Arc 7Yuan Sect Rising

Su Yuan helped Chen Nuoyi escape her family’s attempt to suppress her bloodline, then entered Zhu Yan Bai Gu Guan to rescue Taihua Tianji and claimed Zhu Qingqing for his banner. Back in Taihua City, he built a puppet-streaming business, recruited members to Yuan Sect, and prepared for the Ten Great Preparatory Classes.

  • Su Yuan used his Heaven-Deceiving Constitution to evade Guantian Pavilion surveillance while Chen Xian agreed to report intelligence, and Su Yuan learned Chen Nuoyi’s birthday was the next day.
  • Su Yuan and Bai Ling stopped Butler Zheng from taking Chen Nuoyi, then Su Yuan disabled the Chen Family’s Flying Boats and fled with her as her bloodline awakening approached.
  • Chen Yifeng intercepted them but revealed that the confrontation was staged, and Su Yuan took Chen Nuoyi to Jinhua Mountain Town, where she awakened her dragon bloodline.
  • Su Yuan joined Ye Muyu’s rescue team and entered Zhu Yan Bai Gu Guan, where he cleared Zhu Qingqing’s puppet trials and rescued Taihua Tianji and the other trapped expedition members.
  • Su Yuan changed Zhu Qingqing’s fate, made her a Cyber Soul and Spirit of the Artifact, and left the secret realm with Chen Nuoyi before celebrating her birthday in Taihua City.
  • Su Yuan upgraded his corpse-refining method, made a swimming-pool blood bath, and transformed a Soft Bone Rabbit into Xiao Wu, Primordial Beginning Media’s first puppet streamer.
  • Su Yuan turned more animals into puppet entertainers, grew Primordial Beginning Media to eight streamers, and completed the mission to make Yuan Sect a Top 100 Demonic Sect, earning the Sect System.
  • Su Yuan recruited Wu Ziying and Xiao Kong to Yuan Sect and strengthened them with the Eight Treasures Merit Pool, then learned that Taihua City would host the Ten Great Preparatory Classes and that Taihua Tianji wanted the puppets hidden.
Chapters 152–176 Vol. 2 Read

Ch. 152Jumping Beyond Big Data, Existing Outside the Spirit Net

Su Yuan forced Chen Xian to gather intelligence on the Guantian Pavilion and gained the Heaven-Deceiving Constitution, which made him difficult to track through divination. As Su Yuan prepared to leave, Chen Xian warned him that becoming the Chen Family's live-in son-in-law would not be easy.

  • Su Yuan threatened Chen Xian into working for him and ordered him to report intelligence about the Guantian Pavilion.
  • Chen Xian agreed to gather information but refused to help Su Yuan pursue the young lady or do anything that could jeopardize his exams.
  • Su Yuan claimed the system reward and obtained the Heaven-Deceiving Constitution, which resisted divination and the Guantian Pavilion's big-data surveillance.
  • Chen Xian said Su Yuan's aura had changed and that Guantian Pavilion divination could no longer locate or predict him.
  • As Su Yuan left with Bai Ling, Chen Xian warned him to give up on the young lady because becoming the Chen Family's live-in son-in-law would be difficult.

Ch. 153Have You Already Started Thinking About Having Children?

Chen Xian explained that the Chen Family’s bloodline gave its descendants great power but caused them to die young, and Su Yuan rejected Chen Xian’s plan to marry Chen Nuoyi for her family’s fortune. Su Yuan resolved to find a way to save Chen Nuoyi, then learned that her birthday was the next day.

  • Chen Xian told Su Yuan that the Chen Family’s unstable bloodline made its descendants die young and that this was why the family relied on live-in sons-in-law.
  • Su Yuan accused Chen Xian of wanting Chen Nuoyi and her family’s estate, warned him not to use her for advancement, and left the training grounds.
  • Su Yuan worried about Chen Nuoyi’s approaching bloodline awakening and considered using his cultivation methods to keep her alive if he could not cure it.
  • The next day, Su Yuan asked Chen Nuoyi when her birthday was, and she revealed that it was tomorrow.

Ch. 154You’re Just a Student. Can You Really Shoulder Other People’s Lives?

Su Yuan discovered that the Chen Family planned to suppress Chen Nuoyi’s bloodline and keep her confined in exchange for eternal life, rather than let her awaken it. Chen Nuoyi rejected the plan and chose to pursue cultivation, while Su Yuan protected her from Butler Zheng and tried to leave with her in the family’s Flying Boat.

