Chapter Summaries

Su Yu spent two years advancing his cultivation and Puppet Master skills while raising the Earth Fire Ape and Black Scale Eagle. When Su Zhi arrived with enough contribution points to exchange for a Foundation Establishment Pill, Su Yu supplied her with resources and a powerful Puppet Beast to support her breakthrough.

• Yu Ke'er left Cloud Mountain Market after Su Yu kept the Black Scale Eagle Egg and obtained a Foundation Establishment Pill ingredient from her.
• Su Yu refined thirteen Puppet Beasts over two years and tested himself against a Top Grade Rank 1 Puppet Beast, while his own cultivation reached the sixth layer of Qi Refining and the eighth layer of body refinement.
• Su Yu received news that Su Zhi was preparing to attempt Foundation Establishment.
• Su Zhi, Chen Sisi, and Su Qingyi visited Su Yu at the Alchemy Pavilion, and Su Zhi explained that she had earned enough contribution points to exchange for a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Su Yu gave Su Zhi Talismans, pills, and a Top Grade Rank 1 Puppet Beast to help her prepare for Foundation Establishment.

Su Zhi used Su Yu’s powerful puppet beast to help defeat a Demonic Cultivator den and earn a Foundation Establishment Pill. She successfully broke through to Foundation Establishment, while Su Yu continued exploring ways to improve his puppet beasts.

• Su Zhi, Chen Sisi, and Su Qingyi ambushed two Demonic Cultivators near Eight Demon Ridge, where Su Zhi and Su Yu’s puppet beast killed them.
• Su Zhi and the others stormed the estate and defeated its remaining Demonic Cultivators, completing the mission.
• Su Zhi returned the puppet beast to Su Yu, settled the mission, and exchanged her reward for a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Half a month later, Su Zhi wrote to Su Yu that she had successfully reached Foundation Establishment and would remain in seclusion.
• Su Yu celebrated the Su Family’s progress and wondered whether he could fuse the strengths of his two puppet beasts into a stronger one.

Su Yu completed the Dragon Eagle Puppet Beast and learned that the Grand Elder had died and Su Qingyi had joined the Demon Path. As Su Yu took on greater responsibility at the Alchemy Pavilion, Lin Danlang ambushed him and was killed.

• Su Yu finished the Dragon Eagle Puppet Beast after spending more than two years researching it and returned from seclusion.
• Su Yun told Su Yu that the Grand Elder had been killed, Su Qingyi had betrayed the family, and Su Yu was expected to take over the Alchemy Pavilion as the Su Family's Fifth Elder.
• Su Yun gave Su Yu a Low-grade Rank 2 Alchemist Inheritance and asked him to choose a successor for the Alchemy Pavilion before returning to Azure Mountain.
• Su Yu continued his cultivation and secondary professions while considering how to obtain a Second-rank Talisman Master inheritance.
• Lin Danlang ambushed Su Yu near the Heavenly Script Pavilion, but Su Yu blocked his attacks with a Dragon Tiger Talisman and killed him with a Fire Cloud Arrow Talisman.

After killing Lin Danlang, Su Yu found a rare divine soul cultivation method, the Golden Cicada Art, among his belongings and began cultivating it. More than half a year later, Su Yu successfully reached its beginner level and transformed his divine soul into a golden cicada.

• The Cloud Mountain Market Enforcer identified Lin Danlang and revealed that the Cloud Sword Sect had expelled him for trying to steal a core inheritance method.
• Su Yu failed to find a Rank 2 talisman inheritance at the Heavenly Script Pavilion and returned to the Alchemy Pavilion.
• Su Yu searched Lin Danlang's belongings, kept the Soul Capturing Needles, and destroyed the Demonic Path methods and other unwanted items.
• Su Yu opened the Ancient Jade Boxes and discovered the Golden Cicada Art, a divine soul cultivation method that could refine mana and the body.
• Su Yu decided to try cultivating the Golden Cicada Art while refusing to follow the Demon Path.
• More than half a year later, Su Yu reached the art's beginner level and his divine soul transformed into a golden cicada.

