Chapter Summaries

A Black Sand Sect father weighed ways to deal with the newly arrived Mount Mi High Person and decided to challenge him personally. Meanwhile, Wang Yu inspected the estate’s resources, interrupting Shi Qiuping when he heard her list only first-tier items.

• The Black Sand Sect’s sect master discussed with his son the risks posed by Mount Mi High Person and considered bribing Green Water Palace or allying with him against the Yuan Household.
• The sect master suspected Old Ghost Yuan had secretly reached the Foundation Establishment middle stage and refused to pursue an alliance with Mount Mi High Person.
• The sect master decided to travel downstream overnight and fight Mount Mi High Person, arranging for a Green Water Palace cultivator to intervene if his life was in danger.
• Wang Yu stood in a tower overlooking his estate as Shi Qiuping read out an inventory of its spirit fish, clams, and wood.
• Wang Yu interrupted Shi Qiuping and asked whether the estate contained only first-tier items.

Wang Yu halted the Mount Mi Sect’s expansion and assigned Shi Qiuping to organize its territory and personnel. He accepted her as his concubine, then an envoy from the Black Sand Sect arrived to challenge or meet him.

• Shi Qiuping reported that the newly occupied Azure Mist Bay had only one incomplete spirit vein, and Wang Yu ordered the sect to stop expanding and consolidate its nine veins.
• Wang Yu instructed Shi Qiuping to establish a contribution point system and use pills and cultivation resources to secure the sect members’ loyalty.
• Wang Yu asked Shi Qiuping to become his concubine, and she agreed while asking him to take her younger sister, Shi Hongyao, as well.
• Wang Yu appointed Shi Qiuping internal affairs deacon and named Duan Tianming external affairs deacon, with late qi refining cultivators serving as deputies.
• Miao Feng of the Black Sand Sect arrived on an emerald-green dragonfly and announced that he had come to visit Wang Yu.

Wang Yu challenged Miao Feng to withstand one strike, wagering that he would leave the Cold Billow River if Miao Feng survived and that Miao Feng would surrender the Black Sand Sect’s spirit vein if he did not. As Miao Feng prepared his defenses, Wang Yu began casting a Second-Tier Spell, leaving their duel poised to begin.

• Wang Yu and Miao Feng agreed to move their duel over the river, while Shi Qiuping and other Mount Mi Sect cultivators followed to watch.
• Wang Yu proposed a one-strike wager, and Miao Feng accepted, pledging the Black Sand Sect’s first-tier medium spirit vein if he failed to withstand the strike.
• The two cultivators sealed their agreement with palm techniques, and Wang Yu’s white flames overpowered Miao Feng’s yellow light.
• Wang Yu conjured an enormous white sun as Miao Feng deployed the Black Sand Bag and a chilling Command Token to shield himself.
• Wang Yu formed a spell pattern and began casting Flame Blade.

Wang Yu unleashed a ninety-eight-inscription fire spell and defeated Miao Feng despite his layered defenses and a giant earthen spike. After an unseen cultivator tried to intervene, Wang Yu challenged the observer for interfering in his duel.

• Wang Yu formed a towering red-and-white flaming blade from his ninety-eight-inscription spell and attacked Miao Feng.
• Miao Feng countered with the Black Sand Curtain, protective talismans, and a giant earthen spike summoned from the river.
• Wang Yu strengthened his blade and shattered the spike, Miao Feng’s defenses, and his triangular Command Token shield.
• A Blue Orb arrived to protect Miao Feng, but Wang Yu’s Crystal Ribbon cut through the defenses and split Miao Feng in two.
• Wang Yu turned toward the Blue Orb and questioned the unseen cultivator’s interference in his wagered duel with Miao Feng.

After Wang Yu killed Miao Feng, he reassured Zhang Xiufu and ordered the Mount Mi Sect to seize the Black Sand Sect’s spirit veins. News of the defeat reached the Black Sand Sect and the Yuan Household, leaving the latter alarmed by Wang Yu’s overwhelming spell.

• Shi Qiuping and Duan Tianming sent communication talismans to prevent the Mount Mi Sect members from acting rashly after Wang Yu’s victory.
• Zhang Xiufu introduced himself as a Green Water Palace deacon and denied intending to interfere, and Wang Yu invited him to his residence to discuss the Chaotic Spirit Domain.
• Wang Yu told Shi Qiuping to recover Miao Feng’s body and belongings, then ordered Mount Mi Sect cultivators to take possession of the Black Sand Sect’s spirit veins.
• The Black Sand Sect received word of Miao Feng’s death as the Mount Mi Sect forces headed upstream.
• The Yuan Household learned that Wang Yu had killed Miao Feng with a second-tier spell containing ninety-eight spell patterns, and its members fell silent in shock.