  • Su Yuan learned that Chen Nuoyi’s bloodline awakening could be dangerous and arranged a birthday celebration with her friends before it.
  • Butler Zheng arrived in a Mai Ba He to take Chen Nuoyi home, claiming the Chen Family would help her awaken her bloodline.
  • Su Yuan received a warning from Chen Xian, used Finger Command, and realized the Chen Family intended to suppress Chen Nuoyi’s bloodline and grant her eternal life.
  • Chen Nuoyi rejected the family’s plan, choosing to pursue immortality and break the bloodline’s restrictions despite the failures of her mother and grandmother.
  • Su Yuan stood by Chen Nuoyi, and Bai Ling wounded Butler Zheng when he tried to take her by force.
  • Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi boarded the Mai Ba He, but Su Yuan realized he might not have a license to pilot it.

Ch. 155Rainy Night, the Overpass, and Mai Ba He!

Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi fled north in Mai Ba He while the Chen Family pursued them. Su Yuan disabled an enemy Flying Boat with his banner, sending it crashing toward the ground.

  • Su Yuan activated Mai Ba He's flight attendant and ordered the Flying Boat to head north at full speed.
  • Chen Nuoyi told Su Yuan that her bloodline might awaken around three in the morning, and he warned her not to force it.
  • The Chen Family's Flying Boats caught up to Mai Ba He in the rain, and Su Yuan realized they had followed their route out of the city.
  • Su Yuan ordered Mai Ba He to move alongside the pursuing Flying Boat and confronted a Chen Family bodyguard who demanded that he release Chen Nuoyi.
  • Su Yuan shook his banner at the enemy Flying Boat, causing its systems to fail and the craft to plummet toward the ground.

Ch. 156I’m Fighting a Peak Golden Core Cultivator? For Real?!

Su Yuan escaped Taihua City with Chen Nuoyi and recruited Yin Qiyue, Li Zhengxing, and Chen Xian to help evade the Chen Family, but Chen Yifeng pursued them in person. Su Yuan raced toward Jinhua Mountain for help, only for Chen Yifeng to stop Mai Ba He effortlessly just before it reached safety.

  • Su Yuan disabled three Chen Family Flying Boats, escaped the city with Chen Nuoyi, and contacted Yin Qiyue, Li Zhengxing, and Chen Xian for help.
  • Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi hid in the mountains while Chen Xian relayed the Chen Family’s pursuit; at midnight, Chen Nuoyi thanked Su Yuan for her birthday and resolved to awaken her bloodline.
  • Yin Qiyue reported that Chen Yifeng had left the estate to pursue them, and Li Zhengxing could not persuade him to stop.
  • Taihua Yu Xi told Su Yuan to head for Jinhua Mountain, where Ye Muyu could contact her father and seek his protection for them.
  • Su Yuan overclocked Mai Ba He and rushed toward Jinhua Mountain, but Chen Yifeng appeared in their path and halted the Flying Boat with overwhelming force.

Ch. 157The Dragon King Really Came!

Chen Yifeng tried to take Chen Nuoyi back to the Chen Family and suppress her bloodline, but Su Yuan resisted and Chen Nuoyi’s father arrived to hold Chen Yifeng off. He gave Su Yuan one minute to escape with Chen Nuoyi, entrusting her future to him.

  • Chen Yifeng explained that he planned to suppress Chen Nuoyi’s bloodline and force her to marry Chen Xian to preserve the Chen Family.
  • Su Yuan took Chen Nuoyi’s hand and refused to let Chen Yifeng take her without a fight.
  • Chen Yifeng used his power to pull Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi out of the Flying Boat, but a sword strike interrupted him.
  • Chen Nuoyi recognized the disheveled swordsman who arrived as her father.
  • Chen Nuoyi’s father told Su Yuan he could hold Chen Yifeng off for one minute and urged him to take Chen Nuoyi and flee.

Ch. 158Handing Nuoyi's Life Over to Him Would Be Fine!

Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi fled toward the Jinhua Mountain Secret Realm while Chen Yifeng and Chen Liangchen revealed their confrontation had been staged to test Su Yuan. At the secret realm entrance, guards tried to turn Su Yuan away, so he claimed he had come to see Ye Muyu.

