Chapter Summaries

Zhang Lingshan helped Lu Zhaohe purge her Fire Poison, but the process left him trapped in a fatal cycle with his Water Element Spiritual Root depleted and Fire Poison consuming it. Lu Zhaohe ordered Tang Feiling to send him to Yu Shaoqing, while she prepared to enter seclusion and pursue those who had plotted against her.

• Zhang Lingshan circulated his Profound Sea Condensing Wave Art for months, helping Lu Zhaohe remove all the Fire Poison while becoming severely poisoned himself.
• Lu Zhaohe told Tang Feiling that Zhang Lingshan could not recover without outside help, then ordered him sent away from the Alchemy Pavilion to Yu Shaoqing.
• Tang Feiling revealed that Yu Shaoqing had used Zhao Xian to attack Zhang Lingshan, and Lu Zhaohe decided to send Zhang Lingshan to him as a spiteful gift.
• Lu Zhaohe warned Tang Feiling to stay inside the Alchemy Pavilion and announced she would enter seclusion to cultivate a Fire Element Killing Move.
• Tang Feiling ordered a black-robed chief to deliver Zhang Lingshan in a wooden box to Qingfeng Tower, where Lin Bai came out to deal with the delivery.

Lin Bai and Yu Shaoqing learned that Zhang Lingshan had been brought to Qingfeng Tower infected with Ember Bone Fire Poison, and Ding Hong took him away. At the Artifact Refining Pavilion, Qi Shuyan heard that Zhang Lingshan was missing and feared dead, then fainted from grief.

• A Red-clothed Woman identified the poison inside the chest as Ember Bone Fire Poison and explained that Lu Zhaohe had likely transferred it to Zhang Lingshan.
• Lin Bai revealed Zhang Lingshan’s identity, and Yu Shaoqing let Ding Hong take him away in exchange for a favor.
• Sima Yue told Qi Shuyan that Zhang Lingshan had disappeared after Ding Hong took him, though he believed the poison had probably turned him into a Scorched Rock.
• Qi Shuyan recalled how Zhang Lingshan had helped him advance in the Artifact Refining Pavilion and fainted after hearing what had happened to him.

Ding Hong used a Soul Devouring Worm Larva to keep Zhang Lingshan under her control while helping him recover his Water Element Spiritual Root and reach the Mysterious Immortal realm. After he expelled the Ember Bone Fire Poison, she revealed that she had saved him so he could refine High-grade Pure Lotus Pills for her.

• Ding Hong gave Zhang Lingshan the lower half of the Profound Sea Condensing Wave Art and a Fire Control Gourd, and ordered him to cultivate and expel the Ember Bone Fire Poison.
• Zhang Lingshan used the Cold Jade Pool to stabilize his Mysterious Immortal cultivation, restore his Water Element Spiritual Root, and study the Ember Bone Fire Poison.
• Zhang Lingshan forced the Ember Bone Fire Poison into the Fire Control Gourd, consuming the Cold Jade Crystal Stones in the process.
• Ding Hong punished Zhang Lingshan with the Soul Devouring Worm Larva for using the wrong form of address, then told him to refine High-grade Pure Lotus Pills for her.
• Zhang Lingshan agreed to work for Ding Hong while secretly vowing to kill her and his other enemies once he grew strong enough.

Ding Hong ordered Zhang Lingshan to produce thirty High-grade Pure Lotus Pills a day, while he secretly used pill refinement to improve his Immortal Spiritual Body and Immortal Divine Sense. After half a month, Ding Hong returned to inspect his progress and demanded a demonstration.

