Chapter Summaries

Su Yuan survived Blood Soul True Monarch’s attacks, absorbed the Blood Sacrifice Ritual’s power, and forged the Crown of Corruption into a God-Made Outer Core. After his new undying body let him withstand Blood Soul True Monarch’s devastating punch, Su Yuan escaped back to the Yaksa.

• Blood Soul True Monarch tried to consume Su Yuan with Black Mud, but Su Yuan devoured it and advanced toward Foundation Establishment Peak as the Blood Sacrifice Ritual drained the Blood God Cult’s Golden Core Cultivators.
• Blood Soul True Monarch froze space around Su Yuan, but Su Yuan used Night Raid Must Succeed to escape, sent five hundred thousand civilians into the Jieyue Pearl, and contacted the Guanyu Ship through a Zhu Yan Bai Gu Puppet.
• Su Yuan let Motis be summoned away, then used the remaining ritual power and the Crown of Corruption to forge and swallow a Corrupt Golden Core as Blood Soul True Monarch charged at him.
• Blood Soul True Monarch shattered the Holy Island with a punch, but Su Yuan reassembled his body and revealed that the Corrupt Golden Core had granted him an undying body.
• Su Yuan put on a Communication Headset and vanished, returning to the Yaksa, where he greeted Qin Jin and the blue-haired girl.

Su Yuan returned from the Blood Sacrifice Ritual, explained how he had crippled the Blood God Cult and advanced to Golden Core, then laid out plans to take over the cult and recruit Motis into the Yuan Sect. After Xuan Haoran explained the Dual Golden Core path, Su Yuan prepared to learn how to form an Inner Core alongside his Outer Core.

• Su Yuan arrived before Chen Nuoyi and the others without clothes, then dressed and explained that he had killed the Blood God Cult's leaders, rescued more than five hundred thousand civilians, and weakened Blood Soul True Monarch.
• Su Yuan proposed taking control of the leaderless Blood God Cult, intimidating Blood Soul True Monarch, and brainwashing irredeemable Demonic Cultivators and captured pirates with the Black Mud.
• Su Yuan invited Motis to join the Yuan Sect, and she accepted after he said they wanted to change the world.
• Xuan Haoran explained that Su Yuan could follow the Dual Golden Core path by cultivating an Inner Core while nourishing his Outer Core.
• Su Yuan decided to pursue Dual Golden Cores, and Xuan Haoran began explaining how he should form his Inner Core.

Su Yuan learned that his Golden Core should match his Dao Path, then claimed the Refining Method of the Crown of Corruption and discovered how powerful the complete treasure could be. He began transforming through the Black Apple’s Unique Grade divine ability, which revealed itself as Demonic Firmament Divine Lightning.

• Xuan Haoran explained how Golden Core attributes depended on a cultivator’s spiritual root and compatible Dao, and warned Su Yuan not to break through recklessly.
• Su Yuan claimed the Refining Method of the Crown of Corruption and learned that restoring the treasure required three Nascent Soul Cultivators or the missing parts and a Nascent Soul’s Essence Blood.
• Su Yuan considered obtaining help from Demonic Cults in Cold Plum World rather than sharing the repaired treasure with unfamiliar federation Nascent Souls.
• Su Yuan ate the Black Apple, which transformed his body over twelve hours and granted him the Unique Grade divine ability Demonic Firmament Divine Lightning.

After mastering Demonic Firmament Divine Lightning, Su Yuan discovered that his Dao Path was the Primordial Dao and decided to pursue it by gathering Primordial Essence from ruins scarred by the Immortal Tribulation. He asked Chen Nuoyi to arrange for two secret realms to be brought to him, then offered to teach her his God-Made Outer Core method and lend her the Dragon Emperor Coin.

• Su Yuan learned that Demonic Firmament Divine Lightning could let its user replace Heaven's will within a region, and connected its principles to the Primordial Dao and the Immortal Tribulation.
• Su Yuan chose to pursue the Primordial Dao, identifying the Jinhua Mountain Secret Realm and Dragon King Secret Realm as places where he could find Primordial Tribulation Qi.
• After two days of consolidating his cultivation at Foundation Establishment Peak, Su Yuan left the Meditation Room and told Chen Nuoyi he needed Senior Wuluo's help moving both secret realms to him.
• Su Yuan suggested that Teacher Tai Bai transport the secret realms and said he would search Tianluo World for others, while Chen Nuoyi considered pursuing the Dual Golden Core path herself.
• Su Yuan offered to teach Chen Nuoyi the God-Made Outer Core method and let her fuse with the Dragon Emperor Coin, and she accepted.

