Chapter Summaries

Wang Wu entered the desert to find his companions and discovered that Snake Nineteen had become a Grand Unity True Immortal and the Sin Prison Legion had joined the Vermilion Bird Immortal Clan. After learning that Five Poisons was supposed to be in Dragon Head City but was missing, Wang Wu and Snake Nineteen realized something was wrong and shouted for everyone to run.

• Wang Wu used a Supreme Hair to scout the desert and found Zhu Wuhua guarding a vast city.
• Snake Nineteen appeared as a Grand Unity True Immortal, and the Vermilion Bird Immortal Lord renamed the Sin Prison Legion her Nineteenth Legion and appointed Snake Nineteen a vice alliance leader.
• The Vermilion Bird Immortal Lord told Wang Wu that his relatives, friends, and women were safe with her, and he agreed to take them away.
• Snake Nineteen teased Wang Wu about the Vermilion Bird Immortal Lord, then offered to let him seek shelter in Dragon Head City if danger came.
• Wang Wu asked where Five Poisons was, and Snake Nineteen learned that Five Poisons had supposedly gone to Dragon Head City a year earlier.
• Snake Nineteen seized the old Snake Emperor to question him about Five Poisons, and Wang Wu and Snake Nineteen shouted, "Run!"

Wang Wu discovered that Wang Yue and the forces behind the Sin Prison Legion had betrayed Snake Nineteen and the others, while Liu Zongshan explained the scheme behind their capture. The chapter ended with a mysterious Senior Sister rescuing Wang Wu’s friends and warning him that the Cultivation World was more dangerous than he knew.

• Snake Nineteen realized that Wang Yue had sold them out, but three immortal artifacts bound it before it could escape.
• Liu Zongshan and Yue Shan revealed themselves as impostors, captured Snake Nineteen, and tried to bargain with Wang Wu’s incarnation.
• Wang Wu used the Hidden Origin Jade Talisman to enter the Demon Vault and paid Liu Zongshan five thousand strands of Mortal Qi for an explanation.
• Liu Zongshan explained how he and his brother had infiltrated the Sin Prison Legion, and how Five Poisons’s Precognition Divine Ability exposed the group to a powerful buyer.
• Wang Yue fled after Liu Zongshan warned that his contract with her had ended, but an unseen force killed Liu Zongshan and Yue Shan and seized the captives.
• A Woman in Apricot Yellow Robes appeared, told Wang Wu that Master had sent her to help, and ordered him to call her Senior Sister.

Wang Wu rescued his friends and family, brought them to his cave abode, and recruited thousands of them as Hidden Origin Society stewards. As Dragon Head City prepared for a new manager and internal conflict, Snake Nineteen accepted responsibility while the Snow Wolf General chose seclusion and Madam Yu was asked to serve Wang Wu.

• The woman in yellow rescued Wang Wu, warned him about the Thief Sect, the new manager, and the Mang Mountain Ancient Bears, then delivered his friends and family in gold-embroidered bags.
• Wang Wu released several thousand people and learned that Five Poisons and Yue Shan were missing, while Snake Nineteen had fallen back to the seventh stage of the Earth Immortal realm.
• Wang Wu offered the group a choice between peaceful life in the Universe Pagoda and working with him, and the Southern Desolation Left Demon Emperor and others pledged their service.
• Wang Wu renamed four followers Kong Zhengyi, She Guangming, She Mulin, and Kong Youhao, appointed them stewards, and recruited three thousand more stewards for Dragon Head City.
• Wang Wu sought two second-rank stewards; Snake Nineteen agreed to take charge, while the Snow Wolf General chose seclusion and asked Madam Yu to look after Wang Wu.

Wang Zhige spent his Mortal Qi to promote Snake Nineteen and Madam Yu, hired Teng Zhongwu as Dragon Head City’s mountain god, and prepared the branch for its new manager. When the manager arrived, Wang Zhige was demoted to deputy and accused of making major decisions before the manager took office.

• Wang Zhige gave Snake Nineteen enough Mortal Qi to become a Second Rank Deacon and ordered it to clear the Hidden Origin Society’s accumulated tasks.
• Wang Zhige sold the Fifth Rank Yin Fire he had received from Black Emperor, then promoted Madam Yu to Second Rank Deacon.
• Wang Zhige appointed Teng Zhongwu as Dragon Head City’s mountain god, and Teng Zhongwu used spiritual energy to green the mountains around the city.
• Snake Nineteen, Madam Yu, and the three thousand low-ranking deacons worked through the branch’s tasks while Wang Zhige waited for the incoming manager.
• The new manager arrived in a palace carriage drawn by two white flood dragons and immediately replaced Wang Zhige as deputy manager.
• The manager confronted Wang Zhige for promoting deacons and appointing a mountain god before the manager arrived, while Wang Zhige insisted that he had followed the Society’s rules.

