Chapter Summaries

Wang Shenfeng flew to Azure Ape Peak to buy supplies after seeing the Core Formation twin sisters Wang Xiuling and Wang Xiulong. The chapter also showed how the Wang Family managed its Myriad Inscription Stone mine, where Wang Guangfeng oversaw the workers and Zhou Hong gained better terms after becoming the family’s in-law.

• Wang Shenfeng sent his Golden Winged Soul-Devouring Scorpion back to its courtyard, then rode his Golden Beaked Green Dove toward Azure Ape Peak to buy supplies for his Spirit Insects and Spirit Birds.
• Wang Shenfeng encountered Wang Xiuling and Wang Xiulong, twin Core Formation cultivators whose talent and status made him resolve to surpass them.
• The Wang Family’s Myriad Inscription Stone mine employed Rogue Cultivators and affiliated cultivators, with Wang Family disciples overseeing teams to prevent deadly disputes.
• Wang Guangfeng ended the miners’ shift and collected their mined Myriad Inscription Stone.
• Wang Guangfeng refused Zhou Hong’s offering after learning Zhou Hong’s great-grandson had married a Wang Family disciple, allowing Zhou Hong to keep a larger share of his future earnings.

Wang Yangsheng and Liu Yushuang encountered Wang Guangqi and Lin Furong in Flying Dragon Market, while Wang Jiye and Wang Moxin celebrated acquiring a rare Seven Aperture Bloodwood. The chapter then recounted Flowing Cloud Fairy’s rise and the Ye Family’s history in the Northern Frozen Ice Plains.

• Wang Guangqi introduced Lin Furong of the Jin Yu Sect to Wang Yangsheng and Liu Yushuang, who warned him not to cause trouble with romantic entanglements.
• Wang Guanglin joined Wang Guangqi and Lin Furong after leaving a wine house, then headed off in search of good food.
• Wang Jiye and Wang Moxin examined a thirty-thousand-year-old Seven Aperture Bloodwood obtained from a Rogue Cultivator and planned to send it to Wang Changsheng for a Life-Substitute Puppet.
• Wang Jiye lamented Wang Liangyan’s death, and Wang Moxin said the Family Head had ordered greater efforts to train high-order Artifact Refiners.
• The chapter described how Flowing Cloud Fairy led the Ye Family to glory and defeated seven Alien Race Great Ascension cultivators, killing four.

Ye Xuanfeng failed to refine a true Profound Heaven Treasure and learned that Ye Yuyu had died during her seventh Grand Heavenly Tribulation. At Hundred Flower Manor, Wang Yidao and Du Xueyao agreed to visit and share wine with each other again.

• Ye Xuanfeng tested a white flying sword but concluded his attempt to refine a true Profound Heaven Treasure had failed, and regretted that Ye Xuanji had left the family.
• Ye Xuanfeng learned that Ye Yuyu had died during her seventh Grand Heavenly Tribulation and ordered the clan to nurture three Body Integration Cultivators.
• Ye Xuanfeng dismissed the idea that Ye Xuanji could revive the dead by opening a passage to the Netherworld.
• Wang Yidao told Du Xueyao he wanted to return to Hundred Flower Manor, and she welcomed him to come whenever he liked.
• Wang Yidao promised to drink only the Spirit Wine Du Xueyao brewed, and Du Xueyao promised to invite only him; he then left.

A century after the Wang Family began developing new territory, Wang Changsheng prepared to take talented younger clan members to Song Yunlong’s birthday celebration. He left Wang Ruyan to guard Azure Lotus Island while he mentored Wang Ruyi and Wang Rumeng, who had made impressive progress in puppet making and talisman crafting.

• Wang Moshan announced that the top twenty competitors in each realm at the Minor Tournament could accompany Wang Changsheng to the Song Family’s birthday celebration, and the clan members entered the Blazing Demon Refining Pagoda’s trials.
• Wang Ruyi successfully controlled her first Rank 4 Puppet Beast, and Wang Changsheng praised her progress and invited her to the Song Family.
• Wang Rumeng completed a Four Symbols Formation of Array Talismans, and Wang Ruyan encouraged her to keep practicing.
• Wang Changsheng told Wang Ruyan he would take Ruyi and the others to the birthday celebration while she stayed to guard Azure Lotus Island, and she agreed.

Wang Changsheng and Ximen Long traveled with their clans to Song Yunlong’s birthday celebration, hoping to strengthen ties with the Song Family. They met outside the Yellow Maple Mountain Range, where Ximen Long praised Wang Yidao before the groups were welcomed inside.

