Chapter Summaries

Wang Mu arranged to buy information about Secret Realms and Relics and support Cultivators who explored them, hoping to identify promising people for investment. Tang Qian recognized the move as another scheme and ordered the Penglai Merchant Association to outbid Langya, sparking a rush to sell intelligence across the North Sea.

• Wang Mu noticed growing cultivation returns from Cultivators who had gained opportunities in the Flood Dragon Tomb and told Nie Tingting to seek information about other Secret Realms and Relics.
• Wang Mu instructed the Langya Merchant Association to distribute maps and guides when possible and otherwise establish aid stations to help Cultivators leaving Secret Realms.
• Tang Qian concluded that Wang Mu was pursuing another hidden scheme and told the Penglai Merchant Association to buy intelligence at higher prices than Langya.
• Wang Mu had Nie Tingting organize experts to assess the reports, then sent Li Yuanhua and others to investigate the most credible leads.
• The Three Great Merchant Associations offered five thousand Spirit Stones for any intelligence and required sellers to sign exclusive contracts, prompting Cultivators across the North Sea to rush to sell information.

The Three Great Merchant Associations bought information about Secret Realms and Relics, then seized the sites and drove off Rogue Cultivators. Wang Mu had Langya arrange for two Relics to emerge early and publicize one, leaving Cultivators eager to take part under Langya’s fairer rules.

• The Three Great Merchant Associations paid Cultivators for Secret Realm and Relic information, then claimed the locations and killed or expelled those who approached.
• Nie Tingting told Wang Mu that three of thirteen investigated sites held Relics, including two expected to emerge within a year.
• Wang Mu ordered Nie Tingting to make the two Relics emerge early and publicize the information through the Langya Foundation and Merchant Association.
• Cultivators discussed an upcoming Golden Core Stage Relic and trusted Langya’s announcement because of its reputation.
• Cultivators grew excited after hearing that Langya would let everyone participate and provide pills and material subsidies to those who escaped the Secret Realm.

Tang Qian and his associates debated why the Langya Merchant Association had made its Secret Realm and Relic discoveries public, then Tang privately vowed revenge against Wang Mu. Wang Mu showed Xia Yaoyao a merit stele from his rivals to convince her he had become a philanthropist, while she remained suspicious.

• Gou Ansheng told Tang Qian that the Langya Merchant Association had publicized every Secret Realm and Relic site it discovered, and Liu Yanshuang suggested its real aim was to support Cultivators through the Langya Foundation.
• Tang Qian told Gou Ansheng and Liu Yanshuang that their failed attempt to thwart Langya had still taught them about Wang Mu's methods, then privately smashed a stone table and vowed to begin a true war against him.
• Xia Yaoyao demanded Wang Mu pay the final balance for the Communication Talismans the Refining Equipment Pavilion had made for him.
• Wang Mu claimed the Northern Region regarded him as a great philanthropist and showed Xia Yaoyao a merit stele issued by the Penglai, Four Seas, and Cloud Palace Merchant Associations.
• Xia Yaoyao examined the stele and wondered why Wang Mu's rivals had praised him, but she remained unconvinced that he had changed.

Wang Mu inspected the million Communication Talismans and communication-network equipment produced by Xia Yaoyao's Refining Equipment Pavilion, then prepared to pay the final balance. Lin Yan's cultivation return suddenly arrived, pushing Wang Mu to the verge of breaking through to the Golden Core Realm.

• Xia Yaoyao showed Wang Mu the four Communication Talisman designs and explained their grades, materials, and improved features.
• Wang Mu tested an Azure Dragon Communication Talisman and examined the formation discs and Heavenly Heart Stone that could link the devices into a network across the North Sea.
• Xia Yaoyao confirmed that the goods were ready and asked Wang Mu to pay the final balance.
• The system reported that Lin Yan had refined the Sea Stabilizing Dragon Pearl and cultivated the advanced Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Technique, sending cultivation returns to Wang Mu.
• The sudden influx of power pushed Wang Mu through the final barrier toward the Golden Core Realm.

