Chapter Summaries

After advancing to Tier-2 Puppet Master, Su Qing chose the Exorcism Rune and unlocked the Intelligent Wood Spirit blueprint. He began preparing a second Overlord Tiger, then went to buy materials while deliberately entering an area known for dangerous incidents.

• Su Qing advanced to Tier-2 Puppet Master after crafting the Overlord Black Armor Tiger and chose the Exorcism Rune and Intelligent Wood Spirit blueprint.
• Su Qing weighed the Spirit Spider Doctor and Thunder War Bear blueprints against the Intelligent Wood Spirit, then chose the latter to help manage his growing puppet team.
• Su Qing began crafting the Overlord Silver Wings Tiger and decided to turn the White Tiger Silver Wings artifact into a puppet so the tiger could power it.
• Su Qing equipped Tiger Egg as armor and had Beauty Leopard hide before leaving the Spirit House to buy Puppet Materials.
• Su Qing told would-be buyers that puppets were in high demand and that he would bring more to market later, then entered an area known for wicked incidents.

Su Qing entered the Robber Cultivator district with a conspicuous display of Storage Bags, prompting Li Hai Lang and his two remaining men to mistake him for an angler and avoid attacking. Su Qing then surrounded them with Puppets and accused Li Hai Lang of stealing a batch of payment, demanding more than four hundred thousand in compensation.

• Su Qing traveled through the wilderness without displaying his Puppets, but the Robber Cultivators he encountered stayed out of his way.
• Li Hai Lang, Brother 17, and Brother 260 hid beneath a boulder and decided Su Qing was baiting them, recalling how the Lang Tian Gang had dwindled after its defeat at Black Tiger Mountain.
• Six Explosive Hammer War Bears smashed the boulder apart while Interceptor Puppets aimed at the three men.
• Su Qing handed Li Hai Lang a written claim and accused him of stealing payment worth over four hundred thousand.
• Li Hai Lang read the claim, realized the actual sum was far lower, and concluded that another Robber Cultivator had taken the payment.

Su Qing forced Li Hai Lang and his gang to search for the robber who had stolen from him, then went to Hundred Treasures Pavilion and found prices soaring. He complained that the profiteers should be hung with lanterns, and Tong Xin revealed that the Gao Family Butcher Shop had just appeared in East Market.

• Su Qing accused Li Hai Lang of being the likeliest suspect and took the Storage Bags from him, Brother 17, and Brother 260 as partial compensation.
• Su Qing gave Li Hai Lang a portrait and his Spirit Dog's scent, ordering the gang to find the robber; Li Hai Lang agreed after noticing Su Qing's Bee Scout Puppets watching them.
• Li Hai Lang sent Brother 17 and Brother 260 to lead the Spirit Dog in search of the robber.
• Su Qing entered Hundred Treasures Pavilion and complained about steeply increased prices for Spirit-Calling Wood, Armored War Bears, and first-tier Magic Artifacts.
• Tong Xin warned Su Qing not to hang anyone with lanterns and told him the Gao Family Butcher Shop had appeared in East Market the previous night.

After the Gao Family Butcher Shop reappeared in Baiyun Immortal City, Su Qing decided to develop Exorcism Puppets to counter the powerful Evil Entity. The Hundred Treasures Pavilion agreed to fund his work, and Shopkeeper Liu realized Su Qing had likely become a Tier 2 Puppet Master.

• Tong Xin told Su Qing that the Gao Family Butcher Shop had appeared in East Market and that Cloud Mountain Sect cultivators had negotiated with the Evil Entity inside.
• Tong Xin bought two Lizard Warriors from Su Qing for protection, while Su Qing learned that Bear Two had already sold the other ten at the usual price.
• Su Qing asked Tong Xin to obtain Tier 3 Exorcism Talisman Water materials cheaply so he could develop Puppets against Evil Entities.
• The Hundred Treasures Pavilion offered Su Qing three Exorcism Puppet Blueprints and Talisman Water at no upfront cost in exchange for priority supply of his finished Puppets.
• Su Qing chose to take all three Blueprints, leading Shopkeeper Liu to suspect that he had advanced to a Tier 2 Puppet Master.

