Recaps

Wang Wu defeated Xu Taiping’s attack without harming him and learned that the Three Realms Simulation Array Disk was likely part of a scam that lured Earth Immortals into a deadly mystic realm. Trapped together in the Thief Sect’s lair, Wang Wu threatened the sect in Bai Yu’s name, and its people offered compensation and a way out.

• Xu Taiping used a damaged Golden Tome of Creation to weaken Wang Wu’s Spiritual Essence Insight, then attacked him with a sword array that shattered his Fire Armor repeatedly without dealing damage.
• Wang Wu claimed his strength came from a powerful immortal artifact, and Xu Taiping apologized and agreed to answer his questions.
• Xu Taiping explained that he had invested in the Three Realms Simulation Array Disk after finding it in the Secret Treasury, and Wang Wu realized it was likely a scam targeting Earth Immortals.
• Wang Wu concluded that he and Xu Taiping were trapped in an alchemy furnace or Sin Prison Tower, then shouted threats at the Thief Sect using Bai Yu’s identity.
• The Thief Sect apologized, offered compensation, and sent down a teleportation beam and a storage chest.

Wang Wu rescued Xu Taiping from the Thief Sect’s pig-butchering scam and refused to take the talented Earth Immortal as a subordinate, instead offering to establish a Foundation Establishment Array for him while secretly studying his cultivation. After three days of observing Xu Taiping’s exceptional Five-Element methods, Wang Wu learned why Xu had struggled to advance in the Hidden Origin Society and realized how fortunate his own rise had been.

• Wang Wu returned to Madam Yu’s cave abode with Xu Taiping just before the Three Realms Simulation Array Disk self-destructed, exposing the scam and the loss of five hundred thousand strands of Mortal Qi.
• Wang Wu warned Madam Yu and Snake Nineteen to use the Hidden Origin Society’s Public Treasury and avoid the Thief Sect’s fraudulent array disks, then took Xu Taiping away from Dragon Head City.
• Xu Taiping begged Wang Wu to take him in, but Wang Wu instead offered to use Xu’s five Spirit Pills to establish a first-tier Five Aggregates Spirit Array in his body.
• Wang Wu secretly observed Xu Taiping’s cultivation for three days and was impressed by the refined Five-Element Rotational Breath-Regulation Method he had devised.
• Xu Taiping explained that he had been unable to reverse-engineer the Five Aggregates Spirit Pill formula from fourth-grade pills and had never been able to advance to Ninth-grade Elder in the Hidden Origin Society.
• Wang Wu realized that Xu Taiping’s excessive caution had kept him from being recognized, while his own advancement had been aided by Elder Hui’s patronage.

Wang Wu helped Xu Taiping arrange a Five Aggregates Spirit Array, gaining insight that improved his own Fire Spirit Pill. After Xu Taiping left Dragon Head City, Wang Wu explored the Hidden Origin Society Public Treasury and decided to sell his level 6 Crimson Flame Spirit Energy for cultivation resources.

• Wang Wu asked Xu Taiping to assess the Hidden Origin Society, and Xu Taiping praised its support for mortals and independent cultivators while recalling its factional struggles.
• Wang Wu spent six days arranging Xu Taiping's Foundation Establishment Array and secretly studied how Xu Taiping circulated Spirit Energy through his Spirit Pills.
• Xu Taiping derived the final portion of the array himself, gaining a sharp increase in combat power and the potential to threaten Wang Wu.
• Wang Wu dismissed Xu Taiping, had Snake Nineteen and Madam Yu erase their memories of him, and watched until Xu Taiping left Dragon Head City's surrounding region.
• Wang Wu found that studying Xu Taiping's Spirit Pills had improved his Fire Spirit Pill's operation by ten percent, then chose to preserve his Mortal Qi and obtain Spirit Energy by selling level 6 Crimson Flame Spirit Energy.
• Wang Wu browsed the Hidden Origin Society Public Treasury's trading system and examined the prices and exchange rates for Crimson Flame Spirit Energy.

