Chapter Summaries

Seven years later, the Wang Family held its lineage tournament at Azure Lotus Estate and selected four promising Qi Refining cultivators as the Four Sons. Wang Qingkai pledged to nurture them toward Foundation Establishment, leaving the newly chosen disciples eager to serve the lineage.

• Wang Changli taught the children the Wang Family's history and reminded them that their ancestors' sacrifices had secured their present prosperity.
• The children headed to the lineage tournament, where Wang Qingkai hosted guests as Wang Family disciples competed in spell battles.
• The chapter described how the Wang Family used wealth from the Righteous-Demonic War and Foundation Establishment Pills to strengthen its ranks and recruit talented cultivators.
• Wang Tianzheng, Wang Tianyao, Wang Youmin, and Wang Youyu were selected as the Four Sons for their cultivation and specialized skills.
• Wang Qingkai congratulated the four and promised the lineage would support their efforts to achieve Foundation Establishment.

Wang Qingkai hosted guests as the Wang Family traded Demon Subduing Kingdom specialties, while Wang Qingqi continued trying to improve an ancient pill recipe. At Red Leaf Ridge, Ye Lin confessed his feelings to Wang Changyue and asked to marry her, leaving her flustered and postponing her answer until her brother emerged from seclusion.

• Wang Qingkai invited guests to a banquet and heard requests to buy horse milk and Azure Cloud Finches from the Wang Family.
• Wang Qingqi tested an improved pill formula, rejected the results, and insisted on continuing his experiments despite Wang Qiuyan's concern.
• Wang Changyue told Ye Lin about the Wang Family's recent growth, and Ye Lin asked to speak with her brother about an important matter.
• Ye Lin confessed that he loved Wang Changyue and proposed becoming her Dao Companion, offering his knowledge of an Earth-Rank Technique and Magic Treasure refinement.
• Wang Changyue asked whether Ye Lin minded her plump appearance, then fled after telling him they would discuss his proposal when her brother left seclusion.

Wang Qingshan accepted Chen Yunyue’s invitation to the Chen Family ancestor’s four-hundredth birthday celebration and traveled to Nine Sun Mountain. Chen Yunyue, who intended to strengthen his clan’s influence in Mu Province, summoned Wang Qingshan for a meeting.

• Wang Changyue wondered whether she had developed feelings for Ye Lin and decided to discuss it with Wang Changsheng after he ended his seclusion.
• Wang Qiuhong reported Peach Mountain’s income and expenses to Wang Qingshan, who cautioned him about his closeness to a married cultivator.
• Wang Qiuhong told Wang Qingshan that Chen Yunyue had specifically invited him to the Chen Family’s birthday celebration, and Wang Qingshan agreed to attend.
• Wang Qingshan left Peach Mountain with ten Qi Refining Stage clan members and traveled to Nine Sun Mountain.
• Chen Yunyue discussed his plans to pressure Mu Province’s cultivation families with Ye Rushe, Abbess of White Lotus Monastery.
• After learning Wang Qingshan had arrived, Chen Yunyue ordered a clan member to bring him in for a meeting.

Wang Qingshan declined Chen Yunyue’s marriage proposal and suggested Wang Qiuming instead, while wondering about the purpose of Chen Yunyue’s birthday banquet. At the banquet, Chen Yunyue called on the gathered families to help clear a dangerous swamp, and Wang Qingshan agreed on behalf of the Peach Mountain Wang Family while asking how they would handle the miasma.

• Chen Yunyue asked whether Wang Qingshan was married, and Wang Qingshan recommended Wang Qiuming as a possible marriage candidate for the Chen Family.
• Wang Qiuming objected to being pushed toward marriage, but Wang Qingshan explained that an alliance could benefit the Wang Family.
• Three days later, the Wang Family presented Chen Yunyue with a Spirit Bamboo and two Tier 2 High Grade Puppet Beasts at his birthday banquet.
• Chen Yunyue announced that the Chen Family and White Lotus Monastery would clear demon beasts from the swamp between Ji Province and Mu Province and expected other factions to contribute.
• Wang Qingshan agreed that the Peach Mountain Wang Family would participate and asked Chen Yunyue how they would protect themselves from the swamp’s miasma.

