Chapter Summaries

Qu Feiyan sent an Attack Bean Soldier to punish Shi Yue after he insulted her, and the silver bird battered him with Golden Geng Lightning until he begged for mercy. When Qu Feiyan heard the bird repeat his plea, she sent both birds back to teach him another lesson.

• Qu Feiyan transformed a silver bean into an Attack Bean Soldier and ordered it to chase the yellow bird and strike Shi Yue with Golden Geng Lightning.
• The silver bird attacked Shi Yue in his Stone Room, and he endured repeated lightning strikes while Xiaoyaozi joked and warned him not to hide in Palm Heaven Space.
• The bird returned with the yellow bird and Qu Feiyan ordered another assault, leaving Shi Yue charred, badly injured, and unable to protect himself with his Yellow Small Shield.
• Shi Yue begged Qu Feiyan for mercy, and the two birds carried his words back to her pavilion.
• Qu Feiyan took offense at being called Granny and sent the yellow and silver birds back toward Shi Yue.

Shi Yue was held in Sanxin Market while its authorities investigated the murder of two patrolling cultivators. Elder Li and Zhao Dongliu questioned him under a Heart-Questioning Talisman and searched his belongings, leaving the investigation unresolved as they examined his Storage Bag.

• Qu Feiyan forced Shi Yue to apologize through the Sound Transmission Bean Soldier and questioned him about why he had been caught.
• Shi Yue told Qu Feiyan that the market was searching for unfamiliar cultivators after someone killed two patrolling cultivators.
• Elder Bai ordered Li Liang and Zhao Dongliu to question disciples from three countries, release those cleared, and lift the market lockdown and defensive formation.
• Li Liang and Zhao Dongliu began questioning Shi Yue, who agreed to Xiaoyaozi's offer to help for 30,000 Spirit Stones.
• Shi Yue denied hearing or seeing anything unusual, and Chen Li searched him and emptied his Storage Bag for inspection.

Shi Yue left the Spirit Locking Tower cleared of suspicion and studied the Chaotic Origin Pill formula and Five Elements Chaotic Origin Art in Palm Heaven Space. After learning that restarting his cultivation would not downgrade the Heaven Controlling Bead or trigger a Celestial Phenomenon, he considered cultivating the art and planned to gather resources in Sanxin Market.

• Li Liang concluded Shi Yue was uninvolved, gave him a thousand Spirit Stones, and had Chen Li escort him from the Spirit Locking Tower.
• Shi Yue checked into an inn, entered Palm Heaven Space, and paid Xiaoyaozi’s fee for the Chaotic Origin Pill formula on credit.
• Shi Yue examined the formula, found that one recipe’s herbs might be obtainable, and planned to earn Spirit Stones by making pills and opening a shop in Sanxin Market with Li Yan handling sales.
• Shi Yue harvested mature Qi Nurturing Pill herbs, replanted the fields, and planned how to use his extra Spirit Fields and lake.
• Shi Yue obtained the Five Elements Chaotic Origin Art from Xiaoyaozi and learned that cultivating it required dissipating his cultivation and starting again from Qi Refining.
• Xiaoyaozi assured Shi Yue that the Heaven Controlling Bead would not downgrade and that reestablishing his foundation would cause no Celestial Phenomenon, and advised him to cultivate in Sanxin Market.

Shi Yue agreed to obtain the Nine Palaces Spirit Gathering Array and weapon-refining methods from Xiaoyaozi as an alternative aid for Foundation Establishment, then left Sanxin Market after buying seeds. At Taixu Sect, Murong Xiaoxiao and the others still had no news of his whereabouts.

• Shi Yue asked Xiaoyaozi about ways to overcome the Foundation Establishment difficulties of the Five Elements Chaotic Origin Art, and Xiaoyaozi described the Purple Star Seven-Star Mirror and the Nine Palaces Spirit Gathering Array.
• Shi Yue agreed to owe Xiaoyaozi seventy thousand Spirit Stones for the array method, formation-flag refining method, and a master’s weapon-refining insights, and Xiaoyaozi copied them onto Jade Slips.
• Shi Yue left the Palm Heaven Space, bought seeds for Spirit Recovery Pills and True Essence Pills, and departed Sanxin Market because he feared the Market Town Management Office still suspected him.
• Murong Xiaoxiao told Lu Tianzheng and the others that the Law Enforcement Hall had found no trace of Shi Yue despite Uncle-Master Zhou’s search.