Wang Wu tried to exchange Mortal Qi for spirit energy, but Bai Yu warned him that the strands were illegal and had nearly triggered an investigation. Bai Yu then ordered Wang Wu to take his three thousand stewards away from Dragon Head City, either by helping the Vermilion Bird Immortal Alliance fight the Jade Cauldron Immortal Alliance for thirty years or by pursuing a more violent option.

• Wang Wu considered selling Crimson Flame Spirit Energy, but the Four Clowns warned that doing so could expose his Fire Spirit Pill and that he could not safely store too much of it.
• Wang Wu exchanged five hundred thousand strands of Mortal Qi for spirit energy, then canceled the transaction after Bai Yu warned him that it could trigger an alert.
• Bai Yu explained that the Mortal Qi had likely been switched for illegal strands and that large transactions could send Wang Wu to the Great Desolation Sin Prison Tower.
• Bai Yu asked Wang Wu to resolve the debt Song Guangming had left to the Jade Cauldron Immortal Alliance, then offered him the choice of destroying the evidence or serving as a mercenary for the Vermilion Bird Immortal Alliance.
• Wang Wu realized Bai Yu wanted him to take his three thousand Hidden Origin Society stewards away from their posts in Dragon Head City.

Wang Wu learned that Bai Yu and Senior Sister Qin were forcing him into a deadly choice amid the Hidden Origin Society’s factional struggle. With no safe way out, he left a Supreme Hair duplicate kneeling outside Dragon Head City and pursued Senior Sister Qin, prepared to fight her.

• Wang Wu agreed to Bai Yu’s demand to destroy evidence of the Mortal Qi debt and kill everyone involved, receiving three years to handle the loose ends.
• Senior Sister Qin confronted Wang Wu and offered him two choices: defect to Bai Yu’s side or turn himself in and implicate Bai Yu.
• Wang Wu realized that either choice would endanger him and his three thousand subordinates, and Senior Sister Qin refused to let him see their Master.
• After Senior Sister Qin and Bai Yu left him kneeling outside the city, Wang Wu used a strand of Supreme Hair to leave a duplicate behind and secretly followed her.
• Wang Wu resolved to kill Senior Sister Qin, knowing his blood curse prevented Elder Hui from predicting the confrontation and that they might die together.

Wang Wu tracked Senior Sister Qin to a nearby city and planned to assassinate her during her return to Dragon Head City. He tested his Fire Escape Divine Ability and began working out how to overtake her, but the chapter ended before he learned whether he could reach the required speed.

• Wang Wu used his Spiritual Essence Insight to track Senior Sister Qin's aura to a city near Dragon Head City and found traces of her Wind Escape Divine Ability.
• The Four Clowns analyzed Senior Sister Qin's escape technique and recommended intercepting her midway, though they could not yet calculate how to do it.
• Wang Wu decided to pursue Senior Sister Qin from behind rather than intercept her along her route, and he ordered the Four Clowns to calculate her escape speed.
• Wang Wu tested his Fire Escape Divine Ability at full power, then stopped sixty thousand li away after the run.

Wang Wu prepared a formation-based ambush and intercepted Senior Sister Qin as she used her Wind Escape Divine Ability. Their collision wrecked the escape techniques and devastated the surrounding landscape, leaving both alive and able to fight.

• The Four Clowns confirmed Wang Wu’s interception plan, and he returned to the city to take control of an outer formation.
• Wang Wu transformed the formation into a Cold-Start Formation, refining it through three redeployments before waiting inside it for dawn.
• Senior Sister Qin left the city and activated her Wind Escape Divine Ability, while Wang Wu used the formation and his Fire Escape Divine Ability to catch up to her.
• Wang Wu struck Senior Sister Qin from behind, interrupting her escape and cracking her Wind Spirit Pill as both lost control of their techniques.
• Their runaway escape abilities annihilated a mountain and carved a vast chasm, but Wang Wu’s Fire Armor and Senior Sister Qin’s Protective Immortal Talismans kept them alive.
• Senior Sister Qin manifested thirty-six External Incarnations, while Wang Wu focused on restraining her main body.

