Chapter Summaries

Su Yuan arranged for Li Zhengxing and Yin Qiyue to bring him cafeteria food waste, then used his demonic alchemy technique to make Blue Pills and confirmed the new ingredients worked. After also producing Yellow Pills from buffet leftovers, he calculated that selling pills could earn him nearly twenty thousand a day.

• Li Zhengxing spent the night with Yun Ling and agreed to send Su Yuan Shining Star High School’s food waste after Su Yuan called him.
• Su Yuan made Yin Qiyue promise to bring him food waste from Tianyin High School by threatening that her niece might miss the Special Class.
• Su Yuan gathered buffet restaurant food waste through friends and refined it into thirty Yellow Pills.
• Su Yuan received Li Zhengxing’s storage pouch of food waste, refined it into Blue Pills, and confirmed they matched his earlier pills.
• Yin Qiyue brought Su Yuan Tianyin High School’s food waste, which yielded three more Blue Pills.
• Su Yuan estimated that he could sell nine Blue Pills a day and earn nearly twenty thousand daily.

Su Yuan accepted a lavish livestream tip from Hongru Demoness to cook at her home, only to discover the client was Taihua Yu Xi. Yu Xi claimed they had promised to be together as her father, Taihua Tianji, watched with barely contained fury.

• Su Yuan received a 200,000-yuan Star Destroyer gift from Hongru Demoness, who hired him to prepare roast goose at her home.
• Hongru Demoness sent Yin Qiyue an address and insisted that Su Yuan come alone, so he reassured Chen Nuoyi and set off with his cooking supplies.
• Taihua Yu Xi waited eagerly for Su Yuan while her father, Taihua Tianji, questioned the enormous fee and her plans.
• Su Yuan arrived at Yu Xi's apartment and recognized her as Hongru Demoness.
• Yu Xi claimed Su Yuan had vowed to be with her, prompting Taihua Tianji to glare at him as Su Yuan tried to explain.

Su Yuan discovered that the snake Bai Ling, Taihua Yu Xi’s spirit pet, was dying after saving her years ago. When Yu Xi questioned the meaning of life, the system announced that she stood at a crossroads between the righteous and demonic paths, and that Su Yuan could push her toward the demonic path.

• Su Yuan followed Taihua Yu Xi into the kitchen, where he found a Foundation Establishment Late Stage bamboo rat and a Foundation Establishment Peak white snake.
• Su Yuan asked Yu Xi which creature she wanted to eat, and she started crying.
• Taihua Tianji explained that the snake, Bai Ling, was Yu Xi’s spirit pet and had little time left after suffering an irreparable injury to save her.
• Yu Xi asked Su Yuan what the meaning of life was, while giving off an unsettling aura.
• The system told Su Yuan that Yu Xi stood at a crossroads between the righteous and demonic paths and that he could steer her toward the demonic path.

Su Yuan gained the Blood Beast Cultivation Method and believed it could save Bai Ling by transferring her soul into a new body. He offered to try the technique, but startled Taihua Tianji and Taihua Yu Xi by saying they first had to kill Bai Ling.

• Su Yuan considered ways to save Bai Ling and keep Taihua Yu Xi from falling into darkness.
• Su Yuan called Yin Qiyue and asked her to cover his shift, raising her favorability enough to complete her mission.
• Su Yuan received the Blood Beast Cultivation Method and realized it could preserve Bai Ling by placing her soul in a Blood Beast body.
• Su Yuan told Taihua Tianji and Taihua Yu Xi that his secret technique might save Bai Ling, then said they had to kill her first.

Su Yuan persuaded Taihua Tianji and Bai Ling to use the Blood Beast Cultivation Method to save Bai Ling, then began converting her blood using an unexpectedly culinary process. The chapter ended with Taihua Tianji realizing Su Yuan was essentially cooking pig’s blood.

• Taihua Yu Xi’s corruption level rose as she grew excited about Su Yuan’s explanation of the Blood Beast Cultivation Method.
• Taihua Tianji agreed to the plan, and Bai Ling chose to become a blood beast rather than die.
• Taihua Tianji pierced Bai Ling’s heart while Su Yuan collected her blood and began the conversion ceremony.
• Su Yuan salted the blood, removed impurities, and simmered it with spirit scallions, spirit ginger, spirit wine, and spices.
• Taihua Tianji questioned Su Yuan’s method, and Su Yuan defended it as the refining technique of low-level Demonic Cultivators.

Su Yuan completed Bai Ling’s transformation into a blood beast, preserving her memories and consciousness. After receiving the Devil Master title, he turned to dinner and found the bamboo rat had fainted in terror.

