Chapter Summaries

Wang Yan conceded to Ye Shisan so Ye Shisan could win the Four Peaks Competition, while Wang Yan secured second place as planned. After the awards, Venerable Gray Three examined Wang Yan, acknowledged the strange condition of his dantian, and offered to trade for his Millennium Spirit Milk.

• Wang Yan conceded to Ye Shisan, intending to help him take first place while preserving Wang Yan’s own second-place finish.
• Ye Shisan defeated seven opponents in succession, earning first place for himself and Earth Cloud Peak; Wang Yan placed second and Golden Tiger placed third.
• Ling Daozi presented the prizes, including Wang Yan’s second-place rewards of five thousand merit points, a Mid-Grade Spirit Artifact, and Millennium Spirit Milk.
• Venerable Gray Three invited Wang Yan to speak privately after the victory feast and examined him under a restriction array.
• Venerable Gray Three noticed that something was wrong with Wang Yan’s dantian but chose not to interfere, then offered an ornate wooden box in exchange for Wang Yan’s Millennium Spirit Milk.

Wang Yan returned to his cave abode and refined the Flame Spirit Pearl, strengthening his body and magic power while repairing his Immortal Card Artifact. The pearl’s power finally woke Card Fairy, though she opened her eyes groggily and asked whether it was morning.

• Wang Yan escaped Dai Hao’s questions about Venerable Gray Three’s gift, and the two fled after a disciple below shouted about someone dropping a fruit pit.
• Wang Yan opened the wooden box in his cave abode and discovered that Venerable Gray Three had given him a Flame Spirit Pearl in exchange for the Millennium Spirit Milk.
• Wang Yan swallowed the Flame Spirit Pearl alongside pills, medicines, and Flame Spirit Pearl Powder, then used the Heavenburning Art to refine its fire spirit qi.
• After five days, Wang Yan emerged from a black shell of expelled impurities with a stronger physique, purer magic power, and a partly repaired Immortal Card Artifact.
• Wang Yan checked on Card Fairy and found her still asleep, but she soon woke and sleepily asked whether it was morning.

Wang Yan spoke with the newly awakened Card Fairy about his cultivation, the Flame Spirit Pearl, and the danger of Nascent Soul Realm cultivators detecting her. When Ye Shisan and the Zhang sisters arrived, Wang Yan returned the belongings he had stored for them, and the sisters grew serious after he asked why they had come.

• Card Fairy woke and learned that Wang Yan had reached the Core Condensation Realm and become Venerable Gray Three’s disciple.
• Card Fairy approved of Wang Yan’s Heavenburning Art and explained that his meeting with a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator had likely gone unnoticed because her aura had been faint.
• Ye Shisan sent a voice transmission announcing that he and Linlang had come with Zhang Qiulin and Zhang Qiulang, so Wang Yan retrieved their stored belongings.
• Wang Yan welcomed the three guests into his cave abode and returned their Storage Bags.
• When Wang Yan asked whether the sisters had come for another reason, Zhang Qiulin and Zhang Qiulang exchanged glances and turned grave.

Wang Yan and Ye Shisan met with Zhang Qiulin and Zhang Qiulang, learned of their trouble with the Zhang Household and saw the twins demonstrate their joint divine ability. After the women left, Ye Shisan asked to return to the Ye Family Stockade for revenge, and Wang Yan agreed to go after they spent two or three months preparing.

• Zhang Qiulin and Zhang Qiulang warned Wang Yan that the Zhang Household had come to the Firecloud Sect seeking to take them back, but Wang Yan said he was not afraid of trouble from them.
• The twins explained how Fairy Dream Mysterious had taken them as disciples and taught them a powerful joint divine ability; they sparred with Ye Shisan and Wang Yan, who exposed a weakness in their coordination.
• After Zhang Qiulin and Zhang Qiulang left, Ye Shisan told Wang Yan he could not sleep because he kept thinking about the Ye Family Stockade and wanted to return for revenge.
• Wang Yan agreed to accompany Ye Shisan but urged him to refine his Flame Spirit Pearl and prepare for the Wicked Poison Sect, estimating that they needed two or three months.
• After Ye Shisan left, Wang Yan activated the cave abode's restriction array and called for Card Fairy to draw a treasure.

