Chapter Summaries

Su Yuan’s redesigned Sky-Opening Bead restored Iron Mountain Pigs’ ancestral bloodlines, but True Person Qiu refused to approve its public sale because it was a Demonic Dao Magic Treasure. Su Yuan secretly arranged to sell it through Boss Cai, shared the refining method with Yuan Sect members, and then met Qi Hanyua, whose replicated Nine-Turn Golden Core recipes gave him new Devilish Dao knowledge.

• Zhang Baiyi’s perfect-grade Sky-Opening Bead helped two Iron Mountain Pigs break through, impressing Boss Cai and earning an offer of five thousand per bead.
• Su Yuan tested his improved Sky-Opening Bead, and all three Iron Mountain Pigs broke through and regained traits of their ancestral bloodline.
• True Person Qiu warned Boss Cai not to buy Su Yuan’s Demonic Dao Magic Treasure, but Su Yuan secretly contacted Boss Cai and planned to sell the beads for twenty thousand each.
• Su Yuan taught Chen Nuoyi and other Yuan Sect members how to refine the improved beads, while Zhang Baiyi left believing Su Yuan would compete with him using authentic Sky-Opening Beads.
• Qi Hanyua gave Su Yuan three replicated Pill Recipes that together reproduced about half the effects of a Nine-Turn Golden Core, and Su Yuan’s Deceive Art Physique transformed them into Devilish Dao knowledge.

Su Yuan revised Qi Hanyua’s pill recipes to cut ingredient costs, then used managed training to restore her loyalty and awaken her Wuji talent. He submitted the original and revised recipes for review, but only pills made with the originals were approved for sale.

• Su Yuan replaced many expensive herbal ingredients in Qi Hanyua’s three recipes with farm-raised spirit-beast ingredients, leaving her discouraged and dropping her loyalty to 1%.
• Yin Qiyue arrived, and Qi Hanyua’s excitement at meeting her idol helped Su Yuan persuade her that the Yuan Sect needed her as its Pill Hall master.
• Su Yuan offered Qi Hanyua managed training to help her surpass Zhang Baiyi and Xi Yu, then used Hypnosis Sword Qi to put her through an intense two-hour session.
• Qi Hanyua improved her cultivation, awakened her Wuji talent, and became dazedly enthusiastic about managed training as her loyalty rose to 40%.
• Su Yuan submitted the original and revised pill recipes to the Pill Administration Department and True Person Qiu, and learned that only pills made with the original recipes could be sold as usual.

Su Yuan established Yuan Sect's Pill Hall using a legal, low-cost demonic-path Three-Turn Golden Pill formula and began recruiting pill refiners. He offered former second-grade pill master Ji Youzhi a base salary of three hundred thousand, leaving Ji stunned.

• Su Yuan explained how Yuan Sect's approved Three-Turn Golden Pills could undercut illegal demonic-pill businesses through better effects and cheaper flesh-and-blood ingredients.
• Su Yuan and Yuan Sect's free members built a pill factory in an industrial park north of Taihua City, secured its licenses, and prepared to recruit pill refiners.
• Qi Hanyua doubted they could recruit skilled pill refiners quickly, but Su Yuan said he already had their contact information.
• Ji Youzhi, a Foundation Establishment pill refiner formerly with Whitecloud Pill Sect, arrived at the factory to discuss work.
• Su Yuan asked about Ji Youzhi's former salary of five hundred thousand, then offered him a base salary of three hundred thousand.

Su Yuan recruited twenty unemployed alchemists into the Yuan Sect’s Pill Hall by offering low-cost benefits, then revealed that the workshop would focus on demonic pills. The chapter ended when Chen Nuoyi brought talented Preparatory Class students to work for credits.

• Su Yuan persuaded Alchemist Ji to join the Pill Hall with spirit stones, meat, and Three-Revolution Golden Pills as benefits.
• Former Nine Dragon Hall alchemists arrived one by one and accepted jobs at the Yuan Sect despite realizing Su Yuan had taken down their former employer.
• Su Yuan showed the twenty recruits righteous and demonic pill recipes and told them to focus on refining the demonic pills.
• Qi Hanyua asked Su Yuan about the remaining ten positions, but Chen Nuoyi arrived with alchemy-talented students who said they had come to earn credits.

