Chapter Summaries

While exploring the Murong Royal Clan's trading district, Wang Qingshan reunited with Han Yuexin, an old acquaintance who had married Wu Yufeng. A boastful Core Formation Cultivator challenged Wang Qingshan to spar, but he refused and remained unruffled by the insults.

• Murong Yuyao took Wang Qingshan to a teahouse while Wang Tianwen and Wang Qiuming explored elsewhere.
• Wang Qingshan met Wu Rongxiang, who introduced his son Wu Yufeng and daughter-in-law Han Yuexin.
• Wang Qingshan and Han Yuexin acknowledged their past acquaintance and spoke politely about his reputation and cultivation.
• Zhao Richen disparaged Eastern Wasteland cultivators and challenged Wang Qingshan to spar.
• Wang Qingshan refused Zhao Richen's challenge, and Zhao left after mocking him.
• Murong Yuyao apologized for Zhao Richen's behavior, but Wang Qingshan said he did not mind.

Wang Qingshan attended the Hundred Beast Assembly, where his Three-Headed Cunning Hound won its opening match. After Lu Ping challenged Wang Qingshan, Wang Qiuming stepped in to fight him, leaving their sparring about to begin.

• Wu Rongxiang visited Wang Qingshan, invited him to the Wu Family, and left without securing a date for the visit.
• Wang Qingshan returned to his residence and cultivated with his azure flying swords while Wang Tianwen and Wang Qiuming remained away.
• A white-robed elder of the Murong Family told a white-robed woman to build alliances at the Hundred Beast Assembly and explained that opening their ancestral secret grounds required a key or eight Nascent Soul Cultivators.
• Seven days later, Murong Rong opened the Hundred Beast Assembly, and Wang Qingshan entered his Three-Headed Cunning Hound in the spirit beast competition.
• The Three-Headed Cunning Hound defeated a red giant serpent using its Golden Lightning and freezing wind.
• Lu Ping challenged Wang Qingshan, but Wang Qiuming volunteered to spar with him, and Murong Rong warned them to avoid serious injuries.

Wang Qiuming defeated Lu Ping with the Golden Moon Wheel spirit art, then accepted Liu Qinghe’s challenge and won after breaking through his defenses with his puppet beasts. The chapter ended with Wang Qiuming victorious over both challengers.

• Lu Ping attacked Wang Qiuming with waves of golden blade auras, but Wang Qiuming’s Golden Moon Wheel shredded them and an illusory Golden tiger.
• Wang Qiuming intensified the Golden Moon Wheel’s pull, forcing Lu Ping to unleash a golden blade aura that destroyed both their weapons before Wang Qiuming struck Lu Ping with a tangible Golden Ring.
• Lu Ping conceded after Wang Qiuming showed mercy, and Liu Qinghe challenged Wang Qiuming at Zhao Richen’s prompting.
• Liu Qinghe sent blue swallows, a Golden Giant Eagle, silver palms, and throwing knives against Wang Qiuming, whose Golden Moon Wheel and Blue Water Curtain countered his attacks.
• Wang Qiuming’s puppet beasts overwhelmed Liu Qinghe after the Golden Moon Wheel slowed the Golden Giant Eagle, and the Ape Puppet struck Liu Qinghe hard enough to send him flying.
• The match was declared a victory for Wang Qiuming.

Wang Qiuming lost to Zhao Richen after a fierce duel of spirit arts, and Zhao then challenged Wang Qingshan. Wang Qingshan accepted and began attacking, leaving their match poised to escalate.

• After Wang Qiuming defeated Liu Qinghe, Zhao Richen challenged him, and Shen Ruirong and Murong Rong debated whether the exhausted Wang should fight again.
• Wang Qiuming accepted Zhao Richen's challenge after taking a Snow Dew Pill, while Wang Tianwen warned him that Zhao was a pure spirit-art cultivator.
• Zhao Richen used sand-based spirit arts to bind Wang Qiuming's puppet beasts, smash his Golden Moon True Wheel, and pin him beneath Mount Tai Press.
• Murong Rong stopped the match before the Yellow Mountain crushed Wang Qiuming, declared Zhao Richen the winner, and dispersed the mountain.
• Zhao Richen challenged Wang Qingshan, who accepted and opened the duel with a Crimson Flying Sword and more than a thousand Azure Flying Swords.