Wang Yan received and activated a Cave Abode Secret Realm Card, discovering an immense eight-story pagoda with specialized chambers and a Spirit Stone Furnace that could provide dense spiritual energy. He learned that powering it was costly but manageable if he energized only the floor he needed.

• Wang Yan drew the Cave Abode Secret Realm Card, and the Card Fairy explained that it held a portable cave abode powered by Spirit Stones.
• Wang Yan activated the card and released a small silver pagoda, then entered it by following his divine sense.
• Wang Yan explored the pagoda’s eight floors, including a medicinal garden, Dueling Arena, cultivation chambers, workshops, storage, beast cages, and a Spirit Stone Furnace.
• Wang Yan learned the furnace could generate and direct spiritual energy, but filling every floor would cost over ten thousand Spirit Stones daily.
• The Card Fairy explained that Wang Yan could power only the floor he used, reducing the daily cost to roughly one or two thousand Spirit Stones.

Wang Yan followed Card Fairy’s advice to strengthen his Immortal Card skills and planned to leave Firecloud Divine Mountain on sect missions rather than abandon the Firecloud Sect. After more than three months of preparation, he and Ye Shisan departed the mountain to seek revenge in the Azure Spirit Mountain Range.

• Wang Yan obtained the Fire Arrow Spell and asked Card Fairy about crafting Intermediate Spell Collection Cards, but she told him to practice with Magic Artifact Collection Cards and other simpler cards first.
• Card Fairy explained that the repaired Immortal Card Artifact could refine cards faster and let Wang Yan carry two replacement cards, allowing him to use six Immortal Cards before exhausting them.
• Wang Yan decided to remain in the Firecloud Sect but take distant, long-term sect missions to reduce the risk of powerful cultivators discovering his Immortal Card Artifact.
• Wang Yan collected several low-level fire spells and spent Spirit Stones and Merit Points crafting Immortal Cards and Spirit Artifact Smelting Cards.
• After more than three months of preparation, Wang Yan and Ye Shisan accepted a sect mission and left Firecloud Divine Mountain together.

Wang Yan and Ye Shisan prepared to leave the Firecloud Sect and traveled toward the Azure Spirit Mountain Range to settle accounts with Red Second Madam. Meanwhile, a hidden enemy refined Wang Yanyu’s vital energy, and Red Second Madam awaited support from her superiors as Wang Yan and Ye Shisan approached the range.

• Wang Yan and Ye Shisan secured permission to leave the Firecloud Sect and agreed to return once a year.
• Wang Yan used his sole Spirit Artifact Smelting Card to smelt the Truefire Moon Wheel, then he and Ye Shisan accepted sect missions and set out for the Azure Spirit Mountain Range.
• A black-energy-wreathed figure finished refining Wang Yanyu’s vital energy and magic power, then plotted to seize the Wang Household and advance by devouring cultivators.
• Elder Du and the Third Young Master questioned Red Second Madam about her failure to deal with three minor lineages, and she explained that the Ma Family had a Golden Core Stage cultivator.
• The Third Young Master chose to stay at the Ye Family Stockade’s Branch Hall, while Elder Du warned him not to linger.
• One day later, two streaks of flight light entered the Azure Spirit Mountain Range.

Wang Yan and Ye Shisan captured Qinghong and two Lü Household disciples while investigating the area around the Ye Family Stockade. Under interrogation, Qinghong began revealing Red Second Madam’s plan to recruit cultivators into the Underground Cultivator Market.

• Qinghong persuaded two Lü Household disciples to abandon their lineage and join the Underground Cultivator Market, promising them protection and advancement.
• Wang Yan and Ye Shisan ambushed Qinghong and the disciples, quickly subduing all three.
• The two disciples admitted they were Inner Clan members leaving the Lü Household after Qinghong enticed them to join the market.
• Wang Yan questioned Qinghong about Red Second Madam and the Underground Cultivator Market, threatening to hand her over to Ye Shisan if she refused to answer.
• Qinghong confessed that Red Second Madam had tasked her with recruiting rogue cultivators and Inner Clan disciples from the three lineages.

