Recaps

Lin Qing killed Zhou Rulong, freed the Li Family, and used Qiyue to lure the Heaven-Hiding Mist Marrow toward a Spatial Sealing Formation. The giant snake transformed into mist as Lin Qing activated the formation, and he believed it was trapped inside.

• Lin Qing obliterated Zhou Rulong, took his Storage Ring, and recovered the Tenth-Tier Spatial-Sealing Formation diagram.
• Lin Qing freed the Li Family from an Eighth-Tier trapping formation and told them to leave while he pursued other plans.
• Lin Qing planted a tracking mark in Qiyue and ordered her to lure the giant snake to him.
• Lin Qing hid in a cave and guided Qiyue through the Heaven-Hiding Mist Marrow until she reached the mountain ravine.
• Lin Qing appeared before the giant snake and activated the Spatial Sealing Formation as it transformed into mist.
• Qiyue tried to explain her earlier curse, but Lin Qing told her not to speak.

Lin Qing forced the Heaven-Hiding Mist Marrow to manifest and subdued it, then stored it in the secret realm. He returned to Narrow Creek Market as Xie Chen, where Si Xing told him Tao Tao had not come looking for him.

• Lin Qing spread Wind Will across the region for days, shielding Qiyue while the Heaven-Hiding Mist Marrow weakened.
• The Heaven-Hiding Mist Marrow manifested and charged Lin Qing, who struck it down and promised not to kill it.
• Lin Qing sent the Heaven-Hiding Mist Marrow into the secret realm and ordered it to kill any human cultivators it encountered there.
• Lin Qing recovered the formation materials, removed Qiyue's tracking mark, and left Azure Cloud Myriad Peaks.
• Lin Qing changed his appearance on the way back and returned to Narrow Creek Market as Xie Chen; Si Xing reported that Tao Tao had not visited.

Lin Qing accompanied Tao Tao to a large market to buy forging materials while hearing that Azure Cloud Myriad Peaks’ fog had begun to clear. As they ate at a riverside restaurant, he heard rumors about himself and Qiyue, then learned that Thousand Treasures Pavilion’s auction was a month away.

• Lin Qing reviewed customized weapon orders and prepared to buy more forging materials before Tao Tao visited and asked whether he had left seclusion.
• Lin Qing told Tao Tao he had reached Mid Eighth Tier, and Tao Tao said the fog at Azure Cloud Myriad Peaks was dispersing and cultivators were flocking there amid rumors of a treasure and Lin Qing’s appearance.
• Lin Qing and Tao Tao shopped through a large sect market, where Tao Tao bargained as Lin Qing searched for materials.
• Lin Qing invited Tao Tao to a riverside restaurant, where she ordered several dishes and he asked the kitchen to prepare his own tofu.
• Lin Qing overheard disciples spreading rumors that he had been meeting Immortal Qiyue, then heard that Thousand Treasures Pavilion’s auction was a month away.

Lin Qing finished his outstanding weapon orders and paused taking new commissions so he could advance his artificer rank. As the Thousand Treasures Pavilion auction approached, he prepared to travel to Thousand Treasures City under a Divine Realm disguise and comprehended several forms of Will.

• Tao Tao invited Lin Qing to the Thousand Treasures Pavilion auction and told him that Ninth and Tenth Tier blueprints would be available in Thousand Treasures City.
• Lin Qing asked Tao Tao about Ninth Tier weapon blueprints and offered to forge her Life-Bound Treasure once he could make Divine Artifacts.
• Lin Qing sent Si Xing to exchange sect contribution points for materials he had not found at the marketplace.
• Lin Qing spent half a month forging nearly one hundred outstanding orders, then told Si Xing to arrange their collection and accept no new orders.
• Lin Qing planned to travel to Thousand Treasures City disguised as a Divine Realm cultivator and spent ten days comprehending the intent steles, gaining five kinds of low-level Will power.

Lin Qing traveled to Thousand Treasures City for the once-in-a-century super auction, bringing twenty-five billion Spirit Stones and disguising himself to avoid attention. After learning that tickets were sold out, he went to have his treasures appraised, where he unexpectedly encountered Qing Yao.

• Lin Qing disguised himself as an ordinary Seventh Tier inner sect disciple and sold materials along the way, raising his funds to twenty-five billion Spirit Stones.
• Lin Qing arrived in Thousand Treasures City, where formations suppressed flight, Divine Sense, and spiritual power to protect traders and their treasures.
• Lin Qing learned that he needed an entry ticket to attend the auction, but a Thousand Treasures Pavilion disciple told him they were sold out and described two ways to obtain one.
• Lin Qing paid the disciple one million Spirit Stones for information, then went to the treasure appraisal entrance to offer his own items.
• A wooden door opened as Lin Qing approached, and Qing Yao emerged with an aged man.

