Chapter Summaries

Wang Qiu headed toward Su Yuan expecting his wealth-based cultivation technique to secure victory, but he was distracted by Yang Meier, a Human Puppet working for Su Yuan. After learning she was employed by Primordial Beginning Media, Wang Qiu offered to save her, leaving her tearfully surprised.

• True Man Bao explained that Wang Qiu could convert his self-earned savings, capped at ten million, into financial might and insisted he could defeat Su Yuan.
• The examiners watched as Wang Qiu changed course and landed at a food delivery shop, where he approached Yang Meier, a horned Human Puppet.
• Ye Muyu revealed that Yang Meier's appearance was part of the Night Watchman plan, and True Man Bao insisted Wang Qiu would not be swayed.
• Yang Meier recognized Wang Qiu as her top-ranked supporter after he messaged her, ended her livestream, and asked why she worked for Su Yuan.
• Wang Qiu told Yang Meier he had come to help her and asked whether Su Yuan treated her well, prompting her to ask if he had come to save her.

Wang Qiu spent the exam delay getting close to Yang Meier, only to learn she was Su Yuan’s self-aware puppet and had been ordered to assassinate him. After Yang Meier destroyed her body rather than hurt him, Su Yuan recovered her consciousness and extorted Wang Qiu’s savings, leaving Wang Qiu furious and ready to fight.

• Yang Meier told Wang Qiu that Su Yuan exploited her, and Wang Qiu promised to buy her freedom for ten million yuan.
• Wang Qiu spent the required hour and a half with Yang Meier, taking her to a mall, café, park, and aquarium.
• Yang Meier revealed that she was a puppet ordered to kill Wang Qiu, then stabbed herself rather than attack him.
• Su Yuan arrived and explained that he could restore Yang Meier, but Wang Qiu’s golden attack stopped when Su Yuan warned it could destroy her.
• Su Yuan used the Myriad Soul Banner to recover Yang Meier’s consciousness and demanded ten million yuan to release her.
• Wang Qiu transferred Su Yuan seven million yuan, but Su Yuan refused to free Yang Meier, and Wang Qiu declared he would fight him.

Su Yuan defeated Wang Qiu and kept him motivated to pay for meetings with Yang Meier, while 007 questioned whether the scheme was too cruel. As the exam continued, True Man Bao raged over Wang Qiu’s spending, and rival sect elders counted on Xi Yu and Zhang Baiyi to defeat Su Yuan.

• Wang Qiu attacked Su Yuan without his golden second-stage aura, but Su Yuan caught his punch and defeated him with the Tai Xu Nine Swords.
• Su Yuan reminded Wang Qiu to repay his three-million debt and promised to arrange a meeting with Yang Meier, reigniting Wang Qiu’s resolve to save her.
• Su Yuan praised 007 for securing a ten-million ransom and told her to keep Wang Qiu emotionally invested, while 007 worried that the scheme was hurting him.
• Su Yuan checked the System Panel and confirmed that Wang Qiu had been corrupted by the demonic path.
• True Man Bao berated Wang Qiu for handing over seven million, while the Myriad Beast Demonic Sect elder said Xi Yu and Zhang Baiyi would be able to handle Su Yuan.

Su Yuan sent Xiao Meng and Li Zhengxing to draw out Zhang Baiyi and Xi Yu’s trump cards, but both Night Watchmen lost their fights. Su Yuan arrived and challenged the two prodigies at once, leaving them stunned.

• Su Yuan assigned Li Zhengxing to face Xi Yu and Xiao Meng to face Zhang Baiyi while he handled the other examinees.
• Zhang Baiyi used his self-made talismans and magical treasures to counter Xiao Meng’s abilities and force her to surrender her Night Watchman token.
• Xi Yu revealed that her white cat was a powerful white tiger, which defeated Li Zhengxing after three attacks.
• After defeating their first opponents, Zhang Baiyi and Xi Yu switched opponents and prepared to fight Xiao Meng and Li Zhengxing again.
• Su Yuan arrived and said he would take over, then challenged Zhang Baiyi and Xi Yu to fight him together.

Su Yuan challenged Zhang Baiyi and Xi Yu to debate their Dao Paths instead of fighting, then demonstrated that he could control Zhang Baiyi’s Soul-Shaking Bell by claiming to understand its feelings. After Zhang Baiyi rejected Su Yuan’s offer to teach him artifact crafting, Su Yuan questioned the security of Zhang’s AI-powered talismans and prepared to test whether they could be hacked.

