Chapter Summaries

Su Yu and Su Zhi discussed the mounting pressure on the Su Family and their plan to strengthen it by acquiring ingredients for Foundation Establishment Pills. At the Spirit Hall Auction, Su Yu spotted a Rank 2 Earth Attribute Demon Core needed for his Dragon Crocodile Puppet Beast.

• Su Zhi told Su Yu that the Cloud Sword Sect Master had urged her and Si Si to accept marriage alliances, while the Jiang Family and Huang Family were pressuring the Su Family and Chen Family through their allies.
• Su Yu revealed that he had an Ice Heart Lotus and could refine Foundation Establishment Pills himself as a second-rank low-grade alchemist, delighting Su Zhi.
• Su Yu and Su Zhi celebrated together, and Su Yu carried his drunken sister to rest before vowing to face the Jiang Family, Huang Family, and Maple City Bai Family.
• As the Spirit Hall Auction approached, Su Zhi stayed at Su Yu's courtyard and met Lan Xi and Lan Gong, who became more respectful toward him after learning she was his Foundation Establishment stage sister.
• Su Yu and Su Zhi attended the auction, where an old man bought a second-rank low-grade alchemist inheritance for 2,600 Low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Su Yu recognized a mid-grade Rank 2 Earth Attribute Demon Core as the key material for his Dragon Crocodile Puppet Beast.

Su Yu completed his auction purchases and refined four Foundation Establishment Pills, including two fine-quality pills. He presented the pills to Su Zhi, who was stunned by the result.

• Su Yu won the Dragon Crocodile Puppet Beast materials, an Ethereal Fruit, a Pure Demon Core, and an Earth Attribute Art at the auction.
• Yu Ke'er refused her father's proposal that she marry an inner disciple of Great Moon Palace, while he warned that the Cloud Sword Sect's coming upheaval threatened the Yu Family.
• Su Yu and Su Zhi left the auction early and returned to their courtyard, where Su Yu prepared to refine Foundation Establishment Pills.
• After reaching perfect quality with a batch of Kaiyuan Pills, Su Yu refined a batch of Foundation Establishment Pills and produced two fine-quality pills and two common-quality pills.
• Su Yu handed the pills to Su Zhi, who reacted with shock at the two fine-quality pills.

Su Yu refined fine grade Foundation Establishment Pills and helped Su Zhi arrange breakthroughs for Su Peng and Su Jingbang. While they attempted their breakthroughs, Su Yu completed his powerful Tier 2 Low-Grade Dragon Crocodile Puppet Beast.

• Su Zhi saw that Su Yu had refined two fine grade and two common quality Foundation Establishment Pills, and warned him to keep his alchemy talent secret.
• Su Zhi insisted Su Yu reserve one fine grade pill for himself and arranged for Su Peng and Su Jingbang to come to Moon Worship Immortal City.
• Su Yu cultivated the Profound Nether Thick Earth Art and advanced it to the third layer of Qi Refining while perfecting two Earth attribute spells.
• Su Peng and Su Jingbang arrived, and Su Yu rented them Core Area Cave Dwellings so they could attempt Foundation Establishment breakthroughs.
• Su Yu returned to his courtyard and completed the Dragon Crocodile Puppet Beast, whose modified form carried a powerful aura.

Su Yu turned the Dragon Crocodile Puppet Beast into a Dao Body Puppet and considered how to fund his cultivation. He partnered with Yu Ke'er to open an Alchemy Pavilion in Moon Worship Immortal City, leaving her to arrange its location.

• Su Yu used the Golden Cicada Art to suppress the Dragon Crocodile Puppet Beast’s violent remnant aura and completed its transformation into a Dao Body Puppet.
• Concerned about his dwindling Spirit Stones and expenses, Su Yu considered selling a puppet or Foundation Establishment Pill and opening another Alchemy Pavilion.
• Su Yu invited Yu Ke'er over and proposed that they open an Alchemy Pavilion together in Moon Worship Immortal City.
• Yu Ke'er offered to take only ten percent and let Su Yu use her name, but Su Yu insisted on a seventy-thirty partnership.
• Yu Ke'er agreed and took responsibility for finding a storefront, while Su Yu resolved to focus on steady cultivation with the pavilion’s income.

Su Yu refused to return to the Su Family as Family Head and continued building his life in Moon Worship Immortal City. A mysterious seed grew into a Spirit Plant and bore a fruit that transformed his senses and greatly advanced his cultivation overnight.

