Chapter Summaries

Wang Yu considered the implications of reviving people from the Login Interface Space and focused on healing his meridians before traveling to the Three Venerable Stone Market. He and Yan Lingxiang reached the market, where Wang Yu discovered that its entrance plaza was guarded by powerful Black-Armored Warriors.

• Wang Yu reasoned that he might eventually bring the White Bone Yin Demon Banner into reality and resolved to awaken Helena when he had a soul pattern and the timing was right.
• Wang Yu took a medicinal pill and used the Crimson Sun Great Art to heal his damaged meridians.
• Wang Yu and Yan Lingxiang set out for the Three Venerable Stone Market, and Yan Lingxiang boasted about his stone-gambling record.
• More than a month later, Wang Yu and Yan Lingxiang entered the market through a passage beneath a lake and arrived at its vast plaza.
• Wang Yu sensed that the plaza's motionless Black-Armored Warriors each possessed Foundation Establishment-level spiritual pressure and savage, bloody auras.

Wang Yu learned about the Three Venerable Stone Market’s powerful Flesh-and-Blood Puppet guards and its half-demon residents as Yan Lingxiang led him to meet a local friend. The pair rode a beast carriage toward the Soul Fragrance Residence, where Yan Lingxiang warned Wang Yu to mind his manners.

• Yan Lingxiang explained that the market’s Flesh-and-Blood Puppets were as strong as second-tier Might Warriors and had helped keep the market peaceful.
• Yan Lingxiang took Wang Yu into the busy streets to seek advice from his local friend about whether the market had recently received new Chaos Stones.
• Wang Yu noticed the scaled, fanged residents, and Yan Lingxiang explained that they were half-demons and that the market was their largest settlement in the Chaotic Spirit Domain.
• Yan Lingxiang told Wang Yu that his friend was also a half-demon and urged him to behave himself when they met.
• Yan Lingxiang hired a beast carriage and directed its driver to take them to the Soul Fragrance Residence.

Yan Lingxiang brought Wang Yu to Soul Fragrance Residence to meet its mistress, who was his friend. When she turned to face them, Wang Yu recognized her and was struck with horror.

• Yan Lingxiang took Wang Yu to Soul Fragrance Residence, a pleasure house filled with half-demon women.
• A Wu recognized Yan Lingxiang, sent a Communication Talisman to the mistress, and led the pair through the residence.
• Yan Lingxiang revealed his Foundation Establishment cultivation and Green Water Palace emblem, quieting the guests who had been flirting with him.
• A Wu brought Yan Lingxiang and Wang Yu to a secluded courtyard, where the mistress invited them inside.
• The mistress turned around, and Wang Yu reacted with horror when he saw her face.

Wang Yu and Yan Lingxiang visited Mo Li at the Soul Fragrance Residence to learn about a promising shipment of Chaos Stones at the Ten Thousand Stones Shop. Mo Li warned them that the Three Venerable Stone Market was a lawless trading ground attracting powerful outsiders, and Wang Yu learned why the Chaotic Spirit Domain tolerated places where evil cultivators and members of the Demon Race could trade.

• Mo Li revealed her beautiful face to Wang Yu and teased Yan Lingxiang about abandoning her for years.
• Yan Lingxiang asked Mo Li which shop had recently received a large batch of Chaos Stones, and she identified the Ten Thousand Stones Shop.
• Mo Li warned that multiple Golden Core True Persons had arrived and that the Three Venerable Stone Market lay in a land of chaos.
• Yan Lingxiang explained that members of the Demon Race and evil cultivators often visited the market to trade resources despite the Three Great Sects' opposition.
• Wang Yu realized that permitting such trading grounds could prevent evil cultivators and members of the Demon Race from plundering smaller Spirit Domains for resources.

Wang Yu and Yan Lingxiang stayed at the Soul Fragrance Residence while Mo Li investigated the Ten Thousand Stones Shop’s Chaos Stones. After healing his meridian injuries, Wang Yu began studying the next layer of star thought power, but a woman’s laughter outside interrupted him.

• Mo Li warned Wang Yu and Yan Lingxiang about demons and evil cultivators in the Three Venerable Stone Market, then agreed to investigate the Ten Thousand Stones Shop’s Chaos Stones.
• Mo Li offered Wang Yu female company, which he declined, while Yan Lingxiang joked about taking several beauties before refusing Mo Li’s personal offer.
• Mo Li led them to guest courtyards and revealed that an Inner Disciple of the Spirit Reliance Sect was staying there, making her wary of offending him.
• Wang Yu refined a Medicinal Pill and confirmed that his meridian injuries had fully healed.
• Wang Yu used Overclocking to study the fourth layer of star thought power, then stopped when a woman’s laughter came from outside.

