Chapter Summaries

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 The system then gave him an outdated map and a new challenge to defeat three long-dead sect disciples, leaving Su Yuan baffled about how to complete it.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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Taihua Tianji told Su Yuan about the unusually strong candidates in the upcoming Ten Great Preparatory Classes assessment and introduced a Night Watchman mechanism that would make Taihua City’s eight recommended students defend against ninety-two outsiders. Su Yuan began planning for the assessment with his classmates, and Xiao Meng arrived to hear the plan.

• Taihua Tianji warned Su Yuan that this year’s candidates were exceptionally talented, but said Su Yuan’s strength could let him contend with geniuses whose Potential Index exceeded 4.
• Taihua Tianji explained that eight recommended candidates from Taihua City would serve as Night Watchmen against outside candidates, who had to defeat at least three defenders to pass.
• Su Yuan joked that he would have to face ninety-two opponents, then eagerly agreed to defend Taihua City with help from his local connections and Zhu Yan Bai Gu Puppets.
• After class, Su Yuan gathered Chen Nuoyi, Chu Lanxi, Xiao Kong, and Wu Ziying to discuss the assessment and urge them to follow his plan.
• Xiao Meng entered the classroom and asked Su Yuan to let her hear his battle plan.

Su Yuan explained the Preparatory Class assessment rules and devised tactics for the Night Watchmen, while Xiao Meng asked him to use Devil Talismans on her during the exam. Fifteen days later, as Taihua City filled with visitors, the examiners arrived to meet Taihua Tianji and Ye Muyu.

• Xiao Meng joined Su Yuan and the Special Class to prepare for the assessment, and Su Yuan explained the one-on-one battles, token rules, and staggered arrival of visiting examinees.
• Su Yuan proposed scouting opponents and matching Night Watchmen against them, while using permitted methods to weaken visiting examinees before fights.
• After the others left, Xiao Meng asked Su Yuan to control her and brand her with Devil Talismans during the assessment, and Su Yuan agreed.
• Fifteen days passed as Taihua City grew busy ahead of the assessment, and the examiners arrived to meet Taihua Tianji and Ye Muyu.

Su Yuan and Taihua Tianji met the visiting examiners and their favored disciples aboard a Flying Boat above Taihua City, where Su Yuan openly claimed he could defeat the examinees. After the examiners warned their disciples to watch out for him, Wang Qiu challenged Su Yuan, and a system notification sounded as Su Yuan headed for the exit.

• True Man Bao mocked Taihua City and questioned Su Yuan’s ability, comparing his Potential Index to the visiting prodigies.
• Su Yuan studied Xiong Wei, the Xuan Yi Heavenly Sect’s favored examinee, and Xi Yu, the Myriad Beast Demonic Sect’s favored examinee.
• Su Yuan said it was uncertain how many visiting examinees would pass, then promised to give them Night Watchman tokens as appropriate.
• The examiners warned their disciples to watch out for Su Yuan and secure three Night Watchman tokens before confronting him.
• Wang Qiu stepped forward, identified himself, and threatened Su Yuan, who recognized him as the person who had tipped Yang Meier.
• Su Yuan headed for the Flying Boat’s exit, and a crisp system notification sounded in his ear.

Su Yuan organized the Night Watchmen to test the outside examinees while keeping the strongest candidates in reserve. After Long Wentao challenged him and boasted that he had beaten Taihua’s best disciples, Chen Nuoyi fought him again and defeated him with her dragon qi.

• Su Yuan received new system tasks to corrupt four righteous prodigies and guide seven Demon Generals through the Sacred Lands examination.
• The examination began, and Su Yuan assigned Chen Nuoyi, Chu Lanxi, and Xiao Kong to face Long Wentao while he and Wu Ziying handled the other examinees.
• Su Yuan and Wu Ziying easily defeated the nine examinees who challenged them, while Long Wentao collected three Night Watchman tokens after the others deliberately lost to him.
• Long Wentao arrived at Taihua High School and demanded to challenge Su Yuan and the remaining Night Watchmen, boasting that he had already beaten Taihua’s strongest disciples.
• Su Yuan sent Chen Nuoyi to fight Long Wentao again, and she overwhelmed his blade attack with Purple Gold Dragon Qi before knocking him out with Hidden Dragon Qi Burst.

Chen Nuoyi, Xiao Kong, and Chu Lanxi defeated Long Wentao, prompting Su Yuan to order the Night Watchmen to eliminate every outside exam taker. As the second batch arrived, Wang Qiu diverted from the exam to rush toward streamer Yang Meier.

• Chen Nuoyi defeated Long Wentao, and Xiao Kong revived him and won their fight with his black flames.
• Chu Lanxi defeated Long Wentao with his Thunderstrike True Body, and Su Yuan had Su Yuan's team reclaim all the tokens Long Wentao had collected.
• After receiving a message from Taihua Tianji, Su Yuan ordered the Night Watchmen to take back the tokens of the three outside exam takers they had let pass.
• Su Yuan told the Night Watchmen to eliminate every exam taker in the incoming batches and said he would take responsibility.
• Wang Qiu arrived with the second batch, but after seeing Yang Meier had started a livestream, he changed course to find her.