• Su Yuan finished cooking the snake blood and guided Taihua Tianji through extracting Bai Ling’s bloodline, cultivation, and soul before merging them into her Essence Blood.
• A small red blood snake emerged from Bai Ling’s Essence Blood, recognized Taihua Yu Xi, and confirmed the transformation had preserved Bai Ling’s consciousness.
• Su Yuan told Taihua Tianji how to help Bai Ling grow and explained that she would remain red, while Taihua Yu Xi happily accepted her new appearance.
• The System marked Su Yuan’s mission complete, declared Taihua Yu Xi’s corruption at 100%, and awarded him the Devil Master title, which increased his comprehension of Devilish Dao Inheritance by 100%.
• Su Yuan equipped the title and discovered that the bamboo rat had passed out in fear; he decided it could not be allowed to live.

Su Yuan helped Taihua Tianji prepare and eat a Foundation Establishment Late Stage bamboo rat, gaining a major boost to his cultivation. After hearing Su Yuan could earn a million a month, Taihua Tianji offered to repay him for saving Bai Ling with a gift instead of cash.

• Taihua Tianji used sword light and a Soul Suppressing Nail to help Su Yuan prepare the bamboo rat while Su Yuan collected its fur and organs as materials.
• Su Yuan cooked the bamboo rat and made snake-blood vermicelli soup, then joined Taihua Tianji and Bai Ling for a meal.
• Su Yuan used a Blue Pill to absorb the rat meat's spiritual energy, and Bai Ling asked him to share one with her.
• After eating three jin of meat, Su Yuan's strength increased and his spiritual energy reading rose from 62.5 to 64.
• Taihua Tianji asked about Su Yuan's part-time work, and Su Yuan said he expected to earn a million a month and would pay his Special Class tuition.
• Taihua Tianji told Su Yuan that he would give him something other than cash to thank him for saving Bai Ling.

True Man Tai Bai offered Su Yuan a sword from his collection as a reward for becoming his student, and brought him to the Sword Collection Pavilion. After learning that the ten rarest spirit swords had powerful spiritual awareness, Su Yuan made straight for them and reached for one.

• True Man Tai Bai offered Su Yuan a sword from his collection instead of money, and Su Yuan eagerly accepted.
• True Man Tai Bai warned that each sword had to approve its prospective master, while Su Yuan boasted he might take the most precious one.
• True Man Tai Bai led Su Yuan to a penthouse filled with three hundred Treasure Swords.
• Su Yuan recognized that the ten swords at the center had spiritual awareness close to awakening a Spirit of the Artifact.
• Su Yuan asked why Tai Bai had not taken the ten swords into battle, then rushed toward them and reached for one.

Su Yuan took the dangerous Crimson Origin Sword from its rack, and the blade became docile in his hands while Taihua Tianji watched in disbelief. When Taihua refused to give it to him, Crimson Origin attacked Taihua to defend Su Yuan, leaving Taihua to consider whether he could keep the sword locked away.

• Su Yuan picked up Crimson Origin Sword, which Taihua Tianji had expected to injure him, but it showed no hostility.
• Su Yuan stroked the blade and called it Chiyuan, while Taihua silently lamented that the sword was treating Su Yuan like family.
• Su Yuan asked Taihua to give him Chiyuan, but Taihua refused and offered him any sword except the ten treasured spiritual swords.
• Crimson Origin Sword fired a blood-colored sword strike at Taihua, then quieted when Su Yuan scolded it.
• Su Yuan asked to borrow Chiyuan and take it outside, while Taihua wondered if he had become the villain separating a romantic couple.

Su Yuan convinced Taihua Tianji that he had a special affinity for magical treasures by showing him his sentient phone and connecting with another Spiritual Treasure. Taihua Tianji gave him the Crimson Origin Sword, but the sword was horrified to learn Su Yuan planned to use it to finish preparing ingredients.

• Taihua Tianji questioned Su Yuan about how he had won the Crimson Origin Sword, and Su Yuan claimed he could form Mental Connections with magical treasures.
• Su Yuan demonstrated his claim with his phone, which glowed, opened Pinbaobao, and bought itself a phone case.
• Su Yuan approached the other Spiritual Treasures, and Taihua Tianji conceded after sensing one take a liking to him.
• Taihua Tianji gave Su Yuan the Crimson Origin Sword, explaining that it was one of a kind and asking him to treat it well.
• Su Yuan promised to treat the sword like his girlfriend, then said he would use it to finish off ingredients while cooking, horrifying the Crimson Origin Sword.

Su Yuan accepted Crimson Origin and learned that the Special Class placement exam would take place in the Tai Xu Illusion Realm, where he could let the sword fight. He left the Sword Collection Pavilion eager to use the exam to advance his mission to spill blood.

