Chapter Summaries

Wentesi and Crow Lord entered Green Snake Market, where they hired a rat demon named Shu San to guide them through the trading district. Wentesi became interested in a tortoise demon’s divination technique after hearing that it could use scales as a tool.

• Crow Lord explained Green Snake Market’s rules, and he and Wentesi paid the entrance fee to enter.
• Shu San introduced himself as a local guide, and Wentesi hired him to show them the market’s buying and selling district.
• Shu San led Wentesi and Crow Lord to a trading area filled with shops and stalls.
• Wentesi heard a tortoise demon advertise a fifth-grade divination technique that used a tortoise shell or body scales, and he realized his dragon scales might make it especially effective.

Wentesi bought a fifth-grade divination technique after confirming it suited his dragon scales, then explored a demon market and joined a lecture on cultivation lineages. The lecture ended with the teacher falling silent when a fox demon asked why no Greater Yang demons could be found.

• Wentesi examined the Yarrow-Stalk and Shell Divination and Six-Line Verification, confirmed its requirements suited his dragon scales, and bought it from the turtle demon for half a Spirit Stone.
• Wentesi transmitted the technique to his red dragon main body and continued through the market with Shu San, learning about resource prices and the low value of Cold Qi spiritual objects.
• Wentesi noticed a classroom where an elderly human taught demons and paid the lecture fees for himself, Crow Lord, and Shu San.
• The teacher explained the lineages under heaven, and a fox demon asked why no Greater Yang demons had appeared; the teacher fell silent.

Wentesi learned about cultivation Dao lineages, then tested a new divination technique that could predict events and conceal him from being tracked. After divining good fortune around Shu San’s job, Wentesi and Crow Lord met the employer, an aloof and beautiful half-snake demon.

• An old man lectured Wentesi, Crow Lord, and other demons on the Nine Qis and basic cultivation knowledge.
• Shu San offered Wentesi and Crow Lord a well-paying, supposedly safe job, and Wentesi planned to earn spiritual objects through trade and cultivation.
• Wentesi returned his Divine Sense to his main body and used Yarrow-Stalk and Shell Divination and Six-Line Verification to predict events and shield himself from divination.
• Wentesi repeatedly divined that the Greater Yin cultivators would not find his trail soon, then returned to Green Snake Market the next morning.
• Shu San led Wentesi and Crow Lord to a secluded cave, where they met a beautiful half-snake demon who asked if they were the Feather Race cultivators with clean backgrounds.

Wentesi accepted Bai Ling’s offer to scout a human cultivator from the air, then returned to his dragon body and spent the afternoon cultivating. The chapter left him asking Kru why he thought Wentesi was feeding the Devil Creatures too generously.

• Bai Ling offered Wentesi and Crow Lord twelve Spirit Stones each to track a late-stage Qi Ingestion cultivator from the [Fire Virtue] lineage and report his position.
• Wentesi divined moderate fortune for the mission’s safety, minor fortune for its success, and great fortune for his gains, then accepted the job with Crow Lord.
• Wentesi asked Bai Ling what would stop them from fleeing with the Law Artifacts, and she revealed that her scent would let her track them anywhere.
• Wentesi returned to his dragon body, cultivated with his Hairy Head Sun Law Power until dusk, and listened to Kru’s report on the territory.
• Wentesi learned that Kru thought he was paying the Devil Creatures too much and asked whether Kru believed the bare minimum of food would suffice.

Wentesi refined his plans for exploiting the Devil Creatures, checked on Kru and Walker, and continued cultivating while experimenting with Wind Qi spirit plants. He then crossed into the cultivation world and joined Bai Ling and the others as they prepared to confront a late-stage Fire Virtue cultivator.

• Wentesi explained to Kru that paying the Devil Creatures would make them work harder and ultimately bring him more wealth, and Kru agreed to obey.
• Wentesi found Kru's cultivation steady and Walker progressing rapidly, so he decided not to remove Walker from the Field of Merit.
• Wentesi failed to convert existing spirit seeds into proper Wind Qi plants, then spent the next two days cultivating his Hairy Head Sun Law Power, divination patterns, and Brahma Sound Six Consciousnesses Many Ears Penetration.
• Wentesi crossed into the cultivation world with honey and a defective White Jade Grain spirit seed, and Crow Lord retrieved the items for him.
• Bai Ling summoned Wentesi, Crow Lord, and the others to the dead woods west of the market town, where they gathered to set out against a late-stage Fire Virtue cultivator.

Wentesi and Crow Lord followed Bai Ling’s group to attack Lin Hen, while Shu San explained why Bai Ling sought revenge on him. At the mountainside, Bai Ling prepared a damaged Foundation Establishment formation and planned to lure Lin Hen into it, as Wentesi’s divination foretold great fortune.

• Shu San asked Crow Lord to carry him and explained that Bai Ling was the Green Snake Market Master’s 308th daughter.
• Shu San said Lin Hen had deceived and eaten Bai Ling’s fire serpent friend to advance his cultivation, and that Bai Ling acted after Lin Hen was expelled from his sect.
• Wentesi and Crow Lord joined Bai Ling, the sword cultivator, the ape demon, and the old woman at the mountainside where Lin Hen was hiding.
• Bai Ling assigned formation flags and explained that she would lure Lin Hen into the damaged Two Forms Formation, which she said could still trap him.
• Wentesi’s divination returned great fortune, though he hoped nothing would go wrong.

Bai Ling and her allies trapped and killed the deranged Lin Hen, but Wentesi detected a faint flame escaping from the corpse and captured it. The flame revealed itself as an ancient black ring containing High Person Huncang, who panicked when he recognized Wentesi as a Buddhist mount.

• Bai Ling gave the helpers Fire-Quelling Spirit-Calming Pills and set them in position to form a trap around Lin Hen’s cave.
• Bai Ling drew Lin Hen out with Wood Virtue techniques, and he attacked her before fleeing through the formation.
• Crow Lord warned the defenders as Lin Hen feinted north, charged west, and then tried to break through the ape demon’s position.
• The formation trapped Lin Hen, and the cultivators wore him down before Bai Ling’s green python killed him; they continued attacking his corpse after he fell.
• Wentesi heard a faint flame escape Lin Hen’s remains, divined that he should not tell Bai Ling, and pursued it in his red dragon true body.
• Wentesi captured the exhausted flame in golden light, revealing an ancient black ring whose occupant, High Person Huncang, asked for help and then recognized Wentesi as a Buddhist mount.