Chapter Summaries

Xiao Hua and the Three Elders of Fire Fierce Mountain entered Xuan Kong Pavilion to attend the Bidding Convention and encountered True Person Lan Yu, who argued with Huo Zheshhan over a discarded message talisman. As Haoming City’s strange entrance mechanism drew the group onward at increasing speed, Huo Paikong shielded Xiao Hua and the others from the pressure.

• The group reached the suspended bridge’s entrance to Xuan Kong Pavilion, where two Golden Core cultivators directed them inside.
• Xiao Hua examined the vast hall and its strange statues, while Huo Qilin remarked that the place resembled Fire Fierce Mountain.
• True Person Lan Yu confronted Huo Zheshhan about ignoring his invitation, and the Three Elders traded insults with him until his voice disappeared.
• A bell activated a powerful suction force that pulled the group along the road, and Huo Paikong shielded Xiao Hua, Huo Furong, and Huo Qilin as their speed and the surrounding pressure increased.

Xiao Hua and the other Nascent Soul cultivators discovered that the starry void was an imitation of an ancient Void Palace, then gathered as Haoming City opened its once-in-a-century Bidding Convention. The convention began with ten days of exchanges and cultivation discussions planned for cultivators of different realms.

• Xiao Hua and the others entered a motionless starry void filled with suspended spheres and a massive fireball.
• True Person Quanhong revealed that the group was inside Haoming City's Xuan Kong Pavilion, an ancient artifact believed to imitate the legendary Void Palace.
• Huo Paikong challenged Quanhong for using the pavilion's restrictions to impress the attendees, while Quanhong explained that its apparent mysteries could not be comprehended.
• Fairy Miaochang praised Quanhong for showing the ancient palace, and he transformed the venue into a seating area for the Nascent Soul cultivators.
• True Person Quanhong confirmed the attendees and announced the start of Haoming City's bidding convention, which would run for ten days and include gatherings for cultivators of different realms.

At the Bidding Convention in Xuan Kong Pavilion, a disguised cultivator offered a long sword said to have belonged to True Person Mingjian. Xiao Hua recognized it as resembling the sword that had killed him, and Xuan Yunzi acquired it in exchange for rare refining materials.

• True Person Quanhong began the Bidding Convention and invited the Mihuan-clad cultivator to present an item.
• The Mihuan-clad cultivator displayed a long sword from the Mo Ran Black Forest, and Xiao Hua recognized its resemblance to the sword that had slain him.
• Li Cangqing questioned whether the sword truly belonged to True Person Mingjian and warned that it could not reveal the Changbai Sect's sword arts.
• True Person Kuye and Xuan Yunzi privately arranged an exchange of refining materials, while Xuan Yunzi sought the remaining materials needed to obtain the sword.
• Xuan Yunzi agreed to trade four types of materials for the sword, completed the exchange despite Li Cangqing's protest, and drew the blade to reveal its emerald sword light.

At the Haoming City Bidding Convention, True Person Heping offered tens-of-thousands-year-old Mysterious Yin Spirit Grass in exchange for True Dragon Blood. When Fairy Poyue and True Person Kuye revealed they had White Dragon Blood, Xiao Hua was shaken by memories of the bloodstains at Huanghua Ridge, and the chapter left the dragon blood’s identity and significance unresolved.

• True Person Heping presented ancient Mysterious Yin Spirit Grass and asked to trade it for three drops of Red Dragon Blood.
• Fairy Poyue offered True Dragon Blood of another kind, and True Person Heping agreed to accept any True Dragon Blood instead.
• Qi Jianghai and True Person Kuye revealed that they each had a drop of dragon blood, while Fairy Poyue said she also had one.
• Fairy Poyue and True Person Kuye identified their drops as White Dragon Blood, deeply startling Xiao Hua.
• Qi Jianghai, True Person Kuye, and Fairy Poyue agreed to divide the Mysterious Yin Spirit Grass and sent their sealed vials to True Person Heping.