Su Yuan recruited six Preparatory Class students to make orthodox Three-Turn Golden Pills while his middle-aged alchemists produced the more profitable demonic version, which quickly drove his credit total to 1,990. When the students complained that orthodox-pill sales were weak, Su Yuan recognized that they wanted to switch to demonic pills and welcomed them to the Yuan Sect’s legal demonic path.

• Su Yuan recruited six Preparatory Class students by promising that pill profits would convert to credits, then secured their agreement to return seventy percent of those profits to the Yuan Sect.
• Su Yuan livestreamed the orthodox Three-Turn Golden Pills while Chen Nuoyi and the Yuan Sect’s promoters advertised them, but low demand and rival factories’ bad reviews hampered sales.
• Su Yuan sent Yang Wentao to replace the Blue Pills with discounted Demonic Version Three-Turn Golden Pills, and sales surged, raising Su Yuan’s credits to 1,990 alongside his other earnings.
• Su Yuan’s associates and staff also earned credits through family connections, sect missions, wages, and dividends.
• The six students asked Su Yuan how to improve their weak orthodox-pill sales, and he identified their desire to switch to demonic pills and told them the Yuan Sect was already a legal demonic sect.

Su Yuan and the Preparatory Class students took Nine Li General Sect’s grueling willpower exam, where Wu Ziying impressed True Person You. True Person You tried to recruit her, but Su Yuan warned her about the sect’s career prospects, leaving Long Wentao worried that bodyguard work might be his future.

• Su Yuan and the Preparatory Class students entered the Tai Xu Illusion Realm for an exam simulating extreme environments, and Wu Ziying passed despite enduring twice the pain through Su Yuan’s technique.
• True Person You fixated on Wu Ziying’s performance, then ordered Su Yuan to retake the exam for cheating; Su Yuan passed again on his own.
• True Person You offered to take Wu Ziying as his disciple, but she said she wanted to ask Su Yuan before deciding.
• Su Yuan advised Wu Ziying that Nine Li General Sect graduates had limited options if they failed to become officers, citing Long Wentao’s security and bodyguard jobs.
• Wu Ziying postponed her decision to focus on her studies, and Long Wentao asked True Person You whether he might be stuck working as a bodyguard after graduation.

Zhang Baiyi secretly followed Su Yuan to investigate the source of his rising credits and discovered his hidden alchemy operation and continued production of demonic Sky-Opening Beads. After witnessing Su Yuan sell the beads to Boss Cai, Zhang Baiyi tried to leave, but Su Yuan revealed that he had noticed him.

• Zhang Baiyi suspected Su Yuan was secretly earning credits through demonic dealings and followed him to the Yuan Sect Pill Hall using an Invisibility Talisman.
• Zhang Baiyi watched Su Yuan direct Qi Hanyua and the others in a public-facing pill-making livestream, then saw them enter a hidden workshop where alchemists refined pills from spirit-beast flesh and blood.
• Su Yuan identified female Green Bamboo Rat kidneys as the cause of a defective batch and personally refined ten flawless Three-Turn Golden Elixirs.
• Zhang Baiyi followed Su Yuan into another secret chamber and discovered six demonic Sky-Opening Beads absorbing yin, blood, and resentment; Su Yuan disguised them as ordinary beads.
• Zhang Baiyi followed Su Yuan to a deserted area near Boss Cai's Iron Mountain Pig breeding base and watched Boss Cai buy the beads.
• As Zhang Baiyi began to withdraw, Su Yuan called him out for watching and leaving without saying goodbye.

Su Yuan exposed Zhang Baiyi’s attempt to spy on him and tried to recruit him into the Yuan Sect. After Zhang Baiyi learned that True Person Qiu knew about Su Yuan’s crimes and chose to ignore them, he abandoned the righteous path and agreed to join.

• Su Yuan revealed that he had detected Zhang Baiyi’s invisibility and had been monitoring him throughout Taihua City.
• Su Yuan offered Zhang Baiyi a place in the Yuan Sect, but Zhang Baiyi initially refused and urged him to return to the righteous path.
• Su Yuan claimed that True Person Qiu knew about his activities and told Zhang Baiyi to send his evidence to his master.
• True Person Qiu replied, “Leave him be,” confirming that he would turn a blind eye to Su Yuan’s deeds.
• Su Yuan tempted Zhang Baiyi with credits and control of an illegal artifact-forging business, and Zhang Baiyi agreed to join the Yuan Sect.

