Chapter Summaries

Zhu Yu assessed the corpse seeds and reflected on his gains and plans for the Insect Realm and Canglan Spirit Ruins. Li Jiu and Liu Yingchun visited his mountain, where Li Jiu offered 200,000 Spirit Stones for an Iron-Armored Corpse.

• Zhu Yu found that the Dragon-Blooded Kobold Warrior corpse seed had awakened its dragon blood, while the other three seeds remained dormant.
• Zhu Yu decided to pursue a Red Fire Ant territory ticket and a Dao Beacon, and left the Naga Split Spirit to choose whether to flee or fight in Canglan Spirit Ruins.
• Zhu Yu sensed two visitors, opened the mountain path, and welcomed Li Jiu and Liu Yingchun into his courtyard.
• Li Jiu noticed Zhu Yu's Iron-Armored Corpse and offered him 200,000 Spirit Stones to buy it.

Li Jiu bought Zhu Yu’s Gold Puppet Spirit for two hundred thousand Contribution Points, then told him that Qingping True Lord would open three Spirit Ruins and reward the top contender with a qualification that greatly increased the chance of Foundation Establishment. Zhu Yu became interested in competing for the opportunity.

• Li Jiu paid Zhu Yu two hundred thousand Contribution Points for what he believed was an Iron-Armored Corpse.
• Zhu Yu revealed a Gold Puppet Spirit, sealed it, and handed it to Li Jiu, who recognized the Seal Array Pattern as the work of a highly accomplished array master.
• Li Jiu tried to buy another corpse and Xiao Qing, but Zhu Yu refused and asked him to state his business.
• Li Jiu explained that Qingping True Lord would open three Spirit Ruins to disciples and grant the first-place contender a Mansion Opening qualification that increased the chance of Foundation Establishment by at least thirty percent.
• Zhu Yu focused on the Foundation Establishment opportunity and began considering the competition.

Li Jiu invited Zhu Yu to join a group seeking the top positions when Qingping Tower opened, but Zhu Yu refused and received an invitation to a major auction from Manager Liu. After dining with Xiao Qing, Zhu Yu waited for Manager Liu to return with the Starry Wood Fruit and began considering his plans for Qingping Tower.

• Li Jiu told Zhu Yu that Qingping Tower’s Mansion Opening opportunity could help Qi Refining Perfection cultivators break through, then invited him to join forces; Zhu Yu declined.
• Manager Liu visited Zhu Yu, announced that the auction would begin in the middle of next month, and gave him a gilded invitation.
• Li Jiu and Liu Yingchun left, and Zhu Yu ate with Xiao Qing before returning to consider Qingping Tower and send out Sound Transmission Talismans.
• Manager Liu returned with a Beast Bag and asked Zhu Yu whether the Starry Wood Fruits were for sale.

Zhu Yu tested how the Yi Humans adapted to the Six-Armed Naga Bloodline and found that three transformed perfectly into Nagas. He gave them Rings and tried to cultivate through their bodies, but they could not form Soul Particles.

• Manager Liu asked Zhu Yu to bring a ripened fruit for appraisal at the auction, and Zhu Yu agreed.
• Zhu Yu inspected the nine Yi Humans in the east wing and wondered what flaw their unusually predatory physiques might possess.
• Zhu Yu split the Six-Armed Naga Bloodline into three strands and infused three Yi Humans, which accepted it without any rejection.
• Over half a month, the three Yi Humans transformed into small, six-armed Nagas as Zhu Yu increased the supply of nutrient fluid.
• Zhu Yu merged three Rings into the Nagas' minds, awakened them, and saw them recognize him.
• Zhu Yu tried to cultivate through the Nagas using the Basic Visualization Diagram but could not condense Soul Particles.

Zhu Yu helped three Six-Armed Nagas cultivate their wind and thunder foundations, then welcomed Xiang Sui and Liang Kuan after they reached Qi Refining Perfection. He gave them Starry Wood fruits that strengthened their Dharma Seeds, and their eager reaction left Zhu Yu refusing their unspoken request.

