Chapter Summaries

Su Yu opened an Ancient Jade Box and found a rare seed whose faint life aura he began restoring with his Wood attribute mana. After learning two Wood attribute spells, he traveled to Cloud Mountain Market to study alchemy, while the Lin Family ordered an assassin to follow him and recover the Beast Luring Powder formula.

• Su Yu paid Su Bin ten Low-grade Spirit Stones for an Ancient Jade Box, then found a seemingly extraordinary seed inside and used his mana to strengthen its life aura.
• Su Yu learned the Myriad Wood Vine Technique and the Spirit Devouring Art, then gathered with his master Su Changyu and his senior brothers before leaving for Cloud Mountain Market.
• Lin Kui sent a member of the Lin Family to follow Su Yu and ordered him to kill Su Yu and recover the Beast Luring Powder formula.
• Su Yu arrived at the Su Family Alchemy Pavilion, where Su Yun accepted him as a disciple and told him to begin learning alchemy the next day.
• Su Yun advised Su Jingbang that Su Yu should focus on supporting the family and becoming a successor, while Su Jingbang argued that Su Yu needed time to gain experience in several roles.

Three months later, Su Yu had become a low-grade Rank 1 alchemist and agreed to help Su Zhi hunt a late-stage Rank 1 Mountain Carving for her Cloud Sword Sect inner disciple promotion. To prepare for the dangerous mission, he spent much of his savings on defensive and offensive magical artifacts and talismans.

• Su Qingyi revealed that Su Yu had become a low-grade Rank 1 alchemist in only three months, earning him the respect of Li Shinan and Chen Sisi.
• Su Zhi explained that her promotion mission required hunting a late-stage Rank 1 Mountain Carving, and offered to share the rewards with four helpers.
• Su Yu, Li Shinan, and Chen Sisi agreed to join Su Zhi, planning to meet outside the Cloud Sword Sect outer gate three days later.
• Su Yu assessed his cultivation and equipment, then bought the Azure Gang Robe, Ice Soul Needles, and several High-grade Rank 1 Talismans to prepare for the hunt.

Su Yu joined Su Zhi and their companions to hunt a late-stage Rank 1 Mountain Carving, using Spirit Bewildering Liquid prepared by Su Yun to help bring it down. They trapped the beast in its nest and injured it, but the fight was still underway when the chapter ended.

• Su Yun gave Su Yu Spirit Bewildering Liquid and explained how to apply it to magical artifacts.
• Su Yu and Su Qingyi left Cloud Mountain Market with Su Zhi, Li Shinan, and Chen Sisi to hunt the Mountain Carving, while an unknown man followed them to target the Su Family members.
• The group coated their magical artifacts with the Spirit Bewildering Liquid and climbed toward the Mountain Carving's nest.
• Su Yu, Su Qingyi, Li Shinan, and Chen Sisi trapped the nest with spells and brought it crashing to the ground.
• Su Zhi froze the Mountain Carving with Ice Seal Talismans, and Su Yu wounded it with Cloud Piercing Arrow Talismans.
• Su Zhi, Su Qingyi, Su Yu, Li Shinan, and Chen Sisi attacked the wounded Mountain Carving through its injuries.

Su Yu and his companions killed a late-stage Rank 1 Mountain Carving with an extravagant combination of talismans, medicine, and magical artifacts, while an unseen man began plotting against Su Yu. After returning to his cultivation routine and advancing his body-refining technique, Su Yu heard that Lin Danlang had married into the Bai Family, a powerful force with two Foundation Establishment patriarchs.

• Su Zhi, Su Yu, and their companions used talismans, Spirit Bewildering Liquid, and magical artifacts to kill the Mountain Carving, then gave its essence blood to Su Yu and divided the other materials.
• A man who had hoped to take advantage of the hunt watched the group leave and decided to target Su Yu when an opportunity arose.
• Su Yu returned to the Alchemy Pavilion, reflected on the hunt, and resumed cultivating, refining his body, practicing spells, and learning alchemy.
• A month later, Su Yu broke through to the sixth layer of the Crocodile Demon's 108 Forms Body Refining Technique with late-stage Rank 1 essence blood.
• Su Qingyi hunted a late-stage Rank 1 Jade Scale Python and gave half of its essence blood to Su Yu.
• Su Yu learned that Lin Danlang had married the Bai Family's second daughter in exchange for support from the Maple City Bai Family, which had two Foundation Establishment patriarchs.