Wang Qingshan defeated Zhao Richen in a contest of sword arts and spiritual arts without using Magic Treasures. Dugu Yunfei then challenged Wang Qingshan to a three-move match, which Wang accepted.

• Wang Qingshan's azure sword wyrm destroyed Zhao Richen's Yellow Giants, Spirit Suppression Tower, and Spirit Devouring Python before his flying swords broke Zhao Richen's armor and forced him to spit blood.
• Murong Rong stopped the match and declared Wang Qingshan the winner.
• Dugu Yunfei arrived, mocked Zhao Richen, and challenged Wang Qingshan to a sparring match.
• Wang Tianwen warned Wang Qingshan that Dugu Yunfei ranked ninth among Great Yan's Eighteen Heroes and came from the powerful Dugu Family.
• Dugu Yunfei proposed a three-move limit because his cultivation was higher, and Wang Qingshan agreed.

At the Hundred Beast Assembly, Wang Qingshan faced Dugu Yunfei in a three-move contest for a bottle of Hundred Beast Pills. Wang Qingshan endured Dugu Yunfei’s attacks and turned the tide with his ice-attribute flying swords before Murong Rong stopped the match.

• Zhao Richen urged Dugu Yunfei to defeat Wang Qingshan within three moves, while Shen Ruirong prompted Murong Rong to offer a reward for the duel.
• Murong Rong offered a bottle of Hundred Beast Pills to whichever cultivator prevailed, and both Dugu Yunfei and Wang Qingshan accepted.
• Dugu Yunfei’s Golden sword attacks clashed with Wang Qingshan’s Azure sword techniques, but Wang Qingshan repelled them and forced Dugu Yunfei’s Golden Sun back into its flying sword form.
• Dugu Yunfei unleashed three Golden crows empowered by Golden Flame Truefire, but Wang Qingshan’s six White snow pythons froze them with their Cold Air.
• Murong Rong stopped the duel after three moves as Wang Qingshan’s snow pythons closed in on Dugu Yunfei.

Wang Qingshan impressed the Great Yan cultivators, then traveled toward Kyoto while Wang Qiuming and Wang Tianwen went separate ways. On Profound Moon Island, Wang Yingjie reached the Eighth Layer of Qi Refining before an attack on his formation drew him into a conflict involving the Zhao and Xue Families.

• Wang Qingshan defeated Dugu Yunfei in a three-move spar, earned a bottle of Hundred Beast Pills, and gained the respect of the assembled cultivators.
• Wang Qingshan asked about Zhou Yunxiao and learned that Kyoto was a good place to seek out skilled opponents, though its female cultivators might pursue him after a martial contest.
• Wang Qingshan assigned Wang Qiuming to escort goods back in batches and sent Wang Tianwen to report to the Myriad Immortals Bureau; three days later, Wang Qingshan set out for Kyoto while the others went their separate ways.
• Wang Yingjie advanced to Qi Refining Eighth Layer on Profound Moon Island, then received an alarm that someone was attacking the formation around Mystic Moon Peak.
• Xue Pingyi of Qingya Island told Wang Yingjie that Zhao Family cultivators were attacking over a Jade Stone Vein, and Wang Yingjie led Lan Xueyun and Du Jiao out to fight them, ordering that one attacker be captured alive.

Wang Yingjie and his companions defeated Zhao Guangyi’s group on Profound Moon Island and learned of a small Jade Stone Vein the Zhao Family had occupied. Wang Mengfen sent Wang Qingqing and Ye Haitang with a force to claim it, and they arrived to find the Zhao Family guarding the island with a formation.

• Du Jiao and Lan Xueyun unleashed Puppet Beasts against Zhao Guangyi’s five Qi Refining Cultivators, and Wang Yingjie’s force killed four and captured Zhao Guangyi.
• Wang Yingjie left Profound Moon Island with Lan Xueyun and the others, then handed Zhao Guangyi and Xue Pingyi to Wang Xianyang on Purple Lotus Island.
• Wang Xianyang sent Zhao Guangyi and Xue Pingyi to Azure Lotus Island, where Wang Mengfen learned that a small Jade Stone Vein was at stake.
• Wang Mengfen summoned Wang Qingqing and Ye Haitang, who led thirty Wang Family cultivators, including Wang Yingjie, toward the vein.
• Wang Qingqing’s group reached the island and found the Zhao Family’s Small Cloud Sea Formation covering it; Ye Haitang identified flaws and began attacking.