Wang Wu submitted to Charm Lord’s demands and withdrew to cultivate, then used his dull-witted big brother’s Essence Gold Spirit Energy to rapidly cultivate a Metal Spirit Root and Gold Spirit Pill. He continued developing his cultivation while planning to remain in seclusion near Dragon Head City.

• Charm Lord threatened Wang Wu and demanded that he approve every proposal in Dragon Head City, and Wang Wu agreed.
• Wang Wu approved Charm Lord’s eighteen proposals and ordered Snake Nineteen and Madam Yu to approve them as well before sending his subordinates into seclusion.
• Wang Wu returned to his cave abode, assigned the Four Clowns to study the Protective Immortal Talisman, and reviewed the cultivation areas he needed to develop.
• Wang Wu bought Level Eight Refined Mysterious Iron and fed three pieces to his dull-witted big brother, which produced precious liquid Essence Gold Spirit Energy.
• Wang Wu used the liquid Essence Gold Spirit Energy to form a Metal Spirit Root and rapidly cultivate a Gold Spirit Pill.

Wang Wu completed an acquired Five Aggregates Spirit Array to isolate and balance his five Spirit Pills, then spent years slowly circulating it as the Earth Spirit Pill improved. After the arrays absorbed a terrifying cold that revealed his strength had passed the Earth Immortal Fourth Tier, Hidden Origin Society warned that Minor Cold and Great Cold were approaching.

• Wang Wu cultivated a Ninth-grade Earth Spirit Pill and used his Level 18 Spiritual Resonance Talent to form an acquired Five Aggregates Spirit Array around his five Spirit Pills.
• Wang Wu circulated his innate and acquired Five Aggregates Spirit Arrays for years, spending tens of millions of spiritual energy as the Earth Spirit Pill slowly rose to Seventh Rank.
• A mysterious chill struck Wang Wu's demon pills and Spirit Pills, but the two arrays dispersed and absorbed it.
• Wang Wu realized the arrays' vast foundation had likely taken him beyond the Earth Immortal Fourth Tier and wondered whether the Twenty-Four Solar Terms were approaching.
• Hidden Origin Society headquarters warned that Minor Cold would last ten years with Vast Nether Cold Qi reaching Level 5, followed by Great Cold lasting ten years with the cold reaching Level 8.

Wang Wu learned that the Minor Cold solar term would bring devastating Vast Nether Cold Qi and approved emergency measures for Dragon Head City. He then visited the Snow Wolf General and Snake Nineteen, and proposed using Snake Nineteen’s five Demon Cores to form a Five Aggregates Spirit Array.

• Wang Wu checked the Hidden Origin Jade Talisman and learned that Vast Nether Cold Qi could kill cultivators and immortals across multiple power levels.
• The new person in charge announced that Minor Cold would arrive in three days and issued measures to cut stewards’ dividends, adjust the Hidden Origin Bell, and establish patrol teams; Wang Wu approved all three motions.
• Wang Wu visited the Snow Wolf General, helped its cultivation, shared a quiet meal with it, and left behind a Supreme Hair and a wisp of Divine Sense.
• Wang Wu examined Snake Nineteen’s cultivation and attributes, then asked whether it could form a Five Aggregates Spirit Array using its five Demon Cores.
• Snake Nineteen agreed to let Wang Wu deploy the array, trusting him to help it grow stronger.

Wang Wu helped Snake Nineteen install a Five Aggregates Spirit Array, then discovered Madam Yu had spent years developing a miniature world with a formation disk that simulated mortal life. He learned that a single round lasted five hundred years and, after Madam Yu said she was content under his protection, asked her to have a child.

• Wang Wu entered Snake Nineteen and successfully deployed a Five Aggregates Spirit Array on its Exquisite Heart demon core, warning it to resonate the five cores with the array.
• Wang Wu left Snake Nineteen five million points of spiritual energy and went to Madam Yu's cave abode, where she had built a small world and simulated a mortal town.
• Madam Yu explained that she had acquired a Cloud Simulation Three Realms Formation Disk and described how its players developed villages and towns over a five-hundred-year round.
• Wang Wu realized the formation disk treated mortals as a game but decided not to stop Madam Yu from playing it.
• Madam Yu said she was content not to cultivate or take risks while Wang Wu protected her, and Wang Wu asked her to have a child.

