Chapter Summaries

Wang Changsheng left a gathering with Wang Ruyan, then cultivated and began refining a Dharma Artifact at the Spirit Armory Pavilion. Meanwhile, Wang Changyue showed promise in formations, the Wang Family debated the Immortal Ascension Assembly, and Wang Mingjiang successfully established his foundation; the family prepared him to remain hidden as war approached.

• Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan greeted Li Tianzheng and Song Yihang at the Hundred Fragrance Pavilion, then left together before returning to separate homes.
• Wang Changsheng cultivated with Dark Yin Cold Water and began forging a Golden Blade Dharma Artifact using materials supplied by Wang Ruyan.
• Wang Changyue told her family she could set up First Grade Lower Rank Formations, while Wang Mingyuan and Liu Qing'er discussed the Immortal Ascension Assembly and the danger of joining Song Kingdom's sects.
• Wang Mingjiang established his foundation, and Wang Yaohuan told him to keep cultivating in hiding and prepare for the coming battle.

Wang Changsheng continued improving his artifact-refining skills and invited Wang Ruyan and others to celebrate his birthday. Elsewhere, Li Tianzheng cultivated the Blood Wolf Art with Essence Blood, reached the Foundation Establishment Fourth Layer, and planned to find more victims.

• Wang Changsheng refined the Golden Sun Sword and learned that Wang Mingjiang had established his foundation while Wang Mingzhong had failed.
• Wang Changsheng gave Wang Ruyan the Golden Sun Sword and asked her to provide materials and a blueprint so he could attempt a Mid-Grade Dharma Artifact.
• Wang Changsheng invited Wang Ruyan and the others to a birthday meal at the Hundred Fragrance Pavilion, and she agreed to attend.
• Li Tianzheng fed Essence Blood to the Blood-colored Giant Wolf, which returned to his body and raised his cultivation to the Foundation Establishment Fourth Layer.
• Li Tianzheng resolved to seek more Blood Food after using up his Essence Blood, having secretly cultivated the Blood Wolf Art by killing Rogue Cultivators.

Li Tianzheng continued his dangerous cultivation and planned to trap Song Yihang and Wang Ruyan, while Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan exchanged gifts and grew closer as acquaintances. Meanwhile, leaders of the Song and Tang sects finalized plans to invade Wei Kingdom in a year, leaving the coming war poised to begin.

• Li Tianzheng discovered that the Blood Wolf Art would drain his Essence Blood if he stopped feeding it, so he continued killing cultivators and planned a trap for Song Yihang and Wang Ruyan.
• Wang Changsheng hosted Wang Ruyan and the others for a birthday meal, then gave Wang Ruyan a musical score suited to her interests.
• Wang Ruyan returned Wang Changsheng's gift with Mystic Ice Jade, which he accepted despite realizing she regarded him only as a friend.
• At Medicine King Valley, Chen Hongtian told the other Core Formation cultivators that the Five Sects of Tang had agreed to join the Four Sects of Song in invading Wei Kingdom.
• Chen Hongtian said the allied sects would attack from Violet Moon Market on the day of the Spirit Vulture Gate Master's birthday celebration in a year, initially keeping the Immortal Cultivation Families out of the war.

Wang Changsheng finished forging the Azure Cloud Crescent Moon Blade, then agreed to accompany Wang Ruyan to investigate an Ancient Cultivator Abode despite suspecting Song Yihang and Li Tianzheng might be setting a trap. They arranged precautions and prepared to meet the two sect disciples at Azurewave City’s gate.

• Wang Changsheng tested the Azure Cloud Crescent Moon Blade in the Refining Chamber and was satisfied with its improved power.
• Wang Ruyan told Wang Changsheng that Song Yihang and Li Tianzheng had found an Ancient Cultivator Abode protected by a powerful Three Elements Thick Earth Formation and wanted their help breaking it.
• Wang Changsheng questioned the invitation and warned that Song Yihang might be using the expedition to target Wang Ruyan, but she offered him two Thousand Ice Talismans to secure his cooperation.
• Wang Ruyan and Wang Changsheng agreed to focus on killing Song Yihang first if a fight broke out, and Wang Changsheng proposed notifying their clansmen before they left.
• Wang Changsheng told Wang Mingzhan and Wang Mingxiao about the expedition, then prepared to meet Wang Ruyan at Azurewave City’s gate.

Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan followed Song Yihang and Li Tianzheng to an Ancient Cultivator Abode, wary that their guides might be plotting against them. The four joined forces to break through the Three Elements Thick Earth Formation, leaving the way into the abode open.

