Chapter Summaries

Ximen Xiu ordered the Purple Flame Sect to investigate Eastern Qi before committing troops, suspecting a trap by Great Qin. Across several regions, powerful sect leaders and a Flying Immortal City elder received invitations to Sanxin Market’s auction and set out to see whether its advertised Thousand-Year Spirit Herbs were genuine.

• Ximen Xiu ordered Dongfang Ze to contact other sects about a coalition and send people to infiltrate Eastern Qi for information.
• Zhang Shuheng decided to attend the Sanxin Market auction with Zhang Hanlin and Zhang Feng to investigate Li Muxian and his backers.
• Qiao Zizai left Qingyang Palace for the auction after learning that the Immortal Herb Pavilion was run by Li Muxian, Xiaoyaozi’s disciple.
• Ye Jiao set out for Sanxin Market, hoping to obtain a Thousand-Year Spirit Herb from the Immortal Herb Pavilion.
• Li Yang and two Poison Dragon Sect cultivators departed for the auction, warning that Sanxin Market would face consequences if its claims were false.
• Madam Song and Daoist Friend Zhang left Saint Spirit Palace for Sanxin Market after discussing the auction’s advertised herbs.

Qin Wuji arrived to press the Demonic Dao’s campaign against Eastern Qi, and both sides prepared for a decisive contest between their Nascent Soul Cultivators. Meanwhile, Su Qingfeng and Wind Fire Sect disciples arrived at Sanxin Market in Great Tang.

• Qin Wuji rejected proposals to make peace and announced that the Demonic Dao would take Eastern Qi within half a year with the Heavenly Demon Banner.
• Qin Wuji ordered the Demonic Dao to challenge Eastern Qi’s Nascent Soul Cultivators, with the losers surrendering.
• Monk Wu Ming and the Eastern Qi leaders agreed to fight a month later, sought two more Nascent Soul Cultivators, and planned to wait for replies from Great Tang and Northern Yan.
• Chen San and Lu Er wondered why Sanxin Market was deserted despite its coming auction.
• Su Qingfeng arrived at Sanxin Market with Wind Fire Sect disciples in a Red Palace and entered the Market.

The Great Tang Five Sects arrived at Sanxin Market ahead of the auction, while Shi Yue completed the refinement of his Li Fire Swords and checked on Xiaoyaozi and the girls in Palm Heaven Space. With the auction three days away and sect disciples filling the streets, Shi Yue went to Sheng Ji Magic Robe Shop to ask Sheng Dong what was happening.

• Chen San and Lu Er watched Nascent Soul Cultivators and disciples from the Ancient Sword Sect and Myriad Beasts Sect arrive at Sanxin Market, followed by Zhou Zhenyu and his companions.
• Li Xue led the Colorful Clouds Valley disciples into the market, and Chen San realized the influx of visitors could bring him work as a guide.
• Shi Yue finished tempering all eighteen Li Fire Swords into High-Grade Spirit Artifacts, then received Li Liang's message that the auction would begin in three days.
• Shi Yue visited Palm Heaven Space, found Xiaoyaozi still asleep and Yin'er dreaming about food, and told Jin'er to let Yin'er have some Spirit Honey when she woke.
• Shi Yue noticed Great Tang Five Sects disciples crowding the street and asked Sheng Dong at Sheng Ji Magic Robe Shop what was going on.

Shi Yue met with Li Liang and the other cultivators to discuss arrangements for the auction, then returned to Immortal Herb Pavilion to prepare to upgrade his Azure Cloud Boat. The auction was three days away, and he still awaited delivery of the Thousand-Year Spirit Herbs.

• Shi Yue told the gathered Core Formation Cultivators that at least two rare Thousand-Year Spirit Herbs would be auctioned, but declined to reveal their identities.
• Shi Yue listened as Li Liang and the others planned the auction, including its admission, seating, schedule, lots, and security.
• Shi Yue explained that the Thousand-Year Spirit Herbs would be delivered to him the day before the auction, and Li Liang allowed him to return to Immortal Herb Pavilion as long as he stayed in the market.
• Shi Yue returned to Immortal Herb Pavilion, took out the Azure Cloud Boat, and began refining materials to upgrade it into a High-Grade Flying Spirit Tool.