• Su Yuan clarified that he wanted to debate Zhang Baiyi’s artifact crafting and Xi Yu’s Beast Taming rather than face them in combat.
• Su Yuan approached Zhang Baiyi, and the Soul-Shaking Bell failed to attack him when Zhang tried to ring it.
• Su Yuan took the bell, claimed it disliked being touched and wanted to become a flying sword, and persuaded Zhang that understanding treasures mattered more than crafting skill.
• Su Yuan offered Zhang lessons in communicating with treasures and suggested stealing others’ treasures, but Zhang rejected his crooked approach and turned the discussion to talisman-making.
• Zhang Baiyi explained how his AI-enhanced talismans could automatically target enemies, and Su Yuan warned that they might be hacked before producing a silver-white metal rod to test them.

Su Yuan defeated Zhang Baiyi in a debate over talisman-making, then faced Xi Yu after she challenged his beast-taming methods. He combined his eight performers into a towering demonic puppet, leaving Xi Yu and the others stunned.

• Su Yuan demonstrated how the Myriad Soul Banner could seize Zhang Baiyi’s AI-powered spirit talisman, then presented Xiao Meng’s body-inscribed Human Skin Talisman as an alternative.
• Zhang Baiyi recognized the merits of Su Yuan’s methods, admitted defeat, and reconsidered his approach to talisman-making.
• Xi Yu challenged Su Yuan and demanded that he summon his beasts, but Xiao Bai recoiled from the eight performers, whom Su Yuan described as his innovative spirit-beast creations.
• Xi Yu denounced Su Yuan’s methods and called for a fight, so Su Yuan had the eight Zhu Yan Bai Gu Puppets combine into a five-meter-tall monster.
• Zhu Qingqing reacted from inside the Myriad Soul Banner, telling Su Yuan that he was far from divine and no longer close to human.

Su Yuan defeated the visiting examinees Zhang Baiyi and Xi Yu by unnerving Xi Yu with his grotesque fused puppet, then learned that Xi Yu counted as corrupted. The examiners argued over who should claim Su Yuan, and Taihua Tianji defended his talented disciple by boasting about his achievements.

• Su Yuan challenged Xi Yu to fight his fused puppet, but Xi Yu forfeited after seeing it and judging it too dangerous to face.
• Su Yuan explained that he wanted to study Xiao Bai as a top-tier spirit beast, prompting Xi Yu and Xiao Bai to recoil in alarm.
• Su Yuan told Zhang Baiyi and Xi Yu not to challenge any more Night Watchmen, then checked the task and found three of four people corrupted.
• Su Yuan, Li Zhengxing, and Xiao Meng returned to their schools, leaving Zhang Baiyi and Xi Yu behind as the commotion over the match continued.
• True Person Qiu and True Man Jin accused Taihua Tianji of letting Su Yuan corrupt their disciples, while other examiners considered taking Su Yuan for themselves.
• Taihua Tianji realized the examiners coveted Su Yuan's talents and boasted that his disciple could defeat multiple opponents.

As the final batch of examinees entered Taihua City, Su Yuan launched a surprise attack that eliminated nine of them, but Xiong Wei emerged unharmed from the wreckage. Su Yuan sent a Hundred-Ton King at him, only to discover that Xiong Wei could redirect the impact through martial skill.

• True Man Sun bragged that Xiong Wei would be the only examinee able to defeat Su Yuan, and the other examiners acknowledged that Xiong Wei was a serious threat.
• Su Yuan prepared to face Xiong Wei as the ninth and final batch of examinees set out for Taihua City.
• Su Yuan ambushed the batch by hacking the Flying Boat's controls and detonating its spirit stones, eliminating nine examinees.
• Xiong Wei tore his way out of the wreckage unharmed, extinguished its flames with his breath, and threw it to the roadside.
• Su Yuan sent nearby Hundred-Ton Kings to attack Xiong Wei, who spun with the first impact and redirected its force without injury.

