Chapter Summaries

Su Qing invited Qing He to leave Hundred Treasures Pavilion and manage his shop, offering to trade the Sky Roc Ship Blueprint to redeem her. Qing He agreed, and Su Qing returned with her original contract.

• Su Qing reviewed his progress in puppet crafting, cultivation, and rune techniques, and planned to assign two Tier 2 Puppets to the Earth Virtue Buddha Spirit and Black Coffin Granny.
• Su Qing offered to reforge Qing He's Sword-Human Puppet in exchange for her managing Su's Small Shop for a hundred years.
• Qing He agreed to follow Su Qing if he could redeem her from Hundred Treasures Pavilion.
• Su Qing offered Hundred Treasures Pavilion the Sky Roc Ship Blueprint in exchange for Qing He's release.
• Su Qing returned from Hundred Treasures Pavilion with the contract Qing He had signed when selling herself.

Su Qing strengthened his shop and allies while learning that his puppet business had put him on the Desiring Demon Sect’s Kill List. He ended the chapter understanding that the Yuan and Lin Families avoided the list because they remained potential defectors.

• Su Qing waived Qing He’s fee for reforging the Sword-Human Puppet and left her to run the shop with Bear Two and Fire Egg.
• Su Qing visited Tang Wanqing, Niu Ya, and Niu Thirteen, then examined Cloud Mountain Sect’s generous Combat Merit exchange list before leaving the battlefield after seeing Niu Thirteen rescue a wounded teammate.
• Su Qing arranged to use Pang Feifan’s growing snake colony for Thunderous Serpents, traded Shao Delong a future Crimson Flame Rainbow Horse for Heavenly Silkworm Armor, and treated Yao Fei, improving his Nine Li Dao Pattern and Blood Kill Technique.
• Su Qing learned that Hai Changqing and he had been placed on the Desiring Demon Sect’s Kill List because their puppets had killed enemy cultivators; Tong Xin explained that the Yuan and Lin Families were spared because the sect hoped to win them over.

Su Qing prepared his puppets and companions for a trip into the Hundred Beasts Mountain Range, while arranging to draw Lin Fan and You Xianda into an ambush outside the city. After nightfall, his group left for the eastern wall, joined by two squads of Curse Spirit Masters.

• Su Qing rejected the Desiring Demon Immortal Kingdom and glared Lin Fan and his followers into retreat with his Overlord Aura.
• Su Qing refined the Cloud Mountain Sect’s Enhanced Lizard Knights and upgraded Qing He’s Sword-Human Puppet into a Flying Sword Human Puppet.
• Bear Two bonded with the Vajra Pestle, became an Enlightened High Bear, and lent his savings and future wages to Qing He for her puppet.
• Su Qing gathered Liang Hai Shun, Tang Wanqing, Pang Feifan, Qing He, and the Lang Tian Three Brothers, then explained his plan to use himself as bait for Lin Fan and You Xianda.
• Su Qing’s group left for the eastern city wall under cover of night, and twenty-four Curse Spirit Masters joined them.

Su Qing led his group into the wilderness to draw out Lin Fan and prepared for an ambush near the Hundred Beasts Mountain Range. After defeating two of the attackers’ Shadow Ghost Puppets, he exposed Lin Fan, You Xianda, and their force of more than forty cultivators, leaving the two groups facing off in the freezing wilderness.

• Su Qing traveled hundreds of miles beyond the city walls with his companions, using concealment formations and scouts while watching for Lin Fan.
• As the group neared demon-beast territory, water dragons surged from the snow and Shadow Ghost Puppets attacked their scouts and animals.
• Qing He cut through the water dragons, Liang Hai Shun raised a protective formation, and Tang Wanqing used her archery to reveal and wound the shadow puppets.
• Su Qing released the Earth Bear King and Mountain Ghoul Funeral Spirit, and they helped destroy two of the eight Shadow Ghost Puppets.
• Su Qing identified the concealed attackers as Lin Fan, You Xianda, and a force of more than forty Lin and You Family cultivators, then the Earth Bear King shattered their hiding place.

Su Qing confronted Lin Fan and You Xianda, then unleashed coordinated Curse Kill attacks and a Cloud Roc Stealth Bomber’s Explosive Stone barrage against their forces. As Lin Fan led a counterattack, You Xianda realized the Lin Family’s Blood Bat swarm was being wiped out in the clouds and the Silver Tiger Puppet had captured the Blood Bat King.