• Li Tianzheng and Song Yihang waited for Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan, then led them out of the city.
• After nine days of being led through the mountains, Wang Ruyan questioned Song Yihang and Li Tianzheng, who brought the group to a flower-covered valley.
• Song Yihang blasted open the cave entrance, and Li Tianzheng distributed Spirit-Seeking Mother-Child Talismans before the four entered.
• Song Yihang revealed the Three Elements Thick Earth Formation blocking the abode, and the four attacked it together.
• Wang Changsheng added another Blue Flying Knife to the assault, and the combined attack shattered the yellow light barrier.

Wang Changsheng and his companions entered a cave abode, where Li Tianzheng revealed that he had poisoned them to steal the treasures. Wang Changsheng resisted the poison and attacked Li Tianzheng, leaving the fight underway.

• Wang Ruyan sent an Ape Puppet ahead through the passageway, and the group reached a stone chamber with a yellow Restriction.
• The Ape Puppet triggered a poison trap, but the group’s shields protected them from the yellow smoke.
• Li Tianzheng appeared to die after swallowing a pill, and Song Yihang accused Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan of poisoning him before attacking them.
• Li Tianzheng revealed that Green Oak Wood and Violet Sunflower fragrances had poisoned the group, then killed Song Yihang and immobilized Wang Ruyan.
• Wang Changsheng resisted the poison, summoned five Second Order Puppet Beasts, and charged Li Tianzheng with his Azure Cloud Crescent Moon Blade.

Wang Changsheng killed Li Tianzheng and Song Yihang, then divided their belongings with Wang Ruyan and asked her to keep the incident secret. He left Chu Kingdom for Azure Lotus Mountain while Wang Ruyan promised to help his clansmen leave safely.

• Wang Changsheng used his Puppet Beasts, illusions, talismans, and Adamantine Brick to kill Li Tianzheng, after which the Blood-colored Giant Wolf vanished and the Puppet Beasts were freed.
• Wang Changsheng searched Li Tianzheng and Song Yihang's remains, then waited with Wang Ruyan for their magic power to recover.
• Wang Changsheng claimed Song Yihang's Talisman Treasure and divided the remaining spoils with Wang Ruyan, taking ninety percent and giving her ten percent.
• Wang Ruyan swore a Heart Demon Oath not to reveal what happened and offered to arrange for Wang Changsheng's clansmen to return to Azure Lotus Mountain in batches.
• Wang Changsheng left Wang Ruyan a letter for his Sixth Uncle and confessed his feelings before departing for Azure Lotus Mountain.

After returning to Azure Lotus Mountain, Wang Changsheng reflected on the dangers of his expedition, learned of Wang Changyue’s talent for formations, and began refining a long-range Dharma Artifact. Meanwhile, the Wang Family in the Blue Moon Mountains debated whether to join the coming war between the Four Sects of Great Song and the Five Sects of Wei, and Wang Huashan decided to negotiate for better rewards and lead the clan’s forces.

• Wang Changsheng returned to Azure Lotus Mountain, reported his expedition to Wang Yaozong, and was advised to remain and cultivate as war approached.
• Wang Changsheng visited his family, discovered that Wang Changyue could set up First Grade Lower Rank formations, and urged her to balance her studies with cultivation.
• Wang Changsheng resolved to distrust future expedition invitations and began refining a bow-and-arrow Dharma Artifact from Azure Spirit Bamboo and other materials.
• Wang Huashan asked the Wang Family elders whether they should join the coming war, and Wang Shuyuan argued that they should demand territory and Foundation Establishment Pills in return.
• Wang Huashan decided to negotiate for greater rewards, transfer some Foundation Establishment clansmen back to guard the clan, and personally go to the frontline.
• After hearing that Wang Changsheng had left the Spirit Armory Pavilion, Wang Huashan ordered Wang Ruyan to return.

Wang Changsheng advanced to the Foundation Establishment Fourth Layer and prepared Wang Family clansmen for battle by arranging a demon-beast hunt. In Wei Kingdom, Guangdong Ren and the other Core Formation cultivators agreed to attack Great Song ahead of the planned invasion.

• Wang Changsheng advanced to the Foundation Establishment Fourth Layer with the help of Profound Yin Spirit Water and refined the Mid-Grade Dharma Artifact Azure Tiger Bow.
• The Twin-Pupil Spirit Rat awoke as a Tier 2 Low Grade beast, while the Gold Devouring Ant Queen advanced to First Grade High Rank.
• Wang Changsheng visited the Dharma Practice Hall, reviewed the clansmen's training, and arranged to take fifteen promising members on a demon-beast hunt.
• At the Yellow Saint Palace, Li Haifeng told the cultivators that Song Kingdom and Tang Kingdom planned to invade Wei Kingdom during the Spirit Vulture Gate Master's birthday celebration.
• Guangdong Ren agreed to lead the vanguard against Great Song after securing Yun Province and Ning Province for the Hundred Spirits Sect.