Lin Qing reunited with Qing Yao and her Master Ancestor in Thousand Treasures City, where he gave them an Eleventh-Tier Cultivation Art and explained that he needed rare materials for a Twelfth-Tier Formation. They agreed to help him gather materials, and the chapter ended as the long-awaited auction began.

• Lin Qing recognized Qing Yao in Thousand Treasures City and followed her and her master to an inn.
• Qing Yao introduced Lin Qing to her Master Ancestor, who had come to Central Continent to search for the missing Juechenzi.
• Lin Qing gave Master Ancestor a copy of an Eleventh-Tier Cultivation Art, astonishing both him and Qing Yao.
• Lin Qing listed rare materials he wanted to buy and explained that he needed them for a Twelfth-Tier Formation.
• Master Ancestor and Qing Yao offered to sell their belongings to help Lin Qing prepare for the auction.
• The auction began a few days later.

Lin Qing, Qing Yao, and Grandmaster entered the Thousand Treasures City auction and discovered that its catalogue contained many items Lin Qing wanted, including rare formation materials. As the auction began, Qing Yao recognized its opening presenter as a famed beauty from her era.

• Lin Qing's group arrived at the auction house and passed a guest who claimed his admission ticket was genuine.
• Qing Yao presented their ticket, and an attendant led the group to their mid-tier private room.
• Lin Qing studied the updated catalogue and worried that his prepared twenty-five billion Spirit Stones would not cover all the items he wanted.
• Grandmaster offered Lin Qing more than three billion Spirit Stones, and mentioned that Qing Yao might also have several billion.
• The auction opened with a song and dance before a woman appeared on the central platform.
• Qing Yao recognized the woman as a beauty she had known in her youth, who had topped the Central Continent Beauties Ranking while at Early Eighth Tier cultivation.

Lin Qing sold rare treasures to the Thousand Treasures Pavilion so he could fund his bids at the auction, while competing with Tao Tao for an artifact blueprint. The chapter ended with Lu Zhan discovering that Lin Qing’s final box contained Void-Returning Bone Powder, which Lin Qing had not yet decided to sell.

• Lin Qing stopped the Patriarch and Qing Yao from selling personal possessions and asked steward Lu Zhan to appraise his fifty-thousand-year-old Gloompeak Dewglow.
• Lin Qing outbid Tao Tao for the Azure Congealing Sword Blueprint, winning it for three hundred and twenty million Spirit Stones.
• While bidding on a Ninth Tier pill formula, Lin Qing learned that the Thousand Treasures Pavilion valued his Gloompeak Dewglow at fifteen billion and would let him bid against that valuation.
• Lin Qing sold Lu Zhan a Sinking Mist Crystal and other goods, bringing the total value of his items to eighty-five billion.
• Lin Qing asked Lu Zhan to appraise a box he was not yet selling, and Lu Zhan recognized the contents as Void-Returning Bone Powder.

Lin Qing spent heavily at the Thousand Treasures City auction, selling Void-Returning Realm bone powder to fund his purchases and gathering rare crafting materials and designs. When an Eleventh Tier expert threatened him over the Cambwood Zhi Blossom, Lin Qing answered by offering seven liang of bone powder.

• Lu Zhan offered Lin Qing one hundred million Spirit Stones per qian of Void-Returning Realm bone powder, and Lin Qing accepted.
• After Lu Zhan left, Lin Qing told the Master Ancestor and Qing Yao that he had moved the Kunxu Secret Realm and planned to place it at Cloudrise Immortal Sect.
• Lin Qing bought pill formulas, formation diagrams, and weapon blueprints at the auction, spending forty billion Spirit Stones before the main material for a Twelfth Tier formation appeared.
• On the auction’s third day, Lin Qing bid against an Eleventh Tier expert for the Cambwood Zhi Blossom and raised his offer to six billion Spirit Stones despite the expert’s threats.
• The Eleventh Tier expert threatened Lin Qing again after bidding six point five billion, and Lin Qing countered with seven liang of Void-Returning Realm bone powder.

Lin Qing stood his ground against an Eleventh Tier bidder, bought the Cangwood Zhi Blossom, and secured most of the materials he needed for a Twelfth Tier formation. After the auction ended, Luo Xue entered his private room to settle his purchases and sales.

