Chapter Summaries

Wang Changsheng and Zhao Yunrong killed Chen Yifeng, then rushed to the Hundred Ghosts Sect’s mountain gate to rescue their trapped allies. Wang Changsheng attacked the cultivators maintaining the formation, but a Ghost Prison Talisman trapped him as Zhao Yunrong fought the strongest opponent.

• Wang Changsheng and Zhao Yunrong overwhelmed Chen Yifeng with their attacks, killing him and leaving his human-shaped skeleton behind.
• Wang Changsheng reached the Hundred Ghosts Sect’s mountain gate and found its disciples pursuing their opponents, but he saw no Wang Family or Hundred Spirits Sect members.
• Wang Changsheng spotted three Core Formation Cultivators maintaining a formation and attacked the Black Skirt Matron to disrupt them and help Zhao Yunxiao and the others escape.
• The Core Formation Layer 4 black-robed man blocked Wang Changsheng, while Zhao Yunrong arrived and engaged him so Wang Changsheng could go after the Black Skirt Matron.
• A Ghost Prison Talisman trapped Wang Changsheng inside a Black Light Screen, and he struck it with a Blue Giant Palm filled with lightning.

Wang Changsheng and Zhao Yunrong broke the Ghost Prison Talisman and fought the Ghost Kings while Zhao Yunxiao remained trapped inside the formation. The formation plate cracked, freeing Zhao Yunxiao, and the black-robed man and his allies retreated.

• Wang Changsheng battered the Black Light Screen with his Ruyi Profound Jade Staff, while Zhao Yunrong attacked it with the Great White Demon Slayer Sword and helped break the Ghost Prison Talisman.
• The Black Skirt Matron sent a Blood Ghost and a fused skeleton Ghost King against Wang Changsheng, who used his Frost Cloud Bottle, thunder attacks, and staff to destroy them.
• The Black Skirt Matron's three Black Lightning strikes hit Wang Changsheng, but his Nine Twists Divine Sand blocked most of the damage, and he counterattacked.
• Wang Changsheng, Zhao Yunrong, and their attacks overwhelmed the Black Skirt Matron's Green Glittering Umbrella, causing her Formation Plate to crack.
• Zhao Yunxiao emerged from the dispersing Black Mist, and the black-robed man and the other two opponents withdrew and fled.

After the Hundred Ghosts Sect fell, Wang Changsheng and the others divided its treasures and set out to find Wang Ruyan. They reunited after Wang Qingshan and Wang Ruyan defeated the sect’s pursuing disciples, then prepared to raid the Qin Kingdom’s cultivation families.

• Wang Changsheng learned that Tong Tianqi had died but Wang Ruyan was safe, and Zhao Yunrong agreed to divide the treasures taken from Chen Yifeng.
• Wang Changsheng and the others divided the Hundred Ghosts Sect’s techniques, Spirit Stones, materials, and yin-attributed spirit herbs.
• Zhao Yunxiao proposed that they act separately to plunder the Qin Kingdom’s cultivation families, and Wang Changsheng flew southeast to find Wang Ruyan.
• Wang Ruyan and Wang Qingshan led the pursuit of the Hundred Ghosts Sect’s disciples, and Wang Qingshan destroyed their combined Bone Corpses and defeated them.
• Wang Changsheng reunited with Wang Ruyan, explained that the Hundred Ghosts Sect had fallen and Tong Tianqi had died, then led the group to seek more treasures.

Old Ancestor Black Tiger recruited Old Ancestor Qinghua into a plan involving True Lord Skywolf's Seated Immortal Cave and a scheme against the Human Race's Deity Transformation Cultivators. Wang Changsheng returned to Pacify Demons City with a rich haul and learned that other teams had been ambushed, raising suspicions of a traitor.

• Old Ancestor Qinghua reprimanded Old Ancestor Black Tiger for provoking the Human Race, but he explained that they had tried to steal his clan's Dragon Glass Fruit.
• Old Ancestor Black Tiger revealed that his real goal was to find True Lord Skywolf's Seated Immortal Cave and scheme against the Human Race's Deity Transformation Cultivators, then gave Old Ancestor Qinghua his plan.
• Old Ancestor Qinghua agreed to help after considering the risks to Old Ancestor Black Tiger's Second Primordial Spirit and incarnation.
• Wang Changsheng returned to Pacify Demons City with Wang Ruyan and the others after raiding fifteen Immortal Cultivation Families, and Li Qingshan told him that other teams had suffered ambushes and casualties.
• Wang Changsheng explained how his team had besieged the Hundred Ghosts Sect's headquarters and that Tong Tianqi had died in battle.
• Li Qingshan described how the Nether Corpse Sect and the Hundred Ghosts Sect had prepared ambushes, and the group suspected that a traitor had revealed their plans.

