Vol. 13War Across the Northern Wilderness

Ling Pengyun and the Ling Clan strengthened their forces and joined the Righteous Path’s campaigns against demons and devils. After destroying the Saint Demon Sect, Ling Pengyun helped reclaim territory and moved to protect the Yun Qian Lineage, ending at Former Origin Island as powerful devil cultivators arrived.

  • Yan Siyi and the White Shadow Wolf King defended Golden Winged Mountain until Heavenly Star Old True Lord helped defeat Guilie Old Demon, and Yan Siyi collected Water White Flood Dragon Lord’s remains.
  • Ling Pengyun joined Old True Lord Yun Qian’s assault on the demon horde at Three Immortals Marketplace, where a concealed cultivator killed a fleeing flood dragon and captured its soul.
  • Ling Pengyun traded a longevity-enhancing divine power to Liu Haochan and Heavenly Star Old True Lord for Fourth Rank arrays, then helped advance Golden Yang Mountain’s spirit vein.
  • Ling Pengyun gave Ling Lihao 143 sets of Fourth Rank talisman-making materials and left for the Boundless Sea Region, while Ling Lihao made eleven Spirit Talisman Caves from the first thirty sets.
  • Ling Pengyun captured a Red Crab Demon Lord and exchanged its freedom for a vast ransom of spirit objects.
  • Yan Siyi led nineteen Nascent Soul combatants north, where they fought ten powerful demons and devils until Old True Lord Yun Qian brought reinforcements.
  • Ling Pengyun ambushed the Saint Demon Sect during its attack on Wood Origin Immortal Sect, killed three rebellious Devil Lords and Saint Demon Old Man, and captured the sect’s demonic forces.
  • Ling Pengyun joined Star Winter Old True Lord at Former Origin Island, where they recognized one of three arriving Nascent Soul Completion devil cultivators as resembling Crimson Abyss Old Demon Lord.
Chapters 1236–1339 Read from ch. 1236

Arc 49The Ling Clan’s Northern Campaign

Ling Pengyun strengthened the Ling Clan, subdued a ghost-filled secret realm, and built a coalition to confront the demonic-beast forces. The arc left the coalition fighting the Demon Lords at Three Immortals Marketplace, where Ling Pengyun’s concealed intervention turned the battle.

  • Yan Siyi and the White Shadow Wolf King defended Golden Winged Mountain until Heavenly Star Old True Lord helped defeat Guilie Old Demon, and Yan Siyi collected Water White Flood Dragon Lord’s remains.
  • After the demon lords fell, Yan Siyi led the Ling Clan in wiping out the demon horde and punishing rogue cultivators who had attacked clan properties.
  • Ling Pengyun chose Ling Lihao to use the Sun Moon Crystal, and Ling Lihao survived his tribulation to become a Nascent Soul cultivator with a Sun Moon Pill.
  • Ling Pengyun and his allies entered the Ghost Immortal Sect’s secret realm, defeated Black Phantom Ghost Lord and the other Ghost Monarchs, and claimed control of the realm’s five Ghost Mountain formations.
  • Ling Pengxing achieved a Ghost Dao Nascent Soul, while Ghost Immortal Lamp refined Profound Underworld Ghost Iron and cultivated spirit ghosts for the Ling Clan.
  • Ling Pengyun prepared his family and allies for the coming upheaval, then traveled with Yan Siyi to help defend Extinguish Bear City and killed Shui Dong Old Flood Dragon and the Golden Scale Fish King.
  • Ling Pengyun gained Heavenly Star Pavilion, Spirit Treasure Academy, and the Crimson Flame Fire Phoenix as allies, then joined Old True Lord Yun Qian’s assault on the demon horde at Three Immortals Marketplace.
  • When the Demon Lords entered the battle, six Righteous Path cultivators attacked from behind their lines, and a concealed cultivator killed one of the fleeing flood dragons and captured its soul.
Chapters 1236–1264 Summaries Read

Arc 50Preparing for the Great Calamity

Ling Pengyun secured new talisman-making methods and resources while strengthening the Ling Clan for the approaching war and World Extinction Calamity. After trading divine powers for a large supply of Fourth Rank materials, he departed for the Boundless Sea Region, leaving Ling Lihao to make talismans for the clan.