Over two years, the Su Family and Lin Family continued fighting over Azure Mountain’s Spirit Vein, while Su Yu perfected his mid-grade Rank 1 pill-making and began using Perfect Pills to cultivate. Chen Sisi brought Yu Ke’er to ask Su Yu for Spirit Bewildering Liquid, leaving him faced with a request tied to the Yu Family.

• The Lin Family used talismans to attack the Su Family’s Azure Mountain stronghold, but the Su Family repelled them with Spirit Bewildering Liquid and the fighting continued for two years.
• Su Yu refined five Perfect mid-grade Rank 1 Qi Refining Pills with Pill Patterns and found that taking one helped his Azure Wood Age Wheel Art cultivation progress faster.
• Su Yu resolved to use Perfect Qi Refining Pills for cultivation while keeping his true alchemy skill hidden from others.
• Su Qingyi told Su Yu that Chen Sisi had arrived with two companions, and Su Yu met Chen Sisi, Yu Ke’er, and an old woman at the Alchemy Pavilion.
• Yu Ke’er asked to buy Spirit Bewildering Liquid to capture a late-stage Rank 1 demonic beast, and Chen Sisi asked Su Yu for help, offering him a great favor.

Su Yu gave Yu Ke'er Spirit Bewildering Liquid, and she later rewarded him with a Cloud Mountain Auction House Token. At the auction, Su Yu bought a talisman inheritance, while a Rank 2 Earthfire Ape egg was introduced for bidding.

• Su Yu sold Yu Ke'er half a bottle of Spirit Bewildering Liquid for one hundred Low-grade Spirit Stones, and Chen Sisi thanked him for helping her.
• Su Qingyi told Su Yu that the Chen Family was fighting the Maple City Bai Family over a Purple Gold Sand mine and said he planned to travel with Li Shinan.
• Su Yu expanded the Alchemy Pavilion's reputation by selling small batches of Premium Pills, and Yu Ke'er later collected her ordered Spirit Bewildering Liquid and said it had helped her become a high-grade Rank 1 Beast Tamer.
• Yu Ke'er gave Su Yu a Cloud Mountain Auction House Token, and Su Yu attended the triennial auction with Su Yun, who said they needed to secure a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Su Yu bought a Rank 1 High-grade Talisman Inheritance for four hundred and sixty Low-grade Spirit Stones, and the auctioneer then presented a congenitally deficient Rank 2 Bloodline Earthfire Ape egg.

Su Yu bought an Earthfire Ape egg while Su Yun won a flawed Foundation Establishment Pill at the auction. On their way back, a masked attacker tried to seize the pill, and they later learned the Blood Saber Daoist had escaped with the Heavenly Net Umbrella.

• Su Yu won the Earthfire Ape demonic beast egg for five hundred and fifty Low-grade Spirit Stones, and Su Yun reminded him not to neglect alchemy for Talisman study.
• Su Yun outbid the other attendees and secured the first flawed Foundation Establishment Pill for five thousand two hundred Low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Su Yun and Su Yu left the auction early, then encountered a masked ninth-level Qi Refining Realm cultivator who tried to steal the pill.
• Su Yun drove the attacker away with powerful fire-attribute Talismans, and he and Su Yu returned safely to the Alchemy Pavilion.
• The Blood Saber Daoist escaped the Cloud Mountain Market after stealing the damaged Supreme-grade Artifact, the Heavenly Net Umbrella.

Su Yu helped a deficient Earthfire Ape egg recover by feeding it his spiritual power, while the Su Family chose Fifth Elder Su Bin to attempt Foundation Establishment with the pill. The egg hatched into an unusually gentle, intelligent cub that bonded with Su Yu, as Su Bin began his breakthrough attempt.

• After Blood Saber Luo Bang fled, Su Yun identified the would-be Foundation Establishment Pill thief as the bandit cultivator Ghost Head Golden Condor and warned Su Yu to be cautious.
• Bandit attacks around Cloud Mountain Market increased until Cloud Sword Sect cultivators hunted down the bandits and restored order.
• Su Yu infused the Earthfire Ape demonic beast egg with his spiritual power each day, and its weak aura recovered and grew stronger.
• Grand Elder Su Mengshan and Fifth Elder Su Bin arrived, and Su Bin received the Foundation Establishment Pill and rented a Cave Dwelling to attempt a breakthrough.
• Su Yu hatched the Earth Fire Ape Cub, bonded with it using a beast-taming art, and watched as it eagerly clung to him.
• Su Yun praised the cub’s Rank 2 demonic beast bloodline and gave it a low-grade Rank 1 Hundred Beasts Pill.

