Chapter Summaries

Lin Ke had Zhao Ming survey the Great Wilderness Palace grounds and design a market that used the area's terrain and spiritual energy. After noticing that Zhao Ming's building plans also resembled a formation, Lin Ke approved them, and Zhao Ming arrived with craftsmen to begin construction.

• Lin Ke invited Zhao Ming to survey the proposed market site, and Zhao Ming praised the Great Wilderness Palace's favorable location.
• Zhao Ming used a Bronze Compass and seven bronze spikes to map a Seven Stars Enclosing the Pole layout around the palace, then assigned buildings according to the Five Elements.
• Zhao Ming gave Lin Ke detailed blueprints, and Lin Ke noticed that the buildings seemed arranged like an unusual formation.
• Lin Ke contacted Zhao Ming through the Mystic Vein Book and approved the plans so construction could begin.
• Zhao Ming arrived at the site the next morning with more than a hundred craftsmen to start building the market.

Lin Ke oversaw construction of the Great Wilderness Palace market while new spider silk and Chang Qing’s return brought progress in the Green Mulberry Garden. After Zhao Ming’s plans were checked and modified for safety, construction continued smoothly until Zhao Ming rushed to Lin Ke with news of a disaster.

• Lin Ke began construction of the Great Wilderness Palace market with Zhao Ming’s team and asked Zhu Qingge to investigate the unusual origins of Zhao Ming’s designs.
• The Ghost Titan Spiders produced 130 jin of improved silk, and Chang Qing returned safely with the merfolk crystal tears needed for the Cloudglow Formation.
• Lin Ke split efforts between building the market and setting up the Cloudglow Formation, while Chang Qing confirmed Zhao Ming’s blueprints formed an inert false formation and modified them with formation-breaking techniques.
• On the eighth day of construction, Zhao Ming hurried to Lin Ke and warned him that something terrible had happened.

Lin Ke discovered that Blue Poison Peak had bought up the marketplace’s building materials to halt construction of the Great Wilderness Palace marketplace. He encountered Blue Poison Peak’s chief disciple, Mo Yang, who challenged him to exchange pointers about raising spirit spiders.

• Zhao Ming told Lin Ke that Blue Poison Peak had bought all the marketplace’s construction materials and threatened the shopkeepers against selling to anyone else.
• Lin Ke visited the shops with Zhao Ming, confirmed that Blue Poison Peak’s chief disciple had forced them to stop selling, and decided they needed a new supplier.
• Lin Ke and Zhao Ming encountered Mo Yang and Blue Poison Peak disciples moving timber outside a shop.
• Mo Yang pretended to offer help, then blocked Lin Ke’s departure and proposed they exchange pointers on raising spirit spiders.

After Blue Poison Peak blocked the Great Wilderness Palace’s supply of building materials, Lin Ke and his companions decided to test whether earth-and-stone spell arts could provide an alternative. The chapter ended with Lin Ke and Zhu Qingge beginning a trial construction at the market site.

• Mo Yang confronted Lin Ke at the market, and Lin Ke accepted his invitation to visit Blue Poison Peak before leaving with Zhao Ming.
• At Green Mulberry Garden, Zhu Qingge proposed using earth-and-stone spell arts to build the market after the group found no likely outside suppliers.
• Lin Ke agreed to try the method, and Zhu Qingge offered to help while Lin Quan-meng, Shi Ping, and Fang Du admitted they could not use the required spells.
• Zhao Ming objected to making public market buildings from earth and stone, but agreed to test a few buildings before deciding whether to build them that way or make materials for his workers to assemble.
• Lin Ke and Zhu Qingge began their trial by casting Mountain-Moving and Sea-Overturning and Turn Earth to Steel.

Lin Ke abandoned his attempts to shape a house entirely with spells and devised a steel-frame construction method that greatly sped up the marketplace project. After the frames were erected and construction advanced, he sensed a breakthrough and prepared to enter seclusion for two days.

• Lin Ke and Zhu Qingge struggled to make satisfactory house frames with their spells, so Lin Ke proposed building separate components instead.
• Lin Ke used Turn Earth to Steel and Mountain-Moving and Sea-Overturning to create a six-story steel frame, and Zhao Ming agreed the method could work despite worrying about the waste of refined steel.
• Lin Ke and Zhu Qingge erected frames across the marketplace while Zhao Ming's craftsmen prepared bricks and stones to fill them in.
• After several days, the craftsmen had built the marketplace's walls and floors, and Zhao Ming praised how quickly the steel-frame method advanced construction.
• Lin Ke sensed an opportunity to break through after repeatedly using Mountain-Moving and Sea-Overturning, so he told Zhu Qingge he would enter seclusion for two days and leave the work to him.

