Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming’s Mirror Snow Pavilion won the two hundred mu of fourth-rank spirit fields, and he collected the land deed and the proceeds from the auction. Meanwhile, Tian Wugong and Old Demon Yan prepared to kill Hua Tianxiong so Tian Wugong could obtain a Seven Aperture Tribulation Flower for his breakthrough.

• Elder Jin Han announced that Mirror Snow Pavilion had won the two hundred mu of spirit fields, surprising the auction hall and making the pavilion famous.
• Qin Ming accepted congratulations from Han Yuan, Gao Feng, and Liu Ye before meeting Elder Jin Han, who praised the pavilion’s Jade Emperor Spirit Rice and handed over the land deed, token, and remaining Spirit Stones.
• Qin Ming left the auction house and contacted Hua Tianxiong, who departed the market district in a Golden Luan Carriage with attendants and a Golden Core retainer.
• Tian Wugong and Old Demon Yan watched Hua Tianxiong’s movements from concealment, and Tian Wugong explained that he needed the Seven Aperture Tribulation Flower and living souls to overcome the heart-demon interference in his cultivation.

Qin Ming rescued Hua Tianxiong from two Yin Demon Sect cultivators, killed Old Demon Yan and Tian Wugong, and obtained the Seven Aperture Tribulation Flower and Divine Wood Pill Formula. After giving the Vermillion Bird Banner to the Devouring Sky Rat, Qin Ming planned to visit Su Yuqing and learned the banner could lead to the other four Five Elements Flags.

• Tian Wugong and Old Demon Yan ambushed Hua Tianxiong, but Qin Ming summoned him to a mountain range and hid him in the Lesser Spirit Realm.
• Qin Ming disguised himself as Hua Tianxiong, wounded Tian Wugong with the Netherworld White Bone Sword, and let the Devouring Sky Rat kill Old Demon Yan with the Vermillion Bird Banner.
• Qin Ming killed Tian Wugong, took the two cultivators’ Storage Bags, and reclaimed the Seven Aperture Tribulation Flower and Divine Wood Pill Formula from Hua Tianxiong.
• The Devouring Sky Rat asked to keep the Vermillion Bird Banner, and Qin Ming agreed; Hua Tianxiong returned to Consecrated Xu and claimed he had dealt with the ambush.
• Qin Ming examined the pill formula and the captured treasures, then learned that the Devouring Sky Rat had deciphered the banner and found methods for refining the other four Five Elements Flags.

Qin Ming established Mirror Snow Pavilion’s operations on the Spirit Fields he purchased at Five Elements Mountain, organizing defenses and planting crops despite the nearby threat of demonic beasts. He assigned the Devouring Sky Rat to patrol the mountains, and it set off proudly the next day.

• Qin Ming told Jia Heyi that he had bought two hundred mu of Spirit Fields on a Tier 4 Branch Spirit Vein and ordered him to recruit workers for the move.
• Jia Heyi recruited several dozen Spirit Farmers and several Tier 2 Spirit Planters, and Qin Ming brought them to the new Spirit Fields, where they found signs of demonic beasts near the Beast Cry Mountain Range.
• Qin Ming had Mirror Snow Pavilion build facilities and install a Tier 3 Low-Grade Array, then planted Dragon Vein Grass and Star Epiphyllum in his core plot.
• Qin Ming assigned Li Lan to cultivate Spirit Rest Rice across one hundred mu and gave her a jade slip with planting instructions.
• Qin Ming ordered the Devouring Sky Rat to patrol the nearby mountains, threatening to take back its Vermillion Bird Banner when it objected.
• The Devouring Sky Rat marched along a Five Elements Mountain forest path with a steel fork, bronze gong, and Vermillion Bird Command Banner, frightening nearby demonic beasts away.

The Myriad Paths Trading Alliance declined to consider Mirror Snow Pavilion for membership, while cultivators doubted it could manage its new spirit fields. After cultivating the Seven Aperture Tribulation Flower, Qin Ming obtained an Infant Condensation Pill Formula and began preparing to gather its materials, leaving with plans to visit Su Yuqing.

• Elder Jin and the other officials decided to approach three other firms instead of inviting Mirror Snow Pavilion into the Myriad Paths Trading Alliance.
• Cultivators discussed Mirror Snow Pavilion's purchase of the Tier 4 Branch Lineage Spirit Field and rumors that the Yin Demon Sect's people had vanished after the Five Blessings Auction.
• Several months later, Spirit Farmers cultivated Mirror Snow Pavilion's two hundred mu of fields as Qin Ming's Star Epiphyllum and Dragon Vein Grass sprouted with new affixes.
• Qin Ming accelerated the Seven Aperture Tribulation Flower's growth to three thousand years, harvested it, and gained the Nascent Soul Pill Formula affix.
• Qin Ming learned the materials required for the Infant Condensation Pill and instructed Hua Tianxiong to secretly seek materials, Spirit Seeds, and information for it and the Divine Wood Pill.
• Qin Ming decided to find an opportunity to visit the Dragon Court Lake Su Family in Central Continent and see Su Yuqing.

