Recaps

Wang Yu toured the sect’s young spirit beasts with Uncle-Master Li, who advised him on choosing a beast to match his bloodline and cultivation method. They discovered an Iron-Head Crocodile egg had hatched early, and Uncle-Master Li explained that the young beast might have mutated with unpredictable results.

• Zhou Chu told Wang Yu that Uncle-Master Li’s human-beast unification art had injured previous test subjects, while Uncle-Master Li lamented that the ancestor had stopped his experiments.
• Wang Yu told Uncle-Master Li about his Iron-Eater Crocodile bloodline, four spirit roots, and recent switch to the Fire Spirit Art, and the old man advised him on suitable spirit beasts.
• Uncle-Master Li showed Wang Yu Fire-Tailed Wolves and Fire-Feather Eagles, describing their abilities, growth, and costs.
• Uncle-Master Li opened a cage holding Iron-Head Crocodile eggs and found one had hatched far earlier than expected.
• Uncle-Master Li explained that the early hatching suggested a mutation that could improve or diminish the young crocodile’s growth, strength, and innate abilities.

Wang Yu traded the mutant Iron-Head Crocodile hatchling to Zhou Chu for his spirit-beast raising notes and chose an egg for his free allotment. Martial Uncle Li established a blood contract between Wang Yu and the egg, then sent the two disciples away to await its hatching.

• Wang Yu used the Qi-Observing Technique to examine the hatchling and the three eggs, noticing their differing levels of bloody light.
• Zhou Chu asked Wang Yu for the mutant hatchling and offered him his personal spirit-beast raising notes in exchange.
• Wang Yu accepted the notes and chose an Iron-Head Crocodile egg, while Zhou Chu paid five hundred spirit stones for the hatchling.
• Martial Uncle Li warned Zhou Chu against forming a spirit contract too soon, then verified Wang Yu's Inner Disciple Token.
• Wang Yu gave the egg drops of blood essence, and Martial Uncle Li used a scroll to establish a blood contract between them.
• Martial Uncle Li sealed the egg in the cage, gave Wang Yu a book on raising spirit beasts, and sent Wang Yu and Zhou Chu away.

Wang Yu used overclocking to investigate the system and entered its login screen, where he found the blonde woman who had ambushed him, Wang Tiezhu, and a young man resembling his former self. He brought them into the silver hall and recognized the young man as Ding Yu, leaving him puzzled by the existence of another version of himself.

• Wang Yu collected his inner disciple benefits and cultivation supplies, then activated overclocking to analyze his recent experiences.
• Wang Yu asked Taiyuan to enter the system login screen and found himself inside the Game Sleep Pod with three unseen people.
• The blonde woman revealed that she had copied some of Wang Yu's memories and offered to explain the young man's origins.
• Wang Yu used the white screen to bring himself and the three strangers into a silver hall.
• Wang Yu recognized the boy as Wang Tiezhu and the young man as Ding Yu, whose appearance and manner matched Wang Yu's former self.

Wang Yu learned from Helena that the other Ding Yu was a temporary mental entity formed from Wang Yu’s psychic shockwave and Helena’s electromagnetic ability. After Ding Yu vanished, Helena introduced herself and turned her attention to Wang Tiezhu, whom she suspected came from another world.

• Helena asked Wang Yu what the silver hall was, and he identified it as Superbrain Taiyuan’s login interface hall, where they were likely present as mental entities.
• Helena asked whether the hall and her transformation were connected to the Otherworld, and Wang Yu confirmed that they were connected.
• Helena told Wang Yu that she had created the extra Ding Yu when her electromagnetic ability fused with his psychic shockwave and memory data.
• Ding Yu erupted in electrical arcs, then vanished when his mental power and electromagnetic energy ran out.
• Helena introduced herself as a Double-A Ability User and a British Commonwealth military officer and academic, then offered to be useful to Wang Yu.
• Helena guessed that Wang Tiezhu was a real person from another world, darkening Wang Yu’s expression.