Wang Changsheng reported on the failed attack against the Hundred Ghost Sect as Chen Yuhua prepared the Six Kingdoms’ forces to seize Qin Kingdom. After his Twin-Pupil Spirit Rat advanced to Tier 3, the Nether Corpse Sect decided to withdraw while Fang Mu planned to provoke a larger conflict that would draw in the Corpse Yin Sect.

• Chen Yuhua summoned Wang Changsheng to the Council Hall, where he recounted the ambush at the Hundred Ghost Sect and reported the discovery of a Teleportation Array.
• Chen Yuhua assigned selected Core Formation Cultivators to seize Qin Kingdom’s important sites while Wang Changsheng was allowed to rest.
• Wang Changsheng advised Wang Ruyan to enter secluded cultivation after the war, then discovered the Twin-Pupil Spirit Rat had advanced to Tier 3 and displayed its new sound-wave ability.
• Song Wuya and the Nether Corpse Sect’s Core Formation Cultivators agreed to withdraw from Qin Kingdom after suffering heavy losses.
• Fang Mu told Song Wuya to make the withdrawal appear to be a life-and-death struggle so the Corpse Yin Sect would have grounds to intervene, then left to report to his master.

After Qin’s Four Sects withdrew, Wang Changsheng and the other cultivators divided the conquered territory, then Wang Changsheng negotiated an exchange to bring the Wang Family’s lands closer together. He sent Wang Ruyan back to Wei Kingdom to oversee the handover while he remained on the front line.

• Chen Yuhua distributed Qin Kingdom’s territory according to each faction’s contributions, awarding the Wang Family four commanderies and the Hundred Flowers Sect four prefectures and three Small Metal Mines.
• Chen Yuhua said the campaign against the demonic cultivators would continue, with Foundation Establishment Cultivators taking the lead and Core Formation Cultivators avoiding unnecessary killing.
• Wang Changsheng asked Li Qingshan to exchange the Wang Family’s four commanderies in Qin Kingdom for territory in Yun Province, and they agreed on two and a half commanderies in exchange.
• Wang Changsheng explained the deal to Wang Ruyan and asked her to return to Wei Kingdom with several people so Wang Qingjun could arrange the land handover.
• Wang Ruyan agreed to return and asked Wang Changsheng to watch over Wang Qingqing at the front line.

Wang Changyue continued learning Formation knowledge from Ye Lin, who told her about his past and his Spirit Medicine Mountain. Wang Changsheng led an assault on Flying Swallow Island, where Wang Qingshan and the others defeated the Blood Fiend Sect defenders and captured the island’s Jinlang Stone Vein.

• Wang Changyue asked Ye Lin how he had fled to the Eastern Wasteland, and Ye Lin said Shangguan Wei’s Fourth-Order Nine Serenities Sparrow had forced his father to sacrifice himself so Ye Lin could escape.
• Wang Changyue comforted Ye Lin, listened to him describe his Spirit Medicine Mountain, then teleported away with a fruit.
• Jiang Kun and the Blood Fiend Sect defenders on Flying Swallow Island faced an attack by Wang Changsheng and more than thirty Foundation Establishment Cultivators.
• Wang Qingshan, Wang Qingqing, Wang Qingjun, Zhao Zheng, Mo Caiyun, and the others battered the island’s protective Formation while Wang Changsheng watched from the White Cloud.
• Jiang Kun used a Talisman Treasure to summon a giant Bloody Skull, but Wang Changsheng stopped it with a Blue Lightning Orb, and the Blood Fiend Sect disciples fled.
• Wang Qingshan and the others killed most of the fleeing Foundation Establishment Cultivators, while a few escaped.

Wang Qiuming established his foundation with Geng Metal True Evil and was assigned to help Wang Qingkai take over the Wang family's newly acquired territory in Yun Province. Meanwhile, Wang Ruyan watched over Wang Changyue's husband, and Wang Mingren advanced his cultivation before accepting Ximen Feng's birthday invitation.