The Law Enforcement Hall questioned Zhao Sheng about Shi Yue’s disappearance, while Shi Yue prepared to return to Sanxin Market in disguise to buy Spirit Herbs. The chapter left Shi Yue trading complaints with Qu Feiyan through the Sound Transmission Bean Soldier.

• Lin Qing suggested that Zhao Sheng’s earlier dispute with Shi Yue made him a lead, and Wang Hu said the Law Enforcement Hall had already taken Zhao Sheng for questioning.
• Zhou Zhenyu questioned Zhao Sheng, who denied harming Shi Yue and gave witnesses to account for his movements over the past six months.
• Zhou Zhenyu asked Chen Tianhe to bring in Zhao Sheng’s witnesses, then vowed to find those responsible for Shi Yue’s disappearance.
• Shi Yue confirmed that the Market Town Management Office was not following him and used the Bone Transformation Art to disguise himself before returning to Sanxin Market.
• Qu Feiyan contacted Shi Yue through the Sound Transmission Bean Soldier, and Shi Yue complained that he needed to earn Spirit Stones to support his grandfather.

Shi Yue visited Sanxin Market to buy Hundred-Year Spirit Herbs for brewing Hundred Fragrance Spirit Wine, but Xiaoyaozi refused to help him mature more herbs. Looking for another way to earn Spirit Stones, Shi Yue entered the Beast Fighting Palace and placed a bet on a Level Two Fire Ape.

• Shi Yue left his cave on the Haoyue Flying Boat and arrived at Sanxin Market a day later.
• Shi Yue realized he had enough Spirit Stones to buy only half the Hundred-Year Spirit Herbs he needed, and Xiaoyaozi refused his offer to mature more herbs.
• Shi Yue heard a promoter advertise a fight between a Level Two Azure Cold Crocodile and a Level Two Fire Ape, then entered the Beast Fighting Palace.
• An attendant explained the Beast Fighting Palace's fights, betting rules, fees, and token system to Shi Yue.
• Shi Yue bet one thousand Spirit Stones on the Level Two Fire Ape and learned that the palace charged a one-hundred-Spirit-Stone commission.

Shi Yue entered the A-class Beast Arena and watched Fairy Xu's Azure Cold Crocodile defeat the Red-robed Daoist's Red Giant Ape. The bout ended with the crowd discussing their wagers, and the arena announced that the next fight would be held the following morning.

• Shi Yue paid a Mid-grade Spirit Stone for a token and entered the A-class Beast Arena.
• A man in brocade robes introduced a beast fight between the Red-robed Daoist and the Blue-skirted Woman, while Shi Yue watched from the seats.
• The Red-robed Daoist's Red Giant Ape attacked the Blue-skirted Woman's Azure Cold Crocodile, but the crocodile froze and wounded the ape before clamping down on its head.
• The Red-robed Daoist conceded, and the man in brocade robes declared Fairy Xu the winner.
• The crowd left the arena discussing their winning and losing wagers after the man in brocade robes announced the next fight would be the following morning.

Shi Yue registered his second-level Spirit Devouring Bees for insect fights, then used Palm Heaven Space to buy cultivation methods and prepare for pill refining. After successfully making Qi and Blood Pills and feeding his bees, he heard Xiaoyaozi offer a book on raising and controlling spirit insects to improve his chances in an upcoming fight.

• Shi Yue registered his second-level Spirit Devouring Bees at the Beast Fighting Palace and paid the entry fee.
• Shi Yue bought Water Attribute Spirit Herb seeds and Hundred-Year Spirit Herbs, then entered Palm Heaven Space.
• Shi Yue purchased the follow-up methods for True Spirit Nine Transformations, Spirit Splitting Art, and Fentian Sword Art on credit, and bought Xiaoyaozi's Crimson Flame Cauldron method.
• Shi Yue failed to refine his first batch of Qi and Blood Pills, then successfully made three pills from a second batch.
• Shi Yue fed Neon Grass to the Spirit Devouring Bee King and several other second-level bees.
• Xiaoyaozi offered Shi Yue the Hundred Essentials for Driving Insects, claiming it could improve his chances in an insect fight.