Wang Yan and Ye Shisan learned that the Red Market was a Wicked Poison Sect branch and planned to investigate it before attacking. Wang Yan disguised himself with Qinghong’s Phantom Face and entered the market alone, while Ye Shisan waited outside.

• Wang Yan knocked out Qinghong and the two male cultivators, then left them in a cliffside cave with Fasting Pills rather than killing them.
• Qinghong’s information revealed that Red Second Madam’s Red Market served as an illegal trading hub and a Wicked Poison Sect branch with over a hundred Cultivation Realm disciples and two Core Condensation Realm cultivators.
• Wang Yan rejected Ye Shisan’s plan to attack directly and decided to investigate the Red Market first, using the Phantom Face to disguise himself while Ye Shisan waited nearby.
• Wang Yan used the Immortal Card Artifact to suppress his magic power below the Core Condensation Realm, then approached the Red Market entrance disguised as a young cultivator.
• Wang Yan told the black-clad guards that Qinghong had sent him to sell goods, and they allowed him into the gorge passage.

Wang Yan infiltrated the Red Market at Ye Family Stockade to investigate the Wicked Poison Sect’s operation and find Red Second Madam. After scouting the market and drawing suspicion, he recognized a woman’s voice as she descended the stairs, though he had not yet seen her.

• Card Fairy warned Wang Yan that the gorge’s walls and valley were protected by powerful restriction arrays, so he proceeded cautiously and avoided flying.
• Wang Yan passed a checkpoint by concealing his cultivation, then saw how Ye Family Stockade had been transformed into a market and recognized that its cave-abode rentals drew rogue cultivators who might complicate his revenge.
• A black-robed cultivator followed Wang Yan and pointed him toward the Red Market’s main building, where Wang Yan entered and pretended to browse.
• Wang Yan asked a black-robed female cultivator where materials could be appraised and sold, then deliberately delayed before going to the second floor.
• As Wang Yan was about to speak with a black-robed disciple on the second floor, he heard a woman descending with someone called Third Young Master and recognized her voice.

Wang Yan investigated the Red Market and learned that Red Second Madam was protected by the powerful Third Young Master and a Golden Core Stage cultivator. After escaping the market and reuniting with Ye Shisan, he planned to wait for the Third Young Master to leave before attacking Red Second Madam and reclaiming the Ye Family Stockade.

• Wang Yan concealed his identity when Red Second Madam and the Third Young Master passed him, then learned the Third Young Master would leave the next day and had a Golden Core Stage martial uncle backing the Red Market.
• Wang Yan sold several medicinal herbs at a low price, decided the Red Market was too heavily guarded to attack, and left the Ye Family Stockade despite black-clad cultivators trying to stop him.
• Wang Yan lured five black-clad cultivators into a secluded valley and killed them before burning their corpses to ashes.
• Ye Shisan worried that Wang Yan had not returned, then received his message through the Message-Transmitting Bell and went to meet him.
• Wang Yan told Ye Shisan what he had learned, and they agreed to watch the stockade entrance that night and attack Red Second Madam after the Third Young Master left.

Wang Yan and Ye Shisan waited for the Third Young Master and Elder Du to leave the Ye Family Stockade, then followed the Third Young Master and Red Second Madam into the woods when they unexpectedly found them alone. As they crept toward the pair’s secluded tryst, Wang Yan prepared an ambush and told Ye Shisan to get ready to attack.

• Wang Yan and Ye Shisan watched the gorge and identified the departing Third Young Master, Red Second Madam, and Elder Du.
• Red Second Madam gave Elder Du black mother iron ore and Spirit Stones, and Elder Du promised to seek support for her before flying away with the Third Young Master.
• The Third Young Master returned after Elder Du left and carried Red Second Madam toward a secluded mountain peak.
• Wang Yan and Ye Shisan decided to pursue the pair, and Wang Yan asked Ye Shisan how far the underground river was before planning their approach.
• Wang Yan and Ye Shisan crept toward the couple as they heard them together, and Wang Yan placed several rune formations before telling Ye Shisan to prepare to strike.

