Chapter Summaries

Su Hao recognized Zheng Tu selling talismans in disguise and negotiated to buy his lightning-type talismans. After exchanging spirit stones and top-grade pills for most of Zheng Tu’s stock, Su Hao learned that Zheng Tu was willing to barter away Heavenly Thunder Talismans too.

• Su Hao recognized the disguised Zheng Tu and followed him into a soundproof chamber to discuss buying lightning-type talismans.
• Zheng Tu showed Su Hao Lightning Strike Talismans and Thunder Fire Talismans, explaining that he no longer had the Heavenly Thunder Talismans used against He Tieniu.
• Su Hao haggled with Zheng Tu and agreed to buy all thirty Lightning Strike Talismans and twenty Thunder Fire Talismans for 1,400 spirit stones.
• Su Hao paid half the price in spirit stones and covered the rest with top-grade pills, which impressed Zheng Tu.
• As Su Hao prepared to leave, Zheng Tu offered to trade him some Heavenly Thunder Talismans in exchange for top-grade pills.

Su Hao traded two bottles of Top-grade Pure Qi Pills to Zheng Tu for three Heavenly Thunder Talismans, then bought Turtle Scale Armor and went to Tiger Fall Cliff. Zheng Tu tracked him there and, convinced Su Hao was weaker, faced his attack as Su Hao rushed in with the Crimson Flame Sword Art.

• Su Hao and Zheng Tu negotiated a trade, and Su Hao gave him two bottles of Top-grade Pure Qi Pills for three Heavenly Thunder Talismans.
• After Su Hao left, Zheng Tu deduced that Su Hao was concealing his strength and decided to follow him.
• Su Hao spent his remaining seven hundred spirit stones on Turtle Scale Armor and traveled to Tiger Fall Cliff.
• Zheng Tu tracked Su Hao using a mark on the talismans, and the two confronted each other at the cliff.
• Zheng Tu judged Su Hao to be only at Qi Refining Level 7 and underestimated him as Su Hao charged with the Spirit Snake Sword and Crimson Flame Sword Art.

Su Hao used his swordsmanship and the Extreme Intent True Art to kill Zheng Tu at Tiger Fall Cliff, then escaped before other cultivators could claim his spoils. Back at Heavenly Medicine Mountain, he inventoried Zheng Tu’s valuable possessions and decided to keep breaking through his spiritual apertures.

• Su Hao broke Zheng Tu’s lightning defenses, then vanished after leaving the talisman pouch behind to confuse Zheng Tu’s tracking technique.
• Su Hao ambushed Zheng Tu, activated the Extreme Intent True Art, killed him, refined his soul, and absorbed the blue talents Talisman Control and Lightning Palm.
• Su Hao collected Zheng Tu’s storage pouches and Moon Wheel Flying Shuttle, then fled to a secluded cave while the art’s side effect left him unable to use spiritual power.
• Nearby disciples discovered Zheng Tu’s corpse and wondered who had killed him as Su Hao waited out the side effect.
• Su Hao returned to Heavenly Medicine Mountain and found spirit stones, pills, ten Heavenly Thunder Talismans, valuable talisman-making tools, and the Moon Wheel Flying Shuttle among Zheng Tu’s spoils.
• Su Hao credited the Extreme Intent True Art for his victory and resolved to continue breaking through his spiritual apertures.

Su Hao gained the Primal Yang Physique and grew wary that Liu Mei would target him, so he left the sect for the Blood Soul Secret Realm. Liu Mei learned of his departure and prepared to pursue him.

• Su Hao absorbed Zheng Tu's blue talents and opened two more spiritual apertures, bringing the Extreme Intent True Art to six.
• After Liu Mei killed ten medicine slaves, Su Hao feared she would discover his Primal Yang Physique and considered the danger posed by the inner sect elder who had reserved her.
• Su Hao decided to leave the sect, strengthen himself, and finish refining the Soul Refining Banner while avoiding Liu Mei.
• Su Hao paid ten spirit stones and boarded a Flying Ship bound for the Blood Soul Secret Realm.
• Liu Mei heard that Su Hao had left the sect and mocked his attempt to escape.