• Su Yuan persuaded Crimson Origin to accept him as her master with promises of a future Spirit of the Artifact and demon blood, and the system assigned him a mission to fill her hunger by killing righteous cultivators.
• Su Yuan asked Taihua Tianji if there were places where killing was legal, and Taihua Tianji explained that the upcoming Special Class placement exam would be held in the Tai Xu Illusion Realm.
• Taihua Tianji told Su Yuan the exam was free and that Crimson Origin could enter if her abilities were restricted to a reasonable level.
• Su Yuan imagined defeating his classmates in the illusion to complete his mission, but Taihua Tianji sent him flying out of the Sword Collection Pavilion before he could say goodbye to Taihua Yu Xi.

Su Yuan used the Chiyuan Sword to fly home and turned a bamboo rat Demon King's remains into pills that boosted reproductive ability, then prepared to focus on cultivation. On his way to school, he faced Jin Hao, who tried to intimidate him, but Jin Hao immediately begged for mercy when Su Yuan drew his sword.

• Su Yuan flew home on the Chiyuan Sword and extracted spiritual energy from the bamboo rat Demon King's remains, producing five pills that greatly increased reproductive ability.
• Su Yuan learned that bamboo rats reproduced rapidly and decided he might be able to sell the pills to cultivators concerned about having children.
• Su Yuan woke early, cultivated for two hours, and headed to school after giving up his nine-to-five schedule for part-time work.
• Jin Hao introduced himself as a new Special Class transfer and said he had come to establish his brother's authority by intimidating Su Yuan.
• Su Yuan drew the Chiyuan Sword and swung it at Jin Hao, who dropped to his knees and begged to talk.

Su Yuan confronted Jin Hao, then checked on his classmates after learning transfer students had been intimidating top students across the senior classes. Xiao Kong, a transfer student at Qi Cultivation Peak, joined Class Two and declared he had come to study under True Man Tai Bai.

• Su Yuan forced Jin Hao to explain his big brother’s threats, gave him two pills that left him writhing in pain, and rode away on the Crimson Origin Sword.
• Su Yuan found Chen Nuoyi unharmed apart from a forehead mark caused by her father; she said she had put a Qi Cultivation Level 9 transfer student in intensive care.
• Wu Xingqi told Su Yuan that a transfer student had bought out every item in her family’s shop, while Chu Lanxi appeared to have avoided trouble.
• Su Yuan learned that transfer students had threatened top students in the other senior classes and that eight were expected to arrive.
• Yue Lin introduced Xiao Kong, whose Qi Cultivation Peak made the class wary; Xiao Kong said he had transferred to study under True Man Tai Bai and looked forward to the Special Class Placement Exam.

After the Monthly Exam, Su Yuan ranked thirty-third and qualified for the Special Class, whose students gathered for Taihua Tianji’s Placement Exam briefing. The exam would be a deadly battle royale in the Tai Xu Illusion Realm, and Su Yuan’s question about using his family-inherited secret arts prompted Xiao Kong to challenge the restriction.

• The Monthly Exam results placed Xiao Kong first, Chen Nuoyi fourth, Chu Lanxi tenth, Wu Xingqi thirty-second, and Su Yuan thirty-third with a score of 650.
• Su Yuan warned his friends to prepare for the Placement Exam, and Chen Nuoyi, Chu Lanxi, and the others decided to go home and rest instead of working overtime.
• Taihua Tianji gathered the top thirty-eight students and explained that the Placement Exam would take place in a primeval forest in the Tai Xu Illusion Realm, where students could earn points by killing beasts or rival candidates.
• Taihua Tianji revealed an exchange shop offering valuable rewards for exam points, and Su Yuan eagerly realized the points could be worth far more than his part-time wages.
• Su Yuan asked whether he could use his family-inherited secret arts, but Taihua Tianji objected; Xiao Kong argued that Su Yuan should be allowed to use them and dismissed him as only a Qi Cultivation Level 6 cultivator.

Su Yuan entered the Tai Xu Illusion Realm Placement Exam with plans to livestream through Chen Nuoyi while gathering materials for corpse refining. As the exam began, he encountered Jin Hao, who challenged him to settle their previous score.

• Xiao Kong volunteered to face Su Yuan in the exam, and Taihua Tianji warned Su Yuan to keep his strength under control.
• Su Yuan asked permission to livestream, and Taihua Tianji allowed it before bringing the Special Class to the login facility.
• Su Yuan took the Crimson Origin Sword and asked Chen Nuoyi to livestream on his account so she could attract followers while he gathered materials.
• Su Yuan entered the Tai Xu Illusion Realm, where he found his sword's power suppressed and waited for the five-minute countdown to end.
• Su Yuan searched the forest for herbs and yin wood, then saw Jin Hao approach with a greatsword and challenge him.