Su Yuan returned to Longcheng County after rescuing hundreds of thousands of captives and prepared to recruit the Fengxiang Pirate Group. When he confronted Chen Nuoyi, Ying Ding’s rumor that Su Yuan wanted to make her his wife shaped their staged negotiations.

• Su Yuan freed more than five hundred thousand civilians captured by the Blood God Cult, purged their corruption, and secretly returned to Longcheng County.
• Su Yuan switched identities with Qi Hanyua, who was summoned to the Yaksa before she could explain what she had told County Assistant Ying Ding.
• Ying Ding revealed that he believed Su Yuan wanted to marry Feng Chuanxiang, and Su Yuan decided to use the rumor so Chen Nuoyi could serve openly as his assistant.
• After three days at sea, Su Yuan’s navy intercepted the Yaksa, and Chen Nuoyi prepared to act out a refusal after learning Qi Hanyua had spread the marriage story.
• Ying Ding urged Chen Nuoyi to accept Su Yuan’s proposal, but she refused; Su Yuan then pressured her by asking whether she wanted her family’s names cleared and their remains laid to rest.

Chen Nuoyi agreed to go with Su Yuan so he could reopen the Feng Family case, while Qi Hanyua and Motis joined her aboard his warship. That night, Su Yuan shared hot pot with Chen Nuoyi and Motis, discussed Motis’s exposed identity, and offered Qi Hanyua a different role in Longcheng County.

• Su Yuan persuaded Chen Nuoyi to accompany him by promising to reopen the Feng Family case and clear her family’s name, and she agreed to marry him if he succeeded.
• Qi Hanyua and Motis asked to accompany Chen Nuoyi to Longcheng County, and Chen Nuoyi agreed to keep them safe as they boarded Su Yuan’s warship.
• Qi Junxiang secured the Yaksa and had it follow the warship toward Longcheng County.
• Su Yuan used Night Raid Must Succeed to enter the women’s cabin, where Chen Nuoyi and Motis were waiting with hot pot while Qi Hanyua lay tied up on the bed.
• Motis thanked Su Yuan for helping the Feng Family and asked about the risk of her identity being recognized; Su Yuan said he planned to use her public appearance to draw out Blood Soul True Monarch.
• Qi Hanyua asked about the Immortal Official position Su Yuan had promised, and he offered her the Keeper of the Heavenly Horses role instead.

Su Yuan cleared the Feng Family’s name, prepared for his promotion, and held a lavish wedding with Chen Nuoyi. The wedding was interrupted by Wuluo, who arrived with a gift and killed Blood Soul True Monarch, leaving Su Yuan shaken by her avatar’s power.

• Su Yuan asked Transport Commissioner Fan to reopen the Feng Family case and begin his promotion, and Fan promised to resolve both matters quickly.
• Purple Qi Prefecture cleared the Feng Family’s name, and Motis buried the family’s remains on Wutong Island.
• Su Yuan held a lavish wedding banquet in Longcheng County, while Qi Hanyua guarded the entrance in a guard’s uniform.
• Qi Hanyua challenged an uninvited elderly woman carrying a box, but Su Yuan recognized her as Senior Wuluo, who had come to bring a wedding gift for him and Chen Nuoyi.
• Wuluo seized Blood Soul True Monarch from the sky and split him into two beads, killing him with her avatar’s power.

Su Yuan obtained Blood Soul True Monarch’s Nascent Soul and discovered the location of the Corrupting Heavenly Monarch’s inheritance secret realm beneath Blood Mist Island. After entering the tomb-like realm, he heard a plea for help promising him Human Spirit Transmutation, but chose to wait for Chen Nuoyi to summon him back.

• True Lord Wuluo gave Su Yuan Blood Soul True Monarch’s Nascent Soul and asked him to take care of Qi Hanyua.
• Su Yuan shared hot pot with Qi Hanyua, then spent the following days preparing Ying Ding to take over county affairs.
• Su Yuan used Blood Soul True Monarch’s memories to locate the inheritance secret realm beneath Blood Mist Island and sailed there with Chen Nuoyi, Qi Hanyua, and Motis.
• Su Yuan entered the secret realm through a giant Blood Copper coffin and found a ruined world containing a bone mausoleum.
• The Corrupting Heavenly Monarch’s voice urged Su Yuan to enter the mausoleum and promised to help him reach Human Spirit Transmutation, but Su Yuan ignored it and waited to be summoned back.

