Chapter Summaries

Wang Jiyun led the Wang clansmen in a plan to capture or kill three Tier 2 Crow Sparrows guarding Millennial Spirit Milk. After luring one from its cave and trapping it with Formations, the clansmen began a coordinated assault while the other two remained sealed inside.

• Wang Jiyun warned the clansmen not to underestimate the Crow Sparrows and ordered them to wait for reinforcements before attacking.
• After ten days, the group grew to twenty-one clansmen, and Wang Jiyun arranged three Tier 2 Formations and teams to separate the Crow Sparrows.
• Wang Xiansheng failed to lure the birds with Demon Luring Incense, so he and Wang Xianbin entered the cave inside a Pangolin Puppet Beast.
• A Crow Sparrow emerged from the cave, and the clansmen sealed the entrance to trap the other two inside while a Formation imprisoned the one outside.
• Wang Jiyun and the clansmen attacked the trapped Crow Sparrow with Puppet Beasts and Formation spells, overwhelming it with their coordinated assault.

The Wang Family defeated three Crow Sparrows in a cave and claimed Millennial Spirit Milk and their eggs. At the Secret Realm exit, Wang Changsheng discussed Wang Qingshan’s Taiyi Immortal Sect mission and offered to help equip him for future battles.

• Wang Jiyun’s group killed a Crow Sparrow with Hundred Swords Talismans, then destroyed two more with talismans and Puppet Beasts.
• Wang Xiansheng and Wang Xianbin scouted the cave and discovered Millennial Spirit Milk and three Spirit Bird eggs.
• Wang Jiyun divided the 325 drops of Millennial Spirit Milk among the clan members and gave one egg each to herself, Wang Xiansheng, and Wang Rongting.
• Wang Jiyun led the clan members east to explore the Secret Realm while minimizing casualties.
• Wang Qingshan told Wang Changsheng that the Taiyi Immortal Sect had assigned him to cooperate in operations in the South Sea, and Wang Changsheng offered to refine Flying Sword Magic Treasures and repair his Azure Glass Sword.
• Wang Qingqing asked Wang Qingshan to let her join an attack on Yellow Dragon Island and spare Ye Lang, and Wang Qingshan agreed.

Wang Changsheng’s lineage returned from the Secret Realm with valuable treasures but suffered heavy losses, and he rewarded several survivors. Meanwhile, Wang Mingren joined a goods escort that included Ximen Feng, but the caravan was caught in a formation and attacked.

• Wang Jiyun and the other survivors emerged from the Secret Realm, reporting that many members had died and that they had gathered Millennial Spirit Milk and spirit herbs.
• Wang Changsheng collected most of the gathered treasures, rewarded six promising members with two Foundation Establishment Pills each, and ordered everyone to keep the Secret Realm secret.
• Wang Mingren agreed to escort goods from Fire Crow Market to Fire Scale Valley and discovered that Ximen Feng was part of the caravan.
• During the journey, Ximen Feng treated Wang Mingren coldly, and a fellow cultivator told him that she had become aloof toward everyone.
• After half a year, a sudden wind transformed the plain into a vast yellow desert, and the caravan realized it had been trapped in a formation.

Wang Mingren and the Taiyi Immortal Sect cultivators were ambushed by Nine Serenities Sect forces and forced to scatter. Ximen Feng rescued Wang Mingren, then told him she considered them even and planned to transfer elsewhere after the mission.

• An azure-robed elder led Wang Mingren and the others in fighting a Yellow Giant Serpent and three Black-Winged Sand Serpents, then used a Tier 4 Spirit Piercing Sword Talisman to break through the sand attack.
• After more than a dozen enemy Core Formation Cultivators arrived, the elder ordered the group to scatter, and Wang Mingren fled with several Foundation Establishment Cultivators.
• Four Core Formation Cultivators ambushed Wang Mingren, killed his companions, and wounded him despite his defenses.
• Ximen Feng emerged from underground, rescued Wang Mingren from a Golden Seal attack, and used the Jade Wolf Ruler to take them underground to safety.
• Ximen Feng gave Wang Mingren a medicinal pill, said they were even after saving each other, and told him she would seek a transfer after the mission.