At the Haoming City Bidding Convention, Nascent Soul cultivators exchanged rare treasures and cultivation materials, including a formation mistaken for the Duotian Star Array. The gathering continued as True Person Lan Yu revealed he needed a powerful spirit beast’s essence soul to repair a damaged spirit artifact.

• True Person Heping inspected the Mysterious Yin Spirit Grass and accepted it before passing it to Fairy Poyue.
• True Person Miyou offered an ancient formation in exchange for three drops of a Five Elemental Essence, and Mihuan negotiated a trade with True Person Xuan Jing.
• True Person Xuan Jing identified Miyou’s formation as a defensive formation that could resist lightning tribulation, rather than the Duotian Star Array.
• Qi Jianghai, Xuan Yunzi, and other cultivators exchanged treasured items while Xiao Hua watched and considered what he might someday obtain.
• True Person Lan Yu sought an eighth- or ninth-grade spirit beast’s essence soul and disclosed that he wanted it to repair a damaged spirit artifact.

At the Nascent Soul cultivators’ bidding convention, True Person Lan Yu sought an eighth-rank spirit beast’s soul to repair a spirit artifact, while Huo Zheshhan revealed Fire Fierce Mountain had one and wanted an Innate Jellyfish in exchange. The first round ended without a match, and True Person Quanhong prepared to show the guests around Xuan Kong Pavilion before the second round.

• True Person Lan Yu said he needed an eighth-rank spirit beast’s soul to repair a spirit artifact and indicated that one of the gathered cultivators had such a soul.
• Huo Zheshhan confirmed that Fire Fierce Mountain possessed the soul but would trade it only for an Innate Jellyfish, which he wanted to support the three brothers’ cultivation.
• True Person Lan Yu learned privately which spirit beast’s soul Fire Fierce Mountain had and reacted with delight, saying he would find a way to obtain it.
• The Nascent Soul cultivators continued exchanging rare items, while Xiao Hua watched and hoped to find cultivation techniques or items of unknown origin.
• After True Person Qingyan completed his trade, True Person Quanhong ended the first round, provided spirit wine and fruit, and offered to show everyone around Xuan Kong Pavilion.

At the Haoming City Bidding Convention, Xiao Hua realized the Heavenly Dao Starry Sky could guide his cultivation, then watched Nascent Soul cultivators compete for rare treasures he hoped to obtain. The bidding continued as a masked cultivator offered Ink Python carcasses, whose value Xiao Hua did not understand.

• True Person Quanhong’s display of the starry sky led Xiao Hua to consider studying the Heavenly Dao while still keeping a low profile in the Cultivation World.
• True Person Xuemo offered a turtle shell, and Li Cangqing outbid the others and acquired it despite Xiao Hua’s interest.
• Two other Nascent Soul cultivators auctioned strange objects, while Xiao Hua lamented that the experienced bidders left him no chance to find overlooked treasures.
• A masked cultivator offered more than ten Ink Python carcasses recovered from the Mo Ran Black Forest, and the Nascent Soul cultivators began bidding.
• Xiao Hua suspected the masked cultivator might be the one who had chased him and asked Huo Furong why the Ink Python carcasses were valuable.

Xiao Hua learned about the uses of Mo Ran parts and asked Huo Furong to seek a secret technique for using their brain matter. When Fairy Poyue offered a Demon Realm body-tempering method, Xiao Hua decided to bid for it, despite Huo Zheshhan’s warning that he could not use it.

• Huo Furong explained that Mo Ran inner cores could corrode true essence and break restrictions, while their brain matter aided techniques that heightened the five senses.
• Huo Zheshhan negotiated with True Person Lan Yu, who withdrew from the bidding, allowing Huo Zheshhan to obtain the Mo Ran carcasses.
• Xiao Hua asked Huo Furong to find out whether the three Old Hus would trade the brain-matter secret technique, and she agreed to ask Huo Paikong.
• Fairy Poyue offered a Demon Realm method for tempering the body and cultivating the bones, and Xiao Hua asked Huo Furong to tell Huo Zheshhan he wanted to bid.
• Huo Zheshhan questioned Xiao Hua’s ability to use the demon slip and refused to lend him spirit stones, but Xiao Hua named a bid of his own.