• Wang Changsheng sent Gold Devouring Ants into a mine to devour Jin Lang Ore, then left with Wang Qingshan and the others after they finished clearing the battlefield.
• Wang Qiuming established his foundation using Geng Metal True Evil and reported to Wang Ruyan and Wang Qingkai, who assigned him to help take over the family's new lands.
• Wang Ruyan asked Wang Changyue whether her husband had behaved suspiciously, then said she would enter secluded cultivation.
• Wang Qingkai led Wang Changyue, Wang Qiuling, Wang Qiuming, and fifty Qi Refining Stage clansmen toward Yun Province to claim the new territory.
• Wang Mingren reached the Foundation Establishment Seventh Layer and agreed to attend Ximen Feng's birthday gathering.

The Demon Race launched a massive invasion of the Eastern Wasteland, overwhelming Tianquan Mountain with a Beast Tide and attacking its defenders. With the Large Teleportation Array destroyed and reinforcements unable to arrive, the Human Race’s forces were forced to flee as the invasion spread across the border nations.

• He Hong discovered a Beast Tide approaching Tianquan Mountain and alerted True Person Liu as the mountain sounded its alarm.
• The Nine Palaces Sandfall Formation trapped and slaughtered thousands of Demon Beasts, while the Red-Robed Elder and the middle-aged taoist nun confronted the Demon Race’s Transformation Stage leaders.
• The green-skirted woman revealed the Celestial Demon Banner, and explosions destroyed Tianquan Mountain’s Large Teleportation Array as a Green-Shirted Youth attacked the cultivators.
• Five Nascent Soul Realm members of the Demon Race attacked the defenders, forcing the Red-Robed Elder, the middle-aged taoist nun, and other cultivators to retreat.
• The Demon Race breached the unattended Formation, pursued the fleeing Nascent Soul Cultivators, and slaughtered Human Race cultivators across the Eastern Wasteland’s border nations.

Wang Changsheng and the Wang family harvested Spirit Wood from Azure Bee Mountain, then hid the remaining trees for later. At the Fire Phoenix Mountains, Ximen Feng hosted a birthday gathering where Wang Mingren received a summons from Meng Tianzheng.

• Wang Changsheng used his Soul-Devouring Golden Cicada to devour the Blood Fiend Sect’s Ghosts and helped Wang Qingshan and the others cut down Spirit Wood.
• Wang Changsheng sent Wang Qingshan and the others away, then ordered the Twin-Pupil Spirit Rat to bury the uncollected Spirit Wood underground.
• Ximen Feng hosted Wang Mingren, Li Deqing, and other elite disciples for her birthday and accepted their gifts.
• Meng Tianzheng summoned Wang Mingren, who left Ximen Feng’s gathering to visit him.
• Li Deqing claimed he would reach the Core Formation Stage before Wang Mingren, and Ximen Feng congratulated him.

Wang Changsheng returned to Azure Lotus Estate as the Demon Race invaded the Eastern Wasteland, and he assessed the Wang Family’s gains and new territories. Meanwhile, Taiyi Immortal Sect mobilized Nascent Soul Cultivators to stop the invasion, while Wang Changyue reunited with Ye Lin at Red Leaf Ridge.

• Wang Changsheng returned from Yan Kingdom, learned that Taiyi Immortal Sect had ordered cultivators to halt their conflict and prepare for the Demon Race’s invasion, and asked Wang Qingkai about the newly acquired commanderies.
• Wang Qingkai reported that the Han Family had agreed to join the Wang Family and that Wang Changyue had established Two-Way Teleportation Arrays; Wang Changsheng sent Foundation Establishment Cultivators to retrieve Spirit Wood from Yan Kingdom.
• Wang Qingyuan evaluated the war spoils, which included more than four million in wealth and fifty-seven Foundation Establishment Pills, while the Wang Family mourned twenty-two Qi Refining clansmen killed in the fighting.
• Wang Changsheng went to Red Leaf Ridge, where Wang Changyue reunited with Ye Lin and asked him to teach her Defensive Formations.
• Zhang Zhanfeng told eight Nascent Soul Cultivators that the Demon Race had invaded, occupied three countries, and killed two Nascent Soul Cultivators, then ordered them to lead forces to the front line.

As Wang Changsheng refined artifacts at Red Leaf Ridge, the Wang lineage’s elders trained younger members in alchemy, talisman making, and artifact refining. Several apprentices achieved new milestones, leaving the family’s technical inheritance in the hands of the next generation.