  • Su Yuan took Chen Nuoyi away on the Crimson Origin Sword, leaving Chen Yifeng and Chen Liangchen behind.
  • Chen Yifeng and Chen Liangchen revealed they had staged the confrontation, and Chen Yifeng said he was willing to entrust Nuoyi's future to Su Yuan.
  • Chen Yifeng told Chen Liangchen he had settled the debt hanging over him and urged him to return to the Chen Family, but Chen Liangchen refused to decide until Nuoyi entered college.
  • Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi reached Jinhua Mountain Town, where guards tried to stop them after explaining True Man Tai Bai had ordered them to turn Su Yuan away.
  • Su Yuan spotted Ye Muyu behind the gate and claimed he had come to see her instead.

Ch. 159Was the Ancient Times the Normal Timeline After All?

Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi sought refuge at Jinhua Mountain Town so Chen Nuoyi could awaken her bloodline under Ye Muyu’s supervision. While she began communing with it, Su Yuan learned that Taihua Tianji was trapped in the secret realm and that its ruins belonged to an ancient demonic sect, prompting the system to issue him new quests.

  • Ye Muyu let Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi into Jinhua Mountain Town, and they explained that the Chen Family intended to seal Chen Nuoyi’s bloodline.
  • Ye Muyu agreed to watch over Chen Nuoyi as she prepared to awaken her bloodline, and Su Yuan learned that Taihua Tianji had been trapped inside the secret realm for twenty-four hours.
  • Ye Muyu said she would lead a rescue team at five in the morning and reassured Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi that Taihua Tianji was not in serious danger.
  • Chen Nuoyi began communing with her bloodline in the pavilion while Su Yuan watched over her and noticed a chilling cavern in the mountain ruins.
  • The system identified the ruins as Zhu Yan Bai Gu Guan, a demonic sect from the Ancient Cultivation World, and updated Su Yuan’s quests to challenge the sect and rescue Taihua Tianji.

Ch. 160Chen Family Ancestor Had Definitely Been Serviced by a Dragon!

Su Yuan watched Chen Nuoyi awaken her True Dragon bloodline, then asked Ye Muyu to let him join the rescue team entering Jinhua Mountain Secret Realm. Ye Muyu demanded a reason for his inclusion, and Su Yuan revealed he knew the ancient ruins inside were Zhu Yan Bai Gu Guan.

  • Su Yuan saw Chen Nuoyi's fate change to Dragon Transformation and watched her transform into a dragon-like state.
  • Chen Nuoyi attacked Ye Muyu while berserk, but awakened dragon qi, which Ye Muyu identified as one of the True Dragon's Nine Arts.
  • Chen Nuoyi's transformation ended, and she ate the food Su Yuan had prepared as her strength rapidly increased.
  • Su Yuan asked Ye Muyu to let him join the rescue team, first claiming he wanted to save Tai Bai, then admitting he wanted benefits and a recommendation letter.
  • Su Yuan told Ye Muyu that documents suggested the secret realm's ancient sect ruins were Zhu Yan Bai Gu Guan.

Ch. 161This Isn’t How the Script Was Supposed to Go!

Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi joined Ye Muyu’s rescue team as they entered the Jinhua Mountain Secret Realm to search for Taihua Tianji. After discovering the ruins of Zhu Yan Bai Gu Guan, Su Yuan found that the team’s strict archaeological rules made his system’s supposed easy missions look much harder.

  • Ye Muyu supplied Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi with clerical-staff gear and brought them along to scout the secret realm’s perimeter.
  • Captain Wang assembled the twenty-five-member rescue team and led them into the frigid cavern before dawn.
  • Su Yuan learned that the Jinhua Mountain Secret Realm could be a Living Secret Realm and recognized the dangers it might hold.
  • The team emerged into the Folded Space and saw the ruins of Zhu Yan Bai Gu Guan spread across a mountain.
  • Su Yuan nearly kicked down the Mountain Gate, but Captain Wang warned the team not to damage the archaeological relics, leaving Su Yuan to question his system’s missions.

Ch. 162I Don't Know Archaeology, but I Know the Devilish Sect!

Su Yuan persuaded the rescue team to tear down Zhu Yan Bai Gu Guan’s gate tower, revealing a deadly puppet ambush that the team survived. The system then gave him an outdated map and a new challenge to defeat three long-dead sect disciples, leaving Su Yuan baffled about how to complete it.

