Recaps

Su Yu advanced to a high-grade Rank 2 talisman master, gave the Beast Luring Powder formula to the Void Heaven Hall, and received materials to practice with. When a new Beast Tide struck the Great Moon Black Market, he joined the defense and used his talismans to wipe out a swarm of demonic beasts; the battle ended after the cultivators defeated the invading horde, while the Demon Race remained hidden in Great Moon Ridge.

• Su Yu successfully drew his first high-grade Rank 2 Wood Spirit God Devouring Talisman and improved his success rate through repeated practice.
• Su Yu gave Daoist Xiu Yu the Beast Luring Powder formula, which the factions used to lure and kill many Earth Rock Rats.
• Daoist Xiu Yu supplied Su Yu with fifty sets of high-grade Rank 2 talisman materials, and Su Yu continued practicing until a Beast Tide surged from Great Moon Ridge.
• Su Yu sent his Dao Body Puppet to the Yu Family's defensive position, where a Rank 3 Eight-armed Mantis broke through the formation and killed numerous cultivators.
• Spirited Wine Daoist, Iron Scroll Daoist, and other Golden Core experts fought the Rank 3 beasts while the cultivators counterattacked the horde.
• Su Yu's Dao Body Puppet used two Wood Spirit God Devouring Talismans to kill hundreds of beasts, and the battle ended after nearly three shichen with most of the horde slain.

Su Yu developed his cultivation and resources while the Beast Tide ended, then learned Moon Worship Immortal City was pressuring Cloud Sword Sect and returned to the sect territory. As Fairy Fengling’s life-or-death challenge against Luo Qianyu approached, Su Yu and the Su Family prepared to leave if the situation turned against them.

• Su Yu traded a hundred high-grade Rank 2 talismans for low-grade Rank 3 Eight-armed Mantis materials and Light Shadow Stone, then began forging a top-grade Rank 2 Eight-armed Mantis puppet.
• Su Yu advanced his Ice Fire Art to Foundation Establishment Stage One, discovered a new Void Sky Lotus in Daoist Bingyu’s Cave Dwelling, and gave the Ice Scale Fish King pills to guard the pool.
• Su Yu learned that Old Man Tianpu had gravely injured the Cloud Sword Sect Grand Elder and that Fairy Fengling would challenge Luo Qianyu in a life-or-death Dao Discussion, so he left the Great Moon Black Market for the Cloud Sword Sect Territory.
• Daoist Xiu Yu told Su Yu more about the conflict, and Su Yu sent his Dao Body Puppet to the Alchemist Li Family with the ingredients needed to refine a Haotian Pill.
• Su Yu learned that Luo Qianyu had refused the Cloud Sword Sect Old Ancestor’s empowerment inheritance and that the sect was waiting for Fairy Fengling’s challenge.
• Su Yu and the Su Family agreed to watch events and evacuate the Cloud Sword Sect Territory if the situation worsened.

Su Yu returned to his Rank 3 Ice Fire Cave Dwelling to cultivate and draw talismans while his Dao Body Puppet arranged for Haotian Pills. After killing the Li Family Ancestor in an ambush and claiming his inheritance, Su Yu traded a Haotian Pill to the Yu Family for an Ethereal Fruit Tree and prepared for Fairy Fengling’s upcoming Dao Discussion at Cloud Sword Sect.

• Su Yu returned to Sun Moon Island, assessed the Cave Dwelling’s resources, and resumed drawing Wood Spirit God Devouring Talismans ahead of Fairy Fengling’s arrival.
• After collecting Haotian Pills from the Alchemist Li Family, the Dao Body Puppet escaped the Li Family Ancestor’s ambush and killed the Core Formation Stage Three True Person with the nascent Ice Soul Pearl.
• Su Yu took the Li Family Ancestor’s Cosmos Bag, gaining a Rank 3 intermediate alchemist inheritance, pill materials, talismans, spirit stones, and other treasures; the Li Family then learned their ancestor had died.
• Su Yu traded one Haotian Pill to the Yu Family for an Ethereal Fruit Tree, which he planted in the Rank 3 Ice Fire Cave Dwelling.
• Su Yu continued preparing talismans while the Dao Body Puppet repaired itself, then left for Cloud Sword Sect when three days remained before the Dao Discussion.