Su Yu cultivated the Golden Cicada Art, reached the Seventh Layer of Qi Refining, and strengthened his body to the ninth layer. After his full-force strike startled Cloud Sword Sect disciples, he returned to Cloud Mountain Market and prepared to refine low-grade Rank 2 pills, but visitors arrived.

• Su Yu practiced the Golden Cicada Art while refining pills and teaching alchemy at the Alchemy Pavilion.
• Over a year and a half, the Golden Cicada Art improved slowly but accelerated Su Yu's cultivation, helping him reach the Seventh Layer of Qi Refining and gain eleven years of lifespan.
• Su Yu's Crocodile Demon's 108 Forms Body Refining Technique broke through to the ninth layer, and he tested it with the Blood Whale Swallowing Moon Art against the Dragon Eagle Puppet Beast.
• Cloud Sword Sect disciples saw the devastation from Su Yu's strike and mistook its power for Foundation Establishment, then rushed to report it.
• Su Yu returned to Cloud Mountain Market and prepared to refine low-grade Rank 2 pills, but a group of guests came to visit.

Su Yu sold two Top Grade Rank 1 Puppet Beasts to the Chen Family and advanced to become a Second-rank Alchemist. The Su and Chen Families used the puppets to defeat the Maple City Bai Family at a resource site, leaving Su Yu worried about the Guanlan Mountain Huang Family.

• Chen Sisi and the Chen Family elders bought two puppet beasts from Su Yu for four thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones, and she discussed her plans to attempt Foundation Establishment.
• Su Yu refined the puppet beasts and spent a year practicing with Kaiyuan Pills until he became a Second-rank Alchemist.
• Chen Sisi collected the two puppet beasts a year later.
• Su Dajun told Su Yu that the Su and Chen Families had used three puppet beasts to defeat the Maple City Bai Family and seize one of its resource sites.
• Su Yu celebrated the victory, then asked what had happened with the Guanlan Mountain Huang Family.

Su Yu advanced to become a low-grade Rank 2 talisman master while continuing to develop his alchemy and Puppet Arts. News that the Huang and Yu Families had gone to war over an Ethereal Fruit tree gave him hope of obtaining a key Foundation Establishment Pill material.

• Su Dajun explained that the Huang Family was unlikely to risk a costly conflict with the allied Chen and Su Families, which planned to wait until the Bai Family's Foundation Establishment ancestor died before seeking revenge.
• Su Yu continued studying low-grade Rank 2 pills and asked Chen Sisi, who had just broken through to Foundation Establishment, to help find Rank 2 materials in Moon Worship Immortal City.
• After more than two years of practice, Su Yu created the low-grade Rank 2 Thunder Fire Talisman, while Su Gutong and Su Rui'an advanced in alchemy.
• Su Yu considered leaving Cloud Mountain Market because he still lacked several materials for his Dragon Crocodile Puppet Beast.
• The Black Rock Mountain Yu Family and Guanlan Mountain Huang Family went to war in Eight Demon Ridge over an Ethereal Fruit tree, one of the core materials for Foundation Establishment Pills.

Su Yu left Cloud Mountain Market for the Su Family, receiving a powerful talisman inheritance on the way. Back at Azure Mountain, he learned that the Jiang Family was pressuring the Su Family to persuade Su Zhi to marry its legitimate eldest son as his equal wife.

• Su Yu prepared eight Thunder Fire Talismans, arranged for Su Gutong to watch over the Alchemy Pavilion, and left Cloud Mountain Market for the Su Family.
• An old man at Heavenly Script Pavilion sent a Jade Slip after Su Yu departed, and it struck him on the head outside the market.
• Su Yu discovered that the Jade Slip contained a high-grade Rank 2 talisman master inheritance from the Golden Jade Immortal Sect, including three complete ancient talisman inheritances.
• Su Yu returned to Azure Mountain and found the Su Family larger but under an oppressive atmosphere.
• Su Peng told Su Yu that the Jiang Family wanted Su Zhi to become the equal wife of its legitimate eldest son, who was close to the Cloud Sword Sect Sect Master's Personal Disciple.

Su Yu advised the Su Family to refuse the Jiang Family’s attempt to involve them in its dispute over Su Zhi, then decided to leave Cloud Mountain Market for Moon Worship Immortal City. After a month with his family, he set out alone for the city.