• Wang Changsheng reviewed the Minor Tournament rankings and summoned accomplished clan members to accompany him to Song Yunlong’s birthday celebration.
• Wang Changsheng and more than two hundred Wang Family members departed aboard the Azure Phoenix Boat.
• Ximen Long set out with more than three hundred Ximen Family disciples, hoping to form a marriage alliance with the Song Family and gain a path into the Townsea Palace.
• Song Yunlong told Song Huizu to stop investigating Mad Saber Lord’s connection to the Wang Family, then ordered him to welcome the arriving guests.
• Wang Changsheng and Ximen Long met outside the Yellow Maple Mountain Range, where Ximen Long praised Wang Yidao’s cultivation.

Wang Changsheng and other Body Integration Cultivators gathered at the Song Family for Song Yunlong’s birthday celebration and began exchanging treasures. Myriad Ghosts True Person asked Wang Changsheng about the Nine Lotus Spirit Disk, leaving the gathering’s exchange at a tense pause.

• Wang Changsheng and Ximen Long greeted Wang Yidao, Ximen Lei, and Zuo Tianpeng when they arrived at the Song Family.
• Song Huizu escorted Wang Changsheng, Ximen Long, and Zuo Tianpeng to meet Song Yunlong, Madam Baihua, Myriad Ghosts True Person, and Lin Youxin.
• Song Yunlong served Golden Rainbow Jade Dew and introduced Madam Baihua and Myriad Ghosts True Person to the guests.
• Song Yunlong displayed materials for exchange, and Wang Changsheng and the other cultivators traded for items they wanted.
• Wang Changsheng presented more than twenty precious materials, including two defensive Middle-Grade Heavenly Treasures, and Myriad Ghosts True Person asked him about the Nine Lotus Spirit Disk.

Wang Changsheng traded a defensive Middle-Grade Heavenly Treasure to Myriad Ghosts True Person for the Nine Lotus Spirit Disk refinement method, a Nine Revolutions Exquisite Stone, and a Wind-Fixing Stone, then negotiated another exchange with Ximen Long. He left the gathering having traded away both defensive treasures for valuable materials and talisman methods.

• Wang Changsheng and Myriad Ghosts True Person discussed the Nine Lotus Spirit Disk, and Myriad Ghosts True Person offered its refinement method and a Nine Revolutions Exquisite Stone.
• Myriad Ghosts True Person added a Wind-Fixing Stone, and Wang Changsheng accepted the trade after inspecting the stone and the jade slip.
• Wang Changsheng rejected the other Body Integration Cultivators’ offers, while Song Yunlong watched enviously as Wang Changsheng displayed his wealth.
• Ximen Long offered the Sky Talisman Sect’s secret talisman and Jade Talisman refinement methods in exchange for Wang Changsheng’s defensive Middle-Grade Heavenly Treasure.
• Wang Changsheng bargained for four drops of Profound Nether Heavy Water in addition to a Seventh Order Golden Thunder Shark hide, and Ximen Long agreed.
• Wang Changsheng exchanged away both defensive Heavenly Treasures and gained valuable treasures, materials, and refinement methods.

At Song Yunlong’s longevity celebration, Wang Guangming seized a chance to show his abilities by defeating a Song Family junior in a sparring match. Ximen Ting then stepped in to challenge him, leaving Wang Guangming warned about his opponent’s strength.

• Ximen Long and the other guests exchanged treasures before discussing the Azure Lotus Couple’s growing fame and the possibility of future conflict with the Alien Race.
• Song Yunlong urged Song Ziyun and Song Zifeng to befriend the Wang Family, Ximen Family, and Cloud Firmament Sect juniors as guests continued arriving for the celebration.
• At a gathering of Nascent Soul Cultivators, Wang Guangming volunteered to spar with a Song Family youth who wanted to test Wang Ruyi’s Puppet Array.
• Wang Guangming used his Azure Sword Qi and corrosive Black Liquid to break through the Song youth’s defenses and win the match.
• Ximen Ting appeared and challenged Wang Guangming, while the defeated youth warned him that Wang Guangming’s treasure was highly corrosive.

Wang Guangming conceded his duel against Ximen Ting after being overwhelmed by Ximen Ting’s Thunder Attribute techniques. Wang Ruyi then fought Ximen Ting with her Crimson Fire Flood Dragon and four Rank 4 Puppet Beasts, forcing him to admit defeat.