Su Yu and his companions gathered in Cloud Mountain Market amid rumors of conflict between Moon Worship Immortal City and the Cloud Sword Sect, while news spread that the Alchemist Li Family Ancestor had apparently been killed. Two days later, Fairy Fengling arrived at the Cloud Sword Sect for her Dao Discussion with Luo Qianyu, whose sudden appearance on Azure Cloud Platform ended the chapter.

• Luo Qianyu said Fairy Fengling was exceptionally powerful but unlikely to defeat her unless she abandoned her pursuit of the Golden Core Great Path, and Su Yu warned her to beware of the Cloud Sword Sect Master's lineage.
• Luo Chenggong reported that a brief battle between two Golden Core True Persons had taken place near Red Lotus Lake and that the Alchemist Li Family Ancestor had disappeared after refining three Haotian Pills.
• Xu Wansheng brazenly swept Cloud Mountain Market with his divine sense, while Book Daoist and other cultivators arrived to witness the coming Dao Discussion.
• Su Yu prepared his Rank 2 puppet beast, tamed beast, and talismans, then traveled to the Cloud Sword Sect with Su Dingbang and Luo Chenggong.
• Fairy Fengling arrived with Old Man Tianpu and Xu Wansheng, and her newly acquired seductive charm affected many cultivators, though Su Yu resisted it with the Golden Cicada Art.
• Fairy Fengling called for Luo Qianyu on Azure Cloud Platform, and Luo Qianyu appeared in a flash of sword light that startled the assembled cultivators.

Luo Qianyu and Fairy Fengling’s Dao Discussion was interrupted when the Fei Family attacked and destroyed Cloud Mountain Market, killing Su Family members and driving the Cloud Sword Sect into crisis. Su Yu sheltered Luo Qianyu as she began cultivating anew with a sword in place of her dantian, while he continued strengthening himself and completed the Foundation Establishment Stage Four Ice Fire Art.

• Luo Qianyu and Fairy Fengling clashed in a Dao Discussion as Su Yu watched, while the Fei Family invaded Cloud Mountain Market and slaughtered its residents.
• A Fei Family Golden Core True Person shattered the Cloud Sword Sect stronghold’s formation, killed Fourth Elder Li Zhouzi, and destroyed the market; Su Yu returned to find the Su Family Alchemy Pavilion in ruins and several clansmen dead.
• Great Moon Palace and Moon Worship Immortal City declined to intervene, and Su Yu returned to Pill Mountain determined to grow stronger; the Earth Fire Ape broke through to high-grade Rank 2 and awakened the ability to cultivate on its own.
• Luo Qianyu revealed that she had severely wounded the Fei Family Golden Core True Person, destroyed her own dantian, and planned to rebuild her Dao foundation with her natal sword; Su Yu sheltered her, and she returned to Qi Refining Stage One.
• Su Zhi reported that Luo Qianyu’s attack had forced the Fei Family to flee and that she and Su Zhi had withdrawn from the Cloud Sword Sect; Luo Qianyu advanced through Qi Refining while cultivating anew at Pill Mountain.
• Su Yu continued training and successfully created the Ice Fire Art up to Foundation Establishment Stage Four.

Su Yu completed the Eight-armed Mantis Dao Body Puppet, advanced the Golden Cicada Art, and considered how to find an inheritance for Five Elements cultivation. When the Huang Family laid a trap around West Water City, the puppet lured them back to Guanlan Mountain, where it waited to ambush them.

• Su Yu tested his Ice Fire spells, cultivated his Five Element Spiritual Roots, and drew three Immortal Finger Talismans while the Gengjin Heavenly Sword Art reached Foundation Establishment Stage One.
• Over the next five years, Su Yu advanced his cultivation and body refinement, reached the Third Realm in the Golden Cicada Art, and completed the Eight-armed Mantis puppet as his Dao Body Puppet.
• Yu Ke'er told Su Yu that Tie Mengzhu and other former Cloud Sword Sect disciples had joined the Su Family, and Su Peng warned that the Huang Family had seized Chen Family resource sites and trapped the clan in West Water City.
• Su Yu sent the Dao Body Puppet to investigate West Water City, where it found hidden formations and suspected that the Huang Family was baiting the Su Family into intervening.
• The Dao Body Puppet attacked Guanlan Mountain, prompting a messenger to summon the Huang Family elders from their ambush; it then hid near the mountain to wait for their return.