• Su Yu learned that the Jiang Family’s Jiang Zhou wanted Su Zhi as an equal wife and argued that the family should refuse and strengthen its defensive formation.
• Su Yu told Su Peng that he planned to move to Moon Worship Immortal City, but declined to bring anyone with him.
• Su Yu learned that his former maidservant Lin Dong had married and had three children, including a daughter with a low-grade Water spiritual root.
• Su Yu secretly gave Lin Dong a Water cultivation technique, spells, and ten Low-grade Spirit Stones.
• After spending a month with the family and visiting nearby places, Su Yu bid farewell to his master, the Family Head, and the elders, then set off for Moon Worship Immortal City.

Su Yu was intercepted by the Second Miss of Maple City Bai Family, who tried to take him back to bear her children. He killed her and her entire convoy, then fled toward Moon Worship Immortal City.

• Su Yu passed Maple City and continued north until the Second Miss of Maple City Bai Family stopped him and demanded that he return with her.
• Su Yu trapped and killed the five cultivators who blocked his path with his vines and body-refining strength.
• The Second Miss charged Su Yu, but his Dragon Eagle Puppet Beast struck her and sent her flying.
• Su Yu killed the Second Miss with a Thunder Fire Talisman, then used vines to kill the ordinary members of her convoy.
• Su Yu collected the dead cultivators' belongings, put away the puppet beast, and fled on a flying sword.

After killing Bai Yuhuan, Su Yu fled toward Moon Worship Immortal City while the Bai Family began searching for her killer. He reached the city, paid the entry fee, and entered its bustling inner district, where he planned to look around before deciding whether to buy a house.

• The Bai Family Ancestor learned that a Wood attribute Qi Refining Realm cultivator with a powerful beast and a low-grade Rank 2 Fire Thunder Talisman had killed Bai Yuhuan, and ordered an investigation.
• Su Yu traveled toward Moon Worship Immortal City, stopping in a cave to rest and sort through the Cosmos Bags he had taken from Bai Yuhuan and her companions.
• Su Yu found more than three hundred Low-grade Spirit Stones, talisman materials, and a Mid-grade Magical Artifact in Bai Yuhuan's Cosmos Bag, then completed his daily cultivation.
• Su Yu arrived at Moon Worship Immortal City, paid ten Low-grade Spirit Stones for an entry token, and passed through its defensive formation.
• Su Yu crossed the city's Spirit Fields, put away his flying sword before entering the inner city, and began exploring while considering whether to buy a house.

Su Yu settled into Moon Worship Immortal City by buying a courtyard in the Inner Domain and preparing it for cultivation. After meeting his neighbor Lan Xi, he considered how to earn money and build ties with the people in his alley.

• Su Yu hired a young guide, who explained the Immortal City's halls and domains and led him to the Inner Domain.
• Su Yu bought a courtyard for 1,300 Low-grade Spirit Stones, then purchased supplies and learned about his neighbors and the nearby market.
• Su Yu set up a defensive formation and Spirit Gathering Array, cultivated, and decided to earn money publicly as an alchemist while keeping his other skills secret.
• Lan Xi visited Su Yu with spiritual fruit, introduced herself as his neighbor, and learned that he was a high-grade Rank 1 alchemist.
• Su Yu learned that Lan Xi and her younger sister Lan Gong were musicians at the Drunken Immortal Tower, and considered visiting them and his other neighbors.

Su Yu settled into Moon Worship Immortal City, met his unusual neighbors and reunited with Chen Sisi and the injured Yu Qianqing. After eight months of cultivation, he advanced to the eighth layer of Qi Refining and reached one wheel, eight revolutions in the Azure Wood Age Wheel Art.