Wang Qingqing negotiated with the Lu Family over a Jade Stone Vein, and the Wang Family secured the larger share after its juniors competed against the Zhao Family. Wang Yingjie’s performance earned him promotion to the Eighteen Heroes and resources to support his future Foundation Establishment.

• Zhao Ruoyun called on Lu Hengbin to defend the Zhao Family’s claim to the Jade Stone Vein, while Wang Qingqing proposed settling the dispute through a contest.
• Wang Qingqing and Lu Hengbin agreed that each side would send two Foundation Establishment Cultivators and three Qi Refining Cultivators to compete, with the winner receiving sixty percent of the vein’s proceeds.
• Wang Yingjie volunteered for the contest and defeated his opponent using a Spider Puppet Beast, Azure Thorns, and a fireball.
• The Wang Family won three matches, drew one, and lost one, securing sixty percent of the proceeds while agreeing to jointly oversee the vein with the Lu Family.
• Wang Yingjie was promoted to the Eighteen Heroes and received a Foundation Establishment Pill and cultivation resources.

After more than twenty years of secluded cultivation, Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan discussed clearing the Nascent Soul Realm Ghost from the Townsea Sect ruins. Their plans were interrupted when Townsea Ape endured a Thunder Tribulation and advanced to the Fourth Order, while the Twin-Pupil Spirit Rat remained at Tier 3 High-Grade.

• Wang Ruyan urged Wang Changsheng to deal with the Nascent Soul Realm Ghost, but they agreed to prepare carefully and transfer loyal clansmen near the Myriad Ghosts Sea Region first.
• A violent quake and dark thundercloud appeared over Azure Lotus Peak, and Wang Changsheng realized Townsea Ape was undergoing a breakthrough tribulation.
• Wang Changsheng used the formation and nine Ocean-Calming Pearls to protect Townsea Ape from the Thunder Tribulation’s strikes.
• Townsea Ape survived the final strike, advanced to the Fourth Order, and celebrated amid the ruins of Azure Lotus Hall.
• The Twin-Pupil Spirit Rat emerged from the rubble, still only Tier 3 High-Grade despite having taken a Beast Spirit Pill.

After emerging from seclusion, Wang Changsheng saw that the Townsea Ape had advanced to the fourth order and the Qilin Turtle to the second, then assessed the Wang Family’s strength. He ordered loyal clansmen gathered and sent in secret to Golden Eagle Market to prepare for exploring the Townsea Sect ruins.

• The Townsea Ape fought the Qilin Turtle over a seven-hundred-year-old Azure Rain Flower, and Wang Changsheng calmed the ape by giving it two more flowers.
• Wang Changsheng contacted Wang Mengfen and ordered his residence rebuilt while the Qilin Turtle and Twin-Pupil Spirit Rat enjoyed food from the family’s lake.
• Wang Mengfen reported that the Wang Family had 9,435 cultivators, including two Nascent Soul Cultivators, but was short of Core Formation Spiritual Objects and Tier 3 Alchemists.
• Wang Changsheng ordered more than a thousand loyal Wang Family clansmen from several regions sent in batches to Golden Eagle Market, where Rong Miao and Tianqi would join them.

Wang Ruyan ordered Wang Mengfen to expand the Wang Family’s ranks and resources while Wang Changsheng began refining a Thunder Attribute Magic Treasure to face a Nascent Soul Realm Ghost. In the Great Yan Dynasty, Wang Qingshan endured Zhou Yunxiao’s final sword strike but discovered that his Azure Glass Sword had been chipped.