Wang Changsheng discovered that Lu Gang’s stolen eyeball contained a Black Phoenix phantom, then received an invitation from Guangdong Ren concerning a treasure that could aid Nascent Soul Formation. Guangdong Ren revealed that a Celestial Moon Golden Lotus grew on a dangerous island in the Spirit Severing Sea Region, and Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan learned that obtaining it could be perilous.

• Wang Changsheng refined the scarlet eyeball and saw a Black Phoenix phantom appear, suspecting it was a Black Phoenix Eye stolen by Lu Gang.
• Wang Ruyan instructed Wang Rongting, Wang Rongxiang, and Wang Rongfei in musical theory before sending them to attempt Foundation Establishment.
• Wang Tianqi told Wang Ruyan that Guangdong Ren had sent word of a matter related to Nascent Soul Formation and wanted to speak with Wang Changsheng in person.
• Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan worried the invitation might be a trap by the Nine Serenities Sect, then traveled to Spirit Turtle Island to meet Guangdong Ren.
• Guangdong Ren told Wang Changsheng about the Celestial Moon Golden Lotus, whose seeds could increase the chances of Nascent Soul Formation, and warned that it grew amid restrictions and possible Spirit Severing Qi.

Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan agreed to join Guangdong Ren’s expedition into the Spirit Severing Sea Region to obtain Celestial Moon Golden Lotus Seeds for Wang Ruyan. After Wang Qingling hatched an Earth Dragon Worm elsewhere, the expedition reached the sea region and confronted four cultivators who had been hiding nearby.

• Guangdong Ren explained the dangers of the Spirit Severing Sea Region and invited Wang Changsheng to join a group seeking Celestial Moon Golden Lotus Seeds guarded by a Tier 4 Demon Beast.
• Wang Changsheng persuaded Wang Ruyan to go so she could obtain a Nascent Soul Forming Treasure, and they agreed to join the expedition.
• Wang Qingling hatched an Earth Dragon Worm from an ancient insect egg and placed it in her Spirit Beast Pearl.
• Wang Changsheng, Wang Ruyan, and Guangdong Ren arrived at an island on the edge of the Spirit Severing Sea Region and discovered the other cultivators were hiding.
• Wang Changsheng attacked the hidden cultivators, Wang Ruyan dispelled their counterattack, and four cultivators revealed themselves.

Wang Changsheng and his companions traveled with two renowned rogue-cultivator duos to an island in the Spirit Severing Sea Region to seek treasure. They encountered the island’s changing hazards and, after the group continued onward, Guangdong Ren described the powerful phantom of the Seven Absolutes Saber Emperor.

• The Golden Shirt Elder and Guangdong Ren introduced their companions and agreed that the Azure Moon Fiends Duo would take five Lotus Seeds, while the others divided the rest.
• The Golden Shirt Elder warned the group about a Tier 4 Sea Urchin Beast and ancient Restrictions, then led them by flying boat to the barren island.
• The group changed course after Golden Honeybees fell near a valley, crossed a mountain, and entered a plain where a Yellow Giant Rat emerged underground.
• The Green-Shirted Youth struck the Yellow Giant Rat down with his Azure Long Blade, prompting Guangdong Ren to remark that the saber technique resembled the Seven Killing Sect’s style.
• Guangdong Ren said he had been defeated by the Seven Absolutes Saber Emperor’s phantom in the Town Immortal Pagoda, and explained how powerful cultivators could leave phantoms there.

Wang Changsheng and the others lured out and fought a Tier 4 Sea Urchin Beast guarding the Celestial Moon Golden Lotus. Wang Changsheng trapped the beast with the formation, then followed the Golden Shirt Elder and the Blue-robed Man into the cave to retrieve the lotus, while the two men secretly exchanged messages and Wang Changsheng appeared to notice.

