Chapter Summaries

The Phantom Brigade attacked the Fire Phoenix Princess’s residence, where they battled the kingdom’s defenders while the Princess’s uncle suddenly betrayed her. The chapter ended with the Princess stabbed and her uncle realizing he may have struck the wrong person.

• The Shadow Warrior and Butterfly Sword attacked the outer courtyard, while Qin Min helped them break its formations and kill several Golden Core Elders.
• A Black Cloth empowered an elder to transform into a Golden-Fanged Wolf King, but the Butterfly Sword eventually killed him.
• Rao Tingshan urged Li Kuishan to stay inside the spirit cage as Qu Ang battled two Giant God Soldiers and the residence’s cannons outside.
• Rao Tingshan saw Yin Ganyu, Nong Fuzhen, and Yuan Xiu facing the Fire Phoenix Princess and her forces in the inner courtyard.
• Nong Fuzhen sent three Corpse Monsters against the Fire Phoenix Elders, while the Princess sent a Weasel Light Rat and soldiers to attack Yuan Xiu.
• The Phoenix Come City Lord stabbed the Fire Phoenix Princess when she turned toward him, then realized he might have struck the wrong person.

Fire Phoenix Princess exposed Feng Tianyang’s betrayal, and Su Qing intervened as a supposed Tiger Phoenix Guard to fight the Phantom Brigade’s Yin Ganyu. After drawing Yin Ganyu away from the city and revealing his Daoist Arts, Su Qing discovered that Yin Ganyu was an Essence Transformation Hand Pattern Master who coveted his matching Dao Pattern.

• Feng Tianyang admitted that he had colluded with the Phantom Brigade, arranging Fire Phoenix Princess’s abduction in exchange for Fate Comes Pavilion’s support and future access to Fire Phoenix Immortal Kingdom.
• Su Qing appeared as a Tiger Phoenix Guard and chose to fight Yin Ganyu while Fire Phoenix Princess turned her attention toward Essence Transformation Hand.
• Yin Ganyu used the Formless Garment of Reality and Illusion and a succession of transformed Daoist Arts to withstand Su Qing’s attacks and drive the fight away from Phoenix Come City.
• Su Qing stopped hiding his abilities and used Daoist Arts to block Yin Ganyu’s three Earth-grade attacks in the wilderness.
• Yin Ganyu recognized Su Qing as an Essence Transformation Hand Pattern Master and rejoiced that he could kill him to increase his own Dao Pattern’s completeness.

Su Qing defeated and killed Yin Ganyu, taking his Essence Transformation Hand Dao Pattern and several treasures. As the surviving Phantom Brigade members learned of Yin Ganyu’s death, Qu Ang and the others fled Phoenix Come City, where the fighting continued.

• Su Qing used his Storm Ancient Tree, Puppets, Spirit Beasts, and Two-Headed Mirage Dragon to battle Yin Ganyu, but Yin Ganyu’s Concentric Lock and sealing arts left him apparently helpless.
• Su Qing recovered with a Blood Vitality Pill, broke Yin Ganyu’s hold, and sent his nine swords after Yin Ganyu’s Dharma Image and body.
• Su Qing’s swords destroyed Yin Ganyu, and he absorbed the Essence Transformation Hand Dao Pattern, inherited three Daoist Arts, and became its First Pattern Master.
• Su Qing collected Yin Ganyu’s Golden Core, flying shuttle, Golden Crab, and Formless Garment of Reality and Illusion before restoring himself and heading toward Phoenix Come City.
• Qu Ang sensed Yin Ganyu’s death and fled Phoenix Come City, while the Butterfly Sword, Shadow Warrior, and Formation Breaker also escaped the fighting.
• The four Golden Core Venerables remained at the City Lord’s Manor and let the fleeing Phantom Brigade members go.

Feng Tianyang’s attempt to kill the Fire Phoenix Princess was stopped by the Four Elders of the Void, while he revealed the power of his King Phoenix Blood Talisman and fought his way through Phoenix Come City. Su Qing escaped the city with the others, choosing to avoid further involvement in the Fire Phoenix Immortal Kingdom’s conflict.

