Chapter Summaries

Su Qing and Xu Huaiyi negotiated an alliance after their Puppets fought to a standstill, then sent the Tiger Egg and the Green Armored Alligator Dragon to raid the Wang Family. Su Qing continued toward the Hundred Treasures Pavilion with the other cultivators while recovering from his exertion.

• Tiger Egg battered Xu Huaiyi into a deep pit, but Xu Huaiyi survived by summoning his Green Armored Alligator Dragon form.
• Tiger Egg and the alligator dragon fought evenly, damaging both Puppets until Su Qing and Xu Huaiyi agreed to split the Wang Family's wealth.
• The cultivators praised Su Qing and continued toward the Hundred Treasures Pavilion as Su Qing secretly changed armor and rode away in a weakened state.
• Su Qing sent Tiger Egg to support Xu Huaiyi in the raid and instructed him to retreat if anything went wrong.
• Xu Huaiyi complained that Su Qing had sent only one Puppet, then ordered his alligator dragon to follow Tiger Egg and share in the robbery.

The Wang Family sent most of its Puppet Masters and Puppets to help Wang Teng defend the city and assigned others to hunt Su Qing, leaving its estate weakened. Two Tier 2 Puppets then attacked and devastated the family, and Wang Fengli summoned a Sandstone King Dog to stop the Alligator Dragon from reaching the main hall.

• Wang Junli anxiously waited for Wu Fa Tian to report whether Su Qing had been killed, while the Wang Family elders discussed helping Wang Teng earn merit.
• Wang Fengli sent Wang Xing and most of the family’s Puppet Masters and Puppets to the city walls, giving him a Sandstone King Dog to control.
• A thunderous explosion destroyed hundreds of Spirit Houses, and the Green Armored Alligator Dragon and Black Armored Giant Tiger began tearing through the Wang Family estate.
• Wang Junli hid in a formation as the two Tier 2 Puppets overwhelmed the family’s remaining defenses and he blamed Su Qing for their absence.
• Wang Fengli confronted the attackers, then summoned a Sandstone King Dog to strike the Alligator Dragon as it neared the main hall.

Tiger Egg returned to Su Qing with the Wang Family’s stolen treasures after the clan was devastated by Xu Huaiyi’s rampage and Wang Junli’s death. Su Qing’s group crossed the Robber Cultivator District into Baiyun Immortal City and arrived at the heavily guarded Hundred Treasures Pavilion, where Qing He greeted them.

• Tiger Egg fled the Wang Family with its belly full of stolen goods, leaving the Alligator Dragon trapped as Wang Fengli and the clan members attacked it.
• Wang Junli joined the fight but was crushed by the Alligator Dragon’s Earth Dragon Overturn, and Wang Xing returned too late to save him.
• Xu Huaiyi appeared with the Soul Refining Banner, swept away the Wang Family’s defenders, and departed with the Puppets and their plunder, leaving the clan badly damaged.
• Wang Xing sent Wang Junli’s remains to Wang Teng, who mourned his son, while Su Qing welcomed Tiger Egg back and praised its successful robbery.
• Su Qing’s group passed through the Robber Cultivator District and entered the market, where enforcement disciples and several groups of residents prepared to survive the danger.
• Su Qing’s group reached the Hundred Treasures Pavilion, protected by Third-tier formations, and Qing He came out to receive them.

Qing He welcomed Su Qing and his companions to the Hundred Treasures Pavilion and used her knowledge of his Beauty Snake Puppets to pressure him into upgrading her Sword-Human Puppet. Su Qing agreed to refine it for a fee, while Qing He clung to him as a wealthy patron and continued putting off repaying the Guo Family.

• Qing He warmly welcomed Su Qing, He Lian Xian, and Liang Hai Shun, then praised Su Qing's Black Armored Giant Tiger and asked about improving her Sword-Human Puppet.
• Su Qing explained that the upgrade required a high-tier Elemental core, Heavenly Spirit Gold, and Tier 3 Combat Runes, and refused to do the work for free.
• Qing He threatened to tell the Pavilion Master that Su Qing had used her mother as a template for the Beauty Snakes, so Su Qing agreed to refine the Puppet if Qing He supplied the materials and paid a fee.
• Qing He said she had already destroyed the Beauty Snakes and accepted Su Qing's conditions after he warned her not to push him further.
• Guo Qiao Lian asked Qing He to repay the Guo Family's Spirit Crystals, and Qing He delayed repayment for five years before clinging to Su Qing as a rich patron.