Shi Yue learned that Xiaoyaozi could teach him the Insect Control Technique, adding to his debt before Shi Yue cultivated with a Qi and Blood Pill. At the Beast Fighting Palace, Zhou Wen finally found a cultivator willing to challenge his Cold Moon Moths, whose Level Two Spirit Devouring Bees promised a profitable bout.

• Xiaoyaozi taught Shi Yue about the Insect Control Technique and charged him thirty thousand Spirit Stones, bringing Shi Yue's total debt to five hundred and sixty thousand.
• Shi Yue gave Xiaoyaozi a Low-grade Spirit Stone and flew to the high peak to cultivate with a Qi and Blood Pill.
• Zhou Wen's Cold Moon Moths had won many insect fights, helping him earn Spirit Stones and achieve Foundation Establishment, but he was now nearly broke and struggling to find opponents.
• An attendant at the Beast Fighting Palace told Zhou Wen that a cultivator with Level Two Spirit Devouring Bees had registered for an insect fight.
• Zhou Wen eagerly waited in a side room while the attendant arranged for the other cultivator to meet him.

Shi Yue tested the power of his Spirit Devouring Bees and agreed to an insect fight at the Beast Fighting Palace to earn Spirit Stones. The match against Zhou Wen’s Cold Moon Moth was set for that night, with Shi Yue bringing three thousand bees.

• Shi Yue used the Insect Control Technique to make several thousand Spirit Devouring Bees destroy a low-grade defensive magical artifact in two strikes.
• Shi Yue refused Xiaoyaozi’s offer to sell him a Beast Taming Compendium because he still owed him five hundred and sixty thousand Spirit Stones.
• A Beast Fighting Palace attendant invited Shi Yue to meet a potential opponent, and Shi Yue went with her.
• Ma Hong introduced Shi Yue, who used the alias Li Shi, to Zhou Wen and learned that Zhou Wen had a second-level Cold Moon Moth and several high-grade spirit insects.
• Shi Yue and Zhou Wen agreed to fight with three thousand Spirit Devouring Bees against Zhou Wen’s insects that night, and Shi Yue asked Ma Hong about the betting odds.

Shi Yue bargained his way into an insect fight against Zhou Wen, then sold most of his wares at a plaza stall. He became interested in a sick, nearly featherless bird advertised as a Black Phoenix, but its seller had only begun demonstrating the bird’s unusual fire when the chapter ended.

• Shi Yue persuaded Zhou Wen to let him enter five thousand Spirit Devouring Bees in their insect fight, scheduled for that evening, before leaving the Beast Fighting Palace.
• Shi Yue rented a plaza stall and sold most of his Magic Tools and Beginner Talismans.
• Shi Yue heard a black-faced man advertise a sick bird as a Black Phoenix with Fire Phoenix blood and hurried over to inspect it.
• The seller showed footage of the bird hatching and breathing fire, but Shi Yue and other cultivators questioned whether it was truly a Black Phoenix.
• The seller played footage of the bird melting a Black Shield with its flames, beginning to demonstrate the bird’s power.

Shi Yue outbid a rival to buy a sickly Black Phoenix and brought it into Palm Heaven Space. Xiaoyaozi diagnosed its illness as a result of conflicting Fire Phoenix bloodlines and offered a Blood Spirit Liquid treatment, leaving Shi Yue to consider the costly ingredients and growing debt.

• Shi Yue offered ten thousand Spirit Stones for the newly hatched Black Phoenix and bought it after the middle-aged bidder withdrew.
• Shi Yue returned to his lodgings, entered Palm Heaven Space, and asked Xiaoyaozi to cure the bird.
• Xiaoyaozi explained that the Black Phoenix was born from two spirit birds with Fire Phoenix bloodlines whose conflicting bloodlines had made it ill.
• Xiaoyaozi said he could try to awaken the Black Phoenix's bloodline and gave Shi Yue a Blood Spirit Liquid formula requiring five- or six-hundred-year-old spirit herbs.
• Xiaoyaozi warned Shi Yue not to soak in the liquid until he had cultivated the fourth layer of True Spirit Nine Transformations.