Wang Wu killed Senior Sister Qin by triggering a catastrophic conflict among her Spirit Pills, then returned to Dragon Head City and allowed himself to be detained. The city went on highest alert after an eighth-grade Elder was reported dead nearby, creating a crisis for Bai Yu and the Hidden Origin Society.

• Wang Wu fed Senior Sister Qin his Greatest Common Divisor Pill, then restrained her as her Spirit Pills fought and her Foundation Establishment Arrays collapsed.
• Wang Wu killed Senior Sister Qin, destroyed her body with Divine Thunder Spirit Talismans, and absorbed her shattered Spirit Pills and spirit energy.
• Wang Wu returned to Dragon Head City, where Bai Yu told him that Senior Sister Qin had reported him and that he was being suspended and detained pending an investigation.
• Bai Yu detained Wang Wu in his former cave dwelling, and Wang Wu agreed to accept the charges if Bai Yu protected his subordinates.
• Bai Yu received news that an eighth-grade Elder had died near Dragon Head City, and the Hidden Origin Bell sounded the highest-level alert.

After Qin Yu was assassinated, Frost Lord told Bai Yu that a long-planned enemy had targeted either Qin Yu or him to provoke conflict within the Hidden Origin Society. Frost Lord, Elder Hui, and the Black Emperor then discussed Elder Hui’s old divination about Wang Zhige, concluding that Wang Zhige could not have been the killer.

• Bai Yu’s Second Senior Brother warned him that headquarters was investigating Qin Yu’s death and told him to keep Wang Zhige alive.
• Bai Yu sealed Wang Zhige with immortal talismans, then considered that another force might have killed Qin Yu to profit from the conflict.
• Frost Lord assured Bai Yu he was not suspected, ordered him to watch Wang Zhige, and explained that a Grand Unity Fifth Stage True Immortal had spent at least a year preparing the attack.
• Frost Lord told Bai Yu the killer had hidden near Dragon Tail City, cracked a formation, and planned to kill either Qin Yu or Bai Yu to inflame tensions between Frost Lord and Elder Hui.
• Frost Lord, Elder Hui, and the Black Emperor discussed Elder Hui’s divination that Wang Zhige would kill Qin Yu centuries later, and Elder Hui asked them to find evidence against Wang Zhige.
• The Black Emperor explained that the elaborate formation required thousands of years of expertise and a Wind Spirit Pill, which Wang Zhige did not possess.

After Qin Yu’s death, Elder Hui, Frost Lord, and the Black Emperor finalized a preliminary report and left the murder investigation to headquarters. Wang Wu was sentenced to five hundred years in prison, then said goodbye to his friends as the new Dragon Head City chief, He Tianyao, took over his subordinates.

• Elder Hui, Frost Lord, and the Black Emperor agreed to finalize their report and investigate the matter secretly while headquarters pursued the murderer.
• Wang Wu reflected on how he had concealed his role in Qin Yu’s death and examined the powerful spirit energy stored in his Greatest Common Divisor Pill.
• After three months in detention, Wang Wu met He Tianyao, the new Dragon Head City branch chief, and received his punishment: demotion, confiscation of illegal Mortal Qi, and five hundred years in the A-3 Great Desolation Sin Prison.
• He Tianyao asked Wang Wu to tell his subordinates to work under him, and Wang Wu eagerly agreed.
• Wang Wu was sent toward prison after his abilities were sealed, and he bid farewell to his friends, urging them to support He Tianyao.

Wang Wu was taken to the Hidden Origin Society’s A-class Great Desolation Sin Prison, where he reunited with Song Guangming. Song Guangming offered him three ways to serve his five-hundred-year sentence, including dangerous repair work at the A-1 prison Wang Wu had escaped from.

• Bai Yu’s second senior brother briefly visited Wang Wu to say goodbye on Bai Yu’s behalf.
• The two men in black searched Wang Wu’s Universe Bags, took valuable materials, bought him basic supplies, and teleported him to the Great Desolation Sin Prison.
• Wang Wu entered the A-class prison through a hidden stone house and was led through its cells to Song Guangming.
• Song Guangming had Wang Wu’s restraints removed and explained that the prison offered three ways to serve his sentence.
• Song Guangming described the third option: repairing the A-1 Great Desolation Sin Prison amid rampant Yang Thunder, Yin Fire, and Evil Wind.

