Chapter Summaries

Wang Hong expanded his businesses after improving his alchemy, using his profits to grow his hidden resources and stockpile pills. He opened Zhao's Elixir Pavilion under Zhao Ning's name to conceal his involvement.

• Wang Hong's Immortal Wine Pavilion earned more than ten thousand Spirit Stones each month, and he left Skinny Monkey in charge while he cultivated and refined pills.
• Wang Hong spent half a year refining Qi Gathering Pills, raised his yield to forty percent, and produced a bottle of eight mid-grade pills.
• Wang Hong expanded and tended the land in his space, then refined Barrier Breaking Pills and other first-rank pills until he had accumulated more than ten thousand pills.
• Wang Hong decided to open an Elixir Pavilion because he had abundant spirit herbs and pills but did not want to attract attention by selling them in bulk.
• Wang Hong assigned Zhao Ning to open a shop under his name, and Zhao's Elixir Pavilion began selling first-rank pills and spirit herbs ten days later.

After months of experiments, Wang Hong and his companions developed the nine-level Immortal Mortal Transformation cultivation technique. Disguised as Wang Kun, he explored Black Dragon Marsh to collect spiritual herbs and reached Hundred Flowers Valley with his party, where they discovered a Green-tailed Spirit Beehive.

• After testing the Body Tempering Art and Henglian Liuhe Gong, Wang Hong and more than forty people developed the preliminary nine-level Immortal Mortal Transformation technique for his soldiers.
• Wang Hong joined an exploration party under the alias Wang Kun and entered Black Dragon Marsh, where his hardened body resisted a venomous mosquito's bite.
• Wang Hong collected spiritual herb seedlings and traded pills and spiritual wine for herbs from Fairy Shi and the other cultivators.
• The party crossed the marsh and reached Hundred Flowers Valley to gather spiritual flowers for brewing Hundred Flowers Spirit Wine.
• While the party gathered flowers and Wang Hong transplanted specimens into his space, the Yu cultivator spotted a Green-tailed Spirit Beehive.

Wang Hong and four cultivators killed Spirit Bees in batches and divided the hive’s honey and royal jelly. Afterward, Wang Hong ate his homemade Spirit Meal and offered to sell the others a jar for twenty Spirit Stones.

• The group rejected burning the hive and agreed to lure away and kill the Spirit Bees in small batches.
• Wang Hong used talismans and his spear to fight off hundreds of Spirit Bees, then recovered with spirit wine before returning.
• The five spent nearly two days exterminating the swarm, suffering stings and swollen faces along the way.
• Old Man Ge cut down the hive, and the group divided the honey and ten drops of Spirit Bee Royal Jelly equally.
• Wang Hong ate meat broth and flatbread, and the Lei cultivator asked to buy a portion.
• Wang Hong priced each jar of Spirit Meal at twenty Spirit Stones and offered the flatbread for free.

Wang Hong discovered that creatures hatched inside his expanding space could enter and leave it, then joined the group as they continued through Black Dragon Marsh. In Mistwind Gorge, the cultivators found a grove of Crimson Silk Fruit trees guarded by Green Wind Monkeys and considered fighting for the harvest.

• Wang Hong served the Lei cultivator a spirit meal, then discovered that Green-tailed Spirit Bees hatched in his space could pass in and out while ordinary ants could not enter alive.
• Wang Hong brought ant eggs into his space, and after the group rested, they continued toward Mistwind Gorge.
• The cultivators entered the mist-filled gorge, divided up Silver Thread Orchid, and spread out to search while keeping close enough to help one another.
• Cultivator Shi spotted many Crimson Silk Fruits, and Wang Hong joined the others near the grove, where seven Green Wind Monkeys confronted them.
• The Lei cultivator pointed out that a larger fruit-tree forest lay deeper inside and suggested killing their way through to claim a harvest worth tens of thousands of Spirit Stones.

Wang Hong helped the group defeat several Green Wind Monkeys, but the cultivators’ hunt for Spirit Fruits ended in an ambush by a much larger troop. He escaped into the stone forest, leaving Cultivator Shi dead and Old Man Ge and the Lei cultivator pursued.

• Wang Hong killed one Green Wind Monkey and helped Old Man Ge and the Lei cultivator defeat others while Cultivator Ding struggled against two.
• The surviving monkeys fled, and the group began harvesting Spirit Fruits after a brief rest.
• Wang Hong smelled a foul stench and warned the group they were surrounded, but most continued picking fruit until more than twenty monkeys attacked.
• Cultivator Shi was badly wounded, and Cultivator Ding used an Earth Escape Talisman to flee during the chaos.
• Wang Hong and the Lei cultivator hurled talismans at the monkeys, then Wang Hong burrowed deeper into the stone forest.
• Cultivator Shi was torn apart, while Old Man Ge and the Lei cultivator escaped the encirclement under pursuit; Wang Hong slipped away in the direction Cultivator Ding had taken.

Wang Hong gathered spirit fruit trees before confronting Cultivator Ding, who revealed his strength and pursued him to seize his treasures. Wang Hong killed Cultivator Ding with a trap of Iron Thorns seeds and talismans, but suffered a grievous wound and fled after treating it.