Su Yu’s Dao Body Puppet ambushed and killed the Huang Family’s elders and dozens of cultivators, while Su Yu uncovered a clue to the Luoyue Alliance ruins and agreed to explore a Golden Core cultivator’s cave with Paper Kite Fairy. At the ruins, they found the Mountain Lord and three other cultivators fighting two Blood Scale Crocodiles.

• The Dao Body Puppet ambushed the Huang Family flying boat, killed the Grand Elder, Second Elder, Third Elder, and dozens of cultivators, then took the boat and their belongings.
• The Huang Family discovered that its elders’ Soul Tablets had shattered, sealed Guanlan Mountain, and spread panic after their dead were found in the forest.
• Su Yu found the memoirs of Daoist Sui, which revealed that a Tri-Spirit Cultivator had become a Luoyue Alliance Deputy Alliance Lord, and learned that the alliance’s ruins lay somewhere in Great Moon Ridge.
• Paper Kite Fairy told Su Yu about a Luoyue Alliance Golden Core cultivator’s cave and persuaded him to explore it with her.
• Su Yu and Paper Kite Fairy entered Great Moon Ridge and approached the cave, where they found the Mountain Lord and three other cultivators battling two Blood Scale Crocodiles.

Su Yu and Paper Kite Fairy discovered Daoist Pingshan’s hidden palace in Great Moon Ridge, where Su Yu defeated Daoist Dexuan and his companions, claimed the palace’s treasures, and brought Paper Kite Fairy into the Su Family as an offering elder. After returning to the Great Moon Black Market, Su Yu searched the recovered records and found a map of the Ancient Luoyue Alliance’s territory.

• Daoist Dexuan discovered Su Yu and Paper Kite Fairy, then demanded they scout dangerous ruins, so Su Yu used his Dragon Crocodile Puppet Beast, talismans, and Golden Cicada Secret Art to capture him and the three cultivators with him.
• Daoist Dexuan led the group into the buried palace and, after breaking its restrictions, tried to ambush Su Yu and flee, but Su Yu subdued the four again and had Paper Kite Fairy kill them.
• Su Yu and Paper Kite Fairy searched the palace, found Daoist Pingshan’s ring, and uncovered its treasures, including High-grade Spirit Stones, a Supreme-grade Artifact, and the Nascent Soul Realm continuation of the Profound Nether Thick Earth Art.
• Su Yu took the palace, returned to the Yu Family Cave Mansion Estate with Paper Kite Fairy, and gave her spirit stones, two High-grade Magical Artifacts, and formation flags as her share.
• Su Yu searched the palace’s books and records through the night and found an ancient map detailing the Luoyue Alliance’s territory, resource sites, and strongholds.

Su Yu studied an ancient map that placed the Luoyue Alliance ruins in the dangerous core of Great Moon Ridge, then focused on strengthening his Dao Body Puppet and gathering resources. After returning to Pill Mountain, he settled Paper Kite Fairy into the Su Family, gave Yu Ke'er a powerful artifact set, and learned that Xu Changqing had become a Core Formation True Person, leaving him wary of renewed conflict in Great Moon Prefecture.

• Su Yu decided to postpone exploring the Great Moon Ridge Core Area until he could upgrade the Dao Body Puppet, and he found ancient cultivation methods, books, and a Half-Supreme Artifact gown with matching jewelry among Daoist Pingshan's belongings.
• Daoist Xiu Yu told Su Yu about Thunder Market, a private cultivator market where he might obtain materials for a low-grade Rank 3 puppet beast, and warned that the distant Great Qian Central Region was controlled along the route by a vicious Demon Path force.
• Su Yu returned to Pill Mountain with Paper Kite Fairy, appointed her a Su Family guest elder, and gave Yu Ke'er the gown and matching ornaments; he then continued cultivating while Luo Qianyu rebuilt her sword path to Foundation Establishment Stage Five.
• Li Pingchang reported that Xu Changqing had broken through to Core Formation and taken control of the Alchemist Li Family, while the Yu Family had defeated the Jiang Family and seized its Spirit Mine and the Huang Family's Spirit Bamboo Grove.
• Su Yu considered the new Core Formation cultivator and recent upheavals among Great Moon Prefecture's factions, and concluded that he and the Su Family needed to prepare for further contention.