• Lin Fan demanded that Su Qing sign a Slave Contract, while You Xianda explained that the You Family wanted Su Qing’s Tiger Armor Puppet because its Heavenly Sword Crossing West Diagram had reacted to it.
• Su Qing’s twenty-four Curse Spirit Masters used Curse Kill to make three Lin Family clansmen explode into Blood Mud, though the technique left the Curse Spirit Masters vomiting blood.
• The Cloud Roc Stealth Bomber dropped Explosive Stones from the clouds, crumbling the You Family’s Mountain Rock Wall and battering the Lin and You cultivators.
• The Lin Family sent a swarm of Blood Bat Puppets and a Blood Bat King into the clouds to attack the bomber, while Lin Fan and the You Family charged Su Qing’s group.
• You Xianda sensed that the Blood Bat Puppets were falling from the clouds and saw Su Qing’s Silver Tiger Puppet carrying the Blood Bat King in its jaws.

You Xianda and Lin Fan’s forces fought Su Qing’s puppet army in the clouds and on the ground, where hidden defenses and desperate allies turned the ambush into a fierce struggle. The chapter ended as a massive combatant fell, leaving both sides uncertain whether the Bear King, Su Qing, or an Eight-Armed Ghoul King had been defeated.

• You Xianda led the You Family cultivators into the clouds, where they faced Su Qing’s puppet nest and fought to destroy the Cloud Peng.
• You Xianda entered the Cloud Peng and used the Heavenly Sword Crossing West Diagram’s sword strike to break its formation, but Hongshang and more puppets attacked him.
• Lin Fan’s forces pressed Su Qing’s group on the ground as the Bear King and Su Qing fought the two Eight-Armed Ghoul Kings, while Qing He and Tang Wanqing battled the Lin Family’s puppets.
• Twenty-four Curse Spirit Masters sacrificed themselves to summon the Blood Colored Giant, and Li Hai Lang joined the charge with Liang Hai Shun and Pang Feifan supporting him.
• A huge combatant toppled to the ground, and both sides turned to see whether the fallen fighter was an Eight-Armed Ghoul King, the Bear King, or Su Qing.

Su Qing defeated Lin Fan and the Lin and You Families, then led his group through Beast Mountain while capturing Demon Kings for Pang Feifan’s spirit beast shop. The group entered Liu Yun’er’s perception range as they approached the edge of the Low Mountain range.

• Su Qing killed Lin Fan’s body and pursued his soul through Blood Demon Puppets until his forces destroyed the Lin Family, the Eight-Armed Ghoul King, and the remaining Shadow Ghost Puppets.
• Su Qing thanked Liang Hai Shun and the others, divided the spoils, and burned away the battlefield’s traces before the group left.
• In Beast Mountain, Su Qing helped Pang Feifan capture twenty-eight Tier 1 Demon Kings, and the two signed a Dao Pact giving Su Qing seventy percent of the spirit beast shop’s future earnings.
• Brother 260 hesitated while the group crossed the Low Mountain range, then continued after realizing that fleeing would guarantee his death.
• Su Qing sensed from his hot Guidance Talisman that Liu Yun’er could detect the group from a hundred miles away.

Su Qing led the cultivators into the Hundred Beasts Mountain Range, where they attacked the Gang Jing Pig King’s cave. The Pig King surrendered to Su Qing, and the cultivators made the cave their temporary resting place while Su Qing went deeper into the mountains.

• Su Qing guided the cultivators through the strange, spirit-filled mountain range and diverted them into a demon-qi-filled cave.
• The Gang Jing Pig King resolved to stay home and avoid fighting humans, but the cultivators broke into its cave.
• The Pig King recognized Su Qing and surrendered rather than fight him.
• Su Qing questioned the Pig King about the Demon Kings and had Pang Feifan put a Beast Ring on it.
• Qing He and the Sword-Human Puppet killed the Lesser Demons, while Liang Hai Shun stored the Willow Tree Spirits and set up a formation at the cave entrance.
• Su Qing told the cultivators to remain in the cave and left to continue onward alone.

Su Qing delivered Liu Yun'er the Demoness Substitute and Fire Phoenix Feather, but she revealed a dangerous plan to disguise herself as the Fire Phoenix Demon King and asked him to design Tier 3 armor puppets. The chapter ended with Su Qing admitting he lacked the cultivation and skills to help her.