Su Qing completed Flowing Light, a fast silver-wing puppet with abilities against Evil Entities, then combined it with the Silver-Winged White Tiger skeleton to create Flowing Silver. The chapter ended with his new transforming armor-puppet combination finished, while the Gao Family Butcher Shop remained too dangerous for him to challenge.

• Su Qing returned home as the Beast Tide brought blood qi and possible Evil Entities, then fortified his Spirit House with a Golden Light Array, Exorcism Talismans, and High Buddhist Cultivators.
• Su Qing refined the White Tiger Silver Wings, whose Intelligence Rune produced several noisy little-girl personalities, and named them Flowing Light.
• The completed Flowing Light gained high speed, repeated space-flashing, silver-light attacks, Interceptor Puppet deployment, and a powerful Evil Entity-slaying slash.
• Su Qing branded a Tier 3 Exorcism Rune onto the Silver-Winged White Tiger skeleton and spent five days completing the puppet.
• Su Qing combined the Silver-Winged White Tiger with Flowing Light and named the transforming armor-puppet combination Flowing Silver.

Su Qing tested Flowing Silver, expanded his puppet stock, and sold his wares amid Baiyun Immortal City’s wartime preparations. Hai Changqing finally appeared, but his explanation for delaying their transaction enraged Su Qing.

• Su Qing tested Flowing Silver’s three forms, assigned it to guard his rear courtyard, and saved his remaining spiritual sense for future Exorcism Puppets.
• Su Qing spent three days refining Lizard Warriors and Lizard Knights, then raised the Lizard Warrior price as reports of Evil Entities spread through Baiyun Immortal City.
• Su Qing traveled to North City, saw the city’s new walls and weapons, and sold his Lizard Knights at prices he realized were too low.
• Su Qing priced his Dual-Blade Lizards at thirty-eight thousand Spirit Crystals each, and Hai Changqing refused to help promote them.
• Su Qing asked Hai Changqing why he had not completed their earlier transaction, and Hai Changqing’s explanation made Su Qing furious.

Su Qing defended his reputation after Wei De Bao’s slander, completed a trade with Hai Changqing, and received a secret technique that could strengthen his Spiritual Sense. Old Daoist Tong then gave him a Heavenly Talisman Token and hinted that Su Qing could not avoid a dangerous opportunity.

• Su Qing’s Overlord Tiger Armor frightened nearby cultivators until he restrained its aura and explained that Wei De Bao had slandered him.
• Hai Changqing and other Rogue Cultivators believed Su Qing’s account, and Su Qing’s sympathetic appeal helped him sell a Dual-Blade Lizard and honor Hai Changqing’s agreed price.
• Hai Changqing exchanged the Art and Spirit Dual Cultivation Method for the agreed trade, then rushed toward the front lines with his six Lizard Knights.
• Su Qing asked Old Daoist Tong why he was still selling talismans instead of seeking a Foundation Establishment Pill bidding slot, and Tong said his opportunity lay elsewhere.
• Old Daoist Tong gave Su Qing a Heavenly Talisman Token, saying Su Qing could choose whether and when to activate it.

Old Daoist Tong introduced Su Qing to the Heavenly Talisman Hall, a realm-spanning organization for cultivators who study Dao Patterns and runes. He offered Su Qing a talisman plaque that could make him a formal member and a chance to join an opportunity two years away, but Su Qing chose not to activate it and kept his plans to avoid the coming competition.

• Old Daoist Tong used a talisman plaque to isolate himself and Su Qing from the Stall Area, then revealed the plaque depicted the Heavenly Talisman Hall.
• Old Daoist Tong explained that the hall welcomed cultivators with exceptional rune or Dao Pattern achievements and offered exchanges, shared resources, and ancient inheritances through Merit Points.
• Su Qing learned that activating the plaque would inspect his qualifications and could make him a formal member, while Old Daoist Tong also invited him to cooperate in an opportunity two years later.
• Old Daoist Tong ended the isolation, and Su Qing put the plaque in his Storage Bag without activating it.
• Su Qing identified the concealed opportunity as True Person Lingbi's cave estate and decided he would rather use the Demoness's connections to leave before the factions gathered.

