Chapter Summaries

Wang Yan sorted through the Third Young Master’s loot and considered turning its recognizable Spirit Artifacts into Puppet Immortal Cards, then reflected on his impatience to grow stronger and began cultivating the Heart-Control Art. Meanwhile, Elder Du left the Red Market to seek the Ma Family, and Wang Yan’s forced breakthrough ended with a furious roar from a secluded chamber causing him to spit blood.

• Wang Yan found that the Third Young Master’s many treasures were mostly metal-element artifacts and worried that using or selling them could expose him to the Wicked Poison Sect.
• Card Fairy proposed refining the artifacts into Puppet Immortal Cards, but explained that Wang Yan needed to advance his Heart-Control Art and practice Artifact Refining first.
• Card Fairy urged Wang Yan not to rush cultivation, reminding him of his long lifespan and warning that the Third Young Master’s cultivation had been inflated by treasures and pills.
• Wang Yan gained insight and began meditating to break through the Heart-Control Art, while Elder Du left the Red Market to visit the Ma Family and pursue the Third Young Master’s killer.
• Wang Yan forced his Heart-Control Art breakthrough, but a furious roar from a secluded chamber shook the hall and made him spit out a mouthful of blood.

After Ye Shisan woke, Wang Yan told him that Red Second Madam and the Third Young Master were dead and explained that Ye Shisan’s roar had helped him break through to the third level of the Heart-Control Art. More than a month later, Wang Yan was melting the pair’s spirit artifacts into a humanoid mold to begin making the Puppet Immortal Card.

• Ye Shisan emerged from the secret chamber and found Wang Yan injured, then learned that Red Second Madam and the Third Young Master were dead.
• Ye Shisan wept over his father’s revenge, while Card Fairy discovered that Wang Yan had reached the third level of the Heart-Control Art with help from Ye Shisan’s roar.
• Wang Yan told Ye Shisan they were hiding beneath the Ye Family Stockade and warned him that a Golden Core Stage cultivator was searching for them.
• Wang Yan and Ye Shisan agreed to divide the spirit stones from the defeated enemies’ treasures, and Ye Shisan went to recover.
• More than a month later, Wang Yan melted the golden cauldron and other spirit artifacts into a humanoid mold, completing the first step of the process.

Wang Yan finished smelting a puppet and agreed to repair Ye Shisan’s poison-damaged treasures, adding black mother iron ore to improve them. After Ye Shisan left to catch White-Scaled Snowfish, a tremor briefly shook the Cave Abode Secret Realm, and Ye Shisan returned excitedly with news of an enormous fish.

• Wang Yan finished smelting the puppet and learned from Card Fairy that it would become a powerful supreme-grade puppet once it fused and cooled.
• Ye Shisan showed Wang Yan his treasures, which the Third Young Master’s poison had corroded, and Wang Yan offered to repair them and strengthen them with black mother iron ore.
• Wang Yan gave Ye Shisan a Restriction Token and instructions to leave the Cave Abode Secret Realm so he could catch White-Scaled Snowfish.
• A faint tremor shook the Cave Abode Secret Realm while Wang Yan meditated, but it stopped before he could investigate.
• Ye Shisan returned soaking wet and told Wang Yan he had found a White-Scaled Snowfish larger than three or four of him.

Wang Yan repaired Ye Shisan’s spirit artifacts and tried to improve his Truefire Moon Wheel, while Ye Shisan recovered quickly after eating the White-Scaled Snowfish. The chapter ended with Card Fairy recognizing the fish Ye Shisan saved as a legendary Snow Dragon Fish.

• Ye Shisan told Wang Yan that a huge fish had burrowed into a riverbed rich in spiritual energy, and Wang Yan agreed to investigate after repairing Ye Shisan’s artifacts and recovering.
• Wang Yan refined Ye Shisan’s Earth Spirit Gold Staff into a supreme-grade spirit treasure and strengthened the Truefire Moon Wheel, but failed to raise it to peerless grade.
• Wang Yan checked the puppet taking shape in its mold, then went upstairs to return Ye Shisan’s repaired spirit artifacts.
• Wang Yan found Ye Shisan training with enormous metal balls and learned that the Earthforce Art had reached its Fourth Layer and his injuries had healed after eating the fish.
• Ye Shisan gave Wang Yan a large White-Scaled Snowfish he had saved, and Card Fairy identified it as a legendary Snow Dragon Fish.