• Wang Changsheng stayed out of secluded cultivation while refining artifacts, relieved that Ye Lin remained at Red Leaf Ridge.
• Wang Qiuyan successfully refined Second-Grade Medicinal Pills, and Wang Qingqi praised his progress while advising him to improve his control of the heat.
• Wang Qiuling successfully made a Tier 2 Talisman under Wang Qingyun’s guidance, then began work on another.
• Wang Qiuxin refined a Mid-Grade Dharma Artifact, the Golden Gang Hammer, as Wang Changhuan reminded him to stay focused and keep cultivating.

The Taiyi Immortal Sect ordered the Wang Family to send ten Foundation Establishment cultivators to fight the Demon Race. Wang Changsheng sent Wang Qingshan, his daughter Wang Qingqing, and other clansmen to the frontline, then decided to cultivate in seclusion and advance to Core Formation Layer 3.

• Wang Changyue told Wang Changsheng that a Taiyi Immortal Sect envoy had come to mobilize the Wang Family's Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Song Delin explained that the sect needed ten Wang Family cultivators to fight low-tier Demon Beasts on the frontline.
• Wang Qingshan volunteered to go, arguing that he could help the family meet its quota and use the battle to overcome his cultivation bottleneck.
• Wang Changsheng selected ten clansmen, gave them supplies and protective talismans, and instructed them to support one another and all return safely.
• Song Delin took the ten Wang Family cultivators to the frontline, while Wang Changsheng urged the remaining clansmen to cultivate and resolved to enter seclusion.

Wang Qingshan and the Wang Family arrived at Golden Giant City and prepared to defend it against the Demon Beasts. Elsewhere, Meng Tianzheng’s escort mission was ambushed by masked cultivators, and he ordered his companions to break free.

• Demon Beasts ended their assault on Golden Giant City, and Wang Qingshan and the others arrived to register and receive their assignments.
• Wang Qingqing was assigned to refine puppet beasts, while the rest of the Wang Family prepared to fight on the city walls.
• Wang Qingshan advised his relatives to conserve supplies, avoid conflict, and stay cautious, while Wang Changhao urged him to protect himself.
• Meng Tianzheng escorted important materials with Wang Mingren, Ximen Feng, and other cultivators toward the Taiyi Immortal Sect.
• Masked cultivators riding a Black Python and a four-winged centipede attacked the escort, and Meng Tianzheng ordered a retreat before directing Junior Sister Leng to help break the formation.

Meng Tianzheng and the other Core Formation Cultivators fought off an attack, allowing Wang Mingren and the disciples to flee, but pursuers forced Wang Mingren and Ximen Feng to turn and fight. Wang Mingren revealed the power of his Golden Flame Trueflame, and he and Ximen Feng escaped underground toward the Fire Phoenix Mountains.

• Meng Tianzheng used a Profound Origin Golden Flame Talisman with Leng Rumei and the others to destroy the Azure Rosy Cloud, while the Crimson Dragon fled and the Core Formation Cultivators held off its pursuers.
• Wang Mingren, Ximen Feng, and other Foundation Establishment Cultivators escaped underground, but more than a hundred Black-Robed Cultivators pursued them.
• Wang Mingren led the group to a wooded area to ambush their pursuers, where a Red Robe Youth killed a Taiyi Immortal Sect disciple and tried to persuade Ximen Feng to surrender.
• Wang Mingren killed the Red Robe Youth with his attacks, then used his Golden Flame Trueflame to melt a swarm of Flying Knives and burn three Black-Robed Cultivators to ashes.
• Wang Mingren and Ximen Feng went underground and hurried toward the Fire Phoenix Mountains.

Seven years after the war began, Wang Qingkai reported the Wang Family’s expanded resources, population, and income to Wang Changsheng, who had advanced to Core Formation Layer 3. Wang Changsheng then checked on Wang Qiuxin’s cultivation and asked about his progress in artifact and puppet-beast crafting.

• Wang Qingkai’s Elders reported that the Wang Family had expanded its territory, resources, beast holdings, and income, while its population reached 937 cultivators.
• Wang Qingkai explained that seven clansmen had advanced to Foundation Establishment and that the Wang Family had absorbed two families and several skilled Rogue Cultivators.
• Wang Changsheng arrived at the Council Hall and revealed that seven years of secluded cultivation had brought him to Core Formation Layer 3.
• Wang Changsheng told Wang Qingkai to delegate routine decisions and spend more time cultivating.
• Wang Changsheng visited Wang Qiuxin, reproached him for reaching only Foundation Establishment Third Layer, and asked about his progress refining Dharma Artifacts and Puppet Beasts.