Lin Ke cultivated for a day and broke through to the Dao Foundation Late Stage, greatly increasing his spirit power. He then began cultivating the Five-Colored Glazed Body again, hoping his new realm would let him perfect its first layer.

• Lin Ke returned to his residence to prepare for his breakthrough while Zhu Qingge agreed to watch over things.
• The Dream-Eating Gecko woke and volunteered to guard Lin Ke’s cave abode as Lin Ke began cultivating with his spirit stones.
• After a day of tempering his power, Lin Ke successfully advanced to the Dao Foundation Late Stage and sensed that his thirteen-layer dao foundation gave him immense, pure spirit power.
• Lin Ke recalled the Dream-Eating Gecko into his Niwan Palace and began cultivating the Five-Colored Glazed Body, hoping to complete its first layer.
• Lin Ke started the technique’s wind tempering after suspecting his previous realm had prevented him from perfecting the first layer.

Lin Ke completed the first layer of the Five-Colored Glazed Body after enduring a painful transformation, then woke in Zong Ya’s room after collapsing. He revealed that he had also advanced to the dao foundation late stage and gained a thirteen-layer dao foundation, leaving him confident that few in his realm could match him.

• Lin Ke guided astral winds through his body during his nineteenth round of tempering, and glasslike glaze began forming in his bones, muscles, and blood.
• The glazing transformation brought Lin Ke unbearable pain, but he endured it until the astral winds calmed and the first layer was complete.
• A tearing sensation knocked Lin Ke unconscious, and the Dream-Eating Gecko found Zong Ya to help him.
• Lin Ke woke several hours later in Zong Ya’s room, reassured the Dream-Eating Gecko and Zong Ya, and said he was fine.
• Lin Ke revealed that he had reached the dao foundation late stage, possessed a thirteen-layer dao foundation, and mastered the first layer of the Five-Colored Glazed Body.

Lin Ke joined Zong Ya on the summit of Golden Silkworm Peak to test Chang Qing’s newly completed Cloudglow Formation. Its first layer activated, revealing a beautiful but dangerous spread of colored clouds over Green Mulberry Garden.

• Zong Ya told Lin Ke she planned to take the sect’s Lower-Grade Alchemist examination next month.
• Zong Ya said Chang Qing had finished setting up the Cloudglow Formation at the summit of Golden Silkworm Peak.
• Lin Ke and the Dream-Eating Gecko went to the summit, where Chang Qing handed Lin Ke the formation talisman.
• Lin Ke channeled spirit power into the talisman and activated the formation’s first layer, Dawn Clouds Staining the Sky.
• Chang Qing warned Lin Ke that danger lurked within the formation’s radiant, colorful clouds.

Lin Ke tested the newly completed Cloudglow Formation and saw it annihilate a Dao Foundation demon beast and devastate a hill with a casual strike. On his way to the Great Wilderness Palace, he met Lin Quan-meng and Fang Du, and Lin Quan-meng confronted him about secretly eating a heavenly treasure.

• Lin Ke activated the Cloudglow Formation, whose first layer trapped and disintegrated Chang Qing's early Dao Foundation demon beast.
• Lin Ke focused the formation's power on a hill and blasted away more than half of it, confirming its force neared a Golden Core cultivator's strike.
• Chang Qing explained that the formation's second and third layers could not yet be tested because they had not accumulated enough power.
• Lin Ke returned the formation talisman to Chang Qing and left, reassured that the formation would protect Golden Silkworm Peak and its secrets.
• Lin Ke encountered Lin Quan-meng and Fang Du on their way to the Green Mulberry Garden, and Lin Quan-meng grabbed his collar and demanded to know whether he had secretly eaten a heavenly treasure.

Lin Ke discovered that the latest rankings had placed him first on the Genius Ranking, while Lin Quan-meng and Fang Du learned he had reached the Dao Foundation Late Stage. He suspected the sect had elevated him to test his ability to withstand internal pressure, leaving him braced for backlash from the prodigies he had overtaken.

• Lin Quan-meng confronted Lin Ke, and Fang Du reminded him that the monthly rankings were being updated.
• Lin Ke checked his Disciple Token and found that he had risen from eighth to first on the Genius Ranking, with new descriptions crediting his insect cultivation and building techniques.
• Lin Ke questioned whether those achievements justified his rise and suspected the ranking concealed an ulterior motive.
• Lin Quan-meng lamented her ninetieth-place ranking, while Fang Du noticed Lin Ke's stronger aura and realized he had reached the Dao Foundation Late Stage.
• Lin Ke concluded that the sect had placed him first to test him and anticipated retaliation from the prodigies he had surpassed.

Lin Ke inspected the developing Great Wilderness Palace marketplace and discussed its completion and merchant recruitment with Zhu Qingge and Zhao Ming. He decided to visit the Vast Source Hall to register the marketplace and recruit merchants, asking Zhu Qingge to accompany him because he lacked the spirit stones for the required license.