Wang Wu chose to serve five hundred years repairing Sin Prison, believing he was sparing Song Guangming trouble, while Song Guangming had arranged the transfer under pressure from Qin Yu's family. Wang Wu arrived at the ruined Cloud Cauldron City and was assigned first-tier repair work under Lu Tiangong.

• Wang Wu chose the third punishment path and signed Song Guangming's contract to repair Sin Prison for five hundred years.
• After Wang Wu entered Prison Block One, Song Guangming told Qin Yu's brother that the transfer was complete and lawful.
• Song Guangming revealed that Qin Yu's family had arranged Wang Wu's punishment, blaming him for not agreeing to Qin Yu's request before her death.
• Wang Wu was teleported to the ruined Cloud Cauldron City, where Lu Tiangong explained the repair tasks, allowances, and cultivation rewards.
• Lu Tiangong ordered his disciple Wushuang to collect Wang Wu and assigned him first-tier tasks.

Wang Wu traveled through the Three Calamities to a remote construction camp, where he discovered that the Three-Defense Treasure Armor protected its wearer but also prevented the use of ordinary powers. After his improvised method of gathering building materials failed, he entered the camp and learned that Qin Wushuang would not let him maintain his armor there.

• Qin Wushuang gave Wang Wu an identity jade talisman and took him by boat through the Evil Wind and Yang Thunder to the camp.
• Wang Wu arrived at the tower construction site and was ordered to build himself a sheltered camp within one day.
• Wang Wu dug into the sand and sent an External Incarnation underground for stones and discarded black iron, but the level-eight Evil Wind quickly destroyed it.
• A camp resident warned Wang Wu about using External Incarnations in the Evil Wind and hauled a massive stone back to the fortress.
• The resident nourished his Three-Defense Treasure Armor inside the fortress, but Qin Wushuang barred Wang Wu from doing the same unless he was turning in mission items.

Wang Wu exchanged his gathered materials for mission credit, supplies, and a Three-Defense Cave Mansion in the Great Desolation Sin Prison Tower. Inside his armor, he reworked the acquired Spirit Pill system and discovered that his Fire Spirit Pill had advanced into a Creation Spirit Pill.

• Qin Wushuang warned Wang Wu about the costs of maintaining his Universe Bag and the dangers of using it too often, so Wang Wu handed over all his gathered stones and darksteel.
• A delicate woman explained the tower’s material requirements and Wang Wu exchanged his supplies for eleven months of rest, spiritual-energy subsidies and rewards, and a Three-Defense Cave Mansion.
• The delicate woman built Wang Wu a cramped, three-layered cave mansion and warned him about Yin Wind, armor maintenance, and the missions he would need to complete after his rest.
• Wang Wu concealed himself inside his armor, repeatedly removed newly formed Ninth Grade Wind Spirit Pills, and depleted the Greatest Common Divisor Pill’s wind spirit energy.
• The Four Clowns appraised Wang Wu’s Fire Spirit Pill as a Ninth Grade Creation Fire Spirit Pill and identified Creation Spirit Pills as an advanced evolution of Ruyi Spirit Pills.

Wang Wu and the Four Clowns analyzed the Power of Creation and reconstructed Qin Yu’s immense strength, prompting him to consider how to strengthen his own cultivation. He chose to postpone breaking the Blood Curse and began repairing and stimulating his four remaining Spirit Pills to prepare for a second Foundation Establishment Array.

• The Four Clowns explained that the Power of Creation could transform lower-dimensional substances without changing its own essence, and inferred that Wang Wu’s Fire Spirit Pill had become a ninth-grade Creation Spirit Pill.
• Wang Wu and the Four Clowns speculated that the Golden Tome of Creation was a powerful immortal talisman made using higher levels of the Power of Creation, and Wang Wu considered using his Creation Fire Spirit Energy to imitate it.
• The Four Clowns presented an incomplete reconstruction of Qin Yu’s strength, including five million Health Points and five Spirit Pills, leaving Wang Wu shaken by the gap between them.
• The Four Clowns advised Wang Wu to break the Blood Curse and strengthen his innate bloodline system, but Wang Wu decided to first consolidate his Spirit Pill system and pursue a second Foundation Establishment Array.
• Wang Wu planned to use Creation Fire Spirit Energy to stimulate and repair his Ice, Gold, Wood, and Earth Spirit Pills, then began the process with the Four Clowns’ help.

