Recaps

Su Qing summoned Yao Fei early to remove her Corrupt Mark before it could revive, charging her ninety Spirit Stones for a stronger treatment. The treatment yielded new Nine Li Dao Pattern insights and unlocked the Blood Kill Technique.

• Su Qing warned Yao Fei that her Corrupt Mark might revive and urged her to undergo treatment early.
• Yao Fei paid Su Qing ninety Spirit Stones for the enhanced treatment, while Qing He misunderstood their exchange.
• Su Qing used the High Buddhist Cultivators and Mountain Ghoul Funeral Spirit to drive more of the Corrupt Mark from Yao Fei.
• Su Qing gained more Nine Li Dao Pattern proficiency, strengthened his existing effects, and unlocked the Blood Kill Technique.

Su Qing treated Yao Fei’s Corrupt Marks more effectively, gained insight into the Blood Kill Technique, and enlisted the Curse Spirit Clan to help with his future plans. After promising exorcism for those who aid him, he escorted Yao Fei downstairs, where Qing He misunderstood their exchange.

• Su Qing realized the Blood Kill Technique could strengthen his Puppets enough to threaten Tier 3 Body Cultivators and Golden Core Venerables.
• Yao Fei thanked Su Qing after he removed more of her Corrupt Marks, and he said three or four more treatments should finish the job.
• Yao Fei revealed that she had arranged Curse Spirit Masters to protect Su Qing and used the Zhu You Technique to divine his fortune.
• Su Qing explained his enemies and asked Yao Fei to have the Curse Spirit Clan assist him after the Immortal City Auction, promising to exorcise the helpers in return.
• Yao Fei agreed to follow Su Qing’s plan, and he escorted her downstairs after the treatment.
• Qing He watched Su Qing catch Yao Fei when she stumbled and privately condemned Human Cultivators as shameless.

Su Qing prepared for the Immortal City Auction while refining his Dao patterns, strengthening his body, and making puppets to sell. He improved Essence Transformation Hand and resumed crafting, and the auction began after several days.

• Qing He envied Su Qing’s ability to earn money as he described the heavy costs of sustaining his body cultivation.
• Su Qing strengthened his Heavenly King Armor but postponed imprinting the Nine Li Dao Pattern until after the auction because it required a Tier 2 demonic core.
• Su Qing imprinted Essence Transformation Hand, raising its proficiency to 6/10 and improving his spiritual root and bone structure.
• Su Qing chose to focus on Essence Transformation Hand and the Nine Li Dao Pattern rather than the incomplete Mountain Sea Capture.
• Su Qing resumed refining Green Sword Dolls and had Qing He sell Beauty Snakes only to sturdy customers, refusing even Old Daoist Liang’s offer.
• After several days of refining and sales, the Immortal City Auction began in Baiyun Immortal City.

The Immortal City Auction began, drawing powerful guests and cultivators eager to bid on rare treasures. At the auction hall, Guo An reunited with Su Qing and his friends, revealed that he was near death, and entrusted his daughter Guo Qiao Lian to their care.

• Cloud Mountain Sect opened the Immortal City Auction and welcomed distinguished guests, including He Xinyan, Li Mubai, Lin Qinglang, Yuan Qiquan, Jia Chunqiu, and Baiyun Immortal.
• Liang Hai Shun urged Su Qing and their companions into the crowded Cloud Mountain Pavilion, where the Yuan and Lin Families occupied the front rows and guests watched from concealed rooms above.
• Guo Qiao Lian introduced her father, Guo An, to Su Qing, who greeted him and thanked him for the Guo Family's Needle Control Incantation.
• Guo An explained that he had earned the right to bid for a Foundation Establishment Pill but planned to save it for Guo Qiao Lian because his failing health left him little chance of using it.
• Guo An asked Su Qing, Liang Hai Shun, He Lian Xian, and their companions to support Guo Qiao Lian after his death, then distributed Tier 2 Medicinal Pills he had prepared for them.

At the Cloud Mountain Pavilion auction, Su Qing used Lin Fan’s hostility to drive up the prices of his Phantom Leopards and Flying Sword Puppets. The chapter ended as Li Mubai introduced Su Qing’s Explosive Hammer War Bears for auction.