Su Yuan cultivated Primordial Essence in the tomb and learned from a corpse that the Primordial Dao could expose False Gods among the ancient Spirit Transcendents. After using his control of the local Heavenly Dao to discover the corpse was an illusion rather than the real Corrupting Heavenly Monarch, he refused to help it escape, and the corpse accepted that he should kill it.

• Su Yuan refined Primordial Tribulation Qi into Primordial Essence and estimated that the tomb held enough to provide half the Dao Essence he needed for the Golden Core Realm.
• A withered corpse crawled from the tomb and revealed that the being behind the Immortal Tribulation had secretly replaced some of the thirty-six Spirit Transcendents with False Gods.
• The corpse explained that cultivating the Primordial Dao could let someone use the Heavenly Dao's perspective to identify False Gods, but the ancient cultivators' Holy Son had been killed before he could investigate.
• The corpse claimed to be the real Corrupting Heavenly Monarch, offered Su Yuan Dao Essence of the Path of Flesh and Blood, and asked him to help absorb the corruption outside.
• Su Yuan used his Primordial Dao divine art to take control of the world's will and recognized that the corpse was illusory, so he refused to help it escape.
• The corpse recalled that the Crown of Corruption had been the core of the formation suppressing it and accepted Su Yuan's decision to kill it.

Su Yuan destroyed the Corrupting Heavenly Monarch’s False God substitute, escaped the Coffin World, and warned his allies that Nascent Soul Cultivators might have been replaced. After True Lord Wuluo confirmed she was safe, the system revealed that Su Yuan’s larger mission was to find at least three moles planted by the Immeasurable Tribulation Venerable.

• Su Yuan repeatedly struck the reviving dried corpse with Demonic Firmament Divine Lightning until the Coffin World’s power ran out and no trace of the corpse remained.
• The Crown of Corruption explained that the Corrupting Heavenly Monarch had sealed away his substitute because its copied vitality made it difficult to kill, and Su Yuan gathered Primordial Essence before finding the exit formation.
• Su Yuan returned to Yuan Sect Headquarters, told Chen Nuoyi, Qi Hanyua, and Motis what he had learned, and asked Qi Hanyua to warn True Lord Wuluo discreetly about possible replacements among Nascent Soul Cultivators.
• True Lord Wuluo arrived at Blood Mist Island, and Su Yuan confirmed that she had not been replaced; she promised to arrange for the Ten Great Heavenly Lords to meet him secretly.
• The system updated Su Yuan’s quest to find at least three moles planted by the Immeasurable Tribulation Venerable and offered a chance to copy one of that being’s abilities as a reward.

Su Yuan accepted the mission to find three moles working for Immeasurable Tribulation Venerable and received True Lord Wuluo’s promise of support and resources. After taking up his post as Cold Plum World’s Heavenly Patrol Envoy, he arrived in Shenghan Prefecture, where officials welcomed him and hoped he could curb their Governor’s abuses.

• Su Yuan accepted the dangerous mole-hunting mission after True Lord Wuluo agreed that he could seek help from a nearby Heavenly Lord.
• True Lord Wuluo promised to send Taihua Tianji and trusted allies with secret realms to help Su Yuan master the Primordial Dao.
• Su Yuan spent ten days refining his powers, received his appointment as Cold Plum World’s Principal Fifth Rank Immortal Official and Heavenly Patrol Envoy, and left Longcheng County with Madam Feng and two maidservants.
• The officials of Longcheng County escorted Su Yuan out of the city, while unfamiliar people began distributing Yuan Sect flyers the day after he left.
• The Prefect of Shenghan and other officials discussed Su Youlin’s arrival and their hope that he could protect Cold Plum World’s people from their Governor.
• Su Yuan arrived at Shenghan Prefecture with Madam Feng and two maidservants, and the Prefect welcomed him home.

Su Yuan arrived in the Cold Plum World, where Prefect Mei Qingquan tried to gauge his ambitions and possible opposition to the Governor. After Su Yuan returned to his residence, Mei sent him evidence of the Governor’s corrupt dealings, and Su Yuan’s attention settled on the Joyful Union Sect.

