Chapter Summaries

Su Qing healed Feng Shen, the Fire Phoenix Princess, by stripping away the Joyful Old Demon's runes and corruption, then salvaged the demon's remains and repaired his damaged Puppet. As Su Qing and Liu Yun'er prepared to leave the cave estate, the Rogue Cultivators continued looting its halls and worried that Su Qing might not survive the dangers deeper inside.

• Feng Shen admired Su Qing's Princess Leopard Puppet and offered to settle her grudge by trading a hundred Puppets if Su Qing could not remove her Demonic Beast Rune.
• Su Qing used his Dao Patterns and abilities to remove Feng Shen's runes, Demonic Seed, and demonic qi, restoring her Fire Phoenix form.
• Su Qing refined the Joyful Old Demon's Golden Core into his Evil Refining Furnace Puppet, salvaged the demon's other remains, and began repairing the Dragon Armored Magic Lizard.
• Su Qing and Liu Yun'er agreed to leave the cave estate after Feng Shen awakened, while Liu Yun'er planned to excuse their departure by saying her mana was depleted.
• The Rogue Cultivators followed Brother 17's nose to search for treasure, broke into a hall, and attacked its Foundation Establishment Evil Spirits.
• The Rogue Cultivators feared that True Person Yubi had become a Nascent Soul Great Evil and hoped Su Qing would survive the cave estate's dangers and lead them out.

After freeing the Fire Phoenix Princess, Su Qing and Liu Yun'er chose to leave the Talisman Dao Treasure Hall rather than compete for its treasures, while Shi Li Jing stayed to face the danger within. Their retreating group joined forces with Su Qing’s Rogue Cultivators and fought through the evil spirits in the outer area, leaving Brother 17 under extra protection.

• The Fire Phoenix Princess thanked Su Qing, borrowed five Princess Leopards, and agreed to help him and Liu Yun'er escape the cave rather than fight for its treasures.
• After Gao Erqiang defeated Shi Zhi Fang, Liu Yun'er proposed leading the disciples out, and Shi Li Jing ordered Elder Wu Dan to escort them while he remained with several Golden Core Elders.
• Shi Zhi Fang offered to escort Liu Yun'er, but Shi Li Jing slapped him and ordered him to stay.
• The group left the Treasure Hall after True Person Yubi made no move to stop them, and Elder Wu Dan explained how Shi Li Jing could briefly wield Nascent Soul-level power.
• In the outer area, Liu Yun'er's group encountered Rogue Cultivators and evil spirits; the Fierce Tiger King identified the Rogue Cultivators as Liu Yun'er's people, and they joined the fight against the demons.
• Su Qing gave Yao Fei two Blood Lotus Flowers, learned of Brother 17's hidden talent from Guo Qiao Lian, and assigned Li Hai Lang to protect Brother 17 and Brother 260.

Su Qing and the others escaped the collapsing cave estate after the Demoness washed the Demonic Cultivators’ memories, then joined the demonic beasts fighting Old Evil of Cloud Mountain. Fierce Tiger King led a counterattack, but the Towering Mountain Evil Monster appeared as the chapter ended, forcing humans and demons to face a new threat.

• Su Qing led the treasure-hunting party out of the cave estate as powerful auras erupted behind them, and Su Qing and Fire Phoenix Princess broke through True Person Yubi’s freezing formation so everyone could escape.
• The Demoness used the Demonic Sect’s Soul-Washing Method to alter the Demonic Cultivators’ memories, while Wu Dan explained that Liu Yun’er’s High-grade Golden Core protected her soul and memories.
• Su Qing and the others joined the demonic beasts battling Old Evil of Cloud Mountain, and Fierce Tiger King took command of the beast army while the Green Lion King regrouped with the cultivators.
• Fierce Tiger King led the beasts and cultivators in a charge that scattered the evil spirits, while the Green Lion King urged the human cultivators to fight alongside them.
• Old Evil of Cloud Mountain corrupted the demon mountain and merged with its spirit vein, creating the Towering Mountain Evil Monster before the assembled humans and demons.