Su Hao traveled toward the Blood Soul Secret Realm aboard the Golden Light Sect's Flying Ship, where he considered collecting other cultivators' talents and was approached by Cui Hao's group. Liu Mei arrived at the ship and reunited with Fang Yunrong, whose revelation about the sect's hunt for prodigies left the reason behind the operation unresolved.

• Su Hao assessed the talents of the disciples aboard the Flying Ship and decided that obtaining more talents could be more valuable than secluded cultivation.
• Cui Hao invited Su Hao to join his group for the Blood Soul Secret Realm, but Su Hao suspected they wanted to use or rob him and considered going along with them.
• Liu Mei flew up to the ship and drew the attention of the disciples, while Su Hao noticed that she had reached Qi Refining Level 7.
• Fang Yunrong appeared, and Su Hao recognized the Foundation Establishment elder who had killed Zhang Yunfei and felt afraid of him.
• Fang Yunrong told Liu Mei that the Golden Light Sect had ordered its elders to capture prodigies from other sects, and Liu Mei asked whether it was connected to the disturbance at the Myriad Souls Pagoda.

Su Hao joined Cui Hao's group on their way to the Blood Soul Secret Realm, where Liu Mei unexpectedly approached him and insisted on joining them. When Liu Mei flirted with Su Hao in front of everyone, he decided to take advantage of her closeness, shocking the onlookers.

• Cui Hao invited Su Hao to travel with his group to the Blood Soul Secret Realm, and they discussed rumors about the Myriad Souls Pagoda and its search for exceptional materials.
• Liu Mei came down from the building, ignored Cui Ziming, and told Su Hao that she was looking for him.
• After learning the group was heading to the Blood Soul Secret Realm, Liu Mei asked to join them and teased Su Hao about seeming unhappy.
• Liu Mei linked arms with Su Hao and reminisced suggestively about their time together, while Su Hao deliberately rubbed his arm against her.
• The crowd stared in shock because Liu Mei's Wife-Pleasing Scripture could drain a man's essence, making Su Hao's bold touch seem dangerous.

Su Hao traveled with Liu Mei and the Cui siblings into the Blood Soul Secret Realm, where they mistook his concealed strength for weakness. At night, Liu Mei drained Zhang Yanyan of her life force while Su Hao watched and absorbed the Frost Condensation talent from her corpse.

• Liu Mei questioned Su Hao about his rapid cultivation, but he blamed his progress on pills from his master, Lin Zhi Shan.
• The group arrived at the Blood Soul Secret Realm, and Su Hao ran into the forest with Liu Mei following close behind.
• Cui Ziming, Cui Hao, Wei Ying, and Zhang Yanyan killed a Rotten Blood Wolf while Su Hao watched, then the group spent hours hunting beasts together.
• At night, Liu Mei released a fragrant mist that incapacitated Cui Ziming, Cui Hao, and Zhang Yanyan, then drained Zhang Yanyan until she died.
• Su Hao watched from the cave entrance and absorbed the Frost Condensation talent power from Zhang Yanyan's corpse.

Liu Mei killed Zhang Yanyan, Wei Ying, Cui Hao, and Cui Ziming while Su Hao watched, then learned that he had killed Lin Zhi Shan and proposed they cooperate using their Primal Yin and Primal Yang. Liu Mei rejected him and attacked, and Su Hao countered her Crimson Powder Miasma with lightning talismans.

• Su Hao let Cui Ziming, Cui Hao, and Wei Ying believe Zhang Yanyan was a stranger, and Cui Hao threw her corpse into the river.
• Liu Mei used her fragrant mist to kill Wei Ying, then Cui Hao and Cui Ziming, absorbing their talents and vital essence.
• Su Hao told Liu Mei he had known Lin Zhi Shan's plan and had killed him while avenging Zhou Cui Feng.
• Su Hao proposed cooperating with Liu Mei, revealing that he possessed Primal Yang and that their complementary energies could achieve perfect Foundation Establishment.
• Liu Mei refused to work with Su Hao and attacked him with Crimson Powder Miasma to capture him and extract his Primal Yang.
• Su Hao unleashed Lightning Strike and Thunder Fire Talismans, dispersing most of Liu Mei's fragrant mist.