  • Su Yuan urged Captain Wang to demolish the gate tower, and Ye Muyu confirmed that something was wrong with it.
  • Su Yuan activated Demonic Cultivation Technique · Finger Artifact, spoke to the gate tower, and kicked it down, triggering an ambush by human puppets.
  • Captain Wang pulled the rescue team clear, and the team destroyed the puppets with spirit-energy weapons.
  • Captain Wang praised Su Yuan for anticipating the ambush, and Su Yuan claimed he knew the Devilish Sect.
  • The system completed Su Yuan’s task and awarded him a map of Zhu Yan Bai Gu Guan, then assigned him to defeat Cheng Yunze, Qi Wei, and Jiao Tianrui while Zhu Qingqing watched.
  • Su Yuan questioned how he could fight the sect’s prodigies and Saintess when Zhu Yan Bai Gu Guan had been destroyed long ago.

Ch. 163Have You Ever Been a Demon Lord? Some Things You Can’t Just Do on a Whim!

Su Yuan and the rescue team reached Zhu Yan Bai Gu Guan’s halfway point, where a puppet revealed that Zhu Qingqing had set an inheritance trial at the summit and trapped Taihua Tianji’s expedition team inside. The team learned they had only twelve hours left to send someone into the assessment before the captives were killed by the Killing Array.

  • Ye Muyu judged that Zhu Yan Bai Gu Guan was likely a Living Secret Realm controlled by an ancient cultivator who had become something no longer human.
  • Su Yuan used his system to kill the dead White Bone Guan disciples’ remains, including Yun Ze, Qi Wei, and Jiao Tianrui, and received the Zhu Yan Bai Gu Puppet Refining Method and the title Zhu Yan Erodes Bone.
  • The rescue team reached the road to the summit and met a Human Puppet who said Zhu Qingqing’s inheritance trial had trapped the earlier expedition team.
  • The puppet said Taihua Tianji had excelled in the trial and called him deeply demonic, while Su Yuan insisted his teacher had studied the inheritance only to save people.
  • The puppet warned that the team had twelve hours to enter and pass the assessment, or Zhu Qingqing would force the captives to activate the Killing Array and die.

Ch. 164The "Speedrun Cultivator of Demonic Arts" Title!

Ye Muyu led the rescue team to White Bone Guan’s Inheritance Assessment, where the trapped Expedition Team had only twelve hours left before the Killing Array would execute them. Captain Wang and other experts entered the trials but made little progress, leaving Su Yuan to consider attempting the assessment himself.

  • Ye Muyu sent five people to Taihua City for help and led the rest of the rescue team to the mountaintop at White Bone Guan.
  • The puppet woman explained the nine-ring assessment, and the rescue team saw that Taihua Tianji had reached the fourth ring while the other fifteen Expedition Team members remained behind him.
  • Captain Wang volunteered to enter the assessment with several experts, and Ye Muyu approved his attempt.
  • Su Yuan read system tasks urging him to pass Zhu Qingqing’s assessment and rescue Tai Bai Sword Demon and the others, but decided to watch the experts first.
  • After an hour, Captain Wang’s group remained stuck in the ninth ring, and after two more hours he had only reached the eighth ring as another group of elites also stalled.

Ch. 165Su Yuan: Captain Wang Is Useless. Looks Like I’ll Have to Step In!

With the trapped expedition members facing death when the inheritance array activated, Su Yuan entered the assessment and rapidly cleared its first three checkpoints by using his mastery of the Zhu Yan Bai Gu Puppet technique. The puppet woman revealed the middle three trials, and everyone watched to see whether Su Yuan could raise the puppet’s three attributes to Grade A before time ran out.

  • Ye Muyu explained that the array could only be broken by a Nascent Soul True Lord, who could not arrive before the Killing Array activated and endangered the trapped expedition members.
  • After learning that the first three trials involved creating and mastering the Zhu Yan Bai Gu Puppet, Su Yuan realized he already knew the technique and entered the inheritance assessment.
  • Su Yuan cleared the first three checkpoints in minutes, advancing from the Ninth Ring to the Sixth Ring and astonishing the rescue team.
  • The puppet woman revealed that the middle three trials required Su Yuan to raise the puppet’s hardness, operating precision, and charm attribute to Grade A, and allowed everyone to observe his work.

Ch. 166Zhu Qingqing: I Think You’re Too Extreme!

Taihua Tianji learned that Su Yuan was racing through the Inheritance Land’s trials and stopped attempting his own checkpoints to watch. Su Yuan cleared the remaining tests with ingenious techniques, leaving Zhu Qingqing astonished by his methods and convinced he might be a greater Demon Lord than she was.