Qin Ming arranged for Li Lan and the Devouring Sky Rat to guard his Spirit Fields while he traveled to Central Continent to visit an old acquaintance. He used the Myriad Paths Trading Alliance’s teleportation formation and arrived at Li Tian Immortal City.

• Qin Ming told Li Lan to water the Spirit Fields every two days while he was away.
• Qin Ming found the Devouring Sky Rat asleep on patrol, then ordered it to guard the Spirit Fields for the next few days.
• Qin Ming traveled to Five Elements Mountain Market District and asked Han Yuan, Liu Ye, and Gao Feng to use the teleportation formation.
• Qin Ming paid Liu Ye three thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones and received a Teleportation Token for travel to Li Tian Immortal City.
• Qin Ming arrived in Li Tian Immortal City, where a middle-aged Foundation Establishment cultivator welcomed him.

Qin Ming traveled through Li Tian Immortal City and continued north to Dragon Court Lake to reunite with Su Yuqing. Su Yuqing welcomed him into his secluded cave abode, where they began to catch up.

• Qin Ming explored Li Tian Immortal City, watched cultivators bid on a Moon Essence Pill refined by Su Yuqing, and then left the city.
• Qin Ming flew north toward Dragon Court Lake and sent Su Yuqing a message announcing his arrival.
• Su Yuqing declined an invitation to the Liao Family’s birthday banquet, then hurried out after reading Qin Ming’s message.
• Qin Ming and Su Yuqing reunited outside Dragon Court Lake and remarked on how much time had passed and how Qin Ming had grown stronger.
• Su Yuqing led Qin Ming through the Su Clan’s restrictions to his secluded cave abode, where they brewed tea and began talking.

Qin Ming met Su Yuqing to discuss Great Jin’s factional struggles and ask for help with ancient pill formulas. Su Yuqing shared a Nascent Soul Pill Formula, and the chapter ended with him stunned when Qin Ming revealed that he had one too.

• Su Yuqing told Qin Ming that Li Fire Palace had sent him away during a struggle among subordinate clans, and that Great Jin’s limited resources fueled conflict between powerful sects.
• Su Yuqing praised Qin Ming for obtaining the Core Formation Pill Formula and breaking through to the Golden Core Stage; Qin Ming revealed his Manager Lu disguise and confirmed he had acquired the Divine Wood Pill Formula and a Tier 4 spirit field.
• Su Yuqing examined the Divine Wood Pill Formula, identified possible substitute ingredients, and agreed to study it further.
• Su Yuqing gave Qin Ming a Nascent Soul Pill Formula that required a low-grade Tier 4 water-attributed dragon inner core; Qin Ming showed him a late Tier 3 poisonous dragon inner core, which was insufficient.
• Qin Ming gave Su Yuqing his own Nascent Soul Pill Formula to examine, leaving Su Yuqing staring at him in shock.

Qin Ming gave Su Yuqing a Nascent Soul Pill Formula, and Su Yuqing promised to study it and refine pills from Qin Ming’s Ghost King soul pills. After exchanging pillcraft knowledge and warnings about the Yin Demon Sect’s ties to Divine Path Mountain, Qin Ming left Dragon Court Lake with their friendship and alliance strengthened.

• Su Yuqing recognized Qin Ming’s Nascent Soul Pill Formula as a closely guarded orthodox formula and agreed to study it for several months.
• Qin Ming showed Su Yuqing two Ghost King soul pills, and Su Yuqing offered to refine them into Soul Stabilizing Pills in exchange for two pills.
• Su Yuqing gave Qin Ming the Source Dao Pill Scripture, containing his pill-refinement insights and This Clan’s fourth-tier inheritance, and Qin Ming accepted it.
• Qin Ming and Su Yuqing exchanged pillcraft knowledge for two days before Qin Ming gave Su Yuqing a thousand jin of third-tier Jade Emperor Spirit Rice and prepared to leave.
• Su Yuqing warned Qin Ming about Divine Path Mountain’s support from the Yin Demon Sect, and Qin Ming shared jade slips containing correspondence between the two forces.
• Su Yuqing recognized the intelligence as important, and Qin Ming departed Dragon Court Lake for Five Elements Mountain.