Wang Wu used the Creation Fire Spirit Energy to help repair and upgrade the Ice Spirit Pill, then emerged from seclusion to find his armor badly worn and a bear demon threatening him. The bear demon revealed that it had accepted a bounty on Wang Wu and planned to exploit the coming dangers to kill him without breaking the rules.

• Wang Wu manipulated the Greatest Common Divisor Pill into diverting resources from the other spirit pills, increasing the Fire Spirit Pill's strength and authority.
• Wang Wu used a small portion of Creation Fire Spirit Energy to attack the Ice Spirit Pill while repairing its hidden wounds and testing the power of Creation.
• Wang Wu repaired the Ice Spirit Pill's fifth and sixth hidden wounds, allowing it to circulate on its own and raising its Ice Spirit Energy from level three to level four.
• After ending the battle, Wang Wu left his cave mansion to collect giant boulders and trade them for repair supplies, but he found a bear demon in the fortress instead of Qin Wushuang.
• The bear demon told Wang Wu that it had accepted a bounty on his life and intended to let the Three Calamities and his deteriorating armor kill him during the Artisan Squad's relocation.

Wang Wu learned why King Bear Shou wanted his Blood Curse Heavenly Punishment and heard the bear’s tragic past, then discovered that Frost Lord had secretly arranged for his Three-Defense Treasure Armor to be repaired. The chapter left Wang Wu stunned by Frost Lord’s protection and warned to maintain the armor if he hoped to survive his sentence.

• King Bear Shou offered to teach Wang Wu the Five Elements Profound Yellow Formation in exchange for Wang Wu’s Blood Curse Heavenly Punishment, explaining that he needed it to evade the Great Witch Priest and reclaim his place as clan leader.
• Wang Wu paid King Bear Shou for his story, and King Bear Shou recounted how the Great Witch Priest executed his fox lover and cubs, prompting him to kill the priest’s grandson and later slaughter Fox Clan members before his imprisonment.
• King Bear Shou explained that the prison workers could earn sentence reductions by repairing the Sin Prison Tower, then left after warning Wang Wu that his five-hundred-year sentence gave him little understanding of the prison’s stakes.
• The female artisan told Wang Wu that his Three-Defense Treasure Armor needed major repairs, and Wang Wu paid for them despite believing materials were unavailable.
• The female artisan revealed that she had enough of her own materials to repair the armor because Frost Lord had ordered her to help Wang Wu, then urged him to maintain it every three days.

Wang Wu reconsidered his plans for escaping King Bear Shou’s harassment and secretly studied Qin Wushuang’s changing formation patterns while waiting for his armor to be repaired. After Qing Xue returned his armor, she assigned him a daily role supporting construction of the Heaven and Earth Needle.

• Wang Wu decided not to break through the Blood Curse Heavenly Punishment yet, fearing it would expose him as Senior Sister Qin’s murderer, and wondered how to deal with King Bear Shou.
• Qin Wushuang studied a complex formation pattern for the Heaven and Earth Needle while Wang Wu secretly memorized its variations and inferred how the resulting formation diagrams could produce the needle.
• Qin Wushuang finished checking hundreds of variant diagrams, and Qing Xue returned Wang Wu’s repaired Three-Defense Treasure Armor.
• Qing Xue criticized Qin Wushuang’s delays and argued that Wang Wu should be expelled for neglecting his prison labor duties, prompting Qin Wushuang to explain that the next construction phase could begin the following month.
• Qing Xue gave Wang Wu his armor and ordered him to climb the Formation Flag daily with the Heaven and Earth Compass to provide a stable directional reference for the formation team.