Su Hao defeated and killed Liu Mei, then killed Cui Ziming as he tried to flee. Absorbing Liu Mei’s talents fused his Primal Yin and Primal Yang Physiques into the new purple Innate Yin-Yang talent, while approaching cultivators threatened to interrupt his escape.

• Liu Mei attacked Su Hao with her Crimson Powder Miasma and daggers, but he resisted her miasma and overpowered her with the Extreme Intent True Art.
• Liu Mei tried to charm Su Hao into accepting dual cultivation, but he broke her protective spiritual power with the Body Breaking Cone and killed her.
• Su Hao absorbed Liu Mei’s Primal Yin Physique and Water Spirit Body, and his Primal Yin and Primal Yang Physiques fused into the purple Innate Yin-Yang talent.
• Cui Ziming tried to crawl away, but Su Hao killed him with the Spirit Snake Sword and absorbed his Earth Spirit Body.
• Su Hao prepared to dispose of the bodies and leave as a blood mist and several streaks of spiritual light approached.

Xu Chenguang and the other disciples discovered Liu Mei’s corpse and fled, fearing a Golden Core Ancestor would punish everyone connected to her death. Su Hao escaped the scene with Liu Mei’s storage bag and headed for the secret realm’s exit, where a Taoist nun stopped him with a binding power.

• Xu Chenguang recognized Liu Mei’s headless corpse and hurried away with the other disciples rather than investigate.
• Xu Chenguang explained that Liu Mei’s death could draw a Golden Core Ancestor, who might search their souls for answers.
• Su Hao emerged from his hiding place, took Liu Mei’s storage bag, and decided to flee the Golden Light Sect.
• Su Hao crossed the secret realm over two days, killing savage beasts and cultivators, and found the exit.
• As Su Hao prepared to leave, a beautiful Taoist nun in a plain white robe appeared and immobilized him with her power.

Su Hao met True Person Yuqing after she discovered his secrets and learned that he had killed Liu Mei. She gave him a jade pendant and proposed taking him as her disciple, while her thoughts revealed that she considered him a rare prodigy and believed he was destined to be connected to her.

• Yu Xuanji revealed her name and Taoist title, then questioned Su Hao about Liu Mei’s death.
• Yu Xuanji dismissed Liu Mei’s death and praised Su Hao’s talent, including his Innate Yin-Yang Qi and apparent Wood Element Sacred Body.
• Su Hao admitted he had killed Liu Mei and planned to leave the Golden Light Sect, but Yu Xuanji warned that Mo You could track him down.
• Yu Xuanji gave Su Hao a Dragon Pattern Jade Pendant that concealed his aura and aptitude, then asked him to become her disciple.
• Su Hao agreed, and Yu Xuanji vanished after telling him to remain in the sect.
• Yu Xuanji reflected that Su Hao was the prodigy connected to the Myriad Souls Pagoda disturbance and declared that he was destined to be connected to her.

After overcoming his fear of Yu Xuanji’s possible motives, Su Hao benefited from Liu Mei’s spoils, learned the Sky Slaying Sword Art, and advanced to Qi Refining Level 9. Mo You arrived at Heavenly Medicine Mountain, destroyed Su Hao’s cave dwelling, and confronted him.

• Su Hao reasoned that becoming Yu Xuanji’s disciple could protect and benefit him, then inspected the storage bags taken from the Blood Soul Secret Realm.
• Su Hao found the Sky Slaying Sword Art in Liu Mei’s storage bag and quickly comprehended it, demonstrating its power by cutting through a stone wall.
• Su Hao considered buying a stronger sword and continued practicing the sword art while taking Golden Snow Spirit Pills.
• After ten days, Su Hao reached Qi Refining Level 9 as Mo You arrived at Heavenly Medicine Mountain and destroyed his cave dwelling with a cloud of black insects.
• Mo You appeared before Su Hao, asked whether he was Su Hao, and found that he could not discern Su Hao’s cultivation or aura.

Mo You attacked Su Hao, but Yu Xuanji intervened, accepted him as her disciple, and exposed the Golden Light Sect’s search for an Artifact Spirit to activate the Myriad Souls Pagoda. The chapter ended with Yu Xuanji preparing to tell Su Hao how to avoid being made into one.