Zhang Shuheng visited Shi Yue at the Immortal Herb Pavilion to discuss preordering Thousand-Year Spirit Herbs, while Shi Yue used his supposed master and advanced array to maintain an air of mystery. Zhang Shuheng requested two Thousand-Year Thousand-Leaf Grasses, and Shi Yue began explaining their value for making Infant-Nurturing Pills.

• Zhang Shuheng arrived at Sanxin Market with Zhang Hanlin and Zhang Feng, then went to the Immortal Herb Pavilion to meet Li Muxian.
• After waiting outside, Zhang Shuheng entered the pavilion with Zhang Hanlin, while Zhang Feng stayed outside.
• Shi Yue led Zhang Shuheng and Zhang Hanlin to the basement, where Zhang Shuheng recognized an array that blocked divine sense probing.
• Shi Yue claimed the array came from his master, who was in closed-door cultivation to the death, and said he could accept some herb preorders himself.
• Zhang Shuheng requested two Thousand-Year Thousand-Leaf Grasses as soon as possible, and Shi Yue explained that the herbs were ingredients for Infant-Nurturing Pills.

Shi Yue negotiated with Zhang Shuheng over the Immortal Herb Pavilion’s Thousand-Year Snow Lotus Flower and received a Foundation Establishment Pill for Li Yan. After Shi Yue left to stay at the Treasure Competition Palace, Qiao Zizai arrived at the closed pavilion and demanded that Shi Yue come out.

• Zhang Shuheng learned that the auction would include a Thousand-Year Snow Lotus Flower and offered Shi Yue two hundred thousand Spirit Stones or two Top-Grade Spirit Tools to sell it to him.
• Shi Yue said he would ask his superiors about selling the flower, and Zhang Shuheng gave him a Foundation Establishment Pill for Li Yan.
• Shi Yue gave Li Yan the pill, told her to focus on cultivating, and warned her not to respond to Sound Transmission Talismans from anyone else.
• Shi Yue left Immortal Herb Pavilion for the Treasure Competition Palace as the market filled with cultivators drawn by high-level visitors.
• Chen San brought Qiao Zizai, Supreme Elder of the Qingyang Sect, to the closed pavilion, and Qiao Zizai ordered Shi Yue to come out.

As Sanxin Market filled with cultivators ahead of the auction, Shi Yue stayed hidden in the Treasure Competition Palace while powerful visitors searched for Li Muxian. Three days later, Shi Yue briefly ventured into the crowded market and returned as a long line formed outside the palace.

• Chen San told Qiao Zizai that Li Muxian had left the Immortal Herb Pavilion, and Qiao Zizai departed after learning its usual opening time.
• Li Liang reported the growing influx of cultivators to Li Yuanhua and Bai Pu, who ordered tighter security and worried that the Thousand-Year Spirit Herb might not arrive.
• Shi Yue told Li Liang he had decided to move into the Treasure Competition Palace, where he was given a Stone Room and advised to remain inside.
• Chen San brought Ximen Xiu to the Immortal Herb Pavilion, but Li Muxian was absent, and Ximen Xiu left after asking when the pavilion opened.
• After three days inside, Shi Yue went out at dawn to shop and returned to find a long line of cultivators waiting to enter the Treasure Competition Palace.

Shi Yue attended the Sanxin Market auction as one of its organizers and watched the first items go up for bidding. The Crimson Cloud Swords sold for ninety-seven thousand Spirit Stones, and the auction moved on to a Third-grade Blazing Wind Bird.

• Zhou Wen paid a Mid-grade Spirit Stone to enter the auction after learning Li Muxian could bypass the line as an organizer.
• Li Liang and the other organizers discussed auction items with Shi Yue, who declined an offer to inspect Divine Weapon Palace's set of swords.
• Shi Yue took his seat among Core Formation Cultivators as the Treasure Competition Palace was secured and the auction began.
• An Ancient Sword Sect disciple won the Crimson Cloud Swords for ninety-seven thousand Spirit Stones.
• Four men brought a Third-grade Blazing Wind Bird onto the platform, and the auctioneer announced its opening price as twenty thousand Spirit Stones.

Shi Yue bid on auction items, winning Qing Feng Ox horns and a Foundation Establishment Pill while passing on several costly lots. The auction then revealed five powerful Puppet Warriors, whose capabilities were demonstrated as bidding was about to begin.

