Chapter Summaries

Zhang Lingshan browsed the Qingyun Chamber of Commerce with Zhao Xingqiu and Bai Wanxi, accepting Ice Jade Pills and a Storage Bag while Bai Wanxi arranged a private tea room for him. There, he began reading a scripture from the Six Treasuries and discovered that it resonated with his Myriad Techniques True Scripture.

• Zhang Lingshan recoiled at the Qingyun Chamber of Commerce's prices for Spirit Rice and cooking, and reflected on how the Anning Army had undervalued his past harvests.
• Bai Wanxi offered to buy Zhang Lingshan something in exchange for his help on a future merchant caravan, and Zhao Xingqiu chose ten bottles of Ice Jade Pills for him.
• Zhang Lingshan bought an additional bottle of Ice Jade Pills, and Zhao Xingqiu secured him a free Storage Bag.
• Bai Wanxi invited Zhang Lingshan to read in a third-floor private tea room, and he agreed so he could study without distractions.
• Zhang Lingshan took a scripture from the Six Treasuries' Scripture Repository and sensed it resonate with his Myriad Techniques True Scripture.

While Zhang Lingshan secretly comprehended the Array Disk, he realized the Qingyun Chamber of Commerce might have brought it out to find someone to bear its hidden danger. He opened it through Ding Dasheng, but the Array Disk’s force tore Ding Dasheng apart, leaving Zhang Lingshan’s attempt to seize its cultivation method unresolved.

• Zhang Lingshan gave up trying to memorize the ancient scripture and read medicinal books while comprehending the Qingyun Chamber of Commerce’s formation.
• Zhang Lingshan mastered the formation and secretly began studying the Array Disk as Bai Wanxi and Zhao Xingqiu waited for him.
• Ding Dasheng arrived to comprehend the Array Disk, while Zhang Lingshan spotted Ding Hong watching from a nearby teahouse.
• Zhang Lingshan suspected the Qingyun Chamber of Commerce had hidden a danger in the Array Disk and used a hundred strands of Immortal Divine Sense to unlock it.
• The Array Disk released an invisible force that twisted Ding Dasheng’s body apart and scattered him without a trace.

Ding Hong confronted Zhu Bin after Ding Dasheng was killed by the Heavenly Wind Divine Curse, but Zhu Bin kept the Heavenly Wind Array Disk and fled to headquarters with it. Zhang Lingshan secretly gained an insight into the curse, then returned to the Ice Chamber to cultivate, where his strength and spiritual power increased during three days of leave.

• Ding Hong accused Zhu Bin of using Ding Dasheng to open the Heavenly Wind Array Disk, but Zhu Bin denied responsibility and forced the crowd to leave.
• Ding Hong admitted she could not challenge Zhu Bin and departed, while Zhu Bin took the array disk and teleported to headquarters.
• Zhang Lingshan sensed the Qingyun Chamber of Commerce’s Teleportation Array and realized he could not use it, but the Gate of All Wonders began studying the insight he had gained into the Heavenly Wind Divine Curse.
• Zhang Lingshan left the chamber with Bai Wanxi and Zhao Xingqiu, then returned to the Ice Chamber to take an Ice Jade Pill and cultivate during his remaining leave.
• Zhang Lingshan restrained his absorption of ice-type spiritual energy to avoid disrupting the Ice-Making Platform, and after three days his cultivation, Mystic Ice Tree, Qi and Blood Tree, and Ice Fire Pool had grown.

After reaching the late stage of Mysterious Immortal, Zhang Lingshan negotiated an exceptional promotion by offering to teach the Ice-Making Formation, securing approval for payment, leave, and ice-attribute treasures. As he prepared to teach, he learned that Golden Immortal breakthroughs required access controlled by powerful factions and decided to keep some of his knowledge in reserve.

• Zhang Lingshan reached the late stage of Mysterious Immortal and considered using a trip with Bai Wanxi to help comprehend the Heavenly Wind Divine Curse.
• Zhao Xingqiu offered Zhang Lingshan an exceptional promotion to minor manager in exchange for teaching his understanding of the Ice-Making Formation.
• Zhang Lingshan demanded ten thousand Spirit Stones, at least two years of leave, and ice-type treasures, and the higher-ups approved his conditions.
• Zhao Xingqiu told Zhang Lingshan that his lesson would take place in three days in the Ice Chamber Family Courtyard Hall, with family members also allowed to attend.
• Zhang Lingshan learned that a Jade Talisman was needed to enter a Golden Immortal Pavilion and sense the Thunder Tribulation, and resolved to preserve some of his teaching for future leverage.