• Wang Ruyan told Wang Mengfen to invest more in the Spirit Beast Garden and train more clan members to meet the Wang Family’s needs.
• Wang Changsheng took out purified Thunder-Apricot Spirit Wood and began refining a Thunder Attribute Magic Treasure while Wang Ruyan prepared talismans.
• After searching for over ten years, Wang Qingshan faced Zhou Yunxiao in the Black Cloud Mountains, where they agreed to settle their duel in five moves.
• Zhou Yunxiao unleashed a massive Crimson Flame blade, which shattered Wang Qingshan’s sword attacks and forced him to defend with the Azure Glass Sword.
• Wang Qingshan destroyed the weakened giant blade, but the clash chipped his sword, and Zhou Yunxiao remarked that it was made from unusual materials.

Wang Qingshan narrowly escaped Du Huowu after sparring with Zhou Yunxiao, while Wang Tianwen arrived in Quanzhou with Myriad Immortals Bureau cultivators to investigate deadly Vicious Ghosts. The chapter left the group preparing to learn how a Core Formation Stage Vicious Ghost had appeared and grown so powerful.

• Wang Qingshan and Zhou Yunxiao agreed to fight again after both entered the Nascent Soul Realm, then Wang Qingshan hurriedly left.
• Du Huowu arrived seeking Wang Qingshan, and Zhou Yunxiao pointed her after him.
• Liu Xian told Immortal master Sun that Vicious Ghosts had killed thousands in Quanzhou and overwhelmed the cultivators sent against them.
• Wang Tianwen arrived with Madam Chen, Daoist Yang, and Foundation Establishment Cultivators to exterminate the Ghosts.
• Wang Tianwen asked Liu Xian for an account of how the Core Formation Stage Vicious Ghost had appeared.

Wang Tianwen and the Myriad Immortals Bureau uncovered the Governor-General Liu Xian’s role in the death of a woman whose resentful ghost had become a Core Formation ghost king. As Wang Tianwen remained behind to protect Liu Xian, Liu tried to justify his past choices, but Wang rejected him.

• Liu Xian claimed the ghost had arisen from a murdered woman and explained how the cultivators had been killed or escaped.
• Wang Tianwen used the Bewitchment Art on the surviving cultivator, who revealed that Liu Xian had impregnated a married woman and that the Governor-General’s wife had her drowned.
• Madam Chen confirmed the survivor was telling the truth, then ordered him to help destroy the ghost and arranged for more Core Formation Cultivators to join the campaign.
• Wang Tianwen agreed to stay with Madam Chen at the governor-general’s office to protect Liu Xian while Daoist Yang went to summon reinforcements.
• Liu Xian visited Wang Tianwen with wine and defended his choices, but Wang refused to hear him out and criticized his conduct.

Sun Cuier agreed to become the black-robed man's ghost slave so she could take revenge on Liu Xian, then led a horde of Ghosts to attack Hong City. Wang Tianwen went out to defend the city as the Ghosts began slaughtering its residents.

• Sun Cuier learned that Liu Xian had knowingly allowed her and her unborn child to be murdered, and she agreed to join the black-robed man in seeking revenge.
• The black-robed man led Sun Cuier and a mass of black qi toward Hong City to kill Liu Xian and his wife.
• Wang Tianwen received an urgent message that Ghosts were attacking Quanzhou and went to the Council Hall, where Madam Chen identified Sun Cuier as their leader.
• Madam Chen told Wang Tianwen to hold off Sun Cuier and the low-level Ghosts while she waited for Senior Lin to arrive.
• Liu Xian tried to persuade Wang Tianwen to stay inside, but Wang Tianwen led cultivators out to fight the Ghosts and save the commoners.

Wang Tianwen fought through Hong City as Ghosts and Bone Corpses slaughtered its people, discovering that Sun Cuier’s forces had set a Formation against him. After breaking free and defeating a Core Formation Stage Bone Corpse, he rushed toward the County Government Office, where a massive explosion had occurred.

• Wang Tianwen rescued a middle-aged woman and her children, then attacked the Ghosts and Bone Corpses rampaging through Hong City.
• Wang Tianwen was trapped in a Formation and suspected someone had deliberately cultivated Sun Cuier into a Ghost King.
• Wang Tianwen broke out of the Formation and continued destroying the Vicious Ghosts with his Silver Jade Brush and red Lotus Mirror.
• Wang Tianwen saw a massive explosion erupt near the County Government Office and hurried toward it.
• Wang Tianwen defeated a Core Formation Stage Bone Corpse with his Puppet Beast, Crimson Flame, and silver giant sword, then flew toward the County Government Office.