Wang Mu unexpectedly began cultivating before Xia Yaoyao, unleashing a vast heavenly phenomenon above Casting God Island. As his mother Luo Xuanshuang protected him and asked Xia Yaoyao to keep his ability secret, Xia Yaoyao witnessed his mastery of countless cultivation arts and the extraordinary spiritual power of a Foundation Establishment Cultivator.

• Wang Mu sat down to cultivate, drawing spiritual energy into a huge vortex above Casting God Island and alarming people across the surrounding islands.
• Xia Yaoyao realized the phenomenon came from Wang Mu, and Luo Xuanshuang moved them into her Heaven and Earth Domain.
• Luo Xuanshuang asked Xia Yaoyao to keep Wang Mu's ability to cultivate secret, and Xia Yaoyao promised to do so.
• Xia Yaoyao saw Wang Mu reveal thousands of different cultivation arts, many comprehended to perfection, and was stunned by their number and incompatibility.
• Wang Mu released vast spiritual power that shook the vortex, leaving Xia Yaoyao astonished at the strength of a Foundation Establishment Cultivator.

Wang Mu condensed a Golden Core while Luo Xuanshuang and Xia Yaoyao watched, revealing a cultivation foundation that surpassed their expectations. His core reached an unprecedented eleventh grade, leaving Xia Yaoyao asking Luo Xuanshuang to erase her memory.

• Luo Xuanshuang warned Xia Yaoyao to keep Wang Mu's cultivation secret, and Xia Yaoyao promised she would not reveal it.
• Wang Mu's Golden Core formed amid a massive surge of spiritual energy as Luo Xuanshuang and Xia Yaoyao watched.
• Wang Mu's Golden Core rapidly gained Pill Marks, passing the ninth grade and reaching the tenth.
• Xia Yaoyao swore a Heart Demon Blood Oath not to reveal Wang Mu's cultivation after Luo Xuanshuang warned her of the danger.
• Wang Mu's Golden Core gained an eleventh Pill Mark, and Xia Yaoyao asked Luo Xuanshuang to erase her memory.

Wang Mu formed a twelve-grade Golden Core with the Chaos Splitting Heaven phenomenon, leaving Xia Yaoyao terrified and bound by Luo Xuanshuang’s soul restriction. After Wang Mu planned the launch of his Communication Talismans, the Langya Merchant Association unveiled them to a skeptical crowd.

• Wang Mu’s Golden Core breakthrough produced the unprecedented Chaos Splitting Heaven phenomenon, and Luo Xuanshuang restrained Xia Yaoyao with a restriction that would kill her if she revealed it.
• Wang Mu woke in Xia Yaoyao’s forging room, then followed Luo Xuanshuang to her palace to stabilize his new realm for two days.
• Wang Mu instructed Nie Tingting to deliver his Communication Talismans to the Langya Merchant Association and explained how to deploy signal stations and promote sales.
• Luo Xuanshuang praised Wang Mu as a future Great Emperor, while he complained that her indulgence could make him the Northern Region’s greatest wastrel.
• The Langya Merchant Association launched its new Communication Talisman at branches across the North Sea, but the crowd mocked the announcement and Zhang Xian began to leave.

Langya Branch Shopkeeper Mu demonstrated the new White Tiger Communication Talisman’s lasting energy supply and spectacular contact effect to a crowd of cultivators. The demonstration startled Shopkeeper Song and ended with the rival merchant association heads present at the branch.

• Cultivators gathered at the Langya Branch after mysterious people spread rumors about the new Communication Talismans, while Zhang Xian watched skeptically.
• Shopkeeper Mu unveiled a Celestial Star Grade White Tiger Communication Talisman, impressing the crowd with its craftsmanship.
• Shopkeeper Mu demonstrated that the talisman could consume Spirit Stones to replenish its energy and last for thousands of uses.
• Shopkeeper Mu activated the talisman and summoned a dazzling White Tiger projection, thrilling the crowd.
• Shopkeeper Mu asked Shopkeeper Song to provide his Aura for a demonstration, then sent the projected White Tiger roaring above him and startled him into stumbling backward.