Zhang Lingshan taught the Ice Chamber workers how to use the Ice-Making Formation, earning Spirit Stones and promising more lessons before his trade journey with Bai Wanxi. He announced that four workers with the highest ice-making efficiency could receive extra lessons under him, and the next three classes would determine his rewards and their prospects.

• Zhang Lingshan showed the workers the Ice-Making Formation’s entrance and formed an elaborate ice flower, impressing Zhao Xingqiu and the crowd.
• Zhang Lingshan visited Zhang Lingshe, told him he would leave for two years, and urged him to cultivate while he stayed behind.
• Zhao Xingqiu gave Zhang Lingshan ten thousand Spirit Stones and said the Ice Chamber would provide him with treasures based on his next three classes.
• Zhang Lingshan asked Zhao Xingqiu to arrange his remaining classes quickly so he could join Bai Wanxi’s trade journey, and promised to bring Zhao Xingqiu something valuable.
• At his next class, Zhang Lingshan announced that the four workers with the highest ice-making efficiency after three more lessons would receive extra instruction under him.

Zhang Lingshan taught more Ice-Making Formation techniques, collected Spirit Stones and Merit Points, and received three powerful ice treasures and a new Identification Token. Meanwhile, Bai Wanxi struggled to assemble a caravan until Zhang Lingshan arrived at her courtyard, offering his help as a late-stage Mysterious Immortal.

• Zhang Lingshan taught the Ice Chamber about four formation entrances and three important nodes, then agreed to give one more lesson in exchange for three ice-type treasures.
• Zhao Xingqiu gave Zhang Lingshan a defensive shield, an escape sword, an attacking spear, and a new Identification Token.
• Zhang Lingshan selected four Ice Chamber workers for private lessons, borrowed Spirit Stones from them, and received two million Merit Points from Zhao Xingqiu.
• Bai Wanxi's would-be caravan members urged her to take them on a casual trip, while she struggled to recruit a Mysterious Immortal expert.
• A maid announced that a late-stage Mysterious Immortal wanted to join Bai Wanxi's caravan, and Zhang Lingshan entered her courtyard to offer his help.

Zhang Lingshan took control of Bai Wanxi’s caravan, silenced its dissenters, and prepared it to travel through Taiyuan City and Taifeng City to Qingfeng City. After confiscating the caravan members’ Storage Rings and choosing to ride out immediately, he led Bai Wanxi and the others safely out of Anyuan City.

• Bai Wanxi introduced Zhang Lingshan as a late-stage Mysterious Immortal, but Yin Guangnian and the other caravan members challenged his experience and urged her to recruit Elder Chen.
• Zhang Lingshan declared himself caravan captain, froze the members who opposed him, and threatened Yin Guangnian until Bai Wanxi explained the route through Taiyuan City, Taifeng City, and Qingfeng City.
• Zhang Lingshan ordered the caravan to gather its supplies and depart as soon as Bai Wanxi had packed and he had obtained geography and history books from the Qingyun Chamber of Commerce.
• Zhang Lingshan demanded everyone’s Storage Rings to prevent anyone from leaking their whereabouts, and he froze and shattered the fingers of those who failed to surrender them.
• Zhang Lingshan appointed Yin Guangnian vice-captain, rejected his advice about storing the carriage, and ordered everyone to ride out.
• Zhang Lingshan led Bai Wanxi and the caravan out of Anyuan City without incident.

Zhang Lingshan spared Yin Guangnian and his men after Bai Wanxi pleaded for them, then used Yin Guangnian’s Beast Taming Technique to gather fierce beasts and supplies for the caravan. The group met Lei Shuo on the road, and Zhang Lingshan recognized the Fire Poison sufferer in his carriage as Pang Mancang, leaving him alarmed at the unexpected encounter.

• Yin Guangnian and his men begged for mercy, and Bai Wanxi persuaded Zhang Lingshan to spare them; Zhang Lingshan planted Cold Ice Marks on them and sent them to gather medicinal ingredients.
• Yin Guangnian used his Beast Taming Technique to subdue a fierce tiger, a Fierce Horse, a White Python, a Ridge Ox, and a Mountain Boar while Zhang Lingshan observed and recorded the method.
• The caravan reunited with five fierce beasts and a large supply of medicinal ingredients, then continued toward Taiyuan City under Zhang Lingshan’s protection.
• Bai Wanxi met Lei Shuo on the road and declined his offer to travel together, but a man in his carriage asked Zhang Lingshan to suppress his Fire Poison.
• Zhang Lingshan recognized the man as Pang Mancang and suspected Lu Zhaohe’s Ember Bone Poison Fire had afflicted him.