• Ding Hong gave Zhang Lingshan an Alchemy Room, pill furnaces, and half a month to learn to produce thirty High-grade Pure Lotus Pills a day, then took his Storage Ring.
• Zhang Lingshan refined pills alone and secretly ate the Mid-grade and High-grade Pure Lotus Pills, gaining Immortal Spiritual Body experience from them.
• Zhang Lingshan concealed the Resentful Ghost Pool and set up surveillance while cultivating his Immortal Divine Sense, and he found that the strain strengthened his Soul Tree.
• Ding Hong returned at the end of the half-month and found Zhang Lingshan looking exhausted.
• Zhang Lingshan claimed he could meet Ding Hong's quota, and Ding Hong told him to refine a batch while she watched.

Zhang Lingshan spent half a year refining High-grade Pure Lotus Pills for Ding Hong while secretly cultivating, but his value drew the attention of Lu Zhaohe and the Anning Army. As rival powers prepared to pressure Ding Hong over him, the City Lord's council opened with Yu Shaoqing being asked to explain how Zhang Lingshan was taken.

• Zhang Lingshan refined pills for Ding Hong, advanced the Myriad Techniques True Scripture to the Third Layer, and secretly consumed pills and spirit rice to strengthen himself.
• Lu Zhaohe emerged from seclusion, learned Zhang Lingshan was refining pills for Ding Hong, and ordered Tang Feiling to summon the Anning Army's branch commanders to reclaim him.
• Sima Yue told Qi Shuyan that Zhang Lingshan was alive but warned that the Anning Army and City Lord's Mansion might pressure the Ding Family, potentially leaving Zhang dead or shared among factions.
• The Water Field Domain Lord asked Wei Cuicui to take him to the paddy field where Zhang Lingshan had once planted spirit rice.
• The City Lord convened the Green Clothed Faction and Purple Clothed Faction, and someone demanded that Yu Shaoqing explain how Ding Hong had taken Zhang Lingshan.

Yu Shaoqing faced blame in the City Lord's Mansion for handing Zhang Lingshan to Ding Hong, while Lu Zhaohe gathered the Anning Army to reclaim him. The City Lord sent Yu Shaoqing to observe the negotiations as Lu Zhaohe prepared to march on the Ding Family.

• Members of the Purple Clothed Faction blamed Yu Shaoqing for giving Zhang Lingshan to Ding Hong instead of seeking permission to use the City Lord's Mansion's Cold Jade Crystal.
• Yu Shaoqing proposed joining Lu Zhaohe's effort to reclaim Zhang Lingshan, and the City Lord ordered him to go hear how the Anning Army's negotiations proceeded.
• At the Anning Army's General's Mansion, Lu Zhaohe gathered its leaders and announced they would take Zhang Lingshan back from Ding Hong.
• Lu Zhaohe questioned Yi Fengliu, Fei Zhan, and Lian Zhengjie about Zhang Lingshan's connections, then ordered Sima Yue to summon Qi Shuyan.
• Lu Zhaohe said the Anning Army would set out as soon as Qi Shuyan arrived.

Lu Zhaohe led the Anning Army to the Ding residence to demand Zhang Lingshan’s return, but Ding Yangshuo challenged her and revealed his mastery of the Space Rule. The confrontation paused when Ding Yangshuo offered to bring Zhang Lingshan out if Lu Zhaohe first removed Yu Shaoqing, who insisted he had a claim to Zhang Lingshan.

• Lu Zhaohe arrived at the Ding residence with the Anning Army and demanded that Ding Hong return Zhang Lingshan or face the destruction of the Ding Family.
• Ding Yangshuo appeared, warned Lu Zhaohe about escalating the matter, and dismissed her claim that Zhang Lingshan belonged to the Alchemy Pavilion.
• Lu Zhaohe attacked Ding Yangshuo with a flame palm, forcing him to retreat, but he countered with a Space Rule strike that left her covered in dust.
• Lu Zhaohe launched a flaming spear and then fire rain at the Ding Family, while Ding Yangshuo trapped her attack and protected his residence with a barrier formation.
• Ding Yangshuo said Zhang Lingshan had left the Alchemy Pavilion willingly and agreed to call him out if Lu Zhaohe sent away the outsiders.
• Lu Zhaohe ordered Yu Shaoqing to leave, but Yu Shaoqing refused, claiming he also had a share in Zhang Lingshan.