Wang Yan and Ye Shisan were caught spying on the Third Young Master and Red Second Madam, who tried to recruit them into the Wicked Poison Sect before the confrontation turned violent. Ye Shisan’s attack was reflected by the Third Young Master’s Silver Mirror, but the mirror shattered, and the enraged Third Young Master prepared to fight on.

• Card Fairy warned Wang Yan of the Third Young Master and Red Second Madam’s poison ambush, allowing Wang Yan to shove Ye Shisan out of its path.
• Red Second Madam recognized Wang Yan and Ye Shisan as former members of the Ye Family Stockade, and the Third Young Master offered to forgive them if they joined the Wicked Poison Sect.
• Ye Shisan refused the offer and attacked the Third Young Master, but his staff blow was reflected by the Silver Mirror and sent him crashing through trees.
• Red Second Madam attacked Wang Yan with a Dark Green Long Spear, and Wang Yan’s Truefire Moon Wheel knocked it aside.
• The Third Young Master’s Silver Mirror cracked and shattered after reflecting Ye Shisan’s strike, and the Third Young Master summoned two long sabers in a rage.

Ye Shisan fought the Third Young Master, but the Wicked Poison Sect cultivator’s poisoned Banana Leaf Fan overwhelmed his defenses and trapped him in a corrosive vortex. As the Third Young Master prepared another strike, a Red-Light Flame attack erupted from below and confronted him.

• Ye Shisan blocked the Third Young Master’s twin sabers with the Earth Gang Shield and drove them back with a burst of strength.
• The Third Young Master used his Banana Leaf Fan to batter Ye Shisan’s hammer treasure and then swept him into a poisonous dark green vortex.
• Ye Shisan resisted the poison with his armor and fought against the vortex, but the fumes drained his magic power and slowed him.
• The Third Young Master began preparing another fan attack while considering turning Ye Shisan into a poison man.
• An explosion toppled the tree beneath the Third Young Master, and Red-Light Flame arrows forced him to defend himself with a Bagua Plaque.
• A massive fist of Red-Light Flame surged toward the Third Young Master.

Wang Yan rescued Ye Shisan from the Third Young Master and helped him escape the Dark-Green Poison Storm. As Ye Shisan unleashed a dangerous Earthforce Art technique and charged the Third Young Master, Wang Yan’s fire spell halted the Poison Demon Wind, leaving Ye Shisan poised to strike.

• Wang Yan blasted the Third Young Master away from Ye Shisan, then destroyed much of the Dark-Green Poison Storm so Ye Shisan could break free.
• The Third Young Master offered Wang Yan and Ye Shisan a place in the Wicked Poison Sect, but Ye Shisan refused and began using a powerful Earthforce Art technique.
• Card Fairy warned Wang Yan that the technique was dangerous, while Wang Yan asked her to possess him if the fight went badly.
• Ye Shisan grew into a giant, punched the Third Young Master’s two saber treasures away, and charged toward him.
• The Third Young Master unleashed Poison Demon Wind from his dark-green Banana Leaf Fan, but Wang Yan’s Red-Light Flame stopped the tempest.
• Ye Shisan forced his way through the explosion and swung his enormous fist at the Third Young Master.

Ye Shisan and Wang Yan coordinated their attacks against the Third Young Master, forcing him into danger and injuring him despite his powerful treasures. Red Second Madam saved him from a killing blow, and the chapter ended as the enraged Third Young Master began to transform.

• Wang Yan scattered the Poison Demon Wind with a flame attack, allowing Ye Shisan to reach the Third Young Master and strike at him.
• The Third Young Master dodged Ye Shisan’s blows, but Ye Shisan raised stone fists from the ground and blasted him away inside his golden cauldron.
• The Third Young Master sent the cauldron crashing down at Ye Shisan, but Wang Yan’s red arrow pierced his defenses and wounded his shoulder.
• Wang Yan’s crescent-shaped red blade nearly killed the Third Young Master, but Red Second Madam blocked it with her spear and knocked them both away.
• Ye Shisan dodged the golden cauldron’s impact, though the blast sent him flying and cracked his Earth God Armor.
• The Third Young Master survived behind his inner armor and began transforming as dark-green runes surged across his body.