Su Qing and his companions entered the Hundred Treasures Pavilion’s third floor, where its Pavilion Master gathered Tier 2 professionals as chaos spread through Baiyun Immortal City. Su Qing recognized Yao Fei as the swindler whose eyes had cost him dearly, concealed his anger, and joined the others in watching the battles around the city walls.

• Su Qing, Liang Hai Shun, and He Lian Xian reached the third floor, where Pavilion Master He Xinyan welcomed them and promised the pavilion would protect its Level 2 Guest Elders.
• Su Qing surveyed the gathered Tier 2 professionals, recognized You Xianda and several Curse Spirit Masters, and identified one Curse Spirit Master as Yao Fei, the swindler he remembered.
• Su Qing’s puppet, Flowing Silver, released its Tier-2 pressure, and He Xinyan told him to restrain it; he apologized to the cultivators present.
• The cultivators praised Su Qing’s puppet-refining skills and sought to build goodwill with him because of his youth and potential.
• Yao Fei asked whether Su Qing’s puppet was for sale, and Su Qing agreed to discuss a fair price while privately resolving to confront her.
• Liang Hai Shun, He Lian Xian, and the other cultivators watched the Water-Pool Round Mirror, which showed fierce battles across the city walls.

Su Qing watched the battles around Baiyun Immortal City through He Xinyan’s Cave Heaven Water Mirror as the Rogue Cultivators and Cloud Mountain Sect held off the demon forces. The Golden Core battle remained precarious, leaving the third-floor cultivators ready to flee, but He Xinyan argued that Cloud Mountain Sect might also be waiting for nightfall.

• He Xinyan brought out her Cave Heaven Water Mirror, and Su Qing watched the eastern city wall, where Rogue Cultivators and Puppet Artifacts held back the demon beasts.
• Su Qing spotted Niu Ya and the Rat King Team fighting fiercely alongside Hai Changqing’s spell cultivators, but found no sign of Tang Wanqing or the Bear King Team.
• Su Qing watched Cloud Mountain Sect’s Foundation Establishment Disciples gain the upper hand against the Demon Kings beyond the walls.
• Su Qing saw Immortaloxia Mountain struggle to hold off the Golden Peng King and the Desiring Demon Sect’s body-cultivating ancestor with support from a formation flag and spirit pattern.
• The cultivators on the third floor feared that Immortaloxia Mountain would be forced to retreat when his support ran out and discussed fleeing toward Cloud Net City.
• He Xinyan calmed the panicking cultivators by pointing out that Cloud Mountain Sect might also be waiting for nightfall.

As the battle for the Jade Wall Cave Mansion intensified, Gao Erqiang revealed himself as an evil demon and confronted Primordial Ancestor and the Golden Peng King. Immortaloxia Mountain abandoned the battlefield and left them to deal with Gao Erqiang, while the cultivators in Baiyun Immortal City feared the Cloud Mountain Sect would use them as bait.

• Primordial Ancestor and Immortaloxia Mountain argued over the Desiring Demon Sect’s alliance with the demonic beasts and the Cloud Mountain Sect’s claim to the Hundred Beasts Mountain Range.
• Blood light spread from Baiyun Immortal City, and Gao Erqiang’s butcher shop appeared outside the walls surrounded by flying demonic beast heads.
• Gao Erqiang introduced himself as the Headless Rogue and used a blood-red escape technique to appear on the Golden Core battlefield.
• Primordial Ancestor and the Golden Peng King condemned the Cloud Mountain Sect for sheltering an evil demon and threatened its standing in the Western Sea Cultivation World.
• Immortaloxia Mountain denied that the Cloud Mountain Sect had raised Gao Erqiang, then withdrew to Baiyun Immortal City and urged the others to slay him.
• After the Cave Heaven Water Mirror shattered, the cultivators in the Hundred Treasures Pavilion accused the Cloud Mountain Sect of abandoning them and wondered whether they should run.

After witnessing Cloud Mountain Sect’s cooperation with Gao Erqiang and the overwhelming power of Golden Core combatants, Baiyun Immortal City’s rogue cultivators feared there was nowhere safe to flee. He Xinyan reassured them and offered a route out through Hundred Treasures Pavilion, but they chose to stay for the city’s profits as the fighting ended.