Su Yuan recruited Zhang Baiyi into Yuan Sect and turned his artifact-refining talent toward mass-producing and selling the underground market’s best-selling demonic magic treasures. With Chu Lanxi handling sales, the new products quickly became a lucrative business, while Zhang Baiyi tried to keep his involvement secret.

• Su Yuan discovered Zhang Baiyi’s artifact-refining talent and persuaded him to use his Mysterious Arts of Hundred Crafts to mass-produce affordable magic treasures for Yuan Sect.
• Su Yuan revealed that Chen Nuoyi and the authorities had taken down Yiwu Small Magic Treasures, then appointed Zhang Baiyi head of Yuan Sect’s Artifact Refining Hall.
• Chen Nuoyi brought the factory’s best-selling adult magic treasures, and Su Yuan proposed improving them with flesh-and-blood material; Zhang Baiyi reluctantly agreed to make them for academic credits.
• Su Yuan secured approval for several new versions, and Zhang Baiyi began producing up to fifty magic treasures simultaneously with his Mysterious Craft Hands.
• Su Yuan assigned sales to Chu Lanxi, who mobilized his underlings to fill Yiwu Small Magic Treasures’ sales channels and sell more than three hundred Holy Grails and Jade Dragons on the first day.
• Su Yuan earned 240 academic credits from the first day’s sales, while Zhang Baiyi and Chu Lanxi each earned 180.

Su Yuan upgraded Yin Qiyue’s Thousand-Note Spiritual Root into a gold-grade Immortal Spiritual Root and planned to help her enter the Preparatory Class. He left her safe from his temptation to drain the new talent, while hoping she would soon establish her foundation.

• Su Yuan considered Yin Qiyue’s talent and contribution points after Chen Nuoyi suggested that her aunt deserved a chance to join the Preparatory Class.
• Su Yuan summoned Yin Qiyue to the swimming hall and offered to upgrade her talent and recommend her for the Preparatory Class.
• Yin Qiyue agreed to serve the Yuan Sect, and Su Yuan spent her contribution points to upgrade her Thousand-Note Spiritual Root into an Immortal Spiritual Root of Voice.
• Su Yuan considered draining Yin Qiyue’s new spiritual root but reassured her that her duties would remain unchanged and focused on getting her admitted to the Preparatory Class.
• Su Yuan told Chen Nuoyi that he had protected Taihua City through the strength of his willpower.

Yin Qiyue joined the Preparatory Class and became True Man Qin’s disciple, while True Man Bao set the students a twelve-day task to double their starting capital. Su Yuan persuaded classmates to invest in the Yuan Sect and led them toward a new opportunity tied to the Enforcement Bureau’s investigation of Demonic Cult Pet Love TV.

• True Man Qin accepted Yin Qiyue as a transfer student, taught her the Thousand Faces Immortal Sect’s introductory material, and took her as a disciple.
• True Man Bao assigned the students a twelve-day finance task: raise one million and more than double its value through investments or businesses in Taihua City.
• Su Yuan urged his classmates to invest in the Yuan Sect, and Wang Qiu, Chen Nuoyi, Wu Ziying, and other Yuan Sect members contributed, bringing the investment total to twenty million.
• Long Wentao questioned how Su Yuan could expand the Yuan Sect’s businesses quickly, and Su Yuan promised to show the class a new market after one afternoon’s work.
• Chen Nuoyi saw that Su Yuan was messaging the Enforcement Bureau about Demonic Cult Pet Love TV’s headquarters and leader, and realized he planned to replace underground cults with Yuan Sect businesses.

Su Yuan and Xi Yu uncovered Pet Love TV’s Spirit Beast abuse operation, including a hidden basement where Demon Lords were trying to breed iron-eating beasts. Xi Yu invested in Su Yuan’s plan to care for the rescued beasts, and he tried to persuade the other students to invest by promising the breeding base could turn a profit.