Su Yu’s Pit Seed produced an Emerald Spirit Liquid that transformed his body, soul, divine sense, and Five Elements Spirit Roots, raising them all to new heights. On his way to the Thunder Market Trade Fair, he killed Blood Saber Daoist Luo Bang and learned that White Flame Alchemist and Su Qingyi were connected to the Nine Souls Demonic Palace.

• Su Yu learned that Gongsun Yi might attempt Core Formation, while the Yu Family prepared to seek protection from Moon Worship Immortal City.
• The Pit Seed sprouted through the Brilliant Gold Radiant Spirit Stone and produced Emerald Spirit Liquid, which raised Su Yu’s five Low-grade Spirit Roots to Medium-grade and transformed his physique, soul, and divine sense.
• Su Yu’s strengthened Spirit Roots accelerated his cultivation, and his Puppet Soul advanced to Core Formation Stage Two.
• While traveling toward the Thunder Market, Su Yu was ambushed by Blood Saber Daoist Luo Bang, but he destroyed the Demonic Soul Formation and killed him with his divine sense and Golden Cicada Secret Art.
• Su Yu searched Luo Bang’s soul, discovered that White Flame Alchemist and Su Qingyi were involved with the Nine Souls Demonic Palace, and set off toward their secret location.

Su Yu killed Blood Saber Daoist Luo Bang, traded his damaged Heavenly Net Umbrella and a large stock of pills for rare materials at Thunder Market, and returned to Pill Mountain to cultivate. As conflict between the Yu Family and Cloud Sword Sect escalated, the Yu Family joined Moon Worship Immortal City, but the chapter ended with the Huang Family, Jiang Family, and Cloud Sword Sect surrounding Pill Mountain.

• The Tie Family Grand Elder identified the lingering Demon Path aura as Blood Saber Daoist Luo Bang's, and news of Luo Bang's death spread through Thunder Market.
• White Flame Alchemist sensed Luo Bang's death, rejoiced, and resolved to return to Cloud Sword Sect Territory to gather blood and pursue Core Formation.
• Su Yu inspected Luo Bang's Heavenly Net Umbrella and Cosmos Bag, then traded the umbrella and thousands of Rank 2 pills for talisman materials and Rank 3 Spirit Ore at Thunder Market.
• Su Yu returned to Pill Mountain with resources, prepared talismans and Nascent Talisman Prototypes, and advanced his Earth Wood Art and Ice Fire Art to Foundation Establishment Stage Six.
• The Cloud Sword Sect Grand Elder and the Huang and Jiang Families attacked the Yu Family, but Old Master Yu drove them back with his Pseudo Core strength, after which Fairy Fengling declared the Yu Family a force under Moon Worship Immortal City.
• Three months after the Yu Family battle, the Huang Family, Jiang Family, and Cloud Sword Sect surrounded Pill Mountain.

Su Yu used the threat of hundreds of Rank 2 talismans to drive off the Cloud Sword Sect, Huang Family, and Jiang Family, while Luo Qianyu later took control of the Cloud Sword Sect. After years of cultivation, Su Yu reached Foundation Establishment Stage Seven and began studying ancient records for insight into Rank 3 talismans.

• The Cloud Sword Sect, Huang Family, and Jiang Family surrounded the Su Family's Cave Dwelling, but Su Yu revealed his Eight-armed Mantis puppet and hundreds of Rank 2 talismans, forcing them to flee without a fight.
• Over the following years, Luo Qianyu recovered her cultivation, then returned to the Cloud Sword Sect, wounded Gongsun Yi, killed Cheng Guangming and Chen Bailai, and reorganized the sect under a new Sect Master.
• Su Yu traded for cultivation materials at the Thunder Market and Great Moon Black Market while preparing to advance as an alchemist, talisman master, and puppet master.
• More than four years later, Su Yu advanced to Foundation Establishment Stage Seven, and his Ice Fire Art and Gengjin Heavenly Sword Art soon reached the same stage.
• Su Yu visited Heavenly Script Pavilion and obtained three ancient books concerning Rank 3 talisman inheritances, then began studying them at the Su Family Alchemy Pavilion.