• The Golden Shirt Elder set up a formation and led a group to the cave where the Celestial Moon Golden Lotus was guarded by a Tier 4 Sea Urchin Beast.
• The Golden Shirt Elder lit a Crimson Object to lure out the beast, while Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan hid underground and the others concealed themselves nearby.
• The Sea Urchin Beast attacked Guangdong Ren and the Azure Moon Fiends Duo, but they blocked its attacks and retreated.
• The Golden Shirt Elder and the Blue-dressed Woman struck the beast with their treasures, then fled as it pursued them.
• Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan activated the formation to trap the Sea Urchin Beast, and the Golden Shirt Elder hurried Wang Changsheng and the Blue-robed Man into the cave to pick the lotus.
• The Blue-robed Man and Golden Shirt Elder secretly exchanged voice transmissions, while Wang Changsheng's mouth curled into a faint smile.

Wang Changsheng and his companions found the Celestial Moon Golden Lotus, but the Golden Shirt Elder and Blue-robed Man turned on him to seize it. Wang Changsheng killed the Blue-robed Man, then rejected the Golden Shirt Elder’s offer to divide the treasure and attacked him.

• Wang Changsheng, the Golden Shirt Elder, and the Blue-robed Man discovered the Celestial Moon Golden Lotus and Celestial Moon Divine Water in a cave.
• The Golden Shirt Elder sealed the cave while the Blue-robed Man attacked Wang Changsheng, and their spirit insects clashed.
• Wang Changsheng summoned the Twin-Pupil Spirit Rat and Townsea Ape, then used Azure Vines, lightning, and a fist strike to kill the Blue-robed Man.
• The Golden Shirt Elder offered to join Wang Changsheng and split the treasures, but Wang Changsheng refused and ordered the Townsea Ape to attack him.

Wang Changsheng killed the Golden Shirt Elder after fighting him with the help of his Spirit Beasts and Spirit Insects. He then joined Wang Ruyan and Guangdong Ren to defeat the other cultivators and escape the Sea Urchin Beast.

• The Townsea Ape disrupted the Golden Shirt Elder’s magic power, and Wang Changsheng’s attacks overwhelmed him before the Golden Shirt Elder was smashed to death by a giant pearl.
• Wang Ruyan told Guangdong Ren that the Golden Shirt Elder had tried to kill Wang Changsheng, then Wang Changsheng pretended that a Tier 4 Demon Beast remained in the cave.
• Guangdong Ren attacked the Blue-dressed Woman, and Wang Changsheng, Wang Ruyan, and Guangdong Ren fled while fighting her and the Red-Robed Man.
• The Sea Urchin Beast and Wang Changsheng’s group killed the Red-Robed Man and the Blue-dressed Woman, then the group escaped as the beast chased them without success.

After Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan parted from Guangdong Ren, they followed a treasure map to the dangerous Spirit Severing Sea Region. They cautiously entered the barren island’s interior and stopped before a poisonous swamp, uncertain what awaited beyond it.

• Wang Changsheng gave Guangdong Ren four golden lotus seeds, and Guangdong Ren promised to shelter the Wang Family’s Eastern Wasteland clansmen and keep Azure Lotus Estate vacant.
• Guangdong Ren gave Wang Changsheng a blue shell containing what he knew about the Town Immortal Pagoda, then left.
• Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan searched the four defeated rogue cultivators’ belongings and found valuable materials, magic treasures, and a drop of Primordial Heavy Water.
• Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan flew for half a year to reach the Spirit Severing Sea Region and began exploring its barren island.
• Wang Ruyan used the Black Phoenix Mystic Eye to spot spatial rifts, so Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan turned back and took another route.
• Wang Changsheng sent Gold Devouring Ants toward a purple-miasma swamp, but the miasma dissolved them; Wang Ruyan proposed flying across slowly in case poisonous insects lurked there.

Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan crossed a swamp full of Golden-Winged Crystal Ants and followed the sound of battle to a mountain, where they found four Cultivators fighting a powerful beast. Wang Changsheng secretly sealed off the area and tried to break through a barrier protecting a stone gate, but his attack was repelled.

• Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan used their Nine Cloud Sparrows to draw away the Golden-Winged Crystal Ants, then fought through the swarm with Celestial Moon Divine Water and Wang Ruyan’s Black Phoenix Mystic Eye.
• Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan crossed the swamp, froze several black shadows pursuing them, and headed toward a barren mountain after hearing another explosion.
• Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan found two Nascent Soul Cultivators and two Core Formation Cultivators attacking a wounded fourth order mid-grade Qilin Beast inside a valley.
• Wang Changsheng secretly placed golden Formation Flags and activated the Five Elements Spirit Isolation Formation around the stone cave.
• Wang Changsheng struck the yellow barrier protecting an Azure Stone Gate with a Mountain-Sea Pearl, but the barrier rebounded and forced him back.

Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan broke through the Restriction guarding Gu Liti’s Seated Immortal Cave and found a Storage Ring, but Gu Liti regained control of the Inkscale Beast’s body outside. He drove off Gu Sheng’s group and was left needing time to recover.

• Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan used the Celestial Moon Divine Water and Kui Water Divine Light to shatter the Restriction and Azure Stone Gate.
• Wang Changsheng found a golden-robed skeleton and a Storage Ring inside the Stone Chamber.
• Gu Sheng sent Fei Yue to investigate the cave while he and the others intensified their Formation’s attack on the Inkscale Beast.
• Fei Yue found the cave empty, while the Inkscale Beast transformed into a horned young man and revealed that Gu Liti’s Primordial Spirit had taken control of its body.
• Gu Liti told Gu Sheng and the others to leave, then prepared to recover from his injuries and depleted magical power.

Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan escaped with Gu Liti’s stolen treasures while Gu Liti and Gu Sheng’s group pursued them. After months of chasing them through the sea, Gu Sheng’s group gave up and returned, hoping Gu Liti would seek them out.

• Gu Liti discovered his Storage Ring had been stolen and pursued Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan, while Gu Sheng’s group joined the chase.
• Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan used their treasures, techniques, and spirit beasts to fend off Gu Liti and escape into the sea.
• Gu Liti abandoned the pursuit when he struggled to control the Inkscale Beast’s body, and Gu Sheng chose to chase the two Core Formation Cultivators instead.
• Gu Sheng’s group pursued Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan underwater for months but could not catch their exceptionally fast Townsea Ape.
• Gu Sheng decided to return, believing Gu Liti might come looking for them after recovering his cultivation.

Wang Qingqi’s memories showed how he devoted his life to strengthening the Wang Clan’s alchemy despite opportunities to stay with the Hundred Spirits Sect and the cost to his own cultivation. As his lifespan neared its end, Wang Changsheng gave him a Longevity Fruit that would grant him fifty more years and another chance to reach Core Formation.

• While teaching Wang Tianbei to refine Foundation Establishment Pills, Wang Qingqi recalled promising his father and Wang Changsheng that he would become an alchemist for the Lineage.
• At the Hundred Spirits Sect, Wang Qingqi rejected Lu Zhong’s offer to stay as a sect disciple and returned to serve the Wang Clan.
• After hearing clansmen lament the high prices of pills the Lineage could not make, Wang Qingqi persuaded Wang Qingkai to let him research improved pill recipes.
• Wang Qingqi praised Wang Tianbei’s Foundation Establishment Pill and told him to take responsibility for refining them after his death.
• Wang Changsheng showed Wang Qingqi a Longevity Fruit, explaining that it would add fifty years to his lifespan and give him another chance to break through to Core Formation.

Wang Changsheng distributed some of the spoils from the Barbarian cultivator’s cave to Wang Qingling and Wang Qingshan, then examined a map of the Sky Void Grotto. He began practicing his treasure-refining techniques before attempting to upgrade his Azure Glass Sword into a Tier 2 Magic Treasure.

• Wang Changsheng gave Wang Qingqi a Longevity Fruit and reviewed the valuable treasures and materials he had seized from the Nascent Soul Realm Barbarian cultivator.
• Wang Changsheng gave Wang Qingling Dragon Transformation Pills for her Icewind Python and reminded her to prioritize cultivation.
• Wang Changsheng gave Wang Qingshan Nurturing Spirit Pills for his Three-Headed Cunning Hound and took his Azure Glass Sword to refine Gold Essence Crystal into it.
• Wang Changsheng examined a map marked “Sky Void” and suspected it showed the dangerous Sky Void Grotto.
• Wang Changsheng began practicing with Tier 1 Magic Treasures before refining a Tier 2 Magic Treasure.