• The four Golden Core Elders joined the Fire Phoenix Elders after the Phantom Brigade fled, while the Corpse Driver and Deadly Poison Master were killed by the Fire Phoenix Elders.
• The Four Elders of the Void appeared before the Fire Phoenix Princess and dissolved Feng Tianyang’s spear attack, revealing the Ancestor’s support for her.
• Feng Tianyang activated his King Phoenix Blood Talisman, empowering three hundred soldiers and forcing the Golden Core Elders to retreat with them.
• Feng Tianyang burned his phoenix blood to form a King Phoenix Rune, then carved a path through the forces confronting him as he sought to escape.
• Bear Two picked the Spirit Cage lock and helped Su Qing and the others flee Phoenix Come City.
• Su Qing watched the battle from the Two-Headed Mirage Dragon’s cloud-palace and decided to stay out of the kingdom’s affairs.

Su Qing escaped the Fire Phoenix Immortal Kingdom with Rao Tingshan and the others, then followed Qing He’s message to meet the Fire Phoenix Princess at Bu Shen Ju. He resisted the Joyful Buddha Statue’s temptation and arrived to find the princess enjoying herself with two companions.

• Su Qing watched the Fire Phoenix Princess use the Four Elders of the Void to overwhelm Feng Tianyang, while Bear Two led Rao Tingshan and the others out of the city.
• Su Qing used Rosemary Flowers and the Two-Headed Mirage Dragon’s illusions to rescue the fleeing cultivators, then escaped with them in the Earth Digging Dragon.
• After realizing Qing He had been left behind, Su Qing received her message inviting him to meet the Fire Phoenix Princess in the Earth Store Buddhist Kingdom.
• Su Qing and Liang Hai Shun reached Bu Shen Ju, where Liang Hai Shun stayed behind to enjoy the company of its Female Cultivators while Su Qing went inside.
• Su Qing resisted the Joyful Buddha Statue’s bewitchment, met the abbess Xi Sui, and followed her to the rear courtyard.
• Xi Sui led Su Qing to the Fire Phoenix Princess, who was embracing one person on each side.

Su Qing negotiated with the Fire Phoenix Princess over the Formless Garment of Reality and Illusion, then escaped with Qing He and Liang Hai Shun after helping her stage a failed attempt to seize it. Back aboard the Earth Digging Dragon, Bear Two was accused of stealing from the caravan, but Su Qing believed it was innocent and suspected another thief was aboard.

• The Fire Phoenix Princess told Su Qing that the Formless Garment of Reality and Illusion was one of three treasures tied to the Virtual Reality Dao Pattern and demanded to know whether he had it.
• Su Qing pretended not to possess the treasure robe, fought the princess's forces, recovered Qing He, and escaped with Liang Hai Shun while the Four Elders of the Void watched.
• After Su Qing departed, the Fire Phoenix Princess reminded the Four Elders of the Void of their agreement and promised to help them obtain the treasure robe and Sumeru Alms Bowl later.
• Su Qing criticized the Four Elders of the Void for serving the Fire Phoenix Immortal Kingdom, then added a Spiritual Sense Imprint to Bear Two and Tiger Egg.
• Rao Tingshan and Li Kuishan confronted Su Qing about thefts from the merchant caravan and suspected Bear Two, but Su Qing defended it and said another thief cultivator was responsible.
• Li Hai Lang suggested Qing He might be the thief, but Su Qing dismissed the suspicion because she was meditating after returning from the Fire Phoenix Princess's place.

Su Qing discovered that Fire Egg had become a Calamity Dog and learned how to advance it, while a Void Beast’s thefts revealed that an ancient small realm might have been unearthed in the Earth Store Buddhist Kingdom. The caravan hurried onward, and Su Qing prepared to turn the Golden Mane Lions’ remains into a new Puppet squad.