Su Qing questioned Old Daoist Tong about a Spatial Rune talisman and learned how the Heavenly Talisman Hall’s rune knowledge and Merit Points worked. After hearing about the Heavenly Master Pattern and Thousand Mechanisms Pattern, he left with new insights into the inheritance behind talismans and puppets.

• Su Qing asked Old Daoist Tong how his Intermediary Talisman had used a Spatial Rune to conceal him and sever space.
• Old Daoist Tong explained that combining Spatial Runes with other runes could create varied effects, and that the Heavenly Talisman Hall preserved knowledge of such combinations.
• Old Daoist Tong described three ways to earn Merit Points: exchanging resources, submitting rune techniques, and finding Ancient Dao Pattern-related knowledge.
• Old Daoist Tong explained that the Human Fortune Rune came from the Heavenly Master Pattern, while puppet inheritances came largely from the Thousand Mechanisms Pattern.
• Su Qing questioned Old Daoist Tong about fortune-telling and spent the afternoon asking him about cultivation-world secrets while Bear Two sold goods.

Su Qing ended his discussions with Old Daoist Tong and met Wang Junli, who came to show off his new Dog-Head General and trade Puppet blueprints. Su Qing rejected Wang Junli’s attempt to exchange dog and lizard blueprints and proposed trading Rune Inheritances instead.

• Old Daoist Tong stopped answering Su Qing’s questions after several days of discussion, and Su Qing admitted he could learn no more from him.
• Su Qing sold Puppets for a large profit, exchanged the proceeds for Spirit Stones, and found Wang Junli waiting at his courtyard.
• Wang Junli showed Su Qing his high-grade Tier 1 Dog-Head General and gifted him two Wooden Puppets.
• Wang Junli explained the Wang Family’s expertise in Dog-shaped Puppets and proposed exchanging dog and lizard Puppet blueprints.
• Su Qing rejected Wang Junli’s proposed trade and offered to exchange Rune Inheritances instead.

Su Qing negotiated with Wang Junli over exchanging the Wang Family’s rune inheritances for his Intelligence Rune inheritance. He rejected the family’s weaker offers but sought several powerful runes, while Wang Junli concealed the family’s plan to pressure him into surrendering his inheritance.

• Wang Junli offered the Heavy Armor Rune for Su Qing’s Intelligence Rune inheritance, but Su Qing rejected it.
• Wang Junli showed Su Qing a list of lower-rank runes, which Su Qing dismissed as useless to him.
• Wang Junli presented eight more valuable runes, and Su Qing chose Mountain Moving, Aerial Control, and Imperial Carriage.
• Wang Junli pretended to leave when Su Qing asked for three runes, but returned after Su Qing stayed seated and drank his tea.
• Wang Junli recalled his Third Uncle’s instructions to obtain Su Qing’s Intelligence Rune inheritance by threatening to report him to the Cloud Mountain Sect.

Wang Junli tried to blackmail Su Qing over the Intelligence Runes, believing they came from Cloud Mountain Sect, but Su Qing turned the tables and stripped him of his possessions. Wang Junli fled home and asked his Third Uncle to avenge the humiliation.

• Wang Junli revealed that he planned to report Su Qing to Cloud Mountain Sect and force him to serve the Wang Family, claiming the Intelligence Runes were stolen sect inheritance.
• Su Qing explained that he had never received those runes from Cloud Mountain Sect and revealed that six Explosive Hammer War Bears had surrounded Wang Junli.
• Su Qing destroyed Wang Junli's Dog-Head General and took his Storage Bag, clothes, and other valuables, leaving him to flee naked beneath a Yellow Sand Technique.
• Wang Junli returned home, told his Third Uncle that Su Qing had robbed and humiliated him, and asked him to stand up for the Wang Family.

Su Qing became a Level 2 Guest Elder of the Hundred Treasures Pavilion and bought materials and talismans as the threat from the Gao Family Butcher Shop became clearer. He left determined to prepare an answer for Shopkeeper Liu within a month, while Old Daoist Tong assured him that Gao Erqiang would not cause trouble for at least two years.