Wang Wu completed an eight-hour mission balancing the Heaven and Earth Compass atop the Heaven and Earth Needle, then gained temporary lodging with Qing Xue and began considering how Yin-Yang Two Energies could guide cultivation. King Bear Shou later praised Wang Wu’s precise control and asked whether he had inherited a special bloodline ability, but Wang Wu pretended not to understand.

• Qing Xue assigned Wang Wu to balance the Heaven and Earth Compass on the Heaven and Earth Needle for eight hours and explained its warnings and readings.
• Wang Wu stabilized the compass by tracking the rapidly changing Yin-Yang Two Energies while Qing Xue and Zi Han adjusted formation patterns below.
• After completing the mission, Wang Wu followed Qing Xue to the fortress, where she let him stay temporarily because his cave mansion could not be repaired before their relocation.
• While nourishing his Three-Defense Treasure Armor, Wang Wu wondered whether the Yin-Yang Two Energies could serve as a standard for cultivation, but realized his armor blocked their illumination.
• King Bear Shou returned and asked Wang Wu whether his precise control of the Yin-Yang Two Energies came from an inherited bloodline ability, and Wang Wu feigned ignorance.

Wang Wu traded glimpses of his Spiritual Essence Insight for more pieces of the Five Elements Profound Yellow Formation and learned that his ability came from a Hidden Dragon Tendon tied to the Azure Dragon Clan. After King Bear Shou left, the Four Clowns finished analyzing the glimpse and warned that the powerful bear’s unusually low Three Calamities resistance might conceal a trap.

• King Bear Shou offered Wang Wu pieces of the Five Elements Profound Yellow Formation in exchange for a demonstration of his Spiritual Essence abilities.
• Wang Wu used level 18 Spiritual Essence Insight on King Bear Shou, exhausted his Divine Sense, and received a Spirit Pill from Qing Xue that restored it.
• King Bear Shou identified Wang Wu’s Spiritual Essence Micro-control as an Azure Dragon bloodline ability linked to his Hidden Dragon Tendon and pressed him to reveal his Bloodline Talents.
• Wang Wu listed his Bloodline Talents, and the Four Clowns revealed that several acquired talents had grown through his Spirit Pills.
• King Bear Shou gave Wang Wu another piece of the formation diagram, boasted of having fifteen Bloodline Talents, and left.
• The Four Clowns completed their analysis of King Bear Shou and cautioned Wang Wu that his Three Calamities resistance might indicate a trap.

Wang Wu secretly used the Yin-Yang Energies Pointer to illuminate himself during a Yang Thunder and Yin Fire outbreak, seeking guidance for his cultivation. He survived the experiment, discovered the steep cost of raising his Yin Fire Resistance, and gained insight into the principles underlying the Yin-Yang Two Energies.

• Wang Wu worked through the final days of the Heaven and Earth Needle repairs while using his short rest periods to mend his Spirit Pills and plan a chance to illuminate himself.
• Qing Xue told Wang Wu it was his last day on the job, and he resumed controlling the Yin-Yang Energies Pointer as the formation masters inspected the completed needle.
• After nearly six days without Yang Thunder, three bolts struck, followed by a vast outbreak of Yin Fire, and the prison laborers took shelter.
• Wang Wu briefly opened his Three-Defense Treasure Armor, let in Pale Fire, and used the pointer to illuminate himself before sealing the armor shut.
• Wang Wu endured the Pale Fire, lost a thousand years of lifespan for only one point of Yin Fire Resistance, and realized that the illumination had revealed a path for his cultivation.

After Qing Xue protected Wang Wu from prisoner-workers who tried to force a deal, he used the insight granted by the Yin-Yang Two Energies to uncover a dangerous flaw in his cultivation. He decided to replace his Earth Spirit Pill with a Wind Spirit Pill during the ten days before construction resumed.

