Chapter Summaries

Su Yu returns to Pill Mountain and learns about the Yu Family's departure from Moon Worship Immortal City. He discusses the matter with his family and decides to support the Yu Family's decision. Meanwhile, Fairy Fengling and Xu Wansheng from Moon Worship Immortal City visit Su Yu, seeking reconciliation and offering a generous gift of Wind Marrow Stone materials. Su Yu accepts the gift and agrees to resolve the past enmity. Later, the old man from the Heavenly Script Pavilion visits Su Yu and offers him an External Member Token and a high-grade Rank 3 Talisman Master inheritance, forming a good bond between them. Su Yu accepts the offer and decides to cultivate in peace, focusing on creating the Core Formation stage Five Elements Art and improving his secondary professions.

Key Plot Points and Events

1. The Yu Family decides to leave Moon Worship Immortal City, with the Su Family's support.
2. Fairy Fengling and Xu Wansheng visit Su Yu, seeking reconciliation and offering Wind Marrow Stone materials as a gift.
3. The old man from the Heavenly Script Pavilion visits Su Yu, offering him an External Member Token and a high-grade Rank 3 Talisman Master inheritance, forming a good bond.
4. Su Yu accepts the offers and decides to cultivate in peace, focusing on creating the Core Formation stage Five Elements Art and improving his secondary professions.

Character Developments

1. Su Yu:
   • Becomes renowned throughout Great Moon Prefecture for killing Xu Changqing and Huang Shengyi.
   • Accepts the Heavenly Script Pavilion's External Member Token and high-grade Rank 3 Talisman Master inheritance, forming a good bond with the Heavenly Script Pavilion.
   • Decides to cultivate in peace and create the Core Formation stage Five Elements Art.
2. Yu Family:
   • Decides to leave Moon Worship Immortal City, with the Su Family's support.
3. Moon Worship Immortal City:
   • Sends Fairy Fengling and Xu Wansheng to visit Su Yu, seeking reconciliation and offering a generous gift.
4. Heavenly Script Pavilion:
   • The old man offers Su Yu an External Member Token and a high-grade Rank 3 Talisman Master inheritance, forming a good bond.

Significant Themes

1. Power dynamics and reputation in the cultivation world:
   • The Su Family's reputation and influence grow significantly after Su Yu's actions, allowing them to reopen their Alchemy Pavilions in various forces' market districts with ease.
2. The importance of connections and alliances:
   • The Heavenly Script Pavilion's offer to Su Yu highlights the value of connections and alliances in the cultivation world.
3. The pursuit of cultivation and longevity:
   • Su Yu's decision to cultivate in peace and create the Core Formation stage Five Elements Art reflects his pursuit of longevity and the immortal path.

Character Interactions

1. Su Yu and the Yu Family:
   • Discuss the Yu Family's departure from Moon Worship Immortal City and decide to support their decision.
2. Su Yu and Fairy Fengling/Xu Wansheng:
   • Meet to discuss the past enmity and resolve it, with Fairy Fengling offering a generous gift of Wind Marrow Stone materials.
3. Su Yu and the old man from the Heavenly Script Pavilion:
   • Meet to discuss the External Member Token and high-grade Rank 3 Talisman Master inheritance, forming a good bond between them.

After a year of preparation, Su Yu advanced his body-refining technique to the nineteenth level, strengthened his safeguards, and created the Core Formation method of the Five Elements Art. He finally broke through to Core Formation Stage One, where heavenly might descended upon his body and dantian.