Wang Wu prepared for the Great Cold and Minor Cold, but Bai Yu secretly altered the Hidden Origin Bell's defenses and sent him into patrol just as Vast Nether Cold Qi arrived. The attack shattered Wang Wu's Heart of the Earth, leaving him injured and facing a dangerous power he needed to understand and transform.

• Wang Wu bought supplies with Mortal Qi and visited his friends and subordinates before reporting to the person in charge of Dragon Head City.
• Senior Sister Qin arrived, warned Wang Wu that Bai Yu's use of the Hidden Origin Bell could endanger the city, and gave him one hundred Dragon Blood Pills.
• Wang Wu asked the Four Clowns how to avoid being affected by a powerful Divine Calculation, and they advised him not to provoke those who appeared to be treating him well.
• Vast Nether Cold Qi struck Wang Wu, shattering his Heart of the Earth and forcing him to flee to his cave dwelling for protection.
• Wang Wu discovered that Bai Yu had disabled the Hidden Origin Bell's automatic defense, ordered Wang Wu's patrol team to take over early, and granted him a Heart of Ice.
• The Four Clowns reported that Wang Wu's Heart of the Earth had absorbed the frozen power and begun changing his Bloodline Evolution, but warned that he had to transform the remaining power or suffer permanent damage.

Wang Wu fought to contain Vast Nether Cold Qi after it seized control of his Ice Spirit Pill, using his Five Aggregates Spirit Arrays to turn the crisis into a battle that strengthened his spirit energies. He won within ten shichen, subdued the Ice Spirit Pill, and received reports of several advances and improvements.

• Wang Wu discovered that his Ice Spirit Energy fed and amplified the Vast Nether Cold Qi, which took over his Ice Spirit Pill and provoked the Ape Duke's Skull.
• Wang Wu used the Acquired and Innate Five Aggregates Spirit Arrays to contain the cold qi and coordinate his Fire, Azure Wood, Gold, and Earth Spirit energies against it.
• Wang Wu adjusted the Heart of the Earth's energy conversions as his spirit energies gained experience and gradually pushed the Vast Nether Cold Qi back.
• Wang Wu wiped out the scattered cold qi and subdued the remaining energy inside the Ice Spirit Pill before the ten-shichen limit.
• The Four Clowns reported that Wang Wu's spirit energies had improved, his Earth Spirit Pill had advanced to sixth rank, and his Heart of the Earth might develop a bloodline divine ability.

Wang Wu triggered a bloodline curse while trying to strengthen his Heart of the Earth, destroying most of his Divine Sense and wiping out the Bear Family below Xiong Pi. He took three years of leave from his post and resumed cultivation, but the acquired Spirit Pills were nearing another conflict.

• Wang Wu used his remaining Bloodline Evolution to strengthen his Heart of the Earth, but the ancient bear bloodline retaliated with the Heavenly Punishment Blood Curse.
• Wang Wu discovered that Bai Yu had arranged an ancestor-recognition ceremony and bloodline talismans that triggered the curse; three of his four Divine Sense strands were destroyed, and the Bear Family below Xiong Pi was wiped out.
• Wang Wu requested three years of leave from Bai Yu and approved his own replacement as second-seat chief officer by Lin Zhi.
• Wang Wu recalled his Divine Soul from the Universe Pagoda and cultivated for eleven months, advancing the Earth Spirit Pill to fifth grade.
• Wang Wu concluded that the acquired Spirit Pills would soon start another conflict and asked the Ice Spirit Pill to act as their leader again.

Wang Wu tested the traitorous Ice Spirit Pill outside Dragon Head City and used its battles against the other Spirit Pills to strengthen them. When he repeated the experiment, a Cold Horn Insect suddenly burrowed into the Ice Spirit Pill.

• Snake Nineteen reported on conditions beyond Dragon Head City and described plans to cultivate six promising members with Five Aggregates Spirit Arrays.
• Wang Wu warned Snake Nineteen to avoid dangerous missions, then left the city without using the Hidden Origin Bell so Bai Yu would not learn he could move freely.
• Wang Wu activated the traitorous Ice Spirit Pill outside the city, drawing in Vast Nether Cold Qi before suppressing it and letting it fight the other four Spirit Pills.
• The Five Aggregates Spirit Array settled the Spirit Pills after the battle, and their energies recovered with the Fire Spirit Pill gaining the most.
• Wang Wu repeated the experiment to trigger another Spirit Pill battle, but a Cold Horn Insect burrowed into the Ice Spirit Pill.

Wang Wu used the Vast Nether Cold Qi invasion to weaken the blood curse on his Heart of the Earth, then restored and advanced his Spirit Pills. When the resulting Third Spirit Pill World War threatened to continue, he refined the Cold Horn Insect into a special Greatest Common Divisor Pill that pacified the five Ruyi Spirit Pills.