Wang Qingshan agreed to join the Chen Family and White Lotus Monastery’s effort to clear the swamp, then sent Wang Qingjun, Wang Qingling, and Wang Qiuming with a team of cultivators. Their advance went smoothly until they encountered a swarm of Corpse Eating Ants, and Wang Qingjun led the fight against them.

• Wang Qingshan agreed to the swamp-clearing plan, and the participating families negotiated their forces and rewards, including permanent shops in a planned market.
• Wang Qingshan appointed Wang Qingjun to lead the Wang Family team and gave Wang Qiuming a third-grade talisman for protection.
• Wang Qingjun, Wang Qingling, and Wang Qiuming led ten Qi Refining Cultivators into the swamp and split their fifteen-person force into three groups.
• The Wang Family team fought off poisonous insects and demon beasts as they advanced through the swamp.
• Wang Qingjun spotted purple mist over a flower sea and warned the team that the approaching swarm consisted of Corpse Eating Ants.
• Wang Qingjun attacked with a Crimson Fire Serpent, but the Tier 2 ants formed a Purple Giant Serpent and spat purple liquid at it.

Wang Qingjun led Wang Qingling, Wang Qiuming, and their group through the swamp, using his Fire Cloud Banner to destroy Corpse Eating Ants and burning Purple Niel Flowers along the way. At a valley filled with century-old Purple Niel Flowers, seven Purple Poison Scorpions emerged, including a Tier 2 High Grade leader.

• Wang Qingling's Snow Cloud Python and Wang Qiuming's Golden Nails helped defend the group from a swarm of Corpse Eating Ants, while Wang Qingjun's Fire Cloud Banner destroyed them.
• Wang Qingjun refused to risk the clansmen for the Purple Niel Flowers and burned the flower sea before leading the group onward behind a Puppy Puppet Beast.
• At a narrow valley shrouded in Purple Miasma, Wang Qingjun had Wang Qiuming use his Azure Gourd to clear the mist and spotted many century-old Purple Niel Flowers.
• Wang Qingjun set the Purple Niel Flowers ablaze to disperse the miasma, but a violent gale extinguished the fire.
• Seven Purple Poison Scorpions flew out of the valley: four were Tier 2 and three were Tier 1, and the largest was a Tier 2 High Grade Demon Insect.

Wang Qingjun’s group killed seven Purple Poison Scorpions and found Spirit Fruits and spiritual medicine in a cave, but a poisonous scorpion killed one of their clansmen. At a vast swamp, Wang Qingling unleashed her two Tier 2 Rotbone Crocodiles to hunt the Demon Beasts and began directing them toward their next prey.

• Wang Qingjun and his companions used the Earth Subduing Demon Slayer Formation to crush seven Purple Poison Scorpions and clear the valley of Purple Niel Flowers and Poisonous Insects.
• Wang Qiuming dispersed the corrosive miasma in a cave, where the group found a Spirit Fruit Tree and Black Grass.
• Two hidden Purple Poison Scorpions stung a clansman while he harvested spiritual medicine, and the venom killed him before Wang Qingjun could save him.
• Wang Qingjun ordered the Qi Refining Cultivators to use Puppet Beasts to harvest spiritual resources, and the group left the cave with fourteen members.
• At the swamp, Wang Qingling released her two Tier 2 Rotbone Crocodiles to hunt the Demon Beasts.
• The Rotbone Crocodiles tore apart and swallowed a Black Toad while Wang Qingling cheered them on.

Wang Qingling and her companions fought their way through a swamp with the help of her Rotbone Crocodiles and Bloodthirsty Locusts, then reached a Flower Sea filled with Five-Colored Miasma Flowers. As Wang Qingjun prepared a formation to deal with the poisonous insects there, tens of thousands of Five-Colored Ants charged out.

• Wang Qingling sent her Rotbone Crocodiles into the swamp, where they drew out demon beasts for Wang Qingjun and the others to attack.
• Wang Qingjun and the group defeated a powerful Black Crocodile, and Wang Qingling's Bloodthirsty Locusts devoured it down to its skeleton.
• Wang Qingling's beasts and insects helped the group kill more swamp demon beasts, including a house-sized Black Toad, before they continued onward.
• Wang Qingling identified the Five-Colored Miasma Flowers and suggested using a second-grade mid-rank Wind Attribute Formation against the Five-Colored Ants.
• Wang Qingjun took out more than a hundred Yellow Formation Flags, but Wang Qiuming warned that tens of thousands of Five-Colored Ants were charging out of the Flower Sea.