Su Yuan tested his familiars and techniques against Xiong Wei, but Xiong Wei’s Black Mountain Holy Body shrugged off their attacks and let him defeat every Night Watchman except Su Yuan. After Su Yuan crowned Xiong Wei the Federation’s Strongest High Schooler with a special cape, he lured him toward a shower at the school’s Spiritual Pool, leaving his next move unclear.

• Xiong Wei endured the Hundred-Ton Kings’ impacts and tore apart Su Yuan’s giant puppet despite its attacks and Abyssal Spiritual Power.
• Su Yuan deduced that Xiong Wei’s earthy-yellow defense drew on Earth Vein Power, then persuaded him to defeat the other Night Watchmen first.
• Xiong Wei defeated Xiao Meng, Yun Ling, Li Zhengxing, Wu Ziying, Xiao Kong, Chu Lanxi, and Chen Nuoyi, collecting their tokens.
• Su Yuan returned with a custom cape proclaiming Xiong Wei the Federation’s Strongest High Schooler, and the other examinees joined in declaring him the strongest.
• When Xiong Wei reached for the cape, Su Yuan pulled it away and suggested he shower at the school’s Spiritual Pool first.

Su Yuan lured Xiong Wei into a trap by serving him a feast and inviting him to bathe in the Eight Treasures Merit Pool. Xiong Wei was overwhelmed by a living blood-red cloak and the pool’s other inhabitants, and the water turned bloody as he lost consciousness.

• Su Yuan persuaded Xiong Wei to eat a feast at the school cafeteria, and Xiong Wei ate nearly every dish after watching Su Yuan and the others eat first.
• Su Yuan led Xiong Wei to the Eight Treasures Merit Pool, where Xiong Wei entered the water and put on the blood-red cloak.
• The cloak tightened around Xiong Wei and its tentacles absorbed power from the Spiritual Pool, preventing him from breaking free.
• The eight artists under Primordial Beginning Media rose from the pool and forced Xiong Wei underwater as the water and food in his stomach churned against him.
• Xiong Wei lost consciousness after struggling for three minutes, seeing the Spiritual Pool turn deep red.

Su Yuan subdued Xiong Wei and secured victory for the Night Watchmen, while Taihua Tianji persuaded the examiners to give the eliminated outside candidates another chance. Su Yuan received two new System attributes, then learned he had been named Class Monitor of the Preparatory Class.

• Su Yuan used the Blood Beast cloak, the Eight Treasures Merit Pool, and hidden demonic creations to bring Xiong Wei under control and make him concede to the Night Watchmen.
• Taihua Tianji defended Su Yuan’s victory to the examiners and proposed a new test for the eliminated outside candidates, which they accepted.
• The examination ended, and Su Yuan claimed rewards that gave him the Deceive Martial Physique and the Deceive Art Physique.
• The examiners announced that the Night Watchmen had passed and the outside candidates would get another chance to compete.
• True Man Sun named Su Yuan the top candidate and appointed him Class Monitor, leaving Su Yuan surprised by the news.

Su Yuan accepted the Class Monitor position for its access to mentors, then used the publicity around his evaluation victory to promote himself and his businesses. Ten days later, the Preparatory Class began, where students learned they had to earn a sect mentor’s approval through tasks and credits, and Su Yuan found a task list that seemed oddly suited to him.

• Taihua Tianji explained that Su Yuan’s Class Monitor duties involved supervising students, while the position’s hidden benefit was access to mentors, and Su Yuan agreed to serve.
• After the examiners explained the additional examinations, Su Yuan livestreamed to promote himself as news spread that all Taihua High School examinees had passed.
• Reporters and school administrators gathered to celebrate, and Su Yuan used his newfound fame to publicize Yuan Sect and Primordial Beginning Media.
• Two days later, the additional exam results were released, and the Preparatory Class announced it would begin in ten days as a new campus rose in downtown Taihua City.
• On December 17, Su Yuan and the other students attended their first class, where Ye Muyu explained that students needed to earn a mentor’s approval by completing sect tasks and accumulating credits.
• Su Yuan inspected the Evil Slaying Sword Sect’s tasks, including slaying evil demons and heretics and generating income, and wondered whether he could exploit the combat task.

Su Yuan learned about the Preparatory Class’s credit system and studied Guantian Pavilion’s introductory arts, discovering that Qi Observation resembled a demonic technique and that Zhu Qingqing could master Thousand Evolutions for the Myriad Soul Banner. After receiving surveillance authority as Class Monitor, he discovered the glasses could reveal the instructors’ monitoring activity, leaving him excited by the chance to evade their scrutiny.