The Third Young Master awakened his Poison Demon Body and pursued Wang Yan and the poisoned Ye Shisan. Wang Yan evaded his attacks but was pinned beneath a fallen tree, leaving the Third Young Master poised to capture him.

• The Third Young Master’s Poison Demon Body restored his injuries and raised his power to the peak of the Core Condensation Realm, while Red Second Madam retreated from him.
• Wang Yan found Ye Shisan poisoned and unable to move, then used an azure talisman to carry him away as the Third Young Master gave chase.
• Wang Yan blocked the Third Young Master’s flaming spheres, threw Ye Shisan toward the forest, and evaded the golden cauldron by blasting himself toward him.
• The Third Young Master attacked Wang Yan with a skull-adorned longsword, but Wang Yan rolled clear before tripping and being pinned beneath a falling tree.
• The Third Young Master approached the trapped Wang Yan and mused about cutting off his legs to make him into a Poison Puppet.

Wang Yan used planted Fire Blast Techniques and a Water-Fire Blast Technique to defeat the Third Young Master without letting Card Fairy possess him. When Red Second Madam’s spear killed the Third Young Master, a terrifying Black-Light Strange Figure emerged from his body and fixed its savage gaze on Wang Yan.

• Wang Yan detonated a Fire Blast Technique beneath the Third Young Master, then struck him with the Water-Fire Blast Technique and shattered his protective treasures.
• Wang Yan refused to let Card Fairy possess him, relying instead on traps he had planted while luring the Third Young Master into pursuit.
• Wang Yan stopped the wounded Third Young Master from reaching his Storage Bag and prepared to kill him with the Truefire Moon Wheel.
• Red Second Madam attacked Wang Yan with a Dark Green Spiritual-Light Flame Spear, and Card Fairy warned him not to kill the Third Young Master.
• Wang Yan hurled the Third Young Master into Red Second Madam’s spear, which smashed his head and triggered the emergence of a Black-Light Strange Figure.

Wang Yan escaped with Ye Shisan after the Third Young Master's Death Curse killed Red Second Madam, then realized the Third Young Master had a powerful protector and looted the bodies before fleeing. Elder Du arrived to find the aftermath, questioned Red Market disciples, and learned that a streak of blue light had escaped in a particular direction.

• The Black-Light Strange Figure killed Red Second Madam with the Third Young Master's Death Curse, then vanished into the sky.
• Card Fairy told Wang Yan the curse had been cast by a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator, so Wang Yan collected the fallen treasures and the Third Young Master's shoes before carrying the unconscious Ye Shisan away.
• Elder Du arrived at the mountain peak, found the Third Young Master dead and Red Second Madam reduced to bones, and suspected a third person had taken the belongings.
• Elder Du stored both remains, restrained several Red Market disciples, and questioned them about the battle.
• The disciples told Elder Du that a streak of blue light had fled in one direction, and he realized the attackers might not have gone far.

Wang Yan escaped with the poisoned Ye Shisan to the underground cavern beneath the Ye Family Stockade, where he treated him and entered the Cave Abode Secret Realm for shelter. Elsewhere, a furious voice in a mist-shrouded valley demanded to know why Du Qinghai had not acted after someone killed its son.

• Elder Du ignored the Red Market disciples’ pleas and flew off in search of the killer, while the disciples admitted they had misled him and hurried back to report to the chief steward.
• Wang Yan carried Ye Shisan through the underground river to the cavern beneath the Ye Family Stockade and realized Ye Shisan was severely poisoned.
• Wang Yan gave Ye Shisan pills and the antidote paste he had taken from the Wicked Poison Sect, then brought out the Cave Abode Secret Realm tower for protection.
• Ye Shisan convulsed as the stronger poison took hold, so Wang Yan searched the Third Young Master’s Storage Bag and fed him the red-jar antidote paste.
• After Ye Shisan improved and fell asleep, Wang Yan took him into the Cave Abode Secret Realm.
• A dark figure flew into a mist-shrouded valley, where an enraged voice shouted that someone had killed its son and demanded to know whether Du Qinghai was dead.