Wang Tianwen and Senior Lin defeated the attackers who had turned Sun Cuier into a Ghost King, then learned that Demon Cultivators were causing trouble across several regions. Wang Tianwen heard that his Seventh Great-Uncle Wang Qingshan might attend the Miao Family’s Ascension Gathering.

• Senior Lin arrived at the ruined County Government Office, captured Sun Cuier in a Golden Pagoda, and tried to search the black-robed man’s soul before a restriction burned him to ashes.
• Senior Lin explained that Heretical Cultivators had fed Sun Cuier hundreds of cultivators and thousands of mortals to raise her as a Ghost King, then ordered Wang Tianwen to eliminate the remaining ghosts.
• Three days later, Wang Tianwen learned that the Myriad Immortals Bureau had sent reinforcements and that Demon Cultivators had caused trouble in several prefectures and commanderies.
• Qin Qian told Wang Tianwen that Wang Qingshan had defeated a Third-tier Demonic Flood Dragon and beaten Daoist Yang in three moves.
• Qin Qian said Wang Qingshan might attend the Miao Family’s Ascension Gathering, which was likely being held for the young talent Miao Jiale.

Wang Tianwen, Qin Qian, and Sun were summoned by Senior Liu to rush to Yunlan Province after reports of a Heretical Cultivator trap. At the Miao Family's Ascension Gathering, Wang Qingshan defeated Miao Jiale and won the Nine Heavens Escape Talisman.

• Senior Liu ordered Wang Tianwen, Qin Qian, and Sun to accompany her to Yunlan Province to stop a planned crime by Heretical Cultivators.
• The group boarded Senior Liu's White Flying Boat and departed for Yunlan Province.
• At the Miao Family's Ascension Gathering, Wang Qingshan faced Miao Jiale in the martial contest.
• Miao Jiale conceded after Wang Qingshan defeated him, and the spectators praised Wang Qingshan's swordsmanship.
• A Miao Family elder gave Wang Qingshan the Nine Heavens Escape Talisman as his prize.

Wang Qingshan and other cultivators entered a mysterious realm revealed as a Golden Giant Tower, which might have been Golden Moon True Person’s Seated Immortal Cave. After arriving in a bamboo forest and killing a demon insect, Wang Qingshan explored the realm while two other cultivators hunted a Golden Giant Serpent and followed a skull-shaped guide.

• Wang Qingshan accepted Miao Jiale’s Nine Heavens Escape Talisman before a Golden Sun and the phantom of a Golden Giant Tower appeared in the White Birch Mountains.
• Wang Qingshan, Miao Jiale, and many other cultivators flew to the lake, where they suspected the tower was Golden Moon True Person’s Seated Immortal Cave or another Secret Realm.
• After considering the risks, Wang Qingshan entered the Golden Giant Tower and was drawn into a bamboo forest filled with abundant spiritual qi and Tier 3 Demon Beasts.
• Wang Qingshan killed a high-grade tier-2 demon insect with his Azure Glass Sword and continued into the Azure Bamboo Forest.
• A green-skirted woman and a black-robed man killed a Golden Giant Serpent, then followed a skull-shaped image produced by the woman’s formation plate.

Wang Qingshan defeated a mutated Tier 3 Earth Dragon Worm and continued through a dangerous forest, where he found a large Fire Wing Bee hive. He fought the bees and their queen, but the chapter ended with the queen using a Crimson Fire Cloud to hold back his Sky Piercing Sword.

• Wang Qingshan used his sword formations and a Golden Centipede Puppet Beast to kill the Earth Dragon Worm, then collected its yellow orb for Wang Qingling.
• Wang Qingshan entered a dark forest with his Three-Headed Cunning Hound, which had advanced to Third Order Mid Grade, and the hound fought off the poisonous insects along the way.
• Wang Qingshan discovered a large Fire Wing Bee hive and attacked it with his flying swords while the hound used its freezing wind, Crimson Flame, and Golden Lightning.
• The Bee Queen fought back with flames and a gale, but Golden Lightning slowed it as Wang Qingshan's Sky Piercing Sword descended.
• The Bee Queen formed a Crimson Fire Cloud to hold up the Sky Piercing Sword.