Wang Changsheng led fifteen Wang Family clansmen into White Cloud Ridge, where they hunted Demon Beasts and searched for spirit herbs with the Twin-Pupil Spirit Rat. Meanwhile, Guangdong Ren and Tong Tianqi launched a surprise assault on Violet Moon Market, attacking its defensive barrier as the alarm rang.

• Wang Changsheng arrived at the Market in the disguised Azure Lotus Boat, reassured Ye Shenghuai and Madam Liu that he was only passing through, then led his clansmen toward White Cloud Ridge.
• Wang Changsheng sent the second-order Twin-Pupil Spirit Rat underground to search for spirit herbs after it demonstrated the Earth Escape Technique.
• Wang Yaohuan, Wang Mingzhong, and Wang Changhui led their specialized groups in killing two Black Giant Bears inside a cave and collecting the spirit herbs there.
• Guangdong Ren and Tong Tianqi prepared to breach Violet Moon Market's defenses while Feng Yue and Sun Junyan remained outside to provide support.
• Guangdong Ren and Tong Tianqi attacked the purple barrier over Violet Moon Market with their Golden Geng Demon Slayer Blade and Mount Tai Crushing Peak as the alarm sounded.

Guangdong Ren and Tong Tianqi were trapped in the Eight Gates Yellow Sand Formation after attacking the Violet Moon Market, while the Four Sects of Song prepared to advance their plans. Feng Yue and Sun Junyan moved to rescue the trapped cultivators, but Wang Huashan blocked their way.

• Guangdong Ren and Tong Tianqi shattered an illusion of the Violet Moon Market, then found themselves trapped in a desert formation and fought off sand arrows and regenerating Yellow Giants.
• Li Shixian, Li Yang, Zhao Yunxiao, and Wang Huashan maintained the formation from the Market walls, while Zhao Yunxiao revealed that the Four Sects of Song had prepared for an invasion by the Five Sects of Wei.
• Li Shixian urged Wang Huashan to aid the Four Sects’ plans, and he agreed to help mobilize troops and notify the Tang Kingdom.
• Feng Yue identified the barrier as a simplified Fourth Order Formation, and she and Sun Junyan decided to use her Array Breaking Talisman to rescue Guangdong Ren and Tong Tianqi.
• Wang Huashan intercepted Feng Yue and Sun Junyan, insisting that he supported the Song Kingdom after accepting the Four Sects’ rewards.

Li Haifeng and his allies broke the formation protecting Violet Moon Market and seized the settlement after killing Li Yang. They captured most of its cultivators and prepared to advance before the Four Sects of Song could respond.

• Sun Junyan and Wang Huashan tested their magical powers, while Sun Junyan sent Feng Yue to break the formation and deployed a puppet to hold off Li Yang.
• Sun Junyan's talisman struck Li Yang, and Li Haifeng killed him with a golden attack after stunning him with a bell.
• Feng Yue used a Golden Talisman to weaken the formation, allowing Guangdong Ren to break out and attack Violet Moon Market.
• Li Haifeng and the other Core Formation Cultivators attacked the Market, while Li Shixian, Zhao Yunxiao, and Wang Huashan fled.
• The attackers destroyed buildings and killed more than a hundred cultivators before Li Haifeng demanded surrender and the Five Sects of Wei captured the survivors.
• Li Haifeng ordered his forces to seize more territory before the Four Sects of Song could react.

Wang Changsheng learned that the war between the Five Sects of Wei and the Four Sects of Great Song had led to the Wang Family being conscripted, and he returned to Azure Lotus Mountain to answer the order. He and Wang Yaozong agreed to send two Foundation Establishment cultivators and thirty Qi Refining cultivators to the front, leaving the family under threat if they resisted.

• Wang Changsheng watched Wang Yaohuan and the others kill an Azure Giant Tiger at White Cloud Ridge, then led them back to the Market to rest.
• Wang Mingcai told Wang Changsheng that the Five Sects of Wei had invaded Great Song and that the Wang Family had been ordered to send two Foundation Establishment cultivators and thirty Qi Refining cultivators to war.
• Wang Changsheng learned that fleeing families had been exterminated and that the Lin Family was using the Purple Firmament Sect to pressure the Wang Family, so he gathered the clansmen and returned to Azure Lotus Mountain.
• At Azure Lotus Mountain, two Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Purple Firmament Sect pressured Wang Yaozong to send the Wang Family's forces to the frontline.
• Wang Changsheng arrived after traveling day and night, and the inspection envoys ordered the Wang Family to set out the next day and reach the City of Immortal Fate within two months.
• The inspection envoys said they would accompany Wang Changsheng to the City of Immortal Fate, easing his concern that they would remain at Azure Lotus Mountain.