• Su Yu consumed more than three hundred drops of Rank 3 demonic beast essence blood to advance the Crocodile Demon's 108 Forms Body Refining Technique to the nineteenth level, greatly increasing his strength and lifespan.
• Su Yu learned that Su Zhen had died and attended a family meeting where the Su Family set a marriage banquet for Su Rui'an and Yu Wenji; he arranged for Daoist Xiu Yu to invite factions and coordinate material trades.
• At the banquet, Luo Chenggong gave Su Yu Tri-Color Spirit Vibration Gold, and Daoist Xiu Yu gave him a map and information about the route to Kunlong Prefecture; Luo Qianyu later discussed Core Formation with him and warned him about its tribulations.
• After half a year of seclusion, Su Yu created the Core Formation stage method of the Five Elements Art, then spent the following years cultivating, refining pills, making talismans, and strengthening his Dao Body Puppet and Puppet Soul.
• When the Five Elements Art reached 99.97% proficiency, Su Yu prepared spirit stones and pills and cultivated until the panel registered Core Formation Stage One; heavenly might then crashed down upon him as the cave dwelling's spiritual qi surged toward him.

Su Yu endured the three Core Formation tribulations and formed a three-turn Golden Core, then emerged from seclusion to find the Su Family celebrating his breakthrough. As reports of unexplained cultivation-family conflicts continued, he ordered the family to prepare quietly, while a Dao Body Puppet departed for Great Moon Ridge three months later.

• Su Jingbang helped the Chen Family resist the Wen and Tian Families, but a later raid revealed mysterious retainers who destroyed the city formation and captives who died without explanation.
• Su Yu passed the Body, Heart, and Mana Tribulations on Sun Moon Island and condensed a three-turn Golden Core, transforming his body and soul and extending his lifespan to 934 years.
• Su Yu selected and nurtured three Supreme-grade Artifacts, mastered his new Core Formation mana, and left seclusion after Cloud Tiger confirmed his breakthrough.
• Su Yu told the Su Family to keep his breakthrough quiet, celebrate modestly, and avoid bullying others while preparing for possible unrest.
• Su Jingbang reported that the Wen and Tian Families' rise and the wider resource-site conflicts remained unexplained, so Su Yu ordered precautions and chose to wait for more information.
• Three months after Su Yu's breakthrough, a Dao Body Puppet quietly left Pill Mountain for Great Moon Ridge.

Gongsun Yi and the Grand Void Immortal Alliance sought the Golden Cicada Art, while Su Yu’s Dao Body Puppet traded for a mysterious fragment that repaired the Qi Refining Pot and then entered the Falling Moon Alliance Grotto-Heaven. After Su Yu learned that the Grand Void Immortal Alliance was behind growing unrest and may have attacked the Yu Family while searching for the Golden Cicada Art, he set out to investigate Yu Baihe’s injuries.

• A masked envoy of the Grand Void Immortal Alliance told Gongsun Yi and Du Yulin to investigate the Yu and Su Families and seize the Golden Jade Immortal Sect ruins within ten years to find the Golden Cicada Art.
• The Dao Body Puppet passed Red Lotus Lake, then traded ten thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones for an ancient fragment that fused with the Qi Refining Pot and greatly increased its power.
• The Dao Body Puppet entered the Falling Moon Alliance Grotto-Heaven, captured Heavenly Thunder Rat, and escaped the Mountain Suppressing Iron Ox with spatial power before hiding to recover and explore.
• Su Yu completed a White Feather Phoenix Eagle puppet, reached low-grade Rank 3 Puppet Master attainment, and refined Golden Core Pills and Haotian Pills during six years of seclusion.
• Su Yu learned that Yu Baihe had been severely wounded by a powerful Golden Core True Person, so he took Yu Ke'er and the others to Black Rock Mountain to investigate.
• Daoist Xiu Yu told Su Yu that the Grand Void Immortal Alliance had infiltrated families across Great Moon Prefecture and was likely searching for the Golden Cicada Art in the Golden Jade Immortal Sect ruins.

Su Yu moved his family to the Cloud Sword Sect for safety as the Grand Void Immortal Alliance’s campaign against Great Moon Prefecture intensified. After Su Zhi successfully formed her Core, news arrived that the Red Alliance had seized the Golden Jade Immortal Sect ruins and the Grand Void Immortal Alliance was preparing to invade.