Su Bin broke through to the Foundation Establishment stage, giving the Su Family the strength to confront the Lin Family. After the Lin Family fled Jiang City, Su Bin destroyed them and seized Spirit Moon Lake, then fought off a Bai Family Foundation Establishment cultivator.

• The Earth Fire Ape Cub grew calmer and more intelligent as it absorbed Su Yu’s mana and ate Perfect-grade Hundred Beasts Pills.
• Su Bin broke through to the Foundation Establishment stage, and the Su Family celebrated its new strength while vowing to settle accounts with the Lin Family.
• The Lin Family fled Jiang City for the area near the Maple City Bai Family, though Su Peng intercepted only a few of its cultivators.
• Su Yu continued cultivating and refining pills, then began practicing talisman-making and produced his first low-grade Rank 1 talisman within two months.
• After emerging from seclusion, Su Bin went to Jiang City and wiped out the Lin Family, sparing only Lin Danlang and taking Spirit Moon Lake for the Su Family.
• A Bai Family Foundation Establishment cultivator fought Su Bin, but Su Bin withdrew safely before another could join the battle.

After the Su Family destroyed the Lin Family, Su Yu assessed the family’s new resources and took on more responsibility at the Alchemy Pavilion. Meanwhile, Su Qingyi fought Bai Family cultivators while protecting Chen Sisi, and growing unrest around Cloud Mountain Market left Su Yu facing an eager offer at the Heavenly Script Pavilion.

• Su Yu counted the Su Family’s assets and expected its income to support years of steady growth after the Lin Family’s destruction.
• Su Yun celebrated the old feud’s end, then handed most Alchemy Pavilion affairs to Su Yu as the younger cultivator’s pills drew more customers.
• Su Qingyi defeated a Bai Family cultivator who had attacked him and Chen Sisi, looted the corpse, and carried the unconscious Chen Sisi back to her family.
• The Bai Family learned that an outsider had helped kill its members and vowed to identify him, while Su Qingyi later received news and went to consult the Chen Family Head.
• Bandit Cultivators made travel around Cloud Mountain Market increasingly dangerous, and the Heavenly Script Pavilion owner greeted Su Yu with an offer to open Premium Ancient Jade Boxes.

Su Yu advanced to Qi Refining Stage Five and created a powerful new talisman before learning that the Su Family had agreed to ally with the Chen Family against the Bai Family. The alliance was tied to a marriage between Chen Sisi and Su Qingyi.

• Su Yu bought an incomplete inheritance of three ancient talismans from Heavenly Script Pavilion, while the old man noticed the scent of his Perfect Pills and wondered about his talents.
• Su Yu studied the ancient talisman diagrams, cultivated, and continued developing his alchemy and talisman skills over the following months.
• Su Yu broke through to Qi Refining Stage Five and created the Fire Cloud Arrow Talisman, whose power rivaled a full-force strike from a Qi Refining Stage Nine cultivator.
• Su Jingbang told Su Yu that the Su Family had agreed to ally with the Chen Family against the Maple City Bai Family in exchange for thirty percent of the Purple Gold Sand Spirit Mine profits.
• Su Jingbang revealed that the Chen Family's decision to marry Chen Sisi to Su Qingyi had persuaded the Fifth Elder to accept the alliance.

Su Yu agreed to support the Su Family’s preparations against the Maple City Bai Family by refining pills and Talismans, while Su Yun began considering a Second-rank Alchemist Legacy for him. After half a year of work, Su Yu received an invitation to Su Qingyi and Su Zhi’s wedding and reaffirmed that cultivation and longevity came before seeking a Dao companion.

• Su Jingbang asked Su Yu to produce pills and Talismans for the family, and Su Yu requested materials to attempt high-grade Rank 1 Talismans.
• Su Yun praised Su Yu’s talent and said he would look for a Second-rank Alchemist Legacy for him.
• Su Yu reflected on his eight years of cultivation, then spent six months cultivating and producing pills and Talismans for the family.
• Su Yu refined twenty-one Fire Cloud Arrow Talismans from fifty sets of materials, keeping seven and giving fourteen to the family.
• Su Qingyi brought Su Yu and Su Zhi invitations to his wedding, which was scheduled for a month later.
• Su Yun suggested arranging a marriage for Su Yu, but Su Yu said he wanted to focus on cultivation and longevity.

Su Zhi reunited with Su Yu and told him about Moon Worship Immortal City, whose leaders reminded him of powerful figures from his past life's game. As Su Yu, Su Zhi, and Su Yun traveled back to Jiang City, Ghost Head Golden Condor ambushed them, and the three countered with a barrage of talismans.