After Qin Ming left to sell the Yin Demon Sect spoils, a mysterious beast began stealing and eating Spirit Herbs from his field. The Devouring Sky Rat caught a snow-white silver fox, which begged it to spare its life.

• Qin Ming transformed into Long Taoist and headed to a Black Market near Li Tian Immortal City to dispose of his spoils.
• The Devouring Sky Rat patrolled the Beast Cry Mountain Range, but Jia Heyi and Li Lan discovered that more than ten of Qin Ming's Spirit Herbs had been eaten.
• The Devouring Sky Rat concealed itself near the Spirit Field, yet watched more herbs disappear without seeing the thief.
• The Devouring Sky Rat knocked Li Lan and the Spirit Farmers unconscious, sealed the field with Forbidden Severing Dark Light, and attacked the unseen intruder.
• A snow-white Demon Beast broke through the dark barrier with its Demon Core, but the Devouring Sky Rat wounded and caught it.
• The Devouring Sky Rat found that its captive was a silver fox, and the fox pleaded with it to spare her life.

The Devouring Sky Rat captured a silver fox who had stolen spirit herbs to treat her injured mother and learned that the Silver Moon Sky Fox clan had been ambushed amid the Beast Cry Mountain Range’s turmoil. Qin Ming returned to find his Spirit Field damaged, then followed the Devouring Sky Rat to its cave, where the bound fox feared what the human cultivator would do to her.

• The Devouring Sky Rat caught the silver fox stealing spirit herbs, questioned her, and learned she was from the Silver Moon Sky Fox clan and needed medicine for her injured mother.
• The silver fox explained that the Wind-Rending Eagle clan’s Great Dark Sky Demon King had persuaded other clans to ambush the Silver Moon Sky Fox clan after the Azure-Faced Poisonous Flood Dragon died.
• The Devouring Sky Rat tied up the fox and took her to its cave, deciding to let Qin Ming determine her punishment.
• Qin Ming returned from the Black Market and found that demon beasts had eaten much of the Spirit Field’s plants, though the plants with refreshed Affixes were unharmed.
• After receiving the Devouring Sky Rat’s message, Qin Ming went to its cave and found the bound silver fox, who feared the human cultivator.

Qin Ming spared a silver fox who had stolen his spirit medicine after she offered information about a Fourth-Order Spirit Fruit in exchange for help healing her mother. Bound by a Soul Restriction, she led Qin Ming and the Devouring Sky Rat to a hidden cavern, where they found her gravely injured mother lying on a White Jade Cold Bed.

• The Devouring Sky Rat explained that the silver fox had stolen Qin Ming’s spirit medicine and told him about the upheaval among the demon clans and her injured mother.
• Qin Ming spared the silver fox in exchange for two drops of blood essence, but she offered the location of a Fourth-Order Spirit Fruit if he would heal her mother.
• Qin Ming placed a Soul Restriction on the silver fox, and she agreed to lead him to her mother and the Spirit Fruit.
• The silver fox guided Qin Ming and the Devouring Sky Rat through the Beast Cry Mountain Range to a concealed cavern.
• Qin Ming and the Devouring Sky Rat found the silver fox’s mother lying on a White Jade Cold Bed above a cold pool.

Qin Ming refined a Li Yun Pill and used it to awaken Yue Lingyan, the Silver Moon Sky Fox whose injuries were caused by qi deviation. After revealing that she had witnessed him kill the Azure-Faced Poisonous Dragon, he began the next stage of treatment, leaving Yue Lingyan, her daughter, and the Devouring Sky Rat stunned by his request that she remove her clothing.

• Qin Ming examined the unconscious Palace Gown Woman, identified her qi-deviation injuries, and promised the Silver Fox he could save her.
• Qin Ming used his Spirit-Devouring Poison Flame to refine two Li Yun Pills, drawing on the Source Dao Pill Scripture.
• The Silver Fox gave Yue Lingyan a Li Yun Pill, which repaired her meridians and woke her.
• Yue Lingyan thanked Qin Ming, offered to help him obtain a Fourth-Order Spirit Fruit, and revealed she had witnessed him kill the Azure-Faced Poisonous Dragon.
• Qin Ming dispelled his illusion, and Yue Lingyan recognized him as the cultivator she had seen near the Beast Cry Mountain Range in Liang Kingdom.
• Qin Ming insisted on continuing Yue Lingyan's treatment and told her to remove her clothing, stunning her, the Silver Fox, and the Devouring Sky Rat.