• Su Zhi told Su Yu that Su Peng's breakthrough had failed while Su Jingbang had reached the Foundation Establishment stage, and she tried to persuade Su Yu to become Family Head.
• Su Yu refused and suggested that Su Jingbang could lead the family instead; after returning to the courtyard, Su Peng raised the idea with Su Jingbang, who declined to discuss it.
• Su Peng and Su Jingbang left Moon Worship Immortal City to attend to the troubled family, while Su Yu reaffirmed that he would not return to take charge.
• At the Wutong Pill Pavilion, Su Yu nourished the seed with his mana until it grew into a Spirit Plant and produced a golden fruit, which he ate.
• By dawn, Su Yu's Golden Cicada Art had reached its second layer, his Azure Wood Age Wheel Art had reached the ninth layer of Qi Refining, and his Profound Nether Thick Earth Art had reached the sixth layer.

Su Yu reached the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining and cultivated the Azure Wood Age Wheel Art and Golden Cicada Art to improve his progress toward Foundation Establishment. At the Wutong Pill Pavilion, True Hall steward Hu Xiu arrived and invited Su Yu to join True Hall.

• Su Yu reviewed his cultivation progress and estimated that his lifespan and accelerated training would let him reach Foundation Establishment in a little over four years.
• Xu Desheng and Kang Yunian managed the Wutong Pill Pavilion while Su Yu refined pills and cultivated the Azure Wood Age Wheel Art and Crocodile Demon's 108 Forms Body Refining Technique.
• Su Yu noted that his Azure Wood Age Wheel Art proficiency had risen to 25.99% after cultivation.
• Hu Xiu visited the Wutong Pill Pavilion with a subordinate, and Su Yu recognized him as a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
• Hu Xiu introduced himself as a True Hall steward and low-grade Rank 2 alchemist, then invited Su Yu to join True Hall.

Su Yu considered joining the True Hall as a supporter and spent months replenishing his stock of Rank 2 talismans. Yu Ke'er returned with news of an immortal-path ruin and asked him to prepare supplies, but the ruin's name startled him: the Golden Jade Immortal Sect ruins.

• Hu Xiu invited Su Yu to join the True Hall as a supporter, and Su Yu decided to observe its development while considering the benefits of joining.
• Su Yu checked his finances, sent the Dao Body Puppet to buy talisman materials, and spent the next half year drawing Rank 2 talismans.
• Yu Ke'er returned after half a year and told Su Yu she had broken through to Foundation Establishment Stage One.
• Yu Ke'er told Su Yu that an immortal-path ruin had appeared in Eight Demon Ridge and that the Yu Family needed pills and talismans for the situation.
• Su Yu examined the Yu Family's supply list and was shocked to learn that the ruin was the Golden Jade Immortal Sect ruins.

Su Yu learned that the Golden Jade Immortal Sect ruins at Eight Demon Ridge were connected to items he had once acquired, but he chose to remain in Moon Worship Immortal City and earn resources through alchemy. Four months later, Yu Qianqing brought news that Chen Sisi had died from injuries sustained at Eight Demon Ridge and delivered Chen Sisi’s Cosmos Bag with a request to look after the Chen Family.

• Su Yu connected the Golden Jade Immortal Sect ruins at Eight Demon Ridge to the map and Demon Path items once held by the Ghost Head Golden Condor.
• Yu Ke'er decided to handle her requested items month by month and shared her ambition to become a top-tier high-grade Rank 2 Tamed Beast master within twenty years.
• Su Yu accepted True Hall's tasks to refine three types of low-grade Rank 2 pills and arranged to fulfill the Yu Family's larger, year-long pill order.
• Su Yu stayed in Moon Worship Immortal City, focused on pill refinement and daily cultivation, and ignored the ruins.
• Yu Qianqing told Su Yu that Chen Sisi had died after being gravely injured at Eight Demon Ridge, then gave him Chen Sisi’s Cosmos Bag and her request that he look after the Chen Family.

Su Yu learned that Chen Sisi had died after being gravely wounded by Blood Saber Daoist Luo Bang in the Golden Jade Immortal Sect ruins, and discovered the Nascent Soul Puppet Bead she had left for him. He merged the bead with his Dao Body Puppet and planned to repay Chen Sisi’s request to look after the Chen Family.