Shopkeeper Mu unveiled the four Communication Talisman designs and their prices, stirring the Cultivators’ excitement before opening sales. The crowd rushed to buy them, while a wealthy Young Master demanded a Radiant Sun Grade talisman.

• White Tiger showed Shopkeeper Song an image of Shopkeeper Mu teasing him, and Shopkeeper Song angrily cut off the communication.
• Shopkeeper Mu displayed the Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise Communication Talismans, each appealing to different Cultivators.
• Shopkeeper Mu revealed the prices, ranging from 188 Low-Grade Spirit Stones for Celestial Star Grade to 108,888 for Cosmos Grade.
• Shopkeeper Mu announced that sales had begun, and Cultivators surged forward to place orders.
• A proud Young Master called out that he wanted a Radiant Sun Grade talisman, briefly quieting the crowd.

Shi Yiming tried to impress Liu Ruo'an with a Radiant Sun Grade Communication Talisman, but Liu received a gifted Cosmos Grade talisman for the Liu family's charity ranking. Shi Yiming left determined to claim the Langya Merit List's top spot next time.

• Shi Yiming bought an Azure Dragon Radiant Sun Grade Communication Talisman and used it to contact Liu Ruo'an, only to discover Liu was with Meng Qiuyue.
• Liu Ruo'an ordered Radiant Sun Grade talismans for himself and Meng Qiuyue, and Shopkeeper Mu revealed a Cosmos Grade talisman for the Liu family.
• Shopkeeper Mu explained that the Liu family received the Cosmos Grade talisman as a gift for topping the Langya Foundation Merit List.
• Liu Ruo'an proudly accepted the gift while Meng Qiuyue looked at him more tenderly, and Shi Yiming regretted his past investment choices.
• Liu Ruo'an refused to unseal the talisman out of fear of being robbed, and Shi Yiming vowed to take first place on the next Langya Merit List.

Liu Ruo'an brought the Cosmos Grade Azure Dragon Communication Talisman back to the Liu Family, but his grandfather Liu Shiren took it from him, then passed it to their Old Ancestor, Liu Yin. Liu Yin activated it and sent its Azure Dragon projection toward an old friend on Purple Cloud Island.

• Liu Shiren confronted Liu Ruo'an and claimed the talisman for the Liu Family, then took it from him.
• Liu Shiren met Liu Yin outside his bedroom and explained how the Langya Merchant Association had given the talisman to the family.
• Liu Yin inspected the Azure Dragon Communication Talisman, activated its enormous projection, and admired his appearance in a water mirror.
• Liu Yin sent the Azure Dragon projection to visit his old friends, and it appeared before a cultivating elder in the Shi family's forbidden grounds.
• The Shi family elder saw the Azure Dragon open its jaws and cried that his life was over.

Shi Fan discovered that Liu Yin's Azure Dragon was a Communication Talisman projection and obtained one for himself, only to find his dragon looked like a loach beside Liu Yin's enormous one. He emerged from the forbidden grounds in a cold fury, holding the talisman and demanding to know whose it was.

• Liu Yin used a Communication Talisman to tease Shi Fan, repeatedly projecting an Azure Dragon before him until Shi Fan became envious and decided to get one.
• Shi Fan summoned Shi Chen and the younger generation, demanding that they buy him the best Communication Talisman immediately.
• Shi Yiming revealed that he already owned a Radiant Sun Grade Azure Dragon Communication Talisman, and Shi Fan took it back to his chamber to contact Liu Yin.
• Shi Fan compared his small dragon projection with Liu Yin's immense one, ended the communication in humiliation, and stormed out of the forbidden grounds.
• Shi Chen took credit for Shi Yiming's purchase and promised to double his family's stipends, but Shi Fan appeared and demanded to know whose talisman he held.

Shi Fan discovered that the Liu Family received a Cosmos Grade Communication Talisman from the Langya Merchant Association and ordered the Shi family to reserve one. Meanwhile, demand for the new talismans overwhelmed Langya’s stock, with Cosmos Grade reservations exceeding one hundred thousand.