• Zhu Yu used the formation and the Thunder and Storm Breathing Methods to help two Six-Armed Nagas form Thunder Pools and the third form a Wind Cave.
• Zhu Yu discovered that Xiang Sui and Liang Kuan had reached Qi Refining Perfection and congratulated them.
• Zhu Yu invited Xiang Sui and Liang Kuan to attend the Market Spirit Ruins auction and helped them send their Rings through a Crystal Ball.
• Zhu Yu gave each of them a Starry Wood fruit pit, which absorbed their Spiritual Power and released flames matching their Dharma Seeds.
• The flames fused with Xiang Sui and Liang Kuan's Dharma Seeds, strengthening them, and Zhu Yu refused their eager, unspoken request.

Zhu Yu discussed the Starry Wood Fruit’s effects and possible sale with Xiang Sui and Liang Kuan, then received Xiang Sui’s high-grade Meditation Pills. He visited his backyard creatures, where Little Black traded for spirit fruits and Xiao Qing continued following it and Little Seven.

• Zhu Yu explained that each Starry Wood Fruit worked only once and described how it strengthened spells, while Xiang Sui suggested auctioning one at the Void Market to discover its price.
• Xiang Sui gave Zhu Yu high-grade Meditation Pills made with his spiritual liquid, and Zhu Yu told him to deduct the refining cost from the Starry Wood branches and leaves.
• Zhu Yu visited Little Black and offered to let it leave the courtyard, but Little Black declined except to go out with its master.
• Little Black traded with Xiang Sui and Liang Kuan for a Beast Bag of spirit fruits, then exchanged a fruit with Xiao Qing to take Little Seven back to its native soil.
• Zhu Yu inspected the other creatures in his courtyard, and Xiang Sui and Liang Kuan reminded him to save them some Starry Wood Fruit regardless of its auction price.

Zhu Yu advanced to Qi Refining Perfection and traveled to the Immortal Tomb Trading Market for the auction. There, he offered Manager Fisher a Star-Spotted fruit pit from the Insect Realm for appraisal, and Fisher’s examination revealed that it was more unusual than ordinary Spirit Power Food.

• Zhu Yu swallowed a top-grade Meditation Pill and twelve Soul Dispersing Pills, then condensed ninety-six Soul Particles overnight and reached Qi Refining Perfection.
• Zhu Yu entered the Immortal Tomb Trading Market and headed toward the auction, noticing foreign cultivators among the crowd.
• Zhu Yu visited Myriad Treasure Pavilion, learned that Manager Liu had gone to the auction, and encountered Horse-Face and Ox-Head, who again offered him coordinates to the Spirit Ruins called Ling.
• Zhu Yu set aside the offer to buy the Dao Beacon and went to the auction venue, where he sensed that its seven-colored clouds blocked the gathering of Soul Particles.
• Zhu Yu presented Manager Fisher with a Star-Spotted fruit pit from the Insect Realm for appraisal, and Fisher’s probing spells led him to suspect it was more than ordinary Spirit Power Food.

Zhu Yu learned that Starry Wood Fruit could extend lifespan and consumed nearly two hundred fruits, raising his lifespan limit by twenty years. He considered whether Starry Wood came from the Divine Grade Moon Sprite and began the auction, where the first item was introduced.

• Manager Fisher appraised Zhu Yu’s Starry Wood Fruit as between upper grade and Divine Grade, estimated it could extend lifespan by three months, and offered a fifty-thousand-Spirit-Stone auction base price.
• Zhu Yu agreed to consign the fruit and took his seat in the auction hall.
• Zhu Yu’s main body ate nearly two hundred Starry Wood Fruits, increasing his lifespan limit from 120 to 140 years, but his body began showing signs of turning woody.
• Zhu Yu wondered whether Starry Wood was descended from the Moon Sprite’s Divine Grade God-Given Life Seed and decided to send the Big-Winged Wasp split spirit to contact the Insect Tribe.
• Zhu Yu recognized Cang Li in the auction hall, and host Blue Sword opened the auction with a bone-white Sword Shark artifact.

At the Trading Spirit Ruins auction, Zhu Yu watched the Starry Wood Fruit draw fierce bidding and recognized the beetle who won it as the supposedly dead Moon Sprite. The Moon Sprite identified the fruit as Moon Wood and resolved to track down Zhu Yu to reclaim his lost source essence.

