Chapter Summaries

Sky Bear arrived at the Three Venerable Stone Market with her son Ba'er and secured permission to enter after agreeing not to force anyone into trades. Skyglow True Person and Five-Stone Immortal Maiden then discussed the threat posed by Sky Bear and the other Golden Core cultivators already in the Market City.

• Sky Bear told Solid Rock she had come to pursue the opportunity to attain a Golden Core and warned she would block the stone market if he refused her entry.
• Solid Rock let Sky Bear and Ba'er enter after she agreed to conduct all dealings fairly, while Ba'er ordered the others to remain on Black Cloud Mountain.
• Skyglow True Person used a bronze mirror to observe Black Cloud Mountain as Yan Lingxiang asked whether Sky Bear belonged to the Flying Bear Demon Race.
• Skyglow True Person identified Sky Bear as a powerful third-tier demon whose mutated wings gave her exceptional speed.
• Five-Stone Immortal Maiden joined Skyglow True Person and Yan Lingxiang, warning that Sky Bear and the Golden Core cultivators already inside could endanger the market's long peace.

Daoist Heavenly Light learned of rumors linking the Chaos Stones to the Heavenless Demon Emperor’s treasure vault, then urgently sent Yan Lingxiang out of the stone market under disguise. Wang Yu fled the strange black hill and heard a woman scream from a mountain ahead.

• The Five-Stone Immortal Maiden told Daoist Heavenly Light that rumors claimed the Chaos Stones held a treasure tied to the Heavenless Treasure Vault, but she dismissed the report as likely false.
• Daoist Heavenly Light ordered Yan Lingxiang to leave immediately, gave him a concealing cloak, and warned him not to turn around or remove it until he was ten thousand miles away.
• Daoist Heavenly Light led Yan Lingxiang through a hidden passage in the stone market’s Magic Array.
• Wang Yu sped away from the stone market on his Bone Boat after the black hill’s foul odor filled him with terror.
• Wang Yu heard a young woman scream in despair from a mountaintop ahead.

Wang Yu killed a group of bear demons, discovered a green pearl that may have kept a slain cultivator alive, and encountered Stoneclaw of the Flying Bear Tribe. He launched an ambush on Stoneclaw, who unleashed a spreading gray haze in response.

• Wang Yu found human cultivators and a young woman dead on a hilltop, then killed the black-furred bears feeding on them.
• Wang Yu collected the cultivators’ Storage Bags, burned the bodies, and recovered a green pearl from the flames.
• Wang Yu sealed the pearl in a Black Iron Box and met Stoneclaw, a second-tier demon of the Flying Bear Tribe, who demanded compensation for the dead bears.
• Wang Yu confirmed Stoneclaw had no nearby allies and attacked him with the Golden Needle Technique and a silver-armored double.
• Stoneclaw braced himself and released a gray haze from his body.

Wang Yu fought Stoneclaw, a second-tier member of the Flying Bear Demon Race, and matched his strength before Stoneclaw transformed into a giant winged bear. Stoneclaw trapped Wang Yu in a crushing embrace, but Wang Yu used the Soul-Confusing Minor Art to make him loosen his grip briefly; Stoneclaw quickly recovered and renewed his attack.

• Wang Yu's golden fist clashed with Stoneclaw's black-miasma-covered claw, and their strength proved evenly matched.
• Stoneclaw transformed into his enormous winged Demon Beast form after realizing Wang Yu was a formidable opponent.
• Wang Yu attacked Stoneclaw with the Ruyi Hook and Light Brow, piercing his abdomen and heart.
• Stoneclaw trapped Wang Yu's blades and hands with suction from his body, then clamped him in a crushing embrace.
• Wang Yu told Stoneclaw to look into his eyes and briefly confused him with the Soul-Confusing Minor Art.
• Stoneclaw recovered, tightened his embrace, and roared at Wang Yu for using the art.

Wang Yu killed the bear demon Stoneclaw with Light Brow’s strange white flame and examined the demon’s remains. Finding a demon core, he considered seeking a compatible third-tier core pellet to pursue the False Core path if he could not achieve Core Formation.

• Stoneclaw tried to crush Wang Yu, but Wang Yu endured the bear demon’s embrace and spat a qi arrow into his eye.
• Wang Yu poured dharma power into Light Brow, whose white flame destroyed Stoneclaw’s spirit soul and caused him to collapse.
• Wang Yu severed Stoneclaw’s head and limbs, then confirmed the demon was dead and collected his claw gauntlets, storage bags, fang, and bear hide.
• Wang Yu retrieved Stoneclaw’s demon core and considered using a compatible third-tier demon core pellet to become a False Core true person if Core Formation eluded him.
• Wang Yu burned Stoneclaw’s corpse to ash and left on the Bone Boat.