• Ye Muyu explained the credit tasks, costs of Foundation Establishment Techniques and Artificial Immortal Spiritual Roots, graduation requirements, and the class schedule.
• During Guantian Pavilion’s lesson, Su Yuan recognized similarities between Qi Observation and Demonic Cultivation Technique · Finger Command, while Zhu Qingqing realized Thousand Evolutions could coordinate the Cyber Vengeful Souls in the Myriad Soul Banner.
• Ye Muyu gave Su Yuan surveillance glasses and authority to monitor his classmates as Class Monitor.
• Su Yuan watched Guantian Pavilion candidates attempt management tasks through part-time jobs and flyer distribution, earning almost no credits.
• Zhu Qingqing told Su Yuan that the instructors’ surveillance glasses shared a channel, and Su Yuan realized he could use it to track the examiners.

After earning credits for mastering cultivation arts, Su Yuan learned Demon-Illuminating Wisdom Eye and decided to use it to target illegal demonic factions in Taihua City. He told Chen Nuoyi that he had already planted contacts in those groups and called his distributor, Yang Wentao, to close the net.

• Ye Muyu tested the class on Qi-Observation Art and Thousand Illusions Art, awarding Chen Nuoyi 150 credits and Su Yuan 250 credits for their progress.
• Taihua Tianji taught the class Evil-Slaying Sword Qi and Demon-Illuminating Wisdom Eye; Su Yuan struggled with the former but saw the latter could help expose demonic activity.
• Taihua Tianji urged the students to find and report illegal demonic factions in Taihua City, while Su Yuan decided to hunt them down for credits and to eliminate market rivals.
• Su Yuan reassured Chen Nuoyi that his own demonic businesses were harmless and revealed that he had already used contacts to stir up trouble among illegal factions.
• Chen Nuoyi recognized that Su Yuan’s contacts were his secret-pill distributors, and Su Yuan corrected her before calling Yang Wentao.

Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi moved against Nine Dragon Hall after learning it was undermining the Yuan Sect’s secret medicine business. They discovered its pill-refining hideout and planned to lure out its Sect Leader after sending the laid-off alchemists home and setting fire to the pill warehouse.

• Yang Wentao reported that Nine Dragon Hall’s powerful pills had slowed sales of the Yuan Sect’s products and gave Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi the address for Wang Chao’s meeting.
• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi watched Wang Chao exchange money and pills with a black-clad Nine Dragon Hall member, then tracked the member to a printing factory.
• Su Yuan used the factory’s cameras to discover a hidden basement where laid-off alchemists refined Nine Dragon Hall’s pills.
• Su Yuan cut the factory’s spiritual-energy supply so the alchemists would be sent home before the Yuan Sect attacked.
• Su Yuan set fire to Nine Dragon Hall’s pill warehouse to force its Sect Leader to come investigate.

Su Yuan brought down Nine Dragon Hall by luring out its young hall master, extracting information, and coordinating the Enforcement Bureau’s raid. He concealed his role in hiding the medicinal ingredients, then turned them into a powerful Nine-Turn Golden Pill and planned to expand the Yuan Sect’s pill business.

• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi captured Yu Tai, and Su Yuan hypnotized him to reveal information about other underground Demonic Cults and hide Nine Dragon Hall’s medicinal ingredients.
• Su Yuan alerted Taihua Tianji, who passed the report to the Enforcement Bureau; officers arrested Nine Dragon Hall’s core executives, while the instructors praised Su Yuan’s humane conduct.
• Captain Liang reported that Yu Tai had hidden the ingredients and seemed to have had his memories altered, prompting Taihua Tianji to suspect Su Yuan while Su Yuan denied involvement.
• The Enforcement Bureau recovered the ingredients, and Taihua Tianji concluded that Su Yuan had probably played no part in their disappearance.
• Su Yuan secretly took samples of the ingredients and used Demonic Cultivation Technique · Finger Spirit to create the Nine-Turn Golden Pill, then planned to recruit alchemists to produce lower-strength versions.

After reporting Nine Dragon Hall, Su Yuan received a new mission to eliminate and annex Taihua City's unprotected Demonic Cults and claim their industries. As Xuan Yi Heavenly Sect's course began, Su Yuan asked Zhang Baiyi to introduce him to a talented alchemist, who turned out to be a girl.