Su Yu mastered the low-grade Rank 1 Mirror Moon Talisman, killed White Flame Alchemist and Su Qingyi when they attacked the West Water Chen Family, and saw his Dao Body Puppet advance to low-grade Rank 3. The chapter ends with Luo Qianyu inviting him to the Cloud Sword Sect to witness its Old Ancestor’s final departure.

• Su Yu studied the Mirror Moon Talisman inheritance and, after months of practice, successfully drew a low-grade Rank 1 Mirror Moon Talisman that briefly confined the Dao Body Puppet.
• After sensing that a puppet he had made for the West Water Chen Family was destroyed, Su Yu sent his Dao Body Puppet toward West Water City.
• White Flame Alchemist and Su Qingyi attacked West Water City, but Su Yu arrived, stopped White Flame Alchemist’s escape, and killed both Demon Path cultivators.
• Su Yu met Chen Yaoyao in West Water City, gave her cultivation resources, and suggested that she could cultivate at the Cloud Sword Sect.
• The Dao Body Puppet consumed Spirit Ore and advanced to low-grade Rank 3, while Su Yu continued practicing Mirror Moon Talismans.
• More than a year later, Luo Qianyu invited Su Yu to the Cloud Sword Sect to see its Old Ancestor off as he reached the end of his lifespan.

Su Yu demonstrated his new Illusion Moon Talismans and revealed his low-grade Rank 3 Dao Body Puppet when Fairy Fengling tried to force the Su Family to join Moon Worship Immortal City. Luo Qianyu then led the Cloud Sword Sect and Su Family against the Huang Family, whose defection had cost the Cloud Sword Sect much of its territory, and brought her sword down on Guanlan Mountain.

• Su Yu completed another low-grade Rank 2 Mirror Moon Talisman, tested spatial power in his evasion technique, and renamed his talismans Illusion Moon Talismans.
• Su Yu gave Illusion Moon Talismans to the Su Family, demonstrated one by trapping Tiger Big and Tiger Two, and the clan began exchanging for them.
• Fairy Fengling arrived with four Foundation Establishment Stage Nine cultivators and demanded that the Su Family pledge itself to Moon Worship Immortal City, revealing that the Huang Family and Jiang Family had already joined.
• Su Yu summoned his low-grade Rank 3 Dao Body Puppet, making Fairy Fengling withdraw her demand and leave after apologizing; he then urged the Su Family to remain cautious.
• Luo Qianyu came to Pill Mountain and invited the Su Family to join her against the Huang Family, and Su Yu sent his family members with her while secretly having the puppet follow.
• Luo Qianyu confronted the Huang Family at Guanlan Mountain and, after rejecting its patriarch's appeals, brought down an invisible sword on the mountain.

Luo Qianyu destroyed the Huang Family’s defenses, subdued the clan, and later defeated Fairy Fengling before advancing to the Core Formation stage. Meanwhile, Su Yu perfected his Mirror Moon Talisman craft, reached Foundation Establishment Stage Eight, and sent his Dao Body Puppet into Great Moon Ridge, where it found a formation barrier that might conceal the Falling Moon Alliance ruins.

• Luo Qianyu split Guanlan Mountain with her natal Dao Sword, killed the Huang Family’s leaders and elders, and took control of the remaining clan; the Jiang Family fled its territory.
• Daoist Xiu Yu gave Su Yu a Nine Radiance Token and intelligence about Moon Worship Immortal City and the Cloud Sword Sect, prompting Su Yu to send his Dao Body Puppet to the Cloud Sword Sect memorial ceremony.
• Luo Qianyu fought Fairy Fengling outside Moon Worship Immortal City and later told Su Yu she had entered the Core Formation stage after tempering her sword with Nirvana Fire.
• Su Yu perfected his high-grade Rank 2 Mirror Moon Talisman, created a low-grade Rank 3 Mirror Moon Talisman, and advanced to Foundation Establishment Stage Eight.
• Luo Qianyu arranged for the Cloud Sword Sect to buy Su Yu’s Illusion Moon Talismans, while Su Yu asked her to help source Rank 3 talisman materials.
• Su Yu sent his Dao Body Puppet to search Great Moon Ridge, where it found a radiant formation barrier deep in an eastern rift that might mark the Falling Moon Alliance ruins.