• Guo An gave Su Qing and the others Life-Continuum Pills and reassured Niu Ya after explaining that he had given away one of the four pills intended for the group.
• Elder Li, Li Mubai, activated a Tier 3 Grand Formation that exposed Desiring Demon Sect cultivators, and the Joyful Old Demon killed them with Yin-Yang Breath-Extinguishing Light.
• Li Mubai auctioned Su Qing’s five Phantom Leopards, and Lin Fan bid one million Spirit Crystals after Su Qing provoked him with successive bids.
• Lin Fan outbid Su Qing for a Tier 2 Silver Wolf King beast bone, while Su Qing’s bids forced Lin Fan to pay more for other items.
• Su Qing bid two million Spirit Crystals for the set of twelve Flying Sword Puppets, then withdrew when Lin Fan raised the bid to two million three hundred thousand.
• Li Mubai introduced Su Qing’s eight Explosive Hammer War Bears, beginning their auction at one million Spirit Crystals.

Su Qing sold his puppets for a fortune and spent much of the proceeds on rare auction treasures, while Lin Fan waited for him to bid on a Foundation Establishment Pill. Tang Wanqing bid on the final pill, but Lin Fan outbid her for the Lin Family, leaving her dream of Foundation Establishment in jeopardy.

• Lin Fan followed his third granduncle’s orders and helped the Lin Family win Su Qing’s eight Explosive Hammer War Bears for 2.7 million Spirit Crystals.
• Su Qing spent much of his auction earnings on a Tier 2 Wolf King Demonic Core, Blood Vitality Pills, and a Viper Dragon Bone as other cultivators acquired treasures and inheritances.
• Li Mubai auctioned twelve Foundation Establishment Pills, and Lin Fan watched Su Qing, expecting him to compete for one.
• Tang Wanqing bid a Tier 2 Demonic Core and 1.4 million Spirit Crystals for the final Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Lin Fan offered a Tier 2 Shadow Wraith and one million Spirit Crystals, declaring the pill belonged to the Lin Family and crushing Tang Wanqing’s hopes.

Su Qing watched the Auction move from Lin Fan’s Foundation Establishment Pill victory to the contest for Tier 3 treasures, while worrying that powerful cultivators might block his bid for the Fire Phoenix Feather. He Xinyan opened the bidding for the feather, and the Golden Core Venerables appeared willing to indulge her.

• Su Qing promised Tang Wanqing he could provide a Foundation Establishment Pill after the Auction, while Lin Fan celebrated taking the last pill and drew the other cultivators’ anger.
• Li Mubai presented a Flood Dragon Bone, and Jia Chunqiu criticized its Dao Pattern before bidding three hundred Spirit Stones as the Lin and Yuan Families stayed silent.
• Liang Hai Shun explained that the Lin and Yuan Families feared offending the solitary, ruthless Jia Chunqiu, and Su Qing worried the Golden Core powers might divide the remaining Tier 3 treasures among themselves.
• Li Mubai presented a Fire Phoenix Feather, which Su Qing recognized as a treasure capable of retaining a comprehensible Dao Pattern.
• He Xinyan bid three hundred and one Spirit Stones for the Fire Phoenix Feather on behalf of Hundred Treasures Pavilion, and Su Qing planned to give her one hundred of the Demoness’s Spirit Stones.

Su Qing won the Myriad Manifestations Talisman Technique at the auction and discovered that its rune-based cultivation method suited his talents. After adapting his Meditating Dolls to it, he turned his attention to the Fire Phoenix Feather he had bought for Liu Yun'er.

• Su Qing outbid Joyful Old Demon and bought the Myriad Manifestations Talisman Technique for 320 Spirit Stones.
• The auction ended after Hundred Treasures Pavilion, the Lin Family, and the Yuan Family bought the three Third-tier Demonic Cores, and Su Qing paid He Xinyan a service fee before leaving with the Fire Phoenix Feather.
• Back at Su's Small Shop, Su Qing examined his purchases, set aside the Viper Dragon Bone until he could afford the materials to refine it, and studied the Myriad Manifestations Talisman Technique.
• Su Qing entered the technique's first chapter within several days and found that it made his cultivation more than three times faster.
• Su Qing synchronized all twenty-eight Meditating Dolls with the new technique, then took out the Fire Phoenix Feather he had bought for Liu Yun'er.