Zhang Lingshan refused Lu Zhaohe’s demand to return to the Alchemy Pavilion, and Lu Zhaohe poisoned Qi Shuyan to pressure him. The Ding Family, the Anning Army, and the City Lord’s representatives negotiated a shared arrangement for Zhang Lingshan’s pill refinement, while Qi Shuyan hoped he would still help him.

• Zhang Lingshan declared that he had left the Alchemy Pavilion to repay Ding Hong for saving his life, and Lu Zhaohe tried to force him back.
• Lu Zhaohe attacked Qi Shuyan with Ember Bone Fire Poison, but Zhang Lingshan denied knowing him and refused to intervene.
• Ding Yangshuo trapped Lu Zhaohe and summoned the Ding Family’s experts as Pang Mancang proposed that the factions jointly sponsor Zhang Lingshan’s pill refinement and share the pills.
• Yu Shaoqing and Chen Nuo proposed establishing a Pure Lotus Pavilion, and representatives of the Ding Family, the Anning Army, and the City Lord began negotiations.
• Qi Shuyan remained hopeful that Zhang Lingshan would later expel his poison, while Sima Yue doubted Zhang Lingshan would have time to help.

Zhang Lingshan endured negotiations that assigned him to a jointly supervised Pure Lotus Pavilion, while secretly planning to escape once his Immortal Divine Sense reached level eight. After healing Qi Shuyan, he remained under Ding Hong’s control as the parties prepared to build the pavilion.

• Zhang Lingshan secretly tested Ding Hong’s and Yu Shaoqing’s Storage Ring defenses and resolved to steal a flying treasure and flee when his Immortal Divine Sense reached level eight.
• Lu Zhaohe, Yu Shaoqing, and Ding Yangshuo agreed to build the Pure Lotus Pavilion, send three supervisors from each side, and divide the High-grade Pure Lotus Pills among the parties.
• Zhang Lingshan used his Water Element Spiritual Qi to heal Qi Shuyan’s Ember Bone Fire Poison and privately urged him to look after himself and their former companions.
• Sima Yue left with Qi Shuyan, and Lu Zhaohe departed with the Anning Army after observing Zhang Lingshan’s healing ability.
• Ding Yangshuo told Ding Hong to keep Zhang Lingshan well fed, and Ding Hong ordered Ding Dasheng, Lin Bai, and Wei Cuicui to help raise him.

Zhang Lingshan broke through to level eight Immortal Divine Sense while refining pills under constant watch, briefly losing control of his soul before the Soul Tree helped him recover. Once he stabilized, he secretly searched his watchers’ Storage Rings and found Ding Dasheng’s Flying Magic Treasure, leaving him with a potential means of escape.

• Zhang Lingshan spent two months refining High-grade Pure Lotus Pills while secretly using the Resentful Ghost Pool to raise his Immortal Divine Sense.
• Pang Mancang ordered Wei Cuicui to watch Zhang Lingshan closely, and her increased scrutiny made Zhang Lingshan more wary and eager to break through.
• Zhang Lingshan reached level eight Immortal Divine Sense, and the breakthrough made his soul drift from his body until the Soul Tree’s power helped him regain control.
• Wei Cuicui, Ding Dasheng, and Lin Bai revived Zhang Lingshan with Immortal Spirit Liquid, then agreed not to report his collapse to their superiors.
• After recovering, Zhang Lingshan secretly searched Wei Cuicui’s, Ding Dasheng’s, and Lin Bai’s Storage Rings and found a distinctive Flying Magic Treasure carriage in Ding Dasheng’s ring.

Zhang Lingshan secretly learned about Pang Mancang’s plan to steal him from the Pure Lotus Pavilion and used the time bought by Wei Cuicui’s delays to strengthen his abilities. After mastering Entry Level Ember Bone Poison Fire, he prepared for Pang Mancang’s impending attack while continuing to secretly take items from Lin Bai’s ring.