Wang Qingling used insect-repelling supplies to help Wang Qingjun’s group clear a swarm of Five-Colored Ants and survive the swamp’s poisonous insects. At a Black Demon Bee cave, Wang Qiutu planted the Blazing Aura Array’s eye and escaped as the bees swarmed it.

• Wang Qingling drove the Five-Colored Ants back with Demon Expulsion Powder and Insect Repellent Incense, allowing Wang Qingjun and the others to destroy them with the Wingwind Formation and fire spells.
• Wang Qingjun led the group onward, and over the next several days they defeated poisonous insects, though two Qi Refining clan members died in ambushes.
• Nine days later, Wang Qingjun’s group reached a cave filled with Black Demon Bees and prepared to set up the Blazing Aura Array.
• Wang Qingling gave Wang Qiutu Ink Moon Paste to repel the bees, and he applied it before approaching the cave under an Invisibility Technique.
• Wang Qiutu buried the Red Small Tripod near the cave, then ran as the Black Demon Bees swarmed the Formation’s eye without noticing him.

Wang Qingjun’s group cleared the Black Demon Bee cave, and the Wang Family helped establish Yunmeng Market. At Azure Lotus Estate, Wang Qingyuan neared death and asked Wang Qingkai and Wang Changsheng to secure a future for his son, Wang Qiuzheng.

• Wang Qingjun’s group used a formation to kill the Black Demon Bees and their Tier 2 Bee Queen, then harvested the hive.
• The swamp was fully cleared, and the Chen Family and White Lotus Monastery established Yunmeng Market; Wang Qingjun assigned Wang Qiuling to oversee the Wang Family’s work there.
• Wang Qingyuan asked Wang Qingkai to appoint Wang Qiuzheng to manage the Lineage’s finances, and Wang Qingkai explained that three people would share financial authority.
• Wang Changsheng arrived after emerging from seven years of seclusion, having cultivated the Turtle Scale Art, and promised to honor Wang Qingyuan’s final wishes.
• Wang Qingyuan asked that Wang Qiuzheng be given a chance to achieve Foundation Establishment, and Wang Qingkai assured him that the Lineage would provide a Foundation Establishment Pill if Qiuzheng reached the Ninth Level of Qi Refining.

Wang Changsheng visited his dying mortal son, Wang Ping'an, and promised to return his ashes to Azure Lotus Estate. Wang Ping'an died longing to have belonged to the immortal family, while Wang Changsheng wept beside him.

• Wang Qingkai told Wang Changsheng that he had punished embezzlers and confined Tian Lule, and Wang Changsheng ordered him to investigate further and punish anyone who harmed the lineage.
• Wang Changsheng went to see Wang Ping'an, dismissed the roomful of descendants, and spoke with him alone.
• Wang Ping'an apologized for not serving Wang Changsheng, and Wang Changsheng reassured him that he had never been forgotten.
• Wang Ping'an asked Wang Changsheng to scatter his ashes at Azure Lotus Estate, and Wang Changsheng promised to fulfill his wish.
• Wang Ping'an imagined his family welcoming him in the sunset, then died reaching toward Azure Lotus Estate, and Wang Changsheng wept over his son.

After Wang Ping'an died of old age, Wang Changsheng brought his remains home and gathered his family to hear about their circumstances. He upheld the clan's punishment of Wang Tianle, offered to raise Wang Qingyang's grandson Youwang, and learned that Wang Changyue had something important to discuss with him.

• Wang Changsheng brought Wang Ping'an's body back to Azure Lotus Estate, cremated him, and set up a spirit tablet for him.
• Wang Changsheng asked his children and grandchildren about their families, and they described their descendants' cultivation and prospects.
• Wang Qingyang begged Wang Changsheng to spare Wang Tianle from life imprisonment, but Wang Changsheng upheld the punishment and offered to raise Youwang.
• Wang Changsheng stayed at Azure Lotus Estate to protect Wang Ruyan while she cultivated toward the Ninth Layer of Foundation Establishment.
• Wang Changyue came to offer incense to Wang Ping'an and told Wang Changsheng that he had always wanted to see him about something important.

Ye Lin asked to marry Wang Changyue, offering the Wang Family valuable formation knowledge and techniques in exchange. Wang Changsheng agreed to the match after learning his sister liked Ye Lin, but kept the marriage secret and planned to let her reconsider before the wedding.