• Su Qing summoned Fire Egg to track the thief, and Rottweiler identified it as a Tier 2 Limit Calamity Dog with Divine Beast bloodlines and explained how it could advance.
• Su Qing and Fire Egg searched the victims’ rooms, while Li Hai Lang questioned the caravan members; a Dreamy Winning Fish’s vision cleared Bear Two of the thefts.
• Rottweiler identified the culprit as a Void Beast that traveled between realms, and Rao Tingshan suspected the Earth Store Buddhist Kingdom had uncovered an ancient small realm.
• Rao Tingshan sped the Earth Digging Dragon out of the kingdom, while Su Qing considered the Buddhist inheritance that might become available and reflected on relying more on Puppets.
• Su Qing decided to refine the six Golden Mane Lion corpses and their Demonic Cores into a new fighting squad for the West Sea.

Su Qing refined a Flying Golden Lion puppet, then traveled with Rao Tingshan and other cultivators through the Earth Demon Evil Kingdom toward Wanghai City. After Gao Erqiang challenged Myriad Wood Tube and disrupted the kingdom’s transport network, the travelers reached Wanghai City by land, where Su Qing saw the formidable array guarding the West Sea’s main trade hub.

• After four failures, Su Qing refined a Flying Golden Lion and discovered that the Golden Mane Lions had no divine beast bloodline because it had been extracted.
• Su Qing and the other travelers entered the Earth Demon Evil Kingdom aboard Rao Tingshan’s Earth Digging Dragon and used the Evil Root Track service toward Wanghai City.
• Myriad Wood Tube hurled the Earth Digging Dragon out of its root track after Gao Erqiang entered the kingdom and challenged it for the foremost evil god general position.
• Su Qing recognized Gao Erqiang’s lanterns but concealed himself and avoided interfering, while Rao Tingshan and the others switched to traveling overland after the root network fell into chaos.
• The travelers reached Wanghai City, jointly controlled by the Earth Demon Evil Kingdom and the Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom, and Su Qing saw its Tier 4 defensive array.

Su Qing arrived in prosperous Wanghai City and went with Liang Hai Shun to Red Sleeve Tower, where he met the tomb-raiding cultivator Feng Bo'e. After learning Feng Bo'e carried Buddhist treasures from the Earth Store Buddhist Kingdom, Su Qing tried to draw him into a trade, but Feng insisted on enjoying the tower first.

• Su Qing entered Wanghai City with the Fate Comes Pavilion caravan, and Rao Tingshan parted ways with him after relaying Baiyun Immortal's message to Liang Hai Shun.
• Su Qing released Bear Two, Fire Egg, and Shao Delong to explore while Li Hai Lang and Qing He kept watch, then agreed with Liang Hai Shun to visit Red Sleeve Tower.
• Su Qing met Feng Bo'e outside the tower, introduced himself, and learned that Feng was a treasure hunter recently driven out of the Earth Store Buddhist Kingdom by the Joyful Sect.
• Feng Bo'e revealed that he carried unearthed treasures, and the Thirty-six High Buddhist Cultivators in Su Qing's Storage Bag reacted to them.
• Su Qing offered to reimburse Feng's entrance fee and proposed drinking together so they could trade, but Feng insisted on entering Red Sleeve Tower first.
• While waiting in line, Su Qing considered the tower's profits and predicted that his Passion Series Puppets could compete with its services in Wanghai City.

Su Qing toured Red Sleeve Tower to assess the rival of his Passion-Igniting Puppet, sampling its many floors and discovering that its services also concealed considerable professional talent. After reaching the thirty-third floor, he learned that climbing higher could earn him rewards and an honored-guest standing that might help him in Wanghai City.