The Yuan Household chose to avoid provoking the Mount Mi Sect while investigating Wang Yu’s origins. After Wang Yu established defensive and spirit-gathering arrays on the sect’s island, Zhang Xiufu learned that Wang Yu claimed to have fled from beyond the Eastern Wasteland, and considered how the Green Water Palace might recruit him.

• The Yuan Household patriarch instructed his family to avoid conflict with the Mount Mi Sect and investigate Wang Yu’s background.
• A month later, Wang Yu thanked Daoist Sang for setting up arrays that expanded and concealed the Mount Mi Sect’s island base.
• Daoist Sang met Zhang Xiufu and reported Wang Yu’s claim that he was a sect cultivator from beyond the Eastern Wasteland who had fled his enemies.
• Zhang Xiufu reasoned that Wang Yu likely came from the Southern Continent Three Kingdoms and said he would report Wang Yu’s talent to the Green Water Palace.
• Zhang Xiufu suggested the palace might offer Wang Yu more than a guest elder position, then stopped before explaining further.

Wang Yu studied the Soul-Subduing Art and discovered that practicing it rapidly drained his divine sense, so he planned to strengthen his Star Thought Power before refining beast souls. He also reviewed the resources he needed for the Crimson Sun Great Art and prepared to seek beast souls, star stones, and other supplies at Cold Billow Market City.

• Wang Yu practiced the Soul-Subduing Art and found that it consumed most of his divine sense after only an incense stick’s worth of time.
• Wang Yu decided to delay refining beast souls if he struggled, until he had cultivated more layers of Star Thought Power.
• Wang Yu regretted using up the star stones he had bought from the Four Symbols Sect and planned to look for more at Cold Billow Market City.
• Wang Yu considered the Nameless Auxiliary Secret Art, which he intended to use later to break through the Crimson Sun Great Art’s third-layer bottleneck.
• Wang Yu reviewed the Fire-Pill Refining, fire crystal ore, fire-attribute food, and specialized Magical Artifact needed for his cultivation, then produced a white Lotus Platform.

Wang Yu assessed his Flame Blade spell and the resources he needed, then reviewed Mount Mi Sect’s newly acquired holdings and learned that the sect was responsible for protecting nearby mortals. The chapter left him considering the danger Demon Beasts and the Demon Race posed to the towns along the Chaotic Spirit Domain’s border.

• Wang Yu considered searching for yang gang jade and the Ice Separation Ant’s Demon Core or ice marrow to support his cultivation.
• Wang Yu reviewed Flame Blade’s great power and its heavy cost of two drops of liquid dharma power per strike.
• Wang Yu recalled the Sky-Opening Group’s priority of keeping him alive and its recommendation that he build a faction to gather resources.
• The man surnamed Tian reported Mount Mi Sect’s spirit resources, mines, jade quarry, and thirteen governed cities and towns.
• Wang Yu asked whether the sect had to protect the mortals, and the man surnamed Tian explained the rule before Wang Yu raised the threat of Demon Beasts and the Demon Race.

Wang Yu learned about the dangers posed by demon beasts and the demon race before organizing the newly established Mount Mi Sect. He assigned Shi Qiuping a market trip to buy materials, then carried her off to the bedchamber.

• Duan Tianming and Shi Qiuping told Wang Yu about demon-beast attacks and rumors that a Snow Wolf Clan descendant had infiltrated one of the Three Great Sects.
• The man surnamed Tian read the Mount Mi Sect's holdings and membership from the ledger.
• Wang Yu assigned Duan Tianming responsibility for external affairs, Shi Qiuping for internal affairs, and Tian for miscellaneous matters.
• Wang Yu asked Shi Qiuping to visit Cold Billow Market City and buy second-tier demon beast spirit bones and fire crystal ore, along with checking on other spiritual items.
• Shi Qiuping stayed close to Wang Yu, and he carried her through a side door toward the bed.

Wang Yu inspected the underground yin-energy site he had built and discovered that his Yin Soul Banner had advanced to a second-tier low-grade magical artifact. He was left wondering how replenishing its yin energy had caused it to form additional inscription patterns.

• Shi Qiuping took several Mount Mi Sect subordinates aboard two Spirit Boats toward Cold Billow River Market City.
• Wang Yu used a Command Token to deactivate the Bronze Puppets guarding the hidden underground hall, then entered the yin-energy site.
• Wang Yu inspected the beast bones, Yin Spirits, and thirteen White Bone Skeletons as they recovered in the hall.
• Wang Yu recalled replacing two White Bone Fiends lost to the British Commonwealth and his suspicions about the Helena clone.
• Wang Yu summoned the Yin Soul Banner and discovered it had become a second-tier low-grade magical artifact with twelve inscription patterns.