Su Qing imprinted the Phoenix Cooks the Sea Dao Pattern, gaining a Fire Phoenix Phantom, then prepared to compete with the Lin Family for Cloud Mountain Sect’s Lizard Knight order. Lin Fan challenged him with Blood Demons, and both sides signed a Dao Pact making the puppet duel’s winner the sole supplier.

• Su Qing copied the Phoenix Cooks the Sea Dao Pattern onto his chest, survived the painful imprinting, and gained the ability to summon a mana-consuming Fire Phoenix Phantom.
• After recovering, Su Qing watched Baiyun Immortal City’s residents and businesses prepare for war while his shop’s Lizard Knight sales prospered.
• Su Qing headed to Cloud Mountain Pavilion to compete for Cloud Mountain Sect’s order for three hundred Lizard Knights.
• Lin Fan offered to spare Su Qing if he surrendered his Puppet Blueprints and Rune Inheritance, but Su Qing refused and entered the pavilion.
• Lin Fan’s Puppet Masters assured him that their Blood Demons could defeat the Lizard Knights, while Li Mubai and Liu Songqing required both sides to sign a Dao Pact binding them to the duel’s result.

Su Qing and Lin Fan prepared for a Puppet battle to determine whose Puppets would fight the Desiring Demon Sect, while the Cloud Mountain Sect elders worried about the Evil Demon consuming the city. The battle began with both sides summoning three hundred Puppets, and the elders recognized Su Qing’s remarkable Spiritual Sense.

• Li Mubai warned Liu Songqing that the Evil Demon could not be allowed to go hungry, while Liu Songqing knocked dozens of Cloud Peng from the sky and Su Qing collected their corpses.
• Li Mubai cautioned Su Qing against cultivating both magic and body, then set a three-hundred-Puppet battle with a ten-percent loss limit.
• Lin Fan demanded that the limit be raised to fifty percent, and Su Qing accepted.
• Lin Fan’s Puppet Masters reassured him that their side would win, and the two sides began summoning their Puppets.
• Su Qing controlled three hundred Lizard Knights alone, while Lin Fan and five Tier 2 Puppet Masters controlled three hundred Blood Demon Puppets.
• Li Mubai and Liu Songqing recognized Su Qing’s extraordinary Spiritual Sense and recalled that he had once been expelled from the Cloud Mountain Sect after surviving an encounter with an old demon.

Su Qing’s upgraded Lizard Knights routed Lin Fan’s Blood Demon Puppets, and the Golden Peng King was killed by a mysterious white light before it could attack Su Qing. The Cloud Mountain Sect paid Su Qing for the surviving knights and commissioned three hundred more, leaving him with a lucrative new order while he remained an independent cultivator.

• Su Qing’s Soul Severing Arrows disabled Blood Demons, while his Diamond Leg Mysterious Armor Horses and improved Lizard Knights crushed Lin Fan’s forces and cost him the Cloud Mountain Sect order.
• Lin Fan left the battlefield in defeat, and Su Qing collected the Blood Spirit Crystals from the wreckage as the Golden Peng King arrived to attack him.
• A white light killed the Golden Peng King and carried away its corpse; Su Qing shared the scattered Golden Peng Blood and feathers with the Cloud Mountain Sect elders and disciples.
• Su Qing entered Cloud Mountain Pavilion and agreed to hand over the surviving Lizard Knights, replace the thirty-eight losses, and accept payment in Spirit Stones.
• Li Mubai and Liu Songqing offered Su Qing an order for three hundred more Lizard Knights, with the sect supplying triple materials and paying ten thousand Spirit Crystals per completed puppet; Su Qing declined Liu Songqing’s suggestion that he rejoin the sect.

After learning that the Desiring Demon Immortal Kingdom’s army had reached Baiyun Immortal City, Su Qing spent his new wealth on treasures and materials for Puppet production. He returned to his crowded shop with new debts and supplies, while the war threatened to drive demand even higher.