Xiao Hua lost the bidding for a Demon Realm body-tempering technique, but Huo Zheshhan helped him obtain a damaged demon artifact-refining jade slip and later gave him a secret technique arranged by Huo Furong. The bidding convention ended, and Xiao Hua left with the Huo family after receiving the promised items.

• Huo Zheshhan lost the bid for Fairy Poyue’s demon jade slip to a Mihuan-clad cultivator, disappointing Xiao Hua, who had wanted its Bone Tempering Art.
• True Person Lan Yu offered a severely damaged jade slip containing a Demon Realm artifact-refining technique, and Huo Zheshhan outbid True Person Xuemo after Xiao Hua asked him to acquire it.
• True Person Quanhong ended the bidding convention and sent the cultivators back to the palace entrance, where Huo Zheshhan gave Xiao Hua the jade box he had sought in exchange for spirit stones.
• Huo Zheshhan told Xiao Hua that Huo Furong had received his gift of thanks and invited him to visit Fire Fierce Mountain.
• Huo Furong persuaded Huo Zheshhan to exchange jade slips, then gave Xiao Hua the secret technique she had obtained for him.

After leaving Fire Fierce Mountain, Xiao Hua examined the secret art Huo Furong gave him and found it unusable without a sensory cultivation method. He used Buddhist consciousness to inspect the damaged demon slip, then flew toward the Qi Cultivation cultivators’ residences, while Yan Yu appeared near his cave abode.

• Xiao Hua accepted Huo Furong’s secret-art jade slip, declined to answer Huo Qilin’s question about seeing Xue again, and left Fire Fierce Mountain.
• Xiao Hua returned to his cave abode, found Xue Xue cultivating the Dragon Transformation Art, and wondered whether Xiao Mao had established his foundation.
• Xiao Hua examined Huo Furong’s secret art and found it required a sensory cultivation method he did not possess.
• Xiao Hua used his Buddhist consciousness to open the demon slip and discovered that most of its contents were badly damaged.
• Xiao Hua sealed his cave abode and flew toward the Qi Cultivation cultivators’ residences to inspect the readable portion of the demon slip.
• Yan Yu appeared outside a nearby cave abode shortly after Xiao Hua left.

Xiao Hua entered Haoming City's Foundation Establishment Bidding Convention after paying an extra fee for arriving late. He bought a Cloud Essence Stone that might help repair the Town Cloud Seal, then spotted a demonic spear tail that could complete the weapon in his space.

• Yan Yu watched Xiao Hua and planned to take the valuables in his storage bag.
• Xiao Hua learned that Haoming City's Foundation Establishment bidding was still underway and followed a city guard to its venue.
• Xiao Hua paid one hundred high-grade spirit stones to enter late and changed his appearance in a secret chamber.
• Xiao Hua bought a Cloud Essence Stone with a thirty-percent price increase and stored it in his space.
• During the break, Xiao Hua spotted a demonic spear tail among the items offered for sale and was delighted to find a possible match for his spear pieces.

Xiao Hua took the magic spear tail from a female cultivator who had waited for its price to fall, then realized she likely needed it to complete a spear with a missing section. He consigned a damaged artifact from a Golden Core cultivator’s storage pouch for appraisal as the final bidding round approached.

• Xiao Hua and a female cultivator grabbed the magic spear tail at the same time, and Xiao Hua tricked her before pulling it away by force.
• The female cultivator explained that she had come to Haoming City for the spear tail and could finally afford it, but she left when Xiao Hua refused to give it up.
• Xiao Hua joined the magic spear tip, shaft, and tail and realized a section of the shaft was missing, leading him to suspect the female cultivator had it.
• Xiao Hua consigned a damaged magic artifact taken from a Golden Core cultivator’s storage pouch so Haoming City’s experts could appraise it.
• Zai Chi began presenting the consigned items and praised the quality of the first magic artifact.