• Daoist Xiu Yu told Su Yu that the Grand Void Immortal Alliance had a vast but loosely organized following, and Su Yu decided to move his family to the Cloud Sword Sect for protection.
• Su Yu examined Yu Baihe’s shattered divine soul, briefly stabilized him, and later helped Yu Ke'er lay him to rest after he died three days later.
• Su Yu arranged for young members of the Su and Yu Families to travel with him to the Cloud Sword Sect, where Luo Qianyu welcomed them into its Cave-Heaven Secret Realm.
• Three years later, Su Yu gave Yu Ke'er and Su Zhi Golden Core Pills; Su Zhi endured the Body, Heart, and Mana Tribulations and reached Core Formation Stage One.
• Tie Mengzhu reported that the Red Alliance had seized the Golden Jade Immortal Sect ruins, several forces had been attacked, and the Grand Void Immortal Alliance had clashed with the Great Moon Palace and threatened a wider invasion.

Su Yu prepared for unrest by accumulating talismans, while Yu Ke'er successfully formed her core and Great Moon Palace commissioned talismans from him. Meanwhile, his Dao Body Puppet subdued the Heavenly Thunder Rat and found a treasure-filled refuge in the Falling Moon Alliance ruins; the chapter ended with Book Daoist arriving to meet Su Yu again.

• Su Zhi left the Cave-Heaven Secret Realm to help stabilize Cloud Sword Sect, and Su Yu resolved to turn his stored Rank 2 materials into talismans.
• Yu Ke'er survived the tribulations and formed her core, while Su Yu cultivated in the Rank 4 Spirit Vein Cave Heaven and spent a year making talismans.
• Book Daoist asked Su Yu to draw Rank 2 and Rank 3 talismans for Great Moon Palace, and Su Yu accepted the commission and its materials.
• The Dao Body Puppet forced the Heavenly Thunder Rat to submit, then escaped a guarded hall into a concealed Cave Dwelling containing ancient books, spirit stones, and a damaged Rank 4 puppet.
• The Dao Body Puppet took control of the Crimson Puppet, repaired it with Rank 3 Spirit Ore, and gathered spirit medicines from the Medicine Garden.
• Su Yu finished another Mirror Moon Talisman and learned that Book Daoist had arrived at the External Affairs Hall.

Su Yu learned that Book Daoist had been captured by Chiling Grandmaster, then led the Cloud Sword Sect in attacking the Red Alliance’s holdings in Eight Demon Ridge. Book Daoist escaped the Grand Void Immortal Alliance with its Sacred Origin Peach Tree, averting Great Moon Palace’s immediate need to attack but making a wider war more likely.

• Chiling Grandmaster ordered the search for the Golden Cicada Art and discussed targeting Su Yu, while Book Daoist delivered Su Yu’s talismans to Great Moon Palace.
• Daoist Xiu Yu told Su Yu that Chiling Grandmaster had ambushed and captured Book Daoist, prompting Great Moon Palace to order its allies to destroy the Grand Void Immortal Alliance’s footholds.
• Su Yu gathered Cloud Sword Sect forces and attacked the Red Alliance in Eight Demon Ridge, killing its guards and reclaiming the Golden Jade Immortal Sect ruins, but Gongsun Yi and Du Yulin were gone.
• Su Yu spared the remaining Red Alliance cultivators and Li Family members at Red Lotus Lake, then returned to the Cloud Sword Sect and ordered a purge of the Grand Void Immortal Alliance’s agents in its territory.
• Daoist Xiu Yu reported that Book Daoist had escaped the Grand Void Immortal Alliance headquarters with the Sacred Origin Peach Tree, leaving Su Yu to fear that the furious alliance would start a war.