• The cultivators on the third floor panicked after learning that Immortaloxia Mountain had allied with Gao Erqiang, while Liang Hai Shun lamented that Cloud Mountain Sect’s territory left them nowhere to run.
• Su Qing recognized how powerless he was before Golden Core beings and resolved to forge the Exorcism Funeral Squad as quickly as possible.
• He Xinyan calmed the cultivators and said Penglai Immortal Kingdom would suppress Gao Erqiang if he harmed people.
• You Xianda doubted that Penglai’s high cultivators would arrive in time, and Shopkeeper Liu explained that Hundred Treasures Pavilion could help cultivators leave on a Sea-Hunting Cloud Kun.
• The rogue cultivators chose to remain in Baiyun Immortal City to profit rather than sign departure agreements, and the battle gradually ended.

After the battle, the Cloud Mountain Sect trapped Baiyun Immortal City’s Rogue Cultivators inside and imposed strict market rules, while Su Qing and his companions opened shops. As Su Qing prepared a puppet for delivery, Yao Fei came to his door, and Su Qing readied his defenses to meet him.

• The Golden Peng King and Primordial Ancestor withdrew, and Rogue Cultivators fought over the spoils until Cloud Mountain Sect disciples intervened.
• The Cloud Mountain Sect sealed Baiyun Immortal City with the Severing Separation Cloud Formation and fulfilled its promised Combat Merit rewards, including granting Su Qing a Spirit Burst Pill.
• The sect required all trade to take place in market shops, prompting Su Qing and his fellow Daoists to rent connected storefronts.
• Su Qing’s puppet shop prospered as he sold Lizard Series Puppets, while he wondered why the Wang Family had not confronted him after their earlier losses.
• While studying the Grave-Sweeping Shovelman, Su Qing heard Yao Fei announce his arrival and deployed the Tiger Leopard Lizard and Exploding Bear Squad before opening the gate.

Su Qing confronted Yao Fei over the Spirit Crystals she had stolen, but she repaid him and revealed that she had deliberately drawn him in to ask for help. After showing him the Corrupt Mark spreading across her face, Yao Fei asked him to save her from it.

• Su Qing lured Yao Fei into his courtyard, where his puppets surrounded her and a dozen Curse Spirit Masters appeared outside.
• Su Qing demanded compensation for the Spirit Crystals Yao Fei had stolen and for the Robber Cultivators she had turned into Dao Servants.
• Yao Fei gave Su Qing eighteen Lower grade Spirit Stones, and he welcomed her inside to share tea.
• Yao Fei dismissed her guards, removed her face covering, and revealed the Corrupt Mark on her face.
• Yao Fei told Su Qing that her divinations showed an Evil Entity had drained his life root and fortune essence, then asked him to save her.

Su Qing agreed to help Yao Fei, a Curse Spirit Master whose Corrupt Marks were draining her lifespan for the Sea Witch. Yao Fei hoped he could remove the curse, but he began by calling for her to undress so his High Buddhist Cultivators could inspect her marks.

• Yao Fei explained that the Sea Witch’s bloodline curse would claim her soul, and that the Corrupt Marks were shortening her life to just over thirty years.
• Yao Fei revealed that she had sought Su Qing out after divining that he had survived an Evil Demon, and admitted she had tricked him with Puppet Spirit Crystals to gain entry.
• Su Qing agreed to help after confirming that Yao Fei’s curse could not spread through ordinary contact, and considered using his Thirty-six High Buddhist Cultivators to try to dispel it.
• Yao Fei listed the known methods for fighting Evil Entities, then asked what technique Su Qing would use.
• Su Qing told Yao Fei to come inside and take off her clothes, and she mistook his words for an offer to use a Body Cultivator’s essence-transference technique.
• Su Qing reflected on how refining himself into a Puppet had improved his aptitude and strengthened Mountain Sea Capture and Essence Transformation Hand.

Su Qing used the Merit Wooden Fish and thirty-six High Buddhist Cultivators to cleanse Yao Fei’s Corrupt Marks, and the process revealed a Dao Pattern that forced his body cultivation to break through to Tier 2. He saved himself from the furnace fire consuming his lifespan with a Tier 2 Demonic Core, but discovered that it would sustain the fire for less than a month.