Wang Yan and Ye Shisan headed into the underground river to find a core-condensation Snow Dragon Fish, hoping to capture it alive. As they swam toward the deep pool where it lived, the current grew stronger and began pushing Wang Yan backward.

• Card Fairy told Wang Yan that Snow Dragon Fish could temper the body and that a mature fish might be worth raising for its demon core.
• Wang Yan returned Ye Shisan's repaired treasures, including an Earth Spirit Gold Staff upgraded to a supreme-grade spirit artifact, and agreed to search for the larger fish alive.
• Ye Shisan explained that the fish lived in a deep pool several li along the underground river, where he had encountered one at the core condensation realm.
• Wang Yan recalled his secret-realm cave abode and stored it away before he and Ye Shisan entered the river.
• Wang Yan devised a plan to trap the Snow Dragon Fish, and Card Fairy approved it as a way to prevent the fish from escaping.
• Wang Yan and Ye Shisan swam downstream, but the strengthening current began sweeping Wang Yan backward.

Wang Yan and Ye Shisan searched the violent pool for a Core Condensation Realm Snow Dragon Fish, but Ye Shisan was hurled back when he tried diving to the bottom. Wang Yan brought them down inside the Cave Abode Secret Realm Pagoda, and they emerged surrounded by enormous Snow Dragon Fish.

• Wang Yan used his Golden Light Shield Defense Talisman to withstand the current while following Ye Shisan through the underwater passage.
• Ye Shisan reached an enormous whirlpool pool, found no Snow Dragon Fish at the surface, and dived into its depths.
• The pool blasted Ye Shisan back out, so Wang Yan summoned the Cave Abode Secret Realm Pagoda and took Ye Shisan inside as it sank.
• The Cave Abode Secret Realm Pagoda stopped, and Wang Yan and Ye Shisan emerged into a place filled with five-colored spiritual light.
• Enormous Snow Dragon Fish surrounded Wang Yan and Ye Shisan and charged at them with their jaws open.

Wang Yan and Ye Shisan were overwhelmed by Snow Dragon Fish in the Cave Abode Secret Realm, and Wang Yan fought to rescue Ye Shisan after the largest fish swallowed him. After Card Fairy sensed another part of the Immortal Card Artifact, Wang Yan used a five-colored spell to teleport himself and the fish holding Ye Shisan away.

• Ye Shisan attacked the Snow Dragon Fish while Wang Yan was dragged toward two others and found that his fire spell was dispelled by their icy currents.
• The largest Snow Dragon Fish swallowed Ye Shisan, so Wang Yan used lightning Talismans to paralyze the surrounding fish.
• Ye Shisan forced the great fish’s jaws open from within, but its icy power froze him and Wang Yan as the other fish began recovering.
• Card Fairy sensed another part of the Immortal Card Artifact, and Wang Yan grabbed the fish holding Ye Shisan and activated a five-colored spell.
• Wang Yan and the Snow Dragon Fish vanished together toward the inverted Cave Abode Secret Realm.

Wang Yan brought the Snow Dragon Fish and Ye Shisan into the Cave Abode Secret Realm, where the waterless, inverted space left the fish unable to fly and exposed it to Wang Yan's fire attacks. After Ye Shisan escaped its mouth and helped strike back, Wang Yan prepared to finish the creature, but Card Fairy stopped him to ask if he truly intended to kill it.

• Wang Yan pulled the Snow Dragon Fish and Ye Shisan into the Cave Abode Secret Realm, where the fish attacked him with ice icicles.
• Wang Yan used his flying sword and Fire Fist Spells to pursue and strike the falling fish, which bounced off the restriction array and spat Ye Shisan out.
• Wang Yan attacked the stranded Snow Dragon Fish with Red-Light Flame arrows while Ye Shisan broke free of his icy shell and joined the fight.
• The Snow Dragon Fish rebounded off the barrier and tried to suck Ye Shisan into its mouth, but Wang Yan and Ye Shisan knocked it away with a flame arrow and the Earth Spirit Gold Staff.
• Wang Yan summoned the Truefire Moon Wheel to kill the Snow Dragon Fish, but Card Fairy asked him to wait.