• Wang Wu let Vast Nether Cold Qi counteract the blood qi burned by the blood curse, consuming six Dragon Blood Pills before stopping the curse and weakening its three divine talismans.
• Wang Wu led a blood qi counterattack that drove back the Vast Nether Cold Qi rebels, restored his Spirit Pills, and left the Cold Horn Insect hidden inside the Ice Spirit Pill.
• Wang Wu advanced the Green Wood, Gold, and Earth Spirit Pills to Rank Four over six months, after which all five Ruyi Spirit Pills erupted into a chaotic battle.
• Wang Wu and the Four Clowns used the Five Aggregates Spirit Array to draw out and refine the Cold Horn Insect for forty-nine days.
• The Cold Horn Insect absorbed the five Spirit energies and other powers to become a Five Aggregates Spirit Pill that ended the war and let the five Ruyi Spirit Pills coexist peacefully.

Wang Wu gained the Five Aggregates Void Clarity divine ability and assessed its defensive and offensive techniques, but lacked the spiritual energy to improve his Indestructible Golden Body. After voting on Bai Yu’s motions, he watched Bai Yu activate a blue star that drew vast tides of Vast Nether Cold Qi toward Dragon Head City.

• The Four Clowns reported that Wang Wu’s five Spirit Pills had unified and granted him Five Aggregates Void Clarity, along with increased lifespan, attributes, and spiritual energy storage.
• Wang Wu inscribed Mysterious Iron Rampart and Earth Element Shield onto his Gold and Earth Spirit Pills, enabling him to use Five Elements Mountain Suppression and Five Elements Origin Assimilation.
• Wang Wu compared Five Elements Mountain Suppression with his layered Ice-Fire Shield, then considered upgrading his Indestructible Golden Body but decided he lacked the spiritual energy.
• Wang Wu received Bai Yu’s three motions concerning Dragon Head City’s defenses, trials, and succession, and voted in favor.
• The Hidden Origin Bell’s rules changed, Wang Wu’s cave abode shrank, and he saw Bai Yu’s blue star draw hundreds of Vast Nether Cold Qi tides toward Dragon Head City.

As Vast Nether Cold Qi endangered Dragon Head City and the headquarters treasury became unreachable, Wang Wu tried to preserve Mortal Qi and maintain order among the city’s thirteen million mortals. He discovered that Madam Yu’s game-earned connections could still supply critical resources, leaving him with a way to prepare for the worsening crisis.

• Wang Wu told Snake Nineteen to preserve Mortal Qi, accept Hidden Origin missions, and maintain basic order, but Snake Nineteen explained that the city’s treasury connection was cut off and its people were prioritizing their own survival.
• Wang Wu inspected Dragon Head City’s walls and saw them covered in Cold Horn Insects as Screeching Birds battered the protective formation.
• Wang Wu confirmed he could not reach the Public Treasury at Hidden Origin Society headquarters and went to Madam Yu’s cave abode for help.
• Wang Wu learned that Madam Yu had earned Mortal Qi and accumulated three dowries through ten years of playing her simulation game.
• Madam Yu explained that her other purchasing channels remained open and offered to gather Spirit Energy, Ninth-Grade Mystical Iron, and cold-resistant pills for Wang Wu.

Wang Wu used the Greatest Common Divisor Pill to turn the battle against three Screeching Birds into a costly war inside his cultivation system, then revived and strengthened his Spirit Pills. The chapter left his Heavenly Punishment Blood Curse with 87% of its health bar still locked and his Ice and Fire Spirit Pills advanced but unstable.

• Wang Wu fused three Screeching Birds with the Ice Spirit Pill, which destroyed his other four Spirit Pills and attacked the Heart of the Earth.
• Wang Wu used the Heavenly Punishment Blood Curse to fight back, losing 500 years of lifespan as the battle weakened the curse talismans.
• Wang Wu airdropped the Greatest Common Divisor Pill and launched a coordinated counterattack that revived the Gold, Fire, Wood, and Earth Spirit Pills and brought the Ice Spirit Pill back to his side.
• Wang Wu used the Five Aggregates Spirit Array to refine the three Screeching Birds into the Greatest Common Divisor Pill over nine days.
• The Greatest Common Divisor Pill redistributed spirit energy, advancing the Fire and Ice Spirit Pills and improving the other pills’ spirit energy quality.
• Wang Wu received updates showing 800 years of lifespan lost, the Heavenly Punishment Blood Curse at 87% locked, and several Dao techniques and abilities leveled up.