• Ximen Ting used his Corpse Transformation Gourd and Thunder Attribute Spirit Treasures to overwhelm Wang Guangming, who admitted defeat.
• Wang Ruyi entered the valley to duel Ximen Ting, bringing out her Fourth-Order Crimson Fire Flood Dragon.
• Wang Ruyi deployed four Rank 4 Puppet Beasts while Ximen Ting attacked with the Two-Headed Thunder Eagle and his lightning techniques.
• Wang Ruyi’s coordinated attacks trapped Ximen Ting in flames, and he admitted defeat.

Wang Ruyi defeated Ximen Ting in a spar, and the Ximen Family learned how closely she and Wang Rumeng were tied to Wang Changsheng. Seven days later, Song Yunlong's birthday celebration began, where Wang Yidao declined the Song Family's wine and drank only the spirit wine Du Xueyao had brewed.

• Wang Ruyi overwhelmed Ximen Ting with her treasures and four Fourth-Order Puppet Beasts, and he conceded that she was a core Wang Family member.
• A Wang Family clansman revealed that Wang Ruyi lived on Azure Lotus Peak and was personally taught by Wang Changsheng, shocking the other guests.
• Ximen Long urged Ximen Ting, Ximen Lang, and Ximen Yao to build ties with the Wang Family's core members, including Wang Ruyi, Wang Rumeng, and Wang Yibing.
• Seven days later, Song Yunlong's birthday celebration gathered over ten thousand cultivators, with Wang Changsheng, Lin Youxin, and Wang Yidao seated near the front.
• When Song Yunlong toasted the guests, Wang Yidao drank Yidao's Drunkenness instead of the Song Family's wine, displeasing Song Huizu.

At Song Yunlong’s birthday celebration, Wang Yihong smoothed over Wang Yidao’s breach of etiquette before the guests entered the Pure Yang Pagoda trial. As the cultivators watched the contest, Wang Changsheng discussed the growing tensions between the Silver Shark Clan and the Golden Scale Clan; Ximen Lang led the trial, with Wang Yidao and Wang Yibing close behind.

• Wang Yidao returned Song Yunlong’s toast with his own Spirit Wine, and Wang Yihong persuaded him to toast Song Yunlong and the Song Family disciples with Jade Dew Brew.
• Song Huiming announced a Pure Yang Pagoda competition, and Wang Yihong, Wang Yidao, Wang Yibing, and other Void Refinement Cultivators entered the trial.
• Ximen Long proposed a wager on the contestants, and the Body Integration Cultivators put up valuable materials and medicines.
• Wang Changsheng speculated that Yuan Gang’s control of a Great Ascension Stage Flesh Puppet had strengthened the Silver Shark Clan and discussed the risk of conflict with the Golden Scale Clan.
• Song Huiming showed the contestants’ progress: Ximen Lang reached the Fifty-Fourth Layer, while Wang Yidao reached the Fiftieth and Wang Yibing the Forty-Ninth; Wang Yihong and several others were eliminated.

Ximen Lang and Wang Yidao both passed the Fifty-Fourth Layer of the Pure Yang Pagoda and reached the Fifty-Fifth, while Wang Changsheng grew wary of Ximen Long’s repeated praise. Ximen Long revealed that the Four Seas Spirit Forging Art was also associated with the ruined Four Seas Palace, whose lost Secret Realms lay somewhere beyond the sea.

• Ximen Lang reached the Fifty-Fifth Layer after defeating three Top-Grade Sixth-Order Demon Beasts, then meditated to restore his magic power.
• Ximen Long repeatedly praised Wang Changsheng, making Wang Changsheng increasingly suspicious, while the other cultivators continued challenging the Pure Yang Pagoda.
• Wang Yibing failed her challenge, Wang Yidao reached the Fifty-Second Layer, Qin Yao reached the Fifty-Fourth, and Lin Lian Yue and Thousand Ghosts True Man reached the Fiftieth and Fifty-First Layers.
• Wang Yidao reached the Fifty-Fourth Layer and fought three Top-Grade Sixth-Order Demon Beasts after swallowing a Golden Jade Spirit Restoration Pill.
• Ximen Long said Ximen Lang’s cultivation method came from an Ancient Cultivator Abode and was also held by the Mystic Azure Sect and the Four Seas Palace, which had been destroyed in a Large Beast Tide.
• Wang Yidao passed the Fifty-Fourth Layer and joined Ximen Lang on the Fifty-Fifth, while Lin Lian Yue and Thousand Ghosts True Man stopped at the Fifty-Third.

At Song Yunlong’s birthday celebration, Wang Changsheng, Ximen Long, and Song Yunlong wagered mining rights on a contest between their juniors. Wang Yidao chose to face Ximen Lang and Song Ziyan together, swiftly defeating Ximen Lang and disarming Song Ziyan without killing her.