Su Qing summoned an Ancient Immortal God to possess him and sent the divine general to fight Sect Master Bai Mei, while the demons, cultivators, and rogue cultivators struggled against the Towering Mountain Evil Monsters. The battle continued as Shao Delong used Bone Demon Exploding Stone Puppets to destroy an evil monster and demanded that the Wind Eagle King carry him back into the fight.

• Su Qing activated his Tier 4 Summon God Talisman, became a divine Lu Wu, and sent the axe-wielding divine general to attack Sect Master Bai Mei, who answered with his Dharma Aspect and corrosive evil light.
• Su Qing retreated from the divine general’s fight, sheltered the High Buddhist Cultivators in Huang Song’s Nest House, and released puppets to help Demoness Liu Yun'er and the others battle the Towering Mountain Evil Monsters.
• Demoness Liu Yun'er, Fire Phoenix Princess, the Green Lion King’s brothers, and the demon kings fought the evil monsters while Elder Wu Dan burned his lifespan to kill one and the Life-Shedding Team supported the battle with their arts and artifacts.
• Shao Delong used Bone Demon Exploding Stone Puppets to blast apart a Towering Mountain Evil Monster from within, then nearly died in the resulting firestorm.
• Venerable Wu Dan restored Shao Delong’s strength and the Wind Eagle King rescued him, but Shao Delong insisted on being carried back into battle to drop more explosive puppets.

Shao Delong and the Wind Eagle King helped turn the battle against the Towering Mountain Evil Monsters, while Su Qing faced Sect Master Bai Mei’s overwhelming power. After imprinting the Qiongqi Dao Pattern on himself, Su Qing put on the True King demon skin, leaving the battlefield uncertain whether he could resist its corruption.

• Shao Delong persuaded the Wind Eagle King to carry him into battle, and together they used Bone Demon Exploding Stones to help the Demon Kings and Demonesses defeat the Towering Mountain Evil Monsters.
• A black dragon and a muddy giant hand struck the Wind Eagle King and Shao Delong into the ground after Delong ran out of Bone Demon Exploding Stones.
• Su Qing and the Green Lion King agreed that Su Qing would wear the Qiongqi Tiger Skin to challenge Sect Master Bai Mei, who was nearing the power of a Nascent Soul Great Evil.
• Su Qing copied the Qiongqi Dao Pattern onto his palm, gained the Qiongqi pattern and its abilities, and prepared protections against the skin’s corruption.
• Su Qing put on the Qiongqi Tiger Skin and roared in pain as demonic qi and blood energy poured into him, shocking the demons and cultivators watching the battlefield.

Su Qing used the Qiongqi Demon Skin and its essence blood to gain immense power, then fought Sect Master Bai Mei with Qiongqi arts and his Dao Patterns. He broke Bai Mei’s Dharma Image and countered his concealment with Green Sword Dolls, but Old Evil escalated the battle by bringing out Cloud Mountain Treasure Hall, whose array attacks Su Qing endured with teleporting dolls, Substitute Dolls, and stacked armor.

• The Qiongqi Demon Skin mistook Su Qing for a peak Tier 3 Golden Winged Black Tiger, poured power and essence blood into him, and helped him reach a Tier 3 physique while raising his Qiongqi Dao Pattern completeness to 3.48%.
• Su Qing appeared before Sect Master Bai Mei in Qiongqi form and traded powerful demon arts with Bai Mei’s Dragon Tiger Golden Seal, then resisted Bai Mei’s Evil Pattern Spirit Devour with Fetus Transformation Easy Form.
• Su Qing used Mountain Sea Capture and a barrage of Dao Pattern attacks to freeze and shatter Bai Mei’s White Emperor Dharma Image, then closed in to attack him directly.
• Bai Mei hid within Mirage Dragon clouds and mist, cut off Su Qing’s spiritual awareness, and attacked with lightning and other Daoist arts, but Su Qing used Green Sword Dolls as teleportation substitutes to find and strike him.
• Bai Mei withdrew the Mirage Dragon mist and summoned Cloud Mountain Treasure Hall to fight head-on, while Su Qing scattered Green Sword Dolls and repeatedly teleported away from the hall’s array attacks.
• After thousands of Green Sword Dolls and hundreds of Substitute Dolls were expended, Su Qing kept resisting Cloud Mountain Treasure Hall’s attacks by wearing the Qiongqi hide and stacking up to Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine Layers of Battle Armor.