• Yu Qianqing told Su Yu and Yu Ke'er that Chen Sisi had died after Luo Bang wounded her and demonic qi eroded her, and said Chen Sisi had been buried in the Su Family Azure Mountain Cemetery.
• Su Yu and Yu Ke'er decided to visit Chen Sisi's grave the next day, and Yu Ke'er left to arrange the Yu Family outpost.
• Su Yu opened Chen Sisi's Cosmos Bag and found her letter asking him to look after the Chen Family, along with a black-jade bead he recognized as a Nascent Soul Puppet Bead.
• Su Yu merged the Nascent Soul Puppet Bead with his Dao Body Puppet and found that the fusion worked smoothly, though the puppet would need nurturing and could suffer damage if it used the bead's full power.
• Su Yu regarded the bead as a major means of preserving his life and resolved to repay the debt he owed Chen Sisi.

Su Yu returned to Azure Mountain with Yu Ke'er and Yu Qianqing, paid respects at Chen Sisi's grave, and learned that Eight Demon Ridge had drawn powerful forces into a dangerous conflict. Worried that his connection to Chen Sisi could expose what he had gained from the Golden Jade Immortal Sect ruins, he left the next morning for Moon Worship Immortal City.

• Su Yu checked his magical artifacts, talismans, medicines, and poisons, then traveled with Yu Ke'er and Yu Qianqing to the Su Family on Rank 2 flying mounts.
• Su Yu startled the guards at Azure Mountain with the Two-Headed Blood Eagle, and his family celebrated the return of their Fifth Elder and a Rank 2 Tamed Beast.
• Su Yu, Yu Ke'er, and Yu Qianqing offered wine and offerings at Chen Sisi's grave, where Su Yu resolved to avenge her when he had the power.
• At a family banquet, Su Bin told Su Yu that Eight Demon Ridge had become dangerous and attracted powerful cultivators, including Demon Path experts from beyond Great Moon Prefecture.
• Su Yu left pills and talismans for the Su Family and hurried back to Moon Worship Immortal City with Yu Ke'er and Yu Qianqing.

After returning to Moon Worship Immortal City, Su Yu planned to cultivate toward Foundation Establishment and persuaded Yu Qianqing to join his Alchemy Pavilion. More than two months later, a battle between the Righteous Path and the Demon Path erupted at Eight Demon Ridge, while rising Spirit Field rents sparked a furious outburst from a nearby cultivator.

• The Su Family praised Su Yu’s rapid progress, established Clan Elders, and decided Su Jingbang would become the Second Ancestor while Su Rui'an was groomed to succeed Su Peng.
• On the Black Scale Eagle, Yu Ke'er asked Su Yu about Foundation Establishment, and Su Yu tried to recruit Yu Qianqing into his Alchemy Pavilion.
• Yu Qianqing agreed to leave Cloud Sword Sect and join Su Yu’s Alchemy Pavilion, despite her master being a powerful alchemist and Foundation Establishment elder.
• After returning to Moon Worship Immortal City, Su Yu resumed cultivation and filled the Yu Family’s orders at the Alchemy Pavilion.
• Yu Ke'er told Su Yu that righteous forces and Demon Path cultivators had fought at Eight Demon Ridge, leaving both sides grievously wounded after two Demon Path Core Formation cultivators appeared.
• A cultivator in the alley cursed the thirty-percent rent increase and threatened to sell his family members if their Spirit Field caused him to lose money.

Su Yu reflected on the rising costs and the war’s impact on Moon Worship Immortal City, then continued his work and cultivation. Yu Qianqing joined his alchemy pavilion, and Su Yu broke through to the eighth layer of Qi Refining with the Profound Nether Thick Earth Art.

• Su Yu saw Wang Hong drive Xue Yingxiang and her two daughters from their courtyard, then considered how rising rents and fees were hurting ordinary cultivators.
• Worried that Su Zhi might have been caught up in the fighting at Eight Demon Ridge, Su Yu sent a letter to the Cloud Sword Sect stronghold asking after her.
• Su Yu had his Dao Body Puppet devour ores to advance while he cultivated and accepted a True Hall task to refine five hundred low-grade Rank 2 pills.
• Yu Qianqing returned to Moon Worship Immortal City, joined Wutong Pill Pavilion, and became devoted to Su Yu after he refined five premium-quality Kaiyuan Pills in one batch.
• Five months later, Su Yu completed the seventh layer of the Profound Nether Thick Earth Art and advanced to the eighth layer of Qi Refining Realm.