Wang Yu learned that Wang Tiezhu’s consciousness had returned to his body after the Blazing Fire Ancestor’s spell displaced him, and discovered Tiezhu was rapidly fading inside the Silver Hall. Helena offered to copy Tiezhu’s memories in exchange for Wang Yu’s promise to take her out someday, and he agreed as the boy’s time ran short.

• Wang Tiezhu told Wang Yu that he had awakened in a stone room, where Uncle Gu had taught him the Fire Spirit Art and given him green pills.
• Wang Yu realized that Tiezhu was the original owner of his body and had occupied it while Wang Yu’s consciousness was displaced.
• Wang Yu exited the login screen, found the green pills beneath the bed, and returned to the Silver Hall after confirming that little time had passed.
• Helena revealed that Tiezhu’s body was rapidly losing energy to Wang Yu and would disappear within minutes, even if Wang Yu left the Silver Hall.
• Helena offered to use Memory Replication to preserve Tiezhu’s memories if Wang Yu promised to take her out of the Silver Hall someday.
• Wang Yu accepted Helena’s condition, and she approached Tiezhu to begin copying his memories.

Wang Yu tested his temporary access to Taiyuan’s extrapolation function and discovered that its results depended on the information already stored in its reserves. After feeding it Fire Spirit Art formulas and testing several requests, he received a possible Qi Refining body-refining technique with a 65% chance of perfect extrapolation.

• Helena formed Wang Tiezhu’s memory data into a silver sphere, and Wang Yu asked her to keep it while questioning whether the data could truly be Wang Tiezhu.
• Wang Yu sat in the metal chair and gained temporary access to Taiyuan’s extrapolation function.
• Helena explained that Blue Star’s superbrains appeared far more advanced than current technology and had helped drive recent technological progress.
• Wang Yu expelled Helena from the login interface and began testing extrapolation, finding that Taiyuan lacked enough information to produce cultivation techniques on request alone.
• Wang Yu entered the first three levels of the Fire Spirit Art into Taiyuan, then tested other formulas and methods.
• Taiyuan reported that it had enough information to extrapolate a Qi Refining body-refining technique, with a 65% chance of a perfect result.

Wang Yu tested the limits of his deduction authorization, studied spirit-beast knowledge, and weighed his cultivation goals against the uncertainty of returning to Blue Star. Uncle Gu visited with a young woman, confirmed Wang Yu had recovered his memories, and told him he could remain an Inner Disciple on Vermilion Bird Mountain.

• Wang Yu found that his deduction authorization could use enhancement objectives, but the requested body-tempering method required more information than he had collected.
• Helena appeared in the silver hall after Wang Yu logged out, cursed him, and sat alone in the chair he had used.
• Wang Yu memorized the Fire Spirit Art, studied Zhou Chu's notes and Uncle Li's book about spirit beasts, and concluded that cultivation could help him live long enough to return to Blue Star.
• Uncle Gu arrived with a woman in a blue dress, examined Wang Yu's soul and dharma power, and confirmed he had recovered without apparent harm.
• Uncle Gu explained that the ancestor's Wind-Fire Secret Art had damaged Wang Yu's soul, but said the ancestor would not revoke his Inner Disciple status and instructed him to stay on Vermilion Bird Mountain.

Wang Yu settled into cultivation as an inner disciple, but discovered his limited mental power curtailed his practice. He decided to seek star stone for the Star Thought Technique and flew toward the sect’s inner market to look for it.

• Uncle Gu told Tianqi that Wang Yu’s recovery ended his responsibility toward him and that he would lose inner-disciple status if he failed to reach late Qi Refining by thirty.
• Wang Yu cultivated the Fire Spirit Art in the inner sect’s dense spiritual energy, but stopped after his mental power ran low.
• Wang Yu considered using the Star Thought Technique to strengthen his mental power and realized he needed star stone to practice it.
• Wang Yu asked Zhou Chu where to buy special materials and learned about the Spirit Goods Pavilion and the disciples’ inner market.
• Wang Yu rode a standard-issue Mechanical Bird away from his cliff dwelling toward another mountain peak.