Wang Yu met Lei Jun, a Spirit Puppet Sect cultivator who tested his strength, then accompanied Yan Lingxiang to explore the Three Venerable Stone Market. At the Seven Star Stone Shop, Wang Yu recognized something familiar about a young man examining a Chaos Stone.

• A drunken bald cultivator attacked Wang Yu, and Wang Yu matched his strike with a punch.
• The man introduced himself as Lei Jun of the Spirit Puppet Sect, learned Wang Yu's name, and returned to his courtyard with two half-demon women.
• Wang Yu found Yan Lingxiang's rooms empty and wondered whether he had gone to meet Mo Li.
• The next morning, Yan Lingxiang invited Wang Yu to look around the market, and Wang Yu agreed after cultivating the Crimson Sun Great Art.
• Yan Lingxiang brought Wang Yu to the Seven Star Stone Shop to examine its Chaos Stones.
• Wang Yu saw a young man studying a massive Chaos Stone and felt he recognized him.

Wang Yu recognized Li Fengquan, an old acquaintance from the Southern Continent, at the Seven Star Stone Shop and learned that he was now a rogue cultivator. After Gong Mingzhu attacked Wang Yu with a mental art and he retaliated, the shop's elder moved to detain her, leaving Li Fengquan under pressure to intervene as Yan Lingxiang arrived.

• Wang Yu recognized Li Fengquan and approached him while Yan Lingxiang browsed the Chaos Stones.
• Li Fengquan said he was now a rogue cultivator, and Gong Mingzhu arrived and introduced herself as his junior sister.
• Gong Mingzhu used a mental art on Wang Yu, but Wang Yu struck her Divine Sense Sea with telekinetic force and made her stumble.
• A gray-robed elder confronted the three and, after hearing Wang Yu's account, accused Gong Mingzhu of using a mental art and prepared to take her into custody.
• Gong Mingzhu demanded that Li Fengquan act, and Yan Lingxiang came over after noticing the commotion.

After Li Fengquan offered compensation on Gong Mingzhu’s behalf, Wang Yu accepted three Chaos Stones from the Seven Star Stone Shop. Yan Lingxiang then led him to inspect a promising stone, and Wang Yu secretly examined it with a spell.

• Li Fengquan revealed that Gong Mingzhu was the direct descendant of the Tuoyue Patriarch and offered to pay for three Chaos Stones to settle the dispute with Wang Yu.
• Wang Yu accepted Li Fengquan’s offer, and Li Fengquan left with the furious Gong Mingzhu after paying the shop.
• Yan Lingxiang told Wang Yu that the gift could bring trouble but encouraged him to choose stones while someone else covered the cost.
• Yan Lingxiang led Wang Yu to a green Chaos Stone speckled with silver and explained why he thought it might contain a natural spiritual treasure.
• Yan Lingxiang tested the stone with his crystal rod as Wang Yu examined it, briefly revealing a pale yellow spell pattern in his eyes.

Wang Yu used Star Thought Power to examine Chaos Stones at the Three Venerable Stone Market, buying one while seeking large stones for cultivating its later layers. He found his power could not probe the largest stone deeply enough, so he strengthened it with Telekinetic Power and continued the search.

• Yan Lingxiang examined a Chaos Stone and told Wang Yu it contained promising silver sand, and Wang Yu sensed two spots inside it with Star Thought Power.
• Wang Yu bought the Chaos Stone for 750 spirit stones and decided to have it cut open together with the other stones he would choose.
• Wang Yu sent Yan Lingxiang off to select stones for himself, then turned toward the largest Chaos Stones to obtain enough Star Stones for the fourth layer of Star Thought Power.
• Wang Yu tried probing the largest Chaos Stone, but his Star Thought Power could not reach far enough inside it.
• Wang Yu pressed a finger between his brows and sent a stronger surge of Telekinetic Power into the enormous Chaos Stone.

Wang Yu selected three enormous Chaos Stones and brought them to the stone-opening hall, where he watched another customer uncover a small piece of green dream stone. He began having his own stones cut, intending to keep the fragments and inspect them himself, as Yan Lingxiang arrived with two more stones.

• Wang Yu sensed a faint fluctuation inside a huge Chaos Stone and chose it, then selected two more stones for a total of three.
• The white-haired old man uncovered an egg-sized piece of green dream stone from another customer’s Chaos Stone, and the woman decided to keep it.
• Wang Yu asked the old man to cut his smallest Chaos Stone into fist-sized fragments so he could examine them later.
• Yan Lingxiang entered the side hall with two burly men carrying two head-sized Chaos Stones.

Wang Yu opened three Chaos Stones and found mysterious pattern iron in one and a glowing purple feather in another. The white-haired elder identified the feather as a demonic bird’s Life-Bound Magical Artifact but could not explain how it ended up inside the stone.