• Blue Sword auctioned a Sword Shark artifact, Spirit Refining Pills, and other items before presenting a Starry Wood Fruit pit from the Insect Realm.
• Blue Sword described the fruit as Weak God-Grade, saying it could add three months to a cultivator’s lifespan, repair flaws in a Dharma Seed, and strengthen a top-grade Dharma Seed by ten percent.
• Zhu Yu watched the bids climb and noticed a beetle competing with an enormous fat cat and a snake-bodied woman for the fruit.
• The beetle’s gaze triggered warnings from Zhu Yu’s True Sight Eye, and Zhu Yu recognized it as the Moon Sprite, whom he had believed dead.
• The Moon Sprite won the Starry Wood Fruit for eighty-seven thousand Spirit Stones, recognized it as Moon Wood, and vowed to find Zhu Yu and reclaim his source essence.

The Moon Sprite’s attempt to trace the Moon Fruit’s connections ended when Zhu Yu and others drove it off, and a menacing Divine Sense briefly interrupted the auction. Blue Sword then unveiled a second-order Blazing Sun Bird demon soul, reigniting interest among the departing bidders as he promoted its uses.

• The Moon Sprite traced threads from the Moon Fruit into the auction house but failed to find the thief and fled after Zhu Yu and the crimson-robed man disrupted its Divine Sense.
• Zhu Yu sensed a cold Divine Sense sweep through the venue, and Blue Sword resumed the auction of the Cloud-Riding Boat as it withdrew.
• Blue Sword released a second-order Blazing Sun Bird demon soul from a jade bottle, prompting cultivators who had been leaving to return to their seats.
• A cultivator bid five hundred thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones for the demon soul, and Blue Sword began to count down.
• Blue Sword described the demon soul’s uses in artifact refinement and cultivation paths as a clear, cold voice rang out.

Zhu Yu watched Liang Kuan win the Blazing Sun Bird demon soul and realized the Multi-Winged Beetle was the Moon Sprite. The Moon Sprite then bought the Insect Realm Dao Beacon for one million Spirit Stones, while Zhu Yu held back his bid and waited for the next item.

• The Multi-Winged Beetle, the Ox-Head Person, and Liang Kuan competed for the Blazing Sun Bird demon soul, which Liang Kuan won for seven hundred and twenty-five thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Zhu Yu saw attendants bring Beast Bags to the Multi-Winged Beetle and concluded that it was the Moon Sprite and had arranged to sell the demon soul.
• Blue Sword presented the Red Fire Ant Clan's Insect Realm Dao Beacon and announced that bidding would start at one Spirit Stone.
• The Moon Sprite bid one million Spirit Stones for the Dao Beacon, and no one else challenged it.
• The Moon Sprite completed the purchase and vanished, while Zhu Yu stayed to await the next auction item.

Zhu Yu bought Ten-Thousand-Year Grave Soil to cultivate the Graveyard Grass inheritance, then acquired Ox-Head and Horse-Face’s Broken Sword Dao Beacon by trading four Starry Wood Fruits. The brothers agreed to explain why they were selling the beacon and share information about Ling Spirit Ruins.

• Zhu Yu bid one million Spirit Stones for Ten-Thousand-Year Grave Soil and won the auction item.
• Zhu Yu completed a transaction for the Starry Wood Fruit using the contract and streams of Spirit Stones.
• Ox-Head and Horse-Face offered Zhu Yu a Dao Beacon for Ling Spirit Ruins, then lowered the price and offered information about it.
• Zhu Yu asked why the brothers were selling the Broken Sword Dao Beacon, and Ox-Head agreed to explain.
• Zhu Yu traded four Starry Wood Fruits, valued at eighty-seven thousand Spirit Stones each, for the Broken Sword Dao Beacon.

Zhu Yu traded starry wood fruits with the Horse-Face Person and the ox-head person, then returned to the Yin-Underworld Grotto and examined the ten-thousand-year grave soil and the Ling Spirit Ruins dao beacon. He learned the beacon could lead him to a dangerous spirit ruin whose owner had already defeated the two traders and taken them over.