The cultivators and demons destroyed Baiyun Immortal City while Su Qing fought Sect Master Bai Mei and lured him toward the Nest House. Su Qing trapped Bai Mei and the Cloud Mountain Treasure Hall inside the Evil Refining Furnace Puppet, but he feared the furnace could not overcome them as help arrived.

• The cultivators and demons attacked Baiyun Immortal City while Su Qing battered Sect Master Bai Mei with the Qiongqi Demonic Tiger's power.
• Shao Delong led the assault on the city, and the cultivators, demons, and puppets demolished it as rogue cultivators sought vengeance for their losses.
• Su Qing's demon skin ran out, and Sect Master Bai Mei killed the Dragon Armored Magic Lizard while pursuing Su Qing toward the Nest House.
• Su Qing used explosive Metal Beasts, talismans, and Substitute Dolls to escape Bai Mei's attacks, then revealed that buried Explosive Stones were about to destroy Baiyun Immortal City.
• Buddhist Bear Two attacked Bai Mei amid the city-wide explosion, allowing Su Qing to seal him and the Cloud Mountain Treasure Hall inside the Evil Refining Furnace Puppet.
• Su Qing discovered that Bai Mei was resisting refinement inside the furnace, but he regained hope when two graceful figures flew toward him.

Su Qing fought Sect Master Bai Mei inside the Furnace Doll, using the Order Reversal Talisman, his Buddhist allies, and his puppets to overcome Old Evil’s final techniques. After Bai Mei fell, Su Qing regained his Star-Sun Spiritual Root and All-Nature Bone Structure, achieving Dao Foundation Perfection and gaining more than three thousand years of lifespan.

• Su Qing marshaled the gathered cultivators and demons to fuel and protect the Furnace Doll, then entered it to face Sect Master Bai Mei alone.
• Bai Mei unleashed his Obsessive Demonic Sound, but Su Qing resisted with thirty Merit Wooden Fish and tricked him into swallowing the Order Reversal Talisman.
• The talisman turned Bai Mei’s Vengeful Souls and Grudges against him, while the melting Cloud Mountain Treasure Hall and the Ghoul Dolls destroyed his remaining support.
• Bai Mei revealed a Star-Sun Dharma Image and tried to absorb Su Qing, but Gao Xiong and Bear Two attacked from behind, letting Su Qing break free and strike back.
• Su Qing and his allies bombarded Bai Mei with missiles, Buddhist chants, and wooden-fish sounds until the soul fire destroyed him.
• Su Qing recovered his Star-Sun Spiritual Root and All-Nature Bone Structure, reached late Foundation Establishment and Dao Foundation Perfection, and gained over three thousand years of lifespan.

Su Qing became the First Pattern Master of the Five Elders Dao Pattern, then forged a Tier 4 puppet with Bear Two while everyone outside mistook the work for a battle with Old Evil. The scene shifted to the icy Great Evil’s confrontation with Shi Li Jing, Old Daoist Tong, and Gao Erqiang, as Tong used his Heavenly Talisman Token to attack it.

• Su Qing learned he could locate other masters of the Five Elders Dao Pattern and checked his other Dao Patterns, finding Lin Shanlu close to becoming First Pattern Master of Mountain Sea Capture.
• Su Qing and Bear Two used the furnace’s Golden Juice and soul fire to begin forging a Tier 4 puppet while the Fire Phoenix Princess stoked the flames and Demoness Han Yue controlled the temperature.
• The Green Lion King and Elder Wu Dan fled as the apparent battle inside the furnace intensified, while the rogue cultivators stayed because Brother 260 remained behind.
• An Immortal God Ice Great Evil appeared to the west and True King Tianpeng approached from the east, driving the fleeing demons and cultivators back toward the furnace.
• Shi Li Jing emerged as a Nascent Soul True Person alongside the Desiring Demon Sect elders, and he joined Old Daoist Tong and Gao Erqiang in surrounding True Person Yubi.
• Old Daoist Tong declared that he was containing a Corrupt Mark and struck Yubi with the light from his Heavenly Talisman Token.