• Su Yu visited Lan Xi and Lan Gong, then met his other neighbors, including the arrogant True Hall Talisman Master Wu Zhigang, who invited him to join the True Hall and was refused.
• Su Yu hosted Chen Sisi and Yu Qianqing, learned that Yu Qianqing was still recovering from a failed Foundation Establishment breakthrough, and declined Chen Sisi's offer to serve as an honorary elder.
• Chen Sisi told Su Yu that an auction hosted by the Spirit Hall would take place in two years and might offer the rare materials he needed.
• Su Yu spent eight months cultivating in Moon Worship Immortal City and gathering materials for a Tier 2 Low-Grade Dragon Crocodile Puppet Beast.
• Su Yu used the Golden Cicada Art and Qi Refining Pills to advance to the eighth layer of Qi Refining, reach one wheel, eight revolutions, and gain twelve years of lifespan.

Su Yu’s skill at refining premium high-grade Rank 1 pills earned him new respect in the alley, while Wu Zhigang grew jealous after learning of his talent. Later, Su Yu reunited with Yu Ke'er, who explained how pills made from matching Rank 2 demonic cores could help his Earth Fire Ape and Black Scale Eagle attempt breakthroughs.

• Su Yu refined premium Qi Refining Pills for Lan Xi, Lan Gong, the Artificer, and the male cultivator, prompting them to treat him with greater respect.
• Wu Zhigang learned that Su Yu could refine premium high-grade Rank 1 pills, visited him to recruit him into the True Hall, and left resentful after Su Yu turned him away.
• Huang Haimei invited Su Yu to meet Yu Ke'er, and he agreed to bring his two Tamed Beasts.
• Su Yu reunited with Yu Ke'er at a Beast Taming Shop, and they caught up before she examined his Earth Fire Ape and Black Scale Eagle.
• Yu Ke'er explained that Rank 2 breakthrough pills made from matching-attribute Rank 2 demonic cores could help the beasts advance, though the pills were expensive and success was uncertain.

Su Yu sold the Dragon Eagle Puppet Beast to buy two Demonic Core Pills and help the Earth Fire Ape and Black Scale Eagle break through to Rank 2. The Earth Fire Ape survived a dangerous breakthrough with Su Yu’s healing mana, and the Black Scale Eagle also succeeded, leaving both beasts at early Rank 2.

• Su Yu sold the Dragon Eagle Puppet Beast to Yu Ke'er for 6,000 Low-grade Spirit Stones and bought the two Demonic Core Pills.
• Yu Ke'er brought the pills to Su Yu and watched as he prepared the Earth Fire Ape for its breakthrough.
• The Earth Fire Ape’s body began to break apart under the pill’s violent power, so Su Yu used his mana to heal it until it broke through to Rank 2.
• Yu Ke'er explained that owning a Rank 2 Tamed Beast did not make Su Yu a Rank 2 Beast Tamer.
• The Black Scale Eagle swallowed the Gold-attribute Demonic Core Pill and broke through to early Rank 2 in a single attempt.

Su Yu arranged a steady source of income by taking pill orders from Yu Ke'er’s family and found an ancient technique that would let him act through a puppet. He returned to his courtyard to study the Dao Body Puppet Art while continuing his cultivation.

• Su Yu told Yu Ke'er that he was a Rank 2 low-grade alchemist and offered to refine pills for her, prompting her to flee in embarrassment.
• Yu Ke'er told Huang Haimei that Su Yu was too cautious to involve himself in the Yu Family’s internal troubles or a marriage alliance.
• Yu Ke'er arranged for Su Yu to receive the Yu Family outpost’s pill orders, while she returned the Top Grade Rank 1 Dragon Eagle Puppet Beast to her family.
• Su Yu bought materials for Rank 2 low-grade Hundred Beasts Pills and discovered the Dao Body Puppet Art in the Heavenly Script Pavilion.
• Su Yu bought the ancient book and returned to his courtyard to study the technique while pursuing a breakthrough in his Body Refining Technique.

Su Yu completed a Dao Body Puppet and advanced his Crocodile Demon's 108 Forms Body Refining Technique to the Tenth Layer. After refusing Wu Zhigang’s invitation to find the Ice Heart Lotus, he secretly sent his puppet to follow him and uncovered Wu Zhigang’s plan to use him as cannon fodder.