Su Yu learned that Great Moon Palace and the Grand Void Immortal Alliance would settle their conflict through a five-on-five genius contest, and he agreed to fight in exchange for access to the Great Moon Secret Pool. There, he completed his Four-Revolutions Golden Core and helped Yu Ke'er improve her foundation before the contest began.

• Su Zhi told Su Yu that the Grand Void Immortal Alliance had failed to recapture Book Daoist and was threatening Great Moon Palace over the Sacred Origin Peach Tree.
• After Su Yun and Su Ruosu died, Su Yu visited their graves and broke through to Core Formation Stage Two, forming a faint fourth Dao pattern on his Golden Core.
• Su Yu arranged for Su Rui'an and Yu Wenji's children to begin establishing their foundations and asked them to bring Su Rui to the Cloud Sword Sect when she turned three.
• Su Yu, Yu Ke'er, and Luo Qianyu traveled to Great Moon Palace for Book Daoist's Core Formation banquet, where Dragon An Daoist asked them to fight the Grand Void Immortal Alliance's geniuses in exchange for access to the Great Moon Secret Pool.
• Su Yu and the others cultivated in the Great Moon Secret Pool, and Su Yu completed his Four-Revolutions Golden Core while Yu Ke'er, Luo Qianyu, and Fairy Fengling also strengthened their foundations.

Su Yu and the other Great Moon Palace prodigies prepared for their duel with the Grand Void Immortal Alliance, while Great Moon Palace suspected the contest was really meant to expose whoever possessed the Golden Cicada Art. The duels began with Luo Qianyu and Su Yu killing their opponents, and the chapter ended as the furious Crimson Plume Leader reacted to the deaths with a strange cry that struck at the crowd’s minds.

• Ma Shiqing agreed to build a low-grade Rank 3 Mountain Protection Formation for Su Yu, and the group left the depleted Great Moon Secret Pool.
• Daoist Xiu Yu explained that the Grand Void Immortal Alliance specialized in soul and escape techniques, and Su Yu proposed using Illusion Moon Talismans in the duels.
• Daoist Qingquan and Spirited Wine Daoist suspected the Grand Void Immortal Alliance had arranged the duels to discover who possessed the Golden Cicada Art, while Su Yu devised and distributed Soul Suppressing Talismans.
• The Grand Void Immortal Alliance arrived in Great Moon Immortal City, and its members challenged the city’s cultivators before five formal duels were arranged against Great Moon Palace’s representatives.
• Luo Qianyu killed her opponent with her sword, while Su Yu trapped the female cultivator facing him with an Illusion Moon Talisman and a Soul Suppressing Talisman, then beheaded her.
• After two opponents died, Crimson Plume Leader roared in anger, and a strange cry struck the minds of the cultivators gathered around the plaza.

Su Yu survived the Grand Void Immortal Alliance’s attempt to seize the Golden Cicada Art, then decided to hide in the Falling Moon Alliance ruins while threats gathered around him. He entered the ruins’ Cave-Heaven Secret Realm with his companions and reached Azure Moon Peak, where they prepared to live in seclusion.

• A three-headed, eye-covered demonic bird attacked the plaza with soul power, but Su Yu’s Golden Cicada Art and Heavenly Script Pavilion token helped protect him and the others until Great Moon Palace’s formations drove the bird away.
• The Grand Void Immortal Alliance’s Nascent Soul Alliance Master demanded that Su Yu hand over the Golden Cicada Art, but the Heavenly Script Pavilion old man intervened and forced him to withdraw; Su Yu resolved to stay hidden rather than surrender the art.
• Su Yu brought Luo Qianyu, Yu Ke'er, Luo Qingya, Lan Xi, and Lan Gong to the Heavenly Script Pavilion, then planned to retreat into Great Moon Ridge and asked Luo Qianyu to look after the Su Family.
• A demon-path young man learned that the Golden Cicada Art had resurfaced and vowed to pursue his own demonic cultivation, while the Grand Void Immortal Alliance left Great Moon Prefecture intending to pressure Su Yu through other means.
• Su Yu used spatial power to enter the Falling Moon Alliance ruins’ Cave-Heaven Secret Realm, subdued the Heavenly Thunder Rat, and reached Azure Moon Peak with his companions.
• Su Yu brought Yu Ke'er, Luo Qingya, Lan Xi, and Lan Gong out of the Azurewood Palace, and Lan Xi and Lan Gong were astonished by the secret realm’s rich spiritual energy.