• Fang Du and Lin Quan-meng brought Lin Ke to inspect the Great Wilderness Palace marketplace after the Genius Ranking update.
• Lin Ke saw the marketplace’s concentric layout taking shape, with seven buildings arranged around a central plaza and the outer sections planned for shops and warehouses.
• Zhu Qingge and Zhao Ming congratulated Lin Ke on advancing his cultivation and taking first place on the Genius Ranking.
• Zhao Ming promised to finish the marketplace within ten days, but Lin Ke told him to work carefully rather than rush.
• Zhu Qingge suggested recruiting merchants before construction ended, and Lin Ke decided to seek the Vast Source Hall’s help and register the marketplace.
• Lin Ke asked Zhu Qingge to accompany him to the Vast Source Hall because he did not have enough spirit stones for the required license.

Lin Ke and Zhu Qingge visited the Golden Wing Sect’s Vast Source Hall to apply for authorization to establish a market and recruit merchants. After the hall waived Lin Ke’s financial verification because he ranked first on the Genius Ranking, he named the market the Great Wilderness Market.

• Lin Ke and Zhu Qingge arrived at the Vast Source Hall and went to its second floor to apply for market authorization and merchant recruitment.
• A Vast Source Hall disciple verified Zhu Qingge’s and Lin Ke’s identities, then recognized Lin Ke as the Genius Ranking’s new number one.
• The disciple waived Lin Ke’s financial verification because of his standing and explained the market deposit, annual management fee, and merchant recruitment fee.
• After Lin Ke and Zhu Qingge accepted the regulations, Lin Ke named the market the Great Wilderness Market.

Lin Ke completed the Great Wilderness Market’s registration and oversaw its rapid construction before representatives of the Giant Strength Fire Prison Sect arrived to discuss cooperation and challenge him. Lin Ke sparred with Zhao Tieshan, while True Person Huang Yuan watched and questioned whether Lin Ke had mastered the five-colored glazed body.

• Lin Ke and Zhu Qingge completed the Great Wilderness Market’s formalities and paid the required spirit stones.
• Zhao Ming’s crew rapidly built the market, which drew visitors from the Giant Strength Fire Prison Sect.
• True Person Huang Yuan proposed that his disciple Zhao Tieshan spar with Lin Ke, and Lin Ke reluctantly agreed.
• Lin Ke and Zhao Tieshan fought using their respective spell arts and body-tempering technique, with neither gaining the upper hand.
• True Person Huang Yuan watched Lin Ke’s movements and wondered whether reports of his mastery of the five-colored glazed body were mistaken.

Lin Ke secured the first tenants for the Great Wilderness Market, which was completed ahead of schedule, and reunited with his returning partners. Huang Fuqi reported that the Cloud Frontier Beast Venerable might be preparing to intervene in the war, leaving the Frontline bracing for a major escalation.

• Lin Ke defeated Zhao Tiezhu, then agreed with True Person Huang Yuan on rental terms and gained the market's first tenant.
• The Pill Refining Pavilion, the Artifact Refining Pavilion, and other businesses arrived, while Zhu Qingge arranged for a Law Enforcement Hall squad to be stationed at the market.
• The Great Wilderness Market was completed before Zhao Ming's ten-day deadline, and Huang Fuqi, Han Yun, and Han Fu returned.
• Huang Fuqi told Lin Ke and the others that scouts reported the Cloud Frontier Beast Venerable might be planning a major move, prompting fierce battles and the Golden Wing Sect to gather elite forces.

Lin Ke prepared the Great Wilderness Market as the Frontline conflict intensified, securing sect support and attracting merchants. The Butterfly Transformation True Person presided over the market’s opening, and Lin Ke unveiled his shop’s sign, Wilderness Tower.

• Lin Ke recognized that the escalating Frontline conflict could create an opportunity for the Great Wilderness Market and waited for orders from the sect.
• Lin Ke and Chang Qing expanded the Cloudglow Formation to protect the market, while the Vast Source Hall established a branch there to manage supplies.
• Merchants rushed to secure storefronts after the sect’s supply hall moved into the market.
• The Butterfly Transformation True Person presided over the opening ceremony, and Lin Ke addressed the gathered cultivators before trading began.
• Lin Ke cut the ribbon at his central shop and revealed its sign, Wilderness Tower.

Lin Ke opened the Wilderness Tower with a lucky-draw gift promotion and began selling Amethyst Longhorn Beetles and Stinger Hawk Moths. The opening drew a hostile visit from Mo Yang of Blue Poison Peak, and Han Fu challenged him over his poor use of sect resources.