Zhang Lingshan suppressed Pang Mancang’s fire poison while secretly learning his Azure Wood Longevity Art, then foiled Pang Mancang’s attempted ambush and sealed him with a hidden Cold Ice spear. Believing Pang Mancang would soon break free, Zhang Lingshan urged Bai Wanxi and the merchant caravan to flee.

• Lei Shuo asked Zhang Lingshan to help Pang Mancang suppress his fire poison, and Zhang Lingshan agreed.
• Zhang Lingshan used the suppression to study Pang Mancang’s cultivation method and raise his Ember Bone Poison Fire experience.
• Pang Mancang attacked Zhang Lingshan from inside the carriage, but Zhang Lingshan escaped as the carriage and horses were destroyed.
• Pang Mancang struck at Zhang Lingshan again, and Zhang Lingshan triggered a hidden Cold Ice spear that pierced and sealed him in ice.
• Zhang Lingshan caught Pang Mancang’s flying artifact and warned Bai Wanxi and the caravan to flee before Pang Mancang broke free.

Zhang Lingshan killed Pang Mancang, then discovered the Golden Immortal’s Spirit Rice concealed parasitic bugs and his ring held rare rice and a planting manual. He left with Lei Shuo’s caravan while studying Pang Mancang’s inheritance, and a sudden voice confronted Lei Shuo about Bai Wanxi.

• Zhang Lingshan destroyed Pang Mancang’s body, took his Storage Ring, and reassured Lei Shuo’s group before accepting a carriage in their caravan.
• Zhang Lingshan used the Violet Qi Golden Silkworm to uncover and devour the bugs hidden in Pang Mancang’s Spirit Rice Meal, then burned the remaining rice.
• Zhang Lingshan found high-quality Spirit Rice seeds and a grain nearly transformed into Top-Grade Spirit Rice in Pang Mancang’s collection.
• Zhang Lingshan read Pang Mancang’s Spirit Rice Planting Manual and resolved to use the inheritance to grow Top-Grade Spirit Rice.
• An unseen speaker ordered Lei Shuo to take his people aside, saying the matter involving Bai Wanxi had nothing to do with him.

Zhang Lingshan killed Shang Shui-liu when he tried to seize Bai Wanxi, then learned Shang Shui-liu belonged to the powerful Shangyun Hall. As the caravan neared Taiyuan City, Zhang Lingshan concluded Shangyun Hall might not dare attack him openly, though Lei Shuo warned its members could track him through Shang Shui-liu’s bloodline power and True Dragon Qi.

• Shang Shui-liu blocked the caravan and demanded that Lei Shuo step aside so he could take Bai Wanxi back for Tao Mingguan.
• Lei Shuo attacked Shang Shui-liu, but Shang Shui-liu overwhelmed him with a wave of water before Zhang Lingshan froze the attack and killed Shang Shui-liu from inside the carriage.
• Shang Shui-liu named Shangyun Hall before he died, and Lei Shuo explained that it was a secret organization whose members had imperial blood and deep resources.
• Lei Shuo warned that Shangyun Hall could use Shang Shui-liu’s bloodline power and True Dragon Qi to track Zhang Lingshan within the Great Qing Dynasty.
• Zhang Lingshan reasoned that Shangyun Hall might oppose the imperial family and therefore avoid killing him openly, while Lei Shuo urged him to buy an aura-concealing talisman in Taiyuan City.

Zhang Lingshan arrived in Taiyuan City with Lei Shuo and Bai Wanxi, then agreed to consider helping the Yu Family in a contest over a crystal mine. He learned that the rules allowed only one outside fighter per family and offered to fight all six opponents for three million Spirit Stones, leaving Yu Feihan and Lei Ruo stunned.

• Lei Shuo offered Zhang Lingshan half the caravan’s proceeds and led the group to visit his younger sister, Lei Ruo, at the Yu Family estate.
• Lei Ruo welcomed Zhang Lingshan after Lei Shuo introduced him as a peerless Mysterious Immortal, then brought him to meet her husband, Yu Feihan.
• Zhang Lingshan and Lei Ruo encountered Tang Xiao leaving after he rejected Yu Feihan’s offer of one million low-grade Spirit Stones to fight for the Yu Family.
• Yu Feihan explained that the Yu Family, Chen Family, and Song Family would compete for shares and territory rights at a crystal mine through a martial contest.
• Zhang Lingshan offered to fight all six opponents for three million low-grade Spirit Stones, but Lei Ruo explained that contest rules allowed each family only one outside helper.