Qin Ming healed Yue Lingyan, whose awakened spirit body nearly drained his spiritual power, then learned that the Fourth-Order Yin Infant Fruit he sought grew near a rare Earthly Spirit Spring. Yue Lingyan explained the dangers surrounding it and showed Qin Ming the Cloud Evading Gauze she had prepared to reach it.

• Qin Ming treated Yue Lingyan with the Four Seasons Divine Light, restoring her to the Great Perfection of the Third Grade and awakening her Nine-Petal Spirit Flower.
• Yue Lingyan's spirit body involuntarily absorbed Qin Ming's spiritual power, but Qin Ming used his Azure Emperor Wood Sovereign Physique to sever the connection and recover with a spiritual pill.
• Yue Lingyan thanked Qin Ming and confirmed that the Fourth-Order Spirit Fruit he sought was a Yin Infant Fruit nearing maturity.
• Yue Lingyan told Qin Ming that the fruit grew in a cave in the Beast Cry Mountain Range beside an Earthly Spirit Spring, amid poisonous miasma and Earth Fiend Yin Qi.
• Yue Lingyan showed Qin Ming the top-grade Third-Grade Cloud Evading Gauze she had refined to pass through those hazards.

Qin Ming and Yue Lingyan reached the hidden cavern where the Yin Infant Fruit grew and agreed on how to share its treasures. Yue Lingyan took the mature fruit, while Qin Ming planned to carry away the Spirit Plant and Earthly Spirit Spring and promised her one of the two fruits when they ripened.

• Qin Ming and Yue Lingyan entered the poisonous miasma beneath the Cloud Evading Gauze and flew toward the valley, while the Silver Fox and Devouring Sky Rat watched from the Lesser Spirit Realm.
• Qin Ming and Yue Lingyan passed through the dangerous Yin Sha Qi-filled cave and discovered the Yin Infant Fruit Tree beside an Earthly Spirit Spring.
• Qin Ming saw that one of the three Yin Infant Fruits was mature and asked Yue Lingyan how she wanted to divide them.
• Yue Lingyan offered Qin Ming the mature fruit in gratitude for saving her, but Qin Ming let her take it and asked to carry away the tree and spring.
• Qin Ming promised Yue Lingyan one of the other fruits after it ripened, and she accepted the arrangement.

After completing their bargain, Qin Ming took the Yin Infant Fruit Tree and Earthly Spirit Spring into his Lesser Spirit Realm and released Yue Lingyan’s daughter from their divine contract. Yue Lingyan began her attempt to break through to the fourth grade, while Qin Ming guarded her from afar as spiritual qi gathered above the valley.

• Yue Lingyan claimed the ripe Yin Infant Fruit, and Qin Ming used the Xumi Landscape Affix to move the fruit tree and Earthly Spirit Spring into his Lesser Spirit Realm.
• Qin Ming dissolved the divine contract binding the Silver Fox, and Yue'er thanked him.
• Yue Lingyan told Qin Ming she intended to break through to the fourth grade and asked him to guard her and take in Yue'er if she died; Qin Ming agreed and gave her a Li Yun Pill.
• Yue Lingyan sent Qin Ming and the two beasts outside, transformed into a three-tailed Silver Fox, and swallowed her prepared treasures and the Yin Infant Fruit.
• A vast spiritual cloud gathered above the waterfall over several days, and Qin Ming took Yue'er and the Devouring Sky Rat away and watched for danger.

Yue Lingyan endured the transformation lightning tribulation and became a Fourth-Order Demon Saint, while Qin Ming and her daughter watched. After thanking Qin Ming for his help, she gave him a Jade Talisman to contact her and invited him to visit the fox clan’s Dusk Cloud Mountain.

• The Devouring Sky Rat, Mystic Water Crocodile, and Silver-Winged Frost Bee killed the Ox Demon King and Black Scorpion Demon King when they approached Yue Lingyan’s breakthrough site.
• Qin Ming and his Spirit Pets watched as Yue Lingyan faced the transformation lightning tribulation, enduring sixteen bolts before using the Li Yun Pill to recover.
• Yue Lingyan survived the final two lightning bolts and completed her transformation into a Fourth-Order Demon Saint.
• Yue Lingyan thanked Qin Ming for saving her and credited his Li Yun Pill with helping her survive and break through.
• Qin Ming said he planned to return to Five Elements Mountain, and Yue Lingyan gave him a Jade Talisman and invited him to Dusk Cloud Mountain.

Qin Ming parted ways with Yue Lingyan after helping her advance to the fourth tier, then returned to Five Elements Mountain and resumed cultivating while preparing resources for himself and his spirit pets. The chapter left him tending the Yin Infant Fruit Tree and Earthly Spirit Spring as his plans for future pills and cultivation progressed.