Wang Yu visited the Spirit Goods Pavilion to buy a meteorite-like Chaos Stone, hoping to find a star stone that could help him cultivate Star Thought Power. After agreeing to Elder Jin Can’s discounted stone-cutting offer, Wang Yu began examining seven enormous stones and used the Star Thought Technique on the largest one.

• Wang Yu learned that the Spirit Goods Pavilion sold seven or eight Chaos Stones for a hundred spirit stones each, with a twenty percent discount if Elder Jin cut one open.
• Wang Yu followed a mechanical puppet upstairs and met Jin Can, the guest elder overseeing the pavilion.
• Jin Can revealed seven huge Chaos Stones and encouraged Wang Yu to choose one for stone gambling.
• Wang Yu found that Divine Sense, Dharma Power, and his Metal-Dowsing Art could not penetrate the stones.
• Wang Yu placed his palm on the largest Chaos Stone and used the Star Thought Technique, his eyes brightening as he stared at it.

Wang Yu chose a Chaos Stone that contained five-colored glaze, earning a small profit, then began cultivating Star Thought Power and using the Fire Spirit Art. After more than half a year, he advanced to the fourth layer of Qi Refining and prepared to learn flight and entry-level spells.

• Wang Yu chose a medium-sized Chaos Stone, and Jin Can cut it open to reveal a piece of five-colored glaze worth slightly more than a hundred Spirit Stones.
• Wang Yu took the stone fragments and learned that the pavilion sold two kinds of killing intent, priced beyond what he could currently afford.
• Wang Yu cultivated Star Thought Power with a Star Stone overnight, increasing his mental power and confirming that his manifested wristwatch still kept time correctly.
• Wang Yu practiced the Fire Spirit Art for more than half a year and advanced to the fourth layer of Qi Refining.
• Wang Yu demonstrated that he could divide a flame into multiple flames and concluded that he could now learn the Flight and Evasion Technique and entry-level spells.

Wang Yu visited the Four Symbols Sect's Scripture Pavilion after reaching middle Qi Refining and needing new spells and ways to support his cultivation. After an encounter with Senior Brother Meng and his companion, he entered the Mortal section and found that borrowing books cost one spirit stone per two hours.

• Wang Yu headed to the Scripture Pavilion, concerned about his dwindling spirit stones and the cost of supplies.
• Senior Brother Meng's Black Wind Eagle nearly collided with Wang Yu's Mechanical Bird, but Wang Yu landed safely and continued into the hall.
• Senior Brother Meng and the petite woman recognized Wang Yu and discussed rumors about his admission, cultivation, and whether to recruit him for the Four Sects Assembly.
• Wang Yu entered the passage marked Mortal and saw a giant turtle bearing a tablet that listed the borrowing fee for Mortal books.

Wang Yu explored the Scripture Pavilion’s collections before entering the spell hall, where he discovered that primordial entry-level spells cost far less than ordinary spells despite having many spirit inscriptions. He examined several primordial spells and their recorded materials, leaving their unusual prices to consider.

• Wang Yu browsed collections on farming, minerals, poetry, and music, spending more than half an hour among the mortal books.
• The old man in gray bet Grayling that Wang Yu would leave the mortal book collection within an hour and lost the wager.
• Wang Yu reached the spell hall, followed the old man’s instructions to open its restriction with his dharma power, and entered.
• Wang Yu inspected the entry-level spells and found that ordinary spells cost 100 to 210 spirit stones.
• Wang Yu discovered several primordial entry-level spells priced at only 60 to 80 spirit stones and examined the objects containing their inscriptions.

Wang Yu chose two primordial spells despite warnings that their complex inscriptions made them difficult to master and their spell marks hard to condense. He left the Scripture Pavilion with a golden curved horn and crimson scale to study for three months.