Wang Yu fought successive waves of demon beasts while traveling by Bone Boat and realized a large-scale invasion had overtaken the area around Three Venerable Stone Market. He descended toward the ground to escape the aerial attacks, but the pursuing demon birds were caught in a powerful explosion.

• Wang Yu used the Crimson Sun Great Art to destroy a swarm of demon bees, then summoned Little White to attack a flock of Gray Iron Sparrows.
• Wang Yu meditated on the Bone Boat to recover dharma power while demon forces gathered at several sites around Three Venerable Stone Market.
• Wang Yu fought off repeated waves of demon birds with Little White and his black flying knife as the Bone Boat’s protective Light Screen weakened.
• Wang Yu decided to leave the sky, directed the Bone Boat toward the ground, and drew the pursuing white-crane-like demon birds after him.
• A ten-foot Solar Ring appeared over the grass and exploded into a blazing sun, sending a mushroom cloud skyward.

Han Huaying and a Spirit Puppet Sect elder faced attacks by powerful Demon Race foes near the Three Venerable Stone Market, while Skyglow True Person received alarming news and was confronted by Five Stones. Wang Yu remained trapped in a forest surrounded by demon beasts and Gray Iron Sparrows.

• Han Huaying fought a silver Giant Crane and its Feather Blades with three multicolored short swords north of the Three Venerable Stone Market.
• A Golden Tiger Race man attacked a yellow-robed Spirit Puppet Sect elder, who activated his Metal Puppets and fled inside a metal pagoda as tiger wraiths pursued him.
• Skyglow True Person read a warning on a tattered beast hide, then turned to find Five Stones and a little girl-faced woman appearing in his secret chamber.
• Wang Yu hovered silently in a forest as dense yellow rat beasts raced around him and Gray Iron Sparrows blocked the sky, leaving him trapped.

Wang Yu escaped a swarm of Earth Sand Mice and Gray Iron Sparrows underground, but Li Fengquan and Gong Mingzhu intercepted him, believing he carried an Undying Phoenix Feather. Wang Yu revealed the purple Life-Bound Feather, and Li Fengquan’s bloodline stirred at its presence.

• Wang Yu recognized the Earth Sand Mice and Gray Iron Sparrows as signs of a possible demon invasion and used an Earth Escape Talisman to flee underground.
• Wang Yu traveled more than thirty li beneath the ground and emerged in a quiet forest.
• Wang Yu sensed an ambush and struck at a concealed figure, but Li Fengquan blocked his silver hook with a golden spear.
• Li Fengquan accused Wang Yu of taking a bloodline object, while Gong Mingzhu appeared and demanded that Li Fengquan seize the Undying Phoenix Feather.
• Li Fengquan sensed the feather through his Firebird Bloodline, and Wang Yu revealed the purple feather that had been the original form of Light Brow.

Wang Yu faced Li Fengquan after learning the purple feather was the Undying Phoenix Feather and that Gong Mingzhu had helped engineer its discovery. Li Fengquan used his Annihilating Flame Lance to kill Gong Mingzhu instead of attacking Wang Yu, leaving Wang Yu braced for the next move.

• Gong Mingzhu and Li Fengquan identified Wang Yu's purple feather as the Undying Phoenix Feather and revealed that they had spread the phoenix essence blood rumor to draw people to the stone market.
• Li Fengquan activated his bloodline power, surrounding himself with azure and white flames, while Wang Yu summoned the Mount Mi Seal and formed the Solar Ring of the Crimson Sun Great Art.
• Li Fengquan launched his Annihilating Flame Lance, but twisted around and struck Gong Mingzhu instead of Wang Yu.
• Gong Mingzhu was destroyed by the lance's flames, leaving only her withered branch as Wang Yu watched in shock.

Wang Yu refused Li Fengquan’s demand for the Life-Bound Feather, and the two began a fierce battle. Li Fengquan unleashed his Azure-Red Firebird bloodline as Wang Yu summoned a colossal Flame Blade, leaving their powers poised to clash.

• Li Fengquan killed Gong Mingzhu and demanded that Wang Yu hand over the Life-Bound Feather in exchange for his life.
• Wang Yu questioned whether the feather truly belonged to an Undying Phoenix, and Li Fengquan attacked with his Mother-and-Child Spear.
• Wang Yu used the Mount Mi Seal and a blazing white sun to meet Li Fengquan’s fire attack, then evaded seven spear shadows and trapped them with his hooked Magical Artifact.
• Li Fengquan’s mask burned away, revealing a blackish-azure bird tattoo, and he transformed into an Azure-Red Firebird phantom surrounded by over a hundred fireballs.
• Wang Yu invoked Flame Blade and formed a colossal crimson blade as azure-red fire clouds filled the sky opposite him.