Su Qing and three other Heavenly Talisman Hall members contained Jade Wall Old Evil after the furnace puppet exploded and revealed Su Qing’s imposing but unfinished Dragon Island Bi Xi. Old Daoist Tong took the captured Corrupt Mark away, while Gao Erqiang departed after securing permission to leave.

• Gao Erqiang tried to restrain Jade Wall Old Evil with his talisman token, but the Old Evil knocked him aside and charged toward Su Qing.
• The Demoness activated her token, joining Old Daoist Tong and Gao Erqiang to bind Jade Wall Old Evil before he could enter the furnace puppet.
• The furnace puppet exploded, stunning the Old Evil and exposing Su Qing on Dragon Island Bi Xi, which its Illusion Heart Rune made appear to be a powerful Tier 4 Puppet.
• Su Qing revealed his Heavenly Talisman Hall token, and the four members contained Jade Wall Old Evil, with Old Daoist Tong receiving most of the merit reward.
• Old Daoist Tong left with the captured Corrupt Mark, and Gao Erqiang swore not to return to the Desiring Demon Immortal Kingdom before Shi Li Jing and Su Qing let him go.

After the Demonic Sect’s three-year war with True King Tianpeng ended in reparations, Su Qing feared Shi Li Jing would learn he had abandoned him and prepared to leave the Desiring Demon Immortal Kingdom. He gathered his companions and went to a black market to sell the last of Huang Song’s belongings, but the chapter ended amid the market’s illicit trade.

• Su Qing refused Shi Li Jing’s request for help against True King Tianpeng and fled with the rogue cultivators, while the Green Lion King and other demon kings also withdrew.
• After leaving the Hundred Beasts Mountain Range, Su Qing’s companions split up, though most stayed with him and settled temporarily in Demonic Smoke City.
• Three years later, Su Qing learned that Shi Li Jing had ended the war by signing the Cloud Mountain Pact and paying Tianpeng’s side compensation, so he decided to leave before Shi Li Jing could confront him.
• Su Qing explained that he had spent the intervening years selling stolen goods under disguises and planned to dispose of Huang Song’s Nest House before departing for the Thousand Islands Nation.
• Su Qing ordered his companions to prepare to leave Demonic Smoke City, and they began clearing out the shop.
• Su Qing entered a black market to sell the Nest House, where traders openly offered illicit goods and services.

Su Qing staged his exposure as Gao Erqiang to the Huang Family while arranging for the Three Flowers Organization to sell the Nest House. He then prepared to leave Demonic Smoke City for the Thousand Islands Nation, but most of his companions chose to stay behind.

• Su Qing met Shi Jingxuan at a black-market safe house, where the Huang Family revealed their ambush and attacked him.
• Su Qing escaped the staged assault, then confirmed that Shi Jingxuan had helped make the Huang Family believe he was Gao Erqiang.
• Su Qing agreed to let the Three Flowers Organization auction the Nest House in the Thousand Islands Nation and take half the proceeds.
• Su Qing gathered his companions to discuss the voyage, but Tang Wanqing, Brother 17, Brother 260, Niu Thirteen, De Bao, He Lian Xian, Guo Qiao Lian, and others declined to go.
• Shao Delong agreed to sail with Su Qing, and the group held a farewell gathering in Demonic Smoke City.
• After drinking with the others, Su Qing left Tang Wanqing and Guo Qiao Lian and went to the Demoness Tower.

Su Qing visited Liu Yun'er in the Demoness Tower before leaving for the West Sea, where they discussed Penglai, the He Family, and the dangers ahead. He left her with two powerful puppets for protection, while Shi Zhi Fang remained outside, devastated by their closeness.

• Shi Zhi Fang brought rare hotpot ingredients to Su Qing, then attacked him in a jealous rage after Su Qing provoked him.
• Su Qing shattered Shi Zhi Fang's attack with his roar, beat him brutally, and warned him to stop pestering Liu Yun'er.
• Liu Yun'er questioned Su Qing about leaving for the West Sea, advised him to avoid conflict with Penglai, and warned him against attending the He Family's Recruitment Convention.
• Su Qing treated Liu Yun'er's recurring Cold Poison, and she gave him puppet materials gathered over the past three years and explained her plans to cultivate Thousand Illusory Bodies and Yin-Yang Breath-Extinguishing Slash.
• Su Qing gave Liu Yun'er the Tier 3 Tiger Head Dash escape puppet and the Demonic Fiend Woman combat puppet before preparing to leave for the West Sea.