• Ren Cha guided Su Qing, Liang Hai Shun, and Feng Bo'e through Red Sleeve Tower's first three floors, where Su Qing was appalled by its offerings.
• Su Qing continued alone through the upper floors, sampling services from Dream Weavers, Formation Masters, Spirit Binders, and Artifact Refiners.
• Miss Qin Cao played the zither for Su Qing, but her attempt to probe his soul nearly overwhelmed her; she then offered to guide him upstairs.
• Su Qing sampled the Tier 2 services from the eleventh through the thirty-third floors over two days and nights.
• Qin Cao urged Su Qing to climb higher, explaining that the upper floors offered Spirit Stone rewards and that reaching the sixty-seventh floor could make him an honored guest with influence in Wanghai City.

Su Qing reached the sixty-seventh floor of Red Sleeve Tower, met its twin masters, and secured a chance to apply for a gold shop license and an invitation to the He Family's recruitment convention. After spending seven days upstairs, he promoted his puppets to the city before learning that Feng Bo'e had been arrested for fraud.

• Su Qing passed the challenges above the thirty-fourth floor and reached the sixty-seventh floor, where He Bi Zuo and He Bi Ai offered him a recruitment-convention ticket and one request from Red Sleeve Tower.
• Su Qing asked the twin masters to help him apply for a gold license to open a puppet shop, and they agreed to submit his materials for review.
• He Bi Zuo and He Bi Ai invited Su Qing to climb higher in Red Sleeve Tower, but he declined to risk being drained by the He Family women.
• After seven days upstairs, Su Qing emerged to cheers from the city's cultivators and advertised his Princess Series Puppets beneath the Appreciating Flowers Terrace.
• Su Qing sent Qing He to coordinate the shop application with Qin Cao, then searched for Feng Bo'e and learned that the Immortal City Enforcement Team had arrested him for fraud.

Su Qing and Rao Tingshan negotiated Feng Bo'e's release from Hei Qingtian, who used his authority to demand Spirit Stones. After they left the Enforcement Hall, Hei Qingtian and Bai Chihe discussed Su Qing's strength and decided to pass word of his Qiongqi Dao Pattern to Twilight Society.

• Hei Qingtian accused Feng Bo'e of selling counterfeit goods and tried to drive him out of Wanghai City, while Su Qing objected to his use of Righteous Qi to influence Feng Bo'e.
• Hei Qingtian's Xiezhi phantom attacked Su Qing, and Su Qing shattered it with his Qiongqi before displaying his Puppets; Rao Tingshan stepped in to stop the confrontation.
• Rao Tingshan and Su Qing bargained with Hei Qingtian, who agreed to release Feng Bo'e for one hundred and fifty Spirit Stones and a Tier 2 Cloud Roc Puppet.
• Bai Chihe questioned why Hei Qingtian had let Su Qing go, and Hei Qingtian warned that Su Qing was too dangerous to seize directly.
• Hei Qingtian decided to tell Twilight Society about Su Qing's Qiongqi Dao Pattern, expecting its members to target him.

Su Qing secured Feng Bo'e's gratitude and offered Rao Tingshan exclusive rights to sell the Princess Series Puppet in support of his bid to become Fate Comes Pavilion's Wanghai Immortal City Pavilion Master. As Rao explained the city's competing powers and shops, Su Qing considered visiting Langya Workshop and Sword Come Hall.

• Su Qing hosted Feng Bo'e after the Enforcement Hall dispute, and Feng vowed to repay his favor by helping him dig graves.
• Rao Tingshan warned Su Qing that Hei Qingtian was dangerous, and Su Qing promised to support Rao's bid for Pavilion Master by granting him exclusive Princess Series Puppet sales rights.
• Rao explained that Duan Yang's Four-Star Gold Duan Family Puppet Shop was Rao's chief rival and could oppose Su Qing's plans to open a Gold Medal Shop.
• Rao outlined Wanghai Immortal City's powers and major shops, including Langya Workshop, which he said might be vulnerable after True Person Zhao Chun left office.
• Su Qing decided to inspect Langya Workshop for possible bargains and considered visiting Sword Come Hall to hire sword cultivator guards.