Wang Changsheng and Wang Yaolong led thirty Wang Family clansmen to the City of Immortal Fate after the Purple Firmament Sect conscripted them to fight. There, they reunited with Wang Yaolong, learned of the heavy fighting between the Four Sects of Great Song and the Five Sects of Wei, and worried that the city would fall.

• Wang Yaolong told Wang Changsheng that two Foundation Establishment Cultivators had been conscripted and asked him to return to protect the Wang Family clansmen.
• Wang Changsheng comforted Liu Qing'er and Wang Changyue, then left Azure Lotus Mountain with Wang Yaolong and thirty clansmen, accompanied by Li Yuze.
• Li Yuze identified the group at the City of Immortal Fate, where Wang Changsheng and Wang Yaolong registered and collected supplies.
• Wang Changsheng found Wang Yaolong, who explained that the Four Sects of Great Song had barred people from entering or leaving the city and that his pregnant wife remained inside.
• Wang Changsheng and Wang Yaolong encountered Nangong Chen with another woman, then returned to the bamboo building to hear Wang Yaolong's account of the battles between the Four Sects of Great Song and the Five Sects of Wei.
• Wang Yaolong reported that the two sides had fought more than a dozen battles with heavy losses, and the group questioned why the Violet Moon Market had fallen so quickly.

As the Five Sects of Wei invaded Song Kingdom, the Wang Family prepared for conscription while Song’s leaders sought help from Chu and arranged a counterattack. Wang Changsheng received an urgent summons when the next battle began earlier than expected.

• Wang Yaozong, Wang Yaolong, Wang Changsheng, and Wang Changhui discussed the invasion, the danger to Ye Li, and preparations for the Wang Family’s likely conscription.
• Wang Yaolong gave Wang Yaozong a Cyan Storage Pouch containing talismans he had bought before prices rose.
• Chen Hongtian told Wang Huashan and the other Core Formation Stage cultivators that Tang had allied with Wei and Shu had joined Wei, while Chu would help in exchange for two provinces.
• Zhao Yunxiao proposed ceding two provinces to Chu and launching an offensive before reinforcements arrived, and the cultivators agreed to battle the day after tomorrow.
• Li Shixian and Chen Hongtian confronted Wang Huashan over his reluctance to send Wang Family forces, and Wang Huashan promised to dispatch clansmen from the rear.
• Two days later, Wang Yaozong summoned Wang Changsheng to the battle, and Wang Changsheng questioned why the fighting had started earlier than expected.

Wang Changsheng and his family were conscripted to fight the invading Five Sects of Wei, and Zhao Yunxiao led Song Kingdom’s assembled forces into battle. The battle began with spell clashes, and Wang Changsheng faced a Spirit Control Sect cultivator and two powerful spirit beasts.

• Wang Changsheng and Wang Yaozong brought ten clansmen to the gathering plaza, where they met Zhao Yuhui among the conscripted families.
• Zhao Yunxiao announced rewards for defeating the Five Sects of Wei and ordered the cultivators to form family teams and advance into battle.
• Song Kingdom’s forces met a smaller Wei Kingdom force on a plain, where both sides launched spells and weapons at each other.
• Chen Tianming countered a Hundred Spirits Sect disciple’s Crimson Blade Qi with his Azure Command Banner, then led the Foundation Establishment cultivators away to fight their peers.
• Wang Changsheng and Wang Yaozong reminded their clansmen to be careful before Wang Changsheng confronted a Second Layer Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Spirit Control Sect.
• The Spirit Control Sect cultivator released a Yellow Giant Bear and a Three-legged Fire Crow, both Second-Order Lower-Grade Spirit Beasts.

Wang Changsheng and the Song Kingdom cultivators fought the Wei Kingdom forces, whose greater numbers and coordinated attacks began to overwhelm the Song side. The Wei Kingdom’s Sky Star Sect disciples unleashed the Hundred Demons Transformation Array, and Wang Changsheng was left facing the Yellow Giant Bear after narrowly dodging its earth spikes.