• Zhang Lingshan studied books and artifacts in the others’ rings, increased his pill-refining output, and secretly kept pills for himself.
• Pang Mancang ordered Wei Cuicui to report the Pure Lotus Pavilion’s layout, and Zhang Lingshan overheard their conversation and realized Pang Mancang planned to steal him.
• Wei Cuicui slowly sent information to Pang Mancang, buying Zhang Lingshan time to practice taking objects through rings and improve his knowledge of formations.
• Zhang Lingshan chose to save his Energy Points for Ember Bone Poison Fire rather than perfecting his Mortal Realm Space Rule.
• After three more months, Zhang Lingshan spent his Energy Points to reach Entry Level Ember Bone Poison Fire and concealed the resulting disturbance with formations.
• As Wei Cuicui finished reporting the Pavilion’s defenses, Zhang Lingshan slowed his pill production, prepared for Pang Mancang’s attack, and secretly took items from Lin Bai’s ring.

Zhang Lingshan waited for Pang Mancang’s attempt to seize him, then escaped Pure Lotus Pavilion in Ding Dasheng’s Bronze Chariot Horse after striking Pang Mancang with two flames. Pang Mancang recovered from the attack and pursued Zhang Lingshan, while the others fled amid Lin Bai’s mistaken accusation that they were insiders.

• Zhang Lingshan tested his ability to move Ding Dasheng’s Bronze Horse Flying Carriage between rings and returned it before Ding Dasheng could investigate.
• When Pang Mancang arrived and controlled the guards outside Pure Lotus Pavilion, Zhang Lingshan ambushed him with Ember Bone Poison Fire and Avici Hellfire.
• Zhang Lingshan summoned Ding Dasheng’s Bronze Chariot Horse, took Spirit Stones and other items from the others’ rings, and fled Anning City.
• Pang Mancang removed poisoned flesh from his chest, used Spirit Rice to suppress the poison, and drained Huoran’s water-element power to recover.
• Lin Bai escaped and accused Pang Mancang, Wei Cuicui, and Ding Dasheng of being Zhang Lingshan’s insiders; Ding Dasheng protested that Zhang Lingshan had stolen his chariot and fled toward his family.
• Pang Mancang took Wei Cuicui and left, intending to pursue Zhang Lingshan using the marks he had placed on the Spirit Stones.

Zhang Lingshan escaped after using Avici Hellfire to remove Pang Mancang’s tracking mark, leaving the forces in Anning City to argue over how he had done it and who was responsible. Lu Zhaohe was pressured to organize a search as Zhang Lingshan’s pursuers feared he would leave the city and disappear.

• Pang Mancang realized Zhang Lingshan had used Avici Hellfire to erase his mark and lost track of him.
• Lu Zhaohe, Yu Shaoqing, Ding Yangshuo, Ding Hong, and the others gathered at Pure Lotus Pavilion and learned that Zhang Lingshan had escaped.
• Ding Dasheng and Lin Bai revealed that Zhang Lingshan could take items from their rings, while witnesses described his attacks on Pang Mancang and Huoran.
• Lu Zhaohe and the others deduced that Zhang Lingshan had secretly refined the Ember Bone Fire Poison and possessed another powerful flame, though they disputed whether Wei Cuicui had helped him.
• Ding Yangshuo and Yu Shaoqing left and demanded compensation, while Lu Zhaohe was left to search for Zhang Lingshan before he escaped Anning City.

Zhang Lingshan escaped Anning City and sought advice from Extreme Soul Immortal Venerable about finding safety and resources in the Immortal Realm. Unable to leave the Great Qing Dynasty by the routes available, he disguised himself and prepared to remain there, just as Zhang Zixin reported that the Violet Qi Golden Silkworm had emerged from its cocoon.