• Mo You found Su Hao and tried to bind him and use the Soul Searching Technique to learn about him.
• Yu Xuanji arrived, stopped Mo You from harming Su Hao, and drove him away after he gave Su Hao his Wind Dragon Mountain dwelling as compensation.
• Su Hao knelt before Yu Xuanji, and she accepted him as her disciple.
• Yu Xuanji told Su Hao that the Inner Sect had been searching for a prodigy and revealed the Golden Light Sect’s plan to use an Artifact Spirit to activate the Myriad Souls Pagoda.
• Yu Xuanji told Su Hao that he needed to learn how to escape the fate of becoming an Artifact Spirit.

Yu Xuanji warned Su Hao that his only real path to safety was to grow stronger quickly, then offered him a choice of three cultivation techniques. Despite her cautions about its risks, Su Hao chose the mysterious Chaos Samsara True Scripture.

• Yu Xuanji outlined ways Su Hao might avoid being sacrificed to the Myriad Souls Pagoda and said he needed to become stronger as quickly as possible.
• Yu Xuanji explained that Su Hao should not sacrifice his talent out of fear, then offered him a cultivation technique as her first gift.
• Yu Xuanji presented the Azure Emperor Majestic Spirit Divine Art, the Azure Dragon Sword Seal, and the Chaos Samsara True Scripture.
• Yu Xuanji warned that the Chaos Samsara True Scripture consumed vast resources, could mutate Su Hao's Dantian and meridians, and might be difficult to comprehend or abandon.
• Su Hao firmly chose the Chaos Samsara True Scripture despite Yu Xuanji's objections.

Yu Xuanji gave Su Hao the Chaos Samsara True Scripture and pills before he moved into the cave mansion Mo You had assigned him. After spending a month cultivating, Su Hao found that the new art greatly increased his spiritual energy’s quality but required far more resources, and Mo Chenghu confronted him as he emerged from the mansion.

• Yu Xuanji bestowed the Chaos Samsara True Scripture and thirty Nine Splendor Profound Pills on Su Hao, explained how the Kun Yuan Treasure Jade concealed his aura, and told him to seek her after reaching Foundation Establishment.
• Su Hao abandoned his ruined cave mansion and traveled to Wind Dragon Mountain to claim Cave Mansion No. 11, leaving the surviving medicine slaves behind.
• Mo Chenghu demanded that Su Hao return the cave mansion’s subsidiary token, but Su Hao destroyed its imprint from inside the mansion and refused Mo Chenghu’s challenge.
• Su Hao comprehended the Chaos Samsara True Scripture in ten days, condensed his ninth-level Qi Refining spiritual energy to first-level volume, and spent a month using pills to barely regain the ninth level.
• Su Hao decided to earn spirit stones by alchemizing rather than ask Yu Xuanji for more pills, but Mo Chenghu blocked his path when he walked out of the cave mansion.

Su Hao used a concealed, fully charged sword strike to badly wound Mo Chenghu, then left Wind Dragon Mountain for the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion. There, Huang Shanyu demanded that Su Hao repay 300 low-grade spirit stones for missing spirit herbs supplied to his master.

• Mo Chenghu tried to intimidate Su Hao into surrendering the Cave Mansion control token and making him a sworn elder brother.
• Su Hao unleashed the Wind-Slaying Slash and wounded Mo Chenghu, who fled on a flying artifact.
• Su Hao realized the Kun Yuan Treasure Jade had concealed his power as he charged the attack, and observers on Wind Dragon Mountain wondered about his identity and cultivation.
• A purple-robed woman ordered her maid, Xiao Zhu, to investigate the new owner of Cave Mansion No. 11.
• At the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion, Huang Shanyu confronted Su Hao over the missing spirit herbs and demanded repayment of 300 low-grade spirit stones.

Su Hao confronted Huang Shanyu over Lin Zhi Shan’s debt and proposed selling Heavenly Medicine Mountain’s Blood Tribute Field, then negotiated a secret alchemy supply deal with the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion. He left after ordering pill materials and Nine-Colored Leaf delivered to his cave at Wind Dragon Mountain, startling Huang Shanyu with where he lived.