• Wang Changsheng used puppet beasts, a White Jade Ruler, and flying knives to defend against the middle-aged man’s spirit beasts and Azure Moon Darts.
• Chen Tianming and the red-shirted youth exchanged attacks while disciples from both kingdoms fought with their sect techniques and weapons.
• The red-shirted youth killed an azure-robed Song Kingdom cultivator with a powerful Crimson Blade Qi, prompting Chen Tianming to rebuke the Song Kingdom family cultivators for holding back.
• The three Sky Star Sect disciples activated the Hundred Demons Transformation Array, releasing five Tier 2 Demon Beasts and numerous Tier 1 beasts into the fight.
• Wang Changsheng used his Mystic Ice Banner against the Yellow Giant Bear, then flew clear as the bear’s earth spikes burst from the ground beneath him.

Wang Changsheng killed the middle-aged man and his Yellow Giant Bear, then gathered the fallen cultivators’ spoils while the battle between the Song and Wei Kingdom cultivators continued. The fight turned toward a red-robed Medicine King Valley disciple preparing to activate a Talisman Treasure, as both sides rushed to stop or protect him.

• Wang Changsheng froze and crushed the Yellow Giant Bear with his Golden Giant Brick, then killed the middle-aged man with an Azure Arrow and recovered his corpse and scattered Dharma Artifacts.
• A female Spirit Control Sect cultivator attacked Wang Changsheng with Crimson Fireballs, but he shattered them with White Ice Needles before searching the dead man’s Cyan Storage Pouch.
• Wang Yaozong fought a blue-skirted woman, Zhao Yuhui battled a whiskered man, and Sky Star Sect disciples used a Formation to unleash Demon Beasts that killed Song Kingdom cultivators.
• A Purple Firmament Sect disciple used a Tier 2 Array Talisman to block flaming meteorites aimed at the Three Black Banners and the Sky Star Sect disciples.
• A red-robed Medicine King Valley disciple began preparing a Talisman Treasure, prompting the Wei Kingdom cultivators to attack him and the Song Kingdom cultivators to gather around him for protection.

The Song Kingdom cultivators battled Wei Kingdom cultivators and Demon Beasts, first relying on a Golden Light Shield before being trapped by a formation and threatened by falling mountains. Daoist Liu unleashed a Talisman Treasure that shattered the formations and struck both sides, leaving several cultivators dead as the clash continued.

• The Song Kingdom cultivators used four Lesser Vajra Formation Talismans to raise a Golden Light Shield, then attacked the Black Flood Dragon and its Demon Beasts.
• Wang Changsheng fought three Golden Short Swords with his Blue Flying Knives while his Raven Puppet battled an Azure Falcon Puppet.
• Wei Kingdom cultivators used Spirit Summoning Talismans and a formation to trap the Song Kingdom cultivators beneath falling Yellow Mountains.
• Wang Changsheng sent a Tiger-shaped Puppet to help hold back the Yellow Mountains, but the Yellow Giant Apes fell and the Golden Light Shield shattered.
• The red-shirted youth released a Red Short Ruler Talisman Treasure that destroyed the Yellow Mountains and Demon Beasts, while a Wei Kingdom cultivator countered with an Azure Ring Talisman Treasure.
• The Red Short Rulers and Azure Rings struck both groups, piercing defenses and killing several Song Kingdom and Wei Kingdom cultivators.

Wang Changsheng lost Wang Yaozong in the first battle against Wei Kingdom, then prepared for further fighting as Shu Kingdom’s reinforcements joined the enemy alliance. The combined Wei and Shu forces devastated Song Kingdom’s defenders, leaving the City of Immortal Fate under sustained pressure.

• Red Rings pierced Wang Yaozong, and he died after urging Wang Changsheng to return safely to Azure Lotus Mountain.
• Chen Tianming and the red-shirted youth ordered a retreat when Shu Kingdom’s reinforcements arrived, and Wang Changsheng returned to the City of Immortal Fate with Wang Yaozong’s body.
• Wang Changsheng counted the Wang clan’s casualties, gave Wang Mingzhong Spirit Stones to buy healing pills, exchanged a captured disciple’s token for pills and talismans, and took the contents of the disciple’s Storage Pouch.
• Li Haifeng agreed to grant the Three Sects of Shu the Purple Copper Mine in Yizhou in exchange for their continued support against Song Kingdom.
• The Three Sects of Shu joined the next battle with poisonous weapons and creatures, forcing Song Kingdom’s cultivators to retreat into the City of Immortal Fate.
• Over the following month, Wei Kingdom’s forces repeatedly attacked Song Kingdom’s defenders and the city formation, worsening morale and consuming Spirit Stones.