Zhang Lingshan met Xia Hengbing, a powerful Taiyuan City Ice Chamber figure who had sought him out to learn from his ice-making lectures. Zhang Lingshan agreed to teach Xia in exchange for cultivation resources, then left with him while keeping his promise to assist Yu Feihan in the upcoming match.

• Yu Feihan explained that the Ice Chambers in different cities shared resources and invited Zhang Lingshan to join the Taiyuan City branch.
• Xia Hengbing arrived at the Yu residence, greeted Zhang Lingshan with striking enthusiasm, and explained that he had arranged to track Zhang's arrival because he wanted to learn from him.
• Xia Hengbing offered to replace Zhang as Yu Feihan's hired fighter, but Yu Feihan let Zhang decide whether to accept.
• Zhang Lingshan asked Xia Hengbing for a Golden Immortal quota or enough resources to reach Mysterious Immortal peak, and Xia agreed to provide resources for peak cultivation in return for lessons.
• Zhang Lingshan left with Xia Hengbing and told Yu Feihan to contact him when it was time for the match and to tell Bai Wanxi that he would continue traveling with her afterward.

Zhang Lingshan taught Taiyuan City's Ice Chamber the ice-making entry points and nodes while cultivating his Myriad Techniques True Scripture to perfection. He refused to betray Anyuan City's Ice Immortal, agreed to help Yu Feihan with Xia Hengbing and Xue Mingyang as backup, and arrived at the Yu Family, where Yu Feihan asked if he had heard of Ice Egg Stone.

• Zhang Lingshan gave lessons at Taiyuan City's Ice Chamber, and Xia Hengbing paid him one million Spirit Stones for his instruction.
• Xia Hengbing revealed that the Ice-Making Formation was believed to be a Cultivation Method and offered Zhang Lingshan a Golden Immortal quota if he stayed in Taiyuan City, but Zhang Lingshan refused to betray the Ice Immortal.
• Xia Hengbing arranged for Xue Mingyang to accompany Zhang Lingshan and protect him when he went to assist Yu Feihan.
• Zhang Lingshan cultivated his Myriad Techniques True Scripture to perfection but decided to wait for a proper chance to break through at the Golden Immortal Pavilion.
• Zhang Lingshan visited the Yu Family with Feng Bo, and Yu Feihan greeted him before asking whether he had heard of Ice Egg Stone.

Zhang Lingshan joined Yu Feihan, Xia Hengbing, and Lei Shuo to investigate a lead about Ice Egg Stones that could improve an Ice-type Variant Spirit Root. After descending into a dangerous valley, Zhang Lingshan guided the group safely toward a sealed cave, where their search was left poised to continue.

• Yu Feihan told Zhang Lingshan that a clue about Ice Egg Stones might lead to a treasure that could raise an Ice-type Variant Spirit Root by one grade, and Zhang Lingshan agreed to investigate.
• Yu Feihan, Xia Hengbing, Zhang Lingshan, and Lei Shuo traveled for three days and descended into a deep valley aboard Yu Feihan's Flying Ball Magic Treasure after Xia Hengbing slowed a powerful whirlwind with cold ice.
• The group found intact human skeletons and discovered that their divine senses were being suppressed, so Zhang Lingshan volunteered to lead while Xia Hengbing watched over Yu Feihan.
• Zhang Lingshan safely guided the group through the valley and sensed that the path was growing hotter as they approached a mountain cave.
• Zhang Lingshan located the cave entrance, but a Stone Slab marked with profound patterns blocked his Immortal Divine Sense from examining what lay inside.

Zhang Lingshan deciphered the rune sealing the mountain cave, outmaneuvered the Golden Immortal Chu Heng, and led the others inside. The group prepared to search the cave’s treasures while Chu Heng remained trapped outside.

• Zhang Lingshan pretended to injure himself with the rune-covered stone slab so he could learn its patterns, then activated its Transport Rune and made the slab disappear.
• Xia Hengbing, Lei Shuo, and Yu Feihan confronted Zhang Lingshan about the slab and the rumored Ice Egg Stones, when Chu Heng revealed himself outside the cave.
• Zhang Lingshan pulled the three companions into the cave and restored the slab over the entrance, blocking Chu Heng from following them.
• Xia Hengbing realized the slab’s runes were ice-attribute and that Chu Heng had lured him there to use his Ice-type Variant Spirit Root to open the way.
• Zhang Lingshan and Xia Hengbing discussed the cave’s likely treasures, and Xia Hengbing proposed contacting Manager Xue Mingyang after they had explored it.