  • Zhu Qingqing taunted Taihua Tianji with news that Su Yuan had entered the trials, and Taihua Tianji laughed before asking whether Su Yuan could clear all nine checkpoints in time to save everyone.
  • Zhu Qingqing showed Taihua Tianji Su Yuan’s progress, and Su Yuan used corpse-refining techniques to reinforce his Human Puppet and pass the Fourth Ring in five minutes.
  • Su Yuan passed the Fifth Ring’s control-precision test in forty seconds, while Zhu Qingqing wondered whether he had mastered the legendary Qi Mo Zhi.
  • At the Fourth Ring, Su Yuan connected a brain-computer interface and a Myriad Soul Banner to his Human Puppet, which quickly earned an A-grade rating for its bewitching expressions.
  • Zhu Qingqing suspected Su Yuan had implanted a beautiful courtesan’s soul into the puppet and was deeply shaken by the succession of demonic arts he displayed.

Ch. 167Taihua Tianji: Oh no, my reputation!

Su Yuan reached the Third Ring and faced Zhu Qingqing’s first challenge: a contest of puppet sturdiness. He began using an alarming array of demonic techniques and talismans on his Human Puppet, leaving Zhu Qingqing baffled and Taihua Tianji fearing for his reputation.

  • Su Yuan reached the Third Ring and found Taihua Tianji, who rejected being called his teacher.
  • Zhu Qingqing explained that the final three rounds would test sturdiness, agility, and allure against her Human Puppet.
  • Su Yuan asked whether he could use any method to strengthen his puppet, and Zhu Qingqing allowed it as long as he did not target hers.
  • Su Yuan covered his Human Puppet in talismans using Demonic Cultivation Technique · Finger Talisman, including powerful techniques and demonic talents.
  • Taihua Tianji spotted a heart-shaped Devil Talisman and worried that Su Yuan had used it during the Eight-School Joint Examination, damaging his reputation.

Ch. 168Twenty-Two Minutes and Eighteen Seconds: Speedrunning the Vermilion Beauty White Bone Temple!

Su Yuan cleared Zhu Qingqing’s nine trials in twenty-two minutes and earned a title that made him invulnerable to previously cleared dungeon mechanics. After Zhu Qingqing passed him her inheritance and began to die, Su Yuan used Fate Change to redirect her soul into his Myriad Soul Banner.

  • Su Yuan fortified his Human Puppet, defeated Zhu Qingqing’s puppet in the remaining trials, and completed all nine challenges.
  • Su Yuan equipped the Colorful title “Speedrun Cultivator of Demonic Arts” and taunted Zhu Qingqing after gaining its second-playthrough invincibility.
  • Su Yuan followed Zhu Qingqing to her pavilion, learned that she had survived for over a hundred thousand years in a puppet body, and explained modern puppet-making techniques to her.
  • Zhu Qingqing gave Su Yuan her Great Desire Immortal Puppet, a rag doll made from her original body that could convert desire into spiritual power.
  • Su Yuan used Fate Change to alter Zhu Qingqing’s verdict from returning to the underworld to returning to his Myriad Soul Banner, and her soul began drifting into it against her will.

Ch. 169Entering Myriad Soul Banner and Becoming Brothers in Business! (3K)

Su Yuan forced Zhu Qingqing’s soul into Cyber Myriad Soul Banner and made her its Spirit of the Artifact, persuading her to accept the role with promises of advancement. After the System announced a mission to make Yuan Sect one of the Top 100 Demonic Sects, Su Yuan left the secret realm with Zhu Qingqing’s body and faced questions from the waiting expedition team.

  • Su Yuan transformed Zhu Qingqing into a Cyber Soul and appointed her Spirit of the Artifact, while placing his main soul in charge of the banner.
  • Su Yuan convinced Zhu Qingqing that the role could advance her puppetry and career, and she agreed after demanding he never use Qi Mo Zhi on her.
  • The System announced that Zhu Yan Bai Gu Guan had fallen and assigned Su Yuan a mission to raise Yuan Sect to Top 100 Demonic Sect status.
  • Su Yuan left the loft and met Taihua Tianji, Ye Muyu, Chen Nuoyi, and the expedition and rescue teams waiting outside.
  • Su Yuan told Ye Muyu that Zhu Qingqing had died and showed the Headless Ragdoll, then reassured Taihua Tianji by presenting Zhu Qingqing’s original body.