• Lin Ke announced that the first three hundred customers would receive gift packs, and cultivators rushed to claim them and reveal their discounts.
• Lin Ke opened the Wilderness Tower for sales of adult Amethyst Longhorn Beetles and Stinger Hawk Moths, drawing an eager crowd of buyers.
• Mo Yang arrived with seven or eight Blue Poison Peak disciples and insulted the Wilderness Tower and Lin Ke.
• Han Fu confronted Mo Yang, while Lin Ke invited him inside to inspect the shop.
• Mo Yang disparaged the shop’s goods, and Han Fu retorted that he had wasted Blue Poison Peak’s resources producing few materials.

Blue Poison Peak sought to provoke Lin Ke by opening a competing shop in the Great Wilderness Market, but Lin Ke welcomed the challenge and used the confrontation to draw customers to his own market. The chapter ended with Lin Ke preparing to study Blue Poison Peak’s business while Mo Yang ordered an aggressive push to dominate the cold jade spider silk market.

• Han Fu, Lin Quan-meng, Fang Du, Huang Fuqi, and Shi Ping exchanged insults and prepared to fight Mo Yang’s group until the Butterfly Transformation True Person intervened.
• Mo Yang explained that Blue Poison Peak planned to open a shop selling cold jade spider silk and related products in the Great Wilderness Market.
• Lin Ke welcomed Blue Poison Peak and directed a reception disciple to take Mo Yang’s group to the West District.
• Lin Ke offered customers an additional ten percent discount on Spirit Insects, and the crowd surged into the Wilderness Tower to shop.
• Lin Ke asked Zhu Qingge to prepare a detailed analysis of cold jade spider silk, while Mo Yang ordered stock gathered and Inner Armor samples made to secure the market.

Lin Ke and his companions celebrated their first Great Wilderness Palace profits and renegotiated how future earnings would be divided. After learning the sect’s first supply shipment would leave for the Frontline within three days, Lin Ke arranged to send his ghost titan spider silk with Huang Fuqi, leaving Huang Fuqi stunned by the amount.

• Han Yun, Huang Fuqi, Han Fu, and Zhu Qingge discussed the group’s large earnings and the greater profits held by Blue Poison Peak and Vast Source Hall.
• Han Fu and the others argued that Lin Ke and Zhu Qingge deserved larger shares because they had contributed more to the market’s success.
• The group agreed to keep the original shares for this month, then give Lin Ke and Zhu Qingge twenty percent each and divide the remaining sixty percent among the others starting next month.
• Lin Ke asked Huang Fuqi when the sect’s supplies would leave for the Frontline, and Huang Fuqi said the first shipment would depart within three days.
• Lin Ke arranged to send his ghost titan spider silk with Huang Fuqi and revealed that he had produced over nine hundred jin, shocking Huang Fuqi.

Lin Ke told Huang Fuqi that his Ghost Titan Spiders had produced over nine hundred jin of spider silk, which he planned to use to test Blue Poison Peak’s strength. Later, the Dream-Eating Gecko reminded Lin Ke to gather nine kinds of Spirit Insect before attempting a Golden Core breakthrough, and Lin Ke resolved to find the remaining kinds soon.

• Lin Ke confirmed that his Ghost Titan Spiders had produced over nine hundred jin of silk, stunning Huang Fuqi.
• Lin Ke said he would send the silk to the Frontline as bait to gauge Blue Poison Peak’s true strength, and Huang Fuqi agreed to collect the next batch.
• The Dream-Eating Gecko came out of Lin Ke’s Niwan Palace and admitted that he wanted more Spirit Insects as companions.
• The Dream-Eating Gecko reminded Lin Ke that he needed all nine Golden Cores in his Dual-Origin Palace before breaking through to the Golden Core Realm.
• Lin Ke said he would gather nine kinds of Spirit Insect and planned to seek the remaining ones at the Spirit Insect Cave or through outside contacts.

Lin Ke visited Lin Can and discovered that her Spirit Insects had developed a nest-like division of labor and were producing higher-quality offspring. Lin Can showed him a rare fire-attribute beetle from the Poison Tempering Mountains, which might help her create stronger Spirit Insects if more could be found.

• Lin Ke visited Lin Can, who had been absorbing Spirit Insects and producing enough Amethyst Longhorn Beetles and Stinger Hawk Moths to supply the Wilderness Tower.
• Lin Can showed Lin Ke a honeycomb-like nest where Amethyst Longhorn Beetles cared for their young while Stinger Hawk Moths guarded the nest.
• Lin Ke observed the insects' organized behavior and considered that their social structure might allow them to develop further.
• Lin Ke inspected the Spirit Insects Lin Can had produced and found their quality had improved by ten to twenty percent.
• Lin Can explained that rare, Spirit Power-rich insects brought back from the Poison Tempering Mountains made her output better.
• Lin Can showed Lin Ke a rare fire-attribute beetle, saying it was especially nourishing but appeared only once every two or three days.