• Ximen Long wagered one hundred years of mining rights to the Sky Cloud Crystal Mine, and Wang Changsheng countered with rights to the God Binding Stone Mine.
• Song Yunlong entered the Song Family’s Golden Crow Divine Crystal Mine rights into the wager and appointed Song Ziyan to compete alongside Ximen Lang and Wang Yidao.
• Wang Yidao asked to fight both opponents at once, and the three met on a protected arena after Ximen Lang and Wang Yidao rested.
• Ximen Lang and Song Ziyan attacked Wang Yidao together, but his golden blade and treasures broke through their assaults.
• Wang Yidao’s blade lights overwhelmed Ximen Lang and left Song Ziyan’s Heavenly Treasure shield shattered.
• Wang Yidao stunned Song Ziyan and struck past her, tearing her robe and cutting her hair without killing her.

Wang Yidao defeated Ximen Lang in a fierce arena match, winning the wager for the Wang Family. After the banquet, Ximen Long asked Wang Changsheng to introduce him to Chen Yueying so the Ximen Family could serve Townsea Palace.

• Wang Yidao merged with his golden blade, overcame Ximen Lang's gravity abilities and treasures, and forced him to admit defeat.
• Ximen Long handed Wang Changsheng the Silver Adamant Crystal wager, and Wang Yidao returned to the banquet as the watching cultivators praised his strength.
• Lin Youxin recognized the Azure Adamant Divine Jade in Wang Yidao's Lifebound Treasure, and Wang Changsheng acknowledged that the Wang Family had acquired a large supply.
• After the banquet dispersed, Ximen Long visited Wang Changsheng and asked him to arrange a meeting with Chen Yueying.
• Ximen Long offered a piece of Heavenly Sound Divine Tree and promised further rewards if Wang Changsheng helped the Ximen Family join Townsea Palace.

Wang Changsheng brought Ximen Long to seek Chen Yueying’s support and arrange a marriage alliance between the Wang and Ximen families. Meanwhile, Jin Jiao focused on the Golden Scale Clan’s looming Great Heavenly Tribulation, and Zhao Yunxiao warned Wang Changsheng that the Silver Shark Clan had grown more active.

• Wang Changsheng agreed to introduce Ximen Long’s great-great-granddaughter to Wang Yihong after Ximen Long offered high-year spirit medicines as a meeting gift for Chen Yueying.
• Jin Jing reported that the Silver Shark Clan had gained strength and was attracting neutral clans, but Jin Jiao told him to focus on finding high-level Tribulation-Transcending Treasures for the Grand Heavenly Tribulation.
• Chen Yueying appointed Cheng Zhenyu and Zheng Nan to guard Jade Haze Valley, then agreed to meet Ximen Long after Wang Changsheng explained his purpose.
• Chen Yueying dismissed Wang Changsheng and Zhao Yunxiao to speak privately with Ximen Long.
• Zhao Yunxiao warned Wang Changsheng that the Silver Shark Clan had become active after Yuan Gang defected and that its high-level cultivators had been appearing in Human Race territory.

Wang Changsheng helped establish Ximen Long’s family as an affiliated family of Townsea Palace, then returned to the Wang Family’s territories to oversee their defenses and await Duan Tongtian’s emergence from seclusion. He settled into cultivation in a secret chamber on Azure Ape Mountain.

• Zhao Yunxiao warned Wang Changsheng that the Human Race needed to stay vigilant against the Silver Shark Clan and other races, and Yang Xiaoyao escorted them to meet Chen Yueying.
• Chen Yueying recognized Ximen Long’s family as an affiliated family of Townsea Palace and urged Wang Changsheng to nurture promising Wang Family juniors.
• Ximen Long gave Wang Changsheng their agreed share of Seventh Order Refining Materials, and Wang Changsheng told him to contact Wang Moshan about Yi Hong’s marriage and remember the Sky Cloud Crystal vein.
• Wang Moshan assigned Wang Yongyan and other juniors to guard the Wang Family’s outer islands, while Sun Yuejiao warned the Clan Elders against causing trouble in the newly acquired territories.
• Wang Changsheng arrived at Azure Ape Mountain, learned that Duan Tongtian and Wang Qingcheng were in seclusion, and told Sun Yuejiao to notify him when Duan Tongtian emerged.
• Wang Changsheng entered a secret chamber and began cultivating.