• Su Qing sold the Wang Family materials to the Hundred Treasures Pavilion and received a Level 2 Guest Elder badge from Shopkeeper Liu.
• Su Qing traded his Spirit Crystals for Substitute Doll materials, then bought the Overlord Spear and other Tier-2 materials.
• Shopkeeper Liu urged Su Qing to work on Exorcism Puppets and warned that the Gao Family Butcher Shop could become dangerous enough to challenge even a Golden Core Venerable.
• Su Qing promised to provide Shopkeeper Liu with a satisfactory answer within a month and bought hundreds of Exorcism Talismans and three Tier-2 Evil Suppressing Talismans from Old Daoist Tong.
• Old Daoist Tong told Su Qing that Gao Erqiang would not cause trouble for at least two years.

Su Qing began practicing the Overlord Dragon's Roar Spear, only to discover that he needed to experience a flood dragon's might before he could learn its first principle. He swallowed expensive Dragon Bone Powder to imitate that pressure, alarming Tiger Egg and the animals outside his courtyard.

• After leaving the market, Su Qing decided to focus on practicing the Overlord Dragon's Roar Spear while Bear Two handled puppet sales.
• Su Qing abandoned his plan to rely on Dual Complete Hands to practice the skill after Tiger Egg explained that combat required coordination from his whole body.
• Su Qing read that the spear skill required a metal-element essence furnace and began by trying to mimic a flood dragon's might.
• Unable to find a flood dragon, Su Qing swallowed Dragon Bone Powder he had bought for refining the Dual Complete Hands.
• The Dragon Bone Powder stirred Su Qing's essence furnace and released faint pressure, frightening Fire Egg outside the courtyard while Tiger Egg worried about being replaced.

Su Qing learned that Demonic Cultivators had joined forces with the demonic beasts to attack Baiyun Immortal City, despite the Cloud Mountain Sect’s preparations to defend it. He led a small group toward the Hundred Treasures Pavilion for safety, then had his puppets block the Professionals following them.

• Su Qing learned that more than ten Tier 2 Demon Kings had gathered beyond the Forward Camp, but remained calm after hearing that a Golden Core Venerable and a strong Cloud Mountain Sect force had entered the city.
• The Beast Tide attacked alongside the Desiring Demon Sect, and the Cloud Mountain Sect mobilized its forces to defend Baiyun Immortal City.
• Su Qing stored his Hei Was and left with his companions as Professionals warned that Demonic Cultivators were attacking people inside the city.
• Su Qing refused to take the gathered Professionals with him and led only Guo Qiao Lian, Shao Delong, and several former Black Tiger Mountain allies toward the Hundred Treasures Pavilion.
• A Wind Sword Falcon destroyed one of Su Qing’s Hummingbird Puppets, and Su Qing ordered six Explosive Hammer War Bears to block the Professionals following his group.

As demonic cultivators and a beast tide plunged Baiyun Immortal City into chaos, Su Qing refused to let a suspicious group of Professionals follow his party. He assembled his companions’ defenses and support, but their route was blocked by a band of Robber Cultivators.

• Cloud Mountain Sect and its War Cultivators defended the city walls while demonic cultivators rampaged through Baiyun Immortal City and Robber Cultivators sought to exploit the turmoil.
• Su Qing pointed his puppet war hammers at the Professionals who wanted to travel with his party, and Shao Delong, Pang Feifan, Liang Hai Shun, and He Lian Xian backed his refusal.
• Fang Di led several dozen Professionals toward Hundred Treasures Pavilion, and Su Qing immediately ordered his group to take a detour away from them.
• Su Qing told Liang Hai Shun and He Lian Xian that a supposed Spirit Nurturer among the Professionals had a Tier-2 Alligator Armor Puppet, suggesting he was hiding his true strength.
• Liang Hai Shun revealed his mobile formation after breaking through to Tier 2, He Lian Xian protected the group with his Cold Ling Turtle Shell, and Lin Jiayun prepared her leopard-patterned zither.
• A band of black-robed Robber Cultivators appeared ahead and blocked Su Qing’s party’s path.