• Su Yu declined Wu Zhigang’s offer to join a team seeking the Ice Heart Lotus, suspecting his motives.
• Su Yu created a Dao Body Puppet that could change between an old man and a Shadow Leopard, and used it to explore Moon Worship Immortal City.
• Su Yu broke through to the Tenth Layer of Crocodile Demon's 108 Forms Body Refining Technique, gaining a body strong enough to threaten an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator at close range.
• Su Yu refused Wu Zhigang’s renewed invitation to seek the Ice Heart Lotus, then sent his Dao Body Puppet to follow him.
• Wu Zhigang told three ninth-layer Qi Refining cultivators that he had planned to use Su Yu as cannon fodder in Yuanyang Barren Ridge and said the Ice Heart Lotus was nearly mature.

Wu Zhigang and his companions entered Yuanyang Barren Ridge to seize a rare Ice Heart Lotus, unaware that Su Yu’s Dao Body Puppet had followed them. They escaped the valley with the lotus, but two talismans suddenly flew at them from the grass.

• Wu Zhigang and his three companions left Moon Worship Immortal City for Yuanyang Barren Ridge, while Su Yu secretly followed in the form of a Shadow Leopard.
• After reaching a valley, Wu Zhigang’s group identified the Ice Scale Demonic Snake and other beasts guarding the soon-to-bloom Ice Heart Lotus, then planned how to seize it.
• When the Ice Heart Lotus bloomed, an eagle beast struck the snake, and Wu Zhigang’s group used Ice Seal Talismans to attack the beasts and collect the lotus.
• Wu Zhigang placed the Ice Heart Lotus in his Cosmos Bag, and the four fled the valley as the demonic beasts recovered.
• An ice-blue talisman and a crimson talisman shot out of the grass toward Wu Zhigang’s group.

Su Yu ambushed Wu Zhigang’s group with Rank 2 talismans, then used the Earth Fire Ape and Black Scale Eagle to kill the survivors and the demonic beasts pursuing them. After returning to Moon Worship Immortal City, he counted his spoils and found he had gathered four types of Foundation Establishment Pill core ingredients, while still needing a Pure Demon Core and an Ethereal Fruit.

• Su Yu’s Rank 2 Ice Seal and Fire Dragon Talismans killed Wu Zhigang and the rough-looking burly man, while the young couple survived the blast but suffered grievous injuries.
• The Earth Fire Ape killed the young couple and Wolf Demon, while the Black Scale Eagle beheaded the fleeing Ice Scale Demonic Snake; together they had also killed the eagle beast.
• Su Yu’s Shadow Leopard-shaped Dao Body Puppet collected the Cosmos Bags, Magical Artifacts, and Ice Heart Lotus, then left the Yuanyang Barren Ridge with the Earth Fire Ape and Black Scale Eagle.
• Su Yu hid in a mountain cave for half a month before returning to Moon Worship Immortal City in disguise and retrieving the loot from his Dao Body Puppet.
• Su Yu found a High-grade Rank 1 Talisman Master inheritance, many valuables, and Foundation Establishment Pill materials that brought his collection to four types of core ingredients.
• Su Yu counted more than seven thousand four hundred Low-grade Spirit Stones and looked forward to the Spirit Hall Auction, where he hoped to obtain a Pure Demon Core, an Ethereal Fruit, and materials for the Dragon Crocodile Puppet Beast.

Su Yu helped Yu Ke'er’s Azure Python break through to Rank 2, and it unexpectedly developed a Rank 3 bloodline. More than five months later, Su Zhi arrived in Moon Worship Immortal City with funds to bid for an Ethereal Fruit and brought bad news.

• Su Yu considered expanding his cultivation and professions as his existing arts advanced slowly, but decided to wait for suitable inheritances.
• Yu Ke'er brought her Azure Python to Su Yu, who helped it survive a dangerous breakthrough and reach early Rank 2.
• Yu Ke'er told Su Yu that her family would auction two Ethereal Fruits, and Su Yu informed the Su Family so they could bid for one.
• More than a month after its breakthrough, the Azure Python grew claws, prompting Yu Ke'er and Huang Haimei to realize it had a Rank 3 bloodline.
• True Hall cultivators investigated Wu Zhigang’s disappearance nearly two months later but found no answers and dropped the matter.
• More than five months later, Su Zhi arrived in Moon Worship Immortal City with the Su Family’s bidding funds and bad news.