Wang Ruyan helped Wang Qingjun regain the chance to pursue Core Formation and then visited Wang Huashan in Chu Kingdom. After receiving his treasures and promising to nurture a Core Formation cultivator if circumstances allowed, she left for Chongyang Market to return to the South Sea.

• Wang Qingjun taught young clan members about the lineage and promised they could one day rebuild it at Azure Lotus Estate.
• Wang Ruyan gave Wang Qingjun a Longevity Fruit, which restored his youth and gave him a chance to repair his meridians and attempt Core Formation.
• Wang Ruyan left Wang Qingjun in charge of the Eastern Wasteland clan members and traveled to Chu Kingdom to meet Wang Huashan.
• Wang Huashan gave Wang Ruyan a Tier 3 Mid Grade Demon Core and Millennial Cold Jade, asking her to nurture a Core Formation cultivator for the Wang Family if possible.
• Wang Ruyan promised to fulfill Wang Huashan's request if circumstances permitted, then left for Chongyang Market to return to the South Sea.

The Profound Water Palace opened a hidden Fire Kirin Clan Secret Realm in the Black Stone Mountain Range, but the eruption killed many disciples and a Core Formation Cultivator. Wang Ruyan and the Wang Family disciples spotted the disturbance and headed toward it.

• Wang Rongmiao joined Profound Water Palace elders and disciples as they searched for the Fire Kirin Clan's Secret Realm in the Black Stone Mountain Range.
• The Profound Water Palace raised a Spirit Concealing Formation while the elders attacked the Secret Realm's entrance.
• Magma erupted from the dead volcano, destroying the Formation and killing or injuring nearly half the disciples, as well as Junior Sister Chen.
• Senior Brother Sun led Wang Rongmiao and the surviving cultivators through the breach into the Secret Realm.
• Wang Ruyan and Wang Tianqi saw the distant crimson light and flew toward it with the Wang Family disciples.

Wang Ruyan and Fang Mu entered a newly discovered Secret Realm, where Wang Ruyan fought a flock of Fire Crows and Fang Mu pursued his plan to create a Fire Attribute Heavenly Corpse. The two traveled separately through the dangerous, fire-rich realm.

• Wang Tianqi reported that a Secret Realm had opened, and Wang Ruyan sent her and the other clansmen back to the Market before entering alone.
• Fang Mu arrived at the cave, briefly encountered Wang Ruyan, and entered the Secret Realm after her.
• Wang Ruyan appeared on a scorching Crimson Peak and used her Golden Lotus Lyre to kill more than a hundred Fire Crows.
• Fang Mu watched his Jiangshi drain the Essence Blood from two crimson giant eagles and collected their corpses.
• Fang Mu said he planned to refine a Fire Attribute Heavenly Corpse, then flew away on the Jiangshi's back.

Wang Ruyan defeated an elder who ambushed her in the red bamboo forest, then encountered Wang Rongmiao while rescuing him from a Third Order Demon Beast. The chapter ended with Wang Rongmiao recognizing her as his Ancestress and explaining his lineage.

• Wang Ruyan killed an Ape-Tiger Beast and exposed a yellow-robed elder who had been watching her.
• Wang Ruyan and her spirit beasts defeated the elder and killed his Yellow Giant Serpent.
• Wang Ruyan killed the elder with an illusion, collected his possessions, harvested the Crimson Gold Zhi, and stored the Ape-Tiger Beast's corpse.
• Wang Ruyan emerged from the bamboo forest and saw a foundation establishment cultivator fleeing a Third Order Demon Beast from a mountain cave.
• Wang Ruyan pulled the fleeing cultivator to safety and discovered that he was Wang Rongmiao.
• Wang Rongmiao recognized Wang Ruyan as his Ancestress and told her that his ancestor was Wang Changxing.