• Yan Lingxiang arrived as the white-haired elder began cutting Wang Yu’s Chaos Stones and commented that he had chosen only two.
• Wang Yu caught a piece of mysterious pattern iron in the first Chaos Stone and identified it as a second-tier spirit material.
• The second Chaos Stone contained no spirit materials, so Wang Yu asked the elder to cut the largest one.
• A glowing piece of Chaos Stone flew into Wang Yu’s hand, and he extracted a purple feather from it with his Pitch-Black Flying Knife.
• The white-haired elder said the feather was likely a demonic bird’s Life-Bound Magical Artifact, but he could not identify its owner and hesitated when asked how it had entered the Chaos Stone.

Wang Yu activated a purple Life-Bound Feather found inside a Chaos Stone, revealing it to be an ordinary second-tier magical artifact with twenty-four unfamiliar white flame-like spirit inscriptions. He kept the valuable feather to study, and Yan Lingxiang prepared to have his own Chaos Stones cut.

• The white-haired elder explained that the feather was likely a demonic bird's ownerless Life-Bound Magical Artifact rather than a sentient Spirit Treasure or Treasure Artifact.
• At Yan Lingxiang's suggestion, Wang Yu channeled dharma power into the feather, causing twenty-four white flame-like spirit inscriptions to appear around it.
• The white-haired elder identified the feather as a second-tier magical artifact and offered forty thousand spirit stones for it.
• Wang Yu declined to sell the feather because he was a second-tier artifact refiner who wanted to study it, then swept the stone fragments into his Storage Bag.
• Yan Lingxiang eagerly presented his two head-sized Chaos Stones, and the white-haired elder asked whether he wanted them cut open.

Wang Yu examined the Life-Bound Feather he had acquired and discovered it retained spiritual awareness. When he infused it with Dharma Power and fire spiritual power, it transformed into a fire-attributed curved blade that consumed three drops of his liquid Dharma Power before he released it.

• Wang Yu stopped Yan Lingxiang from continuing to gamble at the Seven Star Stone Shop, and they spent the day visiting other shops.
• After returning to the Soul Fragrance Residence, Wang Yu confirmed that Lei Jun was absent from the neighboring courtyard and set up an isolating seal in his room.
• Wang Yu tested the Life-Bound Feather and realized its movements showed that it retained spiritual awareness.
• Wang Yu used Overclocking to catch the feather, then infused it with Dharma Power and activated the Crimson Sun Great Art.
• The feather transformed into a curved blade, drained three drops of Wang Yu's liquid Dharma Power, and hovered in white flames after he let go.

Wang Yu tested the curved saber’s milky-white flames and discovered that its attacks could strike a target beyond the courtyard. He learned the saber retained a trace of spirituality, named it Light Brow, and considered how to nurture it.

• Wang Yu tested the curved saber’s flames by cutting an Entry-Tier Bone Blade, which snapped without showing any lasting effect from the fire.
• Wang Yu poured Dharma Power into the saber again and sent his Divine Thought into it, causing it to fly through a wall and kill a strange bird outside.
• A bald, burly man at the Soul Fragrance Residence briefly showed anger when the strange bird died, then resumed entertaining two Half-Demon women.
• Wang Yu retrieved the saber and spoke with it, learning that it was willing to follow him and responding by naming it Light Brow.
• Wang Yu realized Light Brow had a trace of spirituality but could not become his Life-Bound Magical Artifact, and he looked at the strange bird’s corpse.

Wang Yu discovered that the spirit soul had vanished from a Three-Eyed Crow killed by Light Brow’s milky-white flames and suspected the flames caused the anomaly. After buying a giant mantis, he tested the blade on it and watched it split apart and burn, leaving the cause of the flames’ effect under investigation.

• Wang Yu examined the Three-Eyed Crow’s corpse and found no trace of its spirit soul, then burned the remains with Light Brow’s milky-white flames.
• Wang Yu suspected the flames were connected to the missing spirit soul but stopped to restore his depleted dharma power.
• Wang Yu watched Lei Jun enter the neighboring courtyard with a half-demon woman, then left the Soul Fragrance Residence alone the next morning.
• Wang Yu returned with a giant mantis, sealed the courtyard, and removed the beast’s iron neck ring with a Command Token.
• The mantis attacked Wang Yu, but his apparent body vanished as Light Brow’s flames split the beast in half and consumed it.

Wang Yu confirmed that Light Brow’s milky-white flames could destroy Demon Beast Spirit Souls and considered how to conceal or refine their power. Later, Mo Li revealed that a rumor about a Golden Core opportunity in the Ten Thousand Stones Shop’s new Chaos Stones had spread, leaving Yan Lingxiang eager to pursue it and Wang Yu wanting to know more.

