale to the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect.
• Wang Yu smashed through the hideout and fought Old Man Ning, who recognized him and threatened him with sect retribution.
• Wang Yu admitted his identity and killed Old Man Ning by tearing out his spine with the Corpse Demon Secret Art’s strength.
• Wang Yu took Old Man Ning’s corpse and Storage Bags, then fled the city to avoid the City Lord’s attention.
• Wang Yu found spirit stones, magical artifacts, a flying horse, and two tokens among Ning’s possessions before reaching Stone Lake.