Chapter Summaries

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.

Wang Wu was sent into the chaotic Three Calamities to survey a location for the twenty-fifth Heaven and Earth Needle, while Qing Xue’s preparations convinced King Bear Shou that she meant for him to escape. Unable to sense the other needles at first, Wang Wu resolved to search for their signal and help Qing Xue complete the project.

• King Bear Shou and the other old Sin Prisoners noticed Qing Xue had sent Wang Wu away, but King Bear Shou decided not to pursue him for the blood curse.
• An old Sin Prisoner considered chasing Wang Wu to claim the Hidden Dragon Tendon, then chose to preserve his lifespan rather than risk the Three Calamities.
• Wang Wu struggled to begin surveying and asked the Four Clowns for help, but they advised him to flee and hide.
• Wang Wu used the Heaven and Earth Compass to search for the twenty-four existing Heaven and Earth Needles, but he could not sense them from his current distance.
• Wang Wu suspected Qin Wushuang had sabotaged the project to target Frost Lord and concluded that finding the needle signal was the only way to help Qing Xue.

Wang Wu mapped the Vermillion Bird Heaven and Earth Needles and used level 18 Spiritual Essence Insight to identify a possible location for the twenty-fifth needle. When two readings differed by one hundred li, he decided his only remaining option was to break the Blood Curse.

• Wang Wu tracked the Heaven and Earth Needle network, mapped its scattered formations, and found the twenty-third needle in Vermillion Bird Group One.
• Wang Wu embedded the Heaven and Earth Compass in the twenty-third needle and used level 18 Spiritual Essence Insight to locate a possible site for the twenty-fifth.
• Wang Wu rested and repeated the process at the twenty-fourth needle, but his new result differed from the first by one hundred li.
• Wang Wu concluded that he had to break the Blood Curse, despite the risk of exposing himself to a level 27 Divine Calculation and confirming that he killed Senior Sister Qin.

Wang Wu broke the Blood Curse Heavenly Punishment by driving his qi and blood beyond its limits, raising his Heart of the Earth to Level 18 and refining the resulting torrent. Afterward, he customized his Passive Concealment into the Forgetting Divine Ability and advanced Spiritual Resonance to Level 19.

• Wang Wu used his two Foundation Establishment Arrays to shatter the Blood Curse Heavenly Punishment, and the Bear Immortal's essence blood raised his Heart of the Earth from Level 12 to Level 18.
• Wang Wu contained the unleashed qi and blood with his Demon Pills, Foundation Establishment Arrays, and Three-Defense Treasure Armor, then compressed it until its quality rose to Level 4.
• The Four Clowns reported Wang Wu's breakthroughs, increased bloodline potential, new cultivation level, and improved abilities.
• Wang Wu spent one million points of refined qi and blood to customize Level 25 Passive Concealment with a partial Forgetting effect that reduced the chance of being deduced, calculated, or sensed.
• Wang Wu spent three million points of Level 4 refined qi and blood to advance Spiritual Resonance to Level 19.

Wang Wu assessed the risks posed by his new bloodline changes and chose to strengthen Danger Sense rather than spend an enormous amount completing the Forgetting Divine Ability. He awakened a level 1 Warning Divine Ability, which complemented his level 1 Forgetting and left him better equipped to conceal himself and detect danger.

• Wang Wu replaced his worn Three-Defense Treasure Armor and carefully examined his cultivation, talents, and new abilities.
• The Four Clowns urged Wang Wu to raise Passive Concealment to level 27, but he found the required qi and blood prohibitively costly and ruled out upgrading his demon pill.
• Wang Wu explained how his Hidden Dragon Tendon and Spiritual Essence worked, then raised Danger Sense to level 25.
• Wang Wu rejected the prediction and precognition paths and chose the assassin ancient bear route for his new divine ability.
• Wang Wu spent one million points of level 4 refined qi and blood to awaken the level 1 Warning Divine Ability, which boosted the effects of his level 1 Forgetting and vice versa.

Wang Wu used the Heaven and Earth Compass to identify the optimal site for the twenty-fifth Heaven and Earth Needle, then secretly improved two existing needles and marked the new site. He returned to find Qing Xue and Qin Wushuang already building a base, and told Qing Xue he could reduce the total number of needles to ninety-nine; she agreed to report his claim to her master.

• Wang Wu combined Level 19 Spiritual Essence Insight with the Heaven and Earth Compass and discovered how the Sin Prison Tower leaked Yin-Yang Two Energies and how its Heaven and Earth Needles repaired it.
• Wang Wu stripped and rearranged materials from the twenty-fourth Heaven and Earth Needle, improving its suppression while collecting Vermilion Bird Formation Stones, then did the same to the twenty-third.
• Wang Wu used the stones to locate and mark the optimal site for the twenty-fifth Heaven and Earth Needle, then returned to Qing Xue ahead of the deadline.
• Wang Wu found Qing Xue, Qin Wushuang, and Zi Han at a new construction site and learned that Qing Xue's master had agreed to a sixty-forty split with the other party.
• Wang Wu told Qing Xue he had surveyed a better site and could reduce the total number of Heaven and Earth Needles to ninety-nine, and Qing Xue said she would report it to her master.