• Mei Qingquan welcomed Su Yuan and invited him to discuss the Cold Plum World’s Governor in private.
• Su Yuan told Mei that he aimed to rise to the Governor’s position, and Mei considered whether they could work together.
• Su Yuan returned to the official residence, where Chen Nuoyi gave him a warm cloak and told him Qi Hanyua and Motis had made him winter clothes too.
• Qi Hanyua delivered jade slips containing records of the Governor’s corrupt dealings and proxy forces.
• Su Yuan recognized Mei Qingquan’s attempt to use him to investigate the Governor and paused at a passage about the Joyful Union Sect.

Su Yuan joined Taihua Tianji at the Yan Sha Sect after learning that the Joyful Union Sect, backed by the Governor of Cold Plum World, was his next obstacle. Su Yuan realized Taihua Tianji’s presence as sect leader had triggered his Luck Black Hole constitution just as a Nascent Soul cultivator attacked the sect.

• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi planned a covert inspection of the Joyful Union Sect and hoped to uncover evidence connecting it to the Governor.
• Su Yuan contacted Taihua Tianji, learned he had infiltrated the Yan Sha Sect as Yan He, and asked to be summoned there through a Holy Sect Blood Sacrifice Array.
• Su Yuan arrived at the Yan Sha Sect, greeted Taihua Tianji, Ye Muyu, Taihua Yu Xi, and Long Bai, and learned that Ye Muyu and the girls were posing as Taihua Tianji’s romantic debts.
• Su Yuan sensed that something was wrong, then realized Taihua Tianji had become the Yan Sha Sect’s leader and was drawing bad luck onto the sect through his constitution.
• A woman who had just reached the Nascent Soul Realm smashed through the Yan Sha Sect’s dome and challenged Taihua Tianji, saying she wanted to taste him.

Su Yuan helped Taihua Tianji use the Luck Black Hole to turn the Joyful Union Sect’s threat against itself, while keeping Yan He’s identity secret. Su Yuan then gained Mei Qingquan’s support to travel to Xianghan Prefecture, where he planned to investigate corrupt officials and deal with the sects.

• Ruan Pingcui demanded that Yan He join the Joyful Union Sect and threatened his family, so Su Yuan proposed a plan through voice transmission.
• Taihua Tianji handed the Sect Leader Token to Ye Muyu and agreed to go with Ruan Pingcui, expecting the Luck Black Hole’s misfortune to eventually strike the Joyful Union Sect.
• Su Yuan reassured Ye Muyu, then contacted Chen Nuoyi and returned to the official residence to explain what had happened and plan their next move.
• Su Yuan told Mei Qingquan he wanted to travel to Xianghan Prefecture to investigate corrupt officials, and Mei Qingquan supported the trip.
• Su Yuan, Chen Nuoyi, and two others set out for Xianghan Prefecture with the tacit agreement of Cold Plum World’s two major figures.

Su Yuan arrived in Xianghan Prefecture and began building support to challenge the Cold Plum World Governor by targeting Cultivation forces rather than investigating the officials’ taxes. He ordered a raid on the largest brothel, Wanxiang Pavilion, and realized that the prefect was likely one of Mei Qingquan’s agents.

• Su Yuan told Xianghan Prefecture’s Immortal Officials that he would target unruly Cultivation Families and Sects and promised credit to those who cooperated.
• The Vice Prefect warned Su Yuan that Joyful Union Sect controlled the brothels and that its leader, Sect Leader Ruan, had recently reached Nascent Soul and captured Yan Sha Sect Leader.
• Su Yuan asked the officials to identify the city’s brothels and ordered them to send troops to investigate the largest one.
• The Prefect ordered the garrison to surround Wanxiang Pavilion, revealing his familiarity with the brothel.
• Su Yuan suspected that the Prefect was connected to Mei Qingquan and privately wondered whether he frequented Wanxiang Pavilion.

Su Yuan raided Wanxiang Pavilion, claiming to investigate and rescue its women while seizing the Joyful Union Sect’s wealth. He then expanded the crackdown to another brothel, leaving his residence crowded with women and the local officials wary of the sect’s response.