At Haoming City's Bidding Convention, Xiao Hua bought a Demon Realm script jade slip and learned that Foundation Establishment Pills and spirit stones were becoming scarce. The chapter left him stunned as Zai Chi introduced the convention’s final item.

• Xiao Hua watched Zai Chi auction artifacts and other items, then bid on a jade slip explaining Demon Realm script.
• A female cultivator bid against Xiao Hua, but he yielded the jade slip to her when she claimed she was nearly out of spirit stones.
• Zai Chi auctioned two Foundation Establishment Pills, which sold for two hundred top-grade spirit stones.
• Xiao Hua asked a nearby cultivator why Foundation Establishment Pills had become scarce, and the cultivator blamed a great change in the Heavenly Dao, dwindling resources, and sects hoarding supplies.
• Zai Chi announced that the next auction item was the final offering of the Bidding Convention.

At Haoming City’s Foundation Establishment Bidding Convention, Xiao Hua discovered that the damaged item he had consigned was the famous magic treasure Mist Serpent and watched it sell for a high price. After the convention, he asked a city guard where to find body-tempering techniques and learned he should look at a Qi Cultivation bidding convention.

• Zai Chi revealed that the damaged treasure was Mist Serpent, and Xiao Hua recognized it as the item he had taken from his space.
• Two Mihuan cultivators competed for Mist Serpent, which the second Mihuan cultivator eventually bought for a large number of spirit stones.
• Zai Chi concluded the convention and distributed the proceeds to the consignors.
• A frail female cultivator called after Xiao Hua, but he left without agreeing to discuss the Demon Spear Tail she wanted.
• Xiao Hua asked a city guard why the convention had offered no body-tempering techniques, and the guard told him to seek them at a Qi Cultivation cultivators’ bidding convention.

Xiao Hua went to Yutian Grotto-Heaven in Haoming City to look for Qi Cultivation techniques. He learned that the grotto-heaven sold techniques in five elemental categories and asked to see those suited to an Earth-attribute younger relative.

• Xiao Hua paid a city guard for information, then avoided Qiao'er when she searched for the disguised cultivator who had competed with her for a magic spear piece.
• Qiao'er told Brother Ming that the spear shaft had an extraordinary origin recorded in her clan's ancient records, and Brother Ming guessed Xiao Hua might possess a similar piece.
• Xiao Hua asked a Qi Cultivation disciple to lead him to Yutian Grotto-Heaven and asked whether anyone from Yanjiang Sect had come to Haoming City; the disciple knew of none.
• Xiao Hua entered Yutian Grotto-Heaven and asked a city guard where to find Qi Cultivation techniques.
• At a technique shop on the fourth level, Xiao Hua said his younger relative had an Earth attribute so the city guard could recommend suitable techniques.

Xiao Hua visited Yutian Grotto-Heaven to seek a body-tempering technique and learned that its shop mainly sold Qi Cultivation techniques. After a timid cultivator offered an unnamed body-tempering art, Xiao Hua tracked him to the fifth floor and asked to inspect it.

• Xiao Hua examined Yutian Grotto-Heaven’s catalog of techniques, learned they reached only the Qi Cultivation fourth layer, and questioned the city guard about higher-level options.
• A pale Qi Cultivation cultivator entered the shop and asked whether Haoming City would buy his unnamed body-tempering technique or exchange it for a technique leading to Foundation Establishment.
• Xiao Hua followed the cultivator after he left, but lost sight of him and concluded that Yutian Grotto-Heaven had little to offer Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Xiao Hua found the cultivator on the fifth floor and asked to inspect his body-tempering art, offering to pay if it suited his needs.
• The cultivator eyed Xiao Hua warily and asked how many spirit stones he would offer.