• Su Qing ranged through the Hundred Beasts Mountain Range, killing or subduing Tier 2 creatures while relying on Liu Yun'er to protect him.
• Liu Yun'er appeared and invited Su Qing to stay with her, but he presented the Demoness Substitute and Fire Phoenix Feather instead.
• Liu Yun'er praised the puppet, warned Su Qing against Penglai Immortal Island, and angrily confronted him about asking He Xinyan to help obtain the feather.
• Liu Yun'er revealed that she intended to use Fire Phoenix Armor Puppets to impersonate the Fire Phoenix Demon King and exploit the conflict near the Dwarf Mountain Defense Line.
• Liu Yun'er asked Su Qing to plan the armor puppets and draw their Tier 3 runes, but he said he lacked the ability to do so.

Su Qing and Liu Yun'er clashed over their methods while collaborating on a Tier 3 Fire Phoenix Armor Puppet, but Su Qing eventually drew its Biomimetic Runes with exceptional skill. Liu Yun'er began preparing to draw Tier 4 runes, and Su Qing stayed to watch despite her warning that he could not learn them without her guidance.

• Liu Yun'er asked Su Qing to help refine a Fire Phoenix Puppet from the Golden Peng King's corpse and a Fire Phoenix Feather, promising to provide his cultivation needs.
• Su Qing and Liu Yun'er argued over the blueprint, especially the humanoid Fire Phoenix's appearance, while Su Qing complained about his pay and secretly had Bear Two steal feathers.
• Su Qing gave Liu Yun'er the twenty-fourth blueprint, which she approved, and then drew Tier 3 Biomimetic Runes that transformed the Golden Peng corpse into a convincing Fire Phoenix.
• Liu Yun'er praised Su Qing's rune work and warned him to stay nearby while she drew the remaining runes.
• Su Qing declined to hunt and remained to observe Liu Yun'er drawing Tier 4 Divine Beast and Blazing Fire Runes, although she said her oath prevented her from teaching him.

Su Qing helped Liu Yun'er endure a Cold Poison outbreak and learned that her secret Daoist art might connect her to the Joyful Old Demon. After recovering, Liu Yun'er guided him through refining the Fire Phoenix Armor Puppet and shared her knowledge of puppet arts and the specialties of the Western Sea's immortal kingdoms.

• Liu Yun'er drew a Tier 4 Divine Beast Rune over more than ten days, while Su Qing imitated her on a Wood Spirit Servant and gained proficiency despite failing.
• Liu Yun'er collapsed from Cold Poison, and Su Qing used his Fire Phoenix Phantom and Qi Recovery Pills to help melt the ice surrounding her.
• Su Qing transformed Liu Yun'er's Flickering Finger and deduced that she and the Joyful Old Demon had ties to the Penglai Sect, while Liu Yun'er sensed his efforts to help her.
• Several days later, Liu Yun'er recovered and resumed refining the Fire Phoenix Armor Puppet, teaching Su Qing about puppet runes, substitute materials, and refined-material puppets.
• Liu Yun'er described the puppet-making specialties of the Western Sea's immortal kingdoms, and Su Qing listened closely to inform his future Puppet Industry.

Su Qing learned more about the forces pursuing True Person Jade Wall’s cave abode and discovered that his Heavenly Talisman Token made him eligible to join the organization Liu Yun'er belonged to. After a month of cooperation and hunting, his body cultivation reached the peak of Tier 2, and Liu Yun'er warned him that he would need to choose his cultivation technique carefully to advance further.

• Liu Yun'er explained that the cave abode might contain valuable inheritances and that the Evil Talisman Hall, also called the Heavenly Talisman Hall, was among the factions watching it.
• Su Qing showed Liu Yun'er the Heavenly Talisman Token he had received from Old Daoist Tong but concealed who had given it to him, prompting Liu Yun'er to stop letting him watch her refine puppets.
• Su Qing hunted Tier 2 Demon Kings and Elementals in the area Liu Yun'er had designated, reaching the peak of Tier 2 body cultivation while his Qi Refinement remained at the ninth level.
• Liu Yun'er praised Su Qing's rapid progress in body cultivation and advised him to choose a suitable technique if he wanted to advance toward Tier 3.