• Shi Yue won six fourth-grade Qing Feng Ox horns for eighty thousand Spirit Stones to make Wind Attribute flying swords.
• Shi Yue outbid a white-haired Core Formation Cultivator and bought a Foundation Establishment Pill for Li Yan for one hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• Shi Yue passed on the Azure Cloud Spirit Wine, high-grade talisman paper, and Seven Stars Spirit Maze Array implements as their prices climbed beyond his means.
• The auction proceeded through numerous valuable items before the Middle-aged Scholar introduced five Puppet Warriors with Foundation Establishment Late Stage strength.
• The Middle-aged Scholar activated a Puppet Warrior, which transformed into a giant armed puppet, moved at high speed, and unfurled iron wings.

Shi Yue bought the Five Elements Puppets at the auction as increasingly valuable spirit tools and magical materials drove fierce bidding. The Purple Qi Illusion Spirit Array talismans appeared next, and Shi Yue considered buying them to protect himself from Core Formation Cultivators.

• The Middle-aged Scholar demonstrated the Five Elements Puppets, and Shi Yue won them with a bid of two hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• A matching set of five Top-Grade Spirit Tool throwing knives sold for three hundred and forty thousand Spirit Stones.
• The auction offered several costly spirit tools, including the Mysterious Yellow Umbrella, which sold for four hundred and twenty thousand Spirit Stones.
• The Silver Flame Stone sold for one hundred and ninety thousand Spirit Stones to a scar-faced man.
• The Middle-aged Scholar presented five array talismans that could form the Purple Qi Illusion Spirit Array and trap a Core Formation Cultivator.
• Shi Yue grew eager to buy the talismans after recalling his near-fatal encounter with an Evil Cultivator in the Core Formation Realm.

Shi Yue won a set of Purple Qi Illusion Spirit Array talismans and a bottle of diluted Seven-Colored Glazed Liquid at the auction, spending heavily on both. Meanwhile, Song Xiang and Zhang Miao discussed Shi Yue’s rumored Nascent Soul backing and the Thousand-Year Spirit Herb his Immortal Herb Pavilion had consigned.

• Shi Yue outbid a pudgy old man and bought the Purple Qi Illusion Spirit Array talismans for three hundred and fifty thousand Spirit Stones.
• Yang Zhilong won three stalks of eight-hundred-year-old White Mulberry Grass for two hundred thousand Spirit Stones, while Shi Yue realized High-Grade Spirit Herbs were worth far more than he had expected.
• Li Liang revealed that the Seven-Colored Glazed Liquid was diluted and opened bidding at fifty thousand Spirit Stones.
• Shi Yue outbid Qin Yang and secured the Seven-Colored Glazed Liquid for three hundred and fifty thousand Spirit Stones.
• Song Xiang and Zhang Miao discussed Shi Yue’s rumored backing and the Thousand-Year Spirit Herb his Immortal Herb Pavilion had brought to auction.

Shi Yue spent nearly a million borrowed Spirit Stones at the auction, winning Spirit Honey for the Spirit Devouring Bee King. The auction moved on to its Finale Auction Items after several valuable lots went to other bidders.

• Shi Yue watched the Snow Soul Pills, Nourishing Origin Pills, and Earth Element Yao Beast Inner Cores sell to other bidders, with Yang Zhilong winning the cores for 250,000 Spirit Stones.
• Qu Feiyan outbid Ye Jiao for Golden Fine Silk, paying 250,000 Spirit Stones to make Golden Silkworm Armor.
• Shi Yue won three bottles of sixth-grade Spirit Honey for 170,000 Spirit Stones, bringing his spending to nearly a million borrowed Spirit Stones.
• Chen Xiangdong bought a sixth-grade Snow Cloud Python Essence Soul for the Taixu Sect, while a red-robed man won a Three-eyed Silver Wolf Essence Soul for 270,000 Spirit Stones.
• Su Qingfeng won the Thousand-Year Mystic Jade for 400,000 Spirit Stones after bidding against Ximen Xiu.
• Li Liang announced the start of the Finale Auction Items.

Bai Pu presided over the auction as several rare treasures and Nascent Soul Pills drew fierce bids. Zhou Zhenyu won the pills but lacked Spirit Stones, so Shi Yue bought Zhou Zhenyu’s Blue Cloud Umbrella and arranged a private exchange with the auctioneer.