Wang Yan and Ye Shisan fought a powerful Snow Dragon Fish inside the Cave Abode Secret Realm, and Wang Yan trapped it with the realm’s enemy-trapping restriction array. As the Card Fairy began to explain that another part of the Immortal Card Artifact was nearby, the entire secret realm started shaking.

• Ye Shisan struggled against the Snow Dragon Fish as its freezing attacks slowed him, while the Card Fairy urged Wang Yan to capture the creature alive.
• Wang Yan joined the fight to protect Ye Shisan, and Ye Shisan retreated into the air after Wang Yan told him to stop charging in.
• The Snow Dragon Fish attacked Wang Yan, who dodged its ice spheres and asked the Card Fairy how to capture it without injuring it.
• The Card Fairy explained how to activate the enemy-trapping restriction array, and Wang Yan used it to imprison the Snow Dragon Fish in a five-colored net.
• Ye Shisan celebrated the capture and suggested they feast on the fish, but Wang Yan refused and asked the Card Fairy about the other part of the Immortal Card Artifact.
• The Card Fairy began to answer as thunderous crashes shook the Cave Abode Secret Realm.

Wang Yan learned that Kui Water Spirit Milk contained a clue to the Water-Type Immortal Card Artifact, and he and Card Fairy planned to capture the Snow Dragon Fish before investigating its source. Card Fairy also explained how the other elemental artifacts could aid his cultivation, while revealing that repairing Wang Yan’s destroyed dantian would have to wait until he reached at least the Nascent Soul Realm.

• The Snow Dragon Fish attacked the Cave Abode Secret Realm, and Card Fairy warned Wang Yan that the barrier would consume more Spirit Stones as it held them off.
• Ye Shisan returned injured with his Earth God Armor damaged again, but Wang Yan forbade him from eating the great-completion Core Condensation Realm Snow Dragon Fish because he needed it alive.
• Card Fairy told Wang Yan that Kui Water Spirit Milk contained a trace of the Water-Type Immortal Card Artifact and suppressed his fire spells, prompting Wang Yan to plan to catch the Snow Dragon Fish and trace the milk’s source.
• Card Fairy said the Kui Water Spirit Milk could raise the captured fish and help Wang Yan practice a water-type cultivation method and repair the artifact.
• Card Fairy explained that elemental Immortal Card Artifacts could increase Wang Yan’s cultivation speed, and she realized that restoring his destroyed dantian could make him cultivate even faster.
• Card Fairy warned that restoring Wang Yan’s dantian required materials and methods he could not obtain before reaching at least the Nascent Soul Realm, then urged him to focus on catching the Snow Dragon Fish.

Wang Yan and Ye Shisan used the Cave Abode Secret Realm Pagoda to lure and capture Snow Dragon Fish, eventually making most of the fish flee. As they searched for the Immortal Card Artifact, Ye Shisan discovered that Kui Water Spirit Milk flowed from a Snow Dragon Fish nest, and Wang Yan reacted with delight.

• Wang Yan reeled Ye Shisan and several Snow Dragon Fish into the Cave Abode Secret Realm Pagoda, where Ye Shisan beat one fish and Wang Yan trapped the others.
• Wang Yan recalled how the Cave Abode Secret Realm’s spiritual energy was draining rapidly and how he had turned Ye Shisan into bait to catch Snow Dragon Fish.
• Wang Yan and Ye Shisan spent seven or eight days fishing, until most of the Snow Dragon Fish fled and they began searching for the Immortal Card Artifact.
• Ye Shisan reported that Kui Water Spirit Milk flowed out of a Snow Dragon Fish nest, and Wang Yan exclaimed in delight.

Wang Yan and Ye Shisan prepared to investigate a disturbance in the Kui Water Spirit Milk, while Wang Yan continued refining a Puppet Immortal Card. After Ye Shisan broke through to the early Core Condensation Realm, the two cleared Snow Dragon Fish from the cave and pushed deeper toward a mysterious blue light.

• Ye Shisan told Wang Yan about a cave filled with Snow Dragon Fish where the Kui Water Spirit Milk seemed to surge from a source, and Wang Yan agreed to investigate after refining the fish into spirit liquid for Ye Shisan.
• Wang Yan completed the second formation reinforcement on the golden puppet and learned from the Card Fairy that nine more rounds and an Immortal Card refinement remained.
• Ye Shisan broke through to the early Core Condensation Realm and advanced his Earthforce Art to its third level.
• Wang Yan and Ye Shisan entered the cave, cleared its Snow Dragon Fish, and captured more as they traveled deeper.
• Wang Yan and Ye Shisan spotted strands of brilliant blue spiritual light at the far end of the cave.