• Ye Lin revealed he could escape Wang Changsheng's Third Order Formation and proposed marrying Wang Changyue, offering to help the Wang Family in return.
• Wang Changsheng refused at first, worried about Ye Lin's short lifespan and dangerous identity, but Ye Lin said he could extend his life with spirit medicines and admitted he hoped to use the Wang Family's strength for revenge.
• Wang Changsheng returned to Azure Lotus Estate and asked Wang Changyue whether she liked Ye Lin; she admitted she did and begged him not to kill Ye Lin.
• Wang Changyue accepted becoming Ye Lin's Dao Companion, knowing he also wanted to help the Wang Family and seek revenge.
• Wang Changsheng agreed to the marriage but said it must remain secret, and he would arrange it after his sister-in-law emerged from seclusion while Wang Changyue continued observing Ye Lin.

Wang Changsheng accepted Ye Lin’s relationship with his sister and learned that Ye Lin possessed the method for refining the Seven Stars Demon Slayer Sword. After attending Wang Qingyuan’s funeral, Wang Changsheng agreed to help the Spirit Control Sect oppose the Sky Weapon Sect and led Wang Family members toward the sect, where Wang Tianfu watched their arrival with envy.

• Wang Changsheng accepted that his sister was willing to become Ye Lin’s Dao Companion, and Ye Lin identified his Heavenly Treasure method as the Seven Stars Demon Slayer Sword’s refining method.
• Wang Changsheng learned that Wang Qingyuan had died, attended his funeral, and urged the younger generation to follow the deceased’s example of serving the Lineage.
• Wang Qingkai reported that the Sky Weapon Sect and Spirit Control Sect were fighting over territory, and Wang Changsheng agreed to seek an alliance with the Spirit Control Sect.
• Wang Changsheng departed with twenty clan members, planning to visit the Hundred Spirits Sect before attending the Spirit Control Assembly.
• Wang Tianfu, a Wang Family descendant serving as a Hundred Spirits Sect patrol disciple, saw Wang Changsheng and the Wang Family arrive on Crimson Giant Eagles and felt envious.

Wang Changsheng visited the Hundred Spirits Sect, where he met Wang Tianfu and discussed joining forces against the Sky Weapon Sect. He arranged to travel with Ye Tong to negotiate with the Spirit Control Sect, then found Su Cheng and his pregnant sister Wang Changxue living peacefully together.

• Wang Tianfu recognized Wang Changsheng as his great-granduncle and used their family connection to seek his favor.
• Guangdong Ren and Ye Tong welcomed Wang Changsheng, who congratulated Ye Tong on entering the Core Formation Stage with a gift.
• Wang Changsheng, Guangdong Ren, and Ye Tong agreed that Wang Changsheng and Ye Tong would visit the Spirit Control Sect to negotiate cooperation against the Sky Weapon Sect.
• Wang Changsheng asked Guangdong Ren to take him to Su Cheng and Wang Changxue, and he found them holding hands outside their secluded valley.
• Wang Changsheng saw that pregnant Wang Changxue and Su Cheng seemed content together after Su Cheng had left sect affairs behind.

Wang Changsheng visited Wang Changxue and Su Cheng, learned that Su Cheng had chosen a quiet life after failing to form his core, and received his account of the attempt for Wang Ruyan. The next day, Wang Changsheng and Ye Tong went to the Spirit Control Sect, where Sun Junyan fabricated a grievance and demanded territory from Zhu Yunzhen.

• Wang Changsheng visited Wang Changxue and Su Cheng, who explained that Su Cheng had willingly left sect affairs behind to live quietly with his wife.
• Su Cheng gave Wang Changsheng a jade slip detailing his failed attempt to reach the Core Formation Stage for Wang Ruyan to study.
• Wang Changsheng and Ye Tong led their disciples to the Spirit Control Sect, where Zhu Yunzhen prepared to receive them and other invited powers.
• Sun Junyan and Zhao Kun confronted Zhu Yunzhen with a fabricated accusation that Spirit Control Sect disciples had killed Zhao Kun's kin.
• Sun Junyan demanded that the Spirit Control Sect execute the accused disciples and cede four provinces, or duel him and surrender two provinces if Zhu Yunzhen lost.