Su Yu settled his companions into the Rank 4 Spirit Vein Cave Heaven and spent years cultivating there, while his Dao Body Puppet returned to Great Moon Prefecture and learned that the Grand Void Immortal Alliance and Nine Souls Demonic Palace had abducted members of the Su Family. The chapter left the puppet heading toward the Grand Void Immortal Alliance to rescue them as Su Yu continued cultivating in the ruins.

• Su Yu brought Yu Ke'er, Luo Qingya, Lan Xi, and Lan Gong into the ancient Luoyue Alliance cave heaven, explained its history, and began rebuilding a residence on Azure Moon Peak.
• Su Yu distributed Rank 3 High-grade Spirit Liquid to his companions and Tamed Beasts, while Lan Xi and Lan Gong hoped to become his Dao companions and Yu Ke'er later asked him for a child, which he refused.
• Over the next three years, Su Yu studied array formations in seclusion as the Dao Body Puppet and Heavenly Thunder Rat searched the ruins, gathered resources, and repaired the puppet.
• The Dao Body Puppet returned to Great Moon Prefecture, recruited the Heavenly Thunder Rat’s descendants, and learned from Li Die'er that the Grand Void Immortal Alliance had captured Yu Qianqing and Su Qi.
• Su Yu learned that the Nine Souls Demonic Palace had also seized Su Family clansmen, then sent the Dao Body Puppet toward Purple Light Prefecture to rescue the captives and punish the Grand Void Immortal Alliance.
• In the cave heaven, Su Yu continued advancing his cultivation and considered how to temper his Four-Revolutions Golden Core toward a nine-turn Golden Core.

Su Yu’s Dao Body Puppet infiltrated Purple Light Prefecture to find Yu Qianqing and Su Qi, captured a Heavenly Phoenix-blooded strange beast, and uncovered clues about the Crimson Plume lineage. He reached the outskirts of Chiling Immortal City as the Chiling Grandmaster prepared forces for war with Great Moon Prefecture.

• Su Yu nurtured the Pit Seed and practiced setting up formations on Azure Moon Peak while his household enjoyed a peaceful routine.
• The Dao Body Puppet entered Purple Light Prefecture under the identity of Daoist Chiying, learned about Siyang Town, and killed the Liu Family Head and the innkeeper to search for information.
• The Heavenly Thunder Rat Demon King captured a strange beast with a faint Heavenly Phoenix bloodline after its clan overwhelmed cultivators in the Fuyang Mountain Range.
• The Dao Body Puppet soul-searched Xu Zhen in Hundred Swords Immortal City, learned about the Crimson Plume lineage, and found a fragment of the Qi Refining Pot and the Red Sword Artifact Refining Record.
• The Dao Body Puppet reached the outskirts of Chiling Immortal City and sent the Heavenly Thunder Rats to gather intelligence while he concealed himself underground.
• The Chiling Grandmaster told Daoist Yijian that selected candidates would depart for Great Moon Prefecture and said the Grand Void Immortal Alliance was not the only force preparing to act.

The Dao Body Puppet ambushed the Crimson Plume cultivators, killed Daoist Yijian and his companions, and discovered that Yu Qianqing and Su Qi were imprisoned in the lineage’s Cave-Heaven Secret Realm. He rescued them and plundered the secret realm, leaving the Chiling Grandmaster to report the disaster to the Grand Void Immortal Alliance Leader while the rescued women encountered the Heavenly Thunder Rat Demon Pack in Azurewood Palace.