Liu Yun'er taught Su Qing about body cultivation and high-grade furnace lids before he completed the Fire Phoenix armor puppet, Li Huo Phoenix. Their cooperation ended with Su Qing learning that their Two Hearts Contract imprint could not be removed, and he left the cave to find the Hundred Beasts Mountain Range newly threatened by human forces.

• Liu Yun'er explained the grades of furnace lids and advised Su Qing to seek the Buddhist Sect's Diamond Inheritance if he wanted to cultivate a high-grade lid.
• Su Qing drew the Intelligence Rune for Liu Yun'er's Fire Phoenix armor puppet, and Li Huo Phoenix activated successfully, granting him new puppet blueprints and proficiency.
• Liu Yun'er donned Li Huo Phoenix as armor, and Su Qing returned to ask her to remove the Spiritual Sense Imprint between them.
• Liu Yun'er revealed that their Two Hearts Contract could only end if one of them died, so Su Qing gave up asking and left after Bear Two took leftover materials.
• Su Qing traveled cautiously through the Hundred Beasts Mountain Range and learned that human forces had broken through the Dwarf Mountain Defense Line and were pushing into the range.

Su Qing and his companions left their hiding place in the Hundred Beasts Mountain Range and returned toward Baiyun Immortal City, learning that the Cloud Mountain Sect had seized control of the city’s defense and crushed the Yuan Family while weakening the Lin Family. The chapter ended with Su Qing worrying that life under the Cloud Mountain Sect might be more dangerous than hiding among the demonic beasts.

• After Su Qing returned to Pig Demon Mountain, he apologized to the Gang Jing Pig King and gave gifts and rewards to his companions for waiting over a month.
• Pang Feifan used the Gang Jing Pig King and its allied demon kings to guide Su Qing’s group through the Hundred Beasts Mountain Range toward the human defenses.
• The group entered the Dwarf Mountain Defense Line at night and encountered Niu Thirteen, who told them the Cloud Mountain Sect had taken the line and brought major changes to Baiyun Immortal City.
• Niu Thirteen reported that the You Family had vanished, the Lin Family had absorbed its properties, the Lin Family Old Ancestor was injured, and Gao Erqiang had killed the Yuan Family Old Ancestor.
• Su Qing and his companions headed back to Baiyun Immortal City, while Liang Hai Shun warned that the Cloud Mountain Sect’s growing power could make their lives harder.

Su Qing refused to enter the Cloud Mountain Hall as the Cloud Mountain Sect tightened its control over Baiyun Immortal City’s Rogue Cultivators and forced Professionals into unpaid work. After gathering trusted associates and securing their Daoist oaths, he proposed preparing an additional escape plan in case Hundred Treasures Pavilion’s Sea-Hunting Cloud Kun could not save them.

• Yuan Tianye urged Su Qing to enter the Cloud Mountain Hall and cultivate in its Splendid Pool, but Su Qing refused and returned his Sect True Inheritance token.
• Yuan Tianye told Su Qing that the Cloud Mountain Sect would keep outsourcing orders but would offer less generous terms, potentially requiring Su Qing to make Lizard Knights without a refining fee.
• Su Qing heard Rogue Cultivators seek entry into the Cloud Mountain Hall while Shao Delong described the unpaid armor quotas imposed on his shop.
• After Guo Qiao Lian mentioned her medical hall’s unpaid work, Su Qing summoned He Lian Xian, Liang Hai Shun, Guo Qiao Lian, and Shao Delong to swear secrecy before revealing his plan.
• The gathered Professionals agreed to help Su Qing prepare another escape route in case they could not leave Baiyun Immortal City aboard the Sea-Hunting Cloud Kun.

After strange darkness and disappearances ravaged the Spirit Field District, Su Qing sheltered Ge Family Village’s refugees in the central Immortal City. He agreed to protect them and let Ge Ling work at his shop, while the source of the evil remained unknown.

• Nightly clouds plunged Baiyun Immortal City into darkness, and spirit beasts kept outside Spirit Houses began vanishing.
• Residents from the Spirit Field District reported that entire villages and their inhabitants had disappeared, while the Cloud Mountain Sect dismissed their pleas for help.
• Su Qing learned that tens of thousands of people had vanished and received Ge Family Village’s refugees at his shop.
• Su Qing promised to shelter the villagers behind his shop and have them help with Puppet materials.
• Ge Ling asked to work inside the shop with Qing He, and Su Qing agreed.