• Zhu Yu traded two starry wood fruits to the Horse-Face Person and the ox-head person for forty-eight thousand spirit stones and invited them to bring him rare spiritual items.
• After Zhu Yu left, Cheng Kui discovered that a fruit could strengthen his companion technique, and he and the ox-head person discussed a hidden target they planned to observe before acting.
• Zhu Yu returned to the Yin-Underworld Grotto, dissolved his ring, and stored its contents in his secondary stomach pouch.
• Zhu Yu opened the jade box, inspected the ten-thousand-year grave soil, and sealed it away again.
• Zhu Yu examined the Ling Spirit Ruins dao beacon and recalled how its owner had trapped the Horse-Face Person and the ox-head person, leaving them in mice under Count Harrison's control.

Zhu Yu learned that Ling's Spirit Ruins was guarded by a suspected Third-Order cultivator and planned to explore it after Canglan Spirit Ruins' Split Spirit returned. When an unexplained surge of empathy made him suspect a curse, he ordered a costly protective talisman, while Mu Ruo located his target through a blood ritual and left to face an angry visitor.

• Ox-Head and Horse-Face abandoned another attempt to enter the Spirit Ruins and told Zhu Yu that Count Harrison was a suspected Third-Order cultivator; they had kept his Dao Beacon because the Sect offered too little for it.
• Zhu Yu considered using his ability to block sensory probing to explore Ling's Spirit Ruins, then decided to wait until Canglan Spirit Ruins' Split Spirit returned.
• Zhu Yu noticed flaws in his Descent of the Gods array and considered upgrading it, but Treasures of the World prohibited Void Crystal sales without a stated purpose.
• Zhu Yu suddenly remembered a former fellow townsman, suspected someone had cursed him, and ordered a Second-Order Prayer for Divine Protection talisman at great expense.
• Little Black jolted awake in the rear courtyard, while Mu Ruo used a blood ritual in Dead Soul Ravine to find Zhu Yu and burned the corpse and array afterward.
• A powerful Divine Sense challenged Mu Ruo, who ignored it and entered a living room where a pale-faced youth and a burly man waited.

Lian Sheng accepted Mu Ruo’s offer to capture a youth, an insect, and a Starry Wood in Yinming Mansion, but he was caught by True Person Yin Underworld upon entering the mansion’s anchor point. After Meng Changsheng took the tree root from him and Dead Soul True Person rescued him, the Great Thousand Mirror awakened and began pulling at the Rings and Dao Foundations of cultivators in the Yin-Underworld Grotto.

• Mu Ruo offered Lian Sheng fragments of Ruins and Life Immortal Dew to capture a youth, an insect, and a Starry Wood in Yinming Mansion.
• Lian Sheng took the transparent tree root as an advance reward and set out for Yinming Mansion.
• A bronze mirror detected Lian Sheng entering the mansion and sent him to the Black Tide Sea, where he pleaded with True Person Yin Underworld for mercy.
• Meng Changsheng pulled the tree root from Lian Sheng’s Cold Corpse Dao Foundation, and its source imprint shattered when it recognized him.
• Dead Soul True Person’s Bronze Gate rescued Lian Sheng from Meng Changsheng, who swallowed the root and returned to the Great Thousand Mirror.
• The Great Thousand Mirror shed its rust and began drawing on the Rings and Dao Foundations of cultivators throughout the Yin-Underworld Grotto.

The Great Thousand Mirror cast away the cultivators’ Rings and Dao Foundations, leaving Zhu Yu without his cultivation and uncertain whether his Dao Foundation would survive. He restored his cultivation to Late Qi Refining, secured his companions, and set out for the Dharma Repository with Little Black.

• The Great Thousand Mirror forcibly cast away the Rings and Dao Foundations of the cultivators in Yinming Mansion, along with their Dharma Seeds and stored treasures.
• Zhu Yu condensed his Soul Particles into a Three-Ring Pattern and restored his cultivation to Late Qi Refining.
• Zhu Yu put Xiao Qing into the Corpse-Rearing Coffin to sleep, then checked Black Tiger and Dragon-Blood Kobold Warrior and sealed the Armor-Casting Corpse Land to keep the Corpse Puppets asleep.
• Zhu Yu called Little Black and rode it toward the Dharma Repository, while Little Jade joined them along the way.
• Little Black offered Starry Wood Fruits to Little Jade and Zhu Yu, and Zhu Yu repaid it with a pile of ten fruits.