• The Dao Body Puppet learned that two Core Formation cultivators were traveling toward Great Moon Prefecture and pursued their flying boat with the Heavenly Thunder Rat Demon King.
• The Dao Body Puppet and the Heavenly Thunder Rat Demon King ambushed Daoist Yijian’s party, killed Daoist Yijian and Daoist Cangyu, and captured Huang Shili’s divine soul.
• The Dao Body Puppet searched Huang Shili’s memories, learned Yu Qianqing and Su Qi were held in the Crimson Plume lineage’s Cave-Heaven Secret Realm, and infiltrated Chiling Immortal City.
• The Dao Body Puppet killed the Cave-Heaven Secret Realm’s Rank 3 mid-grade python demon, rescued Yu Qianqing and Su Qi, and emptied the Medicine Garden and treasury before escaping.
• The Chiling Grandmaster found the secret realm stripped and reported the losses to the Grand Void Immortal Alliance Leader, who ordered him to lead the Crimson Plume lineage into battle.
• Yu Qianqing and Su Qi arrived in Azurewood Palace and met the Heavenly Thunder Rat Demon King and its pack, while one of its descendants struck a crimson-feathered spirit chicken with lightning.

The Great Moon Palace and Heavenly Ruins Hall assessed the looming war and the mysterious attack on the Crimson Plume lineage, while Su Yu returned to the Falling Moon Alliance Grotto-Heaven Secret Realm with rescued relatives and spoils. He began preparing his forces and cultivating a strange beast whose dormant bloodline awakened into a powerful fire affinity.

• Fairy Guyue ordered Great Moon Prefecture's forces, including secluded cultivation families, to prepare for war as the Grand Void Immortal Alliance, Nine Souls Demonic Palace, and Blood Phoenix Immortal Sect gathered their forces.
• Daoist Xiu Yu reviewed reports of the Crimson Plume lineage's losses, ranked Su Yu as the leading suspect, and received the Great Moon Palace's summons for regional leaders.
• The Dao Body Puppet moved the Ice Scale Fish clan and more than seventeen hundred Heavenly Thunder Rats into the Falling Moon Alliance Grotto-Heaven Secret Realm, where Yu Qianqing and Su Qi reunited with Su Yu and the others.
• Su Yu settled the fish in a pond, strengthened the Qi Refining Pot, supplied spirit liquid to the Heavenly Thunder Rats, and planted the Golden Origin Fruit Tree and other spirit plants in an expanded Medicine Garden.
• Su Yu inventoried the Crimson Plume lineage's treasury, finding pill materials and an incomplete Rank 4 artificer inheritance, then used his Heavenly Phoenix aura and Nirvana Mana to tame and transform a strange beast into a Rank 2 creature with awakened jade-green flames.

Su Yu gained a mysterious immortal script and bronze fragment through the Pit Seed, advancing to Core Formation Stage Three and discovering that the fragment could improve his spiritual roots and Golden Core. As he resumed steady cultivation, the Dao Body Puppet learned that the ancient Demon Lord had fled to Purple Light Prefecture and blood-sacrificed an immortal city, potentially keeping the Grand Void Immortal Alliance from attacking Great Moon Prefecture.

• Su Zhi arrived at Great Moon Immortal City, worried that Qianqing and Xiao Qi had not returned, and discussed the Grand Void Immortal Alliance with Book Daoist, Daoist Qingquan, and Daoist Xiu Yu.
• The Dao Body Puppet discovered that Soul Severing Mountain had been destroyed by a self-proclaimed ancient Demon Lord, failed to find the Su Family clansmen there, and left Nine Soul Demonic Ridge amid the turmoil.
• Su Yu nurtured his beasts and the Pit Seed until, on a full-moon night, it grew into a Spirit Plant and drew him into a vision of the ancient Falling Moon Alliance, where he obtained a bronze fragment and the immortal script character Yin.
• Su Yu awakened at Core Formation Stage Three with a greatly strengthened soul and a lifespan exceeding a thousand years, while the bronze fragment began transforming his spiritual roots and tempering his Golden Core.
• The Dao Body Puppet learned that the ancient Demon Lord had fled to Purple Light Prefecture and blood-sacrificed an immortal city, and Su Yu hoped the upheaval would delay the Grand Void Immortal Alliance's plans against Great Moon Prefecture.