• Qin Ming celebrated Yue Lingyan's breakthrough with a feast, then bid her farewell as she returned to settle matters with the Fox Clan's enemies.
• Qin Ming promised the Devouring Sky Rat pills made from two Demon Cores and materials for its Five Elements Command Flag, then returned to Five Elements Mountain.
• Qin Ming reassured Jia Heyi and Li Lan that they were not to blame for the earlier destruction of the Spirit Plants.
• Qin Ming resumed farming and cultivation while Hua Tianxiong gathered scarce materials through the Thousand Machines Commerce.
• Qin Ming refined six Beast Sovereign Pills from the Ox Demon King and Black Scorpion Demon King and distributed them among his three Spirit Pets.
• Qin Ming continued nurturing the Yin Infant Fruit Tree with the Earthly Spirit Spring while waiting for the remaining materials needed to refine the Infant Condensation Pill.

Qin Ming continued developing Mirror Snow Pavilion’s Spirit Fields as news spread that Yue Lingyan had become a fourth-order transformed demon, alarming the cultivation world. He examined two jade slips sent by Su Yuqing, while remaining confident that Yue Lingyan’s connection would protect him.

• Qin Ming reviewed Jia Heyi’s report on the abundant harvest from more than one hundred mu of Spirit Fields and ordered the Spirit Rice sold, with half the Spirit Stones sent to headquarters.
• Elder Jin Han learned that Qin Ming was a Tier 3 Spirit Plant Grandmaster and ordered the Myriad Paths Trading Alliance to contact Mirror Snow Pavilion.
• Hua Tianxiong warned Qin Ming that a newly transformed fourth-order fox demon had launched a killing spree in Beast Cry Mountain Range, and delivered Spirit Seeds, materials, and two jade slips from Su Yuqing.
• Hua Tianxiong left after Qin Ming accepted the supplies and instructions, while Qin Ming remained unsurprised because he had anticipated the consequences of Yue Lingyan’s breakthrough.
• News of the new Demon Saint spread across the three great Immortal Cultivation Worlds and caused a tremendous uproar.
• Qin Ming returned to Five Elements Mountain and examined the two jade slips Su Yuqing had sent.

Qin Ming received an Infant Condensation Pill formula and prepared to gather materials, while managing his Spirit Pets and affairs at Mirror Snow Pavilion. The chapter ended with Yue'er delivering a trove of Spirit materials that supplied everything Qin Ming needed for the Divine Wood Pill and Five Elements Flag.

• Qin Ming studied Su Yuqing's jade slips and learned the Infant Condensation Pill formula and substitute ingredients for the Divine Wood Pill.
• The Mystic Water Crocodile and Silver-Winged Frost Bee advanced to Tier 3 Middle Stage, while the Devouring Sky Rat set off for the Beast Cry Mountain Range to temper itself.
• Li Lan asked Qin Ming to accept her as a disciple, and he instead gave her cultivation insights under conditions for her future work.
• Jia Heyi told Qin Ming that Mirror Snow Pavilion had been invited to join the Myriad Paths Trading Alliance, and Qin Ming agreed while leaving the arrangements to Jia Heyi.
• The Devouring Sky Rat returned with Silver Fox Yue'er, who delivered a Storage Bag of Spirit materials gathered by her mother, completing Qin Ming's materials for the Divine Wood Pill and Five Elements Flag.

Qin Ming learned about the shifting balance among the Beast Cry Mountain Range’s demon clans, refined a Divine Wood Pill and advanced his cultivation, then began making Five Elements Command Flags. The chapter ended with Han Yuan and Gao Feng warning him that powerful caravans were being plundered and a Golden Core Middle Stage escort had been killed.

• The Silver Fox described the four major demon factions and explained that the Wind-Rending Eagle clan’s Great Dark Sky Demon Saint favored war, while the Silver Moon Sky Fox clan opposed it and two other clans remained neutral.
• Qin Ming sent the Silver Fox back to the Beast Cry Mountain Range with the Devouring Sky Rat and gave her spirit fruits and spirit wine to take home.
• Qin Ming struggled to refine Divine Wood Pills, succeeded in making two, and cultivated with one until his Golden Core cultivation drew closer to the late stage.
• Qin Ming spent several months refining the remaining four Five Elements Command Flags for the Devouring Sky Rat.
• Han Yuan warned Qin Ming that caravans had been repeatedly plundered, and Gao Feng revealed that Red Sun Child, a Golden Core Middle Stage escort, had been killed while guarding a Lingyuan Trading Company caravan.
• Han Yuan and Gao Feng said Elder Jin Han had organized an investigation and gone to pursue the attackers, leaving Qin Ming alarmed by the news.