• Su Yuan explained to Chen Nuoyi that the Yuan Sect could earn credits by turning its secret medicines into legitimate products with help from an alchemy prodigy.
• Su Yuan received the King of the Underground mission to eliminate six Demonic Cults and seize their industries, with rewards including two technique upgrades and a title.
• Su Yuan passed the Demon-Illuminating Wisdom Eye assessment and reached seven hundred credits, far ahead of Chen Nuoyi and the other students.
• Zhang Baiyi challenged Su Yuan to a credit competition during Xuan Yi Heavenly Sect's course, and Su Yuan asked him to recommend a skilled alchemist.
• Zhang Baiyi pointed out his former classmate in the back of the classroom and said she was a talented alchemist with some personality issues; Su Yuan mistook her for a boy before Zhang corrected him.

Su Yuan recruited Qi Hanyua as Yuan Sect’s Pill Hall Master and discovered her extraordinary Iridescent talent, Wuji, which let her improve without bottlenecks. During class, he absorbed artifact-refining knowledge through his deceptive physique, then asked Qi Hanyua to provide a Pill Recipe for Yuan Sect’s planned shop, leaving her wary of the sect.

• Su Yuan invited Qi Hanyua to join Yuan Sect, and she accepted, so he appointed her Pill Hall Master.
• Su Yuan checked the Sect System and found Qi Hanyua had the Purple Acquired Pill Saint ability, the Iridescent Wuji talent, and only 10% loyalty.
• True Person Qiu assigned the students introductory texts and a three-day test, while Su Yuan studied artifact refining by converting orthodox knowledge into demonic knowledge.
• True Person Qiu told the class to refine a Sky-Opening Bead for the test, and Su Yuan studied its blueprint.
• Su Yuan, Chen Nuoyi, and Wu Ziying asked Qi Hanyua for a legal Pill Recipe for Yuan Sect’s planned shop, making her suspect she had joined a scheme and dropping her loyalty to 1%.

Su Yuan asked Qi Hanyua to reverse-engineer the Nine-Revolution Golden Pill, and she agreed in exchange for an introduction to Primordial Beginning Media’s performers. Wu Ziying tested the pill, gaining tremendous physical strength but behaving strangely for twelve hours before returning to normal.

• Su Yuan persuaded Qi Hanyua to try reconstructing the Pill Recipe and promised to help her debut as a performer if she succeeded.
• Qi Hanyua examined a Nine-Revolution Golden Pill and asked Su Yuan to test it on a Qi Cultivator while she recorded its effects.
• Su Yuan convinced Wu Ziying to swallow the pill, and its medicinal power strengthened her body and made her ravenously hungry.
• During the pill’s twelve-hour effect, Wu Ziying made grand, oddly obvious declarations, leading Su Yuan to keep her under observation.
• After the effect wore off, Wu Ziying said she had felt unusually intelligent, and Qi Hanyua recorded that the pill made its test subject mistakenly believe she was very smart.

Su Yuan learned that the Nine-Turn Golden Pill greatly strengthened Wu Ziying and asked Qi Hanyua to develop recipes for three weaker pills. He made a Sky-Opening Bead with Chen Nuoyi and Wu Ziying, then joined True Person Qiu’s class assessment at an Iron Mountain Pig farm, where Zhang Baiyi aimed to win the farm’s sales channel.

• Wu Ziying reported that one night after taking the Nine-Turn Golden Pill had improved her more than ten days of training, and Su Yuan concluded that the pill was too powerful to sell as is.
• Su Yuan gave Qi Hanyua another Nine-Turn Golden Pill and promised to bring Yin Qiyue to meet her in forty-eight hours, while Qi agreed to work on recipes for three degraded pills.
• Su Yuan suggested making Sky-Opening Beads with Chen Nuoyi and Wu Ziying, but Chen noticed that his bead was absorbing mist from the Eight Treasures Merit Pool.
• True Person Qiu tested the students who had made Sky-Opening Beads by taking them to Cai Yuan’s Iron Mountain Pig farm, where Cai offered to buy beads from the best student artisans.
• Zhang Baiyi told Su Yuan that he was determined to win the farm’s Sky-Opening Bead sales channel.