• Su Yuan led his angel investors to Pet Love TV’s factory, where Xi Yu discovered Spirit Beasts suffering in cramped cages and Su Yuan explained the company’s abusive, cost-cutting business.
• Su Yuan detected a second basement level, found an iron-eating beast being electrocuted and a female iron-eating beast in a cage, and alerted the Enforcement Bureau.
• After the criminals were taken away, Xi Yu adopted the rescued Spirit Beasts and invested ten million in Su Yuan’s Yuan Sect, raising its total investment to thirty million.
• Su Yuan argued that pregnancy and the future value of iron-eating beast cubs could help the Yuan Sect meet its twelve-day valuation goal, then promised the Spirit Beasts would be pregnant by the deadline.
• Only three students invested despite Su Yuan’s confident pitch, leaving him frustrated about his credibility.

Su Yuan used the raid on AAA Premium Meat Wholesale to secure cheap feed for Yuan Sect and attract more investors, then revealed the Loan Gang as another target. He planned to recruit indebted people for Yuan Sect and asked the students whether their Lineages had elderly members nearing the end of their lives with little savings.

• Su Yuan sent Chen Nuoyi to Boss Cai’s farm with the Spirit Beasts and planned to use gray pills to breed them rapidly.
• Su Yuan and his investors arrived after the Enforcement Bureau and other agencies had dismantled AAA Premium Meat Wholesale; he bought the cult’s suppliers’ second-rate meat for animal feed.
• Seven more students invested in Yuan Sect, bringing total investment to forty million yuan.
• Su Yuan told the students that the Loan Gang was one of Taihua City’s remaining illegal Demonic Cults and explained its lending hierarchy and the borrowers trapped in debt.
• Su Yuan said he wanted to use capable, blacklisted borrowers as Yuan Sect workers, then asked whether the students’ Lineages had elderly members near death with little savings.

Master Gao tricked an old man into taking out a loan, unaware that Loan Gang employees across Taihua City were all approving fraudulent loans at once. The loans proved impossible to recover, and after the gang’s elders failed to confront the powerful lineages behind the borrowers, Loan Gang went bankrupt.

• Master Gao beat and berated a debtor, then persuaded an old man to borrow one hundred thousand yuan for his grandson’s body-tempering pills.
• Master Gao discovered hundreds of colleagues had approved loans without verifying assets, and the Nine-Loan Elders ordered Loan Gang members to recover the money.
• Master Gao learned the old man was an empty-nest senior with no children, and the address he gave was fake.
• Loan Gang members found that the borrowers’ surnames linked them to powerful lineages, and three Nine-Loan Elders were beaten and driven away when they tried to collect.
• After discovering the borrowers had no assets or pensions, Loan Gang struggled for three days before its funding chain broke and the gang went bankrupt.

Su Yuan and the Preparatory Class students destroyed the Loan Gang, acquired its debts for the Yuan Sect, and expanded the sect’s businesses. As Su Yuan struggled to find a way to eliminate Taihua City’s final Demonic Cult, the system revealed that the Yuan Sect could recruit the Black Labor Cult instead.

• Su Yuan organized the students’ elders to scam the Loan Gang’s members, causing the gang to collapse under pressure from their families.
• The Yuan Sect bought the borrowers’ debts cheaply, canceled their interest in exchange for employment, and gained hundreds of workers and more than a hundred million in investments.
• Su Yuan established production lines for pills and improved Sky-Opening Beads, while the Yuan Sect’s valuation and the students’ investments grew.
• Su Yuan learned the True Martial Sacred Sect’s Dragon Foundation Divine Strength and Thousand Tendon Staff Technique with a double comprehension boost.
• Long Wentao asked Su Yuan about eliminating Taihua City’s last Demonic Cult, and Su Yuan explained the difficulties of taking down the Black Labor Cult.
• The system told Su Yuan that the Yuan Sect had met the prerequisites to recruit the Black Labor Cult, which would count as eliminating it and taking over its business.

Su Yuan led the Yuan Sect to the Black Labor Cult’s construction site and offered the workers a choice between surrender and a contest of construction skills. The workers accepted the challenge, and Su Yuan assigned Xiong Wei and Wu Ziying to compete despite their protests that they lacked experience.

• Su Yuan’s classmates trained in Dragon Foundation Divine Strength and the Thousand-Tendon Staff Technique, and most reached entry level before joining him on an expedition.
• Song Shan told the Black Labor Cult workers that the Yuan Sect had defeated five rival cults and become Taihua City’s underground power.
• Su Yuan offered the Black Labor Cult recruitment or destruction, but the workers rejected the idea of surrendering to students.
• Su Yuan proposed a contest in foundation laying and rebar assembly, and Song Shan chose Lu Da and Wu Er to represent the Black Labor Cult.
• Su Yuan assigned Xiong Wei to foundation laying and Wu Ziying to rebar assembly, claiming their martial arts had prepared them for the work.