Su Qing settled his group into their new inner-city Spirit House and planned the opening of Su's Puppet Shop while dealing with Feng Bo'e's debts. The chapter ended with Su Qing sensing that a discarded lotus fragment in Feng Bo'e's collection was an extraordinarily valuable Buddhist Treasure.

• Su Qing had Li Hai Lang escort Feng Bo'e to the Spirit House and transferred Feng Bo'e's debts to Bear Two under a new Dao Pact.
• Su Qing discussed shop plans with Liang Hai Shun, Shao Delong, and Qing He, while reminding everyone to follow Wanghai City's strict business rules.
• Su Qing chose to focus Su's Puppet Shop on mid-to-high-end Tier 2 and Tier 3 Puppets and arranged for Li Hai Lang to buy materials.
• Ge Ling reported the shop's remaining funds, and Su Qing took three thousand Spirit Stones to visit Langya Workshop and meet others.
• Feng Bo'e complained that his supposed Ancient Treasures were fakes, while Su Qing sensed a discarded shattered lotus fragment and recognized its immense fortune.

Su Qing visited Langya Workshop, bought materials and a small quantity of Essence Light Stone, and recognized a Huang Family emblem on a cultivator who had been selected to meet Ling Ying. He left the workshop wary of the Huang Family’s influence over the Essence Light Stone trade and resolved to bide his time until he had greater power.

• Feng Bo'e sold his counterfeit goods to Su Qing for a dozen-odd Spirit Stones, then spent the money at Red Sleeve Tower and was recruited by Bear Two into the Exploding Bear Squad to help escort Li Hai Lang.
• Su Qing learned that Ling Ying received one visitor each day at Langya Workshop, where ambitious cultivators sought her favor and the status of guest elder.
• Su Qing browsed Langya Workshop and bought supplies for deep-sea Puppets, two Dao Pattern Stones, and one hundred jin of Essence Light Stone.
• Su Qing recognized the Golden Crow emblem on a cultivator chosen to meet Ling Ying as belonging to the Huang Family, but yielded the way because he was not yet strong enough to challenge them.

Su Qing learned about Wanghai City’s shifting power balance, negotiated for materials, and inspected the Duan Family Puppet Shop as he prepared to open a competing business. He left impressed by the shop’s vast puppet selection and its Three Pure Ones Puppet, and bought a Master Puppet to test against his own designs.

• Huang Jiuyi proposed marrying Ling Ying and having the Penglai Huang Family support her claim to Langya Immortal Island, but Ling Ying’s spell sent him flying into Su Qing, who froze him and hurried away.
• Ling Ying relied on Swift Wind Sword Ye Fengsuo’s loyalty and urged him to help win Su Qing’s support for Langya Workshop.
• At the Hundred Treasures Pavilion, Tong Xin warned Su Qing about Ling Ying and explained the city’s competing powers, including the Twilight Society’s annual fee for shops.
• Su Qing bought Mirage Dragon Pills and other materials from Tong Xin, then learned that the Duan Family Puppet Shop would not obstruct his plans to open a shop.
• Su Qing toured the Duan Family Puppet Shop, saw its extensive Pleasure and Combat Puppets and its Three Pure Ones Puppet, and bought a Master Puppet to compare with his Princess Series Puppet.

Su Qing met Duan Yang and Duan Tian'ai at the Duan Family Shop, where he learned that Old Daoist Tong had changed Duan Yang after having him inscribe the family’s secret rune. Duan Tian'ai revealed that the Twilight Society would take over the Duan Family’s puppet shop in a month, leaving Su Qing facing a far more dangerous rival than he had expected.

• Su Qing visited the Duan Family Shop and met its owner, Duan Yang, who welcomed him and confirmed that his Gold Medal shop application had been approved.
• Duan Tian'ai explained that Duan Yang had become withdrawn after Old Daoist Tong persuaded him to inscribe the Duan Family’s secret Three Pure Ones Rune.
• Duan Tian'ai used her Xiezhi Golden Core’s Right-Wrong Dao Pattern to test Su Qing, and he admitted that he had old ties with Old Daoist Tong and offered to help restore Duan Yang.
• Duan Tian'ai told Su Qing that the Twilight Society was pressuring the Duan Family and would take over its puppet shop in a month.
• Su Qing realized the Twilight Society, rather than the Duan Family, would become the rival shop across the street.