Zhu Yu equipped Xiao Qing with a beast bag, reconsidered rushing to recultivate, and gathered supplies to practice the Mass Grave spell amid the Great Thousand Mirror’s disruption. The chapter ended with a moon-white-robed figure in Dead Soul Ravine cursing Lu Blackheart and vanishing into a whirlpool.

• Zhu Yu gave Xiao Qing a beast bag filled with Starry Wood Fruits and taught her how to use it.
• Zhu Yu saw cultivators selling fierce beasts and learned that the Yin-Underworld Grotto was sealed and Yin-Underworld Mansion disciples outside it were being targeted by the Great Thousand Mirror.
• Zhu Yu decided to postpone choosing a recultivation technique and went to the Affairs Pavilion to obtain supplies for practicing the Mass Grave spell.
• Zhu Yu returned to his immortal cave and began preparing to practice the Mass Grave spell.
• A moon-white-robed figure in Dead Soul Ravine cursed Lu Blackheart and disappeared into a whirlpool.

Zhu Yu entered the Yi Spirit Ruins through the formation Wu Yong had prepared and took over Wu San’s body, where he found supplies and the Divine Seed needed to enter the Dao. After discovering his new talent, Innocent Heart, he began cultivating but wondered how to extend it into a stronger ability.

• Rumors spread through the Heavenly Dao Sect that Yin Underworld was capturing a core fragment of a Super-Large Spirit Ruins, and Yinming Mansion’s disciples shifted from worry to anticipation.
• Zhu Yu sensed the Yi Spirit Ruins and followed the pull of Wu Yong’s formation to the ruined mountain village where Wu San’s body awaited him.
• Zhu Yu entered Wu San’s body, whose memories revealed that Wu Yong had arranged for an elderly couple to care for him.
• Zhu Yu found silver, gold, jade, and the Divine Seed in the secret chamber, then absorbed the seed and learned that his talent was Innocent Heart.
• Zhu Yu tested Innocent Heart while cultivating the Stone Grinding Method and found it greatly improved his focus and Blood Qi control.
• Zhu Yu considered whether he could extend Innocent Heart into something stronger, since he wanted a powerful God Word to face future crises and plunder Spirit Ruins Origin.

Zhu Yu considered how to develop the God Word “Innocent Heart,” then settled on experimenting with it while preparing to cultivate in the village. Meanwhile, the leaders of Cloud Mountain Stronghold discovered several Outworlders among their men, and White Tofu brought three more to Lady Shi, including Mi Ya'er, who revealed she had reincarnated.

• Zhu Yu weighed several ways to develop “Innocent Heart” and decided to test its potential before his God Words transformed again.
• Zhu Yu ordered the old couple to gather herbs and prepare more food, then left to hunt.
• Lady Shi and the other leaders of Cloud Mountain Stronghold identified six Outworlders and divided them among themselves.
• Mi Ya'er recognized the stronghold and told White Tofu to kill the two youths chasing her, but he instead brought all three to Dong Cheng'en.
• Mi Ya'er revealed her identity to Dong Cheng'en by recalling the Spring Snow poison, and he realized that she and the other youths were Outworlders.
• Lady Shi praised White Tofu for bringing back three Outworlders and promised Dong Cheng'en she would reward him.

Zhu Yu rapidly advanced his cultivation while starving villagers watched in fear, and the Four Ghosts prepared to attack Cloud Mountain Stronghold. Special Envoy Meng ordered the attack to begin that night and asked about the person Helmsman Wu had stationed in the village, leaving the three subordinates hesitant to answer.

• Zhu Yu increased his skin-tempering progress to 45% and continued refining wild boar meat with his Blood Qi and Divine Sense.
• A starving youth reported Zhu Yu's meat to Liu the Boss, then resisted entering the abandoned fields and received a root vegetable from a gaunt woman.
• The bald man distributed meat soup to the starving villagers, while the Oily-Faced Scholar and the other Four Ghosts waited for their lord.
• Special Envoy Meng arrived in a paper sedan carried by four rats and learned that Wind Ghost had infiltrated Cloud Mountain Stronghold and that six Outworlders had descended there.
• Special Envoy Meng ordered the Four Ghosts to act that night, then asked about the person Helmsman Wu had placed in the village, and the three subordinates hesitated to answer.