• Wang Yu tested Light Brow on a Snake-Chicken Beast and found that its milky-white flames destroyed Spirit Souls, unlike a strike without the flames.
• Wang Yu burned the Demon Beast corpses, considered the flames’ unknown origin and possible uses, then replenished his Dharma Power.
• After receiving a voice transmission, Wang Yu went to Yan Lingxiang’s courtyard and found Mo Li there.
• Mo Li said a secret rumor claimed the Ten Thousand Stones Shop’s new Chaos Stones contained a chance at Golden Core, and Yan Lingxiang called it an opportunity worth pursuing.
• Mo Li said the rumored opportunity might be a Snow Wolf Demon Core, a Golden Core-boosting spirit medicine, or Phoenix essence blood, and claimed True Person Great Fool had revealed the news.
• Yan Lingxiang began explaining True Person Great Fool’s reputation to the puzzled Wang Yu.

Wang Yu learned how True Person Great Fool’s divination revealed a Golden Core opportunity hidden among the Chaos Stones at the Ten Thousand Stones Shop, while Mo Li warned that Golden Core cultivators gathering in the Three Venerable Stone Market could spark a deadly clash. Yan Lingxiang argued that the chance was worth the risk, and Wang Yu sought more information before deciding whether to stay.

• Yan Lingxiang and Mo Li explained True Person Great Fool’s reputation and his divination that helped the Three Sects win the Human-Demon War.
• Mo Li said a demon learned of the Golden Core opportunity by soul-searching the descendant who had requested the divination, and the news spread among demons and evil cultivators.
• Mo Li revealed that at least two visiting Golden Core True Persons were in the Three Venerable Stone Market and urged Wang Yu and Yan Lingxiang to leave.
• Yan Lingxiang argued that Foundation Establishment cultivators should risk pursuing the opportunity, while Mo Li warned that a Golden Core battle could kill them or trap them in the market.
• Wang Yu asked why no one had cut open the Chaos Stones at the Ten Thousand Stones Shop and requested the confirmed Golden Core cultivators’ backgrounds.

Wang Yu weighed the danger of pursuing a Golden Core opportunity at the Three Venerable Stone Market and decided to leave before the Ten Thousand Stones Assembly. Yan Lingxiang accepted his choice but asked him for a favor before he departed.

• Mo Li explained that the Ten Thousand Stones Shop would auction its Chaos Stones at an assembly, drawing Golden Core cultivators and possibly demons and Evil Cultivators to the stone market.
• Wang Yu warned Yan Lingxiang and Mo Li that whoever found the Golden Core opportunity could be hunted, making it dangerous to leave the market with it.
• Yan Lingxiang claimed that Senior Uncle Skyglow might be secluded near the market and offered to seek his protection for whoever found the opportunity.
• Wang Yu refused to join the stone gambling and said he would leave before the assembly because he was not willing to risk his life and had to represent Pure Fire Peak in the Sect Grand Competition.
• Yan Lingxiang agreed not to stop Wang Yu from leaving, then asked him to do a favor before he departed.

Wang Yu lent Yan Lingxiang Spirit Stones for the Ten Thousand Stones Gathering, discussed suspicions about Lei Jun, and bought materials before leaving the Three Venerable Stone Market. He departed at dawn disguised with the Thousand-Breath Disguise Mask as Wan Shan, wary of the Golden Core opportunity and the powerful cultivators drawn to it.

• Yan Lingxiang borrowed thirty thousand Spirit Stones from Wang Yu and over a hundred thousand from Mo Li, promising to repay Wang Yu with interest and swearing to help Mo Li find a Core Formation opportunity if he succeeded.
• Wang Yu told Yan Lingxiang that Lei Jun had tested him with a spell, and Yan Lingxiang revealed that Lei Jun had tested him too; they agreed to be cautious.
• Wang Yu bought artifact-refining materials and sought more Chaos Stones, hoping to gather enough for the fourth layer of star thought power.
• At dawn, Wang Yu noticed that Yan Lingxiang and Lei Jun had both left their courtyards and decided to depart without saying goodbye.
• Wang Yu used the Thousand-Breath Disguise Mask to take on Wan Shan's face before leaving the stone market.

Wang Yu fled after a massive black hill descended near the passage, then learned that it carried Sky Bear and her enormous son. Sky Bear arrived at Three Venerable Stone Market for an important purpose, and an aged man came to greet her.

• Wang Yu left the plaza on a bone boat and noticed a Flesh-and-Blood Puppet watching him.
• A massive black hill descended through the mist, and Wang Yu steered his boat away before fleeing into the sky.
• Sky Bear and her giant son emerged from the hill, and the son offered to catch and eat Wang Yu.
• Sky Bear warned her son not to cause trouble in human territory and said someone would come invite them down.
• An aged man addressed Sky Bear and asked why she had come to Three Venerable Stone Market.