Su Qing’s shop sold out its new Grave-Sweeping Shovelmen as Li Hai Lang gathered materials amid growing resentment toward Cloud Mountain Sect. After months of work, Su Qing established his foundation and prepared to expand his puppet operations with an Intelligent Wood Spirit.

• Ge Ling and Bear Two promoted the Grave-Sweeping Shovelmen, and customers bought all ten despite their high price.
• Qing He sent Li Hai Lang to buy materials from Hundred Treasures Pavilion and Fate Comes Pavilion, and Tong Xin supplied the restricted materials for Su Qing.
• Li Hai Lang learned from Tong Xin that forced conscription and poor rewards had driven rogue cultivators away from preparations for the coming war.
• Su Qing reviewed his progress, including his improved aptitude, Tier 2 peak body cultivation, and the Nine Li Dao Pattern’s rise to 0.36%.
• Su Qing reached Foundation Establishment after attaining Condensing Qi into Liquid, while the Black Boys continued cultivating for him in shifts.
• Su Qing realized his Foundation Establishment divine sense could control twelve more Tier 2 Puppets and decided to install an Intelligent Wood Spirit.

Su Qing refined a Dragon Snake Wood Spirit, an intelligent leader puppet designed to control his Wood Spirit Servants and other low-tier puppets. After discovering its exceptional abilities, he equipped it with further runes and prepared it for battle.

• Su Qing chose a high-grade Dragon Snake Leaf and other premium materials to refine the Intelligent Wood Spirit, adapting the blueprint to his own strengths and resources.
• Su Qing used his tool puppets and Wood Spirit Servants to prepare the materials, then inscribed Biomimetic, Intelligence, and Material Runes onto the Dragon Snake Wood Spirit.
• The Dragon Snake Wood Spirit gained a strong sense of loyalty and the ability to share Su Qing’s spiritual-sense burden while commanding thousands of Wood Spirit Servants and hundreds of low-tier puppets.
• Su Qing transferred the Wood Spirit Servants and several hundred Lizard Knights to Dragon Snake, making it his first leader puppet capable of leading troops.
• Su Qing planned to inscribe a Damage Reduction Rune and chose a Spirit Explosion Rune instead of a Combat Gear Rune, intending to make Dragon Snake’s severed branches explode against its enemies.

On New Year’s Eve, Red Lanterns attacked cultivators throughout Baiyun Immortal City, including those sheltered in their homes, but Su Qing used his Exorcism Funeral Squad to capture and destroy them. As the city faced the ongoing assault, Su Qing reflected on the costly materials and effort behind his powerful exorcism puppets.

• Red Lanterns descended across Baiyun Immortal City, killing cultivators outside and threatening people inside Spirit Houses.
• Su Qing removed the Exorcism Talismans from his window and lured hundreds of Red Lanterns into his shop.
• Su Qing’s Mountain Ghoul Funeral Spirits, Earth Virtue Buddha Spirit, and Black Coffin Granny subdued the lantern monsters and refined them into Corrupt Marks.
• Thirty-six High Buddhist Cultivators shattered the Corrupt Marks, and Dao markings flowed into Su Qing’s sea of consciousness.
• Su Qing considered how he had gathered rare Buddhist materials and paid a steep price for the Diamond Powder and Diamond Nails used to make Black Coffin Granny.

Su Qing harvested corrupt marks from Red Lantern monsters, expanded his exorcism business, and eventually imprinted the Momentary Bloom Dao Pattern onto himself. After testing its flowers on Qing He and others, he spent the night with Tang Wanqing and wondered whether he might one day reach the distant Demoness.

• Su Qing trapped and killed hundreds of Red Lantern monsters over two nights, raising Momentary Bloom's completeness while the frightened Rogue Cultivators prepared to defend themselves.
• Su Qing sold high-end and affordable Grave-Sweeping Shovelmen as demand for exorcising goods surged, then spent half a month refining Puppets and hunting monsters.
• Su Qing imprinted Momentary Bloom onto himself, improving its four flower effects and adding the Dao Pattern to those he planned to develop.
• Qing He consumed a White Lotus Flower and spent a month digesting its benefits, while Su Qing later gave flowers to Ge Ling, Bear Two, Tang Wanqing, and Guo Qiao Lian.
• Su Qing tested the Pink Peach Blossom on Tang Wanqing, spent the night with her, and afterward thought about someday giving the Demoness his flowers.