Wang Yu discovered that his Yin Soul Banner had advanced to a second-tier magical artifact and began raising his White Bone Fiends with living souls. After examining a composite magical artifact, he used the deduction function to design a second-tier life-bound artifact suited to his Crimson Sun Great Art.

• Wang Yu realized that the Yin Soul Banner had advanced after its ghost creatures grew stronger, and he planned to raise his thirteen White Bone Fiends to the second tier by feeding them living souls.
• Wang Yu unsealed chunks of living soul iron at intervals, allowing the White Bone Fiends to seize the rooster living souls that emerged.
• Wang Yu examined a black pouch and its sand, identifying them as separate low-grade artifacts that formed a middle-grade composite magical artifact when used together.
• Wang Yu entered the login interface and asked Taiyuan to deduce a second-tier life-bound magical artifact focused on offense and powered by the Crimson Sun Great Art.

Wang Yu supplied the system with Eastern Wasteland cultivation texts and began deducing a second-tier Life-Bound Magical Artifact blueprint. At the Black Fortress, White Glaze began advancing, and Wang Yu appeared to witness the change.

• Wang Yu entered dozens of Mount Mi Sect cultivation methods and secret arts into the system, raising the perfect deduction probability for his artifact blueprint to 82%.
• Wang Yu instructed Taiyuan to begin deducing an offensive second-tier Life-Bound Magical Artifact, and the system estimated the process would take more than two months.
• Wang Yu returned to his secluded chamber and studied obscure secret arts while the deduction proceeded.
• At the Black Fortress, Green Chill ate a large pile of beast meat while White Glaze absorbed spiritual energy beside the pond.
• White Glaze rose into the air beneath the moon as clouds, wind, and turbulent water gathered around it.
• Wang Yu appeared beside the pond and realized that White Glaze was about to advance.

White Glaze broke through to the second tier amid storms and lightning, transforming into a Single-Horned White Python. Wang Yu thawed Big Green after White Glaze accidentally froze it, then asked what new abilities she had gained.

• White Glaze attempted to advance using the abundant spiritual energy at the spirit vein, and Wang Yu sent her prepared breakthrough pills into the clouds.
• Thunder, lightning, wind, and hail erupted around the pool, while Wang Yu protected himself with a Telekinetic Power Barrier.
• A lightning bolt landed beside Big Green, which jumped into the pool as hail began to fall.
• White Glaze emerged from the clouds as a Single-Horned White Python and froze the pool, encasing Big Green in ice.
• Wang Yu used his White Sun to melt the ice and free Big Green, then asked White Glaze whether her advancement had given her new abilities.

Wang Yu discovered that White Glaze had gained powerful wind, rain, ice, and lightning abilities after advancing, then decided to visit Cold Billow Market City to seek rare materials and a second-tier Magical Artifact Embryo for him. He arrived at Jade Gold Pavilion and waited for its shopkeeper to attend to him.

• White Glaze demonstrated his new ability to summon wind and rain, turn rain into Ice Spikes, and call faint lightning, but lost control before Wang Yu reassured him.
• White Glaze knocked Big Green to the bottom of the pool, and Wang Yu judged that his companion could likely defeat an ordinary early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.
• Wang Yu examined the Yang Gang Jade and Ice Separation Ant Demon Cores Shi Qiuping had brought back, learned that the seller would barter for more jade, and decided to visit Cold Billow Market City.
• Several days later, Wang Yu flew by Bone Boat to Cold Billow Market City and entered Jade Gold Pavilion.
• A young attendant recognized Wang Yu's formidable Spiritual Pressure, summoned the shopkeeper, and waited while Wang Yu examined the pavilion's wares.

Wang Yu visited the Jade Gold Pavilion in Cold Billow Market City, where Zhang Xiufu and a roving steward of Green Water Palace named Yan came to meet him. After confirming Wang Yu had mastered a ninety-eight-pattern Flame Blade spell, Yan asked him to demonstrate it, leaving Wang Yu startled by the request.

• Wang Yu examined a Cloud-Shrinking Pavilion and an Iron Reliance Ox while a shop attendant described their uses.
• Zhang Xiufu arrived with Yan, a roving steward of Green Water Palace, who had come under orders to meet Wang Yu.
• Zhang Xiufu explained that he had arranged to be notified when Wang Yu entered the market city because he expected him after Wang Yu's concubine bought yang gang jade.
• Yan asked whether Wang Yu had mastered the ninety-eight-pattern Flame Blade spell, and Wang Yu confirmed that he had.
• Yan requested that Wang Yu demonstrate the Flame Blade spell in the Jade Gold Pavilion, and Wang Yu was taken aback by the dangerous request.

Wang Yu demonstrated his mastery of the ninety-eight-pattern Flame Blade and answered Young Man Yan’s questions about his background and intentions. Young Man Yan invited him to study an Innate Spirit Object at the Green Water Palace, and Wang Yu agreed to go after settling affairs at the Mount Mi Sect.