Wang Yan and Ye Shisan found the Water-Type Immortal Card Artifact fused with a Kui Water Lotus, surrounded by ice that had frozen a Golden Core Stage Snow Dragon Fish. After learning that collecting the artifact would thaw the deadly fish, Wang Yan planned to use the Cave Abode Secret Realm Card’s weight-reducing arrays to fly over.

• Wang Yan and Ye Shisan discovered a blue lotus and a huge Snow Dragon Fish encased in ice, along with other frozen fish.
• The Card Fairy identified the lotus as a Kui Water Lotus inhabited by a fragment of the Water-Type Immortal Card Artifact and explained that the fragment could help locate the others.
• Ye Shisan threw a rock toward the ice, and the freezing chill encased it before it reached the frozen mass.
• Wang Yan learned that collecting the artifact would dispel the chill and free the Golden Core Stage Snow Dragon Fish, which they could not defeat or outrun.
• Wang Yan decided to use the Cave Abode Secret Realm Card’s weight-reducing arrays to fly toward the artifact and called Ye Shisan over to discuss his plan.

Wang Yan and Ye Shisan used the Cave Abode Secret Realm Pagoda to capture the frozen Snow Dragon Fish and its ice, but the fish awakened after swallowing the shrunken Kui Water Lotus. As it attacked, Wang Yan transformed into red flames and flew into its mouth.

• Ye Shisan lifted and drove the Cave Abode Secret Realm Pagoda toward the frozen Snow Dragon Fish while Wang Yan protected himself with the Ironwood Shield.
• The pagoda struck the ice, and the five-colored spiritual light pulled the ice mass and Wang Yan into the Cave Abode Secret Realm as Ye Shisan hauled the pagoda back to safety.
• Wang Yan used Blue Spiritual Light Runes to shrink the Kui Water Lotus into a sapphire-like metal fragment, causing the ice to melt and the Snow Dragon Fish to stir.
• The Snow Dragon Fish swallowed the fragment, awakened, and attacked Wang Yan with a vortex of blue spiritual light.
• Wang Yan transformed into red-light flames and charged into the Snow Dragon Fish's gaping mouth.

Wang Yan entered the Golden Core Stage Snow Dragon Fish and froze it from within, while Ye Shisan rushed into the secret realm and was nearly swallowed. Wang Yan rescued him, though the chapter left Ye Shisan startled by Wang Yan’s changed voice.

• Wang Yan wrapped himself in Red-Light Flame and plunged into the Snow Dragon Fish’s mouth.
• Ye Shisan appeared and faced the furious Snow Dragon Fish, which attacked him with enormous Blue-Light Ice Balls.
• Ye Shisan fought back with his Earth Spirit Gold Staff, Earth Gang Shield, and Earth God Armor, but the Snow Dragon Fish knocked him away and pursued him.
• Wang Yan froze the Snow Dragon Fish from within, but its tail struck Ye Shisan and its falling body threatened to crush him.
• Wang Yan emerged from the fish, kicked Ye Shisan clear, and was slammed into the Five-Colored Spiritual-Light Restriction by the falling fish.
• Wang Yan appeared unharmed and scolded Ye Shisan, who was relieved but noticed that Wang Yan’s voice had changed.

Card Fairy possessed Wang Yan to retrieve the Water-Type Immortal Card Artifact fragment and freeze the Golden Core Stage Snow Dragon Fish, then used the restriction barrier to bind it. After Card Fairy exhausted herself, Wang Yan regained control and flew to replenish the Spirit Stone Furnace, leaving Ye Shisan to keep watch.

• Card Fairy took control of Wang Yan, entered the Snow Dragon Fish's mouth, retrieved the Water-Type Immortal Card Artifact fragment, and froze the fish.
• Card Fairy trapped the fish in a net of five-colored spiritual light, but it broke free of the ice and battered the net.
• Card Fairy reinforced the net with golden runes and spiritual light until the fish could no longer move.
• Card Fairy told Wang Yan to feed five hundred thousand Spirit Stones into the Spirit Stone Furnace, then withdrew to rest.
• Wang Yan reassured Ye Shisan, told him to watch the fish, and flew toward the Cave Abode Secret Realm Pagoda to replenish its spiritual energy.