• Su Qing sealed Yao Fei’s senses and used the Merit Wooden Fish, with the thirty-six High Buddhist Cultivators, to expose and cleanse the Corrupt Marks on her body.
• Buddha light dispersed the black energy into spiritual light that entered Su Qing’s sea of consciousness, where he began comprehending a Dao Pattern.
• The Dao Pattern leaped into Su Qing’s essence furnace, igniting its fire and abruptly advancing him to Tier 2 while his depleted Blood and Qi left the fire burning his lifespan.
• Su Qing swallowed the Black Mountain Tiger’s Tier 2 Demonic Core to fuel the furnace, but estimated it would be consumed in less than a month.
• The furnace fire formed the Heavenly King Armor and brought the Immovable Heavenly King Technique to grand completion as Su Qing reveled in his new strength.

Su Qing used the Nine Li Dao Pattern and the Thirty-six High Buddhist Cultivators to purify some of Yao Fei’s Corrupt Marks, restoring her health and extending her lifespan. He promised that repeated sessions could remove the rest, and Yao Fei eagerly agreed to return for another exorcism.

• Rogue Cultivators outside Su Qing’s courtyard gossiped about the Curse Spirit Masters and mocked him after the sounds from inside stopped.
• Su Qing examined the Nine Li Dao Pattern on his System Panel and learned that its powers would grow as his mastery deepened.
• The Thirty-six High Buddhist Cultivators purified about one-tenth of Yao Fei’s Corrupt Marks before they became too exhausted to continue.
• Yao Fei discovered that the marks on her face and neck had vanished and wept with relief as her lifespan increased by more than a dozen years.
• Su Qing told Yao Fei that repeated exorcisms could remove all her Corrupt Marks, and she offered to return the next day and pay the fee.

After Yao Fei explained the Curse Spirit Clan’s Corrupt Marks, Su Qing explored the Nine Li Dao Pattern’s effects and discovered that it had made him a Tier 2 Body Cultivator with new insights into battle techniques. He left off considering whether his new unyielding power could help him challenge the Golden Peng King.

• Su Qing postponed Yao Fei’s exorcism until the exhausted High Buddhist Cultivators recovered, and Yao Fei answered his questions about the Curse Spirit Clan’s abilities.
• Yao Fei explained that her body bore every Corrupt Mark found among the Curse Spirit Masters in Baiyun Immortal City, so Su Qing lost interest in exorcising the whole clan.
• Su Qing examined the Nine Li Dao Pattern’s effects, advanced to Tier 2 Body Cultivator, and tested his strength against Tiger Egg.
• Su Qing practiced the Overlord Dragon's Roar Spear and found that battle savvy improved his comprehension, though his aptitude remained ordinary.
• Su Qing tested Zhu You’s effects, found its methods costly and limited, and wondered whether its unyielding effect could help him resist a Tier 3 Demon King.
• Su Qing thought about plucking the Golden Peng King’s feathers, though he had no immediate plan to act.

Su Qing refined ordinary Grave-Sweeping Shovelmen for the Hundred Treasures Pavilion, then redesigned them into powerful Mountain Ghoul-type Puppets for himself. After building his forces and advancing his cultivation, he led his Tiger Leopard Lizards toward the city walls to hunt demonic beasts.

• Su Qing refined four ordinary Grave-Sweeping Shovelmen and delivered them to the Hundred Treasures Pavilion for more than two hundred thousand Spirit Crystals.
• Su Qing redesigned the Puppet Blueprint and bought materials to make three improved Mountain Ghoul-type Grave-Sweeping Shovelmen.
• Su Qing began refining a Mountain Ghoul-type Puppet, while refining four Black Boys to help raise his cultivation toward the Eighth Layer of Qi Refining.
• Su Qing spent three days forging thirty Heavy Cavalry Lizards for his own forces.
• Several days later, Su Qing and the Tiger Leopard Lizards marched toward the city walls, declaring that they would kill demonic beasts, earn Combat Merit, seize beast cores, and nourish their bodies.

Hu San’s prosperous work as a Spirit Butcher brought him back into contact with Su Qing, who set out to hunt a Tier 2 Demon King. Hu San later refused a Wang Family request to butcher one, and they angrily accused him of slighting their family.