• Wang Yu condensed all ninety-eight Flame Blade patterns, convincing Young Man Yan of his spell talent.
• Young Man Yan questioned Wang Yu about his origins, cultivation, identity, and intentions toward the Green Water Palace; Wang Yu answered that he posed no threat.
• Young Man Yan explained that the Green Water Palace invited talented spell cultivators to study an Innate Spirit Object and offered them substantial benefits.
• Zhang Xiufu reassured Wang Yu that cultivators from other great sects had accepted similar invitations and benefited from the experience.
• Wang Yu accepted the invitation on the condition that he first return to arrange the affairs of the Mount Mi Sect, and Young Man Yan agreed to accompany him.

Wang Yu traded two second-tier magical artifacts for yang gang jade and a well-preserved second-tier beast soul at the Jade Gold Pavilion. Zhang Xiufu explained that beast souls were scarce and suggested Wang Yu hunt Green Water Palace bounty targets; the chapter left Wang Yu awaiting the beast soul.

• Wang Yu asked Zhang Xiufu for yang gang jade, and Zhang Xiufu had his disciple bring out three pieces.
• Young Man Yan deduced that Wang Yu practiced a powerful fire cultivation art and offered to introduce him to Senior Sister Lian, whose name alarmed Zhang Xiufu.
• Wang Yu offered the Ice Origin Shield and Black Sand Bag in exchange for the jade, and Zhang Xiufu proposed adding a second-tier beast soul rather than letting Wang Yu lose out.
• Wang Yu told Young Man Yan that his secret art required beast souls, and Zhang Xiufu explained why second-tier beast souls were rare.
• Zhang Xiufu recommended Green Water Palace bounties as a way to find second-tier demon beasts, and his disciple returned carrying a sealed porcelain bottle.

Wang Yu traded two magical artifacts for Zhang Xiufu’s yang gang jade and a second-tier beast soul, then revealed that he was a second-tier artifact refiner and agreed to travel with Yan to the Green Water Palace. After Wang Yu left, Zhang Xiufu and Yan discussed his strength and the dangers facing Green Water Palace cultivators, with Zhang admitting he had feared the Heart-Question Talisman would expose something and force a fight.

• Wang Yu inspected the rabbit beast soul in Zhang Xiufu’s bottle and exchanged two magical artifacts for it and the yang gang jade.
• Wang Yu revealed that he was a second-tier artifact refiner, startling Zhang Xiufu and Yan, and arranged to meet Yan at the market city entrance the next morning.
• Yan assessed Wang Yu as a formidable opponent who could likely contend with a middle-stage cultivator, while Zhang Xiufu recalled seeing him kill Miao Feng with a limit spell.
• Yan and Zhang Xiufu discussed the deaths and disappearances of Green Water Palace disciples and the Cold Billow River’s declining spiritual resources.
• Zhang Xiufu admitted he had feared the Heart-Question Talisman would detect something amiss and provoke a fight.

Wang Yu visited medicine shops in Cold Billow Market City and learned how Eastern Wasteland pills and their ingredients differed from those of the Southern Continent. He bought several pill formulas and ingredients before entering another magical artifact shop.

• Young Man Yan and Zhang Xiufu concluded that Wang Yu had passed the Heart-Question Talisman's test and was likely a talented former True Disciple who might join the Green Water Palace.
• Wang Yu left Wonderful Zhi Hall after buying medicinal pills, Eastern Wasteland pill formulas, and pill-refining ingredients from shops across Cold Billow Market City.
• Wang Yu learned that Eastern Wasteland pills relied mainly on demon cores, had stronger effects and harsher tolerance, and required different refining methods.
• Wang Yu learned that demon cores were abundant in the Eastern Wasteland, while skilled Alchemists were scarce, and considered why high-tier pill formulas were less tightly controlled.
• Wang Yu entered a magical artifact shop other than the Jade Gold Pavilion.

Wang Yu bought materials in Cold Billow Market City to refine a life-bound magical artifact embryo for White Glaze, then left with Young Man Yan. More than ten days later, a heavily guarded mortal caravan came under attack as dark shapes poured down from a mountainside.

• Wang Yu searched a magical artifact shop for second-tier materials and examined a dual-attribute Water-Arrow Mouse hide bearing incomplete Great Wind Technique inscriptions.
• Wang Yu negotiated for the hide, then bought spirit wood and supplementary materials from another shop for more than ten thousand spirit stones.
• Wang Yu purchased miscellaneous books about the Eastern Wasteland before leaving Cold Billow Market City aboard a Bone Boat with Young Man Yan.
• More than ten days later, a caravan of huge wagons traveled along a rugged mountain road, guarded by mortal warriors and ballistae.
• Cries rang out from a mountain peak, and dark shapes swarmed down the slopes toward the caravan.