• Bai Pu joined Li Liang and Zhao Dongliu on the platform as they auctioned the Red Cloud Sword for 620,000 Spirit Stones and the Red Cloud Shield for 820,000.
• Zhang Miao inspected a damaged life-bound spiritual bone from a Level Eight Yao Beast, bought it for 570,000 Spirit Stones, and warned Song Xiang that the Market Town’s backers might come from the Southern Heaven Cultivation World or Cloudyue Continent.
• A middle-aged auctioneer offered two Nascent Soul Pills, and Zhou Zhenyu won them with a bid of one million Spirit Stones.
• Short on funds for the pills, Zhou Zhenyu auctioned his Top-Grade Defensive Spirit Tool, the Blue Cloud Umbrella, and Shi Yue won it for 400,000 Spirit Stones.
• Shi Yue handed the auctioneer a Storage Bag after a private exchange, and Zhou Zhenyu gratefully nodded to him.

At the auction, Shi Yue watched rare pills, spirit materials, and other treasures sell for high prices while worrying that his debt would leave him unable to buy the Thousand-Year Spirit Herbs he needed. The Twin Flood Dragon Token then drew fierce bidding from Nascent Soul Cultivators, and its final price was not yet revealed.

• Zhou Zhenyu exchanged the Blue Cloud Umbrella for two porcelain bottles, and Shi Yue learned that Huang Chen had paid five hundred thousand Spirit Stones for two bottles of Tiger Sha Pills.
• Huang Chen praised Li Muxian’s body cultivation and told Qin Yang that he was far inferior, prompting nearby cultivators to discuss Li Muxian’s strength.
• A middle-aged scholar sold a Profound Yellow Crystal, Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, and Azure Hazy Crystal for high prices, deepening Shi Yue’s concern about his debt and the Thousand-Year Spirit Herbs.
• A middle-aged Taoist sold two bottles of Jade Sun Pills and a bottle of Pure Yang Water for hundreds of thousands of Spirit Stones each.
• A walrus-mustached middle-aged man demonstrated the Twin Flood Dragon Token, which could summon two Azure Flood Dragons capable of contending with a Nascent Soul Cultivator, and Nascent Soul Cultivators began bidding fiercely.

Shi Yue took the stage at the Myriad Beasts Tower auction and offered the Nine Yuan Art, a cultivation manual that could reach the Nascent Soul Realm. Several Nascent Soul Cultivators questioned its authenticity, and Shi Yue let them inspect its first six levels while reserving the rest for the buyer.

• Qu Feiyan bought the Twin Flood Dragon Token for one million Spirit Stones, and the Sea-Turning Pearl sold for eight hundred and seventy thousand.
• The Earth-Armored Beast sold for seven hundred and fifty thousand Spirit Stones, and the Four-Winged Fire Centipede sold for five hundred and fifty thousand.
• A Nascent Soul Cultivator bought the Golden Essence Pearls for five hundred and fifty thousand Spirit Stones, and the Myriad Beasts Sect bought the Azure Sun Secret Codex for six hundred and fifty thousand.
• Shi Yue presented the Nine Yuan Art, claiming it could be cultivated from the Qi Refining Stage to the Nascent Soul Realm and included a powerful escape technique.
• Su Qingfeng and four other Nascent Soul Cultivators came to the stage and questioned the art's authenticity, so Shi Yue handed Su Qingfeng the Jade Slip containing its first six levels for inspection.

Shi Yue sold the Nine Yuan Art’s cultivation methods to Zhang Yun for 1.5 million Spirit Stones, receiving a Beast Taming Bracelet and the remaining payment. He then offered a Thousand-Year Snow Lotus Flower for auction, and bidding among the Nascent Soul Cultivators rapidly climbed to one million Spirit Stones.

• Zhang Yun won the Nine Yuan Art cultivation methods after Bai Pu set terms ensuring she paid in full if the inspected levels were genuine.
• Zhang Yun traded Shi Yue her Beast Taming Bracelet, which Bai Pu verified, and paid him the remaining 700,000 Spirit Stones.
• Bai Pu sent the Nascent Soul Cultivators back to their private rooms before Shi Yue revealed the Thousand-Year Snow Lotus Flower.
• Li Yang and the other Nascent Soul Cultivators began bidding on the Snow Lotus Flower, quickly raising its price above 300,000 Spirit Stones.
• Ximen Xiu bid one million Spirit Stones as the auction for the Snow Lotus Flower continued.

Shi Yue auctioned three Thousand-Year Spirit Herbs, earning increasingly high bids and valuable items in exchange. After Qiao Zizai won the Thousand-Year Golden Lotus Flower, the auction’s final sale was complete.