Ch. 170Sect Master, I’ll Follow You Again in My Next Life!

After the Jinhua Mountain Secret Realm crisis ended, Su Yuan celebrated Chen Nuoyi’s birthday and resumed charging his classmates for tutoring. He planned to expand the Yuan Sect through online puppet streamers, but his speedrun guide proposed murder, leaving him determined to use a cultivation-technique upgrade reward instead.

  • Taihua Tianji confirmed that Zhu Qingqing’s pink-haired puppy body held no remnant soul, thanked Su Yuan for resolving the crisis, and sent him and Chen Nuoyi out of the secret realm.
  • Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi returned to Taihua City and celebrated Chen Nuoyi’s birthday with their classmates.
  • Su Yuan resumed tutoring the Special Class for tuition, hoping to help students enter preparatory classes while building the Yuan Sect’s future ranks.
  • Su Yuan told Zhu Qingqing he planned to use Zhu Yan Bai Gu Puppets as online streamers and harvest viewers’ desires for spiritual energy.
  • Su Yuan activated his speedrun guide to find puppet materials, but it instructed him to kill the prettiest woman on the street and refine her into a puppet.
  • Rejecting the guide’s murderous plan, Su Yuan decided to use a Magic Cultivation Technique Level Upgrade reward.

Ch. 171You Punk, You're Getting My Spiritual Root for Free Without Paying a Cent, Huh?!

Su Yuan upgraded the Ancient Corpse Refining Method and found a way to use spirit beast flesh and blood as materials for Human Puppets. He rented the school's abandoned swimming pool and arranged supplies, leaving Zhu Qingqing puzzled as a Flying Boat delivered crates of animal blood.

  • Su Yuan upgraded the Ancient Corpse Refining Method and discovered it worked perfectly with the Blood Beast Cultivation Method to solve the Human Puppet material problem.
  • Su Yuan told Zhu Qingqing he knew how to solve the problem, then went to Principal Zhang Youde to ask for the abandoned swimming pool.
  • Su Yuan asked Zhang Youde to cover the remaining five million for his spiritual root until his promised tenfold rebate, and Zhang Youde agreed to provide the root the next day.
  • Su Yuan cleaned the swimming pool and ordered a large quantity of supplies through his market contacts.
  • A cargo Flying Boat arrived the next morning with crates labeled Pig Blood and Duck Blood, while Zhu Qingqing remained confused about Su Yuan's plans.

Ch. 172The Netherworld Blood Pool? The Eight-Treasure Merit Pool!

Su Yuan used beast blood and his upgraded corpse-refining methods to transform a Soft Bone Rabbit into Xiao Wu, then debuted her as Primordial Beginning Media’s first artist. After his Senluo Spiritual Root advanced to Heavenly Spiritual Root and he broke through to Qi Cultivation Level 9, the chapter ended with Chen Nuoyi questioning whether Xiao Wu’s body came from a murder.

  • Su Yuan bought two hundred tons of premium beast blood, filled the school swimming pool, and disguised it as the Eight Treasures Merit Pool.
  • Su Yuan turned a Soft Bone Rabbit into a Walking Corpse, immersed her in the pool, and went to class while she underwent transformation.
  • Chen Nuoyi told Su Yuan that her father had deliberately gotten arrested to bring her home and give her her late mother’s techniques; she had beaten him with a beer bottle after paying his traffic fine.
  • Su Yuan used an implantable Common Spiritual Root to upgrade his Senluo Spiritual Root to Heavenly Spiritual Root and advanced to Qi Cultivation Level 9.
  • Su Yuan found the transformed rabbit had become a beautiful rabbit-eared girl, named her Xiao Wu, and introduced her as Primordial Beginning Media’s first artist during a livestream.
  • Chen Nuoyi recognized Xiao Wu as a Zhu Yan Bai Gu Puppet and cautiously asked Su Yuan whether he had killed someone to obtain her body.

Ch. 173Su Yuan, the Man with Evil Flowing Through His Veins!

Su Yuan’s puppet Xiao Wu proved a huge hit as a livestream seller, prompting him to put her to work roasting geese as well. The chapter ended with Su Yuan paying Xiao Wu a tiny advance and ordering her to finish the job before the canteen opened.