Shi Yue prepared Blood Spirit Liquid for the Black Phoenix, then used it himself to cultivate the fourth layer of True Spirit Nine Transformations. He also placed a hundred-thousand-Spirit-Stone bet on the Spirit Devouring Bees, and the chapter ended as the liquid’s effects transformed his body.

• Shi Yue accepted Xiaoyaozi’s Blood Spirit Liquid recipe and warned that he would not pay if it failed to heal the Black Phoenix.
• Shi Yue learned about the Beast Fighting Palace match and, encouraged by Xiaoyaozi, bet one hundred thousand Spirit Stones on the Spirit Devouring Bees.
• Shi Yue bought the required Spirit Herbs and made a bottle of Blood Spirit Liquid with Xiaoyaozi’s guidance.
• Shi Yue put the Black Phoenix in a diluted bath, then soaked in it and cultivated the fourth layer of True Spirit Nine Transformations after feeling his body burn.
• Shi Yue climbed out of the tub as his body swelled and strength surged through him.

Shi Yue endured the Blood Spirit Liquid and used monster beast blood to cultivate True Spirit Nine Transformations before arriving at the insect battle. The contest began with his Spirit Devouring Bees charging Zhou Wen’s Cold Moon Moths.

• Shi Yue ran for nearly half an hour to digest the Blood Spirit Liquid’s energy, then returned to the tub and confirmed it slightly strengthened his vital energy.
• Shi Yue mixed Spirit Spring Water, Blood Spirit Liquid, and second-level bear-type monster beast blood to cultivate the fourth layer of True Spirit Nine Transformations.
• Zhou Wen worried that Shi Yue would miss the insect battle, but Shi Yue arrived and Ma Hong confirmed both contestants’ spirit insect numbers.
• Shi Yue and Zhou Wen took positions on stone pillars while Ma Hong activated arrays that silenced the audience and enclosed the battle platform.
• Shi Yue formed more than five thousand Spirit Devouring Bees into a yellow spear, and Zhou Wen ordered his Cold Moon Moths to counter with freezing air.

Shi Yue defeated Zhou Wen in an insect battle by using his Spirit Devouring Bees to overwhelm Zhou Wen’s Cold Moon Moth, winning the wagers. He collected his Gold Token and met the establishment’s steward, Chen Wei, to claim the large payout.

• Shi Yue split his Spirit Devouring Bees into fast arrows that struck Zhou Wen’s Cold Moon Moths while the moths fought back with cold air.
• After the level-one moths were killed, Shi Yue’s bees exhausted the level-two moth and swarmed it after their arrows exploded into bees.
• Zhou Wen surrendered, and Ma Hong declared Shi Yue the winner as the spectators who had bet on the moths lost their stakes.
• Shi Yue melted the frost from his surviving Spirit Devouring Bees with a Great Fireball Talisman, then declined to reveal his insect-controlling secret art to Ma Hong.
• Shi Yue presented his Gold Token to an attendant, retrieved it while awaiting payment, and questioned steward Chen Wei about whether the establishment could afford the Spirit Stones.

Shi Yue collected his winnings from the Beast Fighting Palace, evaded angry bettors, and bought five hundred Hundred-Year Spirit Herbs from Hui Chun Building under the identity Li Muxian. Back in Palm Heaven Space, he began brewing sixty-five jars of Hundred Fragrance Spirit Wine while considering the risks of selling it in bulk.

• Chen Wei gave Shi Yue the four hundred thousand Spirit Stones he had won, and Shi Yue noticed hostile bettors following him through the market.
• Shi Yue used Xiaoyaozi’s help and changed inns, faces, and outfits to shake off his pursuers before visiting Hui Chun Building.
• Shi Yue, posing as Li Muxian, negotiated with Chen Hua to buy five hundred Hundred-Year Spirit Herbs for seven hundred Spirit Stones each and accepted a VIP Token and a three-thousand-Spirit-Stone kickback.
• Shi Yue spent two hours making sure no one followed him, then returned to his lodgings and entered Palm Heaven Space.
• Shi Yue prepared sixty-five jars of Hundred Fragrance Spirit Wine, calculating its costs and weighing the danger of selling a large quantity to one shop.