Wang Changsheng and Ye Tong helped Zhu Yunzhen resist Sun Junyan’s demands, securing an alliance between their sects in exchange for territory. Wang Changsheng proposed that the three sects build a large Market together, and Zhu Yunzhen agreed.

• Sun Junyan pressured Zhu Yunzhen to accept harsh conditions over the deaths of Zhao Kun’s relatives, but Wang Changsheng and Ye Tong arrived at the Spirit Control Sect.
• Wang Changsheng and Ye Tong sided with Zhu Yunzhen and condemned Sun Junyan’s demands, prompting Sun Junyan to threaten retaliation.
• Zhu Yunzhen offered Wang Changsheng and Ye Tong territory in four commanderies in exchange for an alliance against the Sky Weapon Sect, and they accepted.
• Sun Junyan left with Zhao Kun after Wang Changsheng and Ye Tong declared their support for the Spirit Control Sect.
• Wang Changsheng proposed that Azure Lotus Estate, the Hundred Spirits Sect, and the Spirit Control Sect establish a large Market together, and Zhu Yunzhen agreed.

Wang Changsheng helped Spirit Control Sect and Hundred Spirits Sect establish Three Immortals Market and sought Zhu Yunzhen’s advice on raising Spirit Insects and buying a Spirit Bird. At the Spirit Control Assembly, Wang Family disciples placed in the top five, while Wang Changsheng learned which Spirit Birds Spirit Control Sect could sell him.

• Wang Changsheng, Zhu Yunzhen, and Ye Tong agreed to establish Three Immortals Market in the four commanderies surrendered by Spirit Control Sect, with Hundred Spirits Sect receiving the largest share of its shops.
• Zhu Yunzhen advised Wang Changsheng to feed his Gold Devouring Ant Queen high-rank metal materials or Nurturing Spirit Pills, and Wang Changsheng fed it remains from a Third-Order Puppet Beast.
• Wang Youmin entered the insect-fighting contest with his Gold-Striped Flame Bugs, defeated several opponents, and then lost to Frost Cloud Centipedes.
• Wang Youyu’s Ironback Flame Eagle defeated multiple Spirit Birds before losing to a Goldbeak Thunderhawk, while she and Wang Youmin both reached the top five.
• Wang Changsheng asked Zhu Yunzhen about buying a Spirit Bird, and Zhu Yunzhen recommended Tiger Hawks, Nine Cloud Sparrows, and Flame Sun Birds.

Wang Changsheng returned from the Spirit Control Assembly with two Nine Cloud Sparrows and learned that Wang Ruyan had emerged from seclusion. After grieving Wang Ping'an, she visited his mortal family and intervened when his descendants fought over his estate.

• Wang Changsheng chose two Tier 1 Nine Cloud Sparrows, and Zhu Yunzhen arranged for him to receive them for himself and Wang Ruyan.
• Wang Changsheng returned home, briefed Wang Qingkai about taking over territory and establishing a Market, and found Wang Ruyan mourning Wang Ping'an.
• Wang Changsheng comforted Wang Ruyan as she blamed herself for not seeing Wang Ping'an before he died, then agreed to accompany her to the Mortal World.
• Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan saw Wang Ping'an's descendants arguing over his estate at his mourning hall.
• Wang Ruyan revealed herself and used her Spiritual Pressure to force the descendants to their knees, rebuking them for fighting over the inheritance before Wang Ping'an's funeral.

After Wang Ping'an's death, Wang Ruyan and Wang Changsheng arranged his funeral and then held a private wedding for Wang Changyue and Ye Lin. Wang Ruyan entered seclusion to attempt Core Formation, leaving Wang Changsheng to care for the family and worry over her chances.

• Wang Ruyan took charge of Wang Ping'an's family affairs, ordered his funeral, and grieved over the poems and calligraphy he had left behind.
• Wang Changsheng told Wang Ruyan about Wang Changyue and Ye Lin, and they agreed to hold a discreet wedding for them.
• Wang Changyue and Ye Lin married at Red Leaf Ridge, where Ye Lin promised to treat her well and offered to help protect Wang Ruyan during her Core Formation tribulation.
• After the wedding, Ye Lin set up three Third-Order Defensive Formations for Wang Ruyan's breakthrough attempt.
• Wang Ruyan asked Wang Changsheng to care for their family, then entered seclusion to cultivate while he continued refining Mystic Treasure Embryos and worried about her chances of success.