• Su Qing visited Hundred Treasures Pavilion, where Tong Xin told him that the Desiring Demon Immortal Kingdom’s army had camped outside the western wall and Cloud Mountain Sect had failed to gain an advantage in battle.
• Su Qing bought Blood Vitality Pills and the Demon Subduing Pestle, whose Buddhist light resonated with the Merit Wooden Fish in his Storage Bag.
• Su Qing used his Cloud Mountain Sect work to obtain controlled Puppet materials, then bought rare materials and a Heaven-Shaking Crossbow Blueprint from Shopkeeper Liu, spending his Spirit Stones and taking on a debt to refine eight Explosive Hammer War Bears.
• Su Qing encountered Wei De Bao trying to borrow Spirit Crystals for Tier 2 War Gear, declined his offer to marry Wei’s eighth sister, and learned from Shopkeeper Liu about the Wei women’s Profound Essence Pill Qi.
• Su Qing returned to his shop to find it packed with Rogue Cultivator customers demanding more stock and Enhanced Lizard Knights, and he hoped Qing He would return from the western battlefield.

Qing He survived the battlefield, repaid He Xinyan, and spent more than a month running Su Qing’s shop while he remained in seclusion. After the battle claimed Cloud Mountain Venerable and Shi Zhi Fang joined Gao Erqiang in fighting the Gao Family Butcher Shop, Su Qing finally emerged and offered to reforge Qing He’s Sword-Human Puppet.

• Qing He fought on the battlefield, seized Storage Bags, and fled after seeing the Gao Family Butcher Shop drain cultivators’ blood essence.
• Shi Zhi Fang killed Cloud Mountain Venerable, and Immortaloxia Mountain sent the corpse to the Gao Family Butcher Shop before Gao Erqiang fought Shi Zhi Fang.
• Qing He reported what she had witnessed to He Xinyan, repaid her borrowed Spirit Stones, and went to Su’s Small Shop to seek a Tier 2 Magic Sword.
• While Su Qing stayed in seclusion, Qing He ran the shop, served visiting cultivators, and watched Liang Hai Shun, He Lian Xian, and Yuan Tianye go upstairs to work with him.
• After more than a month, Su Qing emerged and offered to reforge Qing He’s Sword-Human Puppet, prompting her to turn around in surprise.

Su Qing forged the Viper Dragon Bone into a Tier 2 Limit mount puppet named Wicked Evil Viper Dragon, also called Flying Dragon, and unlocked several mount puppet blueprints. He then began planning a far more powerful aerial warship using the Cloud Peng King’s corpse, leaving his next major project underway.

• Su Qing abandoned his armor-puppet design after calamity lightning spread through the Viper Dragon Bone, and he adapted it into an Exorcism Type mount puppet with Hongshang’s help.
• Su Qing gave the dragon Tang Wanqing’s personality template, and it named itself Flying Dragon and suggested additional runes.
• Su Qing added combat, Daoist Art, Imperial Carriage, and Aerial Control Runes, completing Flying Dragon as a Tier 2 Limit puppet despite its lightning-struck, nearly chopped-off tail.
• Su Qing activated Flying Dragon and saw the System Panel list its abilities, including a self-destructing rescue ability, which he refused to use.
• The System Panel unlocked blueprints for the Crimson Flame Rainbow Light Horse, Emperor Crab, and Golden Mane Roar, and Su Qing considered selling mount puppets to cultivators.
• Su Qing planned to build a Cloud Roc Warship around the Tier 2 Cloud Peng King’s corpse, with the previous Sky Roc Mothership and other puppets inside it.

Su Qing spent a month refining the Cloud Roc Mothership and Peng King Puppet into Tier 2 Limit creations, assembling a formidable force of puppets and aerial weapons. With his preparations complete, he turned to the progress he had made during his month of seclusion.

• Su Qing converted the Cloud Peng King's corpse into the Cloud Roc Mothership, adding concealment, aerial control, intelligence, and spatial escape runes.
• Su Qing equipped the mothership with Falcon King Flying Swordmasters, Cloud Roc Stealth Bombers, Sky-Shaking Dragon Crossbows, a formation system, and the Snake Dragon Nest, bringing it to Tier 2 Limit quality.
• Su Qing refined Little Peng King's body into the Peng King Puppet, giving it five Tier 3 Runes and combat abilities that let it dominate Tier 2 airspace.
• Su Qing surveyed his eight powerful Tier 2 puppets and Enhanced Lizard Knights, then reflected that he had also made considerable personal progress during his month of seclusion.

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.