Su Qing departed Demonic Smoke City aboard Fate Comes Pavilion’s Earth Digging Dragon and discovered that the caravan trafficked living beings from across the cultivation world. When he questioned manager Rao Tingshan about the risk of trafficking cultivators from the Wu Kingdoms, Rao explained that Thousand Islands Nation had never joined the Non-Aggression Pact between the Central Plains and the Western Sea.

• Su Qing gave the Demoness his remaining Tier 3 Puppets, beat Shi Zhi Fang for peeping, and prepared to leave Demonic Smoke City with Liang Hai Shun and Shao Delong.
• Su Qing said farewell to his companions, entrusted the women remaining in the city to the Demoness, and boarded the Earth Digging Dragon.
• Su Qing inspected the caravan’s spirit cages and realized Fate Comes Pavilion was trafficking living beings, including cultivators and unusual creatures.
• Su Qing found cultivators from the Wu Kingdoms among the cargo and asked Rao Tingshan why Fate Comes Pavilion dared violate the pact between the Central Plains and the Western Sea.
• Rao Tingshan explained that Thousand Islands Nation had been excluded from the pact and argued that Fate Comes Pavilion therefore had no obligation to follow it.

Su Qing assessed his cultivation problems and the opportunities awaiting him in the Thousand Islands Nation, including the Vajra inheritance, the Sea Witch, and the Hai Family ancestral grave. He decided that his urgent goal was to reach Langya Island and win over its Widow Island Master, backed by the Puppets he had refined over three years.

• Su Qing reflected on the Western Sea Immortal Kingdoms’ schemes and concluded that Huang Song’s death had been blamed on Gao Erqiang, leaving him uninvolved.
• Su Qing reviewed how the clashing Nine Li and Qiongqi Dao Patterns weakened his Tier 3 body cultivation and resolved to seek the Vajra Lineage inheritance to command them.
• Su Qing identified the Sea Witch’s Nine Li Dao Pattern and the Hai Family ancestral grave as future targets, but postponed pursuing them.
• Su Qing considered how to accelerate his mana cultivation by making Star-Sun Model Meditating Dolls, which would require scarce Essence Light Stone and a Tier 4 Spiritual Vein.
• Su Qing chose Langya Island as his immediate destination because it offered a strategic base, trade access, and the Spiritual Vein his Dolls needed.
• Su Qing studied the Widow Island Master’s image and Langya Island intelligence, then prepared his Puppets to challenge her control of the island.

Su Qing spent three years developing new runes and puppets, assembling a powerful force for his journey to the West Sea. After completing the Deep Sea Flood Dragon, he finished his new main combat puppet, the Two-Headed Mirage Dragon, and left it at Tier 3 Ultimate quality.

• Su Qing mastered the Spring Wood, Living Gold, and Mother River runes and developed the Guardian Tree Spirit, Ironclad Locomotive, and Water Spirit Giant puppets.
• Su Qing refined the Storm Ancient Tree and Abyssal Sea Kui Ox for sea combat, then reworked his existing forces and built hundreds of Cloud Roc Stealth Bombers.
• Su Qing gathered help from Liang Hai Shun, Old Daoist, Shao Delong, and the Demoness to construct and equip the Deep Sea Flood Dragon with runes, cannons, and deep-sea weapons.
• Su Qing used the remains of two Mirage Dragons to create the Two-Headed Mirage Dragon, a Tier 3 Ultimate puppet with illusory powers, an awakened bloodline, and water-element abilities.

Su Qing upgraded his puppets, crowning Tiger Egg as his strongest battle puppet, while preparing for the dangers of the West Sea. After advancing the Substitute Doll blueprint into a one-use Deathless Doll capable of blocking fatal attacks and escaping pursuit, he still lacked the rare materials needed to make one.