Shi Yue bought a set of Profound Fire Swords to help him cultivate the Fentian Sword Art and began refining them in Palm Heaven Space. After spending a day refining one sword, he made all five multiply into hundreds of sword images.

• Shi Yue repaid Xiaoyaozi sixty thousand Spirit Stones and set aside his unused Spirit Artifacts to sell.
• Shi Yue visited Divine Weapon Palace in Sanxin Market and bought five Mid-Grade Profound Fire Swords for eighty thousand Spirit Stones.
• A yellow bird delivered a woman's offer to pay Shi Yue a thousand Spirit Stones a month to be her attendant, but he refused and said he would enter seclusion.
• Shi Yue entered Palm Heaven Space and spent a day refining the restrictions on one Profound Fire Sword.
• Shi Yue sent the five swords circling around him and formed hundreds of sword images with a Hand Seal.

Shi Yue mastered the fourth level of the Fentian Sword Art and restored and strengthened Black Phoenix during a year in Palm Heaven Space. After returning to the outside world, he went to Tai Sheng Tower to sell spirit liquor and agreed to meet its manager, a powerful Core Formation Cultivator.

• Shi Yue sent hundreds of Profound Fire Swords toward Xiaoyaozi, but they stopped before reaching him because Xiaoyaozi sensed they carried no killing intent.
• Shi Yue studied the fourth level of the Fentian Sword Art for seven days, then spent a year mastering its Giant Sword Technique in Palm Heaven Space.
• Shi Yue treated Black Phoenix with Blood Spirit Liquid until it recovered, then fed it enough Hundred-Year Neon Grass to raise it to Level One Mid-grade.
• Shi Yue left Palm Heaven Space and visited Tai Sheng Tower, where Hu Xuan recognized him as the seller of Hundred Fragrance Brew.
• Shi Yue claimed he had advanced to Foundation Establishment and agreed to meet Tai Sheng Tower's manager, a Core Formation Cultivator.

Shi Yue sold his Hundred Fragrance Spirit Wine at Tai Sheng Tower, repaid part of his debt to Xiaoyaozi, and spent most of his remaining Spirit Stones on cultivation supplies. He left Sanxin Market for Taixu Sect as the story shifted to the remote Hundred Spirits Mountain Range in Tanzhou.

• Shi Yue sold three thousand catties of Hundred Fragrance Spirit Wine to Tai Sheng Tower for 455,000 Spirit Stones and secured a promise of a referral reward from Senior Han.
• Shi Yue disguised himself and made two more sales of one thousand catties each, then repaid Xiaoyaozi 300,000 Spirit Stones.
• Shi Yue bought herbs, demon-beast Essence Blood, and ingredients for Spirit Recovery Pills, then placed his remaining Spirit Stones in the Flood Dragon Egg’s water vat.
• Shi Yue left Sanxin Market aboard the Haoyue Flying Boat, intending to return to Taixu Sect and continue cultivating.
• The chapter described the remote Hundred Spirits Mountain Range in Baiyun Commandery, where mortals feared the demon beasts hidden in its miasma.

Shi Yue explored Hundred Spirits Mountain to test his strength against a powerful Yao Beast and found five hundred-year-old Manluo Flowers guarded by poisonous toads. After defeating two Bone Rotting Toads, he uncovered another gray toad beneath the flowers and dragged it out of the marsh.

• Shi Yue entered Hundred Spirits Mountain with the Snow Cloud Sable and searched for a Level Two Yao Beast to test the fourth level of the Fentian Sword Art.
• Shi Yue found five hundred-year-old Manluo Flowers in a poisonous marsh and sent a Spirit Devouring Bee toward them, but it fell into the mire and turned purple.
• Shi Yue attacked the marsh with his Red Short Swords, drawing out two Level One High-grade Bone Rotting Toads.
• Shi Yue blocked the toads' poison and charge with wind walls, then killed both with his Red Short Swords.
• Shi Yue used the Green Vine Fan to clear the marsh's miasma and flew toward the Manluo Flowers.
• A red shadow shot from beneath the flowers, and Shi Yue caught its tongue and pulled a third gray toad out of the marsh.