Su Yuan used Xiong Wei and Wu Ziying’s demonic arts to win two construction contests against the Black Labor Cult and secure its surrender. Song Shan then helped Su Yuan subdue the workers for forced certification training, completing the “King of the Underground” quest.

• Xiong Wei buried himself as the final foundation pile, used Dragon Foundation Divine Strength to withstand the tests, and defeated Lu Da.
• Wu Ziying used Thousand Tendon Staff Technique to assemble steel reinforcement faster than Wu Er and won the second match.
• Wu Er accepted the bet’s outcome, and Song Shan agreed to make the Black Labor Cult an affiliated sect of the Yuan Sect.
• Su Yuan promised not to interfere with the Labor Cult’s work but required its members to complete standardized training and construction certification.
• Song Shan subdued the 107 migrant workers and made them inhale Hypnosis Sword Qi so Su Yuan could begin forced-study training.
• Su Yuan took over the Black Labor Cult’s business and completed the “King of the Underground” quest.

After completing the Underground King task, Su Yuan upgraded Finger Spirit and Finger Command, gaining the abilities to refine human pills and solidify a target’s fate for a day. He focused on developing the Yuan Sect as the Preparatory Class finished its lessons, and the twelve-day agreement with True Man Bao came due.

• Su Yuan claimed the prismatic Underground King title and received two opportunities to upgrade demonic techniques.
• Su Yuan upgraded Finger Spirit and gained Human Pill, which let him extract a human cultivator’s ability essence for his own use while leaving them exhausted.
• Su Yuan upgraded Finger Command and gained Fate Solidification, which could preserve a target’s fate until the next day.
• True Man Jin taught the Preparatory Class beast-taming lessons for three days while Su Yuan focused on developing the Yuan Sect.
• The Preparatory Class completed its lessons on the Ten Great Immortal Sects, and the twelve-day agreement with True Man Bao arrived.

True Man Bao announced the Preparatory Class’s investment returns and told the students to choose their majors and Foundation Establishment Techniques. Su Yuan discovered that the Demon Purging Primordial Scripture could exploit Yuan Sect’s demonic qi, and he chose it—and Evil Slaying Sword Sect—after Chen Nuoyi chose the same sect so they could stay classmates.

• True Man Bao showed the investment rankings, awarding every student at least two thousand credits and Su Yuan seven thousand, then announced that the students should choose a major and Foundation Establishment Technique.
• Su Yuan browsed the catalog and found the Demon Purging Primordial Scripture, a technique that strengthened its practitioner’s Dao Foundation by absorbing demonic qi.
• Su Yuan realized Yuan Sect’s followers could supply the demonic qi he needed and considered choosing the scripture over Wanbao Tower’s wealth-focused Wanbao Record.
• Chen Nuoyi showed Su Yuan that she planned to choose Heavenly Sword Unity at Evil Slaying Sword Sect and asked which sect he intended to attend.
• Su Yuan exchanged for Heavenly Sword Unity for Chen Nuoyi and chose the Demon Purging Primordial Scripture, deciding to attend Evil Slaying Sword Sect with her.

Su Yuan strengthened Chen Nuoyi’s Dragon King Bloodline, awakening a Gold-grade Dragon’s Stomach that let her grow stronger by eating. Back in class, he bought two Non-Attribute Immortal Spiritual Roots, astonishing the other students.

• Su Yuan advised Chen Nuoyi to integrate her Dragon King Bloodline into her Dao Foundation and used his contribution points to strengthen it.
• Chen Nuoyi’s bloodline improved to Gold grade and awakened the Dragon’s Stomach, which could strengthen her body through nourishment and gradually reveal her other dragon abilities.
• Chen Nuoyi ate more than a hundred kilograms of food to complete her evolution, while Su Yuan arranged for Yang Meier to deliver more.
• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi returned to class, where True Man Bao advised the students on choosing Spiritual Roots and warned them not to overspend.
• Su Yuan stunned the class by buying two basic Non-Attribute Immortal Spiritual Roots, then lamented the credits he had spent.