Su Yu’s spirit roots transformed into high-grade Five Elements Spiritual Roots, and he used an immortal script’s power to drive off a peak Rank 3 demon wolf. Years later, he visited the Geomancer Ma Family to seek a formation inheritance and was asked to take gifted Ma Tianling as his disciple, but envoys sent by Demon Lord Xuanming arrived to seize Ma Shiqing.

• The Dao Body Puppet heard reports that Daoist Xuan Ming had blood-sacrificed an immortal city and killed two powerful cultivation families, then secretly gave three Cloud Sword Sect novices spirit liquid and talismans.
• Su Yu discovered that his Five Elements Spiritual Roots had advanced to high-grade, practiced copying an immortal script character and setting Rank 2 formations, and watched Yu Ke'er subdue a Three-Tailed Fire Fox she named Bai Ling.
• A peak Rank 3 azure wolf approached Azure Moon Peak, and Su Yu traced the immortal character 'Yin' to frighten it into fleeing.
• The Ice Scale Fish King began its breakthrough to Rank 3, while years later Su Yu returned to Pill Mountain to mourn the death of former Family Head Su Peng before traveling to Mitian Ridge.
• Su Yu asked Ma Shiqing for a Rank 3 formation inheritance, and Ma Shiqing offered it if Su Yu would take eleven-year-old Ma Tianling, who had an Earth-grade Water Spiritual Root and Huaiyin Spirit Body, as his disciple.
• Three Demon Path cultivators arrived at Mitian Ridge and demanded that Ma Shiqing return with them on the order of Demon Lord Xuanming, threatening to wipe out the Ma Family if he refused.

Su Yu and Ma Shiqing defeated three Demonic Cultivators from Soul Severing Mountain, and Su Yu took Ma Tianling under his protection. After Ma Tianling began cultivating at remarkable speed, Su Yu broke through to Core Formation Stage Four; his Dao Body Puppet then left to seek the next part of the Azure Wood Age Wheel Art, but reached the Great Moon Black Market and heard bad news.

• The Soul Severing Mountain Lord attacked Mitian Ridge with his Myriad Ghosts Soul-Snatching Banner, but Su Yu protected Ma Family Manor and agreed with Ma Shiqing to confront the invaders.
• Su Yu restrained the Soul Severing Mountain Lord with spatial power and the immortal script, while his Dao Body Puppet froze the other two Demonic Cultivators; Ma Shiqing then killed all three with his star formation.
• Su Yu found a Mysterious Heaven Immortal Sect trial token among the spoils, accepted Ma Tianling into his care, and warned Ma Shiqing that the Profound Nether Demon Lord might seek revenge.
• Su Yu brought Ma Tianling to Azure Moon Peak, taught her the Thousand Soft Spirit Water Immortal Art, and watched her reach the fourth level of Qi Condensation within half a year.
• Su Yu advanced from Core Formation Stage Three to Core Formation Stage Four and sent his Dao Body Puppet out with the Heavenly Thunder Rat Demon King and its swarm; at the Great Moon Black Market, the puppet heard bad news.

Su Yu advanced his talisman-making, alchemy, and puppet plans while trading with the Chen Family and Great Moon Palace amid rising tensions between major factions. After the Chiling Grandmaster fled from Su Yu’s Dao Body Puppet and the Su Family sheltered in the Cloud Sword Sect, a Heavenly Thunder Rat reported finding a Rank 3 Earth-attribute demonic beast, giving Su Yu hope of making an Xingshou Puppet.