• Wang Yu examined the primordial spells and wondered whether the golden curved horn would be his second choice after the Flame Veil.
• The old man warned Wang Yu that primordial spells with more than ten spirit inscriptions were exceptionally difficult to comprehend and condense, though they could be stronger and more adaptable than ordinary spells.
• Wang Yu decided to risk spending spirit stones on primordial spells and took the golden curved horn and crimson scale from their light barriers.
• The old man told Wang Yu he could study the two objects for three months, and Wang Yu paid thirty white crystals and one red crystal.
• Wang Yu glanced toward the passage marked with the character for arts, but left the stone hall because he lacked the means to explore further.

Wang Yu sold his magical artifacts, bought provisions at the little Inner Market, and asked Wan Shan about ways to learn artifact refining. Wan Shan revealed two leads, including a costly inheritance for sale, but had not yet finished listing them.

• Wang Yu sold his Silver Hammer, Golden Ring, and five-colored glaze to the Spirit Goods Pavilion for five hundred spirit stones.
• Wang Yu visited the little Inner Market and bought spirit rice and medicinally soaked demon beast meat from Auntie Li.
• Wang Yu went to Wan Shan’s information shop to ask about the artifact-refining leads he had commissioned.
• Wan Shan told Wang Yu about a rogue cultivator in Guangyuan Market who charged three hundred spirit stones to teach a limited range of artifact refining.
• Wan Shan told Wang Yu that the Yu Household planned to sell its complete artifact-refining inheritance for two thousand spirit stones.

Wang Yu accepted a paid opportunity to assist Master Sun with artifact refining, then rejected Feng Xue and Feng Rui when they asked to serve him. Back at his Stone House, he was confronted by a giant Guardian Warrior demanding his Fire Cloud Pills, and their first exchange sent Wang Yu flying backward.

• Wang Yu chose to help Master Sun refine a fire-attribute magical artifact, and Wan Shan took the remaining ten spirit stones to submit his name.
• Feng Xue introduced herself and Feng Rui to Wang Yu and asked him to let them serve at his side, but he refused and flew away on his Mechanical Bird.
• Feng Xue complained that Wang Yu had looked down on them and decided to seek another Inner Disciple to support them.
• A giant Guardian Warrior of White Tiger Mountain demanded Wang Yu's Fire Cloud Pills for his big brother's cultivation.
• The giant attacked Wang Yu, who dodged his grab and met the giant's punch with one of his own, only to be knocked backward.

Wang Yu fought a giant who used externalized killing intent and powerful martial techniques, until the giant’s older brother, a Silver-Clad Man, intervened and ended the confrontation. Wang Yu returned to his Stone House, entered the enlarged Silver Hall, and was greeted by the expressive blonde woman.

• The giant unleashed the Primordial Sixfold Strike, and Wang Yu broke free of its restraint with Overclocking before trading six punches with him.
• The giant prepared to use the Bull Demon Three Forms, but a snow-white blade landed between him and Wang Yu, and his Silver-Clad Man brother ordered him to stop.
• The Silver-Clad Man lifted the giant onto his insect mount, apologized to Wang Yu as Qi, and left a dead wild boar carcass as compensation before vanishing with his brother.
• Wang Yu stored the boar carcass, returned to his Stone House, and entered the login screen to reach the Silver Hall, which had grown larger and gained a table and chairs.
• The expressive blonde woman abandoned her chess game and complained that Wang Yu had forgotten about her.

Wang Yu learned that Helena had used Star Thought Power to create objects inside the hall, which she called Taiyuan. The chapter ended with Helena frightened after Wang Yu made both a dagger and a revolver disappear.

• Helena explained that her expressionless clone contained only some of her memories and vanished when she dismissed it.
• Helena deduced that Wang Yu was in the Otherworld and said she had been trapped after their arrival made her contingencies on Blue Star useless.
• Helena told Wang Yu that Star Thought Power had connected her to the expanding hall, allowing her to create objects she understood.
• Helena demonstrated by creating a revolver and a light-blade weapon, explaining that creating objects required precise knowledge of their construction.
• Wang Yu created an iron dagger, then learned that Star Thought Power-made objects could persist until their creator chose to erase them.
• Wang Yu made the dagger and revolver vanish, and Helena immediately looked afraid.