Xiao Hua followed a Qi Cultivation cultivator out of Haoming City and discovered that the man was luring him into a trap set by Yan Yu and Xunyan Sect cultivators. Xiao Hua killed the bait, leaving Yan Yu with a pretext to attack him openly.

• Xiao Hua gave the cultivator spirit stones in exchange for a promised body-tempering technique and followed him outside Haoming City.
• The cultivator led Xiao Hua to a streamside clearing, where Xiao Hua seized him with Sleeve Universe and revealed that he suspected a trap.
• Yan Yu emerged from concealment and disclosed that he had arranged the ambush to avenge Yan Liwei, with Xie Ming, Qian Han, and Liang Yu appearing around the array.
• Xiao Hua questioned Yan Yu for using a Xunyan Sect disciple as bait, then crushed the cultivator to death.
• Yan Yu claimed Xiao Hua had killed a Xunyan Sect disciple, giving him a public justification to take revenge.

Yan Yu, Xie Ming, and Qian Han trapped Xiao Hua in the Four Gates Forbidden Law Array and attacked him, believing him to be overwhelmed. Xiao Hua revealed his mid Foundation Establishment cultivation, broke through the formation’s restraint, and struck at Xie Ming with Palm Thunder.

• Yan Yu activated the Four Gates Forbidden Law Array, suppressing Xiao Hua’s movement and spiritual power.
• Xie Ming sent a wooden dragon to bind Xiao Hua’s Town Cloud Seal while Qian Han attacked him with the Jade Xiao Pipes.
• Xiao Hua pretended to struggle as Yan Yu and the others prepared to finish him off.
• Xiao Hua erupted with power, used Sleeve Universe to restrain Xie Ming and Qian Han, and caused the formation to backlash against Yan Yu.
• Xiao Hua revealed his mid Foundation Establishment cultivation and charged at Xie Ming with Palm Thunder.
• Xie Ming recovered and countered Xiao Hua with his own Palm Thunder.

Xiao Hua overcame the Four Gates Forbidden Law Array and killed Xie Ming, Qian Han, Yan Yu, and Liang Yu. As a powerful newcomer approached from Haoming City, Xiao Hua burned the remaining corpses and collected the cultivators’ storage pouches.

• Xiao Hua dodged Qian Han’s Great Restraint Technique and killed Xie Ming with his demonic hammers.
• Xiao Hua burned Qian Han with Samadhi True Fire while Liang Yu attacked with his flying scissors.
• Liang Yu’s flying scissors damaged Xiao Hua’s demonic hammer, but Xiao Hua’s Leaf Sun Fan swallowed Yan Yu’s fiery swallow.
• Yan Yu tried to flee, but Xiao Hua’s attacks disrupted him and his demonic hammer smashed Yan Yu’s head, causing the Four Gates Forbidden Law Array to fail.
• Xiao Hua caught and burned Liang Yu, then collected his flying scissors and storage pouch.
• A newcomer from Haoming City challenged the fighting; Xiao Hua burned the remaining corpses and collected Yan Yu and Xie Ming’s storage pouches.

Xiao Hua faced Yu Chen after killing four cultivators who had ambushed him, while Yu Chen questioned him about the deaths and Haoming City's rules. Yu Chen unexpectedly cleared Xiao Hua of blame and let him leave, offering his help in the city.

• Yu Chen arrived with city guards, including Liu Cheng, and found Xiao Hua beside the burned-out remains of the fight.
• Xiao Hua collected the storage bags, array token, and hidden array discs while Yu Chen demanded an explanation for the killings.
• Yu Chen released his late Foundation Establishment pressure, but Xiao Hua countered with his own pressure and summoned the Town Cloud Seal.
• Yu Chen stopped a city guard from confronting Xiao Hua and declared that Haoming City would not pursue him because he had been ambushed.
• Xiao Hua agreed with Yu Chen's account, burned the remaining traces of the corpses, and prepared to leave.
• Yu Chen offered to help Xiao Hua in Haoming City, and Xiao Hua accepted before flying away.