Six hundred years later, Wang Xiuyan and Wang Shenxiong attended a gathering of Deity Transformation Cultivators, where they traded treasures and discussed conflicts with the Mystic Eagle Clan and the lost Four Seas Palace. After the gathering, Huang Tao returned to a courtyard where an anxious Green-Shirted Youth was waiting.

• The Wang Family established a hierarchy to nurture its growing ranks of cultivators, including Wang Xiuyan and Wang Shenxiong among its Thirty-Six Outstanding Figures.
• Yan Yunfeng hosted a gathering where Huang Tao recounted his losses fighting the Mystic Eagle Clan in remote seas, and Wang Xiuyan dismissed the threat to the Human Race’s hinterlands.
• Wang Xiuyan exchanged a Fifth Order Puppet Beast for the cultivation technique Celestial Sound Codex, which could be cultivated to the Integrated Body Middle Stage.
• The cultivators discussed the ruins and possible Secret Realms of Four Seas Palace, and Madam Fang said her husband was in secluded cultivation.
• Huang Tao returned to a secluded courtyard, where an anxious Green-Shirted Youth stood waiting.

Huang Tao learned that Xue Feng Shangren and Huo Yang Xianzi had mentioned the Four Seas Palace, while Wang Changsheng reunited with Duan Tongtian, who had reached Void Refinement Completion. At Zhou Tongyun’s birthday celebration, Wang Guangqi strengthened his bond with Zhou Yuting as the Zhou and Wang Families considered a marriage alliance.

• Liu Yong reported to Huang Tao that he had overheard Xue Feng Shangren and Huo Yang Xianzi discussing the Four Seas Palace, and Huang Tao rewarded him and ordered him to recruit Nascent Soul Cultivators.
• Wang Shenxiong and Wang Xiuyan returned to Azure Lotus Island and saw a clansman undergoing the Six-Nine Lightning Tribulation.
• Wang Changsheng received Duan Tongtian’s message and learned that Duan had emerged from seclusion at Void Refinement Completion; Wang offered to protect him while he prepared to attempt Body Integration.
• Sun Yuejiao attended Zhou Tongyun’s birthday celebration at the Heavenly Silkworm Mountain Range, hoping to arrange a marriage alliance between the Zhou and Wang Families.
• Wang Guangqi presented gifts to Zhou Tongyun and gave Zhou Yuting a Fire Cloud Sable, and the two chatted warmly.

Wang Guanglin learned that the dangerous Fallen Spirit Ruins might contain Fifth-Order Flood Dragons, while Zhou Tongyun proposed a match between Zhou Yuting and Wang Guangqi. Wang Changsheng rejected a Song Family marriage alliance and welcomed Wang Qingshan, who had reached Void Refinement Completion, as he prepared to attempt the Body Integration Realm.

• Wang Guanglin asked about Fifth-Order Flood Dragons, and Zhou Yuting told him they might be found in the perilous Fallen Spirit Ruins.
• Zhou Tongyun asked Sun Yuejiao to arrange a match between Zhou Yuting and Wang Guangqi, but Sun Yuejiao suggested leaving the young people to decide for themselves.
• Wang Changsheng told Duan Tongtian he had refused the Song Family's marriage alliance proposal and favored cooperation with the stronger Ximen Family instead.
• Wang Qingcheng arrived with Wang Qingshan and reported that Wang Qingshan had reached Void Refinement Completion.
• Wang Changsheng gave Wang Qingshan Tribulation-Transcending Treasures and instructed Wang Qingcheng to help him borrow the Seven Stars Separation Mirror from Floating Cloud Island.
• Duan Tongtian offered to delay his own attempt to enter the Body Integration Realm, but Wang Changsheng said both could proceed with their preparations.

Wang Changsheng prepared to refine a Life-Substitute Puppet while the Wang Family expanded its intelligence operations. Wang Dianxing discovered that the Azure Carp Association was searching for the Four Seas Palace Secret Realm and reported the news to the Shadow Hall.

• Wang Changsheng sent Wang Qingcheng and Wang Qingshan to Townsea Palace, then began refining a Life-Substitute Puppet with the collected materials.
• Wang Xiuhong reported to Wang Zhongchen that informants in the Azure Carp Association had disappeared and that recruiting Alien Race informants remained difficult.
• Liu Yong told Li Sheng that the Azure Carp Association was searching for the Four Seas Palace Secret Realm after hearing Xue Feng Shangren and Huo Yang Xianzi mention it.
• Li Sheng revealed that he was Wang Dianxing, sent the intelligence to the Shadow Hall, and was warned that two informants had already been killed.