Wang Yu and Li Fengquan abandoned their fight and negotiated over the Spirit-Devouring Bird’s feather and its spirit-devouring demon flame. Wang Yu agreed to trade a clump of the flame for Li Fengquan’s complete Three-Flavor True Flame secret art, then released the flame for Li Fengquan to collect.

• Wang Yu formed a second-tier limit spell, prompting Li Fengquan to cancel his attack and propose a trade instead.
• Li Fengquan explained that the purple feather came from a Spirit-Devouring Bird of the Outer Demon Realm and held a powerful spirit-devouring demon flame.
• Li Fengquan offered the first half of the Li Household’s Three-Flavor True Flame secret art, which could fuse three spirit flames.
• Wang Yu analyzed the Jade Slip with Overclocking and agreed to exchange a clump of spirit-devouring demon flame for the complete secret art.
• Li Fengquan handed over the complete secret art, and Wang Yu released the milky-white demon flame from the purple feather.

Wang Yu exchanged the spirit-devouring demon flame for Li Fengquan’s Three-Flavor True Flame mantra, then discovered a spirit soul mark on a hidden branch that drew a threat from Tuoyue Patriarch. As Wang Yu fled the demon race encirclement, Yan Lingxiang was cornered by Snow Wolf Clan demons.

• Wang Yu and Li Fengquan traded the spirit-devouring demon flame for the final mantra needed to complete the Three-Flavor True Flame, and Li Fengquan warned that a fourth-tier Demon King might be behind the invasion.
• After Li Fengquan departed, Wang Yu found a concealed withered branch and burned it, triggering a spirit soul attack from Tuoyue Patriarch, who vowed to kill him at their next meeting.
• Wang Yu used Wang Tiezhu’s power to steady his Divine Sense Sea, stored the branch, and vanished with his magical weapons to escape the encirclement.
• In a mountain valley, Yan Lingxiang was surrounded by several hundred wolf beasts and three Snow Wolf Clan youths, and he prepared to fight.

Wang Yu killed two Flying Bear Clan demons who pursued him over Stoneclaw’s death, then escaped the demon beasts’ encirclement. A month later, war erupted between the Human Race and Demon Race, and after a stalemate between their powerful cultivators, the Black Wind Territory became a battlefield for the next hundred years; Wang Yu returned to the Green Water Palace.

• Wang Yu killed Scarlet Wild Boars that detected him and reflected on finding a better concealment method.
• Man Gu and Mountain Splitter confronted Wang Yu, accusing him of killing Stoneclaw and pursuing him for the Flying Bear Clan.
• Wang Yu fought the two demons with his weapons and techniques, then escaped aboard a Bone Boat after they vanished.
• The Flying Bear King declared war on the Three Sects, while demons and human evil cultivators seized territory and slaughtered humans.
• Three human Nascent Soul cultivators and four fourth-tier demons fought to a draw and agreed through a Soul Pact to a hundred-year truce, making the occupied Black Wind Territory the battlefield between the races.
• Wang Yu returned to the Green Water Palace.

Wang Yu learned that Yan Lingxiang and several Golden Core cultivators had died during the Demon Race invasion, and Yan Tu explained the Soul Pact contest and urged him to prepare for the Sect Grand Competition. Wang Yu left with a loan of Spirit Stones to refine his Life-Bound Magical Artifact and pursue a True Disciple Position.

• Yan Tu told Wang Yu that Yan Lingxiang had died when the Demon Race surrounded the Three Venerable Stone Market, and praised Wang Yu for reporting the invasion.
• Yan Tu explained that Martial Uncle Heavenly Light and Fellow Daoist Solid Rock had fallen, and that the Three Sects had offered a Golden Core opportunity for killing the Human-Race Traitors.
• Yan Tu described the hundred-year Soul Pact contest over the River-Crossing Region and told Wang Yu to focus on the Sect Grand Competition in four months.
• Yan Tu urged Wang Yu to secure a True Disciple Position and promised him a substantial boon if he succeeded.
• Wang Yu asked for Spirit Stones to refine his Life-Bound Magical Artifact, and Yan Tu lent him one hundred thousand Spirit Stones to repay within thirty years.

Wang Yu investigated two treasures he had obtained from the Demon Beasts’ encirclement and identified a green orb as a second-tier wood attribute Demon Core with powerful healing effects. Big Green swallowed it before Wang Yu could stop him, leaving Wang Yu uncertain about what would happen to the Iron-Head Crocodile as he turned to examine the Withered Branch.

• Wang Yu reflected on Yan Lingxiang’s death and resolved to be more cautious in the Cultivation World.
• Wang Yu used overclocking mode and a Message Disc to identify the green orb as a second-tier wood attribute Demon Core.
• Wang Yu tested the orb on Big Green and saw it rapidly heal a cut on the crocodile’s forelimb.
• Big Green swallowed the Demon Core and hurried out of the chamber, leaving Wang Yu speechless.
• Wang Yu accepted that he could no longer use the Demon Core to make a healing artifact and turned his attention to the Withered Branch.