Su Yu learned that the Demon Path war had badly weakened the Cloud Sword Sect, while the Great Moon Palace drove the invaders from Eight Demon Ridge and protected the region. After more than a year of turmoil, Su Yu’s Dao Body Puppet advanced to second-grade mid-grade.

• Su Yu reviewed his cultivation progress and planned to pursue Foundation Establishment and settle old scores with the Maple City Bai Family.
• Su Yu read Su Zhi’s letter about the Cloud Sword Sect’s heavy losses at Eight Demon Ridge and its withdrawal, and learned the sect suspected the Demon Path intended to invade through the Golden Jade Immortal Sect ruins.
• News of the war spread to Moon Worship Immortal City, prompting cultivators to stock up on supplies as prices rose and fear grew.
• Yu Ke'er told Su Yu that Dragon An Daoist had killed a Demon Path Golden Core cultivator and driven the remaining Demon Path and Bandit Cultivators from Eight Demon Ridge; she also reported that the Su Family was safe behind Azure Mountain’s defenses.
• Over the following year, Su Yu continued his work at the Alchemy Pavilion while the Great Moon Palace guarded the region and exploration of the ruins continued.
• Su Yu watched the Dao Body Puppet absorb Purple Gold Crystal Essence Stone and realized it had advanced to second-grade mid-grade.

Su Yu advanced the Dragon Crocodile Puppet Beast to mid-grade Rank 2, strengthening his defenses as he prepared for Foundation Establishment. After seeing the Moon Worship City Guards seize Wang Hong and drive his family from their home, Su Yu began considering an escape route from the city.

• Su Yu advanced the Dragon Crocodile Puppet Beast to mid-grade Rank 2 and tested its spikes, which withstood attacks from low- and mid-grade Magical Artifacts.
• Su Yu reviewed his cultivation progress, earnings, and plans to acquire High-grade Magical Artifacts for himself and the puppet.
• Moon Worship City Guards dragged Wang Hong from his home, confiscated his property, and expelled his wife and daughters under orders attributed to Xu Wansheng.
• Su Yu learned that Wang Hong had been seized for organizing Spirit Field cultivators to petition for lower rent.
• Su Yu reflected on the danger of living under True Lord Moon Worship's authority and decided to prepare a way out.

Su Yu took in Xue Yingxiang and her daughters after Wang Hong’s death, then continued cultivating and training Yu Qianqing. At True Hall, Xu Wansheng tried to recruit Su Yu into his service; after Su Yu refused, Xu cut off his access to True Hall’s tasks and resources while plotting to consolidate power.

• Xue Yingxiang begged Su Yu to shelter her and her daughters, and he brought them to the Alchemy Pavilion, where he arranged work and apprenticeships for them.
• Su Yu renamed the girls Xue Xiaoxi and Xue Xiaozi, and Xu Desheng and Kang Yunian agreed to take them as apprentices.
• Su Yu used his divine sense to temper Yu Qianqing’s and guided her alchemy while his own cultivation and technique proficiency continued to improve.
• True Hall steward Hu Xiu brought Su Yu to meet Xu Wansheng, who offered him a Foundation Establishment Pill and an alchemy inheritance if he joined his command.
• Su Yu declined Xu Wansheng’s offer, so Xu ordered Hu Xiu to give him no more tasks or exchanges unless he submitted to True Hall.
• Xu Wansheng reflected on his absent martial siblings and master, and decided that controlling True Hall was key to casting one of his rivals out of Moon Worship Immortal City.

After refusing to join the True Hall, Su Yu learned that it had blocked him from exchanging his contribution points and began preparing an escape route at the Great Moon Black Market. He continued cultivating in seclusion, bringing his Azure Wood Age Wheel Art close to a breakthrough.

• Su Yu told Yu Ke'er that he had refused Xu Wansheng's invitation to join the True Hall, and she warned him that the organization had recruited many cultivators skilled in the hundred arts.
• Su Yu asked Yu Ke'er about finding a Cave Dwelling like White Flame Alchemist's, and she offered to apply for her Yu Family's second-grade Cave Dwelling at the Great Moon Black Market.
• Su Yu failed to exchange his contribution points at the True Hall, ignored Hu Xiu's recruitment hints, and left without making a scene.
• Over the next half year, Su Yu cultivated, guided Yu Qianqing in pill refining, discussed Dao with Yu Ke'er, and investigated the Great Moon Black Market.
• Su Yu nourished the Pit Seed, fed the Earth Fire Ape and Black Scale Eagle, and cultivated beside the strengthening Dao Body Puppet as his Azure Wood Age Wheel Art neared a breakthrough.