Wang Yu discovered that his Star Thought Power absorbed Helena’s and learned that the growing login hall was assimilating her. Helena proposed placing her consciousness and memories inside Wang Yu’s mental body so he might carry her outside.

• Wang Yu tested whether he could nullify Helena’s Star Thought Power creations, but the dagger he made remained intact in her hands.
• Helena touched Wang Yu and her Star Thought Power flowed into him, increasing his mental power.
• Helena explained that the Otherworld login hall was independent of Blue Star’s and connected to Wang Yu’s mental power.
• Helena said the hall was assimilating her Star Thought Power and could eventually erase her, which would also prevent Wang Tiezhu from being revived.
• Helena proposed abandoning her other mental power and placing her consciousness and memories inside Wang Yu’s mental body so he could take her outside.

Wang Yu agreed to let Helena enter a protected state of false death in exchange for her super biological simulation ability. After Helena sealed herself in a crystal coffin, Wang Yu moved her and the coffin into the Isolation Space, then returned to the Silver Hall.

• Helena offered to preserve herself in false death and asked Wang Yu to wake her if he found a safe way to free her; she promised him one use of her super biological simulation ability.
• Wang Yu accepted the deal, and Helena transferred the ability to him with a kiss before entering the crystal coffin.
• Helena gave Wang Yu a sphere containing Wang Tiezhu's memory data, warned him not to tamper with her coffin, and sealed herself inside it.
• Wang Yu asked Taiyuan to check the login interface and learned that Helena's consciousness was dormant there alongside his own.
• Wang Yu successfully isolated Helena and her coffin in the Isolation Space, then returned to the Silver Hall.

On Blue Star, a Helena clone was awakened after the original’s signal disappeared, while Wang Yu experimented with the login interface’s powers and limits. He returned to his room and began studying the innate spiritual object for the Flame Barrier.

• A Helena clone awakened in a British Commonwealth secret base and ordered intelligence about the original Helena’s disappearance.
• Wang Yu used Taiyuan to reset foreign objects in the login interface and discovered that he could expel, isolate, and reset objects there.
• Wang Yu tested creating weapons, magical artifacts, talismans, and living things, finding that ordinary materials worked but magical objects and animals did not.
• Wang Yu confirmed that mastered abilities and cultivation arts worked in the login interface, while imagined spells he had not mastered did not.
• Wang Yu entered cultivation formulas and memorized texts into Taiyuan, then concluded that even mundane information slightly improved deduction success.
• Wang Yu took out the crimson scale that was the innate spiritual object for the Flame Barrier and pressed it to his forehead to study its spell spirit markings diagram.

Wang Yu discovered that feeding mortal and artifact-refining texts into Taiyuan improved its ability to derive cultivation techniques, while an Essence-Enhancing Pill greatly accelerated his cultivation. After several days of study and training, he received an order to report to the Artifact Refining Hall as Master Sun’s provisional disciple.

• Wang Yu used Overclocking to decipher the crimson spirit inscriptions and memorized books from the Scripture Pavilion’s mortal and artifact-refining collections.
• Wang Yu entered the texts into Taiyuan, raising the golden funnel’s indicator from 29% to 31%, and concluded that mortal knowledge could improve its derivations.
• Wang Yu swallowed an Essence-Enhancing Pill and found that it was equivalent to two months of arduous cultivation.
• Wang Yu spent the next six or seven days studying spirit inscriptions, reading mortal books, learning artifact refining, and cultivating.
• A talisman delivered a message telling Wang Yu to report to the Artifact Refining Hall within three quarters of an hour or forfeit his provisional place under Master Sun.

