Chapter Summaries

Qin Fei visited the Puppet Association to meet Wei Zhao and build ties with the organization. He was welcomed by Wei Zhao and Ji Huan, received Second-Tier Puppet Master certification, and joined them for a gathering with the Association’s young talents.

• Qin Fei learned that the Puppet Association was holding a tier assessment and asked to see Wei Zhao, who was serving as an examiner.
• Qin Fei insisted the staff notify Wei Zhao, and Wei Zhao came out with Ji Huan and was delighted to find that Qin Fei had reached Foundation Establishment.
• Wei Zhao introduced Qin Fei to Ji Huan, and the two vice presidents praised Qin Fei’s cultivation and puppet-making skills.
• Wei Zhao gave Qin Fei a Second-Tier Puppet Master token and robes, then assigned Hu Tian to oversee the assessment in his place.
• Qin Fei, Wei Zhao, and Ji Huan went to the Drunken Immortal Pavilion, where the Puppet Association’s young talents welcomed them and a private room was prepared.

Qin Fei recruited members of the Puppet Association into a puppet sales venture, helping address the group’s financial problems. After learning that the Ghost Mother was searching for stolen paper figures, he returned to his cave abode with the figures and prepared to craft puppets.

• Qin Fei modestly credited his progress to Wei Zhao’s guidance and the puppet scrapyard while sharing his story with the young talents.
• Qin Fei heard that the Puppet Association struggled with recruitment, sharing inheritances, and funding, then offered its members a chance to sell puppets through his friends’ sales channel.
• Wei Zhao warned Qin Fei that the Ghost Mother was searching for two stolen paper figures and suspected Blood Gu Rogue Person had fled with them after the Blood Gu Sect was destroyed.
• Qin Fei returned to his cave abode with the paper figures and learned from the big yellow dog that the fierce ghosts sealed inside them might be the real source of their importance.
• Qin Fei trusted the big yellow dog’s Five Lightning Ghost-Suppressing Technique to conceal the figures and began preparing to craft puppets for profit.

Qin Fei spent three years crafting puppets and cultivating, helping the Heavenly Secret Pavilion and Puppet Association establish a profitable partnership. After unlocking blueprints for a second-tier Blacksmith and the exclusive Foundation Establishment puppet Jumang, he resolved to craft Jumang as soon as possible.

• Qin Fei focused on crafting Desolate Rock Ghost Pythons, Spirit Energy Cannons, and Divine Travel Boats while remaining in seclusion for three years.
• Yunxiu collected puppets and coordinated sales, and Qin Fei brought more members into the Heavenly Secret Pavilion's cooperation with the Puppet Association through Wei Zhao.
• Qiu Muxue regularly visited to feed Cloud Treader, whose cultivation reached the Qi Refinement Ninth Layer.
• Qin Fei cultivated and accumulated over 8,000 Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, while Iron Guard returned after finding a colony of Wind-Howling Rats for planting Gu.
• Qin Fei's Heavenly Craft Creation Pavilion reached level 12 and unlocked blueprints for a second-tier Blacksmith and the exclusive Foundation Establishment puppet Jumang.
• Qin Fei examined Jumang's healing abilities and decided to craft the puppet as soon as possible.

Qin Fei completed the Jumang puppet and confronted the Lu Household patriarch over the Lu Household’s past persecution of him. After learning that Lu Tianchou had survived and was training in Repel the North City, Qin Fei attacked the patriarch, while Guo Nanshan warned the Lin Household patriarch not to interfere.

• Qin Fei finished refining Jumang, a puppet whose healing abilities restored his Spiritual Power and eased old injuries.
• The Lin and Lu Household patriarchs agreed to turn their households into a sect, then discussed their resentment toward Qin Fei.
• Qin Fei arrived at the manor with Jumang, Iron Guard, and Guo Nanshan, and declared that he had come to settle accounts with the Lu Household patriarch.
• The Lu Household patriarch blamed past persecution on Lu Tianchou and revealed that Tianchou had become a disciple of the three great sects and was training in Repel the North City.
• Qin Fei said he would deal with Lu Tianchou himself, then sent Iron Guard and Jumang to attack the Lu Household patriarch as Guo Nanshan warned the Lin Household patriarch not to intervene.

Qin Fei defeated and captured the Lu Household's Ancestor, then wiped out the Lu Household disciples and left the Lin Household unharmed. As he returned to his cave abode to give Jumang a spirit, the big yellow dog stopped him to discuss Lu Tianchou and the Body Refining Cultivation Method.