• Shi Fan learned that the Liu Family’s Cosmos Grade talisman had been gifted by the Langya Merchant Association after the family donated to the Langya Foundation, and he scolded Shi Chen and Shi Yiming for backing the wrong investment.
• Shi Chen ordered the Shi family to line up at dawn to reserve a Cosmos Grade talisman, offering a hundred thousand Spirit Stones as a reward for securing a purchase slot.
• Liu Yin kept Liu Shiren’s gifted talisman, claiming he would return it when Liu Shiren stepped down as Clan Head.
• Langya Merchant Association stewards argued over how to distribute talismans as branches reported selling out and island masters offered many times the listed price.
• A chamber executive reported that headquarters had sold all one million talismans and that reservations for Cosmos Grade talismans had exceeded one hundred thousand.

Wang Mu learned that the Langya Merchant Association had sold all one million Communication Talismans in a day and set plans to scale production while keeping Cosmos Grade talismans scarce. He then offered Xia Yaoyao’s Refining Equipment Pavilion a much larger, better-paid order, and her disciples eagerly urged her to accept.

• Ren Pingsheng and the managers found that all one million Communication Talismans had sold out and more than one hundred thousand buyers were waiting for Cosmos Grade talismans.
• Ren Pingsheng reported the sales to Wang Mu, who ordered larger supplies of the lower grades but limited Cosmos Grade production to ten thousand per month.
• Wang Mu told Ren Pingsheng not to worry about resellers, then brought Nie Tingting to meet Xia Yaoyao at the Refining Equipment Pavilion.
• Wang Mu offered Xia Yaoyao an order for at least ten million Communication Talismans at a thirty percent higher unit price.
• Xia Yaoyao’s disciples burst into the room and insisted they were willing to take the order.

Wang Mu secured the Refining Equipment Pavilion’s help with a large Langya Merchant Association order, while Tang Qian and his allies planned to copy Langya’s Communication Talismans and use cheaper prices to turn poorer cultivators against the association. The chapter left Penglai preparing to attack Langya’s public reputation before its new product could restore its strength.

• Wang Mu left Casting God Island with Nie Tingting after arranging the Refining Equipment Pavilion’s production deal, and Xia Yaoyao warned the disciples to complete the order properly.
• Tang Qian, Gou Ansheng, and Liu Yanshuang examined Langya’s Communication Talismans and concluded they could produce cheaper versions with flashier designs and graded models.
• Tang Qian warned that Langya’s sales could replenish its resources and undo Penglai’s past efforts to weaken it.
• Tang Qian proposed undercutting Langya’s prices and encouraging poorer cultivators to call its Communication Talismans overpriced and underpowered.
• Gou Ansheng and Liu Yanshuang recognized that Tang Qian intended to stain Langya’s reputation by turning resentment among poor cultivators against it.

Cultivators’ frenzied demand drove Langya Brand Communication Talisman prices sky-high, while Dao Lord Xuan Qiong learned that even his influence could not secure a Cosmos Grade talisman ahead of the queue. At his birthday celebration, Liu Yin’s Azure Dragon talisman revealed itself, and Shi Fan appeared to have deliberately triggered it.

• Cultivators bought and resold Langya Brand Communication Talisman reservation numbers at rapidly rising prices, especially for scarce Cosmos Grade models.
• Liu Yin arrived at Dao Lord Xuan Qiong’s two-thousandth birthday celebration on Azure Moon Island and took a seat near the front.
• Zhou Ping presented Dao Lord Xuan Qiong with a Dragonblood Jade Ruyi and explained that only the Young Master could manage Communication Talisman sales and that the rules could not be bypassed.
• Liu Yin pressed his Cosmos Grade Azure Dragon Communication Talisman, fearing others would covet it after hearing how difficult they were to obtain.
• Liu Yin’s talisman shone and summoned an Azure Dragon above the hall, while Shi Fan watched him with a gloating expression and raised his own talisman.

At the Xuantian Sect’s birthday celebration, Liu Yin’s Cosmos Grade Communication Talisman exposed him to suspicion until Zhou Ping explained that the Langya Merchant Association had gifted it to the Liu Family for supporting its charitable work. The incident prompted Dao Lord Xuan Qiong to direct his sect to shop at the Association, and Spirit Severing Stage powers soon joined the competition for Merit List rankings.