• Zhang Lingshan used his remaining Spirit Stones and stolen supplies to cultivate in a mountain cave, but found they were insufficient to advance his Myriad Techniques True Scripture to the Fourth Layer.
• Zhang Lingshan summoned Extreme Soul Immortal Venerable and explained that he needed a safe place to farm and build up resources.
• Extreme Soul Immortal Venerable proposed traveling to his sect, then described a route through North Frontier City into the Dali Dynasty; Zhang Lingshan rejected it after learning North Frontier City was at war.
• Zhang Lingshan decided to stay in the Great Qing Dynasty and asked how to obtain an identity, then sent Extreme Soul Immortal Venerable back into the Extreme Yin Ghost Seal.
• Zhang Lingshan transformed himself into a fair-skinned young man with an ice spiritual root and continued scouting his surroundings.
• Zhang Zixin announced from the Pouch Space that the Violet Qi Golden Silkworm had broken out of its cocoon.

Zhang Lingshan’s newly emerged Violet Qi Golden Silkworm swallowed the Soul Devouring Worm Larva, solving a serious threat and revealing new energy on its back. Still wanted in the Great Qing Dynasty, Zhang Lingshan disguised himself and Zhang Lingshe as desperate refugees, and the chapter ended with a merchant caravan inviting them to travel to Anyuan City.

• The Violet Qi Golden Silkworm sprang into Zhang Lingshan’s glabella, devoured the Soul Devouring Worm Larva, and settled back at his navel with two purple dots appearing on its back.
• Zhang Lingshan sent Zhang Zixin and Zhang Jinxuan into the Single Page space and chose Zhang Lingshe to accompany him as a supposed hostage while seeking a faction to join.
• Zhang Lingshan and Zhang Lingshe changed into ragged clothes and approached a merchant caravan whose members were suffering from Fire Poison.
• Two Anning Army soldiers stopped Zhang Lingshan and demanded his Travel Permit, but he revealed his Mysterious Ice power and frightened them into leaving.
• The ice and snow eased Uncle Chen’s Fire Poison, and Zhang Lingshan and Zhang Lingshe pretended to be injured brothers after landing beside the caravan.
• The woman in the carriage invited Zhang Lingshan and Zhang Lingshe to travel with the caravan to Anyuan City.

Zhang Lingshan and Zhang Lingshe joined Bai Wanxi’s caravan, where Zhang Lingshan treated Chen Baiyi’s Fire Poison while concealing his identity. At a checkpoint, Golden Immortal Lu Zhaohe praised Zhang Lingshan’s Ice-type Variant Spirit Root, leaving Zhang worried that the expert might want to seize him.

• Zhang Lingshan and Zhang Lingshe accepted Bai Wanxi’s offer to travel with her caravan, and Zhang Lingshan began suppressing Chen Baiyi’s Fire Poison.
• Chen Baiyi explained that the Anning Army was searching for the escaped slave Zhang Lingshan and offered the disguised Zhang Lingshan and his brother identities through the Bai Family.
• As the caravan traveled, Zhang Lingshan repeatedly treated Chen Baiyi, removing nearly half of his Fire Poison and gaining his trust.
• Chen Baiyi questioned Zhang Lingshan about his background, and Zhang invented a story about his family’s destruction and why he hid his rare talent.
• At a checkpoint, Lu Zhaohe inspected the caravan, accepted Bai Wanxi’s Fire Qilin Beast horn, and allowed them through.
• Lu Zhaohe recognized Zhang Lingshan’s Ice-type Variant Spirit Root and praised it, making Zhang fear the Golden Immortal might target him.

Zhang Lingshan reached Anyuan City with Bai Wanxi’s caravan and learned that her family might force her to marry Tao Mingguan. After refusing Chen Baiyi’s attempt to steer him toward Bai Lingfeng, Zhang Lingshan accepted Bai Wanxi’s plan to secure him an identity through the Ice Chamber and remain free to help her.