• Wang Wu saw the Heaven and Earth Needles link together and realized their completion would help repair and control the Great Desolation Sin Prison Tower.
• Zi Han gave the prisoner-workers ten days of leave, but Qing Xue stayed behind while Wang Wu returned to the main fortress with her.
• King Bear Shou and a gray-eyed prisoner-worker tried to make Wang Wu remove his Three-Defense Treasure Armor, and Qing Xue stopped them and punished the gray-eyed man with nine strikes of Yang Thunder.
• Wang Wu entered a dust-like state and used his brief illumination by the Yin-Yang Two Energies to discover flaws in his formation setup and Five Spirit Pills.
• Wang Wu realized his innate Five Demon Cores already leaned toward earth, so he resolved to scrap his Earth Spirit Pill and cultivate a Wind Spirit Pill instead.

Wang Wu destroyed his fourth-rank Earth Spirit Pill and formed a Wind-Fire Alliance, then rebuilt the Five Aggregates Spirit Array around his Innate Bloodline Five Demon Cores. The new array created an efficient cycle between innate qi-blood and acquired spirit energies, bypassing the Heart of the Earth and limiting the Blood Curse Heavenly Punishment.

• Wang Wu drained the Earth Spirit Pill’s reserves, unleashed Gale Spirit Energy, and used the resulting chaos to eliminate the Earth Spirit Pill while cultivating a new Wind Spirit Pill beside the Fire Spirit Pill.
• The collapse of the Acquired Five Aggregates Spirit Array spread damage to Wang Wu, giving him the opening to deploy a new array across the Innate Bloodline Five Demon Cores and the Ice, Wood, and Gold Spirit Pills.
• Wang Wu isolated the Wind Spirit Pill, Fire Spirit Pill, and Greatest Common Divisor Pill outside the array, which shielded the new formation from their pressure and connected innate qi-blood to acquired spirit energy.
• The array let Wang Wu convert qi-blood into Azure Wood Spirit Energy and then Water Spirit Energy with greatly improved returns, while the Wood, Water, and Gold Spirit Pills became concealed logistical support.
• Wang Wu established internal circulation within the Innate Bloodline Five Demon Cores, bypassing the Heart of the Earth and Blood Curse Heavenly Punishment and creating a more efficient way to temper his body and Destined Demonic Weapon.

Wang Wu stabilized his cultivation systems and learned that his second innate Foundation Establishment Array was driving him toward the seventh stage of Earth Immortal. After Qing Xue clashed with Qin Wushuang over the remote site chosen for a Heaven and Earth Needle, the other formation masters left, leaving Wang Wu and a few prisoners to help Qing Xue prepare for the incoming supply fleet.

• Wang Wu’s second innate Foundation Establishment Array completed a cycle, raising several abilities and revealing that one hundred cycles would break his limit and advance him to the seventh stage of Earth Immortal.
• Qing Xue ordered Wang Wu and the others to leave for a new Heaven and Earth Needle site, where she confronted Qin Wushuang over the remote location and its impact on supplies and the formation layout.
• Qin Wushuang and Formation Master Zi Han rejected Qing Xue’s objections, and after the argument escalated, they left with the other prison laborers.
• Qing Xue stayed behind because the Three-Defense supply fleet was already on its way, and she ordered the remaining workers to build a Three-Defense Fortress before it arrived.
• Wang Wu used Earth Evasion to gather enough materials for the fortress, and King Bear Shou and the other prisoners began construction with him.

Qing Xue asked Wang Wu to survey a site for a Heaven and Earth Needle, staking Frost Domain’s future on his success within fifteen days. She sent him away with armor and a boat, then secretly used his hair to create a duplicate of him.

• King Bear Shou and the two convict workers finished the main Three-Defense Fortress, and Qing Xue ordered everyone to conserve spiritual energy.
• Qing Xue told Wang Wu that the formation team faced betrayal and Frost Lord’s position was at risk, then asked him to help construct Heaven and Earth Needles.
• Wang Wu correctly analyzed all sixty-four variations of the Vermillion Bird Formation Pattern, but Qing Xue said he still needed to prove he could survey a site amid chaotic spiritual energy.
• Qing Xue gave Wang Wu a Heaven and Earth Compass, armor, spirit liquid, and a small boat, and ordered him to complete a survey within fifteen days or flee.
• After Wang Wu left, Qing Xue used his hair and crushed materials to transform purple light into a duplicate of him.