Night Emperor attacked Su Qing at Su's Puppet Shop to seize his Nine Li Qiongqi Dao Patterns as a gift for Gao Erqiang. Su Qing resisted his night arts and destroyed his signature weapons, leaving Night Emperor's assault thwarted.

• The Twilight Society learned Su Qing possessed Dao Patterns, and Night Emperor set out alone to kill him and claim them for Gao Erqiang.
• Su Qing's staff prepared Su's Puppet Shop for its opening, while Su Qing ordered the defenses activated when he sensed a powerful foe approaching.
• Night Emperor's darkness stripped the staff of their senses, but Bear Two's Buddhist chants and Fire Egg's Nether Prison Fire restored their awareness.
• Su Qing recognized Night Emperor and learned he wanted the Nine Li Qiongqi Dao Patterns as an offering to Gao Erqiang.
• Night Emperor attacked with his Soul-Losing Night, Life-Reaping Chain, and Life-Taking Blade, but Big Head mountain apes found and battered his hidden true body.
• A Two-Headed Mirage Dragon wielding four staves smashed Night Emperor's Life-Reaping Chain and Life-Taking Blade into fragments.

Su Qing killed Night Emperor, acquired the Night Roaming God Dao Pattern, and used the Twilight Society’s continued presence to support his new Puppet Shop. His grand opening drew a crowd, and Hei Qingtian arrived with the Enforcement Hall to offer help and a gift, prompting Su Qing to demand more compensation.

• Night Emperor fled Su Qing’s attack but was killed by Su Qing’s Dagger Missile Puppet, and Su Qing transformed his remains into the Night Roaming God Dao Pattern.
• Su Qing learned that Earth Demon Heaven could locate him through the Dao Pattern, assessed the Twilight Society’s strength, and chose to leave it intact as a source of customers for his Exorcism Puppets.
• Blood Emperor told the Twilight Society that High Evil God had ordered them not to offend Su Qing, then secretly went to claim Night Emperor’s remaining wealth.
• Su Qing opened his Gold Medal Puppet Shop with a citywide display and flyers, drawing crowds of Wanghai cultivators to the shop.
• Hei Qingtian ordered the Enforcement Hall to maintain order and offered Su Qing 540 Spirit Stones, but Su Qing pointed out that the gift did not cover the Tier 2 Puppet he had given Hei Qingtian.

Su Qing welcomed Wanghai City’s influential guests to the opening of Su’s Puppet Shop and collected lavish gifts while building ties with major factions. After Zhao Chun warned him about the danger of exposing his Dao Patterns and asked him to remember Rao Tingshan, Su Qing hosted enthusiastic customers and resolved to focus more on cultivation.

• Su Qing accepted gifts from guests including Hei Qingtian, Ling Ying, the Fire Phoenix Department Store, Lü Wentian, and Duan Tian'ai, while reassuring Duan Tian'ai about the Twilight Society.
• Su Qing received a gift from Tong Chang and reflected on Tong Chang’s marriage to Madam Lanxiang and the threat facing Langya Immortal Island.
• Zhao Chun warned Su Qing that his exposed Dao Patterns could attract evil entities and asked him not to forget his bond with Rao Tingshan.
• Su Qing gave Zhao Chun several Myriad Laws Master Puppets and sent him off as Rao Tingshan explained that Zhao Chun had gone to the Earth Store Buddhist Kingdom to seek a Deity Transformation opportunity.
• Ying Wushen praised Su Qing’s Puppets, ordered full sets for his children, and left glowing reviews after receiving a discount.
• Su Qing found the owner of Buddhist Treasure House enjoying the Princess Leopards, then learned he had ordered many Puppets and instructed staff to serve him tonic-laced Spirit Tea.