• Zhang Lingshan treated Chen Baiyi and the other caravan members for Fire Poison as they traveled to Anyuan City.
• Bai Lingfeng confronted Bai Wanxi outside the city, mocked her losses, and announced that Tao Mingguan would soon seek to marry her.
• Chen Baiyi urged Zhang Lingshan to join Bai Lingfeng’s caravan, but Zhang Lingshan suspected his motives and chose to stay loyal to Bai Wanxi.
• Bai Wanxi told Zhang Lingshan she had arranged an Identification Token and a position with the Ice Chamber, with the option for him to serve later as a guest elder of the Bai Family.
• Bai Wanxi called to Xiao Qiu while Zhang Lingshan thanked her for arranging his identity.

Zhang Lingshan joined Zhao Xingqiu’s Ice Chamber to earn an Identification Token for his brother and quickly proved gifted at making ice. After ten days of training, he qualified for the Grade-A assessment, while Bai Wanxi’s troubles with Bai Lingfeng remained unresolved.

• Bai Wanxi introduced Zhang Lingshan to Zhao Xingqiu, who offered him work in the Ice Chamber in exchange for helping his brother obtain an Identification Token.
• Zhao Xingqiu explained the ice-making work and took Zhang Lingshan and Zhang Lingshe to the Ice Chamber, where Zhang Lingshan learned to use an Ice Platform Formation.
• Zhang Lingshan formed a complex hexagonal ice flower on his first attempt, impressing Zhao Xingqiu with his talent.
• After ten days of instruction, Zhang Lingshan could make a hexagonal ice crystal with thirty-six branches and qualified for the Grade-A assessment.
• Zhao Xingqiu told Zhang Lingshan that he needed ten thousand Merit Points to obtain an Identification Token for Zhang Lingshe, and Zhang Lingshan resolved to earn them while hoping to visit Bai Wanxi.

After half a year of relentless work in the Ice Chamber, Zhang Lingshan went with Zhao Xingqiu and Bai Wanxi to the Qingyun Chamber of Commerce to try to comprehend a valuable Array Disk. The opportunity began with Elder Zhu requiring each participant to pay one thousand Spirit Stones.

• Zhang Lingshan passed the ice workers' assessment as a Grade-A worker and received an official Identification Token.
• Zhang Lingshan worked for half a year, accumulated more than four hundred thousand Merit Points, and improved his ice-making ability and cultivation.
• Zhao Xingqiu brought Zhang Lingshan out on leave to meet Bai Wanxi and attend the Array Disk competition.
• Bai Wanxi explained that the Qingyun Chamber of Commerce would let young talents try to comprehend a Cultivation Method sealed in an Array Disk, provided the successful method was copied for the chamber.
• Elder Zhu announced that anyone seeking to comprehend the Array Disk had to pay one thousand Spirit Stones, prompting an uproar among the gathered talents.

Zhang Lingshan accompanied Zhao Xingqiu and Bai Wanxi into the Qingyun Chamber of Commerce while Tao Mingguan attempted to comprehend a Cultivation Method from an Array Disk outside. He secretly used his Immortal Divine Sense to study the platform’s isolation Formation and the shop’s other Formations, leaving him quietly progressing toward bypassing the barrier.

• Tao Mingguan bid ten thousand Spirit Stones for the first chance to comprehend the Array Disk and began his half-hour attempt on an isolated high platform.
• Zhang Lingshan, Zhao Xingqiu, and Bai Wanxi went into the Qingyun Chamber of Commerce to browse while Tao Mingguan’s attempt continued.
• Zhao Xingqiu urged Bai Wanxi to seek a promising young talent and explained that Bai Wanxi had three years to prove her independence before facing pressure to marry Tao Mingguan.
• Zhang Lingshan secretly sent his Immortal Divine Sense toward the platform and studied the shop’s Formations to help him deduce how to bypass the isolation Formation.
• Zhang Lingshan browsed from ice-element treasures to Immortal Divine Sense treasures while his divided Divine Sense continued comprehending the Formations.