• Su Zhi met Su Yu at the Alchemy Pavilion and discussed his prospects for finding a master and a Dao companion.
• Su Zhi told Su Yu about Moon Worship Immortal City and named True Lord Moon Worship's three disciples, including Fairy Fengling, whom Su Yu associated with the Heavenly Moon Evil Empress.
• Su Yun joined Su Yu and Su Zhi, and the three set out on spirit horses for the Su Family in Jiang City.
• Ghost Head Golden Condor trapped the three in a formation and launched a sword attack, while two accomplices held back Su Zhi and Su Yun.
• Su Yu, Su Yun, and Su Zhi each threw out talismans, including Su Zhi's High-grade Rank 1 Ice Seal Talismans.

Su Yun, Su Yu, and Su Zhi overwhelmed Ghost Head Golden Condor and his companions with high-grade Rank 1 Talismans, killing them and escaping with their loot. They fled more than a hundred li into the mountains and forests.

• Su Yun and Su Yu opened the fight by unleashing twelve high-grade Rank 1 Talismans, killing one of Ghost Head Golden Condor’s helpers and severely injuring the other.
• Ghost Head Golden Condor summoned a Damaged Low-grade Rank 2 Demonic Soul Banner, sending a fused corpse monster after Su Yun and a gold-attribute attack toward Su Yu and Su Zhi.
• Su Yun, Su Yu, and Su Zhi launched another twelve offensive Talismans, destroying the demonic soul and blasting Ghost Head Golden Condor.
• Su Zhi’s flying sword killed Ghost Head Golden Condor and then his surviving helper; she gathered their Cosmos Bags, Formation Flags, and heads.
• The three flew away on their artifacts and continued into the mountains and forests until they had escaped more than a hundred li.

Su Yun, Su Zhi, and Su Yu sorted through the spoils from Ghost Head Golden Condor and discovered a high-grade Rank 2 Puppet Master inheritance in an Ancient Jade Box. They returned to the Su Family estate on Azure Mountain, where Su Yu began thinking about a wedding gift for Su Qingyi and Chen Sisi.

• Su Yun found a Nine Souls Demonic Palace identity token and an Eight Demon Ridge map among Ghost Head Golden Condor's belongings, and suspected they were connected to the incomplete Demonic Formation Flag.
• Su Zhi assessed the spoils, while Su Yu said surviving mattered more than the cost of the Talismans they had used.
• Su Yu opened three Ancient Jade Boxes and found a Jade Slip containing the Golden Jade Heavenly Puppet Forging Method, a high-grade Rank 2 Puppet Master inheritance.
• Su Yun warned Su Yu and Su Zhi to keep the inheritance secret, and the three headed back to the family.
• Su Yu returned to Azure Mountain and saw the Su Family's new estate decorated for Su Qingyi and Chen Sisi's approaching wedding.
• Su Yu began considering what congratulatory gift to give Su Qingyi and Chen Sisi.

Su Yu's recovered seed bloomed into a tree whose pollen greatly advanced his body-refining technique and divine sense, and he refined several powerful Fire Cloud Arrow Talismans. After Su Qingyi and Chen Sisi's wedding, Su Yu declined a dangerous family assignment and returned to Cloud Mountain Market to focus on cultivation while watching nearby affairs.

• Su Yu nourished the ancient seed until it sprouted, and its flower's pollen advanced his Crocodile Demon's 108 Forms Body Refining Technique to the seventh level and increased his divine sense by twenty percent.
• Su Yu refined his first Fine High-grade Rank 1 Fire Cloud Arrow Talisman, then made three more fine talismans and four ordinary ones before exhausting his materials.
• Su Yu gave Su Qingyi and Chen Sisi his wedding gift, and their three-day wedding celebration concluded.
• Su Peng asked Su Yu to manage the Su Family's affairs concerning the shared Purple Gold Sand Mine, but Su Yu declined and Su Qingyi took the assignment.
• Su Yu returned to Cloud Mountain Market with Su Yun, Su Zhi, and Chen Sisi, then focused on cultivation while monitoring the Su and Chen Families and the Maple City Bai Family.

Su Yu traded the dangerous items connected to the Ghost Head Golden Condor for a valuable alchemy furnace and chose to remain in Cloud Mountain Market while Su Zhi’s group investigated. After months of peaceful cultivation and work, the next Cloud Mountain Market auction approached, and a familiar young girl arrived at the Alchemy Pavilion with an old woman.

