Chapter Summaries

Bai Yu explained Foundation Establishment Arrays to Wang Wu and showed him two public second-tier formations after Wang Wu insisted on learning them. Wang Wu left with the array teachings and Bai Yu declared their grievances settled.

• Bai Yu described how his five Spirit Pills and Five Aggregates Longevity Array shaped his cultivation, strengths, and weaknesses.
• Wang Wu begged Bai Yu to establish a second Foundation Establishment Array for him, but Bai Yu refused because Wang Wu’s Spirit Pills were too damaged.
• Wang Wu used Bai Yu’s remaining debt to persuade him to teach the arrays instead, and Bai Yu named the Five Aggregates Iron Prison Formation and Five Aggregates Piercing Formation.
• Bai Yu explained that both arrays roughly doubled defense or attack, then compared them with stronger clan formations that offered multiple benefits.
• Bai Yu demonstrated the two second-tier arrays once and told Wang Wu their grievances were settled; Wang Wu thanked him solemnly.

After ten years in seclusion learning two Foundation Establishment Arrays, Wang Wu emerged to find the Vast Nether Cold Qi had vanished. He realized his Screeching Birds had made him the suspected spy, and decided Wang Zhige would lie low in Dragon Head City while he repaired his Spirit Pills.

• Wang Wu spent ten years mastering the Five Aggregates Piercing Formation and Five Aggregates Iron Prison Formation, then chose to leave the blood curse intact and focus on his Houtian Spirit Pills.
• Wang Wu found the Great Cold had become mild, with no Cold Horn Insects or Screeching Birds outside Dragon Head City, and Snake Nineteen told him the Vast Nether Cold Qi had steadily diminished over the past decade.
• Wang Wu urged Snake Nineteen to abandon ambition and remain in Dragon Head City, then returned to his cave dwelling to review the suspicious events surrounding the spy investigation.
• Wang Wu concluded that catching eight Screeching Birds had made him the spy everyone had been seeking, and decided to keep the truth hidden and let Wang Zhige live quietly in the city.
• Wang Wu resolved to repair the damage to his Houtian Five Spirit Pills before attempting to deploy the Five Aggregates Piercing Formation.

Wang Wu spent sixty-four years repairing the Fire Spirit Pill, discovering that it had fused symbiotically with a dying firebird and developed overwhelming power. After stabilizing it, he decided to preserve his five-Spirit-Pill cultivation model and restore the Greatest Common Divisor Pill’s former leadership, a task requiring at least one billion units of spiritual energy.

• Wang Wu used the Greatest Common Divisor Pill to supply spiritual energy while he began repairing hidden injuries in all five Spirit Pills, then prioritized the Fire Spirit Pill as new injuries kept appearing.
• Wang Wu spent Mortal Qi on a damaged Golden Tome of Creation, raised his Spiritual Resonance Talent to level 19, and discovered a firebird symbiotically bound to the Fire Spirit Pill and causing its injuries.
• Wang Wu used grade-five Crimson Flame Spirit Energy and level 19 Spiritual Essence Insight to repair twenty-one critical injuries, then continued treating the Fire Spirit Pill while it kept developing new injuries.
• Wang Wu spent the next decades repairing and improving the Fire Spirit Pill until no new injuries appeared for three consecutive years and its existing injuries were largely healed.
• The Four Clowns reported that the Fire Spirit Pill had surpassed the Greatest Common Divisor Pill in authority and power, and warned that integrating it could greatly affect Wang Wu’s cultivation and bloodline.
• Wang Wu decided to maintain the five-Spirit-Pill model and restore the Greatest Common Divisor Pill as its leader, which would require at least one billion units of spiritual energy.

After three years of seclusion, Wang Wu emerged with a vastly strengthened Fire Spirit Pill and entered a life-or-death trial to resolve a drought in Madam Yu’s game territory. The trial transported him to a deadly, heat-filled wilderness, where he survived the Bizarre Heatwave by using his new fire ability.

• Wang Wu emerged from seclusion after three years and found that the Fire Spirit Pill had taken control of the Five Aggregates Spirit Array, greatly enhancing his fire abilities.
• Wang Wu found Madam Yu away from her cave abode and discovered that her game territory faced a severe drought and suspected Fire Fiend Worms.
• Wang Wu activated the Descend to the Mortal World Trial, accepted the risk of losing his territory or dying, and entered the trial in Bai Yu’s appearance.
• Wang Wu arrived in a scorching wilderness, where Bizarre Heatwaves overwhelmed his concealment and breached his Level Six Indestructible Golden Body.
• Wang Wu used Crimson Flame Spirit Energy to form a flexible Fire Armor that effortlessly blocked the Bizarre Heatwave.

Wang Wu collected Bizarre Heatwaves across the secret realm, gaining millions of points of Level 6 Crimson Flame Spirit Energy but finding no Fire Fiend Worms. He encountered a heavily prepared commoner Earth Immortal and realized the man had mistaken him for one of the other players in Madam Yu’s game.

• Wang Wu transformed Bizarre Heatwaves into Crimson Flame Spirit Energy and gathered unstable dark-red crystals as their remnants.
• Over two days, Wang Wu collected nearly five million points of Level 6 Crimson Flame Spirit Energy and questioned why the organizer had sent no message and no Fire Fiend Worms appeared.
• Wang Wu spotted a middle-aged commoner Earth Immortal, watched him deploy arrays and treasures, and admired his extensive combat skills and careful tactics.
• When Wang Wu greeted him from a distance, the commoner Earth Immortal attacked with flying swords, talismans, and five incarnations before cautiously approaching.
• Wang Wu explained that he had come to kill Fire Fiend Worms, and the commoner Earth Immortal asked whether he was Wang Wu or Wang Lin.
• Wang Wu realized the commoner Earth Immortal was the fourth player in Madam Yu’s Three Realms Practice Array Disk game and recalled how Madam Yu had used his real name for her account.

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.