Wang Wu repaired the hidden injuries in his five Spirit Pills, then used five Screeching Birds to provoke a powerful clash between his spiritual energies and the blood curse. The curse unexpectedly surrendered and sent the Vast Nether Cold Qi into his five demon cores, leaving Wang Wu struggling to contain the assault with his last Greatest Common Divisor Pill.

• Wang Wu spent three months repairing the hidden injuries in his five Spirit Pills, while Snake Nineteen organized supplies and relief efforts in Dragon Head City.
• Bai Yu searched for his missing Screeching Birds, then watched more hatch as the Vast Nether Cold Qi grew stronger.
• Wang Wu encountered five Screeching Birds outside the city and used his Ice Spirit Pill to draw them into his cultivation system, where they overwhelmed his Fire Spirit Pill and unified his acquired system.
• The Vast Nether Cold Qi surged past Wang Wu's Heart of the Earth and invaded his five demon cores after the blood curse extinguished itself instead of attacking him.
• Wang Wu swallowed five Dragon Blood Pills to defend his demon cores, then deployed his last Greatest Common Divisor Pill when he began to lose control.

Wang Wu used the Greatest Common Divisor Pill and the Heart of the Earth to turn the Spirit Pills against the Vast Nether Cold Qi rebels, reclaiming the Heart of the Earth and eventually ending the war in the acquired cultivation system. The Greatest Common Divisor Pill absorbed the competing forces and restored balance, but the conflict had already spread to the innate bloodline continent.

• Wang Wu held the five Screeching Birds back while the Greatest Common Divisor Pill absorbed Vast Nether Cold Qi and released the other four types of Spirit Energy.
• The Fire Spirit Pill reignited and grew powerful enough to lead the counterattack, while the other Spirit Pills joined in and devoured the rebel cold qi.
• Wang Wu released Screeching Birds in stages and led the innate bloodline system in reclaiming the Heart of the Earth, leaving the two sides in a standoff.
• Wang Wu spent three days converting Spirit Energy from the Heart of the Earth, strengthening the Spirit Pills until they could steadily defeat the Vast Nether Cold Qi rebels.
• The Fire Spirit Pill swallowed a Screeching Bird and advanced in quality, then the Greatest Common Divisor Pill absorbed the discordant forces over a month, leaving the five Spirit Pills weakened and restoring balance.
• The Greatest Common Divisor Pill resumed operating with the Five Aggregates Spirit Array, while the war's reach extended into the innate bloodline continent.

Wang Wu’s five Demon Cores advanced, but a citywide spy hunt led Bai Yu to accuse him of serving the Heavenly Demon Society. After Black Emperor cleared him, Frost Lord revealed that Bai Yu had placed the Blood Curse Heavenly Punishment on Wang Wu and said Elder Hui could no longer make use of him.

• Wang Wu’s five Demon Cores advanced to Second Rank, and his blood curse’s unlock progress reached 36%.
• After Bai Yu proposed a citywide manhunt, Wang Wu weakened his five Spirit Pills and discovered that the Greatest Common Divisor Pill contained five hundred million units of spiritual energy.
• Elder Hui summoned Wang Wu and accused him of being a spy for the Heavenly Demon Society, but Black Emperor examined his Demon Cores and Spirit Pills and declared that he was not the spy.
• Frost Lord rebuked Bai Yu for placing the blood curse on Wang Wu and explained that neither she nor Elder Hui could remove it.
• Frost Lord told Wang Wu that he could make one request, but warned that he would remain a peripheral nobody in Elder Hui’s faction.

Wang Wu learned that he was unlikely to escape the Blood Curse or advance to Grand Unity True Immortal, then made peace with Bai Yu and accepted compensation. After drinking with Bai Yu, Wang Wu drunkenly revealed his desire to marry Senior Sister Qin, leaving Bai Yu shaken and furious.

• Senior Sister Qin told Wang Wu that the Blood Curse made advancing to Grand Unity True Immortal too dangerous and advised him to remain in Dragon Head City.
• Senior Sister Qin warned Wang Wu that his acquired Spirit Pill system carried hidden dangers and left him healing Spirit Pills.
• Bai Yu admitted that he had plotted against Wang Wu, offered guidance, eight million Spirit Energy Dou, and a future favor, and invited him to drink Half-Immortal Wine.
• Bai Yu revealed that the suspected mole was likely connected to Elder Hui or Black Emperor's side, and that his second senior brother had taken over tempering the material.
• While drunk, Wang Wu told Bai Yu that Senior Sister Qin treated him well and that he wanted to marry her.
• Wang Wu sobered after being slapped, and Bai Yu returned looking frightened and angrily refused to continue drinking.