• Su Yuan arrested a Heavenly Desire Envoy and ordered nearly a hundred women from Wanxiang Pavilion taken to his residence, prompting a scholar who loved one of them to curse him and get dragged away.
• Su Yuan ordered the women’s belongings delivered to his residence and divided Wanxiang Pavilion’s nearly two million taels between Prefect Han and the workers, while requiring the taxes to be paid.
• Su Yuan dismissed concerns about provoking the Joyful Union Sect’s master, Ruan Pingcui, and announced he would raid the other brothels in Xianghan Prefecture.
• Su Yuan’s forces surrounded the second-largest brothel, but its Heavenly Desire Envoy had fled; they seized its money, and more than seventy women were brought to his nearly full residence.

Su Yuan interrogated Wei Youzhu and learned that the Joyful Union Sect planned to assassinate the Southern Governor-General. He suspected the attack would fail unless his teacher intervened, and wondered whether her involvement would save the plot or make it worse.

• Su Yuan questioned the captive Wei Youzhu about the Joyful Union Sect leader’s dealings with the Cold Plum World Governor, but she refused to betray her sect.
• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi took Wei Youzhu into Jieyue Space and threatened her with the Black Mud until she agreed to talk.
• Wei Youzhu revealed that Ruan Pingcui had broken through to the Nascent Soul Realm and planned to assassinate the Southern Governor-General with powerful allies.
• Wei Youzhu explained that Yan He’s knowledge of an otherworldly realm had been used as bait to lure the Governor into a trap.
• Su Yuan realized the Joyful Union Sect’s planned assassination, rather than his own actions, had brought disaster upon it, and wondered whether his teacher might intervene.

Ruan Pingcui and Kong Yue tried to assassinate Nan Cang with Taihua Tianji’s help, but Nan Cang overwhelmed them and began absorbing Kong Yue. Taihua Tianji turned on Ruan Pingcui to help her escape, and she appeared bloodied before Su Yuan at the chapter’s end.

• Ruan Pingcui asked Taihua Tianji to reveal the location of the otherworldly world and explained that she planned to flee with him after assassinating Nan Cang.
• Nan Cang arrived and demanded that Taihua Tianji reveal the otherworldly world’s location, while Ruan Pingcui and Kong Yue launched a surprise attack.
• Nan Cang resisted the attack, gravely wounded Ruan Pingcui and Kong Yue, and began absorbing Kong Yue.
• Taihua Tianji wounded Ruan Pingcui and pretended to pursue her, allowing her to flee the cave.
• Ruan Pingcui appeared bloodied and pale before Su Yuan in the courtyard.

Su Yuan hid the wounded Ruan Pingcui from Nan Cang, the Southern Governor-General, using the Demonic Firmament Divine Lightning. Nan Cang arrived with Yan He, declared both Ghost Shadow Sect and Joyful Union Sect targets for eradication, and left Su Yuan suspecting he was as powerful as Wuluo’s avatar.

• Ruan Pingcui told Su Yuan that Yan He had wounded her and sent her to Xianghan Prefecture, supposedly for protection.
• Su Yuan erased Ruan Pingcui’s traces across his controlled territory and concealed her in the Jieyue Space before Nan Cang’s divine sense searched the prefecture.
• Nan Cang arrived with Yan He, searched for Ruan Pingcui, and confronted Su Yuan over his investigation into the Governor-General.
• Nan Cang announced that he had slain Kong Yue and ordered the eradication of Ghost Shadow Sect and Joyful Union Sect, then departed with Yan He.
• Su Yuan told Motis, Qi Hanyua, and Chen Nuoyi what had happened and concluded that Nan Cang might rival Wuluo’s avatar.

Su Yuan summoned Long Bai to heal the badly injured Ruan Pingcui and used the Jiahai Zijin Beam as a hidden restraint in her dantian. After recovering, Ruan Pingcui offered to work with Su Yuan to kill Nan Cang.

• Su Yuan explained that the Southern Governor-General was likely far stronger than their allies, then resolved to strengthen himself while seeking a cure for Ruan Pingcui.
• Su Yuan summoned Long Bai, who agreed to provide a healing pill and brought it to Ruan Pingcui in the Jieyue Space.
• Long Bai shrank the Jiahai Zijin Beam so Su Yuan could implant it in Ruan Pingcui's dantian as a safeguard against betrayal.
• Su Yuan gave Ruan Pingcui the healing pill and used his Corrupt Golden Core to clear the corruption from her chest wound.
• Ruan Pingcui recovered, mistook Su Yuan's powerful treasure for evidence of a mighty force behind Yan He, and offered to help kill Nan Cang.