• Su Zhi introduced Su Yu to five Cloud Sword Sect disciples, including the alchemist Yu Manli and Grand Elder’s personal disciple Luo Qianyu.
• Su Yu declined to join the investigation into the Ghost Head Golden Condor, and Luo Qianyu exchanged an Azure Light Furnace for his map, Formation Flag, and Nine Souls Demonic Palace token.
• Su Yu told Su Yun about the trade, and Su Yun agreed that avoiding the dangerous investigation had been wise.
• Su Zhi returned more than half a month later to report what the group had discovered, then went back to the sect to enter seclusion.
• Su Yu cultivated, refined pills, drew Talismans, and studied the Puppet Master inheritance for half a year as the Cloud Mountain Market auction approached.
• A familiar young girl arrived at the Su Family’s Alchemy Pavilion with an old woman.

Su Yu accepted a large discounted pill order from Yu Ke'er after learning that Blood Saber Daoist had appeared in Eight Demon Ridge and threatened the Cloud Sword Sect. As cultivators prepared for trouble, Su Yu secretly sold talismans and stayed away from the auction, while the Su Family acquired two ingredients for a Foundation Establishment Pill.

• Yu Ke'er ordered ten bottles of Spirit Bewildering Liquid and a large assortment of pills, agreeing to a ten percent discount and monthly deliveries after warning Su Yu about Blood Saber Daoist and the rise of Demonic Cultivators and Bandit Cultivators.
• Su Yu watched the market’s demand for goods rise, made pills for Yu Ke'er, and secretly sold his mid-grade and High-grade Rank 1 Talismans through other merchants.
• Su Yu and Su Yun skipped the next Cloud Mountain Market Auction, while Su Jingbang attended with other Su Family cultivators.
• Su Yu secretly submitted ten Fire Dragon Talismans to the auction, where they sold for one thousand one hundred Low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Su Jingbang and the other Su Family cultivators bought two core spirit-herb ingredients needed to refine a Foundation Establishment Pill for nearly two thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones.

Su Yu cultivated steadily while unrest among the cultivation families threatened the Chen Family’s Purple Gold Sand Spirit Mine, until the Blood Saber Daoist unexpectedly drove off the Bai and Huang Families. Yu Ke’er and Chen Sisi then brought Chen Family elders to ask Su Yu for Beast Luring Powder to capture and tame a Second Order Early Stage Earth Rock Rat King.

• Su Yu learned that Luo Qianyu had broken through to Foundation Establishment, then continued cultivating in peace as conflicts among cultivation families spread.
• Su Jingbang told Su Yu that the Bai Family and Huang Family had attacked the Chen Family’s Purple Gold Sand Spirit Mine, severely injuring the Chen Family’s Old Ancestor and costing Qing Yi an arm.
• Su Yu heard that the Su Family planned to withdraw from the mine dispute, but four months later the Blood Saber Daoist killed a Bai Family ancestor and a Huang Family Foundation Establishment cultivator, easing the threat to the Chen Family.
• Yu Ke’er, Chen Sisi, and two Chen Family elders visited Su Yu at the Su Family Alchemy Pavilion and asked whether his Beast Luring Powder could affect a Second Order Earth Rock Rat King.
• Su Yu asked whether the Chen Family intended to hunt the Earth Rock Rats, and Yu Ke’er clarified that they wanted to capture and tame them.

Su Yu received a Demon Path-tainted Black Scale Eagle Egg as payment and nourished it with his mana until its bloodline stabilized and it hatched. Meanwhile, Yu Ke'er and the Chen Family captured the Earth Rock Rat King, and Su Yu began preparing stronger Beast Luring Powder.

• Yu Ke'er explained that Earth Rock Rats could locate Spirit Mines and gave Su Yu a Black Scale Eagle Egg as a deposit for making Beast Luring Powder.
• Chen Sisi told Su Yu that the Chen Family had arranged to exchange the captured Rat King for a retired second-rank Tamed Beast, and said Su Qingyi had permanently lost his arm.
• Su Yu discovered that the Black Scale Eagle Egg had become a Demon Path demonic beast, but its hostility eased as it absorbed mana from his Azure Wood Age Wheel Art.
• Su Yu delivered ten portions of Super Beast Luring Powder to Yu Ke'er and continued nourishing the egg until its Demon Path aura became controllable and its bloodline grew stronger.
• After Yu Ke'er returned with news that the Earth Rock Rat King had been captured, she tried unsuccessfully to trade for the transformed egg.
• The Black Scale Eagle hatched half a month later, and Su Yu tamed it with the Beast Taming Art.