• Su Yu successfully made his first Rank 3 mid-grade Mirror Moon Talisman, then used his remaining materials to produce eleven and raised his proficiency to 42%.
• The Dao Body Puppet learned that the Grand Void Immortal Alliance and Phoenix Fall Prefecture were moving toward conflict, and Su Yu arranged to trade Talismans for materials with the Chen Family and Great Moon Palace.
• Book Daoist exchanged Rank 3 materials for Su Yu’s Mirror Moon Talismans, and the Dao Body Puppet encountered the Chiling Grandmaster near Pill Mountain, frightening him into fleeing with the aura of a replicated immortal script.
• Su Yu moved the remaining Su Family members from Pill Mountain to the Cloud Sword Sect, where he reunited with Su Zhi and Luo Qianyu and stayed to protect them.
• Su Yu resumed making Talismans and cultivated in the Falling Moon Alliance Grotto-Heaven Secret Realm; four years later, a Heavenly Thunder Rat reported finding a Rank 3 Earth-attribute demonic beast.

Su Yu tested his body-refining strength, broke through to the Twenty-Third Layer, completed a Rank 3 puppet, and sent his Dao Body Puppet east to seek the next portion of the Azure Wood Age Wheel Art. Meanwhile, Daoist Xuan Ming sought a path to Nascent Soul and learned that an ancient ruin had appeared in Phoenix Fall Prefecture with a Heavenly Phoenix phenomenon.

• Su Yu lured out and killed a Rank 3 mid-grade pangolin demon using his body-refining techniques, then used its demon core to forge the Xingshou Puppet.
• Su Yu broke through the Crocodile Demon's 108 Forms Body Refining Technique to the Twenty-Third Layer and sent his Dao Body Puppet toward Sangmu Prefecture to search for the next portion of the Azure Wood Age Wheel Art.
• The Eight-armed Mantis broke through to become a low-grade Rank 3 demonic beast, and four years later Su Yu completed the Xingshou Puppet.
• Daoist Xuan Ming reached the limit of Core Formation Stage Nine but judged his chance of breaking through to Nascent Soul too low, then sent word that the Golden Cicada Art would damage a demonic cultivator's Dao foundation.
• Daoist Xuan Ming heard that an ancient ruin had appeared in Phoenix Fall Prefecture and that a Heavenly Phoenix phenomenon had shaken the heavens.

Su Yu declined to join the expedition to Phoenix Fall Prefecture and continued cultivating, while forces converged on the newly emerged ruins. His Dao Body Puppet traveled to Sangmu Prefecture, found a Spirit Jade Stone Mine and unearthed Spirit Jade Marrow, while Su Yu achieved an entry-level grasp of low-grade Rank 3 formations.

• Daoist Xuan Ming learned that a Heavenly Phoenix phenomenon had revealed ruins in Phoenix Fall Prefecture and led five subordinates there to seek an opportunity.
• Book Daoist, Daoist Qingquan, and Daoist Xiu Yu invited Su Yu to explore the ruins, but he refused and resumed studying formations; Daoist Qingquan considered recommending him to Earth Immortal Mansion.
• Great Moon Palace forces, Grand Void Immortal Alliance cultivators, and Demonic Cultivators from Nine Soul Demonic Ridge converged on Phoenix Immortal Valley as the ruin's terrifying aura spread.
• Su Yu's Dao Body Puppet reached Gongyue Immortal City, met Heavenly Script Pavilion disciple Daoist Kui Shan, and learned about a Rank 3 Spirit Jade Stone Mine contested by the Gao, Yu, and Meng Families.
• The Dao Body Puppet sent Heavenly Thunder Rats to excavate the mine and discovered three drops of Rank 3 Spirit Jade Marrow, which might repair his damaged puppet body.
• Su Yu completed a low-grade Rank 3 formation and returned with Ma Tianling to celebrate with her master.