Zhang Lingshan watched Xia Hengbing, Lei Shuo, and Yu Feihan receive the Great Luck Sect's inheritance while he studied the Ice Coffin's runes and discovered the Extreme Cold Ice Talisman. He transported the Ice Coffin into his Pouch Space, and when the three emerged from their inheritance, they were shocked to find it and their master's wife missing.

• Xia Hengbing, Lei Shuo, and Yu Feihan entered the Underground Palace and received inheritance from Song Dayun through three pillars of white light.
• While the others were occupied, Zhang Lingshan copied and comprehended the Ice Coffin's Cold Ice Talisman, then probed its inner runes with his Immortal Divine Sense.
• Zhang Lingshan discovered and comprehended the Extreme Cold Ice Talisman by repeatedly exposing tiny strands of his divine sense to its freezing light.
• Zhang Lingshan used Transport Runes to encase and move the Ice Coffin into his Pouch Space so he could keep studying it.
• The inheritance pillars shattered, and Xia Hengbing, Lei Shuo, and Yu Feihan emerged after reaching the Perfection Realm of Mysterious Immortal; they asked where the Ice Coffin and their master's wife had gone.

Zhang Lingshan left Song Dayun’s inheritance site with the Ice Coffin hidden in his Pouch Space, while Xue Mingyang drove off the threatening Chu Heng. He returned to Anyuan City with Lei Shuo and revealed to Zhao Xingqiu that he had reached Mysterious Immortal Perfection and could compete for a Golden Immortal slot.

• Zhang Lingshan kept the Ice Coffin and stone slab in his Pouch Space as Xia Hengbing and the others accepted that the inheritance had ended.
• Xue Mingyang arrived, drove off Chu Heng with a palm strike, and warned the group that Chu Heng might target them once he recovered.
• Xia Hengbing arranged to take Yu Feihan’s place in the support fight, and Yu Feihan gave Zhang Lingshan one million low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Zhang Lingshan and Lei Shuo hurried back toward Anyuan City while Bai Wanxi stayed at Lei Ruo’s home.
• After less than a month of travel, Zhang Lingshan returned to the Ice Chamber and told Zhao Xingqiu that he had reached Mysterious Immortal Perfection.

Zhang Lingshan gave Zhao Xingqiu Mystic Ice Pendants that could help her advance, then researched Song Dayun while worrying that Lei Shuo, Xia Hengbing, and Yu Feihan might demand the Ice Coffin. He learned Song Dayun was a legendary Great Luck Sect master who planned to return from the dead, and the chapter ended with Zhao Xingqiu summoning him because the Ice Immortal had returned.

• Zhang Lingshan told Zhao Xingqiu that he and Lei Shuo had reached Mysterious Immortal Perfection, then gave her Mystic Ice Pendants that could nourish her Water Element Spiritual Root.
• Zhang Lingshan settled into his junior-manager suite, made ice, and studied the Extreme Cold Ice Talisman while waiting to meet the Ice Immortal.
• Zhang Lingshan worried that Lei Shuo, Xia Hengbing, and Yu Feihan might become Golden Immortals and demand the Ice Coffin, so he decided to learn about Song Dayun.
• Zhang Lingshan went to the Qingyun Chamber of Commerce and secretly copied its books, discovering that Song Dayun was an extraordinary Great Luck Sect master who had planned his own return from the dead.
• Zhao Xingqiu contacted Zhang Lingshan and told him to return to the Ice Chamber because the Ice Immortal had come back.

Zhang Lingshan demonstrated an extraordinary Cold Ice Talisman to the Ice Immortal and persuaded her to grant him a Golden Immortal slot. He left after giving her a book of talismans to study.

• Zhang Lingshan returned to the Ice Chamber after spending nearly three months copying the Qingyun Chamber of Commerce's collection.
• Zhao Xingqiu brought Zhang Lingshan before the Ice Immortal, who asked what contribution he could offer in exchange for a Golden Immortal slot.
• Zhang Lingshan demonstrated a Cold Ice Talisman that turned paper into a durable ice barrier and a brush into a spear that counterattacked Zhao Xingqiu.
• The Ice Immortal admitted the talisman was difficult to master, and Zhang Lingshan slowly demonstrated how to draw it.
• The Ice Immortal granted Zhang Lingshan a Golden Immortal slot, and he gave her a book of Cold Ice Talismans before teleporting away with Zhao Xingqiu.