• Su Qing tested the Two-Headed Mirage Dragon’s mist and illusion abilities on Wei De Bao and Shi Zhi Fang, then added the Buddhist Master’s leg bones to give the dragon combat and formation abilities.
• Tiger Egg revealed that three years of sword practice had made it a Tier 3 Limit sword fighter, and Su Qing equipped its nine tails with seven Magic Swords and two swords made from the Buddhist Master’s arms.
• Su Qing judged that refining a Tier 4 Puppet remained far beyond his reach because he lacked the cultivation and materials, and he lamented turning the Cloud Mountain Treasure Hall’s materials into an unwieldy Dragon Island Bi Xi.
• To prepare for sea travel, Su Qing refined thousands of Substitute Dolls and Little Green Dolls using feathers bought from the Tianpeng Clan during its war.
• Su Qing advanced the Substitute Doll blueprint into the Deathless Doll, a one-use puppet that could block attacks below Tier 4 and relocate him beyond a Nascent Soul True Person’s perception range.

The Fire Phoenix Princess seized the caravan’s goods and arrested Rao Tingshan, Li Kuishan, and their companions after forcing a barter and accusing Rao of wrongdoing. Left aboard the Earth Digging Dragon, Su Qing offered to mediate, but the caravan’s cultivators doubted his connections and refused to go with him.

• Su Qing assured Rao Tingshan that his group would behave while the caravan traded in Phoenix Come City.
• Rao Tingshan and Li Kuishan led the caravan into the city, where the Fire Phoenix Princess arrived and demanded its goods in exchange for her Princess Puppets.
• The Fire Phoenix Princess accused Rao Tingshan of secretly defiling the Puppets, seized the caravan’s goods, and had him, Li Kuishan, and the others detained.
• The Earth Digging Dragon’s remaining personnel learned of the arrests and worried that Fate Comes Pavilion’s reinforcements might take months or years to arrive.
• Su Qing restrained Bear Two from exploiting the situation and offered to mediate with the Fire Phoenix Princess, but the caravan’s cultivators distrusted his claim of having connections.

Su Qing brought Yao Yongquan and the Fate Comes Pavilion convoy to Phoenix Come City, where the Fire Phoenix Princess welcomed him and revealed she had detained the merchants to lure the Phantom Brigade that once brought the Joyful Old Demon to her homeland. Su Qing refused to leave after she rejected his request to spare the convoy, and stayed to face the danger alongside her.

• Su Qing recruited Yao Yongquan and other cultivators with promises of profit and intimidation, then led them to Phoenix Come City.
• Su Qing entered the city with Qing He, bought her several small treasures, and took the group to the City Lord's Manor.
• The Fire Phoenix Princess welcomed Su Qing and Qing He, while Rao Tingshan and Li Kuishan remained imprisoned and Li Kuishan was whipped by a guard.
• The Princess showed Su Qing her extensive collection of erotic paintings, Puppets, artifacts, formations, and spirit beasts, and Su Qing promised to improve his Princess Series Puppets.
• Su Qing asked the Princess to spare the Fate Comes Pavilion convoy, but she explained that she had detained it to draw out the Phantom Brigade led by Yin Ganyu, which had brought the Joyful Old Demon to her kingdom.
• The Princess refused to spare the convoy, and Su Qing declared that he would remain and face the danger with her.

Su Qing joined the Fire Phoenix Princess’s plan to ambush the Phantom Brigade, hoping to confront Yin Ganyu, the Essence Transformation Hand. As Su Qing waited in a spirit cage with the Fate Comes Pavilion caravan, the Phantom Brigade arrived sooner than anyone expected.

• Su Qing agreed to help Feng Shen hunt the Phantom Brigade, and Feng Shen described the troops, elders, formations, and weapons she had prepared in Phoenix Come City.
• Su Qing asked about the Fire Phoenix Ancestor, but Feng Shen explained that she could not act without risking war with the Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom.
• Su Qing had Feng Shen bind him and place him in the spirit cage with the Fate Comes Pavilion caravan, where he pretended his rescue attempt had failed.
• Rao Tingshan and Li Kuishan shared what they knew about the Phantom Brigade, including the abilities of its seven members.
• Wei Shen appeared on the courtyard wall, revealing that the Phantom Brigade had arrived.