• Ximen Xiu outbid Li Yang for the Thousand-Year Snow Lotus Flower at one million and two hundred thousand Spirit Stones, paying with Spirit Stones and two high-grade Whirlwind Talismans.
• Shi Yue revealed a Thousand-Year Black Ginseng, which Zhang Miao won for one million and five hundred thousand Spirit Stones, including a Top-Grade Spirit Tool in the payment.
• Shi Yue announced a third Thousand-Year Spirit Herb, the Golden Lotus Flower, and Qiao Zizai competed with another cultivator until the price reached one million and six hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• Qiao Zizai won the Golden Lotus Flower by paying one million and two hundred thousand Spirit Stones and offering a Top-Grade Spirit Tool, the Fire Repelling Spirit Robe.

Shi Yue ended the auction after selling a cultivation method and three Thousand-Year Spirit Herbs for a fortune, drawing dangerous attention. He secured Bai Pu’s herb reservation and Li Liang’s protection, then returned to Immortal Herb Pavilion and closed it while deciding to keep a low profile.

• Shi Yue officially ended the auction, where his four offerings had sold for a combined five million eight hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• Bai Pu asked Shi Yue to reserve a Thousand-Year White Snake Grass and a Thousand-Year Seven-leaf Ginseng, paid a deposit, and warned him that people might target him.
• Shi Yue repaid Li Liang the one million four hundred thousand Spirit Stones he had borrowed, and Li Liang offered protection in the marketplace.
• More than a hundred hostile gazes followed Shi Yue outside the auction hall, and he escaped a middle-aged Taoist priest who tried to force him to meet his master.
• Shi Yue returned to Immortal Herb Pavilion, posted a notice that it was closed for renovations, and resolved to keep a low profile after realizing how valuable his auction items were.

After the auction, Shi Yue closed the Immortal Herb Pavilion to avoid pressure from Nascent Soul cultivators seeking answers about his herbs and cultivation technique. He rebuffed visitors, accepted Zhou Zhenyu’s help for Li Yan, and entered Palm Heaven Space, where Jin'er and Yin'er remained mysteriously asleep, before beginning body-tempering cultivation.

• Shi Yue closed the Immortal Herb Pavilion and ignored messages from cultivators seeking to meet him, while Qiao Zizai and Li Yang suspected Li Muxian was hiding something and watched for a chance to question him.
• Shi Yue gave Li Yan two Foundation Establishment Pills and told her to focus on cultivating, then agreed to meet Zhou Zhenyu after receiving his message.
• Shi Yue turned away a red-robed cultivator seeking to order Spirit Herbs, then accepted a Foundation Establishment Pill from Zhou Zhenyu, who warned him not to leave the marketplace alone and offered Taixu Sect’s help.
• Shi Yue refused further orders and invitations, gave Li Yan Zhou Zhenyu’s pill, and shut the pavilion to visitors.
• Shi Yue found Jin'er and Yin'er asleep beneath the beehive in Palm Heaven Space and could not wake them, so he left after checking for anything unusual.
• Shi Yue drank Seven-Colored Glazed Liquid and began cultivating the fourth layer of the True Spirit Nine Transformations to strengthen his body.

A Black-clothed Youth forced the Azure Cloud Sect to search for a woman, threatening to destroy it if they refused. In Eastern Qi, Qin Wuji began fighting Monk Wu Ming as Cai Sisi and Deng Nantian faced two other Nascent Soul Cultivators.

• The Black-clothed Youth defeated the blue-robed old man and demanded that the Azure Cloud Sect find a woman shown in a Blue Jade Slip.
• The blue-robed old man agreed to search, and the Black-clothed Youth stayed at the Azure Cloud Sect while the Middle-aged Scholar considered retaliating.
• A month later, Qin Wuji, Cai Sisi, and Deng Nantian confronted Monk Wu Ming, Ye Qingshu, and Su Zhi in the Azure Dragon Mountain Range.
• Qin Wuji demanded that Monk Wu Ming submit to Great Qin or leave Eastern Qi, but Monk Wu Ming refused.
• Qin Wuji summoned fierce ghosts from a Black Scroll, and Monk Wu Ming repelled them with the Golden Wooden Fish's Golden Sonic Wave.
• Qin Wuji sent a Black Mountain Peak toward Monk Wu Ming while his three Black Fierce Ghosts attacked again.