• Lin Qing answered an Eleventh Tier expert's threat by bidding seven taels of Void-Returning Realm bone powder for the Cangwood Zhi Blossom, and the expert backed down.
• Luo Xue continued the auction, where Lin Qing's Sinking Mist Crystal sold for sixteen billion and his other items fetched better-than-expected prices.
• Lin Qing urged Qing Yao and the other to leave because he feared the Thousand Treasures Pavilion might be able to uncover their identities, and they left before the auction ended.
• After another day, the auction ended, and Lin Qing had acquired most of the primary materials for a Twelfth Tier formation, with leads for the rest.
• Luo Xue entered Lin Qing's private room after the auction to conduct the unified settlement.

After leaving Thousand Treasures City with his auction purchases, Lin Qing was tracked by Luo Xue, who intended to rob him. She caught up with him in the wilderness and attacked with her Nine-String Konghou.

• Luo Xue delivered Lin Qing's auction purchases and remaining thirty-five billion Spirit Stones, then ordered her subordinates to find his whereabouts.
• Lin Qing left Thousand Treasures City and queued through several teleportation transfers, hoping to catch up with Tao Tao's group.
• Luo Xue's subordinates tracked Lin Qing's route through the transfer cities, and she used her privileges to catch up with him.
• Luo Xue followed Lin Qing to a desolate place between two cities and revealed that she planned to attack him.
• Luo Xue summoned her Nine-String Konghou and unleashed successive silver soundwaves that shattered the surrounding landscape.

Lin Qing fought Luo Xue after she recognized him, overpowering her before her mother’s Divine Sense Mark intervened. The mark was damaged by Lin Qing’s punch, and Luo Xue agreed to return home and marry as the clash came to a halt.

• Luo Xue attacked Lin Qing with Bewitchment Will and sound waves, then recognized him as Lin Qing when he withstood her assault.
• Luo Xue summoned her Dharma Aspect, but Lin Qing struck it down with a punch infused with Thunder Will and Destruction Will.
• Luo Xue pleaded with Lin Qing to stop, then crushed a jade token to summon her mother’s Divine Sense Mark.
• Lin Qing’s next punch shattered the mark’s palm and sent the avatar reeling.
• Luo Xue’s mother told her to return home and get married, and Luo Xue reluctantly agreed.

Lin Qing killed Luo Xue after defeating her Eleventh Tier mother’s Divine Sense Mark, then concealed his identity on the way back to Creek Forge. There, Tao Tao told him the news of Lin Qing’s latest feat and showed him the two Ninth Tier weapon blueprints she had bought.

• Lin Qing unleashed his fused Five Elements Domain and struck Luo Xue and her mother with a giant spiritual-energy palm.
• Luo Xue’s mother’s Divine Sense Mark shattered, and Lin Qing’s attack destroyed Luo Xue’s body and Primordial Spirit.
• Several approaching Tenth Tier cultivators fled after sensing the battle, and Lin Qing chose not to pursue them before teleporting toward his destination.
• Lin Qing used concealment and disguises on his journey, returned to Creek Forge as Xie Chen, and fooled Tao Tao about where he had been.
• Tao Tao told Lin Qing about the auction and Luo Xue’s death, then produced the two Ninth Tier weapon blueprints.

Lin Qing passed Late Smoke Spirit Palace’s investigation into his cultivation and spent nearly two years raising his skills and running Creek Forge. After preparing to leave the sect, he brought Tao Tao to Azure Cloud Myriad Peaks to forge her Life-Bound Treasure, where she recognized him as Lin Qing.

• Tao Tao warned Lin Qing that Late Smoke Spirit Palace was testing disciples after his shapeshifting ability became known, but he passed the examination as an ordinary Mid Eighth Tier cultivator.
• Lin Qing reopened Creek Forge, resumed Eighth Tier custom orders, and gradually raised his artifact-refining level and other skills to Perfected Ninth Tier.
• After studying the available formulas and blueprints and gathering supplementary materials, Lin Qing decided to leave Late Smoke Spirit Palace and contacted Tao Tao about forging her Life-Bound Treasure.
• Lin Qing sent Si Xing away and prepared rare materials for Tao Tao, then left the sect with her and traveled to Azure Cloud Myriad Peaks.
• Lin Qing set up formations in a remote ravine, and Tao Tao asked whether he was Lin Qing.

Lin Qing guided Tao Tao through forging her Life-Bound Treasure, the Azure Peach Silk Sash, then prepared to leave the sect to search for rare materials and other clues. After Tao Tao departed, Lin Qing revealed that he had reached the Tenth Tier.