Wang Yu was selected to assist Master Sun with refining a graded Fire Dragon Sword at the Four Symbols Sect's Artifact Refining Hall. He and the other assistants were required to stay in the mountain and prepare to stabilize the Three Dragon Cauldron, while Wang Yu was permitted to use other refining chambers.

• Wang Yu and four other disciples met Master Sun, who chose Wang Yu, a short-haired inner disciple, and a pale-faced outer disciple as assistants.
• Master Sun led the three disciples to an earthfire chamber deep inside Azureflame Mountain, where mortal blacksmiths performed manual work.
• Master Sun explained that he planned to inscribe seven spirit patterns on a Fire Dragon Sword and needed them to keep the Three Dragon Cauldron's earthfire stable.
• Master Sun ordered the disciples to lodge nearby, offered them a hundred spirit stones each, and allowed them to use unsealed refining chambers if they paid for materials.
• After Master Sun left, the short-haired woman examined the cauldron, while Wang Yu departed and the pale-faced disciple hurried after him.

Master Sun explained the spirit-inscription stage of refining the Fire Dragon Sword and began engraving its patterns while Wang Yu observed closely. The second inscription repeatedly went wrong, and Wang Yu seemed to notice the cause.

• Master Sun projected a magnified image of the sword blank and explained the three stages of artifact refining and the two kinds of inscription patterns.
• Master Sun began remotely engraving the azure enhancement inscription while Wang Yu used Overclocking to observe and memorize his technique.
• After Master Sun completed the first inscription, the patterns on the wall shifted as he started the second, causing the blade to tremble and the engraving needle to slip.
• Master Sun ordered Wang Yu and the others to increase the earthfire, burned away the faulty inscription, and tried engraving it again.
• The needle made another error halfway through the second inscription, and Wang Yu appeared to recognize what had happened.

Wang Yu observed Master Sun's artifact-refining work and learned the basics of artifact patterns and spell patterns while the Fire Dragon Sword neared completion. Master Sun explained that specialized patterns and secret arts were key parts of an artifact refiner's legacy, and that powerful spells required suitable materials and a durable artifact blank.

• Master Sun failed twice to engrave the Fire Dragon Sword's second spirit inscription, then postponed work until the next day.
• Wang Yu watched mortal smiths work and practiced hammering refined iron himself, while Xiao Wei and Ning Yuan pursued their own artifact-refining studies.
• Master Sun successfully engraved the sword's second inscription on his third attempt, and the three apprentices continued learning over the following days.
• More than half a month later, Master Sun completed the sword's sixth inscription and offered to answer each apprentice's question about artifact refining.
• Xiao Wei asked how to prevent inscription interference, Ning Yuan asked about using flames other than earthfire, and Wang Yu asked about artifact patterns and incorporating spells into magical artifacts.
• Master Sun explained that exclusive patterns and refining secret arts were valuable legacies, and that complex spells required suitable materials and sturdy artifact blanks.

After two months of practicing artifact refining, Wang Yu, Xiao Wei, and Ning Yuan watched Master Sun complete a Fire Dragon Sword. Xiao Wei and Wang Yu accepted Master Sun’s challenge to engrave three inscription patterns on an artifact blank within a day for a chance to become his apprentice, and Wang Yu spotted an unusual blank as they chose their materials.

• Wang Yu studied metal ingots while Xiao Wei and Ning Yuan struggled with their artifact-refining practice; Master Sun later rewarded Xiao Wei with a booklet after she gave him a white jade case.
• Wang Yu learned to mix silver engraving liquid and carved neat characters into wood, while Xiao Wei practiced a spirit inscription and Ning Yuan slept beside a liquor gourd.
• Master Sun completed the Fire Dragon Sword and promised Wang Yu, Xiao Wei, and Ning Yuan a hundred spirit stones each, minus material costs.
• Xiao Wei asked to become Master Sun’s apprentice, and he offered her and the others a chance to qualify by engraving three inscription patterns on an artifact blank within a day.
• Xiao Wei chose a massive blade, while Wang Yu fixed his attention on an unusually shaped artifact blank.