Su Yu entered the ancient Luoyue Alliance cave-heaven, discovered the Five Elements Art, and spent years developing it into a cultivation method. As he began advancing toward Five Elements cultivation, the Su Family faced a growing threat after a second Alchemy Pavilion was wiped out.

• Su Yu’s Dao Body Puppet crossed the terrifying formation barrier with the help of its Puppet Soul and Ice Soul Pearl, then recovered inside the cave-heaven.
• The puppet found an Ancient Cultivator’s remains and obtained a damaged Supreme-grade flying sword, thousands of Mid-grade Spirit Stones, and a flying boat.
• Su Yu discovered the Five Elements Art and an Ancient Cultivator’s explanation of how it could unite cultivation methods, giving him confidence in his Golden Core path.
• Su Yu began closed-door cultivation while his Dao Body Puppet searched the Luoyue Alliance ruins for treasures and cultivation knowledge.
• After more than five years, Su Yu created the Five Elements Art through Qi Refining Stage Nine, and its first-stage mana proved unusually powerful.
• Su Peng told the Su Family elders that a second marketplace Alchemy Pavilion had been destroyed with all its clansmen, and Yu Ke’er warned that the culprit might be a Core Formation stage True Person.

The Su Family learned that Huang Shengyi, Jiang Baiyu, and Xu Changqing were behind the attacks on its Alchemy Pavilions, so Su Yu ordered the family to withdraw while he continued creating the Five Elements Art. In the Falling Moon Alliance ruins, his Dao Body Puppet discovered a Nascent Soul True Lord’s ring containing a Golden Origin Fruit and valuable inheritances.

• Su Bin learned that the attacks on two Alchemy Pavilions had gone unexplained, and Yu Ke'er identified Huang Shengyi as a possible suspect because she cultivated an Earth spiritual root technique.
• Su Yu paid Heavenly Ruins Hall for intelligence and learned that Huang Shengyi, Jiang Baiyu, and Xu Changqing had reached Core Formation and were responsible for the attacks.
• Su Yu ordered the Su Family to close its distant Alchemy Pavilions, gave Yu Ke'er three low-grade Rank 3 Illusion Moon Talismans, and returned to seclusion; the family recalled its members, though two were killed on the way back.
• Luo Qianyu agreed to consider becoming Cloud Sword Sect's Sect Master, while Jiang Baiyu, Huang Shengyi, and Xu Changqing discussed raising their strength and challenging the Cloud Sword Sect.
• The Dao Body Puppet entered a half-collapsed hall in the Falling Moon Alliance ruins and found a Nascent Soul True Lord's ring containing Spirit Stones, a Water Yin Peak Master Token, a Golden Origin Fruit, and several inheritances.
• Su Yu decided to use the Golden Origin Fruit to prepare Golden Core Pills for Yu Ke'er and Su Zhi, and to incorporate the Sunlight Innate True Art into his Five Elements Art.

Su Yu completed the Foundation Establishment Stage Nine Five Elements Art, transformed his body and Dao Foundations, and tested how much stronger his spells had become. After his Dao Body Puppet escaped the Falling Moon Alliance ruins with many treasures, Su Yu gathered the gains, created the low-grade Rank 3 Purple Moon Talisman, and prepared to seek more cultivation and crafting materials.

• Su Yu suppressed the Slayer Luo Blade's Demon Path aura, claimed the Heavenly Profound Heavy Water Bead, and continued searching the Luoyue Alliance ruins for artifacts and ancient texts.
• Su Yu converted his water-element cultivation to the Sunlight Innate True Art, created the Five Elements Art, and reached Foundation Establishment Stage Nine after years of secluded cultivation.
• Su Yu's Five Elements mana transformed his body and Dao Foundations, and his newly empowered Wood Vine Technique badly injured the Earth Fire Ape before he healed it and rewarded it.
• The Dao Body Puppet escaped the Falling Moon Alliance Grotto-Heaven Secret Realm, evaded the Heavenly Thunder Rat, and brought Su Yu a large haul of spirit stones, artifacts, and spirit plants.
• Su Yu planted the recovered spirit plants, equipped the Dao Body Puppet with protective treasures, and created the low-grade Rank 3 Purple Moon Talisman, which carried him nearly four hundred li.