• Lin Qing set up a formation and guided Tao Tao as she forged a pinkish-green ribbon over half a month.
• Tao Tao named the finished Life-Bound Treasure the Azure Peach Silk Sash and learned that Lin Qing intended to leave.
• Lin Qing told Tao Tao he would search for rare materials and asked her to explain his absence as a journey for experience while preserving his Xie Chen identity.
• Tao Tao left Azure Cloud Myriad Peaks, and a Dharma Aspect rose from the mountain stream as Lin Qing reached the Tenth Tier.

Lin Qing broke through to the Tenth Tier and discovered that his Dharma Aspect was already ten thousand zhang tall, placing his strength near the peak beneath the Divine Lords. After cultivating in seclusion, he sought rare materials at a Thousand Treasures Trading House and learned that Cloud-Pattern Elk Fat would soon be auctioned in Azure Pass City.

• Lin Qing broke through to the Tenth Tier, and his Dharma Aspect reached ten thousand zhang without the influence of any Will.
• Lin Qing tested his strength, moved to a secluded cave in Azure Cloud Myriad Peaks, and began cultivating with his Tenth-Tier Cultivation Art.
• Lin Qing's enormous Dharma Aspect drew attention, and Tao Tao suspected it belonged to him after returning to Late Smoke Spirit Palace.
• Lin Qing traveled to a prosperous city and asked Wang Shan at the Thousand Treasures Trading House about rare materials, paying one hundred million Spirit Stones for information.
• Wang Shan told Lin Qing that a powerhouse from the Lingxiao Sword Sect had hunted a Cloud-Pattern Elk and that its remaining parts would soon be auctioned in Azure Pass City.
• Lin Qing left for the teleportation plaza to travel toward Azure Pass City.

Lin Qing reached Azure Pass City and learned that the Cloud-Pattern Elk’s remains would be auctioned there. Before the auction, he headed to Mountain-Seeking Pavilion to seek information about other demon beasts and spotted Ren Wudi and Qiyue in a hunting team.

• Lin Qing traveled for half a month to Azure Pass City, paid the one-million-Spirit-Stone entry fee, and entered the city.
• Lin Qing heard that an Eleventh Tier powerhouse had slain a Cloud-Pattern Elk and that its remains would be auctioned in five or six days.
• Lin Qing learned about Mountain-Seeking Pavilion, where cultivators posted and accepted demon-beast hunting missions and bounties.
• Lin Qing went toward Mountain-Seeking Pavilion and saw Ren Wudi and Qiyue still working together in a team.

Lin Qing entered the Mountain-Seeking Pavilion to post purple bounty notices seeking the locations of three Monster Beasts. After he named the Azure Rock Lion, an Eighth Tier disciple said he knew someone with information about it.

• Lin Qing entered the Mountain-Seeking Pavilion and examined the purple bounty notices for Eleventh Tier Monster Beasts.
• Lin Qing told a pavilion disciple he wanted to post a purple bounty, and the disciple brought him to a private room with the rotating manager.
• Lin Qing offered ten billion Spirit Stones for information on a Mist-Pattern Tapir, and the manager prepared its bounty notice.
• Lin Qing asked to post matching bounties for a Fog-Ridge Fang and an Azure Rock Lion, prompting the Eighth Tier disciple to exclaim that he knew someone with Azure Rock Lion information.

Lin Qing learned that Zhang Wang and Hua You had tracked a Mid-Eleventh Tier Azure Rock Lion and negotiated to join their hunt. The three agreed to pursue separate parts of the beast, though Zhang Wang and Hua You remained cautious about Lin Qing’s hidden master.

• An Eighth Tier disciple told Lin Qing and the steward that a bounty for a Mid-Eleventh Tier Azure Rock Lion had gone unclaimed for ten days.
• Lin Qing paid the steward and disciple five hundred million Spirit Stones each to introduce him to the hunters.
• Zhang Wang and Hua You met Lin Qing, and he explained that his unseen master would help hunt the Azure Rock Lion.
• Lin Qing said he needed the lion’s horns, while Zhang Wang and Hua You asked for its scales and promised not to take any other parts.

Lin Qing attended the Azure Pass City auction to obtain Cloud-Pattern Elk Fat, outbidding the city lord before buying it. When the city lord attacked him afterward, Lin Qing shattered the attack and challenged him to face him in the air.