• Shi Fan’s call triggered Liu Yin’s Cosmos Grade Communication Talisman’s phenomenon, revealing its superior grade to the gathered Cultivators.
• Dao Lord Xuan Qiong questioned Liu Yin about the talisman, and Liu Yin identified himself as a member of the Qingyun Archipelago’s Liu Family.
• Zhou Ping examined the talisman and explained that the Langya Merchant Association had gifted it to the Liu Family for ranking first on its regional Merit List.
• Zhou Ping told Dao Lord Xuan Qiong that the Association’s Merit List rankings reflected purchases rather than direct donations, and Xuan Qiong ordered his disciples to buy supplies there in the sect’s name.
• Liu Yin offered the talisman to Dao Lord Xuan Qiong, but Xuan Qiong refused to take a gift meant for the Liu Family.
• Business at the Langya Merchant Association grew, and Spirit Severing Stage powers began competing for Merit List rankings.

The Langya Foundation Merit Lists surged in value as powerful forces competed for the Cosmos Grade Communication Talismans awarded to regional leaders. Shi Yiming tried to buy his way to first place on the Qingyun Archipelago list, only to discover that unfamiliar rivals had already raised the rankings beyond his reach.

• Yang Juzi, Chu Youchang, and local sect leaders saw the Merit Lists soar as major forces poured resources into competing for the talismans.
• Yang Juzi recalled the benefits of his sect’s early top-three ranking and gripped the Cosmos Grade Communication Talisman, which he believed would become a treasured heirloom.
• Shi Yiming arrived at the Qingyun Archipelago Langya Branch and announced that he would pay for everyone’s purchases, drawing a crowd of grateful shoppers.
• Shi Yiming declared that he would take first place on the Qingyun Archipelago Merit List with five million Spirit Stones.
• Shopkeeper Mu urged Shi Yiming to check the list, where Zhu Xian, Lin Yu, and Yu Tian held the top three places with nearly four hundred thousand merit points each.

Shi Yiming lost most of his Spirit Stones after his attempt to buy the top spot on the Langya Merit List failed, while Wang Mu prepared to launch Langya Mall. The chapter ended with Wang Mu naming the new software he wanted Xia Yaoyao to add to Communication Talismans.

• Shi Yiming tried to reclaim his payment, but Shopkeeper Mu refused to refund what had already been spent and returned only the remaining Spirit Stones.
• Customers cursed Shi Yiming, who regretted investing in the Penglai Cloud Sea Foundation instead of competing with Liu Ruo'an for the Merit List’s top spot.
• Wang Mu reviewed the latest Merit List report and told Nie Tingting to carefully screen Cultivators familiar with the North Sea coast.
• Xia Yaoyao visited Wang Mu and delivered five specially made Communication Talismans.
• Wang Mu told Xia Yaoyao he wanted to add software to Communication Talismans and named it Langya Mall.

Wang Mu explained his plan for Langya Mall, an online shopping and delivery platform powered by the Heavenly Heart Stone, and Xia Yaoyao hurried off after realizing its potential. Later, he merged two divine abilities into the Heaven-Peng Dragon Transformation Hand, leaving him confident that ordinary Nascent Soul Cultivators could not withstand him.

• Wang Mu explained Langya Mall’s shopping, merchant, and delivery modules to Xia Yaoyao and Nie Tingting and described his goal of expanding it across the North Sea and beyond.
• Nie Tingting questioned how customers with existing Communication Talismans could use the service, and Xia Yaoyao explained that their imprints were connected through the Heavenly Heart Stone.
• Xia Yaoyao realized the Heavenly Heart Stone could serve as a central server for an information network and hurried away to work on the plan.
• Wang Mu practiced the Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Technique and combined it with Heaven-Peng Dragon-Smite using his Enlightenment Immortal Heart.
• Wang Mu named the merged ability the Heaven-Peng Dragon Transformation Hand and judged that his combat power could overwhelm ordinary Nascent Soul Cultivators.