• Hu San worked as a Spirit Butcher on White Cloud City’s walls and looked forward to the Spirit Crystals he earned.
• Su Qing arrived with a Tusked Boar, and Hu San butchered it while hearing Su Qing planned to hunt a Tier 2 Demon King.
• Hu San worried about Su Qing’s chances of returning alive because he hoped to buy a Beauty Snake Puppet from him.
• The Wang Family arrived with a Tier 2 Demon King and asked Hu San to butcher it, but he refused because he feared damaging its valuable parts.
• A Wang Family member berated Hu San for refusing their order and accused him of looking down on the family.

Su Qing led his Puppets and three followers beyond White Cloud City to hunt a Tier 2 Demon King and earn Combat Merit for scarce cultivation resources. After sending Li Hai Lang’s brothers ahead to scout, Su Qing watched them run into a pack of Demonic Beasts and resolved to lie low in the city after this job.

• Wang Xing intimidated Hu San into butchering the Iron North Bear King under harsh terms, while Hu San feared the Wang Family would refuse to pay him.
• Su Qing set out toward a Low Mountain with Tiger Egg, Fire Egg, his Puppets, and the three brothers who had sworn to follow him.
• Li Hai Lang volunteered to scout ahead with his brothers, and Su Qing sent them with Beauty Leopard secretly protecting them.
• Su Qing explained that the Cloud Mountain Sect’s Combat Merit restrictions had forced him to hunt for Tier 2 Demonic Cores himself.
• Su Qing watched Li Hai Lang’s group flee from a pack of Demonic Beasts and decided he would stay safely in the city after this job.

Li Hai Lang, Brother 17, and Brother 260 encountered a demonic beast ambush while scouting, and Su Qing sent his Puppets to fight off the pursuing beasts. His ground forces dominated, but the aerial battle against the Cloud Peng and Wind Sword Falcons cost him many Puppets.

• Li Hai Lang explained that Su Qing had hired the three former robber cultivators to run errands, and Brother 17 and Brother 260 resolved to prove their worth.
• Brother 260 spotted danger and retreated, while Brother 17 and Li Hai Lang were confronted by Pangolin Weasels and escaped a volley of arrows from Cloud Peng.
• Li Hai Lang carried his brothers back toward Su Qing as more demonic beasts pursued them.
• Su Qing deployed Heavy Cavalry Lizards and Explosive Hammer War Bears, which quickly overwhelmed the Tier 1 demonic beasts on the ground.
• Su Qing sent aerial Puppets to attack the Cloud Peng, but Wind Sword Falcons destroyed several, and the aerial clash left his forces badly depleted.

Su Qing’s forces crushed the demonic beasts along the route, then reached a massive standoff between human cultivators and thirty-six Tier 2 Demon Kings. Yuan Tianye welcomed Su Qing, grateful that he had arrived with powerful puppets to aid the human camp.

• Su Qing sent Flowing Silver into the skies, where the Silver Giant Tiger overwhelmed the flying demonic beasts and destroyed hundreds of Cloud Rocs.
• Bear Two, Fire Egg, and the Lang Tian Three Brothers scavenged the battlefield, collecting white-furred tails that Su Qing praised for their artistic value.
• Su Qing changed the scouting arrangement and led his team onward, finding a large human force facing tens of thousands of Lesser Demons and thirty-six Tier 2 Demon Kings.
• Li Hai Lang faltered at the sight of the opposing armies, while Su Qing calmly marched forward with thirty Heavy Cavalry Lizards and six Explosive Hammer War Bears.
• Yuan Tianye greeted Su Qing and thanked him for coming to help the human cultivators fight the Demon Kings.

Su Qing arrived at Baiyun Immortal City as Yuan Tianye faced a dangerous fifth match against a Tier 2 Demon King, but he offered only to lend him Puppets. He joined the Rat King Team and was warned not to risk himself in the coming battle.

• Yuan Tianye told Su Qing that Cloud Mountain Sect disciples had to fight the fifth match, though Lin Shuangmu was injured and Yuan feared he could not survive it.
• Su Qing offered to lend Yuan Tianye his Puppets but refused to fight in his place.
• Yuan Tianye revealed that he had spent his fortune on array flags and could control only a limited number of Puppets.
• Su Qing joined the Rat King Team, where Niu Ya praised him for wiping out the demon sentries.
• Liang Hai Shun warned Su Qing that the fifth match would pit powerful fighters against each other and urged him not to interfere.