Su Yu attended the Thunder Market trade fair, where Huang Shengyi and Xu Changqing plotted to capture him and five cultivators ambushed his group after they left. Su Yu revealed strength beyond Foundation Establishment Stage Nine, overwhelmed Xu Changqing’s attacks, and the Dao Body Puppet killed Huang Shengyi.

• Su Yu gave Yu Ke'er the Spirit Nurturer legacy and Yu Qianqing the Mysterious Water True Art, then traveled with them to Thunder Market.
• At the market, Tie Tongsheng offered to buy Cloud Tiger, but Su Yu refused and left him shaken with a single glance.
• Su Yu traded for materials at the fair, while Huang Shengyi decided to capture him and Xu Changqing agreed to help.
• After Su Yu’s group departed, five Foundation Establishment Stage Nine cultivators ambushed them, and Xu Changqing arrived to seize the group for himself.
• Su Yu broke free of Xu Changqing’s restraints and withstood his attacks behind layers of Profound Nether Armor Technique, then stopped Xu Changqing as he tried to flee.
• Huang Shengyi turned to escape, but the Dao Body Puppet appeared behind her and cut her into pieces.

Su Yu killed Xu Changqing, Huang Shengyi, and five Foundation Establishment cultivators at Thunder Market, revealing the power of his Five Elements cultivation. After Moon Worship Immortal City began considering how to handle him, Su Yu visited the Yu Family, which later withdrew from the city and returned under Cloud Sword Sect.

• Su Yu's Dao Body Puppet collected Huang Shengyi's Cosmos Bag as Su Yu suppressed Xu Changqing with the Profound Nether Dragon Locking Technique and killed him after revealing his connection to the Li Family's old grudge.
• Su Yu killed one of the five Foundation Establishment Stage Nine cultivators who had tried to intercept him, then burned the other four to ash when they fled.
• Su Yu collected the fallen cultivators' belongings and returned with Yu Ke'er and Yu Qianqing, while he considered the consequences and planned to prepare more Rank 3 Talismans, visit the Yu Family, and send the Dao Body Puppet to plunder the Li Family's treasury.
• Daoist Xiu Yu identified Xu Changqing and Huang Shengyi among the dead, and later told Daoist Qingquan and Luo Chenggong that Su Yu was the likely killer.
• Fairy Fengling warned Jiang Baiyu and Xu Wansheng not to provoke Su Yu and said Moon Worship Immortal City should seek reconciliation rather than make him an enemy.
• Su Yu asked the Yu Family to break away from Moon Worship Immortal City; after discussing the matter, the Yu Family publicly withdrew from the city and returned under Cloud Sword Sect's banner.

Yu Baishan explained why the Yu Family would leave Moon Worship Immortal City, while Su Yu refined pills and reconciled with Moon Worship Immortal City. After receiving a Heavenly Script Pavilion token and a high-grade Rank 3 talisman inheritance, Su Yu secluded himself to cultivate as news of his strength raised the Su Family’s standing throughout Great Moon Prefecture.

• Yu Baishan told Yu Cheng and the elders that Su Yu had given the Yu Family a Haotian Pill and two low-grade Rank 3 Illusion Moon Talismans, and that he had killed Xu Changqing and Huang Shengyi, convincing them to leave Moon Worship Immortal City.
• Su Yu examined the spoils from Xu Changqing and Huang Shengyi, discovered a damaged Qi Refining Pot, and used the materials he had gathered to craft Purple Moon Talismans and refine Azure Sea Pills and other low-grade Rank 3 pills.
• Fairy Fengling and Xu Wansheng visited Su Yu to reconcile Moon Worship Immortal City’s past grievances, and Fairy Fengling gave him nearly two cubic units of Wind Marrow Stone.
• The old man from the Heavenly Script Pavilion offered Su Yu an external member token and a high-grade Rank 3 Talisman Master inheritance, which Su Yu accepted before returning to seclusion to develop his Core Formation stage Five Elements Art.
• Heavenly Ruins Hall’s account of Xu Changqing and Huang Shengyi’s failed ambush spread across Great Moon Prefecture, and Su Rui'an led the Su Family in reopening Alchemy Pavilions with a much warmer reception from other forces.

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.