Wang Yan restored the Spirit Stone Furnace, discovered he could not use the half of the Water-Type Immortal Card Artifact he had found, and waited for Card Fairy to awaken. After she explained that the artifact’s other pieces were likely in the Azure Spirit Mountain Range, she told him the fragment he had was enough to collect the Kui Water Spirit Milk.

• Wang Yan had Ye Shisan turn the Cave Abode Secret Realm Pagoda upright, then fed five hundred thousand Spirit Stones into the Spirit Stone Furnace to restore its spiritual energy and keep the Snow Dragon Fish trapped.
• Wang Yan examined the Water-Type Immortal Card Artifact fragment but failed to channel magic power into it, and he told Ye Shisan they had to stay until they collected the Kui Water Spirit Milk.
• Over the next half month, Wang Yan studied the fragment while Ye Shisan repeatedly asked for Snow Dragon Fish Spirit Liquid and proposed visiting the Lü Family Marketplace to get justice from the Lü Household.
• Card Fairy awakened and confirmed that Wang Yan could not use the incomplete artifact, but said its other pieces might be in the Azure Spirit Mountain Range and that the fragment was enough to collect the Kui Water Spirit Milk.

Wang Yan absorbed the Kui Water Spirit Milk, weakening the spiritual energy that sustained the Wicked Poison Sect’s Red Market at the Ye Family Stockade. After Wang Yan and Ye Shisan escaped, Wang Yan reported that the market had fallen into chaos and its destruction soon became public knowledge.

• Wang Yan used the Water-Type Immortal Card Artifact to absorb all the Kui Water Spirit Milk, and Card Fairy began repairing the artifact.
• Wang Yan told Ye Shisan that the Red Market would lose its spiritual energy and urged him not to rush back while the Golden Core Stage cultivator might still be there.
• Wang Yan secretly investigated the Ye Family Stockade, killed its Core Condensation Realm cultivator, and found cultivators rioting as the Wicked Poison Sect activated the restriction array.
• Wang Yan persuaded Ye Shisan to leave the Red Market behind, and the two flew off to carry out their sect mission.
• News spread across the Azure Spirit Mountain Range that upheaval had destroyed the Wicked Poison Sect’s underground cultivator market and killed many rogue cultivators.

Ma Ang and Elder Du discussed their alliance and a treasure hunt when news arrived that the Wicked Poison Sect’s Underground Cultivator Market had been destroyed. Ma Ang then resolved to confront the Wang Household over the Treasure Map, leaving the market incident to the sect.

• Ma Ang defeated Elder Du at Fairy Chess and offered him a place as Grand Elder in the Ma Family.
• A scout reported that the Underground Cultivator Market at Ye Family Stockade had collapsed amid turmoil, and Elder Du refused to return to investigate.
• Ma Ang and Elder Du suspected the killer of the Wicked Poison Sect’s Third Young Master might also have destroyed the market, then discussed finding the Treasure Map and reaching Treasure Mountain.
• Ma Ang met with the Ma Family’s elders and learned that Wang Yanyu would not see them and Wang Ziling remained in seclusion.
• Ma Ang dismissed concerns about the Wang Household’s ancestor, announced he would confront the Wang Household, and flew off while ordering the Ma Family to ignore the market’s destruction.

Wang Yan searched the region with Ye Shisan for another portion of the Water-Type Immortal Card Artifact after Card Fairy sensed it nearby. When the artifact’s signal suddenly grew clear and then began moving away, Wang Yan chased it toward the Wang Household’s Azure Spirit Mountain.

• Wang Yan placed the Cave Abode Secret Realm Pagoda in a deep pool and sent Ye Shisan inside to cultivate while he searched alone.
• Card Fairy confirmed that the other portion of the Water-Type Immortal Card Artifact was in the region, though Wang Yan’s search had so far found nothing.
• Wang Yan and Card Fairy sensed the artifact strongly, then realized its signal was moving away and pursued it at full speed.
• After losing the signal, Wang Yan continued in the same direction until he and Card Fairy sensed it again near the Wang Household’s Azure Spirit Mountain.