Su Yuan defeated Jin Hao in the Tai Xu Illusion Realm by combining negative-emotion absorption, the Crimson Origin Sword’s unusual power, and Jin Hao’s weakened condition. After decapitating Jin Hao, Su Yuan used a wooden nail on him, leaving the school leaders confused when Jin Hao did not log out.

• Su Yuan met Jin Hao, absorbed his anger, and broke his greatsword with the Crimson Origin Sword.
• Taihua Tianji explained that Su Yuan used his Combat Mental Method and Unity of Man and Sword, while Su Yuan secretly manipulated both weapons with Finger Artifact.
• Su Yuan exploited Jin Hao’s hunger and heightened sensitivity to wear him down until Jin Hao admitted defeat.
• Su Yuan decapitated Jin Hao, caught his head, and drove a wooden nail into his crown.
• The school leaders saw Jin Hao still logged in and found Su Yuan covered by the Illusion Realm’s privacy mosaic while he handled Jin Hao’s body.

Su Yuan turned Jin Hao into a Walking Corpse and used him to hunt a savage bull while he gathered strength in the forest. The school administrators then watched Chen Nuoyi adopt Su Yuan’s corpse-refining methods, leaving them worried about Taihua High School’s reputation.

• Su Yuan reanimated Jin Hao as a Walking Corpse, gaining a powerful helper but no points because the illusion still considered Jin Hao alive.
• Su Yuan explored the forest and ordered Jin Hao to fight a black-backed savage bull, then weakened and bled the beast himself.
• The administrators watched Zhang Jun encounter Xiao Kong and get defeated in a single strike.
• Chen Nuoyi killed a black bear, realized it could serve as a moving meat shield, and sealed its soul in a yin-infused wooden stake.
• Chen Nuoyi began refining the black bear with spices before covering the scene with mosaics, shocking the school administrators.

Su Yuan expanded his ranks of followers and points before encountering Wu Ziying, whom he feared he could not defeat. He hid behind Jin Hao and successfully fooled her into believing the Walking Corpse was the real Jin Hao.

• Su Yuan fed Jin Hao a pill refined from the black-backed bull, strengthening his skin, power, and stamina.
• Su Yuan's followers killed a powerful black tiger, which he turned into a blood tiger follower, and Jin Hao gained the tiger's strength.
• Su Yuan earned 800 points from the tiger and noticed Wu Ziying approaching with a black stone wyrm's scale and 3,700 points.
• Wu Ziying spotted someone hiding in the grass and demanded that they come out, readying her flying sword.
• Su Yuan hid behind Jin Hao and mimicked his voice while Jin Hao convinced Wu Ziying that he was the real Jin Hao.

Su Yuan tricked Wu Ziying into leading him to the Blackstone Flood Dragon’s corpse, then used it to strengthen Jin Hao the Walking Corpse. Wu Ziying recoiled from Jin Hao’s strange slime and hurried ahead alone, leaving Su Yuan’s plan to attack her uncertain.

• Wu Ziying agreed to help the injured “Jin Hao” recover, and Su Yuan claimed that Su Yuan had wounded him.
• Su Yuan followed Wu Ziying to the Blackstone Flood Dragon’s corpse while hidden in Jin Hao the Walking Corpse’s shadow.
• Su Yuan made three potent Spirit Pills from the flood dragon and fed one to Jin Hao, giving him the strength of a juvenile flood dragon and venomous slime.
• Wu Ziying mistook the slime for a nourishing ointment made from the flood dragon’s organs and admired Jin Hao’s willingness to recover at any cost.
• Su Yuan proposed traveling with Wu Ziying, but she backed away and hurried ahead, telling him he could take the Spirit Beast corpses she had killed.

Su Yuan used Jin Hao and his blood beasts to lure Wu Ziying away from Wu Xingqi and bring her down with a surprise attack. With Wu Ziying surrounded and poisoned, Su Yuan offered her a choice between becoming a blood beast or a Walking Corpse.

• Su Yuan built up his blood beast forces while following Wu Ziying, whose score climbed past five thousand as Chen Nuoyi closed in behind her.
• Su Yuan found Wu Xingqi struggling against a seventh-layer demonic wolf and saw Wu Ziying preparing to attack them both.
• Su Yuan sent his eighth-layer blood tiger to ambush Jin Hao, then called for Wu Ziying's help while imitating Jin Hao's voice.
• Wu Ziying killed the blood tiger and Jin Hao's apparent body, but Jin Hao's flying head bit her and inflicted corpse poison and dragon poison.
• Su Yuan revealed his trap, restored the blood tiger and Jin Hao, and surrounded the weakened Wu Ziying with his blood beasts.
• Su Yuan asked Wu Ziying whether she would rather become a blood beast or a Walking Corpse.