Wang Changsheng guided Wang Qiuxin in artifact refinement and promised to search for something to neutralize Wang Changhuan’s True Fiend Qi. Meanwhile, Wang Qingshan and Wang Changhao joined a dangerous mission as the Human cultivators prepared a counterattack against the Demon Race, whose true objective remained unknown.

• Wang Changsheng taught Wang Qiuxin artifact refinement and Puppet Making, then promised the ailing Wang Changhuan that he would seek an item to neutralize True Fiend Qi.
• Wang Qingshan and Wang Changhao left their family group in Pacify Demon City to join a mission led by Zi Yang Daoist of the Thousand Machines Sect.
• Zi Yang Daoist transported the Foundation Establishment cultivators aboard a tier 3 high-grade Puppet Beast, while twenty-five Half-Demons prepared to attack a Human stronghold.
• Three senior cultivators at the Taiyi Immortal Sect agreed to counterattack the Demon Race with support from the South Sea and Northern Frontier, while seeking a rare fruit tree and guarding against a trap.

Wang Qingshan and Wang Changhao joined Zi Yang Daoist’s assault on the Demon Race stronghold at Tianyang City. After a Nascent Soul Realm enemy appeared, Wang Changhao stayed behind to let Wang Qingshan escape, and he died beneath the Half-Demons’ attacks.

• Zi Yang Daoist and five Core Formation Cultivators attacked Tianyang City with Puppet Beasts while Wang Qingshan and other Foundation Establishment Cultivators fought the Half-Demons and Demon Birds.
• Wang Qingshan killed a Red Robe Youth, prompting the Green-Shirted Youth to send five Half-Demons after him.
• A Nascent Soul Realm member of the Demon Race appeared, so Wang Qingshan and Wang Changhao retreated toward the ground while pursued.
• Wang Qingshan used the Qingyang Trueflame Talisman to kill five Half-Demons and dozens of Demon Birds, but another enemy destroyed Wang Changhao’s Golden Giant Eagles.
• Wang Changhao ordered Wang Qingshan to escape underground and held off the pursuers, dying beneath a giant stone as Wang Qingshan fled.

Two Core Formation Stage Half-Demons attacked Azure Lotus Estate, and Wang Changsheng fought to defend his family. He killed the Azure Gown Woman, but the Red Robe Youth remained alive as Wang Qingkai and the clansmen joined the battle.

• Wang Changsheng finished tempering his body with Heaven and Earth Spiritual Water before a sudden attack shook Azure Lotus Estate.
• Two Half-Demons assaulted the estate, and Wang Changsheng met them in the air while Wang Qingkai organized the clansmen to fight fires.
• The Red Robe Youth burned and injured Wang Changsheng, while the Azure Gown Woman attacked him from the other side.
• Wang Changsheng used his treasures and Spiritual Arts to overwhelm the Azure Gown Woman, froze her, and smashed her into a rain of blood.
• The Red Robe Youth struck Wang Changsheng with Demon Fire, destroying the Flowing Moon Umbrella, as Wang Qingkai sent Second Order Puppet Beasts to attack him.

Wang Changsheng and the Wang Family clansmen defeated and killed the Red Robe Youth after a fierce battle that left Wang Changsheng injured and Azure Lotus Estate heavily damaged. The chapter ended with Wang Changsheng entrusting the aftermath to Wang Qingkai and taking Wang Changyue with him.

• The Red Robe Youth attacked Azure Lotus Estate, but Wang Changsheng and Wang Changyue used their formations, Puppet Beasts, and magic treasures to fight back.
• The Red Robe Youth broke through the attacks and engulfed Wang Changsheng in flames, while his assault on Azure Lotus Estate burned buildings and killed clansmen.
• Wang Changsheng recovered from the flames, and the clansmen restrained the Red Robe Youth long enough for him to smash the Half-Demon’s head and collect the Essence Souls of both defeated Half-Demons.
• Wang Changsheng learned that Wang Changying and Wang Qiuhuang had died and that forty-three Qi Refining clansmen had been killed or injured.
• Wang Qingkai arranged for clansmen to notify the Five Sects of Wei of exaggerated casualties, while Wang Changsheng left with Wang Changyue.