  • Chen Nuoyi and Yin Qiyue questioned Su Yuan about Xiao Wu, and Yin Qiyue warned him that the Thousand Faces Immortal Sect might try to buy and bury his puppet-performer patent.
  • Yin Qiyue asked whether Su Yuan could give living people a beauty upgrade, but she backed out after he described turning her into something like a Zhu Yan Bai Gu Puppet.
  • Su Yuan, Chen Nuoyi, and Yin Qiyue watched Xiao Wu’s livestream, where Su Yuan No. 996 sold products so effectively that orders surged.
  • Su Yuan told Xiao Wu to roast geese after her livestream, then offered her five hundred yuan a day while deducting two hundred for the Essence Blood she needed.
  • Su Yuan gave Xiao Wu a hundred-yuan advance and ordered her to finish roasting geese before the canteen opened.

Ch. 174The Yuanshi Industrial Park Is Seriously Dark!

Su Yuan built Primordial Beginning Media by turning Cyber Lifeforms into Zhu Yan Bai Gu Puppet entertainers and driving their livestream careers. After recruiting eight streamers, he promised them freedom once they earned ten million for the Yuan Sect, while planning to keep profiting from their bodies’ upkeep.

  • Su Yuan transformed a sheep into the Zhu Yan Bai Gu Puppet Yang Meier, then recruited her as a delivery streamer and promised her success if she worked hard.
  • Yang Meier debuted as a struggling delivery worker, and Kun-jie, Susu, and other entertainers followed with distinct jobs and livestream niches.
  • Within twenty days, Primordial Beginning Media had signed eight entertainers, whose popularity grew through nonstop streams and collaborations.
  • Su Yuan paid the eight entertainers small bonuses and promised they could own their bodies after earning ten million for the Yuan Sect.
  • Zhu Qingqing questioned whether Su Yuan would truly free them, and Su Yuan explained that maintenance costs would keep the entertainers working to fund their physical bodies.

Ch. 175The Sect System? A Gacha-and-Growth System!

Su Yuan used the performers’ desire to cultivate until he reached Qi Cultivation Peak, then completed the Top 100 Demonic Sect task after a mysterious donor sent gifts to Yang Meier’s livestream. The Sect System reward let him assign ranks to his followers, inspect their loyalty and abilities, and upgrade their abilities with contribution points.

  • Su Yuan cultivated with the Great Desire Immortal Puppet and raised his spiritual energy to 98.5, nearing the limits of Qi Cultivation.
  • Su Yuan checked the Top 100 Demonic Sect task and saw that follower count and Yuan Sect renown had exceeded their targets while the Breakout Index was nearly complete.
  • Qiu sent Yang Meier five Star Destroyers during her livestream, pushing the Breakout Index past its target.
  • Su Yuan completed the task and received the Sect System, which displayed a hierarchy of Yuan Sect positions that he could fill.
  • Su Yuan read that the system could reveal followers’ loyalty and abilities and let him upgrade their abilities with contribution points.

Ch. 176You Won’t Even Call Me “Sect Leader”!

Su Yuan appointed Yuan Sect’s officers and strengthened Xiao Kong and Wu Ziying by having them drink from the Eight Treasures Merit Pool. After Taihua Tianji returned, he warned Su Yuan that Taihua City would host the Ten Great Preparatory Classes, then learned Su Yuan had turned his eight demonic puppets into popular streamers.

  • Su Yuan inspected Chen Nuoyi, Yin Qiyue, Chu Lanxi, Xiao Kong, and Wu Ziying’s ability panels, assigned sect positions, and planned to use competition and contribution points to develop Yuan Sect.
  • Su Yuan persuaded Wu Ziying to join Yuan Sect, and she drank from the Eight Treasures Merit Pool, gaining a dramatic increase in physical strength and speed.
  • After Xiao Kong reluctantly called Su Yuan “Sect Leader” and joined Yuan Sect, Su Yuan upgraded Xiao Kong’s Yin Fire Meridian with the pool’s spiritual liquid, greatly strengthening his flames.
  • Half a month later, Taihua Tianji returned to teach and discovered Taihua Yu Xi playing with Xiao Wu, Su Yuan’s demonic puppet.
  • Taihua Tianji told Su Yuan that Taihua City would host the Ten Great Preparatory Classes and warned him to hide the Zhu Yan Bai Gu Puppet before visitors arrived.
  • Su Yuan revealed that all eight puppets had become streamers with more than two hundred thousand genuine fans, leaving Taihua Tianji exasperated.
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