• Lin Qing gave Zhang Wang a Communication Token and arranged to contact him and Hua You at the auction five days later.
• Lin Qing paid to post bounties for the Mist-Pattern Membrane and Fog-Ridge Fang, then heard a cultivator describe a mysterious ring found in a Secret Realm three hundred years earlier.
• At the auction, Lin Qing raised his bid for Cloud-Pattern Elk Fat to ten billion Spirit Stones, forcing the city lord to withdraw.
• The city lord learned Lin Qing was a Rogue Cultivator and attacked his private room after Lin Qing completed the purchase.
• Lin Qing shattered the city lord's giant claw with one punch, broke through the auction house roof, and called the city lord up to fight.

Lin Qing fought the Azure Pass City lord after resisting his attack, then followed him away from the city to avoid harming bystanders. Their Dharma Aspects clashed, and the city lord sent his life-bound artifact at Lin Qing as Lin Qing prepared to counter it.

• The city lord attacked Lin Qing with earthen spiritual mountains, but Lin Qing evaded them with ease.
• The city lord flew away from Azure Pass City, and Lin Qing followed to keep their fight from endangering the city.
• The city lord summoned his ring-shaped life-bound artifact and a seven-thousand-zhang Dharma Aspect; Lin Qing summoned an equally large one with Wood Will.
• Lin Qing outmatched the city lord in their exchanges, sending him flying back repeatedly.
• The city lord launched his Mountain-Suppressing Ring Snare, and Lin Qing answered with Tree Realm Descends.

Lin Qing defeated the city lord and three Eleventh Tier cultivators after they intervened, then left them humiliated in Azure Pass City’s cesspit. He flew toward the Transverse Mountains.

• Lin Qing bound the city lord’s ring artifacts and vines, then dragged his Dharma Aspect to its knees.
• Three Eleventh Tier cultivators intervened and freed the city lord, prompting Lin Qing to expand his Dharma Aspect to ten thousand zhang and unleash Thunder Will.
• Lin Qing struck down all four opponents, collapsing their Dharma Aspects and paralyzing them with lightning.
• Lin Qing carried the four bodies to Azure Pass City and dropped them into a public cesspit, where the city’s cultivators witnessed the scene.
• After the four regained consciousness and Lin Qing recoiled in disgust, he flew toward the Transverse Mountains.

Lin Qing crossed the Transverse Mountains into the Southern Domain with Zhang Wang and Hua You, avoiding demonic beasts as they traveled. He discovered a tribe under attack whose totem pointed to a Mist-Pattern Tapir, one of the materials he needed for his formations, and the three headed there.

• Lin Qing met Zhang Wang and Hua You beyond the Transverse Mountains, and they continued toward the Southern Domain together while concealing their presence.
• Lin Qing used his strengthened Divine Sense to detect Eleventh Tier demonic beasts and guide the group around them.
• Lin Qing sensed a tribe under attack by a beast tide and recognized its Mist-Pattern Tapir totem.
• Lin Qing told Zhang Wang and Hua You that the tribe might lead him to a needed demonic beast, and they agreed to accompany him.
• Lin Qing, Zhang Wang, and Hua You hurried toward the besieged tribe.

Lin Qing intervened to save a tribe under attack and fought the Peak Eleventh Tier White Giant Wolf that confronted him on the way. After several hours of battle, the White Giant Wolf surrendered, and Lin Qing stopped attacking.

• Lin Qing used his Divine Sense to pin down the wolf pack attacking the tribe and save its elderly priest from the wolf king.
• A Peak Eleventh Tier White Giant Wolf noticed Lin Qing and charged at him as he flew toward the tribe.
• Lin Qing told Zhang Wang and Hua You to leave the White Giant Wolf to him, then fought it using his Ten-Thousand-Zhang Dharma Aspect.
• Zhang Wang and Hua You reached the tribe and helped the priest while the wolf pack scattered.
• After several hours of combat, the battered White Giant Wolf called out in a female voice that it surrendered, and Lin Qing ceased attacking.

Lin Qing spared the White Giant Wolf, accepted its fang, and learned that it had killed the tribe’s totem over a thousand years earlier. The tribe’s priest showed him an old map to the Mist-Pattern Tapir’s nest, and Lin Qing decided to investigate for its shedding.

• The White Giant Wolf gave Lin Qing a fang after he chose to spare it.
• Lin Qing returned to the tribe and joined Zhang Wang and Hua You at the feast celebrating their survival.
• Lin Qing tried to contact Qing Yao with his Communication Token but received no response.
• The priest told Lin Qing that the tribe’s totem had fallen to a White Giant Wolf over a thousand years earlier.
• The priest showed Lin Qing a map marking the Mist-Pattern Tapir’s nest eighty million li away, and Lin Qing decided to visit it.