• Su Hao intimidated Huang Shanyu, rejected responsibility for Lin Zhi Shan’s three-hundred-spirit-stone debt, and told him to settle it with Lin Zhi Shan.
• Su Hao said Lin Zhi Shan was dead and offered to sell Heavenly Medicine Mountain’s three mu of Blood Tribute Field; Huang Shanyu asked for a day to report the matter to his superiors.
• Su Hao showed Huang Shanyu two bottles of Top-grade Pure Qi Pills and negotiated prices of sixteen spirit stones per bottle for High-grade pills and thirty-two for Top-grade pills.
• Su Hao paid a thousand spirit stones for materials for three hundred batches of Pure Qi Pills and one hundred batches of Golden Snow Spirit Pills, while warning Huang Shanyu to keep their cooperation secret.
• Su Hao bought all ten Nine-Colored Leaves in stock and ordered the materials delivered to Cave Mansion No. 11 at Wind Dragon Mountain, leaving Huang Shanyu astonished that he lived there.

Su Hao bought the ingredients to refine Nine Splendor Profound Pills and refused Lin Ziyi’s invitation after her maid Lin Zhu tried to provoke him. Lin Ziyi suspected Su Hao had a Golden Core backer, while Huang Shanyu arrived the next day with the ingredients and a borrowed alchemy furnace.

• Su Hao spent nearly half his savings buying materials for ten Nine Splendor Profound Pills, hoping to become self-sufficient by mastering their refinement.
• Lin Zhu invited Su Hao to meet Lin Ziyi, but Su Hao declined and shut himself inside his cave abode.
• Lin Zhu exaggerated Su Hao’s words to Lin Ziyi, who recognized her attempt to sow discord and decided she still wanted to befriend him.
• Lin Ziyi reviewed Su Hao’s background and concluded that a Golden Core cultivator must be backing him.
• Huang Shanyu brought Su Hao the medicinal ingredients and lent him the Dragon Tiger Fire Cloud Alchemy Furnace, explaining that Senior Brother Qian Feng had arranged it.

Su Hao used the Dragon Tiger Fire Cloud Alchemy Furnace to mass-produce Pure Qi Pills and rapidly master Golden Snow Spirit Pills. When Yu Xuanji visited and found him refining pills, she warned that alchemy was a lesser path and urged him to focus on cultivation, leaving him with twenty bottles of Nine Splendor Profound Pills.

• Huang Shanyu gave Su Hao a voice-transmission jade slip so he could conveniently trade with Heavenly Treasure Pavilion.
• Su Hao refined 4,105 Pure Qi Pills from three hundred sets of materials, earning a large profit.
• Su Hao practiced refining Golden Snow Spirit Pills until his success rate reached eighty percent and his top-grade rate reached forty percent.
• Yu Xuanji visited Su Hao, noticed his spiritual field and Golden Snow Spirit Pills, and criticized him for spending time on alchemy.
• Su Hao defended his efforts to make use of his talents and secure resources, while Yu Xuanji warned him to prioritize cultivation and offered him twenty bottles of Nine Splendor Profound Pills.

Su Hao cultivated with pills and sold Top-grade Pure Qi Pills to the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion, but Lin Zhu and Xia Yunying stole the delivery. Huang Shanyu promised to report the theft, while Su Hao focused on reaching Foundation Establishment and warned that a mishandled loss would end their cooperation.

• Yu Xuanji left Su Hao’s cave abode after delivering 20 bottles of Nine Splendor Profound Pills, and Su Hao began secluded cultivation.
• Su Hao consumed 2,500 Top-grade Pure Qi Pills and arranged for the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion to collect the remaining pills.
• Lin Zhu stopped the Pavilion’s couriers, and Xia Yunying attacked them and took their storage bag.
• Lin Zhu and Xia Yunying discovered the bag held 300 bottles of Top-grade Pure Qi Pills and decided to keep them.
• Huang Shanyu told Su Hao the pills had been stolen, and Su Hao told him to resolve the loss without charging him or risk ending their cooperation.