• The Lu Household's Ancestor fled after Qin Fei, Iron Guard, and Jumang overwhelmed him, but Qin Fei pursued and captured him with the Soul-Seizing Technique.
• Qin Fei sealed the Ancestor's extracted spirituality in a jade bottle, intending to use it to give Jumang independence.
• The Lin Household's Ancestor gathered the Lin and Lu disciples, and Qin Fei killed the Lu Household disciples while sparing the Lin Household.
• The Lin Household's Ancestor ordered his people to kill any returning Lu Household remnants, leaving the Lu Household utterly destroyed.
• As Qin Fei hurried back to his cave abode, the big yellow dog asked what he thought of Lu Tianchou and whether he should cultivate Lu Tianchou's Body Refining Cultivation Method.

Qin Fei committed to cultivating the Nine Revolutions Golden Core Technique and prepared to improve his chances of surviving its nine dispersals. He reached the Wind-Howling Rat colony to infect its rat king with a Blood Amber Spirit Gu, while A Luodan and Gutulu hid nearby from a pursuing Crimson Zheng.

• Big Yellow explained that the Nine Revolutions Golden Core Technique could strengthen Qin Fei's foundation and raise his chances of Core Formation, so Qin Fei decided to cultivate it.
• Qin Fei sent Iron Guard and Big Yellow to investigate Lu Tianchou, then imbued Jumang with the Lu Household patriarch's soul.
• Iron Guard found a Wind-Howling Rat colony as a suitable place to spread Qin Fei's Blood Amber Spirit Gu, and Qin Fei flew there with Jumang.
• A Luodan and Gutulu hid in the colony while recovering from their injuries and evading a Crimson Zheng that was hunting them over a stolen cub.
• Qin Fei used Jumang to drive roots into the rats' burrows, forcing countless Wind-Howling Rats aboveground and prompting A Luodan and Gutulu to flee.

Qin Fei planted a Blood Amber Spirit Gu in the Wind-Howling Rats’ king and learned that the captured Gutulu and A Luodan had caused the Shangyu Market beast tide while stealing a Crimson Zheng cub. After Qin Fei declined to pursue the cub, its Foundation Establishment Middle Stage parent confronted him, and their battle continued until another Crimson Zheng arrived.

• Qin Fei and Jumang trapped A Luodan and Gutulu amid the Wind-Howling Rats, and A Luodan died after detonating his Dantian.
• Qin Fei used puppets to suppress the rat tide, planted the Blood Amber Spirit Gu in the rat king, and fled with the barely living Gutulu.
• Qin Fei searched Gutulu’s memories and learned that the two barbarians had caused the Shangyu Market beast tide and stolen a Crimson Zheng cub for the Barbarian Tribe.
• Qin Fei extracted Gutulu’s soul, then encountered the Crimson Zheng pursuing the stolen cub and failed to persuade it to stop.
• Qin Fei, Jumang, and the Crimson Zheng fought for three days until another Crimson Zheng arrived and called for them to stop.

Qin Fei avoided conflict with the Crimson Zheng by revealing that their missing cub had entered Barbarian territory, then returned to refine a Law Treasure. The cub’s kidnapping sparked a war that let the human sects reclaim lost territory, while Qin Fei remained unaware and celebrated his blacksmith’s first successful Law Treasure.

• Wuyao apologized after learning Qin Fei had killed the Barbarians responsible for the beast tide, and Qin Fei told him the Crimson Zheng cub had been taken into Barbarian territory.
• Wuyao gave Qin Fei a bead containing his promise of aid, then led his clansman to investigate the route Qin Fei had provided.
• Qin Fei returned to the Heavenly Pivot Mountain Range, built a blacksmith puppet, and spent months trying to forge a Law Treasure from the paper figure’s teeth.
• The Crimson Zheng discovered that the Barbarian Tribe had kidnapped their young master and attacked several Barbarian tribes, while the three great sects launched a counteroffensive and recovered their lost territory.
• After half a year of failed attempts, Qin Fei examined the first Law Treasure forged by his blacksmith, unaware of the war’s outcome.

Qin Fei refined the Law Treasure Broken Branch and agreed to let Qiu Muxue stay with Cloud Treader while she prepared it for a breakthrough. He left to hunt suitable Demon Beasts for its advancement and ended up encountering a young zheng in a lava lake, which recognized the signal he crushed.

• Qin Fei refined Broken Branch, gaining a trace of its decay power and increasing the sword's strength.
• Qiu Muxue told Qin Fei she would stay to help Cloud Treader reach the peak of the Qi Refining Ninth Layer, then offered herself in exchange for his help protecting the Beast Taming Sect after Guo Nanshan died.
• Qin Fei gave Qiu Muxue the Tumbling Phoenix and Nurturing Luan Art and learned Cloud Treader would need suitable Essence Blood to become a second-tier Demon Beast within a year.
• Qin Fei left to hunt Demon Beasts for Cloud Treader and, half a month later, chased a Lava Beast with Jumang into a smoke-filled lava region.
• Qin Fei crushed a small sphere to avoid a misunderstanding with a young zheng in the lava lake, and the zheng asked whether he knew its Uncle Wuyao.