Su Yu successfully broke through to Foundation Establishment Stage One, transforming his mana, soul, and body in the process. He discovered that his Spirit Roots had improved and that his lifespan had reached 213 years.

• Su Yu completed the Azure Wood Age Wheel Art’s breakthrough, forming a Foundation Establishment seed and advancing the art to two wheels, one revolution.
• The breakthrough transformed Su Yu’s soul and body as he absorbed the power that opened his sea of consciousness and strengthened his divine sense.
• Lan Xi, Lan Gong, and a nearby Artificer sensed the spiritual energy disturbance and realized Su Yu had reached the Foundation Establishment stage.
• After awakening, Su Yu sensed that his Five Elements Spiritual Roots had improved from the upper-middle range to the upper tier of Low-grade Spirit Roots.
• Su Yu checked his Proficiency Panel and found that he was at Foundation Establishment Stage One with a lifespan of 213 years.

After reaching Foundation Establishment, Su Yu mastered several new spells, celebrated with his allies, and appointed Li Pingchang to manage the Wutong Pill Pavilion. He planned to expand into the Great Moon Black Market after the Spirit Hall Auction and began practicing mid-grade Rank 2 talisman drawing.

• Su Yu advanced the Profound Nether Thick Earth Art to its ninth level, then gained an initial grasp of five Foundation Establishment spells from the Azure Wood Age Wheel Art.
• Su Yu emerged from seclusion and celebrated his breakthrough at Drunken Immortal Tower with Yu Ke'er, Yu Qianqing, and their companions; Li Pingchang presented him with a White Flame Spirit Ginseng.
• Yu Ke'er recommended Li Pingchang to manage the Wutong Pill Pavilion, and Su Yu agreed to trust him with its affairs.
• Su Yu told Yu Ke'er and Yu Qianqing that he planned to visit the Great Moon Black Market after the Spirit Hall Auction and establish another Wutong Pill Pavilion there.
• Su Yu returned to seclusion, completed his daily cultivation, and prepared materials to attempt drawing mid-grade Rank 2 talismans.

Su Yu spent three months learning to draw three mid-grade Rank 2 talismans, then arranged for the Dao Body Puppet to auction an ordinary Foundation Establishment Pill at Spirit Hall. The chapter left the disguised puppet confronting Hu Xiu after he tried to recruit it.

• Su Yu practiced the Spirit Calming, Mystic Sky Shield, and Dragon Slaying Talismans, eventually drawing six of them in three months.
• Su Yu found that his remaining spirit stones were low and decided to sell an ordinary Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Su Yu sent the Dao Body Puppet, disguised as an old man, to Spirit Hall with the pill while he went to Wutong Pill Pavilion.
• A Spirit Hall steward summoned Hu Xiu to handle the auction, and Hu Xiu began pitching recruitment to the disguised puppet.
• The Dao Body Puppet unleashed its might, rebuked Hu Xiu, and frightened him into silence.

The Dao Body Puppet intimidated Hu Xiu into processing its Foundation Establishment Pill auction certificate, while the Spirit Hall's chief steward allowed the confrontation to unfold for his own reasons. As the auction approached, Su Yu learned that the Demon Path had sought the Golden Jade Immortal Sect ruins for the Golden Cicada Art, but no one had found it yet.

• The Dao Body Puppet unleashed its aura at Hu Xiu, then accepted the auction certificate after Hu Xiu apologized and treated it as a Senior.
• The Spirit Hall's chief steward forbade his subordinates from intervening and explained that the trouble could expose the ambitions of the True Hall's leader.
• The Dao Body Puppet left, concealed its aura and appearance, and rented a room elsewhere while Su Yu watched from the Wutong Pill Pavilion.
• Cultivators returned to Moon Worship Immortal City ahead of the Spirit Hall's auction, hoping to sell gains from the Golden Jade Immortal Sect ruins.
• Li Pingchang told Su Yu, Yu Ke'er, and Yu Qianqing that the Demon Path had sought the Golden Cicada Art, a cultivation art rumored to resolve flaws in Demon Path cultivation, but neither side had found it.