  • Ling Pengyun escaped Black Flood Dragon Old Ancestor’s assault with help from Star Sea Old Ancestor’s phantom, then learned how to make Divine Soul Spirit Talisman Caves at Star Sea Pavilion.
  • Ling Pengyun created powerful combat talismans, refined a slain flood dragon’s treasures, and attended the Star Sea Assembly, where he learned that a war across several cultivation worlds was expected in twenty years.
  • Ling Pengyun returned to the Ling Clan, supported Ling Chengyuan and gifted Ling Feifan a cultivation method suited to his Earth Fiend Spirit Body.
  • Ling Pengyun helped Ling Pengcheng attempt a Nascent Soul breakthrough, but Ling Pengcheng failed to reach the final step and agreed to try again.
  • Ling Pengyun traded a longevity-enhancing divine power to Liu Haochan and Heavenly Star Old True Lord for Fourth Rank arrays, then helped advance Golden Yang Mountain’s spirit vein and supported the clan’s array masters.
  • Ling Lihao became a Fourth Rank Talisman Master, and Ling Pengyun rewarded him with advanced chapters of the Limitless Dark Water Talisman Codex.
  • Ling Pengyun used an Avatar Spirit Talisman to trade divine powers with Heavenly Star Pavilion and other forces for Fourth Rank talisman-making materials, hiding control restrictions in the powers he created.
  • Ling Pengyun gave Ling Lihao 143 sets of Fourth Rank talisman-making materials and left for the Boundless Sea Region, while Ling Lihao produced eleven Fourth Rank Spirit Talisman Caves from the first thirty sets.
Chapters 1265–1289 Summaries Read

Arc 51The Northern Wilderness War

Ling Pengyun joined Star Sea Pavilion’s campaign against the Sea Flood Dragon Race while Yan Siyi led the Ling Clan’s defense against the Black Flood Dragon forces. After defeating several demon lords and rescuing threatened factions, Yan Siyi joined a major battle that left only two powerful enemies standing.

  • Ling Pengcheng entered the Nascent Soul realm, and Ling Pengyun set out for Star Sea Pavilion to earn resources for the clan.
  • Ling Pengyun strengthened his Five Elements Hundred Treasures Long River, commissioned a flying boat, and joined Star Sea Pavilion’s expedition against the Sea Flood Dragon Race.
  • Ling Pengyun captured a Red Crab Demon Lord and exchanged its freedom for a vast ransom of spirit objects.
  • While Ling Pengyun was away, Yan Siyi and the Ling Clan repelled the siege at Golden Winged Mountain with help from the Ghost Immortal Lamp, which destroyed the invading demons and collected their souls.
  • Yan Siyi led Ling Pengcheng, Ling Pengxing, and the Moon Shadow Wolf to aid nearby factions, then helped defeat Xu Jin Old Demon and evacuate Maple Leaf City.
  • Yan Siyi recruited Spirit Treasure True Lord and led nineteen Nascent Soul combatants north, where they fought ten powerful demons and devils until Old True Lord Yun Qian brought reinforcements.
  • The righteous cultivators gained the advantage after hours of battle, leaving only a Sea Flood Dragon and a Crimson Flames Buddhist Sect devil alive.
Chapters 1290–1314 Summaries Read

Arc 52The Demon-Slaying Turmoil

Ling Pengyun destroyed the Saint Demon Sect, bringing the Demon Gu Dao Lord’s retaliation to an end and enabling the Righteous Path to reclaim demonic territories. As a secret Spirit Transformation opportunity approached, Ling Pengyun joined the war to earn merit and protect the Yun Qian Lineage, ending up at Former Origin Island as powerful devil cultivators arrived.

  • Black Flood Dragon Old Ancestor gathered reinforcements from allied demon forces, but the demons withdrew from Three Immortals Marketplace after Yan Siyi and the righteous cultivators defeated their forces.
  • Ling Pengyun rescued Mountain Sea Island, then coerced Red Crab Demon Lord and its companion into helping him lure out the Saint Demon Sect’s Devil Lords.
  • Ling Pengyun ambushed the Saint Demon Sect during its attack on Wood Origin Immortal Sect, killed three rebellious Devil Lords and Saint Demon Old Man, and captured the sect’s demonic forces.
  • Wang Qiuyang killed a female demon head and forced Red Crab Demon Lord to surrender its body, while Ling Pengshan set out to draw Demon Gu Dao Lord into a confrontation.
  • Star Sea Old Ancestor faced Demon Gu Dao Lord, revealed that Saint Demon Old Man was his son, and settled the matter by giving him compensation and the corpse.
  • Azure Sea True Lord and Azure Water True Lord joined Wood Origin Immortal Sect in reclaiming three sea regions, and Righteous Path forces launched the Demon-Slaying Turmoil across the Demon Sea Devil Region.
  • Ling Pengyun learned that Yun Qian Lineage cultivators were suffering heavy casualties, traveled to the front, and arranged for most of them to move to safer positions.
  • Ling Pengyun joined Star Winter Old True Lord in supporting Former Origin Island, where they recognized one of three arriving Nascent Soul Completion devil cultivators as resembling Crimson Abyss Old Demon Lord.
Chapters 1315–1339 Summaries Read
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