Wang Wu accompanied Qing Xue and a disguised formation master to establish the site for the twenty-fifth Heaven and Earth Needle while Frost Domain hid his role in the survey. When Gray Eye attacked, the formation master revealed herself as Frost Lord and killed him.

• Qing Xue told Wang Wu to keep his survey work secret and said Frost Domain had sent a new formation master to challenge Qin Wushuang.
• Qing Xue introduced the newly arrived Thousand Words Formation Master, and Wang Wu left with them as Gray Eye accused him of betrayal and tried to seize him.
• Zi Han gave Gray Eye an object, and he left the fortress while Wang Wu, Qing Xue, and the formation master traveled into the Evil Wind.
• The formation master spent nearly half a month surveying and finally selected the exact site Wang Wu had first identified for the twenty-fifth Heaven and Earth Needle.
• Gray Eye ambushed the group, but the formation master stopped him and revealed herself as Frost Lord before destroying his body and Divine Soul.

Wang Wu and Qing Xue concealed Frost Lord’s killing of Gray Eye while discussing Wang Wu’s broken Blood Curse Heavenly Punishment and his involvement in Qin Yu’s death. Qing Xue pressed him on why he still refused to seek help from her master, and Wang Wu instead asked whether she would take him in.

• Wang Wu mistook Qing Xue for Frost Lord after seeing a powerful immortal sword destroy Gray Eye, then realized she had used his hair to create a Thousand Words Formation Master clone.
• Qing Xue and Wang Wu built a Main Three-Defense Fortress and agreed to keep Frost Lord’s appearance and Gray Eye’s death secret.
• Qing Xue inferred that Wang Wu had broken the Blood Curse Heavenly Punishment and killed Qin Yu, and promised to keep both secrets.
• Wang Wu admitted he had avoided asking Qing Xue’s master for help because he feared the Hidden Origin Society’s infighting and distrusted its powerful figures.
• Qing Xue argued that her master would protect Wang Wu, but he said he might someday have to kill his own master and asked whether Qing Xue would take him in.

Wang Wu cultivated in the fortress for half a month, then discovered that everyone treated him as the long-hidden formation grandmaster True Man Zhishui, Frost Lord’s old friend. Feng Muhan asked him to speed up the Heaven and Earth Needle’s construction and cut its budget, leaving Wang Wu facing a task he had not expected.

• Wang Wu openly asked Qing Xue to marry him someday, and she fled after telling him to meditate in his Three-Defense Treasure Armor.
• Wang Wu cultivated for half a month while the Sin Prisoners returned quietly and left without acknowledging him.
• Bai Yu arrived with Feng Muhan and Wu Qianyan, and Feng Muhan explained that he had taken over construction of the Vermillion Bird Heaven and Earth Needle.
• When Wang Wu asked about Qing Xue, Feng Muhan and Bai Yu said they did not know anyone by that name and identified Wang Wu as True Man Zhishui, Frost Lord’s secluded friend and a formation grandmaster.
• After inspecting the slow construction, Wang Wu was told Frost Lord expected him to finish within two years while reducing the planned spiritual-energy budget from one hundred trillion dou to sixty trillion.

Wang Wu learned about the Hidden Origin Society’s structure and agreed to oversee construction of the Heaven and Earth Needles while planning his cultivation. After unlocking the Hegemon Body Divine Ability, he saw the Trial Divine Hall and received an invitation to its trial.

• Feng Muhan explained the Seven Domains, the Three Departments, the Nine Rudders, the Twelve Branch Altars, and the Hidden Origin Society’s profit distribution to Wang Wu.
• Wang Wu promised to complete the Heaven and Earth Needles within two years, and Feng Muhan gave him a box containing a mysterious spirit talisman from Frost Lord.
• Wang Wu set cultivation goals for the next one hundred and fifty years and began unlocking the Hegemon Body Divine Ability.
• Wang Wu’s bloodline vision revealed the Trial Divine Hall, whose ancient voice invited him to enter the trial at the Mang Mountain Ancient Bear Sacred Land.

Wang Wu unlocked the Hegemon Body Divine Ability and learned that the Four Clowns classified bloodline abilities by the Heaven Earth Black Yellow ranks. He declined to test his new ability in the Evil Wind for now and focused on repairing his Spirit Pills.

• Wang Wu learned that unlocking the Hegemon Body Divine Ability had consumed 15% of his Bloodline Evolution allocation and raised its maximum level to 22.
• The Four Clowns explained that the Blood Sea Star River held inheritances from multiple Ancient Blood clans and classified abilities into four ranks with twenty-seven levels each.
• The Four Clowns ranked Wang Wu’s branch talents as Yellow Grade, his attribute-based secret techniques as Black Grade, and most of his major bloodline abilities as Earthly Grade, while speculating that Spiritual Essence Insight might be Heaven Grade.
• Wang Wu refused to enter the Evil Wind and test his level 19 Hegemon Body Divine Ability, choosing to wait two years while maintaining his disguise and protection.
• Wang Wu repaired the Water Spirit Pill, Wood Spirit Pill, and Gold Spirit Pill, deciding not to add more abilities to them because they were meant to support his foundations rather than fight.