Wang Yu identified the pale branch as a third-tier hidden spirit wood and tested its ability to conceal him from Little White. Back in his secret chamber, he began studying the Three-Flavor True Flame Secret Art before preparing to refine Life-Bound Magical Artifacts and a Bloodline Pill for the upcoming grand tournament.

• Wang Yu burned the pale branch with the Crimson Sun Great Art, then discovered it repelled his divine thought.
• Wang Yu recalled a Four Symbols Sect text and recognized the branch as fully grown third-tier hidden spirit wood.
• Wang Yu infused the branch with dharma power beneath a tree and confirmed that its concealment hid him from Little White.
• Wang Yu returned to his secret chamber, set aside a Chaos Stone, and began studying the Three-Flavor True Flame Secret Art.
• Wang Yu planned to refine Life-Bound Magical Artifacts for himself and Little White and make a Bloodline Pill to awaken his Flood Dragon bloodline before the grand tournament.

Wang Yu completed Little White’s Wind-and-Cloud Banner and prepared to refine his own Flame Demon Star Armor in the Login Interface. The chapter left him facing the armor he had already forged in the simulated space.

• Wang Yu finished inscribing the Wind-and-Cloud Banner, a three-attribute magical artifact made for Little White.
• Wang Yu explained the banner’s spells and potential, and Little White swallowed it to make it his life-bound artifact.
• Wang Yu entered the Login Interface and found Wang Tiezhu tending a thriving patch of spirit rice.
• Wang Tiezhu asked to raise chickens or ducks, but Wang Yu said living creatures could not enter the space and considered whether other spirit souls might be brought in as soul patterns.
• Wang Yu went to the artifact refining area and inspected the Flame Demon Star Armor he had previously forged there.

Wang Yu tested the Flame Demon Star Armor, a Blue Star-inspired magical exoskeleton equipped with six Flame Demon Blades and powerful spell systems. The chapter ended with him activating the armor’s ultimate weapon, the beyond-limit Flame-Light Cannon, and preparing it to fire.

• Wang Yu donned the Flame Demon Star Armor and tested its six arms and six Flame Demon Blades.
• Wang Yu used the armor to control all six blades and demonstrated how they could activate the Crimson Flame Blade spell.
• Wang Yu inspected the blades’ high-grade fire stones and the demon stone that supplied the spell’s remaining energy.
• Wang Yu transformed the armor’s components into a cannon and charged the Flame-Light Cannon with a blazing ring of fire and a high-grade thunder crystal stone.

Wang Yu finished testing the Flame Demon Star Armor and left his secluded space to refine it in his Cave Abode as Pure Fire Peak grew busy ahead of the grand competition. Yan Tu planned to give Wang Yu one of the peak’s direct-entry slots, believing he had a better chance than Xue Yi of becoming a true disciple.

• Wang Yu tested the Flame Demon Star Armor’s flying knives, shoulder cannon, and Wind-Fire Wheels, then decided to refine the life-bound artifact outside the space.
• Wang Yu left the secluded chamber and went to his Artifact Refining Room, where he had prepared the required materials.
• Two months later, Young Master Ling learned that the Cave Abode he had reserved was occupied by the Peak Master’s newly accepted personal disciple, Wang Yu, and decided to stay with Fan Zheng instead.
• Uncle Mu told Young Master Ling that the Peak Master thought highly of the disciple who had taken the Cave Abode.
• Yan Tu told Junior Sister Xin that he intended to give Wang Yu a direct-entry slot in the True Disciple Contest, estimating his chances at fifty percent or higher, compared with Xue Yi’s roughly thirty percent.

Yan Tu and Junior Sister Xin decided that Wang Yu and Lian would represent Pure Fire Peak in the true disciple competition, with Wang Yu cooperating in Lian’s secret art to strengthen them both. Xue Yi was then turned away when he came to visit Lian.

• Yan Tu told Junior Sister Xin that Wang Yu had exceptional spell talent but poor four-root aptitude, and explained that Pure Fire Peak urgently needed a true disciple to protect its resources.
• Junior Sister Xin said Lian had reached the bottleneck in the Phoenix Essence Spirit-Pointing Art and needed a fire-attribute cultivator to complete it with her.
• Yan Tu chose Wang Yu rather than Xue Yi to cooperate with Lian, reasoning that the secret art could help Wang Yu break through and improve his chances in the competition.
• Junior Sister Xin agreed to persuade Lian to meet Wang Yu, and Yan Tu assigned Pure Fire Peak’s two direct-entry places to Wang Yu and Lian.
• Xue Yi visited Lian’s cave abode, but Lian said she was in a bad mood and ordered him to leave.