• Wang Hong dug up one small tree of each spirit fruit variety and hid when Cultivator Ding approached.
• Cultivator Ding admitted luring cultivators to draw off the demon monkeys and revealed his power had reached Qi Refining Layer Eight.
• Wang Hong fought Cultivator Ding, then fled for hours while using talismans and spirit wine to stay ahead.
• Wang Hong reached a dead end and used Iron Thorns seeds to hem Cultivator Ding in.
• Wang Hong fired a large handful of talismans at Cultivator Ding while Cultivator Ding's Golden Flying Sword badly wounded him.
• Wang Hong treated his injuries, took Cultivator Ding's storage pouch and flying swords, and hurried away.

After recovering from his wounds, Wang Hong examined Cultivator Ding’s spoils, expanded and planted his space, and established a new queen bee for its hive. Back in Qingxu City, he learned someone was investigating the Elixir Pavilion’s suppliers and decided to make his businesses’ supply sources appear openly legitimate.

• Wang Hong sorted Cultivator Ding’s spoils, including Spirit Fruits, more than fifty thousand Spirit Stones, cultivation records, and a Foundation Establishment Spirit Artifact flying sword.
• Wang Hong used the Spirit Stones to expand his space to four mu, planted his Spirit Fruits, and noticed that some Spirit Grains and spirit wheat were mutating again.
• Wang Hong bound the strongest egg in Cultivator Ding’s honeycomb to himself and placed it in a queen cell so it could become the hive’s new queen bee.
• Wang Hong found ants eating his spirit herbs, tested that creatures hatched in the space could be brought inside, and then returned to Qingxu City in disguise.
• Zhao Ning told Wang Hong that someone had tried to investigate the Elixir Pavilion’s suppliers and bribe one of his soldiers.
• Wang Hong decided to expand his wine cellars, openly explain the Elixir Pavilion’s supply sources, and eventually buy spirit fields to help conceal where some spirit herbs came from.

Wang Hong used his Wang Kun disguise to resume selling elixirs, then bought magical artifacts and second-tier medicinal seeds at Myriad Treasures Tower. He expanded his cultivation space and finished refining over a hundred Body Tempering Pills.

• Wang Hong established a residence in Qingxu City under the identity of Wang Kun and sold elixirs through Zhao's Elixir Pavilion, including a Barrier Breaking Pill.
• Wang Hong ate all fifteen White Crystal Fruits, which lowered his cultivation from Qi Refining Layer Five to Qi Refining Layer Four while purifying his mana, then brewed spirit wine from other Spirit Fruits.
• Wang Hong spent his earnings at Myriad Treasures Tower on a heavy high-grade spear, a mid-grade flying sword, two shields, and second-tier spirit-herb and Spirit Fruit items.
• Wang Hong paid for his purchases with a Barrier Breaking Pill, received one thousand Spirit Stones back, and used the remaining thirty thousand Spirit Stones to expand his space.
• Wang Hong harvested more than thirty batches of Body Tempering Pill ingredients and spent seven days refining over a hundred pills.

Wang Hong expanded his pill business, trained in Shifting Form and Changing Position, and spent three years growing stronger while developing his space and supporting his soldiers. By the end, he had reached the seventh level of Qi Refining, built up substantial stores of spiritual resources, and continued cultivating his organization’s supply and training.

• Wang Hong tested Body Tempering Pills on Wen Lan and Luo Zhongjie, then began cultivating Shifting Form and Changing Position despite its heavy spiritual-power cost.
• Wang Hong, using the identity Wang Kun, negotiated a long-term supply arrangement with Qian Gui, providing pills and herbs including one Barrier Breaking Pill per month.
• Wang Hong assigned Zhang Chunfeng a thousand sets of Qi Gathering Pill ingredients to practice alchemy, while the Spirit Bee Queen’s colony grew to over ten thousand bees.
• Wang Hong repeatedly trained in Black Dragon Marsh, first with teams and later alone after reaching the seventh level of Qi Refining, and expanded his space to fifteen mu over three years.
• Wang Hong organized his expanded stores of spiritual fruit, medicines, and grain, while his soldiers received Body Tempering Pills and Demonic Beast meat and some advanced to the second level of Qi Refining.

Wang Hong expanded his quiet trade through the fabricated Immortal Dao Trading Company and attended Qingxu City’s Ten-Store Joint Auction, where he bought a Wind Sailing Boat and several spiritual herbs. The auction ended with He Yuan failing to obtain two mutated herbs that could restore his depleted essence and blood, though he suddenly seemed to hear or sense someone in the crowd.

• Wang Hong continued supplying five small shops and planned to grow the Immortal Dao Trading Company while avoiding major forces.
• Wang Hong attended the crowded Ten-Store Joint Auction and won the Wind Sailing Boat for 1,500 Spirit Stones.
• Wang Hong exchanged second-tier spiritual herbs for auction proceeds and later bought several herbs he lacked.
• The auction’s two mutated three-hundred-year-old herbs were identified as second-tier medicine that could replenish essence and blood, and the crimson-robed cultivator won them for 50,000 Spirit Stones.
• He Yuan offered 20,000 Spirit Stones and ten years of service under a Blood Pact for the herbs, but the crimson-robed Foundation Establishment cultivator refused to sell them.
• He Yuan sat down in despair, then reacted with delight when he sensed someone in the crowd but could not find them.