Su Qing and his companions were ambushed by Wang Family-backed Robber Cultivators wielding a large force of Dog-shaped Puppets. As Shao Delong charged and the group joined the battle, Su Qing’s Puppets gained the upper hand, while he prepared to enter the fight himself.

• Su Qing recognized the attackers as Wang Family allies, and the Robber Cultivators revealed they had been hired to target him and seize his Storage Bag.
• The Robber Cultivators’ leader tried to persuade the other Professionals to leave, but Shao Delong charged into their ranks before Su Qing could attack.
• Su Qing deployed his Hummingbird and Interceptor Puppets, whose bombardment and ranged attacks secured control of the skies.
• Pang Feifan’s beasts fought the Mountain Dog Puppets, while Su Qing’s Explosive Hammer War Bears held off the Dog-Head Giants and his lizards attacked the Dog-Head Generals.
• Liang Hai Shun and the others prepared their arrays, Magic Artifacts, and music to fight the Robber Cultivators, while Su Qing took out a battle spear to warm up.

Su Qing charged into battle against the Wang Family’s robber cultivators, revealing his Tier-2 armored puppet and then transforming into the Overlord Tiger Armor. The robbers’ leader summoned powerful Snake Dragon People to counter him, but Su Qing handed control of the tiger armor to Tiger Egg and directed his puppets’ assault.

• Su Qing ignored his companions’ warnings, used Qi Burst Pills, and charged at the robber cultivators wearing a Tier-2 armored puppet.
• Su Qing transformed into the nearly ninety-foot Overlord Tiger Armor after the robbers kept their distance and his puppet squad took losses.
• Wu Fa Tian rallied the robbers and summoned more than a dozen Snake Dragon People with his Zhan Lan Jade Pendant.
• Su Qing ordered Bear Two and Fire Egg to rescue damaged puppets, sent Leopard Power Woman and Beauty Leopard after the Dharma cultivators, and assigned the aerial defense to Flowing Silver.
• Su Qing left the Overlord Tiger Armor’s fighting to Tiger Egg, which unleashed its abilities in its first battle.

Su Qing watched Tiger Egg slaughter the Robber Cultivators and realized that survival depended on strength and self-protection. Tiger Egg killed Wu Fa Tian, turning the battle in Su Qing’s favor, and Su Qing returned to recover before the fighting ended.

• Tiger Egg tore through the Robber Cultivators while Su Qing watched from inside the puppet and reflected on the danger of the cultivation world.
• Wu Fa Tian used self-destructing Snake Dragon People to restrain Tiger Egg, but Tiger Egg used his Blazing Fire Cannons to break free and charge him.
• Wu Fa Tian begged Su Qing for mercy and offered to help him settle accounts with the Wang Family, but Su Qing had Tiger Egg kill him.
• Bear Two recovered Wu Fa Tian’s Storage Bag and Zhan Lan Jade Pendant, while the Wang Family’s Dog-Head Giants dismantled themselves after their master died.
• Su Qing returned to the group, replenished Tiger Egg’s energy, and rested on the White Tooth Elephant with Guo Qiao Lian.

Su Qing used Guo Qiao Lian’s Spring Return Needle to strengthen himself and Tiger Egg before confronting Xu Huaiyi, a Foundation Establishment true disciple of the Desiring Demon Sect. Liang Hai Shun and He Lian Xian reinforced Tiger Egg, and Su Qing’s side gained the upper hand as the chapter ended with Xu Huaiyi being smashed into the ground.

• Su Qing sensed two powerful auras approaching and ordered Guo Qiao Lian to use the Spring Return Needle on him.
• Xu Huaiyi descended with a Mysterious Yellow Great Hand Seal, but Tiger Egg shattered it in its Overlord Giant Tiger form.
• Liang Hai Shun planted the Five Elements Five Lights Flags into Tiger Egg while He Lian Xian used the Life-Shedding Cloth to empower him.
• Xu Huaiyi attacked Tiger Egg with Daoist arts and his Alligator Armor Puppet, while Liang Hai Shun and He Lian Xian joined the fight.
• Tiger Egg saw through Xu Huaiyi’s Split Shadow Clone, seized his true body, and Su Qing summoned the Snake Dragon People to help slam him into the ground.